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Stuck at Galaxy S screen after Odin....

Recently i bought a GT-i9000. When I tried to boot the phone, it got stuck in a boot loop. The phone had CyanogenMod installed. I figured I'd try to use an Odin reset with this stock firmware:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1290577
The phone enters download mode fine, the file flashes in odin successfully. But upon restarting, the phone brings up the Galaxy S screen and stays there.
Nothing happens, I've left it for over 15 minutes.
Does anyone have any advice?
Thanks, im pretty new to the Galaxy S.
Had a Hero, Desire HD and an Atrix, but this is confusing me...

Get into recovery wipe everything(data/cache/dalvik cache) again and reboot
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Thanks, but it won't boot into recovery.
I boot into recovery by using VolUp, Power and Home buttons correct?

MiniDolan said:
Thanks, but it won't boot into recovery.
I boot into recovery by using VolUp, Power and Home buttons correct?
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ammm, I normally do VolUp, Home, and then Power, I really don't know if the order is important.
If you can't get into recovery, you should be able to go into download mode with VolDown, Home, Power.
Probably you installed a rom without the required bootloaders, this can happen when upgrading from foryo to gingerbread using a custom rom without bootloaders.
Go to Samfirmware and download JVP rom, make sure the PDA file has "_sbl" on the filename, this should mean it includes the gingerbread bootloaders.
Best of lucks!

MiniDolan said:
Thanks, but it won't boot into recovery.
I boot into recovery by using VolUp, Power and Home buttons correct?
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Nop it's volup,homebutton,power, hold it until the name of the phone appears and then release, it should enter cause you have a boot image
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gtluis said:
ammm, I normally do VolUp, Home, and then Power, I really don't know if the order is important.
Yes it is otherwise you'll end up powering up the phone
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I don't know if you flashed it with a pit, but if you didn't, try to do it that way.
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Thanks everyone. Tried a different firmware and now everything fine. the phone works and recovery works. but my sim isnt recognised :S the phone is network unlocked so i have no idea why it isnt working :/

MiniDolan said:
Thanks everyone. Tried a different firmware and now everything fine. the phone works and recovery works. but my sim isnt recognised :S the phone is network unlocked so i have no idea why it isnt working :/
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How??? if its the internet check the apns and if it just dosn't appears on the statusbar check if the baseband is installed
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Restarted the phone and everythings fine phew. It just didnt recognise in any way that i had a sim card in there. but after a restart, everythings working

Great!!!!
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Hey man, I got that same thing, literally as you described it, could you please provide me the link for update that did finally work for you, since I've tried 3 different and still no such luck...
Any help is highly appreciated!
Cheers,
Matt

[Q] Nexus 7 Boot Loop and no Recovery

Hello,
i need some help.
my nexus 7 is in a boot loop.
please look at youtube
youtube . com/watch?v=z-JbPdhr_1Q&feature=plcp
thanks from germany

verysalty said:
Hello,
i need some help.
my nexus 7 is in a boot loop.
please look at youtube
youtube . com/watch?v=z-JbPdhr_1Q&feature=plcp
thanks from germany
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Unplug your device. Hold the power button until it turns off. Then hold volume up, volume down, and the power button. It should boot you into recovery.
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I'm sure there are more ways to deal with this, but I personally would just flash a custom recovery from bootloader and re flash the rom. Probably the easiest way to go about it. Others may have a better idea.
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NuttyLemonz said:
I'm sure there are more ways to deal with this, but I personally would just flash a custom recovery from bootloader and re flash the rom. Probably the easiest way to go about it. Others may have a better idea.
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+1 to that

verysalty said:
Hello,
i need some help.
my nexus 7 is in a boot loop.
please look at youtube
youtube . com/watch?v=z-JbPdhr_1Q&feature=plcp
thanks from germany
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What did you do before? If you flashed a new ROM / Kernel, most likely they are not compatible.

AndDiSa said:
What did you do before? If you flashed a new ROM / Kernel, most likely they are not compatible.
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nothing.
i was exporting some data from my dropbox to my nexus. after that i lost my icons and had a empty desktop without icons.
after reboot, i was in the loop
my nexus is a stock nexus with 4.1.2 no root.
i will not loose my data

You may have no choice but to flash my friend. Sounds like you had an unlucky gremlin.
+2 to Lemonz post.
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NuttyLemonz said:
I'm sure there are more ways to deal with this, but I personally would just flash a custom recovery from bootloader and re flash the rom. Probably the easiest way to go about it. Others may have a better idea.
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... but if it's still locked, you need to unlock and then you will loose all your data
@verysalty: Did you try already to access the system with adb? Do you have debugging option switched on? Then you could try to do a backup of all your data before.

AndDiSa said:
... but if it's still locked, you need to unlock and then you will loose all your data
@verysalty: Did you try already to access the system with adb? Do you have debugging option switched on? Then you could try to do a backup of all your data before.
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Sorry, no debungging mod on...
How can i flash my nexus to stock. easy way please.

The easiest way in my opinion:
- unlock boot loader (you will loose all your data!)
- download factory image from Google
- flash the factory image (fastboot or adb)
I am wondering why synchronizing some files with dropbox is causing a boot loop ???
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AndDiSa said:
The easiest way in my opinion:
- unlock boot loader (you will loose all your data!)
- download factory image from Google
- flash the factory image (fastboot or adb)
I am wondering why synchronizing some files with dropbox is causing a boot loop ???
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My Nexus 7 is alife
i have use the nexus 7 toolkit and unlock the boot loader > flash the factory image > lock the boot loader...
1000x thanks for all you help
verysalty from Hamburg, Germany

Had a very similar issue today
Nexus started rebooting in the middle of different apps 2-3 times last night.
charged it overnight, unplugged it and went to class.
Then progressed to rebooting after only 40 seconds after the lock screen loaded from the reboot
40 secs wasn't enough time to do anything in android so after much research this is how I fixed it:
- in the 40 secs that android worked I pressed and held the power button and powered it down to stop the boot loop.
- when it was finally shut down I pressed and held the power and vol dwn buttons til the recovery menu appeared.
- used the vol buttons to select recovery, then pressed power
- When the android with the red exclamation point (!) showed up I pressed power then vol up and released for the menu to appear.
- Selected and execute Factory Reset. Then wipe Cache. then reboot, fixed the problem so far, now I'm re-installing apps.
I talked with a google rep about the problem, said it could me anything from a poorly written app, to a corrupted boot sequence.
Anyone know what may have caused this, so I don't inadvertently cause it to happen again??
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Nook Tablet --> Nexus 7
HTC HD2 --> Razr Maxx

eodelf said:
Had a very similar issue today
Nexus started rebooting in the middle of different apps 2-3 times last night.
charged it overnight, unplugged it and went to class.
Then progressed to rebooting after only 40 seconds after the lock screen loaded from the reboot
40 secs wasn't enough time to do anything in android so after much research this is how I fixed it:
- in the 40 secs that android worked I pressed and held the power button and powered it down to stop the boot loop.
- when it was finally shut down I pressed and held the power and vol dwn buttons til the recovery menu appeared.
- used the vol buttons to select recovery, then pressed power
- When the android with the red exclamation point (!) showed up I pressed power then vol up and released for the menu to appear.
- Selected and execute Factory Reset. Then wipe Cache. then reboot, fixed the problem so far, now I'm re-installing apps.
I talked with a google rep about the problem, said it could me anything from a poorly written app, to a corrupted boot sequence.
Anyone know what may have caused this, so I don't inadvertently cause it to happen again??
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Nook Tablet --> Nexus 7
HTC HD2 --> Razr Maxx
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I had the exact same issue from your description, I solved it after I read someone else disconnected the battery. Its a pretty quick fix to what looks like an unrecoverable problem loop of switching on, then powering down.
Here's what I did:
Open the back using just my nail on one corner , it snaps off easy pesy, trust me
Use ifixit nexus 7 battery replacement guide , steps 1-6 only, note where they use a tool I used a pair of nail scissors to prise the connector out and back in
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Installing+Nexus+7+Battery/9895/1
Pulling the battery out, as with any android device can work.
Total time 2 mins
It was working again before I put the back cover on.

Nexus 4 stuck on boot up.

So suddenly phone died, tried to restart it but its stuck at the loop of Paranoid Android. Battery was still in 40%. Tried to go recovery mode, hold volume down + power button but all it does is go back to the google logo and loop again to the paranoid android and get stuck again.
Tried plugging it to mac, android file transfer says " try reconnecting or restarting your device."
Im on Franco and paranoid.
what to do?
PLEASE HELP.

tried reflashing a recovery via fastboot(while in the bootloader)?

teamjm said:
So suddenly phone died, tried to restart it but its stuck at the loop of Paranoid Android. Battery was still in 40%. Tried to go recovery mode, hold volume down + power button but all it does is go back to the google logo and loop again to the paranoid android and get stuck again.
Tried plugging it to mac, android file transfer says " try reconnecting or restarting your device."
Im on Franco and paranoid.
what to do?
PLEASE HELP.
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Not sure if this will work for you, but its worth a try. Attempt holding the power button while its booting up to allow it to turn off (do not let it go when the screen turns black). Then hold volume down and quickly release and re-hold the power button.
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Try to flash a recovery and then do a factory reset
Otherwise try booting in the bootloader and reflash the stock rom
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mihahn said:
Try to flash a recovery and then do a factory reset
Otherwise try booting in the bootloader and reflash the stock rom
Sent from my Nexus 4 running Android 4.2.2
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hi i have a similar problem, tried flashing franco r165, got stuck at the bootloader, google screen. wont go any further.
i can get to the fastboot screen. tried using wugs toolkit to flash stock and unroot from there but it wont work. i get an error message saying too many link.
any suggestions .
please bear in mind i dont know how to use adb.
thank

For windows users,you can try nexus4toolkit. And download the 4.3 stock rom and unroot it. For mac users,you can try to find similar software to nexus4toolkit. Hit thanks
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lord crapface said:
hi i have a similar problem, tried flashing franco r165, got stuck at the bootloader, google screen. wont go any further.
i can get to the fastboot screen. tried using wugs toolkit to flash stock and unroot from there but it wont work. i get an error message saying too many link.
any suggestions .
please bear in mind i dont know how to use adb.
thank
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The bootloader is the fastboot screen
There you should be able to use ./flash-all.bat (extracted from the stock rom)

mihahn said:
The bootloader is the fastboot screen
There you should be able to use ./flash-all.bat (extracted from the stock rom)
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thanks, i got it sorted using the toolkit on a different laptop.

Help! My phone is stuck!

I recently tried to flash my rom for the first time with safetrap. I reboot my device but when i try to boot it up all it says is "safetrap disabled system starting in 10 seconds." at the bottom right it says continue and at the bottom left it says recovery mode. I can't press any of the buttons and after 10 seconds the screen goes black. this may be a boot loop and i have no idea how to fix this. Help please. This phone is a droid razr m JB4.1.2

BioSpectre said:
I recently tried to flash my rom for the first time with safetrap. I reboot my device but when i try to boot it up all it says is "safetrap disabled system starting in 10 seconds." at the bottom right it says continue and at the bottom left it says recovery mode. I can't press any of the buttons and after 10 seconds the screen goes black. this may be a boot loop and i have no idea how to fix this. Help please. This phone is a droid razr m JB4.1.2
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Need more details. Did you try to flash over the stock ROM or did you create a new ROM slot and flash there? FYI, you can't flash over stock in SS. If you did, you'll need to fastboot back to stock.
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Its all good my friend helped me. I just RSD'd the Stock Rom into my android and now it works again.

you should unlock the bootloader

BioSpectre said:
Its all good my friend helped me. I just RSD'd the Stock Rom into my android and now it works again.
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pbanj said:
you should unlock the bootloader
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Do what he said.
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Thanks mates. And im thinking of Unlocking my bootloader so i can Flash CWM or TWRM into my device with Droid Razr M utility

[Q] HELP!! 4.4 update

i tried to update to 4.4 through factory image files and i wounded up getting stuck on the nexus symbol and it wont boot up!!
i tried then going to recover mode but its not even doing that! the furthest i can get is into fastboot mode and when i go to recovery mode theres just the red triangle with no menu at all.. just the picture with the red triangle.. all i can do from there is hard reboot
so the situation is..boot stuck and no recovery
thanks for the help!

Well you should be fine. The little red triangle is normal, it is the screen you get before it goes to stock recovery. If you were to google that, you'd see you need to depress the power button and the volume up buttons at the same time. You keep them pressed together for about 4-5 seconds before it goes into recovery. Once you do that do a factory reset and see if that works.
BTW when you post like this make sure you include a little more detail how you got to where you are. Like what operating system you are using, Windows _, Ubuntu __._, or IOS. Also if you were using a tool kit. If you have ADB and Fastboot installed, etc., helps w/ the diagnosis if you know what I mean.

jawmail said:
Well you should be fine. The little red triangle is normal, it is the screen you get before it goes to stock recovery. If you were to google that, you'd see you need to depress the power button and the volume up buttons at the same time. You keep them pressed together for about 4-5 seconds before it goes into recovery. Once you do that do a factory reset and see if that works.
BTW when you post like this make sure you include a little more detail how you got to where you are. Like what operating system you are using, Windows _, Ubuntu __._, or IOS. Also if you were using a tool kit. If you have ADB and Fastboot installed, etc., helps w/ the diagnosis if you know what I mean.
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i know what stock recovery mode is and how to get to it.. its just that it doesnt show up .. just the picture with no options
anyways.. i figured out how to flash stock recovery from fastboot mode but every stock i try to flash i keep getting a bootloop!

namnam123 said:
i know what stock recovery mode is and how to get to it.. its just that it doesnt show up .. just the picture with no options
anyways.. i figured out how to flash stock recovery from fastboot mode but every stock i try to flash i keep getting a bootloop!
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Maybe your factory image is corrupted. I downloaded the factory image from Google, checked the MD5 to make sure it was right, and then flashed it with no problem.

wipe data / factory reset on STOCK recovery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFqZ7z4ZeLY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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i had the same problem.. n then i found the solution by flashing it through toolkit follow here i made a video
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2531374
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Locking and then unlocking the boot loader has worked for several including myself
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