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SBF'd yesterday, now it boot loops

So like the title says, I SBF'd my phone yesterday to start from scratch, and now the damn thing is boot looping. I was running LB .5 on .595, and flashed the VRZ_MB810_2.3.34_1FF_01.sbf file using RDLite 4.8 (same thing I've done before, just not while on GB).
I've tried SBF'ing it a few more times, and I've let it sit, trying to boot, for 20+ minutes. The SBF seems to go through successfully. The result says PASS, so then I reboot the phone, and then boot loop.
Anyone have any suggestions?

Well, nevermind...instead of doing those multiple SBF's, I should have just looked around. Found this on droidxforums.com, and it's going through the activation now.
http://www.droidxforums.com/forum/droid-x-rescue-squad/14548-bootloop-after-flashing-sbf-file.html

You always need to wipe data and cache a few times before SBF'ing or installing any new ROM from scratch. Only with incremental upgrades to existing ROMs where the ROM chef says you don't have to wipe, can you avoid doing so.

Well, I didn't think I needed to specify, but yes, I wiped data/cache/dalvik when I flashed the ROM. So I don't really know why I then had to boot into stock recovery and do it again.

How many times did you wipe them? It doesn't work like deleting regular files on a computer, you need to clear them at least 3 times each. I don't know the details as to why, but never clear data/cache fewer than 3x. I do 5x.

weird.... mine usually works and on the pc just stops on 99% eventhough it's done and working. And once it bootlooped after installing a custom ropm and coudn't access both clockwork or original recovery so sometimes it may work, sometimes it may not work.

My TPT is bootlooping and I can't wipe the Dalvik-Cache

The title says it: My TPT is bootlooping and when I try to wipe the cahce/Dalvik-cache in recovery, it just won't finish.
I'm running ICS (OTA3), but the same thing has happened to me before with Honeycomb.
I don't want to wipe data! Any ideas?

You qualify for a new motherboard if you want it.

But that would not preserve my data

My understanding, and I could be wrong, is that once you start boot looping you need to have made great backups prior to the issue because all you can do is send it in for repair. Hopefully you have such backups if you have root.
Not good news so I hope I'm wrong. Wishing you luck.

I pulled some of the data via adb and then did a factory reset (in recovery). Now it boots again.
I just hope it won't happen again. This was the second time already: Once it started bootlooping in Honeycomb and now ICS. It just came out of nowhere (it booted up fine many times before).

Excellent news. Didn't think you could pull anything with adb while bootlooping. Should have tried that straight away.

I still could enter the recovery mode. Strangely, wiping cahe/dalvik cache alone didn't work (it wouldn't wipe), but wiping everything (which also includes dalvik cache) worked...
I still lost some important data, but at least my tablet works again. I just hope it won't start bootlooping again... but I'll definitely make sure to have an automatic backup solution set up just in case.

Good show. At least you're not bootlooping. Too bad about the data.

[Q] S4 i9505

Hi all,
I'll just dive into the problem, on dot-point form:
1. Started with Unrooted Stock TouchWIz Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9505
2. Rooted with Chainfire Autoroot via Odin
3. Flashed TWRP 2.7 via Odin
4. Made backup via TWRP, saved in external SDCard.
5. Flashed the Mahdi 4.4.4 rom
6. After new ROM, I wanted togo back to old original rom.
7. Booted into TWRP to restore back to TouchWiz.
8. Restore success, rebooted.
9. Samsung boot animation played and white "SAMSUNG" logo displays.
10. Waited for almost an hour.
11. Still on that "SAMSUNG" boot screen. The blue glow behind the text pulses.
Please Help, I can't get anything to work, Also, I can't afford to delete all backup( contacts,

Seems like you've hit a boot loop, basically your phone will reach the boot logo and no more. Unfortunately, the only way I know to deal with a boot loop is to wipe data/factory reset via recovery. Something didn't quite work out in the backup/restore, and probably why this happened. It does seem you will lose contacts etc unless they are saved to the SIM card.
Edit: Try wipe data/factory reset and then restore. If it boot loops again, you'll have to wipe.

I was able to make it work after I have reinstalled the Mahdi 4.4.4 rom. Now, how can I do it correctly to restore it and make it work without any problems ?
themadba said:
Seems like you've hit a boot loop, basically your phone will reach the boot logo and no more. Unfortunately, the only way I know to deal with a boot loop is to wipe data/factory reset via recovery. Something didn't quite work out in the backup/restore, and probably why this happened. It does seem you will lose contacts etc unless they are saved to the SIM card.
Edit: Try wipe data/factory reset and then restore. If it boot loops again, you'll have to wipe.
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chef_dracula said:
I was able to make it work after I have reinstalled the Mahdi 4.4.4 rom. Now, how can I do it correctly to restore it and make it work without any problems ?
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Well first off, I would backup everything important, eg contacts to SIM or external SD card, photos, messages, accounts, email settings etc. Because as far as I can see, you're just going to hit a boot loop when you restore again. At least you have everything important backed up and can start afresh without losing anything important.

Ok, What's the best way to backup, I know the twrp doesn't work.
themadba said:
Well first off, I would backup everything important, eg contacts to SIM or external SD card, photos, messages, accounts, email settings etc. Because as far as I can see, you're just going to hit a boot loop when you restore again. At least you have everything important backed up and can start afresh without losing anything important.
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Phone is stuck after trying to encrypt

Hello all,
I installed this ROM on my phone: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3-neo/orig-development/rom-cyanogenmod-12-1-s3-neo-t3099384
Notably I used the 20151111 version. Everything worked fine. I did however decide to try to encrypt the phone. Everything looked ok, but now the phone is stuck at booting. Notably, at the "Starting apps" stage of the boot process. Unfortunately this is too early to get a logcat. I already tried wiping the cache partition, doing a factory reset and reinstalling the image.
Any ideas on how to unbrick the phone?

x2b said:
Hello all,
I installed this ROM on my phone: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3-neo/orig-development/rom-cyanogenmod-12-1-s3-neo-t3099384
Notably I used the 20151111 version. Everything worked fine. I did however decide to try to encrypt the phone. Everything looked ok, but now the phone is stuck at booting. Notably, at the "Starting apps" stage of the boot process. Unfortunately this is too early to get a logcat. I already tried wiping the cache partition, doing a factory reset and reinstalling the image.
Any ideas on how to unbrick the phone?
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Reinstall stock rom via Odin btw encryption screws up the phone in every aspect I recommend not doing so

Black screen after factory reset

so... my phone suddenly wouldn't accept my password anymore to unlock. i tried a couple of things, like deleting the files lockscreen files using TWRP to bypass that... but then it got stuck in a "android is booting" screen and everytime i tried to change my PIN, it would crash.
So i went to TWRP and wanted to reflash my ROM (I was using Resurrection Remix), but then I couldn't decrypt the data because ... the password again wouldn't work. so I finally decided to use sideload to try to flash everything again and it works, but the problem is that even after the factory reset, the phone will boot up but there won't be any images. You can hear the jingle play when you first turn on any android phone... but it's all black.
edit: I've tried flashing two different roms: RR & Lineage OS, both will boot up, but same problem.
I haven't been able to back anything up because... well the OS wouldn't boot up and my TWRP was being wonky and I can't restore anything...
Anyone have any ideas of how to fix this? I feel like i could use the format data and start from scratch... and make it work but then I assume that would wipe my titanium backups, which I haven't been able to extract out. so if anyone has any guidance on how to do that, that would be great. I've tried to use adb to extract stuff out but it hasn't worked and now I can't even do it anymore because I don't have usb debugging on.

nova_vo1 said:
so... my phone suddenly wouldn't accept my password anymore to unlock. i tried a couple of things, like deleting the files lockscreen files using TWRP to bypass that... but then it got stuck in a "android is booting" screen and everytime i tried to change my PIN, it would crash.
So i went to TWRP and wanted to reflash my ROM (I was using Resurrection Remix), but then I couldn't decrypt the data because ... the password again wouldn't work. so I finally decided to use sideload to try to flash everything again and it works, but the problem is that even after the factory reset, the phone will boot up but there won't be any images. You can hear the jingle play when you first turn on any android phone... but it's all black.
edit: I've tried flashing two different roms: RR & Lineage OS, both will boot up, but same problem.
I haven't been able to back anything up because... well the OS wouldn't boot up and my TWRP was being wonky and I can't restore anything...
Anyone have any ideas of how to fix this? I feel like i could use the format data and start from scratch... and make it work but then I assume that would wipe my titanium backups, which I haven't been able to extract out. so if anyone has any guidance on how to do that, that would be great. I've tried to use adb to extract stuff out but it hasn't worked and now I can't even do it anymore because I don't have usb debugging on.
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have you try to re-flash your TWRP? maybe re-flasing your TWRP will work, also maybe installing the original rom will work, and then you can try to flash whatever rom you desire
as i know doing a factory reset from the TWRP delete all of your files, i mean everything. so i don't think that you still have the backup files

Flash the Official recovery of the oneplus 5 and then install OOS by adb into thé recovery.