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I was on 4.4.2, rooted, with safestrap. In a moment of stupidity I attempted to do a factory data reset from the main phone GUI. The phone powers on, says booting recovery in blue above the custom samsung logo, then powers off, and repeats this process enlessly. I have attempted to get into download mode, but to no avail thus far. What are my options, will a usb job (dongle) help, is there an sd card unbrick.img? What can I do?
I had the same issue a bit back. Pull out your battery and put it back in. Hold volume down and the home hard key while powering on device and continue to hold. Then proceed for download mode. Flash the .pit to restore your partitions should be able to get safe strap back on next boot and flash yourself a system to boot. Unless you never actually erased it (my case). I'll keep an eye on this thread for your progress.
denpth said:
I had the same issue a bit back. Pull out your battery and put it back in. Hold volume down and the home hard key while powering on device and continue to hold. Then proceed for download mode. Flash the .pit to restore your partitions should be able to get safe strap back on next boot and flash yourself a system to boot. Unless you never actually erased it (my case). I'll keep an eye on this thread for your progress.
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to flash the .pit in odin what should be checked
cdavid469 said:
to flash the .pit in odin what should be checked
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The same standard options of auto reboot and f reset time. Obviously flash the .pit by the pit option.
cdavid469 said:
to flash the .pit in odin what should be checked
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Also take a look at this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2755970
already got it done with the help here, it just needed the pit file
Recovery Boot Loop after rooted KitKat
denpth said:
I had the same issue a bit back. Pull out your battery and put it back in. Hold volume down and the home hard key while powering on device and continue to hold. Then proceed for download mode. Flash the .pit to restore your partitions should be able to get safe strap back on next boot and flash yourself a system to boot. Unless you never actually erased it (my case). I'll keep an eye on this thread for your progress.
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I had a similar problem... tried to reboot into recovery & has a continual reboot to recovery.
- pulled the battery
- booted to Download Mode
- used ODIN to FLASH .pit - then rebooted
then my problem was completely fixed
Thanks
That post has the new recovery in it which resolves the issue you had. It won't happen again if you flash it. Not full NC4 but baseband and recovery and you will stay NC 2 otherwise. Highly recommended.
Hey guys.
I have been doing a lot of researches before creating this new thread.
Here is my problem with a Samsung Galaxy s3 I9300T (Australia - Vodafone build). I was given the phone, since it was stuck in a boot loop after a software update issue with Kies (I think from memory 4.2 or something).
The phone boots up, displays the Vodafone logo, and is stuck on the Samsung logo. The phone doesn't restart but stays idle there.
It is impossible to reach the download mode with the use of the 3 buttons, but a USB JIB I bought on ebay does the trick.
Odin recognizes the phone, I can flash a stock Kernel from Samsmobile or root/install the CWM.
BUT, there is no way (so far?) to reach the recovery mode.
I tried to flash a new boot loader, tried to check any physical issue with the buttons, but nothing seems wrong.
I have been looking for tools such a android toolbox/toolkit etc, in the hope one would be able to wipe/flash the nand or even unbrick or whatsoever, from a download mode and not ADB, since I there no fast boot available.
I am ready to try anything, since there's nothing to loose here.
I'm running windows 7 from Parallel desktop.
Thanks mates.
Anthony
tonythrash69 said:
Hey guys.
I have been doing a lot of researches before creating this new thread.
Here is my problem with a Samsung Galaxy s3 I9300T (Australia - Vodafone build). I was given the phone, since it was stuck in a boot loop after a software update issue with Kies (I think from memory 4.2 or something).
The phone boots up, displays the Vodafone logo, and is stuck on the Samsung logo. The phone doesn't restart but stays idle there.
It is impossible to reach the download mode with the use of the 3 buttons, but a USB JIB I bought on ebay does the trick.
Odin recognizes the phone, I can flash a stock Kernel from Samsmobile or root/install the CWM.
BUT, there is no way (so far?) to reach the recovery mode.
I tried to flash a new boot loader, tried to check any physical issue with the buttons, but nothing seems wrong.
I have been looking for tools such a android toolbox/toolkit etc, in the hope one would be able to wipe/flash the nand or even unbrick or whatsoever, from a download mode and not ADB, since I there no fast boot available.
I am ready to try anything, since there's nothing to loose here.
I'm running windows 7 from Parallel desktop.
Thanks mates.
Anthony
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after flashing newfirmware using download mode+odin the phone cant reboot?have you tried diff version firmware from sammobile .
nainaabd said:
after flashing newfirmware using download mode+odin the phone cant reboot?have you tried diff version firmware from sammobile .
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I tried 2 different firmware from SAMSmobile, after flashing in Odin, nothing changes. The phone reboots (if the case is ticked) and stays stuck on the samsung logo, after the vodafone splash screen.
tonythrash69 said:
I tried 2 different firmware from SAMSmobile, after flashing in Odin, nothing changes. The phone reboots (if the case is ticked) and stays stuck on the samsung logo, after the vodafone splash screen.
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maybe something went wrong in partition table during kies upgrade, do you tried a full system reinstall comprensive of pit image?
myabe this get phone back to life but i think you will lose efs.
Well normaly after flashing your right Firmware you should be able to acces recovery...
franco853 said:
maybe something went wrong in partition table during kies upgrade, do you tried a full system reinstall comprensive of pit image?
myabe this get phone back to life but i think you will lose efs.
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How can I perform what you call a "full system reinstall comprehensive of PIT image"?
I have stock firmware, but no PIT file or CSC or whatsoever.
what do you mean by losing EFS? (encryption ??)
Any help is much appreciated.
tonythrash69 said:
How can I perform what you call a "full system reinstall comprehensive of PIT image"?
I have stock firmware, but no PIT file or CSC or whatsoever.
what do you mean by losing EFS? (encryption ??)
Any help is much appreciated.
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efs is a system partition wich contains your phone's hardware serial numbers, such as imei, wi-fi mac ecc... losing this means you can't connect to phone network until you restore it(i'm not sure you lose it)
i found this guide here on the forum to restore from brick's or similiar, i think you can try this if normal flashing don't work:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/help/solved-pit-bricked-dead-problem-gt-t2535367
When you flash full firmware from Samsung (.tar.md5), it includes things such as bootloader, tz, modem, system, cache, preload and the recovery. Just make sure to download it from site such as sammobile, and you can check yourself if your .tar.md5 you're about to flash includes these things using i.e. 7zip.
Untick "auto reboot" option and flash it. After it's done, it won't auto reboot but Odin will change text to "RESET!", this is a signal for you that it's finished.
Hold on Vol-Up+Home+Power for about 7 seconds, until you see Samsung Galaxy S3 logo. It MUST enter stock recovery you've just flashed, unless your hardware is broken. From there you can select Wipe data / factory reset.
Good luck.
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When you flash full firmware from Samsung (.tar.md5), it includes things such as bootloader, tz, modem, system, cache, preload and the recovery. Just make sure to download it from site such as sammobile, and you can check yourself if your .tar.md5 you're about to flash includes these things using i.e. 7zip.
Untick "auto reboot" option and flash it. After it's done, it won't auto reboot but Odin will change text to "RESET!", this is a signal for you that it's finished.
Hold on Vol-Up+Home+Power for about 7 seconds, until you see Samsung Galaxy S3 logo. It MUST enter stock recovery you've just flashed, unless your hardware is broken. From there you can select Wipe data / factory reset.
Good luck.
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Yes this is what I did.
But after "RESET" doing it, holding the buttons won't let me reach the recovery.
Is there a way to access it ? like for instance a USB JIG allowed me to access the DOWNLOAD mode; whereas holding the buttons never let me.
tonythrash69 said:
Yes this is what I did.
But after "RESET" doing it, holding the buttons won't let me reach the recovery.
Is there a way to access it ? like for instance a USB JIG allowed me to access the DOWNLOAD mode; whereas holding the buttons never let me.
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I don't think so. Probably your buttons are broken then.
JustArchi said:
I don't think so. Probably your buttons are broken then.
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I still do not understand that NO software is able to address the phone, like the recovery mode does.
We can flash from a computer, how come not to wipe from a computer.
assuming that someone has no screen or broken buttons, i'm sure there's a way to access wipe and/or access the recovery to flash a stock rom.
Thanks
tonythrash69 said:
I still do not understand that NO software is able to address the phone, like the recovery mode does.
We can flash from a computer, how come not to wipe from a computer.
assuming that someone has no screen or broken buttons, i'm sure there's a way to access wipe and/or access the recovery to flash a stock rom.
Thanks
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do you tried the guide i linked some post ago? the one with the repartition file?
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do you tried the guide i linked some post ago? the one with the repartition file?
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Hey, yes I tried the link, but again I cannot access the recovery to flash the .zip file.
When I hold the buttons as soon as the logo "galaxy s III GTI9300" appears, the screen goes black and the logo comes back again.
If I release one button, the vodafone splash screen appears, and the boot is stuck on the samsung logo.
I assume, the buttons are working because of what I just explained.
But again, I cannot access the recovery.
Last week, for some reason, after flashing I has a "setup wizard" from appeared, and crashed. that was the only time. I could see the lights under the touch buttons coming on. After the crash, I tried to reinstall and couldn't do it.
I am still sure there should be a way to wipe the nand completely or install from the SD card via the download mode.
Any help is welcome
tonythrash69 said:
Hey, yes I tried the link, but again I cannot access the recovery to flash the .zip file.
When I hold the buttons as soon as the logo "galaxy s III GTI9300" appears, the screen goes black and the logo comes back again.
If I release one button, the vodafone splash screen appears, and the boot is stuck on the samsung logo.
I assume, the buttons are working because of what I just explained.
But again, I cannot access the recovery.
Last week, for some reason, after flashing I has a "setup wizard" from appeared, and crashed. that was the only time. I could see the lights under the touch buttons coming on. After the crash, I tried to reinstall and couldn't do it.
I am still sure there should be a way to wipe the nand completely or install from the SD card via the download mode.
Any help is welcome
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I get same thing(galaxy s3 logo, black screen then normal boot when try accessing recovery) some time ago after installing philz reco, i flashed another recovery and now runs well, it sounds so strange that you still cant get at least stock recovery after a repartition and a full system reinstall... Maybe something get broke in the hardware...
Hi, I'm new to everything so please bear with me.
I have a samsung note 3, I just tried to root it with kingoroot, and was successful. I then downloaded clockworkmod recovery. I also downloaded the new darklord rom, and a darklord kernel.
I booted in recover, flashed cache, data, etc (as per darklord instructions), 3 times, flashed ROM, flashed kernel. Then I rebooted. It just rebooted into the 'factory reset' version of samsung galaxy immediately., ie within 2 minutes. So I restarted the phone, this time it started going into a lengthier reboot/install. Again, approx 10 minutes later, back to the stock samsung os.
I rebooted once again, but then the phone just kept rebooted over and over on it's own. I tried the vol down, home and power button to get into odin, pressed vol down to 'cancel', but then back to the reboot loop. Went back to odin, pressed vol up to install, and it stayed stuck on the installing screen for greater than 15 minutes.
What can I do next? Holding the vol up and down button only brings it back to the recovery boot loop again.
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A few things I've tried, with no success, after reading more threads:
Taken battery out for extended period of time (1.5hr) and then retried boot...
restart in 'odin mode' numerous times
vol down + home + power key while in odin mode
hold down these three buttons with battery out, while holding buttons down, insert battery
Why have you not flashed a stock rom through Odin??
JJEgan said:
Why have you not flashed a stock rom through Odin??
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I'm not sure how to do so. Where is the option to flash anything? All that I can see is to either "cancel" (vol. down) or "start" (vol up)
edit: sorry misunderstood what you were saying -- I will try what you said
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I'm not sure how to do so. Where is the option to flash anything? All that I can see is to either "cancel" (vol. down) or "start" (vol up)
edit: sorry misunderstood what you were saying -- I will try what you said
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flashed rom thru odin, said 'pass', rebooted phone, still the 'not seandroid' error, and then switches off, instead of reboot loop. I'm going to try to download a different stock rom -- dunno if that'll do anything... they take so long to download/access...you'd think it would be an easy access repository? A lot of paid download links, or restricted speed download links....
If your stuck on a BL reboot loop, there is a good chance you haven't turned OFF reactivation lock. With any Samsung Rooting adventure, turning off Samsung Reactivation Lock in Security Settings is a fundamental must. If you have forgotten to do this. You can...
A. Start again by reflashing stock firmware with Odin (when you setup your stock rom, just bypass logging in to samsung and you wont need to worry about a reactivation lock being present.
B. http://idlekernel.com Download just the bootloader file for your N9005, flash via BL field in Odin and this will bypass the reboot loop and you will save everything on your phone except your recovery which is easily reflashed back.
What i would do as well is flash a stock rom, when your in odin make sure you have auto reboot untick. Pull the battery for 30 secs and start your phone up then. When your phone restarts with the stock rom, you can update your phone through the regular system update or again go to odin and flash twrp 2.8.7.0 recovery tar file. Make sure all your new files to flash is the correct one for your phone.
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thanks everyone -- i downloaded a different firmware upgrade and flashed it through odin -- successfully. I then tried to install the rom again, and similar problem - stuck on the 'samsung logo' screen... for up to 40 minutes.. restarted, same thing.. had to flash through odin again.
NOW the back button doesn't work..... didn't realize being a newb would complicate things so much.. :S
.. didn't realize being a newb would complicate things so much.. :S
Its a question of reading and understanding first .
,,successfully. I then tried to install the rom again, and similar problem - stuck on the 'samsung logo' screen,,,
You Factory Reset .
You make sure its a rom for your model and follow the instructions .
Flash the rom again through recovery .
I have a I9505 (Galaxy S4) and after a week I rooted (with CFautoroot) my device rebooted alone and after that I could not get past the logo screen.
I could get to recovery screen but after I deleted the cache (only) I never could get back to recovery screen =/
I tried 3 different firmwares, recovery tools, etc and it didnt make a difference...
I can:
- enter download mode;
- use odin (install roms, pit, etc with no errors);
I cant:
- enter recovery mode (stuck at screen showing "recovery booting" blue text at top and logo).. neither can't go to twrp recovery.. it keeps stuck the same way
one observation is that if I turn off my phone, it actually reboots instead of shutting off. To shut off I need to pull off the battery.
And if I plug my phone on the charge, it shows the battery icon on screen but greyed out with a lightning inside.. not changing to the charging animation
I tried many installations: latest stock rom (jan/2017) downloaded directly from samsung servers (using samfirm, which by the way I completely recommend) with pit (and without it).... tried with CF autoroot.. tried with twrp.. but with no change... I can never get past logo screen =(
I think theres still something installed that could be affecting my phone, is that possible? The question is: when I install pit + rom, it removes everything?
I dont mind losing all my data, so if there's anything that I could do to restore my phone to 'original' state I would do it.
Try this:
open Odin 3.07 and uncheck everything except f reset time;
flash the phone without a pit file;
when you see the word "RESET" in the status window, remove USB cable from the phone, remove the battery, replace the battery, use buttons to boot into recovery;
wipe cache, wipe data, reboot.
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Try this:
open Odin 3.07 and uncheck everything except f reset time;
flash the phone without a pit file;
when you see the word "RESET" in the status window, remove USB cable from the phone, remove the battery, replace the battery, use buttons to boot into recovery;
wipe cache, wipe data, reboot.
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Thank you for the response audit13
I did as you told with odin 3.07 (I was using 3.11) and recovery didn't open
Its stuck with recovery booting at top screen for ~5min now.. =/
Is the model # gt-i9505 in download mode?
I did everything ok with no errors (steps 1,2,3) and ONLY AFTER that, the recovery didn't open.
And it's stuck with 'recovery booting' text at top screen until now...
obs.: I think the way I explained it seemed I didn't went on download mode but I did =)
I have a similar issue like this. for my shve330l i updated to the latest update via ota. and then flash rr rom onto the phone without issue. used it for a few days, but mobile network wasn't working that well. it wipe the clavik and cache and that's when all hell broke lose with it constantly rebooting and having the blue text with recovery booting load and it's been stuck like that for a while now. flashed the stock roms to no help with the same result.
First it started right into Odin Mode. After holding Volume Down and Power to exit it, the screen went black (as expected). However, afterwards it won't boot up again. Tried normal boot, recovery and download. Removed the battery and put it again, didn't work. Also tried various cables and outlets. Tried the sequence for download mode (holding Power + Volume Down + Home, then pressing Volume Up - even if it didn't show anything on screen) and connected it to my PC. The computer played the sound as if a device was connected, then after some seconds Windows said that the USB device was not recognized. Odin did not recognize it either. Samsung 300K tool doesn't work as well. Do you have any suggestions, please? It's quite urgent.
Try installing official device drivers Inform us after that what's happening. Thank you
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Try installing official device drivers Inform us after that what's happening. Thank you
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I can't. It's not booting at all. Never rooted it or changed its ROM.
You mean it doesn't even show download mood or recovery mood?
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You mean it doesn't even show download mood or recovery mood?
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Yes, not even the charging battery logo when it is powered on. Tried using an USB Jig, fails as well.
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Yes, not even the charging battery logo when it is powered on. Tried using an USB Jig, fails as well.
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I'm sorry to say that.. It's a hardware related issue... U need to take it to service center to repair Thank you
I've flashed marshmallow stock on stock lollipop via Odin but after completion J500H boots and immediately resets or off after first boot screen appears. so please help that why this problem is here???
Also please tell that custom ROM can be installed on the J500H or not ( bootloops and restart issue immediately)
Is it possible to flash again? If yes...
Then first wipe delvik cache then flash again, before flashing make sure to untick auto reboot on odin's log option... After flashing done don't reboot immediately first wipe delvik cache then restart...
If it doesn't allow you to flash then u need to take it to service center...
Yes it's possible to install custom rom using Odin but sometimes it fails if usb debugging is not enabled! You can search on Google for that or any thread here.