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Touch Wiz update messed tab up please help!

ok so here is what happened i have a stock US retail wifi only 16gb tab no clockwork recovery or none of that , im kind of a noob when it comes to that stuff, so today i received the update cool i downloaded it but it didn't install the first time for some reason. The it said a previous update was sucessfully downloaded but did not install do i wish to instal so i clicked yest and it said tab is about to reboot, clicked ok and it took me to this black and grey screen like the boot screen only with a loadbar and it zoomed to 100 percent. then i got the original samsung galaxy boot logo and the noise but no animation then the screen goes to this nasty screen with alot of colorful lines and dots everywhere and i cant see anything looks terrible.
Heres what i can do i can go into the bootloader by pressing power and volume. and i already tried to do a restore/wipe but didnt help, i can also plug it in to the computer and use the sd card and put and remove files from tab. im wondering if i can somehow get the update put it in the tab and install from there and see if it works or if i can get stock honeycomb and try to see if that works because they guy at samsung was clueless he didnt get the fact that i cant use the OS and said i need to get it serviced when i know its a software problem.

exact same thing happened to me! keep me posted

I've just got absolutely the same problem. I have a stock wifi 32gb version.

If you can get to your bootloader and sdcard still then why don't you just install CWM and try flashing the stock 3.1 OTA?
All the files you need and instructions are here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1171089
Once you're done flash the stock recovery back and try the update again, or just wait for one of the devs to release a flashable zip.

sorry if im mistaken but dont i need to be able to use the tab and install something from the market place to be able to install CWM thats what im getting from what i read?

I can't even get my bootloader. Holy f**k am I pissed. Does anyone have any ideas??

Ok. So I installed the Samsung Kies software. It recognizes the device and shows that the update is available. However, it says that the battery should be fully charged. So now I am waiting for the full charge to proceed.
Hope the Kies helps.

I'll try that too. ahh

tonyurquiza said:
sorry if im mistaken but dont i need to be able to use the tab and install something from the market place to be able to install CWM thats what im getting from what i read?
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No.
Go to the thread I linked, download the files, watch the youtube video.
1. Install the GT-p7510_USB_Driver if you haven't already
2. Start Odin - untick the auto reboot option
3. Click PDA and choose recovery-cwm_4.0.0.4-sam-tab-10.1.tar.md5
4. Power up your tab and get it into download mode (power down + vol down, then vol up)
5. connect the tab to your PC, one of the boxes in odin should highlight yellow and say com 4 or whatever.
6. press start and it'll flash CWM to your tab
7. wait till it's done, it should only take a few seconds and the boxes will turn green.
8. power down your tab and unplug it from your pc
9. boot into CWM, (power down + vol down, vol down to select CWM, vol up to enter.
10. flash hc-3.1_ota-full_sam_tab_10.1.zip
11. do a factory wipe in CWM and wipe davlik just to be safe
12. reboot, and hopefully you'll be back to stock 3.1
From here you can do whatever you want.

Connect it to a PC and there's a firmware recovery on KIES. Hope that works!
Sent from my GT-P7510 using XDA Premium App

lordwinkevin said:
there's a firmware recovery on KIES
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it didn't work for me. There were no devices in the list to recover.

I'm going to try it once my kies is finished updating. I really hope this works.

haha well first and formost i want to thank everyone for thier input. I did alot of searching online i tried KIES samsung tech support was useless. So i found the instructions on how to put clockwork on a locked bootloader got it on there and flashes the stock rom and it worked my tab is now back! only problem now is i tried to update again and only go the minor update and it doesnt find the big one lol but cant complain ill just wait lol thanks again. and to others who had the same problem dont deal with KIES to recover its useless unless you were using the program to update. I suggest getting CWM and flashing stock since thats what worked for me?

tonyurquiza said:
haha well first and formost i want to thank everyone for thier input. I did alot of searching online i tried KIES samsung tech support was useless. So i found the instructions on how to put clockwork on a locked bootloader got it on there and flashes the stock rom and it worked my tab is now back! only problem now is i tried to update again and only go the minor update and it doesnt find the big one lol but cant complain ill just wait lol thanks again. and to others who had the same problem dont deal with KIES to recover its useless unless you were using the program to update. I suggest getting CWM and flashing stock since thats what worked for me?
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Glad to hear it worked.
Since you now have CWM, just download the flashable zip from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198921
Make sure you do a factory reset in CWM after you flash this, otherwise you'll bootloop.

hoodoomagic said:
No.
Go to the thread I linked, download the files, watch the youtube video.
1. Install the GT-p7510_USB_Driver if you haven't already
2. Start Odin - untick the auto reboot option
3. Click PDA and choose recovery-cwm_4.0.0.4-sam-tab-10.1.tar.md5
4. Power up your tab and get it into download mode (power down + vol down, then vol up)
5. connect the tab to your PC, one of the boxes in odin should highlight yellow and say com 4 or whatever.
6. press start and it'll flash CWM to your tab
7. wait till it's done, it should only take a few seconds and the boxes will turn green.
8. power down your tab and unplug it from your pc
9. boot into CWM, (power down + vol down, vol down to select CWM, vol up to enter.
10. flash hc-3.1_ota-full_sam_tab_10.1.zip
11. do a factory wipe in CWM and wipe davlik just to be safe
12. reboot, and hopefully you'll be back to stock 3.1
From here you can do whatever you want.
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How would i get hc-3.1_ota-full_sam_tab_10.1.zip on my tab to flash via CWM if I can't get the tab to boot?

tonyurquiza said:
ok so here is what happened i have a stock US retail wifi only 16gb tab no clockwork recovery or none of that , im kind of a noob when it comes to that stuff, so today i received the update cool i downloaded it but it didn't install the first time for some reason. The it said a previous update was sucessfully downloaded but did not install do i wish to instal so i clicked yest and it said tab is about to reboot, clicked ok and it took me to this black and grey screen like the boot screen only with a loadbar and it zoomed to 100 percent. then i got the original samsung galaxy boot logo and the noise but no animation then the screen goes to this nasty screen with alot of colorful lines and dots everywhere and i cant see anything looks terrible.
Heres what i can do i can go into the bootloader by pressing power and volume. and i already tried to do a restore/wipe but didnt help, i can also plug it in to the computer and use the sd card and put and remove files from tab. im wondering if i can somehow get the update put it in the tab and install from there and see if it works or if i can get stock honeycomb and try to see if that works because they guy at samsung was clueless he didnt get the fact that i cant use the OS and said i need to get it serviced when i know its a software problem.
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Mine did exactly this too, by the way....

I would go this way:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1167250
/Doc

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Thank you DocRambone, flashing that via Odin got me up and running.
Then I flashed CWM as per earlier post and then flashed the Stock UEKMB + root ROM and I guess I am good to go.

Ok guys. This is my report. I used the Kies to update. The firmware was updated successfully and now the tablet works perfectly!
So this is easier and less painful method than using CWM described above =)) (but thanks to hoodoomagic for the description anyway)
Hope this will help somebody.

Galaxy Tab A 9.7 LTE SM-T555 freezes in Samsung logo after reboot

Hello i just bought new Galaxy Tab A 9.7 LTE SM-T555 , once i did rooted and it was working well , but currently it just hanged and i did hard restart with "Volume Down + Power button" it start well at first then after few minutes it just restarting continuous and freezes in Samsung Logo, i even try to flash ROM with KIES and even with ODIN (ROM downloaded from Samsung website), but non of them seems working, after successful completion of the Flashing when it comes to restart the TAB, it goes on same Previous stage , freezes in Samsung LOGo. i am trying for two days but could not figure out, Please anyone who has same problem and SOLVED , could you just help me to get rid of this Problem. It is killing me, i am spending hrs and hrs to figure but no success. I hope to get the any suggestion and help :crying: . Thank you in Advance.

pitho said:
Hello i just bought new Galaxy Tab A 9.7 LTE SM-T555 , once i did rooted and it was working well , but currently it just hanged and i did hard restart with "Volume Down + Power button" it start well at first then after few minutes it just restarting continuous and freezes in Samsung Logo, i even try to flash ROM with KIES and even with ODIN (ROM downloaded from Samsung website), but non of them seems working, after successful completion of the Flashing when it comes to restart the TAB, it goes on same Previous stage , freezes in Samsung LOGo. i am trying for two days but could not figure out, Please anyone who has same problem and SOLVED , could you just help me to get rid of this Problem. It is killing me, i am spending hrs and hrs to figure but no success. I hope to get the any suggestion and help :crying: . Thank you in Advance.
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First or second Samsung logo?
Try factory reset in recovery.

ashyx said:
First or second Samsung logo?
Try factory reset in recovery.
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Thank you. It is in second logo where it only shows "Samsung" i tried even in factory reset but could not help.

pitho said:
Thank you. It is in second logo where it only shows "Samsung" i tried even in factory reset but could not help.
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Hang on second boot usually means a corrupt data partition or bad app.
After factory reset leave your tablet alone for 15mins. It should boot after that.

ashyx said:
Hang on second boot usually means a corrupt data partition or bad app.
After factory reset leave your tablet alone for 15mins. It should boot after that.
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i reset in factory and leave it for couple of hrs but still same freezing in logo. I think now am slowly loosing hope :crying:

Go to recovery and factory reset again then immediately boot to Download mode and flash the correct firmware with odin.
Make sure there are no errors when flashing and it flashes successfully.
Reboot and wait at least 10mins.

ashyx said:
Go to recovery and factory reset again then immediately boot to Download mode and flash the correct firmware with odin.
Make sure there are no errors when flashing and it flashes successfully.
Reboot and wait at least 10mins.
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I did even tried as you said, but still same problem, i feel now its completely permanently broken. Can we use other custom rom ?, is there any available for these model?. May be i can try with other unofficial ROM. and let see.

pitho said:
I did even tried as you said, but still same problem, i feel now its completely permanently broken. Can we use other custom rom ?, is there any available for these model?. May be i can try with other unofficial ROM. and let see.
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It is not broken @pitho. I have been in this situation. The problem is occurring because Samsung is such a heavily modded rom, it takes a long time to load and just as @ashyx said, because of a bad app. Some apps are aimed for Vanilla Android, but the developer does not restrict the app only for Vanilla devices but makes it universal. So, in order to get out, download the correct firmware from Updato.com
Press on the OS Updates in the website and you type in the device's name and the current build and what kind of version you want. (Ex: If you have Marshmallow, and your device had Lollipop before, you could degrade your firmware)
Download Odin (Just search it up on Google and you should find a download link)
Plug in your device to the PC after it is in Download Mode (Volume Down + Power Button + Home Button)
On Odin, it should say Device added!
Press AP slot and find the firmware (.tar.md5 or just .tar) you downloaded from Updato.com and select it.
Press Start on the bottom of the application and it should start. It takes about 2 minutes or longer to finish flashing.
There! You just restored your device! It will take a few minutes for the device to boot up and should be installing any additional files that were included in the Official Firmware.
Happy Flashing with ODIN!

TWRP recovery disappeared

Hello!
my recovery mode was working just fine this morning since I used it to flash the Google pixel experience flashable file found here https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...her-dialer-t3478907/post70814928#post70814928
except that i had a little problem with the google app, so OP suggested flashing a certain file (also found in the thread but here is a direct link for the file in question) that solved my problem indeed but it was the last file I was able to flash, not sure if that had anything to do with it and i honestly doubt it is the cause.
recieved an update from lineageOS 14.1 nighty build downloaded it and pressed "restart and apply" from the notification, my phone does a normal reboot. didn't work? no problem close the phone and press volume up + power button + home button simultaneously until you see booting in recovery.
I did see the blue message in the top left corner as usual but then my phone just reboots into system .
I really don't know what is happening but it looks like the phone didn't find any recovery to boot into so it just boot in system.
any way to solve this issue? is it safe to try and flash TWRP again with odin?
thank you all in advance and i hope I will hear from you soon.
phone: galaxy S5 SM-G900F
OS: lineageOS 14.1-20170125-NIGHTLY-klte

i cant see why flashing TWRP in Odin mode wouldnt work, but im honestly not sure

cant turn on phone [boot screen loop] samsung galaxy s4 SPH-L720T sprint

so i managed to root my phone everything was great then i screwed it up after i had twrp installed i accidentally deleted everything following some bad instructions from somewhere on the internet ... long story short
my phone is a samsung galaxy s4 SPH-L720T sprint
i managed to even delete TWRP off of the phone but when i go into the recovery screen at the top it says KOT49H.L720TVPUBNG5
so i went hunting for a stock rom and i found this
i found the stock firmware on the samsung-firmware org website
heres the problem my internet keeps getting throttled and it keeps saying download failed i was wondering if someone could turn the rom into a torrent file so i can download it with my slow internet safely without getting a corrupted zip

lookkool3 said:
so i managed to root my phone everything was great then i screwed it up after i had twrp installed i accidentally deleted everything following some bad instructions from somewhere on the internet ... long story short
my phone is a samsung galaxy s4 SPH-L720T sprint
i managed to even delete TWRP off of the phone but when i go into the recovery screen at the top it says KOT49H.L720TVPUBNG5
so i went hunting for a stock rom and i found this
i found the stock firmware on the samsung-firmware org website
heres the problem my internet keeps getting throttled and it keeps saying download failed i was wondering if someone could turn the rom into a torrent file so i can download it with my slow internet safely without getting a corrupted zip
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My s4 did the same thing. Yes, there is a solution. It takes a while but you can do it. First of all remove the battery from your phone and wait for almost 2 to 3 minutes.
2. Now you need to boot into Stock Recovery Mode by Pressing and Holding the Volume Up+Home+Power buttons at the same time for a few seconds until you see the Android System Recovery menu on your screen.
3. You’ll be using the Volume Up/Down to switch between different options and Power button to select your desire option.
4. Now select the Wipe data/Factory Reset option and confirm it.
5. Additionally, take also the following actions:
– Wipe cache partition
– Go to Advance and Wipe dalvick cache
6. Now Go back to the main Recovery menu and Select the option Reboot System Now to Reboot your phone. I am sorry you have to wipe your phone but this is the only way to fix this issue. Please thumbs this up if it helped

Newbie Mistake, Loop boot, G950FD rooted. Help!

Hi,
I've looked everywhere before writing this so please forgive me as I saw there are a number of threads similar to this but couldn't find an answer.
Have rooted the phone a few days ago and flashed the Alexis Rom Oreo2.1S9PORT. As I had several apps that where acting up (no MIcrosoft Active Sync, no Outlook notifications among other things) I made a bit of a mess of it and decided to reset the phone by erasing all contents. As I went to boot up again the phone was in loop.
It goes on download mode and have tried with ODIN to reflash AP, BL, CP, CSC read everywhere looked on youtube but Odin fails each time. I've downloaded samsung drivers and firmwares to have Samsung Oreo back but to no avail.
Could someone please give me a hand in restarting the phone somehow? It's now in loop and I will wait until it dies down from battery failure as suggested in some threads in here.
Sorry to pester you.
Newbie...:crying:

latest ODIN screenshot. I don't know what more to try...please help...

Can you boot into Recovery Mode?
(Power off your phone, than hold: Bixby + volume up + power on button until you see the recovery mode)

Norup58 said:
Can you boot into Recovery Mode?
(Power off your phone, than hold: Bixby + volume up + power on button until you see the recovery mode)
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No unfortunately. NOw the phone is battery drained.

THis is the Downloading mode. I can't think of what to do unfortunately. I've tried 3 or 4 firmwares as well.
Since I deleted through the phone system reset and not through TWRP (which I've now lost obviously) what would be the best way to reflash the mod (or the original Samsung one for that matter)?

ok I thought I made some progress, I've managed to reinstall TWRP and flashed again the Rom, Rom fix, and AOD fix. I was able to check the options of the Rom and the ROm installed succesfully. As I went to reboot I got stuck again in a loop with the SAMSUNG logo flashing continuosly. I can feel I'm close to a solution, could you point me in the right direction please?

The continuosly boot-loop could be the firmware doesnt match the Rom.
If you are game, try installing Renovate Ice: https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...ovate-ice-g950-g955-android-7-0-aqdg-t3598040
Click the orange colored RENOVATE ICE WEBPAGE link.
From the menu choose FIRMWARE, download and flash.
Then download and flash R.Ice rom - follow the How to Flash guide

Norup58 said:
The continuosly boot-loop could be the firmware doesnt match the Rom.
If you are game, try installing Renovate Ice: https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...ovate-ice-g950-g955-android-7-0-aqdg-t3598040
Click the orange colored RENOVATE ICE WEBPAGE link.
From the menu choose FIRMWARE, download and flash.
Then download and flash R.Ice rom - follow the How to Flash guide
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Thanks a lot. I managed alone 5 minutes ago. Reflashed the TWRP, then the Oreo ROM, and then the samsung firmware... result now I have a working fresh empty Samsung S8 with all Samsung apps... I now know how to do it. :laugh::laugh::laugh: