Hey there guys,
I was playing around with my phone and I was trying to install a custom recovery. I tried to install CWM but could not find the correct version for my phone online. My phone is a note 3. However I didnt mind this and went ahead with installing a twrp recovery. When i tried to install it I used odin and the AP option. I managed to install it, but there was an error. When i would go into the recovery mode it would only show the two lines of writing as license:recovery. However this was fine as if i didnt go into recovery mode i could still access the phone. Now i installed ROM MANAGER and tried to use that instead of ODIN. However when i pressed open in recovery option the same useless recovery screen with two lines came up. Not even the stock recovery option. Now this is where i Messed up. Now when i turn phone on it boots into recovery which is useless. and then reboots into recovery agian and again. At this point i am unsure what to do. I was hoping to try twrp recovery again but cant as i cant connect to ODIN as i cant open the download screen because it goes straight into the recovery screen. Mega confused at this point and would really appreciate help asap.
Thanks a bunch
Was the phone rooted when rom manager was used?
Did you try downloading the latest stock rom for your phone from sammobile.com and flashing it in Odin?
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My phone originally was using omega rom and philz recovery. I accidentally pressed the "remove recovery flash" while in philz recovery when I was trying to reboot the phone. My phone couldn't boot to os nor recovery, but download mode still works. So I tried to flash custom recovery again but it does not work. Tried flashing stock rom and kernel but recovery does not work. However, the phone is now able to boot to os but the screen color gone wrong. The whole screen is purple-ish when in os.
How can I get back recovery and also solve the purple problem?
Maybe try using a different recovery, at least to get back to stable? I've used TWRP and OUDHS via Odin, and both work well.
jejb said:
Maybe try using a different recovery, at least to get back to stable? I've used TWRP and OUDHS via Odin, and both work well.
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Thanks alot! Finally able to enter recovery. Spent quite a long time trying to flash different roms etc.
Now trying to solve the purple problem....
Edit: Everything working fine now.
so i bought this N3 about a month ago, so it was on 4.4.2 from the factory. first thing i did was root it to get rid of the bloat. fast forward to now. nova launcher is getting boring and i want to try a new rom. first thing i did was try to install twrp. im using the latest file from twrp and odin 3.09, and everything went fine. tried to boot into recovery and it boot looped with the "seandroid enforcing" loading screen. even pulling the battery did nothing. i had to put it in download mode and cancel out for it to boot back up normally. now my problem is i have NO recovery and thats not sitting well with me. i also do not want philz recovery, so im not gonna even bother to try flashing that until i have no choice.
dirtyjerzz said:
so i bought this N3 about a month ago, so it was on 4.4.2 from the factory. first thing i did was root it to get rid of the bloat. fast forward to now. nova launcher is getting boring and i want to try a new rom. first thing i did was try to install twrp. im using the latest file from twrp and odin 3.09, and everything went fine. tried to boot into recovery and it boot looped with the "seandroid enforcing" loading screen. even pulling the battery did nothing. i had to put it in download mode and cancel out for it to boot back up normally. now my problem is i have NO recovery and thats not sitting well with me. i also do not want philz recovery, so im not gonna even bother to try flashing that until i have no choice.
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i'm facing same issue here
i can't enter download or recovery mode
dirtyjerzz: Flash a stock ROM via Odin after that -> flash CWM -> Philz -> TWRP
mohd.itcs: Buy or make a USB JIG
Hello everyone, I wanted to flash a ROM to my Galaxy S4 i9505. I first rooted it like described in this tutorial. That went all ok.
After that I downloaded this and tried to flash using Odin Mobile. It rebooted to some sort of recovery, wiped data, cache etc. and then it wrote some error.
After that, I am stuck at the Samsung logo and can't boot into android. I can't also enter recovery, when i hold the buttons, it boots and there is written BOOTING RECOVERY (in the left top corner) but after that it goes to the Samsung logo again.
I can still get into Download mode. If anyone could help with this I would be really grateful.
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Hello everyone, I wanted to flash a ROM to my Galaxy S4 i9505. I first rooted it like described in this tutorial. That went all ok.
After that I downloaded this and tried to flash using Odin Mobile. It rebooted to some sort of recovery, wiped data, cache etc. and then it wrote some error.
After that, I am stuck at the Samsung logo and can't boot into android. I can't also enter recovery, when i hold the buttons, it boots and there is written BOOTING RECOVERY (in the left top corner) but after that it goes to the Samsung logo again.
I can still get into Download mode. If anyone could help with this I would be really grateful.
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Hi mate,
Why you flashed a custom rom with Odin mobile???
Go into recovery and do a factory reset try to reboot and see if it works if not....
Go to recovery do a factory reset ...and flash rom from there ( did you installed a custom recovery?)
If no working ..go to recovery do a factory reset ...download a stock rom ( sammobile) download Odin ( not odin mobile) flash stock rom...
Then you can root , install custom recovery and flash custom rom from there...
I did try to install the recovery using odin (this one), but when i rebooted there was the default recovery So after that i decided to flash the rom using odin mobile (and that got me here).
Can i install custom recovery with firmware ending with GNG8? I had 4.4.2 stock before this.
davidv1 said:
I did try to install the recovery using odin (this one), but when i rebooted there was the default recovery So after that i decided to flash the rom using odin mobile (and that got me here).
Can i install custom recovery with firmware ending with GNG8? I had 4.4.2 stock before this.
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Hi
What odin did you use to flash the custom recovery? it should work, you can also try TWRP recovery
http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/182
Do not use odin mobile go with the pc type
You can install a custom rom...but you need a custom recovery
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What odin did you use to flash the custom recovery? it should work, you can also try TWRP recovery
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Do not use odin mobile go with the pc type
You can install a custom rom...but you need a custom recovery
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Thanks for the tip, I installed it through Odin 3.09, first I got stuck on booting into recovery, but on the second try I kept holding the volume up only after phone logo appeared and now I am in the TWRP.
Reseting the phone now and I will install the rom after that. Thanks again, hope it will succeed now.
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Thanks for the tip, I installed it through Odin 3.09, first I got stuck on booting into recovery, but on the second try I kept holding the volume up only after phone logo appeared and now I am in the TWRP.
Reseting the phone now and I will install the rom after that. Thanks again, hope it will succeed now.
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Great mate!
Let us know how it goes
I was trying to upgrade from CM11 to CM12, which went smooth except for GAPPS closing constantly. I read online that this was caused by an old version of the recovery, so I tried to update TWRP to 2.8.4.0. I first tried using the TWRP app from the Play Store (after recovering my Nandroid backup), which locked the phone where it would only try booting into recovery, but couldn't get there. Holding the power button to turn it off would result in a reboot right back into recovery, which of course never went anywhere. Now I am trying to re-install TWRP using ODIN but It fails every time [Complete(Write) operation failed.] I have an early S4 from AT&T and it has never had an official update. I can't remember which firmware it is using, but it is the original so I shouldn't have any problems there. Can anybody help me get this thing up and running with either TWRP or CWM and CM12 please?!
Update: I have been able to get the phone to boot by first booting into Download mode, then hitting the Volume Down button to cancel. This has twice booted it back into the OS. Still no recovery though.
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I was able to install TWRP 2.8.4.0 from the app after getting the device to boot. It worked correctly this time and all appears to be well. Odd that ODIN didn't work though.
Hi guys,
I was running cyanogenmod 12 on my s4 i9505 sucessfully. Today I decided to encrypt my device, and I went ahead with it and it was sucessful except for the fact my apps got deleted. I set the phone to factory reset as I didn't it anymore and it went ahead and restarted. However now it boots up with the blue text at the top left saying booting into the recovery, The Twrp screen (the blue one) comes up but it then disappears and reappears. Im not too sure on what to do. Also removing the battery and reinserting it doesn't make a difference, as when i switch my phone on again it comes up with the blue recovery boot text.
I would just like for my phone to work, I dont need any data back.
Thank you
Have you tried flashing a stock ROM from sammobile.com with Odin?
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Have you tried flashing a stock ROM from sammobile.com with Odin?
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I found some firmware, but Im not sure which one Im meant to use. I bought my phone from amazon.
What is the baseband and bootloader on the phone? These two items will hep identify the stock ROM for the phone.
I would flash the recovery with Odin. See if you can get into download mode by holding power, volume up and home button simultaneously. If so you can download Odin to a PC and flash CWM or TWRP. Google the tar file for your specific device and you can find what you need. . Once set up on PC you can then connect phone to PC while in download mode and reinstall a recovery. Suggest you reinstall CM ROM if you have zip file and gapps file on an SD card. Good luck