Good evening everybody. I've owned this smartphone for almost 3 years, It's been fully rooted with custom ROM and TWRP. Several months ago, the fisical home button broke.
I've bought a phisical tool to force the fastboot mode since then. I've bought a new smartphone and I wanto to sell this one, but first i need to wipe everything on it.
Problem is: I cannot. Resetting from the phone setting doesn't do anything, and i can't access TWRP. I can't use the key combo since the home button is broken, but I've tried to use the "reboot into recovery mode" offered by my rom: nothing happened. I tried to flash multiple times with odin or flashify, there's no error in the flashing process but I still can't access the recovery.
My final goal is just to clear all caches and to a factory reset. What way you suggest me to to this?
Thanks in advance
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So basically my phone was stock but rooted and modded slightly with volume boost, camera mod, and the multi window mod as well. Other than that its all stock and never flashed a Rom on it. The phone ran smooth about 90% of the time but there were little quirks here and there that kind of bugged me. For example, every once in a while the screen wouldnt wake up after being locked via button or double tap. Wifi wouldnt respond randomly unless I reset my phone. Things of that nature, but anyhow I decided maybe hard reseting my phone might clear up some of these issues. I got into TWRP from AutoRec, and checked off everything except internal storage. I believe they were Davlik, Cache, System and obviously it didnt work out for me. I feel like me checking off the system is what did it because it wasnt considered a basic swipe at that point. Anyhow I cant get to recovery, download mode or anything of that sort. Everytime I hold down the power button it just resets and brings me back to the LG logo and just sits there while the led lights keeps rotating colors. Is my phone done for?
edit: Oh yea one last thing, I remember when I went to reboot it I somehow ended up being asked if I wanted to install SuperSU and I said yes. And than at that point it went to restart my phone and got stuck.
fjgotgame24 said:
So basically my phone was stock but rooted and modded slightly with volume boost, camera mod, and the multi window mod as well. Other than that its all stock and never flashed a Rom on it. The phone ran smooth about 90% of the time but there were little quirks here and there that kind of bugged me. For example, every once in a while the screen wouldnt wake up after being locked via button or double tap. Wifi wouldnt respond randomly unless I reset my phone. Things of that nature, but anyhow I decided maybe hard reseting my phone might clear up some of these issues. I got into TWRP from AutoRec, and checked off everything except internal storage. I believe they were Davlik, Cache, System and obviously it didnt work out for me. I feel like me checking off the system is what did it because it wasnt considered a basic swipe at that point. Anyhow I cant get to recovery, download mode or anything of that sort. Everytime I hold down the power button it just resets and brings me back to the LG logo and just sits there while the led lights keeps rotating colors. Is my phone done for?
edit: Oh yea one last thing, I remember when I went to reboot it I somehow ended up being asked if I wanted to install SuperSU and I said yes. And than at that point it went to restart my phone and got stuck.
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You wiped system. That's your rom. Don't wipe system unless you plan on flashing a rom. You should still be able to get back to recovery. From phone powered off state ( hold power and volume up when lg logo is on). Hold power and volume down, when lg comes on, release both, then hold both again. You should now be at the factory reset screen. Press power three times (it's not going to factory reset). You should be in recovery. From here, restore your backup. If you don't have a backup, you just found out the reason why you should always have a backup. If you don't have a backup, you're going to need to install a rom via adb or otg (assuming your recovery is up to date). You can also tot or kdz back to stock (wipes sdcard though).
Return to stock thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2448960
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Hello all, first off apologies if this has been answered... If it has I can't find it...so here goes..the wife's galasxy s5 had the lollipop update...as we all know Samsung jumped the gun....the phone over a few days got worse for screen freezing and random off and on...until eventually it got caught in a bootloop...
I tried to data/factory reset but the menu list wasn't there just a blue message saying booting recovery..
So after taking the battery out for 5,10 then 30 min for the same thing to happen.
I then decided (stupidly) to use Odin (I've used it a lot over the years) and flash the original ROM from sammobile...(yes I can get to the download screen).Odin says reset after flashing, phone resets and again it bootloops....not sure if the Knox was tripped at this point however after a bit more research and other tutorials I realised I tried to install an unlocked version not one tied to 02...so o found the o2 one from sammobile...went through it all again and still nothing... Bootloop.....so I tried again but this time i tried to root it using Odin...again it said it worked...I assume it did because I received another menu lines at the booting recover one in red and one in yellow...however it still boot loops....I then try flashing ROM again and still boot loops....boot loops.....boot loops.....I put custom ROM back on and go to Samsung repair shop as the devices is less than a year old...to be told the knox is tripped sorry....please can someone point me in the right direction as to what I can do with this phone now....
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Hello all, first off apologies if this has been answered... If it has I can't find it...so here goes..the wife's galasxy s5 had the lollipop update...as we all know Samsung jumped the gun....the phone over a few days got worse for screen freezing and random off and on...until eventually it got caught in a bootloop...
I tried to data/factory reset but the menu list wasn't there just a blue message saying booting recovery..
So after taking the battery out for 5,10 then 30 min for the same thing to happen.
I then decided (stupidly) to use Odin (I've used it a lot over the years) and flash the original ROM from sammobile...(yes I can get to the download screen).Odin says reset after flashing, phone resets and again it bootloops....not sure if the Knox was tripped at this point however after a bit more research and other tutorials I realised I tried to install an unlocked version not one tied to 02...so o found the o2 one from sammobile...went through it all again and still nothing... Bootloop.....so I tried again but this time i tried to root it using Odin...again it said it worked...I assume it did because I received another menu lines at the booting recover one in red and one in yellow...however it still boot loops....I then try flashing ROM again and still boot loops....boot loops.....boot loops.....I put custom ROM back on and go to Samsung repair shop as the devices is less than a year old...to be told the knox is tripped sorry....please can someone point me in the right direction as to what I can do with this phone now....
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Something is wrong with your keyboard, dot key is stuck or something? :laugh::laugh::laugh:
Did you even try to do Factory Reset after flashing firmware dedicated to your phone?
To do this - flash STOCK firmware via ODIN again. It phone get into bootloop again - pull out battery.
Then wait 30 seconds and enter to STOCK recovery - VOL+ + HOME + POWER (Almost the same like download mode but instead vol- is vol+) and do format data and format cache few times.
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Something is wrong with your keyboard, dot key is stuck or something? :laugh::laugh::laugh:
Did you even try to do Factory Reset after flashing firmware dedicated to your phone?
To do this - flash STOCK firmware via ODIN again. It phone get into bootloop again - pull out battery.
Then wait 30 seconds and enter to STOCK recovery - VOL+ + HOME + POWER (Almost the same like download mode but instead vol- is vol+) and do format data and format cache few times.
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Thanks for the reply, unfortunately there is no menu at the stock recovery just a blue message saying booting recovery...it then goes into bootloop again.
And removing batt for 30 sec...
First, thank you to the mods for putting my last post in the right place (and now I know where the right place is).
Anyhoo, my previous problem was a hardware issue that I've had repaired.
Now, this is no longer critical since I bought a replacement phone (Xperia Z if anyone cares) that is happily rooted and running CM. However, I'd still like the S4 rooted with CM and ready to go in an emergency.
The downside of the repair was that the shop I took it too re-flashed it back to stock (I wasn't happy, but hell, it gives me something to do, practically risk free now). Having soft bricked the I9505 three times, I've brought it back to life. However, I'd like to get twrp on there (Honestly, CWM is stepping backwards rather than forwards IMHO, dumbing down to the lowest common denominator). I have the flash files, and for good measure, I have a stock G4 recovery.
Now my problem,. whilst the phone will boot normally without an issue (I said I brought it back from dead), I can't boot to any recovery, either from the phone itself with HW keys, or via adb. It simply sits there at the Samsung logo pretending to boot. This is with both TWRP and stock, so I'm stumped.
I get the Samsung logo, with the little blue too tiny to read text top left, and there it stays. Normal reboot works just peachy with both. Not rooted as best as I can tell (though it should be). i.e. In developer options, none of the root stuff (enhanced reboot, root options etc.) are missing.
So, whilst not critical (it will still be a handy backup phone), any ideas?
you wouldn't have any advanced reboot options unless they were in the rom, and you can't have TWRP without root. maybe the phone shop left you with nothing as a recovery because they forgot ???
In Odin, uncheck everything except f.reset time, flash the tar version of TWRP in Odin, when you see the word "reset" in the status window, remove USB cable from the phone, remove battery, wait 5 seconds, replace battery, use buttons to get into recovery.
Getting into recovery.
*Press the three button combo of vol.up+home+power button
*As soon as Samsung appears relase the combo and in a jiffy press only the volume up+home button.
Hurray! :')
In order:
I've reflashed TWRP, stock, and CWM - all the successful, but same result
No Odin,. Linux user exclusively - so Heimdall
Three button combo starts recovery reboot (the giveaway is the too small to read blue text top left), but there it hangs. Using abd results in the same.
It simply hangs on booting recovery, whichever recovery, but will boot normally without a problem. Tried with and without SIM/SDCard/both/neither.
Probably worth adding, I'm not new to rooting (done it with my last 7 phones, including the one I'm currently using (Xperia Z)), and the S4 was rooted with CM13 before the shop got their hands on it.
After flashing twrp, are you letting the phone auto reboot from Odin?
How many times. Linux user - no Odin (that's Windows) - Heimdall, and it's not just TWRP, it's stock, TWRP and CWM
Personally, recommend trying to flash with Odin. I use Mac OSX myself.
I only have two options for Odin, either via a VM or using wine, and neither lets it detect the phone in download mode.
However, heimdall has always worked well (previously on this phone) so I'm not convinced that's the problem.
Don't know why, but it's finally worked.
How do I mark solved?
Dear all.
My phone is US996 Unlocked, no USC variant model.
My phone has bootloop to recovery. My phone can't boot to system OS.
I tried flash boot.img and wipe data partition, I can't solve my problem.
Anyone, Can you help me?
I need stock recovery image or full firmware(KDZ).
Thanks.
naraymm said:
Dear all.
My phone is US996 Unlocked, no USC variant model.
My phone has bootloop to recovery. My phone can't boot to system OS.
I tried flash boot.img and wipe data partition, I can't solve my problem.
Anyone, Can you help me?
I need stock recovery image or full firmware(KDZ).
Thanks.
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I was in a similar position to where it would just always boot into recovery forever. I tried doing several restores from stock and other backups. Different ROMs and even went through dirtysanta again. Nothing worked.
What wound up working was me getting into the device's factory restore screen (not TWRP's). I believe you get there by turning on the device while holding the Vol down + power button, when the LG screen comes up - let go of the power button for like 1-2 seconds and then press/hold it again. It should be a white screen that's asking if you want to do the factory screen or not. Just do that. It did its thing - then went to the LG screen again. I was a bit impatient and only waited like 2 mins. It didn't go anywhere (you could probably wait longer or so) but I just simply took out the battery and then put it back in.
It did wind up booting to the system again after awhile.
Just letting you know what I did after I messed up with a certain thing in a hidden menu.
Twisted
Not solved.
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I was in a similar position to where it would just always boot into recovery forever. I tried doing several restores from stock and other backups. Different ROMs and even went through dirtysanta again. Nothing worked.
What wound up working was me getting into the device's factory restore screen (not TWRP's). I believe you get there by turning on the device while holding the Vol down + power button, when the LG screen comes up - let go of the power button for like 1-2 seconds and then press/hold it again. It should be a white screen that's asking if you want to do the factory screen or not. Just do that. It did its thing - then went to the LG screen again. I was a bit impatient and only waited like 2 mins. It didn't go anywhere (you could probably wait longer or so) but I just simply took out the battery and then put it back in.
It did wind up booting to the system again after awhile.
Just letting you know what I did after I messed up with a certain thing in a hidden menu.
Twisted
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Thanks for your reply.
But, I didn't solve the problem. I tried your method, but is's no changed. bootloop to TWRP recovery.
I can't use my phone.
Solved . Thanks to all member
Dear all.
I solved the problem.
I tried flash system.img and boot.img use fastboot flash command.
and re-flash de-odex system use TWRP again, wipe data and cache.
It's rebooted to system OS.
Thanks.
Hi!
I used my S7 Edge for a couple of years and now I am afraid it may have died on me. As always, backups of f.e. pictures are not up to date.
During the night, it lay on my Qi charger. When I took it in hand, the screen was extremely dark and stuck in the "loading Lineage" screen. I tried to reboot. It was stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy" screen.
I wanted to boot into recovery and wipe the cache and see if it works again. But I can't boot into recovery mode. No matter if I connect it to a USB cable, the button command does not work.
Switching the device off also isn't possible. The only way to switch it off is disconnecting the battery (I have opened it to do so).
The only thing I can do is booting into download mode (so I know my volume up button works...).
Several times the screen was stuck on the "empty battery" symbol - which did not change no matter how long I had it in the charger. I can't really replicate how I got to the battery screen. I installed another battery just to see if if by some magic this would change something, but nothing changed about my issue. No boot possible and no booting into recovery.
I thought to myself: Well, maybe if I reinstall TWRP I can get into Recovery again. But when I try Odin I get the error message: "there is no PIT partition"
I know you will want additional info:
sadly, I cant' say which version of lineage I had running. I would have to look into my phone - which I can't.
I installed Lineage a couple of years ago, the phone was rooted and had TWRP recovery. I changed my USB port and Audio port several months ago.
But everything was running fine - I did not change or do anything recently. It happened overnight.
Do you have any ideas what I can do? I am brooding for two days now over this issue and I am at the end of the line here.
Did my memory just die on me? Is it an unfixable hardware issue?
Or software-related and potentially salvageable?
thanks in advance for anybody that bothers with my problem.
PinkElf said:
Hi!
I used my S7 Edge for a couple of years and now I am afraid it may have died on me. As always, backups of f.e. pictures are not up to date.
During the night, it lay on my Qi charger. When I took it in hand, the screen was extremely dark and stuck in the "loading Lineage" screen. I tried to reboot. It was stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy" screen.
I wanted to boot into recovery and wipe the cache and see if it works again. But I can't boot into recovery mode. No matter if I connect it to a USB cable, the button command does not work.
Switching the device off also isn't possible. The only way to switch it off is disconnecting the battery (I have opened it to do so).
The only thing I can do is booting into download mode (so I know my volume up button works...).
Several times the screen was stuck on the "empty battery" symbol - which did not change no matter how long I had it in the charger. I can't really replicate how I got to the battery screen. I installed another battery just to see if if by some magic this would change something, but nothing changed about my issue. No boot possible and no booting into recovery.
I thought to myself: Well, maybe if I reinstall TWRP I can get into Recovery again. But when I try Odin I get the error message: "there is no PIT partition"
I know you will want additional info:
sadly, I cant' say which version of lineage I had running. I would have to look into my phone - which I can't.
I installed Lineage a couple of years ago, the phone was rooted and had TWRP recovery. I changed my USB port and Audio port several months ago.
But everything was running fine - I did not change or do anything recently. It happened overnight.
Do you have any ideas what I can do? I am brooding for two days now over this issue and I am at the end of the line here.
Did my memory just die on me? Is it an unfixable hardware issue?
Or software-related and potentially salvageable?
thanks in advance for anybody that bothers with my problem.
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Hi, try to flash the stock firmware otherwise I really don't know :/
I guess I will lose my data when I install stock firmware, don't I?
What I ask myself is: Is the reason for not being able to boot into recovery that my device always thinks my battery is empty?
Is the fact that I can boot into download mode a sign that my memory and/or motherboard is still intact?
PinkElf said:
I guess I will lose my data when I install stock firmware, don't I?
What I ask myself is: Is the reason for not being able to boot into recovery that my device always thinks my battery is empty?
Is the fact that I can boot into download mode a sign that my memory and/or motherboard is still intact?
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Are you using Lineage OS? If yes, then definitely yes. On my Xiaomi, I couldn't get into fastboot mode or into recovery, I don't know why and somehow I got there, I don't even know how I think I held the power mode for a long time and when the phone turned on I held the volume up button to get into recovery finally succeeded on the umpteenth attempt and from recovery I restarted the phone in fastboot mode and flashed the stock firmware. And yes, being able to boot your phone into fastboot is a good sign. It would be worse if it wasn't possible.
I am still stuck with the problem. I can boot into download mode. I can't find a way to boot into recovery.
Is there anything I can do in download mode?
If I find the lineage version I originally installed on my device, could I install it via ODIN and get my phone back without data loss? I have only ever installed ROMs via TWRP.
Just an idea, but as of now I get the error "could not find PIT partition" anyway while trying to reinstall TWRP.
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I am still stuck with the problem. I can boot into download mode. I can't find a way to boot into recovery.
Is there anything I can do in download mode?
If I find the lineage version I originally installed on my device, could I install it via ODIN and get my phone back without data loss? I have only ever installed ROMs via TWRP.
Just an idea, but as of now I get the error "could not find PIT partition" anyway while trying to reinstall TWRP.
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Yes, you can use download mode to install the firmware via Odin. Look
That means giving up hope for my personal data...
But even if I want to do this, I run into the problem, that I can't install anything due to "could not find PIT partition"...