I can't get into recovery. I flashed community rom 2.0 with the ed01 modem. The phone will start, and it will even show the launcher and a bunch of icons. Then it vibrates really fast three times and restarts. It will do this until I remove the battery. When I re-insert the battery to try and get into recovery (3.0 RED) I am unable to get in. Does anybody know what the problem is and how to fix it? I used odin for the .tar from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=942021 but I still cannot get into cwm. What do I need to do to get into CWM? Nothing happens if I hold Volume down and the power button, it just starts the phone, and then restarts.
Did you flash a new kernel as soon as you odin'd recovery? If not that's why you can't get to recovery cause as soon as the phone boots with the stock kernel it will over write whatever you just odin'd
I'm not home right now but if you can reply with some base info I can help...what rom and kernel are you on now, and what are you trying to go to...let me know that and I should be able to walk you through what you need to do to get rid of your boot loop in a lil bit
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Well, I flashed the community 2.0 rom with the included kernel. Ontop of that, I flashed the 2.1 patch to it and that is when the problems started happening.
UKB 2.0 with OTB 1.5 Voodoo Kernel
md5: 5118f303b7b32c080c1a7331ca34b936
Hmmm...I had some issues with ukb 2.1 also..not the same issues but it was enough to make me flash back to 2.0 until cm7 is complete! if you were able to get comm romm on there then at least you how to flash...use odin and what not...what I recommend is to go to the development section look at the stickies...there is one that lists all current roms, kernels, mods, and recoveries...it was written by nitsuj...I may have the spelling wrong on his screen name..but in that post there are links to newer recoveries...some you can flash, some you have to odin. I would odin one of the 3.x.x. Ones...i used the red one from otb..but I have also had good luck with the one by times infinity also. Try one that you have to odin...boot right into cwm via three finger salute..if that works..i would reboot..and try going into cwm again to see if it stuck...if not I would re odin recovery and then re flash your comm rom file right over with out wiping and see if that will get it to stick...if not then I'm not sure what to try...hopefully someone smarter than I will have the answer you need...good luck!
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Nothing happens if I hold Volume down and the power button, it just starts the phone, and then restarts.[/QUOTE]
Edit...could just be a typo but you know your supposed to hold power, up volume and down volume right?..just want to cover the bases
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Nothing happens if I hold Volume down and the power button, it just starts the phone, and then restarts.
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Edit...could just be a typo but you know your supposed to hold power, up volume and down volume right?..just want to cover the bases
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hehe, yes, typo :X
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so i tried to flash stock vibrant....and something went wrong..and now my phone screen just says Vibrant and Samsung (what comes up when you start the phone) and just stays stuck there..ive heard bricked phones are completely black, any advice on what this is and where and what to search for to fix?
I'd say try to reflash through odin
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Did you have the voodoo lag fix installed before? This sounds like what happens to people who flash a new rom over that. Look for the fixes they use in the voodoo thread.
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The following gets you back into download mode to re-flash ODIN.
Take out your battery, sim card, and micro sd. Let sit for 15 sec. Then plug in your usb cord into the phone and computer. Now hold both volume keys down. While holding volume keys put battery back in. Let go of the keys once you see the download screen.
Depending on what you did......you might have to flash the -Froyo that does not brick- (by eugene) and then flash the stock odin package. All can be found in the Vibrant Bible sticky at the top of the forum. Be sure and follow directions carefully for both. Good Luck!
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thanks so much, im a noob so this might be kind of hard for me, i used rom mananger to flash, i have no idea how to use odin, ill have to learn
Its broke, throw it away.
or maybe u should read up.
Were you running the voodoo lagfix when you tried flashing back to stock? And when you say flashing back to stock, do you mean via odin?
btw, I'm moving this thread to the Q&A section.
Has anyone figured out how to get past this "An error occurred while downloading your recovery." I have a older CWM.tar version that works but doesn't seem to hold as everytime I do it and then I reboot into recovery it reverts back to the lastest Orange version. Please tell me that somebody really knows what to do!!
I tried numerous times to get it to downgrade in Rom Manager but it never worked. What I did was delete every "update.zip" on my sdcard (I had several from all of the newer, improved versions coming out). I then unistalled Rom Manager (you can reinstall it later but its really not of any use to us right now....and if you do, don't flash a new recovery yet). Then I got Jt's CWM-Recovery-All.tar file and flashed i in Odin.
Hope that helps.
I'll give this a shot tonight when I get home. Is there anyway to boot into cwm without going through Rom Manager??
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A couple of ways. If you've installed a theme most of the ones we have now have custom shutdown menus. These are nice and make it very easy. If not, you can still just turn your phone off, hold the vol+ & vol- and power button down and when SAMSUNG name comes up release the power button.
Hey That worked for me after using Odin to get JT's version of CWM on my fascinate. Thanks!!!!
Hey no problem. Glad I could help.
I ODIN'd my T959 last night and everything went fine. But now during boot I get the GT-I9000 splash screen... although the phone is listed in the About section as a T959. Worse, I no longer have the green or red recovery, it's blue (even after rooting). I can no longer get to recovery using the 3-button method, I had to root the phone and install ROM Manager in order to get to blue recovery.
I tried using AIO Vibrant Toolbox and still I'm having the same issue.
Any suggestion as to how I can fix this?
Next time you odin back stock, use http://www.multiupload.com/HRYJKFLKFQ instead of the original JFD file. You can probably use this now to get the Vibrant splash back anyway. Just odin like you normally would. And you're supposed to reinstall packages again...Odin resets your recovery.
Since you flashed the GB bootloader, the combos change.
vol up + power=download mode
vol down + power=recovery
read the op next time
Agreed. Reinstall packages in recovery. Sometimes reflash recovery with ROM manager and try again then in recovery choose reboot in recovery. Good luck!
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Thanks to both of you for the response. Trying now.
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read the op next time
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BTW... I read the OP, I assure you. Perhaps I didn't understand it, and that's obvious. But I read the OP. Whenever I flash a ROM I read the entire thread beforehand. I'm still very much a danger to myself and my phone.
laylovj - that did the trick. The splash is back and more importantly, I have data again. I installed SH 3.8 Revolution and it's running great.
Thanks again.
Hi Guys,
Last night for some reason my GT-19100T running CM9.1.0 wouldn't lock by pressing the power button, the button itself seems to be working. I can press the button down but nothing happens. I left it for the night and came into work this morning, I thought it might be a bug with the rom, i managed to boot into recovery via the "Rom Manager" app and was going to flash to CM10. My problem is now that i am in recovery, I can't select anything as the power button is not working. I can scroll through the recovery menu with the volume buttons but cant select anything, and now soon as the phone turns on after removing the battery, it goes straight to recovery mode and i cant get around it.
I have tried leaving the battery out for about 3 hours and same thing. I can boot into download mode, But at the moment that doesn't help me.
Any suggestions on what i can do? I'm not worried about warranty so i may pull the phone apart and clean it tonight. Thanks in advance.
Update:
After much playing around with the button i can get it work, it is very temperamental and requires to be pushed in the right way. Was able to flash with Touch recovery and am now updating to CM10 nightlies. Thanks all for your help on my first post.
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Hi Guys,
Last night for some reason my GT-19100T running CM9.1.0 wouldn't lock by pressing the power button, the button itself seems to be working. I can press the button down but nothing happens. I left it for the night and came into work this morning, I thought it might be a bug with the rom, i managed to boot into recovery via the "Rom Manager" app and was going to flash to CM10. My problem is now that i am in recovery, I can't select anything as the power button is not working. I can scroll through the recovery menu with the volume buttons but cant select anything, and now soon as the phone turns on after removing the battery, it goes straight to recovery mode and i cant get around it.
I have tried leaving the battery out for about 3 hours and same thing. I can boot into download mode, But at the moment that doesn't help me.
Any suggestions on what i can do? I'm not worried about warranty so i may pull the phone apart and clean it tonight. Thanks in advance.
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Hi!
First, have you tried flashing a stock firmware? If that does not help, you can try cleaning your hardware.. it may be dusty or something.. be careful! I hope you get this sorted out.
Also, i hope my suggestion will help you out, cheers!!
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First, have you tried flashing a stock firmware?
I am currently flashing back to xxlpq via odin and see if that changes anything. Will post back with results.
Thanks.
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First, have you tried flashing a stock firmware?
I am currently flashing back to xxlpq via odin and see if that changes anything. Will post back with results.
Thanks.
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Okay, will wait for your feedback
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Okay, Flashed back to stock ICS rom, Got a little bit further but still no go. It gets the "S" loading screen and stays there, Still cant do factory reset via Android Recovery as it also needs the power button to select. Someone suggested installing CWM touch recovery but i cant find a .tar version of "recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.1.5-galaxys2" downloaded from CWM website. Any suggestions on how i can install this without using recovery? Thanks.
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Okay, Flashed back to stock ICS rom, Got a little bit further but still no go. It gets the "S" loading screen and stays there, Still cant do factory reset via Android Recovery as it also needs the power button to select. Someone suggested installing CWM touch recovery but i cant find a .tar version of "recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.1.5-galaxys2" downloaded from CWM website. Any suggestions on how i can install this without using recovery? Thanks.
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I guess you have to flash them with odin..
1. Flash a stock firmware to get you out of bootloop
2. Flash the latest siyah kernel cause it's a touch recovery via odin as well
Do you want me to post the links or will you find it yourself?
I hope this helps, cheers!
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I installed an update without thinking a while back on my phone. It was software version 2.13.651.1 or something, I can't remember. I rooted my phone yesterday using this method:
http://htcevohacks.com/htc-evo-4g-l...tc-evo-4g-lte-unlock-bootloadertwrp-recovery/
I can use ROM Manager to create a backup and flash recoveries. When I flash a version of CM10, it gets stuck on a bootloop. When I hold the power and volume down buttons, I see HBOOT 1.19 and S-ON.
Is there no hope for me to flash roms or is there a way that I can still do it? I've read bad things about having a HBOOT 1.15 or above or something like that. I did not get S-OFF before I updated. Can I no longer get S-OFF? I'm not entirely sure what S-OFF is and what I need it for.
I read somewhere on xda that people who have a HBOOT like mine should try this:
http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-lte-all-things-root/606748-how-install-kernels-h-boot-1-15-a.html
I'm going to try that now, let's see how it goes.
If you use fastboot to install kernels you should be good to go after a normal flash through recovery, my phone came s-on and hboot 1.19 and I have no problems flashing roms. Only thing I think we can't do are radios without an official update, don't quote me on that though..
Your not screwed. You won't be able to get s-off at this time, but you can still flash roms. When moving from a sense rom to aosp like cm10, you need to flash the kernel...i use flash gui. I'm guessing that is why you are getting the bootloop.
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Thank goodness, phew; I thought I was doomed. So if I am to follow #1 on here: http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-lte-all-things-root/606748-how-install-kernels-h-boot-1-15-a.html, I should be able to flash roms afterwards? Do I need to do this every time I want to flash a new rom?
EDIT: So I believe my phone ran out of battery during the school day stuck in the bootloop. I am charging it right now and the orange light is there. When I hold down the power and volume down buttons, I get nothing. The screen stays black, but the orange light disappears. Then the orange light comes back. Should I just let it charge?
You just need to do it when switching between different type of roms like aosp and sense. If you stick with cm10 you can just flash the rom after the first time.
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Adding on to my last edit, sometimes when I hold down the power and volume down buttons, the 3 virtual buttons blink and then go out as if rebooting my phone. The screen is always black. Nothing is showing up. Should I be worried or do I just need to be patient and wait for my phone to charge a little?
When the screen turns off let go of the power button for a second then hold it down again while continuing to hold down the volume down button. That should boot you into recovery.
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When the screen turns off let go of the power button for a second then hold it down again while continuing to hold down the volume down button. That should boot you into recovery.
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The screen is black no matter what I try. I've tried just pressing the power button to turn the phone on, holding power and volume for recovery, holding power button, nothing is working. The screen remains blank no matter what I do right now. Is it just too low battery right now to do anything?
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The screen is black no matter what I try. I've tried just pressing the power button to turn the phone on, holding power and volume for recovery, holding power button, nothing is working. The screen remains blank no matter what I do right now. Is it just too low battery right now to do anything?
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Most likely. Give it some charge and try again.
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I have no idea why, but CM10 just started working. It was getting stuck in the bootloop for the whole day and even after I had done everything I posted earlier. Just now I tried to RUU and that wasn't working. When it came up with my phone's image version, it was blank. It was saying upgrade from nothing to 2.13.651.1.
I decided to repeat steps from the rooting process I used yesterday: http://htcevohacks.com/htc-evo-4g-l...tc-evo-4g-lte-unlock-bootloadertwrp-recovery/
I did step 25 again and then I did it again, but this time I flashed the stock recovery rom. For some reason unknown to me, CM10 actually loaded through and worked this time. Was something wrong with the other recoveries? I'm just glad it's working.
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I installed an update without thinking a while back on my phone. It was software version 2.13.651.1 or something, I can't remember. I rooted my phone yesterday using this method:
http://htcevohacks.com/htc-evo-4g-l...tc-evo-4g-lte-unlock-bootloadertwrp-recovery/
I can use ROM Manager to create a backup and flash recoveries. When I flash a version of CM10, it gets stuck on a bootloop. When I hold the power and volume down buttons, I see HBOOT 1.19 and S-ON.
Is there no hope for me to flash roms or is there a way that I can still do it? I've read bad things about having a HBOOT 1.15 or above or something like that. I did not get S-OFF before I updated. Can I no longer get S-OFF? I'm not entirely sure what S-OFF is and what I need it for.
I read somewhere on xda that people who have a HBOOT like mine should try this.:
http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-lte-all-things-root/606748-how-install-kernels-h-boot-1-15-a.html
I'm going to try that now, let's see how it goes.
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Thank You So Much for posting that link! I have been searching everywhere to figure it out how to flash rom to rom. My first rom was Meanrom ICS and I didn't have to do anything extra with that. So when I wanted to flash first to CM10, then JellyBam, I couldn't understand why I kept getting stuck in bootloop. I figured out eventually it was all about boot.img, but couldn't figure out how to do it separately.
thanks again.