So I'm having some huge difficulties here,
My GS2 was stuck at it's boot screen after my friend apparently bullsh... with it, aaaand he admitted he wiped the whole thing with recovery mode.
That means system, data, SD Card, everything....
Now I can't recover it with Kies, I can't seem to get it to work in any way.
Would anyone here be able to tell me how to fix this?
I have considered doing it with Odin, but I don't want to risk messing it up even more than it already is.
Edit: I'm also doubting if it would even matter, doesn't Odin just change the firmware? I'd still miss the enite software package, right?
Thanks in advance!
if the system is formated from the recovery, phone will not boot, because now your phone is without a ROM, if this case is true you have already lost entire pack of softwares...if you have not made a backup you cant recover that.
get download mod and flash a stock official ROM from ODIN
nothing to worry zacq8 said right,i on purposely had done this....jus use odin ,go in download mode,and flash stock rom ..thts it simple..and do read how to flash if ya don kno......cheeeeerz
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My friend bought the phone from a friend, and when he turned it on, it was stuck in a bootloop. I went into recovery and found that the WHOLE firmware was gone! There's no recovery image or anything.
I need the original firmware or something that has EVERYTHING. I don't care if it's bloated or not. Just something that will make this phone work again.
jasonage said:
My friend bought the phone from a friend, and when he turned it on, it was stuck in a bootloop. I went into recovery and found that the WHOLE firmware was gone! There's no recovery image or anything.
I need the original firmware or something that has EVERYTHING. I don't care if it's bloated or not. Just something that will make this phone work again.
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I'm pretty sure that the "entire firmware" isn't gone simply because you got into a custom recovery. I'd like to help, but I can't identify a problem.
It won't let me load anything. I tried putting an update.zip on it, but the phone is missing some things.
I would go here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1275570
If it has a custom recovery, probably has root/s off. What probably happened is that the guy selling it did a full wipe in recovery which wipes the ROM. Did that accidentally on my DS7 before I sold it.
I would download install the rooted/deodexed from the link above, put it on the sd card, and flash it from recovery. good luck.
Have you tried putting a boot flashable rom on the root on the sd card?
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...build-2-11-605-2-ruu-for-the-htc-thunderbolt/
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Thank you guys for the help. I'm going to try these out and get back to you.
Hi everyone,
So, I think ive damaged my internal memory...But let me give u some info first.
UK SGS3 i9300 on vodafone. I rooted it a while ago and have had several roms. I know the basics of android hacking since I've hacked several as well as my previous 2 contract phones. I was on paranoidandroid 2.22 or w.e. version it was, however I wanted to go back to a sammy rom, and decided to clear my internal sdcard n ext sdcard (more or less - leave my music folder on there foe example) at the same time. I only mention this because my lead has been a little touchy recently and during the process it disconnected a fair few times till i got the cable sat right. I didnt have easy ums or anything - it was mtp. I completed this and loaded my rom onto the extsdcard.
I then went into the cwm touch recovery 6.xx or w.e. selected factory reset, wipe cache n dalvik, then installed it. It just got stuck at the boot logo for a while, then kept boot looping. I then tried wiping a few times, and a couple of different roms, and during this time I noticed that when I click wipe data it rebooted recovery. I then downloads the appropriate stock firmware to flash via odin. I flashed it and it was still stuck on the boot logo. I then realized I couldnt get into recovery, so I flash cf-root via odin, I got the 5.xxx recovery that comes with it. I tried to wipe all again, and it just didnt seem to work, I was stuck in a bootloop. I then posted this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1948255
So yeah with adb, I got it to boot, but i had the wrong size internal memory capacity. Then tonight I flashed twrp (a recovery if u dont know) (latest version) via goomanager and then selected in goo manager ti reboot recovery. Now my phone just goes from the sgs3 logo to the twrp logo and back, even if I boot normally, it does that, and same for trying to boot recovery. I can still get into download mode, but thats it.
I have since tried flashing the stock firmware again to no avail, I'm going to flashing cf root to get recovery... but we'll see what happens...
so what can i do?!?!
Have you tried flashing complete stock firmware through Odin? Then start from there?
You say internal memory is wrong? Might have to flash .pit aswell with re-partition?
Carl.Brand.87 said:
Have you tried flashing complete stock firmware through Odin? Then start from there?
You say internal memory is wrong? Might have to flash .pit aswell with re-partition?
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yes I have, several times, if u read it all... Where can i get teh CORRECT pit file? I've tried one, but it didnt help.
I've just flashed cf root (after a pass on stock firmware) and its booted the ultima rom again... and still got 12.1gb internal... so my phone boots again, but the internal is still wrong! help!
You know that some of the 16gb is taken for the system files right? My phone only reports like 11.6gb in total to use.
Android reserves about 4gb that's why you only have 12gb free there is no problem there.
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yes I have, several times, if u read it all... Where can i get teh CORRECT pit file? I've tried one, but it didnt help.
I've just flashed cf root (after a pass on stock firmware) and its booted the ultima rom again... and still got 12.1gb internal... so my phone boots again, but the internal is still wrong! help!
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That's normal, the 12.1GB is COMPLETELY normal.
Other memory is reserved by the system.
This is usual and it should work that way, stop messing with it.
32GB models should have about 25GB~.
idiot here
Skander1998 said:
That's normal, the 12.1GB is COMPLETELY normal.
Other memory is reserved by the system.
This is usual and it should work that way, stop messing with it.
32GB models should have about 25GB~.
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oooookk, TT used to show 16gb tho.... i remember i like the fact it read 16gb sd & 16gb extsd. nvm, im just wrong. thanks. I'll use it as it for now, still not 100% convinced but ya know... never had this sort of trouble with my HTC's :/
I'd just like to thank fellow-idiot for this thread, had similar situation (semibricked device, flashed something I should not have been flashing), and now my Internal is 11.3, and I seem to remember it was 14.7, just like my external - but I may be wrong. Changing ROMs, formating Internal, changing recoveries (now on Teamwin Recovery) doesn't seem to change a thing about it. Oh well, not that I'm gonna need it, just wondering where it went (never said hallo either... no manners, today's internal memories..)
11.3 is what it should be
New here. (also apologies for probable duplicate topic)
I've rooted a phone in the past with no problem. This time round was with an S2, and I flashed an insecure kernel on it, got a green pass on Odin however it's now stuck on the boot screen with the yellow triangle.
I can access recovery mode and download mode but it will never boot properly, always stuck on the yellow triangle. What's the best course of action from here?
Need a lot of help with this guys as I'd rather not have a bricked phone ><
ikradex said:
New here. (also apologies for probable duplicate topic)
I've rooted a phone in the past with no problem. This time round was with an S2, and I flashed an insecure kernel on it, got a green pass on Odin however it's now stuck on the boot screen with the yellow triangle.
I can access recovery mode and download mode but it will never boot properly, always stuck on the yellow triangle. What's the best course of action from here?
Need a lot of help with this guys as I'd rather not have a bricked phone ><
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Seriously dude? Use some common sense please and give relevant information on what you have. What model/variant do you have, rom are you on, what kernel have you flashed?
How do you expect anybody to be able to help you if you dont give such basic info???
Are you sure the kernel supports the rom/version you have installed?
ikradex said:
New here. (also apologies for probable duplicate topic)
I've rooted a phone in the past with no problem. This time round was with an S2, and I flashed an insecure kernel on it, got a green pass on Odin however it's now stuck on the boot screen with the yellow triangle.
I can access recovery mode and download mode but it will never boot properly, always stuck on the yellow triangle. What's the best course of action from here?
Need a lot of help with this guys as I'd rather not have a bricked phone ><
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Maybe because you wiped all data....so...there's no ROM to boot up to.
Try flashing one via Odin
gastonw said:
Maybe because you wiped all data....so...there's no ROM to boot up to.
Try flashing one via Odin
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Wiping data doesnt wipe rom , It just wipes appdata, ie settings etc. All that happens is a factory reset so when you next boot its back to default. For example you would need to re-enter google account and re-install apss either manually or from a backup.
You can only wipe rom by formatting system partition.
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Wiping data doesnt wipe rom , It just wipes appdata, ie settings etc. All that happens is a factory reset so when you next boot its back to default. For example you would need to re-enter google account and re-install apss either manually or from a backup.
You can only wipe rom by formatting system partition.
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Thought you had me in ignore.
So there's no way you can wipe your OS via recovery? Good to know that, it's like ROM over ROM then. The new one clears the old one.
gastonw said:
Thought you had me in ignore.
So there's no way you can wipe your OS via recovery? Good to know that, it's like ROM over ROM then. The new one clears the old one.
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I did have you on ignore but I still see little boxes saying this comment has been ignored etc which was actually more annoying so I removed ignore.
Yes you can wipe OS via recovery but only by formatting system/deleting partition etc. All the "wipe" options do is remove files that have been created by rom like app settings/cache etc.
Your confusion was probably also the reason why you made a big thing in a previous topic about you trying to avoid wiping data, because you thought it wiped rom? :silly:
Wiping data/factory reset in cwm is one of the best ways to get rid of system issues, Its basically like doing a clean install of Windows on a PC. After you have wiped you can simply restore your needed apps from a backup using Titanium Backup. Other things like sms/mms etc can be also backed up easily and contacts will be synced via Google account.
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I did have you on ignore but I still see little boxes saying this comment has been ignored etc which was actually more annoying so I removed ignore.
Yes you can wipe OS via recovery but only by formatting system/deleting partition etc. All the "wipe" options do is remove files that have been created by rom like app settings/cache etc.
Your confusion was probably also the reason why you made a big thing in a previous topic about you trying to avoid wiping data, because you thought it wiped rom? :silly:
Wiping data/factory reset in cwm is one of the best ways to get rid of system issues, Its basically like doing a clean install of Windows on a PC. After you have wiped you can simply restore your needed apps from a backup using Titanium Backup. Other things like sms/mms etc can be also backed up easily and contacts will be synced via Google account.
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hum...okay.
I actually know what Factory Reset does, I mean..."factory"..."reset", kinda......gives it away.
And yes, it made sense to me that you could wipe the ROM you are on before installing a new one, just like the format c:/s days in win98.
You learn something every day, speaking of which, how come no one recommends noobs to root their device with exynos abuse? It's because they're noobs and wouldn't be able to handle/understand the exploit?
I still don't do factory resets because I don't need to, and I avoid needing to perform it.
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Seriously dude? Use some common sense please and give relevant information on what you have. What model/variant do you have, rom are you on, what kernel have you flashed?
How do you expect anybody to be able to help you if you dont give such basic info???
Are you sure the kernel supports the rom/version you have installed?
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Thanks for the reply Figured if someone was willing to help me I'd give them the information they wanted.
Have Samsung Galaxy S II (GT-I9100) (couldn't tell you what "variant" it is). I was following this guide. It told me to get an insecure kernel from here. The guide said it didn't really matter which kernel I picked so I picked the first one (GT-I9100_BGKF5_insecure) and used Odin to flash it. Got a green pass and the phone began reboot but it's now stuck on the yellow triangle (the warning message that you've flashed an insecure kernel).
I couldn't tell whether there would be compatibility issues as the thread just seems to be one big list of kernels and nothing else. AFAIK the phone was running ICS.
Looking at the replies, I keep seeing factory reset. Is that a liable option to restore my phone back to its original state. I don't care as long the phone works again. If not can someone run through how to fix my predicament I heard if I can access download and recovery mode I should be able to fix it.
ikradex said:
Thanks for the reply Figured if someone was willing to help me I'd give them the information they wanted.
Have Samsung Galaxy S II (GT-I9100) (couldn't tell you what "variant" it is). I was following this guide. It told me to get an insecure kernel from here. The guide said it didn't really matter which kernel I picked so I picked the first one (GT-I9100_BGKF5_insecure) and used Odin to flash it. Got a green pass and the phone began reboot but it's now stuck on the yellow triangle (the warning message that you've flashed an insecure kernel).
I couldn't tell whether there would be compatibility issues as the thread just seems to be one big list of kernels and nothing else. AFAIK the phone was running ICS.
Looking at the replies, I keep seeing factory reset. Is that a liable option to restore my phone back to its original state. I don't care as long the phone works again. If not can someone run through how to fix my predicament I heard if I can access download and recovery mode I should be able to fix it.
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Of course, you're not bricked yet.
Before trying your back up, why don't you flash a stock ROM via odin and take a long breath?
This is JB leak.
These are ICS, look for 4.0.3 unbranded.
gastonw said:
Of course, you're not bricked yet.
Before trying your back up, why don't you flash a stock ROM via odin and take a long breath?
This is JB leak.
These are ICS, look for 4.0.3 unbranded.
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I know this is leading onto another thread but my phone now is having trouble connecting to my computer. Keep getting "USB not recognized" error. Installed/Uninstalled kies & drivers then installed drivers again alone and still won't recognize it
Tried another usb port? another pc/laptop? sure kies is not running in background? reinstalled kies?
Don't worry, your pc WILL see your device.
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Hi,
Firstly I apologise if this has been covered before but I have searched and searched and still not found what I am looking for.
I received the OTA update for my Galaxy S3 I-9300 ( UK Version on O2 Carrier, Stock ROM), phone downloaded automatically (all good), clicked install when prompted (i believe this was a relatively small update file). I presume the phone was running 4.2 when I decided to update and this was the update to 4.3 (not sure). The phone started the firmware upgrade process all went well, the % got to 100 and the phone went to reboot. But when the phone went to reboot it stuck on the blue Samsung logo screen. Left it for a couple of hours just in case, no joy.
Having not backed up all before doing the update (as usual presumed it would be fine) I now am in the situation where I may well lose all my data, this at the minute is my LAST option. Have a few fairly valuable things on this eg. notes from meetings etc. and some photos I would like. So a factory reset from recovery mode isn't what I want to do at the minute.
I have tried to recover the phone using Samsung Kies, no joy again. With the state the phone is in it wont recognise the device and keeps bringing up an error with the USB MTP driver (have tried reinstalling the driver many times). When i put the phone into download mode (volume down, home and power) it says on Kies it is connecting, but again fails to connect. It seems the last option I am left with is to use the 'update via external storage' mode when in recovery or the 'update via ADB'? I have also tried contacting both O2 and samsung to see if they can provide me with the firmware update file that I can download and put on an SD card, but they both keep sayin each other is responsible for the firmware etc etc. I have since downloaded a rom from Sammobile.com and found a UK 4.3 rom to be installed via ODIN (not sure if this will work?)
So, I am wondering if there is any way I can recover the data from the device without losing both app data and photos/videos etc that I have not yet tried? or if anyone can guide me as to where I could get the update file to use via external storage? (and if this will work) or if using the ADB function is a possibility (dont know what it is even) Any help is much appreciated as I seem to keep going round in circles, and apologies if I have not given vital information.
Thanks,
jjohnston890
If you don't mind losing warranty you can flash a custom recovery using odin, I'd recommend Philz, then use that to access the aroma file manager. You can then transfer all your data to the external sd.
Read philz thread for instructions.
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boomboomer said:
If you don't mind losing warranty you can flash a custom recovery using odin, I'd recommend Philz, then use that to access the aroma file manager. You can then transfer all your data to the external sd.
Read philz thread for instructions.
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Not really bothered about warranty as it seems that is the only way to get the data back. Although using aroma file manager am I able to get app data back? ie. when I restore the app do I have the option to do so with data? as its particularly a few notes in colournote app that I have.
Had a look for Philz Recovery, looks like it'll do the trick thanks, but could you link me just in case I've the wrong one please?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/orig-development/i93xx-philz-touch-t2002953
Thanks :fingers-crossed:
That is the Philz thread. Aroma file manager only moves files -it won't backup or restore anything. You will have to know which files to look for.
boomboomer said:
That is the Philz thread. Aroma file manager only moves files -it won't backup or restore anything. You will have to know which files to look for.
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Ok, so I will want to move all files to the SD card and look for the app data files etc I need? how would I go about getting all my contacts aswell, can this be done through Aroma? Is this just a matter of searching through all files?
After installing custom recovery (philz) would I be able to flash the generic ROM (through ODIN) without wiping the phone? Or what are the chances this will brick the phone? Ideally it would be good if I could get the phone to the same state as it were in before the update, but I cant find if this is ROM is non wipe?? I would like to stick with the generic rom but if I had to re-flash after flashing a non wipe I could?
Again, apologies for the amount of questions but you seem to know your stuff :good: much appreciated
Contacts should be saved on your Google account, you will just have to search for anything else you need.
You can flash what ever you choose with odin, it's just highly unlikely to boot without a factory reset. First try the exact same firmware you had before the wipe, if you know it.
I'd advise you backup the efs folder in philz before you flash anything. If the dirty flash doesn't work then flash the latest BTU 4.3 firmware and factory reset.
I don't think a flash through Odin will wipe your internal SD. I believe it only wipes the data partition which stores thr app data and stuff. Pics and vids etc are safe. Changing CSC will wipe it though.
boomboomer said:
Contacts should be saved on your Google account, you will just have to search for anything else you need.
You can flash what ever you choose with odin, it's just highly unlikely to boot without a factory reset. First try the exact same firmware you had before the wipe, if you know it.
I'd advise you backup the efs folder in philz before you flash anything. If the dirty flash doesn't work then flash the latest BTU 4.3 firmware and factory reset.
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Contacts aren't saved on my google account, have them mostly saved on my phone just, so il have to have a good search through with aroma.
I found a post that said flashing the firmware I had before the update wouldn't work but the latest or a later version might...
Samsung are to get back to me in relation to giving me a downloaded version of the incremental update file, would anyone on here be able to provide a version of this do you think? in order to apply the offical update again via external storage.
whatsgood said:
I don't think a flash through Odin will wipe your internal SD. I believe it only wipes the data partition which stores thr app data and stuff. Pics and vids etc are safe. Changing CSC will wipe it though.
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So if i go from a stock rom with o2 branding to a non branded generic rom from samsung you think this will wipe it? (as this is a change of CSC?) is there any way to flash through ODIN and not wipe data partition either or is this the way it always happens?
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Was going to bite the bullet and flash custom recovery and flash the stock Samsung ROM through ODIN tonight, but it seems that if I do, it will change my CSC code? This as been told on here will wipe me phone. I am unable to get a stock O2 4.3 ROM at the minute but I can get a 4.1.2 ROM? Will this work is it worth waiting to see if I can get a 4.3 ROM soon and then if I flash this wont (hopefully :fingers-crossed wipe my phone?
Any advice appreciated. As stated before I cannot really afford to lose the data on phone (app data included )
Thanks
jjohnston890 said:
Was going to bite the bullet and flash custom recovery and flash the stock Samsung ROM through ODIN tonight, but it seems that if I do, it will change my CSC code? This as been told on here will wipe me phone. I am unable to get a stock O2 4.3 ROM at the minute but I can get a 4.1.2 ROM? Will this work is it worth waiting to see if I can get a 4.3 ROM soon and then if I flash this wont (hopefully :fingers-crossed wipe my phone?
Any advice appreciated. As stated before I cannot really afford to lose the data on phone (app data included )
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Your o2 4.3 rom is here, you will need to register to download, you can flash direct with Odin without a custom recovery, it wont wipe your phone, SAMMOBILE
If you want a generic one without o2 bloatware then use this one HERE
ag4751 said:
Your o2 4.3 rom is here, you will need to register to download, you can flash direct with Odin without a custom recovery, it wont wipe your phone, SAMMOBILE
If you want a generic one without o2 bloatware then use this one HERE
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Thanks very much...dunno how I missed that, i had the H3G version downloaded. Ok, will flash later on, still nervous about it wiping the phone though so that is why i wanted to install custom recovery to gain aroma file manager etc...
With custom recovery I tried to install but get the error message-
E:failed to verify whole-file signature
E:failed to verify whole-file signature
E:signature verification failed
Any ideas? Tried 2 different SD cards but didnt make a difference, although neither of these have been in the phone before?
Philz recovery - philz_touch_6.19.3-i9300.zip
Thanks
If you downloaded a firmware from Sammobile.com then it will not be flashed with a custom recovery, go read the sticky guides in general on how to use odin.
You will still need to factory reset before the new firmware will boot, so use philz to remove all your files before you flash.
Hi all,
I'm trying to help someone fix their S4 that won't boot past the Verizon logo. I had rooted the phone probably a year and half ago but I never put a custom recovery or rom on the phone, as they mostly wanted to be able to use adblock, greenify, etc. The phone has been degrading slowly, lots of "SD card has been removed" errors, and now it simply won't boot past the Verizon logo. I have tried to boot into the stock recovery and clear cache with no luck. I don't want to wipe data if I can avoid it for now.
I was wondering if someone could point me to the proper CWM or TeamWin file and the best way to install it. I'm not sure if a custom recovery will even help me get it booted at this point but I figure I might have a little more luck over using the stock recovery. Any advice is appreciated, thanks.
Do you know what the phone's baseband is? Chances are it's not MDK so that means to CWM, TWRP, etc. Take out the battery, put it back in and then boot to download mode then try and flash a new tar in Odin.
I don't unfortunately. I rooted it about 1.5-2 years ago. I don't remember quite well but I don't think it's been updated since, I think I froze the update notification whenever that started popping up.
Flashing it in Odin will erase all data, correct? I don't know if I have another choice at this point, just curious.
Sounds like you need to odin the stock tar. Reroot and proceede from there. Yes it will wipe user data.