Help mehhhh ;D soft brick/NAND corruption - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey. After flashing the lastest codeworkx jelly bean, my phone wouldn't boot into recovery or turn on. By repartitioning, I managed to get back to stock gingerbread. However, while I was flashing CM9 in Odin, my computer blue screened and obviously the flash failed mid way. I have now tried flashing a boot loader , kernel and the re partition rom. However, only the kernel flash passed. The others stop at NAND Start. My phone is now stuck at the yellow triangle screen and re partition won't flash. Any tips ?

MattyB123 said:
Hey. After flashing the lastest codeworkx jelly bean, my phone wouldn't boot into recovery or turn on. By repartitioning, I managed to get back to stock gingerbread. However, while I was flashing CM9 in Odin, my computer blue screened and obviously the flash failed mid way. I have now tried flashing a boot loader , kernel and the re partition rom. However, only the kernel flash passed. The others stop at NAND Start. My phone is now stuck at the yellow triangle screen and re partition won't flash. Any tips ?
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Firstly, you could try getting into recovery mode (Power button, home button, volume down). Then flash stock rom/kernel using odin
If you cannot do this then the other option would be to buy a USB jig via ebay for £2. The USB Jig will put the phone into download mode and then you can flash stock kernel/rom using odin
Stock Rom can be found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1544487

Please do not spam the thread by making two threads for the same question
ur second thread with same question : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1830757

Hey mate dont create more then 1 thread of the same thing to avoid flaming.

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As stated, do not post the same question twice. Refer to you other thread for continued discussion.

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Can't Flash Clockwork Recovery!!! HALP!

So I recently upgraded from my SE x8 to an SGS2 (HUZZAH!)
I flashed an insecure Kernal (XKWF3 I believe) and Rooted using S2 Root 1.5.1.
I install Rom Manager and attempt to flash Clockwork Recovery, I select Samsung Galaxy S2, It downloads fine and I grant it SuperUser rights, I go to backup/boot into recovery and I get an error (red text);
"E:Failed to verify whole-file signature
failed to verify signature"
(Im not 100% sure on that wording but i believe it is correct)
Any ideas on what i might have done wrong or any way to fix it?
P.s. I'm on the Virgin(Optus) network in Australia, I have tried to reinstall/reflash several times to no avail.
Thanks in Advance :]
Just flash the cf-root kernel, that's all, and don't use rom manager.
^^^What he said.
peachpuff said:
Just flash the cf-root kernel, that's all, and don't use rom manager.
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THANKYOU!
I have done this,
and now completely screwed myself over...
I formatted my phone, and went to install a custom rom an old way by pressing "apply update.zip"
So of course, i formatted my my phone...
Any way to load a ROM onto my phone via ODIN or other software???
Im stressing out as i cannot get into recovery (only download mode) HELP!
csquar3d said:
THANKYOU!
I have done this,
and now completely screwed myself over...
I formatted my phone, and went to install a custom rom an old way by pressing "apply update.zip"
So of course, i formatted my my phone...
Any way to load a ROM onto my phone via ODIN or other software???
Im stressing out as i cannot get into recovery (only download mode) HELP!
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First step - is to chiiilll You wont have broken anything permanently.
1) Download a stock firmware from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
2) You can get into download mode by pressing and holding: Volume Down + Home + Power. (Then you press volume up when prompted to continue)
3) Make sure kies is installed and fire up Odin.
4) Flash the rom in the "PDA" section (instructions are in the thread).
5) Your phone should boot fine after this.
From there you should flash chainfires kernel (as suggested above) using odin under "PDA" section.
Your phone will have CWM/Root. And you should be all good
Best of luck
goat_on_boat said:
First step - is to chiiilll You wont have broken anything permanently.
1) Download a stock firmware from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
2) You can get into download mode by pressing and holding: Volume Down + Home + Power. (Then you press volume up when prompted to continue)
3) Make sure kies is installed and fire up Odin.
4) Flash the rom in the "PDA" section (instructions are in the thread).
5) Your phone should boot fine after this.
From there you should flash chainfires kernel (as suggested above) using odin under "PDA" section.
Your phone will have CWM/Root. And you should be all good
Best of luck
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Cheers mate, saved my life,!
I have now tried to install CM7 twice now and it isnt working - I have selected install .zip from my recovery and selected the cyanogen zip folder, doesnt do anything for me, wont boot up need to restore back to stock.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
After doing a complete wipe, including Dalvik, flash CM7 twice. That should do it.
Yep that's right. Flash it twice.
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cannot get to recovery mode and flashing not helping
my s2 crashed i got to download mode. tried flashing with odin. phone froze in while updating system.
tried flashing again. says pass on odin but now doesnt go past the black and white samsung s2 logo.
tried goin to recovery mode but does not get to it. keeps showing da same thing.
what do i do now?
heard of sumthing like nand corruption is dis wats wrong? if yes...how do i sort it out...??????:crying:
jacobtutu said:
my s2 crashed i got to download mode. tried flashing with odin. phone froze in while updating system.
tried flashing again. says pass on odin but now doesnt go past the black and white samsung s2 logo.
tried goin to recovery mode but does not get to it. keeps showing da same thing.
what do i do now?
heard of sumthing like nand corruption is dis wats wrong? if yes...how do i sort it out...??????:crying:
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Sorry to say this mate, but u have posted in the wrong thread, in the wrong section.
What u have is called a 'bootloop'. Search for posts containing 'bootloop issue' in the 'Q & A Section'.
"To err is human, to forgive is divine"
Sent from my SGS II

[Q] Help, flashed wrong kernel on SGS2

So this is the case, I had a rooted sgs2 running on MIUI 2.3.16 and brightly decided to flash the kernel into siyah.
Obviously that didnt work out too well, and I ended up in a situation where the phone stucks at startup showing the sgs2 logo, and wont budge from there.
I have no clue what was the kernels "version". Is there anything that can be done?
Allready tried to search the forums, but didnt find a similar situation.
Boot into recovery & do a factory reset. If that doesn't work, reflash Miui which will reinstate the Miui kernel.
If you can't get into recovery, reflash stock firmware in Odin, CFRoot the phone, then reflash Miui.
I'm assuming you should still be able to enter cwm/recovery... just go in to that and re-flash miui
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zample87 said:
So this is the case, I had a rooted sgs2 running on MIUI 2.3.16 and brightly decided to flash the kernel into siyah.
Obviously that didnt work out too well, and I ended up in a situation where the phone stucks at startup showing the sgs2 logo, and wont budge from there.
I have no clue what was the kernels "version". Is there anything that can be done?
Allready tried to search the forums, but didnt find a similar situation.
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You should find out what kernel it MIUI used, else you can end up
try very many different hehe.
But no panic, I guess you have Odin on youre pc?
Just start phones downloadmode by volume down-home, poweron.
Connect to usb cable, fire up Odin, and flash kernel (PDA in Odin)
Good luck man
Cant get to recovery, Only thing that i can do is to use Odin, how do i get back to stock kernel, or, even better, anyone know the MIUI kernel?
Flash stock in Odin as I said, then CFRoot it. If you've got a Nandroid (CWM) backup, you should then be able to restore that rather than flash Miui. If not, flash Miui in CWM. Stock roms/instructions for flashing same can be found here, if links don't work search for stock firmware on Samfirmware.com.
What Siyah kernelndid you flash? I flashed beta6 over the latest MIUI and it just went to a black screen.
Just hold down the power button with vol up + home. It'll eventually boot to recovery where you can flash MIUI again.
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odin -> bootloader flash -> wait for logo battery out -> odin flash stock -> odin cf root -> recovery flash ur miui and kernel again
Issue solved!
Thankyou for you all for your quick replies and help!
Good How did you fix it ?
managed to get to cwm recovery after flashing one of the cf-root kernels, and from there on, just flashed miui all over again...
Ahhh OK. Cool. Glad you got it sorted

[Q] Flashed RazoDroid.. Stuck at Ace logo!

First time i rooted my phone, flashed CWM, everything was fine.. Then I flashed RazoDroid and after that phone is stuck at boot logo of ace and isn't booting forward.
I tried going to downloading and recovery mode but I am not able to access any of the two. Tried the volume+home+power button combo but nothing works!
Any suggestions for unbricking my phone or bringing it to senses???
Recovery is power + home. (correct me if i am wrong)
If you are unable to do anything there is a guide to flash stock rom.
Have a look to it.
TheBlackWolf said:
Recovery is power + home. (correct me if i am wrong)
If you are unable to do anything there is a guide to flash stock rom.
Have a look to it.
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Power + Home + Vol Up is Recovery mode
tariq_devil said:
First time i rooted my phone, flashed CWM, everything was fine.. Then I flashed RazoDroid and after that phone is stuck at boot logo of ace and isn't booting forward.
I tried going to downloading and recovery mode but I am not able to access any of the two. Tried the volume+home+power button combo but nothing works!
Any suggestions for unbricking my phone or bringing it to senses???
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Go to the Recovery Mode and restore backup or reinstall ROM again . . . BTW you're another noob with existential problem on this forum . . . You're so lazy to find the same problem like yours? Yes, because you're so lazy and you must create new 10000...th crappy thread . . .
tariq_devil said:
First time i rooted my phone, flashed CWM, everything was fine.. Then I flashed RazoDroid and after that phone is stuck at boot logo of ace and isn't booting forward.
I tried going to downloading and recovery mode but I am not able to access any of the two. Tried the volume+home+power button combo but nothing works!
Any suggestions for unbricking my phone or bringing it to senses???
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Read what Alucard1989pl said and yes
You all newbies just create new threads before searching
XDA should make a rule about this thread making
It would be better than 10 post rule
And next time redirect your random questions here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2089279
Still at logo
Same thing happened for me with the Simplicity v3.5
stuck at the logo itself...followed all the instructions in their thread,.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2041264
HELP not Abuse.
WOW! First few posts are so negative and unfriendly? What a warm welcome to our 'newbie'. Sure saying to search next time would help they understand that there may be hundreds of threads started with the same problem.
tariq_devil said:
First time i rooted my phone, flashed CWM, everything was fine.. Then I flashed RazoDroid and after that phone is stuck at boot logo of ace and isn't booting forward.
I tried going to downloading and recovery mode but I am not able to access any of the two. Tried the volume+home+power button combo but nothing works!
Any suggestions for unbricking my phone or bringing it to senses???
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So I will help by saying if you can not find a way to fix your installation then unbricking tutorial can be found in the stickies at the top and are easy to follow just double check every step. This will involve returning to stock firmware found here or at Samfireware.com. to get into 'download' or 'odin' mode you are best to turn phone off completely, then hold power button and BOTH volume buttons down, then when it warns you not to flash firmwares press vol up to say its ok, then your in download mode.
Once at stock again (and your happy to do it again) try to follow the tutorial again. Were you using the latest CWM version of Raef's kernel as that can only work on EXT4 file system, as standard our 'i' device is RFS file system so the E3 version is the way to go.
.....but then I have been a n00b and not looked at the RazoDroid thread to see what file system it installs on or even if it comes with a custom kernel or not. If it does not include a kernel flashing (using Odin) the latest odin version of Raef's kernel may fix it.
Links to kernels are in the dev forum where you found the rom ^^
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help! my s2 was stcuk in samsung logo

ya, my problem just like the title
my phone was stuck at samsung start logo
and i try to open recovery mode and it does not work it.
my phone already boot.
try to help me pls
No recovery mode means you only have one option - flash a stock rom in download mode (power/home/volume down) with Odin. Go to Samfirmware & get a stock rom for your carrier (not 4.0.4). How to flash ? Search. Been covered here thousands of times before (There's a thread stickied near the top of Q&A which should have the info you need).
I just had this kind of problem today flashing a new ROM. Had no choice but to flash a different kernel through ODIN. Just get a suitable kernel for your firmware in .tar.md5 format and flash it with ODIN, worked for me at least.

Recovery Modus is not working

Hello,
I have the following issue:
When I try to start the Samsung Galaxy S2 into the recovery mode with Volume Up + Power
it won't start. The samsung starts shows just Samsung Galaxy II boot screen.
If I release the buttons it goes of and on again and then trying to boot but there i have a boot loop
The only thing i can access is the download mode.
I tried to flash Philz Kernel with CWM, Siyhas Kernel and I tried to reflash the complete Samsung rom.
But also ends up in a boot loop I can't clear the cache or so because i can't access the recovery..nothing is working.
Before that I had Cyangogen.Mod 10,2 on this phone.
Any advise what else i could try to overcome this issue?
Thanks
If recovery is broken you only have one option - get a stock rom for your carrier from Samfirmware, flash it in download mode with Odin, re-root your phone, restore your most recent nandroid backup if you have one, or reflash the custom rom/kernel you were using & start again.
You haven't been using Rom Manager by chance, have you ?
MistahBungle said:
If recovery is broken you only have one option - get a stock rom for your carrier from Samfirmware, flash it in download mode with Odin, re-root your phone, restore your most recent nandroid backup if you have one, or reflash the custom rom/kernel you were using & start again.
You haven't been using Rom Manager by chance, have you ?
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Nope I tried already with stock rom. But it ends up the same.
I use Odin 3.07 and the I9100DXLSD_I9100OLBLSD_I9100DXLS8_HOME.tar flash as PDA one file.
But this didn't solve it. The recovery menu won't boot it is really strange.
I can get into download but this is all i have - nor flashing of stock rom is giving me back the recovery nor the flash of any recovery system.
CWM 6.3,0,6 - TWRP, PHILZ nothing
You need to keep trying to flash a stock rom because that's the only way you're fixing it. Search for Hopper8's 'Odin troubleshooting' thread; try the stuff in that thread. In particular, flash a 3 part stock rom which will wipe your phone & more than likely fix the issue & enable it to boot normally.
***Gosh how to delete in this forum a doublepost?...
Hello,
I could fix it somehow. I just made in Odin a Nand erase all - let it take time and flashed the stock.
Now it works again without any glitch.
muha what a birth

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