[Q] HELP! Need phone to work - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi!
My phone is bootlooping. I tried to get the new stock Jelly Bean Rom but when i flashed with Odin my phone just gets to the bootanimation. Tried many stock firmawares. Have stock recovery and no root (I think). Can anyone help me. Need the phone to work very quickly.

Can you boot to recovery and clear the Dalvik cache and reboot your phone? This fix my bootloop before.

Recovery
I can't get into the stock recovery for some reason...

TheAlexVae said:
I can't get into the stock recovery for some reason...
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Remove your battery wait for 5min insert it and try to get into recovery. After getting into d recovery wipe/reset/cahe/dalvik/everything

How are you trying to get into recovery?

I tried to get to the recovery using the home, volume and power.
I had my phone working after downloading some firmware, got the three part firmware. So it's working again, thanks to all the answers:laugh

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Rooted i9100 ics rom fail, please help

Hi I have rooted my UK i9100 with odin and successfully installed resurrection remix previously. When trying to flash an updated version I stupidly forgot to factory wipe and now my phone wont boot, it gets stuck on the rom boot screen and i cant get into cwm.
I can get into download mode and from there have tried flashing another rom via odin (litening rom) to see if that would boot to get me into cwm but that freezes on the boot screen also. I tried to use Galaxys2recovery as shown on zedomax youtube channel but then realised that is done from gingerbread only. I tried reflashing "CF-Root-SGS2_XX_OXX_LP6-v5.2-CWM5" via odin and then the litening rom again but that still hangs when trying to boot.
Is there something obvious I should be doing? ..I am (unsuprisingly) a noob
Thank you
you could have asked at the first time itself, before various yourown attempts ?
if you are able to get CWM now, try to install the ROM after data factory reset and all the wipes + system format from Mounts & storage.
if it didnt help again go to CWM do all the wipes and format system, and switch off and get into the download mod and flash a GB stock rom from ODIN
I can get into download mode and from there have tried flashing another rom via odin (litening rom) to see if that would boot to get me into cwm but that freezes on the boot screen also
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odin if for stock roms not custom roms / .zip files....
zaheedahmed said:
if it didnt help again go to CWM
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that's the thing, i cant get into cwm, or at least i don't know how to. Is there a file I can install from odin that will put me straight into cwm without having a working rom?
why do you wait to boot the phone to get into the CWM,
didnt you try Vol-up+Home+Power while phone is off

Stuck booting after flashing MIUI ICS over GB

Hey,
I wanted to update my Gingerbread MIUI and picked an ICS version cause I didn't look properly.
Now I'm stuck at the xiaomi logo and also can't get into recovery to do anything.
Is there a way to fix this?
I appreciate your help guys!
Damnation
No recovery (assuming you're not pressing the wrong key combo) = flash stock rom in Odin to get a 'clean slate'. Then you can re-root your phone & try Miui again if you're still game.
sounds like
it sounds like you never deleted all data, dalvek cache or reset phone before you installed new rom.
just a thought
its aslo usefull to install rom, when finished while in rec. mode find fix permissions, clickn run, reboot then.
THEN istall updated gapps recommended in rom thread (if rom doesn't have gapps (google apps) preinstalled, romthread will tell you)and repeat fix perm. clickn reboot. dont make the mistake of doing it All at once ive found this helps
damnation333 said:
Hey,
I wanted to update my Gingerbread MIUI and picked an ICS version cause I didn't look properly.
Now I'm stuck at the xiaomi logo and also can't get into recovery to do anything.
Is there a way to fix this?
I appreciate your help guys!
Damnation
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Yeah, and don't forget to do a factory/data reset after u flashed any ROM, custom or stock. If you do that the phone wont get stuck on the boot screen(S logo). Happened to me xD

Phone Stuck Will not boot to system!

Hello guys so I accidentally and idiotically installed the verizon update. Meant to press later accidentally hit now not thinking, and all my phone does now is boot up to twrp. I have it rooted stock rom with G3 tweakbox and twrp recovery. I have tried to wipe, and restore with no luck. Also tried safemode no luck. Phone only boots into recovery and I'm hoping for a quick fix. Also cannot get it into download mode.
Anything help wise would be great kind of in a panic situation now!
Thanks!
XXchocolatetouchXX said:
Hello guys so I accidentally and idiotically installed the verizon update. Meant to press later accidentally hit now not thinking, and all my phone does now is boot up to twrp. I have it rooted stock rom with G3 tweakbox and twrp recovery. I have tried to wipe, and restore with no luck. Also tried safemode no luck. Phone only boots into recovery and I'm hoping for a quick fix. Also cannot get it into download mode.
Anything help wise would be great kind of in a panic situation now!
Thanks!
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did you try flashing a stock based rom?
not a restore.
Have you tried downloading a stock rom (bumped) and flashing that in TWRP?
If you can boot to TWRP you might not be able to resore but you might be able to install a stock rom, the restore apps from a nanadroid if you have it.
Don't worry. Same thing happened to me last week. There are instructions on here that show you how to type a few add line from TWRP and your phone will boot and you won't lose anything on your phone.
Just Google search LG g3 stuck TWRP.
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Thanks for the replies. I found the fix thread and flashed the zip and it returned to normal.
Thanks for the help guys.

[Q] Custom Recovery problem (Rom manager-cwm)

im on stock root and i wanted to hopefully flash a rom, but first i needed a custom recovery. On my phone, i downloaded Rom manager and it asked me to install cwm. it found my device and it downloaded and said installed successfully. i rebooted into recovery and from there it loops and boots into recovery non stop. i remove the battery and put it back in and it still tries to boot into recovery with the loop. (Semi-fix) when i remove my battery and boot into download mode. i can cancel it and it will skip trying to boot into recovery and load just fine. i can then shut down or restart as needed. but booting back into recovery will start the issue over again. i just want to know a safe way to have cwm on my note 3, or how to revert it back to normal. any help please?
scarface195894 said:
im on stock root and i wanted to hopefully flash a rom, but first i needed a custom recovery. On my phone, i downloaded Rom manager and it asked me to install cwm. it found my device and it downloaded and said installed successfully. i rebooted into recovery and from there it loops and boots into recovery non stop. i remove the battery and put it back in and it still tries to boot into recovery with the loop. (Semi-fix) when i remove my battery and boot into download mode. i can cancel it and it will skip trying to boot into recovery and load just fine. i can then shut down or restart as needed. but booting back into recovery will start the issue over again. i just want to know a safe way to have cwm on my note 3, or how to revert it back to normal. any help please?
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Pull battery let it sit for two minutes. Push menu button, volume down button, and power button at the same time boot into download mode. once there flash a fresh copy of your OS which ever version of KitKat your running. You lose all your personal data, but your beyond that now. Then here is link to my thread should answer all your questions http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-3-sprint/general/samsung-note-3-rom-flashin-basics-t2896440 enjoy !!!
uknow said:
Yeah ive said it a few times this should not be used
If youve bricked your phone you can get back into your phone by holding volume down menu botton and power botton at the same time when it pops up the warning screen to enter download mode hit cancel your phone will then boot up after your phone is on if you do not have a computer the way you fix the phone so you dont have to do this every time your phone is off you need mobile odin and a kitkat cwm.img.tar for our phone flash it and problem solved you can now boot into cwm recovery then if you want you can flash a twrp img zip through cwm or just keep cwm hope this helps
Ps if you Google mobile odin the dev gives it away on his xda mobile odin page
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stuck in recovery loop also
hi i am new to all this..i managed to get my sprint note 3 4.4.4 NK4 rooted and i read that i also needed a custom recovery so i used odin to install "philz_touch_6.08.7-hltespr.tar.md5" and it said success but when i tried to get into it it just says recovery is not seandroid enforcing i also used rom manager to get into it automatically but it just keeps looping saying same thing. is there a way out of this mess?
update-- i found an updated version of the philz tar file and installed it with odin and that got me out of the loop..just havent tried to get back into recovery yet...lol
Cat1970 said:
hi i am new to all this..i managed to get my sprint note 3 4.4.4 NK4 rooted and i read that i also needed a custom recovery so i used odin to install "philz_touch_6.08.7-hltespr.tar.md5" and it said success but when i tried to get into it it just says recovery is not seandroid enforcing i also used rom manager to get into it automatically but it just keeps looping saying same thing. is there a way out of this mess?
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First, pull the battery for a minute then reinstall hold the power, menu, and volume down buttons at the same time and boot into download mode. The version of Phil'z CWM you flashed is to old for 4.4.4 NK4. Now download to your desktop the right Philz CWM recovery file (Phil'z_Touch_6.48.4-hlte.tar.md5 ) here is the link https://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/hlte/ there are two listed use the second one. Flash with odin and you should be good to go. Go to my thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-3-sprint/general/samsung-note-3-rom-flashin-basics-t2896440 for more info.
done exactly as you said and the same screen came up saying recovery is not seandroid enforcing and then it jumps to Philz Touch 6 so im assuming everything is right now...i really appreciate the help! tyvm
different rom
ok..i installed cyanogen rom..i also used titanium backup..i want to go back to where i was but i dont see titanium backup on there anymore..how do i revert back?
i guess i need to update my phone n900p (help)
my rooted note 3 was running 5.0 L so i tried flashing a custom recovery both TWR and CWM now its stuck in boot loop. i read all the post showing you how to get out the bootloop. how ever i still need to put a recovery on my phone are there any updated links for this with odin because i was using the odin 3.0 sorry odin 307

Boot Loop to recovery

Hello.
So today, I was gonna install a new rom. So the first thing I did was to use the Clockworkmod recovery app on my phone to reboot in to recoverymode, now Im stuck in a weird bootloop where it tries to enter recoverymode but fails then goes back to the samsunglogo, restarts and tries recoverymode again, and it just keeps restarting trying to get in to recoverymode.
I have tried installing another recovery but it does the same no matter what recovery I use.
I have tried removing the battery and putting it back in it still wants to boot in to recovery and it still fails.
Please help me! :/
deus- said:
Hello.
So today, I was gonna install a new rom. So the first thing I did was to use the Clockworkmod recovery app on my phone to reboot in to recoverymode, now Im stuck in a weird bootloop where it tries to enter recoverymode but fails then goes back to the samsunglogo, restarts and tries recoverymode again, and it just keeps restarting trying to get in to recoverymode.
I have tried installing another recovery but it does the same no matter what recovery I use.
I have tried removing the battery and putting it back in it still wants to boot in to recovery and it still fails.
Please help me! :/
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If you can get into download mode flash stock rom and start again.
tallman43 said:
If you can get into download mode flash stock rom and start again.
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Hello, after reinstalling the different recoverys a few times I finally got in to it and was able to install another rom, now my phone works.
Thank you though for trying to help!
Be careful, if it's accidently works. I recommend to flash TWRP 2.8.3 by Odin.

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