[Q] Boot Loop on FoxHound rom - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi All,
Need a little help.
I did some OTA updated on my S3 running FoxHound this morning. After applying it has got stuck at boot loop, gets to the foxhound bootimage then swtiches of and starts over again.
I have tried to get into both recovery and download mode but it just switches the device off and starts it all over again.
I'm a little stuck on what to try next!?
I have backups saved through CWM for both Foxhound and stock rom but obviously can't get to them.
Does anyone have an idea?
Thanks in advance for any help.

You need to release the buttons earlier to get to recovery

Plus, post in the foxhound Q&A section for a quicker answer

Glebun said:
You need to release the buttons earlier to get to recovery
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Have tried holding it in for every varying length of time. Unfortunately it makes no difference, just reboots rather than hitting download/ recovery.

Leave battery out for a minute or 2. If theres no way of getting in to recovery or download mode, i guess ur last bet will be an usb jig
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Double check your button combo .. Just to make sure you are doing it right. Another way to get into recovery is if you have adb installed, you can do adb reboot recovery.
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HELP!!!

Okay I rooted my GS2 i777 today with the MIUI ROM found on these forums, it got stuck on a boot loop so I turned the phone off, then back on, then reapplied the CWM Recovery tar via Odin, and now when I boot the phone it just sits at a black screen...
Any idea how to fix this? I can't find a way to get into recovery mode because I don't have that "home" button in the middle of my phone...
PLEASEEEE help!!!
You hold the volume buttons and the power button, why did you reapply cwm may I ask?
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I'm new to this stuff and was following the directions provided to me by someone who claims they knew what they were doing..
Any idea how to get this issue fixed? (Phone is on, but screen is blank as if not on)
Flash back to stock via Odin using one of the packages in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286432
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A jig is REQUIRED for this?
No, the jig is not required. Just need to get into download mode any way you can.
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I appreciate the help, I really had no business trying to do this in the first place. I'm going to try and do what that link showed, I'll report back with what happens
Success = ) Thank you for the help, Dayv. It's very much appreciated!
Just for future reference, once you flash the custom package including CWM, you don't need to flash CWM again (unless you go back to bare-bones stock). If you need to reflash, just go into recovery and flash a new ROM.
Ahh, I remember my first "OMG I bricked" moment... Don't worry, you eventually get used to it and sometimes when my phone bootloops after flashing stuff I don't even care lol.
Another lame thread title that offers no help for someone with the same issue who actually takes the time to do a search.

Power Button Dead

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.
SirBigBird said:
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.
SirBigBird said:
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.
SirBigBird said:
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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Help! S3 stuck in Samsung Logo. Need urgent advice.

Hello. This is my first time to post in XDA and unfortunately, I seem to have bricked (or soft-bricked) my phone.
I tried to unroot my phone, however, I got stuck in an infinite bootloop between the Samsung Startup, and the following message: Android upgrading screen saying Manual mode, Applying Multi-CSC, Applied the CSC code: BTU. Successfully applied Multi-CSC.
In an attempt to solve, I flashed the stock firmware in download mode through Odin. I got a success message, however, I cannot get past the Samsung Logo.
I would really appreciate if anyone can guide me through on how I can restore my phone. Thanks in advance.
Reboot into recovery mode and full wipe/ factory reset. Then reboot as normal
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alchopop said:
Reboot into recovery mode and full wipe/ factory reset. Then reboot as normal
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I can't get into recovery. Is there a way to install cwn from download/Odin?
Are you sure that you can't enter into recovery mode bypressing the buttons? You was with usb debugging on? You can try to use adb "adb reboot recovery" to enter in recovery mode.
raulrooolz said:
I can't get into recovery. Is there a way to install cwn from download/Odin?
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CF Root 6.4 Injects CWM via ODIN.
Your problem seems to be settings related tho, usually you get that fixed cleaning cache and dalvik, as stated before. Try to get into recovery mode to check that, and if that dont work I would try reflashing all over step by step.-
SkzBR said:
Are you sure that you can't enter into recovery mode bypressing the buttons? You was with usb debugging on? You can try to use adb "adb reboot recovery" to enter in recovery mode.
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Yup pretty sure. Sorry I probably sound naive but how do u use adb reboot recovery?
To get to recovery press and hold 'up volume + home button + power button together'
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alchopop said:
To get to recovery press and hold 'up volume + home button + power button together'
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I tried but it doesn't work....
raulrooolz said:
I tried but it doesn't work....
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You need to hold them until your phone reboots. Takes a few seconds maybe 5-10
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raulrooolz said:
Yup pretty sure. Sorry I probably sound naive but how do u use adb reboot recovery?
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You will have to set adb on your pc.. Search for how to.. There are numerous tutos and vids.. Then fire up cmd from the adb directory and then type those commands..
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zoot1 said:
You will have to set adb on your pc.. Search for how to.. There are numerous tutos and vids.. Then fire up cmd from the adb directory and then type those commands..
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Congrats on your 1000th post
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I'm sure the OP should be able to enter Download Mode and flash another ROM via ODIN. Try that if you can't access recovery.
Im 100% he's not doing it the right way.
If you can get in downloadmode to use Odin, you can also get in the Recovery menu.
Hold volume up , home, and power untill it reboots.
Keep holding it untill you see the white text, release power, but keep holding volume up and home.
Its not so difficult.
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This really makes you want to help people out. Ffs let us know if we helped or not
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Bloody hell. I just went through the same thing.
I accessed Recovery, wiped data and cache. Then I rebooted. It worked. (>_>)
Well done mate. Glad you managed to sort it. Now, i wonder what happened to the OP
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Helpful for me.
Thx guys!!!
please help guys ...flashed to stock rom in uk but couldnt still enter recovery...only download mode..ive also installed all types of custom recoveries but after a successful installation the phone just reboots back to screen logo and hangs there:crying:
Zibams said:
please help guys ...flashed to stock rom in uk but couldnt still enter recovery...only download mode..ive also installed all types of custom recoveries but after a successful installation the phone just reboots back to screen logo and hangs there:crying:
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This happened to me to... i flashed a nordic stock rom, from JB because I wanted to go back to android 4.0.4.. now I'm stuck at the logo screen. I have noot rooted or anything so I cant go to recovery, only download mode.. What do I do?
same with the guys above but i had 4.0.4 and when i flashed stock i am stuck with the samsung logo. my s2 was fixed with the new stock rom as it seem it didnt support old stock after flashing new roms. may be is should try jb instead. all i did was used samsung tool should have done one by one myself. instead of using tool.
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Okey I fixed it by going to recovery and then wiped up everything (dalvik/cache-data/cache partition) so it worked now... Here is the question. I bought the cell 2nd hand with paper and everything here is my question. on the box and back sticker of the cell phone it is XXXXXX/XX/XXXXXX/6 when i got the phone and did *#06# I got XXXXXX/XX/XXXXXX/04 and then when i tried to use samsung toolkit it went hanged in samsung logo so after i fixed it when i got back to the phone i checked my imei again now its XXXXXX/XX/XXXXXX/01 just the last is different is it okay or is something screwed my cell? btw it was locked to 3 and i used galaxysimunlocked (after) checking imei it is working but still i am concerned about the last number all the 14 numbers are right nothing changed.

Galaxy s4, stuck in reboot loop need help :(

was installing the hyperdrive Rom using clockwork recovery mod, it says it installed sucessfully but when i go to reboot the device it just going into reboot loop, i can get back into recovery mod but when i try to factory reset and try it again it just does the same thing again, tried installing a different rom and still same thing, what am i doing wrong?
im having the same problem. i cant boot into recovery. is there anything i can do. i was on cm10.1 before this and it worked fine. i flashed hyperdrive using OUDHS and it installed and everything. i let it sit for 10 minutes like it said to then i continued to reboot... and now its stuck on the custom padlock screen and im cant boot into recovery for some reason...
OMsupp said:
im having the same problem. i cant boot into recovery. is there anything i can do. i was on cm10.1 before this and it worked fine. i flashed hyperdrive using OUDHS and it installed and everything. i let it sit for 10 minutes like it said to then i continued to reboot... and now its stuck on the custom padlock screen and im cant boot into recovery for some reason...
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Try to get in to Odin mode. If you can flash the Stock Image and go from there.
RLS7 Verizon S4 continuous reboot loop
galaxyfans said:
was installing the hyperdrive Rom using clockwork recovery mod, it says it installed sucessfully but when i go to reboot the device it just going into reboot loop, i can get back into recovery mod but when i try to factory reset and try it again it just does the same thing again, tried installing a different rom and still same thing, what am i doing wrong?
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Hi I have the exact same pb, I flashed several times my S4 (I was on RLS4 before) following the instructions, no way to get out from the endless reboot loop.
There is a suggestion using ODIN, I am not very familiar on how to do that, any help?
Thanks
abalgir66 said:
Hi I have the exact same pb, I flashed several times my S4 (I was on RLS4 before) following the instructions, no way to get out from the endless reboot loop.
There is a suggestion using ODIN, I am not very familiar on how to do that, any help?
Thanks
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dont install any audio mod and also dont install any of the music players just the samsung one !
before you go through all the trouble of ODIN, which seems to be everyones answer now a days, it is a kernel issue, flash a verizon loki kernel. It should boot.
abalgir66 said:
Hi I have the exact same pb, I flashed several times my S4 (I was on RLS4 before) following the instructions, no way to get out from the endless reboot loop.
There is a suggestion using ODIN, I am not very familiar on how to do that, any help?
Thanks
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First, if you have a back up, restore just the system partition (this will also format your current /system) Then do a factory reset and reboot. Now I if that doesn't work, Odin is your best bet.
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FOR anyone installing Hyperdrive, the most probable cause of boot loop in the Walkman Music App. Don't choose it in Aroma!!!
If you already have, the only way to fix the boot loop is to ODIN back to stock, as Dark Menace suggested.
He can PM you the stock image, which you will have to flash in ODIN to successfully boot up again.
hey I do plenty of flashing, and from time to time get into trouble... But ODIN is not the first choice to fix... Please read the forums:cyclops:
Sent a few PM's to see if that helps. You can try the kernels first then go from there.
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fix
I had the same problem had to go back in odin mode and reflash a old stock. If that does not work reset data and cache and install a new rom. Worked for me
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Sent a few PM's to see if that helps. You can try the kernels first then go from there.
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I will try again without selecting the music app. I was always selecting the Sony one. I will try this afternoon and keep you informed.
Thanks
abalgir66 said:
I will try again without selecting the music app. I was always selecting the Sony one. I will try this afternoon and keep you informed.
Thanks
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It worked perfectly if we do not select any music app. Thanks
Device gets stuck at S4 logo with blue font RECOVERY BOOTING, even after Odin, any ideas??
I'm so stuck!
TheAxman said:
before you go through all the trouble of ODIN, which seems to be everyones answer now a days, it is a kernel issue, flash a verizon loki kernel. It should boot.
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I can't get my phone to see the the SD card in recovery. My Verizon Galaxy S4 is stuck in a boot loop thanks to Hyperdrive RLS12 and Odin fails every time I try it. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Surge1223 said:
First, if you have a back up, restore just the system partition (this will also format your current /system) Then do a factory reset and reboot. Now I if that doesn't work, Odin is your best bet.
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I am trying hyperdrive on Baseband I545VRUEMJ7 and build JSS15J.I545VRUEMJ7 (4.3). I am able to root and install safestrap. Even hyperdrive/dirty unicorns (i tired both) installs fine, but ends up in reboot loop. am i missing anything here?.

[Q] Possible brick after CWM recovery update.

Here goes, hopefully someone can help!
Ive installed a fair few roms on my phone and never had any issue, maybe this explains the complacency.
After updating to CWM recovery -6.0.4.7 I get stuck on my bootscreen, only seeing "Samsung galaxy I9100P" , ive been putting I9100 roms on it and losing NFC functionality for a while.
I went to update to the newest CM-11 nightly and read I needed to update CWM-recovery first. So did that, rebooted phone as instructed after installing new CWMr and nothing. Just stuck on I9100 screen.
No way to get into recovery mode, the only bright side I have found is I can boot into ODIN download mode. So what would be my next steps anyone?
Flash stock rom. or flash a kernel to get a working recovery bk with odin.
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andrewwright said:
Flash stock rom. or flash a kernel to get a working recovery bk with odin.
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From a dig through the forums it sounds like NAND rw corruption?
I wouldn't be calling it that just yet. Unless you'd like to pay for a motherboard replacement ? Most of these are recoverable.
Used ODIN and flashed a new kernel, still on the boot screen, except now I have the yellow exclamation mark. Now to, Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again.. this day is not going well..
Fingers crossed, flashed 3 or 4 kernels before one worked and allowed me into recovery mode. Trying to restore back to my backup from this morning. Heres hoping! :good:
Worked perfectly, the first thing I did was retry the initial task which was what got me stuck, currently waiting on CM-11's initial boot up after a successful install Thanks for the calming responses!

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