[Q] Galaxy S3 not able to factory reset! - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey guys
I was experiencing certain issues with my phone so I decided to factory reset my phone. When I try from the normal settings, it doesn't go past the erase everything screen and even though I press it a lot of times it doesn't happen. When I try to go into recovery mode, it shows the OTA update screen and suddenly the android dies with a red triangle over it and then my phone restarts.
Can someone help me?
Thanks in advance!

get a custom recovery

Glebun said:
get a custom recovery
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What if I don't wanna root my phone?

Well, are you sure you're getting into recovery and not download mode?

Glebun said:
Well, are you sure you're getting into recovery and not download mode?
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I can get into download mode. I can't just get into recovery mode

Flash stock rom via Odin .
Or take to a service centre .
jje

Use your warranty if you have one...otherwise root it.

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[Q] Phone Wont Boot

Well, i got no answears on my other thread and i tried to solve it by myself
So, i got on this tutorial how to instal the original settings. I flashed with odin and now my phone wont boot (even recovery/download mode are not loading) hehehehe. But Odin recognise my phone.
Is there any method to just format the whole thing and re-install android?
Can anyone help me?
estevaoem said:
Well, i got no answears on my other thread and i tried to solve it by myself
So, i got on this tutorial how to instal the original settings. I flashed with odin and now my phone wont boot (even recovery/download mode are not loading) hehehehe. But Odin recognise my phone.
Is there any method to just format the whole thing and re-install android?
Can anyone help me?
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boot into recovery mode, wipe data and cache.
now turn off.
configure ODIN with the firmware of ur choice.
then boot the phone into download mode.
connect phone with usb cable, when ready, flash the firmware and wait till reboot. i have reflashed lots of times without any problem.
Its not booting on recovery mod. Neither downloading
estevaoem said:
Its not booting on recovery mod. Neither downloading
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If not boot on recovery or download, i think u cant do anything.
You can use your Ace as a paperweight.
Adgoosuc said:
If not boot on recovery or download, i think u cant do anything.
You can use your Ace as a paperweight.
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hahahaha OMG. But, is there any way to acces the download mod with adb?
estevaoem said:
hahahaha OMG. But, is there any way to acces the download mod with adb?
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Do you mean, you can still login via adb?
yeah, do something via adb. My pc and Odin still recognise my phone.
1. Than you should see with adb logcat where it is actually stucked at.
estevaoem said:
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So, i got on this tutorial how to instal the original settings. I flashed with odin and now my phone wont boot (even recovery/download mode are not loading) hehehehe. But Odin recognise my phone.
Is there any method to just format the whole thing and re-install android?
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This is rather a big thread you're refering to.
2. Flashing with Odin
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(2.a) Which procedure did you follow exactly?
(2.b) Did Odin report the success at the end with : PASSED (with blue background)
(2.c) Did your phone reboot after Odin logs on the left the reset message?​
tossan said:
1. Than you should see with adb logcat where it is actually stucked at.
This is rather a big thread you're refering to.
2. Flashing with Odin
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(2.a) Which procedure did you follow exactly?
(2.b) Did Odin report the success at the end with : PASSED (with blue background)
(2.c) Did your phone reboot after Odin logs on the left the reset message?​
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It runned an one package file. After using odin, the phone is suposed to reboot, but it didnt happened in my case
estevaoem said:
It runned an one package file. After using odin, the phone is suposed to reboot, but it didnt happened in my case
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Simple. if your phone is under warranty.. don't worry. as long as it doesn't boot... Samsung doesn't care.. bring your phone down and they will change the motherboard FOC!
estevaoem said:
My pc and Odin still recognise my phone.
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:O odin recognizes your phone you said? THEN FLASH IT NORMALLY USING ODIN!
Hi,
I got the same probleme befor, i bricked my sga when i installed rom toolbox, so there's no way te rover it by your self, take it to any phone specialist who have RIFF Box it's 100% recoverable, so no worries.
diimah said:
Hi,
I got the same probleme befor, i bricked my sga when i installed rom toolbox, so there's no way te rover it by your self, take it to any phone specialist who have RIFF Box it's 100% recoverable, so no worries.
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thank you man, I called today and they said that is solution for my phone!

[Q] GALAXY S II GT-i900G STUCK ON YELLOW TRIANGLE WITH EXCLAMATION MARK

Hey guys am new in android family and i tried to root my GALAXY S II GT-i900G with odin but just after it restarted i saw the YELLOW TRIANGLE WITH EXCLAMATION MARK and thought it would move on from that point but it didnt,,it just stucked i restarted so many times but didnt work either.
i tried check different sources may be i could solve the problem but many are using USB JIG which i cant get it in my country.....so please any ideas to what i can please>>>>>>
Dilly Dally said:
i tried to root my GALAXY S II GT-i900G with odin
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Do you mean GT-I9100G? If so, what did you actually flash in Odin? Generally to get back to a working phone, you need to go back to download mode (vol down+home+power) and flash a kernel/whole ROM which is correct for your device.
And you posted this twice why exactly ?
It's your lucky day. This thread contains some insecure kernels you can use to root a I9100G. Don't ask me which one to use, I have no idea as I have a I9100T.
I've given you a starting point, time for you to begin learning/reading.
yes its GT-I9100G? i flashed it with CF-Root-SGS2_XX_OXA_KI3-v4.1-CWM4.tar
how do i flash a kernel? and how do i know which is correct for my device while it cant open?
Dilly Dally said:
yes its GT-I9100G? i flashed it with CF-Root-SGS2_XX_OXA_KI3-v4.1-CWM4.tar
how do i flash a kernel? and how do i know which is correct for my device while it cant open?
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For starters, you've flashed an I9100 kernel on your I9100G. You've been given instructions on what to do already (entering download mode and flashing a kernel/ROM for the correct device, since you said the device turns on).
If you can't figure that out, take it back. You shouldn't be blindly flashing stuff on your phone.
Not getting download mode!
I have the triangle with the exclamation mark but for whatever reason I am not able to enter into download mode even with a jig that works perfectly on my cappy!
Any suggestions on what to do next?
kofijay said:
I have the triangle with the exclamation mark but for whatever reason I am not able to enter into download mode even with a jig that works perfectly on my cappy!
Any suggestions on what to do next?
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Recovery mode and restore your nandroid backup or
Your going to need to pay for a JTAG machine to reset it for you .
Clueless as to what firmware you have but a later bootloader stops usb jig recovery .
jje
JJEgan said:
Recovery mode and restore your nandroid backup or
Your going to need to pay for a JTAG machine to reset it for you .
Clueless as to what firmware you have but a later bootloader stops usb jig recovery .
jje
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I thought it only stopped the resetting of the counter...?
akusokuzan said:
I thought it only stopped the resetting of the counter...?
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That's correct. The phone should still boot into recovery but that's it if you have a new bootloader.

[Q] [HELP!] S3 wont even boot

So my S3 went into a boot loop. And I dont know how I got to this point but now the phone wont even boot, when plugged in to my comp it shows the battery symbol but its greyed out with the circle in the middle, and it stays like that. If i hold the power putton it comes up with the Galaxy SIII GT i9300 screen but then goes back to the battery. I can get it to go into download mode though. I think somehow I may have deleted all the files required for the phone to actually boot(Im a n00b so im not completely sure) Can somebody please help me?
I was on custom ROM before and my binary counter is at 4, so sending into samsung doesn't sound like a great idea :/
Thanks for the help and sorry if this has been asked before, I have searched for hours.
Luke2508 said:
So my S3 went into a boot loop. And I dont know how I got to this point but now the phone wont even boot, when plugged in to my comp it shows the battery symbol but its greyed out with the circle in the middle, and it stays like that. If i hold the power putton it comes up with the Galaxy SIII GT i9300 screen but then goes back to the battery. I can get it to go into download mode though. I think somehow I may have deleted all the files required for the phone to actually boot(Im a n00b so im not completely sure) Can somebody please help me?
I was on custom ROM before and my binary counter is at 4, so sending into samsung doesn't sound like a great idea :/
Thanks for the help and sorry if this has been asked before, I have searched for hours.
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If you also can go into recovery, try to wipe. In addition did you flash any custom kernel?
If not, try to reflash a rom with odin after you got into download mode or did you try this already?
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chrismast said:
If you also can go into recovery, try to wipe. In addition did you flash any custom kernel?
If not, try to reflash a rom with odin after you got into download mode or did you try this already?
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If you mean with CWM mod, no I cant, it just shows the Galaxy S3 GT i9300 screen then goes black. Yes i did have a custom kernel, I believe it was the latest Perseus one. I already tried this with a stock rom and it idnt work, it said it had passed but i still can boot the phone.
Luke2508 said:
If you mean with CWM mod, no I cant, it just shows the Galaxy S3 GT i9300 screen then goes black. Yes i did have a custom kernel, I believe it was the latest Perseus one. I already tried this with a stock rom and it idnt work, it said it had passed but i still can boot the phone.
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as you can go into download mode but not recovery, what about flashing CWM another time (if you did not try it already). Maybe it solves the issue with recovery and from there you could go on trying to wipe etc.
Other options would be to do a mega or super wipe (if this is possible from odin & download mode, not sure though), to get your phone completely empty (mega) or at least to factory reset (super).
Luke2508 said:
So my S3 went into a boot loop. And I dont know how I got to this point but now the phone wont even boot, when plugged in to my comp it shows the battery symbol but its greyed out with the circle in the middle, and it stays like that. If i hold the power putton it comes up with the Galaxy SIII GT i9300 screen but then goes back to the battery. I can get it to go into download mode though. I think somehow I may have deleted all the files required for the phone to actually boot(Im a n00b so im not completely sure) Can somebody please help me?
I was on custom ROM before and my binary counter is at 4, so sending into samsung doesn't sound like a great idea :/
Thanks for the help and sorry if this has been asked before, I have searched for hours.
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Look at the tread above yours,sudden death.
You are not the only one here mate.
I have it too.
Mods,can we have one tread for this huge problem.
It seems that there are many of us have this problem.
Thanks.
painterceessie said:
Look at the tread above yours,sudden death.
You are not the only one here mate.
I have it too.
Mods,can we have one tread for this huge problem.
Pointless having another thread why not post /read the original thread for this problem .
a hint look for sudden death thread
jje
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chrismast said:
as you can go into download mode but not recovery, what about flashing CWM another time (if you did not try it already). Maybe it solves the issue with recovery and from there you could go on trying to wipe etc.
Other options would be to do a mega or super wipe (if this is possible from odin & download mode, not sure though), to get your phone completely empty (mega) or at least to factory reset (super).
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I successfully flashed CF root with CWM, now shall I do a wipe and then restore back to a nandroid backup I made? and if so how will I? The phone now shows the samsung logo when turned on but just stays there forever.
JJEgan said:
painterceessie said:
Look at the tread above yours,sudden death.
You are not the only one here mate.
I have it too.
Mods,can we have one tread for this huge problem.
Pointless having another thread why not post /read the original thread for this problem .
a hint look for sudden death thread
jje
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Oke sorry mate.
I didn't no that.
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Furthermore i suggest anyone having motherboard dead problems and vendor Samsung saying no warranty .
To pull up the many posts regarding this now known manufacturing defect and don't accept in this case root/ custom rom warranty is rejected .
jje
JJEgan said:
Furthermore i suggest anyone having motherboard dead problems and vendor Samsung saying no warranty .
To pull up the many posts regarding this now known manufacturing defect and don't accept in this case root/ custom rom warranty is rejected .
jje
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The thing is there is nothing wrong with my phone in terms of hardware. The problem that I am having is purely software, I think I just need to restore my phone to a previous version. I did see that thread but didnt feel my post belonged there as my problem is nothing to do with broken battery or mobo or anything along those lines. Hence why I am posting here
Just factory reset via recovery then flash a stock rom via Odin .
No recovery flash CF root via Odin .
jje
JJEgan said:
Just factory reset via recovery then flash a stock rom via Odin .
No recovery flash CF root via Odin .
jje
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I did install a stock ROM and it was still stuck on bootloop, left it like that for an hour, still nothing. So I went into CWM (after flashing it) Wiped and factory reset (noticing it said error mounting /data but ignored) and then restored with a backup I had. it did say error mounting /data and so skipped that step. Still stuck in boot loop. now that I try wiping again the same error occurs, error mounting /data any ideas please?
I did have this problem a few days back. The only thing i did was downloaded my Carrier stock firmwaer and extracted boot.img and used Samsung galaxy toolkit and make a filé that i was able to use with Odin. Dunno if ot helps you but my Phone is still going strong
I was only trying to root my Phone tho. No custom rom installera when i got The boot problem
Sounds like you have permission problem. I can't find the three about that but I update my post here if I can find it.
you can try to fix permission in cwm it seems, hope it works
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xda-napp3 said:
I did have this problem a few days back. The only thing i did was downloaded my Carrier stock firmwaer and extracted boot.img and used Samsung galaxy toolkit and make a filé that i was able to use with Odin. Dunno if ot helps you but my Phone is still going strong
I was only trying to root my Phone tho. No custom rom installera when i got The boot problem
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Thanks, do you have any idea where I will find my carrier specific firmware? And any other kind of tips on how to do/get things? But hopefully this works
Checkout this thread hope you find what you need there
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1927113
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s3 Stuck in boot loop

Hi all, hope somebody can help me.... I am currently stuck in a boot loop on my i9300....
How did this happen? well....
I'll start at the beginning... I received an ota update notification for the 4.3 update and without checking the internet to find out how good it was/wasn't, i stupidly downloaded and installed it! as we all now know, its terrible!
So.... in an effort to get out of the nightmare that is 4.3 i downloaded odin on my computer and rooted my phone with cf auto root, i then downloaded I9300OXAEMG4_BTU from sam mobile. I put my phone in download mode, hooked it up to the computer and flashed the said xaemg4 rom via odin. Everything seemed to go well and the phone rebooted.... but now my phone just continually shows the swirling samsung boot screen and never gets past it!
So, what went wrong and how do i sort this mess out?? Should i try to reflash the rom again with odin will i just make things worse?
Just for info, i do not have a custom recovery on my phone, i just used odin to flash.
Please help me out guys. :crying:
Cheers
Steve
steve75dhd said:
Hi all, hope somebody can help me.... I am currently stuck in a boot loop on my i9300....
How did this happen? well....
I'll start at the beginning... I received an ota update notification for the 4.3 update and without checking the internet to find out how good it was/wasn't, i stupidly downloaded and installed it! as we all now know, its terrible!
So.... in an effort to get out of the nightmare that is 4.3 i downloaded odin on my computer and rooted my phone with cf auto root, i then downloaded I9300OXAEMG4_BTU from sam mobile. I put my phone in download mode, hooked it up to the computer and flashed the said xaemg4 rom via odin. Everything seemed to go well and the phone rebooted.... but now my phone just continually shows the swirling samsung boot screen and never gets past it!
So, what went wrong and how do i sort this mess out??
Just for info, i do not have a custom recovery on my phone, i just used odin to flash.
Please help me out guys. :crying:
Cheers
Steve
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Did u try recover and download mode? try to go to download mode and get some information on product code and other.. have you flashed firmware of other country than yours?? well to tell about boot loop there are lots of regions for it( bricked or SDS and many other too) first try to read all guides and faqs of s3 about 4.3 update..
suyash1629 said:
Did u try recover and download mode? try to go to download mode and get some information on product code and other.. have you flashed firmware of other country than yours?? well to tell about boot loop there are lots of regions for it( bricked or SDS and many other too) first try to read all guides and faqs of s3 about 4.3 update..
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Try 3 button combo get into recovert reset and delete cache it should boot up
waleed78636 said:
Try 3 button combo get into recovert reset and delete cache it should boot up
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that might too work, but thats not sure..
waleed78636 said:
Try 3 button combo get into recovert reset and delete cache it should boot up
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Wipe cache partition or wipe data/factory reset???
steve75dhd said:
Wipe cache partition or wipe data/factory reset???
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both..
waleed78636 said:
Try 3 button combo get into recovert reset and delete cache it should boot up
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suyash1629 said:
both..
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Awesome.... Thank you guys! panic over!
steve75dhd said:
Awesome.... Thank you guys! panic over!
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nice to know that it worked for you..

[Q] galaxy s3 flash and boot issues

Hi Guys, in urgent need of help. I have a Samsung galaxy S3 I9300 that hangs on boot screen and freezes. The phone will not go into recovery mode at all just goes direct to download mode. I have tried to re-flash the stock firm ware using odin but have run into problems as initially it asked for a pit file and them once I got this fails and says cannot repartition. on top of this I believe the problem with odin may be a comms issue as when I try installing the device drivers when connecting phone to computer, this fails even though I have already downloaded and installed this. I have never rooted my phone but I do believe the phone is soft bricked?
so to summarize there is a comms issue from phone to pc and flash issue which are probably both connected.
any help is very much appreciated. Thanks in advance
What did you install to cause this bootloop?
IzzcyFloat said:
What did you install to cause this bootloop?
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I did not install anything, I passed the phone on to a family member when I upgraded, it was reset to factory settings and worked for 2 months. then one day just decided it didn't want to boot up just hangs on the screen that says samsung galaxy s3
anujbedi said:
I did not install anything, I passed the phone on to a family member when I upgraded, it was reset to factory settings and worked for 2 months. then one day just decided it didn't want to boot up just hangs on the screen that says samsung galaxy s3
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Can you boot to download mode?
Edit: oh you can enter download mode is it rooted or not?
try to clean cache, dalvik cache and flash again
IzzcyFloat said:
Can you boot to download mode?
Edit: oh you can enter download mode is it rooted or not?
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no the phone has never been rooted can get to download mode but not recovery mode
Try the rescue firmware and pit from general forum. If this fails to flash then your emmc chip is damaged.
anujbedi said:
no the phone has never been rooted can get to download mode but not recovery mode
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try rooting your phone with this
http://www.samsungsfour.com/tutoria...-i9300-running-on-android-4-3-jelly-bean.html
Oh wait if you dont want to root search the forum on.how to go back to stock cant find the sticky for that sorry
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Try the rescue firmware and pit from general forum. If this fails to flash then your emmc chip is damaged.
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Thank you, could you possibly give me a link for that, I have not really found my way around here and I would really appreciate it
anujbedi said:
Thank you, could you possibly give me a link for that, I have not really found my way around here and I would really appreciate it
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Maybe he is refering to this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30087735&postcount=6

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