Hi!
This afternoon I bricked my sister-in-law's phone. I download all the stuff (CWM recovery, Odin images, etc) all from the development forum.
Let me explain, in the first try I did a factory reset, then flashed a custom ROM, then the GAPPS and phone stuck at Samsung's logo.
Ok, so I flashed again Odin's image, rebooted again into recovery and tried to flash again. This time recovery can't access into internal storage, and I could read the message (for example when I do a simple wipe):
E:format_volume: rfs format failed on /dev/stl11.
Ok, so I decided to go to download mode again to reflash Odin's factory image and..... now I can't access to download mode. Screen is on, but black and phone doesn't boot.
I'm sure something went wrong, but Odin and recovery don't show me any weird message before the brick.
Now, I can only access to stock recovery,.
Any chance to reborn the phone? Is there any flasheable zip or something to restore internal partitions from recovery?
Thank you
jolinnard said:
Hi!
This afternoon I bricked my sister-in-law's phone. I download all the stuff (CWM recovery, Odin images, etc) all from the development forum.
Let me explain, in the first try I did a factory reset, then flashed a custom ROM, then the GAPPS and phone stuck at Samsung's logo.
Ok, so I flashed again Odin's image, rebooted again into recovery and tried to flash again. This time recovery can't access into internal storage, and I could read the message (for example when I do a simple wipe):
E:format_volume: rfs format failed on /dev/stl11.
Ok, so I decided to go to download mode again to reflash Odin's factory image and..... now I can't access to download mode. Screen is on, but black and phone doesn't boot.
I'm sure something went wrong, but Odin and recovery don't show me any weird message before the brick.
Now, I can only access to stock recovery,.
Any chance to reborn the phone? Is there any flasheable zip or something to restore internal partitions from recovery?
Thank you
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Your phone is still probably entering download mode just without the warning message which has been deleted (read about this somewhere) just use volume+ on the black screen and connect to computer and see if it works...
Btw you were meant top install the ROM then RESTART then enter recovery again then GApps
If I've helped please press Thanks
... We definitely need a bricked section... too many noobs posting same problems... can't cope... I'm... dying... rurgghhgh...
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Thank you James.
You are very correct. I'm a noob with that kind of phones.
I could connect to Odin and reflash Samsung's PDA.tar fine.
Thank you again. And sorry for the noise.
Thank you James.<br />
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You are very correct. I'm a noob with that kind of phones.<br />
I could connect to Odin and reflash Samsung's PDA.tar fine.<br />
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Thank you again. And sorry for the noise.
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So was it just that the warning message wasn't appearing?
Lol the dying thing on the last post wasn't directly aimed at you, loads of threads have been appearing all with people bricking their aces, kinda got annoying looking at them all.
I'm happy to help
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jolinnard said:
Hi!
This afternoon I bricked my sister-in-law's phone. I download all the stuff (CWM recovery, Odin images, etc) all from the development forum.
Let me explain, in the first try I did a factory reset, then flashed a custom ROM, then the GAPPS and phone stuck at Samsung's logo.
Ok, so I flashed again Odin's image, rebooted again into recovery and tried to flash again. This time recovery can't access into internal storage, and I could read the message (for example when I do a simple wipe):
E:format_volume: rfs format failed on /dev/stl11.
Ok, so I decided to go to download mode again to reflash Odin's factory image and..... now I can't access to download mode. Screen is on, but black and phone doesn't boot.
I'm sure something went wrong, but Odin and recovery don't show me any weird message before the brick.
Now, I can only access to stock recovery,.
Any chance to reborn the phone? Is there any flasheable zip or something to restore internal partitions from recovery?
Thank you
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840645
Just follow this dude It's easy
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What the title said:
My SGS2 stucks at the reboot logo, SGS2 GT-i9100 >> Logo >> repeating.
I wanted to format my phone cause it was almost full, so i format it, but it doesnt work and i got the same space free.
So i tried to do it manually in Recovery Mode, i formated some stuff, but i formated something like: Format Pre-Load (or something like this) and some more stuff, if im right that was only data/cache etc, and system to.
But now my phone wont reboot....
Help!!!
Phone connects to Odin only, i tried to flash the file i use to rooted my phone again, but i get: FAILED.
Srry for bad English....
Hey guys,
I have a similar problem after attempting a root on my Galasxy i9001T.
I used Odin following the instructions on this thread,http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1125414, I've gotten as far as using Odin 1.83, using the GT-I9100T_DUKF2_original.tar as my insure kernel. Odin gave me the green light "OK" and I waited for my phone to boot upt.
My phone gets far as the initial "Samsung SII GT-I9100T" and stays there, there was no yellow triangle, which expected from the instructions. The phone recharges and is able to go into recovery mode, but is Odin is having trouble communicating to the phone via USB, it won't establish a connection, so I have a strange feeling that I've bricked my phone and need help to fix the problem if possible.
My phone model and kernel are below, any assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers.
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Samsung Galaxy S2 GT-I1900T
Kernel: 2.6.35.7-I91000TDVLB1-CL957836
Out of warranty
Dannyvld said:
What the title said:
My SGS2 stucks at the reboot logo, SGS2 GT-i9100 >> Logo >> repeating.
I wanted to format my phone cause it was almost full, so i format it, but it doesnt work and i got the same space free.
So i tried to do it manually in Recovery Mode, i formated some stuff, but i formated something like: Format Pre-Load (or something like this) and some more stuff, if im right that was only data/cache etc, and system to.
But now my phone wont reboot....
Help!!!
Phone connects to Odin only, i tried to flash the file i use to rooted my phone again, but i get: FAILED.
Srry for bad English....
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You should not have formatted preload. Why didn't you just format the internal sd card?? Anyway now you will have to flash official firmware with odin. you can find so many guides on how to do that
...and to format your system wasn't the best idea also
Sent from the Matrix
Donnie Sins said:
...and to format your system wasn't the best idea also
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Indeed.
/System partition is where the rom is stored.
So, what i need to do, flash a official rom with odin?
Tar file?
Can someone just send me the link of the thread that can help me?
I dont want to fail again And i want to fix my phone ASAP.
Already thx
Dannyvld said:
So, what i need to do, flash a official rom with odin?
Tar file?
Can someone just send me the link of the thread that can help me?
I dont want to fail again And i want to fix my phone ASAP.
Already thx
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Watch the third post. There's your answer.
Sent from the Matrix
You cleaned everything boy even the Android OS
You just formated your whole phone you deleted your android os. you have to use ODIN to flash rom download some official firmware of some custom rom or if you have cwm download the rom transfer the zip to sd card or internal on your phone and flash it from cwm. And remember if you want to clean up your phone completly Just use factory reset in setting and if you want to delete all files in your internal sd check delete all files. Never format SYSTEM and PRELOAD
Now he's got a clean device alright.
I can just put a custom rom on it?
Using Siyah kernel, Philz, CWM or another? Does this matter?
Otherwise is put a rom on my sdcard and i put my sd in my phone and i flash it.
I putted a rom on my sd, installed it in Recovery Mode and its working again, thx for the support.
Ok there, guys.
Before I start, yes I'm an idiot, yes I'm a huge noob, no I don't know what I'm doing.
Basically, I have a SGS2 and I was trying to install Cyanogenmod 10.1.
I used Heimdall to (flash?) install ClockworkMod Recovery and it worked.
I realised that I hadn't put the Cyanogenmod .zip on my phone before I installed CWM.
I got up to rebooting my phone so I could transfer the zip but after the Galaxy splash screen nothing happened.
The screen just stays black and doesn't do anything.
I can access Download and Recovery mode so that's good.
I only have access to a Mac at the moment so I have to use the Heimdall command line.
If anybody could help it would be great, thanks!
jubsticles said:
Ok there, guys.
Before I start, yes I'm an idiot, yes I'm a huge noob, no I don't know what I'm doing.
Basically, I have a SGS2 and I was trying to install Cyanogenmod 10.1.
I used Heimdall to (flash?) install ClockworkMod Recovery and it worked.
I realised that I hadn't put the Cyanogenmod .zip on my phone before I installed CWM.
I got up to rebooting my phone so I could transfer the zip but after the Galaxy splash screen nothing happened.
The screen just stays black and doesn't do anything.
I can access Download and Recovery mode so that's good.
I only have access to a Mac at the moment so I have to use the Heimdall command line.
If anybody could help it would be great, thanks!
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Put your forgotten .zip on an sd card put it in your phone. Boot to recovery and install. Then do full wipe and you should be good to go.
LSD Powered Time Machine.
gaosphappy said:
Put your forgotten .zip on an sd card put it in your phone. Boot to recovery and install. Then do full wipe and you should be good to go.
LSD Powered Time Machine.
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How can I access my phone's storage through recovery/download mode?
Thanks for the reply, by the way.
Edit: Oops, sorry. Didn't read your reply correctly. Unfortunately I don't have a SD card. Is there a way I can restore my phone COMPLETELY to stock?
jubsticles said:
How can I access my phone's storage through recovery/download mode?
Thanks for the reply, by the way.
Edit: Oops, sorry. Didn't read your reply correctly. Unfortunately I don't have a SD card. Is there a way I can restore my phone COMPLETELY to stock?
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Flash a stock rom and start from scratch. Get stock rom file from xda or sammobile (NOT A 4.0.4 ics rom tho.) flash via odin/Heimdall in download mode. it will boot up when done turn it off and reboot to recovery and do full wipe. redo your flash with missing .zip.
good luck
gaosphappy said:
Flash a stock rom and start from scratch. Get stock rom file from xda or (NOT A 4.0.4 ics rom tho.) flash via odin/Heimdall in download mode. it will boot up when done turn it off and reboot to recovery and do full wipe. redo your flash with missing .zip.
good luck
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I flashed a 4.1.2 stock rom onto my phone but it still doesn't work.
I flashed the phone, it automatically rebooted, when the Samsung logo came up I took out the battery, went to recovery mode, wiped cache and full wipe, hit reboot and now it just stays on the Samsung logo, pulsing blue and what not.
I also did the same thing and instead of taking out the battery I just left it in there after the first reboot and the same thing happened.
How can I fix this?
Hum....I9100?
flash lsj (only phone, code abd csc).
Sent from the little guy
hello, my phone is in a bootloop at the samsung start screen, the problem didn't started because of an un proper flash of a rom, I just found my phone in kernel panic mode, tried to enter recovery to do a full wipe, nothing, recovery was unavailable, I had cm 10.1 and dorimax kernel, after that I found a thread that explained what to do in case of soft/hard brick, I did all the steeps, (I can only enter download mode), I have flashed the ics, gb roms in odin with success, no nand rw problem, my phone is still in a boot loop, this happened two weeks ago, today I tried booting the phone, a wierd instaler started (something about cryptic, can't remember exactly) but the instalation stopped it restarted, and the samsung boot loop started, dose any one have any ideeas what else can I try? thx
can any one tell me if the stock roms I'm flashing trough odin do a full wipe? thx
Always do a full wipe, no matter what you do.
Flash a more newer stock firmware, aka a jelly bean firmware..
Have you encrypted your phone before you swap Roms? and not decrypt it before flash?
I have flashed XWLSW trough odin, but still nothing, I didn't encrypt my phone, and I can't do a full wipe, or at least I don't know how to do it trough odin (I can only enter download mode). Thx for the answers, any other suggestions?
cipry189 said:
I have flashed XWLSW trough odin, but still nothing, I didn't encrypt my phone, and I can't do a full wipe, or at least I don't know how to do it trough odin (I can only enter download mode). Thx for the answers, any other suggestions?
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I have same problem and i don't know what to do. Someone tell mse about a pit parched because is a memory problem, so, i'm looking for this pit, but, i can't found this pit.
Someone help us, please. Thank you.
Can you not enter recovery? Even after flash and stuck in boot loop? Flash stock and try to get into recovery when this boot loop happends. And yes when you flash through odin the phone is wiped:thumbup:
I solved a similar problem by:
flashing a custom recovery through odin
booting into recovery mode
doing a "wipe data/factory reset"
doing a "wipe cache"
doing a "format /system"
doing a "format /preload"
flashing a current custom ROM
andrewwright said:
Can you not enter recovery? Even after flash and stuck in boot loop? Flash stock and try to get into recovery when this boot loop happends. And yes when you flash through odin the phone is wiped:thumbup:
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not when you flash a single md5
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gastonw said:
not when you flash a single md5
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I thought that odin install gives you a fresh start. What do you mean by single md5? Thanks for the info.
The one that you flash in pda.
It's called a non wipe flash, similar to an OTA update.
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I know why it happened, it was caused by me as I wiped the factory reset without cleaning the cache. As every rom, kernel and Android version change configuration is unique.
Unfortunately, usually I'd boot into recovery and re-flash it there. But when I do, the CWM/recovery logo appears for a second and then continues to boot forever. Not in a boot loop, just stuck at boot. I've tried installing a different recovery, no change. It may be skipping that as it's stuck in first boot after a flash.
Odin3 will find my phone, but it doesn't seem to support zip files like CWM does.
Is there any way I can flash a rom, clean cache or anything, without the recovery?
Sorry for bolding my text, I know how tiresome some people find reading.
Odin recognizes. tar files not the zip files... Just download . tar file for your recovery and then flash it via Odin.. read a guide for that before doing that...
Sent from my GT-I9300
Download this: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/3/?download=26624 . Put the phone in Download mode, connect it via USB, add the firmware in the PDA section and hit start
kunal1540 said:
Odin recognizes. tar files not the zip files... Just download . tar file for your recovery and then flash it via Odin.. read a guide for that before doing that...
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Unfortunately recovery doesn't always seem to work these days, I suspect it ignores recovery on first boot.
Andr3y29 said:
Download this: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/3/?download=26624 . Put the phone in Download mode, connect it via USB, add the firmware in the PDA section and hit start
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Sweet as, it's unbricked now.
I had similar experience
Was on devil kernel, reformatted to f2fs all workng.
Tried dual boot, was in 2nd rom
The internal storage was showing no free space, checked and I was only using 3G of the 12
System was not happy
Dropped into recovery and formatted /intsd
Recovery rebooted automatically and would not do anything,
Reboot, entered recovery, rebooted, etc,etc
Dropped into download, Odin flashed cwm recovery,
Formatted partitions back to ext4, restored nandroid.
All back to normal....
Leaving f2fs alone for now
iv'e rooted my phone, iv'e wiped my phone, then tried to install slimkat rom from external sd card, but i wasnt able to open it.
then i installed slimkat from internal sd card but there was an "error 7" while installing.
at this moment my phone couldn't startup (only cwn and download mode worked), so i tried installing another rom with odin, but got stucked at "NAND Write Start".
i read on the internet how to fix it, i had to check "re-partition" on odin (which now i guess was big mistake) and checked "NANA Erase All" but it doesnt helped, I still have the same problem.
now my galaxy doesn't works at all, how can i fix it?
gta1234 said:
iv'e rooted my phone, iv'e wiped my phone, then tried to install slimkat rom from external sd card, but i wasnt able to open it.
then i installed slimkat from internal sd card but there was an "error 7" while installing.
at this moment my phone couldn't startup (only cwn and download mode worked), so i tried installing another rom with odin, but got stucked at "NAND Write Start".
i read on the internet how to fix it, i had to check "re-partition" on odin (which now i guess was big mistake) and checked "NANA Erase All" but it doesnt helped, I still have the same problem.
now my galaxy doesn't works at all, how can i fix it?
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Is it booting in recovery or download mode now?
Hamza18 said:
Is it booting in recovery or download mode now?
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recovery .
now tried to install another rom with odin, odin even wrote "pass" at the end of installation, but phone got stucked with "samsung" writen on the screen, and LED light switch from light blue to blue again and again.
gta1234 said:
recovery .
now tried to install another rom with odin, odin even wrote "pass" at the end of installation, but phone got stucked with "samsung" writen on the screen, and LED light switch from light blue to blue again and again.
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now it works, i only did Factory Rest and it helped.
gta1234 said:
now it works, i only did Factory Rest and it helped.
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That is standard procedure after flashing any rom that gives a bootloop Please look here for some guides before you end up bricking your phone if you are brave enough to flash a rom again >> http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/general/samsung-galaxy-s3-sticky-roll-thread-t2344125 << and don't forget to backup your efs before attempting any more flashes or you may regret it in the future >> http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/general/ref-imei-efs-stuff-i9300-including-t2393289 << hope that helps..