Hello. Please come forward to help me.
My galaxy s3 GT-I9300 was rooted and i had sotmax v14 running on it. I tried using swapper 2 but it failed. But the phone was fine for two days but one day it fell down from a table and rebooted. Since then it was stuck on the galaxy s3 logo. I had access to download mode and recovery mode. I flashed it with customs ROMs through CWM recovery but no use. Again I flashed it with ROMs from Sammobile.com and did all the wipes and resets but still it was stuck on the logo. On the stock recovery it showed "error mounting efs invalid arguement)" and when i clicked on the internal sdcard option it was blank. When i tried to mount it it stated "cant mount sdcard". Then on reading a few threads from "xda-developers" i connected the phone to my PC and put some codings on the ADB. Now it states "cant mount efsfile too large)". I took it to the service center but he said that the IMEI number is lost and the mother board has to be replaced. It costs around 10,000 INR (200$). I thought may be something else could be done to save my phone before I spend that money. Kindly help me, I would certainly donate .
vijay005100 said:
Hello. Please come forward to help me.
My galaxy s3 GT-I9300 was rooted and i had sotmax v14 running on it. I tried using swapper 2 but it failed. But the phone was fine for two days but one day it fell down from a table and rebooted. Since then it was stuck on the galaxy s3 logo. I had access to download mode and recovery mode. I flashed it with customs ROMs through CWM recovery but no use. Again I flashed it with ROMs from Sammobile.com and did all the wipes and resets but still it was stuck on the logo. On the stock recovery it showed "error mounting efs invalid arguement)" and when i clicked on the internal sdcard option it was blank. When i tried to mount it it stated "cant mount sdcard". Then on reading a few threads from "xda-developers" i connected the phone to my PC and put some codings on the ADB. Now it states "cant mount efsfile too large)". I took it to the service center but he said that the IMEI number is lost and the mother board has to be replaced. It costs around 10,000 INR (200$). I thought may be something else could be done to save my phone before I spend that money. Kindly help me, I would certainly donate .
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Have u got s backup of your efs folder?
Drew071
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This is your 4TH thread on this... Seriously dude. Stop making new threads. Bump the old one after 24 hours of no activity in the thread. If this one dies, don't make a new one.
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This is your 4TH thread on this... Seriously dude. Stop making new threads. Bump the old one after 24 hours of no activity in the thread. If this one dies, don't make a new one.
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Iam a new member I will bump the old ones.
No!! Please read and understand the rules and how the forum works. Don't bump anything. Being new isn't an excuse.
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Guys I used cm-10-20120801-EXPERIMENTAL-i9100-CODEWORKX.zip, kernel-cm-10-20120801-i9100-signed.zip and gapps-jb-20120724-signed.zip to install jelly bean on my S2 I9100. It seemed to be working fine, but I used the Backup Everything software to restore my backup. It stopped responding after a while, i removed the battery, reinserted it and then tried to start the phone. It went into a loop and was stuck at boot screen.
I restarted it in recovery mode (vol +, home and power) and tried to clear the user data and cache. That too got hung. I tried to restart the phone using the power button and ever since nothing is happening on my phone.
I don't know what Backup Everything does, but it seems you need to reflash the ROM.
Seems like a superbrick bug. Report it on cm10 forum
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Is there a way to fix it?
Phil3759 said:
Seems like a superbrick bug. Report it on cm10 forum
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Is there any way of fixing superbrick? Can Samsung help me (if say the replace the motherboard). The hardware seems to be intact.
Please advice.
Jig help you....i think....u should try
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patelbhai said:
Jig help you....i think....u should try
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If phone doesn't react even when plugged in to charge, you are good for sammy rma. JIG will not fix it. Please report in cm10 thread to debug if it is superbrick since you used a backup job on /data when bricked
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Is the problem fixable by Sammy?
Phil3759 said:
If phone doesn't react even when plugged in to charge, you are good for sammy rma. JIG will not fix it. Please report in cm10 thread to debug if it is superbrick since you used a backup job on /data when bricked
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My phone is out of warranty, will Sammy be able to fix it? If so how much would they approximately charge me?
I will post the problem in cm10 thread.
Unable to post in cm10 forum
Phil3759 said:
If phone doesn't react even when plugged in to charge, you are good for sammy rma. JIG will not fix it. Please report in cm10 thread to debug if it is superbrick since you used a backup job on /data when bricked
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I tried to post report this problem in the devoloper forum, but I do not have privileges to do so. Please advice.
Samsung will repair your device, but you need to pay some bucks for him, 150-200$ maybe.
Hallo.
Can you still Get the phone in to recovery mode. Or is type phone compleet dead. Of you can turn IT in the recovery mode try do find type original Samsung software the one tot put in odin under type pda button, but also find the pitt tot put ander de pitt button. Of you flash that the phone Will do a compleet rebuild of the folder structure. I had also bricked my phone compleetly hand thuis was my sollution.
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This is the situation and what ive tried to fix it. I was on cm9 and wanted to try jellybam so I flashed using cwm . It was successful but wouldn't boot so I tried to reinstall the rom still no luck so I tried going back to cm9 and it got stuck on the s2 logo screen ! I tried odin to flash a stock rom and it was successful but still stuck on the logo screen. Ive tried gb and ics ive tried to flash with and without bootloaders ive tried reparation but that only fails unless I use the pit file but still didn't fix it. If I flash the stock rooted ics rom and then flash cwm zip i can wipe system then flash cm9/10 but that only gets me to the cm animation . It will sit there till the end of time but wont boot! In cwm If I check the log I get this error I:can't partition unsafe device:/dev/block/mmcb1k1p1. It wont factory reset on stock or cwm it only freezes then bootloops. I hope this is enough info please help me! I love my s2 and even tho I have my s3 I miss my s2
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Did you factory reset? What do you mean you reset and it bootloops
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122ninjas said:
Did you factory reset? What do you mean you reset and it bootloops
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. yes I tried to factory reset but it just freezes then after 5 min. It try's to boot but gets stuck on the galaxy s2 logo screen. I checked the log in cwm and got the error I posted above. I've been flashing for years and never run into an issue I couldn't fix but this one has me stumped
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. yes I tried to factory reset but it just freezes then after 5 min. It try's to boot but gets stuck on the galaxy s2 logo screen. I checked the log in cwm and got the error I posted above. I've been flashing for years and never run into an issue I couldn't fix but this one has me stumped
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Sorry if this sounds rude but have you googled that error?
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Lol no that's not rude. I would ask the same question. ..I did and from what I've gathered its a corrupt sd card or part of the emmc brick bug. There are patched kernels to fix the same issue on the note but nothing for i777. All it says is factory reset and flash a new rom . Ive done that but still no boot. Roms flash fine and I can get into download mode and recovery but It wont factory reset or boot. Stock recovery says your ui is not prepared please factory reset and a bunch of can't mount data errors but it won't factory reset it just freezes then trys to reboot but gets stuck on the s2 logo then back to recovery. Here is the kicker tho. If I install a duel booting kernel I can install a second rom that boots but primary won't. ...I tried swapping primary and secondary roms but it froze....im just lost on this one and out of tricks
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I'm not sure what partition that is. You've go a typo in it, but if the last three letters are correct "1p1", I don't remember seeing that as one of the system partitions. The kernel is in "mmcblk0p5" for instance. It should be "mmcblk1p1" I guess.
If you suspect memory damage to that partition, you can confirm that by trying to pull the data from that memory block with adb or terminal using the following command:
Code:
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk1p1 of=/sdcard/testBLK
If the memory is damaged, you will get an error message. If the memory block is good, you will get no error message. I guess you could also look into "testBLK" to see what is in there, but of course it will be binary data most likely.
That's the error I got 1p1. Abd is something I haven't done yet. I've used terminal emulator back in the days of my cliq dext but im sure I can handle it...im pretty sure it is corrupt but if I do the test and confirm this how do I fix it? Is it just a matter of deleting or do I have to rewrite the path? Im confused on this
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Actually, this was bad advice. Since your phone is bootlooping, you can't use terminal, doh! If you can get into recovery, you might be able to use adb. Or you could use Red_81's adb portable. You could also try his adb batch file from download mode to see if you can boot it into recovery mode. I guess it will take a little study if you have no experience with it.
Oh, and if the memory is bad, its bad. This is just a way to find out, maybe.
So what your saying is it's dead?!!!
Noooooooo! Lol im looking into maybe getting another one or shipping this one to Samsung to have a new motherboard put in . Just trying to see if there is any hope of bringing her back to life...
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devices: g1 died
cliq/dext sold to developer on simply android
atrix 1 and 2 sold
s2 in a comma
nexus 7 stock
s3 stock
iphone 4 stock
troutslayermv said:
So what your saying is it's dead?!!!
Noooooooo!
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Not saying that unless you verify for sure that the memory is bad. The only time I've actually heard of eMMC damage, and seen it verified, was in conjunction with the bad stock kernel on 4.0.4. There was also another case where a member sent his phone to Josh at Mobile Tech Videos for Jtag repair, and it was sent back unrepairable due to memory damage. I can't remember for sure, but I think that was due to the 4.0.4 stock kernel too.
You might talk to Josh at Mobile Tech Videos by phone to see what he thinks, before you send it to Samsung.
I tried contacting josh and couldn't reach anyone. I left a message and sent and email but haven't heard back. I tried using adb portable and as I did that I think that I didn't make the phone issues clear. I can get into recovery mode fine I can also get into download mode fine . I can flash roms fine but it won't go past the s2 logo screen . If I flash cyanogen it will go to the cyanogen boot screen but again won't boot. I am still trying to find a solution in my free time but nothing yet
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devices: g1 died
cliq/dext sold to developer on simply android
atrix 1 and 2 sold
s2 in a comma
nexus 7 stock
s3 stock
iphone 4 stock
troutslayermv said:
I tried contacting josh and couldn't reach anyone. I left a message and sent and email but haven't heard back. I tried using adb portable and as I did that I think that I didn't make the phone issues clear. I can get into recovery mode fine I can also get into download mode fine . I can flash roms fine but it won't go past the s2 logo screen . If I flash cyanogen it will go to the cyanogen boot screen but again won't boot. I am still trying to find a solution in my free time but nothing yet
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devices: g1 died
cliq/dext sold to developer on simply android
atrix 1 and 2 sold
s2 in a comma
nexus 7 stock
s3 stock
iphone 4 stock
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I have run into something similar, my wife has the s2... I have the s3....
this is the steps I run to get the s2 working after it gets stuck...
1 - installed stock rom I777UCKH7 OCD Root No BL = self executable from windows.... brings you to stock with root..
forget this one, this is when I was first rooting... 2 - DooMLoRD_v4_ROOT-zergRush-busybox-su
3 - MobileODINLite-v3.57
4 - MobileODIN_FlashKernel_I777-v1.0
5 - flash kernal Siyah-v2.6.14-att.tar = installs recovery clockwork mod
6 - install any rom....
Download mode on S2 is volume up and down and power button....
I can't get it to boot up so I can't use mobile odin. I've tried one click and also tried every stock tar I could find . I even tried to reinstall the bootloaders. They all install successful but it wont boot past the s2 logo screen. Im not a noob , I've flashed hundreds of times. I've fixed a few bricks in my day but this has me stumped. ...if you install the stock rom there isn't any reason why it shouldn't boot. But it is just stuck. Nothing has worked. I think the only thing that may work is the re write the memory but im not that patient to do that lol
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devices: g1 died
cliq/dext sold to developer on simply android
atrix 1 and 2 sold
s2 in a comma
nexus 7 stock
s3 stock
iphone 4 stock
Have U tried threatening it? Just give it a little scare. It'll back dowin. Gotta keep thoz hoez in line.
Phalanx7621 said:
Have U tried threatening it? Just give it a little scare. It'll back dowin. Gotta keep thoz hoez in line.
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ROFL
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ROFL
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Just curious if you unmounted and remounted the partitions?
or maybe formatted them individually?
Soft-bricked Galaxy 2 SGH-I777. Odin of no use
I bought a galaxy 3. I literally tried everything with this phone. Was able to root, went to install siyah kernel from zip and now I get the samsung logo. I can boot into CWM recovery, but none of the functions work--just hangs on the hat. Any ideas are greatly appreciated. Thanks.
keltaurn said:
...Any ideas are greatly appreciated...
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Please don't re-post; your question has been answered in the thread you created. Please search for answers first; the solution to your problem is safely housed in a sticky in the General section.
Thanks but...
I can't flash anything so this would be a new thread. The poster above said he/she could flash toms. I CANNOT. Also, I've been looking on here for solutions for over a month. This is my first post.
Ok im new to this whole rooting thing, i own a galaxy note i717 and i tried rooting it but when i used odin clicked pda then slected file and hit start it went through the process and even passed but now when i turn my phone on it shows the samsung logo then a blank screen i think i might have screwed up my phone really good, and can it be fixed? IF YOU would help me unbrick my phone please do. My phone is my whole life i have alot of important information on it. email @ [email protected]
mwebb34 said:
Ok im new to this whole rooting thing, i own a galaxy note i717 and i tried rooting it but when i used odin clicked pda then slected file and hit start it went through the process and even passed but now when i turn my phone on it shows the samsung logo then a blank screen i think i might have screwed up my phone really good, and can it be fixed? IF YOU would help me unbrick my phone please do. My phone is my whole life i have alot of important information on it. email @ [email protected]
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Do you have clockworkmod recovery installed? If so try going into recovery and wipe the cache and dalvik cache
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it's showing the Samsung logo, you aren't bricked it is still turning on.
just reflash a stock Odin file
mwebb34 said:
Ok im new to this whole rooting thing, i own a galaxy note i717 and i tried rooting it but when i used odin clicked pda then slected file and hit start it went through the process and even passed but now when i turn my phone on it shows the samsung logo then a blank screen i think i might have screwed up my phone really good, and can it be fixed? IF YOU would help me unbrick my phone please do. My phone is my whole life i have alot of important information on it. email @ [email protected]
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You might give some more info on what all you did or what file you were trying to flash....
Sounds like the problem of Gingerbread root on ICS system, or vice-versa. Just redo your work, ensuring you use the appropriate file for your system.
By the way, NEVER tweak your system until you learn to move important stuff to your external sd card or pc.
Boot into clockwork mod. Do factory wipe, wipe dalvik/cache. Should fix it.
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Adonisd said:
Boot into clockwork mod. Do factory wipe, wipe dalvik/cache. Should fix it.
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Yea what i said.
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Its the best advice that's why it deserves an echo!
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Really? I think the best advice was rangercaptain's advice followed by crixley. OP was using odin which means he was trying to install a rooted kernel most likely from a different android version or he was installing CWM. So I highly doubt he has CWM installed and functioning. So how is he going to boot into CWM??
Well I guess I thought he followed the proper instructions and installed cwm first. I admittedly skimmed most of the posts.
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What if we can't get into clockwork mod any more?
Adonisd said:
Boot into clockwork mod. Do factory wipe, wipe dalvik/cache. Should fix it.
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I screwed mine up by not wiping after installing the new Cyanogenmod. The thing is, I can't get it to boot into clockwork mod recovery mode any more. Volume up + home + power is not doing it. Have I bricked it?
stinkyp00t said:
I screwed mine up by not wiping after installing the new Cyanogenmod. The thing is, I can't get it to boot into clockwork mod recovery mode any more. Volume up + home + power is not doing it. Have I bricked it?
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Its volume up + volume down + power hold those.
ROM: Jamie's 4.2.2. Previews\Jellybam v6.6.0\Sons Of Android.
Kernel: Chris's Aces Kernel.
Recovery: TWRP.
:thumb up: Give Thanks! :thumb up:
I have to chime in here...I have bricked mine, too, started with 4.0.1...I installed cwm-LATEST touch-i717, followed by openrecovery-twrp-2.2-sgh-i717-signed, ran fine. Then I was going to use Liquid-JB-v2.0-RC8-d2att.zip, but used the wrong gapps (Google Apps) file, gapps-jb-20120726-signed, instead of Liquid-JB-v2.0-RC8-gapps. Now, I have a black screen, and on my Mac, the thing just connects and reconnects all by itself! Can I get out of this, if I can't get to a restore screen?
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I have to chime in here...I have bricked mine, too, started with 4.0.1...I installed cwm-LATEST touch-i717, followed by openrecovery-twrp-2.2-sgh-i717-signed, ran fine. Then I was going to use Liquid-JB-v2.0-RC8-d2att.zip, but used the wrong gapps (Google Apps) file, gapps-jb-20120726-signed, instead of Liquid-JB-v2.0-RC8-gapps. Now, I have a black screen, and on my Mac, the thing just connects and reconnects all by itself! Can I get out of this, if I can't get to a restore screen?
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You were going to flash the wrong Rom anyways d2att is s3. Would have bricked you right there if you flashed it. If you can't get to download mode or recovery you will most likely need jtag
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Is that something one can do themselves? What is JTAG?
rquiett said:
You were going to flash the wrong Rom anyways d2att is s3. Would have bricked you right there if you flashed it. If you can't get to download mode or recovery you will most likely need jtag
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A JTAG is a recovery service offered for bricked phones. You can find one for your device at mobiletechvideos.com for 50$. Just Google android JTAG service. It will come up. Hit thanks
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There has to be another answer...
When you find it, come back here and share it with us.
JTAG service costs $50, takes a week, and restores a phone that cannot enter recovery, or download mode, or isn't recognised by a computer.
WWW.mobiletechvideos.com
MobileTechVideo Works
rangercaptain said:
When you find it, come back here and share it with us.
JTAG service costs $50, takes a week, and restores a phone that cannot enter recovery, or download mode, or isn't recognised by a computer.
WWW.mobiletechvideos.com
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Just to chime in here... I just got my AT&T Note back from MobileTechVideo. I had them do a JTAG repair ($50) and ordered a new jig. They replied with fast, reliable service. I highly recommend them if you decide to send your phone out for repair.
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Just to chime in here... I just got my AT&T Note back from MobileTechVideo. I had them do a JTAG repair ($50) and ordered a new jig. They replied with fast, reliable service. I highly recommend them if you decide to send your phone out for repair.
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Thanks, but I found someone a little more personal...when I approached them, they simply recommended that I send it to them, rather than try some basic troubleshooting... Maybe just the way they do things...lots of volume with MobileTechVideo...
OK OK guys yesterday I was deleting some bloatware apps that came with my phone like hangouts,books, talkback ,samsung apps stuff that I don't need.etc
in that time i had switched my phone off around 4 times and switched it back on from when I deleted those apps and now and there was no problems in the system. BUT when I was playing a game (you know how the screen automatically dimmers then the screen went black) that's what happened so i pressed the home button to get the screen on and when i did the lock screen patternmfroze for a long time so I took out the battery than but it back in and switched my phone back on but now it just comes up with 'samsung galaxy ace GT-s5830i' and im not sure what to do. it can go in to recovery mode but i don't have CMW clockwork recovery. when i charge it comes up with the battery icon. I think it is in a boot loop. and I don't think it covers my warranty because ive had to send that phone back TWICE now back to fix it so I think they wont fix it any more. I have factory data reseted it and cleared the cache partition but still no use. I have taken the battery alot of times now and taken the sim card and the micro sd card but no use.
Stock rom via Odin?
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Stock rom via Odin?
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what does that mean? (sorry i am a newbie and a noob...)
R.A.D DROID said:
what does that mean? (sorry i am a newbie and a noob...)
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Flash stock Rom
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R.A.D DROID said:
what does that mean? (sorry i am a newbie and a noob...)
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don't call yourself a noob..
odin is a flashing tool for samsung devices..
firmware is the system image,
and flashing is similar to installing..
go in development section and in stickies there is a guide to unbrick your device..!
"unbrick tutorial or guide"
carefully follow each step and get your phone back :thumbup:
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OK guys I spoke to my mum about it and she says that if it wasn't your fault then she was going to send it back to the factory again to repair it because I realised we were paying for the phone on a locked 2 year contract. The only time its not under warranty is any damage due to 'physical actions' so hope fully it will just get repaired. But in this thred you can post questions
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Hi guys & girls, ive been searching through the threads on here and trying some of the fixes but havent had any joy yet .. maybe somebody can help me?
Basically, i had a rooted s3 running the CWM and it was fine until last night .. it ran out of battery, charged it up without turning it on and tried to turn it on this morning and it just got stuck on the "SAMSUNG GALAXY SIII" opening screen ... Tried turning it on and off a few times by taking out the battery but just kept getting stuck .. so went into recovery and tried clearing the cashes etc but still no joy ..
.. so tried flashing a few roms/flashing cwm again via odin/clearing cashes/flashing standard rom .. NOTHING!
I can still get into download and recovery but now everytime i go into CWM Recovery it keeps asking to root the device .. then gets stuck on the home screen!? Its driving me mad!! :silly::crying: Please help!
Im now also getting this on CWM .. "E:cant mount/ sdcard /" ,,, Dead?
Right ... Reflashed the stock rom via odin once more and it worked .. ish .. I now get past the first screen but just keeps looping the samsung screen?? Im guessing this is a bootloop?
All questions belong to q&a section. Anyway, try wiping cache and data in cwm recovery menu.
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trashkutys said:
All questions belong to q&a section. Anyway, try wiping cache and data in cwm recovery menu.
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Sorry i was in a rush and was doing a google search ...
Ive managed to get it working using cyangenmod .. but lost the iemi number ... now im screwed?
There should however be a way out, use uncle Google again, I assure you'll find the solution. Take your time and search thoroughly, goodluck
If you flashed or were using MG4 baseband then your efs path changed. Try flashing this
http://d-h.st/DI1 in CWM to try getting your imei working. For more information about IMEI and efs look up in rootsu sticky in general section.
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