Soft bricked GS3,how do I flash stock ROM using linux ? - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I was formatting my phone's internal storage in TWRP recovery and I accidently wiped my ROM instead of formatting data.Now there's no OS on my phone i.e it's soft bricked.Odin won't detect my phone on my winXP PC,I got the samsung drivers installed and I made sure no kies process is running.I tried mounting the storage in recovery but when I click on it on my PC,it tells me ''please insert a disk''.I wanna try flashing stock ROM using ubuntu but I just don't know how.I know it's by using hemidall but I'm not very experienced with linux.I just need the codes that I have to put in the terminal.

Can you boot in to TWRP recovery? If you can, you could just flash another rom from there. If not i just did a quick search of google for "i9300 flash stock firmware heimdall ubuntu" and came across this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1947975

squ89r97 said:
Can you boot in to TWRP recovery? If you can, you could just flash another rom from there. If not i just did a quick search of google for "i9300 flash stock firmware heimdall ubuntu" and came across this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1947975
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Yes I can boot into TWRP but the problem is I don't have any ROMs on my device or even a nandroid backup.I will try with the link you provided and post results.

Madarox said:
Yes I can boot into TWRP but the problem is I don't have any ROMs on my device or even a nandroid backup.I will try with the link you provided and post results.
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You can always put a rom on your external sd card (if you have one) just plug it in to an adapter (again, if you have one) and pop it back in the S3. And i bet in future you'll make a back up
Good luck.

Didn't work and I don't have an external SD.Well I guess I'm f***ed :/ NOPE.As I was typing this,I thought about trying to boot my phone while it's connected to the PC and while it was stuck at ''galaxy s3'' logo,it installed additional drivers(I thought all of them were installed) and odin detected my phone.I just saved myself a visit to my other house where my main PC is which I used to do all the flashing stuff before moving here Thanks for your help

Madarox said:
I was formatting my phone's internal storage in TWRP recovery and I accidently wiped my ROM instead of formatting data.Now there's no OS on my phone i.e it's soft bricked.Odin won't detect my phone on my winXP PC,I got the samsung drivers installed and I made sure no kies process is running.I tried mounting the storage in recovery but when I click on it on my PC,it tells me ''please insert a disk''.I wanna try flashing stock ROM using ubuntu but I just don't know how.I know it's by using hemidall but I'm not very experienced with linux.I just need the codes that I have to put in the terminal.
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There's a program called HeimDall. You can use that to re-flash stock firmware or you can install VirtualBox and Windows on top of that, then you download the stock firmware to the virtual machine and Odin and you can set it to read/write to and from the USB ports
Hope I could help!
Lg

Madarox said:
Didn't work and I don't have an external SD.Well I guess I'm f***ed :/ NOPE.As I was typing this,I thought about trying to boot my phone while it's connected to the PC and while it was stuck at ''galaxy s3'' logo,it installed additional drivers(I thought all of them were installed) and odin detected my phone.I just saved myself a visit to my other house where my main PC is which I used to do all the flashing stuff before moving here Thanks for your help
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Glad you sorted it!

familyguy59 said:
There's a program called HeimDall. You can use that to re-flash stock firmware or you can install VirtualBox and Windows on top of that, then you download the stock firmware to the virtual machine and Odin and you can set it to read/write to and from the USB ports
Hope I could help!
Lg
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Yeah,I think I will use virtualbox because it seems that my GS3 doesn't like windows XP.Even tho odin detects my phone now but MTP/PTP are both not working.
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Glad you sorted it!
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Thanks

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vibrant stuck at boot

phone was rooted using the unlockr method and was able to flash a froyo rom successfully via clockword mod recovery.
i tried to flash another froyo rom and tried to reboot into recovery from clockwork mod and now its just stuck at the vibrant screen.
i tried booting by holding the 2 volume buttons + power button and then releasing when the 2nd vibrant splash screen comes up...nothing, it stays at the vibrant screen.
so i tried booting it normally by just pressing the power button and that doesn't work either. it stays stuck at the vibrant screen.
so i researched and came across this article: http://www.ithinkdiff.com/how-to-access-download-and-recovery-mode-in-samsung-vibrant/
that didnt work. i tried all 3 steps. when i go through terminal and try to run the adb commands it just says that no devices are connected.
please help me.
Your gonna have to flash with Odin
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can this be done via mac?
if you can get to recovery you can place your rom on the sd card and browse from cwm
if no cwm, you need odin. From mac maybe with bootcamp.
i can't get into recovery.
TomorrowSpace said:
if you can get to recovery you can place your rom on the sd card and browse from cwm
if no cwm, you need odin. From mac maybe with bootcamp.
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is this it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnY7P14JSWQ&feature=related
TomorrowSpace said:
if you can get to recovery you can place your rom on the sd card and browse from cwm
if no cwm, you need odin. From mac maybe with bootcamp.
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jgc731 said:
is this it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnY7P14JSWQ&feature=related
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Yes, but I'm not sure what you do on the Mac end.
Right, but if I do it on a XP windows pc. Do I need any other files other than those 2 downloads from the youtube link?
TomorrowSpace said:
Yes, but I'm not sure what you do on the Mac end.
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hi
I use this method:
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/8482-fixedstrange-problem-project-voodoo-black-screen-of-death/
I hope this can fix your problem. Good luck
Thanks everyone for your replies. I got it up and running again. Here's what I did:
1) I download the vibrant usb drivers from here, then installed them on my Windows XP machine (http://drivers.softpedia.com/progDo...SB-Driver-for-Windows-x86-Download-96692.html)
2) I then watched this youtube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnY7P14JSWQ), downloaded the 2 files and followed the steps in the video
It went back to the stock (out-of-box-unrooted) ROM. Without the JI6 update.
ok so i did something very similar and am currently having a very similar problem. i can get into download mode; i then use this method: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475 to try and reinstall stock (i think i may have wiped the internal sd card earlier somehow) is this the proper way to go about reinstalling everything or am i missing something?

Galaxy s2 odin error

I tried to flash a firmware via odin and it stucks to factoryfs.img.now i cant open my phone.When im flashing every firmware va odin it stucks at factoryfs.img.i tried to wipe everything from the stock recovery and retry but i had no success.when im flashing kernels i have no error.so i was wondering if i could flash cf-root and then when i will be into recovery push files via adb to internal sdcard.is this possible?if yes tell me how.If not tell me other ways to unbrick my device
Which firmware did you try? Try to flash a stock firmware. Go here and pick up the latest ROM and follow the instructions it is very well explained
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
Good luck
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i flashed a stock firmware.i tried this and i had no result.if you can answer this i told about cwm and adb i would be very happy
try another cable.
I had similar problem because of a poor cable ordered from e-bay.
even if you are using the stock cable, try another one as it might be damaged.
gokhan thanks for your help but it didn't work.if i format the /system partition will i be able to get into download mode?
I don't see how you could get Odin to recognise your phone in order to format the system partition if you weren't able to get into download mode.
So I guess I'll play Captain Obvious...Can you get into download mode ?
If not, does Odin recognise the phone when you hook the phone up to a PC via a USB cable ? (a long shot I know but I'm trying to think of anything that might work here).
pangiotis24 said:
gokhan thanks for your help but it didn't work.if i format the /system partition will i be able to get into download mode?
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You really need to start giving more information.
Excactly what rom did you tried to flash? And yes, you can just flash CF-Root and start flashing from recovery. If it is possible to push the files true adb, I don't know. But you will have adb for sure in recovery.
And why are you flashing? It looks like you have really no idea what you are doing.
the problem is solved.i flashed a cwm 9 rom via odin and now im ok.now im flashing chechrom.i had checkrom and i undervolted too much.the phone closed but accidenatly i had ticked the set on bot button.my external sd is broken and i didnt have a checkrom backp into my internal sdcard.so i decided to flash an official firmware and then flash again checkrom.this is the story but now my problem is solved so you can lock the thread.thank you all

[Q] Stuck on clockwork recovery bootloop

So here's the deal, I'm really nervous and stressed because i offered my friend to root and flash cyanogenmod on his sg s3 (i9300 US international) , so i rooted without a problem then copied cyanogenmod and gapps to internal storage. I went to flash both via clockwork recovery, I did everything I was so supposed to do and while flashing cyanogen mode i got install interupted message (along with status 7 or something like that) from that point on i can't get out of clockwork recovery, i tried everything including wiping all data, only 2 screens i can get to are clockwork recovery and downloading mode, I think i should flash stock rom via Odin but I don't know which region version to download because US or UK international aren't option for some reason. I really really need help on this one guys, I'm freaking the hell out. What should I do
thanks
TheOxi said:
So here's the deal, I'm really nervous and stressed because i offered my friend to root and flash cyanogenmod on his sg s3 (i9300 US international) , so i rooted without a problem then copied cyanogenmod and gapps to internal storage. I went to flash both via clockwork recovery, I did everything I was so supposed to do and while flashing cyanogen mode i got install interupted message (along with status 7 or something like that) from that point on i can't get out of clockwork recovery, i tried everything including wiping all data, only 2 screens i can get to are clockwork recovery and downloading mode, I think i should flash stock rom via Odin but I don't know which region version to download because US or UK international aren't option for some reason. I really really need help on this one guys, I'm freaking the hell out. What should I do
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error 7 has to do with old recovery. download the latest cwm (at least 6.0.4.4), twrp or philz touch put it on external sd card and flash it through recovery. restart recovery and you should be able to flash cm11
I don't think you have a nandroid backup?
what do you mean with us and uk versions are no option?
Darkened_Sky said:
error 7 has to do with old recovery. download the latest cwm (at least 6.0.4.4), twrp or philz touch put it on external sd card and flash it through recovery. restart recovery and you should be able to flash cm11
I don't think you have a nandroid backup?
what do you mean with us and uk versions are no option?
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I meant no option as in I can't see it as download option anywhere, only the other regions. Other thing is, odin recognizes S3 while in downloading mode but my computer itself doesn't for some reason. It recognized it before this whole incident (hence files being on the storage) maybe me puting the files on internal storage before was the mistake.Btw no i don't have backup, I guess Im dumb but I didnt think i needed it, thought it was simple process without any complications.
TheOxi said:
I meant no option as in I can't see it as download option anywhere, only the other regions. Other thing is, odin recognizes S3 while in downloading mode but my computer itself doesn't for some reason. It recognized it before this whole incident (hence files being on the storage) maybe me puting the files on internal storage before was the mistake.
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so which cwm version did you use?
if it's an old one try it the way I mentioned above. I would recommend philz touch (can be flashed through cwm) because there you can choose in wipe options to clean to install a new rom and then flash cm11. and you can also make an efs backup if you haven't already done it.
so maybe you do not need to reflash the stock rom
Darkened_Sky said:
so which cwm version did you use?
if it's an old one try it the way I mentioned above. I would recommend philz touch (can be flashed through cwm) because there you can choose in wipe options to clean to install a new rom and then flash cm11. and you can also make an efs backup if you haven't already done it.
so maybe you do not need to reflash the stock rom
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latest cm11.2 nightly, but how am i supposed to put philz touch on external storage if my pc doesn't recognize the device, only Odin does. what would happen if I'd flash the stock rom with Odin right now? I dont mind losing all the data
TheOxi said:
latest cm11.2 nightly, but how am i supposed to put philz touch on external storage if my pc doesn't recognize the device, only Odin does. what would happen if I'd flash the stock rom with Odin right now? I dont mind losing all the data
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Why not use Philz recovery tar via Odin ???
STICKYS
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2344125
UNDERSTAND FIRST
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2362743
JJEgan said:
Why not use Philz recovery tar via Odin ???
STICKYS
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2344125
UNDERSTAND FIRST
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2362743
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Cool I got the Philz now but there's still the problem of getting different cm or current one into external storage also i cant access the old cm file on philz recovery now, i think it was big mistake putting the files into internal storage instead of external, any idea how to get my pc to recognize the device? it had no problem before the screwup
Don't you have a external sd card reader? Or put your sd card in another phone and copy from there..
tallman43 said:
Don't you have a external sd card reader? Or put your sd card in another phone and copy from there..
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considering i dont have that option, do you see any other way around this? Im quiet in a pickle over here
TheOxi said:
considering i dont have that option, do you see any other way around this? Im quiet in a pickle over here
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Then if you managed to flash Philz with Odin you must flash back to stock using Odin....

deleted everything on my p7500 using twrpp

Hi,
I was running nameless (android 4.4.4) and yesterday decided to install Odin. First step I did was boot in recovery (twrpp) and selected (wipe dat, cache, dalvik)...then I did an advanced wipe (system, data, internal storage) .... and then format.
And I forgot to copy the rom to the intenal storage.
Now I can access twrp, but have no clue how to easily copy the rom from my pc to the internal memoy (and where in the internal memory). Is this a bricked device?
Any help is welcome.
Rgds.
luca22 said:
Hi,
I was running nameless (android 4.4.4) and yesterday decided to install Odin. First step I did was boot in recovery (twrpp) and selected (wipe dat, cache, dalvik)...then I did an advanced wipe (system, data, internal storage) .... and then format.
And I forgot to copy the rom to the intenal storage.
Now I can access twrp, but have no clue how to easily copy the rom from my pc to the internal memoy (and where in the internal memory). Is this a bricked device?
Any help is welcome.
Rgds.
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No, you can put your tab in download mode and flash the stock ICS rom with Odin or push a file on your tab with add but I didn't do that yet. The most important thing is that it's not bricked, just OS-less
Olivier V said:
No, you can put your tab in download mode and flash the stock ICS rom with Odin or push a file on your tab with add but I didn't do that yet. The most important thing is that it's not bricked, just OS-less
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Hi, thx for support....I have been trying to make odin work, but I guess I have not the right one. It shows the tablet but does not connect properly.
Can anyone provide a link to the good one/guide?
Rgds.
luca22 said:
Hi, thx for support....I have been trying to make odin work, but I guess I have not the right one. It shows the tablet but does not connect properly.
Can anyone provide a link to the good one/guide?
Rgds.
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If I'm not mistaken you need to search for odin 1.85.
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Olivier V said:
If I'm not mistaken you need to search for odin 1.85.
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Hi,
I downloaded odin 1.85 and it detects my p7500 (YELLOW ID:COM) but it does not make it till PASS (green). I also tried ther usb ports. It suddenly stops after I press START button. No other error info is given.
I put in pda my rom "omni-5.1-20150410-p4-HOMEMADE.tar"
Should I put anything in pit? I tried putting this too but it is still not working: "android_fastboot_emmc_full_p4_16G_32G(www.mobilegang.in).pit"
Rgds.
luca22 said:
Hi,
I downloaded odin 1.85 and it detects my p7500 (YELLOW ID:COM) but it does not make it till PASS (green). I also tried ther usb ports. It suddenly stops after I press START button. No other error info is given.
I put in pda my rom "omni-5.1-20150410-p4-HOMEMADE.tar"
Should I put anything in pit? I tried putting this too but it is still not working: "android_fastboot_emmc_full_p4_16G_32G(www.mobilegang.in).pit"
Rgds.
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Did you run Odin in administrator mode? And it's always wise to flash the stock ICS rom first and start fresh from there. I know it's more work but it's less prone to get errors that way.
Did not try Admin mode. Will try It later at home.

Help with bootlooped galaxy tab 10.1

Hello, I am searching for help with my bootlooped galaxy tab 10.1
It's stuck on the secondary logo that is a glowing
"samsung"
I have clockwork recovery installed along with correct usb drivers.
Samsung kies does not recognize device.
Odin crashes when attempting to load files.
I have a quality usb cable
Model # is gt-p7510ma ,no SD card option.
Did you recently flash a new ROM to cause it to boot loop, if not, what were you doing that caused you to reboot the device? If unsure, try using Logcat to see what is causing the problem.
If you have a backup, try wiping device and restoring from that, or if you did flash a rom right before try wiping and flashing another to see if that is the problem.
Odin crashes when attempting to load files.
Use Latest version of Odin , Reinstall your phone drivers , when you put files make sure you put in right place and let him a while to load that files don't touch anything . Once is finish with loading then put your galaxy in to the Download mode and connect on PC .
I received it in this condition. I was able to put clockwork on it through odin but not the stock rom I think. Odin crashes when trying to put the regular tar file on it. I'm not opposed to using rom either. I was told the tablet is rooted and given passwords/pin #for whatever.
SevenFox said:
I received it in this condition. I was able to put clockwork on it through odin but not the stock rom I think. Odin crashes when trying to put the regular tar file on it. I'm not opposed to using rom either. I was told the tablet is rooted and given passwords/pin #for whatever.
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Then I think is problem with your PC , and that way your Odin is crash.
Use CCleaner to repair and Clear Registry , Reboot your PC and try again if not , try on another PC .
Other phones connect to it and I was able to put clockwork recovery on it through doin. It only crashes when I try to put a stock rom on it
SevenFox said:
Other phones connect to it and I was able to put clockwork recovery on it through doin. It only crashes when I try to put a stock rom on it
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can you post your firmware here and I will look where is problem ?
I think it was 4.0 but I will check. The model is gt-p7510MA
SevenFox said:
I think it was 4.0 but I will check. The model is gt-p7510MA
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Can you tell me for which region is your Phone ?
It should be us, but when I goto sammobile it's it's not listed
Here I found two but p7510MA I can't find anywhere , maybe is the same think .
https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/gt-p7510/GT-P7510/XAB/

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