Hello to all,
I've got a swiss (Swisscom) non rooted Galaxy S3 whose screen went suddenly black (one more).
Except for the blue light alternating and some sounds that shows the GS3 is still alive behind its screen, no way to access it, or do anything from the screen.
I've tried :
1. to access the emergency recovery via Kies, but I only got "connection locked" (needs a code ... but which code ??)
2. hard reset with buttons, but nothing does (blank screen)
Not sure of what I say, but it seems I could reinstall the original OS ..., from the PC, right ?
I've read the different threads on XDA about rooting and else, but ... seems for pros ..
So, I don't care about the data on this phone but (financially) really needs to get it back working.
My questions are :
1. Is there a "blind sequence" to complete factory reset (the 3 button one is fine, when screen works ... ) ?
2. Is there an (easy) way to reinstall fatory rom from PC (I've downloadad Odin, but am a bit lost) ?
Thanks very much for your help (even if this proble has already been discussed)
At present if you have not installed any firmware your phone should be under warranty .
So take to the phone vendor or service centre .
Flashing firmware will not fix a no screen problem and you may end up losing warranty .
Odin requires booting into download mode can you ???
jje
JJEgan said:
At present if you have not installed any firmware your phone should be under warranty .
So take to the phone vendor or service centre .
Flashing firmware will not fix a no screen problem and you may end up losing warranty .
Odin requires booting into download mode can you ???
jje
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Well, I have the phone for 5 months and it seem Samsung don't cover that anymore
... and a change of screen is about half the price of a new SIII ...
About Odin :... no, I can't access download mode (that's why I forgot that way)
One curious thing (I haven't noticed before on my other Samsungs or HTC is that there's no content (no files, no folder) showing in the Windows explorer on the SIII folder ... ?!?)
Thanks anyway
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Hey,, I recently got my galaxy s2 and im new in the android thing,, i want to flash my phone to litening rom but im worried that i might brick it,, what are the chances that i may brick my phone? tnx and more power
The risk is very small as long as you follow the instructions to the letter. Read from start to finish a few times before doing anything and double check everything. It's actually all very easy and straightforward
Edit: and have a look at the thread about backing up your EFS folder before flashing (you'll need root) it's in the dev section somewhere.
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99% chance of no problem rising to 100% chance of a brick if not following instructions .
Recover from a bricked phone = 99% success rate .
jje
JJEgan said:
99% chance of no problem rising to 100% chance of a brick if not following instructions .
Recover from a bricked phone = 99% success rate .
jje
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THIS
But how hard is it to really brick a SGS2 ?
I think i read about 1 person who couldnt get his phone up and running again .
SGS2 i belive is really hard to brick.
Sorry for my bad english
There are enough who totally brick a phone in the course of a year . But its hard to do plenty of oh hell moments but recovered flashing stock rom .
Brick tends to be a misused term SGS brick means it should work after flashing stock rom via odin . Other phones brick means dead phone return to factory no hope .
jje
As long as you never tick "Re-Partition" and insert the PIT in Odin its almost imposable to brick unless you somehow nuke the bootloader(which you shouldn't be able todo via flashing custom roms).
I dont even think theres much of a chance of radio bricks, worst that happens is that you have to re-flash.
veyka said:
As long as you never tick "Re-Partition" and insert the PIT in Odin its almost imposable to brick unless you somehow nuke the bootloader(which you shouldn't be able todo via flashing custom roms).
I dont even think theres much of a chance of radio bricks, worst that happens is that you have to re-flash.
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I think once the radio is corrupted a new flash is impossible, well it is on HTC devices
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tnx guys for the reply,, will follow the instruction carefully,, hope everything will be ok,,
Is it possible to recover from a bricked phone?
svj1187 said:
Is it possible to recover from a bricked phone?
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As long as one of the (secondary) bootloaders is still intact and you can get into download-mode (maybe by using the USB jig), then yes.
JupiterdroidXDA said:
I think once the radio is corrupted a new flash is impossible, well it is on HTC devices
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Nah, just flash the modem and all is good.
sadly,am new to android !! I read a forum in d web tat asked to load a file in pit for lightening rom and i bricked d device. Now its in service centre,hope it comes back alive
santhoshkcsk said:
sadly,am new to android !! I read a forum in d web tat asked to load a file in pit for lightening rom and i bricked d device. Now its in service centre,hope it comes back alive
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If the service centre can't fix (when I sent mine to one they told me it was beyond economic repair) don't lose hope as this guy will probably be able to repair it for you: http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=1602851
Ended up being cheaper than if my local service centre had been able to repair it too.
Being new to flashing I was also very scared at the start. I was pulling my hair out when the first time I flashed a new rom and got stuck in a boot loop. Luckily I backed up the entire system and I was able to restore.
Make sure you do a back up of your system first.
The first time its scary, I had no nails after the first flash lol. But after that its fun, just make sure to read everything and follow the instructions to the letter.
Good Luck!!
Sim card not recognized
I have rooted by galaxy s2 and my phone fails to recognize the sim card and unfortunately I didn't backup my original rom to restore the previous settings
I tried various things: hard reset, install alternative (custom) roms all seem to have no effect on the sim card.
I am getting quite frustrtated with this, is there an original ROM for my location (GREECE, VODAFONE) to try with odin ? I should note that my mobile seems not to connect with the PC when I try to connect it via kies (odin works instead)
Is there a possibility that the phone's card sensors are physically damaged, thus return it for repairs ?
Thanks for your time
Hi,
I have a Galaxy S2 i9100.
I was using ODIN to update de OS but I left checked the RE-PARTITION
box and now it´s dead.
I think that I erased the main memory so I can´t turn it on, no
charge, no nothing.
I couldn´t even enter in Download mode.
So I think it needs a hard reset... can you help me?
same problem if some one can answer this i will be happy
rocholaroca said:
Hi,
I have a Galaxy S2 i9100.
I was using ODIN to update de OS but I left checked the RE-PARTITION
box and now it´s dead.
I think that I erased the main memory so I can´t turn it on, no
charge, no nothing.
I couldn´t even enter in Download mode.
So I think it needs a hard reset... can you help me?
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was using odin with checked re-partition and now its dead
is there any way to fix it?
the phone is 2 days old i dont think the store will take it back becasue of the rooting and rom changing
A JTAG repair is the only thing that can fix it I believe.
SGS2 - Download mode but no recovery
Hi!
I have a bit of a problem here as well when i was trying to flash back to the stock firmware. Now when I try to get to the clockwork recovery mod, I get the famous dead screen with symbols of mobile phone, exclamation point and a pc. I have been searching solution to this problem for hours now, and still I don't want to quit.
My previous custom rom was installed in with no problems. Litening rom 3.0.
Now, with usb jig i can get into the download mode, no problem there. It just seems that the traffic is just jammed.
Download mode works but Odin doesn't transfer anything. Gets stuck on the factoryfs.img while i'm trying to flash. Kies doesn't recognize the phone but pc recognizes the USB device with no problem. Original stock firmware doesn't load on the phone. Odin just stops transferring.
Things I've tried so far.
-Reflash (both litening rom again and stock firmware) with odin (Kies is not on while I do this, I checked)
-Kies (doesn't work)
-Download mode does work but it seems that phone doesn't accept any files.
-I tried the one-click unbrick which seemed to do something god but failed at the end.
What could I still try? I'm running out of options now.
I apologize for my bad english.
Hi there!
Actually, I've stopped trying to ressurect my phone about a month ago, but... maybe someone can help
Ok, what happened:
I was at exam and must shut my phone off. I did it. Some seconds later it booted again. So, I had to turn it off by holding the power button. After that it doesn't boot anymore.
Now the "facts":
- It was the Lite'ning Rom (I think 2.6) with the Kernel incl. as it bricked.
- It boots up to the yellow triangle and stops there.
- If I want to charge it - I see just a waiting-circle (like in windows), but it doesn't move at all.
- I can enter the Download mode, but only if I hold Volume Down + Power Button. If I hold the VolumeDown+Home+Power Button - it's just starting without entering the download mode.
- I can't enter the recovery mode. It's just gone...
- Kies doesn't see the phone at all.
- Odin see it and I can flash it. I can flash all the things I want: bootloader, kernel, pda. I can re-partition it, BUT:
- Now the interresting thing: Odin flash it and says, that all was fine. But nothing happens... Actually, I've already tried to "kill" it with the 3-part ROM for 9100G, but Odin says, that all was ok and nothing happens with the phone at all. It just ignoring all the flashs I tried.
- I have the USB-Jig, but it start the "Factory mode", and... see the point above.
- Already tried about 10-15 Rom (1-parted and 3-parted), with bootloaders and pits etc. Nothing happens.
I had the phone just for 3 months, and... yeah, 500€ are gone. I can't send it to Samsung service, because of triangle and counter > 0. And I can't remove this triangle and set the counter back.
Anyone have any ideas I can try? Maybe someone already heard about issue like that? Is it the famous "eMMC brick"?
Thx in advance!
I don't know if this is due to the EMMC bug. But it sure does sound like a hardware issue.
Have you tried flashing Factory / Stock firmware via Odin? I had a similar issue some time back with my Galaxy Tab but flashing stock firmware, rebooting to recovery and clearing cache etc then fixed the issue.
Good luck man!
Maybe send it in for warranty service/replacement & play dumb in the first instance. Always a chance they won't care/notice you trashed it. If they do & decide to charge you, ask for a quote & for the phone back. Then take the phone to local mobile repair shops & see how much they want for repairing the phone. You can also then compare the costs of having Samsung/authorised repairer or local mobile repair shops with the costs of having the phone JTAG'd (assuming it can be JTAG'd). Lots of JTAG repairers can be found with a Google search, not necessarily in your country, but will still likely be cheaper than having Samsung/authorised repairer fix it.
Try to flash a bootloader for a different device (Note for example), and after that to repartion the device also with pit for Note or something similar. I think that there is a good chance that you succeed in killing the phone completely, and then you can send it to service and play dumb.
Find someone with a riff box and get it j-taged
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A331709 said:
Have you tried flashing Factory / Stock firmware via Odin?
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Yes, already tried some different stock firmwares, always the same thing - just nothing happens and Odin is lucky and saying "all was fine".
pilgrim011 said:
Try to flash a bootloader for a different device (Note for example), and after that to repartion the device also with pit for Note or something similar. I think that there is a good chance that you succeed in killing the phone completely, and then you can send it to service and play dumb.
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Already tried with G-Version of SGS2, but that didn't work. But I will try it with Note's bootloader and pit. Thx!
MistahBungle said:
Maybe send it in for warranty service/replacement & play dumb in the first instance. Always a chance they won't care/notice you trashed it. If they do & decide to charge you, ask for a quote & for the phone back. Then take the phone to local mobile repair shops & see how much they want for repairing the phone. You can also then compare the costs of having Samsung/authorised repairer or local mobile repair shops with the costs of having the phone JTAG'd (assuming it can be JTAG'd). Lots of JTAG repairers can be found with a Google search, not necessarily in your country, but will still likely be cheaper than having Samsung/authorised repairer fix it.
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I've already called JTAG-Service I found in my country, but the guy on the phone said "you can send it to us, we will try to fix the issue, but you will see - you will get your device back without any changes." In addition, he said, that my phone has some bad sectors in header of internal memory and it's nothing to do with it. The only option is to change the mainboard.
I'll try to kill it with Note's firmware, if it's not going to work - will try to send it for repair. But the chance, that guys from samsung will ignore the triangle and counter ist actually... yeah, it low ^^
Thx again for the advices!
//edit:
tried the Note's bootloaders - the phone accept it, I see the progress-bar on phone's screen, but after reboot it stucks again on triangle.
tried this guide again - doesn' help at all.
looks like the advice from MistahBungle is the last hope
Urgent help .. my phone is dead !
here is what happened exactly :
- i was running twitter normally as i used to do .. suddenly " Stopped working " error appeared
- tried to open twitter again or facebook app .. it keep says stopped working all the time
- i restarted the phone .. it stuck on the kernel screen .. tried to restart again , it stuck on the kernel screen again
tried to open in recovery mod .. once i opened the recovery mode it says :
Cant amount xxx.log
cant amount xxx.log
i don't remember exactly what the name
- tried to restore old recovery backup .. it keep says cant amount
- tried again to restore the backup .. this time the phone turned off forever !
now i cant even turn it on again
tried with 3 batteries but no way .. i cant turn it on again
tried to charge it .. but the charger light didn't appear
i am using RR JB 3.1.2 and dorimanx kernel v7.8
help please
MamomaN said:
Urgent help .. my phone is dead !
here is what happened exactly :
- i was running twitter normally as i used to do .. suddenly " Stopped working " error appeared
- tried to open twitter again or facebook app .. it keep says stopped working all the time
- i restarted the phone .. it stuck on the kernel screen .. tried to restart again , it stuck on the kernel screen again
tried to open in recovery mod .. once i opened the recovery mode it says :
Cant amount xxx.log
cant amount xxx.log
i don't remember exactly what the name
- tried to restore old recovery backup .. it keep says cant amount
- tried again to restore the backup .. this time the phone turned off forever !
now i cant even turn it on again
tried with 3 batteries but no way .. i cant turn it on again
tried to charge it .. but the charger light didn't appear
i am using RR JB 3.1.2 and dorimanx kernel v7.8
help please
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Do you cant enter downloading mode?
If not. You phone get hard bricked.
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i cant even turn it on at any mode
no download mode .. no recovery mode !
it seems like i didn't press the power key
MamomaN said:
i cant even turn it on at any mode
no download mode .. no recovery mode !
it seems like i didn't press the power key
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It's not a hard brick -_- if your phone shows any kind of activity, be it even battery charging animation when it's off.
Try to get a USB Jig, that'll take you to download mode and then flash anything via Odin.
if it is a Hard brick JTAG could be helpful. Also try to contact AdamOutler http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1236273 He is develpoing a SDCard Recovery for hardbrick devices.
He need a device for it, and if he get it in time it will help you.
No .. my phone didn't show any kind of activity
no light .. no charging animation .. nothing at all
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/explaining-and-advancing-the-unbrickable-mod/
Hard Brick-The device is unresponsive and will not enumerate USB, a hardware based solution is the only method which will recover this type of brick
Soft Brick -The device shows something on the screen or possibly nothing at all, firmware download is possible because this is a “Download Mode”.
UnBrickable-The device has been modified to accept a debug-mode flash which cannot be altered.
Lucky Brick- The device ends up in UnBrickable debug mode and the Ultimate UnBrickable Resurrector can be used without a hardware modification to resurrect the device.
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pull out the battery and waith 5 minutes. afther try to go on download mode.
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tried to remove the battery for 7 hours .. no way !
so , i should go to the repairing shop ?
no way ?
Seems like something got fried inside
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any help ?
What kind of help are you expecting ? Tho it's obviously not what you want to hear, it doesn't sound like it's a firmware issue that might mean it's (relatively) easily fixable.
If its under warranty, send it in to Samsung/authorised repairer & hope they don't care or don't notice you've been running non-stock firmware on the phone. You never know, they might fix it under warranty. If they won't, then you can look at having it JTAG'd or repaired locally by a 3rd party repairer given that will probably be cheaper than having Samsung/authorised repairer fix it if they do decide to charge you.
Anything anyone here tells you to try is just delaying having your phone fixed/depriving you of your phone for as long as you delay having it fixed.
i mean i need to make sure there still a hope !
based on a previews experience .. anyone saw this problem before ?
also it's the first time to know about the Hard brick
based on what i said , is my phone having a hard brick ?
so , it will be a software problem or something like that ?
Try this ^^ CLICKY
can't hurt by sounds of things :good: :fingers-crossed:
The repairing shop told me that the mother board burned !
Hi.
Please read all of what I tried before suggesting something.
I have a S3 GT-I9300 international version. It's from Orange Israel and its warranty recently ended.
All of what I tried below has been done with the phone in the Download mode by turning it while holding the power, volume down and the home key, there is absolutely nothing else this phone can do, if I just normally power it on it'll get stuck on the Samsung Galaxy S3 screen, I can't even get to the animated Samsung logo. Kies is uninstalled completely and I have no AV.
Now here is what I tried so far:
1. Most forums said that I could try a regular flash via Odin by inserting the firmware.md5 file into the PDA section and flashing it, but that just makes Odin get stuck on the process (Setup Connection...) or give me this error [1st screenshot from the left]
2. I also tried attaching the .pit file for my 16GB S3 named (GT-I9300_mx_20120220.pit) alone but that makes Odin get stuck on this process as well [2nd screenshot from the left]
3. I tried attaching both .md5 and .pit files at the same time but it just also gets stuck on the (Setup Connection...) forever. And when I say stuck I don't mean Odin stops responding, I mean it just hangs on that process.
4. I looked in forums even more and they suggested I try different USB ports or cables and I did, still nothing.
5. I tried different Odin versions for all of the things I already tried.
6. I tried flashing different firmware versions for all of the things I already tried.
7.1. I downloaded Heimdall Suite and I tried to use it since a guy mentioned it helped him immensely by him just installing the drivers using the "zadig.exe" file and choosing his S3 from the All Devices list and installing the driver, however I encounter something different because the program has Replace Driver option that gives me this error [3rd screenshot from the left]
7.2. I later discovered that I can install the driver anyway by clicking the arrow next to the button and choosing Install WCID driver, that worked successfully, however it hasn't solved my problem like the guy on the forum, for him, the S3 started to get recognized by Odin and it flashed his device successfully, for me, it still gave me that error.
8. After I installed the driver from Zadig I launched Heimdall Suite in hopes of finally flashing my device but it gave me this error when trying to load up the .md5.gz [4th screenshot from the left]
9. I then proceeded to add the .pit file I downloaded earlier into the Flash tab in Heimdall tool and adding the boot.img because I think that should be enough to get it going, plus I don't know what else to put. It gave me this error [5th screenshot from the left]
I'll keep updating this post when I try new stuff, however I would like you guys to suggest things I haven't tried before or supply me with files I haven't found already (.pit files, firmwares I'm not aware of, etc.). Would appreciate any little help of sorting this problem out, the warranty ended so I don't know what am I gonna do if I don't get it fixed :/
Thanks.
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Yep sounds bricked. If that's the case, send for repair. Your NAND is probably borked.
Out of interest, what does all the info on the screen say in download mode?
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rootSU said:
Yep sounds bricked. If that's the case, send for repair. Your NAND is probably borked.
Out of interest, what does all the info on the screen say in download mode?
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PRODUCT NAME: GT-I9300
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: YEes (1 counts)
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Official
Does that give you any idea of what I should try next?
I really want to put repairing the phone to the absolute last option.
Remove Kies = remove USB drivers Odin may not work .
PIT can kill your phone .
I don't think its SDS more like your flashing PIT has bricked the phone .
jje
XYMan28 said:
PRODUCT NAME: GT-I9300
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: YEes (1 counts)
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Official
Does that give you any idea of what I should try next?
I really want to put repairing the phone to the absolute last option.
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The problem with the S3 is that there really aren't many options before the last option. From what I can see, you have already tried them all.
It tells me you haven't got SDS, but we already knew you had a NAND issue, regardless of that. It was just a matter of interest.
JJEgan said:
Remove Kies = remove USB drivers Odin may not work .
PIT can kill your phone .
I don't think its SDS more like your flashing PIT has bricked the phone .
jje
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I didn't mention that I also tried all of what I tried with Kies installed.
And it is SDS, I was just browsing through photos and the phone just locked up and restarted and couldn't get passed the GALAXY S3 flash screen, which is why I started trying all this crap, including flashing PIT. And the symptoms and behavior of the phone hasn't changed since the first time it restarted on me. So I definitely didn't change ANYTHING to the phone whatsoever.
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I didn't mention that I also tried all of what I tried with Kies installed.
And it is SDS, I was just browsing through photos and the phone just locked up and restarted and couldn't get passed the GALAXY S3 flash screen, which is why I started trying all this crap, including flashing PIT. And the symptoms and behavior of the phone hasn't changed since the first time it restarted on me. So I definitely didn't change ANYTHING to the phone whatsoever.
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It could be SDS. We've seen a few failures like this where download mode doesn't show SDS symptoms. It doesn't mean the result is not SDS. Its uncomfirmable.
SDS possible , Nand damaged itself possible but 90% of problems are user error .
That error is often in trying to smash their way out of trouble avoiding the simple correct method and throwing everything at the phone .Following stuff from multiple forums then asking help on XDA at the end when it is to late .
Whatever you have done in the past right or wrong does not matter it is now a service centre job .
Samsung generally offer 24 months limited warranty but would be likely to reject due to custom rom count .
jje
So this guy online tried to make me send come cash via Western Union to China so that he can "buy my car and freight it over". I knew it was a scam so i kept msging on my Samsung Galaxy S3 with CM mod. In the end he got the ****s and next thing you know my whole OS is gone, i enter recovery mod there is nothing there, everything has been wiped out.
I can still go through all functions but i cannot mount anything. Is there any way to get my OS back?
I tried to use KIES to recover by default but it says i cannot update the device, i think its because i run CM?
Thanks
okay first 1.Why would you keep messaging with a guy who tries to scamm you ?
2. I don't think this is possibile for someone to "hack" into your phone just like that .
3. perhaps your phone died ,suddenly ?
4. flash the rescue firmware ,maybe it can help .
5. I still don't believe it
alecore said:
okay first 1.Why would you keep messaging with a guy who tries to scamm you ?
2. I don't think this is possibile for someone to "hack" into your phone just like that .
3. perhaps your phone died ,suddenly ?
4. flash the rescue firmware ,maybe it can help .
5. I still don't believe it
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Yes i was like you, i believe it is not possible for him just to hack my phone so i kept messing with him. But the fact that after i lead him on for 5 days and right after the last email i sent him my phone just went dead. I cannot bypass the Samsung screen during startup, and it seems like it might have been bricked.
I don't see how i been using CM for last year and nothing happen and next thing this happened because then it would have happen to alot of other people using CM mod.
i have been using cm for almost 2 years ( alot of nigerians tried to scamm via email ,but i don't respond to emails ( unknown ) via phone because of data scripts)) , and i have to say ,happend to me once while playing a game ,phone suddenly turned off ,tried to turn on and ended in a bootloop .
Once you roooted your phone and changed the rom kies become unavailable for firmware upgrades . Try use odin and flash rescue firmware maybe it will help with something . Follow this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30087735&postcount=6