[Q] Samsung boot logo keeps replaying after flashing firmware - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi all
I just flashed the latest leaked 4.2.1 firmware on my S3 using mobile ODIN. I was running cyanogenmod. It all went through fine but during boot up it just keeps replaying the samsung boot screen.
Have I done something wrong or is this supposed to happen for a long time. I hope I haven't messed up my phone

boot into recovery, factory reset.

yep happened to me before , just wipe/factory reset and it'll take a while for booting for the first time
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it has happened to everyone who didn't factory reset when switching ROMs

I also went from CM to stock and also got a bootloop. Factory reset fixed it, but I do have to say I suddenly felt nervous when I saw the boot animation repeating.

that's what's supposed to happen

Thanks guys, done as you said, working fine now

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tab sticks then crashes on boot logo

Hi got a galaxy tab 10.1 ive got the Kang CM9 ICS rom on it, worked fine for about a month then suddenly just started crashing
did a hard reset device powers on charges starts to load boot image then freezes and crashes.
im able to launch recovery mode, tried doing factory reset and it wouldnt go through.
tried cache whipe was able to complete and the boot logo lasted longer then froze and crashed again.
not sure what happened and im thinking the only thing left to try is a full reflash
has anyone else experianced this?
thanks in advance
alstylez said:
Hi got a galaxy tab 10.1 ive got the Kang CM9 ICS rom on it, worked fine for about a month then suddenly just started crashing
did a hard reset device powers on charges starts to load boot image then freezes and crashes.
im able to launch recovery mode, tried doing factory reset and it wouldnt go through.
tried cache whipe was able to complete and the boot logo lasted longer then froze and crashed again.
not sure what happened and im thinking the only thing left to try is a full reflash
has anyone else experianced this?
thanks in advance
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I've not experienced this because I haven't messed much with Kang CM9 ICS, but my first suggestion would to be restore from nandroid backup. If you're like me, in the past, you didn't do one or can't access it. So a full reflash or possibly going back to stock and then a reflash would be my suggestion.
If you decide to go back to stock first, or still need to after a reflash, the overcome ROM thread is a good place to lead you to 7500 & 7510 stock ROMs. You'll find a link to a guide outside xda there where towards the bottom part of the guide it says Restocking yer system.
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thanks Benzoman was able to reflash the stock rom from rogers using ODIN after which it got stuck in a bootloop. then tried data wipe in recovery mode and it booted up like normal.
any idea what could have caused it?
Depends if you had HC 3.1 as a base firmware, more likely to crash, then another would be what version of ICS you used, because the kang is at milestone 4, the current stable march edition.

Bricked, flashing stock rom doesn't work

Hey guys, I'm hoping someone can help me out. I've tried searching the forums and using different methods to recover it, but none have worked so far.
SO I flashed the ICS Domination theme over Diet ICS rom, stuff was continuously force closing, so I factory wiped with the intention of re-flashing just the rom... after a reset the phone was stuck on the samsung boot screen.
I've tried using Odin to load the stock Rogers rom, it says it worked, but trying to boot the phone up its stuck on the samsung boot screen.
Am I missing something? Is there anything you guys can suggest I try??
EDIT: Oops, wrong forum, meant to put this in the AT&T forum
Snap my phone is stuck on samsung screen for awhile now, it's not doing anything at all
Wipe everything in recovery and flash a rom from either recovery or odin..
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[Q] Samsung Exhilarate: Soft Brick or Hard Brick?

Noob here, please bear with me:
Updated my I577 to ICS, then rooted it using this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1806118
Worked like a charm, then I picked up ROM Toolbox Lite from PlayStore, which worked fine until I tried to change themes.
Somehow, it got to where boot was stuck at vendor logo. Unfortunately I did not Nandroid backup in time, but I was able to do a Kies backup before rooting, so not worry about the data loss at this time.
Used CWM5, did davlik & cache wipes, factory resets several times, no dice. No stock ROM available so I tried this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30444507&postcount=6
(flashed system tar through ODIN) Hanged at "system.img.ext4".
Here's where I'm at now:
-- Boot looping at second Samsung logo
-- ODIN 1.85 still reads device at port
-- Battery indicator visible when plugged in & power off.
-- Still able to get to cwm recovery 5.5.0.4
So, IS IT SOFT BRICKED OR HARD BRICKED?
Bonus Question: Is it unbrickable?
Any input or answers are GREATLY appreciated, and a fix will most likely be monetarily compensated through Paypal.
Black-wolf, j3r3goss, or shabbypenguin if you see this, your input is certainly appreciated as well!
Its soft bricked. Hard brick means there is no life at all and won't even power on (through software).
Any soft brick is unbrickable, the only nonunbrickable brick is a hard brick (which is rare)
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If you can get into Clockwork Mod Recovery still then select wipe data (Do this twice), then select whipe cache (Do this twice), next select factory reset (Do this twice), finally go back and select reboot system. This should unbrick your phone for you
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shimp208 said:
If you can get into Clockwork Mod Recovery still then select wipe data (Do this twice), then select whipe cache (Do this twice), next select factory reset (Do this twice), finally go back and select reboot system. This should unbrick your phone for you
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This.
If you can get into recovery you're only in shallow water
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Something's changed
THANKS so far for the input!
I was able to nandroid out of the loop, but now it's back to my original problem--it keeps booting to the "Rethink Possible" AT&T screen & freezing.
Any ideas? I'm thinking I'm gonna be outta luck until I get my hands on a legit Gingerbread Stock tar.
Did you whipe cache, whipe data and preform a factory reset like we suggested? Preforming a nandroid restore won't get you out of your phone hanging on the at&t logo.
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Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830i brick
hey there im a noob to all this but i registered to see if someone here could give me advice.
i tried to flash a new rom on my phone (see title) and it doesnt do a thing anymore...
i rooted it and tried to put Retribution beta_2 on it and itlooked to be working till it rebooted..
all i got was the startup screen with galaxy ace gt-s5830i.
i looked around and i found that i could use download mode and odin 1 click download to put in a new rom.
so i tried that and it looked to be working but it stalled at end of install and now it doesnt even turn on anymore...
HELP!!!
hope someone knows whats up and can give me some advice.
i hope i didnr hardbrick it like i saw in this thread...
Emil.warm said:
hey there im a noob to all this but i registered to see if someone here could give me advice.
i tried to flash a new rom on my phone (see title) and it doesnt do a thing anymore...
i rooted it and tried to put Retribution beta_2 on it and itlooked to be working till it rebooted..
all i got was the startup screen with galaxy ace gt-s5830i.
i looked around and i found that i could use download mode and odin 1 click download to put in a new rom.
so i tried that and it looked to be working but it stalled at end of install and now it doesnt even turn on anymore...
HELP!!!
hope someone knows whats up and can give me some advice.
i hope i didnr hardbrick it like i saw in this thread...
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Are you able to get into recovery mode? Did you flash a custom recovery such as TWRP or Clockwork Mod Recovery?
Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830i brick -
shimp208 said:
Are you able to get into recovery mode? Did you flash a custom recovery such as TWRP or Clockwork Mod Recovery?
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Hi thanks for your response to my problem,
yes i flashed a custom recovery from clockwork and i rooted it. i cant get in to recovery mode.
after i did that i tried flashing custom rom like i said before but after reboot it didnt do anything.
i just got the startscreen and found that i could use download mode and odin to flash original rom.
i used 1 click downloader from Odin and it started to recover my rom,but at the end it stalled.
after that happened i couldnt do anything anymore.
i thought it was totally dead but i just saw that when i connect to my comp it says unknown device..
im an idiot for trying this stuff without the knowledge..it looked easy in descriptions
but i found different descriptions how to do it..
i cant put links in my posts yet cause i am new..
i used the 1st one.. but after that didnt work i found that other 1 and that is little different...
.android.gs/update-galaxy-ace-s5830i-retribution-gingerbread-2-3-6
.technostall.com/samsung-galaxy-ace-s5830i-installing-retribution-custom-rom-firmware
i hope i have given you enough info
greets Emil
Hmm today i found out smth new,i installed some samsung drivers and now my phone is recognized as a samsung android phone-android composite adb interface its says in device mananger on my laptop.
All Fixed!
shimp208 said:
Did you whipe cache, whipe data and preform a factory reset like we suggested? Preforming a nandroid restore won't get you out of your phone hanging on the at&t logo.
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I did all that, but the one thing that finally nailed it was formatting my internal SD. I also formatted my external one, but I don't even think I put it back in the phone.
So, if anybody's reading this in the future, and you're still stuck after wiping the cache, wiping Davlik & performing factory reset,
FORMAT THE SD!
And flash this through Odin: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31765274&postcount=59
Huge thanks to j3r3goss!! :good::good::good:
Main Exhilarate thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1926253
Soft bricked my galaxy s4
gagdude said:
Its soft bricked. Hard brick means there is no life at all and won't even power on (through software).
Any soft brick is unbrickable, the only nonunbrickable brick is a hard brick (which is rare)
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Hey, total noob here but Im having problems with my Galaxy S4 so I was on this thread looking for a fix.I have an AT&T Galaxy s4 (SGH-I337) and I just rooted my phone and installed clockworkmod recovery. I went to backup and then when I rebooted it freezes at the AT&T logo. Ive wiped data/factory reset, wiped caches, etc ive done everything and it freezes at the same spot. I have no ROMS as I had just rooted, just stock 4.2.2. Then I saw a vid on how to unroot/unbrick and it was working perfectly until it went to reboot.(I downloaded 4.2.2 firmware for my model phone) I used ODIN and it said pass then when it was rebooting it froze in the exact same spot (also instead of the normal bootup it still had the "custom" and an unlocked lock that Ive had since I rooted) and now I cant enter recovery mode. It starts booting but then freezes when the blue letters come on! Now even when I try to turn it on normally it freezes at the samsung logo (with unlocked lock and "custom")Please help! I would greatly appreciate it!

Lighting does strike twice

Accidentally flash a I727 jb Rom on my note twice .I can do a nandroid but no sound and its stuck on home screen can't open any app. Is there anyway of resolving this issue.I try to install the new in jb Rom but get stuck and Samsung logo.anyone one made this stupid mistakes or I'm alone on this one.or Do I have to Odin back to stock?
Edit.Odin back to stock still froze on home screen .anyone have any idea's ?thank in advance.
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Reedit.did system wipe and odin 10 times in a row phone working now.thanks to those that look but can't help and thank to those who don't really care.
I had kinda the same problem as you flashed some bad gapps messed my phone up. Had access to twrp would flash roms only to have them reboot. Had access to D.L mode odined stock and samething would happen would not boot. Booted into stock recovery wipe partitions and dalvik and rebooted it worked hope that helps anybody.
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Help please. Hyberdrive and Cleanrom Bootloop

Fixed but I have no idea how or why. If any can explain I would appreciate it.
I was on TWRP and flashed Hyperdrive which caused me to Boot loop at the Samsung screen. I then tried to restore my backup which failed. I then went through and wiped all the data and tried a different rom (Clean rom) this caused boot issues too.
I ODIN using factory image which still boot looped. I then went into recovery ( i lost TWRP when I odin'd) and wiped everything and still boot looped. I wiped everything again 3 times and this time I was able to get into my stock rom.
I am confused with is happening inside the phone that caused the boot loop and why I still had boot loops even after a ODIN restore.
SuperKerp said:
Fixed but I have no idea how or why. If any can explain I would appreciate it.
I was on TWRP and flashed Hyperdrive which caused me to Boot loop at the Samsung screen. I then tried to restore my backup which failed. I then went through and wiped all the data and tried a different rom (Clean rom) this caused boot issues too.
I ODIN using factory image which still boot looped. I then went into recovery ( i lost TWRP when I odin'd) and wiped everything and still boot looped. I wiped everything again 3 times and this time I was able to get into my stock rom.
I am confused with is happening inside the phone that caused the boot loop and why I still had boot loops even after a ODIN restore.
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sometimes it just takes a little while. was it actually looping or just stuck there? Ive had to wait 10 minutes before it actually got passed that screen.
Yeah, you probably just didn't wait long enough...
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theidoctor said:
sometimes it just takes a little while. was it actually looping or just stuck there? Ive had to wait 10 minutes before it actually got passed that screen.
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nfederic said:
Yeah, you probably just didn't wait long enough...
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Wow, 10 minutes? Yeah ok, I definitely didn't wait that long before. I started to freak out a bit when it started resetting continuously. I thought the waiting would be just sitting at the boot screen and then when my restore failed the worst things were going through my head.
I am having the same issue after I reinstalled hyperdrive v6 where do I wait 10mins at?
My bootlooping starts at the language selection screen do I wait 10mins at the installation page?
Fixed it.... it was the Walkman player.
i have the answer!!
dont install any of the audio hacks and also dont install the walkman musci player just use the samung one ... peace!!!!!

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