I was trying to install Wanamlite through TWRP, but I did a couple things wrong. I have flashed custom ROMS before, but I think I was just careless this time.
The things I did wrong are:
I installed the wrong kernel, I used this one KT747-TW-JB-4.1.2-ATT-05-31-2013.zip for the GS3.
I did not click "reboot" after install of the ROM and kernel, I held down the power button. Don't know what I was thinking!
Now my phone will not boot and just vibrates. I get nothing on the screen. The only way to stop it from vibrating is to remove the battery, but it keeps vibrating after I put it back in.
I don't really know what to do next! Any ideas would be extremely helpful. Am I bricked?
not bricked use odin
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2289325
Thank you! This should have been in the AT&T forum but I think I can probably swing it from here
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So I was using Odin to flash the stock JFD to fix a soft brick. Everything went through and flashed just fine, no issues. I've done this dozens of times before, on several different devices, so I'm pretty familiar with the process. After the phone flashed, the screen switches to some weird distorted screen for a couple seconds and then it boots. It boots up fine, and when I get to the home screen, it'll just shut off and go back to the distorted image, then another boot. This will repeat 20 times if I let it. Any ideas of what might be the issue? Let me know. Thanks.
-Harris
Did it have the gingerbread bootloaders?
I really couldn't tell you. I'm just helping out a friend who said he tried to flash a ROM using Odin but screwed up. I'm pretty sure he tried to flash a SGS4G ROM, thus the soft brick.
EDIT: Just flashed the stock bootloader and no more issue. Guess I overlooked that. Thanks for the tip!
So, SGH-177 had been rooted and installed CM7, then Unnamed, then AOKP. All were pretty buggy. We wanted to bring it back to factory (with root if possible). Not for a warranty claim, just so it would be somewhat stable.
Anyway, I found a one click ODIN solution for UCKH7 stock. I used that, it passed. then the phone just looped through the AT&T "Rethink Possible" splash screen. I tried to get into recovery mode, but it wouldn't load, so I flashed the Siyah kernel to get CWM on there. Still I can only get into download mode and the phone loops the splash screen.
I hoped that it was just taking some time to load up the first time, so I left it overnight. Still stuck on the splash screen this morning.
I spent hours on here last night and found lots of people saying that if you have access to download mode, or recovery mode, you should be able to fix it. I wasn't able to find any answers as to how.
Help?!
I've had this same problem before. what always fixes it for me is to get into the factory 3e recovery to do a reset. I know you said you couldnt get there but make sure (while the phone is off; remove battery if you have to before this) you are holding down both Volume buttons and the power button at the same time until you see the "Samsung Galaxy SII" screen, then release the buttons.
factory reset, then it should be fine.
If you can't get to recovery, read some more on here. I'm sure something is out there, but I don't know what it is.
Here are two posts that might help you out. I've been doing the same research since my "Oh crap its stuck in a bootloop I'll sell it cheap on eBay" SGII is due to arrive today or tomorrow.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1451590
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1580885
Best of luck to you!
UnNamed buggy?
Out of curiosity how did you root and flash, cause that is probably one of the most stable builds we have with minor changes to stock.
Anyways good luck getting back to stock.
So, for some reason, the next time I tried booting into recovery, it worked. I got a couple errors, but then it booted up just fine. Don't know why it wouldn't get into recovery before.
Everything seems to be working as it should so far.
I'm guessing this may be why some of the threads I had seen didn't really offer a solution. Sometimes it finally works if you just hold your head right.
Thanks all!
Regarding UnNamed... I don't recall the method I used to root, it's been a long time and I've done various work on this (my wife's phone) and my Nexus One. Easy to get it confused. I flashed it through CWM recovery, factory wipe, flash from SD.
It worked fine for a while (a couple months), then it got really glitchy. Unable to answer phone calls, random reboots, etc.
Major Wood said:
I flashed it through CWM recovery, factory wipe, flash from SD.
It worked fine for a while (a couple months), then it got really glitchy. Unable to answer phone calls, random reboots, etc.
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Did you also wipe cache and dalvik? May have been the problem...
I don't recall, but would be surprised if I hadn't done that
A year ago. When I first started flashing roms. I spent an entire week just reading the atrix forums and learning. I planned. I schemed. I asked questions. Through pm. And googled a LOT. Then when I had learned enough I did it. Point is....if yer not willing to have patience and learn as much as u can before u jump into this. Then its maybe not for you.
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I was running CM10 experimental (supposedly stable) build and was having way too many issues: reboots 5+ times a day, random freezes requiring hard reboot, etc etc. I tried uninstalling latest apps...nope. Tried fixing permissions...nope. Finally decided to reinstall the ROM. Used CWM wiped all 3 times, went to istall from zip, couldn't find the ROM anywhere. I installed an older ICS ROM I found in there and it did it's thing until it was time to boot up...now it's stuck in boot loop. I tried removing battery, turning off with both buttons, connecting to usb...not recognized. It just keeps going thru the booting process until it says "Have a nice day!" and then starts over. How do I get in to fix this? I'm screwed....and of course use my phone all day for business......sheesh. Are there ANY JB ROMs out there that are actually stable...like in real life?
Love this site, love all of you helpful folks....pulling my hair out at this point...;-(
You're kinda asking a lot since jb has to be ported over at the moment which naturally leads to glitches such as the restarts. This is the price you pay to run jb months and months before the note is officially updated. at which time the source code will be come available and we will have rock solid jellybean builds. Until then we take what we get. Run the latest release candidate of cm9 until then if you want something super stable.
Also don't you have a backup you can restore? I'm not allowed to feel sorry for you if you never backed up your device.
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Thanks for the reply JR, your statement " jb has to be ported over at the moment which naturally leads to glitches such as the restarts" is Greek to me. Are you saying that since it is not an official JB update, there will always be glitches? um...ok.
Yes, I have a few backups in there...but as I said, it is stuck in opening boot loop and I don't know how to get in there to restore or flash another ROM. I may be missing a simple fix here but until I know what it is, I don't know what it is. I have used search under boot loop, for an hour and have not found one thread explaining how to get out of it.
Hopefully someone will excuse my ignorance and point me to a thread or explanation of how to get past the boot loop.
Cheers
do you know how to boot into recovery?
if you can, then do that, and restore one of your backups..
if you dont know how to boot into recovery, you shouldn't be flashing roms until you do
AFAIK that means pressing volume up, home, and power until recovery lights up. Done that many times and all I get is the intermittent vibe, no flash, no screen at all.
I've poured over threads and google all day...no love. Just people telling me to restore my backups...gee thanks.
I CAN get it into Odin....can I flash a ROM from there? I followed one tutorial but when selecting a ROM, it wanted a tar file and I either had the ROM zip or unzipped, a bunch of folders with no tar file in any of them.
I'm not a moron, just screwed myself somehow and am looking for some help fixing it. I thought that's what these forums were for.
hold volume up and down and power at the same time; after the first "samsung" on the screen, release the power button, and keep holding the volume up and down, until recovery appears...
XDA is a development forum, not a newbie forum, and there is an assumption that people who flash stuff to their phones will have the basic knowledge to know how to recover from some of the problems that arise when you do something to your phone that requires the knowledge on how to fix things
The fact that you dont know how to get into recovery properly tells me you didnt bother to read and study enough on how to recover from a problem if you have one, sort of like trying to replace your water pump without actually practicing on a car..
search the forums if you need to find .tar files to restore your phone via Odin back to stock; there are several posts and threads that will show you how, but, try to recover your back up first
This ^^^^^. You have jumped into the deep end without knowing how to swim. Watch videos, read how-to's and look up words if you don't understand them. A basic knowledge of computer hardware and how a computer works pre-boot will also go a long way
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Thanks for the reply JR, your statement " jb has to be ported over at the moment which naturally leads to glitches such as the restarts" is Greek to me. Are you saying that since it is not an official JB update, there will always be glitches? um...ok.
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It means there is no official jelly bean for the note at this time. Our devs have to take jelly bean code and modify it to work on the note which generally means a few hickups here and there.
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Well thank you all for the help you have given. I was not releasing the power button after the first Samsung flash and thus not finding recovery. I have a functioning phone now, at least. I do, dig deep trying to find answers, and only post when I am truly stuck.
glad you got it fixed!
So I definitely (completely accidentally) flashed the wrong ROM to my phone (I flashed this one when I meant to flash this one). First I downloaded the former because it was the first one I saw, but then when I realized it was incompatible, I downloaded the latter. I chose the wrong one when copying the file over to the phone. I know, I'm terribly stupid, I realize.
I was using SafeStrap, like it says not to do using that ROM, because I had the NC5 OTA mentioned here. Now when I turn on my phone, it gets to the Android boot animation looking something like this, and then it just vibrates every few seconds, once, then twice, once, then twice...
It doesn't ever get past that. So I guess my first question is, is this soft-bricked or hard-bricked, or something else entirely? My second is, can I fix it? And finally, if so, how?
Thanks in advance so much for any help.
I think you could probably pull the Battery out and hold the volume up and the power button and boot in to recovery.if you can do that and have nandroid backup, you can reinstall your backup.
Yeah, I couldn't get into recovery, actually, which was why I was starting to panic. However, I was actually able to get it into download mode a few minutes ago (which I couldn't when I first posted), and managed to re-flash back to stock.
Thanks for the help!
Hey guys, a series of unfortunate and idiotic events has lead me to somehow unroot my phone and get it up to 4.4 with a stock rom.
For a what feels like an eternity I've been running freeza's "[ROM|NK4|KitKat|4.4.4] Galaxy Note fre3 Hybrid De[Odex] v2.26b -BeastMode Kernel-" the previous version was recommended to me years ago by wwjoshdew and I never strayed from it. I've lurked here for a while and I understand that repeat questions to solved solutions are frowned upon and punishable, but I feel my issue is a bit unique.
So my question: What do I do to get back to my beloved ROM? I'm ok with wiping everything but my external SD, as long as I can get concise steps without any assumptions that I know any lingo or terminology I will be happy. i currently have ODIN as well as TWRP 3.0.2.0. the current status of my phone is "android upgrading: Starting apps", it's been that way for maybe an hour now, I tested it and I can boot into TWRP recovery, as well as download mode. HERE'S THE REAL KICKER THOUGH: my power button does not work, so stock recovery mode isnt an option for me, the phone does not register any activity from the power button whatsoever and i lack the know how, money, tools, and patience to remedy this. I simply power my phone off or on with a series of combinations done with a usb cable, the home button, and my volume down key.
SO how screwed am I? I CAN go to stock rom, but i really miss all of my goodies that I'm used to and my xposed installer...( Tried just running stock rom with twrp and rooted. installed xposed didnt work so gave up and came here)
Thanks for reading this far and hopefully being able to help me. I understand otherwise.
Edit: currently flashing back to this rom N900PVPUDNH7_N900PSPTDNH7_N900PVPUDNH7_HOME.tar.md5 via ODIN because I got tired of waiting for the upgrade screen and I need my phone.
Welp, so much for that. I tried various things and now I appear to be hard bricked.