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Greetings!
My USB port is going (or already is) bad, I need to get it warranty repaired.
I just KNOW that the warranty center is going to give me **** because I run a custom rom, even though this is clearly a hardware issue.
I can't use ODIN because of the USB issue (it doesn't connect to the PC for data at all, but it still gets a trickle charge)
I have TWRP installed, I need a flashable stock rom as well as some way to reset the flash counter, if possible.
What can I do?
I appreciate everyone's help!
Flash the rooted stock ICS rom from bigfau in the super thread ....(at the top of the general section )
The flash counter zip file is in the same thread ...just scroll down the first post and you'll see it ...
Both are. Zip format and you'll be good ...g
gregsarg said:
Flash the rooted stock ICS rom from bigfau in the super thread ....(at the top of the general section )
The flash counter zip file is in the same thread ...just scroll down the first post and you'll see it ...
Both are. Zip format and you'll be good ...g
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I took some digging, but I think I found it.
Thanks!
sh0velman said:
I took some digging, but I think I found it.
Thanks!
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Not sure if I just don't know the correct keywords to search for, but what was the topic or the file that you found would help with this? Please share results if you could.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1569206
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766933
there ya go....
the first link is the flash counter reset....make "SURE" you pull the correct version from the thread...
the second is the rom link....and I suggest you use the pure stock .zip.....it is still rooted, but it's stock...bloat and all....g
sh0velman said:
Greetings!
My USB port is going (or already is) bad, I need to get it warranty repaired.
I just KNOW that the warranty center is going to give me **** because I run a custom rom, even though this is clearly a hardware issue.
I can't use ODIN because of the USB issue (it doesn't connect to the PC for data at all, but it still gets a trickle charge)
I have TWRP installed, I need a flashable stock rom as well as some way to reset the flash counter, if possible.
What can I do?
I appreciate everyone's help!
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did u ever get it to work? what about the custom recovery????? is there a way to revert back to stock recovery after installing the pure stock rom, then reseeting the flash counter.?? im in the same situation and been worried about the stock recovery
Take a charger, plug it into phone, cut the other end. Stick directly to car battery. Bam! Fried. Can't tell its a custom Rom if it won't even turn on
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joe3681 said:
Take a charger, plug it into phone, cut the other end. Stick directly to car battery. Bam! Fried. Can't tell its a custom Rom if it won't even turn on
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This is an example of why companies are locking phones down..
People make their own mistakes and fry phones so they don't have to pony up the coin for a new device.. the company then replaces the phone for a issue that wasn't their fault..
Say it, Don't spray it.
So my S3 went into a boot loop. And I dont know how I got to this point but now the phone wont even boot, when plugged in to my comp it shows the battery symbol but its greyed out with the circle in the middle, and it stays like that. If i hold the power putton it comes up with the Galaxy SIII GT i9300 screen but then goes back to the battery. I can get it to go into download mode though. I think somehow I may have deleted all the files required for the phone to actually boot(Im a n00b so im not completely sure) Can somebody please help me?
I was on custom ROM before and my binary counter is at 4, so sending into samsung doesn't sound like a great idea :/
Thanks for the help and sorry if this has been asked before, I have searched for hours.
Luke2508 said:
So my S3 went into a boot loop. And I dont know how I got to this point but now the phone wont even boot, when plugged in to my comp it shows the battery symbol but its greyed out with the circle in the middle, and it stays like that. If i hold the power putton it comes up with the Galaxy SIII GT i9300 screen but then goes back to the battery. I can get it to go into download mode though. I think somehow I may have deleted all the files required for the phone to actually boot(Im a n00b so im not completely sure) Can somebody please help me?
I was on custom ROM before and my binary counter is at 4, so sending into samsung doesn't sound like a great idea :/
Thanks for the help and sorry if this has been asked before, I have searched for hours.
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If you also can go into recovery, try to wipe. In addition did you flash any custom kernel?
If not, try to reflash a rom with odin after you got into download mode or did you try this already?
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chrismast said:
If you also can go into recovery, try to wipe. In addition did you flash any custom kernel?
If not, try to reflash a rom with odin after you got into download mode or did you try this already?
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If you mean with CWM mod, no I cant, it just shows the Galaxy S3 GT i9300 screen then goes black. Yes i did have a custom kernel, I believe it was the latest Perseus one. I already tried this with a stock rom and it idnt work, it said it had passed but i still can boot the phone.
Luke2508 said:
If you mean with CWM mod, no I cant, it just shows the Galaxy S3 GT i9300 screen then goes black. Yes i did have a custom kernel, I believe it was the latest Perseus one. I already tried this with a stock rom and it idnt work, it said it had passed but i still can boot the phone.
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as you can go into download mode but not recovery, what about flashing CWM another time (if you did not try it already). Maybe it solves the issue with recovery and from there you could go on trying to wipe etc.
Other options would be to do a mega or super wipe (if this is possible from odin & download mode, not sure though), to get your phone completely empty (mega) or at least to factory reset (super).
Luke2508 said:
So my S3 went into a boot loop. And I dont know how I got to this point but now the phone wont even boot, when plugged in to my comp it shows the battery symbol but its greyed out with the circle in the middle, and it stays like that. If i hold the power putton it comes up with the Galaxy SIII GT i9300 screen but then goes back to the battery. I can get it to go into download mode though. I think somehow I may have deleted all the files required for the phone to actually boot(Im a n00b so im not completely sure) Can somebody please help me?
I was on custom ROM before and my binary counter is at 4, so sending into samsung doesn't sound like a great idea :/
Thanks for the help and sorry if this has been asked before, I have searched for hours.
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Look at the tread above yours,sudden death.
You are not the only one here mate.
I have it too.
Mods,can we have one tread for this huge problem.
It seems that there are many of us have this problem.
Thanks.
painterceessie said:
Look at the tread above yours,sudden death.
You are not the only one here mate.
I have it too.
Mods,can we have one tread for this huge problem.
Pointless having another thread why not post /read the original thread for this problem .
a hint look for sudden death thread
jje
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chrismast said:
as you can go into download mode but not recovery, what about flashing CWM another time (if you did not try it already). Maybe it solves the issue with recovery and from there you could go on trying to wipe etc.
Other options would be to do a mega or super wipe (if this is possible from odin & download mode, not sure though), to get your phone completely empty (mega) or at least to factory reset (super).
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I successfully flashed CF root with CWM, now shall I do a wipe and then restore back to a nandroid backup I made? and if so how will I? The phone now shows the samsung logo when turned on but just stays there forever.
JJEgan said:
painterceessie said:
Look at the tread above yours,sudden death.
You are not the only one here mate.
I have it too.
Mods,can we have one tread for this huge problem.
Pointless having another thread why not post /read the original thread for this problem .
a hint look for sudden death thread
jje
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Oke sorry mate.
I didn't no that.
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Furthermore i suggest anyone having motherboard dead problems and vendor Samsung saying no warranty .
To pull up the many posts regarding this now known manufacturing defect and don't accept in this case root/ custom rom warranty is rejected .
jje
JJEgan said:
Furthermore i suggest anyone having motherboard dead problems and vendor Samsung saying no warranty .
To pull up the many posts regarding this now known manufacturing defect and don't accept in this case root/ custom rom warranty is rejected .
jje
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The thing is there is nothing wrong with my phone in terms of hardware. The problem that I am having is purely software, I think I just need to restore my phone to a previous version. I did see that thread but didnt feel my post belonged there as my problem is nothing to do with broken battery or mobo or anything along those lines. Hence why I am posting here
Just factory reset via recovery then flash a stock rom via Odin .
No recovery flash CF root via Odin .
jje
JJEgan said:
Just factory reset via recovery then flash a stock rom via Odin .
No recovery flash CF root via Odin .
jje
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I did install a stock ROM and it was still stuck on bootloop, left it like that for an hour, still nothing. So I went into CWM (after flashing it) Wiped and factory reset (noticing it said error mounting /data but ignored) and then restored with a backup I had. it did say error mounting /data and so skipped that step. Still stuck in boot loop. now that I try wiping again the same error occurs, error mounting /data any ideas please?
I did have this problem a few days back. The only thing i did was downloaded my Carrier stock firmwaer and extracted boot.img and used Samsung galaxy toolkit and make a filé that i was able to use with Odin. Dunno if ot helps you but my Phone is still going strong
I was only trying to root my Phone tho. No custom rom installera when i got The boot problem
Sounds like you have permission problem. I can't find the three about that but I update my post here if I can find it.
you can try to fix permission in cwm it seems, hope it works
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xda-napp3 said:
I did have this problem a few days back. The only thing i did was downloaded my Carrier stock firmwaer and extracted boot.img and used Samsung galaxy toolkit and make a filé that i was able to use with Odin. Dunno if ot helps you but my Phone is still going strong
I was only trying to root my Phone tho. No custom rom installera when i got The boot problem
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Thanks, do you have any idea where I will find my carrier specific firmware? And any other kind of tips on how to do/get things? But hopefully this works
Checkout this thread hope you find what you need there
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1927113
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hello , i have sgs3.
few weaks ago it stoped working,
it shut down and when i tried to turn it on it was stuck on the SAMSUNG logo.
and its not charging the battery.
couldnt get into recovery mode, and when i got into download mode it shows
i had an original 4.04 samung israel rom, and never tried to change it or customizig it.
when i tried to get service from samsung israel , they saw the download mode and said that i tried to custom my rom and wrecked the phone.
and i DID'NT.
im trying to find out why do they think that, why is that line
"system status - custom" showed up?
i didnt try to custom.. can it be becouse of a physically problem in the phone?
please help me.
thank u, Amir
Your phone goes into download mode, try to flash a stock rom for your region.
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Have you. Rooted. Or recieved a recent OTA update .
jje
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JJEgan said:
Have you. Rooted. Or recieved a recent OTA update .
jje
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i didnt root
had OTA a week before it happened.
and now i cant flash a new rom , they say the motherboard is damaged
Thread moved to proper forum.
can that OTA change that line to "custom"?
Not really ota updates are official firmware so it should leave that as Samsung official the only way you'll get that to be custom is by rooting and flashing custom firmware.
Sent From My Omega'd Galaxy S3 ...
Their have been some posts where users say OTA has changed it to custom .
I would argue this point with Samsung .
Or try flash stock firmware reboot and factory reset and see if it clears custom .
jje
amirharony said:
can that OTA change that line to "custom"?
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I doubt it; a stock (company based) build of Android has no customization in it, and the OTA updates install via recovery, therefore they "sneak past" the download mode. I mean (Please correct me, if I'm wrong, I've never [ever] done an OTA update on a Samsung Android device, so there's my XP gone.) but if you install software via CWM, it normally won't show up, in download mode, because they are two different parts of the system, and it basically thinks, that only original software gets installed via recovery (because obviously, not everyone on the world, knows what is possible with any computer.
So much from me
Hope I could help!
LG familyguy59/Beatsleigher
Try (Obv try this at your own risk, tho Odin is relatively safe)
Odin to flash a stock rom,
wipe everything (data,cache,dalvik).
Flash Siyah kernel,
use triangle away,
flash stock rom (to get rid of Siyah).
This should reset the counter to 0 and set everything to "Official".
I say to flash Siyah first because TA doesn't work all the time on the official kernels.
Next time, leave OTAs alone, just flash it in Odin when a new FW pops up on Sammobile
there is no option to flash a new rom .
few days ago i went to a lab and they said i need to change the motherboard..
it is too expensive so i didnt do it.
today i went to a different lab, they said (as i suspected from the beginning) that the flash memory is not working
and thats why in the 1st line there is no device name (should be i9300 )
and this is why the word custom is written in the last line..
my problem was that samsung israel declined my warrenty becouse they thought i flashed a rom , but i didnt.
so hopefully i can prove them that i didnt do it.
i'll see what happen tommorow when i get back my phone from the lab
Lets say I flash my current rom back to the stock rom via CWM, how should i proceed to remove CWM entirely? I need to send my phone into warranty because of a lingering battery issue. It dies out within an hour of using it from 100% battery and its REALLY annoying. I have a 5 year warranty on this phone and I'm thankful for that. I'm new on this forum. Perhaps there's a link I can refer to? Thank you and sorry if threads like these have been repeated.
xDarkKn1ghtx said:
Lets say I flash my current rom back to the stock rom via CWM, how should i proceed to remove CWM entirely? I need to send my phone into warranty because of a lingering battery issue. It dies out within an hour of using it from 100% battery and its REALLY annoying. I have a 5 year warranty on this phone and I'm thankful for that. I'm new on this forum. Perhaps there's a link I can refer to? Thank you and sorry if threads like these have been repeated.
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Install/run Triangle Away to reset binary counter.
Reboot into cwm and use rom/kernel wipe scripts from here.
Reboot into download mode and flash your stock rom via ODIN from sammobile.com
By the way, if you have a battery issue just replace battery?
TheATHEiST said:
Install/run Triangle Away to reset binary counter.
Reboot into cwm and use rom/kernel wipe scripts from here.
Reboot into download mode and flash your stock rom via ODIN from sammobile.com
By the way, if you have a battery issue just replace battery?
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Replaced the battery. Same issue. I think it has something to do with the phone itself.
Thanks for the feedback though
Hi guys i have a issue here.
My phone was initially rooted in clockworkmod and running cyogenomod 10. But the rom kept hanging which pisses me a little.
So, i did a stock rom install using odin. After the reflash, i can see and hear the startup music, thereafter, it starts to restart. From there on, it reloops at the samsung S3 GT-I9300.
I tried to send to samsung for repair and they couldnt resolve this. Instead the recovery mode was restored back to the original (without clockworkmod now).
With my issues, can you guys help me on this whether can i restore the phone again? Appreciate your comments!
*BTW, i had backup in clockworkmod on my external sd card.
factory reset
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factory reset
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sorry, i am noob on this, how do i do a factory reset?
kamiru21 said:
sorry, i am noob on this, how do i do a factory reset?
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BASICS
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1927113
or return the phone to a service centre .
jje
Could not do factory reset in software because i cant even get to that.
Did the "reset" in recovery mode by deleting user data files, doesn't work
Is this a complete brick for me?
I do not wanna send in the phone for the MB changeout till i can resolve this.
Anyone knows what to do next? Appreciate the help given.
kamiru21 said:
Could not do factory reset in software because i cant even get to that.
Did the "reset" in recovery mode by deleting user data files, doesn't work
Is this a complete brick for me?
I do not wanna send in the phone for the MB changeout till i can resolve this.
Anyone knows what to do next? Appreciate the help given.
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If you wont read the basics then yes take to service and pay for a repair as you do not have a clue what you are doing its safer .
jje
I also think something went wrong while flashing. As stated above, try factory reset and flash again. My guess would be you forgot to wipe your (Dalvik) cache, had a similar problem.
JJEgan said:
If you wont read the basics then yes take to service and pay for a repair as you do not have a clue what you are doing its safer .
jje
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Yes, i will try to read the rest. Seems a lot though.
kuhfi said:
I also think something went wrong while flashing. As stated above, try factory reset and flash again. My guess would be you forgot to wipe your (Dalvik) cache, had a similar problem.
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u meant the deletion of the cache in recovery mode?
If that is, i had done that also.
You said Samsung didn't manage to fix it? It it was a local repair center?
The only thing to do is to flash a whole complete stock Rom with Odin, see in stock roms there's I'm general section to grab one. You can try also to use Samsung s3 toolkit in original android section, stickies.. if you have a Rom image it will be easier to flash it with it no risk messing with Odin settings.
Perhaps you should read about pit corruption, it can be this also.
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You said Samsung didn't manage to fix it? It it was a local repair center?
The only thing to do is to flash a whole complete stock Rom with Odin, see in stock roms there's I'm general section to grab one. You can try also to use Samsung s3 toolkit in original android section, stickies.. if you have a Rom image it will be easier to flash it with it no risk messing with Odin settings.
Perhaps you should read about pit corruption, it can be this also.
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Yes, it is the official samsung service centre. And their service and knowledge really sucks....(in my country)
Thx bro, i will read up and check on PIT corruption as well.
kamiru21 said:
Hi guys i have a issue here.
My phone was initially rooted in clockworkmod and running cyogenomod 10. But the rom kept hanging which pisses me a little.
So, i did a stock rom install using odin. After the reflash, i can see and hear the startup music, thereafter, it starts to restart. From there on, it reloops at the samsung S3 GT-I9300.
I tried to send to samsung for repair and they couldnt resolve this. Instead the recovery mode was restored back to the original (without clockworkmod now).
With my issues, can you guys help me on this whether can i restore the phone again? Appreciate your comments!
*BTW, i had backup in clockworkmod on my external sd card.
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Just a short update, i had install clockworkmod. But still facing similar issues.
Tried PIT flashing method, still no help...
Hello.. I have faced similar issue in India with looping of logo on my Galaxy S3.
I went to the official service center and they flashed my phone 2 times with original stock rom but the issue did not go.
Finally they have to replace my phone's mother board completely and it got resolved.
I am still not sure how this has happened or is it some kind of virus.. but i was watching a video and my phone hanged and looping of logo started on my S3.
Good that my phone was under warantee so i did not have to pay any money...
But some senior members should through some light on it...
Hi Guys,
i managed to get it back to stock rom by flashing the below linked rom.
The samsung service are really......What they can't solve, they would use the worst scenario which is to change the board...
Actually i have been charged (30 bucks) by them which they can't resolve. They told me that they had flashed the ROM and that incured the charges....I was thinking wat dafuq....Cannot resolve still have the cheek to charge me. Anyway in short, they void my warranty because they saw the cwm. They were very happy when they saw that.... Anyway the warranty left 3 months, not of a issue to me.
For people who have the same issue with me, just flashed the rom (JB) that was in the below link. All the best.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1825272
And not forgetting the seniors and juniors whom helped. Appreciate that!