Hey guys,
I see that there are a few incidents of this occurring having read the forum and Google. Some advise the device needs 'j-tagged' others seem to have been able to eventually gain access to the Recovery mode.
Here's the low down; S3 was flashed with Cyanogenmod 10.1 and was working fine for months. Last night, as normal, I switched over batteries to a fully charged one. On restarting the phone I was presented with warning about a firmware upgrade that went wrong (can't remember the exact wording as it was late and I was in bed at this stage).
On seeing the warning I tried restarting the phone but same again and then I set it down to deal with it today. Woke up to a white screen and grey lines. I can't get into Recovery mode.
Now I didn't try to upgrade the firmware or anything else, this message just appeared upon changing the batteries and therefore a power cycle.
Odin seems to see the device on Com 5 but after that I am not sure what else to do.
How can I flash a new ROM without Recovery access? Any ideas?
Thanks in advance guys,
Reply to identical question .
Read the stickied basic faqs and guides .
Flash a stock rom via Odin .
JJEgan said:
Reply to identical question .
Read the stickied basic faqs and guides .
Flash a stock rom via Odin .
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Cheers mate.
OP, there was no reason to post this thread twice. Please in the future 1. search before posting. 2. Post only once, not multiple times
Please take a moment to review the forums Rules
Problem sorted. Thanks
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Problem sorted. Thanks
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Just an update for those that may have the same issue.
Sent the phone back to Samsung and they replaced the motherboard ("PBA MAIN") and LCD ("OCTA LCD SVC/RW").
Not sure why they replaced the LCD unless they damaged it replacing the motherboard? Either way phone was returned in new condition as I had originally had a few marks on the chrome strip around the phone, now gone. So well pleased.
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Hi everyone,
Complete Noob here, and not proud of it.
I've been searching through your awesome forum now for the past few days trying to get an answer to a problem I have with my GT-I9300, but unfortunately i just seem to keep coming up with more and more problems. So begrudingly I have come to beg for help in the form of a new thread.
I had the phone running rooted with CWM and Cyanogen 10.1 with a fair amount of problems, it kept locking up.
So i was advised one of the best solutions would be to use a more stable version of Cyanogen so re flashed with 9. It worked pretty brilliantly up until some apps were updating and it just completely froze, at the time this was not a strange occurance because of the previous freezing issues i had. So i just restarted the phone.
I then get a message that the firmware has become corrupted and i need to re-install emergency firmware with Kies, tried this. nothing happened.
It has now come to only allowing me to boot into download mode, if i attempt a standard boot, or a recovery boot it goes into a white screen, which almost looks like static on an old analogue TV.
I am at my complete end with this phone, I have tried many re-flashes and versions of PDA files via ODIN and nothing has worked, I always seem to get a PIT Partition error.
I have now been trying to get this to work for at least 20 hours of my life and its finally enough, I would just be incredibly thankful if someone could let me know the problem and if there is a solution to this, I am yet to find anyone else suffering with this white static picture on boot.
When i boot into download mode, i get the red ODIN MODE setting, no product name, no custom binary download, the current binary is 'Samsung official' and the system status is custom.
I have tried reflashing to samsung stock, and that even fails.
Many thanks in advance. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Reads as you need a service centre either damaged PIY or more likely damaged Nand .
jje
JJEgan said:
Reads as you need a service centre either damaged PIY or more likely damaged Nand .
jje
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Agreed.
Please people, don't go back to ICS! It is unable to prevent your eMMC from death.
I heard that version 9 doesn't have the sudden death fix :/ Sorry mate you gotta take to to repair center.
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cheers everyone. I think deep down i knew that this would be the case.
Big expensive bill for me coming up i imagine.
Thanks again.
Service centre say my phone wont boot i this the sudden death syndrome .
Is what i would ask and just look dumb .
jje
coop_80 said:
cheers everyone. I think deep down i knew that this would be the case.
Big expensive bill for me coming up i imagine.
Thanks again.
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Sudden death :/
Hello!
I have a pretty bad situation going on with my phone. A couple of days ago I got a new battery for it off eBay, and I also flashed ParanoidAndroid 3.97. Around this time the phone kept crashing, the screen would freeze and then nothing. I tried doing a factory reset, and this fixed it for a while. Today it froze, so I turned it off, and it wouldn't boot back into android. I reflashed the ROM, and a load of other ones, but it refuses to boot at all. The closest it gets is the "finishing boot" stage of Android is upgrading and then it just reboots. I am now at a loss.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I can provide extra details if you need it.
George
First what model phone is it .
Second read the faqs and guides .
Third read the Freezing thread .
jje
JJEgan said:
First what model phone is it .
Second read the faqs and guides .
Third read the Freezing thread .
jje
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It's a GT-I9300, I've read everything there is - I know how you guys hate to be bothered by noobs who can't read.
George
Use the original battery, not ebay one. Flash an official stock 4.1.2 rom then factory reset before booting, check for any error messages in recovery.
If it still freezes before booting finishes then probably needs a new motherboard.
Also, don't pull battery or turn off while it's frozen -it's usually trying to deal with bad memory blocks and should resume if left long enough.
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Use the original battery, not ebay one. Flash an official stock 4.1.2 rom then factory reset before booting, check for any error messages in recovery.
If it still freezes before booting finishes then probably needs a new motherboard.
Also, don't pull battery or turn off while it's frozen -it's usually trying to deal with bad memory blocks and should resume if left long enough.
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Thanks for the advice. Is it possible that motherboard issues could have been caused by plugging it into my ASUS TF700 wall charger? I can't believe that Samsung would let that be a thing that could damage it and I only did it once but still.
Will try out your tips ASAP
Thanks
George
EDIT: No dice Thanks for trying
No, a charger would not damage the motherboard.
Hi Guys,
I am new here from South Africa.
I have a problem with my S2. It froze while I was in an application. Nothing would work and the phone just didn't want to power off as well. I then unclipped the battery and then started it up. The phone would not go past the screen which reads Samsung Galaxy SII GT-I9100.
Then I read up and watched a few clips on how to do the rerooting, etc. and attempted it but mine never completed using ODIN 1.85. I then unplugged the device from the PC as nothing was happening, now the phone does not want to boot up. All it shows on screen is a phone (cell phone) and a broken link to a PC.
What would I need to do? My service provider advise that they need to install a new motherboard and it would cost 2500ZAR to fix. I did not believe them as to me this is just a software related issue.
Any help will be appreciated to get my S2 working again.
I will post up a pic of what the screen shows a little later.
You're right about it being a firmware issue/not requiring a motherboard replacement - this is quite likely fixable by you (even though pulling the cable is the absolute worst thing you can do during a flash short of pissing on the phone)
That pic on the screen of the phone----PC means the phone is in 'forced download' mode. You need to flash a stock rom with Odin. Get one from Samfirmware, and flash it following the instructions in the thread stickied near the top of Q&A. If it fails to flash first time, search for Hopper8's 'Odin troubleshooting' thread & try the stuff in that thread until you get a successful flash (hopefully you won't need it).
Thank you for that assistance. I will search for the threads your recommended.
Hi Guys,
A friend of mine will be looking at the phone and seeing what he can do. :good:
There have been a lot of "friends" ruining peoples phones on here....lol
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I tried flashing the Zeus kernel using CWM, but I failed to realize the kernel was for the Verizon S3. When I restarted after flashing, it displayed the Samsung logo for a split second and then went to a black screen. The screen was on, but it only showed black. At this point I passed out, and when I woke up it was still on the black screen. I pulled the battery and tried to restart, and got the same black screen. Then I tried every way I know of (except using a jig) to get into download mode to no avail. Now when I turn it on, it vibrates once, flashes the logo, and then the screen shuts off and is useless. I think there's a solid chance I've ruined it this time, but if anybody has any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Can you access to recovery?
You need to go to the correct forum and ask them this is not your phone its I9300 .
Sticky top of the page .
A guess based on identical posts is that you have blown the digitizer .
JJEgan said:
You need to go to the correct forum and ask them this is not your phone its I9300 .
Sticky top of the page .
A guess based on identical posts is that you have blown the digitizer .
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Sorry if this is the wrong forum, I don't post here often. I'll delete the thread in repost in the correct forum.
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Sorry if this is the wrong forum, I don't post here often. I'll delete the thread in repost in the correct forum.
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Its that hardware is very different advice on here may not apply to you
Hi guys. I have seen and read through plenty of the same problems regarding the bootloop issue on the forum. I seem to be stuck somewhere different so I post this question. I hope someone can help.
I have a standard S3 I-9305 LTE in South Africa. Not rooted before or any mods. But somehow it started bootlooping a couple of weeks ago. I read and implemented the Recovery Mode- Cleared the cache and then rebooted, and it worked, plenty of times.
But now it has gone into a solid bootloop and i cannot access recovery mode. So read up about Download mode and installed Odin, Kies and the Cf Root file on my PC.
Now when I enter Download mode on the phone, and continue( press Volume Up) after the warning, the device restarts again. This I have done a hundred times and each time removing battery and waiting a couple of minutes. So essentially I cannot get Download mode to function but I do have access to it.
So this I know, this is a software , possible ROM problem, NOT hardware as the device worked perfectly after bootloop issue started.
I did the latest Firmware Upgrade to Android 4.2( i think, i r noob in this) yesterday. This was done on the phone itself under About-check-firmware. The Phone worked fine afterwards but then went into this never ending tormenting bootloop without yielding.
I live far from a proper service centre and I need my phone for work, thus very urgent.
I also have checked if the power button is stuck but it is not.
I am prepared to root the device and install any other ROM, Flash anything that can get me back on.
Any advice please?
Thanks in advance
Report your own post and ask a moderator to move it to the i9305 q&a forum.
Sounds like the emmc chip is corrupt or damaged, you may require a new motherboard.
Try plugging your phone into pc before you access download mode, remove the battery before you press volume up.
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Caution and thanks
boomboomer said:
Report your own post and ask a moderator to move it to the i9305 q&a forum.
Sounds like the emmc chip is corrupt or damaged, you may require a new motherboard.
Try plugging your phone into pc before you access download mode, remove the battery before you press volume up.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk
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Hi Boom,
I have seen you have diligently answered many queries, please to be cautious saying it is a motherboard or hardware issue, it makes peoples heart sink before trying other avenues first. But don't get me wrong, the fact that you took the time to answer me makes you my hero. :good: And thanks.
I will try the other option you gave as I know the phone is fine the answer is just a few tries away.