hey, i'm fairly new to androids and rooting, i was running a biftor rom and everything was going fine, from what i can remember ROM Manager asked me if i'd like to update some binary or something it said it would automatically reboot into CWM but when it rebooted it didn't load CWM instead it just got stuck on the boot screen with an exclamation mark, when i try and enter recovery mode i get the empty battery logo but the circle underneath the battery that usually spins around is froze, the phone has full charge as it's been on charge all night, i can still enter download mode, I've tried to reflash the recovery with 0din but i get more problems with odin getting stuck on 'setup connection' and 'nand write start' can someone give me some advice please? I'm on an S2 i9100 btw, thanks.
Lesmiff said:
hey, i'm fairly new to androids and rooting, i was running a biftor rom and everything was going fine, from what i can remember ROM Manager asked me if i'd like to update some binary or something it said it would automatically reboot into CWM but when it rebooted it didn't load CWM instead it just got stuck on the boot screen with an exclamation mark, when i try and enter recovery mode i get the empty battery logo but the circle underneath the battery that usually spins around is froze, the phone has full charge as it's been on charge all night, i can still enter download mode, I've tried to reflash the recovery with 0din but i get more problems with odin getting stuck on 'setup connection' and 'nand write start' can someone give me some advice please? I'm on an S2 i9100 btw, thanks.
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reflash the recovery via Odin??? or you mean you flashed a stock rom?
Reflash the ROM or flash back to stock Android via Odin
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Above poster is correct, need to re flash a stock ROM via Odin.
Just needed to say here though, never use ROM manager on an i9100. It's a sure-fire way to screw things up or brick, as you unfortunately found out the hard way :/
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hi, i have just recently got another galaxy s2 after nicely cracking the screen on my old one :S the stats are as follows
galaxy s2
4.0.3
i9100xxlps
3.0.1519100xwlp7sl340913
i downloaded and flashed the closest kernal which was xxlp6 and now it seems stuck in the start up screen, odin flashes it successfully and it starts to reboot but all i have on screen is samsung galaxys11 with yellow triangle and it just hangs there and won't go any further, i've left if for almost an hour now, i followed the instructions to the letter so i don't know whats gone wrong, i have found and downloaded the speedmod kernal and tried to flash that over using odin, again it says successfull but will not go past the loading screen, please help i don't know what to do or what i could have possibly done wrong
thanks in advance, emma
If you can enter Recovery Mode, wipe data from it.
Try removing battery for 5-10 mins and put it back in and try.
Again try recovery mode also..
Cheers
emma129 said:
hi, i have just recently got another galaxy s2 after nicely cracking the screen on my old one :S the stats are as follows
galaxy s2
4.0.3
i9100xxlps
3.0.1519100xwlp7sl340913
i downloaded and flashed the closest kernal which was xxlp6 and now it seems stuck in the start up screen, odin flashes it successfully and it starts to reboot but all i have on screen is samsung galaxys11 with yellow triangle and it just hangs there and won't go any further, i've left if for almost an hour now, i followed the instructions to the letter so i don't know whats gone wrong, i have found and downloaded the speedmod kernal and tried to flash that over using odin, again it says successfull but will not go past the loading screen, please help i don't know what to do or what i could have possibly done wrong
thanks in advance, emma
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What you should do is try get into recovery (vol up+home+power) and wipe cache and data reset then reboot. If that doesn't work or you can't get into recovery then go into download mode, flash stock firmware and then use a kernel like siyah or fluxi that work on i9100 and give you root wit cwm recovery.
The Skinny: updated to JB yesterday, worked great! phone died. wouldn't turn on after charging, kept booting to recovery.. so decided to go back to to stock with odin3 and then re-flash JB.
The Problem Now: stuck on "Over Stock" logo. can't get to recovery, or download.. though odin does still recognize the phone in bricked state, it can't effect any change to the device.
is there any hope??
ferther more..
every once in a while it will power on into download mode, but odin doesn't seem to be doing the trick.. but other times it boots into an "upload mode".
well out of my depth.. someone help!
Google ezbase recovery kit and try that. Even when it's for the i9000 you can use it. You can flash to stock after that.
failed
it failed miserably.. now it shows the GT-I9000 boot screen as it loops infinitely. though on the bright side, download mode is accessible again though even flashing stock wont wipe the GT-I9000 residual effects from it. more suggestions??
So I've been using my S3 GT-I9300 for a few weeks with Ultima Rom v13 and everything was fine until a few moments ago. My phone entered a boot loop. I cannot access recovery mode as the phone restarts a few seconds after the recovery menu opens and I cannot access download mode either as it also restarted a few seconds after i start download mode. I would take my phone in but the problem is that I have the red exclamation mark in the top left corner and don't know how it affects the warranty. This is the second time this has happened to me although the first time i did not have the red exclamation even though i was using a custom rom. The last time i gave it in for repairs my phone was ready for collection about 2 hours after I handed it in so I'm guessing there is a way to restore it. Anybody know how to deal with this?
You can only get rid of the exclamation mark by ressetting the flash counter, which you can't do because you can't boot to android.
You can try reflash stock rom via odin but I don't hold out much hope
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2219755
Should help.
AndroidPlant said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2219755
Should help.
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Which is what I just said. Although not sure where you're getting "should help" from.since we dont know the root cause, we can't know the solution. Any amount of help we gauge is purely a guess
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When you use flash counter reset on custom ROM, sometimes the count may still show 1 even after reset. I had this problem earlier before sending to warranty.
This is what I did to remove the ! mark and reset the counter to 0
1. Flash stock firmware (counter still will shows 1, don't worry.)
2. Root your device
3. Install flash counter and reset. Flash back stock firmware again. Reboot.
# In case you're stuck on bootloop after flashing stock firmware, get into recovery mode and factory reset your device. Reboot.
It worked for me, I hope it should workfor you too. In case you're stuck on bootloop after flashing stock firmware, get into recovery mode and factory reset your device. Reboot.
This is the second time I've had this happen to me. The problem is that I can't get into download mode because the phone reboots as soon as I open download mode. The first time i was on an older version without the red exclamation. Last time I gave it in my phone was ready a few hours later so I'm curios to know how else I can fix it
Seems like the power button is broken or stuck. Maybe thats why it keeps rebooting even in download or recovery.
So I was able to get it into download mode. What I did was plug it in to my PC then while it was rebooting i would enter download mode and before it rebooted again I removed the battery while it was still plugged in. This allowed me to press volume up and enter download mode. I am going to flash stock firmware and see what happened. It very strange though. It stays in download mode but as soon as i put the battery in the phone reboots. I'll see what happens after the flash
So i flashed the stock firmware and everything went fine according to Odin. When I put the battery back in the phone was still in a boot loop except there is no red exclamation mark.
For warranty purposes, would it still be valid id download mode says
Custom Binary Download: Yes (2 counts)
Current Binary: Samsung Official
System Status:Custom
No warranty is void with rom count and modified custom status .
jje
having the same problem with the writer of this thread any update?
well hello guys my friend bricked my other friends well he tried to install a custom rom using odin and it lead the phone to be bricked there was a message saying firmware upgrade issue please connnect to kies and i dont remeber the rest but i followe a tutorial about how to fix it which was with odin flashin a cwm when i flashed the phone was turning one but only when it connects to charge and stuck on galaxy logo
well then after searching it turned out i need to flash it with omap well i did it but now i get "logo.jpg' draw failed
when i try to enter the download mode i get 'ani_upload_unknown_4_reset.jpg' draw error well i flashed the original sbl.bin params.lfs mho which i extracted from the stock firmware the same problem my theory its that it cant draw the images from the sbl.bin for some error and i cant use a jig to enter force dowload mode still i have to wait or my jig to arrive
so any ideas .. is it possible to edit the images on the sbl.bin or try to pass it so it wont load the images? any tips help please
did you flash the good firmware? the Galaxy s2 plus firmware and not the galaxy s2 firmware cause the phones are a bit different
and much people are doing that
I can't even flash any rom
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The phone won't get in download mode but when I try t get and get the ani_upload_ jpg error it gets stuck at setup connection in Odin
Is theres any way to flash. A firmware with Omap ? Or kernel or anything that would make the phone gets on download mode
(BP)blackclouds said:
I can't even flash any rom
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The phone won't get in download mode but when I try t get and get the ani_upload_ jpg error it gets stuck at setup connection in Odin
Is theres any way to flash. A firmware with Omap ? Or kernel or anything that would make the phone gets on download mode
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i don't know that much from galaxy s2plus and omapflashing but also look here i think that you've already readed it but i wil watch tomorrow to it and find it out if it can or not.http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1701471 watch by download or uboot i need to sleep now hope you also can make some progress in the night
and can you also explain advanced what you al did so we know a bit how it go wrong or where so we know where to look for
tried
wulsic said:
i don't know that much from galaxy s2plus and omapflashing but also look here i think that you've already readed it but i wil watch tomorrow to it and find it out if it can or not.http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1701471 watch by download or uboot i need to sleep now hope you also can make some progress in the night
and can you also explain advanced what you al did so we know a bit how it go wrong or where so we know where to look for
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well i stayed up all night and somehow i manager to use omapflash and flashed some files ok so and the phone is on download mode really somehow i didnt know what i did then on odin i forgot to the tick the reparition so it said error after that i tried again and its now stuck on setupconnection so i tturned the phone off then tried to turn it back on or get into download mode nothing on screen
but when trying to enter the download mode still its detetcetd on odin but nothing on screen and it stuck on setupconnection idk why but ill try
when i was about to go to sleep and turned my lights off i noticed that screen was on but the light wasnt that strong i guess the screen isnt broeken or something cause if so clikcing the voloume up would get me in download mode
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well i stayed up all night and somehow i manager to use omapflash and flashed some files ok so and the phone is on download mode really somehow i didnt know what i did then on odin i forgot to the tick the reparition so it said error after that i tried again and its now stuck on setupconnection so i tturned the phone off then tried to turn it back on or get into download mode nothing on screen
but when trying to enter the download mode still its detetcetd on odin but nothing on screen and it stuck on setupconnection idk why but ill try
when i was about to go to sleep and turned my lights off i noticed that screen was on but the light wasnt that strong i guess the screen isnt broeken or something cause if so clikcing the voloume up would get me in download mode
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i don't really know much things but i think the .pit file was going to be flashed but you need to repartition to do it so if you
and last option is to check this btw i know you have a problem with download mode but what says if you enter recovery mode with
volume button up+Homebutton and 3 seconds power button?
check also this link out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261153
also try reinstalling the usb drivers
since your phone still can boot up i think the phone is soft bricked
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i don't really know much things but i think the .pit file was going to be flashed but you need to repartition to do it so if you
and last option is to check this btw i know you have a problem with download mode but what says if you enter recovery mode with
volume button up+Homebutton and 3 seconds power button?
check also this link out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261153
also try reinstalling the usb drivers
since your phone still can boot up i think the phone is soft bricked
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yeah i manager to get it to odin and flashed the stock recovery and reparition it
but not it stuck on the samsung animation logo
after that i installed the CM rom with CWM still the same stuck on cyanogenmod screen
on recovery mode it says failed to mount:efs argument error i think the error is cause of efs thing not sure what it is
(BP)blackclouds said:
yeah i manager to get it to odin and flashed the stock recovery and reparition it
but not it stuck on the samsung animation logo
after that i installed the CM rom with CWM still the same stuck on cyanogenmod screen
on recovery mode it says failed to mount:efs argument error i think the error is cause of efs thing not sure what it is
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so you have now managed to get to odin and flashed the recovery.
if so if you install the rom and like that don't forget to wipe data/factory reset and wipe dalvik cache
efs has to do with baseband imei and like that and blackclouds if you manage to get into odin then i would say to flash the original stock firmware if the device is charged 100% and then later to flash philz kernel to root and then to install custom rom and remove yellow triangle with chainfire's app.
See further for Efs by this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1308546 hope i could help you a bit without owning a Plus.
wulsic said:
so you have now managed to get to odin and flashed the recovery.
if so if you install the rom and like that don't forget to wipe data/factory reset and wipe dalvik cache
efs has to do with baseband imei and like that and blackclouds if you manage to get into odin then i would say to flash the original stock firmware if the device is charged 100% and then later to flash philz kernel to root and then to install custom rom and remove yellow triangle with chainfire's app.
See further for Efs by this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1308546 hope i could help you a bit without owning a Plus.
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flashed the stock still the same problem custom rom still the same it's just idk how to mount the efs or fix the partition or get the efs.img to flash it via odin idk im lost my friend xD
after searching and trying to fix the efs nothing turned out to help on google or here so i came up with my own solution it was failing to mount the esf soo i just used the adb to make a new folder called esf the phone fianlly booted up thanks god well staying up all night helped lol
sometimes googling and searching dont help just using m own brain better
well the imei maybe null but i think it will work here xD
well you need the imei to go to playstore but good that you got it finally booting up goodluck with your or your friends phone hope that i could help also a bit.
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Hello,
I have a S3 which is stuck in a bootloop at the samsung logo.
when i turn it on it shows the logo for some seconds then the screen goes black and the logo re-appears.
i can not boot into recovery mode, but download mode is working without a problem every time.
i tried flashing stock firmwares with odin and also tried kies emergency firmware recovery. the flashing always went without any problem, but it had effect. whatever i try, i am never able to boot into recovery and still stuck in the bootloop.
in some tries after flashing the screen just shows the samsung logo forever, but after rebooting it once it then is stuck in a bootloop again (shows the logo - screen goes black - shows the logo...)
i also tried flashing TWRP and CWM via odin, but again i can never boot into recovery mode.
what should i try next?
thx alot for any helpful comment
Varjo said:
Hello,
I have a S3 which is stuck in a bootloop at the samsung logo.
when i turn it on it shows the logo for some seconds then the screen goes black and the logo re-appears.
i can not boot into recovery mode, but download mode is working without a problem every time.
i tried flashing stock firmwares with odin and also tried kies emergency firmware recovery. the flashing always went without any problem, but it had effect. whatever i try, i am never able to boot into recovery and still stuck in the bootloop.
in some tries after flashing the screen just shows the samsung logo forever, but after rebooting it once it then is stuck in a bootloop again (shows the logo - screen goes black - shows the logo...)
i also tried flashing TWRP and CWM via odin, but again i can never boot into recovery mode.
what should i try next?
thx alot for any helpful comment
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You can Try this:
1.) Pull out battery
2.) Put it in again
3.) Press Vol up + home + power
4.) When the Samsung Logo appears let it off
I think you press the Buttons too long.
I had the same problem!
S1ay3r666 said:
I think you press the Buttons too long.
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i really tried everything, it's not working. btw with i am stuck at the very first image, where it says "samsung Galaxy sII GT-I9300".
i dont think it's just the way i press the buttons because i can reach it on my s1 and s2 without a problem, it's just not working on this device.
could some setting like "nand erase all" in odin help? in other threads there is sometimes mentioned that the internal file system might be screwed up and in those cases a simple odin reflash does not help anymore...
Nand erase will usually hard brick it. Try the rescue firmware from general forum, sticky thread. Follow the guide exactly as it includes a pit file.
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boomboomer said:
Try the rescue firmware from general forum, sticky thread. Follow the guide exactly as it includes a pit file.
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thx, but i already did that (multiple times) and flashing via odin always succeeds. then the phone reboots and is stuck at the first samsung galaxy s.. screen. twice i managed somehow to get into recovery (after flashing cwm6) but it then randomly rebooted.
and i dont think that the power button is stuck because when i am in download mode it is perfectly fine it never reboots itself unexpectedly.
Had a similar issue on my tab2 p3100. It all happened when I tried flashing a custom recovery from rom manager.
A bad flash of anything related to recovery or bootloader could be a probable cause.
I remember a knowledge share on one of the threads describing this issue and as mentioned on it all I had to do is this:
1) switch off the device and plug in the charger. This would light up the display showing you the charging status. The status has to show if at least your bootloader part of the phone is fine.
2) plug out the charger and immediately press the three buttons (home + vol up + power) get into recovery mode. This step has to work and help you get to recovery mode.
***Note : the interval within which this step has to be performed is too short since the display would turn off immediately as soon as you plug out the charger. A bit tricky too so you have to be fast. If this misses getting you into recovery, pull out the battery and put it back again. Repeat step1 and 2 again.
3) upon successfully getting into recovery, perform wipe data, cache and select reboot phone from option available on recovery again.
Allow the device to boot. This could take a while since you have performed a data wipe and may prompt for first time set up.
I was able to restore functionality on my tab after these steps and like ppl learn from their mistakes, I then learnt that recoveries and bootloaders are things that needs to be done with a pc only.
Worth a try if you have tried other alternatives and found no go. may help. Who knows..
all the best.
thats also not working. i tried to get into recovery since two days now...
i also tried the steps from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/help/solved-pit-bricked-dead-problem-gt-t2535367
but again, after i flash the cf-root (successfully) the phone does neither boot into recovery by itself nor can i do it by hand...
its crazy... in download mode i can see the model number (GT-I9300) and i thought as long as the model number is there and i can enter download mode there should be a way to recover the device.
but i cannot think of anything to try that i have not done yet
If the rescue firmware didn't help then it looks like the emmc chip is damaged.
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If the rescue firmware didn't help then it looks like the emmc chip is damaged.
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is there a way to make certain of this? how can i tell if it is really a hardware damage and not just a software brick?
i just dont want to let the phone go, it looks still so shiny
is there anything else that could cause the phone not booting into recovery mode after flashing custom recoveries?
Varjo said:
is there a way to make certain of this? how can i tell if it is really a hardware damage and not just a software brick?
i just dont want to let the phone go, it looks still so shiny
is there anything else that could cause the phone not booting into recovery mode after flashing custom recoveries?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/gala...-help-t2737707
Same here, still didn't found how to fix it.. I guess our motherboard just died..
Howewer I have a solution that "almost" worked for me.
Get a stock firmware in odin and turn on Nand erase and T-flash
When it's done phone reboots and you'll see just "Downloading..." mode when you turn it on.
Then got to Kies and Select firmware recovery...
Enter s/n and model name and wait for the flash to complete.
With it , I got past boot logo and actually booted into android but the phone crashed because I guess I have a memory issue..
Well , gl. If you don't find anything else helpful , try going with this method..