Help Please...I really need some now.
I had my phone unlocked and everything was fine. I have been updating the resurrection remix roms and enjoying them a lot. I was up to ver. 1.7. The problem is that I had some of the screen issues (fine horizontal lines on the screen) and I decided to get the phone repaired. I just got the phone back today and I noticed that Bell repair shop had wiped everything off my phone and put their stock version of ics on and the phone was no longer rooted. I have been trying to root the phone a few times now through Odin (like I did half a year ago) and at first it failed due to not being able to open the serial port. I opened Kies and the phone connected so I knew the drivers were ok. I tried Odin again and this time it went through and gave me a pass......but on reboot, it just hangs on the Samsung screen and I cannot turn the phone on at all now. I either am stuck on this screen or the CWM screen, but it won't carry out any command ie. power off, open zip from scard etc. I really need some help and quite worried about the phone now.
Please, please help
you allowed usb debugging?, go back to download mode and flash a kernel with root.
Go to download mode and flash a stock kernel. If you are unable to get into download mode because you said that your phone wont accept any commands for example pressing buttons then you could buy an USB jig. This will bring you directly to download mode. That would propably be your last chance.
Then flash a stock kernel back on there. Maybe the exact same which was on there before. Or just flash a stock full ICS Rom.
Frozenthunder said:
Go to download mode and flash a stock kernel. If you are unable to get into download mode because you said that your phone wont accept any commands for example pressing buttons then you could buy an USB jig. This will bring you directly to download mode. That would propably be your last chance.
Then flash a stock kernel back on there. Maybe the exact same which was on there before. Or just flash a stock full ICS Rom.
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Yahoo!! I finally got the thing unstuck. I tried the Odin procedure again but this time I downloaded a more updated root kernel. It passed, then on bootup it wasn't stuck in space......although it still did not boot up properly. It ended up going just black...with no screen whatsoever. But the CMW program was working though and I was able to do a system restore from a month ago. I was very happy and very lucky I made that backup. Now, not only do I make the Titanium backup, but I also do a backup from the CMW program.....because now I know it's possible to freeze up before I ever get a chance to use Titanium. A good lesson indeed.
I was using my phone at work 3 days ago during lunch and it was running fine. I was playing a new Kairosoft game. Once my lunch was over I put the phone in my pocket and I went off to work. When my shift ended I pulled out my phone and it was stuck in a bootloop with the Cyanogen logo. I rebooted it and nothing worked. I went into CWM to re install the ROM and it freezes every time. I used oden to try and fix it to go back and unroot my phone to start fresh. I stepped out of my room to use the restroom and my little curious nephew comes in and grabs my phone in the middle of an update. Now when I turn the phone on it says firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again. I downloaded keys and it didn't recognize my phone. I can't even get into clockwork mod recovery anymore. On Odin it has the yellow bar and when I try and flash the files I need to go back to stock it fails when it writes the NAND. I really miss my phone. It has been a while since I have been here. I don't know if my phone is a ICS. I got it last year. I have searched everywhere and nothing seems to work. I'll keep searching because I am determined to get it fixed but I don't want to flash the wrong thing. My phone still goes to Download Mode. According to what I have read it means that it's still salvageable. I hope so. Thanks for the help!
If you can boot into download mode then just flash a rom from there? Problem solved
jthatch12 said:
If you can boot into download mode then just flash a rom from there? Problem solved
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+1 it's all in the stickies
Hi everyone! Kinda my first post here so be gentle
I have a S3 which i rooted almost instantly when i purchased it a year ago. Haven't had any kind of problems with it until now. Over the year i've tried most of the roms out there but now i decided to try the rom called "illusion" (don't know if this problem is related tho!)
It was working fine for a couple of days but suddenly today my phone started bootloopin. I can't even go into CWM or download mode. Sometimes it can stay in CWM och even boot up but after like 2 minutes it restarts again. I've managed to wipe everything once but no change. Was able to install a new rom BARELY, then it restarted again. I've tried remove SD and/or SIM but no change. Ain't working with a usbcable either.
What can I do? Seeing that I can't stay in download mode to use ODIN.
I'd appreciate any help.
a USB recovery jig may be your best shot otherwise its a service center repair
Hi, I've been browsing the forums for people's attempts to fix a problem. At first the phone just turned off and I was unable to turn it on because it was stuck in a boot loop. The rom I had running was an ICS stock rom from hk. During this time i was still able to get into download mode but unable to enter recovery. I have tried many times to get to recovery and then tried to flash with several stock roms too. Upon failing around 10 times I moved on to a custom rom.
This one here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/help/guide-26-12-flash-stock-firmware-rom-t2365701
The Jelly bean one here.
Upon failing from this too and unable to do anything but reset the phone and try again. I managed to turn it off... but now unable to turn it on in any way or get into download mode or recovery.
Is there anything I can try to do to get the phone to be working? What can I do?
Try a jig but understand it's very unlikely to get you into download mode. Service centre or local mobile repair shop for diagnosis (I also doubt it will be JTAG'able).
Edit - Also, search for KingRat's 'jump start' method where you try & boot the phone with just the charger/without the battery.
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Hi, I've been browsing the forums for people's attempts to fix a problem. At first the phone just turned off and I was unable to turn it on because it was stuck in a boot loop. The rom I had running was an ICS stock rom from hk. During this time i was still able to get into download mode but unable to enter recovery. I have tried many times to get to recovery and then tried to flash with several stock roms too. Upon failing around 10 times I moved on to a custom rom.
This one here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/help/guide-26-12-flash-stock-firmware-rom-t2365701
The Jelly bean one here.
Upon failing from this too and unable to do anything but reset the phone and try again. I managed to turn it off... but now unable to turn it on in any way or get into download mode or recovery.
Is there anything I can try to do to get the phone to be working? What can I do?
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Don't loose hope mate...
Try remove battery and insert charger (optional)...
Press voldown+home+power button then let someone (your mother, father, brother, sister, neighbor or friends) insert the battery for you while still pressing those 3 keys...
I hope it will enter to download mode again...and report back please...
Try to use an other battery, my original one is fuked up, it does nothing.
I bought a new one and it works
I tried plugging my charger to the phone and pressing the 3 buttons and then having someone plug the battery in for me, still wouldn't start up. Also tried it with another battery i have on hand, also no luck.
You know what the options are then. Ignore people making ridiculous suggestions which don't work. My aim is to be honest with people, tell them the truth, and have them either get their phones fixed or replaced as quickly as possible in this situation (let's face it, nobody likes to be without a phone), rather than fill them with false hope & waste their time.
I think I fried my mobo while trying to flash it cause it does head up the phone without showing anything. I am going to order parts on ebay. I got this confirmed by someone at a shop near where I live, however they won't replace the mobo for me even if i do find a working one.
=) luckily this isn't my phone but my dad's who works at home and doesn't mind using an OLD OLD flip phone just for calls for the time being.
Side question, even if i replace the mobo and I get it booted but I still get stuck in the boot screen loop and unable to flash to any stock roms what can I do?
If you replace the motherboard you should fix it without further problems. New motherboard = new NAND, no more bootloop - unless you flash again & the flash is bad; you can't mitigate the risk of a bad flash, you can only do all the sensible things like making sure you're using a PC with reliable USB ports, that you're flashing the correct firmware for your device, that you're using an original Samsung USB cable. Basically, if you're careful, the risk with any given flash is very low.
So, fix the hardware problem, flash stock for your country/carrier once you've done that, and go from there.
Good night everybody! my dad got this phone a while ago, after like 2 months he told me the phone was going crazy, I checked and was getting FC´s everywhere so get into recovery mode to wipe everything and there´s where problems started. I downloaded stock firmware and installed it but phone wouldn´t boot up, so my dad gave it to a guy that ``fixed it´´ but the problem came back after two weeks or so, the guy ´´fix it ´´ again but when I looked into the phone had no IMEI so didn´t recognized the sim card, the third time the guy got back the IMEI, that was long ago and today when I booted up the phone is having a weird behavior, sometimes gets stucked at the bootloader unlock warning, I restart it and after a couple of times starts the boot up animation but gets stucked at the M and like waving part.
I´ve tried getting into recovery mode but when I press any of those options boots to the warning bootloader. I got it to completley turn on when I pressed the recovery option; not expecting that to happened, but again some force close windows and decided to reboot it to see if would fix it but again to the same place stuck at the warning.
I´ve read many posts here im xda and outside but can´t find a solution. I tried to side load the firmware but looks like the pc doesnt recognize the phone´, when i got it boot up I connected it to the pc but didn´t recognized it, I installed the drivers and still the same.
Guess I need to get it recognized by the pc in order to try to side load a firmware. Sorry for the long post and any mistake, if someone can help to bring back to life this little fella.