I knew I'll break it one day so no big surprise here.
Let me start from the beginning. I was testing a new ROM (C-ROM to be exact) but i didn't like it's using TWRP (I hate this thing, i'm used to CWM), so I tried installing CWM by using ROM Manager so I can restore from my Nandroid backup. Despite the "success" message of ROM Manager - the phone kept booting into TWRP recovery so i googled a "flashable cwm zip" and found this: CWM Recovery v6.0.4.5 for Galaxy S2 GT-i9100 ZIP
I flashed the above zip using TWRP (success message followed) but when i rebooted the phone - NOTHING came up. I thought myself i bricked it but i managed to go to download mode.
Where do i go from here? I guess i'll have to use PC Odin from here but i don't know what to do exactly (i'm not power user).
C'mon...You don't know how to flash a rom with Odin ? Not like it's a great secret, you don't need to be a 'power user', this info is easily found by searching (or even looking in the thread stickied near the top of Q&A titled 'Flash stock firmware').
Get a stock rom from Samfirmware, flash it with instructions in that thread. Problems with Odin flash ? Hopper8's 'Odin troubleshooting' thread stickied in General has all the info you need to get a successful flash.
Edit - Also, it was Rom Manager that broke your recovery. Don't use it. Yes, you may have been using it for a long time without problems, but that changed today, didn't it ? Eventually what happened to you will happen to everyone who uses Rom Manager on the I9100. It's unnecessary.
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C'mon...You don't know how to flash a rom with Odin ? Not like it's a great secret, you don't need to be a 'power user', this info is easily found by searching (or even looking in the thread stickied near the top of Q&A titled 'Flash stock firmware').
Get a stock rom from Samfirmware, flash it with instructions in that thread. Problems with Odin flash ? Hopper8's 'Odin troubleshooting' thread stickied in General has all the info you need to get a successful flash.
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I only need to know what needs to be done so i don't brick my phone in the process. I only need to boot to CWM recovery so i can restore my nandroid.
psydex said:
I only need to know what needs to be done so i don't brick my phone in the process. I only need to boot to CWM recovery so i can restore my nandroid.
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1) Flash stock rom using 'ODIN'
2) Search for 'Philz' kernel thread and fallow instruction there to 'Root' your 'Stock Rom'.
3) then u can try its recovery to restore the 'Nand bkp' .
4) if the Bkp rom is KK then flash a KK compatible kernel and then try restoring the Nand bkp.
Sun90 said:
1) Flash stock rom using 'ODIN'
2) Search for 'Philz' kernel thread and fallow instruction there to 'Root' your 'Stock Rom'.
3) then u can try its recovery to restore the 'Nand bkp' .
4) if the Bkp rom is KK then flash a KK compatible kernel and then try restoring the Nand bkp.
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I'll try - thank you!
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Hi. I think i soft bricked my phone because its stuck at the logo but i can go to recovery and download mode. i even flashed ms1 stock rom with odin but without the .pit file and no changes. where can i get the pit file and is it the only way?
EDIT:in the stock recovery there is an error saying read only file system
1- You can search "softbrick" and read other users' experiences.
2- If you are looking for your stock firmware, you can search samfirmware.com or your variants development forums.
3- If you can use recovery you can nuke your phone: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2532929
Good luck and get back if you have troubles.
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Hi. I think i soft bricked my phone because its stuck at the logo but i can go to recovery and download mode. i even flashed ms1 stock rom with odin but without the .pit file and no changes. where can i get the pit file and is it the only way?
EDIT:in the stock recovery there is an error saying read only file system
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No, using PIT file is not advisable as it brings more trouble to u
So since its a Boot loop issue for now, Just flash a Custom Kernel like 'Philz' from ODIN and then use its recovery to do a full wipe and then reboot ur phone and check
Search for 'Philz' kernel thread and once there read the first post carefully and act
Dakura said:
1- You can search "softbrick" and read other users' experiences.
2- If you are looking for your stock firmware, you can search samfirmware.com or your variants development forums.
3- If you can use recovery you can nuke your phone: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2532929
Good luck and get back if you have troubles.
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I used rom nuke script before. Any other suggestions?
Sun90 said:
No, using PIT file is not advisable as it brings more trouble to u
So since its a Boot loop issue for now, Just flash a Custom Kernel like 'Philz' from ODIN and then use its recovery to do a full wipe and then reboot ur phone and check
Search for 'Philz' kernel thread and once there read the first post carefully and act
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thank you a thousand times Sun90. after flashing philz my phone booted up:good:
Hello!
I have an i9100 that was rooted but collapsed with a custom rom.
I wanted to reflash the stock rom via Odin (XXLSJ). It worked but I was stuck with a boot loop.
I flashed a matching Philz recovery cwm6-xxlsj-oxx.4.31 via Odin but I cannot access it by pressing volume up + home + power button.
As a matter of fact I tried to flash other cwm versions and non of them would start by using the buttons...
I spent a lot of time looking for answer but haven't found any. I also tried to flash other custom roms via Odin but none of these work.
I would appreciate help a lot! I rooted some phones already but a detailed instruction would be preferable.
Thanks once again!
Find Hopper8's 'Odin troubleshooting' guide stickied in the General section. Download the 3 part stock firmware linked in the thread, flash with Odin (this will wipe your phone). If you have problems with the flash, do the stuff suggested in the thread until you get a successful one. This will give you a 'clean slate'.
From there, you can re-root your thread & flash a custom rom/whatever. How ? Search. 'How to root' has been asked/answered thousands of times here over the past two years; one hint I'm giving you: Thread stickied near top of Q&A has simple root method (others in guides/tutorials stickied near top of General section). So far as flashing a given rom is concerned, flashing instructions are always on the first page of the thread devoted to the rom, and are clear/concise 99.9% of the time.
Best bit of advice I can give you - don't do anything to your phone until you understand what you're doing. Not doing so leads to busted phones. Take your time.
MistahBungle said:
Find Hopper8's 'Odin troubleshooting' guide stickied in the General section. Download the 3 part stock firmware linked in the thread, flash with Odin (this will wipe your phone). If you have problems with the flash, do the stuff suggested in the thread until you get a successful one. This will give you a 'clean slate'.
From there, you can re-root your thread & flash a custom rom/whatever. How ? Search. 'How to root' has been asked/answered thousands of times here over the past two years; one hint I'm giving you: Thread stickied near top of Q&A has simple root method (others in guides/tutorials stickied near top of General section). So far as flashing a given rom is concerned, flashing instructions are always on the first page of the thread devoted to the rom, and are clear/concise 99.9% of the time.
Best bit of advice I can give you - don't do anything to your phone until you understand what you're doing. Not doing so leads to busted phones. Take your time.
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Thank you for the answer. However, I tried those.
I don't have any problem with the flashing of that ROM, it just wouldn't start. It is boot-looping.
I can flash the Siyah kernel via Odin, but I cannot enter CWM after that so I cannot perform that procedure.
Try this
Take out battery,hold vol up + home + power and put the battery back without releasing the buttons.
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Try this
Take out battery,hold vol up + home + power and put the battery back without releasing the buttons.
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Sorry, does not work.
kinda silly question
did you hold them for at least 3 sec?
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kinda silly question
did you hold them for at least 3 sec?
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Of course.
I read now that maybe I need to reflash the bootloader file.
just checked
latest philz for xxlsj is 4.35
TheImpossibleEnemy said:
just checked
latest philz for xxlsj is 4.35
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Flashed it via Odin but still cannot enter recovery by Vol Up + Home + Power.
Stuck with a bootloop with yellow triangle...
szilagyiszabi81 said:
Flashed it via Odin but still cannot enter recovery by Vol Up + Home + Power.
Stuck with a bootloop with yellow triangle...
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Idk,maybe try dorimanx 8.43.Or other stock firmware like xwms3
TheImpossibleEnemy said:
Idk,maybe try dorimanx 8.43.Or other stock firmware like xwms3
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So now I am back on XXKH3. It would not start but I managed to root it like this:
http://www.theandroidsoul.com/how-to-root-xxkh3-firmware-on-galaxy-s2-i9100-guide/
Now there is CWM but it says it cannot mount cache or sd card or nothing.
What can I do?
what are you trying to do?
You can try to format the internal sd card with a pc while booted to cwm.Backup all files important to you before formatting!
connect to a pc,in cwm mount usb storage and format.
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what are you trying to do?
You can try to format the internal sd card with a pc while booted to cwm.Backup all files important to you before formatting!
connect to a pc,in cwm mount usb storage and format.
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So, now I have Dorimanx recovery. I can access it occasionnally.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2058683&highlight=pit
I checked the memory but it is okay.
I tried to format the internal memory but I could not do that nor via pc, neither via CWM.
That should be the solution I guess because anytime I want to install a new custom rom via CWM, there is an error message.
Any suggestion for this?
I would want to install any custom rom and use my phone. That is the goal.
So, I get these messages:
can't copy meta-inf/com/google/android/update-binary
I wanted to run CWM-SuperSU-v0.99 but I get the same that 'Read-only file system'.
What now?
copy the rom you want to flash to the external sd card and try to flash.
Also if that fails,try booting without external sd,maybe it's causing problems.
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copy the rom you want to flash to the external sd card and try to flash.
Also if that fails,try booting without external sd,maybe it's causing problems.
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I figured I should try to reflash a stock rom, then DorimanX 8.43, then CWM-SuperSU and then flash a new rom.
I hope this will work because my inetrnal memory cannot be accessed from the mount USB storage mode in CWM
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szilagyiszabi81 said:
I figured I should try to reflash a stock rom, then DorimanX 8.43, then CWM-SuperSU and then flash a new rom.
I hope this will work because my inetrnal memory cannot be accessed from the mount USB storage mode in CWM
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You don't need to flash cwm supersu because dorimanx kernel is already pre-rooted.
My brother just gave me a S II for mine to keep but it keeps stuck in the recovery logo for like 10 sec and then it shuts down i downloaded Kies and tried the recovery option but that won't work somebody suggestions?
Download stock rom for country/carrier (not Android 4.0.4) from Samfirmware, boot into download mode & flash following instructions in stickied thread near top of Q&A titled 'Flash stock firmware'.
Problems with flashing ? Find Hopper8's 'Odin troubleshooting' thread stickied in General. Simply flashing stock should fix it, but it it still bootloops after flash, boot into recovery & do a factory reset.
Still bootlooping ? Download the 3 part firmware linked in Hopper's thread & flash that with Odin (this will wipe your phone).
If you try all that & still bootloops, post here again.
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Download stock rom for country/carrier (not Android 4.0.4) from Samfirmware, boot into download mode & flash following instructions in stickied thread near top of Q&A titled 'Flash stock firmware'.
Problems with flashing ? Find Hopper8's 'Odin troubleshooting' thread stickied in General. Simply flashing stock should fix it, but it it still bootloops after flash, boot into recovery & do a factory reset.
Still bootlooping ? Download the 3 part firmware linked in Hopper's thread & flash that with Odin (this will wipe your phone).
If you try all that & still bootloops, post here again.
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I don't think the device is rooted i tried with kies but the device wont show up
yssn_l said:
I don't think the device is rooted i tried with kies but the device wont show up
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Did you even tried what @MistahBungle suggested?
No,no root is required to be able to flash via Odin.
TheImpossibleEnemy said:
Did you even tried what @MistahBungle suggested?
No,no root is required to be able to flash via Odin.
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O okay i will try it out
It won't work because the phone keeps going off i will try charge the phone the whole night
The device will stay on now i will try the instructions now
My Phone had stock 4.1.2 as far version is concerned idont exactly remeber it but it was april 2013 one i think
I tried to root my phone GT-i9100 using the Odin flash using Jeboo Kernel for GT-i9100 Then CWM recover mode came and i have used CM 11 Moon shot and upon reboot i was in CWM Recovery Mode again and this happend like everytime if i power off or reboot i was in CWM recovery mode
So i used odin agian but this time with Siyah-s2-v5.0.1 surprisingly i can use recovery mode on 1st reboot but upon 2nd reboot the boot just stuck in the Siyah logo and i tried agian with Siyah-s2-v6.0b5 with odin but still the phone is stuck with Siyah logo
i do have access to recoverymode and download mode
Please help me to recover my phone
Thank You
As of now i can only go to Download mode and i have Kies installed on my Win 8
Your phone isn't bricked if you have download mode (probably), chill out.
Download stock firmware for country/carrier (not 4.0.4) from Samfirmware, flash following instructions in thread stickied near top of Q&A title 'Flash stock firmware'. Problems with flash ? Hopper8's 'Odin troubleshooting' thread has all the info you need to get a successful flash. If you do have problems with the flash, you need to go through the stuff in Hopper's thread methodically & as many times as you need to until you get a flash that works. You don't post Odin logs to this thread saying 'But it won't work !!!!'.
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Your phone isn't bricked if you have download mode (probably), chill out.
Download stock firmware for country/carrier (not 4.0.4) from Samfirmware, flash following instructions in thread stickied near top of Q&A title 'Flash stock firmware'. Problems with flash ? Hopper8's 'Odin troubleshooting' thread has all the info you need to get a successful flash. If you do have problems with the flash, you need to go through the stuff in Hopper's thread methodically & as many times as you need to until you get a flash that works. You don't post Odin logs to this thread saying 'But it won't work !!!!'.
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Thanks for ur response Mr.Bungle and thanks for pointing out Hoppers8's thread yeah i guess it inst bricked oops huh guess i need to patient these days before coming to a conclusion
well after a while i have installed philz rom, CWM & CM 11 moon shot all went fine but every time the system reboots before CM screen shows up the yellow warning is displayed and after booting in to CM11 i checked there is only 790 MB of RAM available to verify this i checked in to apps manager it says 310 Used & 483 Free when it was in JB 4.1.2 stock rom all the 1 GB was displayed with 785 something MB available
How can i reclaim the RAM, will using anyother rom will solve the issue
I've been an idiot and managed to wipe my OS. I have TWRP and I was wondering what the easiest way to recover my OS would be.
Am I right in thinking I can get a stock rom from samsung updates, stick it on the SD card and flash it on?
IF so, can any of you give me detailed instructions or point me to some?
Thanks.
If you still have your recovery partition intact then u can just download a custom ROM (flashable zip file format) of your choice and flash thru TWRP. Hey presto fone fixed.
Check out the S3 android and original android dev pages, look thru them till you see one you like. Preferably pre-rooted.
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Go to sammobile.com and download the latest stock rom for your country. Follow the guide in general forum on how to flash with Odin.
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Go to sammobile.com and download the latest stock rom for your country. Follow the guide in general forum on how to flash with Odin.
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Odin doesn't seem to work for me, I boot into TWRP, connect via USB with Odin up and nothing changes.
Follow the guide, Odin uses download mode not recovery.
If you keep doing things without reading and understanding first then you will hard brick it.
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Odin doesn't seem to work for me, I boot into TWRP, connect via USB with Odin up and nothing changes.
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@boomboomer is right you need to stop panicking sit back and read the stickies in the general thread >> http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/general/samsung-galaxy-s3-sticky-roll-thread-t2344125 << you are lacking basic knowledge and need to read up or you will end up with a paper weight as a phone.:crying:
I fixed it with a custom ROM via SD Card and install in TWRP. Sorry I forgot how to enter download mode as opposed to recovery mode. Thanks for all your help everyone.