Hi, XDA! I need your help.
So I'm on this unofficial version of CM 12, link : http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/development/wip-cyanogenmod-12-t2936990
I was on Weekly 8/7/6 of it( I don't remember exactly) (refer to changelog, the top entry date 1/4/15 is weekly 10) and wanted to upgrade to weekly 3(refer to changelog), of cm 12.1 made by the same guy who made the rom i was using, link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/development/5-1-x-cyanogenmod-12-1-t3066864. I dirty flashed(if that's what flashing a new rom on top of an old one without factory resetting means) because it was just CM 12.1 ported to S3, and i thought that CM says on it's website that you don't need to factory reset to flash a rom which has a new android version.
When I opened recovery mode, I found out that I had this new recovery, called Cyanogen Recovery. I was like 'Whatevs'. I flashed the new ROM, but about halfway in, it stopped and on the top of the failure report, it said: "cannot load volume /misc" it also said further down "signature verification failed". Now let me tell you that this recovery is pretty limited,no mounting features, no system wiping, no dalvik cache wiping, no signature verification toggle, etc. and on top of that, factory resetting, wiping media or cache didn't show a log of it as it happened, so you didn't know whether it had actually happened. My phone was bricked and it would stay keep going on the starting screen( the head of The CM mascot, the blue android bot, with ripples spreading from it)
I was like 'okay, i can do this'. I connected my phone to my pc, installed samsung usb drivers from the net, installed Odin, downloaded philz touch recovery ( a tar md5 version) (to flash it using ODIN and then flash one of the different cm 12/ cm 11 roms located in my external sd card,using the new recovery) , put the phone in download mode, but Odin wouldnt recognize it. It was admin mode, just so you know. No ID:COM would show up. I tried everything, putting in download mode before connecting it to the PC, reinstalling the drivers, trying different versions of the drivers, trying different versions of Odin, allowing Odin all access and security permissions for all users to my PC, compatibility mode for windows 7(im on win 8), factory resetting, wiping media and cache, using different wires and ports, even the ones on the back of the system unit(system box or CPU), doing all this stuff on my mum's laptop(it's a windows 7 laptop), like doing almost everything. My phone starts charging, so it isn't a problem with the phone. I looked up the issue on Google, and found other people had the volume /misc and signature issue too. My phone starts charging when I connect it, so it isn't an issue with the phone's micro USB port, but if it is, please tell me. I read somewhere that USB debugging might have something to do with it, but I can't change that setting cos' my phone's bricked.
XDA, HELP ME PLEASE!
If you can still go to your cm recovery, you can install philz from there.
https://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/i9300/philz_touch_6.48.4-i9300.zip
Download the zip file, flash it through cm recovery , turn off your phone and boot it to new recovery.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qzgn1abhr4qcmls/Ultimate_Kernel_Cleaning_Script_v1.0_en_SGS3.zip?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/f1zbm0tvsvh5ww5/MegaWipe_-_GS3.zip?dl=0
Also use these two to wipe clean your entire phone even kernel or system leftovers. If odin still doesnt see your phone, try to install a custom rom
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Hello everybody
i just installed cm 7.2 +gapps everything is good except that phone doesn t boot
I tried to go in the recovery but nothing happen
I can go on download mode and i tried to install syiah and philz touch so i can install a new rom
but nothing good ---- pc restart while odin flash
so i uninstalled kies reinstalled usb driver desactivated antivirus and when i wanted to start it stuck at settup connection then in 3 reconds pc restart tried on another pc -- same result i read that is nand rw corruption tried the guide but same --- pc restart
What can i do now? i dont have warrany for sgs2
only recovery works
C'mon. You spend a lot of time in Q&A and should know you should be searching for similar threads (I.E 'troubleshooting Odin won't work' - there are a bunch of things you haven't tried yet). And you should also know you try those steps until it works (because it invariably does eventually).
I doesn't matter i managet and installed siyah tar file somehow now i have a yellow triange (i can get rib of it) and used rom nuke then restored a backup
Hello,
my device (i9300) as mentioned above got stuck in a boot loop.
First I did was I installed the latest pac-man ROM from here. After successful testing I decided to flash the latest OmniRom 4.4 from here.
Now here comes the dilemma with: My Failure was that I had a old Recovery (CWM-based Recovery v5.5.0.4) and I didn't see the point where it says that I have to update it first.
My USB Connection to my PC was already broken before I started to flash any of the ROMs. So I can't connect to the PC to flash via Odin. It fails on the driver installtion. (I copied everything in my cloud and downloaded it to the internal sd)
The Device Manager shows alwas a ! in a yellow triangle near the "Samsung Mobile USB CDC Composite Device" (Download Mode) with a errer code 10: Device cannot start. I did millions of solutions but nothing worked against this issue ...
Currently my device starts where the Samsung galaxy s3 logo pops up, get stuck by that with a red 1 on the upper left corner and boots into the "old" recovery.
This is my Problem. Please help me to fix this (and the USB bug).
Thank you very much
Kind regards,
A.R.Cante
A.R.Cante said:
Hello,
my device (i9300) as mentioned above got stuck in a boot loop.
First I did was I installed the latest pac-man ROM from here. After successful testing I decided to flash the latest OmniRom 4.4 from here.
Now here comes the dilemma with: My Failure was that I had a old Recovery (CWM-based Recovery v5.5.0.4) and I didn't see the point where it says that I have to update it first.
My USB Connection to my PC was already broken before I started to flash any of the ROMs. So I can't connect to the PC to flash via Odin. It fails on the driver installtion. (I copied everything in my cloud and downloaded it to the internal sd)
The Device Manager shows alwas a ! in a yellow triangle near the "Samsung Mobile USB CDC Composite Device" (Download Mode) with a errer code 10: Device cannot start. I did millions of solutions but nothing worked against this issue ...
Currently my device starts where the Samsung galaxy s3 logo pops up, get stuck by that with a red 1 on the upper left corner and boots into the "old" recovery.
This is my Problem. Please help me to fix this (and the USB bug).
Thank you very much
Kind regards,
A.R.Cante
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To fix the USB bug, you must uninstall that driver and download the driver ( try to install kies for example )
To fix the bootloop try to do a full wipe in recovery mode
abidifethi said:
To fix the USB bug, you must uninstall that driver and download the driver ( try to install kies for example )
To fix the bootloop try to do a full wipe in recovery mode
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None of your advices worked. I did unistall all drivers and also Kies. Reinstalled and it doesn't worked. So I uninstalled it again and installed only the drivers but this didn't worked too.
Everytime I uninstall the drivers and connect the device to the PC it is trying to Install the Drivers over Windows Update and Kies isn't reacting at all.
Now since I wiped data/factory reset, cache partition, dalvik cache and formated /system and /preload my device won't start automatically in the recovery anymore. It get stuck on the Samsung Galaxy SIII Logo with the red 1 in the upper left corner. To Access to the Recovery I have to take the battery out and and insert it again and press volume up + home + power.
What can I do now?
Thanks in advance
A.R.Cante said:
None of your advices worked. I did unistall all drivers and also Kies. Reinstalled and it doesn't worked. So I uninstalled it again and installed only the drivers but this didn't worked too.
Everytime I uninstall the drivers and connect the device to the PC it is trying to Install the Drivers over Windows Update and Kies isn't reacting at all.
Now since I wiped data/factory reset, cache partition, dalvik cache and formated /system and /preload my device won't start automatically in the recovery anymore. It get stuck on the Samsung Galaxy SIII Logo with the red 1 in the upper left corner. To Access to the Recovery I have to take the battery out and and insert it again and press volume up + home + power.
What can I do now?
Thanks in advance
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Try to download any custom ROM if you don't done yet and put it in your external sd card ( use an other phone or card reader ) and now try to enter in recovery mode and install it and let us know the result
abidifethi said:
Try to download any custom ROM if you don't done yet and put it in your external sd card ( use an other phone or card reader ) and now try to enter in recovery mode and install it and let us know the result
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I tried this now on my Desktop Computer and it worked fine. I didn't need to install drivers manually. It installed it by itself and therefore i was able to use odin!
I flashed the new recovery and put the omnirom and pa-gapps on my sd card (I also tried this on my notebook but my card reader is maybe broken)
so i installed teamwin recvovery over pc, put rom and gapps on my sd card and flashed them over recovery.
Now all works fine.
Thank you for your help.
But what I don't understand is my Win 7 OS (32 bit) is recently set up on my VM everything was fresh but it didnt recognized my device... Google says a lot of people are having this issues. I've tried everything whenever I found allegedly a solution for this problem. None of them worked. I simply switched the computer and everything is fine. This is ridiculous. One year ago, when I had running windows as main OS, there were no problems at all. If the problem was caused by a virtual machine I think that not many people would complain about this issue.
Kind regards
Why would old Win 7 recognize your device unless you install drivers .
JJEgan said:
Why would old Win 7 recognize your device unless you install drivers .
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I don't really understand your comment. The Problem of this USB error has no root. When your Windows System says error code 10: device cannot start then you have a big problem because you don't know why and how to fix this. Try and Google this. You will find thousands of people complaining the same error. Everyone has other solutions for that. Some edit their registry, others simply do a soft-reset and try another USB-Port.
Samsung support can't help you at all because they don't know why this is happening. And the solving of this problem is really random. i tried for hours to solve this with no success (except switching to another computer).
Windows says on my laptop the device cannot start but it is perfectly connecting to my other computer. How can this happen? I don't know. Maybe the error code 10 is not that specific and there is something other wrong than my device.
Ugh, totally my fault for not thinking this through.
Had downloaded the Paranoid Android ROM, a newer version from what I had, as I had installed it incorrectly.
So I thought, no worries, I'll just reinstall the ROM.
Booted into recovery mode, did a full wipe and then tried to install the new rom, only I couldn't find it anywhere...
Thinking I'll restart the phone and figure it out from there, but of course it doesn't go past the loading screen.
I can boot into download mode, but on my PC if I boot Odin, it doesn't recognize the phone and I get no yellow colour.
Pretty sure my internal SD card still has one or two custom roms on it, but without booting into recovery mode, I can't do much.
Odin doesn't recognize my phone. I installed the drivers from the samsung website, but it is not reading the phone in download mode.
Now I am unsure if there's another driver I need to install, i.e. a USB driver, seeing as this is a brand new pc, but other than that, I'm stuck.
Any ideas are greatly appreciated!
Download galaxy s3 toolkit from original android development section,install it and agree when asked to install drivers , reboot Pc and cross fingers for your Pc to detect your phone in download mode then just flash stock ROM
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If you have a custom recovery (CWM or TWRP), you can use an OTG cable to connect a USB stick to your phone (which will be discovered by CWM, haven't tried TWRP) and install a new ROM with gapps from it...
Of course if you want to install stock, you have to stick with Odin.
Hope it helps
in an earlier thread of mine i said that, quote unquote, "a friend of mine helped me download a custom kernel, but that failed and caused a bootloop. we then tried flashing various other custom roms and eventually they booted up, just to reveal the unsuccessful decryption error". once i managed to solve this i went back to MIUI for a bit and then decided to open the bootloader on another computer, not my main one. i went back to my main computer and i couldn't even connect the phone via fastboot to flash the recovery: it just made the windows 10 usb disconnecting sound and showed, on my phone, "press any key to exit fastboot" or something like that. i went back to that other computer and tried flashing TWRP (it worked, but asked for a non-existent password once again) and then flashed orangefox, which worked. now i'm back on my main computer and i wanted to flash AEX, but i still couldn't connect to the computer. i tried switching ports/cables, what should i do? i do not wanna keep using MIUI, that is just one of the ****tiest ROMs ever.
still lightyears ahead of emui
somehow its common problem on windows 10, try connect using usb hub
if it still happen, try to google it, there's other solution for it, but using usb hub is the best solution imo
Hi all,
I'm trying to get my old s2 to a point where I can think about flashing one of the Lineage roms 14 or 15.
First hurdle is that i need to replace the current custom recovery (Philz 3) with TWRP. Ordinarily I'd do this through Odin and not think twice about it. However I cannot get my windows machine to recognise the USB connection to the phone. It will charge and nothing more. The phone obviously used to connect, many years ago.
Device : Samsung Galaxy sII - GT-I9100 (has root)
Recovery : Philz Touch 3 - CWM Base 6.0.1.8
OS : Jellybean 4.1.2 (stock unbranded)
PCs : Win 7 ent x64, Win 10 ent x64, Win 10 ent x64
I've scoured the forums here and have tried the following to get the usb connection working.
Tried 4 different usb cables across 3 different PCs
Tried with USB debugging on and off
The phone does not have any options to choose the type of USB connection I want (MTP etc)
Tried installing kies and drivers
Tried installing device drivers only (specifically for this model)
Tried installing device drivers (whole package)
Tried switching engineering mode to modem and back to usb through *#7284#
Tried a recovery flashable zip version of twrp 3.0, through Philz (it fails)
Tried cleaning the contacts on the port on the device.
Have stripped out the old device usb port and installed a new one.
Have tried to install mobile odin but it fails to get update (addon package from xda, and will not run)
Have tried various timings of plugging usb into the phone when entering download mode
Have factory reset the phone from OS
Have factory reset the phone from recovery
Have tried clearing the various caches and wiping pretty much everything.
The phone reliably boots into OS, recovery and download modes.
Other android and samsung devices are seen by all the PCs I've tested on
At no point are the PC and the s2 connected
Is there another way to flash twrp to recovery?
Is there another way to flash a complete stock rom including stock recovery, to start from scratch.
What else can I try? Any help greatly appreciated.
Cheers P
Ptolamy said:
(...)Is there another way to flash twrp to recovery?
Is there another way to flash a complete stock rom including stock recovery, to start from scratch.(...)
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A safe method to start with. Place twrp-3.0.3-0-i9100-signed.zip and the recovery.img extracted from it and lineage-11-20191223-UNOFFICIAL-i9100.zip in the SD memory.
Run the current recovery and select the recovery zip or img installation from the external SD memory.
I don't know PhilZ Touch so I don't know where to choose zip or img.
Restart recovery mode and make a backup in TWRP to the external SD memory.
Only then wipe the Cache, System, Data, Dalvik and install ROM.
Many thanks. I'm gonna give that a go this evening. Will report back on how it goes.
I feel like my usb connection woes will disappear if i get a new rom on it.
Cheers.
Manages to update to Philz to version 6 ...I after which I did get the lineage Rom onto the phone but it booted once then went into a boot loop.
I gave up
Thanks for those who helped anyway though.