Hello there
I'm using an I9300 with TWRP and CM12.1. I also have a NANDROID backup sitting on my PC that was made through CWM (which the phone used to have before TWRP).
I tried to factory reset my I9300 running from inside the ROM rather than re-flashing it, and now my device is stuck in TWRP bootloop. I cannot access either the ROM or TWRP, the only thing I can access is download mode. Can anyone please help me resolve the issue? I haven't used Odin since rooting the device years ago and I can't find any guide for this specific procedure so I'm kinda lost.
Follow the guide in general forum, sticky thread on returning to stock.
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While I did find a similar posts, they were for different devices. I also tryed to search o different sites for similar problems to no avial.
What Happened: After backing up system data and app data then removing Foxhound ROM with factory reset, and installing UltimaROM i came to find that the modem did not install correctly result in no connection to my cell network. I booted into TWRP recovery to try and do a re-install of the ROM only to find that TWRP was restarting itself every 3 seconds or so. I attempted to restart the device which i found to result in a TWRP bootloop that i cannot get out of, it constantly is booting into recovery mode and i cannot get it restart the OS.
What I've tried: Since i can get into download mode i decided to attempt to re-install TWRP using Samsung Galaxy S3 Toolkit but since i do not have USB debugging on i cannot do that. I'm mainly looking for a fix before i go and claim it on the warranty saying update went bad or something. If people need more information I will try to provide it as best i can.
Summery if i confused people is that TWRP is in a bootloop, i am unable to get to the OS, but i still have download mode available.
I fixed it but not how I would have liked to. I ended up losing all data due to flashing stock ROM using ODIN. I would still much appreciate a alternative method that does not involve loss of data though just for future reference, that is if anyone knows a alternative method.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda app-developers app
could've tried reflashing TWRP or any other recovery through odin
I have an LG Optimus Q (LGL55c) with twrp loop. I was trying to go back to stock rom, instead I deleted all the system files in twrp when it was working...Then I rebooted back into recovery and get the loop. Does this mean I completely bricked my phone? I tried using adb, adb shell doesn't work. It does find the device. Even tried the LG update with no sucess Any ideas or suggestions?
I just read the forum title, I thought this was for the Optimus Q not the Samsung S3. Sorry mods
Temasek unofficial cm12 5.02
I was running this rom when my power button shorted and I got it replaced but then I tried to do a complete wipe and clean flash but since then it has been twrp bootlooping, tried to flash the latest recovery through Odin but still doesn't work also tried stock firmware flash but says binary not available.
This is my secondary device and I've not been in touch with Odin for a while. Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks
Download latest firnware from sammobile.com and flash it with Odin, as described on sammobile: does Odin finish with '1 succeeded'?
I'm in a very similar situation, but with my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (N7105). It's rooted, and I am, or was using TWRP 2.7.0.2. ROM is CyanogenMod 12, 5.0.2 Lollipop.
I did a factory reset from INSIDE Android, and chose to wipe internal memory. Phone did the reset and wipe, rebooted into TWRP instead of Android, and now I have TWRP boot loop.
I posted more about it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=60247503&postcount=3671
I have the Problem toooo!
What must i do Now!
with my S3 is the same!!!
For posterity:
With an old (2014?) version of TWRP and a custom ROM, I tried reverting to factory settings. That caused the phone to reboot TWRP, and the screen would flash every couple of seconds. I flashed a stock recovery image I found on Google, and when it restarted again, the wipe was completed successfully. My intention was to wipe all user data anyways so I can't say if this method might save it.
First the specs. Samsung Galaxy s2 GT-9100 running Android 4.1.2 Build XWLSH Kernal 3.0.31-889555
Need a touch of help here. Finally had the nerve to root the GS2 on the weekend and clean out all the crud not required... so far so good
Had no success in attempts to install CWM Recovery through ROM Manager (Recovery setup > ClockworkMod Recovery > Galaxy S2 i9100 > "does not have an officially supported...."). Also found the Recovery builds on the official site but no guides whatsoever as to how to install... oh so helpful
Finally came across a guide at galaxys2root[dot]com on installing recovery from download mode using Odin. Ran through the process and ended up stuck at boot with no way of proceeding. After a panic session, was able to recover from back-up (thank god I backed up the ROM and all data before attempting to install CWM recovery). Now I'm right back where I started with no idea how to go replacing the stock recovery.
Can someone please shine some light on the situation? At a complete loss as to how to get the CWM Recovery on the phone without bricking it.
Cheers in advance
1) Don't use Rom Manager. At all. Uninstall it. It will break recovery & cause bootloop eventually if you continue to use it.
2) Thread stickied near the top of Q&A has all the info you need. Essentially, any CWM you flash independent of the kernel will only persist until the next reboot. Reason being recovery is baked into the kernel on the S2 & isn't a separate partition like other phones. So you flash a custom kernel, you end up with rooted phone + permanent CWM.
MistahBungle said:
1) Don't use Rom Manager. At all. Uninstall it. It will break recovery & cause bootloop eventually if you continue to use it.
2) Thread stickied near the top of Q&A has all the info you need. Essentially, any CWM you flash independent of the kernel will only persist until the next reboot. Reason being recovery is baked into the kernel on the S2 & isn't a separate partition like other phones. So you flash a custom kernel, you end up with rooted phone + permanent CWM.
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A huge thankyou for pointing me in the right direction. I had since the original post found Mobile Odin (invested in the pro version) and installed the CWM Recovery from the their site... only for it to revert back to stock recover screen At least now I know why.
After much hunting around - I notice the stickied posts don't make it easy to find the correct kernel for for the AU i9100 - I found the PhilZ cmw6 kernel build.... used Mobile Odin to flash and all is now rosy.
Now question.... I was under the impression that ROM Manager was required as an install with CWM. I use Online Nandroid Backup to create full ROM/Data backups and trying out Nandroid Manager for selective recovery.... is that all I need then now that CWM is successfully installed in recovery?
Cheers again
Can't speak to those products as I've never used them, but Rom Manager & the S2 is a big no no. Doing nandroid backups, which is essentially a 'snapshot' of your phone at the time you make it, by simply booting into CWRecovery & also backing up apps/app settings with Titanium has always done the job for me.
Greetings fellow Earthicans!
I've been roaming these forums for several years now and have been able to fulfill all my custom rom needs by searching, trial and error. I've bricked all my phones at least once but have always managed to make the phone work better than when i first stardet modding it. This time i managed to do something i've never been able to do before and i'm therefor writing my first post here.
Yesterday i did a full wipe/format of everything available in CWM because the internal phone memory was close to full. In the process i managed to erase all my backups, which i thought was fine since i loaded my external sd with most of the custom roms and gapps available on this amazing forum.
However, when i tried to flash either one of the .zip files i get the same message "this package is for "m3", m3xxm i9305, gt - i9305 device; this is a "m0"." Even though i've had both avatar and miui ROM installed a few hour earlier. I was stuck on the boot screen, as so many other times with this and other devices.
So i searched around this forum and google and found out that m0 is the i9300 and my initial thought was "nice, perhaps i can install the custom roms of the i9300 by copying them to my ext sd and install through CWM" Which of course did not work and i realized i had to go back to stock through the download screen
So i downloaded my firmware (4.1.2 and 4.3) from sammobile.com to do a stock reset through odin 3.07. Both firmwares works fine and all of the phones functions work as intended, as far as i know.
I'm currently running 4.3 I9305XXUEMKC_I9305TLAEML1_I9305XXUEMK1_HOME.tar.md5 without any problem, but would love to be able to run custom ROMs again, but have no clue how to proceed.
I would be eternally thankful if someone know the solution to this problem i've encountered through my irresponsible actions.
/an open-source and android enthusiast
This is not i9305 q&a .
in recovery format system sdcard data and cache then boot to download mode and flash the correct stock rom for your phone via Odin .
JJEgan said:
This is not i9305 q&a .
in recovery format system sdcard data and cache then boot to download mode and flash the correct stock rom for your phone via Odin .
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Thank you for your reply.
I've checked which of the stock rom to use and have done as you described, i can run the stock rom and currently am.
iIve rooted the phone and installed CWM through odin. When booting into CWM, and clearing as described in all guides, i still get the same error message given in my post above.
are you sure you do have the right recovery and that this is up to date?
Hello,
I recently made some mistakes with my Galaxy S2 GT-i9100 while following this a tutorial on Galaxys2root.com (Can't link to the precise article because this is my first post) I flashed the CWM recovery tool linked by this website to my device through the latest version of Odin and afterwards my phone would not turn on. I was able to get into the Clockwork recovery mode however but couldnt install anything because I had forgotten to place any ROMS on my device beforehand. To try and resolve the problem I did a factory reset in the recovery mode but this did not effect anything. I am now unsure what to do next. I would still like to root my phone so that I cant get rid of all the bloatware put on it by Orange mobile as well as update my phone to Kitkat(Currently running Android 2.2) Can someone tell me what I have done wrong and what is the next step for me to take?
Thank you for any help that you can offer
the kernel you flashed it is the problem
ZK1990 said:
Hello,
I recently made some mistakes with my Galaxy S2 GT-i9100 while following this a tutorial on Galaxys2root.com (Can't link to the precise article because this is my first post) I flashed the CWM recovery tool linked by this website to my device through the latest version of Odin and afterwards my phone would not turn on. I was able to get into the Clockwork recovery mode however but couldnt install anything because I had forgotten to place any ROMS on my device beforehand. To try and resolve the problem I did a factory reset in the recovery mode but this did not effect anything. I am now unsure what to do next. I would still like to root my phone so that I cant get rid of all the bloatware put on it by Orange mobile as well as update my phone to Kitkat(Currently running Android 2.2) Can someone tell me what I have done wrong and what is the next step for me to take?
Thank you for any help that you can offer
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is this site you are talking about:
http://galaxys2root.com/cwmtwrp-recovery
im guessing that is the problem(Installing CWM/TWRP recovery will most likely break the ROM you are running currently as it overwrites the ROM’s KERNEL).
If iam right,that means you have to flash another kernel,i suggest Siyah kernel 2.6.14 its for gingerbread version(it has CWM recovery and auto-root):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1263838
after that you can flash the KK rom you want through CWM .
Hi,
i have searched everywhere for an answer's to a few issues i have with rooting and restoring my phone.
i need help with a few thing's and i will divide them to section's:
TWRP ISSUE
i have rooted my phone with cf-auto root and my phone have root now.
i have also flashed TWRP recovery with FLASHIFY.
this processes went very well and smooth.
now i can boot into TWRP and make Backups.
the issue begins when i want to restore from backup.
i'm trying to restore my phone from a TWRP backup i made yesterday and after the recovery has finished
my phone starts to boot loops with samsung logo.
i have tried to do a fresh install of the original stock rom, flash the auto root then installed TWRP. i have ran the process again a few time's with no luck.
can someone please help me solve this issue?
TITANIUM BACKUP ISSUE
i have backed up my apps with TITANIUM BACKUP PRO after rooting the device.
i have tried to restore the wi-fi access point to earlier stage.
i went to see the wpa_supplicant.conf file and all access points are there
after reboot all access points are gone from the file.
can someone please help me solve this issue?
BOOTLOADER QUESTION
my previous phone was htc one m7.
when i wanted to replace the recovery or to check my devices details i ran a fastboot command's.
now all i can see is download mode and i can't ran fastboot command's from there.
there is a way to use fastboot command's on the galaxy?
is the download mod is the bootloader?
(sorry for that i'm newbie to samsung device's never had one before).
can you please help me out with the issue's above?
INFO FOR MY DEVICE:
Galaxy S6 Edge
Model: SM-G925F
Baseband: G925FXXU1AOCZ
Build: G925FXXU1AOD4 ISRAEL
thanks in advance,
Gilad
I have some problem with restore with twrp ;-( maybe problem is in kernel selinux ? ;-(
koko115 said:
I have some problem with restore with twrp ;-( maybe problem is in kernel selinux ? ;-(
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gilad29 said:
Hi,
i have searched everywhere for an answer's to a few issues i have with rooting and restoring my phone.
i need help with a few thing's and i will divide them to section's:
TWRP ISSUE
i have rooted my phone with cf-auto root and my phone have root now.
i have also flashed TWRP recovery with FLASHIFY.
this processes went very well and smooth.
now i can boot into TWRP and make Backups.
the issue begins when i want to restore from backup.
i'm trying to restore my phone from a TWRP backup i made yesterday and after the recovery has finished
my phone starts to boot loops with samsung logo.
i have tried to do a fresh install of the original stock rom, flash the auto root then installed TWRP. i have ran the process again a few time's with no luck.
can someone please help me solve this issue?
TITANIUM BACKUP ISSUE
i have backed up my apps with TITANIUM BACKUP PRO after rooting the device.
i have tried to restore the wi-fi access point to earlier stage.
i went to see the wpa_supplicant.conf file and all access points are there
after reboot all access points are gone from the file.
can someone please help me solve this issue?
BOOTLOADER QUESTION
my previous phone was htc one m7.
when i wanted to replace the recovery or to check my devices details i ran a fastboot command's.
now all i can see is download mode and i can't ran fastboot command's from there.
there is a way to use fastboot command's on the galaxy?
is the download mod is the bootloader?
(sorry for that i'm newbie to samsung device's never had one before).
can you please help me out with the issue's above?
INFO FOR MY DEVICE:
Galaxy S6 Edge
Model: SM-G925F
Baseband: G925FXXU1AOCZ
Build: G925FXXU1AOD4 ISRAEL
thanks in advance,
Gilad
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twrp restore option on the 925f edge is broken try chainfires flashfire to backup and restore
thank you for your kind advice i have tried flashfire and its working great
the TWRP issue is solved.
can someone please help me with the other issues above?