Hello everybody
My samsung galaxy s3 gti-9300 past away a few weeks ago.
Everything was working fine the last 3 years (with the official rom, and only a few programs installed) till one day (few weeks ago) random services stared to crash and also some restarts occurred.
I did some restores but nothing changed. After that I started installing custom roms using clockworkmod v6. Every rom continued the problem with random services crashing for a day or two and then the phone restarted in a boot loop.
After three roms tested now clockworkmod cannot install a new rom. It cannot mount cache / recovery dir and also it cannot format it. I've also reinstalled clockworkmod but nothing changed. At first I was using an older version of clockworkmod and then I installed the v6. Other than that clockworkmod is still running fine.
Odin also fails to install anything to the phone. I' ve tested a lot of odin's versions. At the beginning odin was able to install the clockworkmod but now (after the rom's testing) it cannot install anything (pit, bootloader,rom) although the phone enters downloading mode.
Any ideas?
Download stock firmware from sammobile.com flash it via odin
Sureshtuty said:
Download stock firmware from sammobile.com flash it via odin
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I've tried that (via odin/ pda button) but odin fails after NAND step......
[email protected] said:
I've tried that (via odin/ pda button) but odin fails after NAND step......
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I still have the same problem. Any help??
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Hi there,
I got my SGS3 on Friday, it took two hours until I got bored and rooted it.
First everything was fine, I was using CWM (installed via ROM Manager) and tried some ROMS.
Today, when I wanted to flash CWM Touch via ROM Manager, the phone rebooted and since then in stuck in a boot loop.
There was no error during the process, according to ROM Manager the recovery was properly flashed. All I can do is entering the Download Mode.
I tried to flash two different stock images via ODIN3 (v3.07) but the phone keeps rebooting, even when i try to repartition it using "GT-I9300_mx_20120329.pit". I can boot the phone into recovery, I can see the recovery for a short moment and then the phone reboots. I made it to flash CWM 6.0.3.1 via ODIN, and when booting into recovery then I can see that it worked, but after a second the phone reboots.
Currently I'm downloading a 3-part/3-files factory image, hoping this can help. According to what I've read on the forums so far I don't think it will change anything, but who knows... Any other suggestions?
Greetz
// j_dee
rom manager is not supported on all the phones. probably that should have damaged your phone. hope you get your phone working. good luck :good:
I was using CWM (installed via ROM Manager)
Remove rom manager .
CWM says
Not compatible with ROM Manager !
That is if you recover from damaged pit .
jje
Hey guys,
thanks so far... According to the CWM homepage the SGS3 is supported, in fact there's current even a newer CWM version available for SGS3 than for GNEX.
Fortunatly I just made it to un-soft-brick the device:
- Removed the battery for a few minutes, then placed it back in the phone (for some reason the phone often booted as soon as the battery was back in its place, so I had to be quick).
- Tried to reboot into recovery again, holding "Vol+"+"Home"+"Power" until the recovery showed up, and the phone rebooted.
- Kept on holding "Vol+"+"Home"+"Power" until recovery showed up again, for some reason the phone didn't reboot this time, and then I released all buttons.
- Thanks to ODIN I could now use CWM 6.0.3.1 to flash S4 Revolution (by Elegant Team) from my internal storage, rebooted the phone and it worked. All my data was still in place, so it seems all my attempts to flash the stock images via ODIN did not succeed, save for the stock recovery.
Crap, I was really afraid of having my brand-new SGS3 hard-bricked only a few days after delivery. With my HTC Desire HD it took me almost 6 months to cause the first almost-brick.
There's only one thing I can image with ms SGS3 that might have affected the CWM / ROM Manager flash - I was running a S4-ported ROM ("S4 Revolution"), because this makes "TriangleAway" recognize it as "I9500" phone, so I cannot reset the counter at the moment.
But ROM Manager always showed "GT-I9300"... So in the end I've no clue what has happened so far.
Greetz
// j_dee
don't use rom manager
Hi forum,
I rooted my S2 a year ago and did happily CM 10.1 updates all the time. Everything just fine.
Then 10.2 came out and I gave that a try. One of the first ones did boot but had several issues (phone app missing, no connection to Play Store, etc). I decided to do updates via CM updater. Now I am stuck with nightly from August 24th. The problem then was that I couldn't access the CWM recovery any more and hence the CM Updater. Thus I tried to flash it again with Odin. So I can boot into Odin mode and Odin recognizes the device. I tried flashing several clockworkmods to no avail. Odin hangs for ever if it comes to the actual writing.
After that the phone did not start any more but stayed in that Firmware update encountered an issue screen. I used heimdall and flashed CWM with that. That looked better and then the phone started (somehow after many attempts) again but still no recovery.
Next I installed the latest Dorimanx Kernel with Odin. So that worked. Now the phone starts reliable again but no matter what I try there is no reccovery.
ROM Manager doesn't even start btw.
What I want now is of course a working recovery. At best CWM. Then back to CM 10.1. But how?
I read a lot here and elsewhere but everything I tried just didn't work.
Thanks for help!
Cheers,
blitz-gordon
you used Odin and Heimdall on same PC?!
ROM manager is bad for s2 and could cause bootloops. Don't use it
i suggest that you flash stock rom with odin. and then you'll have to root ur s2 again
TheMasterOfToast said:
you used Odin and Heimdall on same PC?!
ROM manager is bad for s2 and could cause bootloops. Don't use it
i suggest that you flash stock rom with odin. and then you'll have to root ur s2 again
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Yep, Ubuntu 12.04 and XP as a VM. I used heimdall on another PC though.
I know that ROM Manager is not choice number one. That was more a test which failed anyway.
Well, I thougth I could get away easier.
Thanx!
For the records.
I de-rooted the device by putting a stock image on it. Then I rooted it again and now it runs the latest CM, woohoo!
If somebody wants details I can provide a short howto.
Cheers,
blitz-gordon
Hi guys.
I've been messing with my GT-i8160 for almost a year now. Faced a number of problems but overcame them.
However, the last time i tried installing stock firmware from sammobile.com, i faced a bootloop. I have no idea why a firmware flashed with Odin cause bootloop, but while wondering the bootloop stopped by itself and my device started working fine.
But soon I found out that I can't install custom ROMs via recovery mode: the option 'choose zip from external storage' opens up nothing but an empty folder. I made sure multiple times whether my sd card is working, but no possible issue in it. my stock recovery just can't find its zip.
So I decided to reflash the stock firmware properly this time using Odin, but I found out that no matter how many times and how many different firmwares I flash via Odin, it's useless. It flashes, Download mode exits, but then I'm back to square one without any sign of the new firmware.
I'm tired of trying out different methods like adb sideload and push, but none works. My phone works fine, but just not the way I want it. I want to be able to install custom ROMs and root my phone again.
Any help?
Thanks in Advance.
Hi guys, my mothers SGS3 is stuck on bootloop (well just freezes on samsung logo), it was on stock firmware when the problem first occured, i've tried flashing cwm via odin, wiping absolutely everything and then reflashing stock firmware, but problem persisted, i've tried rooting, flashing cwm, and then installing cyanogenmod to no avail.
does anybody have any other ideas that i could try.
Thanks in advance guys.
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Hi guys, my mothers SGS3 is stuck on bootloop (well just freezes on samsung logo), it was on stock firmware when the problem first occured, i've tried flashing cwm via odin, wiping absolutely everything and then reflashing stock firmware, but problem persisted, i've tried rooting, flashing cwm, and then installing cyanogenmod to no avail.
does anybody have any other ideas that i could try.
Thanks in advance guys.
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You flashed stock firmware with Odin, was the flash successful ?
If you need to use recovery, flash TWRP or Philz, CWM is not updated anymore
Try flashing one of the firmwares in this thread.
yeah as far as odin was concerned the flash was successful and set the phone to reboot, but it still just hung at the samsung logo, and right ok im a bit out dated using cwm then it's been a while :Lthanks for the links i'll give it another crack now
thanks again
josephiskandar said:
You flashed stock firmware with Odin, was the flash successful ?
If you need to use recovery, flash TWRP or Philz, CWM is not updated anymore
Try flashing one of the firmwares in this thread.
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i've tried flashing CM and MIUI using the two recoveries you linked, still no joy. The download links for the firmware doesn't work but i found an equivalent that also has bootloader, csc files etc and still no joy, odin does it's business and says in green pass at the end of it all but it still hangs on the samsung logo, even when i installed miui, it would install all as planned, but then on the reboot it just hangs at the MIUI logo.
i'm lost completely i've never been defeated by a phone :L
Hello everyone. This is my first thread on this XDA and I hope if somebody could help me. First of all, I know this phone was released in 2011 and it is considered old and outdated but I could really aprreciate help. I checked many threads and Youtube guides (I considered only those with good rating) and spent total of approximately of 16 or more hours in order to fix this but none of them were good for my case.
So here's the problem. Problem appeared about 20 months ago. First, I installed CM 11 on phone and everything was working fine except for the front camera. Then I tried flashing back to Stock ROM which I've downloaded from SamMobile. I used Odin for both times. After process was over, my problem appeared. Every time I turned on the phone it didn't get past Samsung Galaxy S+ logo. So I figured out it was Boot loop and that it can be fixed. I just couldn't find the working way.
Here are things I've tried: 1) Flashing Stock ROM via Odin without wiping cache first
2) Flashing CM 12 via Odin without wiping cache first
3) Flashing CWM Recovery via Odin, wiping cache and then flashing Stock ROM via Odin
4) Putting phone in Download mode, connecting it to PC and running Kies (Kies couldn't connect the phone because device wasn't responding)
From above mentioned only number 3 partially worked. CWM installed correctly but after I flashed Stock ROM I got same Boot loop problem again.