Samsung Galaxy S3 Recovery bootloop and usb port doesnt work - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi, long time ago i think i installed a wrong kernel on my phone and since then my phone stucked in recovery opening animation, however even tho i tried to fix it through Odin my PC doesnt recognize my phone like it used to, I sended the phone to an expert at a local store to replace my usb port (cuz i though that's the case it couldnt even charge or connect to the PC) and he DID manage to charge my phone after changing my USb port, however when i came home and tried to connect it to my PC, it wouldnt connect or charge either and i used over 4 cables wich all of the seem to work with my other phone, HELP i dont know what to do

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[Q] USB issues Odin

So the ota screwed up my phone. I was able to connect and intstall the stock eoh3 for xda the phone now starts up but I am unable to connect USB to root or flash any new rooms with Odin I can only connect Odin if the phone is booted up and debug and mock locations are on. If I pull the battery and put it in download mode it will not connect to the pc it just shows as an unknown device. I have reloaded drivers ect but not getting anywhere. Any ideas?
Try another cable if you have one, and try putting the drivers on another PC. For reasons I still haven't figured out, my home desktop PC quit connecting a couple of ROM's ago, and it won't even let me reinstall the drivers. I have a laptop that works fine (so I haven't gone into major troubleshooting) and my work PC also connects fine.
If the same issue repeats on other PC's and cables, there may be something wrong with your mini USB port. I had to have mine replaced a few months back.

[Q] Problems with USB, technically bricked my phone

Ok so i tried to install a new rom because my AOKP Rom wasnt connecting to my PC so i thought.
Ok so here is the problem. Half way through installing a rom, some how my phone crashes, after waiting 5 hours just incase i ripped out the battery and thought i will reinstall a rom that works the CWM. Nice and easy so i thought until i couldn't access CWM. So now i have a non bootable block of plastic and a screen.
Next i put the phone into download mode expecting to use Odin to just reinstall everything from scratch however my computer cannot recognise my Device. It says USB device not recognised and doesnt show up a drive letter on my computer. Any ideas of how to fix this?
No 1) let me make this clear it is not a driver issue, as all the correct drivers are installed and my girlfriends GS2 works fine.
No 2) it doesnt matter which computer i try to connect it to it wont work.
No 3) i have tried it with and with out Samsung Kies.
No 4) The batter is charging so the port cant be completly dead.
So how do i install anything on the phone if a computer cannot access it?
I even thought of trying to use killdisk to wipe any dodgy partitions but of course this wont recognise this device as a drive letter.
Please please can any body help or should i just assume the usb port is Dead.

USB not connecting to pc

Hello Comunity
I´ve got a problem with my galaxy player.GP-Y70 International Version :crying:
It doesn´t connect with the pc when i pluged in the usb of any pc, i´ve tried several pc´s, and the pc never recognize that i have just pluged in a device and the GP just get to charge but never shows up usb Connection, i also tried many usb cables 2 from samsung devices and 1 from motorola but nothing, the weird thing is that i just finished installing root with the superoneclick and when i rebooted into download mode to install cwm Odin didnt recognized it (i have all the drivers installed, and so Kies) then i rebooted into Android and my nightmares started, the usb connection is dead (for now) i can charged it, but i cant see it on any pc, i been searchin all over the web and found nothing,
BTW this Galaxy Player had the same problem before but my sister says she found a page where it said that she had to enter to download mode then to recovery mode and select the first option, and then she doesn´t remember and that it worked for her, but the page or the proceedure she followed is nowhere to be found. Also it had the problem that it just refused to charge the battery and it would just drained to death, so i left it several days charging with my Nexus 10 two amp charger until one day charged 100% :victory: and scince then it was fine.
So please help me!! :crying:
it turns out that i opened my galaxy player and cleaned out the main board with alcohol and closed it, so when i connected the player to the pc in download mode windows recognized it back again!
Hopefully this is useful to somebody and if it is, please let me know, if you need help to open your GP, i´ll make a video on how to ... if you ask me to

[Q] Phone is not recognized in download mode (hardware problem)

Hi guys, i realy need your help, my phone is dead.
My I9100 worked fine for two years, I flashed lots of custom firmwares by Odin. Half a moth ago, when I was going to sleep, I plugged in the charger as usually, and noticed, that it started beeping occasionally. On the display it indicated smth like: Charging... than Not Charging... than Charging and so on.
I thought that I plugged the charger incorrectly and replugged it, but it didn't helped. I was very tired and just simply turned the soud off and left the phone charging. In the morning it indicated that it is charging even when the charger was unplugged.
So I've flashed the firmware - no help, than kernel from stock to fillz - no help , than siyah than again to stock - no help. All flashings were maid via CWM. I realized that flashing will not help when I turned off the phone and it was indicating that it is charging.
I decided not to do anythig. Only USB mode didn't worked because when you want to use your phone as USB you should open the apropriate mode on the phone than there will be smth like : plug the USB data cable to enter the USB data transfer mode. I couldn't do this because my phone thought that the cable is already plugged. In forums i've got hints that my micro usb should be cleaned or small board should be replaced. So i decided to clean it. I disassembled the phone and cleaned that board with micro USB. Than turned on the phone, and connected the cable. Phone recognized it and I managed to transfer files from pc to phone. From this point I can say that all terminals on micro USB are ok.
When i unplugged the cable, phone thought that it is plugged((
The most awful part:
I decided to flash it one more time and go to stock via backup made by CWM a year ago.
But during this process the phone made a reboot by itself and after that there was no loading. I can see only name of the device and thats it.
No recovery. Only download mode.
When i connect it to PC in download mode, there is a sound that USB is connected but the device is Unknown. There is no any information about this device in dev manager on PC. I tried two USB cables, all usb ports, two laptops, all versions of USB drivers for my phone.
Earlier, drivers worked well, but now i can't understand where is the problem: Is the problem still connected with my micro usb port or i just erased boot sector and it is already brick.
I gave my phone to service center, they told that they can't help me with this. They say that usb is ok, we don't know why it is not detecting by pc.
Can the board replacement help in this issue or maybe i can do smth. in linux with my device ??? I'll appreciate any suggestions.
Yesterday I talked to representatives of service center and they told me that the problem is that internal memory is damaged and they cant flash the phone.
I took the phone and tried to flash it via Heimdall with brick fix pit.
After using this pit file, the phone was flashed normally and even turned on normally.
But in the phone info menu I saw no any data about internal memory. (It was damaged and required format). I tried format through phone menu and it did nothing.
I decided to flash the phone via Odin with normal 16 GB pit file and had a bad luck. I experienced freez during repartition. After this, phone is a complete brick.
When I connect it to PC without battery pressing vol down and rower buttons it connects as unknown device but there is nothing on the phone display. No recavery no download mode. Nothing - just reflection of my frustrated face).
Currently i'm tring to make a Jtag, maybe it'll put it in the download mode, but hope is dying....
I've herad somewhere that it is possible to put it in the download mode in linux. If somone did this, could you please give me the contact of this person?

[Q] No Download Mode Detection Galaxy S3 I9300 O2 UK [FIXED]

Hi, first post here.. so Hi
I have an issue with my S3, i can't get my pc to detect it in download mode at all, no reaction from windows.. if didnt plug it in to the pc at all, it worked once, and it took me reinstalling drivers for hours to get it working, this is when i first rooted the phone using the cf-root method..
When i wanted to install a custom rom a few months ago i discovered it went back to not getting detected and has stayed that way
it's as if i've not connected it to the pc at all, i'm using a rear usb port, with the original cable, below is a short list of what i've tried
Tried 3 different cables
Used a brand new install of windows 7 with SP1
tried various Samsung ADB Drivers
Tried every single USB port, front and back on my pc
Used as many different USB Debugging options as possible
I noticed that when i turn on USB debugging after enabling developer mode, nothing changes on the pc, if i remember rightly my S2 made windows install the adb driver when i turned USB debugging on..
Any help is appreciated with this, never had any of this happen with my S2 lol :/ i've been messing around on and off the last few months with it, thankfully there's Mobile Odin and also Nandroid backups for me to fall back on
Pulling the battery with the cable plugged in while my S3 was in download mode is what fixed this for me...
With the usb cable plugged into the PC but NOT the phone, go into download mode.
Connect cable to the phone, then pull the battery out.
Once windows detects the phone and installs drivers it's safe to put the battery back in.
Phone will be detected by Odin/ CyanogenMod installer and so on.
Why in hell having the battery in stops windows detecting the phone in download mode is beyond me.. unless samsung did it on purpose? lol..
Installed CM 11 using the above method and it went perfectly, but i do have to use the above method whenever i want to flash something using my pc, so it's more of a work around than a fix..
Fix was found on YouTube of all places! hope this helps anyone else

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