I did something stupid when trying to root a SM-T380 that I just got as a backup tablet. I am new to the samsung world and ODIN.
I got as far as flashing TWRP and booting into TWRP using the instructions from androidinfotech and I actually had to do this multiple times as the system kept rebooting (I did not uncheck the auto reboot at first) and resetting the boot loader.
So I got TWRP installed, but...
I was trying to clear the cache as the instructions were saying, but I could not get anything mounted and cleared. So I followed some stupid video that had me go into the advanced and change the file system to F2FS, wipe and then go back to I guess EXT4. Well, Now I am in a boot loop. I still can get into twrp and at this point would love to go back to stock and call it a day. I am "Slow" downloading a stock image for the device, but that is still hours from completion.
Is there anything I can try in twrp while i'm waiting?
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Hey,
First off i hope i have put this on the right sub forum.
I've been stupid (I Think) I've olso looked around on the forum and the [READ THIS] Got a Boot Loop? Don't post a New Thread!
topic.
I'm using my SGS2 for a year now and was using the ressurexionRimix rom for a while.
I've been plaing around with my phone so i got lots of folder that were not used etc, so I wanted to get it back to factory settings, here is when all went down.
Via Settings-Backup and recovery i gave my phone a factory reset (while using the latest ressurexionremix rom, i think this is the misstake i made) When my phone went into the reboot is got stuck on the splash screen, it kept reapeeting the boot animation.
The second mistake i mad was not puting back my back-up but thought well i want it back to it's first state so i'll use ODIN to flash the stock ROM onto it. now, 4 hours later and about 10 trys with diferent versions of the stock roms i'm still stuck on the boot screen.
I've also tryd flashing a cwm so i could get in cwm recovery, this also without any luck
Does anyone have a idea what to do!?
go back to recovery - mounts andstorage and format the following :
cache, system, data, sdcards if you have it in recovery. reboot
you have a bkank screen as your phone has been wiped. reboot into download mode.
Connect odin and flash a stock rom. reboot and your phone should work provided that you have not damaged the flash chip on the motherboard.
Is this in CWM? the problem is i dont have that anymore because i've flashed it toc stok. I now get in the Android system recovery
The option i get there ar:
Reboot system now
apply update from external storage
Wype data/factory reset
Wipe cache parition
apply update from cash
test redbend fola[FS]
Will try this, thank..will let you know if it worked
Wiped data/factory reset and cache after this i ebooted my phone and i got the message installing application, now i'm in the setup menu. Looks like it is working.
Did'nt realice there was a recovery besides CWM Thank yoy so much Cosmic Blue!!! You saved my life!!
I've had my Samsung Galaxy S Showcase (tracphone) for awhile now and decided to root it. For some dumb reason I flashed a custom ROM onto it.
I had no problems until I downloaded Boot Animation. I selected a custom boot animation, rebooted my phone, and it loops at the animation forever.
I tried to restore using CWM and get the message "MD5 mismatch!"
I tried a factory reset, it errors every step of the way, then says data wipe complete. I reboot and it just keeps looping at the new boot animation.
I tried wiping the cashe, and formatting everything to re-instal the ROM. I select the ROM. it starts to install, resets the phone like it did the first time, but instead of going back to CWM to finish installing, it loads to the boot animation and loops.
I'm very new at this so I don't know what info you would need to help me out if at all possible. and if its impossible at least tell me that I'm royally clucked so I don't spend the rest of my life wondering =)
you can try to flash stock with odin there will be many threads and tutorials about it on the forums
Thanks for the suggestion, but I gave it to my friend who thinks he knows everything and he somehow turned it into a Samsung Mezmerize. Now a question about that. If I try and root it do I put CWM on it as a Samsung Mesmerize? I'm just very confused about everything now, do I treat it and everything I do to it as a Mesmerize?
Hi all,
Sigh. So it looks like I bricked my Samsung Tab E Verizon. I rooted it with King root and when I removed it, it is now in a endless boot loop. I've tried all sorts of things to try and recover it.
I used SkipSoft to set it up to be flashed but odin fails everytime. I was using the new ROMS found on this Forum. I've tried putting it into download mode and manually flash it and that didn't work. I can't Re-Root it as it won't stay on long enough to Root and they always fail. Right now I'm at a loss.
Can anyone help?
Thanks.
Do you have custom recovery or default? if you have default you can hold the home button and vol up button then the power button to get into recovery, once your done with that you can wipe cache and reboot, if that STILL does not work then factory reset your phone and re wipe cache, i know losing data sucks but its better then a brick. (this will work 99% of the time because the default recovery automatically re-installs stock rom)
If you have a custom recovery, then i recommend wiping everything including dalvik cache etc, making sure EVERYTHING is squeakly clean (execpt recovery obviously) , and find the driver for your samsung phone and download it on your computer and install, once you are done with that, put your phone into download mode, find your original STOCK rom for your phone, download it and flash it with odin, from there IF successfull you should have a fresh boot of your stock rom, then you can re-root and go on with your day.
Also make sure once you re-gain root access backup your rom so you will always have a plan b if everything goes bad. i cannot recommend this enough, even if you are an expert with flashing, there is always that small percentage things will go wrong and you should always have that backup ready.
Hi!
Thank you very much for the reply. You know, that was one of the things i tried initially when it happened. When I tried it, it wouldn't go into recovery mode. I then went on the odyssey of hell in trying to recover it.
When I read your post I was thinking; "Yeah I tried that", but then I thought I would give it another shot. I went into Factory Reset, it then actually went into the recovery menu. I deleted the cache and set it to data/factory reset and it's still looping. I get an error saying; "E:failed to mount /preload (no such directory)". I then tried to run update from external storage and it's telling me that it's disabled. I tried to update from ADB and it's disabled. I tried to apply from cache and it says; "APPLY_CACHE is depreciated". It's still looping.
Urghhhhhhhhh.......
Hi,
First I apologise for not having made a back up of my filesystem, I had grown overconfident from previous successful projects ;-/
I have unlocked the phone and installed TWRP recovery. I then used SUPERSU to root the phone under TWRP. After SUPERSU the phone did not boot, it stayed on the WARNING BOOTLOADER UNLOCKED splash for over an hour and did not boot after a reset.
I read through the forums and looked for a kernel to try as I had read that the OS may be damaged, and I wanted to flash a ROM in any case. I read to clean the boot partition before flashing so I did this. The kernel I tried was Squid. This made the phone display "fall through from normal boot mode". So I tried Cyanogen Mod 14, which put the phone on a very rapid bootloop cycle (about every 15 secs), then tried Squid Kernel R22B which put the phone on a long (about 8 minute) bootloop cycle.
Not sure what else I can do. I don't want to give up on the phone as it still mostly works (it has a bootloader, recovery and a file system). I have tried to find a stock ROM to install but proving difficult to track down - links seem to be down)
I apologise if I have got any technical terms wrong. I hope you can help!
Thanks,
Caroline
Caroline300 said:
Hi,
First I apologise for not having made a back up of my filesystem, I had grown overconfident from previous successful projects ;-/
I have unlocked the phone and installed TWRP recovery. I then used SUPERSU to root the phone under TWRP. After SUPERSU the phone did not boot, it stayed on the WARNING BOOTLOADER UNLOCKED splash for over an hour and did not boot after a reset.
I read through the forums and looked for a kernel to try as I had read that the OS may be damaged, and I wanted to flash a ROM in any case. I read to clean the boot partition before flashing so I did this. The kernel I tried was Squid. This made the phone display "fall through from normal boot mode". So I tried Cyanogen Mod 14, which put the phone on a very rapid bootloop cycle (about every 15 secs), then tried Squid Kernel R22B which put the phone on a long (about 8 minute) bootloop cycle.
Not sure what else I can do. I don't want to give up on the phone as it still mostly works (it has a bootloader, recovery and a file system). I have tried to find a stock ROM to install but proving difficult to track down - links seem to be down)
I apologise if I have got any technical terms wrong. I hope you can help!
Thanks,
Caroline
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Assuming you've the Lineage 14 zip in your internal storage or micro sd,. Enter TWRP, select wipe, advanced wipe, check system data cache and dalvik, swipe to wipe. Now you've clean wiped your phone.
Then go "install", select the Lineage zip and flash it.
Hi DroidFreak32, thank you for your help. The phone is now booting for the first time since it's "adventure".
Hi,
Unfortunately the phone is still in the boot logo screen. It stayed on the Lineage logo for 2 hours. I have powered off and rebooted once more, and it is still in the boot logo screen now (1 hour later). I'll wipe and install again and post an update.
Hi,
I reflashed Lineage, same problem. I did notice that each time I installed a zip file, SUPERSU asked me to install it prior to reboot to root the phone and I have always hit Yes. On the final flash, I powered off the phone when it prompted me to install SUPERSU, and the phone booted normally. Very nice design on the mod, I like the way the apps are displayed alphabetically. Good work Lineage Team!
So, I can't restore my backup due to the error above. When I restore my backup, I get that error and a reboot loops me straight back into TWRP. You can read all that stuff below if you need the backstory.
(I had Lineage OS 18.1 installed and wanted to restore a backup from two weeks ago. So, I booted into TWRP, did a normal factory reset and restored the Backup of Lineage. However, it put out an error regarding something in root (structure needs cleaning). I tried rebooting into system, but it ended in fastboot mode. So I googled it and one thread said you can solve that by formatting system. "System" is backed up anyway, so I thought there was no harm, wiped it and restored the same backup once again. No error this time.
However, when I rebooted into system, the unlock pattern didn't work any more, even though I never changed it and always use the same one. I had to reboot into recovery, and now the TWRP unlock pattern didn't work either. Had to skip it and did another reset.
Now, every time I restore a backup (and those backups contain basically every partition available) it works, but when I reboot into system it just stops at the boot logo, then reboots into recovery. Basically a boot loop plus. Tried a fresh flash, same loop.
Also, all of my pictures and downloaded files are gone, because it's encrypted. I had to wipe data, which led to the whole encryption issue going away, however, I'm still stuck in that loop.
Does anyone know how to solve this cluster****? How do I get it to boot into system?
Edit: Managed to flash LIneage new after wiping data and system and it actually boots, hallelujah, but when I flash the back up I'm still at square one with the same fail and it fails to boot. )