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(FIX) Bootloop on recovery can't get out of it and IMEI FIX

Hi guys I have a problem with my device I bought it soft bricked.
I'm able to get into dl mode I odined krylons stock rooted rom and it is FAILED so I put in sedys pit its now stuck in a recovery cycle I tried odining it like 5 times. It says something about can't mount mlbck01 then more stuff IDK can some one help me out with something that might get me out of this cycle please?
Edit: Odin was a success but its stuck in a recovery loop c'mon anyone?
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Odin to kc1. make sure you follow the noobs guide to odin. Both are in the bible. Kc1 under odin roms and guides, well, under guides. Lol! Let the rom load for 10 min. Then Redo cwm orange from krylon's final cwm thread. And try flashing again. What rom are you trying to flash?
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Thanks for the info we should make a guide because kc1 is the only Rom that fixes it, went through about 5 Rome XD I'm about to go HAM its up and running finally
XDA BABY!
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Yea, I'll write one when I get home glad it helped.
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Definitely I was worried that I bought a piece of junk. I tried every rom and nothing worked until kc1 thanks alot plus if someone where to get failed on odin they should slap on sedy pit file to reformat.
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if you use odin and it fails just try again a couple more times if it doesnt work unplug phone and take out battery put back in and hold volume down and power for about 5 to 6 seconds u should be in download mode wether or not you see the triangle...to see if ur in download mode open odin and plug in phone, odin again and this time it should work ( ive done this numerous times and it worked)

Imei fix (p)
GUESS WHAT!!! I want everyone to try this out with a F*ed up IMEI.
I tripped over my laptop while on odin when it said please wait in the beginning.
I then plugged in my phone and the phone and computer with a triangle in the middle came on.
Like an idiot I odined it anyways booted up and my f*ing IMEI was gone.
I odined back and forth every damn rom I could think of and nothing solved the issue. Looked into hex editor and that sh*t was too confusing.
So I went to odin again and pulled it out at the please wait in the beginning.
Pulled battery restarted computer and the phone and computer with a triangle in the middle came on again.
I just odined it like that and VIOLA B*thes YAY! back online I was soo scared too right after fixing it.
Well this is just something to try out for everyone who ****ed up their imei
P.S. Back up your EFS PRONTO!

How I fixed my totally bricked Infuse

Here's the scenario.
I flashed AOKPb40 when I wasn't home. My phone was stuck on the Samsung boot screen. I tried 3 finger recov... no good. Still stuck on boot screen. Removed battery, waited a few minutes, 3 finger... still stuck on boot screen. I figured I'd wait till I get home and Odin back to stock. By time I got home my battery was dead. It wouldn't charge. It was on the charger for 2 hours and no go. I plugged the USB into PC and entered download mode. I figured what the hell... lets give it a shot. Launched Odin, started JScotts UCLB-Root-Modded Odin Package. Everything was running then... boom. Phone shut down right in the middle of FACTORYRFS. Pulled battery and tried the whole thing again... guess what... same thing. So I put my phone back on the charger and my screen showed a phone icon with a triangle with an exlcamation point and a PC icon. I thought "Oh Crap".
So here is how I fixed it.
I downloaded qkster's Heimdall One-Click package. I read up on how to use Heimdall and I was taken to a download page to download Heimdall suite. After many failed attempts to load the Heimdall package in Heimdall Front End, I kept getting a file size error. I googled the error and found qkster's re: to a guy with the same problem. Turns out the One-Click package is self executable, no need for the Heimdall front end suite. So I launched qkster's Heimdall package and it actually completed the flash! However, when the phone rebooted I was shown a partial CWM recov menu. I hit reboot and it kept taking me to the same CWM menu.
Now that I can get past the screen with the phone-caution-pc thing I tried using Odin with JScott's UCLB package. Odin finally worked all the way through, but with the same result as Heimdall, CWM Recov loop. I figured I was missing boot loaders. Flashed through Odin and still no good.
I now went all the way back to stock using GTG's Ultimate Unbrick. Voila! My phone is back! Holy toledo, 4 hours of trouble shooting and I finally have a working phone again.
Summary, Odin doesn't complete and you're stuck, here's what to do.
Use qksters Heimdall
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1629079
If stuck in Recov loop. Use GTG's Ultimate Unbrick
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1116251
I hope my long painful recovery story will help someone out.

Sounds like you just needed an unbrick solution with a pit file for repartition. You could have used just the UCLB3 Unbrick with the pit file, and you would have been set.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1705260
Still, glad you worked it out. This is why it's a good thing that we have many options that work via Heimdall and Odin. When one isn't doing it on your phone, just try another. We just have to be careful not to call our way of fixing it the only right way or the best way. Several ways exist, so we truly have an unbrickable device. Well, unbrickable as long as you don't bork a bootloader flash.
Edit: By the way, that phone-caution-pc thing is still download mode.
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Well said jscott, and glad you got it working. I would also add, that it would appear from the initial symptoms, that maybe you just lost recovery. Several roms, including uniporn have packages that can fix that. In the uniporn thread it is in post 3.
Also, I think there is a good lesson here too for others and that would be that it would be extremely wise to know your way around Odin and heimdall before embarking on that very first flash.
Again, this is just for future reference should someone read this later on. Glad to hear you are back up and running.
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Good work.
As Yuma have stated, when you lost recovery, flashing this kernel would have brought you back to working cwm to flash the rom also:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25526654&postcount=3
And when you have completed the uclb3, you could have finished it with the boot loader flash and then do a factory reset. After that, flash which every insecure kernel to get back recovery to flash what ever you wanted.
As long as you can get back into download mode, you can use any of the restore process.

Thanks all for the follow up. The biggest problem was the dead battery. After I finally got this sicker up and running with the phone plugged in my battery was at 8%. The damn thing kept crashing while in download mode. But yes, this is not the only way. I had to use qksters heimdall to at least get the phone to boot. Once I got to boot into the recovery boot loop issue I used gtg unbrick.
If it wasn't for all the posts and threads from you guys I would've been screwed. Oh, and to top it all off, xda was down when I first started down the road. Long freaking day!
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I've been in that situation. Easiest solution is to just get a fully charged battery
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jscott30 said:
Sounds like you just needed an unbrick solution with a pit file for repartition. You could have used just the UCLB3 Unbrick with the pit file, and you would have been set.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1705260
Still, glad you worked it out. This is why it's a good thing that we have many options that work via Heimdall and Odin. When one isn't doing it on your phone, just try another. We just have to be careful not to call our way of fixing it the only right way or the best way. Several ways exist, so we truly have an unbrickable device. Well, unbrickable as long as you don't bork a bootloader flash.
Edit: By the way, that phone-caution-pc thing is still download mode.
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The first problem I had was Odin was crashing during the factoryrfs stage. That's why I tried heimdall. I just needed something to get loaded so I could start flashing. I didn't think about going straight to uclb, would've saved me a step or two
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tx240sx said:
The first problem I had was Odin was crashing during the factoryrfs stage. That's why I tried heimdall. I just needed something to get loaded so I could start flashing. I didn't think about going straight to uclb, would've saved me a step or two
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If you were using something like my earlier rooted UCLB3 Odin options, those don't have a pit. Those aren't intended as much as an unbrick/restore option as they are for a quick way to get to rooted UCLB3. Hanging on factoryfs.rfs suggests you needed repartitioning, and the UCLB3 Unbrick provides this, since it has a pit file. The other Odin package wasn't working because you needed a pit file to restore in your situation. That's why the GTG Unbrick ended up fully restoring your phone; it has a pit. It or the UCLB3 Unbrick should have worked to "unbrick" your phone right after the first failed Odin attempt. Also, as noted by Yuma and qkster, an option available before that first Odin flash was to restore just the kernel/recovery. That option became unavailable after the first failed Odin flash. Still, many options are available, and we're glad you found a combination that worked.
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infuse reboot?????
is there an easier way to fix this issue? Honestly I could care less about the phone I have over 1000 pictures and videos I would like to save. is there a way to ge them off of the phones memory with it rebooting over and over?

You might be better off starting your own thread and give some details like what is phone doing, which ROM, what did you try to fix it, etc.
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infuse rebooting
psal217050 said:
You might be better off starting your own thread and give some details like what is phone doing, which ROM, what did you try to fix it, etc.
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I have done everythig possible that can be done taking the battery out, charging it from wall charger and charging it from usb port. letting it wait for 2 days before messing with it. One day it went one step further to the white screen where the at&t logo forms and then it reboots again. I have not done a master reset or whatever its called because I want my pics of videos and contacts. The phone has been in the otter box from day one so it looks brand new and its over a year old. I could care less about the phone once I get my pics and videos off of it I will not mess with it again. Is it possible to save pics videos and contacts? I am not sure what you mean when you ask which ROM.

rocafella23 said:
I have done everythig possible that can be done taking the battery out, charging it from wall charger and charging it from usb port. letting it wait for 2 days before messing with it. One day it went one step further to the white screen where the at&t logo forms and then it reboots again. I have not done a master reset or whatever its called because I want my pics of videos and contacts. The phone has been in the otter box from day one so it looks brand new and its over a year old. I could care less about the phone once I get my pics and videos off of it I will not mess with it again. Is it possible to save pics videos and contacts? I am not sure what you mean when you ask which ROM.
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Okay, since you don't want to do your own thread. Read the information in the following link and follow it to the letter. This should put you back to stock and if everything works right, you will be able to get your info off the phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081
If you don't know how to put the phone in download mode, take your battery out, hold down the volume +/- buttons but no power button, put the batter back in and then plug the USB (connected to a computer that has the drivers from the link installed) into the phone. Do not disconnect the phone otherwise, you may end up with a brick.

Bricked!!! Help

My brother was using his Sidekick over a month ago and it randomly started being unresponsive, I then tried resetting it and it worked out. Within 30 mintues of it being reset it turned off and was stuck on boot loop, long story short from then to now I have tried literally everything (ODIN, KG2, KD1, Heimdall) and still haven't gotten it to turn on. Everytime I do any of these procedures I get a failure because the sidekick reboots while on download mode, I've been wasting so much time on this phone I just want an answer. The phone is in good physical condition and has never been dropped (On hard surfaces anyway) but I want to know if its fixable or beyond repair, thank you :silly:

same thing happen to me with my first sidekick nothing did fixed it

Well what I did was hold the sidekick buttons in down load mode. The whole time heimdall was open and attempt. To flash the bootloaders it works for me
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Like xtreme88 said, you need to flash the bootloaders the easiest way to do this is through Heimdall.

xtrem88 said:
Well what I did was hold the sidekick buttons in down load mode. The whole time heimdall was open and attempt. To flash the bootloaders it works for me
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Hold the buttons that put the sidekick into download mode the whole time heimdall is running?? I will try that now and see what happens, Thanks!

please guys, I'm sorta new at this and I can't spend that much of my time on it due to school and work, I want the most simplest answers and easiest way to fix this. If you could put active links up on this thread and step by step procedures on how I can fix it with the programs that would be excellent. Also I don't understand, I do use the bootloaders but am I really supposed to hold the download mode buttons the whole time? Thanks guys, and again please keep it simple for me

Everything goes smoothly until I reach FACTORYFS, it reboots itself when I'm at 53% everytime. How do I stop the sidekick from rebooting when I'm using heimdall or ODIN?

One last thing, as of late the Sidekick can only go into download mode and no longer does the boot loop everytime I try to power it on. when I try to power it on nothing happens, when I put in the usb it goes into download mode automatically and keeps rebooting in download mode. .

Try clicking the box that says Flash bootloader
Also, you QUAD-posted! Please don't spam these forums, just edit your posts!

Did you try checking off the repartition box? Something could be out of place o.o
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Might have bricked.. need help

So I'm rooting my friends infuse for him. basically flashed in odin but after that went through i was stuck at the samsung boot logo for 45 minutes. I did a battery pull and tried again with same result. So i tried getting back into download mode because it would not let me get into the stock recovery at all and it let me. Tried to reflash using odin and in the middle in the middle of it, it stopped and came onto the yellow triangle screen as shown in the pic. now cant get into download or boot or anything. ive tried using odin even though its not in download mode to flash a stock kernel but it just keeps connecting and disconnecting because now the computer wont read the device. Is there anyone who has had this issue and can help or have i completely bricked his phone. And for the record he is no longer on AT&T he is using straight talk so he cant just go into the AT&T store anymore. Thanks for any help you can give me

Try to use qkster hemidall package
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kendall316 said:
So I'm rooting my friends infuse for him. basically flashed in odin but after that went through i was stuck at the samsung boot logo for 45 minutes. I did a battery pull and tried again with same result. So i tried getting back into download mode because it would not let me get into the stock recovery at all and it let me. Tried to reflash using odin and in the middle in the middle of it, it stopped and came onto the yellow triangle screen as shown in the pic. now cant get into download or boot or anything. ive tried using odin even though its not in download mode to flash a stock kernel but it just keeps connecting and disconnecting because now the computer wont read the device. Is there anyone who has had this issue and can help or have i completely bricked his phone. And for the record he is no longer on AT&T he is using straight talk so he cant just go into the AT&T store anymore. Thanks for any help you can give me
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That is still download mode...the problem is probably a bad USB connection...might wanna try different ports and cords...maybe try heimdall
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Bricked from odin tutorial!!!!

Hello all! Im new here, but have been using alot of the tutorials and mods. I recently decided to move from FROYO to ICS, using several tutorials, but didnt even make it to gingerbread I was using this tutorial http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1705260 and at first when I ran odin, all was well, except it wouldnt boot past the ATT splash screen, and it also had the 'rainbow' screen before the samsung loading screen, so i followed this :
2.) I have rainbow distortion in recovery or in the boot animation. How can I get Gingerbread bootloaders to fix this?:
If you have rainbow distortion, you still have Froyo bootloaders. You can download THIS .rar file, extract using 7zip, and flash the tar.md5 package in Odin (use the pda slot). Flashing Gingerbread bootloaders will correct rainbow distortion in recovery and in the boot animation. Only flash these if you are having issues with rainbow distortion, and only if you have had success flashing other, less dangerous items in Odin.
After re flashing with odin, my phone will no longer turn on... at all. Ive tried getting it to go into download mode, tried using the three button recovery, and nothing. Is there anyone that could help with this!? If i cant figure it out, I might not be on the infuse forums much longer... lol

Rainbows only appear on ics or above, so if you saw rainbows, you must have flashed ics.
As the warning said, a failed bootloader flash would leave you with a brick. Did odin stop during the flash or did it say it completed succesfully?
You may try using a jig and see if that forces download mode, but i doubt you will get results from that.
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hrmm :/
andros11 said:
Rainbows only appear on ics or above, so if you saw rainbows, you must have flashed ics.
As the warning said, a failed bootloader flash would leave you with a brick. Did odin stop during the flash or did it say it completed succesfully?
You may try using a jig and see if that forces download mode, but i doubt you will get results from that.
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The new bootloader I loaded was supposed to be a gingerbread bootloader, and it said that if I saw the rainbow screen it was becuase i had the froyo bootloader, as quoted above. Ive read in alot of different forums, and ive tried charging it, removing the battery for 10 minutes and trying to get it into d/l mode, but nothing works. I think i may just have to chalk this one up as a very mislead failure. When I used odin, it said it was completed successfully as well... Im pretty sure that the 'gingerbread bootloader' is just a bad file.

As Andros11 said, you might try using a jig, for me it would be worth the $2. price to give it a try. If it does not work there are unbrick services available for about $50.00- not too bad, considering.

Go back to that page DL the one unbrick root 1.1 flash in Odin,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1613523
Toto that link DL the cwm with root extras then as soon as you are done flashing the first one reboot for good measure, shut it off go into download mode flash that giving you a cwm recovery, somewhere in that post I seen gingerbread loader a link maybe getting you to them, I flashed to gingerbread bootloaders, forget where I got them off xda, then flash a cm9 rom taking you to ics, somehow in that process my rainbow screen went away and I have not had that problem every since.
I did have a small problem with Odin hanging on do not turn off and it just sits there. I got tired of waiting over five minutes nothing happening, I unplugged it, pulled battery, then when I went to download mode I had that rainbow screen, but not to worry it is still in download mode, with my infuse, I has to toggle the volume button up, after it sets to the first screen then you are in complete DL mode, check Odin to be sure you got that yellow check box to be sure it sees the phone then do the flash again, the BIG TRICK HERE IS, before you maybe find the rainbow screen in DL MODE, after you pull the USB cable pull the battery, replace the battery, then turn on the phone and let it hang up in what ever screen, then pull the battery again to turn it off, replace the battery then go into download mode, and the flash will take off and only be a few minutes. That worked for me more then once. Hope that helps,
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