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Thunderbolt Stuck??!!!

I just installed the latest Das Bamf 2.0 Beta 5 and my Thunderbolt is stuck on the dots screen (background only with notification bar on top, 0 signal bar, battery and wrong time). I cleared everything before I flashed to the rom but I am stuck. What did I do wrong? What can I do to fix this?

Boot into recovery and wipe then reflash the rom or a backup. Don't fret.
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ddgarcia05 said:
Boot into recovery and wipe then reflash the rom or a backup. Don't fret.
Sent from The Republic of Texas
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I guess that I have overlooked it, probably because I am worried as hell about screwing my phone.
Probably be a dumb question because I should have seen it but, How do I boot into recovery?
Edit: Found it. When I was looking for it earlier I didn't go far enough, needed to go one more page.

Well she lives again. I also tried to flash to 2.0 beta 5 and it did the same thing again. I am not sure what the problem is, but I guess I will just enjoy a rooted TB for a little while and then flash to a ginger rom of some sort.

Did you flash the radio for bamf that is posted in the first thread of bamf?
There is a special radio you need to flash to get gingerbread working.
Sent from my GingerBamf'd Thunderbolt

capflya said:
Did you flash the radio for bamf that is posted in the first thread of bamf?
There is a special radio you need to flash to get gingerbread working.
Sent from my GingerBamf'd Thunderbolt
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Will this keep it from even loading the lockscreen?
If so do I flash it before or after the rom?
Edit: I just went to the 2.0 Beta 5 thread and looked, I do believe I flashed the correct radio. I will give it a try again in the morning, it is almost 1 here so I really need to get into the bed, gotta be up at 6 in the morning for work.

Happened to me too. I just reloaded the new GB radio and the flashed the 2.0 rom. All good after that.

Haha... Yeah lack of sleep doesn't help... Give it another shot after you've had a chance to get some rest.
Some people have had issues like yours. You could try re-flashing just the ROM. If all else fails just re-flash everything like eatrice313 did. You'll get it eventually.
If you flashed the radio in the bamf 2 thread then you did the right radio. You flashed it in hboot right? Should have been named P05IMG.zip If you did that then you did it right. Flash rom, then radio.
I used the non-adb method - flash rom, batt pull, then hold power and vol down to boot into hboot then flash the P05IMG file.
Sent from my GingerBamf'd Thunderbolt

capflya said:
Haha... Yeah lack of sleep doesn't help... Give it another shot after you've had a chance to get some rest.
Some people have had issues like yours. You could try re-flashing just the ROM. If all else fails just re-flash everything like eatrice313 did. You'll get it eventually.
If you flashed the radio in the bamf 2 thread then you did the right radio. You flashed it in hboot right? Should have been named P05IMG.zip If you did that then you did it right. Flash rom, then radio.
I used the non-adb method - flash rom, batt pull, then hold power and vol down to boot into hboot then flash the P05IMG file.
Sent from my GingerBamf'd Thunderbolt
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After some sleep I carefully downloaded the Alpha Gingerbread radio set and flashed it through hboot and then reflashed the Bamf 2 ROM and got the same result, broken on reboot.

Sorry man... not sure whats going on. Did you try rebooting to recovery and reflashing just the ROM after it boots up and is "broken"?
Somebody with more knowledge might be able to help out, I'm still fairly new to the android scene.

capflya said:
Sorry man... not sure whats going on. Did you try rebooting to recovery and reflashing just the ROM after it boots up and is "broken"?
Somebody with more knowledge might be able to help out, I'm still fairly new to the android scene.
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I did attempt that but it didn't work out for me.
The odd thing is that I tried to flash to Gingeritus and I kept getting force until the phone would just shut down. Could these two problems be be related?

cmcconkey said:
I did attempt that but it didn't work out for me.
The odd thing is that I tried to flash to Gingeritus and I kept getting force until the phone would just shut down. Could these two problems be be related?
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I would try REdownloading the latest Bamf Beta 5 and putting it on your sd card...then factory reset everything and wipe cache and dalvik cache, and reflash Bamf. You may have gotten a bad download file.

Taykiin said:
I would try REdownloading the latest Bamf Beta 5 and putting it on your sd card...then factory reset everything and wipe cache and dalvik cache, and reflash Bamf. You may have gotten a bad download file.
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I will give that a try this evening, for some reason I left my data cable at home (all 5 of them).

cmcconkey said:
I will give that a try this evening, for some reason I left my data cable at home (all 5 of them).
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lolzzz...yeah it happens, let us know and if anything I'll help you troubleshoot your problem.

I'm having the exact problem. Flashed the GB radio, had no service with the froyo rom, flashed BAMF GB Beta 5, boot animation plays and then phone freezes.
I just reflashed the radio and still nothing I'm about to reflash the ROM and see what happens

Did you wipe Data?

I wiped data and cahe and dalvik cache

How long did you let it sit before turning off/pulling battery/throwing at the wall? First boot can take upwards of 5 minutes.

Are you talking about the animation screen or the home screen after that? I let it set a few min at the home screen and nothing happened

Just my .02.... When I and most others made the switch from froyo to gingerbread, it wasn't an exaggeration when we say "wipe, wipe, and wipe again". I wiped everything 3 times... By that I mean factory reset 3 times, wipe dalvik 3, batt stats and all 3 times. Flashed Rom in recovery, batt pull before reboot, volume down + power to get to hboot, flash radio and reboot. I had zero reboots upon startup and haven't had a problem since. Well at least no problems that weren't directly caused by experimenting with some stuff. When the phone does boot the first time, just walk away from it and let it do its thing. The kernel needs to settle. Don't jump in and start trying to set it up too fast. Patience helps a lot in the beginning.

Format SDcard to ext4

Could someone hel me with this. Ive searched and cant seem to find it all i can find is internal sd.

BAleR said:
Could someone hel me with this. Ive searched and cant seem to find it all i can find is internal sd.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1204682&highlight=ext+4

This is for the micro sd card?

BAleR said:
This is for the micro sd card?
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Are you trying to use use the link2sd app?

lumin30 said:
Are you trying to use use the link2sd app?
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no, ive been trying to flash valhalla black ed. and its been acting weird, i noticed when i wipe delvik cash it says E: no volume path (sd ext) or something similar, so i thought maybe it was because i got a new sd card and its not partitioned either

BAleR said:
no, ive been trying to flash valhalla black ed. and its been acting weird, i noticed when i wipe delvik cash it says E: no volume path (sd ext) or something similar, so i thought maybe it was because i got a new sd card and its not partitioned either
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I don't think you need to worry about the E:unknown volume for path [sd-ext]. There are actually a bunch of threads regarding it. As far as your ROM acting funny -- try the standard:
Wipe Cache Partition
Wipe (yes it is wiped even with the error)
Fix Permissions
Reboot and let phone sit 10 mins to rebuild caches.
If that doesn't work....
Factory wipe and reflash ROM.

Well ive tryed all that and more, the last rom didnt have any of these problems. Now i noticed the phone getting hot so i installed setcpu, and the cpu isnt scaling, it just sits at 1000mhz , if i set max at 200mhz the phone cools off and charges much faster. I think its a kernel issue, why it is happening to some and not others i dont know. Do you know of any good kernels i could try? One that O/C's?

BAleR said:
Well ive tryed all that and more, the last rom didnt have any of these problems. Now i noticed the phone getting hot so i installed setcpu, and the cpu isnt scaling, it just sits at 1000mhz , if i set max at 200mhz the phone cools off and charges much faster. I think its a kernel issue, why it is happening to some and not others i dont know. Do you know of any good kernels i could try? One that O/C's?
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What ROM are you on? If you are on Valhalla Black - people are OCing with that. Sometimes you need to start fresh man. Flash to complete KJ6 stock, factory reset, wipe all caches and start over. Sometimes even reflash stock twice to make sure you get all the gremlins off the phone.
I am on Valhalla Black - rc3.1 - and I have not had a SINGLE issue. A lot of people haven't had any issues. But I flashed from stock... hmmmm.
Maybe try it. Otherwise I defer to somebody else to help you. Consider hitting thanks!
BTW I get the same error when wiping dalvik. But it still wipes it and no big deal.

lumin30 said:
What ROM are you on? If you are on Valhalla Black - people are OCing with that. Sometimes you need to start fresh man. Flash to complete KJ6 stock, factory reset, wipe all caches and start over. Sometimes even reflash stock twice to make sure you get all the gremlins off the phone.
I am on Valhalla Black - rc3.1 - and I have not had a SINGLE issue. A lot of people haven't had any issues. But I flashed from stock... hmmmm.
Maybe try it. Otherwise I defer to somebody else to help you. Consider hitting thanks!
BTW I get the same error when wiping dalvik. But it still wipes it and no big deal.
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Yes im on that rom
So just flash the stock kj6 rooted rom and then VB? Ill try that but if that dont work then i dunno cus i dont have a computer, thanks for tryin though, you still helped

BAleR said:
Yes im on that rom
So just flash the stock kj6 rooted rom and then VB? Ill try that but if that dont work then i dunno cus i dont have a computer, thanks for tryin though, you still helped
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Flash it twice... no computer??

Nope. Not one at home
So you overclocked with the kernel in VB?

BAleR said:
So you overclocked with the kernel in VB?
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Not me... I don't feel like I need it. The ROM is flawless as far as I am concerned. But I have read posts from others saying they have overclocked.
thomas.raines - "I'm using Lightning Zap with no issues. Brought the quad scrores (although not very meaningful) from 2100+ to 2600+ NOT Oc'd, improved FPS, and OC'd I finally hit a 3000+..."

If you want to overclock just use tegrak paid. I have OC'd on this and it works fine. No heat issues other than what you would expect.

Hmm.. downloaded the app and says 1ghz is the highest i can go

you need paid version, legit from market
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Somairotevoli said:
you need paid version, legit from market
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No. Its not that. It does the same thing with setcpu

Ok, i wiped everything and reflashed. Let it sit. I checked to see if the phone was idleing, it was i rebooted, and after every step i checked if it was idleing and once i signed into google and opened the market, phone idle under battery usage went away and now its not idleing. Dunno what this means but im just going back to the last build till this is figured out, thanks for all the help though.
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Yeah, its the market. All is well untilled I open the market.

Did you load the overclock module?

hechoen said:
Did you load the overclock module?
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Yup i did..........

G2x in Recovery Bootloop

Ok Here is what I did:
First I flashed temesak's unofficial CM7 bulid then I couldn't access my sd card so I went to flash another rom (Hellfire's 7.2 super tweaked)
Recovery Used : CWM 5.8 Touch (Experimental)
I flashed and then I tried to reboot and then. *BOOM* Right back to the recovery screen. I tried a few more time but with the same outcome
I flashed a couple other roms like Eagle's Blood 2.3 and Weapon G2x but still had the same problem
Thinking it was my recovery I flash the 5.2 CWM and problems still there. Then I flash back a stock backup and a stock recovery thinking I just go back to stock to solve problem. NOPE i'm looking at a box with an arrow pointing at an Android.
I'm thinking I messed with something in the phone and now the command to set to boot normally is replaced with a command to boot into recovery.
Or
My volume down button is stuck but, that's unlikely considering I can use the recoveries just fine and flash roms, wipe dalvik everything too
Please help I bought this phone off of craigslist and been having trouble with it since day one (Unrelated to the seller) just general problems with LG

Try the G2x batch cleanup tool in the dev section. Sounds like your partitions may have been messed up. And stick with CWM 5.2
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IT WORKED PERFECTLY! It's Exactly what I needed. Not only did it fix my bootloop problem, I can now access my USB storage without a SD Card reader. Thanks Bro, And thank you mansa_noob (G2x Batch Cleanup Tool)

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IT WORKED PERFECTLY! It's Exactly what I needed. Not only did it fix my bootloop problem, I can now access my USB storage without a SD Card reader. Thanks Bro, And thank you mansa_noob (G2x Batch Cleanup Tool)
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Glad it worked!
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Same Problem.
I have a same problem, also wanna add that every time I connect my phone too a charger it turns on by itself, and boots to CWM Recovery.
I tried using Batch Cleanup Tool but still having same issues. Please HELP!!! I cannot afford a new phone right now.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Nata, what rom are you using? Try flashing something else
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Phone keeps rebooting, even in recovery?

Hi. I was toolin' along doing real well on CleanRom 4.5 for several days. Starting yesterday, the phone would randomly reboot itself to the HTC screen. I figured I had a bad app or something. Today, I went to open an app (Draw Something) and the phone froze for a bit. Then it rebooted, and now I cant get it booted back up. I usually never make it past the HTC screen. Got into recovery once but it rebooted in the middle of clearing the cache.
Any advice?

Welp, just made it through cache and dalvik and rebooted in the middle of factory reset. I wonder if I'm doing more harm than good.

Got it recovered and wiped fully, but it still keeps rebooting. Starting to feel like a hardware issue.

hcricket said:
Got it recovered and wiped fully, but it still keeps rebooting. Starting to feel like a hardware issue.
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Wipe system than factory reset ....than flash a new Rom if u can without it rebooting :crying:

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Wipe system than factory reset ....than flash a new Rom if u can without it rebooting :crying:
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Thank you for the reply. I have the battery recharging in recovery right now (which I am thrilled it is doing, lol). What does it do when you wipe /system? Clear off the OS? Would you move a new ROM over to SD card first?

hcricket said:
Thank you for the reply. I have the battery recharging in recovery right now (which I am thrilled it is doing, lol). What does it do when you wipe /system? Clear off the OS? Would you move a new ROM over to SD card first?
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So when u go into wipe menu in twrp it will show options : cache dalvic cache and external never press external unless u know what you're doing!
So do u have any Rom backups if so try restoring that and if not dl like clean Rom final version 5 and mount it sd in recovery and move that over and for the sake of itright now when your gunna install a new Rom in the wipe menu just choose factory reset ...your using twrp recovery right?

omario8484 said:
So when u go into wipe menu in twrp it will show options : cache dalvic cache and external never press external unless u know what you're doing!
So do u have any Rom backups if so try restoring that and if not dl like clean Rom final version 5 and mount it sd in recovery and move that over and for the sake of itright now when your gunna install a new Rom in the wipe menu just choose factory reset ...your using twrp recovery right?
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Thank you. I wiped everything, including /system and put CleanROm final 5 on it. Everything looked beautiful but I got to the setup screens and rebooted. I'm back in recovery and charging now. Oddly, it has stopped rebooting from recovery. The only other thing I can think of is a bad sim card? Can that make a phone go crazy?

hcricket said:
Thank you. I wiped everything, including /system and put CleanROm final 5 on it. Everything looked beautiful but I got to the setup screens and rebooted. I'm back in recovery and charging now. Oddly, it has stopped rebooting from recovery. The only other thing I can think of is a bad sim card? Can that make a phone go crazy?
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What's your battery at?

Removed the SIM card and it froze while booting, with lots of graphical tearing. *sigh*

hcricket said:
Removed the SIM card and it froze while booting, with lots of graphical tearing. *sigh*
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Keep that simmy in there..now what's your battery ....when does it reboot ...when trying to get into aroma installer?
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Worst case scenario you can relock the bootloader and run an RUU. But I think u can get out of this without having to do that

I replaced the SIM. Battery at 90% now, was 44% when I started. Fortunately, it is charging from TWRP.
It reboots all over the place - from fastboot, from recovery, from the boot.img, from the lock screen. I made it all the way to Android setup at one point and it rebooted. It most often just gets to the HTC screen and hangs - it reboots the least from recovery, just once in a great while.

hcricket said:
I replaced the SIM. Battery at 90% now, was 44% when I started. Fortunately, it is charging from TWRP.
It reboots all over the place - from fastboot, from recovery, from the boot.img, from the lock screen. I made it all the way to Android setup at one point and it rebooted. It most often just gets to the HTC screen and hangs - it reboots the least from recovery, just once in a great while.
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Dam so it's actually booting up and your getting to the rom... Umm what'd you do to your phone did u install something bad that's laying around on your sd or idk ! This is weird

omario8484 said:
Dam so it's actually booting up and your getting to the rom... Umm what'd you do to your phone did u install something bad that's laying around on your sd or idk ! This is weird
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Oy. Add reboot during aroma installer to that list. I just tried to flash again but no go.

hcricket said:
Oy. Add reboot during aroma installer to that list. I just tried to flash again but no go.
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Hold down your power button until your screen turns black and than see if it's still rebooting

Still no go. Thank you for your help - I've got it to 98% battery, powered it down, and I'm going to the bar, hah hah.

try flashing CM10 instead of a Sense rom. Aroma can cause freezes and reboots on its own. I would also be scared to run the RUU also since your phone freezes randomly. whats was your stock version?

It doesn't sound like you do, but if you installed a custom kernel that is overclocked then it could be that your device can't handle the higher CPU frequency. CleanROM 5 final I don't think has a custom kernel though. It could also be a bad CPU or memory hardware.

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It doesn't sound like you do, but if you installed a custom kernel that is overclocked then it could be that your device can't handle the higher CPU frequency. CleanROM 5 final I don't think has a custom kernel though. It could also be a bad CPU or memory hardware.
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I have had this happen. Viper has stock kernel listed in post 4 I would try flashing that.
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kleeman7 said:
I have had this happen. Viper has stock kernel listed in post 4 I would try flashing that.
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I told him to flash a rom that doesn't use aroma. He is getting freezes all the time. TWRP used to freeze up on me all the time after the 2.20 ruu until twrp 2.2.2.0 was released. Phone still has trouble getting into recovery from the bootloader though. He should install CM10 or codefirex without using a custom kernel. Maybe run "fastboot erase cache" in bootloader then wipe cache,dalvik,factory reset,system,external in recovery then flash CM10 or codefirex and gapps. keep it plain until you find issues you can attribute to the rom or to the phone. i have had very few issues with latest builds of jb aosp roms besides some battery stuff.

Well, although I had fully charged it and then powered down, now that I am ready to work on it this AM, it wont start at all. I'm thinking she's gone, captain.
Thank you everyone for the replies.

4.3 freezing? possible fix here

I having been trying to run the latest carbon (4.3) nightly
but every time i would reboot, it would get stuck at the static boot screen.
I'd have to do a full wipe of everything (data partition as well) and re-install just to get it to work again.
i tried several time with a few nightlies. I had an 8/27 cm 10.2 on my card and decided to give that a go. to my surprise
i had the same problem. so now i'm thinking WTF?
I decided to pull my sd card and boot. again it went to the boot screen. i pulled the battery and powered up again. this time it booted. (no sd card)
woohoo.
rebooted several times.. seems to be good to go.
so i did a full wipe loaded up carbon 0903 and same problem.
so i tried my fix. pulled sd card.. powered on. at boot screen. pulled battery and powered back up.
took a little bit of time. but it booted up.. success!
powered off, put the sd card back in and powered back up and it's working fine now.
rebooted several times with no issues.
i'm not sure what the problem is, but i googled and found many people across different phones & roms with the same issue. so it's a google issue.
but with our phone that's a possible fix.
give it a go and see what you get.

I had that problem once but flashing 09/03 seemed to fix it. Are you running a kernel with that or just stock carbon?

stock kernel. I didn't try any 3rd party kernels. I should have though. good idea

when you say "SDCARD" do you mean an extsdcard? I'm coming from a DROID-X, and sometimes get confused. This was happening on Mastamoon's 10.2 when people would boot from the extsdcard, so am wondering if that is the answer

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when you say "SDCARD" do you mean an extsdcard? I'm coming from a DROID-X, and sometimes get confused. This was happening on Mastamoon's 10.2 when people would boot from the extsdcard, so am wondering if that is the answer
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I also came from the DX
yes i mean the external SD card that is by the sim card that you can take out.
I realize not all phones have sd cards that can be pulled. but i do know the problem happens on more than just the sgs3
oddly my father in law has the droid razr maxx and i loaded carbon 4.3 on his and had no problems with it (using multi-boot slot system)
however, what's interesting is i can reproduce both the problem and the fix for 4.3 roms (carbon & cm 10.2 at least)
1) full wipe (including data partitions) & install 4.3 rom (carbon or cm 10.2)
2) rom boots and works, configure it as usual
3) reboot
stuck at static boot screen? read on. if not then you probably won't be reading this post anyways
4) pull battery AND external sd card
5) battery goes back in WITHOUT sd card. power up.
if it is still stuck at boot screen, pull battery 1 more time.
6) battery back in and power back up. wait (could take a minute or two just wait, if your at like 10 minutes, then somethings wrong, try again)
If it boots into rom, then your golden. power off, put sd card back in and boot back up.
good to go..
again, i was able to re-produce both the problem and the fix on 0902/0903 carbon 4.3 and 0827 cm 10.2
I did download the 0904 carbon today and flashed and have had no problems, i have rebooted several times without problems
so i don't know if the "fix" from the day before resolved my issue or if i did a full wipe if the problem would come back.
i have not determined that yet and am happy with my set up (everything is working) so i'm probably not going to try unless someone needs me to verify.
hope it is helpful to someone stuck like i was.

All 4.3 ROMs do this to me.. As soon as I reboot I get stuck at the splash... Can't load anything. Have to do a full wipe and reboot.
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Hmm, I run TW as my daily and every couple weeks I've run Slim 4.3. I haven't noticed any issues on reboots. Didn't notice this on the AOKP 4.3 alpha this weekend either. Is this reproducible on every 4.3 rom we have with your phone: whether its (un)official PA, Slim, CM, and whatever else there is?

Yup all 4.3
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faehsemc said:
Yup all 4.3
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Is it a specific brand of sdcard that does this to you both? Have you tried another brand maybe or even reformatting that card? Its unusual that the sdcard would cause a freeze up like that every time.

I've done it with no SD card inserted at all. Complete clean install. Literally the only thing j had the sdcard in for was installing the ROM after a complete phone wipe. As soon as it was completed, I pull the SD card and do the initial ROM boot. It loads up just fine. I can do whatever with the ROM... If I reboot at all, I get stuck. This is all with stock kernel. I have not tried to use KT or any other 4.3 out there at all. My phone just does not like 4.3 as of right now.
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By complete. I mean COMPLETE. Full factory reset. If I would've flashed a 4.1 I would no longer have the /0 folder
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faehsemc said:
I've done it with no SD card inserted at all. Complete clean install. Literally the only thing j had the sdcard in for was installing the ROM after a complete phone wipe. As soon as it was completed, I pull the SD card and do the initial ROM boot. It loads up just fine. I can do whatever with the ROM... If I reboot at all, I get stuck. This is all with stock kernel. I have not tried to use KT or any other 4.3 out there at all. My phone just does not like 4.3 as of right now.
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By complete. I mean COMPLETE. Full factory reset. If I would've flashed a 4.1 I would no longer have the /0 folder
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Yea, I would hold off from prolonged JB 4.3 use if I had those same issues too. I've only used custom kernels with 4.2 and 4.3 but idk how much a difference that would make. I have an inherent bias against using the stock kernel regardless of the rom.

faehsemc said:
All 4.3 ROMs do this to me.. As soon as I reboot I get stuck at the splash... Can't load anything. Have to do a full wipe and reboot.
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did you try doing it exactly as i listed above?
I loaded carbon 0905 and kt747 - 0831 and working fine (dirty flash)
but everything works great after i do what i listed above.

SlimSnoopOS said:
Is it a specific brand of sdcard that does this to you both? Have you tried another brand maybe or even reformatting that card? Its unusual that the sdcard would cause a freeze up like that every time.
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i'm using a sandisk 32gb card.
as i mentioned if i follow the steps listed above, everything works great for me.
custom kernels and all.

Just tried with build 5.. No luck. Did the method in the op as well.. I have a 32 GB sandisk as well
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No Problems Here
I've flashed a number of the nightlies (both clean and dirty update) and have not encountered this issue with a 32GB Sandisk external card. Odd that it doesn't affect all sg3's.
BTW, my device is d2vzw.

Its similar with the issue of Miui. There were some that just couldn't run MIUI... wouldn't boot at all
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faehsemc said:
Its similar with the issue of Miui. There were some that just couldn't run MIUI... wouldn't boot at all
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I never tried it with MIUI.
but the problem and fix/workaround worked for me on carbon, CM so at least for me it's a reproduce-able experience.
I don't think it's a bad SD card by any means. I think that something is trying to be written or read from the card and fails, so by removing the card and rebooting, the OS stops trying to do whatever it was trying to do and goes on with the boot.
edit: tonight i tried pa_d2vzw-3.99-L13N-20130906 and it did not do this this freezing at the boot screen stuff.

Slim 4.3 works for me.. Apparently the CM kernel doesn't like my phone. I flashed BMS.. I rebooted. The first initial reboot took 10 min and then all of the sudden it was up and working.
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