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Hello all, I need your help. Today I flashed a zip on a whim, and it has ruined my whole day.
I have managed to get back to CWM v2.5.1.3 RED, and can flash zips and clear cashes, all that. But when I reboot, it brings me right back to CWM. Any help for me? I am lost.
Thanks in advanced,
Nate
P.S. I am not afraid of the command line.
Try odin?
I have tried GTG Unbrick. That's how I've gotten as far as I have.
How long does it usually take? I'm staring at the Odin screen for about 5mins now and it still says "Set Partition" and "DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!!"
Alright, FIXED, I just needed to keep retrying. It took like 5 attempts to get it going right.
Nate_the_Ace said:
Hello all, I need your help. Today I flashed a zip on a whim, and it has ruined my whole day.
I have managed to get back to CWM v2.5.1.3 RED, and can flash zips and clear cashes, all that. But when I reboot, it brings me right back to CWM. Any help for me? I am lost.
Thanks in advanced,
Nate
P.S. I am not afraid of the command line.
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Have you tried....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081
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I am ALSO stuck in a CWM boot loop.
i have the same problem as well..
IF I were to guess what i did wrong it would be.. when i tinkered with the partitions
I tried Odin, Heimdall, and GTG unbrick link is not available anymore..
ummhii said:
i have the same problem as well..
IF I were to guess what i did wrong it would be.. when i tinkered with the partitions
I tried Odin, Heimdall, and GTG unbrick link is not available anymore..
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bradman117 was kind enough to put together a thread with links to older Infuse roms and recovery options. One of his links should work. Just be sure to slap him a thanks.
... i am facing this problem and i have tried so many times that i am too pissed off to count. Tried Odin many times.
after odin back to UCLB3, phone works normally but when flashing cm9 from CWM Red phone boots to Blue CWM recovery again and wont boot no matter how many times i flash cm9. goes back to recovery everytime it boots. even tied 2 different builds of cm9. now its beyond my imagination so askin you people for help ...
chetansaraf said:
... i am facing this problem and i have tried so many times that i am too pissed off to count. Tried Odin many times.
after odin back to UCLB3, phone works normally but when flashing cm9 from CWM Red phone boots to Blue CWM recovery again and wont boot no matter how many times i flash cm9. goes back to recovery everytime it boots. even tied 2 different builds of cm9. now its beyond my imagination so askin you people for help ...
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If you have flash the CM9 once you have now to mount the system and flash again the CM9....
Here take a look of this video this is not the CM9 but this is how you should flash any ics for the infuse..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndC39t1AE-k&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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alexischino said:
If you have flash the CM9 once you have now to mount the system and flash again the CM9....
Here take a look of this video this is not the CM9 but this is how you should flash any ics for the infuse..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndC39t1AE-k&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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... thanx buddy for help but already running 4.3. i cant believe what i was missing. i was just rebooting the recovery where i needed to reboot the system after flashing cm9 1st time. and when i did, wowwww no problems and now phone runnin on 4.3. butterly smooth ...
I was trying to flash a eaglebloods ginger bread on my g2x... however every time the phone boots up it immediately goes into Clockworkmod Recovery and doesn't boot the OS. I've tried formatting and reinstalling the rom but i still get the same problem of the phone going directly into recovery instead of booting. Please help!
have you ever dropped the phone? Maybe the hardware button (volume down is stuck)is failing? I've never heard it automatically rebooting to recovery unless selected from the recovery to do so.
no i haven't dropped it or anything... the last thing i remember doing to the phone before it started doing this was clearing the cache and davilk cache...then it goes immediately to recovery...i just got the phone too, i hope i didn't brick it or something
you didn't "brick" it look up what that means in Urban Dictionary, before using it. If anything reflash the recovery with NVflasher or try a different rom.
tried reflashing clockwork and still have the same problem
tried a new rom? maybe use the clean up tool from in the dev section.
Re nvflash cwm. This has happened to me several times. Do not try to flash anything else until you nvflash cwm again. If that don't work use the rom for recovery in nvflash that is in the dev section.
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kwes1020 said:
Re nvflash cwm. This has happened to me several times. Do not try to flash anything else until you nvflash cwm again. If that don't work use the rom for recovery in nvflash that is in the dev section.
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Two post above yours he said he re-nvlashed.
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Im going to try to reflash a different version of CWR and hope that works... crossing my fingers
MAN.... i flashed the latest touch cwm and still no luck... tried new rom (hellfires gb) no luck...!!! just got this phone man! any suggestions welcomed
Try using this NVFLASH technique. It should restore your ROM & recovery to stock.
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Two post above yours he said he re-nvlashed.
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But the question is did any part of the flash fail. Just like flashing a rom. You can get bad flashes. Happens to me lots of times.
Bottom line flash the rom for recovery through nvflash and it will solve it. I've softbricked myself wayyyy too many times and got it back the same way. If it turns on and shows any graphic its not hard bricked.
andrewNY said:
Try using this NVFLASH technique. It should restore your ROM & recovery to stock.
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This will resurrect it unless its not actually a g2x.
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Thank you! this helped a lot!
andrewNY said:
Try using this NVFLASH technique. It should restore your ROM & recovery to stock.
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you sir, are a gentleman and a scholar! THANK YOU!!!
djmeistro said:
no i haven't dropped it or anything... the last thing i remember doing to the phone before it started doing this was clearing the cache and davilk cache...then it goes immediately to recovery...i just got the phone too, i hope i didn't brick it or something
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Make sure when you flash you wipe everything too, not just cache and dalvik cache
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I tried searching, but the search is down?
I have spent several hours looking.
I used odin (phone went into download mode without issue) to put my phone back to stock so I could get the ota update.
Went back into download mode with Odin to install CWM, this "passed" and after a restart my phone went into samsung recovery, not CWM.
Now my phone will not go into download mode? I tried different cable, ports, etc.
any help?
so what is it doing since it's not going into download mode.
it wouldn't do anything, I finally reinstalled the drivers and after holding down the power and volume - let go... nothing! push the volume - twice and it went into download mode. Odin recognizes it and goes through the motion, but the phone has a AX_timeout in red at the top left corner of the screen?
Odin continues and say's passed, but when I try to reboot into CWM it hangs on the samsung logo.
It will not boot into recovery, but it will start the phone and everything seems to work.
im using odin 1.83 / windows 7 64bit.
Remove the battery, put the phone in download mode, put the battery back in, and flash CWM. Before you fully boot the OS, flash a custom kernel. If you don't flash a custom kernel, the default kernel will overwrite CWM with the default recovery.
Morrisme said:
it wouldn't do anything, I finally reinstalled the drivers and after holding down the power and volume - let go... nothing! push the volume - twice and it went into download mode. Odin recognizes it and goes through the motion, but the phone has a AX_timeout in red at the top left corner of the screen?
Odin continues and say's passed, but when I try to reboot into CWM it hangs on the samsung logo.
It will not boot into recovery, but it will start the phone and everything seems to work.
im using odin 1.83 / windows 7 64bit.
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I would try using odin v1.82... My experience with this tool has told me that our charge doesnt always "play nice" with other versions... Also try redownloading the latest CWM, you could of had a bad download.
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Cilraaz said:
Remove the battery, put the phone in download mode, put the battery back in, and flash CWM. Before you fully boot the OS, flash a custom kernel. If you don't flash a custom kernel, the default kernel will overwrite CWM with the default recovery.
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Also in my experience I have had CWM recovery with the stock kernel... So something seems funny, stock kernel must not always overwrite custom cwm... Hmmmm. Who can help us here....????
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stebomurkn420 said:
Also in my experience I have had CWM recovery with the stock kernel... So something seems funny, stock kernel must not always overwrite custom cwm... Hmmmm. Who can help us here....????
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If you happen to flash a ROM that doesn't include the script that the kernel calls for the overwrite, then you could have ended up with CWM on a stock kernel.
stebomurkn420 said:
Also in my experience I have had CWM recovery with the stock kernel... So something seems funny, stock kernel must not always overwrite custom cwm... Hmmmm. Who can help us here....????
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There's a script, can't remember where it's at, that is run at boot to replace the recovery. If that script is not there, it doesn't get replaced. All custom roms have it removed.
shrike1978 said:
There's a script, can't remember where it's at, that is run at boot to replace the recovery. If that script is not there, it doesn't get replaced. All custom roms have it removed.
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/system/etc/install-recovery.sh
Hmmm... So your saying there basically wasnt a way for me to have cwm with stock rom/kernel with root... I could have swore I had that setup at some point...
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stebomurkn420 said:
Hmmm... So your saying there basically wasnt a way for me to have cwm with stock rom/kernel with root... I could have swore I had that setup at some point...
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There is, root, boot up, delete the script power off, re root and you're good
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stebomurkn420 said:
Hmmm... So your saying there basically wasnt a way for me to have cwm with stock rom/kernel with root... I could have swore I had that setup at some point...
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There is. You can download the Superuser CWM to your phone, flash CWM, boot immediately to CWM (don't let it boot normally), flash Superuser, and reboot.
At that point, if you desire, you can delete /system/etc/install-recovery.sh and reflash CWM if you want to keep it.
shrike1978 said:
There is. You can download the Superuser CWM to your phone, flash CWM, boot immediately to CWM (don't let it boot normally), flash Superuser, and reboot.
At that point, if you desire, you can delete /system/etc/install-recovery.sh and reflash CWM if you want to keep it.
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You think this would work on the nexus... Seems its kind of a universal method...?
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Guys suddenly i booted my phone and all the apps starting to crash, so i got into recovery, wipe cache, dalvik cache and data then reflash the rom i used and now its stock into boot screen! i cant get into recovery! i can only boot into download mode!.
So im trying hard to find Roms flashable via ODIN and all the Roms i found have the links brokens! cant find anything good to solve my problem via ODIN can you guys help me?! this has never happened to me.
Try to flash a custom recovery like CWM
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coolprateek.kumar said:
Try to flash a custom recovery like CWM
Hit thanks on help
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but how? i can only boot into download mode and use ODIN what do i do?
Thanks for answering! im a bit of despearte.
Railius said:
this has never happened to me.
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This did happen to you. lol There is a first time for almost everything.
Railius said:
but how? i can only boot into download mode and use ODIN what do i do?
Thanks for answering! im a bit of despearte.
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Three finger salute
Hold volume up, volume down and power until you get to the Samsung splash screen then release the power button. You should find yourself in recovery after the kernel splash screen. If it goes into your boot animation, you failed and should do it again.
Edit: I saw that most of your other stuff is with the SGSIII. Do you have a SGS4G that you are doing this on, or did you wonder here by mistake?
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Pull the battery first, with the USB unplugged. Put the battery back in, then do the three finger salute. That's what I do when reboot loops happen for me...
Railius said:
but how? i can only boot into download mode and use ODIN what do i do?
Thanks for answering! im a bit of despearte.
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Didn't you had cwm before??
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coolprateek.kumar said:
Didn't you had cwm before??
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yes guys! forget about the s3 sig, i have it also, but i rooted a sgs4g of my friend and installed Ccustom rom, not he had this issue after like 5 months i told him to reflash the ROM and hes in a bootloop, he CANT get into recovery :/, he cant boot only odin!.
If you are doing this via proxy (him actually doing what you tell him) then tell him to get rid of odin and download one of the Heimdall one clicks. If you can get into bootloader mode you can flash a back to stock.
Also If you pull the battery and wait a couple minutes then put it back while holding the three buttons sometimes that will jumpstart recovery mode.
We have an awesome guide on how to get back to stock gingerbread which will allow your friend to flash back to a stock rom if he can get into download mode. Full guide with pictures
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21953878&postcount=2
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Well of he is using odin, this is a better one click for him. You get rooted with a cwm kernel.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1500427
Part three is a Odin one click to GB
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My phone has been soft bricked after trying to flash the latest dkp kernel. I was using philz touch recovery and I tried to flash dkp kernel 3-20 build, and I got an error during flashing saying that it couldn't decompress the ramdisk. So I tried to flash the older version of dkp that I was using, and it failed to flash! I have never had problems like this before. So now my phone will not boot to system or go back to recovery. I can only access download mode. I was using CM11 with the ML1 modem and dkp kernel before my phone got bricked. It really frustrates me that my phone just randomly decided to freak out and brick itself, because I've been doing the same thing forever and never had any problems flashing a kernel. Please tell me how I can fix my phone. Thank you.
jonny30bass said:
My phone has been soft bricked after trying to flash the latest dkp kernel. I was using philz touch recovery and I tried to flash dkp kernel 3-20 build, and I got an error during flashing saying that it couldn't decompress the ramdisk. So I tried to flash the older version of dkp that I was using, and it failed to flash! I have never had problems like this before. So now my phone will not boot to system or go back to recovery. I can only access download mode. I was using CM11 with the ML1 modem and dkp kernel before my phone got bricked. It really frustrates me that my phone just randomly decided to freak out and brick itself, because I've been doing the same thing forever and never had any problems flashing a kernel. Please tell me how I can fix my phone. Thank you.
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This how i did back to stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1867253
Will help u on soft brick.
Odin enter download mode flash stock image. After that's all done. Dnt let ur fone install the ota. And root using CASUAL root and ur back to business
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twistedillutions said:
This how i did back to stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1867253
Will help u on soft brick.
Odin enter download mode flash stock image. After that's all done. Dnt let ur fone install the ota. And root using CASUAL root and ur back to business
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I did an ODIN back to stock MF1. In ODIN it says "Pass!" above the com port, and it also says <OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 1 / failed 0). However, my phone has been stuck on the 4G LTE screen with the colorful rings for around 15 minutes and it doesn't seem to be doing anything. What should I do?
Pull battery out and reboot.. Thats mentioned on instructions.
Post wat odin tells u
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twistedillutions said:
Pull battery out and reboot.. Thats mentioned on instructions.
Post wat odin tells u
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Well when I pulled the battery and tried to reboot a samsung logo with an unlocked symbol was underneath it and it still gets stuck on the 4g LTE screen. Also, it won't allow me to enter the recovery.
So I went back to download mode on my screen and i noticed that it still says "System Status: Custom"
jonny30bass said:
Well when I pulled the battery and tried to reboot a samsung logo with an unlocked symbol was underneath it and it still gets stuck on the 4g LTE screen. Also, it won't allow me to enter the recovery.
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Boot into recovery, factory reset, then reboot.
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BadUsername said:
Boot into recovery, factory reset, then reboot.
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Like I said, it won't go into recovery mode. It seems like it is going to and then it just has a black screen.
BadUsername said:
Boot into recovery, factory reset, then reboot.
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You have to be able to boot into recovery, make sure you hold the volume up + home for an extended period of time.
If you can't, you need to Odin the stock rom and try again.
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BadUsername said:
You have to be able to boot into recovery, make sure you hold the volume up + home for an extended period of time.
If you can't, you need to Odin the stock rom and try again.
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The ODIN to stock did not work correctly. Maybe I need a different MF1 tar file. Can someone point me to a link for it? I have searched an can't find a completely stock MF1 file.
jonny30bass said:
The ODIN to stock did not work correctly. Maybe I need a different MF1 tar file. Can someone point me to a link for it? I have searched an can't find a completely stock MF1 file.
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http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23134718111254196
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BadUsername said:
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23134718111254196
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That's the exact one that I just used. It didn't seem to restore to stock with that.
jonny30bass said:
That's the exact one that I just used. It didn't seem to restore to stock with that.
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Don't know what else to tell you, it's a completely stock file.
Recovery, system, kernel, and bootloader.
If you can't boot into recovery it must've not flashed perfectly or something else is wrong, like your hardware.
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BadUsername said:
Don't know what else to tell you, it's a completely stock file.
Recovery, system, kernel, and bootloader.
If you can't boot into recovery it must've not flashed perfectly or something else is wrong, like your hardware.
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I highly doubt that it is a hardware issue. I just tried to ODIN again and I'm in the same situation. One thing that I have noticed is that it tries to reinstall the MTP driver after using ODIN and it fails to install.
EDIT: Nevermind. I was able to enter recovery this time. I just did a factory reset. Hopefully it boots now. I will report back with results.
UPDATE: Ok. Everything seems fine now. Used casual to root and unlock bootloader again. Then installed PhilZ Touch Recovery. Now I am making a backup, and I am going to flash a Kit Kat Rom.