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Boot loop fix 2.3.4 ssgs 4g

Ok i finally figured out i recently boot looped my phone was trippin out because i couldnt get my phone to boot up it was stuck in boot loop and it kept saying invalid arguement.i didnt want to send my phone through warranty in fear that they would deny it out of desperation i tried again to down load the firmware and this is what i did after days of disspair. What you need to do is this…….1) put your phone in download mode this works with phones that are not hard bricked only those in boot loop ……2) erase all files you previously downloaded,even delete them from your recycle bin so there are no confusions with any files downloaded from your pc……3) download from androidadvices.com the 2.3.3 firmware upgrade and all of its files . Send files to your desktop then enter androidadvices.com when you open the file so that you may extract files, then upload all files as they show you on the 2.3.3 firmware instructions…..4)..... ( pay close attn to this step).....!!!after you load the firmware odin should fail in resetting your phone but what this does is enter the file necessary to reboot your phone accordingly,this gets rid of your boot loop !!!…..5) now enter a desired firmware from android advices.com i used the stable 2.3.4 firmware download to put into my phone installed it and got my phone to reset appropriately and now i have my phone back this should also work for you all boot loop stuck galaxy s 4 g phones by t mobile . i hope this works for all of you with the problem.i was scared worried and concerned but hey curiosity killed the cat, and can also put a cheshire smile on its face good luck

there is no need for Odin any longer once you have drhonks GB kernel because recovery is built in so bootlooped or soft bricked you can just go into cwm and reflash from there
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Unless ofcourse, you flash a bad kernel.
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dsexton702 said:
there is no need for Odin any longer once you have drhonks GB kernel because recovery is built in so bootlooped or soft bricked you can just go into cwm and reflash from there
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Are you sure about this?
I just bootlooped my phone trying to flash icbinb, so I gave up and tried to go back to Valhalla 1.1. But then that bootlooped as well, leaving me no choice but to start from scratch and odin the leaked KG4.

jellysandwich said:
Are you sure about this?
I just bootlooped my phone trying to flash icbinb, so I gave up and tried to go back to Valhalla 1.1. But then that bootlooped as well, leaving me no choice but to start from scratch and odin the leaked KG4.
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hum...that have happen to me several times and all I have done is get on cmw and flash the update.zip that its on ur sdcard and u should have a orange cwm now u can flash anyroom without bootloops ...I dont know if this will work but it did for me ...I use to get mad almost break my phone one day ..I past 5 weejs without my phone until I was messing with it and it worked...
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mex911 said:
hum...that have happen to me several times and all I have done is get on cmw and flash the update.zip that its on ur sdcard and u should have a orange cwm now u can flash anyroom without bootloops ...I dont know if this will work but it did for me ...I use to get mad almost break my phone one day ..I past 5 weejs without my phone until I was messing with it and it worked...
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I've been wondering about that because I have never seen an "update.zip" on my sdcard. What is the update.zip that it expects?
I actually hit that option by mistake trying to flash a rom, but of course it said file not found.

YOU DO NOT FLASH UPDATE.ZIP.
YOU DO NOT FLASH UPDATE.ZIP.
follow fb's GB STARTER PACK TO GET GB IN YOUR PHONE.

jellysandwich said:
Are you sure about this?
I just bootlooped my phone trying to flash icbinb, so I gave up and tried to go back to Valhalla 1.1. But then that bootlooped as well, leaving me no choice but to start from scratch and odin the leaked KG4.
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yes im sure about this, if you have drhonks GB kernel there is no need for ODIN unless you hard brick or go back to froyo and EVEN then you probably dont need ODIN
ever since drhonks gb kernel i havent touched ODIN since
just sayin...

jellysandwich said:
I've been wondering about that because I have never seen an "update.zip" on my sdcard. What is the update.zip that it expects?
I actually hit that option by mistake trying to flash a rom, but of course it said file not found.
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if u ever put cwm final on ur sdcard u should have the update.zip .....like i say it worked for me i always do it on gb or froyo when i have bootloops ...i save time by not using the pc and try to odin it....when i flashed it always give me the orange cwm and when i flash the rom and try to go back to recovery it give me the red cwm ....like i say it mite work for you cuz it worked for me unless myphone special lolz...!!
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Tried Flashing rom and doesnt boot gives a funny robot voice

I tries to flash my wifes sk4g to a new rom through cwr and it boots but doesnt go to the system its stuck at the boot screen and says system data partion not available system not available any help thanks

The voice is normal but did you check mounts?
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tylermaciaszek;19/319646 said:
The voice is normal but did you check mounts?
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no i didnt what should i do?

no you're going to have to odin using this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1186954 then re root and all that then when flashing make sure you check mounts they are in the directions of all of ayoteddy's roms

well now on odin when i try to flash kj2 it stays at 4 bars and doesnt go any further stood there for 2 hours !!! is it cause im on windows xp or whats going on? thanks

If odin is giving you problems try heimdall its just as if not better then odin
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1350060

Reboot into recovery and install a different rom.
I had this exact same thing on my daughter's Sidekick, where a custom kernel didn't want to boot the phone up.
I tried restoring the backup I had made; nothing. I factory reseted it; nothing.
Loaded up another rom (last ditch effort), and BAM, it went through.
So try rebooting into recovery and load another rom.

[Q] Which kernel should I flash?

if i'm in stock froyo, and i want to flash a GB MiUI rom!
should i flash a froyo kernel or a GB kernel?

If your on GB you Need GB! NEVER mix you'll get bootloop
Big Dog Infuse I997 ICS CatyRom

but i'm in froyo and want to upgrade to GB.. still confused

Read. Search. All of your questions have answers on here.!
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Only the kernel thats in miui can be used to run miui. If ur on froyo and u want to install miui I believe all u have to do is be rooted, change recovery to e3 modded recovery, install cwm. After that boot into recovery. If its ur 1st time booting into recovery you'll have to select reinstall packages two times then it will boot into green recovery. Do a backup then wipe data/factory reset, and wipe dalvik cache. Then flash miui. Restart ur phone it will get stuck at the Samsung boot screen. Pull the battery. Start ur phone holding both volume buttons until the buttons on the bottom of the phone light up and let go. U shud boot into blue recovery now and then reflash the rom reset and bam! Miui goodness! I would use SMS backup to backup ur texts and backup ur contacts onto ur SD just in case. I would say backup ur apps with titanium backup but I don't believe that you will be able to restore those app without manger problems. I'm unsure of that tho. I believe that's all right. U should checkout one of the miui threads and they'll tell you everything u need to know. Plus it'll stop other people on here from getting mad that u didn't read. But im a nice guy and I'm just letting you know. Also Galents update to miui is coming out today get it from their website!
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goobieracing said:
Only the kernel thats in miui can be used to run miui. If ur on froyo and u want to install miui I believe all u have to do is be rooted, change recovery to e3 modded recovery, install cwm. After that boot into recovery. If its ur 1st time booting into recovery you'll have to select reinstall packages two times then it will boot into green recovery. Do a backup then wipe data/factory reset, and wipe dalvik cache. Then flash miui. Restart ur phone it will get stuck at the Samsung boot screen. Pull the battery. Start ur phone holding both volume buttons until the buttons on the bottom of the phone light up and let go. U shud boot into blue recovery now and then reflash the rom reset and bam! Miui goodness! I would use SMS backup to backup ur texts and backup ur contacts onto ur SD just in case. I would say backup ur apps with titanium backup but I don't believe that you will be able to restore those app without manger problems. I'm unsure of that tho. I believe that's all right. U should checkout one of the miui threads and they'll tell you everything u need to know. Plus it'll stop other people on here from getting mad that u didn't read. But im a nice guy and I'm just letting you know. Also Galents update to miui is coming out today get it from their website!
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Thank you for taking time and writing everything.
Yes i've read and searched, but i couldn't find the answer of what i'm asking.
To flash miui i have to be on the RED CWM, thats why i didn't know which kernel i should flash.. i guess i'm gonna have to try different ones.. hopefully i won't brick my phone

p3terr said:
Thank you for taking time and writing everything.
Yes i've read and searched, but i couldn't find the answer of what i'm asking.
To flash miui i have to be on the RED CWM, thats why i didn't know which kernel i should flash.. i guess i'm gonna have to try different ones.. hopefully i won't brick my phone
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After getting recovery and stuff setup to get red recovery , flash gtgs community kernel.
Big Dog Infuse I997 ICS CatyRom

p3terr said:
Thank you for taking time and writing everything.
Yes i've read and searched, but i couldn't find the answer of what i'm asking.
To flash miui i have to be on the RED CWM, thats why i didn't know which kernel i should flash.. i guess i'm gonna have to try different ones.. hopefully i won't brick my phone
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p3terr,
start here..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1220090
then follow goobie's post for miui
click thanks to all those who helped you...

I flashed from green recovery after I used gtg's ultimate unbrick. Just saying because I already know you can flash miui threw red.
Heres a link to the infuses miui thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17881848
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[Q] recovery mode disappeared!

Hey guys,
I bought a Samsung galaxy s 4g the other day and immediately wannted to flash a ROM.
So I browsed around and found this ROM here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1321611&page=4
I had the clockwork mod already(words were red) so I put it on my sd card and installed from zip.. Everything worked fine but while it starts up my screen gets full of colorful squigly lines before it starts.. But I figured its not a problem. The ROM is pretty kool...(im using it now) but when I try to go back into the clockword mod recovery...I get those same squiggly lines and then my phone restarts .... I tried quickboot but it wont work either...
My previous firmware was froyo 2.2. And this ROM is 2.3.6
Does that matter? Did I permanently damage my phone? Please...help wil be appreciated dearly.
Thanks

You have to install gb bootloaders... Search fbis251, he has made a guide to get it done
P.s
You have to select "reinstall package" from stock recovery to get into cwm recovery
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Try this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1223765
I'm currently running 2.3.6 KJ6 with drhonk's KJ1 flashed over it, and custom debloater flashed over that. When I tried to go back to Froyo I had problems because recovery gave a signature verification error in and would not install any .zips. I flashed back to 2.3.6 via ODIN (which I assume included the gb bootloaders) and everything works perfectly, EXCEPT I cannot make a CWM backup of my current setup, only of specific apps and data I designate using Titanium Backup.
When I go into ROM Manager and select "backup current ROM" it says CWM is not installed! then it asks me to install, and gives choices for 4 phones none of which mactch exactly, just the galax si9000. So far I have been to scared to try this, I don't want to mess anything up and I KNOW clockwork recovery red is working... should I install this and will it make it so I can make a perfect backup of my entire phone?

Farlander said:
Try this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1223765
I'm currently running 2.3.6 KJ6 with drhonk's KJ1 flashed over it, and custom debloater flashed over that. When I tried to go back to Froyo I had problems because recovery gave a signature verification error in and would not install any .zips. I flashed back to 2.3.6 via ODIN (which I assume included the gb bootloaders) and everything works perfectly, EXCEPT I cannot make a CWM backup of my current setup, only of specific apps and data I designate using Titanium Backup.
When I go into ROM Manager and select "backup current ROM" it says CWM is not installed! then it asks me to install, and gives choices for 4 phones none of which mactch exactly, just the galax si9000. So far I have been to scared to try this, I don't want to mess anything up and I KNOW clockwork recovery red is working... should I install this and will it make it so I can make a perfect backup of my entire phone?
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ROM manager should not be used on this phone, assuming you have a sgs4g.
If you Odin'd ravers stock kj6 you should have cwm recovery, giving you the ability to make a back up if not consider flashing it
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Thank you guys for the help...everything's fine now!
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[Q] Stuck on "Performing factory data reset"

I removed the ICS build and use ODIN to return back to stock build.
Still having some problem so i did a data reset. It keep getting stuck there and i already done it three times.
Any suggestions?

So you flashed GB stock.tar through Odin? Do you mean factory/data reset in clockwork recovery? Flashing back to stock should take away your root so you would have to flash CWM again, make a nandroid backup, and flash superuser zip again.
What problems where you having before and after the ICS build?
Explain a bit further exactly what you did.

I installed STOCK Tar using ODIN.
It is booting up fine except i keep getting errors like "android.process.acore" has stopped unexpectedly. Most of the android apps is not working, like phone, contacts, calendars, etc.
I try to do a factory reset and it keep stopping halfway and hangs.

Your going to have to flash the kj2 modem. I had the same problem. I saw that the ucalc4 was still there, its on its own partition so it doesn't get changed when you flash stock tar. What I did...
1. Flash cwm in Odin
2. Boot into cwm (do backup)
3. Flash kj2 modem (I did it twice)
4. Reboot
5. Check baseband (should be uckj2)
This made the FC's go away. It seemed to me that the stock tar doesn't like that baseband, I can't explain why though. Didn't make sense to me but I fixed it. Also I found the ICS leak doesn't like stock recovery. Fyi
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Little bit lost here.
I already flash it twice using ODIN and using the uckj2 build.

jxl92182 said:
Little bit lost here.
I already flash it twice using ODIN and using the uckj2 build.
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Build is one thing, baseband is different. When you flash stock your build will be uckj2, you say your on it. OK good. Now check your baseband, will probably still be the ICS baseband ucalc4, that is your modem. You need to flash the uckj2 modem in cwm. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20157930
Once you flash that your baseband will be uckj2. That should fix your fc's. Did for me. If not, you may need to try something else which I will explain if need be that will clean things up.
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Already installed the radio twice.
Original Shipped AT&T Skyrocket Radio I727ATTKJ2 and RIL
using CWM and still giving me errors....
Currently my phone is showing this:
Basband
I727UCKJ2
Kernel
2.6.35.11
Build number
GINGERBREAD.UCKJ2

jxl92182 said:
Already installed the radio twice.
Original Shipped AT&T Skyrocket Radio I727ATTKJ2 and RIL
using CWM and still giving me errors....
Currently my phone is showing this:
Basband
I727UCKJ2
Kernel
2.6.35.11
Build number
GINGERBREAD.UCKJ2
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OK. What you need to do then is clean things up. There are two ways that I use but I prefer #1.
1. Flash darkside superwipe in cwm. Do a battery pull. Go into Odin and flash k0nanes tar.
OR
2. Flash stock recovery. Wipe data/factory reset. Do a battery pull. Go into Odin and flash k0nanes tar.
Then you can cwm, root, flash anything you want.
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Thanks a lot hcyplr29 and Presbycusis.
I use darkside's flash and then reload stock.
Everything is fine now.

Glad to hear that. I swear by darkside between ROMS.
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jxl92182 said:
Thanks a lot hcyplr29 and Presbycusis.
I use darkside's flash and then reload stock.
Everything is fine now.
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Yah....Darkside.Wipe is killer. Glad to hear your back in action. It is confusing at first getting OS version, kernel, and modem all strait. It is a good learning experience.
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basically those fc's were becuz the partition table needs to be reset after flashing ics to go back to gb. Darkside does this.

hcyplr29 said:
OK. What you need to do then is clean things up. There are two ways that I use but I prefer #1.
1. Flash darkside superwipe in cwm. Do a battery pull. Go into Odin and flash k0nanes tar.
OR
2. Flash stock recovery. Wipe data/factory reset. Do a battery pull. Go into Odin and flash k0nanes tar.
Then you can cwm, root, flash anything you want.
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please help. i installed ics and cwm then went back to gingerbread.
what i did was
-i used SGH-I727-UCKJ2-k0nane.tar to go back to GB
-after installing it i get FC.
-i installed recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.1.3-hercules.tar
-after installing it i rebooted to CWM by pressing volume up & down buttons and power button.
-now i couldnt seem to navigate cwm 5.8.1.3. the screen keeps on blinking. when i press down it only gets on option #2 which is install zip. and when i press the power button to ok it doesnt do anything.
i wanted to flash darkside so to wipe everthing. but my cwm is not working.
pls help. i really appreciate all your response
thanks

agenthack said:
please help. i installed ics and cwm then went back to gingerbread.
what i did was
-i used SGH-I727-UCKJ2-k0nane.tar to go back to GB
-after installing it i get FC.
-i installed recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.1.3-hercules.tar
-after installing it i rebooted to CWM by pressing volume up & down buttons and power button.
-now i couldnt seem to navigate cwm 5.8.1.3. the screen keeps on blinking. when i press down it only gets on option #2 which is install zip. and when i press the power button to ok it doesnt do anything.
i wanted to flash darkside so to wipe everthing. but my cwm is not working.
pls help. i really appreciate all your response
thanks
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That's because it's touch recovery, you don't push any buttons. Lmao. Touch the screen to use it. Haha
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hahahaha... woooooo.... that's a good one... well i installed a later version of the CWM.. i think it was 5.0.2.6 version.. is that ok to use? now i can use the up and down buttons... omg! now thats what i call D*mb @$$ hahahaha..my bad my bad

agenthack said:
hahahaha... woooooo.... that's a good one... well i installed a later version of the CWM.. i think it was 5.0.2.6 version.. is that ok to use? now i can use the up and down buttons... omg! now thats i call D*mb @$$ hahahaha..
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I would just go back to 5.8. It's much better for me. Plus it works far better for ics builds. But yeah, you can use your buttons again for that old ass version you got now
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ok thanks. i already installed back the latest cwm. now its working! just have 1 question. im trying to look for flash option but theres no option thats says flash. i wanna flash DARKSIDE.SUPER.WIPE.zip its on my sd card already.i tried to click on install zip and chose DARKSIDE.SUPER.WIPE.zip but it says process cant be done..can you please teach me how? sorry for my ignorance.

agenthack said:
ok thanks. i already installed back the latest cwm. now its working! just have 1 question. im trying to llok for flash option but it theres no option thats says flash. i wanna flash Flash DARKSIDE.SUPER.WIPE. its on my sd card already.i tried to click on install zip and chose Flash DARKSIDE.SUPER.WIPE but it says process cant be done..can you please teach me how? sorry for my ignorance.
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install zip from ad card, then choose zip from sd card. Scroll down and click on the zip
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got it! just did the darkside wipe...pulled the battery out after..then im flashing it now with odin SGH-I727-UCKJ2-k0nane...hope it works now with no FC and i hope i get my signal back...will update you inawhile..
thanks for your help..

agenthack said:
got it! just did the darkside wipe...pulled the battery out after..then im flashing it now with odin SGH-I727-UCKJ2-k0nane...hope it works now with no FC and i hope i get my signal back...will update you inawhile..
thanks for your help..
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Don't use that tar. Use sammobile
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