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S3 stuck in bootloop after returning from CM9

I decided to give the new CM9 rom a try this morning on my verizon s3. after playing around a little i decided that I liked the stock rooted rom I had before so I was going to return to my nandroid backup. However, CM9 has its own recovery. I flashed my other recover, which was InvisibleK's recovery, which actually boots into a stock rom from recovery but never really goes into the recovery menu. So now I am stuck bootlooping because I think the recovery is trying to boot up but isnt finding the rom becuase I couldnt flash it from the CWM rcover that I was on with CM9. I can get into download mode but of course Odin is not seeing my phone for some reason. Anyone out there have anysuggestions? or did I just make myself a fancy new paperweight?

got odin
i got to odin now. i recognized my phone. I switched usb cords to the one that came with the phone

flashed stock rooted rom no luck
flashed stock rooted rom thought i was in the clear and now its bootlooping at the verizon boot animation. Im pretty sure i just have to factory reset but i cant get into recovery

kulahpac said:
flashed stock rooted rom thought i was in the clear and now its bootlooping at the verizon boot animation. Im pretty sure i just have to factory reset but i cant get into recovery
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Revert to complete stock with no root, then try to access the samsung recovery and do a factory reset from there.

unrooting brought me back to stock recovery
I finally sbf'ed back to the stock rom and being unrooted must have not allowed the phone to use the recovery I had installed and instead took me to the stock recovery where i was able to factory reset and all is good now. Phew..... that was a close one

thanks skander
Thank you very much. I actually tried that last night. I was getting desperate. wasnt sure if it would work or not but I thought maybe that and if that didnt work i would try flashing a different recovery from adb but i can never get adb to work from my pc. Anyway though, didnt matter. its all good now. Just got root back and learned a valuable lesson. thanks again....

Twrp boot loop

This happened before but I can't remember how I fixed it.
1. Flashed TWRP (over codename if that helps)
2. it bootlooped back to recovery instead of starting the system
3. tried flashing another rom/ didn't work
4. finished season 2 of the walking dead
5. reflashed TWRP didn't help (TWRP flashing failed even tho it was the same file I used to get TWRP in the first place)
6. Took the battery out but that didn't help either
I really don't want to odin or use one click any ideas??

lonoguge said:
This happened before but I can't remember how I fixed it.
1. Flashed TWRP (over codename if that helps)
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Where did you get twrp?
lonoguge said:
2. it bootlooped back to recovery instead of starting the system
3. tried flashing another rom/ didn't work
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What is "another rom"?
lonoguge said:
4. finished season 2 of the walking dead
5. reflashed TWRP didn't help (TWRP flashing failed even tho it was the same file I used to get TWRP in the first place)
6. Took the battery out but that didn't help either
I really don't want to odin or use one click any ideas??
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Meh, lets start with the first two...
To stop the reboot to recovery, you must flash eollie's oneclick with bootloaders (so flash it twice, second time flash bootloaders) and go back to mtd.

bhundven said:
Where did you get twrp?
What is "another rom"?
Meh, lets start with the first two...
To stop the reboot to recovery, you must flash eollie's oneclick with bootloaders (so flash it twice, second time flash bootloaders) and go back to mtd.
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I got it from what I thought was the official XDA TWRP thread but I'm not sure if it was official or not
at first I tried reinstalling codename but now I'm trying Beam (Tuk edition) and it seems to be working

TWRP Major Boot Loop
hey guys, im new here and i desperately need help with my phone!
the other day i was flashing a rom on my samsung galaxy s 4g. Things were turning out fine, until i had some complications on my phone.. so, i removed the rom. when i rebooted my phone, it went directly into the team win recovery project boot loop and every time i try to reboot my phone, it goes into the twrp. I also can't wipe anything and i can't delete anything! Does anybody know how I can solve this or is my phone basically bricked

more details would be helpful..
As in what rom, or what kernel.... etc... and make sure you have the corret phone.

Same problem with t959p
Looks like I'm not alone.......here's my story
the other day I wanted to switch from a stock rom to a custom, so I flashed redux 1.3 which was actually a froyo rom, and it started draining my batt like crazy so I flashed another rom on top of the froyo rom not realizing what I was doing and somehow messed it up cuz now it will only boot into recovery.
Now just to be clear I know this was my fault, I know I should have odin'd back to stock first, but I wasn't thinking at the time.....Ohh and just so you know I've flashed this sucker hundreds of times and was always able to get out of any mess I got in.
So here is the situation as it stands now, 3 button combo to enter download does not work. I can only get it into download with the jig I made. the problem is even in download mode none of my pc's will detect the device as a Samsung composite device, so odin will not see it. I've installed every possible 32 n 64 bit driver I could find including reinstalling kies. Kies wont even see it. I've tried flashing a few roms that I know worked and still it just boots into recovery. Now one thing I'll tell you is that depending on which rom I flash I can get recovery to switch from cwm to twrp. right now I left it with cwm 6.x.
what I need is a cwm flashable stock telus t959p rom complete with bootloaders or at the very least a cwm flashable zip file containing the bootloaders to see if I can recover the phone.
ohh and if your thinking about telling me to google search for the answer then don't bother.......I've spent the last 4 days reading posts and going to different websites and repositories trying to find something that would help me and so far nothing has.
the only thing that might work as a last resort is pushing the bootloaders as per one of raver's or whitehawks posts but it's a little more complicated for me as I would have to set up a laptop with Linux as I don't think i'll be able to pull it off with any of my windows pc's, win7 and win 8 only.
so if anyone has the files I need or can make them please let me know....or if you think you have another solution I could try i'm all ears err eyes.
thanks
Jedi

Have you tried heimdall one-clicks? Maybe it's showing up as gadget or something like that. I've had luck using zadig and heimdall to bring it back from the brink of death.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358498

EDIT
Woops replied to the wrong thread .
Nothing to see here, move along

Would like to revive a slightly dead thread.
I upgraded to a Galaxy S3 and no longer use my SGS4G for daily use. I had AOKP and disliked it, FC's and didn't like the feel. I have been trying to install a new rom ( old rom, VH Black Ed. ). Every time It loads into TWRP I have the ability to select the zip, install, it says complete, but reboots right back to TWRP menu. I've tried flashing CWM and it will install, flash the rom, reboot, and right back to this TWRP B.S... what am I doing wrong? I want to continue to use this SGS4g for music and internet duties.
How can I install CWM and have it stay even after a reboot? This TWRP is starting to me off

Did you happen to one click to stock before you went ham at the recovery?
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[Q] Stuck on boot from embryo 6

I'm stuck on the fuzzy samsung logo right after the sharp one, and right before the colorful boot animation.
Not vibrating repeatedly, but I checked and cleaned the power button.
It was acting buggy after having embryo 7 for a long time with no problems.....Then things started happening a lot, so I changed back to 6. Then one day recently embryo 6 locked up on boot and here I am!
I don't know what caused all this, but I can't get in to recovery either. It looks like it's going to, but then it freezes on the CWM start up screen. Never could get it in to recovery, but I was able to get it in to download mode, AND it looked like I successfully flashed the stock firmware according to Odin. BUT then it froze on at&t screen during start up. AND THEN went back to being frozen on mohans fuzzy samsung screen.
I really was trying to search, but I can't find it.... Help? Anyone....?

Dogs you do factory reset after Odin?

jd1639 said:
Dogs you do factory reset after Odin?
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It looked like it was trying to restart after Odin finished the install, and the phone never made it past the water drop. Froze in the middle of that part. After a long time I finally unplugged it, and touched the power button. Then it went back to the original screen I was stuck on, and I could never get it to go in to CWM. It starts to, and then gets stuck.

I'm guessing you flashed cymbaline 3.8 on embryo 6. That kernel has issues. Reflash with 3.5 and see what happens. Should be stable then

icenight89 said:
I'm guessing you flashed cymbaline 3.8 on embryo 6. That kernel has issues. Reflash with 3.5 and see what happens. Should be stable then
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I was just trying to go back to stock. Are you saying that the kernel will still be different even though I was going back to stock through Odin?
I liked mohan's ROM's, but I guess he got a different phone. I never had problems before, but if it's a kernel I can flash will that work through Odin?
Sorry if my questions are annoying, but I just want to make sure I can do it through Odin, AND I don't want to flash it if I'm too far gone for it since I can't even get in to recovery.

jwtruth35 said:
I was just trying to go back to stock. Are you saying that the kernel will still be different even though I was going back to stock through Odin?
I liked mohan's ROM's, but I guess he got a different phone. I never had problems before, but if it's a kernel I can flash will that work through Odin?
Sorry if my questions are annoying, but I just want to make sure I can do it through Odin, AND I don't want to flash it if I'm too far gone for it since I can't even get in to recovery.
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I dont know whats the problem, but why you no try embryo 7?, i installed it yesterday with cymbaline 3.8 and not issues at the moment. I flashed it with CWM, i dont know why you are talking about odin, but if im wrong its ok, i installed embryo 7 with cwm.
Hope you understand me, english its not my first language.

-LuVaN- said:
I dont know whats the problem, but why you no try embryo 7?, i installed it yesterday with cymbaline 3.8 and not issues at the moment. I flashed it with CWM, i dont know why you are talking about odin, but if im wrong its ok, i installed embryo 7 with cwm.
Hope you understand me, english its not my first language.
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I can't get in to recovery mode. Only recovery mode.
That's what I'm trying to figure out is just how to get to recovery, or anything else besides download mode.
And yes. I liked embryo 7 a lot. But something started happening about 2 1/2 months after I flashed it with no problem before that.
I love the arms at boot up..

jwtruth35 said:
I can't get in to recovery mode. Only recovery mode.
That's what I'm trying to figure out is just how to get to recovery, or anything else besides download mode.
And yes. I liked embryo 7 a lot. But something started happening about 2 1/2 months after I flashed it with no problem before that.
I love the arms at boot up..
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You can have "the arms at boot up" without that rom.
To get into recovery, which seems like it's damaged for you, flash TWRP from odin.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1773659

jwtruth35 said:
I can't get in to recovery mode. Only recovery mode.
That's what I'm trying to figure out is just how to get to recovery, or anything else besides download mode.
And yes. I liked embryo 7 a lot. But something started happening about 2 1/2 months after I flashed it with no problem before that.
I love the arms at boot up..
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Ok, maybe a solution could be install TWRP, or my solution could be installing the oficial android 4.1.2 from odin and then download the CWM recovery and proceed to flash Embryo.

-LuVaN- said:
Ok, maybe a solution could be install TWRP, or my solution could be installing the oficial android 4.1.2 from odin and then download the CWM recovery and proceed to flash Embryo.
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I appreciate the help, and I did try to install the official 4.1.2 from Odin. Twice. Both times the screen from odin looked exactly like it was supposed to if it was successful. It then tried to restart my phone as part of the install process, and then the phone freezes on start up screen......and done.
CANNOT get the phone in to recovery mode every time I try, but it goes in to download mode no problem.
That's why I'm here and still scratching my head. I'm stuck using a fusion I usually just have for my kid as a toy around the house.

lingowistico said:
You can have "the arms at boot up" without that rom.
To get into recovery, which seems like it's damaged for you, flash TWRP from odin.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1773659
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I just saw this. Time to try it, thanks.

jwtruth35 said:
I appreciate the help, and I did try to install the official 4.1.2 from Odin. Twice. Both times the screen from odin looked exactly like it was supposed to if it was successful. It then tried to restart my phone as part of the install process, and then the phone freezes on start up screen......and done.
CANNOT get the phone in to recovery mode every time I try, but it goes in to download mode no problem.
That's why I'm here and still scratching my head. I'm stuck using a fusion I usually just have for my kid as a toy around the house.
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So u need to use Odin and flash a stock image back on the phone, go to sammobile.com and DL the firmware for ur device then place the phone in download mode load the tar file in Odin and click start, when it's done DL the latest twrp as its a little better than cwm because its updated more regularly, then use Odin to flash the recovery to the device and now u are back to stock rooted and from there with twrp, all is possible
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T989 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

lingowistico said:
You can have "the arms at boot up" without that rom.
To get into recovery, which seems like it's damaged for you, flash TWRP from odin.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1773659
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Thank you so much!!! It's been a miserable 4 or 5 days, but I was able to get my phone back up and running!

soupysoup said:
So u need to use Odin and flash a stock image back on the phone, go to sammobile.com and DL the firmware for ur device then place the phone in download mode load the tar file in Odin and click start, when it's done DL the latest twrp as its a little better than cwm because its updated more regularly, then use Odin to flash the recovery to the device and now u are back to stock rooted and from there with twrp, all is possible
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T989 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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Thanks to you also. Everything's right with the world again.

[Q] Device stuck on boot screen

Hey guys, so I'm a crazy noob at this and I decided to flash a rom on my note 10.1 and was messing with reverting it back to to the stock rom and all of a sudden it got stuck in this boot logo thing and it wont allow me to get past that. I've tried using odin to flash but it wont work, I can get into cwm but I think somethings wrong with it... Any help would be great!

Rocket_bait said:
Hey guys, so I'm a crazy noob at this and I decided to flash a rom on my note 10.1 and was messing with reverting it back to to the stock rom and all of a sudden it got stuck in this boot logo thing and it wont allow me to get past that. I've tried using odin to flash but it wont work, I can get into cwm but I think somethings wrong with it... Any help would be great!
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can you access CWM?
if so then you can flash a custom rom to the device. if you can enter Odin mode then try to flash the stock rom.

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Rocket_bait said:
Hey guys, so I'm a crazy noob at this and I decided to flash a rom on my note 10.1 and was messing with reverting it back to to the stock rom and all of a sudden it got stuck in this boot logo thing and it wont allow me to get past that. I've tried using odin to flash but it wont work, I can get into cwm but I think somethings wrong with it... Any help would be great!
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I came across this web sight......... They will fix your tabet for $50 MobileTechVideo's

fix
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2599294
I posted the solution that works for me in the above thread just follow those directions with
the firmware for your device and you should be good

[Q] rom flash issues

hi everyone i have in teh past successfully installed custom roms with no problem and now i am trying to flash from one custom to another better rom from the same dev and it will flash look good while flashing will complete or say it is done and when i go to reboot the pone it reboots right back in to cwm i really want this rom its jediX2 i have successfully installed rom jedi X20 no problems but when i try the X2 rom it wont boot in to the phone am i missing something? i have a tmobi T889 its the galaxy note 2 i have wiped delvic and factory system wipe all the way and still have this issue would it be better for me to do a dirty flash over X20? any help would be much appreciated in advance Thank you for your time helping me figure this out

mrklotzner said:
hi everyone i have in teh past successfully installed custom roms with no problem and now i am trying to flash from one custom to another better rom from the same dev and it will flash look good while flashing will complete or say it is done and when i go to reboot the pone it reboots right back in to cwm i really want this rom its jediX2 i have successfully installed rom jedi X20 no problems but when i try the X2 rom it wont boot in to the phone am i missing something? i have a tmobi T889 its the galaxy note 2 i have wiped delvic and factory system wipe all the way and still have this issue would it be better for me to do a dirty flash over X20? any help would be much appreciated in advance Thank you for your time helping me figure this out
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is it just stuck at the boot screen?
-Boot system and DO NOT TOUCH FOR 10 MIN
-After the 10 min, reboot phone and enjoy the Force
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Trozzul said:
is it just stuck at the boot screen?
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i guess you can say that it will bring up the samsung galaxy note 2 sit there like usual for a few seconds then reboots back in to cwm instead of going to boot animation like t-mobile4g or what ever animation was used as a custom animation

ok i am not sure if the way i was transfering to the sd card was messing up the file or if the dl was bad because i used a diffrent mirror to dl the rom once dled i didnt just put on sd from pc like last time this time i put it on the sd card via file transfer with charging cable this time it may have worked i managed to get the boot animation to come up instead of the cwm so far so good here is hoping it works thank you for your time and attempt to help