Soft Brick, Read Soft Brick Threads - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727

I've read all the soft brick threads I could get my hands on. If I missed something, I'm sorry for that in advanced.
Symptoms: When power button held down, "Samsung" appears in white, then switches to the blue glowing "Samsung" won't turn off unless I pull the battery. I cannot access the download menu.
What the [email protected]%$ did I do?: I was following the instructions on this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28350575&postcount=1 and I finished step 6 and started step 7. On step 7 it wiped the data but froze on the cache. After 2 hours of waiting for it to clear I tried a hard reset and hear I am.
Any ideas to try and fix this? Thank you for your assistance in advance.

Tenebrioun said:
I've read all the soft brick threads I could get my hands on. If I missed something, I'm sorry for that in advanced.
Symptoms: When power button held down, "Samsung" appears in white, then switches to the blue glowing "Samsung" won't turn off unless I pull the battery. I cannot access the download menu.
What the [email protected]%$ did I do?: I was following the instructions on this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28350575&postcount=1 and I finished step 6 and started step 7. On step 7 it wiped the data but froze on the cache. After 2 hours of waiting for it to clear I tried a hard reset and hear I am.
Any ideas to try and fix this? Thank you for your assistance in advance.
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What recovery are you using?

RabidSmurf said:
What recovery are you using?
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CWM

Power button stuck?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using Tapatalk 2

Tenebrioun said:
CWM
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Ok but what version?
I am only aware of one version of CWM that works correctly and that's 5.8.1.3. Lots of recoveries seem to have issues wiping the cache which results in soft brick issues.
Follow these steps:
http://www.theandroidsoul.com/touch-clockworkmod-recovery-for-rogers-and-att-skyrocket-sgh-i727/
Then try wiping your cache again, and reboot. If all is well, then re-try the steps to flash Embryo.

Power button isn't stuck.
Sorry, I couldn't access and so don't know what version of cwm but that did look familiar. Was trying Touch Recovery. I'll follow the steps on the link.

That fixed it perfectly. Thank you for your assistance.
Any idea why it wouldn't let me go into the download menu before?

Tenebrioun said:
That fixed it perfectly. Thank you for your assistance.
Any idea why it wouldn't let me go into the download menu before?
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Great, good to hear it's sorted out.
By download menu are you referring to Download mode used with Odin, or recovery menu?
The phone can be finicky with getting into recovery sometimes, I find this exact sequence of steps to always work:
Hold down vol+ and vol-
Hold down power
Wait for phone to vibrate once every 2 seconds
Release power, continue holding vol+ and vol-
Recovery should load.
Otherwise, I have no idea.

RabidSmurf said:
Great, good to hear it's sorted out.
By download menu are you referring to Download mode used with Odin, or recovery menu?
The phone can be finicky with getting into recovery sometimes, I find this exact sequence of steps to always work:
Hold down vol+ and vol-
Hold down power
Wait for phone to vibrate once every 2 seconds
Release power, continue holding vol+ and vol-
Recovery should load.
Otherwise, I have no idea.
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Download mode. I don't know why I keep saying menu. Anyway, thanks for those steps, too.

Tenebrioun said:
Download mode. I don't know why I keep saying menu. Anyway, thanks for those steps, too.
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No idea on the download mode thing.
Glad to help.
Edit: How did you get into download mode to flash touch CWM 5.8.1.3 if download mode wasn't working? It sounded to me like the phone was bootlooping/locking up due to cache issues. As far as I know download mode can only be accessed starting from a state of OFF and not mid boot if that's what you were trying?

RabidSmurf said:
No idea on the download mode thing.
Glad to help.
Edit: How did you get into download mode to flash touch CWM 5.8.1.3 if download mode wasn't working? It sounded to me like the phone was bootlooping/locking up due to cache issues. As far as I know download mode can only be accessed starting from a state of OFF and not mid boot if that's what you were trying?
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I figured it out later. I was being stupid and had the usb plugged in, so even when I took out the battery.....yea....stupid.

Tenebrioun said:
I figured it out later. I was being stupid and had the usb plugged in, so even when I took out the battery.....yea....stupid.
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Ahh, live and learn... I had similar issues when I first got this phone and it took me a while to sort it all out. Was extremely happy once I finally got ICS flashed and working though, and now I am a flashaholic.

RabidSmurf said:
Ahh, live and learn... I had similar issues when I first got this phone and it took me a while to sort it all out. Was extremely happy once I finally got ICS flashed and working though, and now I am a flashaholic.
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Yea, I still have a lot to learn.I'm glad my phone survived this debacle though.

Tenebrioun said:
Yea, I still have a lot to learn.I'm glad my phone survived this debacle though.
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I've learned quite a bit just by reading development threads for various roms and trying them out, and reading the Q&A forum to see what issues people are having. But there is a lot to learn, I haven't tried any development as of yet..
For the most part just follow steps in the ROM threads verbatim and you should not have too many issues, now that you have a working recovery that is.

Yea, I should do some more reading on here. I love learning this new stuff anyway. I've gotta get to work but thank you for your help. let me know if there are any threads that you found particularly helpful besides the basics. Good night.

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[Q] CM7 Not Going Beyond Loading Screen AND Clockworkmod Is Black

A couple of weeks ago I decided to root my phone for the benefits it came with. I did so successfully and had no problems until I decided I'd let my curiosity get the better of me and try flashing CM7 onto my phone. I did so, and everything seemed successful, but I got stuck in a boot loop when I turned on the phone.
I know there are solutions to this, but they all involve either CWM or ADB. Just two problems: I can't use ADB because I forgot to leave USB Debugging on, and I can't seem to get CWM to do anything (it's just a black screen).
There are solutions to all of these problems individually, I know, but each solution relies on at least one of the others to be working. I've been surfing this forum and others like it hoping that someone else would have this problem and would have a solution for me, but I've come up dry.
I used attn1's Ace Hack to root my phone, and then I used Rom Manager to install CM7. Then I hit the loop. Also, my CWM was working prior to CM7.
Does anyone know what I should do?
Thank you in advance,
JW
Inspire 4g
P.S. - I'm new to this forum and don't really know the rules perfectly, so if I did something wrong, then please just let me know what I did and what I should've done. Thank you.
But you can still get in hboot right?
It sounds like you did not choose to wipe data and cache. You always need to do this when changing roms. Best way is to enter cwm yourself and select wipe data/factory reset and wipe dalvik then flash Rom.
Pull you battery for a little bit then try and get into recovery again. If you still can't get in then you will have to reflash your recovery through bootloader.
If all else fails you can use the tool in this link to return to stock. Then re root you phone. genes tool
You can jump into the IRC channel and get some real-time help too:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#liberatedAria
Gizmoe said:
It sounds like you did not choose to wipe data and cache. You always need to do this when changing roms. Best way is to enter cwm yourself and select wipe data/factory reset and wipe dalvik then flash Rom.
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No, I didn't think to. To be honest, I saw Rom Manager and thought I would just be able to click on what I wanted and have it ready to play with in a few minutes. I never read what to do before the installation, which was my huge mistake.
Anyhow, I don't think I can get into HBoot. When I turn the phone on with power button and volume button, it vibrates three times, but then it goes to a black screen. I read about this problem with CWM, but the only solutions I saw involved getting into your phone - which I can't do.
So I'm wondering if CWM still works but that it just doesn't show what it's doing. If that's the case, then maybe I could still manage to fix my phone with CWM. Does anyone know if such is the case?
Thank you!
Gizmoe said:
If all else fails you can use the tool in this link to return to stock. Then re root you phone. genes tool
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Gene Poole said:
You can jump into the IRC channel and get some real-time help too:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#liberatedAria
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Thank you both so much for your help! I'm sorry I'm such an ignoramus. Thank you guys!!
JesseWright said:
No, I didn't think to. To be honest, I saw Rom Manager and thought I would just be able to click on what I wanted and have it ready to play with in a few minutes. I never read what to do before the installation, which was my huge mistake.
Anyhow, I don't think I can get into HBoot. When I turn the phone on with power button and volume button, it vibrates three times, but then it goes to a black screen. I read about this problem with CWM, but the only solutions I saw involved getting into your phone - which I can't do.
So I'm wondering if CWM still works but that it just doesn't show what it's doing. If that's the case, then maybe I could still manage to fix my phone with CWM. Does anyone know if such is the case?
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Sounds like you're holding the vol+ button. You need to be holding vol- when you press power to get to HBOOT. From there you can get into Recovery.
sharksfan7 said:
Sounds like you're holding the vol+ button. You need to be holding vol- when you press power to get to HBOOT. From there you can get into Recovery.
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this is correct, but you may want to pull out your sd card first. if it still has the pd98img on there,,, its just gonna loop ya. so pull it out before trying, you can always stick it back in once you get to recovery, then select mount> sd card
GOOD LUCK!!

Bricked, trying to fix, but running into problems.

So long story short, I tried to do something I probably shouldn't have, and now my phone wont boot. It does the boot screen, and then to a black screen where the screen is active, and if I touch it, the buttons light up. I can get into a recovery screen with vol- and 3D button, but it says "can't mount cache recovery log" with whatever I press. I've tried following the guide here, but I get to where I start updating, and the program just stops responding. Been trying different things for a few hours now. Every search I find says that it is solvable, but at the same time, I can't seem to solve it.
Any info I'm missing? Getting reckless here. I guess I deserve it for what I've gotten myself into. Anything is appreciated!
XIIISlaughters said:
So long story short, I tried to do something I probably shouldn't have, and now my phone wont boot. It does the boot screen, and then to a black screen where the screen is active, and if I touch it, the buttons light up. I can get into a recovery screen with vol- and 3D button, but it says "can't mount cache recovery log" with whatever I press. I've tried following the guide here, but I get to where I start updating, and the program just stops responding. Been trying different things for a few hours now. Every search I find says that it is solvable, but at the same time, I can't seem to solve it.
Any info I'm missing? Getting reckless here. I guess I deserve it for what I've gotten myself into. Anything is appreciated!
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Find dark lestats guide and do the volume plus up and connect it to your pc and flash a kdz.. After you flash kdz start it in recovery wipe everything and your sorted...
This is my problem... I can't seem to get the guide working. I get to where the KDZ should install, but then the program stops responding, and says it can't find device. Is it because I'm not putting it in download mode right?
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***Scratch that... I think I've got it to work. Will edit again if it does ***
XIIISlaughters said:
This is my problem... I can't seem to get the guide working. I get to where the KDZ should install, but then the program stops responding, and says it can't find device. Is it because I'm not putting it in download mode right?
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***Scratch that... I think I've got it to work. Will edit again if it does ***
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Kool let us know how it goes..
Totally fixed it. Thanks a million for making me try to get it to work again! Haha
XIIISlaughters said:
Totally fixed it. Thanks a million for making me try to get it to work again! Haha
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Your welcome anytime what did you do exactly anyway..
Just didn't mount the phone correctly. Never actually did get it to vibrate, and it just didn't want to show in device manager. But it ended up working.
XIIISlaughters said:
Just didn't mount the phone correctly. Never actually did get it to vibrate, and it just didn't want to show in device manager. But it ended up working.
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Sorry that came out wrong i meant what did you do to brick your phone lol..
Meemo23 said:
Sorry that came out wrong i meant what did you do to brick your phone lol..
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OH! Yeah, I just tried to flash a baseband to get CM7 networking to work. Had no idea what I was doing. Stupid me.
Doing more research now... If I'm running v20c, what kind of roms can I flash? It seems like there aren't any at all. Or does it matter what roms I flash in relation to what version I currently have? It's all a learning experience for me lol.
XIIISlaughters said:
OH! Yeah, I just tried to flash a baseband to get CM7 networking to work. Had no idea what I was doing. Stupid me.
Doing more research now... If I'm running v20c, what kind of roms can I flash? It seems like there aren't any at all. Or does it matter what roms I flash in relation to what version I currently have? It's all a learning experience for me lol.
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You can flash any roms on any basebands.. but you cannot mix gingerbread roms with froyo basebands its a no go lol..
Okay, well that makes more sense. I assume it works as whatever rom you flash, the baseband you have is what it uses?
Meemo23 said:
Find dark lestats guide and do the volume plus up and connect it to your pc and flash a kdz.. After you flash kdz start it in recovery wipe everything and your sorted...
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On my phone flashing kdz finished with 100% but when I try to start it remain on boot logo and when I put in recovery (3d + voldwn+pwr) cache problem, no more option no wipe and no reboot.
Tried v10k-v10d-v20a-v21d
Someone can help me?
Dont press 3D for stock recovey menu
Sent from my LG-P920 using XDA
same without 3d button, tried also lgflashtool procedure but fails to reboot the phone as fails lgmobile support tool so I decided to send LG for warranty.
thank you all

ROM: Stock Rooted and Deodexed Android 2.3.6 UVLB7

This is a full stock ROM. Everything works.
Features:
Deodexed
Zipaligned
Rooted
Busybox installed
T-Mobile bloatwares removed
Carrier IQ removed
Credits:
erikmm & fbis251 (updater-script)
Samsung (stock ROM)
ChainsDD (superuser)
dsixda (Android Kitchen)
Installation:
ClockworkMod Recovery
Wipe Data/Factory Reset
Wipe Cache
Wipe Dalvik Cache
Install ROM
Reboot
Battery calibration:
Turn off phone
Fully charged
ClockworkMod Recovery
Wipe battery stat
Reboot
Discharge and recharge
DOWNLOAD ROM
Thanks for asking perms to use the script....
Also, did u remove carrier IQ from frameworks?
sent from my batcave
erikmm said:
Thanks for asking perms to use the script....
Also, did u remove carrier IQ from frameworks?
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Yes. I did. See my screenshot.
I still have to learn a lot from you, erikmm. Thanks.
tthaz777 said:
Yes. I did. See my screenshot.
I still have to learn a lot from you, erikmm. Thanks.
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Well by erasing the apk it can be shutdown as well so u recompiled without carrieriq? Awesome bro. Lol
And I was being sarcastic about rhe script lol just next time u gotta ask first bro
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looks like because of u 2 and the many others on this, this fone will be a hot topic for later roms coming out... any updates erik?
badboy68 said:
looks like because of u 2 and the many others on this, this fone will be a hot topic for later roms coming out... any updates erik?
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Not to kang on OPs thread but nah no updates yet since I dont have tthe phone but ill try some stuff this weekend
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erikmm said:
Not to kang on OPs thread but nah no updates yet since I dont have tthe phone but ill try some stuff this weekend
sent from my batcave
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Erikmm, can you please port Xperia S Music Player (Walkman) to our Galaxy S Blaze 4G? It would be very interesting.
I found the thread below
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646138
tthaz777 said:
Erikmm, can you please port Xperia S Music Player (Walkman) to our Galaxy S Blaze 4G? It would be very interesting.
I found the thread below
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646138
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Lol I'm not used to going off topic on dev thread but ur OP so...yea ill give it a shot just again hard to do it blindly
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erikmm said:
Lol I'm not used to going off topic on dev thread but ur OP so...yea ill give it a shot just again hard to do it blindly
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I will be tester. Don't worry. Thanks.
tthaz777 said:
I will be tester. Don't worry. Thanks.
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Lol well flyers00 is my tester that's not the issue...the issue is the difficulty lol
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Loaded this up last night.....not one issue to report. I happen to like touch wiz (as well as everything else) I hope you keep this ROM going in a stock like direction. Maybe if your plan is to change launchers etc you could branch off. Anyway....well done I love my phone!
sorry but have to ask. how did you get cwm on phone? I cant get download screen. figured it was the 2.3.6 UVLB7 build causing it. just got phone 5 days ago. had G2x piece before.
Can you give me more details in regards to your question? Have you lost the ability to get into recovery? I had the G2X as well....CWM is flashed pretty much the same way as the LG (except without the NVIDIA tool)
Things are not far enough along to have a reboot option in the ROMS yet, try power tool or something like it, works fine for me.
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sk622 said:
Loaded this up last night.....not one issue to report. I happen to like touch wiz (as well as everything else) I hope you keep this ROM going in a stock like direction. Maybe if your plan is to change launchers etc you could branch off. Anyway....well done I love my phone!
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I wanted to amend this after ongoing usage and say things are still running solid. I did notice a lower quality audio performance as compared to dknight. Not a major concern this early in the game by any means.
The audio capabilities on Android was and is the big reason I am here and not on I-tunes so i'm particularly sensitive to that area. I run completely uncompressed FLAC's (1411 kb bit rate) and have a 64gb SD card on my phone loaded to the hilt.
My work phone is a GNEX (with Black Ice and Axiom Morphr) streaming through Google Play so I have back up ...lol
robertguero said:
sorry but have to ask. how did you get cwm on phone? I cant get download screen. figured it was the 2.3.6 UVLB7 build causing it. just got phone 5 days ago. had G2x piece before.
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You must install ClockworkMod Recovery before flashing a ROM. I'm currently using this ROM. I can still access ClockworkMod Recovery by holding volume up, volume down, and power button at the same time, then release after Samsung logo disappears. Don't flash ClockworkMod Recovery in ROM Manager. See the thread below to know how to flash it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1591622
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27360727&postcount=57
Sent from my SGH-T769 using xda premium
I have done all this to my G2x piece of crap so it not new to me. On my new phone the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G SGH-T769. if I hold down the 3 buttons, vol up/dn and pwr, remove battery all that stuff I DO NOT get the "WaRNING" or download screen. It will only give me recovery screen after the Galaxy splash screen. I have tried every method available. I have tried every unlock I can find, oneclick and unlock and even Odin but it needs the download screen. It will not see phone till it totally boots. Was hoping you had something to install thru recovery screen to get to download screen. Have not tried ADB yet but have not read everything on how it works or what to do. Really have not found much info on ADB way to unlock.
So since everyone here is a lot more advanced than I am figured I would ask. Seems only a handfull of Blaze devices will not go into download mode.
1. Turn phone off and plug to pc
2.proceed to hold both volume and power button simultaneosly. Keep holding down until phone vibrates then let go of power button and continue holding volume buttons.
3. Let go of buttons as soon as u get to the next screen then press vol up to proceed to download mode.voila
P.s. I have the same baseband.
That should work for you, works for me all the time
If i helped in anyway hit the thank button
i just P.M you with a video on how to do it
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no joy. this sux. tried every combo. exactly what you said. also tried removing battery... longer hold... shorter hold.. no sim or sd...throwing against wall while holding buttons. nothing works. all it does is continue to boot. :crying:
can there be a script or something written to do update from recover screen to make it boot to download mode? something..... or am I just stuck with jtag or adapter or whatever you call it.
What will adb do for me? can I root from it? will it help? I have not found instruct on what to do once in adb. found instruct on how to get to work but didnt see anything more. then again I did not fully look into it.:cyclops:
Hey but honestly THANKS FOR ALL HELP!!!. I did not want to bring to this thread but figured yall might know something special. Will understand if you tell me to post elsewhere.
2.3.6
base T769UVLB7
Kernel 2.6.35.11
GINGERBREAD.UVLB7
robertguero said:
no joy. this sux. tried every combo. exactly what you said. also tried removing battery... longer hold... shorter hold.. no sim or sd...throwing against wall while holding buttons. nothing works. all it does is continue to boot. :crying:
can there be a script or something written to do update from recover screen to make it boot to download mode? something..... or am I just stuck with jtag or adapter or whatever you call it.
What will adb do for me? can I root from it? will it help? I have not found instruct on what to do once in adb. found instruct on how to get to work but didnt see anything more. then again I did not fully look into it.:cyclops:
Hey but honestly THANKS FOR ALL HELP!!!. I did not want to bring to this thread but figured yall might know something special. Will understand if you tell me to post elsewhere.
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Please follow these instructions and try again:
+ Download and install USB Driver for T-Mobile SGH-t769 Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G on your PC http://org.downloadcenter.samsung.com/downloadfile/ContentsFile.aspx?CDSite=US&CttFileID=5002142&CDCttType=SW&ModelType=null&ModelName=null&VPath=SW/201204/20120424041113815/T-Mobile_T769_Blaze_4G_USB_Drivers.exe
+ Download Odin 1.85 http://k0nane.info/rom/odin-185.zip
+ Download PIT http://shabbypenguin.com/k0/blaze.pit
+ Download Clockworkmod recovery TAR http://www.shabbypenguin.com/OUDstuff/Blaze4G/Clockworkmod-Blaze-4G.tar
+ Extract Odin-185.zip
+ Run Odin 1.85.exe and make sure that you check "auto-reboot", and uncheck all other options.
+ Click PDA and select the TAR you downloaded. Click PIT and select the PIT your downloaded. Uncheck repartition.
+ Connect your device to your PC
+ Remove the battery while holding down volume up and volume down buttons
+ Reinsert the battery and press volume up, volume down, and power button at the same time until your device has entered download mode.
Good luck
Sorry. Have tried and tried. Total time trying this exact method and others over the past 2 days about 4 hours. Will not go into download mode. Have all of the above installed and ready to go on the computer. Can get odin to connect if phone is totally booted up in working mode but that does nothing for odin. Same with superoneclick and unlock root. The last two are not configed for 2.3.6 on blaze 4g or something so they will not complete the root/unlock.
If I remove battery with usb plugged in it will vib about every 3 seconds. Once battery is put in it stops vibing but once you hold button it will vib one more time then "samsung" comes across screen goes away then blaze spash on screen and it continues to boot. Never see "warning" screen or download screen.
I have no issues getting into phone from pc or phone connecting to pc. Just no download mode.
As I said i did not want to take over your thread with this and I feel I have taken up to much of our time as it is. Thank you for your help. Hope someone has solution soon. Thanks again.
robertguero said:
If I remove battery with usb plugged in it will vib about every 3 seconds. Once battery is put in it stops vibing but once you hold button it will vib one more time then "samsung" comes across screen goes away then blaze spash on screen and it continues to boot.
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Just tryin to cover all the bases here, but you should be holding both the volumes and the power button when you put the battery back in. Then be ready to release all to quick vol up when the dl screen shows up. You should also be connected via usb.
Hope this helps.

Possible Brick... Not booting past Samsung GS3 logo

Ok, here's where I'm at...
Rooted/Kexec installed
Flashed several ROM's over the last two weeks or so with no issue.
Never did a backup and restore.
Flashed a CM10 Invisitek(?) ROM today and didn't like it.
Before I flashed it, I made a backup of my XTC install.
Tried to restore that XTC and it failed.
Tried to restore again and it said that it passed and I rebooted.
Now, when you turn the phone on, it will boot up to Samsung Custom with a lock icon then flash the Samsung Galaxy SIII screen.
Once it flashes the second screen, it will go to a blank screen and that's it.
I've tried to get the phone into Download mode by pressing both volume keys, home and power at the same time and it boots as described above.
Any nudges in the right direction? :fingers-crossed:
Laramie1997 said:
Ok, here's where I'm at...
Rooted/Kexec installed
Flashed several ROM's over the last two weeks or so with no issue.
Never did a backup and restore.
Flashed a CM10 Invisitek(?) ROM today and didn't like it.
Before I flashed it, I made a backup of my XTC install.
Tried to restore that XTC and it failed.
Tried to restore again and it said that it passed and I rebooted.
Now, when you turn the phone on, it will boot up to Samsung Custom with a lock icon then flash the Samsung Galaxy SIII screen.
Once it flashes the second screen, it will go to a blank screen and that's it.
I've tried to get the phone into Download mode by pressing both volume keys, home and power at the same time and it boots as described above.
Any nudges in the right direction? :fingers-crossed:
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Since I'm in a similar situation have you tried using odin
joka10 said:
Since I'm in a similar situation have you tried using odin
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I can't put it in download mode, so I can't use ODIN...
sorry i did see that lol what i ment to ask was can you get into the recovery
joka10 said:
sorry i did see that lol what i ment to ask was can you get into the recovery
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No I can't unless I'm missing something other than power/volume up and down/home button at the same time...
try this instead press all three at the same time volume up, home, and power
joka10 said:
try this instead press all three at the same time volume up, home, and power
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That's what I've been doing.
Laramie1997 said:
That's what I've been doing.
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If you have a custom rom still on your sd card, try booting into recovery volume up+home+power and wipe data/ factory reset and then install zip from sdcard.choose your rom and flash.. that should be able to get you to boot up again. I had to do this when my phone would boot up and go blank after the sgs3 logo screen.
Do those two ROMs use different kernels? Because if that's the case, there's your problem. To my knowledge, CWM doesn't backup kernels, so restoring a nandroid wouldn't restore the kernel needed for that particular ROM to function. At least, that's how it was for my old Xperia Play. You needed to flash the new kernel before the ROM to ensure it would boot. With kexec, that's a little different.
But, I could be totally off base. Just throwing my limited knowledge out there for someone to maybe expound upon.
sorry you thru me off in your post above i thought you saying that you pressing all four my mistake but you can go here http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels= and for the channel use either #verizons3 or #verizons3-dev, they can also help you but of course stay on this thread to.
mustbepbs said:
Do those two ROMs use different kernels? Because if that's the case, there's your problem. To my knowledge, CWM doesn't backup kernels, so restoring a nandroid wouldn't restore the kernel needed for that particular ROM to function. At least, that's how it was for my old Xperia Play. You needed to flash the new kernel before the ROM to ensure it would boot. With kexec, that's a little different.
But, I could be totally off base. Just throwing my limited knowledge out there for someone to maybe expound upon.
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That makes sense and I overlooked that. Dam.
I wonder if there is a fix???
Laramie1997 said:
That makes sense and I overlooked that. Dam.
I wonder if there is a fix???
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It makes sense for some phones, but it doesn't make sense that you're unable to get into download mode. Regardless of the incorrect kernel, you should be able to get into download/recovery mode. What is your device registered as when you plug it into your machine (such as QHSUSB_DLOAD)? Are you running Windows/Mac/Linux?
If your phone turns on you can get to Odin. Your best bet is making a usb jig. It's a special usb end that has 300k ohm resistor between two pins of the usb. When plugged in and the phone turns on it puts you directly into download mode. You can Google on how to make one from a usb cable and resistors from Radio Shack or mobiletechvideos.com sells them for $8.
Once in download/Odin mode you can re flash everything to stock.
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mikejr83 said:
If your phone turns on you can get to Odin. Your best bet is making a usb jig. It's a special usb end that has 300k ohm resistor between two pins of the usb. When plugged in and the phone turns on it puts you directly into download mode. You can Google on how to make one from a usb cable and resistors from Radio Shack or mobiletechvideos.com sells them for $8.
Once in download/Odin mode you can re flash everything to stock.
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This is your best bet if nothing else is working. I bought one from China on eBay last year for my GNex. I'm glad I've always got it.
Yea, I ended up having to jig it this morning when I got to the office and had access to my other tools. THAT got it into Download mode and allowed me to flash it back to stock. Bizzare evening for sure.
Thanks for all the help!
For the record...
To get into DOWNLOAD mode you hold home, power, and volume DOWN.
Volume up is for recovery.
Hope that helps.
I've seen the samething
joka10 said:
Since I'm in a similar situation have you tried using odin
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I've seen the same issue, I was on Senergy and then tried to test CM10, I didn't like it and I went back to Senergy and I flashed it like normal way, however my phone stack on Samsung logo, after 15 minutes pressing all buttons then I was finally able to get recovery, reflashed senegy and it was alright, I Had very less battery, it could be that but not sure..
maybe
Laramie1997 said:
That makes sense and I overlooked that. Dam.
I wonder if there is a fix???
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yeah that's right
Same problem
I had this same problem for a AT&T gs3 but I think my battery died and when I plug it in it won't charge. How can I fix that charging problem and then the start up problem?

[Q] Newly rooted phone stuck at T mobile Screen.

I completely followed all instructions on how to root the 4g blaze, after Odin, does a reboot the phone stays at the boot up screen? Any ideas, did I over look something?
R/S
Patrick
huwilerp said:
I completely followed all instructions on how to root the 4g blaze, after Odin, does a reboot the phone stays at the boot up screen? Any ideas, did I over look something?
R/S
Patrick
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ALL questions in General Section.
To answer you.. try wiping data & cache in CWM.
If you don't have CWM, then you did do something wrong cause you needed to have that prior to rooting.
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huwilerp said:
I completely followed all instructions on how to root the 4g blaze, after Odin, does a reboot the phone stays at the boot up screen? Any ideas, did I over look something?
R/S
Patrick
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Did you install k0nane's root kernel over ICS? If so that's where you went wrong. There's a few threads here where others have done so and have been helped. Check those threads.
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This is why I "thought" you needed 10 posts or thanks to even post in Dev.
Sigh..Oh well. Guess the search button is too hard to use.
chjema said:
This is why I "thought" you needed 10 posts or thanks to even post in Dev.
Sigh..Oh well. Guess the search button is too hard to use.
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I have a question.... I used odin3 v 1.85 to root my gs blaze... after i went into a boot loop. after researching i found a thread on site that said to flash siyah??? well i did that and my phone went died..... wont turn on, tried every three button combo i can find, took battery out put it back in, held the volume buttons while putting the battery in and hooking it up to computer... nothing. so im gonna make an assumption that i hard bricked my phone... my question is: will a jig help me get to the download screen or recovery mode?
also i posted this here because it was the best match for my problem
laknbawill said:
I have a question.... I used odin3 v 1.85 to root my gs blaze... after i went into a boot loop. after researching i found a thread on site that said to flash siyah??? well i did that and my phone went died..... wont turn on, tried every three button combo i can find, took battery out put it back in, held the volume buttons while putting the battery in and hooking it up to computer... nothing. so im gonna make an assumption that i hard bricked my phone... my question is: will a jig help me get to the download screen or recovery mode?
also i posted this here because it was the best match for my problem
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JIG will not help hard brick. PM me and I can offer some help

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