Bricked - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III

Just picked up my G3, rooted and unlocked bootloader as soon as i got home. Downloaded one of the jelly bean roms and cwm, did a backup then flashed the rom. Everything looked fine but the screen went dark after the boot animation then nothing. Wont power up or reset using the power home volume combo. What the heck do i do now, thanks for any help.

Might be a stupid question, but have you pulled the battery?

Be more specific.
VZW GALAXY S 3 4G LTE

Do YOUR homework first
How about reading all the threads about unbricking. It certainly seems you did not read all the threads about rooting the phone. Do that too.
Finally, and I know this is not that helpful. Don't screw with a new phone. Use it at least for a month to make sure there are no problems with it.
That being said, there is plenty of information about how to handle your problem here in xda. Read all that and try what has already been posted before asking people to solve your self inflicted problem.
BTW when you do ask for help specify exactly what you did, with what script. I.E. don't ask someone to solve your problem without you taking the time to be very specific about how you got there.

pull the battery and go into recovery or odin and fix it.

Dead battery?
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Skubacb - Don't be a douche buddy. If you do not have any thing to add then shut the **** up.
With that being said I have been rooting phones for years, never had an issue when I couldn't get the phone to at least go into recovery. The phone is dead. Battery was fully charged and I have done a battery pull. It is a Verizon G3. I have read the unbrick articles but none explain if the phone will not boot into recovery. If someone could could just point me in the correct direction I would greatly appreciate it.

How did you actually do the flash? Odin? Some other way? As noted, more details are needed.

I flashed the new rom using Rom manager, went in to revovery and flashed it

jmill75 said:
I flashed the new rom using Rom manager, went in to revovery and flashed it
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I don't believe rom manager is supported for our phone yet. U need to flash straight from recovery. That said I'm sorry I'm not sure where u go from here.
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If you can't get into either recovery , or download mode you maybe SOL. However I would take this to IRC and see if someone can help on there. #verizons3 channel.

If the phone is under warranty, one other alternate solution is to take it into a VZW store and say it won't start. Of course I'd only go that route if I couldn't get it going any other way. On the plus side, your could at least confirm that battery didn't die on you.

Looks like you forgot to flash the insecure bootloader, buddy.
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Rom manager is supported I flashed clockwork there And the 3 cm nightlies
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Keep this discussion to technical solutions only, please. Leave gray area ethics out of it.

JMink said:
I don't believe rom manager is supported for our phone yet. U need to flash straight from recovery. That said I'm sorry I'm not sure where u go from here.
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Completely incorrect.
mikeew83 said:
Rom manager is supported I flashed clockwork there And the 3 cm nightlies
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Me too, been doing it since 6.0.1.2
abissel22 said:
Looks like you forgot to flash the insecure bootloader, buddy.
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I'm gonna go with this one (possibly). Did you unlock the phone? Sorry, did you say it won't boot into anything? Download/Odin mode? Recovery? Anything at all when you do the vol up/down, home key, and power button?

Idk if this would help but I'd order a downloader jig off ebay for a couple dollars and use that to see if it'll boot to recovery
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Me too
I went to turn on my Verizon SGS3 on this morning and nothing happened. I have not even rooted it yet. It was charged when I turned it off 5 minutes before that and even did a battery swap. Phone is completely dead. Will not turn on. I have had it since it first came out, so I called Verizon and they are over-nighting me a "like-new" one. I hope I don't hear more of these stories.

jmill75 said:
Just picked up my G3, rooted and unlocked bootloader as soon as i got home. Downloaded one of the jelly bean roms and cwm, did a backup then flashed the rom. Everything looked fine but the screen went dark after the boot animation then nothing. Wont power up or reset using the power home volume combo. What the heck do i do now, thanks for any help.
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I had a similar issue. If you do the volume/home/power combo (try both volume buttons separately, i forgot which one worked) and hold them through the initial Samsung logo it should put you into download mode, where you can Odin back to stock. I used PureMotive's Unbrick method in the Dev section (I think) and it took all of 20 min. Just make sure to follow the directions carefully.
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Is there a difference is button sequence between recovery and download mode? (I thought it was the same thing)
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[Q] bricked / backup troubles..

Rooted successfully, flashed cwm's most recent recovery and made a backup,i go and DL miui and try to flash that and get a neverending bootloop , so i go into recovery and try to go to backup/restore and my power button wont work.. aka im trying to select the option to do my backup and it isnt responding.. but it does respond correctly when going into recovery/ download mode.. help.
samsung galaxy s2 epic 4g.. sprint version
Where did you get cwm from?
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jager555 said:
Where did you get cwm from?
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from market earlier
power button did work for me the one time prior i tried to flash a rom and didnt have success, and i used my backup successfully. using my power button as selector in cwm recovery. but now i just cant get my power button to respond while in recovery i can scroll up and down no problemo.. sorry for late responses im a new user and there is a 5min wait between posts
If you got cwm from market then you made a mistake. Rom manager does not work correctly for the sgs4g.
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dam, worked fine for me the first time i used it. what does this mean for me? how do i get out of this hole i dug myself, i was watching the zedomax vids and it said to get the current cwm recovery off of the market so i was just trying to follow instructions unless i heard wrong.
Made this post in wrong thread meant to have it under ssgs2 e4g, please forward any comments and suggestions there thankyou, and sorry for posting wrong location
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18479010#post18479010
Wait, your OP said you have the Samsung Galaxy SII Spring Version (Epic 4G Touch). That's a completely different device. This is the Samsung Galaxy S 4G.
I'm not even sure if that phone has root yet, since it's relatively new. I never checked on those forums.
EDIT: I guess I took a bit too long to type this message. That's what happens when I multitask!
Flashed lost kernel = fix
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[Q] Help! Messed Up! Need to reset!

So I'm a noob to all this rooting biz, but had done tons of jailbreaks so thought this would be similar. It's not!
I rooted my phone (Samsung Infuse) and was going to flash MIUI on it. It wouldn't work, so I gave up and went to the 'Download Roms' or whatever section in Clockworkmod and thought all of those would work for my phone.. So I tried downloaded Darky rom, and once it downloaded and flashed, the phone is now stuck on
'Galaxy S'
GT-19000
Samsung
When I take the battery out and go to do a reboot or hard reset, it shows the reg samsung logo for a second then glitches to that galaxy s **** and it doesn't work. I can't even get it into recovery mode!
I have a Mac and I don't know what to do. Please help me asap. I just got this phone 3 days ago. And if I can't fix this myself, will my insurance/30-day return still be valid or will this **** up my warrantee?
use this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1116251
Is it Mac compatible?
itsjaylin said:
Is it Mac compatible?
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I believe so. It's what everybody uses when they mess something up. I'm in windows. But a lot of here use mac too. Just try it out. Follow the directions closely, and you'll get you phone back to stock.
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Next time read before you flash anything lol
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Well i'm borrowing my aunts pc real quick to try this.. Have you ever heard of it workin for this particular case?
Also, I don't have the 3 button method on my phone. So how am I supposed to put the phone in download mode?
Yeah your particular case happens tons of times. And like I said, follow the directions exact and you will get your phone back to use.
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jayson94538 said:
Yeah your particular case happens tons of times. And like I said, follow the directions exact and you will get your phone back to use.
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Ok, we'll see.. But if it doesn't work, would I be able to get a new one if I have ensurance? I've also had it less then 30 days
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Ok, we'll see.. But if it doesn't work, would I be able to get a new one if I have ensurance? I've also had it less then 30 days
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It WILL work if you do it right. And no because rooting your device or flashing roms voids your warranty.
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Well then I sure hope this works..
It worked! But should it have downloaded these extra tools and added a launcher?
itsjaylin said:
It worked! But should it have downloaded these extra tools and added a launcher?
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I believe that after it has done its thing, the phone should have rebooted into recovery mode and showing an option to delete all user data or factory reset. If not, try manually going into recovery mode:
1. Turn off phone.
2. Hold down both up and down volume keys and the power key.
3. Let go of the POWER key when you see the samsung logo pop up. (keep holding the volume keys until it boots into recovery)
4. Now go down to where it says delete all user data or maybe it says factory reset. Something along those lines. Let it do its thing and then
5. Reboot system.
After doing so, you will lose root and all of data. Re-root, add the custom recovery. And READ READ READ. The only roms you can flash from recovery mode is gtg's roms. So check out all roms in the development section here. Read the differences and flash away
I'm currently on miui and I'm loving it because it's very customizable. But battery life sucks on it.
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jayson94538 said:
I believe that after it has done its thing, the phone should have rebooted into recovery mode and showing an option to delete all user data or factory reset. If not, try manually going into recovery mode:
1. Turn off phone.
2. Hold down both up and down volume keys and the power key.
3. Let go of the POWER key when you see the samsung logo pop up. (keep holding the volume keys until it boots into recovery)
4. Now go down to where it says delete all user data or maybe it says factory reset. Something along those lines. Let it do its thing and then
5. Reboot system.
After doing so, you will lose root and all of data. Re-root, add the custom recovery. And READ READ READ. The only roms you can flash from recovery mode is gtg's roms. So check out all roms in the development section here. Read the differences and flash away
I'm currently on miui and I'm loving it because it's very customizable. But battery life sucks on it.
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Thank! I fell asleep downloading Odin, just so I could get it back to norm this morning..
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Thank! I fell asleep downloading Odin, just so I could get it back to norm this morning..
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Did you get it to work?
And sorry for the typo above, I meant to say that the only roms you can flash through rom manager is gtg's infused roms.
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Yes I got it
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Its because darkys rom is for i9000 and that is i9000 boot screen your looking at...do not try to flash anything for infuse off of rom manager...use infuse development thread.....you should be able to hold vol u vol down(at the same time) and power for about ten seconds and that will put you back into recovery....then if you are in green cwm go to mounts and storage...mount usb drive....and you can download a rom from our thread and put it on your sd card without having to reboot....wipe everything and flash rom that you downloaded...if you have red cwm...go to apply update zip..choose it...and flash it...now u have green recovery...hope that helped..
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[Q] Help, SHG-I727R might be bricked

Hello, I have had a Samsung Galaxy S II LTE from Rogers for three months now and it suddenly stopped working after trying to make a phone call.
The firmware was the Gingerbread 2.3.6 I believe (The most current firmware before ICS for the SGH-I727R)
There has been a history of attemping to install Cyanogenmod 10, but I had Clockwork Recovery installed and I was never able to install Cyanogenmod 10 because it gave me errors.
So I used Odin and an official release from Rogers to restore back to Gingerbread.
A month later, this is where I am at.
Status:
I can boot as far as the Carrier logo before going blank and vibrating every 2 - 3 seconds
I can go into download and recovery mode for 5 seconds before being met with a quick flash of a blue screen.
The phone randomly vibrates when a battery is inserted, when it is being charged, or a combination of the two
The battery needs to be taken out and placed back in before attempting a normal, download or recovery boot.
I also do not know if Samsung can tell, as there is no Clockwork Mod or any left over roms or Superuser permissions.
What should I do? Thanks!
If you do a battery pull and reinsert it, does the phone start to boot on it's own without any button pushs
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xbladeinc said:
Hello, I have had a Samsung Galaxy S II LTE from Rogers for three months now and it suddenly stopped working after trying to make a phone call.
The firmware was the Gingerbread 2.3.6 I believe (The most current firmware before ICS for the SGH-I727R)
There has been a history of attemping to install Cyanogenmod 10, but I had Clockwork Recovery installed and I was never able to install Cyanogenmod 10 because it gave me errors.
So I used Odin and an official release from Rogers to restore back to Gingerbread.
A month later, this is where I am at.
Status:
I can boot as far as the Carrier logo before going blank and vibrating every 2 - 3 seconds
I can go into download and recovery mode for 5 seconds before being met with a quick flash of a blue screen.
The phone randomly vibrates when a battery is inserted, when it is being charged, or a combination of the two
The battery needs to be taken out and placed back in before attempting a normal, download or recovery boot.
I also do not know if Samsung can tell, as there is no Clockwork Mod or any left over roms or Superuser permissions.
What should I do? Thanks!
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You should read the stickies that people invested much time into helping.
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stoopendis said:
If you do a battery pull and reinsert it, does the phone start to boot on it's own without any button pushs
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Yes, it boots on its own. If I plug it in, it shows the battery icon for a moment and then goes to black.
xbladeinc said:
Yes, it boots on its own. If I plug it in, it shows the battery icon for a moment and then goes to black.
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Sounds like a stuck power button. I'd try pushing it on and off a ton and see if that clears it. Reinserting the battery shouldn't do anything until you push the power button. If all else fails.... Bring it back.
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stoopendis said:
Sounds like a stuck power button. I'd try pushing it on and off a ton and see if that clears it. Reinserting the battery shouldn't do anything until you push the power button. If all else fails.... Bring it back.
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I will keep on trying that. Any more ideas? Should I send it in to Rogers or send it to mobiletechvideos.com for their J-TAG service?
xbladeinc said:
I will keep on trying that. Any more ideas? Should I send it in to Rogers or send it to mobiletechvideos.com for their J-TAG service?
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It's not bricked. This phone we have is notorious for power button issues... Not your fault.. Let Rogers deal with it!
Is there a Rogers store near by where you can take your phone?
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stoopendis said:
It's not bricked. This phone we have is notorious for power button issues... Not your fault.. Let Rogers deal with it!
Is there a Rogers store near by where you can take your phone?
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Yeah, I am going to take it there tomorrow. Would they be able to tell if I have previously rooted my phone before in this case? I know that it is an official firmware on here now, but still. Thanks for the help!
xbladeinc said:
Yeah, I am going to take it there tomorrow. Would they be able to tell if I have previously rooted my phone before in this case? I know that it is an official firmware on here now, but still. Thanks for the help!
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Just show them how it starts to boot on it's own. They should recognize the issue. If the phone never fully boots they can't see what's on there. And if you've never used Odin then the flash counter has never been incremented.
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Btw... Your welcome!
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stoopendis said:
Just show them how it starts to boot on it's own. They should recognize the issue. If the phone never fully boots they can't see what's on there. And if you've never used Odin then the flash counter has never been incremented.
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Btw... Your welcome!
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I have used Odin a few times, but I cleared all my caches, reformated and etc. using Clockwork Recovery with ICS, then I installed the Gingerbread Rom. This was a month ago, so idk.
If I can't even get into it, then it should be fine. Right?
xbladeinc said:
I have used Odin a few times, but I cleared all my caches, reformated and etc. using Clockwork Recovery with ICS, then I installed the Gingerbread Rom. This was a month ago, so idk.
If I can't even get into it, then it should be fine. Right?
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Right. You gotta start somewhere. Just claim ignorance...... You got the official update and bam!
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xbladeinc said:
I have used Odin a few times, but I cleared all my caches, reformated and etc. using Clockwork Recovery with ICS, then I installed the Gingerbread Rom. This was a month ago, so idk.
If I can't even get into it, then it should be fine. Right?
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Once they unstick that button they'll see everything. They might not care, if they do you'll be paying for a new phone.
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xcrazydx said:
Once they unstick that button they'll see everything. They might not care, if they do you'll be paying for a new phone.
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The thing is about this is that I don't have it Clockwork Recovery installed nor is it rooted, so I don't know if they would be able to tell.
xbladeinc said:
The thing is about this is that I don't have it Clockwork Recovery installed nor is it rooted, so I don't know if they would be able to tell.
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if you restored to stock w/odin then you are fine, it wipes over previous roms/recoveries/rooting and "no one" would be able to see that you had previously installed custom roms or that the phone was rooted.
using odin does "not" increase the flash counter, using certain modified stock firmware like k0anes stock rom which you would use odin to install would increase your flash counter, but thats from an old thread and no one else has made a odin flashable stock rom since then, all the latest recovery flashable roms(zip files) would not increase the flash counter.
you are good to go for warranty repair, maybe wipe your internal sdcard if you can and take out your sdcard
My phone is currently experiencing same problem as the OP. :crying: Please don't tell me bringing it back to Rogers is the only option. My 1 year warranty might be expired already.
A quick update. I went to the store and they said that they would take it. They tried to fix the button with an exacto knife. I wasn't ready to send it in yet so I waited a few hours. I tried again and I was able to boot it properly. So, there is nothing wrong with the software. To those who might be having the same issues, check your power button first before sending it in.
Thanks for the help!
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A quick update. I went to the store and they said that they would take it. They tried to fix the button with an exacto knife. I wasn't ready to send it in yet so I waited a few hours. I tried again and I was able to boot it properly. So, there is nothing wrong with the software. To those who might be having the same issues, check your power button first before sending it in.
Thanks for the help!
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They fixed it.?.... With a exacto knife?
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To Juude90
Hi I had a similar issue. I'ts most likely the power button. If you're willing to open up the device and clean the power button area try that.
If you're still under warranty, try to send it in for a repair.
Here is some info on my situation:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1993616
Here is info that was helpful to me.
vincom said:
its 99% the power button, hearing it click is no indication thats its working as its an internal problem, theres 3 links to the problem in the "info" section in the "1 stop" sticky in my sig . taking it apart to get to the internal contact is one way to fix it, maybe the only way to fix it. if phone starts as soon as you put the battery in w/out touching any buttons then its a sticky/failed power button. warranty repair is also another solution
its 1% for a battery and/or battery contact problem
here are the links:
[INFO] Skyrocket randomly restarts and vibrates at 2 second intervals ...... possible sticky power button and solution
[INFO] Another thread with a bootloop problem
[INFO] Video of Skyrocket randomly restarts and vibrates at 2 second intervals />
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They fixed it.?.... With a exacto knife?
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I was wondering what the hell they were doing. It worked I guess, but sometimes it still randomly reboots. I will send it in when I have the time, I'm not in a rush.
Yeah, Rogers acted in an unprofessional manner.
Take it in to Rogers,
I just had mine serviced and returned from Rogers, No problems and free of charge.
I dropped it off to Rogers with TWRP recovery/CM10 still installed, and the reason it was broken was I used a screwdriver to remove my sim card and tore out the sim card slot from the motherboard. Totally my fault. Also, my skyrocket is a used one from ebay, no less. Did not get it new from rogers myself.
Rogers fixed, no problems or cost to me. Rogers kindly restored it to a rogers Firmware, which I promptly removed immediately.
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[Q] Unroot Verizon Galaxy S3

Hello all,
I recently rooted my Galaxy S3 only to have my Mic fail on me 2 weeks later... Very dissatisfied with my Samsung about that - even though I am loving the phone. Anyways, back to the issue. Verizon has agreed to send me a replacement and I have to send them mine back. The problem is that I know that if I send them a rooted phone they will not honor the warranty, and I am having a very hard time flashing the Verizon Stock rom.
More specifically, and to see if I am doing anything wrong.. I used ODIN to flash a custom rooted rom onto my phone which worked perfectly, and now I am once again trying to use ODIN in order to flash the stock rom which I downloaded from goo.im - the file that I am using is HOME_I535VRALF2_I535VZWALF2_618049_REV09_user_low_ship.tar.md5
Simple steps - reboot into downloading mode -> check auto-reboot and reset time on ODIN and choose the file above under PDA. All works fine, the phone reboots and I get a PASS, and yet my phone is stuck on the Verizon 4G loading intro. I think that's what they call a soft brick.
The first time this happened, I flashed a different rom and the phone loaded properly but it had the open lock symbol under Samsung which I think means that it was unlocked.. Either way, it was not the unrooted and official stock rom which is what I need on my phone in order to keep my warranty. The file that DOES work is COMBINATION_I535VRBLJ1_I535VZWBLJ1_381038_REV09_user_low_ship(NO_WIPE).tar.md5
I have followed the above steps over and over again and I always get the same result - stock doesn't work, the other one does.
Any ideas? What could the issue be?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762709
Personally I would try the files found in section 5 of this thread.
According to Droidstyles guide before his recent edits, if it freezes on the boot logo after a successful Odin factory flash then you're supposed to pull the battery, boot into recovery, and do a factory reset. Try that.
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SlimSnoopOS said:
According to Droidstyles guide before his recent edits, if it freezes on the boot logo after a successful Odin factory flash then you're supposed to pull the battery, boot into recovery, and do a factory reset. Try that.
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Yes this works, also had this happen to me, and to boot to recovery just hold home+volume up+power button. It should work.
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You should probably factory reset after flashing, for you don't want to be running a buggy phone.
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Use a full wipe version and this would not happen...part of the reason why i removed nowipe versions such as f2. But yes as slimsnoop said, data wipe /factory reset will fix that.
So I bought the s3 Verizon it was rooted and switched to cricket pre paid before my friend sold it to me he tried to root back to Verizon but of course he failed, is there anyway to get the phone completelyback to stock even though he switched providers cuz the phone is stuck on the activating part I'm no noobe at rooting just don't know much bout this phone
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FhtmChandley85 said:
is there anyway to get the phone completelyback to stock even though he switched providers cuz the phone is stuck on the activating part I'm no noobe at rooting just don't know much bout this phone
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Follow section 5 of Droidstyle's (the guy above you) guide. Click the link in his signature. I'm not sure about how this handles modified network configuration though, that's not something I remotely know anything about.
I thought there was a way to bypass the activation screen? On older phones, you could tap the four corners of the screen or something like that? Anyone ever heard that before?
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[Hard Brick] JTag vs Manuf. Warranty Exchange

I just hard bricked my sgs3. FIRST TIME EVER!! I've been flashing roms,kernels, etc since the MyTouch3.
Little back story.....
I flashed the LSmooth - Linaro 4.2.1 Jelly Bean Rom with CWM6. I noticed that I could not find my nandroid backups. Searched XDA and saw a thread that stated that TWRP is compatible with 4.2.1 and it will move the internal /sdcard from /0 back to its original file location, etc, etc. I went to GooManager, downloaded the twrp.tar (d2vzw), then went to MobileOdin, loaded the .tar file and flashed.
BOOM!!! No power, DOA. dead ass!! :crying::crying:
(( FACE SLAP )) then I remembered via build.prop it was configured as "maguro" and not "d2vzw". So, I'm assuming that since I failed to edit the build.prop before flashing the d2vzw TWRP recovery, it bricked my phone.
-- No power via wall, usb
-- No download / recovery mode
-- NOTHING!
My question is, if I were to call in and ask for a warranty exchange, what is the likely hood of Verizon troubleshooting, reviving my phone and figuring it out that its been rooted?
Or, should I just send my phone to someone that can JTAG it for me?
Idk if you're permanently hard bricked. Reason being is because this person flashed the latest twrp using GooManager but it installed the Maguro version. Different method but they were able to get out of it. Have you tried pulling the battery then booting holding all three buttons for like 15-20 seconds? Might take a few tries.
Verizon could care less I think.
I have had three droid razrs replaced just because of a boot loop and if they would look into the memory, they could clearly see I rooted if.
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SlimSnoopOS said:
Idk if you're permanently hard bricked. Reason being is because this person flashed the latest twrp using GooManager but it installed the Maguro version. Different method but they were able to get out of it. Have you tried pulling the battery then booting holding all three buttons for like 15-20 seconds? Might take a few tries.
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I saw that post, lol. I tried that, but I will try it again. thanks
barrackOBAMA said:
Verizon could care less I think.
I have had three droid razrs replaced just because of a boot loop and if they would look into the memory, they could clearly see I rooted if.
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Cool! Thanks!
MOD Close Thread, pls
MOD,
Can you close this thread please. Got my replacement today, so I'm Good.!!

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