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[Q] Stuck at recovery mode.

I recently got a 4g in replacement for free for my vibrant from tmobile, so I hacked it as soon as I could get the chance, I was running a GB rom and it wasn't running as smooth as I liked so I attempted to go back to stock via hemdall, couldn't get it to work since I never used it before, I tried reading the forum but I just couldn't figure it out, so I tried to odin, my phone freaked out and for about 30 minutes just was a black screen, I was able to get to recovery mode after l several attempts..I am now in recovery and only have to option to reboot, re install, delete all user data, delete all cache, I have tried every trick in the forum to get to download mode, everything I do just goes straight back to recovery, I tried to rename a stock rom to update.zip and flash that through the re install packages and it says signature verification failed..What the heck do I do to get my phone either to odin, and if I do what do I do after odin, I thought I knew but apparently not, secondly if I can get to odin what is my best bet on fixing it? Thanks all who shall help!

There are tons of threads in the Dev section about getting back to stock. With way... you need to get into download mode.
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AdamOutler posted a one click back to stock using hemdall in the dev section.
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That's the thing I can not get into download mode, I've done every download thing on the the forum and it just goes into recovery mode...

Michaelk706 said:
That's the thing I can not get into download mode, I've done every download thing on the the forum and it just goes into recovery mode...
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Go to www.android.com, download the software development kit (SDK), install it, only install the 'tools' when it prompts you for what to install.
Once that is done open a command prompt, cd to the "platform-tools" directory where the SDK installed, and issue this command:
adb reboot download

stephen_w said:
Go to www.android.com, download the software development kit (SDK), install it, only install the 'tools' when it prompts you for what to install.
Once that is done open a command prompt, cd to the "platform-tools" directory where the SDK installed, and issue this command:
adb reboot download
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Already did, and just right back to recovery mode..

I'm sure you've tried this, but I have to ask - what happens when you use the options you have in recovery mode?
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It just goes back to recovery..

When you tried using adb to reboot it into download mode, did your computer actually recognize the phone? If so, does ODIN see the phone when you plug it in?

stephen_w said:
When you tried using adb to reboot it into download mode, did your computer actually recognize the phone? If so, does ODIN see the phone when you plug it in?
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Yea and odin did as well but when i tried to run it from recovery it just said setting up connection.

stephen_w said:
When you tried using adb to reboot it into download mode, did your computer actually recognize the phone? If so, does ODIN see the phone when you plug it in?
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yes and ODIN does as well, but it doesn't doing anything but say setting up connection.

Michaelk706 said:
yes and ODIN does as well, but it doesn't doing anything but say setting up connection.
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Ok, so ODIN sees it. That's a plus I think. When ODIN sees the phone, what exactly does it show in the "Message" window in the bottom left?
I'm just wondering if it's able to actually flash anything. If it can, we can probably get you fixed.

setup connection

Hmm, I know you said you tried everything, but just to verify, have you removed the battery, held vol up & down, plugged in USB then put the battery back in while still holding the vol keys down?
What about the 1-click Heimdal method? I think that's listed in the dev section.
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stephen_w said:
hmm, i know you said you tried everything, but just to verify, have you removed the battery, held vol up & down, plugged in usb then put the battery back in while still holding the vol keys down?
What about the 1-click heimdal method? I think that's listed in the dev section.
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i am freaking out man, i did that a hundred times, it is not my first phone that i have broken!! And it freaking worked this time, i don't get it..thanks i guess have it off for 24 hours fixed it, im super excited! thanks bro!
edit, i just did odin but it just goes back to recovery...
edit 2 time, I used this and fixed it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1223765, was using Krylon fix but it didn't work.

Glad you got it into dowload mode. What exactly did you try to flash?
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Michaelk706 said:
edit 2 time, I used this and fixed it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1223765, was using Krylon fix but it didn't work.
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Awesome! Glad you're working bro
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I edit it, thanks man I owe you big time! You gave me the best veterans day present a Marine could ask for hahahah!

Happy Veteran's Day from an ex-Airman!
Semper Fi
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[BRICK] my sgr died today :(

before 20 mins i was surfing xda using tapatalk whith my sgr with wifi connected, than i put my phone and gone away for just a moment and after that when i picked up my phone it was maybe switched off, i thought its gone hang so i tried reseting phone with long pressing power button but no luck, than i removed battery re inserted it but my phone is not powering up, i tried connecting both charger and usb cable but nothing its f...ked up.
now main problem is i cant give it to SSC as i was running XWLA4 build with titanium and unknownzd's kerne any suggestions guys? plz suggest
(i have tried inserting usb jig after re inserting battery but its not powering up)
EDIT: my odin counter is 0, is there any way to flash all the data stored on phone (including system memory) so that i can claim in ssc that its not booting, and after they boot it they dont find that its using custom stuff?

xlm13x said:
before 20 mins i was surfing xda using tapatalk whith my sgr with wifi connected, than i put my phone and gone away for just a moment and after that when i picked up my phone it was maybe switched off, i thought its gone hang so i tried reseting phone with long pressing power button but no luck, than i removed battery re inserted it but my phone is not powering up, i tried connecting both charger and usb cable but nothing its f...ked up.
now main problem is i cant give it to SSC as i was running XWLA4 build with titanium and unknownzd's kerne any suggestions guys? plz suggest
(i have tried inserting usb jig after re inserting battery but its not powering up)
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Try to start it by removing sim card...
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not starting tried it

xlm13x said:
not starting tried it
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sorry, i think you are in problem nothing we can do now better take it to Service Center..

You can try repair dead APX mode method if you have a backup of your efs folder. Tried that once just to reset counter, maybe it could bring your phone back from the dead.
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parajsinghal said:
You can try repair dead APX mode method if you have a backup of your efs folder. Tried that once just to reset counter, maybe it could bring your phone back from the dead.
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but how to do it when phone is not even powering up its not being connected to pc

just my pc detected APX device when i connected my phone this time, plz anyone provide me package of this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1528256&highlight=jtag link is dead in that topic

PMed you the link..
Anyway. Here it is..
http://hotfile.com/dl/148617629/d678966/GT-I9103_Dead_Repair_By_Xiaoyuz.rar.html

F3niX said:
PMed you the link..
Anyway. Here it is..
http://hotfile.com/dl/148617629/d678966/GT-I9103_Dead_Repair_By_Xiaoyuz.rar.html
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million thanks to u buddy trying it, hope this will boot my phone

Great. I will try and find it on my system.
But do you have a backup of efs, otherwise there is no point trying that.
EDIT: Looks like you already got it. Best of luck buddy

xlm13x said:
million thanks to u buddy trying it, hope this will boot my phone
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You are Welcome dude..
Hope your phone boots up!

parajsinghal said:
Great. I will try and find it on my system.
But do you have a backup of efs, otherwise there is no point trying that.
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i do have backup. i just wanna boot my phone in download phone so that i can flash stock indian and atleast can dive in ssc

update: just phone booted in download mode but not able flash using odin its saying error: nand size big

My R died once too, but when I removed sdcard and put it in a freezer for like 10 minutes and then I could boot it up and it was working as long as I didn't turn the screen off - it was enough to do a backup and so on.

Stupid questions, but are you following the guide in 4-5th post? Did the steps above Odin went fine? Last but not the least are you using PIT file to re-partition with Odin?

after trying some times finaly i succeed to falsh but now my phone is in boot loop

guys my phone is not displaying storage drives in recovery mode what the hell is happening now
have anyone tried this method before to recover his sgr? have faced such prob?

Congrats. Now you can atleast take it ssc right?
Maybe you could try the process again just one more time to be sure, only if you want. I'd prefer taking it to ssc
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finally my phone is booted perfectly, restored cwm backup and now its going ok but my imei is messed up, my whole 3.5 gb internal sd has been flashed (it was full of game data files which i took many night times to download )
if i want now i can claim a BRAND NEW MOTHERBOARD as my imei is messed lol

Didn't you restore the efs folder? That should solve the imei issue.
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[Q] Verizon S3 Not recognized by windows, no recovery, no download mode??

Ok so, I just did a trade on Craigslist recently and got an S3 from Verizon, clean ESN and all, it just had a cracked screen. Well the guy had already bought a replacement he just didn't know how to do it. Did the trade, got home and completed the screen repair. Works great, but here are my problems....
1. Phone is PIN locked and I don't know it and he can't get a hold of the guy he got it from.
2. It will not boot into anything but normal, no Download mode, no Recovery, nothing.
3. Windows doesn't recognize it. At one point in my 100+ times of connecting and disconnecting it, it did recognize it and was going to install the drivers for it and then it said device unplugged, which it hadn't been.
So now I come to the great world of XDA and see if we can't solve this issue together. Anyone have any ideas? I have tried 4 different USB cables as well. All of which work with my current S3.
Thanks

So no one knows anything eh?
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You should be able to pull battery, replace, and force into download mode. I haven't heard of a phone that wouldn't go into download mode that would boot up. Anyway, after flashing with Odin, the pin should disappear.

HHF2 said:
You should be able to pull battery, replace, and force into download mode. I haven't heard of a phone that wouldn't go into download mode that would boot up. Anyway, after flashing with Odin, the pin should disappear.
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Yea man I have tried all that. I have tried every kind of way to get into download mode, to no avail. Pretty frustrating really! I even reformatted my computer to see if it might be that, but nope.
Still hoping...

Ok so it is sitting in DOWNLOAD mode right now but Windows still doesn't recognize it, meaning ODIN doesn't see it either!! Any help would be greatly appreciated!! I don't know what I did, I just unscrewed everything, moved stuff around and screwed it back together.......
EDIT: Ok so I got into recovery finally, did a factory reset. Windows still won't recognize it but at least it works now.

If you can get into recovery. Wipe data. so and PIN should be gone
Now boot phone and hit that USB debugging.
Odin should see it now.
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barrackOBAMA said:
If you can get into recovery. Wipe data. so and PIN should be gone
Now boot phone and hit that USB debugging.
Odin should see it now.
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Yea I did a factory reset, but can't get past activation of SIM since it isnt unlocked or anything. So it just give me turn off phone or emergency call. Windows still doesn't recognize it though.

[Q] Droid 3 stuck in bootloop

I realize there are multiple threads like this but throughout all of them I have not found any that relate to my issue or a combination of them. If I have missed one I apologize in advance and please direct me to that thread then. I was running steel droid what I thought was 5.5 ICS but it looks like it is 5.1 according to the forums. I was previously running steel droid 4.5 GB. I was switching back to 4.5 because I could not get wifi hotspotting to work. I forgot to wipe my cache and went to install 4.5 and I am stuck in bootloop. X+Power gives me the android error screen, M+Power allows me into the main menu but I cannot use AP fastboot, SBF motorola will not pick up my phone and the screen will show a connection to the USB cable. I've never had a problem before but also have never forgotten to wipe the cache so any thoughts would help.

m3schz8! said:
I realize there are multiple threads like this but throughout all of them I have not found any that relate to my issue or a combination of them. If I have missed one I apologize in advance and please direct me to that thread then. I was running steel droid what I thought was 5.5 ICS but it looks like it is 5.1 according to the forums. I was previously running steel droid 4.5 GB. I was switching back to 4.5 because I could not get wifi hotspotting to work. I forgot to wipe my cache and went to install 4.5 and I am stuck in bootloop. X+Power gives me the android error screen, M+Power allows me into the main menu but I cannot use AP fastboot, SBF motorola will not pick up my phone and the screen will show a connection to the USB cable. I've never had a problem before but also have never forgotten to wipe the cache so any thoughts would help.
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Not wiping cache won't give you boot loop lol just go back into recovery wipe everything and flash a working ROM solved :thumbup:
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bbrad said:
Not wiping cache won't give you boot loop lol just go back into recovery wipe everything and flash a working ROM solved :thumbup:
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I would but I get android error screen with exclamation mark each time regardless of how I access recovery X+Power or vol +,- and Power then going to recovery, I wouldn't have thought that not wiping the cache would have been the cause but it was the one step I didn't do that I normally always do so I was just adding it in for information but thanks for the know how that it wasn't the cause. Any other thoughts since I cant even get into my backup ROM or recovery, I have another SD card not sure if my SD card has become fried for some reason, I will be trying that to see if maybe that is all it is.

m3schz8! said:
I would but I get android error screen with exclamation mark each time regardless of how I access recovery X+Power or vol +,- and Power then going to recovery, I wouldn't have thought that not wiping the cache would have been the cause but it was the one step I didn't do that I normally always do so I was just adding it in for information but thanks for the know how that it wasn't the cause. Any other thoughts since I cant even get into my backup ROM or recovery, I have another SD card not sure if my SD card has become fried for some reason, I will be trying that to see if maybe that is all it is.
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Well I'm on a Samsung device but we have a program you load files in and you can flash your device back to stock do you have something like that?
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bbrad said:
Well I'm on a Samsung device but we have a program you load files in and you can flash your device back to stock do you have something like that?
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Yep but phone isn't picking up my data cable and how ever many issues that have come about here, I think I am SOL but gonna try an SD card hoping that it is just a bad SD card or something like that. May end up having to use part of that great tax return also, thanks for the help, I'm going samsung next, that whole fore sight wasn't there two years ago.

In it's current state, is it in any way possible to tell that it is rooted? Is the boy animation stock or a different one? Motorola might repair it for you if you can't tell that it's been rooted
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dj2muchxx said:
In it's current state, is it in any way possible to tell that it is rooted? Is the boy animation stock or a different one? Motorola might repair it for you if you can't tell that it's been rooted
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Unfortunately you can easily tell that it is not stock ROM by bootloop

Well your computer should recognize your droid that's a common problem with Odin and Samsung one of these steps always work so try then and seen if we can't get your droid recognized NUMBER 4 WILL WORK 99% OF THE TIME BUT TRY THE OTHER METHODS FIRST 1. Use the stock cable or try a difrent port 2. If its possible on your program take out the battery and SD card as leaving them in course problems 3. Run the program as aminstrative 4. Plug the phone in and have it in download mode or whatever you call it WHILE THE COMPUTER IS BOOTING Up This will force the computer to recognize it not the best method but it always works
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bbrad said:
Well your computer should recognize your droid that's a common problem with Odin and Samsung one of these steps always work so try then and seen if we can't get your droid recognized NUMBER 4 WILL WORK 99% OF THE TIME BUT TRY THE OTHER METHODS FIRST 1. Use the stock cable or try a difrent port 2. If its possible on your program take out the battery and SD card as leaving them in course problems 3. Run the program as aminstrative 4. Plug the phone in and have it in download mode or whatever you call it WHILE THE COMPUTER IS BOOTING Up This will force the computer to recognize it not the best method but it always works
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Thanks step 4 ended up being the working method, happened again when loading gingerbread back on, so I walked through it again, removed ICS from memory card wiped phone completely and then loaded gingerbread back on and finally had success. Thanks for all the help

m3schz8! said:
Thanks step 4 ended up being the working method, happened again when loading gingerbread back on, so I walked through it again, removed ICS from memory card wiped phone completely and then loaded gingerbread back on and finally had success. Thanks for all the help
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NP if you ever need anything just ask
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might be soft bricked...???

i was restoring to an older rom and it said it was restoring boot and then the main maenu came on...it never said it was complete and the menu never comes back on till its done so i figured it was done but now i cant get into recovery or download mode and it gets stuck at the samsung logo..so im screwed ain't i...please help...thanks in advance...

pcrack05 said:
i was restoring to an older rom and it said it was restoring boot and then the main maenu came on...it never said it was complete and the menu never comes back on till its done so i figured it was done but now i cant get into recovery or download mode and it gets stuck at the samsung logo..so im screwed ain't i...please help...thanks in advance...
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Most likely. Just fubared mine by interrupting a CWM flash thinking it was far enough along to matter. Use this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1705260

callihn said:
Most likely. Just fubared mine by interrupting a CWM flash thinking it was far enough along to matter. Use this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1705260
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how can i use that if i cant get into recovery...?

pcrack05 said:
how can i use that if i cant get into recovery...?
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Have you had any resolution?
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Sorry for the delay, been busy. Try the instructions? Has nothing to do with recovery working. You need odin on your oc and kies ti install the drivers, if it wil go into download mode it can be flashed.

Agreed. Should still be a way to get into download mode, although you may have to use an alternate route. The most reliable method (without extra hardware) is to (once USB cable connected to PC):
Pull battery.
Reinsert battery.
Hold down both volume buttons and plug in the USB cable.
Voila!
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If that fails, then may need a jig.