I have been looking at forums and have not been able to find a workable solution. I rooted my GS3. I created a backup, wiped data, and tried to restore from backup. When i tried to restore, it said that an error occurred. I tried wiping data and cache again and rebooting, but the phone stays on the Samsung logo. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Wipe data and reflash rom or odin back to stock and start over.
Tried Odin but it won't recognize my device. I boot my phone into CWM and try flashing Odin, but it cannot find the phone.
cmatg said:
Tried Odin but it won't recognize my device. I boot my phone into CWM and try flashing Odin, but it cannot find the phone.
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1)Open Odin on your computer
2) turn off your phone
3) Hold: power button, volume down, and home button. This takes you to download mode.
4) Now connect your phone to your computer.
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Thank you so much. I have no idea why i forgot to boot into download mode. after rooting 4 different devices, i would have expected better from myself.
cmatg said:
Thank you so much. I have no idea why i forgot to boot into download mode. after rooting 4 different devices, i would have expected better from myself.
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Haha gotta start somewhere. Everything installing ok via Odin?
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Everything worked perfectly from Odin. Such a great help. Sorry for the late response. I have a seven-day old that is taking up some of my attention. . Thanks again, all! I can't express my full appreciation.
cmatg said:
Everything worked perfectly from Odin. Such a great help. Sorry for the late response. I have a seven-day old that is taking up some of my attention. . Thanks again, all! I can't express my full appreciation.
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Congrats on the seven day old! Stay away from xda in the meantime haha gotta have a stable phone for family pictures!
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I have searched threads all over XDA similar to this one to ensure it is not a duplicate. Sadly I have not found any so I hope one of you at XDA can help me. I got my Galaxy S3 and rooted it as soon as it was available. Then two days ago I flashed Cynogenmod 10 onto it without a hitch. I liked it a lot but sadly there were some shortcomings so I wanted to reflash stock. This is where I believe I messed up. I looked up some instructions, and gave it a go. When I turned on the phone, the annoying verizon bootup image and sound came on, but my phone goes no further. I have no care about my data, I just want my phone back to stock, could a developer assist me in this?
If so I would be eternally grateful.
Just reboot to recovery (hold home, volume up, and power). Wipe everything and flash again.
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trent407 said:
I have searched threads all over XDA similar to this one to ensure it is not a duplicate. Sadly I have not found any so I hope one of you at XDA can help me. I got my Galaxy S3 and rooted it as soon as it was available. Then two days ago I flashed Cynogenmod 10 onto it without a hitch. I liked it a lot but sadly there were some shortcomings so I wanted to reflash stock. This is where I believe I messed up. I looked up some instructions, and gave it a go. When I turned on the phone, the annoying verizon bootup image and sound came on, but my phone goes no further. I have no care about my data, I just want my phone back to stock, could a developer assist me in this?
If so I would be eternally grateful.
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Click gs3 link in sig
thanks so much guys!! both of you were big helps
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Im having a similar issue as the OP. I made a mistake last night and flashed cwm via rom manager and then loaded CM10. Now my phone just bootloops, but I can get into cwm. MY nandroid backup wont load, says "file invalid". I try to get into odin mode but when I hold the volume buttons and the power it just boots into cwm.
Help!
dreamsti said:
Im having a similar issue as the OP. I made a mistake last night and flashed cwm via rom manager and then loaded CM10. Now my phone just bootloops, but I can get into cwm. MY nandroid backup wont load, says "file invalid". I try to get into odin mode but when I hold the volume buttons and the power it just boots into cwm.
Help!
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hold volume down and the power button
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I have the AT&T One X... Ive rooted it, unlocked the bootloader, blah blah blah. Im sort of new at this, so when something happens, Im a little clueless. The point of learning, I suppose. Anyway, today I did a factory reset and restored to my earliest backup. The phone booted originally but then said process.android something or other has stopped working. Phone turned off. Now, when I try to turn it back on, it wont go past the boot animation. Its not connecting to my computer to reboot it with a command, either. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated and ASAP.
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I have the AT&T One X... Ive rooted it, unlocked the bootloader, blah blah blah. Im sort of new at this, so when something happens, Im a little clueless. The point of learning, I suppose. Anyway, today I did a factory reset and restored to my earliest backup. The phone booted originally but then said process.android something or other has stopped working. Phone turned off. Now, when I try to turn it back on, it wont go past the boot animation. Its not connecting to my computer to reboot it with a command, either. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated and ASAP.
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You said you restored from latest backup
From nandriod or titanium back up ??
From beast called HTC One X
abhipati said:
You said you restored from latest backup
From nandriod or titanium back up ??
From beast called HTC One X
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I used the restore I had saved to TWRP
Thanks in advance for any help any of you are able to give
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Thanks in advance for any help any of you are able to give
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Did you Factory Reset from inside the ROM? Or from TWRP?
oddfuturejoey said:
Did you Factory Reset from inside the ROM? Or from TWRP?
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From the ROM. Thats when it told me process.android stopped, then went to the htc one x loading screen.
Frankly, my dear, you ****ed up.
Whenever you want to Wipe ANYTHING you have to do it from your recovery (TWRP).
Boot into TWRP by holding the down volume and power, for what seems like a lifetime and try to restore from there?
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oddfuturejoey said:
Frankly, my dear, you ****ed up.
Whenever you want to Wipe ANYTHING you have to do it from your recovery (TWRP).
Boot into TWRP by holding the down volume and power, for what seems like a lifetime and try to restore from there?
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See, no one told me I couldnt factory reset from inside the ROM. Very handy tip. Im trying the Volume Down/Power thing now. Hope this works. Thanks for the help!
Well I tried holding them down from submitting my last post to opening this one. No luck. Any other ideas?
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Zachbnonymous said:
Well I tried holding them down from submitting my last post to opening this one. No luck. Any other ideas?
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You should be able to get to bootloader power off phone
Hold volume down
Press and hold power button
Count to ten no really count to ten out loud
Release power button
Keep holding the volume button
It should boot to the bootloader
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E.Cadro said:
You should be able to get to bootloader power off phone
Hold volume down
Press and hold power button
Count to ten no really count to ten out loud
Release power button
Keep holding the volume button
It should boot to the bootloader
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I will try this as soon as I get some charge on the battery. Thanks a lot
I finally got to the bootloader! What a relief. Thankfully I work with cell phones, so I had access to this loaner phone so I could find some answers. Maybe one day I'll be able to actually provide some substance! Haha
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Now, however, I cant seem to find any ROMs installed on my phone. I know Ive done this somehow before, but how do I get a rom on the phone when the SD card wont mount to my computer?
And when I try to do a factory reset in TWRP it tells me in the dialog: E:Unable to mount /sdcard
Im beginning if this phone and I just werent meant to be. haha
Twrp did the mount thing to me as well. Still plugged USB and PC found the SD anyway. Copied ROM to SD, flash and bingo. Other option is to download the stock RUU.
PS I wouldn't publicly admit u work for at&t. J/k
Well kinda.
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subarudroid said:
Twrp did the mount thing to me as well. Still plugged USB and PC found the SD anyway. Copied ROM to SD, flash and bingo. Other option is to download the stock RUU.
PS I wouldn't publicly admit u work for at&t. J/k
Well kinda.
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My computer still doesnt show any connection to the phone. I tried downloading the RUU and when I ran it on PC, it said it couldnt connect to my phone.
When doing RUU, make sure you relock your bootloader. Instructions here http://www.theandroidsoul.com/how-to-re-lock-htc-one-x-bootloader/
make sure you have HTC Sync and drivers installed if you are flashing RUU.
Also when u get into your bootloader, highlight bootloader and select it. After, right above that, in red it will read fastboot usb. Until then your pc wont recognize it.
It worked! You guys are all awesome!
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I tried flashin to stock firmware through Odin, and it said it passed/ flashed successfully yet my phone just stays on the at&t Logo, any advice?
I NEED my phone for work tomorrow and it's already getting late. I've reflashed twice now. I'm starting to panic.
Interlaced said:
I tried flashin to stock firmware through Odin, and it said it passed/ flashed successfully yet my phone just stays on the at&t Logo, any advice?
I NEED my phone for work tomorrow and it's already getting late. I've reflashed twice now. I'm starting to panic.
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I have fixed this for myself, Thanks close or delete this thread.
All I did was pull battery out, restarted to stock recovery, wiped data./ factory reset and, rebooted into rom, wiped sd and internal sd.
Now I'm off to flash a new rom, thanks!
I had the same problem. I took the same steps you did and recovered mine.
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Interlaced said:
I have fixed this for myself, Thanks close or delete this thread.
All I did was pull battery out, restarted to stock recovery, wiped data./ factory reset and, rebooted into rom, wiped sd and internal sd.
Now I'm off to flash a new rom, thanks!
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i can get into recovery and download mode but nothing more. im still stuck on the att screen
chris amador said:
i can get into recovery and download mode but nothing more. im still stuck on the att screen
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Reflash with Odin?
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cdshepherd said:
Reflash with Odin?
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I reflashed with Odin 1.85 to stock gingerbread and ICS roms and im still getting stuck on rethink possible screen. I tried to boot in stock recovery to wipe data factory reset, but every time i try to do that my skyrocket restarts. I also tried to add CWM recovery and tried going into recovery then and it still restarted my phone. i can go into download mode, i tried reflashing stock a few times, no luck. Please help me out here i dont know what else to do.
Have you tried using Kies to restore it? I had the same thing happen to me it may work for you good luck.
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ozziedog said:
Have you tried using Kies to restore it? I had the same thing happen to me it may work for you good luck.
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My phone wont even connect to Keis Air, i tried connecting my phone while its in download mode and when its stuck in the rethink possible screen. Still wont connect to Keis Air.
They way I was able to fix mine was to first open Kies then select initialize firmware and connect phone to USB port in back of PC. Follow the prompts they will ask for model number and serial number it is located under battery. Select OK. Once firmware is finished Downloading it will prompt you to accept, disconnect phone from PC and then place phone in DL mode by removing battery reinsert battery press volume +- and then volume + to continue once you do that then connect phone to PC via USB and follow screen prompt on PC. It took me about one hour for mine to finally return to stock. I'm going from memory because I'm not sitting in front of computer at this time. Maybe someone with more knowledge than I can help. Good luck.
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ozziedog said:
They way I was able to fix mine was to first open Kies then select initialize firmware and connect phone to USB port in back of PC. Follow the prompts they will ask for model number and serial number it is located under battery. Select OK. Once firmware is finished Downloading it will prompt you to accept, disconnect phone from PC and then place phone in DL mode by removing battery reinsert battery press volume +- and then volume + to continue once you do that then connect phone to PC via USB and follow screen prompt on PC. It took me about one hour for mine to finally return to stock. I'm going from memory because I'm not sitting in front of computer at this time. Maybe someone with more knowledge than I can help. Good luck.
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OMG it worked!!! Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
orabah said:
My phone wont even connect to Keis Air, i tried connecting my phone while its in download mode and when its stuck in the rethink possible screen. Still wont connect to Keis Air.
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Not Kies Air, just KIES http://www.samsung.com/us/kies/
This thread might help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1749021
orabah said:
OMG it worked!!! Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Your very welcome glad I could help.
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Interlaced said:
I have fixed this for myself, Thanks close or delete this thread.
All I did was pull battery out, restarted to stock recovery, wiped data./ factory reset and, rebooted into rom, wiped sd and internal sd.
Now I'm off to flash a new rom, thanks!
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I have the same problem, but i dont want to loose my photos and vídeos, what can i do please.
andrestheman said:
I have the same problem, but i dont want to loose my photos and vídeos, what can i do please.
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Can you boot into recovery? Use adb to pull your photos to your pc.
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So I'm completely new at this stuff and I followed this guide (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1470716). I got to the point where I had a custom ROM (Valhalla Black Edition) and it was working,but I decided I didn't like Valhalla Black Edition and I wanted to go back. So I went to CWM and selected backup and restore, selected my backup that I backed up earlier. It all seemed to work but now my phone is stuck at the boot screen. Any help would be greatly appreciated and sorry if I come across as a noob, it's because I actually am a noob.
Ur pretty screwed this point
Responded to your post in the other thread. Earlier versions of CWM had issues restoring on different versions of CWM than the back up was made from.
Hi. In the recovery menu try a full wipe before restoring the rom: wipe system, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache.
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Taiwan671 said:
Ur pretty screwed this point
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You should NOT be giving any advice!
@Fridge.....just flash back to stock using heimdal or Odin ....you will be just fine
I was just about to reply to that, but then i saw your post.
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lumin30 said:
Responded to your post in the other thread. Earlier versions of CWM had issues restoring on different versions of CWM than the back up was made from.
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Hey lumin, i understand u have some experience with the SGS4G, so i want to know if i can "revive" my phone, last night i was trying to restore a bad flash with odin but just before the bar fills to 100% it says "failed" now the phone does not turns on, even trying the battery out, volume buttons hold down, connect to pc and putting battery back. I hope you can help me, because i don't know what to do. I apologize for my bad english, it is not my native language.
Lacryma said:
Hey lumin, i understand u have some experience with the SGS4G, so i want to know if i can "revive" my phone, last night i was trying to restore a bad flash with odin but just before the bar fills to 100% it says "failed" now the phone does not turns on, even trying the battery out, volume buttons hold down, connect to pc and putting battery back. I hope you can help me, because i don't know what to do. I apologize for my bad english, it is not my native language.
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What where you flashing with odin? First thing I would check is to make sure your battery has charge. These phones are really hard to brick but it can happen.
When you insert battery, does the computer see the phone? Sometimes, even with the black screen, you are still in dl mode.
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hechoen said:
What where you flashing with odin? First thing I would check is to make sure your battery has charge. These phones are really hard to brick but it can happen.
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The stock rom, i was trying to flash the 2e recovery, but it was bad because after the recovery the phone was saying it was another galaxy s model, i can't remember t9000 whatever... after that, the screen was buggy ( various colors in the screen), and finally decided to go back to stock, the process was almost complete but before it finish says failed! so i disconnect the phone and restart it, and it did not turn on.
Thanks for the reply, i will try to recharge the battery and see if the pc recognizes.
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champ1919 said:
When you insert battery, does the computer see the phone? Sometimes, even with the black screen, you are still in dl mode.
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I can not tell ,will try that after charge battery, thanks.
but it was bad because after the recovery the phone was saying it was another galaxy s model, i can't remember t9000 whatever... after that, the screen was buggy ( various colors in the screen), and finally decided to go back to stock, the process was almost complete but before it finish says failed! so i disconnect the phone and restart it, and it did not turn on.
Wish you luck. Sounds like wrong firmware. If you have the sgs4g, use the link from first post and try the one click.
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champ1919 said:
but it was bad because after the recovery the phone was saying it was another galaxy s model, i can't remember t9000 whatever... after that, the screen was buggy ( various colors in the screen), and finally decided to go back to stock, the process was almost complete but before it finish says failed! so i disconnect the phone and restart it, and it did not turn on.
Wish you luck. Sounds like wrong firmware. If you have the sgs4g, use the link from first post and try the one click.
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Ok, I just did that, and the phone does not apear connected in the comand prompt and in Heimdall, what can i do?
Thanks in advance!
I recently flashed jelly bean 4.1.2 (not the latest but whatever) and when charging it yesterday, it gave a message saying the battery is hot and i checked to see if it was hot and it wasnt. i booted up my phone and it didnt boot up past the samsung logo and cant get it to recovery mode at all. I know there are threads on this but i guess i could start a recent one.
Are you sure you can't get into recovery? If you are, can you get into download?
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jd1639 said:
Are you sure you can't get into recovery? If you are, can you get into download?
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It seem i can put it in download mode, what do i do? And if you can, help me find a a reliable ROM
LCPro95 said:
It seem i can put it in download mode, what do i do? And if you can, help me find a a reliable ROM
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You would want to read and do some research.
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LCPro95 said:
It seem i can put it in download mode, what do i do? And if you can, help me find a a reliable ROM
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Now is when you're going to have to do some reading. You will need to odin the stock firmware. Go to the development forum and look for the stickies by vincom. They're you'll find one that will tell you how to return to stock. That's a good thing, because you should never flash if you don't know Odin.
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it didnt help much, still doesnt boot up and still cant access recovery mode
LCPro95 said:
it didnt help much, still doesnt boot up and still cant access recovery mode
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Do some reading
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LCPro95 said:
it didnt help much, still doesnt boot up and still cant access recovery mode
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You sure you know how to get into recovery? With the device off hold down both vol keys and power. When you see the Samsung logo only release the power button. Continue to hold the vol keys.
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LCPro95 said:
it didnt help much, still doesnt boot up and still cant access recovery mode
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Were you able to get into download mode and connect to Odin and did Odin recognize your phone? You do know how to use Odin?
Were you able to access recovery as suggested by using the power button and volume button combination and maybe restore your back up? You did do a backup before starting?
I don't remember where it is but their are well written steps on how to do both. As someone else suggested read and research. As someone suggested to me "Don't trying to flash custom ROMs until you know how to use Odin to be able to get out of trouble."
Just a suggestion you probably know more about this than I do please don't take it the wrong way
Good luck
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Still, after all this time with the device and people don't know you don't have to hold the keys that long. Device off--->hold power and both volumes until you see the Samsung screen... You can then let go of everything.
jd1639 said:
You sure you know how to get into recovery? With the device off hold down both vol keys and power. When you see the Samsung logo only release the power button. Continue to hold the vol keys.
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Yes I know how to do it.
ozziedog said:
Were you able to get into download mode and connect to Odin and did Odin recognize your phone? You do know how to use Odin?
Were you able to access recovery as suggested by using the power button and volume button combination and maybe restore your back up? You did do a backup before starting?
I don't remember where it is but their are well written steps on how to do both. As someone else suggested read and research. As someone suggested to me "Don't trying to flash custom ROMs until you know how to use Odin to be able to get out of trouble."
Just a suggestion you probably know more about this than I do please don't take it the wrong way
Good luck
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Before using odin i read everything i could read if i ever get a problem and started the process. When done and after troubleshooting the same problem still continued. Whenever i try entering recovery, it reboots.
LCPro95 said:
Before using odin i read everything i could read if i ever get a problem and started the process. When done and after troubleshooting the same problem still continued. Whenever i try entering recovery, it reboots.
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For what its worth when I have a problem I can't find the answer to I Odin back to stock when phone settles I do a factory reset to remove everything on phone. If it reboots okay I start loading everything back into it.
If I run into problems I go into download and Odin back to stock and start over. Sometimes it takes me more than one attempt.
I'm sure their is a better way but I'm no expert. For the most part going back to stock has been the answer then go from their. Hope your phone is not hosed. Good luck.
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ozziedog said:
For what its worth when I have a problem I can't find the answer to I Odin back to stock when phone settles I do a factory reset to remove everything on phone. If it reboots okay I start loading everything back into it.
If I run into problems I go into download and Odin back to stock and start over. Sometimes it takes me more than one attempt.
I'm sure their is a better way but I'm no expert. For the most part going back to stock has been the answer then go from their. Hope your phone is not hosed. Good luck.
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It has a stock rom in which i tried flashing a couple of times. And wouldnt factory reseting require me going into recovery in which i cnt do. Could it be a hardware problem?
LCPro95 said:
It has a stock rom in which i tried flashing a couple of times. And wouldnt factory reseting require me going into recovery in which i cnt do. Could it be a hardware problem?
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You don't have to go into recovery to do a factory reset you can go into settings.
A hardware problem is something that will have to be answered by someone way smarter than I.
I use CWM recovery and when I first started flashing I installed it using Odin.
Sorry I have run out of ideas Good luck.
Edit : just throwing this out their you could try replacing the SD Card.
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LCPro95 said:
It has a stock rom in which i tried flashing a couple of times. And wouldnt factory reseting require me going into recovery in which i cnt do. Could it be a hardware problem?
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You have to go into recovery to do a factory reset if you can't boot. When you try to boot what does it do? Does it try boot? And then what does it do?
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