Hey guys i just got this phone from a random on craigslist and hes unlocked the bootloader and stopped there. I dnt know what method he used but in order to power on the device i have to use certain button combos. Example it boots straight to recovery so i reboot now and while its rebooting i have to hold both volume buttons and the power until a white lettered screen pops up and use volume up to power on. And tips? Ty in advance.
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debage39 said:
Hey guys i just got this phone from a random on craigslist and hes unlocked the bootloader and stopped there. I dnt know what method he used but in order to power on the device i have to use certain button combos. Example it boots straight to recovery so i reboot now and while its rebooting i have to hold both volume buttons and the power until a white lettered screen pops up and use volume up to power on. And tips? Ty in advance.
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on the white-lettered screen try and choose Bootloader. if you can get there you can flash either CWM or TWRP recovery, then flash a working system, or else do a full firmware flash with RSD Lite. or if he already flashed a custom recovery you could boot there and try flashing a working ROM.
Hes got cwm on here. And from what i can tell just rooted the stock rom. Ive never seen a device having a method to power on except maybe a semi tethered jailbroken iphone. Idk
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Any suggestions for roms for when i get this figured out?
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The device should turn on normally, unless he did something to put it in a bootloop. That's why i figured your basic option was to do a stock restore of some kind.
Check the dev. sections, but rooted stock is basically the only option at present. There are starts on CM9 and CM10 builds, but i don't think they do a whole lot besides boot up. There is a deodexed version of stock that you can flash, and at least apply some tweaks and such
Right on thanx man ill try it and see what happens.
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Ok new topic. I think the dude i got the phone from unlocked the bootloader but didnt root it. He said it was rooted. But when i dl rom manager it said i wasnt. So i guess my question is how do i root the thing?
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Ah ok, if the bootloader is unlocked, just flash either CWM or TWRP recovery thru Fastboot, then boot into recovery and flash SU.
Edit: after flashing recovery, make sure to boot straight into recovery by holding the volume up button while rebooting. If you boot into the system, it will probably overwrite your flash with stock recovery.
Hes already installed cwm. I cant use regular boot methods. When i reboot the phone it boots into recovery. Thats when i hold down all the buttons to bring up the boot options screen. So basically all i have to do is flash the su file? Btw I tried doing that along with flashing a kernel and cm9 it wouldnt boot into the rom.
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Hes already installed cwm. I cant use regular boot methods. When i reboot the phone it boots into recovery. Thats when i hold down all the buttons to bring up the boot options screen. So basically all i have to do is flash the su file? Btw I tried doing that along with flashing a kernel and cm9 it wouldnt boot into the rom.
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I'm not sure how you're sending all these messages from a dead phone...
But regardless, CM9 doesn't really "work" per se. It boots, sure... but nothing else works.
You're going to have to flash one of the stock backups people posted around. I know there was a .win backup of everything - which you'll need TWRP to restore.
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I tried searching, but the search is down?
I have spent several hours looking.
I used odin (phone went into download mode without issue) to put my phone back to stock so I could get the ota update.
Went back into download mode with Odin to install CWM, this "passed" and after a restart my phone went into samsung recovery, not CWM.
Now my phone will not go into download mode? I tried different cable, ports, etc.
any help?
so what is it doing since it's not going into download mode.
it wouldn't do anything, I finally reinstalled the drivers and after holding down the power and volume - let go... nothing! push the volume - twice and it went into download mode. Odin recognizes it and goes through the motion, but the phone has a AX_timeout in red at the top left corner of the screen?
Odin continues and say's passed, but when I try to reboot into CWM it hangs on the samsung logo.
It will not boot into recovery, but it will start the phone and everything seems to work.
im using odin 1.83 / windows 7 64bit.
Remove the battery, put the phone in download mode, put the battery back in, and flash CWM. Before you fully boot the OS, flash a custom kernel. If you don't flash a custom kernel, the default kernel will overwrite CWM with the default recovery.
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it wouldn't do anything, I finally reinstalled the drivers and after holding down the power and volume - let go... nothing! push the volume - twice and it went into download mode. Odin recognizes it and goes through the motion, but the phone has a AX_timeout in red at the top left corner of the screen?
Odin continues and say's passed, but when I try to reboot into CWM it hangs on the samsung logo.
It will not boot into recovery, but it will start the phone and everything seems to work.
im using odin 1.83 / windows 7 64bit.
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I would try using odin v1.82... My experience with this tool has told me that our charge doesnt always "play nice" with other versions... Also try redownloading the latest CWM, you could of had a bad download.
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Cilraaz said:
Remove the battery, put the phone in download mode, put the battery back in, and flash CWM. Before you fully boot the OS, flash a custom kernel. If you don't flash a custom kernel, the default kernel will overwrite CWM with the default recovery.
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Also in my experience I have had CWM recovery with the stock kernel... So something seems funny, stock kernel must not always overwrite custom cwm... Hmmmm. Who can help us here....????
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Also in my experience I have had CWM recovery with the stock kernel... So something seems funny, stock kernel must not always overwrite custom cwm... Hmmmm. Who can help us here....????
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If you happen to flash a ROM that doesn't include the script that the kernel calls for the overwrite, then you could have ended up with CWM on a stock kernel.
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Also in my experience I have had CWM recovery with the stock kernel... So something seems funny, stock kernel must not always overwrite custom cwm... Hmmmm. Who can help us here....????
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There's a script, can't remember where it's at, that is run at boot to replace the recovery. If that script is not there, it doesn't get replaced. All custom roms have it removed.
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There's a script, can't remember where it's at, that is run at boot to replace the recovery. If that script is not there, it doesn't get replaced. All custom roms have it removed.
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/system/etc/install-recovery.sh
Hmmm... So your saying there basically wasnt a way for me to have cwm with stock rom/kernel with root... I could have swore I had that setup at some point...
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Hmmm... So your saying there basically wasnt a way for me to have cwm with stock rom/kernel with root... I could have swore I had that setup at some point...
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There is, root, boot up, delete the script power off, re root and you're good
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Hmmm... So your saying there basically wasnt a way for me to have cwm with stock rom/kernel with root... I could have swore I had that setup at some point...
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There is. You can download the Superuser CWM to your phone, flash CWM, boot immediately to CWM (don't let it boot normally), flash Superuser, and reboot.
At that point, if you desire, you can delete /system/etc/install-recovery.sh and reflash CWM if you want to keep it.
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There is. You can download the Superuser CWM to your phone, flash CWM, boot immediately to CWM (don't let it boot normally), flash Superuser, and reboot.
At that point, if you desire, you can delete /system/etc/install-recovery.sh and reflash CWM if you want to keep it.
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You think this would work on the nexus... Seems its kind of a universal method...?
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Now I know that there isn't any luck to get my phone rooted at this time, but I can't even get into stock recovery at the moment to even make a nandroid. I've been flashing for a while and have a GNexus and I was picking up the One X because I was switching carriers. I know even on a locked everything you could still get to the Recovery, I had a locked Motorola Droid X2.
Has anyone ran into the issue with a fully stock phone and can point me in the direction of where to solve the issue? I've been searching for a few hours with no avail.
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Now I know that there isn't any luck to get my phone rooted at this time, but I can't even get into stock recovery at the moment to even make a nandroid. I've been flashing for a while and have a GNexus and I was picking up the One X because I was switching carriers. I know even on a locked everything you could still get to the Recovery, I had a locked Motorola Droid X2.
Has anyone ran into the issue with a fully stock phone and can point me in the direction of where to solve the issue? I've been searching for a few hours with no avail.
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I don't think there is a recovery for completely stock one x... not one that lets you make a backup anyways
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I don't think there is a recovery for completely stock one x... not one that lets you make a backup anyways
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Well I do get the Boot into recovery option from the H-Boot Menu, it loads up into a Red triangle, and I literally didn't touch anything on the phone before that lol. Bad software maybe?
drant22 said:
Well I do get the Boot into recovery option from the H-Boot Menu, it loads up into a Red triangle, and I literally didn't touch anything on the phone before that lol. Bad software maybe?
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That means theres no recovery installed
My stock 2.20 isn't even letting me boot into the bootloader. Are you just doing power + volume down? When I do my bottom buttons flash a few times then it boots normally. Only had this a few days, first Android I've had that can't be rooted.
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bts0uth said:
My stock 2.20 isn't even letting me boot into the bootloader. Are you just doing power + volume down? When I do my bottom buttons flash a few times then it boots normally. Only had this a few days, first Android I've had that can't be rooted.
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hold power until it flashes 5 times and turns off, then just keep holding volume down and you should get into bootloader
red triangle is stock recovery
bts0uth said:
My stock 2.20 isn't even letting me boot into the bootloader. Are you just doing power + volume down? When I do my bottom buttons flash a few times then it boots normally. Only had this a few days, first Android I've had that can't be rooted.
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Turn off fastboot in settings->power
I didn't think you could nandroid without custom recovery (CWM or TWRP) on ANY phone. And you can't get custom recovery without root or an unlocked bootloader or both.
If the phone arrived with 2.20, nandroid isn't possible. I would be surprised if stock recovery did anything more than factory reset.
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Can you not unlock via HTC and then load a custom rom?
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Well I do get the Boot into recovery option from the H-Boot Menu, it loads up into a Red triangle, and I literally didn't touch anything on the phone before that lol. Bad software maybe?
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When you get to the triangle hold vol up+down+power. You will have your stock options.
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Can you not unlock via HTC and then load a custom rom?
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Not if its a AT&T version and came with 2.20.
If it came with 1.85 or lower you can root the device (super fun adb procedure) then apply SuperCID, that will let you trick HTCDev into thinking its a different device, and unlock the bootloader. Then more adb fun and you can install TWRP, then flash custom ROMs.
Its not like a Samsung phone where you can download Odin, boot into download mode, flash a kernel, start CWM, and flash a ROM all before your first boot.
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Guys suddenly i booted my phone and all the apps starting to crash, so i got into recovery, wipe cache, dalvik cache and data then reflash the rom i used and now its stock into boot screen! i cant get into recovery! i can only boot into download mode!.
So im trying hard to find Roms flashable via ODIN and all the Roms i found have the links brokens! cant find anything good to solve my problem via ODIN can you guys help me?! this has never happened to me.
Try to flash a custom recovery like CWM
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coolprateek.kumar said:
Try to flash a custom recovery like CWM
Hit thanks on help
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but how? i can only boot into download mode and use ODIN what do i do?
Thanks for answering! im a bit of despearte.
Railius said:
this has never happened to me.
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This did happen to you. lol There is a first time for almost everything.
Railius said:
but how? i can only boot into download mode and use ODIN what do i do?
Thanks for answering! im a bit of despearte.
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Three finger salute
Hold volume up, volume down and power until you get to the Samsung splash screen then release the power button. You should find yourself in recovery after the kernel splash screen. If it goes into your boot animation, you failed and should do it again.
Edit: I saw that most of your other stuff is with the SGSIII. Do you have a SGS4G that you are doing this on, or did you wonder here by mistake?
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Pull the battery first, with the USB unplugged. Put the battery back in, then do the three finger salute. That's what I do when reboot loops happen for me...
Railius said:
but how? i can only boot into download mode and use ODIN what do i do?
Thanks for answering! im a bit of despearte.
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Didn't you had cwm before??
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coolprateek.kumar said:
Didn't you had cwm before??
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yes guys! forget about the s3 sig, i have it also, but i rooted a sgs4g of my friend and installed Ccustom rom, not he had this issue after like 5 months i told him to reflash the ROM and hes in a bootloop, he CANT get into recovery :/, he cant boot only odin!.
If you are doing this via proxy (him actually doing what you tell him) then tell him to get rid of odin and download one of the Heimdall one clicks. If you can get into bootloader mode you can flash a back to stock.
Also If you pull the battery and wait a couple minutes then put it back while holding the three buttons sometimes that will jumpstart recovery mode.
We have an awesome guide on how to get back to stock gingerbread which will allow your friend to flash back to a stock rom if he can get into download mode. Full guide with pictures
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21953878&postcount=2
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Well of he is using odin, this is a better one click for him. You get rooted with a cwm kernel.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1500427
Part three is a Odin one click to GB
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Hello All - I am a long time viewer of the forum, Recently I noticed an update available for the GS# to 4.2.2. I downloaded the Rom and began my normal process of using ROM Manager to boot into recovery mode to install the latest file. When the update finished applying I was presented with a brief view of the Samsung boot screen and then remained stuck on the Google Boot Screen.
I downloaded a stock firmware to apply with Odin 3.07 but it fails halfway through the write process.
Can someone please give me a hand or point me in a direction if you experienced the same problem.
Also when I try to load into recovery mode the phone screen remains black.
Thanks for any help!
Nick
What rom did you try to upgrade? Link please? And just to verify, do you have a Verizon GSIII?
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I tried to download the 4.2.2 file from the following location,rootzwiki - "aokp-d2vzw-jb-mr1-build-4", went through rom manager and now is timing out on the google screen.
I do still have the phone with me currently. Thanks for any help you can provide.
I never use Rom Manager so that's not surprising to me. When you pull the battery then hold power, home, and Up until it vibrates does it boot to recovery? I would suggest flashing through CWM.
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I never use Rom Manager so that's not surprising to me. When you pull the battery then hold power, home, and Up until it vibrates does it boot to recovery? I would suggest flashing through CWM.
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When I pull the battery and do the pwer,home,up it acts like its going to boot into recovery.. has in blue letters boot into recovery but the screen goes blank. Is this supposed to happen.
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When I pull the battery and do the pwer,home,up it acts like its going to boot into recovery.. has in blue letters boot into recovery but the screen goes blank. Is this supposed to happen.
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It may take a few attempts to get it to work since it's fickle sometimes.
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Still having some issues
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It may take a few attempts to get it to work since it's fickle sometimes.
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Thanks SlimSnoop I have tried roughly 15 times and am still not having any luck, are there any other tools you or anyone can suggest??
Yea, as long as you can boot into download mode then I suggest you utilize Odin and flash a stock image. There are two routes that you can go:
1) Odin flash the Verizon OTA VRBLK3 stock tar from DroidStyle's guide in the dev section. With this method, you would be returned to out of the box VRBLK3 and would need to root/unlock then flash roms again. The Odin tars included here are labeled as wiping /sdcard so be mindful of this.
2) Odin flash a rooted VRBLK3 image from mrRobinson thread. His thread contains Odin flashable rooted tars that are exactly the same as the OTA equivalent except they are rooted already. With this method, you would just need to unlock your bootloader using EZ Unlock v1.2 before flashing any custom roms. There's two versions of each rooted image here, one that wipes /sdcard and one that does not. So if you download the one labeled as wiping /sdcard all of your contents will be completely erased.
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Ughhh... I am in recovery and after a restore , I go to reboot system and instead of going to rom it brings me back to recovery again. I can't get out of recovery. What can I do????
Thanks...
i'm having the same problem right now too.
Boot into download mode and hit the volume down to cancel (reboot)
Should work for now until there is a patch.
Team twrp
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you can also use Odin to flash an old version.
Just remember to either use odin to flash an old version or find one through ROM Manager, so you don't get stuck in a boot loop again next time you restart the phone.
I am having the same problem. Booting to download mode, selecting yes then pulling the battery got me out of it. Very frustrating to say the least.
Is there a problem with the new CWM touch that just came out I wonder?
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goatman101 said:
I am having the same problem. Booting to download mode, selecting yes then pulling the battery got me out of it. Very frustrating to say the least.
Is there a problem with the new CWM touch that just came out I wonder?
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yes there is. as soon as it updated it started everything mentioned in all of the above posts. i odined and flashed back to older recovery. all better.