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[Q] recovery problems

As the title suggest, I’m having some issues recovering my system. Every time I try to recover using clockworks mod, It does everything but when it reboots it gets stuck on the samsung screen. I had to use odin to get out of there. After I reflashed a recovered the same thing happened so now I’m convinced that I did something wrong. I rooted by using noobnl's one click method, made a backup, then flashed the rom. Is there something I missed? Also rom manager doesn’t work right for me. When it reboots to recovery it tells me that an update failed and gives the stock recovery. I want to update to the viper rom but i don’t want to completely wipe everything again.
All help is appreciated and excuse any spelling/grammar mistakes.

Friend's Phone Stuck in Recovery - Done for Good?

Trying to help out my friend. He rooted his Galaxy S 4G and was trying out different roms and now it's stuck in recovery. He brought it to me--I can pretty much fix anything Android--I've helped a lot of people on XDA, but this one has completely stumped me.
I've Odin'd several different Official Stock restore packages, recovery packages, etc. Everything has the same effect, no matter the rom or the recovery, the phone will always (re)boot back into recovery. Selecting reboot system reboots it back into recovery. No matter what. I must have flashed Stock via Odin about 10 times today. Same results every time.
Right now it's stuck in the 3e recovery screen. But I can flash a Voodoo recovery, but it still gives the same effect.
Does anyone have any ideas? Is there a bootloader sequence anyone knows about, that he may have changed? Any help is appreciated.
Thanks everyone!

Follow the guide in the second link of my signature to fix.

Awesome! That worked! Followed the guide. I had already flashed stock, but I didn't know you could flash the bootloaders using a .jar package. It worked. I guess he jacked with his bootloaders.

actually, bootloaders would corrupt boot period. You'd be stuck in a "FIRMWARE UPGRADE FLASH FAILED" screen, or phone won't boot period. So, I think I know what the problem was.
When hopping from roms to other roms, specially on Kxx Based Touchwiz roms, your cache tends to get corrupted. Had you reflashed cache.rfs and a stock zImage using heimdall, it'd fix the issue, and data wouldn't vanish.

[Q] Can't Flash ANYTHING!!!!

Every time I try to flash something my tablet fails, and I have to revert back my backup. It doesn't matter if I download on PC or from the tablet itself. HELP!!!!
Galaxy Tab 2 7.0

Can you post what rom you are using right now, as well as what recovery version.
Also, what rom are you trying to flash ? You are rooted, right ?
If you can post some more details - am sure people will chime in
Good luck,

bill_in_mtl said:
Can you post what rom you are using right now, as well as what recovery version.
Also, what rom are you trying to flash ? You are rooted, right ?
If you can post some more details - am sure people will chime in
Good luck,
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I'm running stock 4.0.4, Rooted, Clockworkmod recovery. I have tried to flash several different roms. Romswell, AOKP, CM nightlies thru ROM manager. all of them fail in recovery. I flash stuff all the time on my SIII so I'm not really a Noob to flashing and what not, but I can't figure this one out. Thanks for any help.

What are you using for recovery? When you say failed what is the error message? Sounds like you should prolly reflash a current official recovery. If by failing you mean it hangs on first boot then your not wiping system before flashing. Factory reset and wipe system before you flash.

Are you by chance running any scripts for sd card swap, etc ?
I am running this script, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1961097 which swaps my 32GB external sd for the internal sd, which runs great - no issues, except with rom manager and flashing from recovery.
I have to go back and de-activate the script, reboot, and then dowload - or transfer file from PC, and it flashes without issue
Otherwise, I have had no flashing issues of any kind - using CWM 6.0.1.5 for the p3113
Good luck,
Bill

Help with flashing ROMs

I've crawled through the development. I've flashed a ROM before, but went back to a rooted stock version because of the bugs in the builds I was using. But now, basically any time I flash something new, it bricks at the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 screen.
I've done:
Flashed back to non-root stock firmware (newer)
Then flashed the CF Autoroot, installed Mobile Odin, flashed CWM official 6.0.2.3 for the 3113. When I install CM9, brick.
PA doesn't brick immediately but sticks at the splash with the shark.
So, I flashed back to non-root stock, CF Autoroot, installed CWM 6.0.1.1 and tried again. All ROMS besides PA hang at boot screen (like before), PA hanging at the shark.
I figured it was a kernel issue? So, I've tried both Dhollmen and AGNI. No change.
I can get it to rooted stock JB, but I don't *want* that, I want something that isn't so freaking bloated and buggy.
Ideas?
*edit*
So, after installing TWRP 2.5 on top of stock, I downloaded Rom Manager, installed CWM and CM9 through that. Got past the initial boot screen, but seem to be stuck on CM Splash. Would flashing older stock image and trying from there help?

This might seem like a dumb question since you say you have flashed ROMs before: are you doing a "clean" install? I also will wipe cache and dalvic cache AFTER each install. I only have "bricked" a device one time and that is when I tried short cuts. I also ALWAYS follow the developers instructions to the letter.
Sent from my GT-3113 running DF-2

[$20-donation giveaway] p5110 cannot go back to stock . Stuck in cm10.1

Hi guys. i've been searching and trying to solve this problem for the past two weeks. can't fcking deal with it anymore. $20 for anyone that can help me , PLEASE!
p5110 here. had cm10.1 working for more than 1 year. when i updated to cm.10.3-rc2 , problems appeared.
Tried flashing stock firmware via odin. Says successfull but still in cm10.3 after reboot. boots up , however, it reboots after 1-3 mins.
tried flashing different roms, error.
Please, how can i revert back to stock or any working state ???
thanks,
alex

Anyone ?!

Try installing Clockworkmod (newest version) and then flash the stock firmware with that. Be sure to clear cache and dalvik cache first, and also factory reset (all through clockwork mod)

Latest official CWM won't help as it's to old for anything (stopped at 6.0.2.7 if i am not wrong), better use latest TWRP.
But: it sounds like your emmc got read only because it reached end of lifetime.
Indicator for that:
- flashing a different recovery via Odin doesn't change the recovery - it still boots the old.
- factory reset inside recovery doesn't change anything
Only way i know to get back write access would be to update the emmc firmware via JTAG. If there's no one with a JTAG near your place, replacing the emmc will be the solution.
GT-P5110 16 GB or 32 GB?
What recovery (also recovery version) are you using?
Using a custom kernel?