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Bricked :(

Not sure what happened. I have played around with recoveries and ROMs on my Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus (WiFi only) (GT-P6210MAYXAR), but I thought I was at factory.
I woke this morning to find myself stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus" screen.
When I reboot holding the VOLUME DOWN key, I get stuck on "Warning!! A customer IS can cause critical problems in tablet and installed applications. If you want to download a custom OK, press the volume up key. Otherwise press the volume down key to cancel."
Volume Up key gets me trapped in a screen endlessly that says
"ODIN Mode.
Product Name: GT-P6210.
Custom Binary Download: No.
Current Binary: Samsung Official."
"Downloading... Do not turn off target!!!"
Booting with Volume Up held gets me to a screen that says "Manual Mode... Updating Application" but then just reboots stuck again in "Samsung Galaxy 7.0 Plus" screen.
Can anybody help??

Try factory reset from manual mode. You will lose any saved data apps.

chrisrotolo said:
Try factory reset from manual mode. You will lose any saved data apps.
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Thanks for trying to help, chrisrotolo
"Manual Mode" just sits there a moment saying "Updating Application", with no options, then reboots.
Other ideas? I'm open.

flash with Odin

KnoxBNYC said:
Not sure what happened. I have played around with recoveries and ROMs on my Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus (WiFi only) (GT-P6210MAYXAR), but I thought I was at factory.
I woke this morning to find myself stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus" screen.
When I reboot holding the VOLUME DOWN key, I get stuck on "Warning!! A customer IS can cause critical problems in tablet and installed applications. If you want to download a custom OK, press the volume up key. Otherwise press the volume down key to cancel."
Volume Up key gets me trapped in a screen endlessly that says
"ODIN Mode.
Product Name: GT-P6210.
Custom Binary Download: No.
Current Binary: Samsung Official."
"Downloading... Do not turn off target!!!"
Booting with Volume Up held gets me to a screen that says "Manual Mode... Updating Application" but then just reboots stuck again in "Samsung Galaxy 7.0 Plus" screen.
Can anybody help??
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Did you try ODIN-ing a stock ROM/recovery?

Product F(RED) said:
Did you try ODIN-ing a stock ROM/recovery?
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Cannot find the stock stuff.

KnoxBNYC said:
Cannot find the stock stuff.
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This is the one I've used:
PDA: P6210UEKL1
Phone: P6210UEKL1
CSC: P6210XARKL1
CSC = XAR
http://hotfile.com/dl/144728307/4883f56/GT-P6210_XAR_P6210UEKL1_P6210XARKL1_P6210UEKL1.rar.html
Pass: sampro.pl
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22051059&postcount=54

yeah best bet is ODIN to stock. if it still hangs it usually needs a factory reset.

Same issue
I was running the HD ROm for the 6210 Tab and I woke up this morning screen showing "Samsung Galaxy Tab 7,0 plus" logo and will no go further. I tried going back to stock and still no go. Is there a way to unroot via odin. I think that is the problem.
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when I say I tried going back that was via odin using the stock image. It freezes with that bugdroid with red exclamation point witch I think means you can't do this because it's rooted. Please help.

problem between chair and keyboard. I was flashing the wrong rom, it's back up now.
Thanks,
Fozz

fozzir said:
I was running the HD ROm for the 6210 Tab and I woke up this morning screen showing "Samsung Galaxy Tab 7,0 plus" logo and will no go further. I tried going back to stock and still no go. Is there a way to unroot via odin. I think that is the problem.
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when I say I tried going back that was via odin using the stock image. It freezes with that bugdroid with red exclamation point witch I think means you can't do this because it's rooted. Please help.
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I believe it was my case.
You may try :
Install CWM via MicroSd
Install HDRom
Hope it will help
Sent from my Nexus S using xda app-developers app

KnoxBNYC said:
Not sure what happened. I have played around with recoveries and ROMs on my Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus (WiFi only) (GT-P6210MAYXAR), but I thought I was at factory.
I woke this morning to find myself stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus" screen.
When I reboot holding the VOLUME DOWN key, I get stuck on "Warning!! A customer IS can cause critical problems in tablet and installed applications. If you want to download a custom OK, press the volume up key. Otherwise press the volume down key to cancel."
Volume Up key gets me trapped in a screen endlessly that says
"ODIN Mode.
Product Name: GT-P6210.
Custom Binary Download: No.
Current Binary: Samsung Official."
"Downloading... Do not turn off target!!!"
Booting with Volume Up held gets me to a screen that says "Manual Mode... Updating Application" but then just reboots stuck again in "Samsung Galaxy 7.0 Plus" screen.
Can anybody help??
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hey Knox, I think I have the exact same problem. did you have any luck solving it? i did try to ODIN the EUKA firmware (vs the newer one linked in this thread) and it seemed to flash ok, but it still hangs at the "Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus" and if i use power and volume + to go into recovery it starts to load and reboots.

Ok. not sure what I did, but I used ODIN to load the firmware linked in this thread (the hotfile link) and it worked, my tab booted up. I was on my way out the door to work, so I haven't had a chance to mess with it yet, but it appears to be fixed.... phew!!!

Just happened to me. Same symptoms of OP. Tried to flash the stock that I got from checkfus, nothing changed.
I will try with the one linked to this thread.
Very strange, I was using the tab, the screen went off, tried to turn it on and nothing. Long press for reboot, and got stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 plus" screen.
Edit: By the way, if your tab is in this situation and you can't turn it off while downloading the firmwares: plug it to pc (or charger), press power button. The charge animation will appear, just plug the tab off.
Edit2: What I have tried so far:
* Flashed the stock brazilian rom I got with checkfus;
* Flashed The stock rom someone posted on this thread (hotfile) link;
* Flashed the stock US rom from post 82 of official stock rom from devs section;
* Let battery die an try to flash again (yeah, I known, silly right?)
Just like the OP, when I try to enter manual mode(recovery), it says something about installing some apks and reboots.
If I try to enter the download mode, it enters and I can flash the rom, but after processes end the tab reboots. There are some messages and then the last message is again something about installing some apks and again it reboots.
For what I saw those are symptoms of corrupted data partition or partition table of the internal memory. Seems like there are some threads about this exact error on 7.7 forum.

leodfs said:
Just happened to me. Same symptoms of OP. Tried to flash the stock that I got from checkfus, nothing changed.
I will try with the one linked to this thread.
Very strange, I was using the tab, the screen went off, tried to turn it on and nothing. Long press for reboot, and got stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 plus" screen.
Edit: By the way, if your tab is in this situation and you can't turn it off while downloading the firmwares: plug it to pc (or charger), press power button. The charge animation will appear, just plug the tab off.
Edit2: What I have tried so far:
* Flashed the stock brazilian rom I got with checkfus;
* Flashed The stock rom someone posted on this thread (hotfile) link;
* Flashed the stock US rom from post 82 of official stock rom from devs section;
* Let battery die an try to flash again (yeah, I known, silly right?)
Just like the OP, when I try to enter manual mode(recovery), it says something about installing some apks and reboots.
If I try to enter the download mode, it enters and I can flash the rom, but after processes end the tab reboots. There are some messages and then the last message is again something about installing some apks and again it reboots.
For what I saw those are symptoms of corrupted data partition or partition table of the internal memory. Seems like there are some threads about this exact error on 7.7 forum.
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not sure if it would matter, but i can tell you when i used odin to flash the hotfile linked file in this thread, i left it plugged into the computer after it flashed while it was booting and that is when it booted up finally (the first time i flashed using odin i unplugged it as soon as it tried rebooting)... hope that helps.

Thanks buddy, got it back after letting its battery drain and full charging. It took a while but then the animated samsung logo appears. I don't really think it did the trick, but as it was the last thing i did...
Sent from my GT-P6210 using Tapatalk 2

What should i do if my tablet did shut down accidentaly and will not react to any button, it does not even start up.

KnoxBNYC said:
Thanks for trying to help, chrisrotolo
"Manual Mode" just sits there a moment saying "Updating Application", with no options, then reboots.
Other ideas? I'm open.
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Hi Sir,
If you still have the problem, I have a theory: Your Power Button are always pressed because of a problem on it. This could hapen after some time of use. I thought in this theory because you said that you enter in the "updating aplication" just pressing the vol button and in normal conditions its needed to press power and vol key same time to enter in this screen.
Try to shake the power button a litle bit to see if it release the contacts. If it didn´t work you should needsend it to repair.
Hope I help in some way.

lost...
I have this same problem currently to the "T" I have also had this happen to me before, and flashed stock from Odin with no issues! Yearlater and here we go again but this time like previous posters it doesnt seem to work.
Question;
Last time I remember putting files in PIT, PDA, and CVC? This time only the TAR file in PHONE. When I try it in PDA the process fails. But anyway. Am I missing some files or?
Also I was able to flash CM Recovery and can boot into it now and have tried doing a factory reset that way to no avail. Anything else I could do through CM Recovery? Maybe put a custom ROM on my micro SD?

[Q] Possibly unfixable Nexus S?

First off, I know I'm a new member, and I did watch the video, I've been searching the forum for days now trying to find someone with the exact some problem as me but I've come to the conclusion I must be special as I haven't seen this problem else where. Lucky me...
Let me start off with some information about the phone.
Carrier: Vodafone AU (says XSE on the recovery screen)
Baseband Version: I9020XXKI1
Bootloader Version: I9020XXKL1
HW Version: Rev 52
Model: Nexus S i9023
Lock State: Unlocked
Primary computer: iMac
Fairly certain I have USB debugging turned off :\
I rooted and unlocked the phone and was running the latest CyberGR mod ROM and the latest AirKernel kernel. The phone was running brilliantly, not a problem in the world, very smooth, very fast, excellent battery life, I loved it. Only thing I didn't like was how the keyboard became unresponsive at times. For that reason, I think I'll be switching to the Bugless Beast ROM and thalmus kernel when (if) I get this phone fixed.
So a few days ago, the power button on my Nexus S stuffed up and wouldn't work anymore. Completely unresponsive. I couldn't lock/unlock my phone using the power button. I had to either connect/disconnect it from the USB or turn it on/off by taking the battery out to be able to use it. Needless to say, this got very tedious very quickly and I decided to unroot it and send it back to Samsung.
I looked into how to unroot and came across the Odin app and decided that I'd use that to unroot. (noob error on my behalf, I realise now) Regardless of what I'd read, Odin doesn't work on a Nexus S apparently and although I didn't flash to stock, my phone became significantly less useable, half the time it wouldn't respond to anything I did on it. I tried to boot into CWM and although I was able to do so, it was useless as my power button wasn't working.
At this stage, I took out the battery, put it back in and the phone booted up again. I didn't press the power button, it just booted up straight away. I took it out again and held the volume up button on the side and this time, I didn't get put into the CWM menu, but the normal Android recovery menu. I went to press the volume up and down buttons but nothing worked. Power button is still unresponsive.
When I don't boot into recovery, it goes past the Google screen with the unlocked lock on the bottom of it, and goes to a screen where it says "Android" in a metallic style (I disable the boot animation logo in CyberGR mod so I was used to this screen) and it just hung on there, it never booted up past that screen.
Every time I tried to use fastboot -w to wipe the phone, or oem lock or anything, I would just get < waiting for device >
I plugged it into my Windows 7 laptop, tried the one_click_stock app and got the message that my phone has no boot.img. I then googled problems regarding the boot.img and no one really had any solutions that helped me out.
The SDK won't recognise my phone is there, but the sound pops up on Windows saying a device has been connected and disconnected but it never shows up.
Is it bricked or unfixable? Clearly warranty is void, not sure if I should just take it into Vodafone and ask for a new phone (as its still within warranty period, hence why I wanted to lock it and flash a stock ROM).
Very sorry for the lengthy post, I know I was meant to be brief but I thought the more information I could give, the better chance there would be for anyone to help me out. Thanks.

Make the root of your phone with any application in the market and install the recovery ClockworkMod touch with Rom manager premium or Rom toolbox Pro. Restart recovery using Rom manager or Rom toolbox and do a full cleaning on the phone. Wipe only data and cache.
Now, select from mount and storage mount USB storage and copy over to your i9020 storage any rom ( try using the cm9 ). If the installation is successful restart, if not try some other roms. More than that I do not know how to help.
P.s.: In theory it should go smoothly, otherwise I do not assume any liability for further damage to the phone ... Good luck!

Did you know you can operate cwm using the capacitive search button instead of the power button?

Alfaneo said:
Make the root of your phone with any application in the market and install the recovery ClockworkMod touch with Rom manager premium or Rom toolbox Pro. Restart recovery using Rom manager or Rom toolbox and do a full cleaning on the phone. Wipe only data and cache.
Now, select from mount and storage mount USB storage and copy over to your i9020 storage any rom ( try using the cm9 ). If the installation is successful restart, if not try some other roms. More than that I do not know how to help.
P.s.: In theory it should go smoothly, otherwise I do not assume any liability for further damage to the phone ... Good luck!
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Thanks for the reply, I can't actually boot into the phone or get to any market place or any screen that could make the phone useable at all, it just sits on the CyberGR android screen for when you disable the boot animation.
bedalus said:
Did you know you can operate cwm using the capacitive search button instead of the power button?
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I was pressing the search button (the volume buttons were working when I could boot into CWM) and the text just disappeared off the screen and just showed the logo. I can no longer boot into CWM.
I've installed Ubuntu and I'm going to try running the unrbickable java app that a user on here created, hopefully that may work.

[Q] Galaxy Tab 2 is frozen

I rooted my tablet a couple of months ago so that I could use the SwitchMe app. Everything was working well until the firmware update this week. After the update the switchme app no longer woked and errors shows for the supersuser app. I tried to re-root the tablet, but the tablet froze up after the download from Odin. It is now stuck on the samsung screen. If I press power for while the logo will disappear and return. Pressing volume down and power does nother, pressing volume up and power puts the tablet into download mode with no option for recovery mode. WHen I try to reboot, I am back to the logo screen. What can I do?

odin again ?
Put the tab into download mode and why not flash CWM from Odin ?? Shouldnt that solve the problem ?

jmqstadler said:
It is now stuck on the samsung screen. If I press power for while the logo will disappear and return. Pressing volume down and power does nother, pressing volume up and power puts the tablet into download mode with no option for recovery mode. WHen I try to reboot, I am back to the logo screen. What can I do?
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If it's in a boot loop, you might still be able to get into recovery mode, but it's tricky. Basically, you just keep trying and adjusting your timing. It depends on what you flashed with Odin.
If that doesn't work, you still have a few options:
1. Samsung Kies - Go to Tools -> Firmware upgrade and initialisation. Make sure the tablet is NOT connected to the PC yet. It will prompt you for your model number (e.g. GT-P5113) and then your serial number (both are case-sensitive). I think you can find your serial number on the box or possibly on the back of the tablet in very small print. It should then download the firmware and flash it. When it prompts you to put it into recovery mode, put it into download mode and connect it.
2. Download the stock firmware for your device and flash it with Odin. I don't know which model you have, so either look for it in the appropriate Development forum, or get it from SamMobile.
Both of these options should give you a new stock recovery. If you still have problems, then go into recovery and do a Data wipe / factory settings.

Thanks for your response. I have the GT-P5113, BTW. What exactly do you mean by flashing and CWM? I admit I am not an expert by any means on the jargon

I noticed the update this week also. I've looked at reviews for the JB update and I went and disabled it for now. I've already rooted my Tab but I'm not sure I'm ready for JB just yet. Plus with being rooted the official firmware won't download correctly anyways
Sent from my GT-P3113 using XDA Premium HD app

Ok, I'm not sure what happened, but I did all the things suggestec and all of a sudden the tablet turned back on! I uninstalled switchme and the superuser app. I don't think the tablet is rooted anymore, but I am not sure. I am scared to try and root it again. Is there any issue with rooting and the new updated firmware? My husband and I really liked the ability to have separate profiles. Also it looks as if all his apps are gone.

jmqstadler said:
Ok, I'm not sure what happened, but I did all the things suggestec and all of a sudden the tablet turned back on! I uninstalled switchme and the superuser app. I don't think the tablet is rooted anymore, but I am not sure. I am scared to try and root it again. Is there any issue with rooting and the new updated firmware? My husband and I really liked the ability to have separate profiles. Also it looks as if all his apps are gone.
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I've rooted myself with the official OTA from Samsung and there is no issue on my side at least. I'd suggest the official OTA or sungsonic by adi. Either one is running a JB kernel and runs smoothly.
I'd suggest the sungsonic one more because it utilizes SuperSU vs superuser. Just a personal preference on my part but it seems to have less issues.
Sent from my ADR6400L using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2

[Q] 915FY Stuck Not Booting

Hi All,
I have a Note Edge 915FY. Tried to upgrade it to stock 5.0.1 via sammobile.com
It is now stuck. It just shows the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge screen and then flashes to "Recovery Booting" and just stays stuck there! For hours!
I have also tried to download 4.4.4 from sammobile.com and flash that but same thing happens. I cannot go into recovery, only into download mode.
I also tried to root it using CF-Autoroot but that failed.
Furthermore, I have tried flashing CWM and TWRP but both do nothing.
I am absolutely stuck! And I really need help!
PS: The phone has no warranty now, so I have no fallback! Please HELP!!!!!

I didn't have any luck flashing CF-AutoRoot when I was on Lollipop, I used CWM and it worked fine.
If your'e stuck go into ODIN mode (Power, Home + Down Vol) and then click up when prompted,
make sure your pc has samsung drivers installed
Download the stock 5.0.1 BOC2 ROM from this XDA page
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-edge/development/rom-stock-tw-lollipop-t3019721
(You can easily up to BOC6 or a hacked rom later)
Make sure to set Odin as shown in the picture from that same url above
http://dl-1.va.us.xda-developers.com/3/1/4/6/2/6/9/odin.PNG?key=DHp6BTdAsBVpoENIbV4DMw&ts=1431888807
This should work without any issues, I spent some cycles getting bootloops via cf-auto root and some funny ROM behaviour, I was always able to
use this to get me back to stock, root using cwm method then deploy whichever debloated rom you like !
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iqsoft said:
Hi All,
I have a Note Edge 915FY. Tried to upgrade it to stock 5.0.1 via sammobile.com
It is now stuck. It just shows the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge screen and then flashes to "Recovery Booting" and just stays stuck there! For hours!
I have also tried to download 4.4.4 from sammobile.com and flash that but same thing happens. I cannot go into recovery, only into download mode.
I also tried to root it using CF-Autoroot but that failed.
Furthermore, I have tried flashing CWM and TWRP but both do nothing.
I am absolutely stuck! And I really need help!
PS: The phone has no warranty now, so I have no fallback! Please HELP!!!!!
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iqsoft said:
Hi All,
I have a Note Edge 915FY. Tried to upgrade it to stock 5.0.1 via sammobile.com
It is now stuck. It just shows the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge screen and then flashes to "Recovery Booting" and just stays stuck there! For hours!
I have also tried to download 4.4.4 from sammobile.com and flash that but same thing happens. I cannot go into recovery, only into download mode.
I also tried to root it using CF-Autoroot but that failed.
Furthermore, I have tried flashing CWM and TWRP but both do nothing.
I am absolutely stuck! And I really need help!
PS: The phone has no warranty now, so I have no fallback! Please HELP!!!!!
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Did you solve?
Try this (It works for me when my Note Edge was bricked):
On samsung kies 3 select "Tools --> Firmware Upgrade and Initialization" and follow the instructions.
It will ask for phone model (SM-N915FY or other) and for Serial Number S/N, this number is indicated under the battery (make attention to insert the number near S/N not near SSN).
After this It will ask to connect the phone in Download Mode and after it will start to download the firmware (more than 1GB) and will start the installation.

Boot into recovery , power + button + sound UP and clear cache and all reset.
Re do lollipop and you should be fine.
Happened to me but i worked it out after the panic stage....

lucarp78 said:
Did you solve?
Try this (It works for me when my Note Edge was bricked):
On samsung kies 3 select "Tools --> Firmware Upgrade and Initialization" and follow the instructions.
It will ask for phone model (SM-N915FY or other) and for Serial Number S/N, this number is indicated under the battery (make attention to insert the number near S/N not near SSN).
After this It will ask to connect the phone in Download Mode and after it will start to download the firmware (more than 1GB) and will start the installation.
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I have tried this but weird enough for me, after I input the model number followed by the S/N number in Kies, I got a message "Initialization is not supported for SM-N915FY"
Its kind of fishy since the S/N input only appears after I gave Kies the Model number. If N915FY was not supported, why would they make me open up the back cover and look up for the S/N, make me type it letter by letter and then tell me 'Ok, no luck for you!'.
Any explanation and/or solution for me please? I only have 14 days of extensive researching experience, still left with a 'baseband unknown and null imei" note edge with no prior efs backup .

I think we got the same problems bro, i was very proud note edge user till two days a go, when sudden problems start to happen like restart, slowdown, loop, freeze and shoot of, later no more reboot from system menu that it just shoots of, and then latter hard to start, i had to take out battery and push start + home + volume down buttons about one minute and put back battery just to bring in to download mode and then volume down to start the in to system, and after screen is off it shots down again and again, and last time i put in to freeze to start it to see any missed calls or messages, but sens last night no way i can start any more!
I used to update apps from google and samsung store, and i em curious at this latest update, overnight was lot of data use, even in settings it was setup not to sync any data and not to use any data in background, only Viber app, so i assume there most have been sent to our phones some malware update to brick our old lovely phones, it is very possible.
Now, all i can do is to go to market to find broken screen note edge to purchase and replace motherboard, and i hope i find one not sim-locked.
So try to use Odin v3.07, and download the firmware from here https://www.sammobile.com/samsung/galaxy-note-edge/firmware/#SM-N915FY ans flash it, hope you get back your phone, and if you need to root it, use TWRP v3.02.tar flash with odin to...so the rest of procedure i guess you know!

Today i found on local phone shop+ service one note edge with a bit broken screen, but it did start and stack on kind of "recovery booting", i realized the service or the owner did try to flash sort of room on it but not completed, i bought the phone sm-n915FY model for 30.euro, and now i just transferred the motherboard to my own phone and flashed the TWRP v3.02.tar successfully and let it charge first, bcz there was only 05% battery, and later i will see if i can restore the twrp backup, and i will be careful with this update apps from google and Samsung store the gmail, androidwebsecurity**, maps and browser.
Well, my phone works now, it's just the TWRP backup is not working correct, even i modified folder of the backup, i had pssword in backup and now when i restore seek pasword, i type correct, but the phone did encrypt it. so i have to start with new room setup.

[Completed] Bootloop and softbrick on Verizon Galaxy S3 SCH-I535

Hey Folks,
So as the title says... I'm lost and with a bootloop's fan with is a softbrick by now.
About my phone:
Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3 SCH-I535 from 2012
Acquired with Jelly 4.3 and root it with towelroot and SuperSU so I could use it abroad. Upgraded it using the Verizon Upgraded tool to Kitkat 4.4.2 and everything was fine.
The Story:
I encountered an issue with my apps (Fb, German Bahn and Whatssapp to mention the first ones). Facebook was completely wiped out on its own and I had to install it again. The other apps their icons turned into the Android Icon and although I could use whatsapp to receive calls, I couldn't open it and I had to uninstall it. Said this I lost my whatsapp ID because of my number being different and my being abroad. I got a few new apps to solve that but once resintalling Whatsapp it told me to erase a task killer app (Battery Doctor) and I did. Two to three hours after my phone restarted itself and told me I had to factory reset which freaked me out and I looked for information to avoid this. I found none but a good recovery tool for numbers and messages.
I confronted the factory reset button like a man and nothing happened. Just bloop bloops.
I've tried flashing it with Odin and I followed so many instructions with must of them failing to some spot (NAND write FAIL!, cache.img.ex2-3-4 NOT Auth, and at some point I tar(ed) and untar(ed) my tar.md5 files and remade them in certain order I found in a post here about solving the NAND Write issues. Part of it included ticking the "NAND erase all" (which I fear by now already deleted the data I so much wanted to keep) and remake them my files with extension xxx.img for all the important ones but xxx.bin and xxx.mbn.
I succesfully flashed a recovery.img from a file called "Verizon_SCH-I535-StockRecovery.tar" (you can find it online) but now it won't even let me get to the factory reset screen and automatically reboots itself.
NOTE: it never gave me the menu option in recovery mode because it would restart. But when I didn't try to go into recovery mode I would see the factory reset screen. I am not sure what happened there.
PLEASE, I've been 5 days working on this and I also encountered issues with my laptop after downloading so many ROMs and Odin versions but I was able to fix that.
Any ideas?
List of ROMs I've tried flashing to no avail.
-ROM for my phone getting into Jelly 4.3
-ROM for my phone for Kitkat 4.4.2
-BOOTLOADER-I535VRALF2-618049-REV09-user-low-ship-tar.md5
-i535VRUDNE1_I535VZWDNE1_I535VRUDNE1_HOME.tar.md5
-openrecovery-twrp-2.8.5.0-d2vzw.tar
-StockVerizonGalaxyS3WithRoot.zip
-stock.vzw_root66.tar --> here the issues where the cache.img.ext4 which I changed the just -.img, -.img.ext2, -.img.ex3 and nothing happened.
Did create a tar file with the recovery.img of the stock.vzw_root66.tar file and it did work for flashing on the PDA but when it restarted I am still in a bootloop after getting into recovery mode within 4-5 seconds.
NOTE about RECOVERY MODE:
I don't have any menu to work with the sequences of holding POWER button and pressing VOLUME UP once and releasing didn't work. Neither the other way around. Tried also with POWER, VOLUME UP and HOME and I get a seemingly working Android figure during one second and then turns into the dead Android one for 4-5 secs and restarts.
Succesful ones but with no change for better or for worse:
-VRALEC.bootchain.tar.md5
-Said before recovery.img from the stock.vzw_root66.tar file
AND the pitfile for my phone SCH-I535_D2VZW_16gd.pit (Which I already used and gets me the PASS word... but nothing else)
Please can any one help me fix it? I looked the the right ROM several times and still not working. Should I just turn into a different OS other than Kitkat and/or Jelly? I haven't tried upgrading to Lollipop yet but I am thinking/fearing it might be a solution.
To Sum up,
- Recovery mode doesn't give me any option
- My phone reboots itself on recovery mode - checked all the buttons and I took them off even but still does.
- I can go into ODIN mode and stays there all day!
On ODIN mode it says:
PRODUCT NAME: SCH-I535
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Official
QUALCOMM SECUREBOOT: ENABLE
BOOTLOADER RP SWREV: 2
ODIN fails to flash any WHOLE ROM file and just can "flash" the PIT and two different recovery.img (the latest from the stock.vzw_roo66.tar file.
Hope this doesn't give anyone a headache after reading it!

XDA Visitor said:
Hey Folks,
So as the title says... I'm lost and with a bootloop's fan with is a softbrick by now.
About my phone:
Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3 SCH-I535 from 2012
Acquired with Jelly 4.3 and root it with towelroot and SuperSU so I could use it abroad. Upgraded it using the Verizon Upgraded tool to Kitkat 4.4.2 and everything was fine.
The Story:
I encountered an issue with my apps (Fb, German Bahn and Whatssapp to mention the first ones). Facebook was completely wiped out on its own and I had to install it again. The other apps their icons turned into the Android Icon and although I could use whatsapp to receive calls, I couldn't open it and I had to uninstall it. Said this I lost my whatsapp ID because of my number being different and my being abroad. I got a few new apps to solve that but once resintalling Whatsapp it told me to erase a task killer app (Battery Doctor) and I did. Two to three hours after my phone restarted itself and told me I had to factory reset which freaked me out and I looked for information to avoid this. I found none but a good recovery tool for numbers and messages.
I confronted the factory reset button like a man and nothing happened. Just bloop bloops.
I've tried flashing it with Odin and I followed so many instructions with must of them failing to some spot (NAND write FAIL!, cache.img.ex2-3-4 NOT Auth, and at some point I tar(ed) and untar(ed) my tar.md5 files and remade them in certain order I found in a post here about solving the NAND Write issues. Part of it included ticking the "NAND erase all" (which I fear by now already deleted the data I so much wanted to keep) and remake them my files with extension xxx.img for all the important ones but xxx.bin and xxx.mbn.
I succesfully flashed a recovery.img from a file called "Verizon_SCH-I535-StockRecovery.tar" (you can find it online) but now it won't even let me get to the factory reset screen and automatically reboots itself.
NOTE: it never gave me the menu option in recovery mode because it would restart. But when I didn't try to go into recovery mode I would see the factory reset screen. I am not sure what happened there.
PLEASE, I've been 5 days working on this and I also encountered issues with my laptop after downloading so many ROMs and Odin versions but I was able to fix that.
Any ideas?
List of ROMs I've tried flashing to no avail.
-ROM for my phone getting into Jelly 4.3
-ROM for my phone for Kitkat 4.4.2
-BOOTLOADER-I535VRALF2-618049-REV09-user-low-ship-tar.md5
-i535VRUDNE1_I535VZWDNE1_I535VRUDNE1_HOME.tar.md5
-openrecovery-twrp-2.8.5.0-d2vzw.tar
-StockVerizonGalaxyS3WithRoot.zip
-stock.vzw_root66.tar --> here the issues where the cache.img.ext4 which I changed the just -.img, -.img.ext2, -.img.ex3 and nothing happened.
Did create a tar file with the recovery.img of the stock.vzw_root66.tar file and it did work for flashing on the PDA but when it restarted I am still in a bootloop after getting into recovery mode within 4-5 seconds.
NOTE about RECOVERY MODE:
I don't have any menu to work with the sequences of holding POWER button and pressing VOLUME UP once and releasing didn't work. Neither the other way around. Tried also with POWER, VOLUME UP and HOME and I get a seemingly working Android figure during one second and then turns into the dead Android one for 4-5 secs and restarts.
Succesful ones but with no change for better or for worse:
-VRALEC.bootchain.tar.md5
-Said before recovery.img from the stock.vzw_root66.tar file
AND the pitfile for my phone SCH-I535_D2VZW_16gd.pit (Which I already used and gets me the PASS word... but nothing else)
Please can any one help me fix it? I looked the the right ROM several times and still not working. Should I just turn into a different OS other than Kitkat and/or Jelly? I haven't tried upgrading to Lollipop yet but I am thinking/fearing it might be a solution.
To Sum up,
- Recovery mode doesn't give me any option
- My phone reboots itself on recovery mode - checked all the buttons and I took them off even but still does.
- I can go into ODIN mode and stays there all day!
On ODIN mode it says:
PRODUCT NAME: SCH-I535
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Official
QUALCOMM SECUREBOOT: ENABLE
BOOTLOADER RP SWREV: 2
ODIN fails to flash any WHOLE ROM file and just can "flash" the PIT and two different recovery.img (the latest from the stock.vzw_roo66.tar file.
Hope this doesn't give anyone a headache after reading it!
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Hi,
Kindly register yourself at XDA post which you can query in http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3-verizon/help
Experts there may be able to help you