FIX Bootloop After Update Check on Root Injected FW - Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

(I have a GT-N8013 with stock ICS firmware root injected installed, when I went to check if a JB update had come out it didn't recognize the stock root injected firmware as stock and proceeded to try and install ICS without root through TWRP and continued to loop through recovery and installation.. unsuccessfully)
I am now posting this from the GT-N8013 so here's how to do it:
1) Use ODIN to flash CWM (Google them if you don't know what they are. I am new and cant post links yet)
2) Boot Your Note 10.1 into recovery by holding down Volume Up and Power, wait until the samsung logo shows up twice, then release the power button and you should end up in recovery.
3) Wipe Data/Factory Reset
4) Clear Cache
5) Advanced/Wipe Dalvik Cache-Repeat Steps 3-5 twice (three times total)6) Reboot and voila! You are back to your original rom all nice and neat.
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Feel Free to post results with JB Root Injected Firmware Using Same Process. I don't exactly want to be my own Guinea pig....
*****NOT TESTED WITH ROOT INJECTED JB FIRMWARE*****

Other Successes?
Shagerty said:
(I have a GT-N8013 with stock ICS firmware root injected installed, when I went to check if a JB update had come out it didn't recognize the stock root injected firmware as stock and proceeded to try and install ICS without root through TWRP and continued to loop through recovery and installation.. unsuccessfully)
I am now posting this from the GT-N8013 so here's how to do it:
1) Use ODIN to flash CWM (Google them if you don't know what they are. I am new and cant post links yet)
2) Boot Your Note 10.1 into recovery by holding down Volume Up and Power, wait until the samsung logo shows up twice, then release the power button and you should end up in recovery.
3) Wipe Data/Factory Reset
4) Clear Cache
5) Advanced/Wipe Dalvik Cache-Repeat Steps 3-5 twice (three times total)6) Reboot and voila! You are back to your original rom all nice and neat.
Thumbs Up My Post if it Helped!
Feel Free to post results with JB Root Injected Firmware Using Same Process. I don't exactly want to be my own Guinea pig....
*****NOT TESTED WITH ROOT INJECTED JB FIRMWARE*****
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:good:
If anyone else has succeeded in this method of recovery please post results. Also anyone succeed on jelly bean?
:good:And again thumbs up if this helped!:good:

If i ever wanted to go back to original rom or unroot then simple step would be flash the stock rom via Odin .
jje

meh
JJEgan said:
If i ever wanted to go back to original rom or unroot then simple step would be flash the stock rom via Odin .
jje
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That didn't work for me when I got in that state. :good:

Bootloop After Flashing stock JB over CM10.1
Shagerty said:
(I have a GT-N8013 with stock ICS firmware root injected installed, when I went to check if a JB update had come out it didn't recognize the stock root injected firmware as stock and proceeded to try and install ICS without root through TWRP and continued to loop through recovery and installation.. unsuccessfully)
I am now posting this from the GT-N8013 so here's how to do it:
1) Use ODIN to flash CWM (Google them if you don't know what they are. I am new and cant post links yet)
2) Boot Your Note 10.1 into recovery by holding down Volume Up and Power, wait until the samsung logo shows up twice, then release the power button and you should end up in recovery.
3) Wipe Data/Factory Reset
4) Clear Cache
5) Advanced/Wipe Dalvik Cache-Repeat Steps 3-5 twice (three times total)6) Reboot and voila! You are back to your original rom all nice and neat.
Thumbs Up My Post if it Helped!
Feel Free to post results with JB Root Injected Firmware Using Same Process. I don't exactly want to be my own Guinea pig....
*****NOT TESTED WITH ROOT INJECTED JB FIRMWARE*****
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I used this method to get out of a bootloop after flashing stock JB through ODIN over CM10.1.
Flashing stock FW to get out of a bootloop has not worked for me, and as of yet flashing CWM through odin then booting recovery and wiping data/clearing caches is the trick that works for me!

Has yet to work.
JJEgan said:
If i ever wanted to go back to original rom or unroot then simple step would be flash the stock rom via Odin .
jje
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The method you stated has never gotten me out of a bootloop..
I tried that last night using to different ways to get into a bootloop.. doesnt work.:laugh::good:

Shagerty said:
The method you stated has never gotten me out of a bootloop..
I tried that last night using to different ways to get into a bootloop.. doesnt work.:laugh::good:
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First, stop quoting your own posts. If you need to add something, edit an existing post. Second, whenever you flash a ROM through ODIN that is drastically different from your current ROM, you have to boot into stock recovery and wipe; or wipe in CWM. The advice you were given was sound.
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Incorrect Sir!
Mister_Mxyzptlk said:
First, stop quoting your own posts. If you need to add something, edit an existing post. Second, whenever you flash a ROM through ODIN that is drastically different from your current ROM, you have to boot into stock recovery and wipe; or wipe in CWM. The advice you were given was sound.
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The advice is sound if you want to watch your note to into a perpetual bootloop. Ass..
Try the scenario I was in and it WILL NOT WORK.

Why stop quoting my own posts?
Shagerty said:
(I have a GT-N8013 with stock ICS firmware root injected installed, when I went to check if a JB update had come out it didn't recognize the stock root injected firmware as stock and proceeded to try and install ICS without root through TWRP and continued to loop through recovery and installation.. unsuccessfully)
I am now posting this from the GT-N8013 so here's how to do it:
1) Use ODIN to flash CWM (Google them if you don't know what they are. I am new and cant post links yet)
2) Boot Your Note 10.1 into recovery by holding down Volume Up and Power, wait until the samsung logo shows up twice, then release the power button and you should end up in recovery.
3) Wipe Data/Factory Reset
4) Clear Cache
5) Advanced/Wipe Dalvik Cache-Repeat Steps 3-5 twice (three times total)6) Reboot and voila! You are back to your original rom all nice and neat.
Thumbs Up My Post if it Helped!
Feel Free to post results with JB Root Injected Firmware Using Same Process. I don't exactly want to be my own Guinea pig....
*****NOT TESTED WITH ROOT INJECTED JB FIRMWARE*****
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Hah

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[Q] What to install ?

Hi,
Im pretty new to Droid phones and I have had my Droid Charge for a couple of months now. Its pretty much untouched and factory stock verison. I been reading alot of the post and some it can be confusing. My question is coming from stock verison what would be the ideal and easiest upgrade?
I see alot of news on Honeycomb,Gummycharge etc.. what would be my best bet and what are the advantages chosen one over the other thanks in advance
babyjake said:
Hi,
Im pretty new to Droid phones and I have had my Droid Charge for a couple of months now. Its pretty much untouched and factory stock verison. I been reading alot of the post and some it can be confusing. My question is coming from stock verison what would be the ideal and easiest upgrade?
I see alot of news on Honeycomb,Gummycharge etc.. what would be my best bet and what are the advantages chosen one over the other thanks in advance
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I would suggest waiting until tonight when GummyCharged 2.0 drops, it's gonna be the ultimate tweakable rom it'll be rooted, give you CWM and a custom voodoo kernel, plus a sweet better-than-stock rom
blazing through on my 4G Droid Charge
anoninja118 said:
I would suggest waiting until tonight when GummyCharged 2.0 drops, it's gonna be the ultimate tweakable rom it'll be rooted, give you CWM and a custom voodoo kernel, plus a sweet better-than-stock rom
blazing through on my 4G Droid Charge
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thanks - can i intstall that from stock
babyjake said:
thanks - can i intstall that from stock
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Not at first because it's going to be released a CWM recovery flashable zip. If you go to the Charge developer forum and Odin over the latest CWM recovery by Imnuts, you will be able to install it easily when it is released.
hazard209 said:
Not at first because it's going to be released a CWM recovery flashable zip. If you go to the Charge developer forum and Odin over the latest CWM recovery by Imnuts, you will be able to install it easily when it is released.
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So basically I will need to install a previous Odin verison with CWM and when this comes out I just install the CWM as a recovery is that correct ?
babyjake said:
So basically I will need to install a previous Odin verison with CWM and when this comes out I just install the CWM as a recovery is that correct ?
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Close. You don't need to install the previous version (1.9.1) but you can if you want to. You just have to Odin over the latest CWM recovery (this will root your phone). When the 2.0 zip is released then you just place it on your SD card, enter recovery by holding volume up + home + power until the SAMSUNG logo flashes twice and then choose to install zip from SD card. Make sure to do a factory reset, and wipe the cache partition and dalvik cache (under advanced) before flashing the zip in recovery. You may not understand all of that now, but when you're in recovery mode it will make sense.
hazard209 said:
Close. You don't need to install the previous version (1.9.1) but you can if you want to. You just have to Odin over the latest CWM recovery (this will root your phone). When the 2.0 zip is released then you just place it on your SD card, enter recovery by holding volume up + home + power until the SAMSUNG logo flashes twice and then choose to install zip from SD card. Make sure to do a factory reset, and wipe the cache partition and dalvik cache (under advanced) before flashing the zip in recovery. You may not understand all of that now, but when you're in recovery mode it will make sense.
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I see so root the phone and install the latest clockwork mod from app store and then when gummy charge 2.0 comes out go into recovery and install is that right ?
babyjake said:
I see so root the phone and install the latest clockwork mod from app store and then when gummy charge 2.0 comes out go into recovery and install is that right ?
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Everything except the market. Get CWM here. Installing that CWM will root your phone for you.
hazard209 said:
Everything except the market. Get CWM here. Installing that CWM will root your phone for you.
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So what a sec you telling me all i have to do is use odin and this file ? Dont need to do all that altered beast stuff
babyjake said:
So what a sec you telling me all i have to do is use odin and this file ? Dont need to do all that altered beast stuff
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You don't need to touch Altered Beast unless you want it. I'm fairly certain that using Odin to flash CWM will provide root (I haven't done it in a long while). If it does not, after flashing CWM, just install this zip from your SD card in recovery and that will provide root.
SWEET TY !
babyjake said:
SWEET TY !
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No problem chief. Feel free to post back with any question.
If you are on the stock kernel you will need to boot directly to recovery and flash the SU .zip after odin CMW, or else the recovery will be overwritten by the stock kernel.
Your best bet is to wait till GC FE 2.0 is released, then odin CWM, and boot direct to recovery and flash the 2.0 .zip. then you are done in a couple steps.
That'll work too.
so now the waiting game begins lol

[Q] Help! Stuck in CWM!

First of all I am somewhat new to android and rooting, and brand new to xda, so bear with me.
I rooted my fascinate several months ago and have been running teamhacksung's cm9 builds. Every time they come out with a new build, I flash it and all is good. Well I was on build 12, and I just tried to flash build 14 (I forgot to flash 13 when it came out) But after I flashed 14, my phone only boots into CWM recovery! From there I can still flash other rom builds, but that doesn't help anything. I've searched a billion forums trying to find a solution, but nothing seems to work.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Try booting into download mode. Hold power button + home + volume down.
This should bring you into download mode, where you can use odin to flash an official ROM so that you can start all over again. Of course, you can also use Odin to flash a custom ROM, but I suggest a stock one for you first and then root etc. and then reinstall CWM.
vx117 said:
Try booting into download mode. Hold power button + home + volume down.
This should bring you into download mode, where you can use odin to flash an official ROM so that you can start all over again. Of course, you can also use Odin to flash a custom ROM, but I suggest a stock one for you first and then root etc. and then reinstall CWM.
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Darn, I was hoping it wouldn't have to come to that... oh well, after trying several times with different ROMs and different versions of CWM, it finally worked! Thanks for your help!
its not big deal!! my friend dnt worry
dnt worry
your phone is jst lost its bootloader(if u r new than it is a patch which help in booting) so jst google "bootloader for (whatever ur handset is )" nd install it using odin
That's not totally necessary. Wipe cache/dalvic cache and data flash rom... Anytime I have that issue it immediately fixes the problem.
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dnt mis guide please!!
nthornton1990 said:
That's not totally necessary. Wipe cache/dalvic cache and data flash rom... Anytime I have that issue it immediately fixes the problem.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk 2
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he has mention that he wanna keep that rom by flashing different rom e wont be able to use it !!! :cyclops:

[GUIDE] Root + CWM Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus S7500 / S7500L - Easy Way

Download CWM Recovery.7z from attachments. Extract Recovery.tar
Download Superuser-3.1.3-arm-signed.7z (or newer from http://androidsu.com/superuser/). Extract Superuser-3.1.3-arm-signed.zip and copy it to your SD card (internal or external).
Put your phone in Download mode. Flash Recovery.tar using Odin.
Put your phone in Recovery mode. Flash Superuser-3.1.3-arm-signed.zip from recovery
Reboot and ready
Thanks developers!
So no need to make kernel un secure?
This post goes to my complete guide for Samsung galaxy ace plus...
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I didn't needed. The other method posted makes the S7500L keep rebooting into recovery. So, I flashed stock firmware (S7500LVJLH1) with Odin and start over again, but same result.
I'd flashed again stock firmware and just flash recovery with Odin, then just write Superuser from recovery.
I hadn't time to verify if the problem was with boot.tar or with files that are installed in recovery mode by .bat file.
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Can i use this Superuser 3.1.3-arm.zip for rooting Galaxy Ace S5830 ??
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Yeah... For any phone with ARM CPU core
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issues after flashing gt-s7500T
lokeshsaini94 said:
So no need to make kernel un secure?
This post goes to my complete guide for Samsung galaxy ace plus...
Sent from my GT-S7500 using xda premium
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I got my hands on a gt-s7500t yesterday and started xda searching on how to put a custom rom on it. i tried all the methods listed under s7500 to put cwm in it but none worked and whenevr i tried to enter either through pressing vol "+" "-" home and power it never enetred recovery nor it enetered through adb so i moved onto flashing cwm through s7500L guide. so by using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1725198 guide, i flased successfully flashed cwm and the phone was stuck in recovery boot loop.
I successfully rooted by through cwm and even installed a custom rom but the dammit phone never came out of the recovery loop, so i went to the next step and downloaded a stock UK vodafone firmware from sam mobile and tried flashing that since australian s-7500t stock rom is unavailable.
Now odin gave a "fail" meesage when it reached to flashing fat.bin, i tried almost 3 different stock roms but same problem. I took the battery out, and tried starting the phone the phone started but no display, so i connected it to samsung kies hoping kies will have a solution, well as it turned out that when i went into emergency firmware recovery, the device screen magically lit up for few seconds and went dark again.
i was baffled so i decided to repeat the process http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1725198 and flash cwm and boot again. well this time when this completed and phone restarted the phone restarted normally and everything seemed fine, so through adb i went into recovery mode again just to see if all was working fine, but now its the same recovery loop again, have tried wiping the dalvik cache, factory reset and cache reset but nothing happening, HAVENT tried the advanced>recovery reboot> procedure, yet.
now am thinking of two options. first to try install another custom rom and see if that might hellp or since iv got another galaxy ace plus, try to extract the custom s7500T rom out of it somehow, (if u guys can tell me howto, cuz i tried titanium backuo but since it requires root and since i cant get into cwm without using s7500L technique which soft bricks i cant use titanium backup to extract the rom)
Anyone got any idea what to do? is there a pit,bootloader,csc,phone etc files that i can flash through odin rather than flashing a complete package through PDA?
or can i just flash boot.img from a stock rom using PDA and you guys think that will solve the problem>?
Android System Recovery (3e) problem
i flashed "recovery.tar" as PDA via Odin3...then went into recovery mod but it say "Android System Recovery (3e)"..i think its Samsung's default recovery ... so where is CWM???
hi guys!
i have a problem with my ace plus and i have to bring it to a warranty center.. so i have to restore the stock rom and un-root.. any help?
is there a guide to do it? do you know where i can find the stock rom?
thanks a lot
If I root my phone, any advantage in the new root between old 1....
Can someone help me?
My Galaxy Ace Plus (S7500) doesn't want to boot in download mode
Thanks guys, great work
However, my Ace plus is GT - S7500W (London 2012 limited edition)
Is there anyway to root it?
Thanks so much!
Hi, Is there a easy way to unroot this method? Do all my files and settings remain intact when using this root method?
Thanks.
kol12 said:
Hi, Is there a easy way to unroot this method? Do all my files and settings remain intact when using this root method?
Thanks.
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This method don't erase your data, just write a custom recovery and add SuperUser app and bin to your system.
The best method to unroot is installing stock firmware package.
farodriguez said:
This method don't erase your data, just write a custom recovery and add SuperUser app and bin to your system.
The best method to unroot is installing stock firmware package.
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Thanks. So does installing stock firmware not write any files to the data partition of android? What about the apps that are included in stock firmware sms app, contacts,call logs, maps etc, will those apps data be lost with installing stock firmware?
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The recovery.img you have is larger than the stock firmware recovery.img. Does this write more data somewhere?
here is Android 4.1.2 for Galaxy ace plus working
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...5#post38450355
fido747 said:
I got my hands on a gt-s7500t yesterday and started xda searching on how to put a custom rom on it. i tried all the methods listed under s7500 to put cwm in it but none worked and whenevr i tried to enter either through pressing vol "+" "-" home and power it never enetred recovery nor it enetered through adb so i moved onto flashing cwm through s7500L guide. so by using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1725198 guide, i flased successfully flashed cwm and the phone was stuck in recovery boot loop.
I successfully rooted by through cwm and even installed a custom rom but the dammit phone never came out of the recovery loop, so i went to the next step and downloaded a stock UK vodafone firmware from sam mobile and tried flashing that since australian s-7500t stock rom is unavailable.
Now odin gave a "fail" meesage when it reached to flashing fat.bin, i tried almost 3 different stock roms but same problem. I took the battery out, and tried starting the phone the phone started but no display, so i connected it to samsung kies hoping kies will have a solution, well as it turned out that when i went into emergency firmware recovery, the device screen magically lit up for few seconds and went dark again.
i was baffled so i decided to repeat the process http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1725198 and flash cwm and boot again. well this time when this completed and phone restarted the phone restarted normally and everything seemed fine, so through adb i went into recovery mode again just to see if all was working fine, but now its the same recovery loop again, have tried wiping the dalvik cache, factory reset and cache reset but nothing happening, HAVENT tried the advanced>recovery reboot> procedure, yet.
now am thinking of two options. first to try install another custom rom and see if that might hellp or since iv got another galaxy ace plus, try to extract the custom s7500T rom out of it somehow, (if u guys can tell me howto, cuz i tried titanium backuo but since it requires root and since i cant get into cwm without using s7500L technique which soft bricks i cant use titanium backup to extract the rom)
Anyone got any idea what to do? is there a pit,bootloader,csc,phone etc files that i can flash through odin rather than flashing a complete package through PDA?
or can i just flash boot.img from a stock rom using PDA and you guys think that will solve the problem>?
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I've been having the exact same problem as you with my S7500L. Boot loop error after installing custom roms. I can, however, install CWM and obtain root without problems.
I really don't understand how the s7500L rom guys developed them... how did they get out of the boot loop.
I tried replacing the boot.img from the custom ROM with one from a stock rom... nothing.
Corsario_Negro said:
I've been having the exact same problem as you with my S7500L. Boot loop error after installing custom roms. I can, however, install CWM and obtain root without problems.
I really don't understand how the s7500L rom guys developed them... how did they get out of the boot loop.
I tried replacing the boot.img from the custom ROM with one from a stock rom... nothing.
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Hi i have the same problem and the solution is flash this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2255561
i used odin, and works perfect.
i installed the cwm and i cant enter recovery it sthows a trinagle sith ! ander the samsung and after it boots normaly
vasilisaerox said:
i installed the cwm and i cant enter recovery it sthows a trinagle sith ! ander the samsung and after it boots normaly
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Just flashed recovery and i'm having the same issue. Original 2.3.6 installed never touched.

[Q] Odin can't flash stock, boot hangs at logo

Good morning...
Right now, my phone (Galaxy S III on Verizon) will not boot past the "Galaxy S III" logo. Odin will not flash a stock Jelly Bean ROM from StockRoms.net. It gets stuck on the first .img, boot.img. I am downloading a new stock ROM right now and will try a full wipe.
Being silly and ambitious, I do not have a nandroid before it wouldn't boot. On Monday (two days ago) I rooted it. I flashed the VRALEC boot chain, rebooted, flashed ClockworkMod recovery, and installed the SuperSU bootloader and root patch through recovery. I rebooted, allowing CWM to disable the automatic re-flashing of the recovery. With my newly rooted phone, I jumped at trying to install Google Wallet. I went with the route of using Wallet Installer as found on the app store. And, being silly, I checked all three OS options (JB, ICS, and one other). After authorizing the superuser request, my phone almost immediately shut off. I think I made a nandroid through CWM after that, but not one that would run.
I thought it was going to be just build.prop having issues, so I went on a wild quest trying to find a working one online and get it on the device. I worked it into the updater script of my SuperSU patch. Nonetheless, nothing there fixed it. I've tried a bunch of things, including (get this) extracting the stock system.img.ext4 image, mounting it, tarring the device, creating an MD5 for it, and wrapping it up like a nandroid to "restore" with CWM.
I'm thinking I'm going to try and wipe the entire device, maybe leave /recovery, and flash a new I-535 ROM with Odin, see if that works. I don't know if it will. Any advice?
My flash counter is at about 5 after many attempts to get back to something that will boot, so warranty is not an option. Not that they've ever been a whole lot of help anyways.
Sounds like you can still enter recovery. If so adb push a custom ROM to your phone to flash.
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What I have done in the past when flashing a completely stock unrooted ROM through Odin is remove the battery, replace it, boot to stock recovery, and do a factory reset plus wipe cache! This will make my phone boot every time, because flashing a stock makes it boot loop!
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joaquinla1 said:
What I have done in the past when flashing a completely stock unrooted ROM through Odin is remove the battery, replace it, boot to stock recovery, and do a factory reset plus wipe cache! This will make my phone boot every time, because flashing a stock makes it boot loop!
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My phone has CWM recovery on it, but I don't see any reason CWM's factory reset and cache wipe would be any different. I'll give it a shot.
mentose457 said:
Sounds like you can still enter recovery. If so adb push a custom ROM to your phone to flash.
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I may try this if I can't upload one through Odin after a complete wipe, like above. Also, I've only used adb push to upload individual files. How would I use it to push a ROM?
Thanks for all your help. The ROM I'm going to try and flash now is the official stock from stockroms.net. I can't post the link as I'm new but it's I535BLK_nowipe.zip. I'll keep this updated.
sworld said:
I may try this if I can't upload one through Odin after a complete wipe, like above. Also, I've only used adb push to upload individual files. How would I use it to push a ROM?
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When you download a ROM, say Beans 11, it will be a zip file. Push that single file to the internal storage. Do not unzip it. Then boot into recovery and flash the zip.
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mentose457 said:
When you download a ROM, say Beans 11, it will be a zip file. Push that single file to the internal storage. Do not unzip it. Then boot into recovery and flash the zip.
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That makes more sense.
UPDATE: I "factory reset" the data partition and formatted /system and /cache through ClockworkMod. Turned it off, flashed VRALEC through Odin, rebooted, flashed the stock ROM, and then CWM. I'm restoring my nandroid of /data right now, and I'm awaiting an OTA firmware update to bring it up to the latest VZW JB. Then I'll root.. finally.
The thing with Odin is that after you reset you have to do a factory reset through stock recovery to finish the process. Otherwise you will get stuck in a boot loop like you did.
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z06mike said:
The thing with Odin is that after you reset you have to do a factory reset through stock recovery to finish the process. Otherwise you will get stuck in a boot loop like you did.
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Really? I've only odined once on the s3 and didn't have to wipe. On the fascinate and an older version of Odin after the flash before it booted it would automatically wipe.
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So, the phone is functioning now. Of course, I am running a slightly older version and once I connect to a solid Wi-Fi network I'll request the newest update again.
However, I did already try to download the software update from Verizon, and it seemed to work fine. It rebooted into recovery and CWM seemed to handle it okay, although it claimed the signature was bad. It installed though, rebooted, and updated some app databases. And then, it said the update failed with "Code 401."
Right now I'm not too worried. Hopefully I can apply the update properly soon. It is worth noting that simply using CWM "advanced restore" on only the /data partition, without exactly matching the ROM build, has seemed to leave it hanging at the "4G LTE" logo.
Thanks for all of your help!
The phone will not install a Verizon update with a custom recovery installed.

[Q] Confused as to what to do next: un-bricked, but recovery is still a garbled mess

So I rooted my brother's infuse 4G because it was slow as sin and needed A. a data/cache wipe and B, I wanted to give him Jellybean
I followed all the instructions I could; rooted, installed the modded 3e (or thought I did), got a CWM installed afterwards, and then set about installing first CM9 (as the Jellybean ROM post says I should) followed by the actual ROM and its Gapps. Well, I installed CM9 (although it seemed to take all of 30 seconds, rather fast...) when I tried to wipe data/factory reset, CWM froze. I rebooted and from then on I had it softbricked. Stuck booting at the samsung logo, and when I tried to return to the recovery, the recovery was a garbled mess that looked like a scrambled TV channel. I used Heimdall and did the one-click reset to stock, and here I am. The phone boots to stock just fine, but my recovery is still completely boned.
Do I re-root? How do I install CWM again without being able to install 3e? (can't install 3e without a working recovery in the first place, after all..)
One anomaly of note - when I was going about all this, booting the phone into recovery always got me 3e, even after installing CWM. I had to manually install CWM by using an update.zip and "reinstall packages" every time I wanted to use CWM. ROM manager would boot me to CWM, but it took several reboots and a flashable CWM zip before I could even get CWM installed in the first place - ROM manager refused to do it the easy way.
What did I do wrong, and more importantly, how do I get back on track? What do I do to put a fixed recovery back on this thing? Odin? ADB?
Today was the first time I ever used Heimdall, I've been a fair weather flasher since the beginning, I've never had to ADB or Odin.
It sounds like you didn't install cwm recovery properly, but I'm not sure I've never ran into this problem before. If you go here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081 and carefully read over the first and second post you should end up with gb and red cwm recovery. The way I've done it was to put the phone in dl mode and flash the first package (the stock gingerbread att rom). After it is installed and booted up, I then power it off and go back into dl mode. Then flash the second package, which is just the kernel and red cwm recovery, (be patient because it takes awhile). Once that is done then go into recovery and wipe data/factory reset, wipe dalvik cache, wipe system, and install cm9. I think it only installs the kernel and recovery the first installation after formatting and creating the partitions, but after its done you have to go through the menus and tell it to reboot. After it reboots it will be stuck at the cyanogenmod galaxy s logo, so you will have to go into recovery once more. When you're there you should have blue cwm (only continue if you do) and install jb, without actually having to install the full cm9. When you navigate to which ever jb rom you want to install, a prompt will appear stating that there is incompatible partition layout and to confirm installation you will have to reselect the jb zip again to install. It will flash pretty quick because at this point its doing the same thing as when you went from gb to cm9 and only installs the kernel, recovery, and reformat/creates the partitions, (I think). It will reboot on its own but it will take you back into recovery. At this point all you have to do is navigate to the same jb zip you want to install and flash it, followed by gapps, and then reboot system. This process has worked for me but I highly recommend reading and following the instructions given in the post above.
Use goo.I'm app. Also you need to flash GB bootloaders in Odin . is recovery all colorful? If you see recovery fine just get goo app on play store and install a recovery
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I would go the ODIN route, I have bricked so many times because i try to make the impossible possible. Just search for a already rooted pda,mdr file. I skipped the cm9 part idk if that would make things better or not but as my post says im a risk-taker
One thing I'd like to point out, flashing to ICS from GB requires 2 flashes. First flash sets the new partitions. You reboot and pull the battery, then boot back into recovery and reflash with the gapps.
That was the first problem I saw, and now commenting while on the Nexus I can't see the OP so that's all I'll comment on.
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UnhoIy said:
One thing I'd like to point out, flashing to ICS from GB requires 2 flashes. First flash sets the new partitions. You reboot and pull the battery, then boot back into recovery and reflash with the gapps.
That was the first problem I saw, and now commenting while on the Nexus I can't see the OP so that's all I'll comment on.
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but if don't have any problems i'm good right or should i go back and do it
MajorLeagueROM said:
but if don't have any problems i'm good right or should i go back and do it
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I've never skipped ICS and gone straight to JB like you, that's risk I've yet taken. I guess if you've had no problem then you're good, but I've gone back to stock and to JB at least 12 times now and used the same process every time without a hitch. In the case of OPs problem, I would just go back to stock and try again. Although I always go back to 2.2 stock...
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UnhoIy said:
I've never skipped ICS and gone straight to JB like you, that's risk I've yet taken. I guess if you've had no problem then you're good, but I've gone back to stock and to JB at least 12 times now and used the same process every time without a hitch. In the case of OPs problem, I would just go back to stock and try again. Although I always go back to 2.2 stock...
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I'll just do it tonight then maybe my phone will run better, i thought i'd be a waste of time. thanks for the info
MajorLeagueROM said:
I'll just do it tonight then maybe my phone will run better, i thought i'd be a waste of time. thanks for the info
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Lucky me, I get to go back to stock tonight for soft-bricking for the first time having this phone. It's what I get for trying to port a ROM with only a nights worth of research.
Oh well.
UnhoIy said:
Lucky me, I get to go back to stock tonight for soft-bricking for the first time having this phone. It's what I get for trying to port a ROM with only a nights worth of research.
Oh well.
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lol it happens to the best of us

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