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SO i think I totally bricked my phone. Any input would be great. MMy phone boots up and is stuck on lg screen. I tried flash CWM and stock recovery but nothing. Any ideas or should i just send back and get a new one
I really mucked this one up

It's not a brick if it turns on! But I'm fairly new to this phone and I'm not familiar with it at all Normally I would suggest to fastboot flash the new OFFICIAL CWM recovery image, but I don't even know where to begin with fastboot on this phone

chillwillo9 said:
SO i think I totally bricked my phone. Any input would be great. MMy phone boots up and is stuck on lg screen. I tried flash CWM and stock recovery but nothing. Any ideas or should i just send back and get a new one
I really mucked this one up
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It would probably be a little helpful (if you want help) if you let everyone know what you were doing when you "bricked" your phone. That way people know where to start in assisting you.

chillwillo9 said:
SO i think I totally bricked my phone. Any input would be great. MMy phone boots up and is stuck on lg screen. I tried flash CWM and stock recovery but nothing. Any ideas or should i just send back and get a new one
I really mucked this one up
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I had a infinite loop problem on mine. I just restored to stock.
Turn phone off (pull battery if needed)
Turn on while holding volume down + power button

chillwillo9 said:
SO i think I totally bricked my phone. Any input would be great. MMy phone boots up and is stuck on lg screen. I tried flash CWM and stock recovery but nothing. Any ideas or should i just send back and get a new one
I really mucked this one up
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What happens when you try to boot into recovery mode?

OK here is what I did to brick my device.
I wanted to do a factory reset and I used clockwork recovery to do so.
Wat I didn't know what that Clockwork recovery was going to format my system.
I can only get into fast boot via vol up+vol+down+power
Cannot get back to stock recovery or CWM. Tried flashing via fastboot method
My phone just goes to LG screen no loading bar
Currently the only function is fastboot

Did you try formatting via Vol-Down + Power?

xenoletum said:
Did you try formatting via Vol-Down + Power?
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Yes I did but same result stuck Lg screen no loading bar.
Capacitive touch also are not lit appear to be not working

1) Fastboot flash the official CWM recovery image
2) download http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048274
3) put the NANDROID in the correct folder on your sdcard: /sdcard/_ExternalSD/clockworkmod/backup/
4) restore via recovery

Thanks for everyones input, Called t-mobile they are shipping a new one out asap. I'm just going to have to suck it up till tuesday.
I love trial and error they only thing i lost is a little time

omarsalmin said:
1) Fastboot flash the official CWM recovery image
2) download http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048274
3) put the NANDROID in the correct folder on your sdcard: /sdcard/_ExternalSD/clockworkmod/backup/
4) restore via recovery
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I flashed official CWM recovery image numerous times via fastboot and phone just gets stuck at lg screen. Once again vol up+power and vol down+pwer does nothing
Is there another fastboot method or adb method to restore CWM?

did the same thing it bricked my phone does nothing else than start up then freezes. f-ING pissed

The best thing with Nvidia phones and tablets is that its barely impossible to brick your phone. If you think you bricked it - you just need NV flash and either the stock rom or stock recovery and you are back to normal
I have done that with my old G-tablet - it was a piece of cake to fix it.

is there an nv flash for mac?

thought i did the same thing!
if you can get it into format hit the home button. hopefully vol+down+power will get you there. pull your battery and you may just get lucky if done enough times? i would keep trying. good luck

[Q] Phone having issues booting after flashing rom

So I rooted my phone and flashed Krylon360's Stock + Root rom using this thread ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1001759 ). Everything went perfectly until I rebooted from recovery mode. It sits there in the boot screen trying its hardest but just keeps randomly vibrating. Not sure what to do about this since It will not go back into download mode to retry again. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Go back into download mode and try flashing kc1 instead
Sent from my SGH-T959V using xda premium

Nothing ended up working. Just kept sitting in the boot screen, vibrating some more. So I just flashed the original stock back onto it. Thanks for your help though.

caprisun5 said:
Nothing ended up working. Just kept sitting in the boot screen, vibrating some more. So I just flashed the original stock back onto it. Thanks for your help though.
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Put your phone in download mode and flash the SMS-KJ6 one-click from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358498
(yea, I need to update the kernel in that package... everything moves so fast)
Leave the one-click open, after the phone reboots from the first flash take the battery out (let it reboot all the way to the pink t-mobile screen, then pull the battery. It does boot into recovery and tries to do some csc update, just ignore any errors in that). put the battery back in and the battery case back on, hold vol+ and vol-, plug in the usb cable and let go of vol+ and vol- when you see the download mode screen come up.
Check the flash bootloaders and click flash again. This gets your phone on GB bootloaders, which if you're coming from froyo, you will need it (you can also get the same bootloaders from FBis251's ext4 starter kit).
After that is done, you should download octane 3 cwm zip and my latest kernel to your sdcard, reboot to recovery, wipe everything, flash octane 3 then my kernel. Let it sit for 30 minutes after rebooting to let everything juice up and soak in.
Also, never odin/heimdall flash on a low battery. Always charge your phone all the way up before doing this as not to brick because your battery died.

caprisun5 said:
So I rooted my phone and flashed Krylon360's Stock + Root rom using this thread ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1001759 ). Everything went perfectly until I rebooted from recovery mode. It sits there in the boot screen trying its hardest but just keeps randomly vibrating. Not sure what to do about this since It will not go back into download mode to retry again. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I had the same problem. I booted into recovery cleared the cache and user data then restarted the ODIN process and it worked and booted fine.

[Q] Help with booting loop please

I searched around and couldn't find how to fix my booting problem. I have a Verizon Galaxy S3. I was rooted, installed ezlocked and unlocked it. I then installed ezrecovery and did a back up. Then I wiped everything on and it and tried to install CM10. It failed, so I rebooted and everything went back to stock. I repeated the ezunlock and ezrecovery and then attempted to install CM10 without wiping the data/cache(because I'm an idiot). Now when I start the phone it takes me right into the CM10 booting animation. I can't get into download mode or recovery mode. Whenever I try to get into those it takes me right back into the booting animation. Battery pulls do nothing.
I know I'm a noob and I can't believe I did this. I can't get back into CWM or download mode so I can flash through Odin. Any help would be really appreciated.

Tyjames48 said:
I searched around and couldn't find how to fix my booting problem. I have a Verizon Galaxy S3. I was rooted, installed ezlocked and unlocked it. I then installed ezrecovery and did a back up. Then I wiped everything on and it and tried to install CM10. It failed, so I rebooted and everything went back to stock. I repeated the ezunlock and ezrecovery and then attempted to install CM10 without wiping the data/cache(because I'm an idiot). Now when I start the phone it takes me right into the CM10 booting animation. I can't get into download mode or recovery mode. Whenever I try to get into those it takes me right back into the booting animation. Battery pulls do nothing.
I know I'm a noob and I can't believe I did this. I can't get back into CWM or download mode so I can flash through Odin. Any help would be really appreciated.
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Did you try holding the power button, up on the volume, and the home button when you boot the phone to get to CWM?
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda app-developers app

do you have the sdk set up? can you use adb?

Were you on a JellyBean baseband? If so to enter recovery you have to let go of the power button on the vibrate and keep pressing the home key + vol up.

x714x said:
Were you on a JellyBean baseband? If so to enter recovery you have to let go of the power button on the vibrate and keep pressing the home key + vol up.
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I was going from stock ICS to CM10. But yeah, you were right. I tried like a hundred different ways to try to get into download mode. I finally got it to work and then flashed through Odin. Thanks everybody! I feel like a dumbass.

[HELP] Cant reboot past recovery

I updated to newest CWM via Rom Manager. Went into recovery to make a back up and try a new mod to flash. After installing I hit reboot system now and it goes right back into recovery. I even pulled battery then hit power button and it takes me right back into recovery. I also restored a back up and still the same thing. Should I try to go back to the older version of recovery? Any help would be appreciated!
Now when its off and I plug it in it doesnt charge or anything it just vibrates over and over

same thing here/
you have a zip file of the older cwm version?

TokedUp said:
I updated to newest CWM via Rom Manager. Went into recovery to make a back up and try a new mod to flash. After installing I hit reboot system now and it goes right back into recovery. I even pulled battery then hit power button and it takes me right back into recovery. I also restored a back up and still the same thing. Should I try to go back to the older version of recovery? Any help would be appreciated!
Now when its off and I plug it in it doesnt charge or anything it just vibrates over and over
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I thought I was going crazy...
Here's how you get it to boot... boot up into odin mode and select cancel.
At the same time I noticed I cannot mount external sd either :/

I found these. one has an IMG file the other is a zip
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2096735
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2153408
OK the Odin mode/hit cancel works. WOW I was worried for a minute there. WTF!!!!

TokedUp said:
I found these. one has an IMG file the other is a zip
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2096735
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2153408
OK the Odin mode/hit cancel works. WOW I was worried for a minute there. WTF!!!!
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The 6.0.2.8 from first post works fine. I still cannot mount external sd tho

in the meantime I found this file here & applied it & now my phone is dead/
not even the jig thing with the usb-plug works/
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/bbdr01ccc5qa99y/C8o3Zu7_k4/exitrecovery.zip

i just ran into the exact same issue as the OP. i pulled the battery, booted into DL mode, volume- (Cancel), and it booted up into my ROM. i wonder if CWM is the issue?

Yes the new update must have something to do with it.

same thing happened to me today. I keep an older copy on my laptop though and just reverted to an older version using odin.

Same happened here. Was mega pissed until I found the odin fix.
What's weirder is I factory reset, formatted everything but the kitchen sink, and upon the reboot after odin, all user data was intact.
looks like this CWM update is messed up, reverting.

CMW 6.0.2.9 is broken, I think. I'm stuck in CWM reboot.

Rom Manager pulled it. If u need to revert back .8 is listed as latest. You can go back thru there.

Yep, reverted to 6.0.2.8 and restored from my Nandroid. Whew!
And yes, I used the boot to Odin and select Cancel method to get out of Recovery bootloop.

Same here. Updated to 6.0.2.9 and got stuck in recovery mode. The only way out was go to ODIN and cancel. This was bad update from clockwork team

[Q] Recovery Boot Loop Problem

Had a problem. Hope someone with experience can give me a few answers.
Nave new t-mobile Note 3, SM-N900T. Stock 4.4.2 KitKat Touchwiz rooted.
Rooted to enable SDFix to use SD card as I want to use it.
Everything great! No problems.
Thought it would be wise to have a Nanoid backup.
Opened Rom Manager and made One change in prefrences. I set it for external SD card storage. (mistake?)
Went to 'Backup current Rom' in Rom manager, started it and it started to reboot. Shut down and restarted in a 'Recovery' boot loop??
No matter what I did, Tried holding power, up volume and home button, nothing. Boot loop continued. Removed battery, waited, as soon as I re-installed battery it instantly went back into recovery boot loop.
I don't know what I did, I kept removing battery and trying again and again and all of a sudden, it booted up back to KitKat and now everything is working great again. No problem on any standard reboot.
What happened? I have used this same set up on my S3 and never had a problem.
I would like to backup the current setup for any future problems. But now, I'm afraid to even try.
I removed Rom Manager and re-installed. Made sure that the storage location was reset to internal and it should be OK??
What did I do when I got out of the Recovery boot loop??
So, afraid to try again. Don't want the boot loop again.

rspilot1 said:
Had a problem. Hope someone with experience can give me a few answers.
Nave new t-mobile Note 3, SM-N900T. Stock 4.4.2 KitKat Touchwiz rooted.
Rooted to enable SDFix to use SD card as I want to use it.
Everything great! No problems.
Thought it would be wise to have a Nanoid backup.
Opened Rom Manager and made One change in prefrences. I set it for external SD card storage. (mistake?)
Went to 'Backup current Rom' in Rom manager, started it and it started to reboot. Shut down and restarted in a 'Recovery' boot loop??
No matter what I did, Tried holding power, up volume and home button, nothing. Boot loop continued. Removed battery, waited, as soon as I re-installed battery it instantly went back into recovery boot loop.
I don't know what I did, I kept removing battery and trying again and again and all of a sudden, it booted up back to KitKat and now everything is working great again. No problem on any standard reboot.
What happened? I have used this same set up on my S3 and never had a problem.
I would like to backup the current setup for any future problems. But now, I'm afraid to even try.
I removed Rom Manager and re-installed. Made sure that the storage location was reset to internal and it should be OK??
What did I do when I got out of the Recovery boot loop??
So, afraid to try again. Don't want the boot loop again.
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Hi. What recovery are you using?
If you haven't installed a custom recovery, then that explains your issue. Basically, the app scheduled a custom recovery script which kept failing in the stock recovery. You should normally be able to reboot into the system holding the power button, thus skipping going to recovery. This also resets the recovery script so everything is back to normal.
Nandroid is normally only possible using a custom recovery like TWRP or CWM.
I saw that you might be able to perform a Nandroid without restarting the phone (so without a custom recovery) using this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.h3r3t1c.onnandbup&hl=en
I have never tried it. Looks promising though.
But please note that you won't be able to restore the backup without a custom recovery.
EDIT: If you do have a custom recovery, why not boot in recovery mode and make the backup from there?
Cheers

Recovery Boot Loop Problem
I have CWM installed. Setup thru Rom Manager as I have done before on other phones.
Tried it again, same thing. Over and over. Constant reboot. Dosen't matter if I hold the power button or try different ways, same thing.
It says: Recovery booting
Recovery is not seandroid enforcing
Set warranty bit:recovery
If I remove battery and wait a couple of minutes, I can install battery and it dosen't start till I hold power button.
So I held volume down, home button and power button and booted into download mode. From there I cancelled and it rebooted normally.
Everything I've read on boot loops always say 'boot into recovery'. I only wish I could. That's the bootloop.
Any idea on what's wrong?
Thank you for your time and trouble.

rspilot1 said:
I have CWM installed. Setup thru Rom Manager as I have done before on other phones.
Tried it again, same thing. Over and over. Constant reboot. Dosen't matter if I hold the power button or try different ways, same thing.
It says: Recovery booting
Recovery is not seandroid enforcing
Set warranty bit:recovery
If I remove battery and wait a couple of minutes, I can install battery and it dosen't start till I hold power button.
So I held volume down, home button and power button and booted into download mode. From there I cancelled and it rebooted normally.
Everything I've read on boot loops always say 'boot into recovery'. I only wish I could. That's the bootloop.
Any idea on what's wrong?
Thank you for your time and trouble.
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Have you tried booting directly into recovery?
So just shut off your phone and then open it by holding volume up + home + power. It should boot into recovery. If it doesn't, I recommend installing cwm or TWRP using Odin instead of Rom manager.
Might be a problem with your current recovery.
Sent from my GT-I9505

Recovery Boot Loop Problem
andreiav said:
Have you tried booting directly into recovery?
So just shut off your phone and then open it by holding volume up + home + power. It should boot into recovery. If it doesn't, I recommend installing cwm or TWRP using Odin instead of Rom manager.
Might be a problem with your current recovery.
Sent from my GT-I9505
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Yes, I tried. Does the same thing.
I've never used Odin. All the info I've read mentioned downloading USB drivers and using different .tar files. Checking this and that.
Nothing I've ever done.
No experience with it.
Never had a reason before to use it.
Every instruction website I've read all seem to be different.
I'm gonna have to find out, huh? lol
I've got Odin on my computer, and have the CWM 6 zipped file.
Will do some research.
Thanks

rspilot1 said:
Yes, I tried. Does the same thing.
I've never used Odin. All the info I've read mentioned downloading USB drivers and using different .tar files. Checking this and that.
Nothing I've ever done.
No experience with it.
Never had a reason before to use it.
Every instruction website I've read all seem to be different.
I'm gonna have to find out, huh? lol
I've got Odin on my computer, and have the CWM 6 zipped file.
Will do some research.
Thanks
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No problem.
A few tips with odin:
-If you have Kies installed, you don't need to install other drivers.
-The file you flash with Odin should have tar or tar.md5 extension
-you have to activate USB debugging from developer options.
-boot your phone into download mode
-run Odin as administrator
-connect your phone. you should see the text Added in Odin. If don't see it, you need drivers.
-you should make sure only auto reboot and f. Reset time are checked
-you should put the file in Pda or Ap(if using latest version)
Click start and wait until it finishes. It will restart itself if you checked auto reboot.
That's about it. It's very safe and easy to use.
Watch some videos on YouTube. You will definitely find some.
Cheers
Sent from my GT-I9505

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andreiav said:
No problem.
A few tips with odin:
-If you have Kies installed, you don't need to install other drivers.
-The file you flash with Odin should have tar or tar.md5 extension
-you have to activate USB debugging from developer options.
-boot your phone into download mode
-run Odin as administrator
-connect your phone. you should see the text Added in Odin. If don't see it, you need drivers.
-you should make sure only auto reboot and f. Reset time are checked
-you should put the file in Pda or Ap(if using latest version)
Click start and wait until it finishes. It will restart itself if you checked auto reboot.
That's about it. It's very safe and easy to use.
Watch some videos on YouTube. You will definitely find some.
Cheers
Sent from my GT-I9505
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Thank you, that answered some questions.
you've been a great help.

Recovery Boot Loop Problem
rspilot1 said:
Thank you, that answered some questions.
you've been a great help.
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Update: The install of CWM with Odin seemed to be successful. Still have same problem.
I believe the problem must be somewhere else.
Something is stopping the recovery boot. More research ahead.
When I find out more, will post here and give update.

rspilot1 said:
Update: The install of CWM with Odin seemed to be successful. Still have same problem.
I believe the problem must be somewhere else.
Something is stopping the recovery boot. More research ahead.
When I find out more, will post here and give update.
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Strange. You could try TWRP instead of CWM. I use TWRP and really like it:
Here is the download link for your device: http://www.techerrata.com/file/twrp2/hltetmo/openrecovery-twrp-2.7.2.0-hltetmo-4.4.img.tar
This is the Odin flashable recovery.
Here is TWRP page: http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/
EDIT: One more thing. Are these the exact steps you are following when booting into recovery?
"To access recovery mode on your Note 3, turn off the device and press Volume Up+Home+Power buttons at the same time for about 4-6 seconds. When the screen lights up and you see the Samsung logo, release the Power button but keep Volume Up+Home keys pressed until you see the recovery menu screen"
Cheers

Recovery Boot Loop Problem
andreiav said:
Strange. You could try TWRP instead of CWM. I use TWRP and really like it:
Here is the download link for your device: http://www.techerrata.com/file/twrp2/hltetmo/openrecovery-twrp-2.7.2.0-hltetmo-4.4.img.tar
This is the Odin flashable recovery.
Here is TWRP page: http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/
EDIT: One more thing. Are these the exact steps you are following when booting into recovery?
"To access recovery mode on your Note 3, turn off the device and press Volume Up+Home+Power buttons at the same time for about 4-6 seconds. When the screen lights up and you see the Samsung logo, release the Power button but keep Volume Up+Home keys pressed until you see the recovery menu screen"
Cheers
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Yes, if I use the buttons, the download mode comes up saying 'Boot failed'. That's holding the vol. button 'up'. If I hold vol. down, it loads download mode correctly.
If I try to enter recovery thru Rom Manager, Recovery tries to start and the boot loop starts. ??
I may try TWRP. I've heard a lot about it.
Thanks for the links.

Recovery Boot Loop Problem
rspilot1 said:
Yes, if I use the buttons, the download mode comes up saying 'Boot failed'. That's holding the vol. button 'up'. If I hold vol. down, it loads download mode correctly.
If I try to enter recovery thru Rom Manager, Recovery tries to start and the boot loop starts. ??
I may try TWRP. I've heard a lot about it.
Thanks for the links.
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Is changing over to TWRP as simple as installing CWM on Odin??
Just install and try?

rspilot1 said:
Is changing over to TWRP as simple as installing CWM on Odin??
Just install and try?
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Yep. 5 minutes process at most
Sent from my GT-I9505

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andreiav said:
Yep. 5 minutes process at most
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Success!! TWRP works!!
Installed with Odin and it started up fine. Backed up system on my Ext. SD card and rebooted back to OS.
Perfect!
Don't know what happened to CWM but problem is solved thanks to your help.
If your ever in Winter Haven, Fl area, I'll buy you a steak dinner.
Thank you.

rspilot1 said:
Success!! TWRP works!!
Installed with Odin and it started up fine. Backed up system on my Ext. SD card and rebooted back to OS.
Perfect!
Don't know what happened to CWM but problem is solved thanks to your help.
If your ever in Winter Haven, Fl area, I'll buy you a steak dinner.
Thank you.
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Awesome! Really glad it worked.
Cheers!
Sent from my GT-I9505