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I think I bricked my phone

I've had my phone rooted with CM10.1 since I got it back in December and last week I was messing around with the new nightlies but because of the all the constant reboots and freezes I decided to go back to an earlier verson of CM10.1.
Now my phone will not boot up and stays in the CM loading screen, I tried to get into recovery but I just feel a vibration and the screen stays dark although sometimes it just goes straight to the boot screen and then stays there.
Have I messed up my phone permanently? Any help will be greatly appreciated (I'm desperate). Thank you very much
Edit: I can get into Odin.
Edit2: After a lot of trial and error I managed to get into recovery, wiped data and reflashed CM, thankfully it worked. Although no one responded thank you.

[Q] Bricked/Boot Loop Galaxy Note 10.1!!

Hello fellow XDA members! I am a Noob.
So I believe I have a Bricked Galaxy Note 10.1. Model GT-N8013
I Rooted Stock ROM, and flashed Collective Edition 5 Dark Side.
So heres what happened, everything seemed fine, until I made a mistake, I was Pimping my ROM with the PimpMyRom app. Every change seemed fine and my note worked, but when i saw the double boot screen slide in the app, i did what it said, i have the imf support or something like that. Then after i had the ''support'' needed, i clicked install button on the double boot slide, it seemed to do something and requested nothing, so i went ahead chose a second clip, and clicked set as second boot screen. It said it wont take effect until the 3rd boot, so i rebooted 3x, but at the third time, it was stuck at the boot screen with the galaxy note 10.1 logo ! It did not start or did anything, over time it would turn off and automatically reboot, but it would get stuck again !.
To attempt to fix it, I Booted into recovery (CWM) and did everything i could. I wiped nearly all cache, factory reseted, then out of fear, i flashed the stock firmware ROM from Sammobile website, with ODIN, and to my knowledge, it got worse!! It booted, seemed to do something then in the logo screen it got stuck once again!! Stock recovery says unable to mount /efs, i don't believe EFS is completely corrupted, I left it stuck for awhile and it shut down in like an hour. Help, what can i do to fix this!?!?!?!
Device cannot boot up.
I could boot into recovery and download mode only.

I thought that I too had bricked my 8013 the past weekend. Trying to do something that I shouldn't. It took me a bit of work and a lot of worry (my wife gave me my 8013 for Xmas and if I had to tell her that it was now a doorstop, she would have killed me). I used this method to get back to stock and then was able to work my way back to the ROM I use. I disremember in which order I Odin'd things, but in the end was able to un-brick. All I can say is give it a shot.

jusliloleme said:
I thought that I too had bricked my 8013 the past weekend. Trying to do something that I shouldn't. It took me a bit of work and a lot of worry (my wife gave me my 8013 for Xmas and if I had to tell her that it was now a doorstop, she would have killed me). I used this method to get back to stock and then was able to work my way back to the ROM I use. I disremember in which order I Odin'd things, but in the end was able to un-brick. All I can say is give it a shot.
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i did what u said...but all i got is i able to get through the logo but without seeing anything only able to hear the sound. any other tip? i got the same problem as above.

Stuck at Boot Logo

Hi guys!
First off, I'm running on KatKiss 217. For a while now I've been stuck to the boot screen of my tablet. Before that I was using it while USB connected to the PC in our office. But then the battery run out so it turned off, I disconnected it and went back home to charge. When I turned it on while charging it was stuck on the boot screen.
Since I was going to upgrade to KatKiss 218, I went on ahead and flashed the 218. So I Format system, installed KatKiss 218 and cleared Dalvik/Cache. When I rebooted it gets past the boot screen but gets stuck on Android Upgrading: Starting Apps. Tried to revert back to KatKiss 217 but same thing happens.
Any idea how I can fix this? Hope you guys could help me out. Thanks in advance!

I think first of you must flash also the gapps. And full wipe would help too it stalled at start-up screen.
Sometimes flashing the same file twice would force it to installed properly and boot it successfully.

Finally got it to work! As you said, I had to do a Factory reset first to get it to work. Not sure why since I never had to do it before. Still, got it to work now. Thanks, man!

[Q] Random reboots and bootloop on CM10.1.3 stable

Hi guys,
So yesterday I updating my HTC One to CM10.1.3 Stable release from some older 10.1.1 nightly, using the OTA updater, it flashed fine, then I put it into fast boot in order to manually flash boot.img uing adb. That worked, it booted no issues.
A couple of hours later, the phone just turned off, it was sitting in my desk, I saw the screen flash, it then rebooted, and bootlooped on the CM start up screen. I thought okay maybe the boot.img didn't flash right, so flashed again (note the boot.img used was extracted from the update zip file, so I am assuming is the correct one)
After flashing the boot.img again, starts up fine.
Then again at like 3am, the bright startup screen woke me up, and it was bootlooping again while on charge. I have no idea what's going on, it works fine besides that, I'm posting from my phone as well.
Anyone else having this issue? Or any way to solve it?
Thanks,
Aaron

arono7342 said:
Hi guys,
So yesterday I updating my HTC One to CM10.1.3 Stable release from some older 10.1.1 nightly, using the OTA updater, it flashed fine, then I put it into fast boot in order to manually flash boot.img uing adb. That worked, it booted no issues.
A couple of hours later, the phone just turned off, it was sitting in my desk, I saw the screen flash, it then rebooted, and bootlooped on the CM start up screen. I thought okay maybe the boot.img didn't flash right, so flashed again (note the boot.img used was extracted from the update zip file, so I am assuming is the correct one)
After flashing the boot.img again, starts up fine.
Then again at like 3am, the bright startup screen woke me up, and it was bootlooping again while on charge. I have no idea what's going on, it works fine besides that, I'm posting from my phone as well.
Anyone else having this issue? Or any way to solve it?
Thanks,
Aaron
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Aaron - Please use this thread to continue to write about this issue. Hopefully, we can solve this as a community: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46993463#post46993463

Auto update, now boots to TWRP ..help?

Hoping someone can help me. I just updated to TWRP 2.8.4 from 2.8.3 and rebooted the phone..all is well, then received the 'system update' will auto restart in 30 secs...no big deal I thought as it has done it before and just gives me a message when the phone boots back saying my phone is rooted at the same time it started to restart, my phone was updating some apps...now, when I try to restart it, shows LG screen, flashes really quick, then goes to TWRP. I did a backup a few days ago, thought I would just restore that..did that...no luck...just goes right back to the TWRP screen...
A while ago I did download CM 12 unoffical 12/13/12014 with PA gapps 5.01 betta...should I flash these two to see if it will book back up or should I do something else?
Any suggestions?
Thank you for the help!!!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2907508

jerrycoffman45 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2907508
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Thank you!!!
Saved my day!!!

Your welcome