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Okay, so here's a long story short. I flashed AT&T ICS leak #2 when I first got my replacement due to a brick. I ran SCV7 for a week or so and decided to try out CM10. I restored my backup of stock/rooted backup. Uninstalled highjacks, packages and app (bootmenu) itself. I then installed our OG A2 bootstrap, installed fine, installed CM10, played around with it for awhile. Realized I didnt reinstall the OG A2 Bootstrap so went ahead and did that. (without booting into recovery yet) I then later in the day decided to REBOOT my phone to only find me stuck on the CM10 boot animation. I battery pulled, plugged in to see if any recovery would show, none, just the battery charge percentage. I then battery pulled again, got into stock recovery, tried a data and cache wipe to no effect. My problem is, there is NO FXZ for the AT&T leak #2, I have no recovery besides stock and the only thing I can do is take my 32GB SD card out and add/delete files/everything. I saddly did not make a copy of the system.img but was wondering if anyone else possibly did? This would be greatly appreciated as I am stuck with a soft brick until then or a new FXZ to work with AT&T leak #2. Any suggestions or help is very much appreciated. Thanks all for reading and I'm praying for a miracle in my phone right about now lol!
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Okay, so here's a long story short. I flashed AT&T ICS leak #2 when I first got my replacement due to a brick. I ran SCV7 for a week or so and decided to try out CM10. I restored my backup of stock/rooted backup. Uninstalled highjacks, packages and app (bootmenu) itself. I then installed our OG A2 bootstrap, installed fine, installed CM10, played around with it for awhile. Realized I didnt reinstall the OG A2 Bootstrap so went ahead and did that. (without booting into recovery yet) I then later in the day decided to REBOOT my phone to only find me stuck on the CM10 boot animation. I battery pulled, plugged in to see if any recovery would show, none, just the battery charge percentage. I then battery pulled again, got into stock recovery, tried a data and cache wipe to no effect. My problem is, there is NO FXZ for the AT&T leak #2, I have no recovery besides stock and the only thing I can do is take my 32GB SD card out and add/delete files/everything. I saddly did not make a copy of the system.img but was wondering if anyone else possibly did? This would be greatly appreciated as I am stuck with a soft brick until then or a new FXZ to work with AT&T leak #2. Any suggestions or help is very much appreciated. Thanks all for reading and I'm praying for a miracle in my phone right about now lol!
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Hey, and sort of welcome back...
But I hate to be the bearer of bad, bad news... you have a softbrick, and there is NOTHING you can do.
Next time, read everything in an OP... LOL, look who I am telling this to....
The CM10 installs come with their own CWM built in, and flashing bootstrap is what bootlooped you, so after you get another warranty replacement (yes, you HAVE to do this), I would install leak #1 ONLY, then flash cm10 with bootstrap, then do not reinstall any boot hijacks or CWM "like" recovery (bootmenu), because all you have to do it hit the vol down button right as you see the blue led flash during the M dual core logo.
Or enter the CM10 recovery menu and so on and so forth.
This is how I got out of a cm10 boot-loop.
I just restored from bootmenu backup via adb.
tcf38012 said:
Or enter the CM10 recovery menu and so on and so forth.
This is how I got out of a cm10 boot-loop.
I just restored from bootmenu backup via adb.
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he can't, he installed bootstrap while on cm10m, so he can't get to cwm anymore.
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Well, thanks everyone. Specially you jim. Anyone wanna throw me an fxz they think MIGHT work for the second ICS leak? I'm willing to take the risk since I have nothing else to lose. Ill be most likely calling AT&T tomorrow and give some excuse. Soft brick or hard brick...Ill get a replacement...
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Well, thanks everyone. Specially you jim. Anyone wanna throw me an fxz they think MIGHT work for the second ICS leak? I'm willing to take the risk since I have nothing else to lose. Ill be most likely calling AT&T tomorrow and give some excuse. Soft brick or hard brick...Ill get a replacement...
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I will get with alteredlikeness and see if we can possibly think of something together on this one. The first thought would be to try an mearet/searet fxz for 2.3.6 since they can fxz back with out any mods to thier 2.3.6 or 2.3.5 fxz from thier ICS leaks, but I am thinking that will still brick you, but interested to see anyhow.
So I will see if alteredlikeness and I can think of some other way to try. He or I will PM you either way.
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I will get with alteredlikeness and see if we can possibly think of something together on this one. The first thought would be to try an mearet/searet fxz for 2.3.6 since they can fxz back with out any mods to thier 2.3.6 or 2.3.5 fxz from thier ICS leaks, but I am thinking that will still brick you, but interested to see anyhow.
So I will see if alteredlikeness and I can think of some other way to try. He or I will PM you either way.
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he can flash just a system. img from ics though, And that should recover it
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lkrasner said:
he can flash just a system. img from ics though, And that should recover it
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You know, I was seeing in recovery how youbcan flash an update through sd AND system which has a lost and found folder and recovery folder. Dont know if this is of any info but either way because I wouldnt know how to put anything in system since I cant seem to get adb to recognize or moto-fastboot...I'm in a very confused state of mind and almost came to the point of hard brick but I refuse. I'll leave it up to ya devs. Thanks againg everyone.
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i have same issue , any way to flash system img, and where whould i get system img from? i have preiviously backed up thru cwm
justdrew said:
i have same issue , any way to flash system img, and where whould i get system img from? i have preiviously backed up thru cwm
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Try following this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1926873
First Softbrick it seems In Trouble
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Try following this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1926873
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Guys need your urgent help i am into a trouble what is it called technically may be a Soft brick but this is what has happened.
I was trying the Magic mod the installation went superb booted the phone it worked properly and then i used the bootstrap :silly: and tried starting the phone in recovery after which my phone is now stuck at magic mod boot animation. PLEASE HELP.
I am upto a point where have installed drivers latest rsd lite 6.0 ready with the extracted fxz 6.7.2_EDEM-18-SEARET_cfc.xml but phone is not showing up in rsd lite so that i can flash my phone. Phone says USB connected in AP Fastboot mode have a look at the attachment of my desktop. Please HELP guys....
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Beginner Android (Ravi D)
havent you just posted this in the any question answered here thread and getting help there ??
Wow, almost forgot I made this thread lol. But sounds like your drivers need a good updating. Reboot PC after updating and try again is all I can say. Hope this helps.
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Who have receive the new update ASA14? And have copied from cache to sdcard?
I don't see the update, my phone is up2date with ASA10.
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I dont have the update, but the interwebs says its real. http://android-jellybean.com/2013/01/motorola-photon-q-receiving-minor-ota-update-software-version-asa-14/ and unfortunately, its not JB. Which makes me wonder if we will ever get it. OTAs are usually few and far in between for non-prime devices.
VICODAN, do you still own your Q or did you go back to the shift? This may be the 3G fix we've been waiting for! fingercrossed.....
No Update here, Checked Seconds ago, will keep checking. Wondering if ota is blocked one Bootloader is unlocked?,
EDIT: Also wondering if there is a way/place to get it from Motorola/sprint directly and put it in..
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I dont have the update, but the interwebs says its real. http://android-jellybean.com/2013/01/motorola-photon-q-receiving-minor-ota-update-software-version-asa-14/ and unfortunately, its not JB. Which makes me wonder if we will ever get it. OTAs are usually few and far in between for non-prime devices.
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The last update was only 2 months ago....and JB is coming, they've announced it twice.
PythonFanTN said:
The last update was only 2 months ago....and JB is coming, they've announced it twice.
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Sprint says there was an update on the 14th.
http://community.sprint.com/baw/com.../14/motorola-photon-q-4g-lte-software-updates
Found this too
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xt897.motorola/files/XT897/
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Sprint says there was an update on the 14th.
http://community.sprint.com/baw/com.../14/motorola-photon-q-4g-lte-software-updates
Found this too
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xt897.motorola/files/XT897/
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...great ...
btw what is new in this firmware?
Will this effect root?
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No update as of yet.
I read this thread this morning after receiving my THIRD photon Q in a month. This one came with 77.8.10 asa-10 on it already, I have been checking for updates and nothing. According to Sprint website all updates should be received within 14 days of update release.:silly:
There is a chance that root can be removed as part of the update. If you unlocked your boot loader then you can just reflash SuperSU/Superuser. If you used a non warranty voiding method to obtain root there is a chance that loophole has been patched.
You can try installing OTARootKeeper to backup root, temp unroot the phone, apply the update, then restore root.
For the first Photon Q update you can also follow its old thread and read some of the issues people had trying to update it, very similar things could pop up with this one too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1966998
If you have any custom recovery (CWM or TWRP), make sure you flash stock recovery back too before trying to download and apply the new update. People ran into issues trying to install the first update back in November without reverting back to pure stock status.
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KitsunePaws said:
Sprint says there was an update on the 14th.
http://community.sprint.com/baw/com.../14/motorola-photon-q-4g-lte-software-updates
Found this too
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xt897.motorola/files/XT897/
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Yes, that's the one the OP was posting about in the first place
PythonFanTN said:
If you have any custom recovery (CWM or TWRP), make sure you flash stock recovery back too before trying to download and apply the new update. People ran into issues trying to install the first update back in November without reverting back to pure stock status.
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Yes, that's the one the OP was posting about in the first place
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Totally read your first post wrong, my apologies
Not a problem at all, I skim things fast and misunderstand things all the time myself lol.
Just installed my update, running smooth!
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I also just installed my OTA update. Not noticing any difference and still 4.0.4 of course. Still feels about the same to me.
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If you have any custom recovery (CWM or TWRP), make sure you flash stock recovery back too before trying to download and apply the new update. People ran into issues trying to install the first update back in November without reverting back to pure stock status.
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Yes, that's the one the OP was posting about in the first place
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I just got the update but haven't installed b/c I'm at work. [Q] I know I need to flash stock recovery but do I also need to restore my stock nandroid backup or with the update still install even though I have modded it some?
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just installed the small update. one thing i notice is that the data connection doesnt die when a phone call is made like it used too (since it can do data during a call). So far, the data icon has not disappeared yet either which always really pissed me off as it always seemed to happen when i needed to look something up in a pinch.
PythonFanTN is spot on when saying to make sure you go back to stock recovery first. This update will not apply with TWRP 2.3.3.0. (likely any)
You need to restore stock, odexed, unrooted nandroid and the stock recovery.img before taking the update. Otherwise you will likely soft brick your phone or get stuck in a boot loop.
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i was rooted and it updated without issue. i was using the root from the atrix forum that covered several devices. Unfortunately, it removed root and this method no longer works for me so i ca not re-root with it. hope something new comes out soon.
Yeah, being rooted shouldn't affect it, or at least it didn't with the first update we got past launch stock...but of course you'll be unrooted again after the update.
Hey guys, very new to the whole custom firmware stuff, however I'm a quick learner.
I installed ICS firmware 4.0.3 by using Kies and then stupidly without doing research flashed the kernal for gingerbread on the phone, thus soft bricking it and causing it to just hang at the load screen upon boot.
So what I did was find the stock kernal here and flash that and it fixed the phone and put it back to version 2.3.6 (i originally had it at 2.3.4). However now Kies says that my firmware is not supported to update to ICS from gingerbread, although I previously did it not more than an hour ago.
As of right now I think I may have messed up my phone because when I try to boot in download mode my phone just vibrates at like 4 second intervals and I get these greenpixels that appear for 1-2 seconds and then the phone wont boot in download mode and when I let go of the download buttons the phone boots normally. Any ideas as to how to get the phone back into ICS or even flash it to cm10?
This is an interesting case as I don't think anyone is experiencing this.
BTW i flashed to stock with the return to stock, fix soft brick tar thread on this forum, but after i flashed that, I can no longer access download mode, any ideas as to how I can get to ICS?
Flawlessbrown said:
Hey guys, very new to the whole custom firmware stuff, however I'm a quick learner.
I installed ICS firmware 4.0.3 by using Kies and then stupidly without doing research flashed the kernal for gingerbread on the phone, thus soft bricking it and causing it to just hang at the load screen upon boot.
So what I did was find the stock kernal here and flash that and it fixed the phone and put it back to version 2.3.6 (i originally had it at 2.3.4). However now Kies says that my firmware is not supported to update to ICS from gingerbread, although I previously did it not more than an hour ago.
As of right now I think I may have messed up my phone because when I try to boot in download mode my phone just vibrates at like 4 second intervals and I get these greenpixels that appear for 1-2 seconds and then the phone wont boot in download mode and when I let go of the download buttons the phone boots normally. Any ideas as to how to get the phone back into ICS or even flash it to cm10?
This is an interesting case as I don't think anyone is experiencing this.
BTW i flashed to stock with the return to stock, fix soft brick tar thread on this forum, but after i flashed that, I can no longer access download mode, any ideas as to how I can get to ICS?
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I believe I can help you with this
When you say green pixels are you referring to this?
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For download mode hold down the volume buttons while its off. And plug it into your computer
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Jserrano56 said:
I believe I can help you with this
When you say green pixels are you referring to this?
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Yes how did you fix this problem?
Flawlessbrown said:
Yes how did you fix this problem?
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You're not the first one with this issue, it's fixable, give me time and I'll type out a how-to, I'm pretty I'll get beaten to it though
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After re-reading your post, I'm not entirely sure that I can help, but here goes ..
Please read my ENTIRE post before doing anything, please!
What's the problem? You flashed a rooted kernel that was compiled for GB on a stock ICS ROM.
What needs to be done? Well, We're going to fix it (hopefully)
Go to THIS thread, within this thread is a download link for a file called "UVLB7.tar.md5", download it and follow the instructions in the thread to flash it. You now have a pre July 16th image of GB.. You can do two things from here
1) Kies will (or least should) recognize the firmware on your phone and push you to the latest Official ICS Stock ROM. (This is what you requested in the OP)
OR
2) You can try to root the phone again, I'm assuming THIS was thread you followed to root your phone the first time, If it wasn't, use it now, lol. After you follow the directions in this thread, you should be fully rooted and ready to flash to your hearts desire.
NOTE!!!
YOU NEED TO FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS IN BOTH OF THE THREADS, IT IS POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO HARD BRICK YOU PHONE! IF THAT, OR ANYTHING ELSE HAPPENS, ME NOR THE CREATORS OF THOSE THREADS ARE RESPONSIBLE, YOU'RE CHOOSING TO FOLLOW THEM! BE CAREFUL!!
Sorry for that, lol, just had to cover my grounds
Can someone point me the way to rooting this phone? I'm sorry just very confused, first Samsung phone I have had .. Thank you
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You'll see it if you're looking closely. Best advice I can provide is: read, read, read and make sure you know what you're doing before you try it.
That's the thing.. I've rooted a droid bionic, droid RAZR, and a galaxy nexus.. But I have no idea how to root this
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devildogmp said:
That's the thing.. I've rooted a droid bionic, droid RAZR, and a galaxy nexus.. But I have no idea how to root this
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Try the manual method
soul gaeaty
SlimSnoopOS said:
Try the manual method
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Failed root and now phone wont even boot... please helpp
devildogmp said:
Failed root and now phone wont even boot... please helpp
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At what step does it fail and what software were you on? Shouldn't be any issues up through JB 4.1.2.
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At what step does it fail and what software were you on? Shouldn't be any issues up through JB 4.1.2.
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4.1.2 The very first file im supposed to flash.. phone would never boot back up after that
I tried to root my sptint gs3 with chainfire and it passed in odin and rebooted with the red logo like in the video but I don't have root access and every time I try to ho into recovery mode it runs chainfire again but nothing happens? ?????????????????????????
devildogmp said:
4.1.2 The very first file im supposed to flash.. phone would never boot back up after that
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So it flashed successfully in Odin? You don't boot back into your rom, you pull the battery then continue onto the next step after putting the phone back into Download mode.
dub913 said:
I tried to root my sptint gs3 with chainfire and it passed in odin and rebooted with the red logo like in the video but I don't have root access and every time I try to ho into recovery mode it runs chainfire again but nothing happens? ?????????????????????????
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I was going to tell you to post in the Sprint S3 Q/A section, but I see you just made a thread. Good luck.
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So it flashed successfully in Odin? You don't boot back into your rom, you pull the battery then continue onto the next step after putting the phone back into Download mode.
I was going to tell you to post in the Sprint S3 Q/A section, but I see you just made a thread. Good luck.
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I mean the phone wont boot. pulled battery and all that but phone wont turn on, wont boot into recovery or downloading mode. nothing
devildogmp said:
I mean the phone wont boot. pulled battery and all that but phone wont turn on, wont boot into recovery or downloading mode. nothing
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So you flashed the bootchain in PDA, waited for the tar file to flash, your S3 rebooted on its own and it would not boot back up? Or did something else happen? I've used that thread and many others as you can see in there with no issues.
Cuz unfortunately that sounds like a hard brick and there's two ways of recovering from that. The first way is doing this which requires you to have a class 10 sdcard that is the same size as your phone's internal storage. The other way is paying and shipping it off to a third party service like MobileTechVideos.
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So you flashed the bootchain in PDA, waited for the tar file to flash, your S3 rebooted on its own and it would not boot back up? Or did something else happen? I've used that thread and many others as you can see in there with no issues.
Cuz unfortunately that sounds like a hard brick and there's two ways of recovering from that. The first way is doing this which requires you to have a class 10 sdcard that is the same size as your phone's internal storage. The other way is paying and shipping it off to a third party service like MobileTechVideos.
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I gave up. I went to the store and bought a Galaxy Note 2. I won't be rooting any more phones any time soon..
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So it flashed successfully in Odin? You don't boot back into your rom, you pull the battery then continue onto the next step after putting the phone back into Download mode.
I was going to tell you to post in the Sprint S3 Q/A section, but I see you just made a thread. Good luck.
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Ok now when I try to use cwm it says can't mount can't mount can't open can't mount the it aborts ????
Use Odin to flash to stock then use casual to root/install recovery, ezz
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Darwin award
devildogmp said:
I gave up. I went to the store and bought a Galaxy Note 2. I won't be rooting any more phones any time soon..
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So I've been working on this all night last night and all day today.
The issue- phone will boot, get to the red Verizon boot screen, sit there for approximately 45-60 seconds, then go to the lock screen. Within a couple of seconds, Then a message pops up that says process com.android.phone has stopped, then the phone reboots.
What I've tried- flashing various Vralec boot strings through Odin 3.2 and 1.3. Also tried five different stock ROMs and a CF Auto Root, in the hopes unlocking the bootloader would allow me to get a ROM to flash. Each and every one of these things has had an AUTH fail in Odin. Can anyone help me please?
I've also googled stuck red verizon screen, verizon s3 boot loop, process com.android.phone has stopped. None of the solutions I've found have been helpful, and are usually what led to the actions tried above. I believe I've encountered this before, but I checked my post history and wasn't able to find a thread, so I assume I found the solution on my own the last time.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
What software version are you running? What baseband?
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What software version are you running? What baseband?
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This is a warranty replacement from Verizon. Since I can't get it to boot, is there an alternative method to find those versions?
I have another S3, replaced less than a month ago, so I would assume they are the same software version and basebands, and that one is running 4.4.2 and I535OYUDNE1
The soft bricked, boot loop, S3 belongs to my girlfriend.
Flashing other ROMs on the S3 4.3 and newer will brick it. The bootloader was never unlocked. I'll try to find the thread describing the issue and post it here.
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I hope that helps.
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Hybridnoob said:
Flashing other ROMs on the S3 4.4 and newer will brick it. The bootloader was never unlocked. I'll try to find the thread describing the issue and post it here.
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Flashing the ROMS through Odin failed every time, and none of that was done until AFTER the phone went in to a boot loop. It was already soft bricked, so I tried various different methods. Now I know, for future reference, that attempting to flash ROMs without unlocking the bootloader will brick it. Good to know.
If I can work around the Odin failed authorization, I believe I can flash a stock ROM to the phone and be all right, OR if someone can tell me how to unlock the bootloader, I should be able to flash a custom ROM, correct? It seems that the boot partition permissions were changed and have now affected the boot process, from what I've been reading.
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Flashing other ROMs on the S3 4.3 and newer will brick it. The bootloader was never unlocked. I'll try to find the thread describing the issue and post it here.
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I hope that helps.
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Reading up on your link now, will let you know result. Thank you!
edit: ok, I looked at the download mode accessible link, and that is one I'd tried before. Flashed the ALL I535 .tar and ran in to the auth fail message on odin. Going to try the other method now.
No one has been able to unlock the bootloader since 4.3. I doubt anyone's really trying now because the phone is older. Sorry man.
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Hybridnoob said:
No one has been able to unlock the bootloader since 4.3. I doubt anyone's really trying now because the phone is older. Sorry man.
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I got towelroot to work to get my S3 to be able to install SuperSU and then Titanium Backup, but haven't found a bootloader unlock either. So, the phone is pretty much bricked?
jester369 said:
I got towelroot to work to get my S3 to be able to install SuperSU and then Titanium Backup, but haven't found a bootloader unlock either. So, the phone is pretty much bricked?
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Bricked no, if your able to install apps it's far from bricked. He is correct however once the bootloader is locked your pretty much stuck. Replacements directly from verizon are coming back with 4.4.2 installed.
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Unless you can find a fully stock ROM to flash via Odin, you may be in trouble. Unlocking the bootloader isn't an option. Without seeing your phone, I won't say it's bricked though.
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Hybridnoob said:
Unless you can find a fully stock ROM to flash via Odin, you may be in trouble. Unlocking the bootloader isn't an option. Without seeing your phone, I won't say it's bricked though.
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As I just stated in the post above yours if you can install apps the phone isn't bricked. Bootloader unlocking on the S3 with 4.3 or 4.4 is merely a possibility but probably unlikely
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No one has been able to unlock the bootloader since 4.3. I doubt anyone's really trying now because the phone is older. Sorry man.
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All right, tried the recover from computer, it's to recover a bricked bootloader. My bootloader isn't bricked, it's the actual ROM that's non functional. So that didn't help. Just need a stock ROM to flash to the phone, can still get to download mode, which connects to Odin, no problem, can also get to stock recovery, Volume Up, Menu, power. Just need a stock ROM that works, or a way to get whatever authorization Odin or the phone wants in order to flash a boot chain and stock ROM. (I do know now not to flash a custom ROM, thank you for that!)
ShapesBlue said:
Bricked no, if your able to install apps it's far from bricked. He is correct however once the bootloader is locked your pretty much stuck. Replacements directly from verizon are coming back with 4.4.2 installed.
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Sorry, some clarification. I have TWO S3s, MY S3 is fine, and can install apps. The girlfriend's S3 is soft bricked and in a boot loop. Bootloader is fine, download mode is fine. Just hangs on red Verizon boot screen, when it gets to lock screen says process com.android.phone has stopped and reboots.
Hybridnoob said:
Unless you can find a fully stock ROM to flash via Odin, you may be in trouble. Unlocking the bootloader isn't an option. Without seeing your phone, I won't say it's bricked though.
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Been trying to find a fully stock ROM and been unsuccessful. Any I've found have failed in Odin and failed to flash in stock recovery mode, something about a certificate failure.
jester369 said:
Sorry, some clarification. I have TWO S3s, MY S3 is fine, and can install apps. The girlfriend's S3 is soft bricked and in a boot loop. Bootloader is fine, download mode is fine. Just hangs on red Verizon boot screen, when it gets to lock screen says process com.android.phone has stopped and reboots.
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I definitely would not call that soft bricked. Can you get into recovery and try clearing cache and reboot? Worst case, factory reset from recovery and you should be good to go.
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Hybridnoob said:
I definitely would not call that soft bricked. Can you get into recovery and try clearing cache and reboot? Worst case, factory reset from recovery and you should be good to go.
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I can get in to recovery, I've tried clearing cache, factory reset, no dice. Exact same thing.
have you tried using odin or kies to just flash the stock NE1 4.4.2? youll have to reroot with towelroot afterwards but atleast the phone will be functional. as for the bootloader, sounds like its locked anyways so it wont be no worse than the shape youre in already.
4.4 and 4.3 Sticky Roll-Up Thead
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2639337
TouchWiz 4.4 Download List
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...4-download-list-7-10-14-t2812189/post54062704
VRUDNE1 (Android 4.4.2 - Kit Kat) No-Wipe Factory Image
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2795659
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have you tried using odin or kies to just flash the stock NE1 4.4.2? youll have to reroot with towelroot afterwards but atleast the phone will be functional. as for the bootloader, sounds like its locked anyways so it wont be no worse than the shape youre in already.
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I have tried that, I believe I haven't been able to find a stock 4.4.2 ROM though. I'm fine with rebooting and re rooting, that's not my concern, even if I can't root, I don't care about that. Could you point me to a solid stock ROM image?
The images I've tried, numerous labeled stock ROMs, and, out of desperation last night, two custom ROMs. Through either recovery mode, or Odin, all failed, through recovery it was a certificate error, and through Odin it was an authorization error. AUTH FAIL, specifically.
jester369 said:
I have tried that, I believe I haven't been able to find a stock 4.4.2 ROM though. I'm fine with rebooting and re rooting, that's not my concern, even if I can't root, I don't care about that. Could you point me to a solid stock ROM image?
The images I've tried, numerous labeled stock ROMs, and, out of desperation last night, two custom ROMs. Through either recovery mode, or Odin, all failed, through recovery it was a certificate error, and through Odin it was an authorization error. AUTH FAIL, specifically.
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that last link i believe is the actual tar file for NE1 if i remember correctly, i used kies when i updated mine and i didnt encounter any errors. did you delete the .md5 so it was just .tar (not .tar.md5) before trying it in odin? i know most people prefer odin over kies but if youre having this many problems kies is worth a shot.
worst case i can upload the one i have
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that last link i believe is the actual tar file for NE1 if i remember correctly, i used kies when i updated mine and i didnt encounter any errors. did you delete the .md5 so it was just .tar (not .tar.md5) before trying it in odin? i know most people prefer odin over kies but if youre having this many problems kies is worth a shot.
worst case i can upload the one i have
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I will try that and report back. Thank you!