Hi guys,
I have run into a problem when trying to revert my phone back to stock using odin. Here is the backstory. I was rooted running CM 10.2. Decided to try a 4.3 ROM. Flashed the new ROM successfully but noticed it was really janky when I was setting it up (clean install) and decided to flash my backup of CM 10.2. When flashing the backup, the flash only partially completed and booted into a non-functional version of my 10.2 ROM.
At this point I decided to use Odin and go back to completely stock. Ive used this a few months ago and it worked successfully. I used a tar.md5 of VRBLK3. Odin says "passed!" but when the phone tries to boot up, it gets to the verizon 4G animation and sits there cycling through that animation indefinitely.
I'm at a loss as to what to try next. Ive tried re-doing the odin flash with the same results. Thanks for any help!
Edit: Ive tried booting into the recovery and doing factory rest/wipe cache partition with no luck
Edit: Tried booted into recovery and it worked! I think im good from here.
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I had something similar happen several months ago. I believe the solution for me was to boot into recovery and clear out the cache.
amotamatapia said:
Hi guys,
I have run into a problem when trying to revert my phone back to stock using odin. Here is the backstory. I was rooted running CM 10.2. Decided to try a 4.3 ROM. Flashed the new ROM successfully but noticed it was really janky when I was setting it up (clean install) and decided to flash my backup of CM 10.2. When flashing the backup, the flash only partially completed and booted into a non-functional version of my 10.2 ROM.
At this point I decided to use Odin and go back to completely stock. Ive used this a few months ago and it worked successfully. I used a tar.md5 of VRBLK3. Odin says "passed!" but when the phone tries to boot up, it gets to the verizon 4G animation and sits there cycling through that animation indefinitely.
I'm at a loss as to what to try next. Ive tried re-doing the odin flash with the same results. Thanks for any help!
Edit: Ive tried booting into the recovery and doing factory rest/wipe cache partition with no luck
Edit: Tried booted into recovery and it worked! I think im good from here.
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athensjohn said:
I had something similar happen several months ago. I believe the solution for me was to boot into recovery and clear out the cache.
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If you didn't get it fixed, pull battery, boot into recovery and factory reset. This will clear data and cache from previous installed ROM. Odin doesn't do this for you.
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ok. the phone will not completely boot into a rom (stock or custom). but i have wiped all data, cache, dalvik MANY times, i have flashed stock kernel and rom from samsung. this will start to load the 4G LTE boot animation and just hangs there all night. i have tried the [ROOT] VRALEC Bootchain - Allows us to Odin a custom recovery method and flashed a stock rooted rom also, just either hangs at the 4glte boot screen or just reboots over and over never getting passed the samsung logo at initial power up.
I have tried beanstown, i have tried everything i can seem to find on the forums. same 2 outcomes. I am using ODIN, and i have never had issues with this before (usually test something out every 2-3 days tops).
is there a chance somehow my partition table is all screwed up? i am lost with ideas at the moment.
lol. has this scared everyone off?
does any one have a stock backup of the NANDROID from their phone? i would be great if they could hook me up as i am in desperate need of one.
bump for ANYONE with any ideas on this first post
did you make a back-up? if not, download root66 to your computer and ODIN to that, if you can get into download mode
goldsmitht said:
did you make a back-up? if not, download root66 to your computer and ODIN to that, if you can get into download mode
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i can get into download mode, and i have used odin to do root66. reboot and same thing happens and hangs. also flashed stock kernel.
I do not have my backup because either it has erased my internal sd card, or it is not accessing it.
Hey there guys.
I rooted my Blaze back in October, and loaded CWM 10. Things weren't working 100% right and I decided to unroot today to get the phone back to factory settings. Unfortunately, no matter how many times I follow the directions for unrooting the Blaze--using the .pit, and the updated firmware .tar--my phone still gets stuck in a reboot loop. It gets past the T-Mobile Blaze screen, but gets stuck on the SAMSUNG screen (it just has SAMSUNG flashing over and over, and then loops into the Android screen).
I've tried to flash the stock .tar about seven times now, and each time it's done the exact same thing. I haven't been able to find a thread to help me, despite searching enthusiastically, so I hope you guys can help me out. Basically, I've done everything the unrooting guides have told me to do, but my phone still appears to be soft-bricked. I can still get into download mode, Odin still recognizes the phone, and it always says that my process has succeeded, but then the phone still gets stuck in a reboot loop.
Any ideas?
Have you booted to the recovery and factory resetted and wiped cache?
Romman0 said:
Have you booted to the recovery and factory resetted and wiped cache?
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I did before I tried to unroot it the first time, yes, with CWM. Now, the phone seems to think it's unrooted, so it won't let me go into recovery mode and factory reset.
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Have you booted to the recovery and factory resetted and wiped cache?
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Oops, sorry, I misinterpreted your question. Yes, when I boot into recovery mode I can factory reset, wipe cache, etc. I've done all those things before trying to flash the stock rom, and it hasn't helped.
jadeth said:
Hey there guys.
I rooted my Blaze back in October, and loaded CWM 10. Things weren't working 100% right and I decided to unroot today to get the phone back to factory settings. Unfortunately, no matter how many times I follow the directions for unrooting the Blaze--using the .pit, and the updated firmware .tar--my phone still gets stuck in a reboot loop. It gets past the T-Mobile Blaze screen, but gets stuck on the SAMSUNG screen (it just has SAMSUNG flashing over and over, and then loops into the Android screen).
I've tried to flash the stock .tar about seven times now, and each time it's done the exact same thing. I haven't been able to find a thread to help me, despite searching enthusiastically, so I hope you guys can help me out. Basically, I've done everything the unrooting guides have told me to do, but my phone still appears to be soft-bricked. I can still get into download mode, Odin still recognizes the phone, and it always says that my process has succeeded, but then the phone still gets stuck in a reboot loop.
Any ideas?
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So first register at www.sammobile.com, then search SGH-T769 under firmware and download the August 2012 ICS or The Feb 2013 ICS Firmware, wait for the download to finish (took me 30 minutes) then extract which ever firmware zip you downloaded then using Odin click on PDA and select the .md5 file which is located in the extracted ICS Firmware Folder that you've downloaded from sammobile.com
Download the PIT file here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1919228
Click on PIT in Odin and then select the one downloaded from the link above
then make sure re-partition isn't checked and start the flashing process after it is done flashing and reboots you'll have stock ics
*BOOT LOOP MIGHT OCCUR*
To fix boot looping after flashing stock ICS just boot into stock or custom recovery and wipe data and cache then reboot and you're good to go.
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Thank u i thought i was fully bricked
Thank u for the post my phone is alive again thank u alot i was trying to install twrp after i had cwm recovery and i wasnt able to install it so it soft bricked my phone but i used ur steps and it all worked out thanks :victory:
I wanted to update my firmware since my phone has been giving me problems lately. The phone is a rooted Samsung Galaxy S3 (SCH‑I535) with the standard rom. I tried to flash it back using ODIN and the stock firmware but it keeps hanging at the Verizon logo screen. Not sure if it's an issue but I didn't reset my flash counter to 0 before trying to go back to stock. I can still get into recovery and use ODIN so what should I do?
What recovery do you have? If you have twrp or cwm you can clear the cache and erase everything only if you have a back up. This should fix it
ChinoHang said:
What recovery do you have? If you have twrp or cwm you can clear the cache and erase everything only if you have a back up. This should fix it
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I had twrp and I just tried that and.....IT WORKED! I spend way to much time trying to figure that out. Thanks man.
No problem
I successfully installed SafeStrap and flashed the Liquidsmooth ROM. It came up and booted once, but I could not login as the password I had set for the phone all of a sudden didn't work.
I restarted it again, tried again, no luck.
I then got it into download mode, ran Odin3, tried to flash the s3vzw_4.4.2.tar file, said it was successful, but is stuck at the Liquidsmooth boot screen.
Booted into recovery, tried to do a factory wipe, it was unsuccessful.
So . . . I am stuck with it at the boot screen.
Am I screwed now? Or is there a way to get it back?
Any and all help is appreciated.
UPDATE -- I was able to format Data and I seemed to have gained some traction. From there I wiped the cache as well and loaded the ROM again and it boots.
I'm actually trying to figure out how I can load an older factory ROM.
jaypeetee said:
I successfully installed SafeStrap and flashed the Liquidsmooth ROM. It came up and booted once, but I could not login as the password I had set for the phone all of a sudden didn't work.
I restarted it again, tried again, no luck.
I then got it into download mode, ran Odin3, tried to flash the s3vzw_4.4.2.tar file, said it was successful, but is stuck at the Liquidsmooth boot screen.
Booted into recovery, tried to do a factory wipe, it was unsuccessful.
So . . . I am stuck with it at the boot screen.
Am I screwed now? Or is there a way to get it back?
Any and all help is appreciated.
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jaypeetee said:
UPDATE -- I was able to format Data and I seemed to have gained some traction. From there I wiped the cache as well and loaded the ROM again and it boots.
I'm actually trying to figure out how I can load an older factory ROM.
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You can't flash any custom roms with the 4.4.2 NE1 bootloader, your currently soft bricked because of it
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First off I didn't think I was a noob but I guess I have to eat crow. I have a GS5 running SM-G900P with OG1. I rooted with CF-Auto-Root-kltespr-kltespr-smg900p.tar.md5 which I did using Odin 3.10 and all went well. Then I set up Odin and flashed philz_touch_6.26.1-klte.tar.md5 and everything went well and the phone worked great. I booted into recovery did my back up like we were all taught to do and when I rebooted I get stuck at the yellow Spark Screen. I have wiped everything that I can think of in Philz and I did get back in once but nothing was running and or crashed. I rebooted but then got stuck at the same place.
I have tried redoing the system with G900PVPU3BOG1_G900PSPT3BOG1_G900PVPU3BOG1_HOME.tar.md5 which I found on another thread but no joy here. I rooted it again and installed philz but everything was the same stuck at the yellow screen. I have installed my backup and no luck there either. I have tried and tried but got nothing. I was going to install MOAR and was going to give that a try but not sure if that would make things worse or what. Any suggestions would sure be great. Thanks in advanced
I think nobody likes answering posts like this because my phone did the same thing I posted it and I got no response. I finally got my phone back to normal though I lost all my info though but my phone works again. I used twrp 2.8.7.0 and did an advanced wipe of the cache, data, dalvik cache, and then rebooted and it worked again although it had to go throuh the whole activation and setup process again.
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1. Did you try restoring your backup?
2. If you Odin the stock tar, just try to boot it
3. If I were you, I would odin the stock tar, boot, shut down, odin a recovery, and then use odin for supersu tar or recovery for a supersu zip. I could be wrong, but I thought I read that some people had issues with autoroot on the new OTA OG1.
4. MOAR is fairly stable and pretty stock and since you flashed a recovery...might as well.
I recommend using TWRP by ktoonsez. Never ever have I had an issue.
Also, when recovering from any issues, flash stock tar as you have, let it reboot to recovery and you'll see a little android guy doing stuff, it will reboot afterwards. After it powers off and the android guy is gone, hold home and volume up to boot into stock recovery and use the stock recovery to wipe the data.
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