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[HELP?] Soft-Brick?

So i decied to go to carbon rom because my phone has been acting strange, YouTube would keep resigning in everything i would launch it, Random crashed and freezes and has just been acting up for no good reason. I was running CM 10.1 nightly and dont apply ant mods to it or anything like that becuase i like it simple.
When i flashed the rom i did it with gapps but they were not intalled when i boot, all i got was my SIM pin popup like i usualy get. So i re-flashed gapps and still no luck. So i said f*** it and found another build of it and copyed it to my SD Card and was going to flash it. Like i allways do i went to factory reset and all i got was a long log of cant remove lost+found and same happed when i tryed to wipe the system. and that didnt look good so i pulled the battery and booted recovery with the key press and it would get to teamwin screen but would reboot. Opened oden on my desktop, reflashed teamwin tar and that didnt help it. So i was lucky that i loaded the rom and i rebooted to recovery and am copying all my /data/media to a sdcard that i have
So can anyone give me some links to the 16GB PIT and all that jazz so i can get thing back up and running
And no i am not a n00b becasue i have been working with android and other phones long enough to know what i am doing

powercamg4 said:
So i decied to go to carbon rom because my phone has been acting strange, YouTube would keep resigning in everything i would launch it, Random crashed and freezes and has just been acting up for no good reason. I was running CM 10.1 nightly and dont apply ant mods to it or anything like that becuase i like it simple.
When i flashed the rom i did it with gapps but they were not intalled when i boot, all i got was my SIM pin popup like i usualy get. So i re-flashed gapps and still no luck. So i said f*** it and found another build of it and copyed it to my SD Card and was going to flash it. Like i allways do i went to factory reset and all i got was a long log of cant remove lost+found and same happed when i tryed to wipe the system. and that didnt look good so i pulled the battery and booted recovery with the key press and it would get to teamwin screen but would reboot. Opened oden on my desktop, reflashed teamwin tar and that didnt help it. So i was lucky that i loaded the rom and i rebooted to recovery and am copying all my /data/media to a sdcard that i have
So can anyone give me some links to the 16GB PIT and all that jazz so i can get thing back up and running
And no i am not a n00b becasue i have been working with android and other phones long enough to know what i am doing
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I think this is what you are looking for. Follow the guide and you will be on stock, rooted, and unlocked.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2046439

mapatton82 said:
I think this is what you are looking for. Follow the guide and you will be on stock, rooted, and unlocked.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2046439
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Iv been able to load a rom but now i cant write to the phone, i have now found a guide talking about unbricking it useing odin anf a nand erase all and thats not working eather, any story i can tell verizon so i can get a replacement today?

Update!
Iv been useing http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840030 to try to get my phone back and so far it has failed but i decied to switch computers, all my computers are now running windows 8 and i ws doing this on my development computer / server and then i switched to the last computer to have windows 7 next to my main computer and what do you know it worked, the nand erase worked and now its booting im sure i will have to re-unlock the bootloader and all but im happy now

Experienced User seeking help on a Semi Bricked N5

Hey guys. Before I get to my issue and seek your help , please allow me to give you a bit of background about my self wrt Android OS and nexus devices. I have been a Nexus device user since the N1 days. OS flashing , Custom rom's , kernel patching , etc are nothing new to me. I can safely say that I am a custom rom addict , hence I know the mods for my devices intricately well. With this out of the way , I'd like to share the sequence of events that took place yesterday , which lead to this new thread , wherein I desperately need some expert advice.
- I was running the latest Bigxie 5.0 rom for my 32gb N5. It had root and TWRP and elementalx kernel
- I wanted to upgrade to the 5.0.1 without losing any data , so I first tried to sideload the OTA zip file , which failed with some error. I then followed this guide (http://bit.ly/1wNT36l) . I was able to therefore flash the 5.0.1 without losing data. I re rooted my phone , re flashed the recovery and the kernel
- At the same time I was upgrading my LG g3 to Lollipop. I wanted to try the "Tap & Go" data transfer feature , so I used that process to transfer the data from my current N5 to the new G3. Here is when the issue started. The data transfer didn't go through , as only the email accounts transferred to the G3. At the same time , I got this notification on the Nexus that Tap and Go was used to transfer my email accounts , and this notification couldn't be cleared from the notification panel. For some odd reason , I decided to jump back into recovery and wipe cache and dalvik cache to get rid of this notification
- As soon as I did that specific wipe and restarted the phone , the phone would just loop at the nexus image boot screen. 15 minutes later I went back into recovery and decided to use the "factory reset wipe". That too didn't solve my problem. Frustrated at the turn of events , I reflashed Bigxie's 5.0 rom from my internal storage , via twrp.
- The phone finally booted! But now the problem was that my Sdcard was showing no files. It was all blank. I checked with root explorer / es explorer and even when I hooked up my phone to my pc , the sdcard was showing no files. I could , however , see all my files in the root -- data -- media -- 0 folder. I tried my best to extract all my files from there , but each time I got an error that pretty much meant that no files could be moved from there. Interestingly , when I went into twrp , and went into file manager in the advanced options , it showed all my files on the sdcard as though nothing went wrong. So I could see everything on the sdcard in recovery , but nothing if i booted into the OS.
- Since I had made a backup of most of my data prior to any this happening , with the exception of certain whatsapp data , and after having spent almost 5-6 hours in figuring out where I had possibly gone wrong , I decided to wipe my device clean and just install the stock OS and pack this device away for good
- I downloaded the stock factory image for 5.0 from the official site and went back into bootloader and fastboot flashed each and every file. The phone booted , BUT , now my phone showed only 12GB as the size of the storage with 11GB available. This frazzled me beyond words! How did I reach this stage wherein my internal storage was screwed to this level?
- I again went back into bootloader , flashed 5.0.1 , wiped the device and now the phone is again stuck in a bootloop on the nexus bootscreen
I have finally decided to send the device to the LG service center near my office , but I wanted to share this experience with the community hear and seek their guidance on where I possibly went wrong and what I can do now to put things back together to some degree of normality. Have I somehow damaged something at the hardware level that a change of motherboard may be warranted or is this a pure software screwup?
Thank you for your patience in reading this loooooong story , but I had to explain each and every step in perfect detail.

after flashing stock image.. there is no need to wipe anything... just boot it... takes around 5-10mins max but comes up.....

When it does 12GB on a 32GB device, you just have to factory reset using the option from inside the ROM.
Sent from my Nexus 5 with the N5X LRX22C ROM

tip, just because you know and read rom´s instructions and such, dosent mean you are an experiencied user.this 99% would have save you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...orial-how-to-flash-factory-images-lg-t2713833

opssemnik said:
tip, just because you know and read rom´s instructions and such, dosent mean you are an experiencied user.this 99% would have save you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...orial-how-to-flash-factory-images-lg-t2713833
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Well said , and understood. I followed a different set of instructions and flashed back to stock and fixed my device. Thank you for your help.

ecksreturns said:
Well said , and understood. I followed a different set of instructions and flashed back to stock and fixed my device. Thank you for your help.
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haha no problem, i thoguth i was an experienced user too, but then i bricked mine by flashing lg g2´s rpm partition to get a different partition layout. lol. glad you got your n5 back

F***ed up badly, now downloading factory rom, need help to continue

Hi guys, I just registered @ xda because it looks like it's the only serious and feedback active community available. In 10 minutes I found most of the info I was looking for, but I still want to make sure what Im planning to do is fine before I mess up again. Here's the issue:
I was fooling around with the tablet and had just rooted it so I could get rid of some bloatware, and decided to go further and install cyanogen, just for the looks. So I got this thing cm-10.1-20130411-EXPERIMENTAL-p3110-M3 from the official site, which was I put on a folder inside the tablets storage (not on the 16gb SDcard it had in it). I downloaded Rom Manager and skipped through the "search and download rom" and went for the option of looking for it inside the SD card. I had the Backup options and the wipe cache and data ON.
So I proceeded and it booted, started to do the backup and at some final point it had an error, something like "could not backup Data!". I had the options of rebooting, some other stuff and the option of installing a rom from the SD Card. I went for it and searched for the .zip inside the storage, and installed it. It did it withouth trouble, and when it finishd it prompted me to install an update, which I didn't (don't know why).
Then, I went for the reeboot option and when it started I get the normal samsung's black screen with the device's name on it, but then I get a fast glitching image that sweeps through the screen and the cyanogen startup logo which gets stuck for ever.
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Now Im past it, I can get to download or recovery mode, so I moved onto getting the original firmware so I can clean-install again. I got it from sammobile, chose the one belonging to Chile (that's where I got the tablet), and it's 729mb of data. The tablet is a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 P3110
If I flash it with Odin will everything be fine? All I have to do is that thing in downloadmode when I rooted it, but with that 729mb file? Should I put it in the external SD or is it more convenient to place it in the internal storage?
I appreciate your help in advance, I know this is as basic as it gets but messing up again would cost me dearly, since I have to do other stuff.

forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1900055 read here, all the information you will need.
It's fine to flash through odin, you will back at stock provided you don't overlook small details and do exactly like the way it is shown. Don't worry, Don't panic. Just be careful to use the files meant for your device only. Second be extra careful when you are dealing with kernel file, pit file or reparation in odin in future.
Third, get root and custom recovery,twrp.
Fourth, after your device start running take backup from twrp recovery. That will save you from most of the trouble.
Most of the details and instructions are already here

billysam said:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1900055 read here, all the information you will need.
It's fine to flash through odin, you will back at stock provided you don't overlook small details and do exactly like the way it is shown. Don't worry, Don't panic. Just be careful to use the files meant for your device only. Second be extra careful when you are dealing with kernel file, pit file or reparation in odin in future.
Third, get root and custom recovery,twrp.
Fourth, after your device start running take backup from twrp recovery. That will save you from most of the trouble.
Most of the details and instructions are already here
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hey thanks a lot, im feeling better ow. There's just one issue left: I cant download the original firmware (it's 699mb, and the download keeps stopping midway through it). What happens if I go into clockwork recovery mode and do a factory reset? would that bring me to the original OS? Im kinda scared of downloading an erroneous file again.
EDIT: im doing a factory reset and then flashing this rom called AOSP Project Android 5.1.1 Lollipop on Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 P3110 which is a 161mb file. Will that work?

aguscanzani said:
hey thanks a lot, im feeling better ow. There's just one issue left: I cant download the original firmware (it's 699mb, and the download keeps stopping midway through it). What happens if I go into clockwork recovery mode and do a factory reset? would that bring me to the original OS? Im kinda scared of downloading an erroneous file again.
EDIT: im doing a factory reset and then flashing this rom called AOSP Project Android 5.1.1 Lollipop on Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 P3110 which is a 161mb file. Will that work?
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Factory reset is just clearing data and cache, if you have made changes in kernel or system, factory reset won't reset them, in your case, system has been altered so you will have to format system, then flash the new rom. If you were on jelly bean stock, you are good to flash it.

billysam said:
Factory reset is just clearing data and cache, if you have made changes in kernel or system, factory reset won't reset them, in your case, system has been altered so you will have to format system, then flash the new rom. If you were on jelly bean stock, you are good to flash it.
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You guys have helped me a lot. I've worked everything out and now i've got to reinstalling android on it, AOSP's 5.1.1 Lollipop. It's beautiful. There's just one problem: Since it came with no apps at all, I wanted to install everything on it again. Problem is, when I go to google play, it shows that i've already got my apps installed, so it wont let me download them, and it doesn't matter if I place the APK's inside the tablet as there's no manager to open them. Even if I download apk's through the tablet's own web browser, it says it can't open the file. Any ideas on this?

Stuck in a bootloop + CWM question

Edit: Solved, see bottom
ROM (D6633_Customized HK_1290-5630_23.4.A.0.546_R6C_HK_SuperSU2.46_XZDR2.8.21-signedv2)
Bit of a dumb move on my part. It all started when my snapchat stopped working, I updated, and then Titanium Backup wouldn't restore the data properly (giving me "parse error"). I was trying to fix that and read online that sometimes this is caused by improper permissions, so I booted into recovery mode, couldn't find the option, but somehow decided "hey, maybe my root permission (?) is wrong slash it's 6am and I just watched a wild 2016 election end" and I hit the button. Now my phone is stuck in a bootloop.
So my question:
1) What exactly does re-root phone do (in CWM), and why would that have messed me up? Is it because I have a pre-rooted rom?
2) I wiped cache and delvik and it doesn't help
3) How do I fix this? I was thinking of loading a SuperSU zip on the SD card from my computer and flashing that, assuming somehow a corrupted root is at fault. I can't seem to get the thing in ADB mode as a side note.
3b) If that seems like a good idea, does it matter what one I use?
4) If I reflash the ROM, it should keep my apps and stuff, ya? I don't actually care if my phone is crippled, I just need it to work long enough to properly back up some media, and mainly get my whatsapp over to my new SIM card. If I can't get in it's forever stuck on my old number which I don't have the SIM for anymore.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
Edit: I don't know how to delete this. Anyways, with other resources I found out that because I used a pre-rooted ROM, there were issues with using CWM to try to do the rooting with its built in functions, softbricking the phone. Reflashing the original pre-rooted ROM worked fine.

Galaxy S3 - need help with custom rom - can't boot

Hi all
I hope that I am posting in the correct place
I need help with my Galaxy S3 SGH-T999
Recently the phone died on me, it was stock rom and with the updates through some of the apps, the phone stopped working correctly. I don't use the phone for making calls, etc, but need it for pictures and a few other apps. The phone is from T-mobile.
I tried to reset the phone and that worked until all the updates were back on and then back to the same problem.
So I decided to put on a custom rom on the phone.
I have tried the following roms:
cm-14.1-20161225-NIGHTLY-d2tmo
I9300XXUGNB6_I9300OJVGNB3_I9300XXUGNA8_HOME
RevolutionaryS5-V3
Slim-d2tmo-6.0.1.alpha.0.1-UNOFFICIAL-20160516-1346
I first installed CWM recovery and then transferred the roms over to the external sd car (also the internal card), went to boot manager (vol up) and installed the files.
It looked like the installation worked but when selecting reboot, the phone would not come back on.
I then loaded up Kies and reset the phone back to factory defaults and only then does the phone load back up after reboot.
Every time I try the custom rom - I run into the same problem
At first I thought the phone was bricked and found info about the jtag and then found something about using an SD card with the following image installed on it - tmobile-T999_4.3_debrick
With the SD card in the phone I can boot to either menus and also able to get the phone to boot to the slim-d2tmo rom. But when I pull the SD card, the phone won't boot. Nothing, no power, nada
I am not sure what I did wrong, followed the direction on the site and thought I did it correctly.
Not sure if I deleted some file, or partition needed or what. I would greatly appreciate some help with this.
Also I would like a custom rom that is stable and fast. I don't need all the bells and whistles but one thing I would like and that is for the camera to be able to take pictures using voice. I know the stock rom allows for this. Not essential but preferred.
Please help with detailed instructions.
Thanks in advance.
After writing this I just loaded up T999UVUEMJC_T999TMBEMJC_T999UVUEMJC_HOME.tar and managed to get the phone back up and running. Then tried the cm-14.1-20161225-NIGHTLY-d2tmo - which I kinda like but it will not boot up without the SD card in. I can manage to get the phone booted with the SD card and get into the new custom rom, but I have to keep pulling the battery, insert the SD card and then try to boot. Don't think it should work like this
Please help.

kouger1 said:
Hi all
I hope that I am posting in the correct place
I need help with my Galaxy S3 SGH-T999
Recently the phone died on me, it was stock rom and with the updates through some of the apps, the phone stopped working correctly. I don't use the phone for making calls, etc, but need it for pictures and a few other apps. The phone is from T-mobile.
I tried to reset the phone and that worked until all the updates were back on and then back to the same problem.
So I decided to put on a custom rom on the phone.
I have tried the following roms:
cm-14.1-20161225-NIGHTLY-d2tmo
I9300XXUGNB6_I9300OJVGNB3_I9300XXUGNA8_HOME
RevolutionaryS5-V3
Slim-d2tmo-6.0.1.alpha.0.1-UNOFFICIAL-20160516-1346
I first installed CWM recovery and then transferred the roms over to the external sd car (also the internal card), went to boot manager (vol up) and installed the files.
It looked like the installation worked but when selecting reboot, the phone would not come back on.
I then loaded up Kies and reset the phone back to factory defaults and only then does the phone load back up after reboot.
Every time I try the custom rom - I run into the same problem
At first I thought the phone was bricked and found info about the jtag and then found something about using an SD card with the following image installed on it - tmobile-T999_4.3_debrick
With the SD card in the phone I can boot to either menus and also able to get the phone to boot to the slim-d2tmo rom. But when I pull the SD card, the phone won't boot. Nothing, no power, nada
I am not sure what I did wrong, followed the direction on the site and thought I did it correctly.
Not sure if I deleted some file, or partition needed or what. I would greatly appreciate some help with this.
Also I would like a custom rom that is stable and fast. I don't need all the bells and whistles but one thing I would like and that is for the camera to be able to take pictures using voice. I know the stock rom allows for this. Not essential but preferred.
Please help with detailed instructions.
Thanks in advance.
After writing this I just loaded up T999UVUEMJC_T999TMBEMJC_T999UVUEMJC_HOME.tar and managed to get the phone back up and running. Then tried the cm-14.1-20161225-NIGHTLY-d2tmo - which I kinda like but it will not boot up without the SD card in. I can manage to get the phone booted with the SD card and get into the new custom rom, but I have to keep pulling the battery, insert the SD card and then try to boot. Don't think it should work like this
Please help.
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You did the right thing with the SD card, the issue with it not booting with SD card removed is not an issue, that's the way its supposed to work. After restoring boot with the SD card you've got to do a few other steps to correct the device so that it boots without SD card and then you've got to return the SD card to normal function to use it as storage again.
There's a thread in the Verizon Galaxy S3 I535 forum for unbricking with the SD card and the further instructions to restore full functional boot without SD card.
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I appreciate the help. This should work on my phone even thought it is a T-Mobile and it is a SGH-T999 ?
Any chance you know of the link to fix the booting issue?
I really need to get this sorted out. I am about to trash the phone and get some cheap $80 best buy special just to use the apps I need.

kouger1 said:
I appreciate the help. This should work on my phone even thought it is a T-Mobile and it is a SGH-T999 ?
Any chance you know of the link to fix the booting issue?
I really need to get this sorted out. I am about to trash the phone and get some cheap $80 best buy special just to use the apps I need.
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The method is the same, you just use your debrick.img for your device instead of the Verizon debrick.img.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2581166
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So I feel like such a dufus.
I think I know what I did wrong. After going back and forth reading everything, which all looked like what I had originally, I realized that everyone was talking about loading the zip files from the sd card. Thought I did this, but what I was doing was loading them from the external SD card.
So after having put the stock rom back on the phone (and basically gave up) I decided this morning to try one last time.
I downloaded:
OCT-N-WEEKLY-20170127-2232-d2tmo
open_gapps-arm-7.1-micro
Connected the S3 to my PC and copied both files to the phone. Did not have the external SD card plugged in.
Then went to boot menu (vol up) and cleared the cache, davik and data. Installed from zip (local phone this time) and within 10 minutes (or less) the phone was up and running without any issues.
BAM - awesome.
Seemed too good to be true but worked like a charm.
I wonder if that was the problem with any of the other roms I tried?
Anyway, thanks to all for your help.

kouger1 said:
So I feel like such a dufus.
I think I know what I did wrong. After going back and forth reading everything, which all looked like what I had originally, I realized that everyone was talking about loading the zip files from the sd card. Thought I did this, but what I was doing was loading them from the external SD card.
So after having put the stock rom back on the phone (and basically gave up) I decided this morning to try one last time.
I downloaded:
OCT-N-WEEKLY-20170127-2232-d2tmo
open_gapps-arm-7.1-micro
Connected the S3 to my PC and copied both files to the phone. Did not have the external SD card plugged in.
Then went to boot menu (vol up) and cleared the cache, davik and data. Installed from zip (local phone this time) and within 10 minutes (or less) the phone was up and running without any issues.
BAM - awesome.
Seemed too good to be true but worked like a charm.
I wonder if that was the problem with any of the other roms I tried?
Anyway, thanks to all for your help.
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I don't know what you were having issues with but I've always flashed my ROMs from extsdcard. Unless I'm missing your meaning.
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Then maybe it were the roms I was using. All the roms I tried would not boot my phone after installation. I had to add the following file to my external SD card -tmobile-t999_debrick
This was the only way I could get the phone to boot back up after I installed the roms.
Or maybe I was using the wrong roms - I have no idea.
I guess my thought process was not correct and that you don't have to put the roms on the internals storage and can use the external sd card to install the roms?

kouger1 said:
Then maybe it were the roms I was using. All the roms I tried would not boot my phone after installation. I had to add the following file to my external SD card -tmobile-t999_debrick
This was the only way I could get the phone to boot back up after I installed the roms.
Or maybe I was using the wrong roms - I have no idea.
I guess my thought process was not correct and that you don't have to put the roms on the internals storage and can use the external sd card to install the roms?
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Typically, you install custom recovery then root then place new ROM on extsdcard then flash the ROM in recovery from extsdcard. Its actually recommended to keep your ROM zips on external if you have it instead of internal because if internal gets wiped or corrupted then you've lost your ROM zip. It's also recommended to create and store your nandroid backups on extsdcard.
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