Phone wont fully start, CWM wont boot - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III

So ive been running CM 10.1 with CWM v6.0.4.3 for several months without major issue until last night. I went to send a text message to someone, and right as i went back to my home screen, the phone froze, rebooted, and when it finished rebooting, the deice would freeze again as soon as the lock screen was reached, and reboot again. Cue repeated circle of freeze, reboot, finish rebooting, freeze, reboot.
I turned the phone off by taking out the battery, put it back in and charged it overnight without booting it up. Went to start the phone today, same issue still. I would boot into recovery and try to re-flash the OS, and it would give me a status 7 error. After re-downloading everything into my sd card, i was eventually able to get the system to re-install cm10.1.3, and it booted up normally. I downloaded and installed ROM Manager, and installed the newest version of CWM Touch, version 6.0.4.5, and then tried to boot into recovery to install CM11. It showed the CWM Hat icon in the middle of the screen, with the version on the bottom of the screen, then rebooted on its own without showing any menu options.
Now if i try to boot into recovery, it just shows the icon and version again, then reboots, and wont go past the CM loading screen with the spinning cyanogenmod icon.
Not sure what to do at this point, i cant get into recovery to try and flash something new, and i cant get past the CM loading screen to actually use my phone. Any ideas? I have zero experience with adb, so im stumped.
UPDATE: Solved, i flashed TWRP over CWM using Odin, and was from there able to re-install the OS. Things seem to be working fine for the most part, with the exception of one random reboot last night.

Salomon3068 said:
So ive been running CM 10.1 with CWM v6.0.4.3 for several months without major issue until last night. I went to send a text message to someone, and right as i went back to my home screen, the phone froze, rebooted, and when it finished rebooting, the deice would freeze again as soon as the lock screen was reached, and reboot again. Cue repeated circle of freeze, reboot, finish rebooting, freeze, reboot.
I turned the phone off by taking out the battery, put it back in and charged it overnight without booting it up. Went to start the phone today, same issue still. I would boot into recovery and try to re-flash the OS, and it would give me a status 7 error. After re-downloading everything into my sd card, i was eventually able to get the system to re-install cm10.1.3, and it booted up normally. I downloaded and installed ROM Manager, and installed the newest version of CWM Touch, version 6.0.4.5, and then tried to boot into recovery to install CM11. It showed the CWM Hat icon in the middle of the screen, with the version on the bottom of the screen, then rebooted on its own without showing any menu options.
Now if i try to boot into recovery, it just shows the icon and version again, then reboots, and wont go past the CM loading screen with the spinning cyanogenmod icon.
Not sure what to do at this point, i cant get into recovery to try and flash something new, and i cant get past the CM loading screen to actually use my phone. Any ideas? I have zero experience with adb, so im stumped.
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You can try to reflash CWM with Odin, if that not working, you could try to Odin back to stock.

buhohitr said:
You can try to reflash CWM with Odin, if that not working, you could try to Odin back to stock.
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I figured it out yesterday actually and forgot to update! Indeed I was able to flash TWRP with odin, since CWM seemed to be blocking me from doing anything. Once that was up and running, things went back to normal, i was able to flash CM 10.2.1 and things seem to be working now.
One thing though, while playing skyrim last night i had it on the charger next to me, and the phone randomly rebooted without any interaction from me. Was odd, but it hasnt done it since. Keeping an eye on it still.

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Stuck in endless loop after CM 10.2 nightly to CM 10.1 downgrade

I think i might have wrecked my P5110!
I rooted it to Cyanogen mod about 6 month ago to CM10.1.1 and that was great.
I had been using the built in updater to get the latest Cyanogen firmware without any problem. Decided to try a CM 10.2 nightly but was having big problems with it draining battery, crashing and rebooting for no apparent reason.
No problems thinks I, just unwind it to an older version of CM from the built in Cyanogen Mod Updater. I selected 10.1.3 RC2, and left it be.
Came back to it some time later to find the old logo spinning there. Figured it was still running and left it some more, and some more, and some more and it just kept spinning. I guess its knackered. I DID NOT wipe the cache and data as i was doing it from within Cyanogen so naively thought it would work okay.
Okay thinks I, go into recovery, wipe the cache. No dice. Try as i may i can NOT get ClockWorkRecovery to come up, only ODIN.
Talk about fools rush in. Simple thinks I, reinstall CWM from ODIN, go back into CWM, wipe the cache, see if that works.
flashing goes smoothly, but try as i may i can no longer get into ODIN or CWM, only into a never ending circle of Cyanogen bootup.
Any suggestions for a next step. Had the worst day at work and really shouldn't have bothered touching the damn thing!
Oh, I might well have spotted the problem
I thought I was flashing the CWM for P5110, but a closer inspection of the filename
GT-P5100_ClockworkMod-Recovery_6.0.1.0.tar
Shows quite clearly what i've done.
I'm guessing there is no coming back from this?
Vannystick said:
Oh, I might well have spotted the problem
I thought I was flashing the CWM for P5110, but a closer inspection of the filename
GT-P5100_ClockworkMod-Recovery_6.0.1.0.tar
Shows quite clearly what i've done.
I'm guessing there is no coming back from this?
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Flash stock firmware via pc odin this will solve your issues. ....
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Every time you flash with ANY ROM you need to wipe data or bootloop obviously will appear.
Vannystick said:
i can no longer get into ODIN or CWM, only into a never ending circle of Cyanogen bootup.
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Even though your recovery may be screwed up, it's strange that you can't get to the download mode... So, what exactly happens if you force reboot by holding power for several seconds, and immediately after that hold power and Volume Up together while it's powering up?
When stuck in the CM boot up, pressing and holding the power button would force a shut down, but the tab would then instantly reboot.
Holding the volume up (or down, i was desperate) until the samsung logo appeared wouldn't get me to ODIN, it would go to the CM boot screen.
If i plugged it into the charger once in the CM splash, and powered down, it would take me to the charge screen. Pulling the plug would then turn it off, without it rebooting.
Initially this wouldn't work, but perhaps because i was being impatient. All the instructions i had read say that the volume button can be released once the samsung logo pops up, perhaps i've miss read. Ultimately i found (more by accident than anything), you need to keep the volume button pressed until the second time the samsung logo pops up, then it will enter ODIN.
I managed to download a a stock rom from SamMobile, and flash it in.
It still wouldn't boot though, until i went into recovery and wiped data/cache. It also then took rather a long time to boot back up, presumably unpacking various 'stuff', had me a little concerned, so i left it alone for a few hours and came back to find the first boot welcome screen.
Lesson to be learned, always wipe the cache/data before an update, even if the previous half dozen CM updates had been fine.
I think what actually screwed things up was going from a 10.2 beta BACK to a 10.1 RC ROM.
Oh well, its working happily again, and not falling over like on the 10.2 beta. And i dont need to buy a RIFF box!

Some sort of brick

This morning, I was on the current CM experimental build. I decided to flash the latest nightly. It flashed normally. It got about halfway through the "Android is optimizing applications" screen. Then, it shut off. It now boots to the point where the CM guy is on the screen with the spinning arrow and then it hangs for a few seconds and reboots. I figured something went wrong, so I decided to wipe it and re-flash the experimental build. When I tried to boot to recovery it gets to the point right before the buttons appear, then it reboots. (CWM Touch 6.0.4.5) I then decided to try download mode. Download mode appears to work fine, except that nothing recognizes the phone. I tried Heimdall, Odin, and even this weird Verizon Tool http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2586319 (I know that it's for a different version, I just wanted to see if it would show up). I tried under Window and Linux, uninstalled and re-installed drivers, swapped USB ports and cables. It has no listing whatsoever in Device Manager. Custom binary download is off, the current binary is Samsung Official, the system status reads custom, and secure boot says that it is enabled.
Any help or advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.

My Inspire 4G (randomly?) stopped successfully booting and cannot access bootloader

I have a rooted and bootloader-unlocked Inspire 4G. A few months ago, I had been using the MoKee 4.2.2 ROM for some time, and one day, my phone's screen simply froze. I thought I shouldn't be worried about it, so I pulled the battery off, slapped it back in and tried turning on the phone again. It never got past the MoKee loading screen. I tried charging it, leaving it to boot for hours but nothing.
Next, I tried rebooting into CWMrecovery to try different stable backups I had from some time before that happened. The backups restored successfully, but again, the phone stayed stuck in the loading screen. I tried the same with 4EXT Touch Recovery and wiping all the data before the backup, but still nothing worked.
Since I was too busy at the time to install a new ROM and flash a new boot image, I decided to put the phone away and use my backup Galaxy Ace. Today, a few months after that happened, I tried to boot the phone into bootloader and I can't even achieve that. Holding the volume down rocket and power buttons, the phone still boots normally and stays stuck on the loading screen.
What weirds me out the most is that this was all random--I did not drop the phone or did things to it that could break it.
I feel if I could get into recovery I'd be able to do something else about it.
Any ideas?
Me too
Weird, mine just did the same thing today. Crashed, had to pull battery, now stuck at Mokee. Tried clearing DC, cache, factory reset. No luck.

[Q] Have I fried my internal SD? Never seen this bootloop before

So I flashed CM12 on my Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 and then tried to encrypt it. I had full battery and everything but I saw them message that it failed. It asked me to reset the device so I clicked it. It was the only option. When it rebooted, it went straight to TWRP but instead of loading TWRP, it just kept showing the splash/loading screen. Then it would flash black quickly and then show the splash screen again. I left it plugged in over night to see if it would load. It did not. So I let the battery completely die. Once I charged it, it still does the same thing. I've tried using ODIN to flash TWRP again. It says it successful but the same thing happens. I also successfully flashed CWM with ODIN but the screen flashing thing still happens. (I can put the tablet in Download Mode with no problem).
Does this mean I've fried my SD card or is there some other fix I'm not aware of?
I'm not sure why this worked but I was able to boot into CM by leaving the device in the boot loop and running the command `adb reboot bootloader`. After that CM12 loaded up. I decided to try restarting and it restarted just fine too. Everything seems to be back to normal.

Phone won't complete after stock flash

My father-in-law's S6 was rebooting right after the menu screen came up. After trying numerous things which wouldn't work (still had varying boot loops) like getting into the recovery mode and doing a factory wipe, I decided to use Odin and flash the base stock Android nougat on this (it had the one verizon security patch after that, so should be no issue doing this).
That went okay and it rebooted and got all the way to "Android is starting" which you see after a firmware upgrade. But I didn't realize the battery had run down through all this so it died at this stage. So it was taking a charge now, so let it charge overnight and give it another run.
Got up today, tried to start it...back to the boot loop. So I figured I'd flash stock again with Odin (can always get back to that mode).
It completes successfully and then after the reboot at about 32% jumps to "erasing" and then the boot loop again.
Got into recovery mode once and wiped cache (pointless at this point, but whatever) and did factory reset there, then boot to bootloader. Got all the way to the verizon screen...and then boot loop again.
Is this phone just done? The only thing I can consistently get to is Odin mode. I tried the stock reflash a couple more times and keep ending up in a boot loop and it doesn't even get past the "custom" screen now. And I can't even actually get it to shutdown for that matter. I can get to the battery pull mode but if I try to power off from there, I just get the black screen with the blue light.
And, to make matters even worse, now on restart, it brings up the blue system update screen for a second, then jumps over to the no command screen, sits there for a second, then reboots again. I think I've somehow managed to even blow the recovery menu but this has all been stock and never had any custom firmware or root.
Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

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