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[Q] Phone having issues booting after flashing rom

So I rooted my phone and flashed Krylon360's Stock + Root rom using this thread ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1001759 ). Everything went perfectly until I rebooted from recovery mode. It sits there in the boot screen trying its hardest but just keeps randomly vibrating. Not sure what to do about this since It will not go back into download mode to retry again. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Go back into download mode and try flashing kc1 instead
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Nothing ended up working. Just kept sitting in the boot screen, vibrating some more. So I just flashed the original stock back onto it. Thanks for your help though.

caprisun5 said:
Nothing ended up working. Just kept sitting in the boot screen, vibrating some more. So I just flashed the original stock back onto it. Thanks for your help though.
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Put your phone in download mode and flash the SMS-KJ6 one-click from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358498
(yea, I need to update the kernel in that package... everything moves so fast)
Leave the one-click open, after the phone reboots from the first flash take the battery out (let it reboot all the way to the pink t-mobile screen, then pull the battery. It does boot into recovery and tries to do some csc update, just ignore any errors in that). put the battery back in and the battery case back on, hold vol+ and vol-, plug in the usb cable and let go of vol+ and vol- when you see the download mode screen come up.
Check the flash bootloaders and click flash again. This gets your phone on GB bootloaders, which if you're coming from froyo, you will need it (you can also get the same bootloaders from FBis251's ext4 starter kit).
After that is done, you should download octane 3 cwm zip and my latest kernel to your sdcard, reboot to recovery, wipe everything, flash octane 3 then my kernel. Let it sit for 30 minutes after rebooting to let everything juice up and soak in.
Also, never odin/heimdall flash on a low battery. Always charge your phone all the way up before doing this as not to brick because your battery died.

caprisun5 said:
So I rooted my phone and flashed Krylon360's Stock + Root rom using this thread ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1001759 ). Everything went perfectly until I rebooted from recovery mode. It sits there in the boot screen trying its hardest but just keeps randomly vibrating. Not sure what to do about this since It will not go back into download mode to retry again. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I had the same problem. I booted into recovery cleared the cache and user data then restarted the ODIN process and it worked and booted fine.

Phone wont boot

I followed gtg's thread and returned it back to stock using odin,
but that didnt fix my problem I had in the first place.
The phone works fine but I have to boot it through Odin, once its booted up and I turn it off it wont boot again,
It vibrates once then shows and empty battery and then full battery then a black screen and thats it.
To get it to boot again I have to put it in download mode and reflash using Odin
anybody know whats the problem?

galvin18 said:
I followed gtg's thread and returned it back to stock using odin,
but that didnt fix my problem I had in the first place.
The phone works fine but I have to boot it through Odin, once its booted up and I turn it off it wont boot again,
It vibrates once then shows and empty battery and then full battery then a black screen and thats it.
To get it to boot again I have to put it in download mode and reflash using Odin
anybody know whats the problem?
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Flash stock with odin and then factory reset.. never heard of had this issue
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[Q] Infuse bricked, no luck with GTG's unbrick

Hello guys, I recently received my refurb phone back from Bestbuy. I flashed MIUI on to it and about 2 days later I'm caught in this boot loop. After reading several threads, I called and got the battery replaced. That did not resolve my issue. I used GTG's unbrick method with KEIS downloaded. ODIN "passed" it and I got rebooted into 3e recovery (not sure where my clockworkmod recovery went, unless that went with the reset). I selected reboot now, and I'm still stuck in the boot loop with samsung popping up. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance

Try this... all credit and thanks to qkster, one of the most helpful people on the infuse forums. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081

I would run Odin again
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I've now tried Heimdall, it allowed the phone to turn on. When I turned the phone off it got caught back in the boot loop again. So I retried while checking "flash bootloaders". All seemed to be well, it turned off and the battery charge indicator came on. I turned it back on and checked a few things out, I didn't download or change anything. Shut it back down and it's caught back in the boot loop again.
I've retried Odin 3 times too.
What the heck do I do now?!

j_e said:
I've now tried Heimdall, it allowed the phone to turn on. When I turned the phone off it got caught back in the boot loop again. So I retried while checking "flash bootloaders". All seemed to be well, it turned off and the battery charge indicator came on. I turned it back on and checked a few things out, I didn't download or change anything. Shut it back down and it's caught back in the boot loop again.
I've retried Odin 3 times too.
What the heck do I do now?!
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after using the one click did you do a factory reset/wipe with in 3e recovery...or if you using one click, and put cwm on just do a data/factory wipe to clean all...
what i would do...because something is not cleaning...
do the one click reboot
and do the one click to get cwm....
then go into CWM
When in CWM:
1. Wipe data/factory reset.
2. Wipe Cache.
3. Go to Advance: wipe dalvik cache.
4 Go back and into Mount and Storage: format system, format data, format cache.
5. Go back and one click again to put gb back on with nothing left over...if you want to stay stock...of if you want to add custom rom
put cwm again to go to a custom rom...
may seem time consuming but sometimes it take a few strokes to clean up...
believe me i have had to do this before...
and let us know...kk

Ok guys, thanks for all of the replies.
I've tried and tried this Heimdall now 4 times, twice clicking flash bootloaders. I've gone into 3e recovery and wiped everything.
It will start and get to the setup wizard (for first time use). I click through it and I get to the main screen. I locked the screen and went to unlock it and after I "swiped" it shut down and went back into the boot loop. I retried the Heimdall again, samething happened with the setup wizard, got to the main screen, unplugged the USB cable and it shut down and back into the boot loop.
Any other ideas? I'd love to use this thing...I just got it back and haven''t been able to use it because of this.

Something similar happened to me like a week ago ..i did not know what to do so i odin back to stock about 7 times before i could reach de home screen,the first 3 times i had bootloops,3 other time i went to initial setup but as soon as i was finishing it ..bootloops,the last time i tried i was able to go into the homescreen but it had some apk left over from previous flash..so i use sgs kernel flasher to flash infusion and get back my red recovery ,then i flashed qster total wipe and flashed emencipation.....im so scared now ..i dont think i will flash anything for a while...anyway hopefully you will find the perfect combination to save your infuse good luck
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iTchill said:
Something similar happened to me like a week ago ..i did not know what to do so i odin back to stock about 7 times before i could reach de home screen,the first 3 times i had bootloops,3 other time i went to initial setup but as soon as i was finishing it ..bootloops,the last time i tried i was able to go into the homescreen but it had some apk left over from previous flash..so i use sgs kernel flasher to flash infusion and get back my red recovery ,then i flashed qster total wipe and flashed emencipation.....im so scared now ..i dont think i will flash anything for a while...anyway hopefully you will find the perfect combination to save your infuse good luck
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How do I use SGS kernal flasher if I can't get it to turn on? From what I read it requires root and superuser?
So I retired Odin again with no luck. Retried Heimdall by selecting Flash Bootloaders, loaded to main screen, it went back into the boot loop after I locked the phone.
update #3, got into 3e recovery and it rebooted itself from there too.

If you flashed miui you must be rooted ...and yes to use shs kernel flasher you must be in the homescreen ..can you acces cwm? If so flash qster total wipe
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iTchill said:
If you flashed miui you must be rooted ...and yes to use shs kernel flasher you must be in the homescreen ..can you acces cwm? If so flash qster total wipe
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I may be confused now, when I reflashed to stock didn't that unroot my phone? 3e recovery is all I can get to.

j_e said:
I may be confused now, when I reflashed to stock didn't that unroot my phone? 3e recovery is all I can get to.
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When you reflash to stock, it does not take out the root unless you erase the proper files yourself. The only thing you lose is the modded 3e recovery and CWM recovery.
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[Q] SGH-I727R Cannot boot into recovery

Hi, hope someone can help out with this.
I originally tried to flash a ROM to my phone that was not for the I727, and the flash failed, so I decided to recover to stock. I followed (carefully) the steps to recover to stock and eventually got Odin to flash the stock ROM. I was unable to flash the ROMs from the links provided, but when I tried the K0nane link, it PASSed. But, after doing that I cannot boot into recovery, and when I turn the phone on it's stuck at the splash screen.
I can still get into download mode and Odin recognizes the phone, and I can flash the K0nane ROM, and I've done that a few times now with the same result.
Where do I go from here?
-UPDATE - I just tried again...was able to flash the K0nane rom through Odin. When Odin rebooted the phone it just stays on the splash screen. I waited last time for 20-30 minutes, with no change. Hoping I did not mess up the phone beyond recovery.

Pull battery, boot into recovery, factory reset.
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Like I mentioned, I can't boot into recovery. It shows the 'Galaxy' text screen, then just goes black instead of going into recovery.

I think I\m on the way now. One thing in the troubleshooting list I hadn't tried.....try it on a different computer. Tried it on my Windows 7 laptop and it worked. Now going to try again to install cwm and custom rom.

[Q] Help with booting loop please

I searched around and couldn't find how to fix my booting problem. I have a Verizon Galaxy S3. I was rooted, installed ezlocked and unlocked it. I then installed ezrecovery and did a back up. Then I wiped everything on and it and tried to install CM10. It failed, so I rebooted and everything went back to stock. I repeated the ezunlock and ezrecovery and then attempted to install CM10 without wiping the data/cache(because I'm an idiot). Now when I start the phone it takes me right into the CM10 booting animation. I can't get into download mode or recovery mode. Whenever I try to get into those it takes me right back into the booting animation. Battery pulls do nothing.
I know I'm a noob and I can't believe I did this. I can't get back into CWM or download mode so I can flash through Odin. Any help would be really appreciated.

Tyjames48 said:
I searched around and couldn't find how to fix my booting problem. I have a Verizon Galaxy S3. I was rooted, installed ezlocked and unlocked it. I then installed ezrecovery and did a back up. Then I wiped everything on and it and tried to install CM10. It failed, so I rebooted and everything went back to stock. I repeated the ezunlock and ezrecovery and then attempted to install CM10 without wiping the data/cache(because I'm an idiot). Now when I start the phone it takes me right into the CM10 booting animation. I can't get into download mode or recovery mode. Whenever I try to get into those it takes me right back into the booting animation. Battery pulls do nothing.
I know I'm a noob and I can't believe I did this. I can't get back into CWM or download mode so I can flash through Odin. Any help would be really appreciated.
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Did you try holding the power button, up on the volume, and the home button when you boot the phone to get to CWM?
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do you have the sdk set up? can you use adb?

Were you on a JellyBean baseband? If so to enter recovery you have to let go of the power button on the vibrate and keep pressing the home key + vol up.

x714x said:
Were you on a JellyBean baseband? If so to enter recovery you have to let go of the power button on the vibrate and keep pressing the home key + vol up.
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I was going from stock ICS to CM10. But yeah, you were right. I tried like a hundred different ways to try to get into download mode. I finally got it to work and then flashed through Odin. Thanks everybody! I feel like a dumbass.