Hey Everyone. First of all I would like to say that I've had this device for about a year and a half, but it bricked? on me in only 4 months. I've tried countless methods to fix it but no go. Then as time went on I completely forgot about it. Now I don't have my sd card that I used for it any more.
The problem? One day I accidentally forgot to charge my tablet and it died on me, so I charged it right back up and turned it on. Everything went well, I got through the logo screen and everything, but then it just hangs there right before I hit the Home screen where you can do your code and everything.
Methods I've attempted:
I've tried going through CWM recovery to fix the issue but then I notice that it says near the bottom as it loads "E: Can't open/cache/recovery/log" and it has the same "E: Can't open/..." for everything. Can't mount, wipe cache, wipe data, restore, I have no backup (stupid right), can't do anything. Also, when I do attempt to wipe data through CWM I notice "E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0" if that has any special meaning.
I've tried flashing stock firmware through odin multiple times on different usb ports and different computers.
I've tried flashing PIT file (I'm not really sure if thats how you're supposed to do it but yea, I flashed the PIT file through odin by itself and with stock firmware)
Misc. Info: I did have a custom ROM installed(can't really remember which one), I also have the app2sd installed, the only thing that struck out to me when my tablet went out is that it received an OTA update for 4.1.2? and for some reason it went through even though I never intended to update.
I'm really, REALLY, open to any suggestion that could possibly help fix this tablet. On the other hand if the cold hard truth is that its gone forever or that I simply just have to take it back to Samsung (which I highly doubt I'll be able to), then please by all means let me know.
THANK YOU!!!
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Did you try flashing a different recovery again. CWM? Also after installing stock through odin try a factory wipe. It would probably help to know what your last rom was.
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Well I was caught my the new MIUI ROM i saw this morning and decided to switch from Bionix. I have flashed many phones and farmiliar with the process. I left my phone alone while the install occured. I watched it wipe data and cache. Now when it powers up, the samsung logo appears for 2 seconds and a quick I9000 logo flashes for like .25 of a second. The 3 button method to force it into recovery. I dont have a usable copy of windows to boot camp from my mac so ODIN is currently not an option.
I can get the phone into download mode so i know its not a lost sailor, i just need a mac solution without booting windows. I really dont want a refurb replacement from warranty either
You want heimdall.
Yup. heimdall rocks
samsung screen of death...
LinuxBozo said:
You want heimdall.
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SO here goes...
first off i am rooted, have all appropriate drivers, etc, have used dab to root.
I am a total newb, and was experiencing issues flashing a new ROM. when trying to install the zip through cwm the phone said "signature verification failed" or something to that extent. so being the deductive thinker that I am, I formatted everything: boot, system, sd, etc. After doing this, I realized that I totally wiped out all the files on the internal sd.
so i downloaded the heimdall one click- it connects but fails regardless of whether i flash boot loader.
i can access blue 3e recovery and download mode.
now. i want to know if it is possible to push or even install a ROM through adb. I've been playing around with it all day and have gotten nowhere.
i thought maybe i could load up a rom to an external sd but obviously you can't mount an extsd in cwm.
am i screwed?
ill gladly donate through paypal if someone can help me get my baby up and running again. i do not want to be using my nokia from middle school anymore!!
thank you in advance for ANY help you can give me.
Rob
OK, I did watch the n00b guide and I did spend nigh-on 3 hours, no exaggeration, trying to find my solution among previous posts.
But it looks like I've really messed up.
Idiot that I am, I installed a P3113 ROM, and it worked, too. It was OK. But I was a bit worried so I thought I'd try to get a proper P3110 ROM going. I elected to go back to stock imagining that this would be the safest course.
What I think I did was wipe the thing altogether with some good old fashioned ham fisted clumsiness and not paying attention. I tried then getting a stock ROM and flashing it with ODIN. ODIN seems to think it's done the job, it goes to PASS and so on, but when I try to turn on I get the Tab 2 screen and then everything stops at the Samsung jingle screen. I can't power off completely, it just restarts. I CAN get into recovery and download but I can't do much else. ODIN mode says my Current binary is Samsung Official, so it's done something but I'm getting the fear.
When you stop laughing at me can you please advise my wisest course of action? Stupid thing is I can flash and mess around with my Desire S and GNex until the cows come home, but this has me flummoxed and greatly worried.
Can you go into recovery and wipe /data or factory reset?
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Can you go into recovery and wipe /data or factory reset?
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I can. I tried that but it seems not to help. Thanks anyway.
Go to www.samfirmware.com
Download firmware and go to download mode and reflash again
Or if recovery stock so connect with kies and their is option to restore or recover firmware
Or if recovery Cwm, put cm10 or so in external sd ( copy from computer to card) then factory reset , delete cash and delete dalvik then flash it
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Panic over, but thanks for your time chaps.
Let joy and relief flow unconstrained!
It's taken six hours but I installed and reinstalled and factory reset half a dozen times with P3110XXBLH1 and P3110XXBLH2.
And then I tried P3110XXALD4_OXALD4. This has worked.
That's a weight off. Sorry to bother the threads, I was starting to panic a bit. Typical.
Mohamedselim said:
Go to www.samfirmware.com
Download firmware and go to download mode and reflash again
Or if recovery stock so connect with kies and their is option to restore or recover firmware
Or if recovery Cwm, put cm10 or so in external sd ( copy from computer to card) then factory reset , delete cash and delete dalvik then flash it
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Please I need help restoring my P3110 to it`s factory settings.
I was trying to change display density with LCD Density PRO and now I`m stuck with a bootloop. I can access both recovery and download modes, so I think an ODIN image will restore the tablet back again. I found some here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1838072
I purchased my P3110 in Brazil and none of those ODIN images refer to the brazilian model. Is there a problem if I just pick one of those (like the german or the UK firmware) and flash it to the brazilian P3110?
BTW, I can't mount my external_sd. CWM 6.0.1.1 just says it "can`t mount external_sd"
help
what recovery should i install should i install CWM or Phils
i want to install lollipop in gt-p3110 will it work or kitkat?
if u guys could help me i appreciate that thanks u guys
Sam Adams:fingers-crossed:
I was attempting to flash the new Glorious Overdose rom onto my phone, and when I hit reboot, it won't leave the boot screen. It is perpetually on the boot screen. I worried because I didn't think I could get ODIN to work, but then I used AyoTeddy's fool proof method to get it into download mode. Now, from there, I attempted to use ODIN, but, it failed over and over. Pic is attached.
Is there anything I can do from here? I'm not confident about doing the soldering for that unbrickable mod, but I really like my phone and generally the contents, so....?
Now, when I was flashing, I thought I did everything right. I cleared cache, cleared data, then cleared dalvik. After that, I made sure that the system was unmount/mount (I was using the red CWM, although I recall in the past that my phone had the orange one?), and then I proceeded to flash .zip file.
Please help. :'C
ehhhh
I just bought a new one, but I'd still like to avoid the previous pitfall with the new one (since I don't know what I did wrong?), so if anyone has any advice, I'm all ears.
Thank you.
Hey Guys,
So I have been all threw the forum over the past week plus trying to find a solutions and have tried the majority of the ones on the site. Here is what happend:
HOW I GOT HERE:
I was running a CM10 nightly build from 01/15/2013 that was installed via CWM. I had been running it for about a week. When I went to bed I set my phone on the nightstand. About 2 hours into sleep the phone rebooted as I eventually woke up and noticed it thinking it was just the phone wonking out. When I up fully 6 hours later the phone was still rebooting. Since then when ever I cut on the phone it will no get passed the Google logo with the padlock. I can boot into fastboot and recovery. I am running the latest CWM 6.0.2.5.
PHONE VITALS QUICK GLANCE
Android ROM version: CM10 01/15/2013 Nightly Build
Baseband: D720SPRLC1
Bootloader: D720SPRKC5
Recovery: CWM v6.0.2.5
WHAT I HAVE TRIED
Restoring from backup
My first fix was to flash three different roms via recovery (doing full wipes each time)
Then I tried flashing a new recovery
Formatting /system, /cache, /data, and /boot and then flashing a new rom
Then I focused on trying to get the USB storage to mount so I tried using adb shell to repair the file system and that worked
Then I tried new roms and things got REALLY weird. When I would place a rom on “sdcard” it would be available to flash. When I flashed it though it would not take and upon returning to recovery it wouldn’t be there or when I mounted the storage again. After about 10 times of this I figured let me make sure I am not crazy and try the following.
Format the internal storage. In windows when I tried this windows would show that the device formatted and was empty one I dismounted after putting items on it and go back to storage by both remounting it or by recovery the old data would come right back. In Ubuntu when I tried formatting it both via disc recovery and gparted they both said the device was empty but that they were unable to create a partition.
So then I went down the path of all of the debricking tools out there including the one from AdamOutler's (I think it is called ressurector), ODIN, and the Nexus Root Tool all with varying results.
Ressurector kept saying injection failed
ODIN just does not work on the nexus s from what I can tell (spent a day researching and no one seems to give a definitive answer on this one)
And Nexus Root Tool attempts to flash back to stock but runs into an error with the baseband.
So next I decided to try and flash back to stock using the Google images. Using Ubuntu I ran the flash-all.sh that comes in the zip and kept running into the baseband issue.
So next I found OldBlue910’s post with all the OTA updates and I went after trying to use that to fix my phone. Thanks to the amount of instruction he gives I got a lot further and got the flash-all.sh in his stock zip to give me a better error message telling me which baseband I needed to have to go back to stock which when I double checked he includes in the zip. The problem is when I try to flash that radio fastboot tells me I was successful but the bootloader still reads as D720SPRLC1 and does not change regardless of what I do. When I try flashing the stock images again after flashing the radio I receive the same errors.
So now I think I have hit the real brick wall and unless someone has any advice I will need to go and buy a new phone. Hoping you guys can help. I figured if you guys can figure out a hard brick then this is still doable, I have just exhausted my own realm of knowledge.
Please and thank you’s to anyone with advice.
Could you get any lights ON? The buttons or the screen?
lights are on
Yes during the boot loop the Google logo comes up, then the screen goes black, then the Google logo comes back, and finally in about 20 seconds the lights come on. Once that happens after about 4 minutes the process starts all over again.
I've been all over the forums and threads trying to find ways to fix this s3. Failed at every turn, so here it is. This s3 has had CM on it forever, like over a year now. I haven't explicitly tried to perform any updates. I woke up one morning at it was stuck on the splash screen with the little blue CM guy with a static white circle on his chest, but that's as far as it'll get.
I can get into ClockworkMod Recovery (6.0.3.1), but can't mount the sdcard to get at backups, or do much else for that matter.
I can get into Odin Mode, but every singe thing I have tried to flash fails - and I think I've tried them all. I've tried the usual steps, update drivers, switch cables, switch usb ports, etc. to no avail.
I can get to an adb shell in recovery, is there a way to flash a stock image from there?
Since it's in this weird soft-brick state, the hard brick solution of putting a boot img on the external sdcard don't seem to work.
mjunior25 said:
I've been all over the forums and threads trying to find ways to fix this s3. Failed at every turn, so here it is. This s3 has had CM on it forever, like over a year now. I haven't explicitly tried to perform any updates. I woke up one morning at it was stuck on the splash screen with the little blue CM guy with a static white circle on his chest, but that's as far as it'll get.
I can get into ClockworkMod Recovery (6.0.3.1), but can't mount the sdcard to get at backups, or do much else for that matter.
I can get into Odin Mode, but every singe thing I have tried to flash fails - and I think I've tried them all. I've tried the usual steps, update drivers, switch cables, switch usb ports, etc. to no avail.
I can get to an adb shell in recovery, is there a way to flash a stock image from there?
Since it's in this weird soft-brick state, the hard brick solution of putting a boot img on the external sdcard don't seem to work.
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Before ditching the phone, I'd suggest trying a JTAG service. You can find them on eBay for $30-50. Saved my S3 from a hardbrick from flashing the wrong firmware (Sprint version on Verizon S3).
mjunior25 said:
I've been all over the forums and threads trying to find ways to fix this s3. Failed at every turn, so here it is. This s3 has had CM on it forever, like over a year now. I haven't explicitly tried to perform any updates. I woke up one morning at it was stuck on the splash screen with the little blue CM guy with a static white circle on his chest, but that's as far as it'll get.
I can get into ClockworkMod Recovery (6.0.3.1), but can't mount the sdcard to get at backups, or do much else for that matter.
I can get into Odin Mode, but every singe thing I have tried to flash fails - and I think I've tried them all. I've tried the usual steps, update drivers, switch cables, switch usb ports, etc. to no avail.
I can get to an adb shell in recovery, is there a way to flash a stock image from there?
Since it's in this weird soft-brick state, the hard brick solution of putting a boot img on the external sdcard don't seem to work.
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Try flashing the latest TWRP ODIN image. http://techerrata.com/file/twrp2/d2vzw/openrecovery-twrp-2.7.0.0-d2vzw.tar
If that is able to flash, then use the Format Data/Cache option under wipe and see if that works. If not, you may need to use a pit file with a ODIN image to completely reformat the device, and reflash it.
ddggttff3 said:
Try flashing the latest TWRP ODIN image.
If that is able to flash, then use the Format Data/Cache option under wipe and see if that works. If not, you may need to use a pit file with a ODIN image to completely reformat the device, and reflash it.
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Great suggestions, thank you.
I had tried both already, but your menion of TWRP reminded me that it was the closest I got to signs of life so I tried it again. Odin acts like it flashed successfully, even reset the device, but the device never actually took the image.
I didn't know much about pit files until the other day, and tried that also. I did try again and the format seems to work with the pit but any attempt to flash something subsequently results in the same failures.
Thanks for responding.
mjunior25 said:
Great suggestions, thank you.
I had tried both already, but your menion of TWRP reminded me that it was the closest I got to signs of life so I tried it again. Odin acts like it flashed successfully, even reset the device, but the device never actually took the image.
I didn't know much about pit files until the other day, and tried that also. I did try again and the format seems to work with the pit but any attempt to flash something subsequently results in the same failures.
Thanks for responding.
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Remember too after you flash the odin file, you will most likely have to boot into stock recovery and do a factory reset, otherwise it won't boot, but will bootloop marvelously.