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S3 stuck in bootloop after returning from CM9

I decided to give the new CM9 rom a try this morning on my verizon s3. after playing around a little i decided that I liked the stock rooted rom I had before so I was going to return to my nandroid backup. However, CM9 has its own recovery. I flashed my other recover, which was InvisibleK's recovery, which actually boots into a stock rom from recovery but never really goes into the recovery menu. So now I am stuck bootlooping because I think the recovery is trying to boot up but isnt finding the rom becuase I couldnt flash it from the CWM rcover that I was on with CM9. I can get into download mode but of course Odin is not seeing my phone for some reason. Anyone out there have anysuggestions? or did I just make myself a fancy new paperweight?

got odin
i got to odin now. i recognized my phone. I switched usb cords to the one that came with the phone

flashed stock rooted rom no luck
flashed stock rooted rom thought i was in the clear and now its bootlooping at the verizon boot animation. Im pretty sure i just have to factory reset but i cant get into recovery

kulahpac said:
flashed stock rooted rom thought i was in the clear and now its bootlooping at the verizon boot animation. Im pretty sure i just have to factory reset but i cant get into recovery
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Revert to complete stock with no root, then try to access the samsung recovery and do a factory reset from there.

unrooting brought me back to stock recovery
I finally sbf'ed back to the stock rom and being unrooted must have not allowed the phone to use the recovery I had installed and instead took me to the stock recovery where i was able to factory reset and all is good now. Phew..... that was a close one

thanks skander
Thank you very much. I actually tried that last night. I was getting desperate. wasnt sure if it would work or not but I thought maybe that and if that didnt work i would try flashing a different recovery from adb but i can never get adb to work from my pc. Anyway though, didnt matter. its all good now. Just got root back and learned a valuable lesson. thanks again....

[Q] Stuck in Bootloader and TWRP

I have an AT&T HTC One X that's rooted. I wanted to put Cyanogenmod 10 on it, but I accidently wiped the System files instead of the cache. Now it can't boot up regularly, I've tried using Rom Update Utility but it doesn't seem to work. Factory Reset doesn't seem to work either. I didn't expect this to happen because my friend just flashed his a couple of days ago. I've tried making a backup and restoring but no matter what I can't get the phone to start up normally. Unless I put it in TWRP (Team Win Recovery Project) or the HBoot/Bootloader I really can't use it for anything. Any suggestions? I would greatly appreciate it. Also when bootloader opens it says "Tampered" and under it "Unlocked" because I did root it. It didn't have "Tampered" when I first rooted it.
I don't care about Cyanogenmod 10 anymore I just want to have it working again.
Everything else about the phone is in perfect condition but what I just said is the only problem.

Wiping /system means you wiped the OS. Naturally, it can't boot up with no rom in place. You need to flash something.

iElvis said:
Wiping /system means you wiped the OS. Naturally, it can't boot up with no rom in place. You need to flash something.
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Well, I've already flashed it to a few things and so far it hasn't changed anything. Got any links?

Did you fastboot flash boot boot.IMG ? Don't know what hboot you are on, but could be it.
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[Q] Need help getting up after try CM10.2 nightly

I was running Xylon and decided to download DLHacker's latest CM10.2. I backup up Xylon, wiped system, data, cache & dalvik and installed the the 8-13 build as well as the 8-12 gapps. First boot seemed to go okay but the keyboard kept force closing to the point that I could not complete the set-up. I forced a reboot, got back into TWRP and wiped cache & dalvik and fixed permissions. Now it hangs at the splash screen, doesn't boot loop, just hangs. So I got back into recovery, wiped system, data, cache & dalvik and restored my Xylon backup. Still hangs on the splash screen, doesn't boot loop, just hangs. I go back into recovery and wipe everything again and try to install an older build of Rage HD (4.1.2) and it reboots recovery everytime I try to install it.
I am currently installing the CM10.2 build and am going to use the 3-1 gapps I have on the sd and see if that makes any difference.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as looking now it seems like that combo is hanging on the splash screen too.

I experienced something similar when flashing CM 10.2. I ended up fastbooting back to stock.
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mentose457 said:
I experienced something similar when flashing CM 10.2. I ended up fastbooting back to stock.
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I think that's what is going to have to happen, can't do that from my work computer though, guess I'm phoneless for the day. That means no Freebeer & Hotwings podcast and no music. Oh well, that's why they call it the bleeding edge, sometimes ya get cut.

I plan to install the latest firmware through RSDLite when I get home, does anyone know if there an issue with installing the MR4 (VZW_XT926_4.1.2_9.8.1Q_62_VQW_MR-4_VQW_CFC) when I'm unlocked? Will I have any issue re-rooting or anything like that if I install the latest firmware rather than an earlier one? I never recieved MR4 OTA because I was no longer stock when it was pushed.

animez said:
I plan to install the latest firmware through RSDLite when I get home, does anyone know if there an issue with installing the MR4 (VZW_XT926_4.1.2_9.8.1Q_62_VQW_MR-4_VQW_CFC) when I'm unlocked? Will I have any issue re-rooting or anything like that if I install the latest firmware rather than an earlier one? I never recieved MR4 OTA because I was no longer stock when it was pushed.
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There wont be an issue because you are unlocked. AFIK you cant root the newest firmware. If I were you id flash the last OTA that can be rooted, root it, use a root keeper such as voodoo to back it up, take the latest OTA, then restore root with the root keeper you used.

mentose457 said:
There wont be an issue because you are unlocked. AFIK you cant root the newest firmware. If I were you id flash the last OTA that can be rooted, root it, use a root keeper such as voodoo to back it up, take the latest OTA, then restore root with the root keeper you used.
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I'll have to do a bit of research before I pull the trigger. I'm pretty sure the first 4.1.2 VZW pushed can be rooted...
To the root threadz!

You are correct. The first 4.1.2 was rootable. You could use the Droid Utility 2.0 to restore that version and root.
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Finally got things fixed. I tried through rsd lite, but it kept failing. Downloaded one of the utilities and it seemed to work, but still hung on the splash screen. So after downloading a few other factory images which also failed to flash, I saw the problem. Somehow I had downloaded rsd lite 5.6. *facepalm* Probably stay stock for a little bit, thanks for the help.
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safestrap & TWRP... at same time?

ok. is it even possible to have two recoveries running at once? On normal boot-up, I get the safestrap screen asking to continue or enter recovery. I have flashed TWRP and I can get to TWRP by fastbooting and entering recovery that way. I feel i have set myself up to brick in the hard sense. I just unlocked w/ sunshine and am trying to make a backup before i really start screwing stuff up.

If you're unlocked with TWRP then safestrap is redundant since you can't utilize the extra ROM slots.
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that was kind of my thoughts too. I did remove safestrap manually. Im still tying to update with the latest OTA, but with no luck. thanks.

teerout said:
that was kind of my thoughts too. I did remove safestrap manually. Im still tying to update with the latest OTA, but with no luck. thanks.
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The update isn't going through because you have TWRP installed. Flash to stock recovery and try again.

Sorry I left that out, I have removed TWRP. I have returned to as stock as I can. Flashed back to factory. Still no success on OTA update. Im hunting for the files now and i will hopefully flash it myself.

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[Q] can anyone help? cant boot any rom. cant restore or create a backup.

its a first gen US boost mobile moto g xt1031. it is boot-loader unlocked and rooted. currently has twrp recovery and had cwm. i have never been able to flash any rom either from side-load or from internal or external sd. about a month ago i started having trouble restoring backups and now a few days ago it wont let me make a backup either. it gets stuck when it comes to restoring or backing up the data partition. beforehand i had no problems with backups. when i got the phone almost a year ago i didn't have any trouble boot-loader unlocking and rooting it. i am currently using lubuntu with the android sdk installed and my phone is recognized in adb and fastboot. i have been rooting and flashing android since my hd2 days and i never had this problem. i have tried several different boost moto g roms and none of them will boot. i just get boot loops. i have tried 4.4.2 4.4.4 and 5.0 roms. none will boot up. can anyone help me out with any ideas of whats wrong? debugging is on and again it is rooted boot-loader unlocked running twrp and recognized on my computer with adb and fastboot. thanks.

I am having the exact same issue. I first flashed BlissPop onto the device, and immediately ran into boot loops. I flashed a CM nightly for the 1031, same issue, and now even a stock rom does nothing but boot loops.

i have been trying to run cm since last july. im almost to the point that i dont even want this phone anymore. ive never had this problem with any other phone. i hope someone can help us. the only thing i can flash is recovery. but thats pretty much pointless since i can flash a rom or create or restore a backup. the old backup i have fails when it comes to date but it will boot. i just have to start from the beginning every time.

Yeah man, I've been through everything I typically do for rescues like this one, nothing has worked. Stock ROMs bootloop as well, which is just strange. I'm starting to think I killed the parition table on the phone itself.

davenull said:
I am having the exact same issue. I first flashed BlissPop onto the device, and immediately ran into boot loops. I flashed a CM nightly for the 1031, same issue, and now even a stock rom does nothing but boot loops.
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good news that might help you. i had to reformat my whole system and change it to f2fs using twrp. installed cm 11 and it booted up just fine. im gonna try to install cm 12 now. finally after nearly a year... oh and no thanks to anyone else on this thread. (you not included in that).