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How to fix the boot loop on the new att capticates.

This is for the people who got a new captivate through return or purchase or how ever you obtained it. If you tried flashing a new rom and now are stuck at the att boot loop or the battery loop and your phone will not boot up here is help.
1. See if your phone will do the 3 button recovery to get into download mode.
2. If you cant get into download mode you might need a Jig or do the resistor technique to get into download mode.
3. See if this odin (I897UCJF6-final-OCD-REV0.exe) will flash your phone back to the stock 2.1.
4. If after flashing the 2.1 odin and your phone still has boot loop then try the 2.2 stock odin
5. Next do the same as previous but try with this odin (I897UCJI6-OCD-REV02-Low-designgears_1_.exe) which is the 2.2 stock odin.
Note all of these flashes require you to be in download mode and have odin fired up on your pc the plug in your phone so odin can recognize it so
a. be in download mode (not connected to PC)
b. have odin open on pc
c. Plug in phone to pc and start odin.
odin likes to stop flashing when setting pit file so if it freezes give a sec and if nothing try it again.
if odin freezes on the set pit file your phone will have the dreaded phone to pc icon during boot but dont panic set your phone into download mode and try again.
If any questions should arise PM me or leave a comment and others and i will try and help.
Took me two days to fix my phone after flashing to stock to root it but i hope this helps you turn your 400 dollar paper weight back into a phone.

umm thanks but we know how to use odin there are a million guides in every ginerflash and captivate sticky.
and the 2.2 odin is actually an internal samsung beta 2.2 not official.
returning it with the designgears 2.2 will be an obvious warranty breach if they notice.
and your Step 4 and 5 seem to say the same thing... "flash 2.2 odin" (which isnt official)
and THE REAL FIX FOR THE BOOTLOOP:
reboot into RECOVERY > (not download)
wipe cache and data! (or factory reset)...
DONE!
reboot into the rom that you were trying to use!
takes 20 seconds and no reflashing anything.

i ran into this a few days ago while trying to root a friends captivate(1008) purchased from walmart recently. after trying to flash back to stock i was stuck on att boot loop and could not get into download mode via button combo to save my life. tried everthing minus a jig....after getting fed up with it, i sat it aside. to my amazment, after about 10-15 minutes the mf booted up. i had to use adb to reboot into download mode. flashed with odin(from aio toolkit) back to 2.1. everything worked fine, no problems except for one thing...sometimes it will still loop for a few minutes before it boots...sometimes it boots right away. Im still investigating the whole ordeal but my point here is: if you think your phone is stuck on att screen, just let it sit for a while....maybe a long while. and it should boot. then use adb to get back to download mode. i read every forum post on the web about this issue...just found this thread and thought id give ppl a heads up. hope it helps

I'm stuck in a bootloop right now on the Galaxy S animation screen and this wipe cache and data method doesn't seem to work for me.

so i recently tried flashing a darky rom theme onto my captivate running mosaic 8.
it worked the first time. then i tried another theme didnt like it, so flashed the darky rom one, and now, bootloop....
i can get my cappy into download mode, but odin doesn't recognize it.
i cannot get it into recovery mode with holding down the volume up and down and power button.
i need help
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fixed!
biggest help i have EVER had in custom roms/rooting etc..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1351224

TRusselo said:
umm thanks but we know how to use odin there are a million guides in every ginerflash and captivate sticky.
and the 2.2 odin is actually an internal samsung beta 2.2 not official.
returning it with the designgears 2.2 will be an obvious warranty breach if they notice.
and your Step 4 and 5 seem to say the same thing... "flash 2.2 odin" (which isnt official)
and THE REAL FIX FOR THE BOOTLOOP:
reboot into RECOVERY > (not download)
wipe cache and data! (or factory reset)...
DONE!
reboot into the rom that you were trying to use!
takes 20 seconds and no reflashing anything.
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ok cmw is not mounting cache or anything else any other ideas

[Q] Unable to get phone to boot after Odin flash

Hope someone has some info.
I have recently tried to recover my phone via Odin flash. I'm flashing the GummyCharged 1.9 FE odin file. I've done this SEVERAL times w/ out any problems.
My problem now is that when the Odin flash is complete it shows "Pass" and when I reboot my phone it boots with an old version of CWM (4.0.0.1). Not only that but when I try to "reboot phone" it boot loops back to CWM and will not load ANY for of an OS. I've tried multiple Odin files with no luck. Same thing over and over.
Anyone have any suggestions? I'm used to having to recover my phone from a bricked state... but never had an issue where I push a file to the phone and it will not boot after. Tried wiping data/cache after Odin as well... Still nothing.

I would try going back to stock using Imnuts' stock ROM and PIT file which can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1111486
That has always fixed any and all issues I've been having with the phone after messing something up.
EDIT: Here is the stock EE4 ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1172182

hazard209 said:
I would try going back to stock using Imnuts' stock ROM and PIT file which can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1111486
That has always fixed any and all issues I've been having with the phone after messing something up.
EDIT: Here is the stock EE4 ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1172182
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Hey man, I cant thank you ENOUGH!!!! After A LOT of trial and error (had to download the ee4 file from another link) I was able to get this beast to boot back up. I REALLY appreciate your quick response and help!

KaneD20 said:
Hey man, I cant thank you ENOUGH!!!! After A LOT of trial and error (had to download the ee4 file from another link) I was able to get this beast to boot back up. I REALLY appreciate your quick response and help!
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No problem. Glad you got her back up and running. No one likes a $500 paperweight.

Props to hazard he's always helping people... just want to let you know
Your a good dude...
SENT FROM THE DOG POUND

hazard209 said:
No problem. Glad you got her back up and running. No one likes a $500 paperweight.
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Yeah, no doubt. And I was able to do a restore on the Imnuts PBJ OBT kernel from 7/30... my problem started when I installed the new kernel version (from 8/8) and tried to backup/restore. Working perfectly now though!

Having same issue still getting recovery mode
I did a fix sd cardupdate for the rom clocking.
I had gumicharge rom on it
After 4 hours my battery was at 50% so I decided hey i can just load the rom on it again and no problem clean free.
It did not work. I am using odin.
It did not work so I got the pit file from this and it gave my system life and the ed1 file wont download it stalls out and failes i tried using
CI510_VZW_EE4_ALL_ONE-LTE-CP_REV03_user_CL1014954.tar.md5
or
CI510_VZW_EP1F_ALL_ONE-LTE-CP_REV3_user_CL300919_Rooted_Debloated.tar.md5
both do nothing.
My phone just sits there reboots into Manual mode and looks like my blue recovery console.
Clear cache
Upload from SD Card
and clear memory so forth.
Thats all my options.
I am now stuck with phone i cant use or update. I am at work so now i cant use the megaupload since those are blocked by our firewall.
I was able to remote to pc to get a pit file.
At this point i dont know what to do or just do insurance claim on my phone and get another one. I dont know how to fix it now.
I cant read the sd card on any computer to put stuff on it and odin is writing things to it The pit file on this fix did give me a recovery enviroment but nothing on roms are on the sd card.
roms ive tried dont load for automaticaly its just in that manual mode thing with the icon of the little android dude.
it says
Android system recover (3e)
Enter: OK key, select:Vol Up/Vol Down
Reboot system now
apply update from sdcard
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
bewlo it syas #manual mode* and little android guy with eclamation point next to him.
I have tried severla tiems 3 different roms

2Much2Ask4 said:
I did a fix sd cardupdate for the rom clocking.
I had gumicharge rom on it
After 4 hours my battery was at 50% so I decided hey i can just load the rom on it again and no problem clean free.
It did not work. I am using odin.
It did not work so I got the pit file from this and it gave my system life and the ed1 file wont download it stalls out and failes i tried using
CI510_VZW_EE4_ALL_ONE-LTE-CP_REV03_user_CL1014954.tar.md5
or
CI510_VZW_EP1F_ALL_ONE-LTE-CP_REV3_user_CL300919_Rooted_Debloated.tar.md5
both do nothing.
My phone just sits there reboots into Manual mode and looks like my blue recovery console.
Clear cache
Upload from SD Card
and clear memory so forth.
Thats all my options.
I am now stuck with phone i cant use or update. I am at work so now i cant use the megaupload since those are blocked by our firewall.
I was able to remote to pc to get a pit file.
At this point i dont know what to do or just do insurance claim on my phone and get another one. I dont know how to fix it now.
I cant read the sd card on any computer to put stuff on it and odin is writing things to it The pit file on this fix did give me a recovery enviroment but nothing on roms are on the sd card.
roms ive tried dont load for automaticaly its just in that manual mode thing with the icon of the little android dude.
it says
Android system recover (3e)
Enter: OK key, select:Vol Up/Vol Down
Reboot system now
apply update from sdcard
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
bewlo it syas #manual mode* and little android guy with eclamation point next to him.
I have tried severla tiems 3 different roms
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Not sure if you're going into download mode properly but try this:
open ODIN
add the PIT file in the PIT section
add the EE4 OEM file in the PDA section (do not use the phone section)
leave everything else in ODIN as default except click on "re-partition"
take your battery out of the phone
hold the volume down button & plug in your USB cable (do not let go of the volume down button until you are in download mode)
ODIN should now now show a yellow com port for your phone on top left of ODIN and your phone should display "download mode"
select start
When it's complete ODIN will show in green that it passed. Unplug your phone, put the battery back in & boot
Hope this helps & good luck

vudiff said:
Not sure if you're going into download mode properly but try this:
open ODIN
add the PIT file in the PIT section
add the EE4 OEM file in the PDA section (do not use the phone section)
leave everything else in ODIN as default except click on "re-partition"
take your battery out of the phone
hold the volume down button & plug in your USB cable (do not let go of the volume down button until you are in download mode)
ODIN should now now show a yellow com port for your phone on top left of ODIN and your phone should display "download mode"
select start
When it's complete ODIN will show in green that it passed. Unplug your phone, put the battery back in & boot
Hope this helps & good luck
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I would do this but before starting the flash in odin put the battery back in and uncheck the auto reboot box, when its done unplug from pc and remove battery, put it back in then boot up phone
blazing through on my VZ Droid Charge 4G

anoninja118 said:
I would do this but before starting the flash in odin put the battery back in and uncheck the auto reboot box, when its done unplug from pc and remove battery, put it back in then boot up phone
blazing through on my VZ Droid Charge 4G
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don't put the battery in during flash & leave auto reboot checked. Auto reboot will not do anything as there isn't a battery installed... it'll just turn off. Unplug the phone after you flash it & put battery back in & boot

vudiff said:
Not sure if you're going into download mode properly but try this:
open ODIN
add the PIT file in the PIT section
add the EE4 OEM file in the PDA section (do not use the phone section)
leave everything else in ODIN as default except click on "re-partition"
take your battery out of the phone
hold the volume down button & plug in your USB cable (do not let go of the volume down button until you are in download mode)
ODIN should now now show a yellow com port for your phone on top left of ODIN and your phone should display "download mode"
select start
When it's complete ODIN will show in green that it passed. Unplug your phone, put the battery back in & boot
Hope this helps & good luck
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This is pretty much what fixed it for me. DON'T GIVE UP! Trust me, I literally had to try this several times before it booted up. I know its frustrating, trust me, but if you stick with it you can fix the phone.
Each time you're able to get to recovery mode, if you're phone doesn't boot, do like five data wipes and wipe cache. Then Odin the .pit and the EE4 from the link above in the pda field (both at the same time).
Good luck! Stick with it I know you CAN fix this!
Sent from my SCH-I510 using XDA Premium App

KaneD20 said:
This is pretty much what fixed it for me. DON'T GIVE UP! Trust me, I literally had to try this several times before it booted up. I know its frustrating, trust me, but if you stick with it you can fix the phone.
Each time you're able to get to recovery mode, if you're phone doesn't boot, do like five data wipes and wipe cache. Then Odin the .pit and the EE4 from the link above in the pda field (both at the same time).
Good luck! Stick with it I know you CAN fix this!
Sent from my SCH-I510 using XDA Premium App
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No need to wipe anything... when you have "re-partition" checked it wipes everything but the sd card

vudiff said:
No need to wipe anything... when you have "re-partition" checked it wipes everything but the sd card
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I'm sure you're right, these are just the things that I did when I finally got it working.

I got stuck myself last night and odin started to fail every attempt, even with the pit file and following numerous instructions found around the site. I actually thought my phone was bricked for good.
I installed PST lite and selected the PIT and EE4 and selected to repartition. It took longer to do but everything came back up. Then using odin I was able to flash back to the rom I had before.
This was after an hour of trying to fix it as I mentioned and Odin kept failing.

^attempting to reflash via samsung pst lite.
loaded PIT, stock EE4. checked "repartition". when I click download, it starts, but freezes at 9%. RX_TIMEOUT shows on the phone screen.
I'm trying this method b/c Odin is not working. Same thing, just hangs, sez RX_TIMEOUT. (repartition w/ PIT, stock EE4)

sushi_stalker said:
^attempting to reflash via samsung pst lite.
loaded PIT, stock EE4. checked "repartition". when I click download, it starts, but freezes at 9%. RX_TIMEOUT shows on the phone screen.
I'm trying this method b/c Odin is not working. Same thing, just hangs, sez RX_TIMEOUT. (repartition w/ PIT, stock EE4)
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Have you tried putting the battery back in during the flash?
Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyFroyo 1.9.1

kvswim said:
Have you tried putting the battery back in during the flash?
Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyFroyo 1.9.1
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Yes. tried both with and without. Just hangs. Can never fully make it through the flash.
Stuck with soft bricked phone.
Waiting for my wife to get home with her PC laptop. Hoping it really is just a platform issue (running ODIN on Mac Boot Camp)

sushi_stalker said:
Yes. tried both with and without. Just hangs. Can never fully make it through the flash.
Stuck with soft bricked phone.
Waiting for my wife to get home with her PC laptop. Hoping it really is just a platform issue (running ODIN on Mac Boot Camp)
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What version of Odin are you using? I'm pretty sure I'm using Odin v. 1.82 or something close to that. Not too sure that it would make the difference. Just a thought.
Also, I had to Odin QUITE a few times to get it back up. I had even run the Odin w/ JUST the .pit file. Thought I read somewhere to run the .pit an UNCHECK the repartition box (I know it says it'll give you an error but I did not get one).
All in all, not too sure what exactly it was that finally got it working. But I eventually ran the .pit and ee4 (both posted in post #2 of this thread). Then when my phone booted up, it looked like the problem remained. I had to get back to work from lunch so I just put the phone in my pocket. Then out of nowhere I heard the boot animation come on.
Just make sure you read through, pretty much, all of the threads that deal w/ this stuff. There is almost always someone that has come across the same problem that you may have and almost always someone who had figured out how to fix it.
Good luck, this CAN be fixed!

Soft brick? Stuck in a bootloop, Help!

I haven't found this issue so here is my story...
For some reason my lock PW keyboard changed to numeric on me today and for the life of me I couldn't get it to go back so after an hour of rebooting, flash back-ups in CWMR and removing the batery, nothing would get me back to a regular keyboard. I got flustered and just punched in stuff seeing that warning that if I fail again it will erase all data. I thought that will be a pain but I can restore everything in an hour or so because I back everything up, right? WRONG. All data was ALL F$%^&ng data! external SD, cleaned off too.
BUT hold on, I have it also backed up on my PC because I'm smart still right? No dice...get error E:Can't open /sdcard (bad)
So this is what I have to work with...
I can get into CWMR Touch v5.5.0.4 ( I can see what is on my external SD card but cant run anything)
I can get into DOWNLOAD mode BUT Oden wont recognize...it reads device connected for about 2 seconds and then device disconnected)
If im CWMR mode Oden will see my device...not sure if that is good or bad
if I just power on the phone it just goes to the samsung logo and starts booting but never quite gets there....( I left it spinning for 20 min and nothing...)
Any thoughts?
I feel if I could get ODEN to see my phone I would be in good shape.
Also I have another phone and SII and all is read fine so I know it isn't my cord, USB, PC, ODEN...
Thanks in advance
Oh...I think my phone isn't in debugging mode...and that could be it but how could I get in to check if I cant boot the phone?

First you have to make sure your phone drivers are installed correctly, so either download and install kies if you don't have it. Or if you have it got to connection troubleshoot, make sure your phone is not plugged, let it run and when its done put your phone into download mode and connect it. Let the computer install the drivers, don't unplug the phone until it's done or it may screw up. When its done close kies completely and run odin.
Did you try simply flashing a rom from CWM?
And I'm pretty sure you could get a restoration program and recover the data from your external SD card, usually deleting only means its being marked as free space but all the previous data should still be there until something new is written.

When you in download mode are you pressing the up volume to confirm you want download mode?
You can go into download mode but still need to hit up or down to confirm.
As for CWM not reading your external SD did you check to make sure that it's mounted?
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specter07 said:
When you in download mode are you pressing the up volume to confirm you want download mode?
You can go into download mode but still need to hit up or down to confirm.
As for CWM not reading your external SD did you check to make sure that it's mounted?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using xda app-developers app
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CWM "read"s my SD card, ( I can see the rom and backup on it) but once I try to flash, that's when I get the error saying the the path is not valid :/
For DL mode, yes, I hit up and the little droid shows up saying Downloading. In the Upper left corner it reads
ODIN MODE
Product Name :SGH-I727
Custom Binary Download: NO
Current Binary: Samsung Official

kishke said:
First you have to make sure your phone drivers are installed correctly, so either download and install kies if you don't have it. Or if you have it got to connection troubleshoot, make sure your phone is not plugged, let it run and when its done put your phone into download mode and connect it. Let the computer install the drivers, don't unplug the phone until it's done or it may screw up. When its done close kies completely and run odin.
Did you try simply flashing a rom from CWM?
And I'm pretty sure you could get a restoration program and recover the data from your external SD card, usually deleting only means its being marked as free space but all the previous data should still be there until something new is written.
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The only way I can get the phone to be read by my PC is in CWMR..Keis will not recognize it but I did reinstall the drivers.
Should I remount in CWMR? Would it still read what was on the card if it wasn't mounted correctly?

I got ODIN to read my device and was able to flash Stock ICS 4.0.4 on it!
Thanks for your feedback!
:good::good::good::good::good::good:

So it was driver issue after all.

Yup...not sure what the deal was with the driver though in the fist place. It wasn't like I reloaded it this morning. :/
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[SOLVED]Bricked phone

Hi I want to know how can I unbrick my Samsung galaxy s 4g. I believe I bricked because now when I turned on only stock in the logo. Please can you help me with this. I'm leontx's wife. Thanks

If it's just showing the logo and it's there for over 15 minutes, you'll probably need to reflash something.
I'd suggest using one of the one-clicks from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19601810&postcount=2 and I'd probably suggest the second (Basic with a Twist) choice.
First, you need to get the phone into download mode. Easiest way to do that is to unplug USB cable, pull the battery out, plug the battery back in, and plug the phone back to the computer. Hold the volume buttons on the left and turn on the phone (while holding down the buttons). It should ask you if you want to go into download mode. Press volume+ to confirm, then unplug the phone from your computer and plug it back in (to make the computer realize that there's a device there). Now run the one-click to reflash your phone. If the flash fails, restart the phone and try again. If the phone reboots to a screen showing a little phone and a yellow warning sign, perfect... just flash it again. That's the alternate download screen, and I get it everytime I use Heimdall/Odin/Kies to flash it.

couldn't get into download mode
Hello,thanks for you help,I'm trying to fix my wife's galaxy s after she wiped and factory reset the phone when tried to recovery by herself.Now the phone is stock in the galaxy s 4g logo forever,I tried to get into recovery or download mode but i couldn't.She told me that the phone was giving her a error message about the keyboard app,then she removed the batt and put it back, the battery showed her almost dead like 1% when was like 79% few seconds before,then she called t-mobile and the person told her to do the recovery mode with the bottoms, she did it and the person ask how much batt the phone had, she said 79%.then the person sugested to full charge the batt,and call them(tmobile) back.So here we go... lol:laugh:.She tried to fix it and got into recovery mode and wiped and factory reset the phone,I dont know what she was doing and removed the batt to reboot the phone.and here we are now.When try to get into download mode the pc not recognize it say USB device not reconognized and the phone just show a loading logo but nothing happen.I just want to know if is possible to fix this or toss it,the phone is rooted with a custom rom,I tried with another batt but the same results.Im realy want to recover this phone to give it to my mother in law thank you so much

Leontx said:
Hi I want to know how can I unbrick my Samsung galaxy s 4g. I believe I bricked because now when I turned on only stock in the logo. Please can you help me with this. I'm leontx's wife. Thanks
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i soft brick may phone yesterday, i use to flash my current rom and then reflash it again [clean flash] i just reflash it to save my game replay..
if you can boot into recovery mode, reflash your current rom and then backup and wipe everything exept sdcard then flash again.

Sounds like the battery crapping out on you & crashing while it was doing something important. Usually, a factory reset and new battery can fix. But, If the reset failed, it's not a biggie. find any of the one clicks that you might like to try (lumin30 has a awesome guide/thread w/ links). Batteries are cheap. Sometimes they will swell up when they die. If it spins easy when placed on flat surface is an easy check. There are a couple threads with links to 10 buck replacements around too.
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eureka !!!
my phone is alive.I could put it in download mode by removing the batt,put it back then holding both volumes bottoms,then connecting the phone to my pc(USB),no power bottom.and voila after putting this in download move everything else is piece of cake thank yall.

Completely stock Note 10.1 stuck on splash screen cant access recovery mode.

Hey guys hope this is in the right area. My brother gave me his old galaxy note 10.1 because he said it wasnt working. It boots to the splash screen and stays there. I can access download mode, but cannot access recovery mode. When I try to access recovery mode, one time it the screen will flash twice, and then the third time and every time thereafter(while im holding the power and volume button) it just boots to the splash screen. When the tablet boots the the splash screen, my PC does chime showing a device has been connected, but it never shows in my pc. I have flashed the stock rom with odin that I downloaded, and it passes successfully, and the tablet restarts, but still same problem. I have let it charge overnight, let it sit at the splash screen for hours, removed the battery overnight to drain any charge. tablet it not rooted, or ever been messed with in anyway. I would hope this to be a software issue because that means I can(hopefully) fix it. So, is there any other portion of the memory I can wipe and reinstall? Does odin completely wipe the entire memory when it installs. If its not software Im thinking of just heat treating the whole mobo and having that be the last go at it. Any ideas or recomendations would be helpful.

I would flash a custom recovery via Odin.
Boot to recovery. Format system cache data .Boot to download mode flash stock rom for your model .
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JJEgan said:
I would flash a custom recovery via Odin.
Boot to recovery. Format system cache data .Boot to download mode flash stock rom for your model .
No dice. Flashed CWM and it passes in odin. Cant boot to recovery. Any way to update the bootloader or NAND(i know know nand=bricked device but honestly i dont need this thing and would love to have it broken instead of almost kind of working lol).
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If you can find a bootloader flash through Odin.Try sammobile.com.
Nand is the onboard flash ram memory .
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ive got one of these, with recovery, it boots to splash screen and stays... i can go through the motions of sideloading a rom via adb, but when the rom is transfered and starts to install, i see a quick error that ive lost root, and the system is read only????
i used the recovery to try and repair root, nada, i then sideload superuser and it says it loaded correctly, but the rom install still fails via sideload...
ideas?

Hhhmmmm your experience shows that maybe it's not software but hardware? Mine is completely stock and has the same symptoms as yours.

Any suggestions on where to find a bootloader?
JJEgan said:
If you can find a bootloader flash through Odin.Try sammobile.com.
Nand is the onboard flash ram memory .
Sent from my SM-N930F using XDA-Developers mobile app
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As my post sammobile .

I've just had this exact same problem with my tablet (gt-n8010) for the second time.
First time it sat in a drawer for 2 months with a flat battery before I took it to a repair center in bicester. They got it working straight away.
This time I thought I'd have a go a sorting it out myself (even though it's been a while since my regular flashing days)
After spending 7hours downloading the stock rom i flashed through odin and retained the boot loop.
I had a hunch that something was being retained in the memory that wasn't being cleared with just reboots so i dissassembled the tab and removed the battery, I then held the power button for about a minute.
I then reconnected all the cables with the battery one being last and powered up the tab.
It then finally proceeded to install the rom package!
So anyone that is stuck in a bootloop for no reason should remove the battery!