Hello all
I used Max Lee's method at http://galaxynote3root.com/ to root my T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and it worked fine. I needed to test deleting some KNOX files so before I did that, I made a restore file within CWM which turned out to be a tad over 3GB. Then I tested deleting the KNOX files and everything seemed to be working alright. I happened to also try out ...Awesome...'s AwesomeBeats v4 Black mod and ran into it stopping unexpectedly.
I decided then it would be best if I just restored the phone to earlier so I rebooted into CWM recovery and chose to restore with the 3GB file I made earlier. It seemed to compile fine but when I chose to reboot, it would get stuck in a reboot loop.
I've tried wiping the dalvik-cache as well as the regular cache to no avail. I was even desperate enough to try wipe data factory reset with the same resulting bootloop. I then went into the advanced restore options and tried to restore boot, system, cache separately all to no resolution.
Any help you all can offer would be greatly appreciated.
Odin back to stock?
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itsjusttim said:
Odin back to stock?
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Thanks, itsjusttim.
For anyone who may have the same issue in the future, I just went to Samsung Update website and downloaded the firmware for my specific model on T-Mobile here: http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SM-N900T
They have all of the other firmwares for the Note 3 listed there as well. After that, you unzip the file and flash the resulting tar.md5 file in ODIN.
Tha Watcher said:
Thanks, itsjusttim.
For anyone who may have the same issue in the future, I just went to Samsung Update website and downloaded the firmware for my specific model on T-Mobile here: http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SM-N900T
They have all of the other firmwares for the Note 3 listed there as well. After that, you unzip the file and flash the resulting tar.md5 file in ODIN.
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Thanks, I hope this works, I've tried everything and can not get my phone to work. Bootlooping also.
Odin is generally the fix all failsafe for Samsung phones...
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Not this time...unfortunately
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I've tried everything. Nothing works. I've Odined, use kies, nand delete all, install twrp, CWM, factory resets from all recoveries. Flashed deodexed stock image. Absolutely nothing works.
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Did it turn off mid flash when using Odin? It's kinda hard to mess up Odin unless your device has very low battery.
Try Odin again, make sure you know how to use it though.
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Not this time...unfortunately
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I've tried everything. Nothing works. I've Odined, use kies, nand delete all, install twrp, CWM, factory resets from all recoveries. Flashed deodexed stock image. Absolutely nothing works.
sgh-TWEAKED-889©
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Damn... Still with the issue?
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itsjusttim said:
Did it turn off mid flash when using Odin? It's kinda hard to mess up Odin unless your device has very low battery.
Try Odin again, make sure you know how to use it though.
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I tried it at least a dozen times, different downloads of stock image, kernel, kies, everything. Battery was near full, no shut offs. Nothing went wrong.
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Damn... Still with the issue?
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Unfortunately. Pounding headache too. Didn't stop trying to get this to work until 330 this morning, woke up at 830, been trying since. I give up.
sgh-TWEAKED-889©
Just use Odin, using other things can screw it up further...
As long as it is booting, even though it's a loop, it's still salvageable.
Download the Odin .tar from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2465764
Make sure you have the most current version of Odin.
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I tried that, multiple times. No go. I'm not the only one either, there were two others with the same issue. We restored from twrp, bootloop city.
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Warrior1975 said:
I tried that, multiple times. No go. I'm not the only one either, there were two others with the same issue. We restored from twrp, bootloop city.
sgh-TWEAKED-889©
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wonder if anyone has successfully restored a backup on cwm or twrp
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I tried it at least a dozen times, different downloads of stock image, kernel, kies, everything. Battery was near full, no shut offs. Nothing went wrong.
Unfortunately. Pounding headache too. Didn't stop trying to get this to work until 330 this morning, woke up at 830, been trying since. I give up.
sgh-TWEAKED-889©
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Try this video from Max Lee. Even though he's talking about the Note 2, it helped me get out of my Note 3's boot loop. Listen to the things that pertain to your situation only and make sure you follow ALL of those particular steps. When it wasn't working for me initially, it's because I didn't follow exactly what he did. He may seem like he's kind of out of it in this video. but Max has repeatedly helped me get out of my rooting woes. He's definitely on point!
I hope it helps you... if you're stuck in a boot loop. I know you said you can't restore but I'm assuming you tried and you're as a result stuck in an incessant boot loop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U3x9f_0qLM&list=FLzlWiSvUo6qQhHdETAHc7vQ&index=1
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wonder if anyone has successfully restored a backup on cwm or twrp
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Yes, quite a few.
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Warrior1975 said:
Yes, quite a few.
sgh-TWEAKED-889©
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I'm scared to restore lol I made a back up of a rock rom but haven't flashed a rom yet just a transparent weather widget lol
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I'm scared to restore lol I made a back up of a rock rom but haven't flashed a rom yet just a transparent weather widget lol
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I'm scared to also. Considering this is my second note 3 ??
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I'm not doing it.
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deeznutz1977 said:
I'm scared to also. Considering this is my second note 3 ??
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What happened to your first one?
Tha Watcher said:
What happened to your first one?
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Restoring a twrp backup... Twrp is and has been fine for flashing roms/mods
deeznutz1977 said:
Restoring a twrp backup... Twrp is and has been fine for flashing roms/mods
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I have two note 3, I rooted one and installed all my apps, mods, etc... then I created a twrp backup... I copied the twrp backup to the other note 3 (inside the twrp folder) and I restored... Voila, a perfect clone.
Do you have more than one twrp backup or you are just trying the same one always? (besides odin and bla bla...) What if someone gives you another twrp backup to try?
Also... Your situation makes me remember myself with the Note 2... I bricked my note 2 and I wasn't able to recover it... I did all I could possibly imagine just like you... (I was crying on the inside) But I ended up saving the phone by flashing a Samsung odin firmware from the International version... Believe it or not, that worked for me.
Just giving ideas, trying to help...
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Related
just want to let you know that T-Mobile firmware is ready for download
http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SGH-T999
Is this for odin
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Can this be used with the t mobile variant
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If this is for sprint, why does the title say T-Mobile..
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Edit: In that case, thanks PP
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Its for T Mobile.. if you click on the link it says its for the T999
I was wondering the same thing, but if it matters I went to the link and it says it's for T-Mobile T999UVALEM like the title
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Tweezydak1d said:
Is this for odin
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yes it is - same firmware as you would get updting with kies
anthonykash said:
Can this be used with the t mobile variant
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ye, it is tmobile version i am tired and made a typo - corrected thnks and gnite
my phone came with this firmware. is this just posted to revert to stock if on a custom rom or is there other significance?
Has anyone tried flashing yet?
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So this must mean we can flash fash back to stock with odin if we have problems.
yup! this is our fall back ROM. now we need a triangle away to reset the counter!
It Works
I decided to be the test monkey on this one.
I had a nandroid backup of when I screwed my system so badly it just boot looped repeatedly. Restored that with cwm, verified it was still hosed, unpacked this zip, used odin to burn the .tar.md5 to the phone as PDA, rebooted.
It does some gear chunking while booting the first time then reboots - don't panic yet! On second boot it does some more rebuilding, then 'WELCOME!'
Bonus: CWM now sees the actual external sdcard as /sdcard and can find things like roms and backups on it. Edit: This CWM finds .zips on the sdcard, but doesn't seem to know how to backup/restore.
So is this for un rooting our phones?
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sizer99 said:
I decided to be the test monkey on this one.
I had a nandroid backup of when I screwed my system so badly it just boot looped repeatedly. Restored that with cwm, verified it was still hosed, unpacked this zip, used odin to burn the .tar.md5 to the phone as PDA, rebooted.
It does some gear chunking while booting the first time then reboots - don't panic yet! On second boot it does some more rebuilding, then 'WELCOME!'
Bonus: CWM now sees the actual external sdcard as /sdcard and can find things like roms and backups on it. Edit: This CWM finds .zips on the sdcard, but doesn't seem to know how to backup/restore.
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What do you mean "This CWM" ? The tars we're talking about in this thread are completely stock from samsung, there is no CWM in these... please elaborate.
hiazn said:
What do you mean "This CWM" ? The tars we're talking about in this thread are completely stock from samsung, there is no CWM in these... please elaborate.
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After burning this with Odin I ended up with a CWM that I didn't expect - and I've never seen one that actually recognized the external card. However, with all the things I've been trying it's quite possible I ended up burning a boot image I forgot about. I need to try reburning this and see if anything changes, but can't do it right now.
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After burning this with Odin I ended up with a CWM that I didn't expect - and I've never seen one that actually recognized the external card. However, with all the things I've been trying it's quite possible I ended up burning a boot image I forgot about. I need to try reburning this and see if anything changes, but can't do it right now.
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Sounds like a plan, let us know what you find.
is this actually
T999UVALEM
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T999UVLEM
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is this actually
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T999UVLEM
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Mine stock is T999UVLEM, whats the difference between the two?
does this restore everything, including stock recovery, but resetting the counter?
Strange - I had kind of a weird experience with this. I flashed via Odin as usual (as I've done a 100x before) and when it rebooted, it still had remnants of the previous rom I had installed. I didn't get the "welcome" screen as if I was starting from a new factory rom. but at least it got me back to step 1 and I could flash the Lean 2.1 rom again to repair my screw ups.
Hi, guys
For some time didn't visit the site. Now bought T-mo S4 M-919.
Last 3 days running sleep deprived LOL. Trying to install either CWM, CWM-touch, TWIRP.... ANYTHING!!!!
Used Odin 3.07, 1.85, operation completes in 2.03 minutes and yellow square on the top of Odin menu says PASS.
Then again, booting into recovery and getting recovery (3e), stock I assume.
D-loaded all drives, Kies, whatever was suggested in several posts. Read and searched for 3 days, eyes are bleeding already... LOL
Installed custom recoveries on multiple devices HD2, Asus Transformer, dreaded Viewsonic G-tab, HTC Sensation 4g...
Never had such a tough time.
What am I doing wrong? Did anyone else had such a problem?
Any advice is greatly appreciated!!!
Tester.
Are you rooted? You could try installing from Rom Manager app itself.
Thanks.
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Are you rooted? You could try installing from Rom Manager app itself.
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Thank you for your fast response.
I read somewhere to disable auto-reboot in Odin and turn off the phone by pulling the battery.
So, I tried it and it WORKED!!!!!
Now I'm with CWM and rooted!!!! And Happy!!
Thanks again.
Tester.
Tester30 said:
Hi, guys
For some time didn't visit the site. Now bought T-mo S4 M-919.
Last 3 days running sleep deprived LOL. Trying to install either CWM, CWM-touch, TWIRP.... ANYTHING!!!!
Used Odin 3.07, 1.85, operation completes in 2.03 minutes and yellow square on the top of Odin menu says PASS.
Then again, booting into recovery and getting recovery (3e), stock I assume.
D-loaded all drives, Kies, whatever was suggested in several posts. Read and searched for 3 days, eyes are bleeding already... LOL
Installed custom recoveries on multiple devices HD2, Asus Transformer, dreaded Viewsonic G-tab, HTC Sensation 4g...
Never had such a tough time.
What am I doing wrong? Did anyone else had such a problem?
Any advice is greatly appreciated!!!
Tester.
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Just flash a zip through recovery, it takes a couple of seconds...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43469920
Yeah sometimes it doesn't take the first time so you might have to do it a couple times.
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norml said:
Just flash a zip through recovery, it takes a couple of seconds...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43469920
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Yeah sometimes it doesn't take the first time so you might have to do it a couple times.
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Thanks, guys!
Now I'm happy with my CWM, maybe later will install TWRP, I like more options in TWRP.
The goal right now is to figure out what bloatware is safe to remove without compromising performance and install all my old programs through the Titanium back up.
It means more reading... LOL.
Tester.
Some custom roms need to update recovery before a flash. How to update recovery without risk ?
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Tester30 said:
Thanks, guys!
Now I'm happy with my CWM, maybe later will install TWRP, I like more options in TWRP.
The goal right now is to figure out what bloatware is safe to remove without compromising performance and install all my old programs through the Titanium back up.
It means more reading... LOL.
Tester.
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Back up all the bloat with titanium.
Make a full nandroid backup of the rom.
Then delete anything you want. If it breaks restore it with titanium. If it really breaks do a full nandroid restore.
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Some custom roms need to update recovery before a flash. How to update recovery without risk ?
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Say what now? What do you mean update recovery?
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HELP!! I think i bricked my AT&T Canadian Note 2 with 16gb rooted with stock rom and stock kernel
SO i was playing dead trigger and wanted to gave tegra 3 optimizations so i downloaded Chainfire 3D from the play store and i installed the drivers and it rebooted my note 2, but it's stuck at the Galaxy Note 2 logo!! I can still use vol up+home+power and vol down+home+power, i tried factory reset in CWM, still stuck, tried flashing new rom (CM, AOKP) still stuck, so now i just want my phone back up and running again. Anyone know how to fix it problem? I don't need any apps or data back or root back, just back up and running again. Oh and charging still shows the battery picture, and i can still turn off my phone.
Odin factory stock. Should fix it right up.
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pestilencec11 said:
Odin factory stock. Should fix it right up.
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Thing is im kinda new to android so i dont know what most of this stuff is, but i own a mac if that's gonna make a difference.
There is a guide section in the general and the Development sections. Go by there and have a look. 20 mins or less and you can be up and running stock
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pestilencec11 said:
There is a guide section in the general and the Development sections. Go by here and have a look. 20 mins or less and you can be up and running stock
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Can you send me a link to it? thanks
I should have never rooted
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Have you tried a factory reset?
Another thing hopefully you made a back up!
Sup you can have something to fall back on!:thumbup:
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Bajanman said:
Have you tried a factory reset?
Another thing hopefully you made a back up!
Sup you can have something to fall back on!:thumbup:
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Unfortunately no for some reason titanium backup didnt work for me
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Unfortunately no for some reason titanium backup didnt work for me
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Ok your going about this all wrong! Titanium isn't going to fix all your problem's!!
You need to reboot into recovery and perform a factory reset! All the instructions are on the all in one thread!
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C00lBeanz said:
Unfortunately no for some reason titanium backup didnt work for me
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When u do a backup u should be using a recovery. For example CW or TWRP2.
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Don't feed the troll.
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borijess said:
When u do a backup u should be using a recovery. For example CW or TWRP2.
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I tried using CWM recovery but it says error
Why do so many people on xda have such a hard time understanding what "bricked" means.
If you can easily fix it, then it isn't "bricked"
It's bricked if it has to go for jtag
If you read the description for chainfire 3d, it distinctly says "not compatible with ICS/Jellybean" so theres your problem why u have troubles... a factory reset might not be the fix. ODIN may be the only way.
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Flash a kernel.. Then rom... U should be fine
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When u do a backup u should be using a recovery. For example CW or TWRP2.
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This here^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
C00lBeanz said:
I tried using CWM recovery but it says error
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Then check HERE:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=867032
crixley said:
Why do so many people on xda have such a hard time understanding what "bricked" means.
If you can easily fix it, then it isn't "bricked"
It's bricked if it has to go for jtag
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+1
Yeah it's because they can't get the phone to come back on. So that's why they think it's bricked. Plus it's the only word they know and heard of. There's also soft brick, stuck in a loop, etc. But most of the time when the phone stops working correctly, most thinks it's bricked! Lol
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This here^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Then check HERE:
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Yeah it's because they can't get the phone to come back on. So that's why they think it's bricked. Plus it's the only word they know and heard of. There's also soft brick, stuck in a loop, etc. But most of the time when the phone stops working correctly, most thinks it's bricked! Lol
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For me, even "soft brick" is a stupid term..
A phone is either bricked or not bricked. If it is bricked, there is no fixing it imo (other than jtag)
Odin will fix this, this happened to my S2 while I'm on JB. Just download the latest odin, and the stock rom of your Note 2, probably you can find the rom on sammobile, google will help you out, PM me if you need any assistance. Just relax, it's not broken.
crixley said:
For me, even "soft brick" is a stupid term..
A phone is either bricked or not bricked. If it is bricked, there is no fixing it imo (other than jtag)
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Lol
arkin56 said:
Odin will fix this, this happened to my S2 while I'm on JB. Just download the latest odin, and the stock rom of your Note 2, probably you can find the rom on sammobile, google will help you out, PM me if you need any assistance. Just relax, it's not broken.
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You know when it's someone new they freak out, when there device isn't working the way it was! Before THEY did what they did to it!
Me 2¢®
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arkin56 said:
Odin will fix this, this happened to my S2 while I'm on JB. Just download the latest odin, and the stock rom of your Note 2, probably you can find the rom on sammobile, google will help you out, PM me if you need any assistance. Just relax, it's not broken.
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Ok so I need 4.1.2 of Jellybean, I still don't know what Odin is though
Anyways, i tried factory reset too and it seems like nothing happened
I just got the GN3 and naturally, the first thing I did was root it. That took a bit of time because it didn't seem to want to stock. Supersu kept force closing and i would get a pop up saying its been prevented from opening. After a bit i got it though. and used titanium to freeze all the unwanted bloat. but EVERY time i try to install a ROM i get into a boot loop. Ive tried just about every rom that is so far available to us. ive tried removing the battery, wiping cache, and doing system restore. but i just constantly get boot loops. Any thoughts?
kevinallen4325 said:
I just got the GN3 and naturally, the first thing I did was root it. That took a bit of time because it didn't seem to want to stock. Supersu kept force closing and i would get a pop up saying its been prevented from opening. After a bit i got it though. and used titanium to freeze all the unwanted bloat. but EVERY time i try to install a ROM i get into a boot loop. Ive tried just about every rom that is so far available to us. ive tried removing the battery, wiping cache, and doing system restore. but i just constantly get boot loops. Any thoughts?
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There are three places to look, the CWM bootloop thread, the N900T TWRP bootloop thread, and it's being discussed in the Original Android Development - TWRP thread.. This post will probably get merged.. Either way, need more info, like the recovery you're using, are you able to Odin back to stock etc...
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Steve Lazarus said:
There are three places to look, the CWM bootloop thread, the N900T TWRP bootloop thread, and it's being discussed in the Original Android Development - TWRP thread.. This post will probably get merged.. Either way, need more info, like the recovery you're using, are you able to Odin back to stock etc...
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Im using TWRP 2.6.3.2. and i am able to odin back to stock. though when i use odin to flash back it doesnt seem to get rid of everything until i restore factory again. its weird. this phone is acing different then any other phone ive used
Steve Lazarus said:
There are three places to look, the CWM bootloop thread, the N900T TWRP bootloop thread, and it's being discussed in the Original Android Development - TWRP thread.. This post will probably get merged.. Either way, need more info, like the recovery you're using, are you able to Odin back to stock etc...
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and i cant seem to find the twrp thread. can you point me in the right direction?
kevinallen4325 said:
and i cant seem to find the twrp thread. can you point me in the right direction?
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just to update. i odined back to stock and used the CF root method then installed TWRP 2.3.6.1 and flashed again and no bootloops this time.
ill update if i have any issues in the future.
hope this helps someone
kevinallen4325 said:
just to update. i odined back to stock and used the CF root method then installed TWRP 2.3.6.1 and flashed again and no bootloops this time.
ill update if i have any issues in the future.
hope this helps someone
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Happy to hear it, I would read the thread, it's right below this one currently, as to avoid the bootloop issue. Also might want to get the .2 release of TWRP just in case., even though it gave you issues the first time..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2471421
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Steve Lazarus said:
Happy to hear it, I would read the thread, it's right below this one currently, as to avoid the bootloop issue. Also might want to get the .2 release of TWRP just in case., even though it gave you issues the first time..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2471421
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the 2.6.3.2? i believe thats what i was using before that was giving me issues. unless theres something else im missing
kevinallen4325 said:
I just got the GN3 and naturally, the first thing I did was root it. That took a bit of time because it didn't seem to want to stock. Supersu kept force closing and i would get a pop up saying its been prevented from opening. After a bit i got it though. and used titanium to freeze all the unwanted bloat. but EVERY time i try to install a ROM i get into a boot loop. Ive tried just about every rom that is so far available to us. ive tried removing the battery, wiping cache, and doing system restore. but i just constantly get boot loops. Any thoughts?
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Did you factory reset before Odin. If your going to Odin stock factory reset before. People don't realize Odin doesn't wipe apps/settings..... And system restore in twrp?
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kevinallen4325 said:
Im using TWRP 2.6.3.2. and i am able to odin back to stock. though when i use odin to flash back it doesnt seem to get rid of everything until i restore factory again. its weird. this phone is acing different then any other phone ive used
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Odin doesn't factory reset.
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deeznutz1977 said:
Did you factory reset before Odin. If your going to Odin stock factory reset before. People don't realize Odin doesn't wipe apps/settings..... And system restore in twrp?
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i did not factory reset in odin. never had to. usually these things would always wipe everything on the device and put it back completely to stock.
and i havent tried a system restore
kevinallen4325 said:
i did not factory reset in odin. never had to. usually these things would always wipe everything on the device and put it back completely to stock.
and i havent tried a system restore
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No not in Odin. Factory reset in recovery. Be it twrp/cwm before the Odin flash or stock android recovery 3e after the.flash.....
.... Odin has never wiped apps . I've been using Odin since the vibrant..
And as for the backup restore.. I wouldn't until its all sorted out. Considering I was the first one in a boot loop. It could just be me scared lol
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ok im going to cut this short i need help im stuck on this "samsung" logo lemme tell you the back story i root it put a rom on it (beanstalk btw) then i decided to go back to stock (dont ask me y i just want to) i used odin and the samsung website to find which version i want i then extract it and everything i used odin 3.07 to work its magic. now im in this samsung screen im waiting 20 minutes for it to pass the "samsung" boot logo yet it doesnt can anyone help me
Try downloading again or using Odin to push custom recovery and flashing a stock based ROM.
Make sure you didn't leave anything checked in Odin you weren't explicitly told to leave checked (I can't remember the exact box I'm thinking of but it has to do with partitions) I lost an admire to a hard brick like that once.
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tokenpoke said:
Try downloading again or using Odin to push custom recovery and flashing a stock based ROM.
Make sure you didn't leave anything checked in Odin you weren't explicitly told to leave checked (I can't remember the exact box I'm thinking of but it has to do with partitions) I lost an admire to a hard brick like that once.
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i did try downloading it again and used odin numerous times what do you mean by push custom recovery? but i did flash a stock rom also its the re-partition that you ment to say, i definently left that one closed i didnt leave it checked i cleared my cache and data thinking that the samsung boot wouldve worked but it still didnt
I mean use Odin to put a custom recovery like twrp or cwm on the phone and try flashing a ROM like you did with beanstalk.
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I mean use Odin to put a custom recovery like twrp or cwm on the phone and try flashing a ROM like you did with beanstalk.
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but i want to go back to stock idk how doing that will help but ok
It will confirm that the phone isn't hard bricked and allow you to use the phone at least.
From there you can try Mobil Odin on the off chance that its a PC issue.
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tokenpoke said:
It will confirm that the phone isn't hard bricked and allow you to use the phone at least.
From there you can try Mobil Odin on the off chance that its a PC issue.
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why is twrp asking me for a password when their is none and when i press cancel and view my file it say my sdcard and ext has 0bytes
Well, that's not good.
Um... I've never had that happen.
But SD and ext showing 0 tells me those partitions were wiped and possibly resized.
I don't know how to rebuild partitions though.
Maybe ask in the twrp thread about the password issue. I've never seen that in 5 years of modding my phones.
The fact that recovery boots at all is promising but I'm not sure if its gonna fix your problem to be honest.
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If you can get past the password and get ADB running you may be able to rebuild the partition tables using ADB commands.
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tokenpoke said:
Well, that's not good.
Um... I've never had that happen.
But SD and ext showing 0 tells me those partitions were wiped and possibly resized.
I don't know how to rebuild partitions though.
Maybe ask in the twrp thread about the password issue. I've never seen that in 5 years of modding my phones.
The fact that recovery boots at all is promising but I'm not sure if its gonna fix your problem to be honest.
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If you can get past the password and get ADB running you may be able to rebuild the partition tables using ADB commands.
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but when i go to backup it gives me the mb and everything it doesnt show 0mb
Wait... So you CAN get in to flash a ROM but the recovery isn't seeing the partitions unless you're tying to backup the current ROM?
Do you have a backup already made that you can try restoring?
Also, did you ask about the password issue in the twrp thread?
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tokenpoke said:
Wait... So you CAN get in to flash a ROM but the recovery isn't seeing the partitions unless you're tying to backup the current ROM?
Do you have a backup already made that you can try restoring?
Also, did you ask about the password issue in the twrp thread?
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Hmmm.. Im going to do that u mm where is the twrp thread located?
Um... I don't know for the non LTE s3. The forum has an awesome search function though that should find it for you quickly. I'm on mobile though so its a pain to find and link.
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Um... I don't know for the non LTE s3. The forum has an awesome search function though that should find it for you quickly. I'm on mobile though so its a pain to find and link.
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I got it working! ! It's weird I flashed the stock rom with Odin 4 times but when I re flashed it this time it worked. .. weird but it works thanks for your help tho
Sounds like a PC hiccup.
You may want to invest in a new USB cable just incase. I've had issues from my original USB cable where it wouldn't transfer files without corrupting. Drove me crazy until I used my girlfriends without issue.
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When ever gojng between tw and cm/aosp roms it will hang at boot unless you factory reset. Glad you got it working!
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