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[Q] HELP - Wiped the OS off of my Galaxy S3 I747

Alright, well I've come to a problem and I'm not quite sure how to fix it.
The title pretty much says it all, I've completely wiped the operating system off of my phone. There is nothing left, absolutely no data or anything. I was much too hasty and irresponsible, and I fear for the worst. I had previously attempted installing multiple ROMs multiple times using CWM to no avail so I re-rooted and switched over to Team Win. I know before installing a ROM you have to wipe your phone, well... I hit advanced wipe and within that I hit "system", went ahead and wiped. There's nothing left on my phone my phone and there are no ROMs on my SD card. I had backed up my phone before wiping but when I wiped that was also deleted. Before restarting it always warns me "No OS installed on your phone, are you sure you want to reboot?" Of course it's bricked and stays at the "Samsung Galaxy SIII" screen. I attempted putting a stock ROM back on my phone through ODIN, but a'las it didn't work (always stops at "SetupConnection"). I have nothing and there is no way for me to get a new ROM on the phone, I obviously cannot connect to my computer unless through download mode because the phone is bricked. So, what do I do? Is there any hope left for me or am I just completely screwed? The phone is less than a month old.

another option is to purchase a micro sd card and place a ROM and gapps (if required) on it, install the card and boot into recovery.
so when you connect your device to your pc, you're getting a yellow com connection in odin? what link did you follow for a stock ROM?
as long as you can still access recovery and download mode, there is hope, buddy.

xBeerdroiDx said:
another option is to purchase a micro sd card and place a ROM and gapps (if required) on it, install the card and boot into recovery.
so when you connect your device to your pc, you're getting a yellow com connection in odin? what link did you follow for a stock ROM?
as long as you can still access recovery and download mode, there is hope, buddy.
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Yeah, when I connect to the PC I get a yellow com connection in ODIN. I followed what is, perhaps, a sketchy looking link for the stock ROM... It's not letting me post a link because I'm a new member to the board, though I've looked over this place plenty of times in the past. Should I look for something a bit more official and retry? I don't think it's going to work. Will a ROM work, without an OS? I know that may sound silly but everything I've tried so far has failed.

here's a link to the stock firmware with root already injected: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426
flash the tar in odin like you have been. make sure the auto reboot box is unticked. if you get a PASS after flashing, unplug the device, pull the battery, replace it and press the recovery button combo. once in recovery, wipe data and wipe cache. reboot.
lemme know if that worked, otherwise throw a ROM on a micro sd card as stated and go that route
btw, a ROM is the OS.

And also, my phone has to be rooted for a ROM to be installed, right? Well there's no guarantee my phone is still rooted since I've wiped literally everything on the phone. I like the idea of a placing it all on an SD card but that could be wasted money and I don't have very much money to spend, especially if a ROM isn't going to replace all of the needed system files which have been deleted.

NovoAevum said:
And also, my phone has to be rooted for a ROM to be installed, right? Well there's no guarantee my phone is still rooted since I've wiped literally everything on the phone. I like the idea of a placing it all on an SD card but that could be wasted money and I don't have very much money to spend, especially if a ROM isn't going to replace all of the needed system files which have been deleted.
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follow my directions above to flash rooted stock firmware

xBeerdroiDx said:
follow my directions above to flash rooted stock firmware
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Alright, thanks a lot. My internet is super slow so it'll probably be a while before the file is completely downloaded. Let's hope this works. I'll get back to you when it's all said and done.

xBeerdroiDx said:
follow my directions above to flash rooted stock firmware
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You have no idea how grateful I am, thank you so very, very much. It worked, I cannot express my gratitude. I truly appreciate it.

NovoAevum said:
You have no idea how grateful I am, thank you so very, very much. It worked, I cannot express my gratitude. I truly appreciate it.
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booyah.
:good: thats why we're called a community. cheers!

NovoAevum said:
You have no idea how grateful I am, thank you so very, very much. It worked, I cannot express my gratitude. I truly appreciate it.
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One small thing you can do is to hit the "Thanks" button on xBeerdroiDx's posts.
:good:

im having the same promblem
post-mortem said:
One small thing you can do is to hit the "Thanks" button on xBeerdroiDx's posts.
:good:
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how did u get your phone to connect to odin

dorvilkervins said:
how did u get your phone to connect to odin
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Have you installed the Samsung drivers?
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Can you explain what happened with your phone? How did you "lose everything?" Is it able to boot up into Android? Can you get into recovery (TWRP)? Did you accidentally wipe something you shouldn't have?

I accidentally wiped my OS on my Galaxy S3 AT&T - Please Help!!!
Hello all,
I am a rookie user of smartphones and I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 AT&T. I accidentally wiped my OS leaving me with no OS. The good news is that I can still use Team Win and boot into recovery. How can I download and install a new OS? I live in a rural area with no place to go to get this fixed; so I would really appreciate any and all help on this matter. Thanks for reading
Tyler
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Hello all,
I am a rookie user of smartphones and I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 AT&T. I accidentally wiped my OS leaving me with no OS. The good news is that I can still use Team Win Development. Using Team Win, how can I download and install a new OS? I live in a rural area with no place to go to get this fixed; so I would really appreciate any and all help on this matter. Thanks for reading
Tyler

Check this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2363882

Hey Bro, xBeerdroiDx, Indeed this is a great community, but, it is the fellas' and ladies, like you,that have the knowledge and experience ,that do not have to assist anyone ,but do anyway. I am just another member here, but as a brother, you get a pat on the back from the gallery. Your willingness to help is very much appreciated.

me too
so twrp and dl mode are cool...but odin fails and zip in recovery kicks a status 7 error...what to do?
sgh-i747 .....i think my build.prop or bootloader is jacked?

hewhoisnotasothers said:
so twrp and dl mode are cool...but odin fails and zip in recovery kicks a status 7 error...what to do?
sgh-i747 .....i think my build.prop or bootloader is jacked?
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Did you try \the latest CWM or TWRP? Maybe the ROM needs a more recent bootloader?

gottam
audit13 said:
Did you try \the latest CWM or TWRP? Maybe the ROM needs a more recent bootloader?
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the bootloader may have been corrupted by a 4.x downgraded flash....i'm not sure how to proceed...

hewhoisnotasothers said:
the bootloader may have been corrupted by a 4.x downgraded flash....i'm not sure how to proceed...
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Were you on stock 4.3 ROM?

audit13 said:
Were you on stock 4.3 ROM?
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yes...I have tryed everything i can think of....i can flash recoverys just fine, but i havent found a rom that will boot past the splash screen...most just fail in odin...i don't want to jtag if i dont have to...in theory there should be hope since i can get into DL and twrp....

[Q] Trouble flashing to stock. Help!

To start i belive my OS was deleted previous to the attempt to flash to stock.
Using L900PALJC md5 file from samsung-updates.com
Running odin3v3.07 as admin.
Drivers are uptodate
Com id is light blue in color
Where messages prompt it reads:
<ID:0/009>Firmware update start..
"Boot.img
"NAND Write Start!!
"cache.img
"hidden.img
"modem.bin
"param.bin
"recovery.img
"sboot.bin
"FAIL!!
<OSM> All threads completed. Succeed 0 / failed 1
Thanks in advanced and thanks to come

Jjpuerto58 said:
To start i belive my OS was deleted previous to the attempt to flash to stock.
Using L900PALJC md5 file from samsung-updates.com
Running odin3v3.07 as admin.
Drivers are uptodate
Com id is light blue in color
Where messages prompt it reads:
<ID:0/009>Firmware update start..
"Boot.img
"NAND Write Start!!
"cache.img
"hidden.img
"modem.bin
"param.bin
"recovery.img
"sboot.bin
"FAIL!!
<OSM> All threads completed. Succeed 0 / failed 1
Thanks in advanced and thanks to come
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Are you able to get into your recovery? If so, from what I see here it should let you into the stock recovery. If you get something different or nothing at all let me know. Have you tried flashing back to stock with any other files (i.e. something provided here on XDA, or an older file on the Samsung website)? I've run into issues with ASUS post bad software on their site when trying to return to stock. May I ask why you are flashing back to stock? You said that you believe your OS was deleted? I may have some links I can pass on to you to help you find what you need, but a bit more information would help. I looked on the Verizon NII forums and have seen a few people with similar issues.

Killa357 said:
Are you able to get into your recovery? If so, from what I see here it should let you into the stock recovery. If you get something different or nothing at all let me know. Have you tried flashing back to stock with any other files (i.e. something provided here on XDA, or an older file on the Samsung website)? I've run into issues with ASUS post bad software on their site when trying to return to stock. May I ask why you are flashing back to stock? You said that you believe your OS was deleted? I may have some links I can pass on to you to help you find what you need, but a bit more information would help. I looked on the Verizon NII forums and have seen a few people with similar issues.
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I have not tried flash to stock with any other files, i did attempt to flash the CF Auto root file becuase i was at a lose. I tried that yesterday morning the result i got was loosing my twrp recovery and binary count up to two. I deleted my os while tring to flash macksrom v5 2 weeks ago. I was attempting to flash to stock in effort to reclaim my OS. I would like end game to be macksrom v5. Previous to deleting os, 2 months ago i tried flashing macksrom planejane to no avali, using files from diffrent locations but all seem to be unable to unzip. The only successfull in flashing was a perseus kernle.

Jjpuerto58 said:
I have not tried flash to stock with any other files, i did attempt to flash the CF Auto root file becuase i was at a lose. I tried that yesterday morning the result i got was loosing my twrp recovery and binary count up to two. I deleted my os while tring to flash macksrom v5 2 weeks ago. I was attempting to flash to stock in effort to reclaim my OS. I would like end game to be macksrom v5. Previous to deleting os, 2 months ago i tried flashing macksrom planejane to no avali, using files from diffrent locations but all seem to be unable to unzip. The only successfull in flashing was a perseus kernle.
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Try pushing TWRP to your phone using ODIN. From there you can try putting that ROM on your phone. I would try a different ROM first just to see if you are able to flash anything.

Killa357 said:
Try pushing TWRP to your phone using ODIN. From there you can try putting that ROM on your phone. I would try a different ROM first just to see if you are able to flash anything.
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So will flashing a ROM install an OS too? Any ROM suggestion for this task?

Jjpuerto58 said:
So will flashing a ROM install an OS too? Any ROM suggestion for this task?
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Are you new to modding phones? Not trying to sound rude, you just seem a little confused is all. When we say we are flashing a "ROM" we mean we are installing a different OS on the phone. It all depends on what you are looking for. If you want something smooth and close to original android, you could try Cyanogen mod, AOKP, Liquid smooth and a few others. If you want one that is a modded stock ROM (one advantage there is that you will still have access to all of the Samsung Applications for the S-Pen, though there are plenty of suitable replacements for these) you could try something like Synergy... Not sure what all else there is as it has been a while since I've tried out different ROMs. What all are you looking for in a ROM?

same problem but much further along than him
Killa357 said:
Are you new to modding phones? Not trying to sound rude, you just seem a little confused is all. When we say we are flashing a "ROM" we mean we are installing a different OS on the phone. It all depends on what you are looking for. If you want something smooth and close to original android, you could try Cyanogen mod, AOKP, Liquid smooth and a few others. If you want one that is a modded stock ROM (one advantage there is that you will still have access to all of the Samsung Applications for the S-Pen, though there are plenty of suitable replacements for these) you could try something like Synergy... Not sure what all else there is as it has been a while since I've tried out different ROMs. What all are you looking for in a ROM?
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ok so yes i was trying to root and flash to verizon. bought the phone on craigslist. it had a bad esn so i decided to flash it. I rooted it and installed twrp just fine. being a dumb @$$ took hold of me and i decided to partition and format the phone. in the end I bricked it. so i through the phone into download mode. and tried to use the custom LJC rom. (no dice). so I tried the VZW variant. (failed at cache). So I tried to replace the the stock rom. got down to sboot.bin and failed. it turns out the bootloaders get locked so i cant use a boot image to recover. in the process of replacing with stock i deleted twrp. unintentionally. so no more twrp. so i found a thread that had a stock rom that doesnt use sboot.bin. fails at cache every time. I have tried everything I know to do and there isnt much on the note 2 yet. so im looking for answers. I feel as if im close but im just missing something. if i could find a combination kies file with no sboot.bin for SPH-L900 it may work. I dont know how to compile it myself or i would so here I am. any help would be appreciative.
Thanx

edub251 said:
ok so yes i was trying to root and flash to verizon. bought the phone on craigslist. it had a bad esn so i decided to flash it. I rooted it and installed twrp just fine. being a dumb @$$ took hold of me and i decided to partition and format the phone. in the end I bricked it. so i through the phone into download mode. and tried to use the custom LJC rom. (no dice). so I tried the VZW variant. (failed at cache). So I tried to replace the the stock rom. got down to sboot.bin and failed. it turns out the bootloaders get locked so i cant use a boot image to recover. in the process of replacing with stock i deleted twrp. unintentionally. so no more twrp. so i found a thread that had a stock rom that doesnt use sboot.bin. fails at cache every time. I have tried everything I know to do and there isnt much on the note 2 yet. so im looking for answers. I feel as if im close but im just missing something. if i could find a combination kies file with no sboot.bin for SPH-L900 it may work. I dont know how to compile it myself or i would so here I am. any help would be appreciative.
Thanx
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Download one of my zips here and put it on your micro sd card. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2086769
Then
Place the phone in download mode and flash this in PDA slot. http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23060877490001700
It will get you into twrp recovery. From there factory reset and flash the zip you downloaded from the first link

billard412 said:
Download one of my zips here and put it on your micro sd card. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2086769
Then
Place the phone in download mode and flash this in PDA slot. http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23060877490001700
It will get you into twrp recovery. From there factory reset and flash the zip you downloaded from the first link
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OMG thanks man your a life saver 3 weeks of hell and headaches are over. IF I could paid you for this i would have....not to mention i checked the ESN on swappa and sprint must have cleared it for usage so dont need to flash it anymore.....thanks a million :good::laugh::highfive::victory::cyclops:

Killa357 said:
Are you new to modding phones? Not trying to sound rude, you just seem a little confused is all. When we say we are flashing a "ROM" we mean we are installing a different OS on the phone. It all depends on what you are looking for. If you want something smooth and close to original android, you could try Cyanogen mod, AOKP, Liquid smooth and a few others. If you want one that is a modded stock ROM (one advantage there is that you will still have access to all of the Samsung Applications for the S-Pen, though there are plenty of suitable replacements for these) you could try something like Synergy... Not sure what all else there is as it has been a while since I've tried out different ROMs. What all are you looking for in a ROM?
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Yes, i am green. i liked what i saw with macksrom bloat remove, tether, mutilwindow mod, volume boost. i will look into synergy thx.
billard412 said:
Download one of my zips here and put it on your micro sd card. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2086769
Then
Place the phone in download mode and flash this in PDA slot. http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23060877490001700
It will get you into twrp recovery. From there factory reset and flash the zip you downloaded from the first link
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Will post results monday.

Looking for you expert advice
I am trying to take my Boost Mobile S3 and flash it to my Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 2. I use to have the note 2 flashed with my old donor (Boost Mobile Incognito)... I LOVE the Note 2 but hated that I could only get 3g. I love the 4G on my S3 (night and day difference). I am green but I am getting pretty savoy from all the info I get here. And I read, read and then read some more... I miss my note 2.. Easy on the eyes! lol... I love the bigger screen and the s-pen feature, Simply put, after reading your thread here, I was so impressed with your knowledge that I thought I'd ask you for your help. I just want to use the S3 as a donor. How to I donor the S3? What programs do you suggest to use to read the info on the S3 and write (flash) to the Note 2? Thank you so much for any help you can give...

I finnaly got to flash the lastest suggestion billard412 you are right on the money. Thanks a billion and where is your donation button!?

Jjpuerto58 said:
I finnaly got to flash the lastest suggestion billard412 you are right on the money. Thanks a billion and where is your donation button!?
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Glad it worked for you. Button is in my sig. \/\/ T.I.A for the contribution

[Q] Hello, I don't know what is happening with my Note 2 right now... (Possible noob)

Hello! This is my first post on xda as I have usually been able to find a resolution in one of the already asked questions but I might have just played with my note 2 not knowing what I was really doing a little bit too much.
So I'll try and say everything I've done to make it easier to help me.
I bought the phone and I was happy using GoLauncher and stuff but then stumbled upon rooting and custom roms and being able to get new rom releases that aren't out on the N7100 yet.
So this was all good and well flashing ProBam, Cyanongen Mod, Cerberus, Dr Ketans Rom... and when I had finished having my fun.. I flashed a stock rom and went back to using that, however, the other night I flashed Philz Touch 5 and tried to flash a custom rom that I had downloaded previously. ( Well I tried to flash about 5) These were Echoe rom, Hurricaine rom, Dr Ketans rom, Official stock rom and I can't remember the other.
However, all of these roms came up with the '(Bad) Installation aborted' message on cwm, so now through whatever I've done (i think i flashed original root "CFAutoRoot" through odin' I don't have cwm anymore but i CAN access the system menu, download mode and as far as getting on to the actual phone goes, it get's stuck on the 'SAMSUNG GALAXY Note II GT-N7100' screen, and I read a thread (poet) saying that you may have to wait 20 minutes and not be impatient, so I left the phone for 7 hours (to no luck). I am really stressing out and I cannot find a fix to this!
I am currently trying to extract AP_N7100XXUEM16_CP_N7100XXEM16_CSC_N7100XAEM16_BY_WVAZ_DINK.zip with password 'wagnervaz' and it just keeps getting stuck whilst extracting so...
anyhoo I REALLY NEED HELP
I've tried so much and please don't tell me to 'wipe cache, factory reset/wipe data' cause that just doesn't work I've done it about 1 million times and I honestly don't even know what state my phone is in right now, it probably looks like the containment field from beyond two souls inside.
I hope to hear from one of you very clever guys soon, and thank you so much in advance!:good:

lukejones94 said:
Hello! This is my first post on xda as I have usually been able to find a resolution in one of the already asked questions but I might have just played with my note 2 not knowing what I was really doing a little bit too much.
So I'll try and say everything I've done to make it easier to help me.
I bought the phone and I was happy using GoLauncher and stuff but then stumbled upon rooting and custom roms and being able to get new rom releases that aren't out on the N7100 yet.
So this was all good and well flashing ProBam, Cyanongen Mod, Cerberus, Dr Ketans Rom... and when I had finished having my fun.. I flashed a stock rom and went back to using that, however, the other night I flashed Philz Touch 5 and tried to flash a custom rom that I had downloaded previously. ( Well I tried to flash about 5) These were Echoe rom, Hurricaine rom, Dr Ketans rom, Official stock rom and I can't remember the other.
However, all of these roms came up with the '(Bad) Installation aborted' message on cwm, so now through whatever I've done (i think i flashed original root "CFAutoRoot" through odin' I don't have cwm anymore but i CAN access the system menu, download mode and as far as getting on to the actual phone goes, it get's stuck on the 'SAMSUNG GALAXY Note II GT-N7100' screen, and I read a thread (poet) saying that you may have to wait 20 minutes and not be impatient, so I left the phone for 7 hours (to no luck). I am really stressing out and I cannot find a fix to this!
I am currently trying to extract AP_N7100XXUEM16_CP_N7100XXEM16_CSC_N7100XAEM16_BY_WVAZ_DINK.zip with password 'wagnervaz' and it just keeps getting stuck whilst extracting so...
anyhoo I REALLY NEED HELP
I've tried so much and please don't tell me to 'wipe cache, factory reset/wipe data' cause that just doesn't work I've done it about 1 million times and I honestly don't even know what state my phone is in right now, it probably looks like the containment field from beyond two souls inside.
I hope to hear from one of you very clever guys soon, and thank you so much in advance!:good:
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Also, just so you guys know more about the specifics (if this helps)
When I go in to download mode its..
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: GT-N7100
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: Yes (13 counts)
CURRENT BINARY: SAMSUNG OFFICIAL
SYSTEM STATUS: CUSTOM
Samsung Galaxy Note II GT-N7100 on Orange/T-Mobile/EE in the UK
Using windows xp on acer aspire one netbook (I know, your jelly)
Thanks again!

lukejones94 said:
Also, just so you guys know more about the specifics (if this helps)
When I go in to download mode its..
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: GT-N7100
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: Yes (13 counts)
CURRENT BINARY: SAMSUNG OFFICIAL
SYSTEM STATUS: CUSTOM
Samsung Galaxy Note II GT-N7100 on Orange/T-Mobile/EE in the UK
Using windows xp on acer aspire one netbook (I know, your jelly)
Thanks again!
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SOLVED IT, DOWNLOAD THE AP_N7100XXUEM1.zip I said about before ^
Flash using ODIN 3.09, omg I'm so happy.

lukejones94 said:
SOLVED IT, DOWNLOAD THE AP_N7100XXUEM1.zip I said about before ^
Flash using ODIN 3.09, omg I'm so happy.
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glad u fixed it. :laugh:

[RECOVERY] TWRP-2.7.0.0-moto_msm8960-hdpi.img YOUR, pre Nov 8, TWRP IS BAD!

Update twrp 2.7, see Dhackers link for the img. Use Recovery Tools from Play to flash from home.
Seems that only Dhackers latest TWRP is the one to use.
Thanks to cyanidium for making it evident to me anyway.
Dhackers msm8960 goodies: http://androidhosting.org/Devs/Dhacker29/msm8960/
BTW Does anyone know what "twrp263-M44.img" is?
Attachments: the ...M44 is 1 day newer & works.
Just extract these to get the fastboot img.
More details
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2612883
More conformation http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=49978993&postcount=79
This one is not Dhacker latest anyway :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=45688558&postcount=1
Md5 starts with 791.
Want to try Philz.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2545120
Want The latest 2631? w/ SDext usb mount. What is the rub?
This Photon Q TWRP, with full SD mount & more, works on the M! See attachments for the flash-able ver. Now for the rub: screen input requires the mirror of the buttons. I am uploading the very zip from the twrp mounted SD while the phone is in recovery. BE CAREFULL.... It is really not that hard to use. Think of it as a game also.
Md5 : 7630baf88ec9d6c2a144a2ee86ec9bb7

I also had issues flashing some roms with 791.
e33 I was able to flash my brains out with 8 different roms with in 2 hours time span.
791 I had to resort back to Flashing Stock Rom via RSD and start over few times after softbrick.
So not sure what it is maybe slight tweaks in the settings ?

Germanese said:
I also had issues flashing some roms with 791.
e33 I was able to flash my brains out with 8 different roms with in 2 hours time span.
791 I had to resort back to Flashing Stock Rom via RSD and start over few times after softbrick.
So not sure what it is maybe slight tweaks in the settings ?
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No settings, just bad! Thanks for the conformation Watson! We on a train with a new engine!!!

Germanese said:
I also had issues flashing some roms with 791.
e33 I was able to flash my brains out with 8 different roms with in 2 hours time span.
791 I had to resort back to Flashing Stock Rom via RSD and start over few times after softbrick.
So not sure what it is maybe slight tweaks in the settings ?
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How long have you known about it?

aviwdoowks said:
How long have you known about it?
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I came across this issues first time trying to flash Paranoid and Pacman.
Which left me soft Bricked or in Bootloops. At the time i was just too fed up and went back to stock
second time i encountered that, was with the first stable KitKat by Dhacker.
That's when i decided to start clean and deleted all my Pre downloaded files and I was forced to download the new E33 from Dhacker.
And along with that all my other Roms and Files. I kind of figured something was bad with my TWRP file. But never thought of it since 791 wasnt found by my search engine.
And this December when I was flashing my GFs phone that's when I confirmed that the 791 didn't work for any of my roms.
Because I couldn't find Dhackers E33 through Google.De search (Some odd way searches come up differently if you search from different country)
And it did the same issues I had the First time around. That's when i dug around more and found Dhackers TWRP.
After using that I was able to flash Roms like a mad man until I found a Rom that my GF was comfortable using and liked.

Germanese said:
I came across this ....GF was comfortable using and liked.
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It's news to me. Did you post about it? Jbaumert has a 1000 + DL of a bad recovery! Your GF distracted you? Lol.
Ohh well now we all know!
Thanks again for the history.
This screwed up my data partition & I could not determine if it was philz or this. Then I decided the stop one, as I would go to the other & then data restore failure, so I used just philz & the problem went away!

aviwdoowks said:
It's news to me. Did you post about it? Jbaumert has a 1000 + DL of a bad recovery! Your GF distracted you? Lol.
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Nah i didn't post about it back then and recent we were side tracked ahahaha.
And I actually just got back couple days ago ... work ugh hate it already ...
There maybe a post few months back, me asking somewhere about which TWRP people are using,
because I had my doubt on which one to use; but no one really bothered to respond.
Then i just decided to flash away with what ever, since most errors resulted in an Harmless SoftBrick.
Since i figured a way around to that soft-brick, my thought was, what worse could happen, I did worse before LOL
I won't take credit, just stumbled upon it... That's all you. Just here to Confirm that i did have issues with that version.
Since then I been trying to see CWM for KitKat LOL

Hmm...
So I should be using this (xt907- twrp263-M44 -flashable.zip) instead of the TWRP here?

Twilla said:
So I should be using this (xt907- twrp263-M44 -flashable.zip) instead of the TWRP here?
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Yes or the e33.
Not sure which is better. Philz is newest & I have an ini file to help you set it up see #2 post.

Update.
Haha. But not a joke. PHOTON Q twrp 2631 up.

twrp 2631 maybe provided by arrrghhh!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=49857073&postcount=176
If you want to be synched to his Q versions, go thank him!
That means a good screen version for our m.

Installed the m33 in TWRP and every backup I have made thus far has been corrupt. Back to the old one!

Coronado is dead said:
Installed the m33 in TWRP and every backup I have made thus far has been corrupt. Back to the old one!
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I do wonder, if perhaps, the trouble you had with Bones & this could be related?
Just a thought.

aviwdoowks said:
I do wonder, if perhaps, the trouble you had with Bones & this could be related?
Just a thought.
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Very possible. I am trying to flash back to another Twrp2630 and I am getting an error I have never seen "Variable not supported." Very strange.

Coronado is dead said:
Very possible. I am trying to flash back to another Twrp2630 and I am getting an error I have never seen "Variable not supported." Very strange.
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May I suggest philz new version just out.
Allows you to format many /'s now.
I use only it now.
Not pocket proof like twrp. Beware

New 2632 twrp, see the op for Dhackers link to his img.
Here is mhous33's flashable version.
http://batakang.com/ftp/?dir=devs/mhous33/xt907

aviwdoowks said:
New 2632 twrp, see the op for Dhackers link to his img.
Here is mhous33's flashable version.
http://batakang.com/ftp/?dir=devs/mhous33/xt907
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It works fine (I have flashed Dhackers *img) but if we want to flash any ROM we must change updater.script and add moto_msm8960 to device list on it.
I have success flashed BeanStalk after I add moto_msm8960 to updater.script
P.S. Also unified ROMs flashed great!
P.P.S. Gummy is most stable for me from unified ones

Flash TWRP-2.7.0.0-moto_msm8960-hdpi.img with Recovery Tools. See OP.

Would anyone know if Dhacker's TWRP works on the XT905 model as well?

Yes. But that is just good advice. I do not have one.

Stuck at download screen after root

I get a note 2 gt-n7100 and i tried to root it with odin.
Now its stuck on download mode...i pull the battery,i flash custom recovery,did factory reset,pull out sd and sim,still nothing.
i do not know which filmware to flash because i cant get it to boot.

Flash a stock ROM via Odin. Download at Sammobile

SOLVED,thanks

Nazgul1379 said:
SOLVED,thanks
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Can you please tell me how you did it? I have the same problem but i can´t solve it!

vähäkangas said:
Can you please tell me how you did it? I have the same problem but i can´t solve it!
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Unfortunately most people think this is their own personal tech support site (it isn't) so sometimes you will get selfish people like this who just come here to solve problem and dont give a sh1t about sharing solutions.
What have you done/tried so far? Have you tried flashing roms? What happened? etc etc. You need to be more detailed if you expect help.

TheATHEiST said:
Unfortunately most people think this is their own personal tech support site (it isn't) so sometimes you will get selfish people like this who just come here to solve problem and dont give a sh1t about sharing solutions.
What have you done/tried so far? Have you tried flashing roms? What happened? etc etc. You need to be more detailed if you expect help.
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Hi, sorry if I made you upset! I am new to rooting and tried yesterday to root my galaxy s3 and everything went just fine until i restarted it. Immediately after the "samsung galaxy gt-i9305" text it goes to a downloading screen just like that one in download mode but without the text in the upper left corner and does nothing tough it says downloading.
I have tried to:
-factory reset
-take out battery
-take out sim-card
-flash the same rom again
I have NOT tried to:
-Flash a stock rom (couldn´t find one from Finland) Could that help?
Cant think of anything else. I can still enter recovery mode and download mode.
Ps. I know that this isn´t a tech support site but judging from the guides i have seen so far (rooted my phone from a guide on this site) it seems like people here know what they are doing so I thought it would be best to ask here first.
Thanks!

I was referring to the person who created the thread who you quoted, as being selfish, not you What I meant is that he solved his problem but then never bothered to give any details, so people who search for same issue do not get answer in this thread.
Go here and get the required firmware and flash via Odin. There will also be a small guide on flashing the rom.

Thank you for replying!! I couldn´t find a firmware from finland there (I have registered now). Do you think i can use one from denmark (close to Finland)?
Again thank you! +1

Just incase someone is wondering it is working now I downloaded a stock rom from sammobile and flashed it and it worked for me:laugh: