Backstory (you can ignore this part if you want)
I bought a used Sprint Galaxy Nexus SPH-L700 (toroplus) phone off eBay, the seller stated it was untested as he had no battery or charger, but the screen was good and it had a clean ESN, so I bought it. When I got it I put in a spare battery I had and tried the power button. It vibrated and the Google logo appeared, but it never booted past the logo. I pulled the battery and tired it a couple more times, and even let it sit for 10 minutes or so. I also tried to boot into fastboot, and when I did it just went to a black / blank screen and I had to pull the battery. I was able to get it into download / Odin mode. I tried to flash the phone in Odin mode, but the flash failed.
Current Status
When I boot up I now see a phone and computer with a yellow warning triangle in the middle (see this pic for example). Odin still seems to recognize the phone but when I try to re-flash it hangs on "radio-cdma.img" and eventually fails.
I was able to get back to the Google logo by flashing a tar with Odin that did not contain "radio-cdma.img" but the phone still only boots to the google logo or odin.
Summary
-- Can't get to fastboot.
-- Flash with Odin fails radio-cdma.img (which I think is the last step, but can flash with it) and leaves it in the warning state.
-- When I boot I can only get to the Google logo or Odin.
Any suggestions or ideas? (or should I just resell it on eBay?)
Hello all,
My phone randomly got stuck in a boot loop (crashing after the black and white galaxy s3 splash screen) last night and is now on its last leg. I'm on stock ATT firmware; I had messed around with rooting a few months back but restored.
Now the phone will crash before entering recovery mode. I can get into Download mode and connect the phone to ODIN, but it will crash before it can begin rewriting the firmware. The phone just won't stay on for longer than ~20 seconds (I've tried with two different batteries). All I can figure is that there is a hardware power issue, but do you all have any ideas? If not, I fear I'll have to buy a new phone.
PS: I initially believed the power button was stuck and opened the phone up to make sure that wasn't the case, it was fine.
hello every one i have another gs3 with another boot loop issue. so on first sight the phone looks good. it will turn on and show the screen saying "samsung galaxy sIII" but after that it goes black and 3 seconds later it vibrates then another 3 seconds and it vibrates again and then 3 more seconds and the boot screen is back displaying "samsung galaxy sIII". it will not boot in to recovery mode, however i can get to odin mode or download mode. it has never bin rooted, and it has stock rom, but i did try rooting it throu odin mode and it failed multiple times as well as the phone would display "unsupported format"? i have seen this before and it ended up being a power button and well i tried replacing that with no effect. i also noticed that when you do try booting the phone into recovery mode it will say "recoverybooting" in blue letters at the top left hand corner but just keeps boot looping, i need to recover the data on the phone since i was going to back it up but could not do it in time lmao!!!! any help or suggestions would be appreciated, i have bin at this for days now and my chances are looking dim some one said reinstal the stock rom throu odin mode i guess my only question is will reinstalling stock rom wipe my data or no?
Solution
911techrepair said:
hello every one i have another gs3 with another boot loop issue. so on first sight the phone looks good. it will turn on and show the screen saying "samsung galaxy sIII" but after that it goes black and 3 seconds later it vibrates then another 3 seconds and it vibrates again and then 3 more seconds and the boot screen is back displaying "samsung galaxy sIII". it will not boot in to recovery mode, however i can get to odin mode or download mode. it has never bin rooted, and it has stock rom, but i did try rooting it throu odin mode and it failed multiple times as well as the phone would display "unsupported format"? i have seen this before and it ended up being a power button and well i tried replacing that with no effect. i also noticed that when you do try booting the phone into recovery mode it will say "recoverybooting" in blue letters at the top left hand corner but just keeps boot looping, i need to recover the data on the phone since i was going to back it up but could not do it in time lmao!!!! any help or suggestions would be appreciated, i have bin at this for days now and my chances are looking dim some one said reinstal the stock rom throu odin mode i guess my only question is will reinstalling stock rom wipe my data or no?
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Hey I had the same problem as you and just managed to fix it.
Try this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2004650
Thanks
Hello. So as the title suggests, I've got a problem. My i9195 s4 mini LTE is bootlooping. Turns on, gets to "Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini" hangs on for a few secs, turns the screen off, vibrates, nothing, vibrates again, and starts the "Sam..." screen again. This loops forever. When I try to go recovery mode, it says "No command"(Pressed every button and combinations on that screen, didn't put me back to recovery), then restarts by itself.
I can put it into download mode easily, and now the fun part: It can be flashed, I can flash recovery, rom, pit, anything. Odin passes, phone restars, same thing. Even tho in download mode it says : "Write protection : Enabled." Odin doesn't fail, or anything. Bootloader V2, any advices?!
I have exactly the same problem at the moment. I think the problem is the write protection, that prevents that flashing something actually changes something.. but this is just a guess. I hope to find some help here... pls let know, if you found a solution!
pushhyeah said:
Hello. So as the title suggests, I've got a problem. My i9195 s4 mini LTE is bootlooping. Turns on, gets to "Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini" hangs on for a few secs, turns the screen off, vibrates, nothing, vibrates again, and starts the "Sam..." screen again. This loops forever. When I try to go recovery mode, it says "No command"(Pressed every button and combinations on that screen, didn't put me back to recovery), then restarts by itself.
I can put it into download mode easily, and now the fun part: It can be flashed, I can flash recovery, rom, pit, anything. Odin passes, phone restars, same thing. Even tho in download mode it says : "Write protection : Enabled." Odin doesn't fail, or anything. Bootloader V2, any advices?!
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I got exactly same error. Did u solve it?
Wonder if anyone can help, my s4 mini seems to be stuck in a boot loop. The problem started the other morning where the phone wouldn't turn on. with any buttons pressed in different sequence. then after hitting the phone power button side the phone vibrated and booted up to the samsung logo screen, then vibrated and turned off and it's stuck like this unless i remove the battery
I can get in to download mode but if i try recovery it just says recovery booting... then after 5 seconds it gows back in to the boot loop.
I've tried cwp and twrp odin says everything is ok but i still get the same booting screen then the reboot. i've even tried a stock firmware for the phone from sammobile with the same effect, i'm not sure which firmware i need as there are a few for this phone i tried a couple one had an error so tried another which seemed to be good in odin but same boot loop. grrrrrr
Is there anything else i can try?
thanks
did you found a solution for your bootloop issue yet?
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