This happened on an i957. There's a sub-forum for that device, but it's a development sub-forum; wasn't sure which place to post this.
The short of it:
I ODIN flashed a TAR for the official UCLK4 firmware for my i957, but I dropped the TAR in ODIN's PHONE slot instead of its PDA slot. Upon rebooting, my tablet now freezes at the AT&T's Rethink Possible splash screen.
I re-flashed the UCLK4 firmware in ODIN's (proper) PDA slot after I realized my mistake (after doing some research in the i957 sub-forum), but I'm still stuck at the AT&T logo.
Anyone have any recommendations?
The longer version:
I've been running AOKP (JB) on my i957 for a few weeks. It's a huge improvement over Samsung's Honeycomb ROM... but I was only-ever able to get HSPA+ working; was never able to get LTE. Today I saw that Samsung finally released the an ICS ROM for the i957. I wanted to try it out, but I wasn't able to "update" AOKP to UCLK4 using Kies.
I found the flashable TAR for UCLK4 on SamMobile.com, so I downloaded it and followed a walk-thru (on another site) that said to drop the TAR in ODIN's Phone slot. (It seemed weird, but I didn't question it.) I flashed the firmware in ODIN's Phone slot, rebooted, and got stuck on AT&T's Rethink Possible splash screen.
It didn't take long to realize I was following bad advice, and that I should have flashed with ODIN's PDA slot, so I...
Flashed UCLK4 in ODIN's PDA slot. I still had the same problem. I could never get past the AT&T Rethink Possible splash screen.
I tried to re-flash the stock kernel on top of UCLK4, following the instructions here, but that resulted in my tablet hanging after the Samsung boot logo, but before the AT&T splash screen.
I re-flashed UCLK4, and now I'm back to the Rethink Possible splash screen.
I'm still able to get into Download mode, so I don't think I'm bricked... but I'm not sure what I need to do. (Maybe I can use ODIN to reflash a proper PHONE file? Can anyone help me produce this file?) Does anyone have any recommendations?
Same problem. Thought I'd give the official I957 ROM a try, Kies won't work, and when I flashed with Odin, I got stuck at the AT&T splash screen. I did not make the mistake with the PDA / PHONE file on the first run. I did try to flash again with Odin, no change.
The tar file should have included a kernel; a new kernel version is part of the HC -> ICS upgrade process. And the kernel from that other post is probably an HC kernel, which won't work with the stock ICS ROM.
I had the same problem I installed twrp recovery and wiped everything, factory reset, etc then installed ics with Odin and it worked fine after that.
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Thanks!
I didn't even have to do the re-install. I rebooted into the stock recovery (power + volume up) and wiped cache and did a factory reset. Came right up into the setup screen.
Great! That would have taken less steps. But whatever way you do it it seems the factory reset is necessary.
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i installed the HC stock then flashed this and it worked. i also had the hangup problem but that fixed it.
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I had the same problem I installed twrp recovery and wiped everything, factory reset, etc then installed ics with Odin and it worked fine after that.
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Thanks! I did a factory reset and wiped my cache and everything is working now. I feel a little ridiculous for not trying that on my own...
In the panic of the moment, I (somehow) just assumed that recovery wouldn't work. One should never assume that!
Thanks
Thanks a lot! I did a factory reset and wiped out my cache and everything is working fine now. :good:
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Hey guys, I'm fairly new to Android, and even smart phones in general, but I need a bit of assistance.
I bought a phone from a friend in Canada, the GT-I9000M.
I live in Australia, and I'm trying to unlock it to work here. I wasn't having much success with getting root of the phone etc, so I decided to have a look at cyanogenmod.
I have followed this wikipedia article by every character: wiki.cyanogenmod[dot]com/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S:_Full_Update_Guide
However, the phone acts a bit odd. It'll boot up, show the cyanogenmod splash screen, then load to a recovery menu, but then the text will fly up very fast, and the phone just reboots itself in an endless loop. I managed to get a photo of the menu before it rebooted itself, and found this (Link to an external image, since I can't post them yet):
dl.dropbox[dot]com/u/203420/DSCF2542.jpg
And this is where I'm stuck. I have the cyanogenmod update zip on the SD card, but it seems to give a "SD card marker not found", and resort to looking on the phones internal memory (Which obviously fails).
I've tried a few other things, like flashing the boot.img file instead of the zImage (Which actually gets me further than just the zImage, which sits in the galaxy S splash screen).
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Regards,
Dan
Have you tried reflashing the phone with the KG3 firmware?
Have you tried reflashing the phone with the KG3 firmware?
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same problem here... CyanogenMod wiki articles have instructions for I9000 and the T959, but not the I9000M. I'm looking for a kernel zImage with CWM recovery for the I9000M.
As for the KG3, I've found a 3-files version, but couldn't manage to flash it with Heimdall...
This is not bad, I had this when trying to boot one of my ports.
To fix:
1. Flash custom kernel through Odin (devil, semaphore for example)
2. Now directly boot into recovery, which should now be cwm.
3. Flash desired ROM and wipe data/factory reset, clear dalvik, cache etc.
4. Boot up!
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I was recently using Stunner ICS but decided I wanted to go back to stock and start over. I downloaded the stock N7000XXKJ4_N7000OXXKJ4 firmware and installed it through odin. I did not receive any errors on the phone or on my PC. But now it seems like my phone is stuck in a boot loop. It just keeps showing the samsung boot animation over and over. I used the download jig to get into download mode and tried redoing the firmware twice already with no luck. One thing I did notice is that the jig is no longer resetting the binary counter. Does anyone have any other ideas or is my phone possibly bricked?
This is supposed to be in Q& A section... Anyways... Did you try wipe?
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What worked for me having the same problem recently is go to Recovery mode (Volume up + home + power) and you'll see this funny kinda recovery, not at all CWM Do a data wipe/factory reset and then reboot.
Same thing happened with me yesterday, wipe in recovery fixed the problem
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This is supposed to be in Q& A section... Anyways... Did you try wipe?
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I'm sorry. Mods please move to appropirate section.
Thank you guys. I was beginning to freak out. I was trying to do the recovery menu but couldn't get it to work. I thought the recovery menu was also hosed but I had the wrong buttons. All is good now! thank you so much!
First thing you need to do if you want to get back GB, flash abyss 3.9 redpill kernel.
After that flash GB rom.
So later you can flash whatever kernel you want
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Hanging at Samsung logo; can't boot into recovery; am I bricked???
Hi guys...
I've been semi bricked for about 18 hours now. And it's starting to look like it's a full-brick.
I had the latest Gingerbread ROCKET ROM on my Samsung Galaxy Note GT-N7000, with the latest Franco kernel in place.
I thought I'd give the ICS version of ROCKET ROM a go. Flashed Abyss4.2 kernel without any hassles. Used 'advanced' to boot into recovery. Did my various wipes. Flashed the ICS Rocket Rom zip. And got caught up in the recurring boot-up, mostly upgrade, run, reboot cycle that's been described in many places.
Didn't panic.
Booted into recovery again, and flashed the ICS Rocket Rom again.
But this time, it wouldn't go past the SAMSUNG logo.
Still, I could boot into recovery.
Which I did.
And I tried to restore my Gingerbread build from Nandroid.
Tried it. But it hung on the Samsung logo again.
With one key difference... Now, no matter how much I try, I can't boot into recovery.
I *CAN* boot into 'download' mode. So I've used PC Odin to try and inject a rooted Gingerbread rom into the phone.
The instructions tell me to wait for the phone to reboot twice. Sadly, it tries its first reboot, and doesn't get past the Samsung logo. And that's where it hangs. No recovery mode either.
What shall I do??? Oh, woe is me. Etcetera.
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I found a version of Abyss 4.2 kernel in tar format. I flashed it via PC ODIN, and I now seem to have a phone that can boot again.
Not much more to report at the moment, cos the battery is on about 3%, so I'm charging it now before delving further. Will give more feedback once the battery's up and running again.
Here's a link to the Abyss file: http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1072122&d=1337500067
I tried all of this, was on stock ICS 4.0.3 and had it rooted.
I tried to restore a backup which was sadly on GB and then the restore of /data failed
I then tried to flash paranoid custom rom and it was successful but the phone never went any further than SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE GT-N7000 logo
I then Flashed a direct rootable stock rom via PC odin and all was well but the phone would never go any further than the logo before mentioned
I tried flashing AbyssNote kernel via pc odin but the CWM recovery menu kept on rebooting hence leaving me with not particular choice to select
Tried wiping data, cache mem, dalvik cache but no use and now i am on stock recovery menu. please help me out
i have this Samsung i9220 china i try to flash upgrade the firmware with Odin3 v1.85 . i got stock phone can't power non recover modem non booting logo , does anyone have any ideas ?
I was on MidTeam 1.3. i decided to change my lcd density via an app and this messed up everything. i went to CWM and do a wipe/factory reset. After this the system failed. I flashed a GB rom via Heimdall, everything went well, the phone booted as usually, i've seen the "click android to start" screen but when i clicked on it phone freezed. I tried to flash different ROMs both customs and stocks, they are all being flashed via heimdall succesfully but stacked at the same place. I finally flashed CM9 (again via heimdall). It booted normally, i saw the lock screen, i unlocked it by touching the screen then the phone freezed again. I made a search on the forum but did not find a similar case. Can anybody help? CWM is working fine, i can do wipe/factory reset or mount any partition.
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I was on MidTeam 1.3. i decided to change my lcd density via an app and this messed up everything. i went to CWM and do a wipe/factory reset. After this the system failed. I flashed a GB rom via Heimdall, everything went well, the phone booted as usually, i've seen the "click android to start" screen but when i clicked on it phone freezed. I tried to flash different ROMs both customs and stocks, they are all being flashed via heimdall succesfully but stacked at the same place. I finally flashed CM9 (again via heimdall). It booted normally, i saw the lock screen, i unlocked it by touching the screen then the phone freezed again. I made a search on the forum but did not find a similar case. Can anybody help? CWM is working fine, i can do wipe/factory reset or mount any partition.
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see if anything in my signature can help you... good luck!!!
Thank you for the answer. I've succesfully flashed LPY rom from the list you provided the phone restarted, boot animation is ok, then the phone stacked at samsung logo. I've waited like 45 min but nothing has changed. I gave a try with a gingerbread rom but the odin process was freezed during datafs. I'll try another GB and if same thing happens, will try LPY of LPF once again.
jayaka said:
Thank you for the answer. I've succesfully flashed LPY rom from the list you provided the phone restarted, boot animation is ok, then the phone stacked at samsung logo. I've waited like 45 min but nothing has changed. I gave a try with a gingerbread rom but the odin process was freezed during datafs. I'll try another GB and if same thing happens, will try LPY of LPF once again.
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It looks like you have got a Superbrick on your hands, mate.
It looks so, but as the phone opens both in download and recovery mode and stock lpy rom can be flashed, i still keep the hope for a possible miracle :/
Happy End
After trying hundreds way, my galaxy note is working now.
every rom i try to flash via Odin had some issues. LPY was flashed with succes but stack at boot.
LPF was not able to write DataFS
but i was able to enter CWM. So i flashed abbys kernel. Then i realised that wipe/data factory reset was working.
I formated /data and /system
then i mounted /data
reboot in recovery
again i mounted/data and then flash darky's rom. Everything looks running properly now.
Never ever i'll try a lpy rom
dont try LPF and LPY roms for now..
dont know why they kept making roms for it despite the constant warning... i guess a lot of people love the thrill of bricking expensive things.. lol..
Hi all, I could really really use some help.
Today I decided to try and flash CM9 RC2 and I seem to have messed up big time.
I startred by rooting, using Dr Ketan's guide. That all went smoothly, and root was working.
I put the CM9 zip file on the SD card, turned off my phone, got back into CWM recovery, and most tutorials recommended, selected full data wipe... this is where something seemed to go wrong. While perfoming the data wipe, it seemed to freeze. I let it sit for a while, hoping it would sort itself out, but it didn't, and then it rebooted itself and went into a boot loop.
I can't get back into recovery mode, but I can get into download mode. So I thought the best thing to do would be to flash a stock firmware using odin.
I downloaded the latest german LRG firmware (which I was on before I started) from Sammobile, connected my phone to odin, selected the MD5 file, and pushed start. Again, this is where I got stuck. It just hangs on Nand write start. I've tried this twice now, and it gets stuck at the same stage (about 90% finished)
I have no idea what to do now and really need help. I'm not a total n00b, or at least I thought I wasn't, but I seem to have gotten in way over my head. What should I do?
Edit: see you tried already...
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This is classical case of super brick.
You should not hav to wipe on ics. I think u must be on stock kernel. Every corner you may see warning, wiping and reset on ics can brick device, but its unfortunate you didn't notice it.
Anyway check your flash counter is zero and send it to service.centre to claim ur warranty.
If u running out of warranty, fing.a link for 'how to revice bricked note from my signature. And try it.
Edit : i wud like to know, as you said u went to cwm recovery, so at the time of wiping you wr on which kernel?
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Hi all, I could really really use some help.
Today I decided to try and flash CM9 RC2 and I seem to have messed up big time.
I startred by rooting, using Dr Ketan's guide. That all went smoothly, and root was working.
I put the CM9 zip file on the SD card, turned off my phone, got back into CWM recovery, and most tutorials recommended, selected full data wipe... this is where something seemed to go wrong. While perfoming the data wipe, it seemed to freeze. I let it sit for a while, hoping it would sort itself out, but it didn't, and then it rebooted itself and went into a boot loop.
I can't get back into recovery mode, but I can get into download mode. So I thought the best thing to do would be to flash a stock firmware using odin.
I downloaded the latest german LRG firmware (which I was on before I started) from Sammobile, connected my phone to odin, selected the MD5 file, and pushed start. Again, this is where I got stuck. It just hangs on Nand write start. I've tried this twice now, and it gets stuck at the same stage (about 90% finished)
I have no idea what to do now and really need help. I'm not a total n00b, or at least I thought I wasn't, but I seem to have gotten in way over my head. What should I do?
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Hi Bud,
From your predicament, first let me tell you what you have done wrong.... You mentioned you're in LRG Rom already and you wanted to flash CM9 after that.... right?
Well, I guess the process you did was totally wrong. You have to download stock GB N7000(from Dr. Ketan's thread) and using that stock GB Rom, that is the time you can install AbysNote kernel to root and install CWM on your phone. Now after that, download mobile ODIN (from google playstore) and flash the CM9 from there.
THAT's the one you should have done before. Remember, there are no easy way of jumping ROMS especially if your already in ICS... IF YOU WANT TO FLASH TO ANOTHER ICS ROM.
My rule of law would be to downgrade first to STOCK GB and from there, ROOT, install CWM and mobile ODIN and that'll be the time you can flash already to the new ICS ROM of your choice.
So here's what your going to do. Since your still able to boot in download mode, Download any stock GB ROM and flash it using PC ODIN. After that, seee if you can bootup your Note already to STOCK GB ROM. If and If you are able to already, then download a clean kernel preferably Abyss Kernel and flash it with your STOCK GB so that you can gain root and have CWM installed. From there, download Mobile Odin pro and flash the CM9 (that you ultimately want to be installed on your Note)
Hope everything's going to be fine and Good luck bud! :fingers-crossed:
Cheers!
Hello, I know its been several days, but I just wanted to update on the situation.
Thank you SO much to Dr.Ketan for pointing me in the right direction. A combination of these 2 guides (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1661590&page=2 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667886) has managed to help me repartition my internal memory and get up and running again. I've got a stock gingerbread rom running, and all seems to be well.
I realise I was very stupid to do a wipe on an ICS kernal. I read about the problem for 1 particular Kernal back in may, and hadn't read the updates since, and so didn't realise it effected EVERY ICS kernal since then. It's my own stupid fault for not re-reading the warnings. Let this be a lesson kiddies, a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Again, thank you so much for the help, to all involved, you are an asset to the community!
Hey guys,
I'm at my wits end with my bricked S3 Mini I8190N (3 UK).
Basically I accidentally tried to flash a CM12 zip file, forgetting I had to extract the MD5 first for Odin (Do'h) and now twrp is frozen on Simulating Actions and I can't flash any custom ROM's because I can't wipe the two caches and it won't boot past the Aamsung logo, only going straight to the frozen TWRP screen.
I'm completely stuck with this one.
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Still boots into download mode.
Any help would be appreciated
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Hey guys,
I'm at my wits end with my bricked S3 Mini I8190N (3 UK).
Basically I accidentally tried to flash a CM12 zip file, forgetting I had to extract the MD5 first for Odin (Do'h) and now twrp is frozen on Simulating Actions and I can't flash any custom ROM's because I can't wipe the two caches and it won't boot past the Aamsung logo, only going straight to the frozen TWRP screen.
I'm completely stuck with this one.
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Still boots into download mode.
Any help would be appreciated
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Download the stock firmware from SamMobile
flash it with odin
Hi,
Thanks, your English seems fine. I managed to fix it without flashing stock actually.
I was able to sort it by flashing a PIT file and then reflashing TWRP and the ROM, worked a treat. That said I hate using sammobile & samsung-updates as both insist on using painfully slow file hosts, using them on a throttled connection is just not practical. I don't understand why a large company like Samsung have to use these abysmal filehosts.
Thanks anyway!
I had you same problem once: I just flashed again (with Odin) the stock rom.
Every time that I change rom I always use to flash the stock rom with Odin, and than do a wipe/factory reset from the recovery (just to be sure that everything is wiped and like new without "garbage) and then I flash the new rom.. It just take a few minutes more but in this way I never had conflict-problems.. I hope to be useful for you!