[Q] Phone not booting - Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi all,
I use CM12 from MacLaw in combination with TWRP 2.8.1.0 recovery for about 3 weeks now.
Yesterday the phone didn't respond properly, was very very slow and I basically couldn't use the phone. It felt like the CPU was at 100% all the time, so unlocking the phone, calling and so was nearly impossible. A reboot (battery removal) didn't solve it, also the pin code for the sim card came after a few minutes while usually this will come right after starting.
So eventually I did a factory reset from the menu as I did on other occasions just to get rid of this kind of problems.
Well, right after the Samsung s3 mini logo I get the TWRP logo and it will be stuck in there, I see it blinking every few seconds and that's it. When I connect the phone to USB I hear it connecting-disconnecting every few seconds (bing-bong, bong-bing sound).
After a while I flashed TWRP using Odin again, this didn't give any problem but it will still hang in this TWRP loop.
I found some references to this problem but no real solutions. Someone suggested to use ADB but I don't know how to do that, nor could I find a suitable guide on this.
Can anyone help me? Or is it bricked somehow?? I suspect not, download mode is still working.
Thanks for any help!

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P.S.: I'm sorry for my bad english.
First you'll need to state what you did to cause that to happen?
nwsk said:
First you'll need to state what you did to cause that to happen?
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A longer time ago I rooted it and applied the One Click Lag Fix.
Everything worked fine.
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Well, I have bricked my Note like many others. The only weird thing is that the Note is not even starting anymore. At first there was no problem, I could boot the device. After a reboot (hour after flashing rom) the device didn't go past the boot screen anymore. It could also not load recovery. It could get into download mode, but I was not able to flash a kernel to read out the device in CMD.
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Try connecting to odin in blind mode. Ie do same as you would nornally do to go to download mode and see if odin can connect.
Also tried that, but it did not work
My condoleances on your brick.
JohanR91 said:
Hey,
Well, I have bricked my Note like many others. The only weird thing is that the Note is not even starting anymore. At first there was no problem, I could boot the device. After a reboot (hour after flashing rom) the device didn't go past the boot screen anymore. It could also not load recovery. It could get into download mode, but I was not able to flash a kernel to read out the device in CMD.
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Try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1257434
To force your phone into Download mode !
Try some helpful link like this one bud -http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1661590

[Q] [9001] Stuck on Splashscreen and more

Hello guys, I have a big problem with my GT-I9001,
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If I try to boot into recoverymode, after the samsung logo the screen goes off, and again I have to take the batterie out.
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Sir, It doesn't show the recovery mode. It is like no recovery exist. It just shows Powered by android logo and then keeps restarting.
did you solve your issue? trying to reboot?
How did it happen?
and How did it solved? Did your phone start then?
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