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Recovery Mode?

How does one get into custom recovery mode for the Sprint Galaxy tab?
I can't Clockwork into recovery, it takes me directly into the Android Stock recovery, so...basically, I've no idea how to flash a ROM on this.
Any help?

Ar318307 said:
How does one get into custom recovery mode for the Sprint Galaxy tab?
I can't Clockwork into recovery, it takes me directly into the Android Stock recovery, so...basically, I've no idea how to flash a ROM on this.
Any help?
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You do not use recovery to flash ROMs on the Tab. You use heimdall from your desktop. Samsung devices are different from most other Android devices. You can use Clockworkmod to do backups and restores. If you have Clockworkmod installed on your Tab, the only way to get to it is through software on your system. Trying to boot to it only takes you to the stock recovery.
EDIT: You can flash ROMs from CWM. See below posts.

I'm confused, this thread mentions clockwork a couple of times (for example, the thread that explains how to get EXT4 on your tab says that you must press up+power to get into Clockwork in order to flash it).
All I need is a simple guide from anyone here or a pointer to where I can get clockwork. I've used Odin before, but not Heimdall, so I don't know how I'd go about installing a ROM that way.

This is the thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1275031)

I beg to differ. I'm running ICS 4.0.3 on my Sprint Galaxy Tab and flashed it using CWM 5.0.2.7. I used heimdall to flash CWM, and after that I can flash roms all day long from recovery. Check over at rootzwiki, everything you need is detailed over there.
cent
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CentroniX said:
I beg to differ. I'm running ICS 4.0.3 on my Sprint Galaxy Tab and flashed it using CWM 5.0.2.7. I used heimdall to flash CWM, and after that I can flash roms all day long from recovery. Check over at rootzwiki, everything you need is detailed over there.
cent
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I stand corrected. But can you get into CWM by using power/volume up?

leapinlar said:
I stand corrected. But can you get into CWM by using power/volume up?
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Yes sir!
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Can anyone point me in the right direction? This is the only rootzwiki page I found, but it doesn't help me much:
(http://wiki.rootzwiki.com/Samsung_Galaxy_Tablet)
I'm trying to get recovery mode on my tab, not just root.

Can anyone help me understand this?
(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17817293&postcount=3)
Basically, I've downloaded that file, put it under "PDA" in Odin, and then let it reboot, but everytime the tablet reboots it gets into a bootloop. What am I doing wrong?

I'm flashing it on top of "Queens_p100_EF17_Rooted_PDA"
From everything I've read it should work right?

Ar318307 said:
Can anyone help me understand this?
(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17817293&postcount=3)
Basically, I've downloaded that file, put it under "PDA" in Odin, and then let it reboot, but everytime the tablet reboots it gets into a bootloop. What am I doing wrong?
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Ar318307 said:
I'm flashing it on top of "Queens_p100_EF17_Rooted_PDA"
From everything I've read it should work right?
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Just to be sure you are setting the Tab into Download mode before connecting to your PC/Laptop right? ...i.e. turn off; press and hold volume up + power on.

phlooke said:
Just to be sure you are setting the Tab into Download mode before connecting to your PC/Laptop right? ...i.e. turn off; press and hold volume up + power on.
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No, press and hold volume DOWN + power.
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leapinlar said:
No, press and hold volume DOWN + power.
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Oops, sorry about that. What he said ^^

I have no problem getting into download mode or Odin, I merely have a problem flashing the file that's supposed to contain clockwork for my tab. How did you guys get it?

Ar318307 said:
I have no problem getting into download mode or Odin, I merely have a problem flashing the file that's supposed to contain clockwork for my tab. How did you guys get it?
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I have not installed it as a standalone item; it was installed as part of my install of Overcome 4.1 ROM.

Ar318307 said:
I have no problem getting into download mode or Odin, I merely have a problem flashing the file that's supposed to contain clockwork for my tab. How did you guys get it?
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I used the command line version of heimdall. Unarchive the zip file and flash bzImage to 6 and recovery to 7.
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No, press and hold volume DOWN + power

Go to Rodderik's development starter thread get stock ef17 tar under #1 and flash thru Odin then flash CWM kernel in #2 over the top. This worked for me.
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[HOW-TO] Enable Three Button Combo [RECOVERY]

Do you want to enable buttons to be able to boot to recovery?
Well, here is how:
UPDATE
Benzonat0r found an easy way to apply three button combination.
ONLY 2MB DOWNLOAD
MIRROR
FLASH IN ODIN AS PDA
Read about it HERE Don't forget to thank him.
I also made one from service software for i8190N
Attached at the buttom is also one for i8190 which includes Official CWM 6.0.2.7.
This will make keys work and flashes cwm at once
Don't forget to set your counter to zero with Triangle Away.​
This work is made by dolar4ik out of service firmware. Give him a thanks! It was first posted on 4pda.ru, a russian forum
Otherwise:
Download This rom "I8190 серв. укр.rar" from here.
Unpack .rar and open Odin.
Select the goldenxx.pit to [PIT]
CODE_I8190XXAMA2_809600_REV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5 to [PDA]
CSC_QXE_I8190QXEAMA1_20130109.163004_REV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5 to [CSC]
Put your phone in download-mode and connect it to computer.
Hit [Start] when device is detected by Odin.
You will end up with a "La'Fleur" branded phone, but no worries!
Just go to download mode again and flash your choice of firmware.
The three button combo will still work!!
This is not in any way my find, or work. I just wrote a small tutorial and added cwm.
But..you can still hit thanks if it helped you.
Thank you.

All OK. Returned to official with no problems
The only issue remaining is fixing binary count

Re: [HOW-TO]Enable three button combo[recovery]
So 3 button combo works?
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Sn0w0nS said:
So 3 button combo works?
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Yes

Fantastic at last we got 3 Button Combo on our phones. Can confirm it really work`s try it guy`s. And now binary reset here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1494114

Re: [HOW-TO]Enable three button combo[recovery]
Strange. My phone had the three button combo right out of box. When I got it went home and put it right to download mode using 3 button combo and flashed generic ROM. The csc changer not working on 4.1+ ROMs without root, but my ROM is BTU so I am ok with it.
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aspot72 said:
Strange. My phone had the three button combo right out of box. When I got it went home and put it right to download mode using 3 button combo and flashed generic ROM. The csc changer not working on 4.1+ ROMs without root, but my ROM is BTU so I am ok with it.
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Yeah, no problems with download mode (vol-/home/power)
but what about your recovery mode? (vol+/home/power)
Many s3 mini's shipped without that function.

Update
First post updated with proper credits and a link to an easy method made by Benz0nator.

Re: [HOW-TO]Enable three button combo[recovery]
On top of that, Triangle Away works. We can reset the download count now.
Sent from Spaceball One.

blackknightavalon said:
On top of that, Triangle Away works. We can reset the download count now.
Sent from Spaceball One.
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Yeah! This week have been great for us s3 mini users! :highfive:

Works
The update from the first post works. Many thanks.:good:

Does this work with galaxy mini I8190L?

Re: [HOW-TO]Enable three button combo[recovery]
tys0n said:
Yeah, no problems with download mode (vol-/home/power)
but what about your recovery mode? (vol+/home/power)
Many s3 mini's shipped without that function.
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Aright. Will check it and report back.
Update: just tried it and is there. It has blue colour.
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cholopo said:
Does this work with galaxy mini I8190L?
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It should yes. But use my solution not the whole ROM.

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BOHMED said:
can you please provide another upload link, i can`t download ONLY 2MB DOWNLOAD
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First post updated with another mirror.:good:

Updated with easy method which includes CWM recovery.

work great....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:good:

Benzonat0r said:
It should yes. But use my solution not the whole ROM.
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it dont work on i8190l

Dont know what I did but when I got my phone yesterday, I just let it update itseelf to the latest 4.1.2. After that I reboot then flashed TWRP then rooted the phone. I can still access recovery by pressing home + vol up button + power button. Then I cleared the counter with triangle away, wiped everything then flashed the latest rom from samfirmware. TWRP was still intact but I had to root again. After rooting my phone is still showing everythig as "official" amd binary counter still "0"
I only reflashed because on the phone there was no auto brightness so I thought I messed something... but later found out there was really no auto brightness on this phone which is really oddd when other lower models have it.
Anyway at least I can still access OTA update.

I rooted my cell after updating it to jb but my internal memory has turned permanentl

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Uh if it's rooted thendownload root explorer and then open internal memory and press mount as r/w not sure if it will work also I don't take responcibility of your device so do it on your own risk best of luck :thumbup:
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what do you mean internal memory has turned permanentl?

Need help too please!
I recently rooted my S3 i747 and then installed cyanogenmod 10. Keep in mind I am not a wiz at doing these things, however it did work. Here in lies my problems. 1. I hate this OS with a passion. Its just not what i thought it would be so I would love nothing more than to figure out how to remove it and return to stock firmware or another custom rom. 2. If i stay with this rom (for not being able to figure out how to remove it and install another) I am running out of storage internally. Its a great possibility I could have done something wrong. so with that being said, can anyone help me? I have tried more websites than I care to. thanks so much!

backup?
RicciLeigha said:
I recently rooted my S3 i747 and then installed cyanogenmod 10. Keep in mind I am not a wiz at doing these things, however it did work. Here in lies my problems. 1. I hate this OS with a passion. Its just not what i thought it would be so I would love nothing more than to figure out how to remove it and return to stock firmware or another custom rom. 2. If i stay with this rom (for not being able to figure out how to remove it and install another) I am running out of storage internally. Its a great possibility I could have done something wrong. so with that being said, can anyone help me? I have tried more websites than I care to. thanks so much!
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did u make a backup before flashing cm?? did u flashed a custom recovery like cwm or twrp then flashed cm10?

Hmmmm
ironhide602 said:
did u make a backup before flashing cm?? did u flashed a custom recovery like cwm or twrp then flashed cm10?
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Well what I did was follow along a youtube video... Which in turn may not have been the best idea. I remember doing some sort of back up on clockwork or something like that. I tried to go to recovery mode and restore but that didnt help. Im not sure what all I did to be honest. :/

RicciLeigha said:
Well what I did was follow along a youtube video... Which in turn may not have been the best idea. I remember doing some sort of back up on clockwork or something like that. I tried to go to recovery mode and restore but that didnt help. Im not sure what all I did to be honest. :/
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edit... Pull the battery on your phone and put it back in. Hold up vol, home button and Power till you see the little words in the top left corner. It should say booting recovery really small. at that point take your finger off of the power button only and it will boot into Recovery.
If you have CWM recovery or TWRP you are golden...
Or else... see below
Find your phone in it's section you should be able to find a method using Odin to flash it back to stock and then you can read up and find the way to do everything you want.
Just do your research and look through the forum for your phone type/carrier and you should be able to find all of the information that you are looking for.
Search and you shall succeed!
:victory:

Sewrizer said:
why do you guys make things so complicated? the guy wants his phone back to stock.
The only thing you have to do is to go to www.sammobile.com/firmwares. Then put your phone number i9100 in the search box and choose any of the roms below. They are all stock, 2.3/4.x.x etc. The rom is in a zip file, however, you have to extract the tar file inside it.
Power off your phone then, while holding vol down, press and hold power.
Open odin in your pc then connect the phone to pc while being in download mode. press the pda button in odin and insert the .tar rom whoch you have just extracted. press start and you are done.
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Way to jump in 5 days later and after a ton of pm's... and he only wanted more memory to run aps not stock.
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Sewrizer said:
Sorry, I didn't look at the date, but that would have been a good fix.
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Well returning to stock is just as easy as finding a stock ROM in his phones thread and flashing it, it'll be better in the long run that way as well because maybe he'll learn something.
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AT&T Galaxy S4 Wont Boot into Recovery

I have a client's Atnt galaxy s4 that will not boot up normally and will not boot into recovery also.
when i try to boot into recovery i get the blue lettering in the top left and it just sits there i have let it sit for sometime like that with no change.
this is not my first go around with flashing android devices so please even give me Dev only options if that is what you think will fix it. i feel bad because he just bought this phone 2 weeks ago and cant use it. not sure what the other guy that tried to root it did and neither does he so i am shooting in the dark so any help would be great.
I have tried flashing the stock Odin package with no luck.
Also tried Kies Firmware upgrade with no luck
Most of the custom recovery for this phone from what i read are not flashed threw odin anymore, but if i am wrong please link me and i will give it a shot.
Dose anyone have any ideas someone told me to use the .PIT file and re-partition the device and reflash the stock odin package. but i have had no luck locating the .pit file for the I337 galaxy S4 could anyone grab it from there phone and upload it for me or any ideas on how i could possibly fix this issue.
Thanks in advance

Since you already tried ODIN, why don't you try KIES.

I tried that allrdy just forgot to add it to the list updated first post

Copied this from another thread, guy was having same issue.
EDIT: Problem solved by scott14719. Here it is: As soon as you feel the phone vibrate, immediately let go of the power button but continue to hold the other buttons until the recovery boots, then let go of them.
Phone goes into download mode ok?
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C13v3r0n3 said:
Copied this from another thread, guy was having same issue.
EDIT: Problem solved by scott14719. Here it is: As soon as you feel the phone vibrate, immediately let go of the power button but continue to hold the other buttons until the recovery boots, then let go of them.
Phone goes into download mode ok?
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ok i will have him give it a try
and yes it goes into downloading mode with no issues at all.

if the os isnt hosed just download goomanager and install the recovery then download a touchwiz rom that has an extended reboot menu, you can then just boot into recovery from the OS.

C13v3r0n3 said:
if the os isnt hosed just download goomanager and install the recovery then download a touchwiz rom that has an extended reboot menu, you can then just boot into recovery from the OS.
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The OS wont boot that is why we are having such a issue cause we have to get into the recovery to fix the phone
thanks thou

If you can get into download mode and odin it should wipe everything, it should work. Maybr its hardware?
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In addition to letting go of the power button after the vibrate, here are a couple of other things that appear to have worked for other forum members. I didn't discover any of these fixes, I just did a lot of reading and saw where others have had similar problems and found ways to solve them. That is what makes the XDA community great:
Uppercuticus said:
I've had this happen to me several times while playing around with flashing. Basically (without fail in my experience), hold power+volume up+home as you'd normally do until you see the booting recovery message and let go. It will do one of two things - boot into recovery- or - restart and vibrate-. If it restarts and vibrates, immediately hold power+volume up+home until the booting recovery message pops up again and let go. It should then boot into recovery and you shouldn't have trouble in subsequent attempts.
It took me a while to figure this out and I actually thought I had permanently bricked my phone as the phone wouldn't boot and I couldn't get into recovery. Hope this helps.
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RiNo808 said:
Those trying to boot into recovery mode, dl quick reboot from the play store. That's what I use and it works great.
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Just flash a different custom recovery tar in odin. If ur using CWM, then flash TWRP, or vice versa.

C13v3r0n3 said:
If you can get into download mode and odin it should wipe everything, it should work. Maybr its hardware?
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After using ODIN, make sure to do a software (factory reset) to get rid of any data and settings that stayed behind. The firmware packages that we have for Odin, do not wipe everything on their own.

C13v3r0n3 said:
Copied this from another thread, guy was having same issue.
EDIT: Problem solved by scott14719. Here it is: As soon as you feel the phone vibrate, immediately let go of the power button but continue to hold the other buttons until the recovery boots, then let go of them.
Phone goes into download mode ok?
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Thanks - was having the same problem. At last somebody explains it properly. It worked.
(Why on earth is the script on the stock recovery screen so small. You need a microscope to read it. I am going to install CWM right away....)
Cheers LJ

S4 on veriozon only boots into download mood
Im having the same problem. I can ONLY get into download mood! Everytime I go and try to reboot all it does is vibrates. I was installing a rom before and it was installed fine then it says I lost my root and turned off. Now i can't turn my phone back on. I try to the NAND erase all but that does not work. Is my phone bricked? I have Verizon BTW. Could some body please help me ASAP!

Yankeetim92 said:
Im having the same problem. I can ONLY get into download mood! Everytime I go and try to reboot all it does is vibrates. I was installing a rom before and it was installed fine then it says I lost my root and turned off. Now i can't turn my phone back on. I try to the NAND erase all but that does not work. Is my phone bricked? I have Verizon BTW. Could some body please help me ASAP!
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2316

any luck? im having the same problem after enabling the t-mobile aws bands on my i337. i could only get into odin mode, recovery boot sits there on end and i have no access to the phone settings. ive tried the odin with stock firmware but nothing.

xBeerdroiDx said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2316
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you are not playing fair sir...but a good one.

TheAxman said:
you are not playing fair sir...but a good one.
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My unrooted s4 phone gets stuck with the blue colour legend Recovery booting with any mentioned method. I am unable to enter safe mode, any ideas? been surfing google for 6hrs with no proper answer. Thanks!!

C13v3r0n3 said:
Copied this from another thread, guy was having same issue.
EDIT: Problem solved by scott14719. Here it is: As soon as you feel the phone vibrate, immediately let go of the power button but continue to hold the other buttons until the recovery boots, then let go of them.
Phone goes into download mode ok?
Sent from my SGH-M919 using xda app-developers app
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Thanx bro, This is solve my problem.

Having allmost the same problem with my S4...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2498285

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norml said:
Just flash a different custom recovery tar in odin. If ur using CWM, then flash TWRP, or vice versa.
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here are all the details;
Rooted ATT Galaxy S4 MK2 with Busybox. all went well until I tried to flash and boot into recovery. Installed ClockworkMod Recovery, tried to reboot into recovery...permission error. Installed Team Win Recovery, same problem.
investigated... Superuser.apk for some reason is NOT present in app directory. hmm. checked for root, have root.
installed ClockworkMod Superuser from play store... asks to update superuser... fails with signature error.
There seems to be no way to flash this phone. I have the original backup I made with ClockworkMod but restore fails with signature error.
The phone works fine, has root but I am concerned I will not be able to update to 4.4 when it's available. I am also NOT able to flash any alternative ROM. frustrating.
I see there are relatives to this issue all over xda but as far as I can tell after a weekend of trying is there's NO WAY to boot into recovery with write permissions being allowed.

Wrong ROM, constant rebooting, recovery not accessible!

hi guys,
I downloaded this ROM which now I know was not the right one for my phone, I flashed it smoothly through TWRP, (this was my 1000th time flashing custom ROM's on different phones), rebooted the phone and from there on I have this constant rebooting which happens so quickly that doesn't even allow the first page's logo to appear on the screen before it restarts again, i have a vibration every 7 seconds or so. I have tried every mean I know of to get into the recovery but no luck, the download mode however is reachable, I used odin to put the stock rom back but the phone is still not booting up and acts the same, please help me if you can. I also tried flashing a recovery only image on the phone through Odin, but it doesn't allow me I think due to my bootloader still being locked.
thanks a lot.
I have a i337.

What rom did you flash? And did you flash a kernel after the rom? If so, which one?
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Which rom did you try to flash?
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jd1639 said:
What rom did you flash? And did you flash a kernel after the rom? If so, which one?
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I installed d2att from slim roms where I think I should have flashed jflteatt, stupid mistake, but I didn't flash any kernels.
thanks for looking into this for me.

egolabbakhsh said:
I installed d2att from slim roms where I think I should have flashed jflteatt, stupid mistake, but I didn't flash any kernels.
thanks for looking into this for me.
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Ok, you flashed a rom for the sIII, not good! I don't know if you can get it back. You odin'd stock but can't get into recovery?
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jd1639 said:
Ok, you flashed a rom for the sIII, not good! I don't know if you can get it back. You odin'd stock but can't get into recovery?
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when I press vol up + power button it vibrates once now I have tried two things, one I left it right away and it goes to the rebooting cycle, but if I keep holding the buttons combination nothing happens, the weird thing is that even for getting in the DL mode I have to release the power button first while still holding the vol dn so it would get in there, and the page to the dl mode renders very very slowly, also the page after that after I press the vol up.

Recovery mode is vol up + home + power. Release just the power button when the phone vibrates

You were able to successfully flash a stock ROM back? If so, see if Kies will recognize it and do an 'emergency firmware update' or something like that.
Edit: Kies > Tools > Emergency Firmware Recovery.

xBeerdroiDx said:
Recovery mode is vol up + home + power. Release just the power button when the phone vibrates
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once I release the power button it goes into the cycle again.

Dankchild said:
You were able to successfully flash a stock ROM back? If so, see if Kies will recognize it and do an 'emergency firmware update' or something like that.
Edit: Kies > Tools > Emergency Firmware Recovery.
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the flashing goes through properly, it also gives the green message of passed at the very end before it reboots into the cycle. I am downloading Kies, never used it before so we'll see.

can you get into download mode and flash the stock firmware? it's available here, sammobile, and samsung-updates.

Russ77 said:
can you get into download mode and flash the stock firmware? it's available here, sammobile, and samsung-updates.
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I can get into dl mode, I went to sammobile but didn't see anything compatible with mine, there were mostly international versions of it, or different regions other than the US. do you have a link I would love to try a new firmware I think that should do it although I am not sure why the stock rom isn't getting it in order

one more thing I forgot to say is that I erased the system folder through twrp before flashing the last rom, something that I had done before and was corrected by the odin.

egolabbakhsh said:
I can get into dl mode, I went to sammobile but didn't see anything compatible with mine, there were mostly international versions of it, or different regions other than the US. do you have a link I would love to try a new firmware I think that should do it although I am not sure why the stock rom isn't getting it in order
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http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SGH-I337

Russ77 said:
http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SGH-I337
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downloading the kernel right now, then going for the actual rom. thanks for the link.

Dankchild said:
You were able to successfully flash a stock ROM back? If so, see if Kies will recognize it and do an 'emergency firmware update' or something like that.
Edit: Kies > Tools > Emergency Firmware Recovery.
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kies fails to recognize it in dl mode, and the frequency of rebooting is too high that it cant catch it in the normal mode either!

Russ77 said:
http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SGH-I337
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flashed the kernel, I have to wait half an hour for the website to give me another dl, do you happen do you know of any recovery .tar images that could be directly flashed to the phone? I have not been able to locate one.
thanks

egolabbakhsh said:
flashed the kernel, I have to wait half an hour for the website to give me another dl, do you happen do you know of any recovery .tar images that could be directly flashed to the phone? I have not been able to locate one.
thanks
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no, I don't. sorry.

Russ77 said:
no, I don't. sorry.
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It's ok, thanks for all your help.

egolabbakhsh said:
flashed the kernel, I have to wait half an hour for the website to give me another dl, do you happen do you know of any recovery .tar images that could be directly flashed to the phone? I have not been able to locate one.
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Go to sammobile.com. you have to register but it's free. You'll download a zip. Extract the .tar.md5 file from it using 7-zip. Use that in odin. It's the stock firmware
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