I have a Galaxy Note 3 which my dad attempted to root and is now broken. When I boot up the device, it displays a typical boot screen, however, with a "custom" logo below the loading text. After 20 seconds it boots into recovery mode instead. The phone only boots into recovery mode and not into normal mode. This leads me to believe that there is something wrong with the operating system installed on the phone which causes it to resort to recovery mode. After doing a bit of research, I suspect that re-flashing the system and/or boot partitions should solve the problem. Is this the right solution to the problem?
This also leads me to another question. In order to re-flash the system or boot partitions, I would need to use a utility called fastboot. Can I use fastboot while the phone is loaded into recovery mode? Is there a different or better way to reflash the partitions from recovery mode?
I've also thought of just re-flashing the entire system with a stock image. Can I do this with one of the recovery mode options such as "apply update from ADB" or "apply update from external storage"? And if I could, this would delete all of the apps and user data in the data partitions, correct?
This also leads me to another question. In order to re-flash the system or boot partitions, I would need to use a utility called fastboot. Can I use fastboot while the phone is loaded into recovery mode? Is there a different or better way to reflash the partitions from recovery mode?
I've also thought of just re-flashing the entire system with a stock image. Can I do this with one of the recovery mode options such as "apply update from ADB" or "apply update from external storage"? And if I could, this would delete all of the apps and user data in the data partitions, correct?
