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Please help! I've Soft-bricked my Rooted Galaxy S3!
Hello! I’m new to this forum and I just want to apologize in advance if my question has already been asked, but I searched these forums and the xda forums and couldn't find anything that exactly matched my issue. I rooted my Samsung Galaxy S3 SCH-1535 a few months ago with Towelroot and was so happy with the results that I decided that I would attempt to install a custom ROM. (Not the brightest idea when I had NO IDEA what I was doing, I know!) Even though I had installed Titanium Backup Pro w/Root, the only thing that I really understood was that I had frozen Knox (I followed the directions for rooting completely) and life with my new phone was much easier. I by no means understand what these programs are capable of doing. I had installed SuperSu and Busy Box, and I was reading up on what all of the rooting terminology meant, but I was and still am ignorant about the true capabilities of my new and improved phone. I thought that installing a custom ROM was the next step, and that it would be as easy as rooting my phone. In my ignorance I didn't read every word of the instructions as I had when I rooted. I've gone through the history on my laptop so that I could better explain my situation. I installed Odin 3.07, Clockword Mod Recovery, downloaded the drivers for the USB (v1.5.49.0), and I think that I tried to follow a post called "how to update rooted verizon galaxy S3 w/o losing root. http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/261050-how-do-i-update-without-losing-root.html Luckily I did write down some important information about my phone before my phone wouldn't go into recovery mode at all. Before I soft bricked my S3 these were the details:
SCH-1535
4.4.2
Baseband version: 1535OYUDNEI
Kernel version 3.4.0
Upi@SWDD5809#1
Build#KOT49H.I535VRUDNEI
SEPF_SCH-1535_4.4.2_0032
Hardware 1535.10
Now I can either go into download mode or nothing at all. When I try to start my phone it states:
ODIN MODE
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Custom
QUALCOMM SECUREBOOT: ENABLE
BOOTLOADER AP SWERV: 2
I do remember that every time that I tried to flash the stock.vzw_root66.7z.tar files in ODIN while my phone was connected it said FAIL! I know that I didn’t use the cord that came with my phone when I attempted to flash, and I’ve read many times how important this is. I've searched many forums and I'm sorry if this is an easy fix and I just overlooked earlier posts with the same problem. I'm afraid to do anything else because I've read about phones that are hard-bricked because of newbies like me that have no clue what they are doing! Thank you for your time and patience! If anyone has any ideas on what I should do next I would be extremely grateful.
Becky
<moderator redacted email>
(Instead of trying to explain what I did step by step, I just copied and pasted my browser history. Sorry about the numbering! The history starts at the bottom and ends up at the top with 4:35 AM.)
4:35 AM
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Hello! I’m new to this forum and I just want to apologize in advance if my question has already been asked, but I searched these forums and the xda forums and couldn't find anything that exactly matched my issue. I rooted my Samsung Galaxy S3 SCH-1535 a few months ago with Towelroot and was so happy with the results that I decided that I would attempt to install a custom ROM. (Not the brightest idea when I had NO IDEA what I was doing, I know!) Even though I had installed Titanium Backup Pro w/Root, the only thing that I really understood was that I had frozen Knox (I followed the directions for rooting completely) and life with my new phone was much easier. I by no means understand what these programs are capable of doing. I had installed SuperSu and Busy Box, and I was reading up on what all of the rooting terminology meant, but I was and still am ignorant about the true capabilities of my new and improved phone. I thought that installing a custom ROM was the next step, and that it would be as easy as rooting my phone. In my ignorance I didn't read every word of the instructions as I had when I rooted. I've gone through the history on my laptop so that I could better explain my situation. I installed Odin 3.07, Clockword Mod Recovery, downloaded the drivers for the USB (v1.5.49.0), and I think that I tried to follow a post called "how to update rooted verizon galaxy S3 w/o losing root. http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/261050-how-do-i-update-without-losing-root.html Luckily I did write down some important information about my phone before my phone wouldn't go into recovery mode at all. Before I soft bricked my S3 these were the details:
SCH-1535
4.4.2
Baseband version: 1535OYUDNEI
Kernel version 3.4.0
Upi@SWDD5809#1
Build#KOT49H.I535VRUDNEI
SEPF_SCH-1535_4.4.2_0032
Hardware 1535.10
Now I can either go into download mode or nothing at all. When I try to start my phone it states:
ODIN MODE
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Custom
QUALCOMM SECUREBOOT: ENABLE
BOOTLOADER AP SWERV: 2
I do remember that every time that I tried to flash the stock.vzw_root66.7z.tar files in ODIN while my phone was connected it said FAIL! I know that I didn’t use the cord that came with my phone when I attempted to flash, and I’ve read many times how important this is. I've searched many forums and I'm sorry if this is an easy fix and I just overlooked earlier posts with the same problem. I'm afraid to do anything else because I've read about phones that are hard-bricked because of newbies like me that have no clue what they are doing! Thank you for your time and patience! If anyone has any ideas on what I should do next I would be extremely grateful.
Becky
<moderator redacted email>
(Instead of trying to explain what I did step by step, I just copied and pasted my browser history. Sorry about the numbering! The history starts at the bottom and ends up at the top with 4:35 AM.)
4:35 AM
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