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Help Won't boot into Recovery

Shayd

Newbie
Since my warranty is about to expire I rooted my Note 3 all fine went trough flashing process like a champ but to flash custom ROM I need custom recovery which I tried to flash using Rom Toolbox which hasn't failed me before used it with S3 and LG Esteem, I used it to flash TWRP Recovery and it went trough but after Reboot into Recovery only STOCK one would boot so I tried again, same thing. Then I tried for the third time but for this attempt I used CWM Touch Recovery....aaaand boned now the phone won't go into Recovery saying:
Recovery Booting (In blue font)
Recovery is not seandroid enforcing (Red Font)

Then the phone reboots and shows the same thing being stuck in boot loop, Download Mode (Odin) and Normal boot works fine, I tried flashing it again as well as TWRP again but nothing helps, whatever I do any attempts to boot into Recovery ends up in the cryptic error and bootloops. Should I flash back to stock or should I use Odin to flash TWRP? Is it kernel related?
 
The problems you described earlier (installing a custom recovery only to find the stock recovery when you boot into it) are a common Samsung problem. The company likes to make it so their phones will automatically reload the stock recovery during the boot-up process if it detects that the firmware has been tampered with. The trick essentially is to boot directly into recovery immediately after flashing a custom one onto the device, then use the custom recovery to flash a zip containing the files and instructions necessary to make everything stick (that, or use a root method that trips the Knox counter and voids the warranty :p).

As for the problem of not being able to boot into recovery at all, it sounds like something may have happened during the last install process you tried, interrupting the flash and causing what you see now. Using Odin or adb to push a custom recovery to the phone should help. Let me know how it goes. :thumbup:
 
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