How the heck are you guys messing up switching fonts with RomToolbox. Never once had an issue and have changed it about once a week as the rom i'm on updates.

If you ODIN'd back to stock, it should work.

Did you ensure that everything got flashed in ODIN? Make sure you're flashing system, data, user data, boot/kernel etc.

Then repartition in Odin and flash those again.


It should work after rebooting. If it doesn't, I suspect its hardware failure and that you can get it replaced by going into the store.

Sent from my Sprint SGS3

Originally Posted by yousefak

If you ODIN'd back to stock, it should work.

Did you ensure that everything got flashed in ODIN? Make sure you're flashing system, data, user data, boot/kernel etc.

Then repartition in Odin and flash those again.


It should work after rebooting. If it doesn't, I suspect its hardware failure and that you can get it replaced by going into the store.

Sent from my Sprint SGS3

yes. odin even said pass and it was green after all was completed. at this point I was starting to think it was hardware related and was going to reset the counter before turining it in for factory warrenty.

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thank you! most appriciated

Originally Posted by VenomousViper

yes. odin even said pass and it was green after all was completed. at this point I was starting to think it was hardware related and was going to reset the counter before turining it in for factory warrenty.

That seems like a solid course of action. Make sure you play dumb when you bring it into the store - Just say you left it on your nightstand, the charger wasn't plugged in, but it still wouldn't get past the boot screen in the morning.

The regular procedure is that they take out battery, reboot, check water damage, etc. without actually going into Download Mode.

Well... tbh I dont understand nothing. But try to abd install twrp2 instead CWM. And try to flash any ROM you have in your phone.

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Pull battery, reinsert, press and hold (in this order) vol (+), physical home button, then power. Hold all 3 until screen blinks a couple times, let off of power button but continue to hold vol (+) and Home. If you have a custom recovery, this should get you there.......

Problem being, if like u said in op you also flashed a boot logo(splash screen)different than boot animation - the boot logo is earlier in the boot process than recovery and when it gets corrupted, recovery options don't apply because the device won't be able to access it since the boot process is corrupted before the recovery

If it was ONLY a font that got you here, then you WILL be able to access recovery. Fonts are flashed to the /system partition, and if there in a problem , /system is the final step in the boot process and CANNOT NO-WAY cause ANY harm early enough in the boot process to prevent you from accessing recovery. So give it a try.

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The pic shows ROM toolbox font installer- highlighted is the default location for flashing the fonts

Below is root explorer showing the s3 filesystem fonts are in the correct directory as set as default for ROM toolbox.



So like I was saying, if it was just a font this is a very simple fix for you. Boot into recovery, flash a ROM which formats and writes /system, fixing any kind of error that installing a font could have caused

Personally if you have certain fonts you like to flash and after a successful change of fonts with what ever apps you use. I would then create a zip file with your fonts to flash in recovery when changing roms. Its what I have done without issue. I have even added the fonts folder to gapps for easy install

Originally Posted by 18th.abn

Pull battery, reinsert, press and hold (in this order) vol (+), physical home button, then power. Hold all 3 until screen blinks a couple times, let off of power button but continue to hold vol (+) and Home. If you have a custom recovery, this should get you there.......

Problem being, if like u said in op you also flashed a boot logo(splash screen)different than boot animation - the boot logo is earlier in the boot process than recovery and when it gets corrupted, recovery options don't apply because the device won't be able to access it since the boot process is corrupted before the recovery

If it was ONLY a font that got you here, then you WILL be able to access recovery. Fonts are flashed to the /system partition, and if there in a problem , /system is the final step in the boot process and CANNOT NO-WAY cause ANY harm early enough in the boot process to prevent you from accessing recovery. So give it a try.

---------- Post added at 06:34 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:21 AM ----------

The pic shows ROM toolbox font installer- highlighted is the default location for flashing the fonts

Below is root explorer showing the s3 filesystem fonts are in the correct directory as set as default for ROM toolbox.



So like I was saying, if it was just a font this is a very simple fix for you. Boot into recovery, flash a ROM which formats and writes /system, fixing any kind of error that installing a font could have caused

Thank you for your advice. Ill try that before I turn it in. If i dont have insurance they will still replace it if i act dumb right? Just incase I will make sure i have insurance before going in. Thanks for helping me everyone with my screw up i never had this issue with HTC evo's and ive rooted, and flashed 2 of them and other HTC varients with out an issue. this is the first samsung and i cant figure it out on my own!

I continue get e: signature verification failed every time i try to load my recovery image, stock sprint imgs (every official one i can find), and still get the message every time. Ive never had this issue with HTC.