[Q] Help! Stuck on splash screen

[scott62185]

I was restoring one of my nandroids (of euroskank's CM 10.2) and it said it appears as if I'm not rooted and if I want to install super SU and I said yes. Then I got stuck on the Samsung splash screen. When I pull the battery it gives me this screen I've never seen before that says (paraphrashing) that installing a "custom OS" is dangerous and push volume up to do so and down reboot. I tried to install the "custom OS" and it just keeps saying "Downloading. Do not turn off target." But it just stays there.

I'm on MDK and TWRP 5.0.2

 

[hexitnow]

I was restoring one of my nandroids (of euroskank's CM 10.2) and it said it appears as if I'm not rooted and if I want to install super SU and I said yes. Then I got stuck on the Samsung splash screen. When I pull the battery it gives me this screen I've never seen before that says (paraphrashing) that installing a "custom OS" is dangerous and push volume up to do so and down reboot. I tried to install the "custom OS" and it just keeps saying "Downloading. Do not turn off target." But it just stays there.

I'm on MDK and TWRP 5.0.2

Thats download mode, its used to flash stock firmwares using odin. Before you restored your nandroid did you wipe system, factory data reset, and wipe both cachea?

Hit thanks if I helped you out. Doing a little bit of reading goes a long way. Sent via tapatalk.

 

[scott62185]

Thats download mode, its used to flash stock firmwares using odin. Before you restored your nandroid did you wipe system, factory data reset, and wipe both cachea?

Hit thanks if I helped you out. Doing a little bit of reading goes a long way. Sent via tapatalk.

Yes, I did all those things prior to restoring my nandroid...

 

[vt0r]

Yes, I did all those things prior to restoring my nandroid...

This nandroid backup is likely not a good one, as seeing download mode at boot usually indicates a bad flash.

How many times have you tried restoring using the nandroid backup you have?

If you've tried multiple times with the same result (and you're sure you wiped data/cache/dalvik as well), you will probably need to flash a full tar.md5 image from ODIN (like a stock-rooted ROM, etc).