[Q] Please help. Flashed euro boot.img and now phone won't boot

[channelzer0]

Im an impatient idiot. Lol. I flashed a boot.img through Odin but I flashed a euro img accidentally. Now my phone turns on shows the Samsung screen and then turns off or screen goes black. I think I need to refashion the sprint stock firmware and it'll work. I can find it. Anyone have it and could send it to me please? I tried doing a factory reset already to no avail. Please help!

Thanks in advance.

 

[jdelano]

hopefully over the next few days we'll see the tar ball for stock; course you could always head to your nearest sprint store and have them flash it for you.

 

[KennyG123]

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[s3xda]

same thing happened to me. Just spent over a hour at my local sprint store. My tech told me they dont have any software for the phone yet but they did order me a replacement s3. The tech just tried to hard reset it but it doesnt even boot recovery.

 

[nabbed]

Does this help?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1725395

If you can get into odin, just flash the tar in PDA mode.

 

[s3xda]

I guess Ill give it a shot. I can still access odin. Just not too sure if I should continue to tinker with it since sprint has already agreed to send a replacement

 

[nabbed]

I guess Ill give it a shot. I can still access odin. Just not too sure if I should continue to tinker with it since sprint has already agreed to send a replacement

You see when you flash a wrong image, instead of the phone working better you will get quite the opposite.

 

[s3xda]

lol ur absolutely right. This heatwave is making me stupid

 

[channelzer0]

Yea I have talked with Sprint, no one has the stock firmware. What does that link you sent out contain? I cannot access it yet because I am a newbie. I can access Odin and am able to reflash if I have the correct firmware.

Also, sorry for posting this in the wrong place.

 

[jdelano]

Yea I have talked with Sprint, no one has the stock firmware. What does that link you sent out contain? I cannot access it yet because I am a newbie. I can access Odin and am able to reflash if I have the correct firmware.

Also, sorry for posting this in the wrong place.

Basically the link is for rooting your phone; there are 2 threads in the development area concerning it.

If someone did a factory reset; then went into recovery and did a backup.
Could that backup be used by someone else; say this poor soul. To use to restore them back to stock?

I'm thinking if channelzer0 could get their phone to CWM they could use that method to get back to a working state; would that work??

 

[channelzer0]

I can get into both recovery or Odin. Whether itll work or not....im willing to find out if I can.

 

[nabbed]

Basically the link is for rooting your phone; there are 2 threads in the development area concerning it.

If someone did a factory reset; then went into recovery and did a backup.
Could that backup be used by someone else; say this poor soul. To use to restore them back to stock?

I'm thinking if channelzer0 could get their phone to CWM they could use that method to get back to a working state; would that work??

You should be able to simply flash the recovery and the phone should work.
But yeah, someone will probably post the stock rom by the end of the day.

 

[jdelano]

I can get into both recovery or Odin. Whether itll work or not....im willing to find out if I can.

I can't do it now as I'm leaving and wont be back until mid-night; if there isn't something you can odin or flash by tomorrow morning. then I'll root and backup my phone, then reset it and backup again and post that backup for you to try.

 

[s3xda]

patience is truly a virtue...

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can boot into recovery now but still no dice

 

[noobnl]

patience is truly a virtue...

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can boot into recovery now but still no dice

download:http://d-h.st/qi8
adb push boot.img /sdcard/boot.img
dd if=/sdcard/boot.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p7 bs=4096
Be patience next time

 

[channelzer0]

Fantastic, thanks. I would like to try this. Can I make this .img a tar file and load through Odin? I put the .img on an external sd card but CWM cannot see, only the internal memory.

How do I ABD? Sorry Im a newb.

Thanks again for your help.

 

[gr33nd3vil]

Fantastic, thanks. I would like to try this. Can I make this .img a tar file and load through Odin? I put the .img on an external sd card but CWM cannot see, only the internal memory.

How do I ABD? Sorry Im a newb.

Thanks again for your help.

Wait for your replacement an dont tinker till qbking77 releases a video so you dont break your phone.

 

[kpkimmel]

*facePalm* to this whole thread....:cyclops:

 

[s3xda]

adb cant find my device...

 

[kpkimmel]

make sure usb debugging is checked in developer options....and also usb drivers are installed.