Title says it all I'm having an issue booting into recovery. I went back to stock to get the o.t.a. 4.4.4 I got back to stock my status was official but something went wrong. I downloaded the o.t.a but when i try to install it stops at 27 percent and re boots I can boot into system, download mode fine. But there's no way to get into recovery. I tried flashing stock and philz. . That's the short of it if any has any suggestions let me know. Phone is working just no recovery. I did a search on this issue but never found a fix of any kind.
Hi bud, you are no stranger to flashing !!! Don't know if I can help. Sounds like something isn't sticking on the flash back to stock. This could be if you have an ext sd card or maybe the internal sd card, sometimes the settings that are stored on one of cards keeps getting pushed back on the device. Hence, something was lost when you went back to stock. It's just theory.
Here is what I would try. If you have a ext sd card, and you don't want to erase it, just remove it from the device. Now you know the routine flash a clean fresh copy of NC5 with odin. Or go to micmars post here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2712205 and get a copy of NH7 or you can go to Sammoblie here is the link http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/3/?download=35283 and get the NH7, XAS, CSC copy which eliminates the yellow Sprint logo. ( I run 4.4.2 NC5 XAS stock, rooted, and Philz CWM v16.12.9 )
After you get the stock rom flashed, boot up let it settle down, and do a factory reset. Now try and odin a new recovery. May I suggest Philz CWM hltespr v 6.12.9 I know it's not the latest, but it's the most stable recovery I have used. Trust me I beat that recovery to death every day.
If you get back into recovery great !!! Now get a root file manager like root explorer and delete your delvik cache. Completely power down the device install the sd card and boot it up. Hopefully it will rebuild the delvike cache on the device and sd card on boot up. I run a 32gb class 10
sd card and every once in awhile I format/erase it just for sport. Let me know how it goes ?
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I'm gonna try your suggestions and keep my fingers crossed. But it will be a few hours I'm at work . I will definitely keep you updated on the progress. Thanks for the tips!!! I've never ran into this problem. It F#@&*.n freaking me out!
I feel your pain the same thing happened me I went back to stock unrooted and took the OTA update to 4.4.4 NH7 did not see anything worth having and my radio signal was less than NC5, other people are complaining that reception on the new Baseband on NH7 sucks. So I did a factory reset figuring it would me back to NC5. Nope stayed at 4.4.4, so I tried to odin flash a fresh copy of NC5, and the device boop looped. ( soft brick ). Check out this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-3-sprint/help/4-4-4-download-mode-t2877528 to see what a couple us did to get our phones back from the brink !!!
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If your asking was there a magic pill that got me back to stock, sorry no. On your device, you lost the ability to use your recovery. In my case it boot looped which has happened to several people, another guy said he kept losing his network connection. But in all the cases it occurred getting back, or trying to get back to 4.4.2 from 4.4.4.
Once I got the phone to boot up again, used odin v 1.85 to flash a copy of NC5 that was downloaded from Sammobile it's a XAS copy so I don't have the Sprint logo. I rooted with SuperSu v 1.94 and used Philz CWM v 6.12.9 hltespr.
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One more thing, can you boot into the stock recovery ? If so, try and do a factory reset from there. Remove ext sd card and try to odin a custom recovery.
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UPDATE!!!
The guy over top me saved my a$$!!!!! Yeah that guy! Followed your instructions while removing sd card.. i downloaded the Nc5 full restore one click popped that in the old Odin v3.04. Did the restore,booted into stock recovery and did a full wipe x3,battery pulled, booted back DL mode flashed full restore again then booted into system just to see if everything was good back into DL mode chainfire root,back to system,back to Odin Flashed philz 6.12.9 ,battery pulled for 20sec. popped her back in and did the old 3 button combo into recovery and restored my previous backup.THANK YOU SIR! You are a life saver. I did however lose my TB backups but....WHO CARES! My whole set up is back on.
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Awesome !!! First my bad, should have told you to back up your data to a PC. This is just a theory, but here goes. Did you have Philz latest 6.48.7 one size fits all hlte ? For some reason when you switched from the hlte recovery to the hltespr recovery, things started working again. Now I cannot speak from experience because I have always used that recovery. However, check this thread out post #7 http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-3-sprint/help/using-pac-cm-slim-loose-connection-t2883855 he had the same basic problem.The guy over top me saved my a$$!!!!! Yeah that guy! Followed your instructions while removing sd card (after i messed things up a bit more) can you say (soft brick) ? After i was done playing god and decided to follow some tips cuz i dont know everything, i downloaded the Nc5 full restore one click popped that in the old Odin v3.04. Did the restore,booted back into system back into DL mode chainfire root,back to system,back to Odin Flashed philz 6.12.9 ,battery pulled for 20sec. popped her back in and did the old 3 button combo into recovery and restored my backup at which point i think i wet my pants and all is well other then having to wash clothes now. THANK YOU SIR! You are a life saver. I did however lose my TB backups but....WHO CARES! My whole set up is back on.
Did you see where Philz no longer updating his thread !!!
No I used the 6.12.8 or whatever it was and yes I did see that philz is a dead project which is unfortunate cuz its a very reliable recovery. Apparently has got other ongoing projects and sounds to me like he was tired of people posting bash posts about his product not working properly (just a guess) but guarantee atleast 90 percent of those post was cus of user error not his recovery and now we all suffer. Not cool!!! I do hope his recovery holds for future updates and development . Like my mishap…No boot to recovery was all caused by user error cuz I got lazy not cuz I didnt know better and when $#!+ got bad I didn't come on and bash anyones work. . I'm just glad someone such as yourself hit it from a different point of view and saves my @$$ when I couldn't think clearly. Lesson learned. And Thank you again!!! Hope I can lead a hand someday.
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