[Q] Trying to restore to ATT stock, locks at ATT "rethink..." screen - AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717

Hello all, could use some help here.
I'm trying to restore my Note to the factory ROM and I'm running into an issue.
Fyi, I had the latest Paranoid JB Rom from Oct 13.
I followed the proceedures outlined in the forums (used ODIN to restore the default "attstockrom") and after that restore the phone would loop rebooting into ATT rethink possible animation screen.
I found and downloaded the latest 4.04 rom for the phone (I717UCLF6) and rebooted. Now it just hangs at the "ATT Rethink possible" graphic (no animation, no loop).
Odin does see the device fine so I can reflash again with no problems if I need to. I'm thinking of trying the I717UCLA1 version from Jan to see if that works but I'm hoping I can get some better advice before I do something that might cause more permanent problems.
Any advice on how to get back to stock ICS (or even JB) and get the phone working again?
Thanks!

Try doing a factory data/cache wipe from Recovery.

I flashed the stock rom via ODIN. There is no factory data/cache wipe since there's no custom recovery.
Are you suggesting flashing CWM/TWRP on the phone now then doing that?

Houston we have liftoff. Thanks for the tip Fappa, that got me into the phone (reinstalled cwm, factory reset). However I'd still like to remove CWM and go back to completely stock....
I'm not overly worried about it as I'm selling the phone but I'd like the new owner to have a completely clean phone in case they need to send it in at some point for repair. But in any case it's up and running with CWM and factory ICS rom.

santiagodraco said:
I flashed the stock rom via ODIN. There is no factory data/cache wipe since there's no custom recovery.
Are you suggesting flashing CWM/TWRP on the phone now then doing that?
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I'm sure fappa meant to use the stock android recovery and wipe. when I go back to stock it always hangs at AT&T boot logo and have to wipe/reset from stock recovery to get it to boot.
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Yes do what they say or you will continue to boot loop.
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Installed Cyanogenmod 7.2 RC --> Kernel Panic...wtf are my options?

As the thread title states...I was on 7.1 and downloaded/updated it to 7.2 Now the phone doesn't boot up and all I get is the Kernel Panic Upload Mode.
Anyway I can fix this? And if so, is there a way of doing it without completely formatting my phone and losing all my apps?
Oh and if it makes any difference I had to install that Siyah Kernel or whatever it was called to get out of the bootloop issue that I had with CM7.1. I'm thinking that that may be causing the problem....? But then again what do I know
wipe cache only.
valentinrascu said:
wipe cache only.
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How? I've been trying [Power+Volume Up+Home] and it hasn't been doing anything. Can I do it through download mode somehow?
Had this problem when i flashed Lite'ning rom. Had to go into download and flash stock with odin. Took me a few tries to actually get the rom to work. As far as I know, that'd be your only option, seeing as recovery doesn't work for you.
take a deep breath and read, there is a very small chance of bricking your phone just so you know. Flash back original with Odin and start everything again
thanks for the replies...looks like i'm gonna flash the stock firmware back and see what i can do about getting to CM7.2 to work. hopefully flashing stock firmware is enough. I can't imagine how this would completely brick my phone and render it unusable.
As an aside...wtf is the point of this "recovery mode" when the thing doesn't even work half the time?
Anywho...downloading the stock .exe file now from here: http://devsrom4android.blogspot.ca/2011/10/samsung-galaxy-s2-firmwares-bell-canada.html[/url
Ok so I flashed the stock rom and now I'm in Android system recovery: Should I just reboot system now or do I wipe data/factory reset or wipe cache partition??
nubreed000 said:
Ok so I flashed the stock rom and now I'm in Android system recovery: Should I just reboot system now or do I wipe data/factory reset or wipe cache partition??
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If you flashed stock, you should be fine just rebooting.
Its stuck on the boot screen. I tried just rebooting, then wiping/factory reset, then both wipes...reinstalled stock a few times and nothing worked each time. I'm suck on the Samsung Galaxy SII GT-I9100 screen
:-\...when I go into recovery, I get a ton of red messages/errors
I'm gonna try somethig other than stock firmware see if that helps.
edit Ok so I rooted the phone and it got past the first boot screen and now appears to be stuck on the "animated S" boot screen...progress!!
nubreed000 said:
thanks for the replies...looks like i'm gonna flash the stock firmware back and see what i can do about getting to CM7.2 to work. hopefully flashing stock firmware is enough. I can't imagine how this would completely brick my phone and render it unusable.
As an aside...wtf is the point of this "recovery mode" when the thing doesn't even work half the time?
Anywho...downloading the stock .exe file now from here: http://devsrom4android.blogspot.ca/...msung and their changes to Android framework.
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Ok everything back to somewhat normal. Stock ROM didn't work but 2.3.6 did, so I'm on that. Now do I wanna go back to CM is the question...
Either way, thanks again for all the replies and helping me out with this. Greatly appreciated!

[Q] Won't boot, worked fine, then bootloop, now it freezes (using CM9 ICS Nightly)

Hi Friends,
Model Number - GT-P7510
I recently rooted and installed the CM9 ICS nightly rom using the noob video instructions (This included rooting with Odin, installing CMW recovery 4.0.0.4, then I flashed the ROM cm-9-20120624 Nightly and finally flashed GAPPS-ics).
I over clocked using the CM9 settings and everything worked perfectly for about a week, it was great. Then it just crashed while I was reading my email and began to bootloop. After reading for similar errors I rebooted to recovery and tried wiped the cache and dalvic cache, I wiped data and factory reset several times but nothing worked, always the same bootloop. I re flashed the same ROM and still nothing, after a while the boot screen would simply freeze instead of bootloop.
Then I connected to my PC, and did this to no avail. In fact it simply added to the problem by adding a yellow warning triangle while attempting to boot so I did the Oden thing again like the first time I rooted however I installed CMW version 5.5.0.4 instead thinking it might help but it hasn't.
One last point, when I attempt to wipe data/factory reset the tablet seems to freeze and attempt to reboot rather than say something like "success" as it would during a cache wipe. This maybe normal or it maybe the problem! who knows?
On that point, I would be very grateful if some of you could help get me to the point when my PC recognises the tablet so I can reflash a new ROM.
Thanks in advance,
Karl
I once got the same problem. The only thing that helped was to flash back the stock rom via Odin with the pit file. And don't forget to do a hard reset after flashing the rom. I'll just stick to the stock rom until the official update is getting released.
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Questions go in the Q&A section
I think the best way is still to do factory reset, go back to the stock ROM first and try custom HC ROM until the official ICS is released.

[Q] Stuck at Boot screen, how to recover?

Just bought a used phone off Swappa. It has TWRP and had Cyanogenmod installed.
I wanted to try a TouchWiz ROM so I downloaded one. Booted into recovery, made a backup to external SD Card and then flashed the ROM. It said it flashed
successfully but when rebooted, it just stayed at the Samsung Galaxy S4 Boot
screen.
I tried restoring the backup, but it failed!
I thought I might have had a bad download so I downloaded Cyanogenmod nightly and LiquidSmooth on my laptop, transfered to the SD card, popped it into the S4, boot into recovery, and tried flashing each, and both just boot to the boot screen and freeze.
What are my best options now? I saw some guides for flashing back to stock via Odin, but requires that I know if I am on VRUAME7 or VRUAMDK and I don't know. Could I have been on ME7 and running Cyanogenmod? Doesn't seem possible, no?
Me7 ota doesnt have the ability to flash custom recovery or rom, so no you werent on that beforehand. Whenever you flash a rom you need to do a wipe/factory reset and wipe caches, unless op states you can dirty flash. Doing some reading will only help you out, generally every post outlines the installation process. Boot to recovery do your wipes then try booting again. If your still in a bootloop then you will need to flash mdk via odin then start the rooting and romming process over.
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Man, I thought I did everything right.
First, did a backup.
Then full wipe with TWRP full wipe, including cache.
Then flash ROM
I'll have to get familiar with Odin and find the MDK images.
Sometimes that happens. Could have been a bad download then it happens more often then you would think. If theres an md5 hash posted its a good idea to verify the download is good. In the dev section theres no wipe mdk images posted so you wont lose your already installed apps and data.
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So I downloaded the factory image and flashed via Odin, but accidentally flashed via bootloader rather than PDA. It wouldn't start - still hung at the boot screen, so I re-flashed via PDA and it is still hanging at the boot screen.
Now I don't know if it is just the same problem as before, or if I messed something up with flashing through bootloader. Can I reflash something via the bootloader section of Odin to restore it?
What version of twrp? And try to go back into recovery and wipe cache and dalvik.
That worked for me on the buggy version of twrp when it wouldn't booy
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twiz0r said:
What version of twrp? And try to go back into recovery and wipe cache and dalvik.
That worked for me on the buggy version of twrp when it wouldn't booy
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Not sure what version it was because it's now back to factory recovery. I did go back into it and did a factory wipe and it booted!

TWRP or CWM

Hey guys,
I was just wondering what the general consensus is on which recovery is the most preferred.
I was using TWRP 2.6, but that gave me problems (being stuck on samsung logo everytime my phone rebooted). Reverted back to 2.5.0.2 and it seems to work fine so far. I did try CWM in the past but for some reason my boot loader would get locked and I would have to ODIN back to stock.
So what's your preferred recovery and why?
Thanks.
Exodus885 said:
Hey guys,
I was just wondering what the general consensus is on which recovery is the most preferred.
I was using TWRP 2.6, but that gave me problems (being stuck on samsung logo everytime my phone rebooted). Reverted back to 2.5.0.2 and it seems to work fine so far. I did try CWM in the past but for some reason my boot loader would get locked and I would have to ODIN back to stock.
So what's your preferred recovery and why?
Thanks.
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I like TWRP. It works well with the new phone and Roms that are coming out plus it is so easy to use. Never liked CWM very much. You did right by reverting to an older version of TWRP I had to do that once.
TWRP... i don't even consider anything else.
Do you guys know why my phone gets stuck on the samsung logo everytime i restart my phone?
Doesn't matter what ROM i use it always happens....
Did you do a factory reset, system wipe, preload wipe, cache wipe, and dalvik wipe? Or try fix permissions from recovery?
If not, go do all of those.
If that doesn't work, something is missing from the system partition that is keeping it from booting. Which means you deleted it. :good:
Dubbsy said:
Did you do a factory reset, system wipe, preload wipe, cache wipe, and dalvik wipe? Or try fix permissions from recovery?
If not, go do all of those.
If that doesn't work, something is missing from the system partition that is keeping it from booting. Which means you deleted it. :good:
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I did ALL of those, still have the problem.
So.... I just ODIN-ed back to stock and going to root and basically re-do everything -_-

Phone stopped working

Hi my data/cell services completely stopped working all of a sudden and I need to get the phone to complete stock.
I have tried flashing a restore through odin but it is not working. Any thoughts or help?
Something has been going around where CM10.2 has borked a lot of Note2s...
Flash a touchwiz based rom, stock if you got it.
in settings go to backup & recovery and factory reset from there.
when it boots again it should work.
if you get into a boot loop wipe data/factory reset in cwm.
DaPoets said:
Something has been going around where CM10.2 has borked a lot of Note2s...
Flash a touchwiz based rom, stock if you got it.
in settings go to backup & recovery and factory reset from there.
when it boots again it should work.
if you get into a boot loop wipe data/factory reset in cwm.
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I tried that and it didn't fix it so I odin'd back to stock but even that hasn't worked
Hope you used pit file along with stock rom in odin
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jbeastafer said:
I tried that and it didn't fix it so I odin'd back to stock but even that hasn't worked
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If after you are true stock and unrooted, did the factory reset in backup & recovery, and it's still borked, I would go ahead and run CASUAL and see what that does then if it doesn't work then pull the battery and sim, turn phone back on while pressing up volume, home, and power to get into CWM and do a data wipe factory reset there.
Be sure you are using the correct stock rom though... if you are unsure just flash different ones...

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