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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DroidxRage:
Try to download a terminal emulator program and type the following 2 commands (without the # character):

#su

#reboot recovery

Of course you'll have to accept root when the terminal app asks for it. This is the command line recovery code however, maybe it will work for you.

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Any ideas from our awesome emergency team? I know it's been nary an hour, but I rely on this phone for work so it's more of a necessity. I also can't even make emergency calls, god forbid something was to happen at home. TIA :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ekoroski:
Thanks for the quick response! unfortunately this ends up with the same result..... A black screen and needing to do a battery pull.:(
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BadUsername:
Is your imei still there?

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Try to reflash your recovery, then try again.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DroidxRage:
IMIE appears to be present looking in About Phone>Status, IMIE is there and matches the phone tag.. All the indicators seem fine there from what I can tell: Verizon Network, -108/32 strength, service state in service, not roaming, mobile state connected

Network is LTE/CDMA/EvDo. CDMA roaming is home only (toggling doesn't seem to matter). CDMA subscription is NV. If I go to network operators I get "Error while searching for networks".

I can't dial any of the service codes. Last reboot it looked like the phone was going through activation again, then it rebooted, and the same perils. I have never updated the PRL using that *27866 code (or whatever it is).

It seems like I'm headed toward an ODIN to stock, now I'm just having trouble figuring which file to flash in ODIN to try to fix this beast.

Thanks for the reply, first time ever having these types of issues and I've been rooting since the OG Droid. :confused:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BadUsername:
It's very frustrating, but issues always come up, it's just part of the process. Everything seems normal, i don't even think you even need to odin completely back to stock.

Maybe try flashing another rom and see if that fixes it. Any touchwiz rom might fix the issue. Just make sure you match the kernel and firmware to the base the Rom is built on.

If it still doesn't work, then I'm pretty sure odin'ing back to any stock image will fix the problem.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DroidxRage:
Thanks again. I had switched to my originally working TW ROM, although I restored a Nandroid to get there. Maybe I'll try a fresh install and see if that gives me any luck.

Currently backing up my internal stuff to my SD in preparation of ODIN, do you happen to know if it matter if I flash a stock image and root, or flash a pre-rooted stock image? I've seen both images floating around.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BadUsername:
It probably wouldn't matter.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ekoroski:
Is there a way to flash without a accessing download or recovery mode? Because I can't get into either sorry if that sounds like a dumb question
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BadUsername:
Flash cwm in rom manager. Or twrp through goo manager selecting install open recovery script. Or you can download ez recovery and flash any recovery from this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2096735

All three are located in the playstore.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DroidxRage:
Ugh... ODIN flash back to stock w/o root and still having the problems. I have Data but can't make any calls, not even emergency calls. I'm at a loss. Any last ditch ideas??

I'm thinking i might have to go to Verizon tomorrow morning to have them look at/replace the phone. I've never seen something like this since I've been running android.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BadUsername:
I honestly think you did everything you could, if your imei is intact and you have data then I don't really have any other ideas.

I think you have a good case to get it replaced if you have insurance or are under samsungs warranty.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ekoroski:
Tried both cwm and twrp both give me the same result also when I go to do a battery pull I have to boot into (well try to) recovery wait for it to fail and then do another battery pull to get it to reboot into my rom

Thanks for all your help
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jackdubl:
I've got an issue with media scan. I have pinpointed what causes the problem. Whenever I go into my gallery and look at a few pictures or videos, my media scanner starts going crazy and runs for anywhere from 20 mins to several hours. If I force stop Media Storage it will stop, until I go look at other photos/videos, of which I have many on the internal and external card. Doesn't happen till I look at individual photos or vids. Anything I can do about this? I also tried switching photos between the external and internal cards; no difference. Even formatted internal memory once; no difference.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BadUsername:
I think it might be something on your external SD card. It's always related to some corrupted file that media scanner is getting hung up on. Try moving everything off of your external SD card that you want to keep. Reformat it, then manually run media scanner with a media scanner app and make sure it turns off within half an hour or so. It should work since you already formatted your internal sd card.

Then manually put stuff back onto your external card one folder at a time and re run the media scanner. That way you can isolate the problem and delete it when you find it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jackdubl:
Even if I switch sd cards, same thing. So can't be the card.

Edit: however, so far downloading an alternate galley from the play store has solved the problem. Will continue testing.

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Confirmed: problem only occurs when viewing pics from the gallery app. Downloaded an ICS third party gallery app and absolutely no problems. Guess I'll have to just freeze the stock gallery.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DroidxRage:
Called Verizon (from another phone.. lol) and after going over my troubleshooting with them they offered to send me out a refurb phone, as well as log a trouble ticket to make sure it's not a random network issue.

My only concern now, is that I didn't reset any flash counter before I went back to stock. It's currently showing count=1 on the download screen, but I'm reading that might be normal and that it doesn't necessarily reset to 0. Anything to worry about when I send my phone back? Should I re-root, run triangle away, and then ODIN back to stock or does it matter?

Thanks again for the help.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BadUsername:
I would use triangle away, the last thing you want is verizon finding an excuse to charge you $500.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lazarus0000:
Agreed. Though you may have read otherwise, I'd not be taking any chances. Big Red loves its fees and penalties... And HATES root!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DroidxRage:
Thanks guys. I agree, I'm not much a gambler personally. :) I've already re-rooted, reset the counter and in the process of ODIN. It definitely changed the counter from 1 to "None" so good thing I did it.

Follow up questions: what would have caused this? is it really just a fluke, or is it something I could have done perhaps flashing between AOSP and TW roms? All my prior devices were pure Android, so that's really the only variable on this phone vs the past few I've owned.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SnEwOhZ:
Cant Flash Roms Anymore Please Help

hi i hard bricked my phone about a month ago and got it fixed recently by JTAG Riff - Boot repair and it worked perfect. but then i rooted it and unlocked the bootloader and then i went it too recovery mode to install hyperdrive rom r14 using TWRP and everything runs smooth threw the installation but once its done i reboot and it has a yellow triangle with a black exclamation point in it and under neath is says "system software not authorized by Verizon Wireless has been found on your phone". then after i go to download re-flash a stock firmware and re-root and restore to my last backup and have no problem. but what i want to know is, is there a why to fix this so i can flash custom roms again. if i could get help that would be great.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] demonicllma:
dead radio

So I definitely have no idea what's going on with my phone it worked fine one moment but then the cell signal cut out. I wasn't sure why but the airplane mode came on, I turned it off but it kept turning itself back on again. I tried restarting it but that didn't help, eventually it stopped but there was no cell signal it was coming up with 120 dB for signal strength, my phone number changed to a nonsensical one, and that the radio service state was off. I tried factory resetting it and switching out the sim card but to no avail. The only thing that does work is wifi. I contacted Verizon but all I got from them was uhhhh we'll send you a replacement which is all well in good but I just want to know what happened to it. It wasn't rooted or anything.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lazarus0000:
I would start the rooting / flashing process o er from Step 1. I had the same problem on day one and soft bricked it and was able to follow a thread that unscrewed it but I honestly don't remember what was entailed. I do know that what I did in the end was restart the root / flashing process. Wish I could be of more help but I know you'll be able to get it going again.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TwistingSoul:
Hi there,

I'm fairly familiar with the forums/flashing/rooting/etc., and the inherent risks of these, including voiding warranties.

That said, the other day I dirty flashed an unofficial build of CM 10.2 from [MENTION=2963287]mastamoon[/MENTION] where previously I was on his unofficial CM 10.1 build from 07/31.

While using the latter build, I did have an option in the camera's settings (not Focal, as that's still buggy according to the first linked thread) to change the storage from Auto (or something similar) to the external SD card, but now that option is gone, and all of the pictures are, by default, getting saved to the phone's internal memory.

I have been able to successfully copy the pictures from the phone's memory (the exact path is /storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera) to the SD card (/storage/sdcard1/DCIM/Camera) using ES File Explorer with Root Access enabled, but I wasn't sure if there was another setting I was missing or could otherwise edit to change the (now) Android version 4.3 camera to save photos to the external SD card by default?

Thanks for helping out yet another forum n00b. ;)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lazarus0000:
This is not an emergency but I don't know where to turn for help on this one, so I'll throw it out here for consideration & comment.

Over the past 2 weeks, I've been having trouble with my phone hot booting anytime I use any Internet browser. Be it the native browser, Chrome, Dolphin, Opera or a browser native to an app (say, Lifehacker's browser in their app). It doesn't matter what 4.2.2 ROM I'm running - I've used older and newer versions of Carbon, JellyBAM, PA and LiquidSmooth.

The only thing that has changed is that I wiped my internal storage. I was using 8gb of the 12 or so left and decided it was time for a total wipe. When I did that TiBu didn't know where to look for its backup and I told it manually to look @ a folder that was old (I had two and eventually redirected it to the current one but that was after completing a restore with data from more than 3 months ago).

I have wiped cache and dalvik as well as fixed permissions til I'm blue in the face.

Other that that, nothing has changed. Same apps, same setup (AOSP ROM without any "tweaks" of any sort) but since then, like I said, I start the browser and a hot boot follows within a minute.

Anyone got any suggestions? Any help is appreciated - I don't want to have to wipe and not use TiBu. I can but that'll make a process that is less than an hour into a day long affair.

EDIT:

Found the culprit, I believe. I think it's "Orbot" the Onion Router for Android. I re-wiped everything and all was good til I noticed it was missing. Decided I could re-install it through TiBu & my trouble started all over again. Unistalled & all is well again. Sucks! I need my Onion Router! But I'd had it installed for months & it just started acting up when I wiped. Guess I must have had a bad backup of it or something...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] thehoagiehut:
Can't remember PIN + missing volume button

I haven't used my Galaxy S3 for a year and a half, since I got the S4. I decided to get it back up and running for the kids to play games, read books, or to use as an alarm clock. When I got it all charged up, I found out that I had set the PIN to one that I've never used before and I can't get into the phone. On top of that, when I tried to get into recovery mode, I found that the volume button was missing. Other than buying a volume button, is there a way to get into recovery mode so that I can do a hard reset, ODIN a stock ROM, then re-root?

Thanks in advance
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ShapesBlue:
You should be able to reset the pin via your Google account if you have it setup that way. Then you should be able to reboot into recovery

Nexus 6 via VRToxin
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] thehoagiehut:
The phone doesn't have an internet connection because my ISP has changed.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Altaman:
Humm from the msgs in this thread, no wonder that the msgs in the other threads cause such a rucus... I mean geez "my phone fell into water and now my memory card does not work"....i mean come on you surely could not have rooted/rommed your phone by your self.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ...Awesome...:
No if you are back to stock ORIGINAL and still have that problem its Hardware.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] LtZKilla:
I reflashed and it still doesn't have the carrier. Here are some settings screenshots.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jwattt:
carrier problems

So I flashed the rom and I have verizon wireless under carrier information. So I think what happened is one of your carrier files got lost somewhere :/. The only way I know how to fix this is to go back to complete stock and then reroot/unlock bootloader/reinstall cleanrom. Note this will erase all of your data so back it up to your computer first if this is the route you decide to go.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] FingersMcGee7:
OK so I can't tell you exactly when it started happening since I don't really checc my voicemail unless I know its an important message but for some reason wen I try to call my Verizon voicemail all I get is a dial tone. If I call my number from my phone, all dial tone. I've been searching for 3weeks and can't find one ounce of information on this issue. Need immediate help please!! And I'm on illusions 1.1.25 rom which is 4.2 1 running the kt747 kernel if that matters. . thanks in advance
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] LtZKilla:
Ok. It doesn't bother me that much as long as i can still call and text and use data fine. Do the carrier files really affect anything besides that?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jwattt:
carrier files

Well that is the thing. It could effect your singnal or other things. However if your not experiencing any data drop out and such i would just say it lost the carrier identity. But since it seems to be acting normaly it appears to be fine. So if your not having a problem with any of this I would leave it the way it is.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jdub251:
OK... I have my buddies att s3 and a black screen. And I have a black screen. He says he flashed a theme for Hus phone but doesn't remember which one. It seems to be hard bricked but the computer recognizes the phone and he said the charging light came on last night. I don't have a light or any response from phone. Just seeing if anyone has a solution before trying JTAG.

sent telepathically
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] hypertek:
My phone won't turn on whatsoever, won't charge etc.. Happened when I plugged in a usb audio dac.. had the phone in fast charge mode so I think that killed it.. Any ideas? I ordered a motherboard off ebay last week but seems the person hasnt shipped it yet. Think verizon would cover it?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Cynema:
Ok so this is a weird one. I was running an old PA rom for a while and today I wanted something new, mainly because my pc would not pick up my phone when plugged it. I wiped and flashed the Illusion rom, no backup, and that went fine but I didn't really like the rom.

I wiped and went to flash the LiquidSmooth rom, with no back up once again, and i couldn't find the zip anywhere. I went to an old CM10 back up from September and used Airdroid to load up the LiquidSmooth rom in a different folder. I wiped and went to flash that which did nothing when I clicked install, but the Gapps installed correctly.

I did another restore to the old CM10 and tried the Pure Google AOSP 4.2 with the 4.2 Gapps and now I cannot log into my google account, or boot into recovery. I was always using the power menu of past roms and the holding volume and power keys doesnt work. I really can't do anything right now, what should I do?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jwattt:
odin

ok well did you try odin? if you install the drivers for the phone and follow this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1840030 you should be set unless its actually hard bricked.

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Call verizon they can resolve it. I had this happen called them they reset my voicemail and it was good to go
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] LtZKilla:
Alright. I have not experienced any signal problems and the only problem i have had as far as data is that for some reason at the cafeteria in my school my phone suddenly decides I'm roaming. But other than that just fine. So I guess I'll leave it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jwattt:
i am not encouraging decietful behavior, but verizon would cover it. Sound like a hardware problem to me ;) lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] CeeMillz:
So today I went to show my father the issue I was having with my phone I flip the NFC switch under more settings... Magically worked and stuck, actually I waited 5 minutes and its still working. I did absolutely nothing but text today and send a few work emails. This is very strange.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jwattt:
nfc

still could be a semi faulty nfc chip. did you test if the nfc worked by doing andriod beam? or using a textile? because if it was actually working i would suggest following this tutorial http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1840030 to go back to stock. I know you said you went back to stock but just to be sure use the files on this page.

***follow it exactly and be sure to complete the stock recovery wipe after number 9.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] CeeMillz:
Annnddd its gone
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jwattt:
the problem? or NFC lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] CeeMillz:
NFC haha sorry.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jwattt:
yeah It has to be hardware related if you followed the links directions.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] hypertek:
I'll look into that. I got a crack on the screen too but its not too major, i wonder if they will trip over that? I would just have to go to a verizon store right?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jwattt:
Well that's the problem you cant get one from the store they send you one. So you get this new one before you give them the old one. But if they send you this new one and the old one has "physical damage" they'll charge you like 660 bucks. They will most likely not accept it because of the crack :(
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DrillerBabe:
HELP!!

HI really new to this ,but i was talking on my S3 the battery died and now it wont come back on ?

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yes i tried it again after it had been on the charger .. .
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jwattt:
what rom are you running and have you tried odin? also do you get the battery charging icon when plugging it in?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DrillerBabe:
jelly beans and i only get the battery icon after i take the battery out and put it back in .
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tennisjunkie:
Did anything else AT ALL happen to the phone? More details please, I'd like to help.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] camden07:
cm10.1

coming from hyperdrive rls4 which is an outstanding rom everytime i try and flash jellybam 5.2 i get stuck in a boot loop same goes for other cm 10.1 roms as well is there a reason behind this something im missing any help would be appreciative ;)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tennisjunkie:
That has happened to me so you're not alone. What I find that helps me is to go back and start fresh.. Meaning flash back to a clean Slate and follow the tutorials as well as for help here along the way.

http://forums.androidcentral.com/ve...-back-clean-factory-stock-update-10-23-a.html

I'm here to help so update me !:)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jwattt:
Ok well if you haven't got it working already try this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1840030 id say its your best bet.

Note:It will wipe everything on your device.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] thecozmo65:
Tryed to install chainfire drivers on my S3 and now its stuck at the Galaxy SIII splash. I probably just missed something or didnt do something right. I am running CM10 stable build, Faux kernal,
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dragon1357:
I don't want to start a new thread, so here goes. Every time I watch a YouTube video on the market for the preview and turn the screen off when I turn it back on it freezes and I have to battery pull. And I just discovered today that is when I use any app and turn the screen off when I screen on it freezes. I'm on clean rom KToonz kernel and kinda crap mods.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ...Awesome...:
You might want to reflash your ROMs one of the mods/tweaks is interfering with the rendering of the screen.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dragon1357:
should i wipe?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] thecozmo65:
Do I wipe and reflash? Do I need to do rom and kernel?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dragon1357:
Oh and here's a picture
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] spurnout:
Hi,

I was trying to root and I got to the point of flashing CWM. I'm able to get into it no problem. The issue is that to finish the root I tried to go back into download mode and I can't do it. I get to the screen with the yellow triangle but before I can tell it to continue it's already rebooting. How do I fix this?

Edit: Cancel that. Not sure why but I just have to hit it very quickly. Root is verified! Finally! Phew!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jwattt:
ahh the verizon triangle? that would mean your bootloader is not unlocked fyi and you flashed a custom rom. You have also probably incremented your flash counter so i would download triangle away from the app store or .apk file to reset that. Heres a link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.triangleaway&hl=en

in order to check your flash counter go into download mode and see if the flash counter says a number instead of "no".If there is a number you should reset it because verizon will void your warranty if its tripped.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] evo3d6:
New to the Verizon s3 I have it flashed metro pcs and for the life of me can't find a fix for mms any help would be helpful thanks in advance. Everything works data etc etc