Question:
How to fix a Galaxy s3 that keeps rebooting into recovery mode?
Erik
2014-02-10 19:02:19 UTC
I un-rooted my device because it kept rebooting into cwm recovery and I thought it would fix it but now it's still stuck?Please help.
Three answers:
Helen
2014-02-10 20:27:05 UTC
Hope this help you



Step 1: Power down the device. Pulling the battery will work as well, especially if you are caught in a boot loop.



Step 2: Allow the device to completely shut down. Waiting until your screen is off, or just giving it a full minute or two should suffice.



Step 3a: For the Galaxy S2 and Tab 2, you will need to hold Volume Up and Power at the same time until you see the Samsung logo appear. Then release.



  3b: For the Galaxy S3, you will need to hold the volume up, home, and power button at the same time until you see the Samsung logo, and then release.



Step 4: For all variants mentioned, you should now be looking at a menu list with a blue highlighted bar. Using the volume rockers will navigate through the menus, and generally power is your accept button. The S2 might have a little twist. Upon getting into recovery, you can push up, down, up to enable the back button. This also allows to use the power button as the accept button. See figure 1.



Important note: When navigating around in recovery and you select something, you may be redirected to a page with about a dozen answers. Almost all will be no with yes buried in the middle. This is to prevent accidental accepting of an option.



4b: To actually have you use this guide, you can clear your phone's cache. See figure 2. There are many cache clearing programs on Play, and while they may clear the cache as well as rebooting into recovery, this is merely an alternate method. Click power to accept.



Step 5: When completed, you can navigate back, or usually after completing any action in Recovery, Reboot Now will be highlighted at the root menu. See figure 3. This is your gate back to running Android through the User Interface. Click power to accept.



Congratulations! You have successfully entered, navigated, executed a command and rebooted all in Recovery. This is also a method to flash a ROM through a .zip file on an SD card, and a complete Factory Reset can be accomplished in this manner as well.
?
2016-10-28 11:08:16 UTC
How To Reboot A Galaxy S3
?
2014-02-11 05:21:23 UTC
Root status and bootloops have nothing to do with each other. Also, you can't unroot if the OS never loads! Install Samsung Kies in your computer, start the phone in download mode (pwr, home, and vol down) and let Kies restore the phone. Don't play with ROM's if you don't know what your doing.


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