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Help Samsung Galaxy S3 STUCK AFTER ROOTING

sebu1337

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Jun 6, 2016
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Today i chose to root my phone. I did everything like they said in one popular tutorial how to root. Everything went will and no errors in odin, or downloading the root. But after the download, it reboots and goes back to download mode. Cant get out of it, i can get to recoverymode and factory reset, but it does not work. Every time booting the phone ut goes automaticly to download mode. Here is a video made by myself
 
If you choose to try and root again, Download SuperSu update zip and copy to SD card.
https://download.chainfire.eu/696/supersu/

Download TWRP recovery tar to PC. Get 3.0.2-1
https://dl.twrp.me/i9305/

Flash TWRP using Odin. Go to options tab in Odin and uncheck Auto Reboot. To prevent the stock recovery from overwriting TWRP, unplug phone and remove battery when Odin gives you Pass.
Replace battery then boot into recovery using the button combo. Power + volume up + home till phone starts to boot and release power.
Hopefully you will boot into TWRP.
In TWRP , select Install, locate the SuperSu update zip and select it.
Swipe arrow at bottom to begin flash.
When flash finished, select reboot system.
When phone reboots, open SuperSu app and follow instructions to update binary.

Done. You can download root checker app to verify root. Before you get carried away making changes, boot back into recovery and make a stock backup and save to SD card. Backups are your friend.
 
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