PLEASE HELP: Won't boot into recovery, loads boot screen but nothing else

[LunchBokks]

Hello, I have a Sprint/Virgin Mobile version of the Galaxy S3, and I fear I may have a brick, whether soft or hard I'm not too sure yet. The other day I have having audio issues, but it stopped after a few reboots. Then today I rebooted and flashed an old backup, afterwards my phone seemed not to know there was an external SD card, and the camera stopped working. I tried to boot into a backup from several weeks ago, but now I fear it got bricked in doing so somehow. I had PACMan ROM running on it, the last stable build, I want to say it want released in July. Now, if I boot up normally it just stays on the Samsung screen with the Cyanogenmod person. If I attempt to boot into recovery it gets to the TWRP screen, then goes black and attempts to boot normally, but runs into the previously stated issue. The only thing I can do is boot into download mode. I attempted to flash the Stock Touchwiz system MD5 via Oden, but came up with this error:

<ID:0/003> Added!!
<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..
<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..
<OSM> Please wait..
<OSM> MD5 hash value is invalid
<OSM> system.ext4.win.md5 is invalid.
<OSM> End...


PLEASE. Any help is appreciated.

 

[Paul627g]

Hello, I have a Sprint/Virgin Mobile version of the Galaxy S3, and I fear I may have a brick, whether soft or hard I'm not too sure yet. The other day I have having audio issues, but it stopped after a few reboots. Then today I rebooted and flashed an old backup, afterwards my phone seemed not to know there was an external SD card, and the camera stopped working. I tried to boot into a backup from several weeks ago, but now I fear it got bricked in doing so somehow. I had PACMan ROM running on it, the last stable build, I want to say it want released in July. Now, if I boot up normally it just stays on the Samsung screen with the Cyanogenmod person. If I attempt to boot into recovery it gets to the TWRP screen, then goes black and attempts to boot normally, but runs into the previously stated issue. The only thing I can do is boot into download mode. I attempted to flash the Stock Touchwiz system MD5 via Oden, but came up with this error:

<ID:0/003> Added!!
<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..
<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..
<OSM> Please wait..
<OSM> MD5 hash value is invalid
<OSM> system.ext4.win.md5 is invalid.
<OSM> End...


PLEASE. Any help is appreciated.

Try removing the ". md5" on the tar file. This will eliminate the md5 check and might be enough to get it moving and flashed.


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[LunchBokks]

Try removing the ". md5" on the tar file. This will eliminate the md5 check and might be enough to get it moving and flashed.


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I tried that, and also tried replacing the .md5 with .tar. Is it a problem that the file is of the type MD5 and not a native TAR? I tried to google a converter but had no such luck. Here is a screencap of my extracted files from my Stock Backup, and the file I'm trying to flash is highlighted.

Thanks for responding, I'd really rather not try to get a replacement. I have insurance but I'm pretty sure Virgin Mobile wouldn't like
the fact that it's rooted.

 

[meyerweb#CB]

I would redownload the ROM. If the MD5 doesn't match there's a good chance the download is corrupt.

 

[DaisFlaque]

It appears to me you're unzipping the backup. Don't do that.. find the one you didn't unzip and flash the whole thing. system, data, cache the whole nine yards.

Edit: I also noticed it's a win.md5 file. Might that .win part be some thing you setup as a default something? I know it's supposed to be tar.md5 soooooo try changing the .win part to .tar.

Edit 2: upon review your problem im 99% sure its because you've unzipped your backup. Just flash the whole thing without unzipping it at all. Just how cwm or twrp gave it to ya.