UPDATE - After a lot of attempts I was able to get my tablet into Odin mode and after a failed Odin flash, a reboot of PC and tablet and then turning off antivirus and running Odin in Administrator Mode I successfully reset my tablet. I'm now happily re-installing all of my apps.
've posted updates & additional info in the comments/responses below.
My Samsung Tab 3 won't boot past the Samsung logo. I've tried everything I could find online. Done a factory reset more than once both with and without my SC card; let it run completely out, charged it a bit and then tried again. Plugged into my laptop but while it beeps I don't see anything that indicates it's connected.
I tried to find out if I could load Odin on to my SD card and flash it that way but I could find zero comprehensible instructions on whether that was able to be done at all or how to do it. I don't have the funds right now to replace my tablet which I received when my step-dad passed away 18 months ago. I didn't have any rooted programs, just stuff the Google Play or Amazon stores.
Thursday night/Friday early morning, I had been playing a game and was stopping to head to bed. I keep my wifi off during the day to preserve battery and at night turn it on, open the google play store to download any updates. I started my end of the day stuff and turned on wifi and got a message that said Samsung WatchON has stopped and the background turned all black versus the green it had been (icons were fine). It was being goofy and so I rebooted it and got the Odin downloading locked up thing. I figured out how to get out of that and it seemed ok. I set my updates to downloading and went to bed.
I checked it on Friday when I got up and there were still some updates so I pushed the update button in the play store. It keep shutting down the play store which I thought was odd and when it kept doing it I rebooted it. And now, no matter what I do, it won't go past the Samsung Logo.
Is it beyond repair? Would the UBReak IFix guys be able to make it work with costing the earth? I really enjoy my Tablet even though it's old. It was great for my Android games, logic puzzles and reading and I'd really like to have it back. Does anyone have any suggestions??
've posted updates & additional info in the comments/responses below.
My Samsung Tab 3 won't boot past the Samsung logo. I've tried everything I could find online. Done a factory reset more than once both with and without my SC card; let it run completely out, charged it a bit and then tried again. Plugged into my laptop but while it beeps I don't see anything that indicates it's connected.
I tried to find out if I could load Odin on to my SD card and flash it that way but I could find zero comprehensible instructions on whether that was able to be done at all or how to do it. I don't have the funds right now to replace my tablet which I received when my step-dad passed away 18 months ago. I didn't have any rooted programs, just stuff the Google Play or Amazon stores.
Thursday night/Friday early morning, I had been playing a game and was stopping to head to bed. I keep my wifi off during the day to preserve battery and at night turn it on, open the google play store to download any updates. I started my end of the day stuff and turned on wifi and got a message that said Samsung WatchON has stopped and the background turned all black versus the green it had been (icons were fine). It was being goofy and so I rebooted it and got the Odin downloading locked up thing. I figured out how to get out of that and it seemed ok. I set my updates to downloading and went to bed.
I checked it on Friday when I got up and there were still some updates so I pushed the update button in the play store. It keep shutting down the play store which I thought was odd and when it kept doing it I rebooted it. And now, no matter what I do, it won't go past the Samsung Logo.
Is it beyond repair? Would the UBReak IFix guys be able to make it work with costing the earth? I really enjoy my Tablet even though it's old. It was great for my Android games, logic puzzles and reading and I'd really like to have it back. Does anyone have any suggestions??