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I poked at things I shouldn't have after rooting/encrypting my Galaxy Note 8" tablet (GT-N5110) and now it continuously loops through the bootup screen. It gives me just enough time to see the "enter passcode to decrypt" screen after the Samsung logo, then it re-boots.

This is a tablet, so no battery removal. I hadn't flashed any custom ROMs (except adding ClockworkMod recovery), only rooted and encrypted the device. I accidentally erased the wrong thing when messing with a debloater app, which is why I am now stuck in a boot loop on an encrypted device. No fastboot option, only ClockworkMod--which can't help because of encryption.

I have ClockworkMod installed, but I still can't factory reset since I can't unlock the encryption.

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    It's for a different device, but see if this XDA post will help: forum.xda-developers.com/… In summary, you can flash a ROM via fastboot; it might work. Can't check the google link there; it's blocked from my end.
    – geffchang
    Commented Nov 6, 2013 at 8:34
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Things to try

  • I'd say take off the batteries, put them back, go to download mode, and reflash the ROM. Better off download it again to be 100% certain it's OK (even if it is, sometimes certain ROMs happen to work only after a couple times flashing).

  • Also read the documentation of the ROM in case it needed your storage to be in a different filesystem format (ext4 or whatever).

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  1. Use Odin 3.09 Specifically
  2. Find stock firmware
    (I use sammobile.com)
  3. Try factory Dongle to force odin donwload mode (If you cant get into download mode)
  4. flash
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