Galaxy Note 3 Constantly *Trying* to Boot into Recovery

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I have had the Note 3 for a long time. It's now used as a backup device over wifi only (it has no SIM card). I use it when my Nexus 6P is tethered to my PC or such. I have not messed with any ROMs on it for quite a long time. It's still running an older version of Android, and I can't even remember offhand the name of the ROM it has. It's on the tip of my fingers, but I just can't seem to come up with it. Anyway, I thought today I might finally update it to Marshmallow. But, here's the thing... I didn't even get that far. I have not done anything yet! All I did was download the ROM and Gapps and reboot to recovery using a QuickBoot app. That's it. I have not flashed anything. Yet, the phone is now in a boot loop (trying to go into Recovery). It says that it is loading recovery, but it never does. It just reboots. Now I have rebooted the phone many, many times with no issues before this. It seems to have been caused by simply trying to enter recovery, and I can't seem to ever get it to actually go into recovery. What should I do? TIA
 
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If you can get it into Download mode, you could grab the stock ROM and Odin and reflash stock and than start over if you wanted to run a 3rd party ROM if there is no official MM for it, but first thing is to get it to boot, so usually that's a stock ROM flashed with Odin.

I would get ask on XDA as there is a lot of people there, and whatever you do, only download Odin from a XDA link. 99% of the copies of "Odin" now online and Odin sites are all scam/spyware/crap sites now.
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If you can get it into Download mode, you could grab the stock ROM and Odin and reflash stock and than start over if you wanted to run a 3rd party ROM if there is no official MM for it, but first thing is to get it to boot, so usually that's a stock ROM flashed with Odin.

I would get ask on XDA as there is a lot of people there, and whatever you do, only download Odin from a XDA link. 99% of the copies of "Odin" now online and Odin sites are all scam/spyware/crap sites now.
 
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Thanks much. I went into download mode, fired up Odin, and proceeded to flash a file I downloaded. It failed (I tried a couple more steps, but not relevant in the end), but then I removed battery (which I had done quite a number of times before this...so, it was not the fix) to get out of it, and restarted. It started fine this time. So, I guess just going into Download Mode fixed it! What a weird whole ordeal that was.
 
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