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Galaxy S i9000 (Bell Mobility) wont start

Galaxy S i9000 (Bell Mobility) wont start. Rooted with LagFix.
HELP!!! I cant get anywhere. Can anyone solve this
What happens: it starts up with logo and sound and then to a black screen. Any attempts end up with the same result
What I did prior:
1 installed CacheMate for Root Users and busybox
2 tried CacheMate for Root Users (didnt want it)
3 uninstalled busybox (when I installed, I noticed it showed 2 other versions installed. I searched and manually deleted them)
4 phone shut off unexpectedly
How I tried to fix:
1 tried to reboot
2 pulled battery tried reboot
3 pulled sd card tried reboot
4 pulled sim/sdcard tried reboot
5 vol+ home pwr
6 vol- home pwr
7 pwr menu
8 even tried heat up trick in desperation
vol+/vol- + home + pwr are disabled
can't restart to apply 3 button fix > can't get into recovery > can't reflash without 3 button recovery

do you remember if the USB debug mode is enabled or disabled?
if it's enabled, then you can let it boot and do the
adb reboot recovery
or
adb reboot download
if that doesn't work the only way to fix is to send it back to the store for repair

If it goes to the Logo screen, then when it goes black if the back and home buttons still light up your internal sd card has crashed and you need to send it in for repair at bell

bigc_13 said:
If it goes to the Logo screen, then when it goes black if the back and home buttons still light up your internal sd card has crashed and you need to send it in for repair at bell
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This. Been there, done that, wrote the book. Me and my buddy. Stock too.
Sent from my GT-I9000M using XDA App

It's bricked... internal SD is fried.
To confirm, if you can get into Upload Mode, flash a 2.2 ROM, which will give you the ability to get into Recovery mode... once in recovery mode, it will show you the Internal SD error that I'm talking about...
Take it back to the store before your 30 days are up - no use trying to waste time fixing it...

Happened to me as well. I was on my 10th+ firmware flash. Went to JPD or whichever 2.2 came right after JPC. I install RyanZa's OCLF and within one hour it crashed and wouldn't boot.
I was able to run JM8 or any 2.1 Firmware but without Internal SD. I was just running off the internal 2gb partition that it created off the external SD when it can't find the internal SD. Thats why when the internal SD is corrupt, the phone won't boot into android without the external SD installed.
In the end it was 2 days before my 30day replacement, so I took it to bell and had it replaced.
Running stock update 1 for bell (JH2) with Voodoo 4 on current replacement.

Hey, I also have this problem. I originally bought it semi bricked. The phone was not even showing the boot screen, but I managed to flash so now it does the above.
What are mu options here. Im not a Bell Client so they won't give me a replacement. I'd prefer not to spend money sending it in, but will if i have to. But i doubt that bell would take it in even if I did pay because im not their customer...Telus obviously doesn't support the Galaxy so I can't go to them either.
How were you able to get it running off your memory card? I don't mind doing that actually!

I had this happen to me once before and and i did a factory reset and i worked perfectly! and now its happened again and i believe my internal sd is fried! kinda really sucks

Kendren said:
Hey, I also have this problem. I originally bought it semi bricked. The phone was not even showing the boot screen, but I managed to flash so now it does the above.
What are mu options here.
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Call samsung direct.
1-888-751-4078 (i'm assuming your in canada) and send it in.

[Q] Help!!!

So I am new to this whole flashing thing and just recently flashed my phone using Eugene373 Froyo rom. Seems to be ok for the most part but a couple things I noticed:
1) I can no longer use OCLF to fix my lag issues.
2) when I redownloaded the rom manager after flashing and I reboot into recovery it gets stuck at the vibrant screen. I let it go for about 5-10 minutes and nothing happed. Should i have waited longer??
3) When I power off my phone to and use the 3 button sequence to get into recovery mode it will not let me. the phone just keeps wanting to power on.
Any body have any ideas how to fix any of these issues??

Go to rom manager and click flash rom manager its the top box that will allow you to get into custom recovery
Constantly drinking

[Q] [help] Samsung Galaxy S4 keeps restarting..

Hi, i'm an original iphone user, got bored of it my planned ran out and I chose the Samsung galaxy S4.. So forgive me if i'm a bit of a 'noob'
I just received the phone Friday afternoon everythings all good. Starting to love the S4 but when I lock the phone (press the side button, don't use it anymore) after about 5-10 seconds it just keeps restarting.. It will restart and if I don't put my sim pin in, it will restart again (within 2 min).
Same if I'm on a call about 2 minutes in it will restart and do the same process.
things i've tried.
>taken the battery out, restarted again.
> did a bit of googling and did that restore to factory settings thing (turned off hold power, volume and home button)
I've rang my service provider and told them about it only option is to send it back. Is there anything I can do from home to resolve the issue, cbf being without a phone.
cheers in advance

Have you checked for update ?

armedking said:
Have you checked for update ?
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yeah mate yeeeup seems all up to date

Try updating it to a new version the Odin way. Haven't heard of this issue before but it could be a buggy old firmware.

Sw0llen said:
Hi, i'm an original iphone user, got bored of it my planned ran out and I chose the Samsung galaxy S4.. So forgive me if i'm a bit of a 'noob'
I just received the phone Friday afternoon everythings all good. Starting to love the S4 but when I lock the phone (press the side button, don't use it anymore) after about 5-10 seconds it just keeps restarting.. It will restart and if I don't put my sim pin in, it will restart again (within 2 min).
Same if I'm on a call about 2 minutes in it will restart and do the same process.
things i've tried.
>taken the battery out, restarted again.
> did a bit of googling and did that restore to factory settings thing (turned off hold power, volume and home button)
I've rang my service provider and told them about it only option is to send it back. Is there anything I can do from home to resolve the issue, cbf being without a phone.
cheers in advance
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Flash another ROM.
install Odin on PC
download a **stock ROM
then connect ur phone to pc and w8 for odin to get it
then choose ROM u downloaded and w8 for PASS :good:
u can download firmwares from sammobile.com

Hi guys, installed odin, went to sammobile downloaded australian firmware for my phone.. installed the firmware. it still does it.

Hi guys, installed odin, went to sammobile downloaded australian firmware for my phone.. installed the firmware. it still does it.
ive noticed while it's connected to the pc via usb it doesn't do it?

have a done a factory reset after installation? oh BTW if new firmware doesn't solve then it could be a hardware bug

[Q] Back and Multitasking buttons stopped working

I was uninstalling some apps to get ready to back up and flash my phone because my microphone volume was stuck at minimum and no one could hear me. After rebooting my back and multitask (menu) button won't light up or respond. This has happened to me before occasionally. I could fix it by powering the screen off and back on. I believe I read somewhere it had something to do with xposed.
I tried flashing using MOP and my buttons didn't come back so I loaded a TWRP, wiped all partitions, rebooted in download mode and flashed with regular ODIN. Still can't get the buttons to function. Home button works just fine, though.
I tried finding a solution to this but I can't seem to find one. I had the same issue intermittently on my Galaxy S4 but I fixed it by wiping the partitions and reflashing. G900R4 USC variant.

So I went into stock recovery and did a factory reset. It was already as wiped as it could possibly get afaik but I thought I'd try just to see. My buttons lit up in stock recovery so I knew they were getting power. I did a factory reset and low and behold upon reboot my buttons came back.
Did I fix it or is there a circuit starting to fail on my phone and it was just luck? I'm curious.

Can I downgrade to 5.1.1 from 6.0.1?

Hi..
My s6 edge plus model is SM-G928C (Saudi Arabia). I saw the Iraq version of MM and flashed it through Odin. Everything runs fine except the following:
1. Battery draining faster,
2. Whenever I shut down or reboot the phone, it shows "Android is installing, Optimising Apps 2 of 2",
3.USB Debugging is greyed out.
I tried to reflash the firmware but I still get the problem. Hard resetted it 2 times, no luck. My knox counter is still 0x0. What should I do? Can I downgrade to 5.1.1 again? Coz the battery was much better in it than MM.

Yes you can ?
/CK

Yes you can and I'll tell you how.
I also have the 928C from UAE. What you must do is, flash the 5.1.1 stock firmware via odin. Uncheck auto-reboot. If it automatically rebooted, you will get a bootloop again and again. So the phone doesn't automatically leave, uncheck auto-reboot. Then when you're inside Download/Odin mode and you finished flashing original firmware, manually restart the phone yourself into stock recovery and do the full wipe of everything. It will reinstall the firmware from fresh and you won't get bootloop. This is what I did. And it worked. It took me a few hours to figure this out because I kept getting bootloop after flashing when the simple solution was to go into stock recovery and just factory reset all data...Not sure why this works but it does. Good luck

So that means I don't have to mess with the bootloader version or stuff? Cos I really don't know all that stuff. Thanks for the reply.
Did you notice the battery drain in MM? And is that why you went back to 5.1.1? Please help me on this.

I always preferred using TouchWiz. It's not too bad. On mm I didn't have battery drain because I had root and it fixed the deep sleep issue which disallows the phone to power down during screen off. I came back to lollipop because on mm TouchWiz lagged. With lollipop I'm using the arter97 kernel. And it's blazing fast. So I'll have to wait for arter kernel for mm once it's stabled and try that on mm. I never had to mess with a bootloader. I thought I was going to have to after getting boot loop. But the simple fix was to enter recovery right after Odin. And factory reset

Ok. So I flashed the firmware back, but I dont know how to go directly to recovery mode from Download mode. How to do that?
I tried by exiting Download by pressing Volume down and power, and as it rebooted, I quickly help volume up, home and power button. But still it didnt go in recovery mode. Can you please help me how?

mnbaseer2006 said:
Ok. So I flashed the firmware back, but I dont know how to go directly to recovery mode from Download mode. How to do that?
I tried by exiting Download by pressing Volume down and power, and as it rebooted, I quickly help volume up, home and power button. But still it didnt go in recovery mode. Can you please help me how?
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The same buttons that you press to enter Odin/Download mode, hold again when you finish flashing. For maybe 10 seconds. AS SOON as the screen turns off, move and hold the buttons for recovery mode. I can't remember which is which, I get the combination for recovery mode and odin confused. Remember. AS SOON as Odin mode exits and screen turns black, release all buttons and then hold the recovery mode buttons until the Galaxy s6 + logo appears, wait a few seconds. Then release and you should be in recovery.

CheatingOutlaw said:
The same buttons that you press to enter Odin/Download mode, hold again when you finish flashing. For maybe 10 seconds. AS SOON as the screen turns off, move and hold the buttons for recovery mode. I can't remember which is which, I get the combination for recovery mode and odin confused. Remember. AS SOON as Odin mode exits and screen turns black, release all buttons and then hold the recovery mode buttons until the Galaxy s6 + logo appears, wait a few seconds. Then release and you should be in recovery.
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Thanks. Done it after trying 3 times. Lol.. And back to 5.1.1
Thank you very much.

mnbaseer2006 said:
Thanks. Done it after trying 3 times. Lol.. And back to 5.1.1
Thank you very much.
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No problem bro. And if you have any issues with deep sleep (Where the phone doesn't shut off CPU cores during screen off) then you can download CPU spy and if Deep Sleep is 0, then you have the deep sleep issue and will cause battery drain. And the phone gets hot in your pocket. IF you have this problem. Then flash Arter97 kernel version 11.0

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mnbaseer2006 said:
Thanks. Done it after trying 3 times. Lol.. And back to 5.1.1
Thank you very much.
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how can i comeback to 5.1.1

Just downloaded CPU spy and it shows deep sleep as 2%. Meaning no problem? I mean the phone has just flashed.
Update: Deep sleep has raised to 43% after an hour and a half. That means good?

CheatingOutlaw said:
No problem bro. And if you have any issues with deep sleep (Where the phone doesn't shut off CPU cores during screen off) then you can download CPU spy and if Deep Sleep is 0, then you have the deep sleep issue and will cause battery drain. And the phone gets hot in your pocket. IF you have this problem. Then flash Arter97 kernel version 11.0
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For Arter97 kernel do I have to root the phone? Cos I don't like that.

mnbaseer2006 said:
For Arter97 kernel do I have to root the phone? Cos I don't like that.
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Yea, you have to flash philz recovery via odin. Then inside philz recovery flash kernel then root.

s6 edge plus sm928c
hii. can anyone help me.. i tried to flash my 928c 6.0.1. to 5.1.1. but odin fails to flash. i tried to uncheck autoboot but still fail... i tried many times. plsss help me. i want to turn to 5.1.1. coz 6.0.1 battry drain fast. so killing me..

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conde brutal said:
hii. can anyone help me.. i tried to flash my 928c 6.0.1. to 5.1.1. but odin fails to flash. i tried to uncheck autoboot but still fail... i tried many times. plsss help me. i want to turn to 5.1.1. coz 6.0.1 battry drain fast. so killing me..
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me too

My phone got stuck at DOwnloading Do not turn of target.
Not responsive to a restart. Any suggestions?
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For those ending up in the same boat; Go back 2 download mode (vol. down + menu + power) and then do the rest.

Sveneezy said:
My phone got stuck at DOwnloading Do not turn of target.
Not responsive to a restart. Any suggestions?
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For those ending up in the same boat; Go back 2 download mode (vol. down + menu + power) and then do the rest.
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Remember to hold the same buttons you use to enter download mode, but this time hold it for like 10 seconds to escape. That's what I did.

I got stuck on bootloop too but marshmallow completely messed up my phone:
The 6.0.1 BTU MM update has royally messed up my phone.
It was ok at first but my Google contacts wouldnt sync constantly throughout the day so i cleared the data and it kept going crazy rebooting crashing every 2 mins even not letting me factory reset from recovery it would boot a bit then crash.
I did it OTA then used smart switch desktop to reload the firmare to have a clean install still same problem would freeze and crash after couple mins or secs of use.
Does anyone know what might have happened?
I was up all night tryna fix it resorting to flashing with odin the last lollipop OJ2 that i was using before but it still was crashing and rebooting i tried clearing cache partition and master reset several times while still on marshmallow and also with lolilop it would crash and not even let me factory reset as it would freeze when i try to use volume down key to click yes to clear everything.
It was working fine before on lollipop now even tho i am back on it it isnt the same randomly reboots. When i get to the start up screen aftrr factory reset it crashes halfway through adding my wifi etc unless i do it quickly i try clearing cache partition after flashing lollipop but it gets stuck on bootloop which i cant clear except pressing vol down and power button for 20 secs then it freezes.
I finally i hope have some stability in the firmware but every time i go to android recocrry to clear cache partition it crashes while booting up and restarts again then freezes. What the hell is going on?
I thought clearing cache partition master reset etc should restore it to a clean firmware.
What is causing this crashing? Traces of marshmallow should be cleared once odin flashes over lollipop and also factory reset clear cache partition yet i still have this issue.

pete101 said:
I got stuck on bootloop too but marshmallow completely messed up my phone:
The 6.0.1 BTU MM update has royally messed up my phone.
It was ok at first but my Google contacts wouldnt sync constantly throughout the day so i cleared the data and it kept going crazy rebooting crashing every 2 mins even not letting me factory reset from recovery it would boot a bit then crash.
I did it OTA then used smart switch desktop to reload the firmare to have a clean install still same problem would freeze and crash after couple mins or secs of use.
Does anyone know what might have happened?
I was up all night tryna fix it resorting to flashing with odin the last lollipop OJ2 that i was using before but it still was crashing and rebooting i tried clearing cache partition and master reset several times while still on marshmallow and also with lolilop it would crash and not even let me factory reset as it would freeze when i try to use volume down key to click yes to clear everything.
It was working fine before on lollipop now even tho i am back on it it isnt the same randomly reboots. When i get to the start up screen aftrr factory reset it crashes halfway through adding my wifi etc unless i do it quickly i try clearing cache partition after flashing lollipop but it gets stuck on bootloop which i cant clear except pressing vol down and power button for 20 secs then it freezes.
I finally i hope have some stability in the firmware but every time i go to android recocrry to clear cache partition it crashes while booting up and restarts again then freezes. What the hell is going on?
I thought clearing cache partition master reset etc should restore it to a clean firmware.
What is causing this crashing? Traces of marshmallow should be cleared once odin flashes over lollipop and also factory reset clear cache partition yet i still have this issue.
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Do the following things to get rid of this bootloop: go to sammobile.com and download the Iraqi firmware G928CXXU2BPB8_G928COJV2BPB7_MID MM, put your device into download mode (sure you know how to?), using Odin3_v3.10.7 flash it and report...
Sent From my SM-G928F via Tapa

When I was dabbling with firmware from another country/model I upgraded to 6.01, I then hastily downgraded back. My OP is here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=65588641&postcount=167
Hope it helps.
Also... my knox isnt tripped!!