Yesterday i upgraded ny firnware to the jm6 firnware. Backed all my stuff up etc, seemibgly followed the instructions in the first post to the letter but in the upgrade i lost my samsung games and samsung movies apps and titanium would nit allow me to recover my old ones. I rolled back to jj4 and tried to recover it but no luck. Tried to go back to a voda firnware hoping it would help but the flash got stuck on hidden.rfs so i again installed jm6 and went to bed at 4! I am hoping i can get it sorted today as i would like to restore the tab to how it was.
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I am a newbie in android and rooting. i previously had sony xperia x8 which i had rooted and installed custom roms. i shifted to galaxy tab 2 months ago. i had a harrowing experience with rooting since last two days. let me tell you how it all started. i rooted my device to install titanium backup. it worked fine for few days . then i installed cmw recovery and it worked fine too. no issues what so ever. there were random FC's and hanging about once or twice a day.
Then all of sudden while browsing tablet hanged and it went into bootloop. i tried everything .. from factory reset to flashing firmware. it did not work. it was stuck on samsung logo. when i had lost all hope after about 2 hours or so it started working again. i got scared and unrooted the device and removed cmw.
for two days it was working fine. Then again i had this urge to root it . i rooted it . it worked fine for a week or so .. And then all of sudden it started having force closes . TW and google play and all other apps. i got scared and removed root and cmw again. this time however i decide to take it to service center. i did not tell them i had rooted and all . just told them i was having problem with reboots and all . they gave me full warranty. After two days i got a call from them that it was not booting and they have to replace motherboard
i asked them to return the tab to me for a night and i will give it back to them in morning since it was going to take two days for board to arrive. when i checked i found it was possible to go into download mode and not recovery mode. i tried flashing firmware via odin but it was stuck at factory.img.
i read somewhere in Galaxy note forum that it was superbrick bug and i had to use .pit file to repartition. i downloaded the file from google and repartioned it and installed firmware for my country via odin.
and it worked
Now my question is ....
Should i get a motherboard replacement or demand a new tab ? or is this tab ok now ? will i get such problems in future .
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I am a newbie in android and rooting. i previously had sony xperia x8 which i had rooted and installed custom roms. i shifted to galaxy tab 2 months ago. i had a harrowing experience with rooting since last two days. let me tell you how it all started. i rooted my device to install titanium backup. it worked fine for few days . then i installed cmw recovery and it worked fine too. no issues what so ever. there were random FC's and hanging about once or twice a day.
Then all of sudden while browsing tablet hanged and it went into bootloop. i tried everything .. from factory reset to flashing firmware. it did not work. it was stuck on samsung logo. when i had lost all hope after about 2 hours or so it started working again. i got scared and unrooted the device and removed cmw.
for two days it was working fine. Then again i had this urge to root it . i rooted it . it worked fine for a week or so .. And then all of sudden it started having force closes . TW and google play and all other apps. i got scared and removed root and cmw again. this time however i decide to take it to service center. i did not tell them i had rooted and all . just told them i was having problem with reboots and all . they gave me full warranty. After two days i got a call from them that it was not booting and they have to replace motherboard
i asked them to return the tab to me for a night and i will give it back to them in morning since it was going to take two days for board to arrive. when i checked i found it was possible to go into download mode and not recovery mode. i tried flashing firmware via odin but it was stuck at factory.img.
i read somewhere in Galaxy note forum that it was superbrick bug and i had to use .pit file to repartition. i downloaded the file from google and repartioned it and installed firmware for my country via odin.
and it worked
Now my question is ....
Should i get a motherboard replacement or demand a new tab ? or is this tab ok now ? will i get such problems in future .
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Superbick bug? Isnt that on leaked ICS kernels??
I had an issue like this a while ago it looked like my data partitions got corrupted. Just had to e2fs em
Well if they want to replace it, I'd let them. I personally don't think it was root and cwm causing your issues but that's just opinion
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nicduim said:
I had an issue like this a while ago it looked like my data partitions got corrupted. Just had to e2fs em
Well if they want to replace it, I'd let them. I personally don't think it was root and cwm causing your issues but that's just opinion
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What is e2fs? And is the OP saying there's a solution to superbrick bug?
--thanks for tolerating my lack of familiarity with repartitioning mobile devices (i still get nervous repartitioning regular HD's)
The indefinite microcosm becomes the indefinite macrocosm in a definite manner and by definite means...and vice versa.
aletheus said:
What is e2fs? And is the OP saying there's a solution to superbrick bug?
--thanks for tolerating my lack of familiarity with repartitioning mobile devices (i still get nervous repartitioning regular HD's)
The indefinite microcosm becomes the indefinite macrocosm in a definite manner and by definite means...and vice versa.
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Sorry tired but here is a link where to the thread I came across in the past
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25848578
I did something similar to what was posted in here after checking the partition thread. Looks like it's mentioned in the link. Hope it helps. Will look it over later and try to find the exact steps I had done and looked up but it did help fix my loops and they're been gone for like 2 months.
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Superbrick ?
i dont know if my tab was stuck on superbrick or not
it was stuck on factoryfs.img while odin flash. i read this thread where it mentions that if a phone is stuck on factoryfs.img then its super brick. i followed the method mentioned in this thread to get it unblocked and it worked .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1656635
Nobody wants to ruin a $28 per square inch tablet, but I REALLY don't want to. So I'm just doing what research I can before the official ics update rolls out. It's looking alot sunnier knowing that the thing isn't DOOMED, even if samsung doesn't compensate for the superbrick bug...
i'd say they'd be fools not to, but we've all gotten real up close and personal with samsung and how they treat their customers with the release of the p6800, so....
Thanks ALOT guys for getting down into the trenches and figuring all this out.
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The indefinite microcosm becomes the indefinite macrocosm in a definite manner and by definite means...and vice versa.
Ok, so first off I rooted my previous phone (a Verizon Motorola Droid X2) without any problems ever. I dropped Verizon as my carrier and switched to Straight Talk and I bought the Samsung Galaxy S4, after a few months of having it I decided to look for a way to root it. After a few days of browsing and reading about I found and root option that worked. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2565758) This saferoot worked and i had superuser and was able to do everything i wanted to.
I then went on the Google play store and installed apps that I previously had on my old device for rooted phones. Well I installed chainfire3D and opened it up and clicked install the drives (which then requires a reboot) after a sort time I noticed my phone was stuck on the loading screen and I can't get past it.
I then start looking for a unroot/unbrick option in order to restore my phone to default firmware and factory settings to get it to work again.
Now here is the dilemma...
Like it says in the title, the phone model is SGH-S970G and for the life of me I can't find this model's firmware anywhere.
plz help me asap!!!!
Thank you in advance for any useful information to help point me in the right direction or give me a solution!
Chuggalo said:
Ok, so first off I rooted my previous phone (a Verizon Motorola Droid X2) without any problems ever. I dropped Verizon as my carrier and switched to Straight Talk and I bought the Samsung Galaxy S4, after a few months of having it I decided to look for a way to root it. After a few days of browsing and reading about I found and root option that worked. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2565758) This saferoot worked and i had superuser and was able to do everything i wanted to.
I then went on the Google play store and installed apps that I previously had on my old device for rooted phones. Well I installed chainfire3D and opened it up and clicked install the drives (which then requires a reboot) after a sort time I noticed my phone was stuck on the loading screen and I can't get past it.
I then start looking for a unroot/unbrick option in order to restore my phone to default firmware and factory settings to get it to work again.
Now here is the dilemma...
Like it says in the title, the phone model is SGH-S970G and for the life of me I can't find this model's firmware anywhere.
plz help me asap!!!!
Thank you in advance for any useful information to help point me in the right direction or give me a solution!
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If you get your phone fixed, I suggest you skip reinstalling Chainfire 3D. It specifically says it's not for Jelly Bean devices.
2 years ago I buy my galaxy s4 unlocked version from amazon.com. When I came back to Turkey I registered the Cellphones imei. After that I rooted my galaxy s4. I watch lots of tutorials and most of it did not work out. At the last try I was able to root my device. After a year my uncle bought me a gear 2 neo which needed a higher version of android. So i plug my galaxy s4 and updated trough kiosk. The result was my galaxy s4 was mys galaxy s4 lost its root acsess was gone and system was updated. Also most of the apps first run and then give a error. For example i downloaded can knockdown 3. First it worked fine then it stopped working. One of my friend suggested I need to downlad a rom and suggested cyanogenmod. I tried one button installer but it said the device is not supperted for this installer. But my phone is listed in the supported devices(GTI9500). Please help me. My cellphone is slowly dying. Also last thing. They say making a change on the phone sometimes deletes the imei registiration.
Just perform a factory reset and your issues will probably be resolved. If you want root again just flash cf auto-root.
I have done it and it hasn't changed. Still the same issues.
aebatirel said:
2 years ago I buy my galaxy s4 unlocked version from amazon.com. When I came back to Turkey I registered the Cellphones imei. After that I rooted my galaxy s4. I watch lots of tutorials and most of it did not work out. At the last try I was able to root my device. After a year my uncle bought me a gear 2 neo which needed a higher version of android. So i plug my galaxy s4 and updated trough kiosk. The result was my galaxy s4 was mys galaxy s4 lost its root acsess was gone and system was updated. Also most of the apps first run and then give a error. For example i downloaded can knockdown 3. First it worked fine then it stopped working. One of my friend suggested I need to downlad a rom and suggested cyanogenmod. I tried one button installer but it said the device is not supperted for this installer. But my phone is listed in the supported devices(GTI9500). Please help me. My cellphone is slowly dying. Also last thing. They say making a change on the phone sometimes deletes the imei registiration.
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Sounds like your phone may have been corrupted when installing official firmware on top of the root. I would recommend re-flashing your phone with official stock firmware. You can use this website to obtain a stock firmware for your device model
http://galaxys4root.com/galaxy-s4-stock-firmware/
Your imei should not be affected if you re-flash your phone, however just to be on the safe side you can flash a recovery mod such as TWRP Recovery and back up everything such as your efs which contains your imei baseband in case a re-flash causes your phone to not work on cell networks in Turkey (which I'm guessing is not the country your phone was purchased in.) After you have backed up everything in TWRP to your sdcard you can safely reflash stock firmware.
Hello so I flashed a rom and it decided to put me in a bootloop after trying everything couldnt fix it and i really didnt want to lose a chance of getting my pictures back etc so i made a backup even though i had a bootloop so i then restored and flashed rom again and was fresh again, Then tried restoring to the backup and went to a bootloop again which i expected is there any way to get my files back really need the pictures sentimental value..
Im sorry if whatever i said or did is not smart I checked everywhere but couldnt find a direct solution so wanted to try here. Thanks in advance!
if you changed bootloader & Modem then try stock bootloader & Modem.
I was trying to root my at&t s6 edge+ using Odin. As soon as the process completed, my phone froze on Samsung screen. Then I tried wiping cache and data but nothing worked. I downloaded few stock ROM for Odin but flashing keeps on failing. I read in some thread that new Samsung devices do not support downgrading. I went and checked my current build number and found that to be G928AUCS4CPK1. However, the firmware I was trying to flash were older version.
Has anyone experienced similar issue before? The main problem here is I cannot find the exact build number anywhere. I spent a lot of time searching and finally decided to post here.
Your valuable suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
hey man, you flashed an older version of the firmware? even if it wasnt bricked, your phone is essentially useless now. the efs is gone, meaning you cant make phonecalls or connect to wifi at all. sorry; your phone is bricked. perm.
download mode dosen`t work ?if so the only thing you can try is to use samsung kies to restore your phone but don`t know if that works
I done something similar to my standard S6 Edge the only difference was i was able to start it up ok and i thought everything was ok until i realised i had no reception. I so happened to notice my imei number was gone. I had no back ups of the partition that saved this info so i totally bricked my phone.
I did however find a website that would be able to do a work around ( for a fee of course) for it however it does question your morals as its essentially illegal in alot of countries. I dont want to post anything on here so if you want any info send me a PM.
Exact same thing happened to me... went to AT&T repair center but they didn't have the 'K1' firmware..
anyhow managed to find the latest firmware (gsm-firmware.com)... cost me $4, but the phone is up and running... I only flashed the AP file.. also used Odin 3.12.5..