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[Q] Bricked GS4/bootloop (I9505) (SOLVED)

Hi all,
After installing the latest Omega ROM (Omega 9), everything seemed fine at first.
After a couple of hours I was unable to install any apps from Play Store.
Restarted a couple of times, still same issue.
Then I've decided to do a Factory Reset.
After doing this, the phone is stock in a bootloop.
When started, the Galaxy S4 logo appears briefly and dissapears again.
I am unable to boot into recovery.
When trying to do so, I see the blue screen at the top and after 5 seconds everything dissapears.
I can, however, access Download mode.
My question is, as I've never done this before.
Would the best thing to do be flashing a Stock Firmware from sammobile using Odin 3.07?
I was thinking of doing this:
Downloading this ROM from Sammobile:
Model: GT-I9505
Country: Netherlands
Version: Android 4.2.2
Changelist: 1081224
Build date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 10:56:37 +0000
Product Code: PHN
PDA: I9505XXUBMGA
CSC: I9505PHNBMG4
MODEM: I9505XXUBMGA
Start Odin 3.07
Turn off phone first, start it in Download mode, connect it to PC.
Load the downloaded file as PDA (?)
Leave Auto Reboot and F. Reset checked and hit Start.
Well, I never did this before so I wanted to double check.
Will this solve my problem you think?
I also have a custom recovery...
Will this restore the stock recovery as well?
Thank you.

Might work but if you still can't get to recovery or phone flash fails around NAND write it means you need to flash a .pit file... Make sure you get the right one and if possible with an MD5 checksum... If the pit stuffs up while flashing (or you flash the wrong one) you can actually hard brick your phone...

So, I pretty much did exactly what I wrote in my first post and my problem is solved.
I did get a mini hart attack in the beginning as I never had this before with my Galaxy S2 and S3.
No the phone has only root with Triangle Away.
I'll avoid custom ROM's for a while

Root KK N9005 not working

Hello guys, i tried for more than 5~6 hours now searching and trying and i cant find any working way to solve this problem.
I don't know what's wrong with the CF-Auto-Root, i tried normal one file KK and firasusman way too, but still get bootloop after flashing the root file, stuck on loading recovery, take battery and insert only make the system work again but not rooted , any help please ?
tried everything for 4 hours now, searched everywhere and it seems like its working fine with everyone, any one can help me please ??, im not new on rooting and flashing, I've been doing this for more than 3 years now, but this time i cant solve it.
Device : SM-N9005
Device "OLD" data :
AP N9005XXUDMJ7
CP N9005XXUDMJ7
CSC N9005OJVDMJ4
*ROM flashed : N9005XXUENA6_N9005OXXENA5_N9005XXUENA2_HOME.tar
**Root file : CF-Auto-Root-hlte-hltexx-smn9005.tar.md5
***Recovery : n9005-cwm-recovery-6.0.4.6-kitkat(0113).tar
* From sammobile.
**Latest one on the site.
*** Recovery installed fine, but couldn't find way to root the device from the recovery.

xMASEx said:
Hello guys, i tried for more than 5~6 hours now searching and trying and i cant find any working way to solve this problem.
I don't know what's wrong with the CF-Auto-Root, i tried normal one file KK and firasusman way too, but still get bootloop after flashing the root file, stuck on loading recovery, take battery and insert only make the system work again but not rooted , any help please ?
tried everything for 4 hours now, searched everywhere and it seems like its working fine with everyone, any one can help me please ??, im not new on rooting and flashing, I've been doing this for more than 3 years now, but this time i cant solve it.
Device : SM-N9005
Device "OLD" data :
AP N9005XXUDMJ7
CP N9005XXUDMJ7
CSC N9005OJVDMJ4
*ROM flashed : N9005XXUENA6_N9005OXXENA5_N9005XXUENA2_HOME.tar
**Root file : CF-Auto-Root-hlte-hltexx-smn9005.tar.md5
***Recovery : n9005-cwm-recovery-6.0.4.6-kitkat(0113).tar
* From sammobile.
**Latest one on the site.
*** Recovery installed fine, but couldn't find way to root the device from the recovery.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2614787
have a look at this guide

jaythenut said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2614787
have a look at this guide
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I did, i mentioned it on the post, trying to download the entire files again tho, still have no idea what is wrong.

BIG PROBLEM with Security Credencials

Hi i got my s4 with AOSB custom rom 4.4.2 on old bootloader.I checked sammobile if there is official kitkat firmware for my country and there is with this stats.
PDA: I9505XXUFNB9
CSC: I9505EURFNB1
MODEM: I9505XXUFNB9
Added: 2014-03-04
I follow the standar procedure and i open ODIN 3.09 and i put the tar file in AP module.Everything went smooth.When phone booted i was that wifi wasnt working properly because odin for some reason couldnt flash the modem firmware from the firmware file.So my quest continues and i found the NB9 modem firmware for my phone and i flashed it.WIFI problem solved and i was so happy but untill now i cant understand why odin in the first place didnt flash the modem.Anyway the real problem now is that when i go to security>lockscreen settings >all the option are gray (face unlock pattern etc) and i ahve a message that says that the administrator has disabled this. I went to Settings > Security > Device Administrators and i Deactivate all programs there.Then i went back to Security and click clear credentials at the bottom of the page.No luck with that procedure
I dont know what to do but my guess is that my phone is from France and i live in Greece,maybe because i flashed greek firmware in a french phone all things was messed up?If that's the issue how can i solve this thing?French firmwares are on 4.3 and as i know i cant downgrade from 4.4.2 Please help me
Note:I have rooted the phone by the way and removed Knox still no luck

You can do this (If you have STOCK ROM android 4.4.2 installed):
1. Conect it to Kies 3 for know ur CSC (Close CSC you will see 3 letters btw parenthesis)
2. Make a backup of ur data folders of ur Internal Memory
3. Install this app HERE (Rooted device needed)
4. Select ur CSC (Letters of the 1st step)
5. The program will reboot ur phone. Tell us how it work

If you want to use the security settings you have to flash the new bootloader i guess
S4 9505 / Note 10.1 2014 P600
Hit the Thanks button if I was able to help you

[Q]SOLVED Noob GT-I9505 WIFI dead after upgrd 4.4.2 searched and tried all solutions

First of all please forgive me for opening yet another S4 wifi problem after kitkat upgrade, but I have tried everything I could possibly find here, on youtube and other forums. The only thing left to try is flash the modem but I'd rather ask before I brick my phone
I'm not quite sure if this is the same issue every single time or if in my case it is due to my ignorance and errors. I was an iphone/unlock/jailbreak user until last year so please bear with me. Android is new and fun (but scary) territory to me.
Situation, what I did and possible mistakes on my side:
-I'm in Spain but I bought my factory unlocked phone on amazon and it was for the Polish market (GT-I9505 Black, 16 Gb)
-My device was rooted don't even remember how I did it last year so no useful info on that side a part of using odin for windows.
- Until yesterday I was on jellybean, not quite sure if 4.2.2 or 4.3
- Yesterday I upgraded to 4.4.2 via mobile odin and yes I checked the boxes about clearing/deleting cache or whatever it's called.
- Used a stock firmware downloaded from other site (that one starting with "S" and with a great amount of firmwares for samsung devices of several countries)
- I chose a firmware randomly (maybe this was my mistake) because I hade read that the firmware was not that important and people where usimg leaked german firmwares on on phones from elsewhere. But I did choose one that matched the country of my phone (XEO/XX Poland)
- Everything is working fine but without wifi I'm buying new Mb bundles almost every 2 hours and I'll be broke very soon
If you guys think the solution is flashing the modem which file should I use? I see lots of them with different models/codes and I'm completely lost and have read a lot about messing with bootloaders/modems etc bricking devices so I'm freaking scared and ask for your charitative help!
All the info I could gather about my device right now (now I know I should have gathered this info also before attempting to upgrade but it's too late now!
SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 GT-I9505 Black Edition
Manufacturing date: 2013-12-23
BASEBAND Version: I9505XXUEMK8
BOOTLOADER Version:I9505XXUEMK8
PDA Version: I9505XXUGNG8
CSC Version: I9505YXZGNH2
Kernel: 3.4.0-2309103
KOT49H-I9505UGNG8
Android 4.4.2
Product code: GT2I9505ZKAXEO
Original CSC: XEO
Firmsware's CSC: XEO
Active CSC code: XEO
CSC Country: Poland
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I feel so dumb and frustrated right now that any joke or insult would be accepted with humbleness lol

Forgot to add I used the *#0011# command and went to wifi menu. Tried the ping test and it states: passed
status: DISCONNECTED
SSID: Unknown SSID
( In case this info is of any use )

voxel.xyz said:
Forgot to add I used the *#0011# command and went to wifi menu. Tried the ping test and it states: passed
status: DISCONNECTED
SSID: Unknown SSID
( In case this info is of any use )
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Relax it has solution . The problem becomes coz the baseband and the bootloader are olds (android 4.3).
SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 GT-I9505 Black Edition
BASEBAND Version: I9505XXUEMK8
BOOTLOADER Version:I9505XXUEMK8
PDA Version: I9505XXUGNG8
CSC Version: I9505YXZGNH2
* Quick solution for recover WIFI:
1. Reflash the STOCK I9505XXUGNG8 (XEO) firmware via ODIN.
2. Let the process finish and reboot normally.
3. Dial *#1234# and have to appear this:
AP: I9505XXUGNG8
CP: I9505XXUGNG8
CSC: I9505YXZGNH2
4. Reflash again if not. Good luck

Thank you so much for your helpful reply Joku1981 !!!!! You made my day!!!
Can I do that with Mobile Odin??? My PC broke (Graphics card burnt) and until a couple of months won't be able to buy a new one.
To make sure I understand you: You mean Flash again the same firmware I used to upgrade to 4.4.2 in the first place?
I used this Firmware: I9505XXUGNG8_I9505YXZGNH2_XEO
should I try Flashing that same Stock Firmware again? and if does not work keep reflashing until the baseband and the bootloader get updated?
Why did they not update ? is this common or an error on my side???
I hope it can be done with mobile Odin since I can keep my root status, If I have to do it in Desktop Odin do I have to Re-Root after flashing???
Thank you so much for you kind help!!!!!!
Joku1981 said:
Relax it has solution . The problem becomes coz the baseband and the bootloader are olds (android 4.3).
SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 GT-I9505 Black Edition
BASEBAND Version: I9505XXUEMK8
BOOTLOADER Version:I9505XXUEMK8
PDA Version: I9505XXUGNG8
CSC Version: I9505YXZGNH2
* Quick solution for recover WIFI:
1. Reflash the STOCK I9505XXUGNG8 (XEO) firmware via ODIN.
2. Let the process finish and reboot normally.
3. Dial *#1234# and have to appear this:
AP: I9505XXUGNG8
CP: I9505XXUGNG8
CSC: I9505YXZGNH2
4. Reflash again if not. Good luck
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SOLVED!!!!!
After nobody answered if I could use again "mobile Odin" to flash once more and try to fix my wifi not working I opened mobile odin and it gave me a warning about my version and having a wrong bootloader as a possibility of soft bricking my phone so I decided to stay away of mobile Odin this time.
I used desktop Odin (at work since my pc broke) and exactly the same firmware file downloaded from sammobile (but re-downloaded it just in case) and had to flash twice, the first time it went through the whole process ok right until the end where it showed the FAIL message.
I didn't know if I should turn off the phone stuck in download mode and with the process bar at 100 % or retry flashing without turning it off. So I decided not to turn it off (afraid it would get soft bricked or something). I closed mobile Odin but left phone On with download mode screen active and opened mobile Odin again got the "added"message and the blue color showing it was properly connected to the phone and started flashing process again....
I started getting red error messages saying the progress bar display was wrong (and it wasn't updating/kept stuck in the previous 100%) but after it finished it was flashed and everything was ok. WIFI WORKED!!!!!!
Now the weird part.....in case this happens /helps someone else:
- My phone DID NOT get wiped. My launcher and my apps stayed intact (I thought flashing even the same firmware always wiped data, I'm I wrong???)
- All my root apps (root explorer, titanium backup, so on and so forth) where there and working fine. One root checker stated I was rooted and another one stated I wasn't but even my launcher (nova) was working just as if I never flashed the phone.
- Since I was unsure of my "root" state and I did not have "supersu" app in my apps drawer I tried installing it via playstore but It always gave an error message (the application could not be installed in the default location)
- I rooted again just in case and the root process finished without errors but still I had no "supersu" app and one root checker said I was rooted and the other I wasn't. Tried installing "supersu" from the playstore but same error and could not get installed.
- I searched here and in other forums for similar problems/solutions but nothing worked until I tried several things that fixed the problem. Not really sure which fixed it so I will write them down in the order I did them:
1. Opened folder mount which I already had installed and it gave me an error and asked me to try the fix which I did.
2. Opened linked2sd which I already had installed also previous to the firmware flash. It gave me an error and asked me which was the partition to use (as when I first installed it) in my case it was ext4. And it seemed to start working as it normally does. No further error when reopening it.
3. Rebooted the phone and tried entering recovery mode to wipe cache etc but It never entered recovery mode. I get the message about going into recovery mode (top left corner small red letters) But right after that it reboots and I get the samsung logo and my home screen.
4. Tried reinstalling supersu again and no success. (By the way before I did all this steps I tried rooting again but got to the same point. No supersu on my apps drawer)
5. Downloaded BusyBox install (opened it but did not use it in any way, maybe something in the installation fixed my problem)
6. Opened mobile Odin just for curiosity sake and it opened fine and asked for downloading of the extra stuff as when I installed it the first time. After that I closed it
7. Rebooted normally (no recovery mode since I'm stuck without it)
8. Tried installing "supersu" and NOW it worked!!!
9. Checked in both root checker apps and both confirm I'm rooted and supersu started asking for granting permissions to apps again as it normally does!
10. Everytime I attempted flash, root, and even after some reboots I took the battery off (since I read in several threads it helped/was mandatory)
Conclusion now my WIFI problem is fixed, my root problem (that appeared doing the reflash for fixing my wifi problem) is also fixed. The only thing I could not fix is not being able to get into recovery mode.
Does anyone know a solution for recovering the ability to get into recovery mode????
Thanks to Joku for lighting me into re flashing once and again until my wifi was fixed!

Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 10.4 (2020) SM-T505 (LTE) 32GB March 2022 update huge problem (need urgent help)

Hi all,
i have a problem with my Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 10.4 (2020) SM-T505 (LTE) 32GB. It was updated 20.03.2022 with official latest security update via wifi (normal usual way) (i think Feb or March 2022) but after that i can not turn my tablet any more. I have all data phone numbers picture on my tablet so i need to backup and return data !
Problem with :Version Android 11
Security Patch Level 2022-03-01
PDA T505XXU3BVB2
CSC T505OXM3BVB2
Please check also attached picture ... i can login to this selected mode .... is it possible to restore to previous version (before update) and keep all data or update somehow with cable (alternative program) ..!!!! I need this data urgently ! I can not contact with Smart Switch (data backup)
i can see topic is here open https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/tablets/tab-a7-update/m-p/5030111/thread-id/12475 but there is no solution to keep data ! (only menu where you can hard restore everything when you delate everything)
Thank you for your urgent help.

Boot into download mode and flash the same stock rom version you were previously on onto your tablet, just dont flash userdata. This will reflash android. Apps and settings may be cleared, but internal storage (photos, videos etc) will remain intact. Look for a guide on how to do this.

@PhotonIce can you give more infos please
when i enter power + volume up i go to this menu
what next .... how to i apply update from ADB or even how do i apply uppdate from SD card
a lot of people are waiting for step by step process to save the data

inside .. fyi

is it possible to update only android side via ODIN.... how can i do that ? Please need help

Ok, lets get into this.
First, we need to find the signed firmware files for your specific tablet. Sammobile is a well-known source for samsung stock roms. Now we need to find the model number, which is t505. Next, we need to match the PDA and android versions, which you've mentioned above. Now, the slightly hard part. We need to get the rom for the right country (csc). Your csc ins mentioned above. Notice the OXM after T505. That is the country code. You can match this up on any samsung csc key to find the country.. Now, OXM is a universal CSC code, which doesn't really help with the download. We need more information, you can usually check your csc from the about phone menu in android, but you cant really do that. So our other option is for you to send a picture of the details from download mode, the csc will be mentioned there. To enter download mode, follow this tutorial for your device:
Upon entering download mode (after pressing volume up), look for the csc and send it here. If you cannot find the CSC, just send a picture of the entire screen. Also please mention which country you got this tablet from, and which country you are in, also mention if it is on any carrier etc.
Once you provide this information, we will be able to pick the most suitable csc for your stock rom, then I will provide further instructions on how to flash the software without losing your data. Note that you may lose your apps, but you will definitely not lose your photos, videos, files etc.

Bought in Slovenia, wifi + mobile used in Austria.
@PhotonIce CSC is what .... my whole code is (i think this is PDA) T505XXU3BVB2 ... so csc is XXU?
i have android 11
..what next
and thank you in advance for help
if i lose apps is ok ... for me it is important to keep photos videos files etc

AT2022 said:
Bought in Slovenia, wifi + mobile used in Austria.
@PhotonIce CSC is what .... my whole code is (i think this is PDA) T505XXU3BVB2 ... so csc is XXU?
i have android 11
..what next
and thank you in advance for help
if i lose apps is ok ... for me it is important to keep photos videos files etc
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Ok, so we'll be using the slovenia csc. Upon confirming the details on the sammobile download page, the pda and csc match, so we should be good to go. One thing I did notice is that in your first post you said the PDA was "T505XXU3BVB8", but in the picture of your recovery, it shows "T505XXU3BVB2". Can you confirm anything about this?

@PhotonIce it is T505XXU3BVB2

Well now we know which firmware we need to download, here's the link, you'll need to register on sammobile to download:
Download Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 LTE SM-T505 SIO Slovenia T505XXU3BVB2 firmware
Fast download latest Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 LTE firmware SM-T505 from Slovenia with T505XXU3BVB2 and Android version 11
www.sammobile.com

@PhotonIce done ... next (i have ftth at home so that why is so fast)

Alright, now we'll need to install The Samsung USB Drivers, and download Odin. Here are the links:
Drivers
Odin

done

Extract the drivers zip and run the installer.
Once it's done, extract the firmware zip and post an image of the files inside the extracted folder

@PhotonIce

Ok, open odin, then connect your tablet to your pc in download mode. You should see an empty box under the word ID:COM turn blue with a COM- number.
Next, click on BL in odin, and select the file starting with BL_ from the extracted folder.
Click on CSC in odin, and select the file starting with HOME_CSC_OMC_ from the extracted folder.
Click on CP in odin, and select the file starting with CP_ from the extracted folder.
Click on AP in odin, and select the file starting with AP_ from the extracted folder
Leave userdata empty, and make sure not to use the file starting with CSC_OMC_.
Once you have done this, click on the options tab on the left of odin, then send a screenshot of the entire odin window so that I can confirm that all is good.

@PhotonIce

Alright, everything seems good. As long as you selected HOME_CSC and NOT CSC_, then you should be good. Just press the start button to begin flashing, it will take a couple of minutes. Do not power off or unplug your device during this process. Once it is done, you device will automatically reboot, so do not try to manually reboot.
Good Luck! If it worked out then post here.

ok lets try . Yes i have selected HOME_CSC !!!!!!!!

@PhotonIce