I used odin, then CWM 3, then flashed to Syndicate Frozen. It seemed to work fine...except that the phone seems sluggish and none of the soft keys or hardware keys work. When I press one, the phone vibrates a few times, then shows this android logo put on by syndicate, and seems to reset the OS. The touchscreen seems to work fine.
I don't know if this is an issue with the rom, cwm, or something I did wrong. Can anyone advice?
Bad flash. Wipe data and flash again, and if you continue to have problems, use Odin to go back to EB13. Still having problems? Format your SD card, redownload the ROM, and flash.
EDIT: HEYO! 1,000th post.
I tried to flash from darky's rom back to I9000UGJK3.tar
Using Odin i selected the s1_odin_20100512.pit then pda for I9000UGJK3.tar
Things went well with Odin but when the phone trys to boot the splash screen just flashes endlessly.
Im guessing i pooched something along the way.
Download mode works but not sure how to get this stock rom back on.
Any suggestion would be appreciated
sarcasm-inc said:
Using Odin i selected the s1_odin_20100512.pit then pda for I9000UGJK3.tar
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You shouldn't use a pit or re-partition for a 1 file firmware.
I know i messed up,
Anyhow i just flashed I9000XXJPU, selected re-partition, and selected
PDA,MODEM,CSC.
Everthing worked then, when the phone rebooted, it says cannot mount sd card, use UI something. Then it just flashes the logo screen like before.
Update: reflashed with I9000UGL2 and the phone works now.
Now if i could only figure out what my original firmware was, Kies does not work now
To go back to stock:
1) Back up things u love
2) Make factory reset. Any reset options you can get
3) Wipe
4) Download firmware from samfirmaware.com
5) Patch with all 4 files
6) Factory reset, wipe, clear cache
Done
Well i followed the instruction from this page:
If you had enough or want to send it back in for warranty and want to go back to a STOCK ROM, this video shows how to go back to a 2.2.1 default ROM which in this case is JPY based - Made by AndroidGalaxyS:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1009197
The problem now is I cannot remember what firmware i had. My phone is not coming up as a bell phone and the code to reinstall the provider apps will not work.
I think im screwed, have a feeling there gonna know i was messing with my phone if i try to bring it back, which is what i want to do. I have a extended warranty from Future shop, and supposedly they will not honour it for any software related problems.
Also now when my phone boots i keep getting a gallery force close. The phone is like a semi functional brick right now.
Not sure if the firmware is region specific in Canada as well but i got my phone in BC?
Usual Darky f9999 my phone repair kit .
Boot to restore wipe Dalvik cache followed by factory reset and wipe .
Boot to download mode flash stock rom with pit relevant to that rom and repartition checked .
Once working you can upgrade as you want .
jje
Sarcasm, just do as stated above. Find the default canadian firmware. If you can make make ur phone upgrade/update with kies, without messing with kies itself you r home.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
Usual Darky f9999 my phone repair kit .
Boot to restore wipe Dalvik cache followed by factory reset and wipe .
Im not to sure how to do that. Is that in the recovery mode?
Update:
I used titanium backup to wipe davlik cache. re flashed with Firmware: I9000MUGKC1 found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1022445
Still no luck Kies says this device version cannot be updated.
I tried this code to get the stock bell apps but it does not work. nothing happens when you finish with # then if i press the dial button it just says USSID code rejected.
*#272*353285040815508#
Alright, So I bought a brand-new Galaxy S4 i-9500 a couple of weeks back. Ever since day one, the phone has major problems working with my Sandisk Class 10 64gb sdxc card, which I was using in my Galaxy Note N7000, without any problems. The card also works perfect in my wife's Galaxy S3 i9300.
The problems include:
-> The phone showing card as "Damaged" and not mounting it.
-> Sometimes it mounts the card, but shows the card as 'Blank' or 'Wrongly Formatted'
-> And yet sometimes, it mounts the card, but does not read some specific files. Opening those will give a message which says "File format not supported". In the process, the phone heats up to pretty nasty levels, and the battery drain will be massive. The phone also becomes very slow, gets stuck, and sometimes even restarts, and the problem keeps continuing.
If I remove the memory card, the phone works like a charm. I tried a 16gb memory card which also produced more or less the same results.
Now, the real problem is this. Recently, I had tried to root the phone, and for that purpose, I tried flashing CWM from cofface, through ODIN 3.07 and 1.85. Both the times, the flashing process was successful, with ODIN giving the green "PASS" message. However, nothing seemed to change on my phone, and CWM was never installed. I could never get the CWM screen no matter what I tried (every instruction on the net, literally). I then left the matter.
When my aforementioned card problem bothered me a lot, today, I decided to re-flash the stock firmware to my phone. So I downloaded the stock ROM from Sammobile, the correct pit file from XDA and started the flash process. Flashing was successful, as shown by ODIN, and the phone rebooted. But to my horror, the phone was exactly in the same state, when I had switched it off. Nothing was ever changed, all my files and everything were intact, and nothing had happened at all!!!!
How is this possible??? The bootloader shows "Downloading" and the blue bar while flashing, ODIN shows everything and even says it succeeded, but then how come things on my Phone remains absolutely unchanged??? So then what did it re-flash and where to?? And is there any way to get rid of this memory card problem??
I googled a lot to see if anyone else is experiencing the same problem as mine, but never found anything, which leads me to believe that my device is one weird thing!
vivz990 said:
Alright, So I bought a brand-new Galaxy S4 i-9500 a couple of weeks back. Ever since day one, the phone has major problems working with my Sandisk Class 10 64gb sdxc card, which I was using in my Galaxy Note N7000, without any problems. The card also works perfect in my wife's Galaxy S3 i9300.
The problems include:
-> The phone showing card as "Damaged" and not mounting it.
-> Sometimes it mounts the card, but shows the card as 'Blank' or 'Wrongly Formatted'
-> And yet sometimes, it mounts the card, but does not read some specific files. Opening those will give a message which says "File format not supported". In the process, the phone heats up to pretty nasty levels, and the battery drain will be massive. The phone also becomes very slow, gets stuck, and sometimes even restarts, and the problem keeps continuing.
If I remove the memory card, the phone works like a charm. I tried a 16gb memory card which also produced more or less the same results.
Now, the real problem is this. Recently, I had tried to root the phone, and for that purpose, I tried flashing CWM from cofface, through ODIN 3.07 and 1.85. Both the times, the flashing process was successful, with ODIN giving the green "PASS" message. However, nothing seemed to change on my phone, and CWM was never installed. I could never get the CWM screen no matter what I tried (every instruction on the net, literally). I then left the matter.
When my aforementioned card problem bothered me a lot, today, I decided to re-flash the stock firmware to my phone. So I downloaded the stock ROM from Sammobile, the correct pit file from XDA and started the flash process. Flashing was successful, as shown by ODIN, and the phone rebooted. But to my horror, the phone was exactly in the same state, when I had switched it off. Nothing was ever changed, all my files and everything were intact, and nothing had happened at all!!!!
How is this possible??? The bootloader shows "Downloading" and the blue bar while flashing, ODIN shows everything and even says it succeeded, but then how come things on my Phone remains absolutely unchanged??? So then what did it re-flash and where to?? And is there any way to get rid of this memory card problem??
I googled a lot to see if anyone else is experiencing the same problem as mine, but never found anything, which leads me to believe that my device is one weird thing!
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Same problem for me... i wanted reinstall the stock firmware completely but when i flashed it with ODIN nothing happened...
Markz88 said:
Same problem for me... i wanted reinstall the stock firmware completely but when i flashed it with ODIN nothing happened...
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Odin doesnt wipe your device or delete anything of your data...
If you flash the same firmware with your device firmware then nothing's really happened..
But if you root or change anything to system - boot - recovery - modem partition then simply is going again to stock or to the version you flash..
Thanks
Maybe there is something wrong with flashing memory (emmc).
There is an app on play store to check it, but i dont know if it works on s4.
I suggest to replace your phone. Or send it to service center
Edit: flash another different stock firmware, and check pda and csc if has changed
sent from my galaxy
vivz990 said:
Alright, So I bought a brand-new Galaxy S4 i-9500 a couple of weeks back. Ever since day one, the phone has major problems working with my Sandisk Class 10 64gb sdxc card, which I was using in my Galaxy Note N7000, without any problems. The card also works perfect in my wife's Galaxy S3 i9300.
The problems include:
-> The phone showing card as "Damaged" and not mounting it.
-> Sometimes it mounts the card, but shows the card as 'Blank' or 'Wrongly Formatted'
-> And yet sometimes, it mounts the card, but does not read some specific files. Opening those will give a message which says "File format not supported". In the process, the phone heats up to pretty nasty levels, and the battery drain will be massive. The phone also becomes very slow, gets stuck, and sometimes even restarts, and the problem keeps continuing.
If I remove the memory card, the phone works like a charm. I tried a 16gb memory card which also produced more or less the same results.
Now, the real problem is this. Recently, I had tried to root the phone, and for that purpose, I tried flashing CWM from cofface, through ODIN 3.07 and 1.85. Both the times, the flashing process was successful, with ODIN giving the green "PASS" message. However, nothing seemed to change on my phone, and CWM was never installed. I could never get the CWM screen no matter what I tried (every instruction on the net, literally). I then left the matter.
When my aforementioned card problem bothered me a lot, today, I decided to re-flash the stock firmware to my phone. So I downloaded the stock ROM from Sammobile, the correct pit file from XDA and started the flash process. Flashing was successful, as shown by ODIN, and the phone rebooted. But to my horror, the phone was exactly in the same state, when I had switched it off. Nothing was ever changed, all my files and everything were intact, and nothing had happened at all!!!!
How is this possible??? The bootloader shows "Downloading" and the blue bar while flashing, ODIN shows everything and even says it succeeded, but then how come things on my Phone remains absolutely unchanged??? So then what did it re-flash and where to?? And is there any way to get rid of this memory card problem??
I googled a lot to see if anyone else is experiencing the same problem as mine, but never found anything, which leads me to believe that my device is one weird thing!
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go to this link....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2219803
get rooted from here ( even if u are)
in the same page u get a link to flash back to stock recovery. get that flashed
boot into stock recovery and get a factory reset done.
pull battery and back in...
turn on ur phone into download mode and flash ur stock rom using odin....
this is how i got mine working.... i had ur similar issue....
kiwimalayalee said:
go to this link....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2219803
get rooted from here ( even if u are)
in the same page u get a link to flash back to stock recovery. get that flashed
boot into stock recovery and get a factory reset done.
pull battery and back in...
turn on ur phone into download mode and flash ur stock rom using odin....
this is how i got mine working.... i had ur similar issue....
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ok..will try this now...my last resort
vivz990 said:
ok..will try this now...my last resort
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i assure u its gonna work perfectly...
I am literally having the same problem on my S4 I337M, I'm gonna try what was suggested on here, maybe it'll work lol
i have exactly the same problem right now, i searched for a solution and i found ur thread.
going through the thread to see a solution
vivz990 said:
ok..will try this now...my last resort
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was ur problem solved after flashing cf-auto_root? i mean were u then able to flash custom recovery via odin?
Is solved?
vivz990 said:
... I decided to re-flash the stock firmware to my phone. So I downloaded the stock ROM from Sammobile, the correct pit file from XDA and started the flash process. Flashing was successful, as shown by ODIN, and the phone rebooted. But to my horror, the phone was exactly in the same state, when I had switched it off. Nothing was ever changed, all my files and everything were intact, and nothing had happened at all!!!!
How is this possible??? The bootloader shows "Downloading" and the blue bar while flashing, ODIN shows everything and even says it succeeded, but then how come things on my Phone remains absolutely unchanged??? So then what did it re-flash and where to?? And is there any way to get rid of this memory card problem??
I googled a lot to see if anyone else is experiencing the same problem as mine, but never found anything, which leads me to believe that my device is one weird thing!
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OMG. I just experienced the EXACT same issue with a Galaxy Exhibit (MetroPCS) SGH-T599. I picked up this phone 2nd hand. It has Philz Touch v6.25 recovery already installed on it. But the phone is stuck in a boot loop. So I decided to flash the stock ROM, a custom ROM via ODIN and later even via flashable zips from the Philz recovery! I even tried to flash TWRP to replace Philz Touch thinking there was something wrong with Philz recovery.
No matter what I did, EVERY TIME, the phone remained in EXACTLY the same state, i.e., with Philz recovery still on there.
I have searched everywhere for the last 3 days including XDA but never found anyone else with the same ODIN flashing issue. Thank goodness I found your post. I'm reading the thread now looking for a solution.
I've noticed a couple other things beneath the surface. When I flashed a CM custom ROM for the phone, the default.prop indicated that there was a new system on the phone (I can access the phone via ADB and look at the files including the system files). It also appears the phone was rooted by the previous owner. Another thing I noticed is that some cases when I tried to install a custom ROM via the custom recovery, the phone would suddenly reboot just at the point the recovery attempts to write the ROM.
Yes, it is clear the phone is good and bricked. But how on earth to unbrick it if ODIN isn't actually changing ANYTHING on the phone and installing a ROM via Philz recovery changes little to nothing either.
CVAngelo said:
OMG. I just experienced the EXACT same issue with a Galaxy Exhibit (MetroPCS) SGH-T599. I picked up this phone 2nd hand. It has Philz Touch v6.25 recovery already installed on it. But the phone is stuck in a boot loop. So I decided to flash the stock ROM, a custom ROM via ODIN and later even via flashable zips from the Philz recovery! I even tried to flash TWRP to replace Philz Touch thinking there was something wrong with Philz recovery.
No matter what I did, EVERY TIME, the phone remained in EXACTLY the same state, i.e., with Philz recovery still on there.
I have searched everywhere for the last 3 days including XDA but never found anyone else with the same ODIN flashing issue. Thank goodness I found your post. I'm reading the thread now looking for a solution.
I've noticed a couple other things beneath the surface. When I flashed a CM custom ROM for the phone, the default.prop indicated that there was a new system on the phone (I can access the phone via ADB and look at the files including the system files). It also appears the phone was rooted by the previous owner. Another thing I noticed is that some cases when I tried to install a custom ROM via the custom recovery, the phone would suddenly reboot just at the point the recovery attempts to write the ROM.
Yes, it is clear the phone is good and bricked. But how on earth to unbrick it if ODIN isn't actually changing ANYTHING on the phone and installing a ROM via Philz recovery changes little to nothing either.
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Totaly same problem with my Galaxy Note 10.1 (N8010). Tried flash stock ROM over Odin a totaly nothing changed. It is in bootloop everytime with totaly same Marshmallow logo, even if I flash stock ROM which is KitKat... Only sometime it boot to system where it say to me "Encryption unssucessfull" - WTF? i never have password, and when i click on something it just reboot to BootLoop...
I have TWRP recovery on it, but when i want to flash some ROM it flash it but nothing change... Maybe EMMC memory chip is death or I dont know...
Fellas, try on other PC/Laptop or reinstal Windows/Ubuntu whatever you use... That helped me..
Having an issue that I cant seem to figure out. I have been using various roms eg Omega V7,S4 Google Edition V16, Fox Hound 1.1 etc. They all install fine, factory reset before and after wiping the various cashes as required. I also format the SD storage to be sure, but once up and running, apps installed, every time I restart the phone or for some reason it freezes it just get stuck at the white Samsung S4 logo.
If i go back in to recovery (TWRP 2.6.0.0) factory reset does nothing to fix this. I have also noticed that sometimes the internal SD shows as 0 Mb, and I have to reformat this to re-install a ROM. (Getting corrupt some how?) Only re-installing the ROM from fresh seems to get my phone up and running again. Until something happens. Any ideas?
I follow all instructions as detailed, and never come across this issue with my S3.
Ok after trying a few things the only thing that seemed to fix the problem was reflashing stock firmware using oden.
I had to reformat the internal storage again as this was acting like it was encrypted, which it was not. Think this problem that caused my phone not to boot when when restarted.
No Idea why it did this but its fixed now.
john81uk said:
Ok after trying a few things the only thing that seemed to fix the problem was reflashing stock firmware using oden.
I had to reformat the internal storage again as this was acting like it was encrypted, which it was not. Think this problem that caused my phone not to boot when when restarted.
No Idea why it did this but its fixed now.
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same problem. As long as i dont reboot it works fine...first reboot it get stucked....
willhave to reverse to stock then...
too bad i loved GE!!!
So simple and fast!
Hi!
So I followed Djembeys guide to root my s4 back when ME2/MF2(or smthn in that matter)was the newest firmware avable. But now I wanted to go back to stock and update my phone and as stated in the guide that would be no problem, well OTA didn't work so i did it via Kies. It worked as expected for a while before my phone started freezing and rebooting itself forever, like as soon as i get into the launcher.
Things I've tryed to do:
*Checking in download mode that everything is official, it is, and the phone doesn't seem to reboot while in download mode, should I flash a stock rom, I mean, what if the phone shuts off in the middle of the process?
*Doing a factory data reset via stock recovery, the "android" in recovery falls down and a triangle at his stomach. However the data reset worked, but it didn't solve the problem, still reboots but now when the phone is trying to set itself up.
What can i do guys? You think i can send it back to the store seeing everything is official in download mode? I'd rather not do that as I don't want to be without a phone for several weeks...
I'm downloading the MGA stock firmware which is the newest for the nordic countries(I am from Sweden), my phone is not branded.
NidexX said:
Hi!
So I followed Djembeys guide to root my s4 back when ME2/MF2(or smthn in that matter)was the newest firmware avable. But now I wanted to go back to stock and update my phone and as stated in the guide that would be no problem, well OTA didn't work so i did it via Kies. It worked as expected for a while before my phone started freezing and rebooting itself forever, like as soon as i get into the launcher.
Things I've tryed to do:
*Checking in download mode that everything is official, it is, and the phone doesn't seem to reboot while in download mode, should I flash a stock rom, I mean, what if the phone shuts off in the middle of the process?
*Doing a factory data reset via stock recovery, the "android" in recovery falls down and a triangle at his stomach. However the data reset worked, but it didn't solve the problem, still reboots but now when the phone is trying to set itself up.
What can i do guys? You think i can send it back to the store seeing everything is official in download mode? I'd rather not do that as I don't want to be without a phone for several weeks...
I'm downloading the MGA stock firmware which is the newest for the nordic countries(I am from Sweden), my phone is not branded.
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I also tried to wipe chache portion, i got an error and the process didn't finish:S
Anyone got some advice for me?