Phone - I400 (Continuum)
So I turned my phone on and it got stuck in a boot up, samsung logo then the verizon would come up and the phone would get stuck there. After i went through the typical remove battery, wait a while turn on again, I still couldnt get it to load. On my last attempt at this instead of any logos, I got a completely white screen with a black bar. I had done no flashing prior to this point. All that will load is the android digging screen. It is detected by odin but nothing will work on it. I have a picture that I will load up when I get back home.
If you have any ideas how to fix this, it would be greatly appreciated.
thebod15 said:
Phone - I400 (Continuum)
So I turned my phone on and it got stuck in a boot up, samsung logo then the verizon would come up and the phone would get stuck there. After i went through the typical remove battery, wait a while turn on again, I still couldnt get it to load. On my last attempt at this instead of any logos, I got a completely white screen with a black bar. I had done no flashing prior to this point. All that will load is the android digging screen. It is detected by odin but nothing will work on it. I have a picture that I will load up when I get back home.
If you have any ideas how to fix this, it would be greatly appreciated.
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If you have not flashed the phone, I would call Verizon and have them send out a replacement. My very first Continuum did that to me. After I received the replacement, I started flashing it, and haven't had issues with flashing. I have had a total of 4 Continuums. The first one did something like yours. The next two have/had critical memory errors, and this one has a broken camera. I think I am getting lemons... But, when you get refurbished items, one never knows what to expect...
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ok here's what's going on perhaps someone can figure out what's wrong. Last night I had placed my mda on its charger like usual b4 bed. well sonce my battery cover is slightly broken I had placed a some cardboard within the battery door due to the fact that it would "white screen" then rest and get stuck at the loading screen and drain my battery, anyhoo.... well it whitescreened cause my dresser rocked due to my cat stepping on my phone. so I reset it as usual and the splash screen would load then fade to white. after several attempts it finally started to load as usual but then it went to the boot loaderscreen. I had reset it several more times but no luck. I took out the mobo to see if something was stuck and again nope. luckly I had an older mobo that wouldent charge so I had replaced the mobo but does anyone know why it would randomly get stuck on the boot loader screen? I had even did a hard reset in the device and still no luck. if it was a normal computer I would say that it had lost it's OS any ideas on how to fix it so I can get back my phone the way it should be?
-rastlin
update on bootloader
well I was able to aquire tmobiles flasher utility and I attemted to flash the unit to no luck. I went through all the steps and it gave me an error that it cannot retreive data from the device. ok now I am totally stumped. I am open to any and all suggestions
-rastlin
My friends Samsung Focus seems to have gotten stuck turning on just showing SAMSUNG... phone did not have a SD card in it all. We had tried a sd card but never worked so removed it. About a week later the phone just rebooted and got stuck on boot.. Did the hard reset a few times and nothing? Also I accidentally got the phone in download mode. Since i have a Captivate, ive seen the download mode before and used it for kernels and such.. Is there any use of it on the Focus somehow? It says download mode and then do not turn off. it takes about 10 minutes..
Anyone have any suggestions or know anything? Phone is unlocked for tmobile, so cannot go to ATT to get replaced..
Thanks
same issue - samsung black screen no sd card at all
My Focus did the same thing today - it was almost as if an auto update was sent out, and the device reset itself. When I tried to enter my passcode, i got errors, and then upon resetting I became stuck on the black samsung screen. I've tried hard and soft resets with and without the SIM card. Nothing.
Any advice, beyond heading into ATT tomorrow?
hard reset is the 3 button combo, right? if so whats the soft reset?
yes. hard reset is the +, power, camera combo. soft reset is just powering down and then starting back up.
That is the issue I am having with my phones and I believe it is heat related. Check battery meter when you do the battery pull and reboot. Also the battery is warm to the touch also the screen if it stays in the samsung boot mode.
mine did the same thing this morning... I have a warranty replacement on the way. Would love to know what/why/ fix etc... though.
trolane said:
mine did the same thing this morning... I have a warranty replacement on the way. Would love to know what/why/ fix etc... though.
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I have gotten a new replacement and battery and still have the same issues if I keep it in my jacket or shirt pocket.
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mine did the same thing this morning... I have a warranty replacement on the way. Would love to know what/why/ fix etc... though.
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I hope theres a fix soon. My friend uses the phone for tmobile so cant really do anything. I wonder whats really happening with these phones.
Deadem said:
I have gotten a new replacement and battery and still have the same issues if I keep it in my jacket or shirt pocket.
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That is absolutely weird. This phone really has a big defect then if this happens out of the blue. Not good for Samsung... unless its the software that is screwy
Just had this happen today.
Stuck at samsung boot logo. Unable to get past it for hours. Getting it replaced tomorrow
peterfnet said:
Just had this happen today.
Stuck at samsung boot logo. Unable to get past it for hours. Getting it replaced tomorrow
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Update on my situation: I was able to had reset it, but it still kept me at the Samsung logo. AT&T replaced it. That solved the problem
Same issue here with my Rogers Focus, it has happened on two devices now. Would love to know what the problem is, so when I get my third one I can avoid it.
Happened to my Focus as well. Since I'm using an unlocked device and I'm not in the US, it looks like I'm pretty much screwed unless someone comes up with a fix like a ROM or something that can solve the issue.
From what I can tell its not battery related at all. I tried the battery from a Galaxy S I had and still didn't fix the problem.
The thing is that Samsung of America firmwares are very hard to find. I have find all the Roms on this page http://www.samfirmware.com/ even instrucction on how to flash the phone. The thing is that they only have the Omnia firmwares, we need a i917 Rom. One more thing you can put your phone in Download mode pressing Volume Up and Camera botton simultaneus from there you can flash the Phone. Come on we need a real hacker who can bring us a firmware for this phone.
Going into download mode is pointless until we get a Firmware. Looks like no Dev/Hacker is interested in Samsung Focus right now.
First off I am running 4.2.2 on MF3 with root. I have no custom ROM, recovery or any other modules. This literally just happened 30 minutes ago. I've tried searching everything to no avail. My screen randomly went black (after setting it down for 15 seconds) and now it won't work. When I take out the battery and stick it back in the initial pop up is the Samsung name with an unlocked lock that says custom, this will pop up regardless if I press and hold the power button or do anything, which hasn't happened before. After that screen nothing happens as normal. I have tried to boot into download mode and I can get to the initial "WARNING" screen and then get into the download screen with the Android alien and before anything can happen it will go black. So this leads me to believe that is it either crashing or failing after the initial 20-30 seconds of boot sequence. I will also mention that when I have the USB cable plugged into both a computer and a wall outlet that it wont do anything even after i take out the battery and put it back in, try to boot into download, or just hold the power button. The computer won't even recognize that a device has been connected. When it is unplugged I can do what I previously mentioned. Please if someone can help me I would greatly appreciate it. I am really worried that because I have my device rooted I won't be able to take it in for warranty and get it replaced. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advanced!
Same happened to my phone
The exact same thing seems to be happening with my phone, however, my phone was not rooted. After installing KitKat (4.4.2) the phone was acting a bit weird and, all of a sudden, the screen went black. Can't turn it back on since then. The welcome screen comes up only after I put the battery in. After that it is completely unresponsive. I am also able to see the download mode warning before the phone goes off on its own, and the same thing happens for the recovery mode. I see the 'recovery booting' message, but then the phone turns off.
AT&T is has replaced my phone, but I wanted to get my data before sending the damaged phone back. As stated above, the phone is not recognized by my computer, so I can't access the data through USB. The guys at AT&T could not help me with the data recovery. If anyone could help me with this, I would greatly appreciate it.
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I was headed home today and my Sprint Galaxy S4 shutoff. It would not come back on, so i removed the battery. When i reinsert the battery, my phone does a quick vibrate, then the white Samsung Galaxy S4 logo screen appears, then disappears, then thats it. Nothing else happens. I have tried different chargers, a different battery, tried download and recovery mode. Nothing has worked so far to get me any further. When i try to go into recovery, blue writing shows in the top left that says Booting Recovery, then it shuts off and nothing else happens. When i plug into a computer, the phone does not connect to the computer.
I am usually pretty good with anything to do with a phone, but this has me stumped.
I have not downloaded any new apps or any different roms or kernels anytime recently. My phone is rooted but still on the stock rom. This phone was rooted about a year ago when i got it, and as far as roms or programming or anthing, nothing has been done to it since then.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Ok so i was wrong, the phone will boot into download mode, but only for about 2 secs, then it goes blank and off again. So it seems like some sort of power issue with the phone itself, as in hardware. Not sure that there is too much that i can do about that, but does anyone have any ideas?
I just read something on here about Samsung having a bad batch of batteries. If I were you I would take my battery to someone that could test it to see if it is holding a charge.
Had the same issue. The dude at sprint said it was a bad update that went out but not sure how true that is due to the fact that i was running a custom rom and recovery. I was running clockword mod recovery and latest CM11 nightly. If you have the insurance I'd say bring it back and they should replace it.
Any fix?
I have just been experiencing this problem as well. My s4 was working fine then all of the sudden the power button would become very sensitive and would think I would want to turn the phone off. I would click the back arrow but the phone would still either turn itself off or reboot. Then it got worse and would get stuck in bootloops. Now I have to reinsert the battery every time for it to turn on. It gets to the samsung logo and then shuts off. I can get into recovery for about 2 seconds and then it shuts off as well. My s4 is not rooted at all. Can someone please help me? I really don't want to pay at least 70 dollars for samsung just to look at it.:crying:
I'm fairly new to this, bear with me. I'll try to include lots of detail. If I'm asking or posting in the wrong area, just let me know. I've been trying to do this without any hand-holding, but it's been pretty frustrating and it's a lot to soak in and I think I probably got something wrong.
My S4 seems to be partially bricked.
I was given a retired S4. The phone is locked to Bell in Canada (It's an SGH-I337M, not a 9500 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S4#Model_variants ). When it was given to me, it had Cyanogenmod 11 on it. The previous owner is techsavy and tried to unlock it, paid for several websites to give him codes, none worked and they refunded. This was when the S4 was new, he hadn't tried since.
I wanted to use it with Rogers. I was happy to just pay for an unlock code, but, it seemed I needed to be on the original firmware. So I learned how to use ODIN and downloaded Bell's original firmware. As suggested here: ( galaxys4root.com/galaxy-s4-stock-firmware/ ) and I picked the Bell one ( stockroms.net/file/GalaxyS4/SGH-I337M/I337MVLUAMDJ_I337MOYAAMDJ_BMC.zip ). It seemed that I needed to downgrade anyway to get most of the carrier unlocks to work. (In Canada, IIRC, there was no region lock, just carrier, but regardless it spent two years on a Bell plan).
When I finished using ODIN, successfully, the phone restarted but now appears to not complete booting or be able to flash a new ROM of any kind, at least by methods I've tried.
On powering up:
1 - "Samsung GALAXY S4" in curvy font.
2 - Blue swirly animation of Samsung.
3 - Do do do do doo dooooooooo, audio.
4 - Blue LED in top left stays lit.
5 - SAMSUNG in white on black screen stays there, pulsing with blue light occasionally.
6 - It stays here forever.
It never finishes booting, and it's a hell of a power draw the phone got hot after an hour.
When I try to boot into recovery, I get the blue text in the upper left, but it just reboots.
When I try to put it into download mode, I get a green warning about custom OS's, I can use volume up to agree or volume down to cancel. Either way, it just reboots.
If I try to power it down without pulling the battery, it just boots up, same loop as above, and stays there, pulsing the logo forever.
I can't get to any diagnostic screen, but maybe I'm trying the wrong ones or the wrong ways.
How badly did I mess up my phone?
I'd like to just use it as a camera even, if I can't get it to unlock so I can use Rogers, but it seems I've messed that up now too.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. If you need more detail, I'm happy to give it. (Sorry for bad links, new user, can't post links).
Download from Sammobile the stock rom for your model and flash it in download mode wit Odin
TroubleshotHell said:
I'm fairly new to this, bear with me. I'll try to include lots of detail. If I'm asking or posting in the wrong area, just let me know. I've been trying to do this without any hand-holding, but it's been pretty frustrating and it's a lot to soak in and I think I probably got something wrong.
My S4 seems to be partially bricked.
I was given a retired S4. The phone is locked to Bell in Canada (It's an SGH-I337M, not a 9500 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S4#Model_variants ). When it was given to me, it had Cyanogenmod 11 on it. The previous owner is techsavy and tried to unlock it, paid for several websites to give him codes, none worked and they refunded. This was when the S4 was new, he hadn't tried since.
I wanted to use it with Rogers. I was happy to just pay for an unlock code, but, it seemed I needed to be on the original firmware. So I learned how to use ODIN and downloaded Bell's original firmware. As suggested here: ( galaxys4root.com/galaxy-s4-stock-firmware/ ) and I picked the Bell one ( stockroms.net/file/GalaxyS4/SGH-I337M/I337MVLUAMDJ_I337MOYAAMDJ_BMC.zip ). It seemed that I needed to downgrade anyway to get most of the carrier unlocks to work. (In Canada, IIRC, there was no region lock, just carrier, but regardless it spent two years on a Bell plan).
When I finished using ODIN, successfully, the phone restarted but now appears to not complete booting or be able to flash a new ROM of any kind, at least by methods I've tried.
On powering up:
1 - "Samsung GALAXY S4" in curvy font.
2 - Blue swirly animation of Samsung.
3 - Do do do do doo dooooooooo, audio.
4 - Blue LED in top left stays lit.
5 - SAMSUNG in white on black screen stays there, pulsing with blue light occasionally.
6 - It stays here forever.
It never finishes booting, and it's a hell of a power draw the phone got hot after an hour.
When I try to boot into recovery, I get the blue text in the upper left, but it just reboots.
When I try to put it into download mode, I get a green warning about custom OS's, I can use volume up to agree or volume down to cancel. Either way, it just reboots.
If I try to power it down without pulling the battery, it just boots up, same loop as above, and stays there, pulsing the logo forever.
I can't get to any diagnostic screen, but maybe I'm trying the wrong ones or the wrong ways.
How badly did I mess up my phone?
I'd like to just use it as a camera even, if I can't get it to unlock so I can use Rogers, but it seems I've messed that up now too.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. If you need more detail, I'm happy to give it. (Sorry for bad links, new user, can't post links).
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Don't worry you are fine. Just try to flash another stock rom.