Background: I bought this phone on ebay mainly for development testing of apps. The seller has a high reputation and said that the device would boot to the insert sim card prompt. Upon receiving the phone it always boots to the download mode, I am new to Windows Phone 7, I tried to get it to hard reset, I downloaded Samsung-i917-Focus-firmware-UCJK2-ATT-USA.exe extracted the files and installed the usb drivers. The 7.05 version of the program runs copying files to the phone and you can see a progress bar at the bottom of the download mode screen. When it gets to the end and reboots it immediately goes back to the download mode screen and from videos I have found it should go to a transfer screen. The program does still go with the rebuilding part but the phone stays on the download mode screen. I have waited over an hour after the program said it was complete. I have also pulled the battery after a half hour and on pressing power it goes back to the download mode screen. Hardware version 1.3
Any help with this is greatly appreciated.
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First of all, it's not my device, it's my coworker's, and he brought it to me to install some sw for him few days ago, cause he is bigger newb to WM than me All the programs were installed to main memory, so i noticed that there is too little memory available. So we agreed that I ll do a cleanup for him and restart his programs in a few days, and finally he brought it over today, but the battery wasn't in the device for probably more than a night. Now it won't boot windows, it goes to windows mobile screen with "boot into safe mode" message, so wheter I boot into safe mode nothing happens, and if I go into normal mode, it just restarts
Any help?
Hard reset worked, I'll see where it goes from here
Hi,
New phone and new to Windows phone 7. Classic story - the phone has stuck in boot screen, it says only "Samsung Omnia 7" and that's all. I have tried all tips I could find from internet - took the battery out and let it sit, tried to hard reset it -nothing. Actually hard reset button combination seemed not to work - when I turn it on, holding camera and volume down buttons, nothing happens, it shows boot screen and that's all. It do switch to the download mode when I turn it on holding camera and volume up buttons. I tried to reflash it (got the rom files that it came originally), and after restart the situation is the same - boot screen stuck and nothing happens.
I used WP7_downloader version 7.41, Samsung USB drivers v5.02. The weird thing was that older versions of WP7_Downloader did not work - told that flash lock was on. 7.41 seemed to work, it erased and downloaded all areas fine. I don't know if this is normal, but the flashing process itself took about 120 seconds only. I tried alternative ROM (classic I8700XXJK1), the flashing time was slightly different, but nothing changed, after flashing the device restarts and stuck to the boot screen. As I have read the flashing process should took about 10 minutes or so? I waited for about 20 minutes and nothing changed.
Can I switch the device to some debug mode or do something else that could lead me to the reason the device is not booting?
Omnia 7 stuck at boot screen after
I upgraded to Mango last week and i now too am stuck at the "Samsung Omnia 7" boot screen.
The phone seemed to do two updates, the first suceeded no problem. I started the update before going to bed. In the morning it had completed the first and was awaiting my pin code to start the device. All good.
It then prompted about the Mango update. I clicked it and left it for an hour or so. Came back and zune stated it was on the step, "restarting the phone".
The phone was showing "Samsung Omnia 7", i left it for another hour and then came back, no progress.
Nothing i've found on the net up until today has worked for me.
I can enter the format and download modes still.
This is what i've found and tried so far.
1:
answers.microsoft.com/en-us/winphone/forum/wp7-wpdevices/samsung-omnia-7-bricked-stuck-in-boot-loop/76831b31-2c5b-4d3b-8f65-06111e1f3798
(Did a device wipe to factory defaults, and its still stuck at boot screen
2:
support.microsoft.com/kb/2547687
(yes this is an older issue but it looked like it was working until it said something about "flash lock").
Next step is a complete ROM reinstall. But i'd really like to find out precisely which ROM i should try and if Mango is the actual culprit. I'd like to reinstall Mango if possible.
My Omnia 7 was bought secondhand.
I am with Telstra NextG carrier.
After mango update mine is behaving strange too. It shuts down itself randomly and it is stucking at omnia 7 screen. After a few try I am able to open it. But I noticed something, it's shutting down much more while it's connecting to web or PC. Can this be related? Because I couldn't find another reason about that.
Hi guys,
I am having problems on my S7 Edge. The phone is stuck in a black screen and I tried restarting my phone by holding Volume Down + Power + Home for over a minute with no success. The phone is stock and rooted with TWRP and has been working fine for the last couple months. I tried plugging the power cable in and the battery screens shows up and I am able to restart my phone when the power is plugged in (battery over 80%). At this point it starts but after the Samsung logo appears it crashes again. I tried running the phone in safe mode but that did not work either. I am able to boot the phone into recovery mode and tried doing a Dalvik cache wipe. I get to the screen where Android is installing apps and after all apps got optimized it showed the home screen for about two seconds before crashing again.
After some more troubleshooting I took the sim card out and the phone is now running fine but whenever I put the sim card back in it crashes again. I tried turning airplane mode on and putting the sim card in which worked but once I turned airplane mode off it crashed again. My phone is Canadian version under Bell carrier. Just wondering if it is possible for a sim card to become corrupt and crash my phone like this? Are there any other areas I should check?
If anyone has some tips on what I can try it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Flash the latest Firmware using Odin by following this Tutorial step by step. Read everything at least once before you start the process!
Yes, it's possible for a SIM card, like anything else, to fail. Before messing with your factory software, I'd visit a carrier store and see if they'll let you try a different SIM.
My device restarted and after a software update and got stuck on a boot loop. I was able to get the phone initially into download mode as I thought I would try flashing it with ODIN back to the previous firmware. But since I haven't been to Sammobile in years, I didn't realize that the download would take hours.
So i tried force rebooting the phone again (vol down+power) in the meantime and nothing happened it was still stuck on the boot screen. So I left the phone connected to the charger and after a while I saw that it was back in downloading mode (but no ODIN mentioned in the top left corner)? I thought that was strange and since I had the download ready to flash, thought to make sure it was in download mode (proper) by pressing power+vol down+home. But this time the screen went black and now seems to be hard bricked and completely unresponsive (with only the blinking blue led) -. I've scoured the interent and the consensus seems to be that a USB jig won't work, will try it though. I'm really looking for an unbrick image to try booting it from the SD card. Would really appreciate the help! I've already tried the adb reboot download etc, but my computer and another one doesn't seem to detect the device. Please help!
Hello friends. I'm new to the forum and it's nice to meet you already. I hope you can help.
I wanted to change the boot logos of my phone (a205f) last night. I adjusted the images in param.bin as I wanted. After flashing with odin, the phone started to bootloop.
I wanted to enter download mode and upload firmware, but unfortunately when I try to enter download mode, it gets stuck on the black screen.
There is almost no combination left that I haven't tried. I can't get into download mode no matter what I do. it stays on the black screen.
I waited for the phone to run out of charge. It took a long time, but it's over. I held down the volume down and volume up keys, then opened odin and plugged the usb into the computer. I also plugged the usb-c into the phone, but unfortunately the samsung galaxy a20 logo comes and goes, then it goes into download mode but the screen remains black. no text or images. The computer cannot communicate with the phone at all. when it goes into download mode it stays black. If I take my hand off the keys, the phone starts automatically again, it always bootloops in this loop.
I tried to explain my problem to you with google translate. Sorry if I'm wrong or wrong. If I can find the time, I will take a video of this question and share it. for your better understanding.
Thank you to everyone who helped or tried to help.