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Canadian S4 Bricked after LCD Density?

Okay here's the deal, I just got the Galaxy s4 bell canada SGH-I337M couple weeks ago, and I rooted it recently 2-3 days ago using the motochopper method, succcessful, I downloaded LCD Density Modder because I was googling up nifty apps, and later the day I forgot how to use it... so I just winged, and set the DPI I think it is, from 480 DPI to 520 DPI, I let the phone reboot and it turned on and showed the Samsung Galaxy S4 logo then just went completely black, and the blue LED light would stay on steady... I then attempted to go into recovery and did a hard reset, wiping everything cache and data, noticed that the the red triangle error was in recovery mode also... still didn't work
I decided to try and flash a custom recovery and root it with TWRP and I flashed it with odin and it is now successfuly with twrp, but it still not working and now I have no idea what to do from here, I tried googling and searching but no one has had problems with galaxy s4 yet....
If I recall on the Galaxy S3 a black screen and blue steady led light is whats called sudden death??
Can anybody help me? I tried downloading multi odin but it always closes whenever I use the stock firmware for the package portion..

Get into twrp recovery and wipe everything, system, data, dalvik/cache, preload, then format data. when that's done power off and go into download mode and Odin flash the stock ROM. you should be good to go after that
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thatsupnow said:
Get into twrp recovery and wipe everything, system, data, dalvik/cache, preload, then format data. when that's done power off and go into download mode and Odin flash the stock ROM. you should be good to go after that
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I think its working but still not sure..
the flash was good, and when it rebooted it was tsuck on the Samsung Galaxy S4 logo for 10 minutes so I just turned it off then booted it back up, it went past the logo then on to the animation samsung boot, with the blue led on steady then it vibrated twice and rebooted again, and is now back to the Samsung Galaxy S4 logo screen again.
Oh and just rebooted it into recovery mode and there's a red triangle android... along with the reboot menu

[Q] Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9505 - Stuck at Bootscreen

On checking several threads/websites/google. I still can't even get past the bootscreen.
I changed a theme; downloaded it via Omega Pro; flashed it and now it just won't go any further than the black screen showing the text "Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9505"
I've installed the latest Odin304 and used "CF-Auto-Root-jflte-jfltexx-gti9505.tar.md5" as the PDA file. Followed the instructions as per; Checked Auto Reboot & F. Reset Time. Into download mode and hooked up phone. Reboot phone and it just stays on the boot screen.
Any other ideas? Any would be much appreciated, as I just want to revert this back to original state.
Cheers

VoteFurPedro said:
On checking several threads/websites/google. I still can't even get past the bootscreen.
I changed a theme; downloaded it via Omega Pro; flashed it and now it just won't go any further than the black screen showing the text "Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9505"
I've installed the latest Odin304 and used "CF-Auto-Root-jflte-jfltexx-gti9505.tar.md5" as the PDA file. Followed the instructions as per; Checked Auto Reboot & F. Reset Time. Into download mode and hooked up phone. Reboot phone and it just stays on the boot screen.
Any other ideas? Any would be much appreciated, as I just want to revert this back to original state.
Cheers
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I assume you have a custom recovery installed? If so boot into recovery and wipe cache and dalvik cache....See if that works.
Failing that boot into recovery and factory reset your device....see if that works

Infinite boot loop of destruction.

So I was going through instagram like every other day when suddenly my phone boots and the boot just looped and looped... Then I made the hard decision of resetting my phone completely. Did cache wipe and data wipe and thought that it would work now but nope. Still in boot loop. Then when I got home I thought that I'm going to Odin and installing the stock ROM from this site. Then I continued to install the ROM, NEE version (since I live in Finland), and it got installed. Booted and looped. Looping and looping and looping right next to me. I tried using Samsung Kies but it was not doing anything when I was in download mode. Tried the emergency thing but nothing popped up to the list that it should have popped on. Don't know what I have done or what my phone has done. I didn't have root at the time it started the looping nor I have now and don't plan to get it again. Didn't have any other recovery than the stock recovery and have never used triangle away. Suggestions?

Using Odin, flash a rom with a pit file. That should repartition the phone and, hopefully, solve the issue.

Can't boot Tab 4 past Samsung Logo

Kind of a serious problem here, where my Tab 4 (10.1) won't boot past the Samsung logo. It'll get to the point where it's swirling stars around the logo and making the usual bootup noises, but it just stays there and does not boot into the home screen.
Could this be a hardware; ie. motherboard or battery issue, or does it sound more like a software-based issue? I booted into the standard recovery and tried wiping data/factory reset, but no difference.
As far as I can recall, the Tab was not rooted (not 100% sure, but recovery is pretty basic. Not CWM/TWRP, which would be more likely if it was rooted).

I had this when trying some ROMs, i had to DL the stock Firmware from sammobile or any other site like it and reflash to stock. The stock firmewares on here would not work. It's the only solution that worked, also had to erase everything, internal storage too.

Can't open phone after factory reset

Today I got bluescreen on my S4, then the phone restarted on its own. After that, every time it was restarting, after 5-10 seconds, it immediately started freezing and restarting on its own (like an infinite loop). Couldn't find any solution since the phone can't even stay on for more than 10 seconds, I went into recovery mode and used wipe data/factory reset. On the recovery mode, the phone didn't restarted, I left it for more than 10 minutes and it didn't restarted so I don't think it's a hardware problem. However after wiping it and then rebooting the phone, it doesn't boot and just stays on with a blackscreen (nothing shows off), sometimes it restarts on its own but it doesn't even boot into the operating system now.
I haven't installed any custom roms, I don't even have rooted the phone. I tried installing the stock rom/firmware via KIES however it said that my S4 does not support initializing (tried both KIES and KIES3). So I downloaded Odin however I don't know where to download the right stock rom/firmware. Any help?
GT-I9505 (I was using the latest update 5.0.1 (when I did factory reset)).
FCC: A3LGTI9505
SSN: -I9505GSMH

Shunten said:
Today I got bluescreen on my S4, then the phone restarted on its own. After that, every time it was restarting, after 5-10 seconds, it immediately started freezing and restarting on its own (like an infinite loop). Couldn't find any solution since the phone can't even stay on for more than 10 seconds, I went into recovery mode and used wipe data/factory reset. On the recovery mode, the phone didn't restarted, I left it for more than 10 minutes and it didn't restarted so I don't think it's a hardware problem. However after wiping it and then rebooting the phone, it doesn't boot and just stays on with a blackscreen (nothing shows off), sometimes it restarts on its own but it doesn't even boot into the operating system now.
I haven't installed any custom roms, I don't even have rooted the phone. I tried installing the stock rom/firmware via KIES however it said that my S4 does not support initializing (tried both KIES and KIES3). So I downloaded Odin however I don't know where to download the right stock rom/firmware. Any help?
GT-I9505 (I was using the latest update 5.0.1 (when I did factory reset)).
FCC: A3LGTI9505
SSN: -I9505GSMH
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The stock firmware can be downloaded from sammobile.com.
I recommend using the original cable and connecting it to a rear USB port to ensure the chance of a successful flash.

Pwnycorn said:
The stock firmware can be downloaded from sammobile.com.
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That's the problem, it's the first time I'm using Odin so I'm kinda newbie. I don't know which one to download from this list.
http://forum.youmobile.org/downloads/?cat=45
I even looked on this but still:
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/database/GT-I9505/#firmware
Or all of these are the same and it doesn't matter which one you download?
I should be looking for I9505GSMH, right? Because I can't find it on these 2 sites.

Shunten said:
I should be looking for I9505GSMH, right? Because I can't find it on these 2 sites.
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No. There is no such thing.
Type in your phone model, select your country and carrier, and download the latest one.

GT-i9505 firmware is here: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/database/GT-I9505/