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Galaxy S4 freezes when turning on?

I just rooted my Galaxy S4 (model SGH-I337 AT&T) (I have not installed any ROMS either) and I went to back it up once more in recovery mode but when it went to reboot, it froze. It booted up normally but then froze when the AT&T logo is spinning. I can take the battery out and turn it on but the same thing happens. When I go to recovery mode to reboot, same thing happens. I have wiped cache partition and rebooted, same thing. I have restored my 2 backups, one failed and the other the same thing happens, I have rebooted to bootloader but that brings me to a screen saying downloading... with a android guy then the only way to get out of that is taking the battery out. I have tried wiping data/factory reset but it fails while restoring data. Nothing is working! Please help. I am very knew to rooting by the way. I have Clockworkmod recovery too by the way if that matters. Thanks in advance.

I am going out on a limb here, did you do a factory reset within the recovery? If not, try that. should boot just fine, IF, you said, you have not flashed any custom roms yet.
Good luck.
If that does not work, please search ODIN, because I am afraid that is the next step.
Thank you.

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TheAxman said:
I am going out on a limb here, did you do a factory reset within the recovery? If not, try that. should boot just fine, IF, you said, you have not flashed any custom roms yet.
Good luck.
If that does not work, please search ODIN, because I am afraid that is the next step.
Thank you.
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Thanks for replying. Yes I did a factory reset in Clockworkmod recovery many times. Froze in the same spot. Then I saw a Youtube video on how to use ODIN and it worked perfectly. ODIN said "pass" but when it rebooted, same problem! Then I wasnt able to enter recovery mode, it just froze. Now I am able to enter stock recovery but still nothing is working. Should I try ODIN again? I am almost positive I used the right firmware too. my options in recovery are Reboot system, apply update from ADB, external storage,or cache, wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache partition. thanks again for the help

now that you have flashed back to stock with odin, wipe data and reboot.

[Q] I think I broke my phone... Gt-I9505

Hi everyone.
For years I've been coming here finding answers to problems that I've had. It seems I'm finally special enough to have to make a new thread.
Phone: S4 Gt-I9505
Carrier: Vodafone New Zealand
I rooted my phone with cf-autoroot and CWM on the stock 4.2.2 version of android. I then went looking for ROMs and found the leaked (didn't know it was at the time) 4.3 version from google. I installed that and whoopee! We got along well for the first two days, but I restarted my phone on day three and that's where the problem started.
Upon reboot, my phone powered onto the Samsung splash screen, but went no further. Confused, I did a factory recovery in CWM and it still didn't go. I reinstalled the rom and it went again fine, until reboot when it hung on the splash screen again. I tried various roms and fixes and just made a mess of my phone.
Long story short, I now have TWRP on my phone with the abyss 1.3.1F kernel installed and no ROM. Is there any step by step process that someone could give me on how to proceed with TWRP and which ROM/kernel to install to get me up and running again? Not fussy on which rom but one with no bloatware would be excellent. I would be eternally grateful! :fingers-crossed:
Thanks!

Download the latest version which is I9505XXUBMGA either Odin or CWM from here, if you flash via Recovery you need to wipe data & factory reset, cache partition and dalvik cache before flashing but you can flash via Odin
I prefer to use Philz Touch recovery than TWRP

Crauze said:
Download the latest version which is I9505XXUBMGA either Odin or CWM from here, if you flash via Recovery you need to wipe data & factory reset, cache partition and dalvik cache before flashing but you can flash via Odin
I prefer to use Philz Touch recovery than TWRP
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Thank you Crauze, Will try now.
EDIT: That rom is going to take ages to download. I'll update when it's done in a few hours.

Crauze said:
Download the latest version which is I9505XXUBMGA either Odin or CWM from here, if you flash via Recovery you need to wipe data & factory reset, cache partition and dalvik cache before flashing but you can flash via Odin
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Hi, you have touched on an issue I am trying to understand.
Do you only need to wipe you data and caches when you used custom recovery to flash a ROM but not when you use Odin on a PC?
Sent from my GT-I9505 using xda app-developers app

The above answer worked perfectly. Thank you!

jcodde said:
Hi, you have touched on an issue I am trying to understand.
Do you only need to wipe you data and caches when you used custom recovery to flash a ROM but not when you use Odin on a PC?
Sent from my GT-I9505 using xda app-developers app
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I haven't flashed a custom ROM via Odin before but boot into Recovery and wipe data & factory reset, cache partition and dalvik cache and power off device and boot into Download Mode and flash via Odin

[Q] Help, S4 Intl i9505 stuck on Samsung logo(blinking one) after flashing stock

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So first, I changed into cyanogenmod, it was successful though my sister didn't liked its "style" so I had to restore the stock firmware of jellybean 4.3 (XXUEMJ5_I9505OLBEMJ5_I9505XXUEMJ5_HOME.tar.md5) so i did a factory reset from the cyanogenmod settings and then flashed(it said my root access was lost after factory reset) using ODIN, everything went fine in the process in flashing, after my s4 reset 1st time a droid with a spinning thing on its tummy appears with the loading bar on its bottom and then resets once again I thought it was already good but my s4 was stuck on the SAMSUNG logo the blinking one. And then I downloaded a new stockrom the 4.2.2 (I9505XXUBMG5_I9505OLBBMG1_I9505DXUBMG5_HOME.tar and which was my original firmware the XXUBMG5), tried to flash using ODIN but it failed during the process, I'm about to download a new copy of the 4.2.2 version from the same site i downloaded from maybe it was corrupt?. Please help, me and my friend have done all things like using KIES that doesn't recognize my phone anymore, downloading stock recovery and such non works and so does my recovery mode after I access it, my s4 i9505 immediately restarts by itself after releasing my fingers and a lot of battery pulls. No luck please help me. I'm from the Philippines with an unlocked phone, International so I downloaded the XTE Region correct me if I'm wrong .

Please provide instructions if you have time .

After installation you have done this in the recovery mode wipe data factory reset and wipe cache partition
(can try with custom recovery - wipe and flash again)

Adnan73 said:
After installation you have done this in the recovery mode wipe data factory reset and wipe cache partition
(can try with custom recovery - wipe and flash again)
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Thank you very much ))))))) now it's working again, I forgot that entering recovery mode takes a while now my depression is lot ahahha

Recovery can't mount /system S5 bricked

TWRP can't mount /system. Phone is a SM-G900T 16GB
- Running the latest version of TWRP I tried:
- Wiping, repairing, and reformatting from TWRP, also tried formatting data. I get a unable to mount '/system' error message every time.
- Using Odin and Heimdall to reformat using a downloaded .pit, neither works. I ran Heimdall in Windows and Linux (ran as sudo and admin). I re-downloaded the .pit multiple times and tried a couple different sources.
- Installing CWM using Heimdall, and ADB. In ADB and Heimdall I still have TWRP and in Odin it removes the recovery completely.
- Fix permissions gives the unable to mount '/system' error message.
- Installing ROM from Heimdall and TWRM
- Mounting /system with or without MTP
How it happened:
I was running Cyanogenmod 11 with encryption and updated to 12. CM12 was running great, flashed GApps, still running good. I signed in to my Google account and downloaded IPcamera. While running IPcamera I got an email, the screen started going crazy flashing between the alert and IPcamera screen, I couldn't do anything so I pulled the battery. When I rebooted it was stuck in a boot loop. I booted into recovery, it asked for my encryption password as usual. The password didn't work. I tried several times. I rebooted and tried again, still nothing. I rebooted again and this time hit cancel when asked for the password. I wiped everything and got the can't mount /system error. I tried everything above, nothing works.
I can't download my .pit so there is more wrong than just the data partition.
Any ideas? I would love this thing to no longer be a really expensive paperweight. I really can't afford to replace this thing right now
Thanks for your help.

Odin back to factory stock and use Samsung's stock recovery to do a couple of wipes.

Commodore 64 said:
Odin back to factory stock and use Samsung's stock recovery to do a couple of wipes.
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That worked!! I don't know why the stock recovery can fix it when TWRM couldn't. It worked though. Thanks a ton!!

Commodore 64 said:
Odin back to factory stock and use Samsung's stock recovery to do a couple of wipes.
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This didn't work for me every time I wipe in TWRP it just never installs the packages, or upon restart it just doesn't mount system. Wipe repair on TWRP doesnt work either

egyptshun said:
This didn't work for me every time I wipe in TWRP it just never installs the packages, or upon restart it just doesn't mount system. Wipe repair on TWRP doesnt work either
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I'm totally with you on wipes and package installs randomly failing on TWRP, but I have no idea why. Sometime in December, I made the switch to Philz CWM, and I haven't looked back since.
At any rate, it is always good practice to odin back to stock, use the stock recovery to do wipes (factory reset and wipe cache), and then odin Philz CWM or any recovery program of your choice.
If you're planning on loading Lollipop, then you might just download the latest from Sammobile, odin the stock and wipe, and then load your custom recovery.
Best of luck,

Commodore 64 said:
I'm totally with you on wipes and package installs randomly failing on TWRP, but I have no idea why. Sometime in December, I made the switch to Philz CWM, and I haven't looked back since.
At any rate, it is always good practice to odin back to stock, use the stock recovery to do wipes (factory reset and wipe cache), and then odin Philz CWM or any recovery program of your choice.
If you're planning on loading Lollipop, then you might just download the latest from Sammobile, odin the stock and wipe, and then load your custom recovery.
Best of luck,
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I have a G900W8, there's no lollipop version for me. What phone FW can I flash and retain phone signals etc.

Captian Double post Double post here.
I'm going to snap my phone in half, it's been over 13 hours of trying to fix this. How does no one else have this problem?
EDIT: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSS I FINALLY GOT IT TO WORK > I HAVE NO CLUE HOW <

i9505 always booting into recovery/download mode

I downloaded Imperium ROM from a thread on xda and installed it. I wiped data, wiped cache and dalvik and installed zip. Then I rebooted and it showed a downloading screen, after a little bit of research it's called download mode or ODIN mode. Now what's happening is whenever I try to reboot, it shows the S4 i9505 screen (i think it's called a splash screen, thats what someone called it) and freezes. After about 10-15 seconds, reboots into recovery. I've got CWM installed and I've ran out of ideas. The volume buttons are not being touched and for some reason recovery and download mode are always being booted into, never the OS.
I'm also new so anything I've done wrong, I'd love to know.

CWM recovery is outdated and should not be used anymore. Instead only use TWRP. Flash it trough Odin in the same way you flashed CWM.
You say that you only wiped data, cache and dalvik. You also HAVE to wipe /system. Otherwise the rom will probably not boot.

Lennyz1988 said:
CWM recovery is outdated and should not be used anymore. Instead only use TWRP. Flash it trough Odin in the same way you flashed CWM.
You say that you only wiped data, cache and dalvik. You also HAVE to wipe /system. Otherwise the rom will probably not boot.
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Update I tried to install albe95's s6 port. I've noticed something and it's that both ended up with Statuc 7 or some word that started with "S" and had the number 7. Googled that and turns out it's bad. I formatted /System and installed the ROM, it worked!
I guess there was just no OS to boot into. Going to try installing Imperium now.

Status 7 errors can occur if the recovery is outdated. What recovery is on the phone?