Hi there.
I have a gt-i9505 which I am returning the an ebay seller for a refund as it IMEI blacklisted.
Before I realised this I had put on Foxhound, TWRP and a custom kernel (i forget which atm).
As I am sending it back I wanted to put back on stock firmware, so I followed the guide here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2265477 I used the firmware
"United Kingdom BTU (April 2013)
PDA: I9505XXUAMDM
CSC: I9505OXXAMDB
Version 4.2.2"
I used odin to flash the tar.md5 file as PDA (I think I should have used TWRP but I was in a rush), everything seemed a success in odin. The phone rebooted and the blue text came up saying it is going into recovery mode, following which a 3D green android image with activity counter appeared for about 15 seconds before the phone rebooted and got stuck at the initial screen.
Now the phone only gets stuck at that, if I try turn it off it turns back on straight away.
If I try to go into recovery mode, I get the blue text then the phone reboots again.
I can get into download mode ok, so I have tried to reflash the firmware, and also tried to reflash TWRP and CWM but nothing works (though i get no errors in Odin)
I am trying to find solutions, but as I am quite strapped for time (I need to send this back to the eBay seller tomorrow) I thought I would ask for help here, any help would be EXTREMELY appreciated.
tonyr80 said:
Hi there.
I have a gt-i9505 which I am returning the an ebay seller for a refund as it IMEI blacklisted.
Before I realised this I had put on Foxhound, TWRP and a custom kernel (i forget which atm).
As I am sending it back I wanted to put back on stock firmware, so I followed the guide here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2265477 I used the firmware
"United Kingdom BTU (April 2013)
PDA: I9505XXUAMDM
CSC: I9505OXXAMDB
Version 4.2.2"
I used odin to flash the tar.md5 file as PDA (I think I should have used TWRP but I was in a rush), everything seemed a success in odin. The phone rebooted and the blue text came up saying it is going into recovery mode, following which a 3D green android image with activity counter appeared for about 15 seconds before the phone rebooted and got stuck at the initial screen.
Now the phone only gets stuck at that, if I try turn it off it turns back on straight away.
If I try to go into recovery mode, I get the blue text then the phone reboots again.
I can get into download mode ok, so I have tried to reflash the firmware, and also tried to reflash TWRP and CWM but nothing works (though i get no errors in Odin)
I am trying to find solutions, but as I am quite strapped for time (I need to send this back to the eBay seller tomorrow) I thought I would ask for help here, any help would be EXTREMELY appreciated.
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Update - Fixed, had to pull the battery for longer feel free to delete
Its nhot bricked just flash stock rom again
Sent from my GT-I9505 using xda premium
Hello,
this is my first post on xda and it all starts with a problem .Due to my recent upgrade to 4.4.2 (via OTA) I suffer issues that prevent me to use my smartphone.[ I got nonbranded Note 3, bought in Poland].
Below some issues I got after upgrading :
- touchscreen 'freezes' and doesn’t respond [phone works i see for example incoming msg or emails] [random]
- when receiving the call - touchscreen is dead so i cannot answer the call.. [random]
- from time to time i got the message "[random process] has been stopped....] - it happens when I’m not even using the phone
- it happens that the phone does self-mini-restart. It goes blackscreen, then samsung logo appears and then it gets back to home screen
Problems above don’t happen all the time, but they are so frequent that using the phone becomes impossible..
Now, what I've done to solve the problem :
- full wipe - factory settings from android
- full wipe - wipe/factory reset from recovery mode
- full cache wipe from recovery mode
- I've tested all "turn off recovery, trash case etc.' options
- downloaded firmware from sammyfirmware
"
Model: SM-N9005
Model name: Galaxy Note 3
Country: Poland
Version: Android 4.4.2
Changelist: 636608
Build date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 05:20:27 +0000
Product Code: XEO
PDA: N9005XXUENB3
CSC: N9005OXXENB1
MODEM: N9005XXUENB1
" and used Odin3 v 3.09 to upload it.
Unfortunately anything from above helped I'm 99% sure that it is not a hardware problem - the isuess started to occur just after the OTA upgrade. First restart and after phone call the phone freezed and it begun.
Maybe some of You have any idea how to - recover form this situation. Thanks in advance.
Today, I have replaced my simcard (suspected that this can be a source of my problems) but it didn’t change a thing.
I've run my phone without a simcard for few hours (only WiFi) and encountered problems I wrote about.....
Anyone? Any ideas what to do next?
Thanks.
Hi, 1st of all, i really really did search the whole forum, but still, can't find my answer.
So, i decide to ask....
I currently recieved a galaxy s4 as a gift.
But i find out that it doesn't have any google items: google play, google search etc.....
Due to last time I have flash galaxy note for custom rom with no google item in it before, so i think i can use the same solution to it.
But unfortunately, this couldn't solve the problem.
Google Play did install, but force close every time i start it, even with clear data or clear cache (from setting > app manager).
Then I tought that could be the firmware problem, as it is showing that there is an update ready to be install, thus I pressed install.
But still, nothings working.
Then I go check wherether the s4 is really an s4 or just a knock off.
With the data below:
Device name: Galaxy S4 (can be change)
Model number: GT-I9500
Android version: 4.4.2
Baseband version: I9500ZCUGND1
Kernel version: 3.4.5-913788 [email protected]#1 Mon Mar 31 18:54:48 KST 2014
Build number: KOT49H.I9500ZCUGND1
SE for Android status: Enforcing SEPF_GT-I9500_4.4.2_0011 Mon Mar 31 19:09:37 2014
I found out at samfirmware.com that this is a real galaxy s4, but is for the china market.
I saw some post saying that you can reflash other country stock rom so that google play can be use.
But what i saw for rooting tutorial is for jellybean(4.2) not kitkat(4.4.2)
So now, at here, i wish that some one can help out to solve the problem I'm facing.
Main thing, to get the Google Play shop to work.
An Android without Google Play store looks kind of wired.
Many thanks for reading my post and greatful thanks for helping me, thank you.:angel:
ask
NooBDroidPlayer said:
Hi, 1st of all, i really really did search the whole forum, but still, can't find my answer.
So, i decide to ask....
I currently recieved a galaxy s4 as a gift.
But i find out that it doesn't have any google items: google play, google search etc.....
Due to last time I have flash galaxy note for custom rom with no google item in it before, so i think i can use the same solution to it.
But unfortunately, this couldn't solve the problem.
Google Play did install, but force close every time i start it, even with clear data or clear cache (from setting > app manager).
Then I tought that could be the firmware problem, as it is showing that there is an update ready to be install, thus I pressed install.
But still, nothings working.
Then I go check wherether the s4 is really an s4 or just a knock off.
With the data below:
Device name: Galaxy S4 (can be change)
Model number: GT-I9500
Android version: 4.4.2
Baseband version: I9500ZCUGND1
Kernel version: 3.4.5-913788 [email protected]#1 Mon Mar 31 18:54:48 KST 2014
Build number: KOT49H.I9500ZCUGND1
SE for Android status: Enforcing SEPF_GT-I9500_4.4.2_0011 Mon Mar 31 19:09:37 2014
I found out at samfirmware.com that this is a real galaxy s4, but is for the china market.
I saw some post saying that you can reflash other country stock rom so that google play can be use.
But what i saw for rooting tutorial is for jellybean(4.2) not kitkat(4.4.2)
So now, at here, i wish that some one can help out to solve the problem I'm facing.
Main thing, to get the Google Play shop to work.
An Android without Google Play store looks kind of wired.
Many thanks for reading my post and greatful thanks for helping me, thank you.:angel:
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so first of all download 4.4 kitkat for india..from samfirmware as usual if you dont find instruction them message me i will guide you!
it.ysh said:
so first of all download 4.4 kitkat for india..from samfirmware as usual if you dont find instruction them message me i will guide you!
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I'm already in 4.4.2, how do I install 4.4 jurist on to it?
NooBDroidPlayer said:
I'm already in 4.4.2, how do I install 4.4 jurist on to it?
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but you dont have indian rom first download that
NooBDroidPlayer said:
Hi, 1st of all, i really really did search the whole forum, but still, can't find my answer.
So, i decide to ask....
I currently recieved a galaxy s4 as a gift.
But i find out that it doesn't have any google items: google play, google search etc.....
Due to last time I have flash galaxy note for custom rom with no google item in it before, so i think i can use the same solution to it.
But unfortunately, this couldn't solve the problem.
Google Play did install, but force close every time i start it, even with clear data or clear cache (from setting > app manager).
Then I tought that could be the firmware problem, as it is showing that there is an update ready to be install, thus I pressed install.
But still, nothings working.
Then I go check wherether the s4 is really an s4 or just a knock off.
With the data below:
Device name: Galaxy S4 (can be change)
Model number: GT-I9500
Android version: 4.4.2
Baseband version: I9500ZCUGND1
Kernel version: 3.4.5-913788 [email protected]#1 Mon Mar 31 18:54:48 KST 2014
Build number: KOT49H.I9500ZCUGND1
SE for Android status: Enforcing SEPF_GT-I9500_4.4.2_0011 Mon Mar 31 19:09:37 2014
I found out at samfirmware.com that this is a real galaxy s4, but is for the china market.
I saw some post saying that you can reflash other country stock rom so that google play can be use.
But what i saw for rooting tutorial is for jellybean(4.2) not kitkat(4.4.2)
So now, at here, i wish that some one can help out to solve the problem I'm facing.
Main thing, to get the Google Play shop to work.
An Android without Google Play store looks kind of wired.
Many thanks for reading my post and greatful thanks for helping me, thank you.:angel:
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Flash this:
Download:
http://dl.sammobile.com/PVFcQ1kpNz0...lNBXkVBUA../I9500ZCUGND1_I9500CHNGND1_CHN.zip
Model: GT-I9500
Model name: GALAXY S4
Country: China
Version: Android 4.4.2
Changelist: 913788
Build date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 10:00:17 +0000
Product Code: CHN
PDA: I9500ZCUGND1
CSC: I9500CHNGND1
MODEM: I9500ZCUGND1
Instructions:
- Extract (unzip) the firmware file
- Download Odin v3.09
- Extract Odin zip-file
- Open Odin v3.09
- Reboot phone in Download Mode (press and hold Home + Power + Volume Down buttons)
- Connect phone and wait until you get a blue sign in Odin
- Add the firmware file to AP / PDA
- Make sure re-partition is NOT ticked
- Click the start button, sit back and wait a few minutes
it.ysh said:
but you dont have indian rom first download that
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ok, I have downloaded the rom that you said, what next?
just to inform, my s4 is not yet root at all
jeffrey268 said:
Flash this:
Download:
http://dl.sammobile.com/PVFcQ1kpNz0...lNBXkVBUA../I9500ZCUGND1_I9500CHNGND1_CHN.zip
Model: GT-I9500
Model name: GALAXY S4
Country: China
Version: Android 4.4.2
Changelist: 913788
Build date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 10:00:17 +0000
Product Code: CHN
PDA: I9500ZCUGND1
CSC: I9500CHNGND1
MODEM: I9500ZCUGND1
Instructions:
- Extract (unzip) the firmware file
- Download Odin v3.09
- Extract Odin zip-file
- Open Odin v3.09
- Reboot phone in Download Mode (press and hold Home + Power + Volume Down buttons)
- Connect phone and wait until you get a blue sign in Odin
- Add the firmware file to AP / PDA
- Make sure re-partition is NOT ticked
- Click the start button, sit back and wait a few minutes
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do I have to root before I do the above step you were saying?
my s4 haven't been root at all since I received it, I just only done an OTA update,
and is in baseband I9500ZCUGND1 now
main thing I need is to get Google Play to be install and usable on this phone since it is now bundle with it at the 1st place.
curious why china have to detach Google Play for their phones?
How to.
NooBDroidPlayer said:
do I have to root before I do the above step you were saying?
my s4 haven't been root at all since I received it, I just only done an OTA update,
and is in baseband I9500ZCUGND1 now
main thing I need is to get Google Play to be install and usable on this phone since it is now bundle with it at the 1st place.
curious why china have to detach Google Play for their phones?
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The following wil trip knox to 0x1
Install TWRP recovery:
1. download latest tar here: http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/i9500
2. Power off your phone.
3. Boot into download mode.
4. Connect your phone to your PC, you may have to install samsung drivers from here: http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/c...NG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones_v1.5.33.0.exe
5. Downlod and Open Odin3 v3.09, download link: https://mega.co.nz/#!7MMWkCyB!8s9Pg9jebiXRjkv_0bGfvhT-3af6MQRnTE08hzjAG1M
6. Select the downloded tar in AB in Odin.
7. Deselect auto reboot in odin.
8. Click start, and wait for it to finish.
9. Remove the battery from your phone.
10. Put your battery back in and start your phone in recovery mode, howto: http://hintslibrary.blogspot.nl/2013/07/how-to-enter-into-recovery-mode-on.html
11. In TWRP go to backup and do a full backup.
12. Just to be safe: Copy the backup to your PC, backup is located /TWRP/BACKUPS/
If the above worked (The following wil remove everything from your phone so do a backup of impotant data):
11. Download a rom you want on your phone, i recommend: Omega v20 Kit Kat 4.4.2, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2232887/showthread.php?t=2232887
12. Put the downloaded rom on your micro sd card.
13. Reboot your phone into recovery as in step 10.
14. In TWRP recovery do to wipe and do advance wipe, select all except ext-sd and EFS.
15. In TWRP recovery select install, and select the rom you downloaded.
16. If the rom ask you to wipe you can select no.
17. When the install is complete reboot your phone, now continu with the setup, when complete you should have all the google goodies.
Gaaps
NooBDroidPlayer said:
ok, I have downloaded the rom that you said, what next?
just to inform, my s4 is not yet root at all
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then now download gaaps it will definately solve your problem..if this was helpful please press thanks
First of all please forgive me for opening yet another S4 wifi problem after kitkat upgrade, but I have tried everything I could possibly find here, on youtube and other forums. The only thing left to try is flash the modem but I'd rather ask before I brick my phone
I'm not quite sure if this is the same issue every single time or if in my case it is due to my ignorance and errors. I was an iphone/unlock/jailbreak user until last year so please bear with me. Android is new and fun (but scary) territory to me.
Situation, what I did and possible mistakes on my side:
-I'm in Spain but I bought my factory unlocked phone on amazon and it was for the Polish market (GT-I9505 Black, 16 Gb)
-My device was rooted don't even remember how I did it last year so no useful info on that side a part of using odin for windows.
- Until yesterday I was on jellybean, not quite sure if 4.2.2 or 4.3
- Yesterday I upgraded to 4.4.2 via mobile odin and yes I checked the boxes about clearing/deleting cache or whatever it's called.
- Used a stock firmware downloaded from other site (that one starting with "S" and with a great amount of firmwares for samsung devices of several countries)
- I chose a firmware randomly (maybe this was my mistake) because I hade read that the firmware was not that important and people where usimg leaked german firmwares on on phones from elsewhere. But I did choose one that matched the country of my phone (XEO/XX Poland)
- Everything is working fine but without wifi I'm buying new Mb bundles almost every 2 hours and I'll be broke very soon
If you guys think the solution is flashing the modem which file should I use? I see lots of them with different models/codes and I'm completely lost and have read a lot about messing with bootloaders/modems etc bricking devices so I'm freaking scared and ask for your charitative help!
All the info I could gather about my device right now (now I know I should have gathered this info also before attempting to upgrade but it's too late now!
SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 GT-I9505 Black Edition
Manufacturing date: 2013-12-23
BASEBAND Version: I9505XXUEMK8
BOOTLOADER Version:I9505XXUEMK8
PDA Version: I9505XXUGNG8
CSC Version: I9505YXZGNH2
Kernel: 3.4.0-2309103
KOT49H-I9505UGNG8
Android 4.4.2
Product code: GT2I9505ZKAXEO
Original CSC: XEO
Firmsware's CSC: XEO
Active CSC code: XEO
CSC Country: Poland
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I feel so dumb and frustrated right now that any joke or insult would be accepted with humbleness lol
Forgot to add I used the *#0011# command and went to wifi menu. Tried the ping test and it states: passed
status: DISCONNECTED
SSID: Unknown SSID
( In case this info is of any use )
voxel.xyz said:
Forgot to add I used the *#0011# command and went to wifi menu. Tried the ping test and it states: passed
status: DISCONNECTED
SSID: Unknown SSID
( In case this info is of any use )
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Relax it has solution . The problem becomes coz the baseband and the bootloader are olds (android 4.3).
SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 GT-I9505 Black Edition
BASEBAND Version: I9505XXUEMK8
BOOTLOADER Version:I9505XXUEMK8
PDA Version: I9505XXUGNG8
CSC Version: I9505YXZGNH2
* Quick solution for recover WIFI:
1. Reflash the STOCK I9505XXUGNG8 (XEO) firmware via ODIN.
2. Let the process finish and reboot normally.
3. Dial *#1234# and have to appear this:
AP: I9505XXUGNG8
CP: I9505XXUGNG8
CSC: I9505YXZGNH2
4. Reflash again if not. Good luck
Thank you so much for your helpful reply Joku1981 !!!!! You made my day!!!
Can I do that with Mobile Odin??? My PC broke (Graphics card burnt) and until a couple of months won't be able to buy a new one.
To make sure I understand you: You mean Flash again the same firmware I used to upgrade to 4.4.2 in the first place?
I used this Firmware: I9505XXUGNG8_I9505YXZGNH2_XEO
should I try Flashing that same Stock Firmware again? and if does not work keep reflashing until the baseband and the bootloader get updated?
Why did they not update ? is this common or an error on my side???
I hope it can be done with mobile Odin since I can keep my root status, If I have to do it in Desktop Odin do I have to Re-Root after flashing???
Thank you so much for you kind help!!!!!!
Joku1981 said:
Relax it has solution . The problem becomes coz the baseband and the bootloader are olds (android 4.3).
SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 GT-I9505 Black Edition
BASEBAND Version: I9505XXUEMK8
BOOTLOADER Version:I9505XXUEMK8
PDA Version: I9505XXUGNG8
CSC Version: I9505YXZGNH2
* Quick solution for recover WIFI:
1. Reflash the STOCK I9505XXUGNG8 (XEO) firmware via ODIN.
2. Let the process finish and reboot normally.
3. Dial *#1234# and have to appear this:
AP: I9505XXUGNG8
CP: I9505XXUGNG8
CSC: I9505YXZGNH2
4. Reflash again if not. Good luck
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SOLVED!!!!!
After nobody answered if I could use again "mobile Odin" to flash once more and try to fix my wifi not working I opened mobile odin and it gave me a warning about my version and having a wrong bootloader as a possibility of soft bricking my phone so I decided to stay away of mobile Odin this time.
I used desktop Odin (at work since my pc broke) and exactly the same firmware file downloaded from sammobile (but re-downloaded it just in case) and had to flash twice, the first time it went through the whole process ok right until the end where it showed the FAIL message.
I didn't know if I should turn off the phone stuck in download mode and with the process bar at 100 % or retry flashing without turning it off. So I decided not to turn it off (afraid it would get soft bricked or something). I closed mobile Odin but left phone On with download mode screen active and opened mobile Odin again got the "added"message and the blue color showing it was properly connected to the phone and started flashing process again....
I started getting red error messages saying the progress bar display was wrong (and it wasn't updating/kept stuck in the previous 100%) but after it finished it was flashed and everything was ok. WIFI WORKED!!!!!!
Now the weird part.....in case this happens /helps someone else:
- My phone DID NOT get wiped. My launcher and my apps stayed intact (I thought flashing even the same firmware always wiped data, I'm I wrong???)
- All my root apps (root explorer, titanium backup, so on and so forth) where there and working fine. One root checker stated I was rooted and another one stated I wasn't but even my launcher (nova) was working just as if I never flashed the phone.
- Since I was unsure of my "root" state and I did not have "supersu" app in my apps drawer I tried installing it via playstore but It always gave an error message (the application could not be installed in the default location)
- I rooted again just in case and the root process finished without errors but still I had no "supersu" app and one root checker said I was rooted and the other I wasn't. Tried installing "supersu" from the playstore but same error and could not get installed.
- I searched here and in other forums for similar problems/solutions but nothing worked until I tried several things that fixed the problem. Not really sure which fixed it so I will write them down in the order I did them:
1. Opened folder mount which I already had installed and it gave me an error and asked me to try the fix which I did.
2. Opened linked2sd which I already had installed also previous to the firmware flash. It gave me an error and asked me which was the partition to use (as when I first installed it) in my case it was ext4. And it seemed to start working as it normally does. No further error when reopening it.
3. Rebooted the phone and tried entering recovery mode to wipe cache etc but It never entered recovery mode. I get the message about going into recovery mode (top left corner small red letters) But right after that it reboots and I get the samsung logo and my home screen.
4. Tried reinstalling supersu again and no success. (By the way before I did all this steps I tried rooting again but got to the same point. No supersu on my apps drawer)
5. Downloaded BusyBox install (opened it but did not use it in any way, maybe something in the installation fixed my problem)
6. Opened mobile Odin just for curiosity sake and it opened fine and asked for downloading of the extra stuff as when I installed it the first time. After that I closed it
7. Rebooted normally (no recovery mode since I'm stuck without it)
8. Tried installing "supersu" and NOW it worked!!!
9. Checked in both root checker apps and both confirm I'm rooted and supersu started asking for granting permissions to apps again as it normally does!
10. Everytime I attempted flash, root, and even after some reboots I took the battery off (since I read in several threads it helped/was mandatory)
Conclusion now my WIFI problem is fixed, my root problem (that appeared doing the reflash for fixing my wifi problem) is also fixed. The only thing I could not fix is not being able to get into recovery mode.
Does anyone know a solution for recovering the ability to get into recovery mode????
Thanks to Joku for lighting me into re flashing once and again until my wifi was fixed!
hello all i really need all you guys help
i flashed the cm11 snapshot onto phone using cwm and it stopped half way through or more or less straightaway and gave me the reactivation lock error and then wouldnt go into recovery.
after using xda i found out to use download mode but cancel for it to restart phone and it did.
now get this
kernel is not seandroid enforcing
Set Warranty Bit: kernel
but after doing a factory reset it now goes as far as the boot logo and just sits there for a while although i can get into recovery and dl mode which im pleased to say.
im now downloading N9005XXUBMJ3_N9005OXABMJ3_BTU.zip for my device hoping that this will get me back up and running again and ive also been to google drive as had a online backup on there so re downloaded it to my computer and moved over to sd card which again i hope will help me get out of trouble but i really need your help to make sure i dint brick my device as just paid 150 for it from my mother so would be gutted if did that please please advise asap before i do something silly in my haste to get phone upo and running thanks
got it working again
i flashed a file through odin not any of the ones above
Model SM-N9005
Model name GALAXY Note 3 LTE
Country United Kingdom
Version Android 4.4.2
Changelist 1955971
Build date Mon, 28 Jul 2014 12:56:29 +0000
Product code BTU
PDA N9005XXUGNG1
CSC N9005OXAGNG1
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/33677/N9005XXUGNG1_N9005OXAGNG1_BTU/ good luck anyone with this same problem so happy now not touching phone no more ha ha