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[Q] Galaxy S4 Bricked!!!

Hi. So i've got an issue with my galaxy s4 9505. I cant get into recovery just download mode, and when i try to use odin to flash a firmware custom or stock or kernel it doesnt pass the( NAND write start) and i get the FAIL message. I forgot to tell you that when the phone is not in the download mode it shows on the main screen the following message( Firmware upgrade encountered an issue.Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again.) and it doesnt turn off. What can i do??? Please help.

demoskino said:
Hi. So i've got an issue with my galaxy s4 9505. I cant get into recovery just download mode, and when i try to use odin to flash a firmware custom or stock or kernel it doesnt pass the( NAND write start) and i get the FAIL message. I forgot to tell you that when the phone is not in the download mode it shows on the main screen the following message( Firmware upgrade encountered an issue.Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again.) and it doesnt turn off. What can i do??? Please help.
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KIES running in background as process?
Tried another USB cable?
Tried to use another USB slot?
In order to turn it off ... did you try to push Powerbutton and hold it pressed until re-boot?
BTW what did you do to get into this situation?

demoskino said:
Hi. So i've got an issue with my galaxy s4 9505. I cant get into recovery just download mode, and when i try to use odin to flash a firmware custom or stock or kernel it doesnt pass the( NAND write start) and i get the FAIL message. I forgot to tell you that when the phone is not in the download mode it shows on the main screen the following message( Firmware upgrade encountered an issue.Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again.) and it doesnt turn off. What can i do??? Please help.
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Try flashing a Stock ROM with ODIN
PS: Give more informations please

hi
​Thank you for your quick reply. Fortunately i've resolved the issue. Indeed i've flashed a stock rooted rom(XXBMEA) and it worked. Unfortunately my goal was to flash the new Omega v5.0 rom but it looks like i cant flash the new TWRP 2.5.0 kernel. I can flash it successfuly but nothing happens. Can you please help me in this sittuation. At this momment Im using the XXBMEA stock rooted rom with the wifi and data fully working. So i think i could flash at any momment the Omega rom if i could flash a working TWRP or any other way if u know. Please help me.

demoskino said:
​Thank you for your quick reply. Fortunately i've resolved the issue. Indeed i've flashed a stock rooted rom(XXBMEA) and it worked. Unfortunately my goal was to flash the new Omega v5.0 rom but it looks like i cant flash the new TWRP 2.5.0 kernel. I can flash it successfuly but nothing happens. Can you please help me in this sittuation. At this momment Im using the XXBMEA stock rooted rom with the wifi and data fully working. So i think i could flash at any momment the Omega rom if i could flash a working TWRP or any other way if u know. Please help me.
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Maybe you should change thread title from "[Q] Galaxy S4 Bricked!!!" to "How do I flash Omega v5.0 rom without bricking my S4"

hi
Thank you for your quick reply. You were much helpfull...

demoskino said:
​Thank you for your quick reply. Fortunately i've resolved the issue. Indeed i've flashed a stock rooted rom(XXBMEA) and it worked. Unfortunately my goal was to flash the new Omega v5.0 rom but it looks like i cant flash the new TWRP 2.5.0 kernel. I can flash it successfuly but nothing happens. Can you please help me in this sittuation. At this momment Im using the XXBMEA stock rooted rom with the wifi and data fully working. So i think i could flash at any momment the Omega rom if i could flash a working TWRP or any other way if u know. Please help me.
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Try flashing CWM.
I like it better than TWRP

hi
tiaolipa said:
Try flashing CWM.
I like it better than TWRP
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Thank you for your help. It worked flawlessly.

demoskino said:
Thank you for your help. It worked flawlessly.
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Great! I'm glad it did!

Galaxy S4 bricked?

Hey guys,
I got jamals google edition installed on my S4 and when I forgot to charge it and I started the device I got a bootloop. I dont know why, but I also could´t get into the recovery mode, so I flashed an originial Samsung firmwar via Odin on my S4 (4.4.2)
After that, it restarted but I got a "android.process.acore has stopped" message and I couldn't use the S4 because the message kept popping up and the S4 automatically restarted and when it restarted the message appeared again, so i had a very strange loop i couldnt interrupt. So i flashed another 4.4.2 firmware and also again the same firmware, but nothing helped, I still got the message and the S4 kept restarting.
So I flashed the Omega Pre-rooted 4.4.2 firmware via odin (and the exact same thing happened). But whats strange is, that before it started it said "updating 1 of 172 apps) so that must mean, that even though I flashed 3 firmwares via Odin, my apps somehow stayed on the S4? And also the wallpaper was the same wallpaper I had before, what was very strange.
Then I installed Philz CWM Recovery because I waned to perform a factory reset. But after I installed it and tried to get into recovery mode, I couldn't and only this was displayed :
Recovery Booting...
Recovery is not Seandroid Enforcing
Set Warranty Bit: recovery
So it seems like nothing works and I'm getting really desperate, does anyone of you has an idea how to fix this? Otherwise I guess my S4 is bricked
Regards and thanks for your help

Flash latest firmware via odin with auto reboot option unchecked and before u boot into os simply open stock recovery and perform a factory reset.. hope it will help u..
Sent from my GT-I9500

coolkoushik07 said:
Flash latest firmware via odin with auto reboot option unchecked and before u boot into os simply open stock recovery and perform a factory reset.. hope it will help u..
Sent from my GT-I9500
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Thx, I'll give it a try! Could you maybe tell me, where I get the latest firmware?

coolkoushik07 said:
Flash latest firmware via odin with auto reboot option unchecked and before u boot into os simply open stock recovery and perform a factory reset.. hope it will help u..
Sent from my GT-I9500
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Thx man it worked :good:

thomas333 said:
Thx man it worked :good:
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Glad to know that it worked...
Sent from my GT-I9500

I'm assuming you know about KNOX now that you've flashed an official firmware you will have KNOX and you've already tripped KNOX by installing recovery but you won't be able to use a lower version firmware just bare that in mind when flashing official stock again.
Sent from my GT-I9505G using Tapatalk

[Q] GT-I9505 stuck at boot screen, No Recovery

Hi all.
I have big problems with a Galaxy S4 (GT-I9505).
A friend gave it to me becouse it doesnt start anymore. He was licen to Musik whan the screen turn black and the phone doesnt start anymore.
So it stucks at Bootscreen. I can start Odin mode and i tryied to flash CWM and TW Recovery. Also i tried to flash original Rom from Sammobile.
Odin passes with the recoveries but it doesnt work. The rom failed.
I got a error message when i try to start recovery mode.
Recovery Booting
Recovery is not seandroid enforcing
Set Warranty Bit: recovery
I cant get into fastboot mode. The informations in the Internet are that there is no fastbootmode for the gt-i9505.
Is there anybody who can help me? And sorry for my bad english

ScO_oT said:
Hi all.
I have big problems with a Galaxy S4 (GT-I9505).
A friend gave it to me becouse it doesnt start anymore. He was licen to Musik whan the screen turn black and the phone doesnt start anymore.
So it stucks at Bootscreen. I can start Odin mode and i tryied to flash CWM and TW Recovery. Also i tried to flash original Rom from Sammobile.
Odin passes with the recoveries but it doesnt work. The rom failed.
I got a error message when i try to start recovery mode.
Recovery Booting
Recovery is not seandroid enforcing
Set Warranty Bit: recovery
I cant get into fastboot mode. The informations in the Internet are that there is no fastbootmode for the gt-i9505.
Is there anybody who can help me? And sorry for my bad english
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Hi mate,
Some more information would be nice.
Which was the latest firmware and which version did you want to flash?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2265477
Take a look at this, especially to the "Odin troubleshooting" part.
Sent from my Galaxy S4 using Tapatalk

DarkerTimes said:
Hi mate,
Some more information would be nice.
Which was the latest firmware and which version did you want to flash?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2265477
Take a look at this, especially to the "Odin troubleshooting" part.
Sent from my Galaxy S4 using Tapatalk
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Hey. Thank you for the answere.
I tried to flash I9505XXUGNF6_I9505DREGNF2_I9505XXUGNF6_HOME.tar
The latest firmware was 4.2.2 (Austria 3)
I tried now another Odin version and i flashed it with PID file. The only result is that i get a recovery booting
in the top left corner but it still stucks... i cannot open recovery to wipe cache / factory reset.
The last thing i tried was to flash the original recovery. <- back to the 3 errors.
now i try another odin software with another usb port. odin passes with everything but i cannot open recovery. just stuck at Recovery Booting

ScO_oT said:
Hey. Thank you for the answere.
I tried to flash I9505XXUGNF6_I9505DREGNF2_I9505XXUGNF6_HOME.tar
The latest firmware was 4.2.2 (Austria 3)
I tried now another Odin version and i flashed it with PID file. The only result is that i get a recovery booting
in the top left corner but it still stucks... i cannot open recovery to wipe cache / factory reset.
The last thing i tried was to flash the original recovery. <- back to the 3 errors.
now i try another odin software with another usb port. odin passes with everything but i cannot open recovery. just stuck at Recovery Booting
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Hi,
does Odin give a fail log? Or does it finish successfully?
Which Odin versions did you try?
And the firmware you want to flash now is a Austria 3 one as well? You can also take another version (but still with the same csc) in case that your current one is damaged or something like this.
Sent from my Galaxy S4 using Tapatalk

DarkerTimes said:
Hi,
does Odin give a fail log? Or does it finish successfully?
Which Odin versions did you try?
And the firmware you want to flash now is a Austria 3 one as well? You can also take another version (but still with the same csc) in case that your current one is damaged or something like this.
Sent from my Galaxy S4 using Tapatalk
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Hi again.
I used Odin 3.04 and 1.85. Also i tried diffrent USB Ports.
I tried to flash CWM 6.0.4.7 Touch and Non Touch, also twrp.
It passes with all the recoverys as well with the rom from sammobile and the stock recovery rom from the other tread.
i tried with and without pit file. Odin passes everytime.
Afther restarting the phone i just get the blue (booting recovery) or the 3 error messages in the top left corner and it stucks for hours.
Iam not able to boot recovery and wipe the cache... and iam not able to boot into the system do something else.
the only thing working is the download mode.
iam out of ideas.

ScO_oT said:
Hi again.
I used Odin 3.04 and 1.85. Also i tried diffrent USB Ports.
I tried to flash CWM 6.0.4.7 Touch and Non Touch, also twrp.
It passes with all the recoverys as well with the rom from sammobile and the stock recovery rom from the other tread.
i tried with and without pit file. Odin passes everytime.
Afther restarting the phone i just get the blue (booting recovery) or the 3 error messages in the top left corner and it stucks for hours.
Iam not able to boot recovery and wipe the cache... and iam not able to boot into the system do something else.
the only thing working is the download mode.
iam out of ideas.
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You can try to flash a three or four part firmware with Odin 3.09, it will wipe your device itselfs
Sent from my Galaxy S4 using Tapatalk

Try flashing the recovery again with auto-reboot unchecked.
But it sounds more like a hardware failure to me.

Thank you all for your help.
And yes. It was a Hardware failure.

sm-g900f - trying to flash image via Odin

Hi all
I have a really weird problem with an S5 SM-G900F. I am trying to install to it via Odin a recovery and also root the phone.
I have used various versions of Odin.
The issue is that Odin works fine - we get the phone detected, we install the image, the green status appears and the phone reboots.
When the phone reboots, it doesn't do any installing - it just reboots back into the old rom.
I've Googled for ages and can't find out what the reason is for this problem.
Basically, Odin seems to work, but it's as if the image isn't booted, or written to the phone.
Not sure what else to do. I have tried running the same TWRP and root install to another S5 with no problems. Can someone help?
thanks in advance

scatat said:
Hi all
I have a really weird problem with an S5 SM-G900F. I am trying to install to it via Odin a recovery and also root the phone.
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When we install a custom recovery, and when we root a phone the ROM doesn't change.

I've found a post at last which helped the issue. It is ongoing as whenever I boot the phone normally, my custom recovery is overwritten.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...s/523843-odin-says-pass-but-doesn-t-work.html

Can't Handle It

Hello Guys, recently i was trying to install CMW recovery on my Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9505 via odin and it is not working so i researched and found that i can use "FLASHIFY" from playstore to flash the recovery. I flashed it successfully but when i rebooted the phone, it only boot to recovery. Nothing else just the recovery. I can't get out there. So i tried to flash firmware from sammobile and still it doesnt work. I really need your help.
Sorry for the bad English.

juicy777 said:
Hello Guys, recently i was trying to install CMW recovery on my Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9505 via odin and it is not working so i researched and found that i can use "FLASHIFY" from playstore to flash the recovery. I flashed it successfully but when i rebooted the phone, it only boot to recovery. Nothing else just the recovery. I can't get out there. So i tried to flash firmware from sammobile and still it doesnt work. I really need your help.
Sorry for the bad English.
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Do not use CWM it's outdated. Only use TWRP recovery.
So i tried to flash firmware from sammobile and still it doesnt work.
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Post the Odin log here.

For twrp, flash via Odin.
Before flashing, uncheck everything except f reset time. Flash and, when you see reset in the status window, remove USB cable from the phone, remove battery, replace battery, boot into twrp using buttons.