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[Q] Stuck on custom screen after ODIN?

Hey guys,
I flashed back to stock with ODIN. Everything passes. But when the phone reboots it comes up with Samsung custom logo and seems to get stuck there? Any ideas?
EDIT: this is the ATT I337, I have flashed with ODIN before and it worked out fine. I am doing everything I normally did.

evolution2012 said:
Hey guys,
I flashed back to stock with ODIN. Everything passes. But when the phone reboots it comes up with Samsung custom logo and seems to get stuck there? Any ideas?
EDIT: this is the ATT I337, I have flashed with ODIN before and it worked out fine. I am doing everything I normally did.
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Have you made any changes since you last used ODIN? Did you flash a different version? How long are you waiting?

hamzer11 said:
Have you made any changes since you last used ODIN? Did you flash a different version? How long are you waiting?
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I waited like 3 minutes or so. But it never passes the custom Samsung screen at boot. Maybe I need to give it more time? I flashed Loki and I installed slimbean. Slimbean was a little buggy as it is still in beta so I went to restore my recovery. My recovery was missing from TWRP so I tried flashing back to stock odin to start over from square one.
I am using ODIN 3.07 on a PC running Windows 8. If I find out that all i have to do is wait longer I am gonna feel like an idiot lol.

evolution2012 said:
I waited like 3 minutes or so. But it never passes the custom Samsung screen at boot. Maybe I need to give it more time? I flashed Loki and I installed slimbean. Slimbean was a little buggy as it is still in beta so I went to restore my recovery. My recovery was missing from TWRP so I tried flashing back to stock odin to start over from square one.
I am using ODIN 3.07 on a PC running Windows 8. If I find out that all i have to do is wait longer I am gonna feel like an idiot lol.
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Initial boots can be long but I don't know about more than 3 minutes? Not really sure about what happens if you ODiN back after TWRP? I'll let more technical folks take a stab at it. It can't hurt to wait though.

Well I don't know what was ailing the odin flash, but I just used Kies emergency recovery and all is fine now. Weird... Appreciate your help.

evolution2012 said:
Well I don't know what was ailing the odin flash, but I just used Kies emergency recovery and all is fine now. Weird... Appreciate your help.
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Question for you, does recovering this way wipe everything? Apps, root, settings, all mods? Just want to know for my own reference.

hamzer11 said:
Question for you, does recovering this way wipe everything? Apps, root, settings, all mods? Just want to know for my own reference.
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This was my first time ever using KIES recovery. As far as I could tell everything is wiped. I did a factory reset afterwards just to be safe so I can't say with 100% certainty. I had the custom logo after reboot for 10 seconds, then after a manual reboot it boots regularly without the custom logo.

Phone Won't Boot After Installing Hide It Pro

Help...
I had a working phone with 3.0 golden eye.
I had installed Hide it Pro and File Hide it.
I was able to use the File Hide it but after reboot, the screen got stock at Samsung S4 Logo screen and I tried to restore and was TWRP says restored but during reboot it will get stock still at the Samsung S4 logo.
Now, I am trying desperately how to even just make it work.
I remember last time I had installed Hide It Pro and it also got my older phone get stock in the same situation and had used a different ROM.
this is the 2nd phone that is stock after installing Hide It Pro.
Any suggestions on how to revive my phone?
I am currently downloading the stock "I337UCUAMDB_I337ATTAMDB_ATT.zip" and will try to Odin it.
I am looking to use the later UCUADML stock rom.
Thank you.

qwer43 said:
Help...
I had a working phone with 3.0 golden eye.
I had installed Hide it Pro and File Hide it.
I was able to use the File Hide it but after reboot, the screen got stock at Samsung S4 Logo screen and I tried to restore and was TWRP says restored but during reboot it will get stock still at the Samsung S4 logo.
Now, I am trying desperately how to even just make it work.
I remember last time I had installed Hide It Pro and it also got my older phone get stock in the same situation and had used a different ROM.
this is the 2nd phone that is stock after installing Hide It Pro.
Any suggestions on how to revive my phone?
I am currently downloading the stock "I337UCUAMDB_I337ATTAMDB_ATT.zip" and will try to Odin it.
I am looking to use the later UCUADML stock rom.
Thank you.
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Actually have you tried a factory reset yet? I would try that first before Odin.
That will work, make sure after you odin, you do a factory reset, or you will still see the same issue, odin does NOT do a factory reset.
Good luck.

head over to http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares. you'll have to register as a user but they have the MDL firmware you are looking for.

xBeerdroiDx said:
head over to http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares. you'll have to register as a user but they have the MDL firmware you are looking for.
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I will check this link too. Thanks.

TheAxman said:
Actually have you tried a factory reset yet? I would try that first before Odin.
That will work, make sure after you odin, you do a factory reset, or you will still see the same issue, odin does NOT do a factory reset.
Good luck.
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You are right. I did a factory reset first, did not work so my last resort was ODIN.
I did ODIN and I was able to see the apps and play with it. after reboot, got stock again at Samsung Galaxy S4 logo.
I wil ODIN again and after reboot in the phone, I will do a factory reset since I believe the phone is non-rooted at this point.
I will post back what happens.
Thanks.

qwer43 said:
You are right. I did a factory reset first, did not work so my last resort was ODIN.
I did ODIN and I was able to see the apps and play with it. after reboot, got stock again at Samsung Galaxy S4 logo.
I wil ODIN again and after reboot in the phone, I will do a factory reset since I believe the phone is non-rooted at this point.
I will post back what happens.
Thanks.
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It's getting frustrating.
I had ODIN my phone, reboot and factory reset by using the vol up+power+home.
stock was fine.
rooted the phone and installed SHOstock 2.0 by wiping all including format data.
at first reboot, gets stock on the samsung logo...
what else can I do to fix this even if i had already rolled it back to stock/factory reset?
Thank you.

qwer43 said:
It's getting frustrating.
I had ODIN my phone, reboot and factory reset by using the vol up+power+home.
stock was fine.
rooted the phone and installed SHOstock 2.0 by wiping all including format data.
at first reboot, gets stock on the samsung logo...
what else can I do to fix this even if i had already rolled it back to stock/factory reset?
Thank you.
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Flash the KT att loki kernel and see what happens, it will boot.

TheAxman said:
Flash the KT att loki kernel and see what happens, it will boot.
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What is the "KT att loki kernel"? I tried searching for these strings "KT att loki kernel" but nothing relevant.
I would appreciate your assistance.
Thank you.

qwer43 said:
What is the "KT att loki kernel"? I tried searching for these strings "KT att loki kernel" but nothing relevant.
I would appreciate your assistance.
Thank you.
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I have now Goldern 3.0 ROM but after the 1st boot, it is stock again at the logo.
Will the "KT att loki kernel" all ROMs?
Thank you.

here's the link to KT's kernel thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2292341
there are 2 kernels. download the correct one for your type of firmware (touchwiz or aosp).
cheers

xBeerdroiDx said:
here's the link to KT's kernel thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2292341
there are 2 kernels. download the correct one for your type of firmware (touchwiz or aosp).
cheers
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I had downloaded AOSP kernel. I have this ROM "
[ROM]★GOLDENEYE★[ATT&CAN][►XXUBMF8◄][APPS2SD][JB][TW][4.2.2][LOKi'D][July.14.13]"
Flashed it.
While clearing Cache/Dalvik, ok
Fix permission : ok
Reboot. it showed logo then phone turned-off screen, no response...
help.... needed...

You downloaded the aosp kernel and flashed it on a touchwiz (TW) rom. Can you get into recovery mode?

xBeerdroiDx said:
You downloaded the aosp kernel and flashed it on a touchwiz (TW) rom. Can you get into recovery mode?
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Ooops, my bad. Golden ROM is a Touchwiz?
I will try to recover it and flash the Touchwiz Kernel.
going back to original issue.
AFter I had ODIN my phone and flashed a new ROM, I should not be having these issues(?). right?

qwer43 said:
Ooops, my bad. Golden ROM is a Touchwiz?
I will try to recover it and flash the Touchwiz Kernel.
going back to original issue.
AFter I had ODIN my phone and flashed a new ROM, I should not be having these issues(?). right?
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I had ODIN it again.
After reset/reboot, since it is connected to my pc the invisible batter in the background appears and does nothing after the ATT logo with sounds came out.
disconnected from pc and tried to reboot. it will only show the logo during power button push, release the power button and the logo disappears and dies.

qwer43 said:
I had ODIN it again.
After reset/reboot, since it is connected to my pc the invisible batter in the background appears and does nothing after the ATT logo with sounds came out.
disconnected from pc and tried to reboot. it will only show the logo during power button push, release the power button and the logo disappears and dies.
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I tried reboot in recover, power+vol up and home, the phone will show the logo and release power and it dies, does not continue to recovery.
Is there any other way to recover the phone?
Thank you.

qwer43 said:
I tried reboot in recover, power+vol up and home, the phone will show the logo and release power and it dies, does not continue to recovery.
Is there any other way to recover the phone?
Thank you.
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my bad again...
battery was dead.
now, after ODIN, I am in stock ROM, none rooted.
restarted = ok
power off > start = ok
next rooting steps.
what I can't understand is when flashing a new ROM will start to freeze at start-up... ???

qwer43 said:
my bad again...
battery was dead.
now, after ODIN, I am in stock ROM, none rooted.
restarted = ok
power off > start = ok
next rooting steps.
what I can't understand is when flashing a new ROM will start to freeze at start-up... ???
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because you must use a kernel for your device...PERIOD! If you do not, you will hang at boot.

[HARD/SOFT-BRICKED after System Wipe]

Hey,
today I changed some settings in my phone and then I got a systemUI error, which I couldn't close etc., so I had to factory reset, which I did, but it didn't worked.
As I had the EchoeRom on my SD-Card, I just decided to flash it with TWRP-Recovery.
I don't know how or why... but somehow I did a system wipe too. This shouldn't be a problem as I just were about to flash the new Rom.
After flashing the EchoeRom I had some trouble with recognizing the SIM-Card, so I removed this ROM too..
So I flashed the original stock ROM with Odin and the S4 boots up and optimizes the apps.
THE PROBLEM NOW OCCURS:
I get into the language selection screen and it doesn't care if i hit anything or not. After 3-5 seconds the phone shuts down by itself and gets into some weird boot-loop with vibration, shining samsung logo and also blinking soft-touch keys.
I think I messed up something with bootloader etc.?
Thanks a lot in advance for your help!

Just reflash the rom or try a different rom and you will be fine.

Lennyz1988 said:
Just reflash the rom or try a different rom and you will be fine.
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Any other ideas?

GalaxyS4_Ahmet said:
Any other ideas?
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Have you tried another ROM?
Would try to do a logcat to get the reason for the reboot.

FuPete said:
Have you tried another ROM?
Would try to do a logcat to get the reason for the reboot.
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Got it working by flashing the rom several times and doing reboots into the recovery before booting into system, after i flashed a new rom.
Thanks !

GalaxyS4_Ahmet said:
Got it working by flashing the rom several times and doing reboots into the recovery before booting into system, after i flashed a new rom.
Thanks !
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Flash stock
Boot your phone
Go into download mode again.
Uncheck autoreboot on odin
Flash stock again
Let it stay idle for 2-3 minuted.
Turn on.
"If someone helps, never forget to hit thanks ? "

What is wrong with my i9505?

What i have done here is installed a custom ROM via twrp and upon reboot to system, i get this (see attachment). Constant bootloops after the weird pixelation.
Installing stock ROM via Odin yields a bootloop on initial boot.
Tried stock recovery and wipe data (success), wipe cache partition (reboot).
Something must be broken somewhere. Can anyone point me in the right direction for a fix?
My phone can access recovery (twrp) and can access download mode.

That happens only when trying to boot into a ROM?

GDReaper said:
That happens only when trying to boot into a ROM?
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The greenish pixelation happens initially. Then the succeeding restarts would hang on the ROM bootscreen then restarts again.
I will try using CWM recovery if there is any improvement.

Been trying to flash from odin, cwm, twrp and it seems my official ROM or custom ROM "does not stick". Yes it loads correctly, completes successfully in the logs but when it is time for the initial bootup and installation process, i get constant reboots and never finishing the installation.
Does anyone have an idea if this is a hardware or software issue?

You need to flash a total stock ROM via Odin.

skezza said:
You need to flash a total stock ROM via Odin.
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I did that and also tried it with a PIT file and Re-partition ticked. Same results.

Looks like it could be hardware damage then. Did you drop your phone at all? That seriously looks like a messed up digitizer/panel.

robcore said:
Looks like it could be hardware damage then. Did you drop your phone at all? That seriously looks like a messed up digitizer/panel.
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I can confirm it is not the screen since when i boot to recovery, everything is fine and clear. I kind of gave up and bought a motherboard online. Still waiting for its arrival.

That's crazy strange eh? How much did the mobo run you?
Sent from my GT-I9505 using XDA Forums

robcore said:
That's crazy strange eh? How much did the mobo run you?
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$38 - 2nd hand.

Softish Brick Recovery i9505 int

Hi,
My i9505 Intl (Australian Telstra LTE) SGS4 has been rooted for a year at least now, and recently (a few months) had TWRP recovery and CM13 installed and everything was going great. I loved CM!
Anyway I had done a few nightly patches of CM and all seemed good and then a week ago I installed the most recent nightly (possibly this one cm-13.0-20160819-NIGHTLY-jfltexx-recovery.img ). Well the subsequent reboot put the phone into a boot loop. So I thought no problem just boot to recovery and install my recent Nandroid back up. So did that but in my haste didn't clear cache or data. The nandroid reinstall seemed to go ok but a subsequent boot hung at the CM logo (I think it was a while ago now) and I couldn't boot to recovery, just hung with the blue text.
So I fired up Odin and booted to download and reflashed with TWRP. Boot to recovery still didn't work however I could still boot to download.
Tried different USB ports, different versions of Odin, re installed drivers to no avail. Also tried CWM, TWRP and Philz recovery and once I did get it to boot to recovery with Philz. THIS TIME cleared cache and data and loaded a good copy of CM that I had on my SD card. Again stuck in boot. Couldn't get back to recovery.
Tried loading the orginal samsung firmware and they I was stuck with a Samsung logo boot looping. Ditto recovery just hung at the logo and the blue text "recovery booting".
Rinse and repeat a few times and now the phone has started to become difficult to get into download or recovery. If I leave it with the battery out for a while it seems to come good again.
Odin when flashing a new recovery either hangs half way though or completes and says everything is OK. Full blue bar on the phone.
Rebooting however still leaves me in the boot loop.
There is no mention on Odin of any issues with the partition however I have d/l a PIT file from one of samersh72's posts but am not sure if it is the correct one for my Int phone or indeed if I need to use it as Odin doesn't seem to report any partition errors.
If any one has any suggestions I am very receptive to ideas right now.....
Thanks

Did you perform a factory wipe after flashing stock before booting the rom for the first time?

audit13 said:
Did you perform a factory wipe after flashing stock before booting the rom for the first time?
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I did a factory wipe and then installed CM from my SD card but that is the only time I have able to get into recovery since the first time when I reloaded my nandroid backup

Did you try flashing recovery without selecting auto reboot? Once flashed, remove USB cable, remove battery, replace battery, try to boot into recovery.

audit13 said:
Did you try flashing recovery without selecting auto reboot? Once flashed, remove USB cable, remove battery, replace battery, try to boot into recovery.
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Yup tried that, as I realised that the auto boot might be overwriting the custom recovery...........however as a new development I haven't been able to boot to download or even the stuck recovery since yesterday.
I think it has now moved to a full hard brick

Is still turns on? You have a USB jig to try?

audit13 said:
Is still turns on? You have a USB jig to try?
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No I don't have one but I have all the makings of one so i'll put one together and give it a go. Though I have to say that I am not that hopeful as I can't even get a peep out of it now.

A jig may be the last solution before sending it for repair or replacing the motherboard.

audit13 said:
A jig may be the last solution before sending it for repair or replacing the motherboard.
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Thanks Audit, Ill let you know how I get on. Just looked at some replacement motherboards and they don't seem too common for the LTE version used here in Australia AND USD60......pretty much get a working phone locally here on ebay for that and I get the rest of the parts too.

Have you tried already flashing a stock rom as a tar file from sammobile?

justgamer01 said:
Have you tried already flashing a stock rom as a tar file from sammobile?
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Yup did that as well!

Ghostdog1 said:
Yup did that as well!
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I'm not sure if it will work! But try emergency recovery with Smart Switch!

justgamer01 said:
I'm not sure if it will work! But try emergency recovery with Smart Switch!
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With Smartswitch I get the same outcome as with Kires
"GT-I9505 does not support initialising. Please contact our service centre."
But on the plus side it is actually responding to button presses today. I will pick up some 100K resistors tomorrow and finish off my USB jig. See how that goes.

Well it appears to have finally died fully. No response to any button or combination of button presses. Made up a USB jig but without some response to a boot that won't work either.
Thanks to Audit and Justgamer for your advice. Think it is time to draw a line under this one and move on. Maybe a new Nexus when they drop?