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[Q] Bricked my At&t galaxy s iii

So, I tried to root my phone using instructions here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1703488
I skimmed it the first time and missed the red, bold text saying not to use this on the US version and I also did not perform a backup, but thats in the past. Currently, it will boot, give me the Samsung logo and shutdown.
I'm sure this is wrong, so I hope someone can correct me.
-First, I need to find the correct rom(which I've been unable to do so far)
-I boot the phone into download mode(Vol down+home+power?) and plug it into my pc
-I open Odin, select the new rom as the pdf file, and press start.
Also, if I manage to screw this up again, would at&t be willing to help since its not totally bricked?

anonymous78 said:
So, I tried to root my phone using instructions here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1703488
I skimmed it the first time and missed the red, bold text saying not to use this on the US version and I also did not perform a backup, but thats in the past. Currently, it will boot, give me the Samsung logo and shutdown.
I'm sure this is wrong, so I hope someone can correct me.
-First, I need to find the correct rom(which I've been unable to do so far)
-I boot the phone into download mode(Vol down+home+power?) and plug it into my pc
-I open Odin, select the new rom as the pdf file, and press start.
Also, if I manage to screw this up again, would at&t be willing to help since its not totally bricked?
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Yes, this is correct. I would recommend looking on Sammobile and see if you can find a stock version for your phone model. You use the PDA file in ODIN, then you flash.
As for AT&T, I am not sure of their policy regarding software crashes on phones.

NightSkylar said:
Yes, this is correct. I would recommend looking on Sammobile and see if you can find a stock version for your phone model. You use the PDA file in ODIN, then you flash.
As for AT&T, I am not sure of their policy regarding software crashes on phones.
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I looked last night and I didn't see it (sgh-i747 right?). Some guides use a PIT file in odin as well, will I need this and where would I find it? If I can't get the stock rom are there any compatible custom ones you'd recommend?

anonymous78 said:
I looked last night and I didn't see it (sgh-i747 right?). Some guides use a PIT file in odin as well, will I need this and where would I find it? If I can't get the stock rom are there any compatible custom ones you'd recommend?
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Its rare that you would have to use a PIT File, mostly for the fact that it can mess up the bootloader.
As you have performed a soft brick, you likely do not have CWM, thus you cannot flash any custom firmware. *
My advice would be to wait to see if someone will upload the stock firmware for your model. I would also visit AT&T and say that your phone suffered a software crash.
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* However, it is possible to flash a custom ROM if they can be flashed VIA ODIN, such as the CM9 Resurrection edition. (Does not exist for the AT&T Edition just yet)

I considered going into the store and playing dumb, but I heard they just replace the phone on the spot and sometimes later check the bricked phone before fixing it. I don't want to risk receiving a $600 bill in two weeks.
Can they tell the difference in my case?

I doubt it, as they are not trained as samsung tech support is.
Go into download mode, at the top corner, you will see
Produit name:
Custom Binary download:
Current Binary:
System Status:
Can you tell me what those are on your device?

NightSkylar said:
I doubt it, as they are not trained as samsung tech support is.
Go into download mode, at the top corner, you will see
Produit name:
Custom Binary download:
Current Binary:
System Status:
Can you tell me what those are on your device?
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Product name: SGH-I747
Custom Binary download: yes(3 counts)
Current Binary: Custom
System Status: Official

In this case, as it is a custom Binary, it would most likely void your warranty. However, if they do not know how to check, then you should be good

So I went down to the at&t store and they couldn't do anything without sending it to tech or having them come in or something. She also said that if the warranty is void they won't do anything, not even for a fee.
I suppose I'll have to activate my old phone until the rom is released.

I'm sorry to hear that mate, but no worries, it wont be long till someone post's the official stock firmware

I hope you had taken a efs backup before this blunder.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using XDA

Man, I feel for you but just got to be patient with things like this. You're performing something that can and will damage your phone if you don't read the directions.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda app-developers app

[Q] Reset Samsung Galaxy S4 I9505

Hey,
I have following problem:
Few days ago I bought a Samsung Galaxy S4 Lte (I9505 jfltexx). I wanted to root it and then flash CM onto it.
Rooting went fine but when I flashed CM it aborted with Error 7. After that it was soft bricked but i managed to flash the Stock Rom back and everything was fine again.
But today I tried it again but got following problem. CWM was gone and i had to reflash it. But then everytime I tried to get into recovery mode the phone freezed at the "Samsung Galaxy S4 I9505" Logo with the little blue "recovery booting" in the left upper corner. I tried to flash CWM and also twr but it did not help.
SO my final thought was flashing the stock rom again to at least have a working phone. But when I tried to flash the Stock Rom ODIN failed and my phone gave this error "SW REV. CHECK FAIL : fused:2, Binary: 1".
Then every time it started it booted into download mode and said "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies & try again". I googled how I can solve this and someone said that it has something to do with root. So again I flashed the CF auto root and thank god it booted up normally.
But now my problem: I have no root on my phone(superSu says that there are no SU-binarys), I can't update my stock-firmware because the software update says that my phone has been changed. What can I do to 1. gain root access again 2. flash a custom rom(best would be SlimBean)?
Hope you can help me

lup3x said:
Hey,
I have following problem:
Few days ago I bought a Samsung Galaxy S4 Lte (I9505 jfltexx). I wanted to root it and then flash CM onto it.
Rooting went fine but when I flashed CM it aborted with Error 7. After that it was soft bricked but i managed to flash the Stock Rom back and everything was fine again.
But today I tried it again but got following problem. CWM was gone and i had to reflash it. But then everytime I tried to get into recovery mode the phone freezed at the "Samsung Galaxy S4 I9505" Logo with the little blue "recovery booting" in the left upper corner. I tried to flash CWM and also twr but it did not help.
SO my final thought was flashing the stock rom again to at least have a working phone. But when I tried to flash the Stock Rom ODIN failed and my phone gave this error "SW REV. CHECK FAIL : fused:2, Binary: 1".
Then every time it started it booted into download mode and said "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies & try again". I googled how I can solve this and someone said that it has something to do with root. So again I flashed the CF auto root and thank god it booted up normally.
But now my problem: I have no root on my phone(superSu says that there are no SU-binarys), I can't update my stock-firmware because the software update says that my phone has been changed. What can I do to 1. gain root access again 2. flash a custom rom(best would be SlimBean)?
Hope you can help me
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mate mine says the same as yours. so might just be because it failed not sure tho we will just have to wait and see if someone can come up with a answer. regards

joecool666 said:
mate mine says the same as yours. so might just be because it failed not sure tho we will just have to wait and see if someone can come up with a answer. regards
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thank god somebody with the same problem! Is your device rooted? because whenever i try to root it odin says pass and SuperSu is installed but the phone is not rooted

lup3x said:
thank god somebody with the same problem! Is your device rooted? because whenever i try to root it odin says pass and SuperSu is installed but the phone is not rooted
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not now its not. going to wait for c-f for fix until then i am staying where i am stock unrooted lol just to be safe.

joecool666 said:
not now its not. going to wait for c-f for fix until then i am staying where i am stock unrooted lol just to be safe.
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GOTCHA! I used the auto root from here https://plus.google.com/+Chainfire/posts/5ggu7naWtaW and it finally worked! I don't know if it will work for u but i tried it out and i finally got it. Now to the ROM Part

What is this great advantage that rooting and installing cf brings, that makes you run the risk of destroying your brand new, very expensive phone?

YIKES1412 said:
What is this great advantage that rooting and installing cf brings, that makes you run the risk of destroying your brand new, very expensive phone?
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The fact that i really don't like this mess which samsung calls a firmware. When i buy a pc i want to do anything i want with it. Same goes for smartphones.

lup3x said:
The fact that i really don't like this mess which samsung calls a firmware. When i buy a pc i want to do anything i want with it. Same goes for smartphones.
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Ok, I'm just wandering what big difference it makes. What extra does it enable your phone to do? I mean it must be really good to run this risk.
Sent from my GT-I9505 using xda app-developers app

YIKES1412 said:
Ok, I'm just wandering what big difference it makes. What extra does it enable your phone to do? I mean it must be really good to run this risk.
Sent from my GT-I9505 using xda app-developers app
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First of all it's the principle that I don't want to have a phone where Samsung tells me what to do and what not. Then there are things like root which are necessary for me because I'm also using it to test my apps which require root access. And also of course apps from the play store which need it. I'm currently using Slimbean because there's no AOKP build for the I9505. It requires less space on the phone, it's heavily customizable and it has the look of vanilla android. And a huge portion of why I am doing this is just me being curious about such things.
In the end it worked and I learned very much new stuff.
Sry 4 bad english

Hey your English is very good mate. And I was just curious as to why you run the risk, thanks for explaining it to me. I rooted and put a new rom onto an orange san francisco (zte blade) once. But that was not an expensive phone. My wife would kill me if I messed up this s4 with almost 2 years of contract to go lol

[Q] Firmware Upgrade Encountered an Issue

My sgh-i337 was stuck in a bootloop where twrp wasn't working, but using Odin didn't work either. What I ended up doing was upgrading the firmware in Kies, which worked, but it stayed on mdl firmware. It completely wiped my system. No data whatsoever (except my external sd card) and no root. I stupidly upgraded to mf3, because I didn't know that AT&T had locked down the bootloader. When I realized this, I went straight back to Kies and tried to do the upgrade again, but I didn't realize that it was solely for mdl. So my phone got stuck in "Firmware upgrade an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again." There is a yellow caution sign in the middle, with two dots going to the left with a phone at the end, and two dots to the right of the sign with a computer at the end. In the upper left-hand corner, there is the Odin Mode dialogue:
"ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: SGH-I337
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Official
CSB-CONFIG-LSB: 0x30
WRITE PROTECTION: Enable
The only thing I can boot to other than the above mode is Odin Mode, but because my phone is no longer rooted, this does me no good. I can't boot to recovery mode, either. When the phone is off (from taking the battery out or holding the power button), by pressing the power button, it goes to the firmware upgrade issue screen. In another thread, it mentioned booting to the confirmation to boot to Odin, and pressing the volume down button to restart, but this takes me right back to the firmware upgrade issue screen.
Please help me!!!!!
P.S. Someone mentioned taking it to the AT&T retailer because it is no longer rooted, but I want to see if I can avoid this because the warranty might be voided because it was rooted.

You'll have to flash the mf3 firmware now. Use Odin. Google mf3 tar files xda

jd1639 said:
You'll have to flash the mf3 firmware now. Use Odin. Google mf3 tar files xda
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Odin doesn't work because it is no longer rooted. Thanks for the reply though.

txk623 said:
Odin doesn't work because it is no longer rooted. Thanks for the reply though.
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You don't need to be rooted to use odin

jd1639 said:
You don't need to be rooted to use odin
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Thanks a lot.

I added MF3.tar mirror on my thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2573080 . And u don't need to be root to use Odin..... if u would like to upgrade to 4.3 mk2 this thread might also help you .......goodluck.....
SWYPED_FROM_S4_MF3_REDVENOM

[Q] New To Android

Hi all,
I recently switched over from apple to Android, it was all going really well until recently my phone soft bricked....
Ill try and be as detailed as i can, and respond as quickly as possible.
The phone specs
Canadian 16gb Samsung galaxy s4, Telus.
The phone boots and sticks at the Samsung Galaxy S4 screen.
I cant access the recovery mode.
I can access Odin.
I would love to get the phone rooted and maybe a mod on it, but as of right now its incapable of doing anything, ive read around the forums for the past 2 nights on how to fix the phone but all have come up fairly dry.
Would love some fresh input and help
Thanks Guys and Gals!
Scott

sdawg1010 said:
Hi all,
I recently switched over from apple to Android, it was all going really well until recently my phone soft bricked....
Ill try and be as detailed as i can, and respond as quickly as possible.
The phone specs
Canadian 16gb Samsung galaxy s4, Telus.
The phone boots and sticks at the Samsung Galaxy S4 screen.
I cant access the recovery mode.
I can access Odin.
I would love to get the phone rooted and maybe a mod on it, but as of right now its incapable of doing anything, ive read around the forums for the past 2 nights on how to fix the phone but all have come up fairly dry.
Would love some fresh input and help
Thanks Guys and Gals!
Scott
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Flash a stock .tar with ODIN, and start over

L Chupacabra said:
Flash a stock .tar with ODIN, and start over
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Is there any reliable soures for a stock .tar...
Also I cant get the phone to access recovery.
" Kernal is not seandriod enforcing"
"Set warranty bit: Kernel"
Thanks again.

sdawg1010 said:
Is there any reliable soures for a stock .tar...
Also I cant get the phone to access recovery.
" Kernal is not seandriod enforcing"
"Set warranty bit: Kernel"
Thanks again.
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Bump*

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Goto sammobile download for i337m, they are all Bell based but they will get you going. Make sure you download the right one, 4.3 or 4.4 if you took the update before you started messing around. You say you can't get into recovery, would be helpful to know what it was you were trying to do to get here....

Gage_Hero said:
Goto sammobile download for i337m, they are all Bell based but they will get you going. Make sure you download the right one, 4.3 or 4.4 if you took the update before you started messing around. You say you can't get into recovery, would be helpful to know what it was you were trying to do to get here....
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Thank you, and it was on 4.3, and the phone would randomly restart itself, that started probably a week ago, and then it started doing it more often till it got to the point where, i was like screw it, ill factory reset, and after the factory reset, it has appeared to get stuck in a bootloop, but the bootloop wont allow me to enter recovery mode either...
Ive been through multiple tutorials and what not on how to access the recovery, i had accessed the recovery before it stopped allowing access to it.
Very frustrating..but thanks for a pointer in the right direction.
Scott

AT&T Galaxy S4 Recovery fails at 24%

My s4 was rooted about a year ago with the logo SAMSUNG and Unlocked with an open lock below it when it boots up. I gave this phone to my girlfriends daughter and forgot to tell her not to try and update it. I don't remember the way i rooted it or what software it had on it at the time.
So when I go to recovery after it loads into an AT&T logo and tries to install it and it gets to 24%. After this it bootloops. Any help would be appreciated. My phone model is SGH-I337 , also not sure of what the original firmware is.

StephenTiz said:
My s4 was rooted about a year ago with the logo SAMSUNG and Unlocked with an open lock below it when it boots up. I gave this phone to my girlfriends daughter and forgot to tell her not to try and update it. I don't remember the way i rooted it or what software it had on it at the time.
So when I go to recovery after it loads into an AT&T logo and tries to install it and it gets to 24%. After this it bootloops. Any help would be appreciated. My phone model is SGH-I337 , also not sure of what the original firmware is.
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Open lock symbol means your phone is rooted not unlocked.
If you could go to the recovery mode (voloume-up+home+power) it would tell you your firmware version. You could try clear cache, factory reset in recovery mode. If it still gives you the bootloop, you might need to flash the firmware via odin.
You can find instructions and necessary files in here and here.

No recovery options
Sorry I left that part out. When it goes to recovery i get the blue text that say recovery then it goes straight to the AT&T installing. So no recovery options. I can still get to the Odin dowloading screen though and it says im running Samsung Original software

No recovery options
sway8966 said:
Open lock symbol means your phone is rooted not unlocked.
If you could go to the recovery mode (voloume-up+home+power) it would tell you your firmware version. You could try clear cache, factory reset in recovery mode. If it still gives you the bootloop, you might need to flash the firmware via odin.
You can find instructions and necessary files in here and here.
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Sorry I left that part out. When it goes to recovery i get the blue text that say recovery then it goes straight to the AT&T installing. So no recovery options. I can still get to the Odin dowloading screen though and it says im running Samsung Original software

StephenTiz said:
Sorry I left that part out. When it goes to recovery i get the blue text that say recovery then it goes straight to the AT&T installing. So no recovery options. I can still get to the Odin dowloading screen though and it says im running Samsung Original software
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One reason I asked you to go to the recovery option was to know what version of firmware you were on before .
Do you remember you were on jelly bean or kick-kat or lollipop? If you do you can find the firmware for jelly bean and kit-kat on the links I mentioned in the previous message.
If you could not recall your firmware, the latest odin flashable firmware we have is kit-kat NB1.
You can flash that one to revive your phone. Then use twoel root to root the phone. After that you can go to lollipop if you want. All the instructions are there.

Woop Woop!
sway8966 said:
One reason I asked you to go to the recovery option was to know what version of firmware you were on before .
Do you remember you were on jelly bean or kick-kat or lollipop? If you do you can find the firmware for jelly bean and kit-kat on the links I mentioned in the previous message.
If you could not recall your firmware, the latest odin flashable firmware we have is kit-kat NB1.
You can flash that one to revive your phone. Then use twoel root to root the phone. After that you can go to lollipop if you want. All the instructions are there.
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It worked. I have tried so many different firmware and kit-kat NB1 worked perfectly. Thank you so much, my girlfriends daughter will be so happy. I think i will leave it unrooted for now. I hope this post helps someone else in the future.

StephenTiz said:
It worked. I have tried so many different firmware and kit-kat NB1 worked perfectly. Thank you so much, my girlfriends daughter will be so happy. I think i will leave it unrooted for now. I hope this post helps someone else in the future.
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I am glad that it works out for you.
Rooting is so easy from that point. Just get towel root and root it. The link also included in my previous post. After the root you might need to disable the AT&T OTA update too. The instructions are also in that post too.