Bricked odin mode could not do normal boot - Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot

I Dont know what happened. Im running negalite, and i reflashed over my current setuo because it wasnt running well. Now im stuck in download mode and it says "could not do normal boot" please please help

shloho said:
I Dont know what happened. Im running negalite, and i reflashed over my current setuo because it wasnt running well. Now im stuck in download mode and it says "could not do normal boot" please please help
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You have soft bricked your phone. Now you have to odin back to stock.
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ROMANTiC KiD said:
You have soft bricked your phone. Now you have to odin back to stock.
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How do i do that? Can you just point me in that direction?

Nm I guess search is my best friend

shloho said:
Nm I guess search is my best friend
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43879875
try to find the MDC stock restore, or MF9 stocl restore if you havent done the Mj4 update you should be fine, just boot back into download mode and odin the above tars and you should be good

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Hard bricked phone?

Hello everyone,
I recently tried to flash a kernel and it seems that it was a corrupted download or something of the sorts and no whenever my phone powers on, the phone sits on a black screen and just vibrates. I have gotten into download mode and ODIN'd it with the stock image but it put me right back at the same thing. Has anyone else had this issue and if so can itt be fixed?
Thanks in advance!
It would help to know what device you have, what firmware you where on and what kernel you tried to flash
hailthethief said:
Hello everyone,
I recently tried to flash a kernel and it seems that it was a corrupted download or something of the sorts and no whenever my phone powers on, the phone sits on a black screen and just vibrates. I have gotten into download mode and ODIN'd it with the stock image but it put me right back at the same thing. Has anyone else had this issue and if so can itt be fixed?
Thanks in advance!
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Can get into recovery?
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I did some more reading. My phone is hard bricked. What I'm reading is that it needs to JTAG or exchanged. Thanks anyways.
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hailthethief said:
I did some more reading. My phone is hard bricked. What I'm reading is that it needs to JTAG or exchanged. Thanks anyways.
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Does Odin say successful? Do you know what firmware you were on?
hailthethief said:
I did some more reading. My phone is hard bricked. What I'm reading is that it needs to JTAG or exchanged. Thanks anyways.
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I'm not for sure about it being hard bricked if you can still get into download mode. Did you use a jig to get into download mode becuz I think that would be the only way to get to it if it was hardbricked,if not you may be able to get the pit file and fix it
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jd1639 said:
Does Odin say successful? Do you know what firmware you were on?
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Odin does say successful. Can you tell me how I could find the firmware version? I odin to amdl then rooted and installed TWLite and tried to flash the KToonzes kernel when this happened.
captivated1971 said:
I'm not for sure about it being hard bricked if you can still get into download mode. Did you use a jig to get into download mode becuz I think that would be the only way to get to it if it was hardbricked
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I did not use the jig.
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hailthethief said:
Odin does say successful. Can you tell me how I could find the firmware version? I odin to amdl then rooted and installed TWLite and tried to flash the KToonzes kernel when this happened.
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In settings, about device would show the firmware. If you odined and you were on the mdl firmware. You can't get into recovery right now? Only download mode? Did you try to flash a rom before the kernel? I assume you have an i337?
id try this again with odin least wise if it works you will have to reroot again http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261573
jd1639 said:
In settings, about device would show the firmware. If you odined and you were on the mdl firmware. You can't get into recovery right now? Only download mode? Did you try to flash a rom before the kernel? I assume you have an i337?
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Yes. I have a hard time putting it in Download mode. I don't know if I can hit recovery. Ill try though.
hailthethief said:
Yes. I have a hard time putting it in Download mode. I don't know if I can hit recovery. Ill try though.
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After odin says sucessful,you have to remove the battery cause it will be stuck stuck on the download screen and go into recovery and factory reset the phone and it should boot right up.I dont think your phone is hard-bricked if you was able to use odin.
Azzair113 said:
After odin says sucessful,you have to remove the battery cause it will be stuck stuck on the download screen and go into recovery and factory reset the phone and it should boot right up.I dont think your phone is hard-bricked if you was able to use odin.
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yeah i have done the samething. i went from stock rooted and had cyanogenmod 10 successfully downloaded and running one night. The next morning i installed ktoonsez kernel 100% certain it was for my cyano and everything i was running and its 90% hard bricked. The only thing i can do is get it into odin mode. Ive also flashed my att ucuamdl file with odin to try and reset it and it has said successful. The only thing i had checked was t ime reset and reboot. So i pulled the battery to try and fire it back up and nothing happens but a black screen and a little vibration. Kind of pisses me of since im not the only one who has had this happen. So far ive still had no luck with anything about the phone. no recovery, no nothing. Anybody else know anything?
hayden55 said:
yeah i have done the samething. i went from stock rooted and had cyanogenmod 10 successfully downloaded and running one night. The next morning i installed ktoonsez kernel 100% certain it was for my cyano and everything i was running and its 90% hard bricked. The only thing i can do is get it into odin mode. Ive also flashed my att ucuamdl file with odin to try and reset it and it has said successful. The only thing i had checked was t ime reset and reboot. So i pulled the battery to try and fire it back up and nothing happens but a black screen and a little vibration. Kind of pisses me of since im not the only one who has had this happen. So far ive still had no luck with anything about the phone. no recovery, no nothing. Anybody else know anything?
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If you can get into odin mode flash the mdl file again but make sure you have nothing ticked such as the f rest time or auto boot.And once you done pull out your usb cord and it should still say downloading on the screen.So pull the battery and then place it back in but dont boot up go into recovery what i do to get in recovery is hold the volume up,power and home button until i see the recovery booting sign at the top left corner then i let go off the power button and hold the volume up and home button until it boots into recovery.but when you go into recovery it will download the install the mdl file so you might have to do the recovery part twice after it installs the file then factory reset your phone and it should boot right up.
Azzair113 said:
If you can get into odin mode flash the mdl file again but make sure you have nothing ticked such as the f rest time or auto boot.And once you done pull out your usb cord and it should still say downloading on the screen.So pull the battery and then place it back in but dont boot up go into recovery what i do to get in recovery is hold the volume up,power and home button until i see the recovery booting sign at the top left corner then i let go off the power button and hold the volume up and home button until it boots into recovery.but when you go into recovery it will download the install the mdl file so you might have to do the recovery part twice after it installs the file then factory reset your phone and it should boot right up.
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thanks for the reply. i will give it a shot. *Fingers Crossed*
hayden55 said:
thanks for the reply. i will give it a shot. *Fingers Crossed*
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np hope it works
Azzair113 said:
np hope it works
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no success. recovery just isn't there. maybe somebody should ask the kt747 guy?
hayden55 said:
no success. recovery just isn't there. maybe somebody should ask the kt747 guy?
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What kt kernel did you install was it the aosp kt kernel or the tw kt kernel you might flashed the wrong kernel.
Azzair113 said:
If you can get into odin mode flash the mdl file again but make sure you have nothing ticked such as the f rest time or auto boot.And once you done pull out your usb cord and it should still say downloading on the screen.So pull the battery and then place it back in but dont boot up go into recovery what i do to get in recovery is hold the volume up,power and home button until i see the recovery booting sign at the top left corner then i let go off the power button and hold the volume up and home button until it boots into recovery.but when you go into recovery it will download the install the mdl file so you might have to do the recovery part twice after it installs the file then factory reset your phone and it should boot right up.
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I just tried this with the UAMDB md5 file since thats the one that came with my phone and it didn't work. hmmmm
Azzair113 said:
What kt kernel did you install was it the aosp kt kernel or the tw kt kernel you might flashed the wrong kernel.
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I know that you would think that it would be the newbie mistake to install an tw kernel on top of a aosp ROM, but I made 100% sure to choose the correct ROM. I know the difference between touch wiz and also.
Also, sorry to hijack the thread I just saw it and figured since we both have the same problem we might all solve it together.

phone won't reboot or go into recovery

I put the tri rom on it today and everything was fine. Part of the way thru the day it suddenly rebooted and went to the animation screen. I try to go to recovery and It doesn't do anything. I have been flashing for years now and this has never happened to me before. . can somebody please try to help. I looked for the answer for hours.
coateshaaf1 said:
I put the tri rom on it today and everything was fine. Part of the way thru the day it suddenly rebooted and went to the animation screen. I try to go to recovery and It doesn't do anything. I have been flashing for years now and this has never happened to me before. . can somebody please try to help. I looked for the answer for hours.
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If your able to still put the phone into download mode you will be fine just odin back stock mf9.
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DELETE
Salil999 said:
DELETE
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UNDO
LOL
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when I go to the download mode it just sits there forever and does nothing.
coateshaaf1 said:
when I go to the download mode it just sits there forever and does nothing.
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Does it connect to the computer? Specifically Odin?
Hit the "Thanks" button if I helped!
coateshaaf1 said:
when I go to the download mode it just sits there forever and does nothing.
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Download mode by itself wont do anything. You need to plug it in to the computer and use odin to odin back to stock.
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Can somebody be specific about the odin download cause I'm clearly missing something.
ok I saw the Odin download. Is the verizon and sprint one the same thing?
For Odin, yes.
For the actual ROM, no.
Do NOT use a Verizon ROM on a Sprint phone.
coateshaaf1 said:
ok I saw the Odin download. Is the verizon and sprint one the same thing?
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Have you tried to even Reflash the recovery? Like thru goo manager?
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The odin worked. Thank you so much.

Please help i think i bricked my phone

Im wondering if someone can help me. I recently rooted my phone with odin and was adding a rom. I guess it didn't download completely or correctly when I tried to install it and said it fail. I accidentally rebooted my phone. I don't have a backup on my phone to restore it. I do have a backup on my computer but cant get it onto my phone. Now my phone gets stuck on the Samsung galaxy s4 screen, and will not boot the rest of the way. I can get to the download screen. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Easiest way is to download the full rom .tar file and flash with odin. pretty sure they are posted in the dev section.
lafester said:
Easiest way is to download the full rom .tar file and flash with odin. pretty sure they are posted in the dev section.
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I have tried that and it still wont boot past that Samsung screen. I got TWRP back now im just trying to figure out how to get this system restored to where it will load.
Tiger429 said:
I have tried that and it still wont boot past that Samsung screen. I got TWRP back now im just trying to figure out how to get this system restored to where it will load.
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One you odin, you have to do a factory reset on stock recovery and whoola you booted up.
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ROMANTiC KiD said:
One you odin, you have to do a factory reset on stock recovery and whoola you booted up.
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i will try that i am downloading a stock rom now. i will install on odin. then i boot it into recovery and there is a factory reset option on there?
Tiger429 said:
i will try that i am downloading a stock rom now. i will install on odin. then i boot it into recovery and there is a factory reset option on there?
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Yeah there is once you odin. Just boot up to stock recovery and do a factory reset.
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ROMANTiC KiD said:
Yeah there is once you odin. Just boot up to stock recovery and do a factory reset.
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Cool thank you i will let you know what happens. :fingers-crossed:
Tiger429 said:
Cool thank you i will let you know what happens. :fingers-crossed:
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So any news? Lol o.o
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[Q] 4.3 update frozen on Odin screen

I downloaded the official OTA update. When I went to install it the phone needed to reboot and now I've been stuck looking at the Green Android screen saying Downloading... Do not turn off target!!! and in very small writing could not do normal boot, Odin mode. I am rooted. Please help
What version is the phone? I'm reading up on things in preparation of updating myself. I'm on MF3 and for what I've read I need to Odin back to stock before updating since I'm rooted. This may not be your case figured I'd toss it out there.
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padgaland said:
I downloaded the official OTA update. When I went to install it the phone needed to reboot and now I've been stuck looking at the Green Android screen saying Downloading... Do not turn off target!!! and in very small writing could not do normal boot, Odin mode. I am rooted. Please help
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Same with me. I'm stuck at the emergency firmware recovery screen. My phone was at 4.2 and it did the OTA to 4.3.3 and froze. What do I need to do to go back to stock rom?
SGH-I337 16GB.
schreiber37 said:
Same with me. I'm stuck at the emergency firmware recovery screen. My phone was at 4.2 and it did the OTA to 4.3.3 and froze. What do I need to do to go back to stock rom?
SGH-I337 16GB.
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You i think you should use Kies to go back they actually have a feature for that. Mine won't even be recognized by the computer or anything.
I am rooted and I was running 4.3 GoldenEye v 11 rom BTW awesome ROM and Dev support best I've ever seen on xda. Any way today I installed my nandroid back up of stock ROM 4.2 Att gs4 sgh 1337 let it boot up any settle in 10 min..when I looked at phone I saw the Att redwhite arrows in task bar I quick shut down WiFi and now under settings status it says update continue or something .now my back up is mdb never ota before. so is this update mf3 the one u that is bootlocked or is it the 4.3 update?? I read some were Att was to start with 4.3 update yesterday what u guys think I should do? Thanks in advance ..
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Ok I am going to try to go back to stock by using a firmware DL and Odin v3.07 If it works I will tell everyone. If not I may be screwed.
I'm currently on MF3 and had rooted my device previously and would like to upgrade to the new OTA. Would someone be so kind to link me to ODIN and the stock file,so I may return to stock and apply the OTA.
Thank you,
Did anyone go to recovery and factory reset?
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Andrew149 said:
Did anyone go to recovery and factory reset?
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I'd recommend it but it's to late for me.
This worked for me to unroot.
To unroot, try this. It worked for me. I'm back to "official". However, I've downloaded 4.3 like 5 times already. I can download 100%, but when it reboots to install it stops at 30% then says update failed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45301834
Ditto
silrosriv said:
To unroot, try this. It worked for me. I'm back to "official". However, I've downloaded 4.3 like 5 times already. I can download 100%, but when it reboots to install it stops at 30% then says update failed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45301834
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Same exact problem!
wading through threads for answer!
Ok I have my phone working again. I am not on 4.3 but its back to where it was before I started, which is better than nothing. After running Odin once and it failing like it always does (I have never seen it work) I was able to get the holding down volume, home and power button option to work and I just said no and to reboot and it worked. I then went into SuperSU app and unrooted. I will try to update to 4.3 at a later time. I am glad I wasn't the only one having issues. I usually pride myself on knowing technology and being able to figure it out.
silrosriv said:
To unroot, try this. It worked for me. I'm back to "official". However, I've downloaded 4.3 like 5 times already. I can download 100%, but when it reboots to install it stops at 30% then says update failed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45301834
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I had the same problem. The only way I was finally able to upgrade to 4.3 was to use Odin to revert to stock (unrooted) 4.2.2 MF3 using the files on this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2502003 Once I did that I ran the OTA update to 4.3 and it worked without any problems.
So if I oden to stock again don't root Then hit the update it should go? Weird thing is I installed my back up today and it a stock backup fresh rich from a oden wipe and it stared DL on its own before I stopped it with killing WiFi. I s this 4.3 update or is it mf3 since I never did that update. ..help. Thanks
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tried that..didnt work
padgaland said:
Ok I have my phone working again. I am not on 4.3 but its back to where it was before I started, which is better than nothing. After running Odin once and it failing like it always does (I have never seen it work) I was able to get the holding down volume, home and power button option to work and I just said no and to reboot and it worked. I then went into SuperSU app and unrooted. I will try to update to 4.3 at a later time. I am glad I wasn't the only one having issues. I usually pride myself on knowing technology and being able to figure it out.
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Tried unrooting through SuperSU and managed to still be rooted after reboot, and OTA 4.3 still didnt work
SIGH
Read that u have to oden to stock dint root and the try ota they say this worked gunna oden back to stock and try..
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ralphie1267 said:
Read that u have to oden to stock dint root and the try ota they say this worked gunna oden back to stock and try..
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could you point me in the right direction for that procedure? Im trying to do it on my mac using hiemdall but I think im about to go try odin on a PC.
MasterShakeMan said:
Tried unrooting through SuperSU and managed to still be rooted after reboot, and OTA 4.3 still didnt work
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Take it to Best Buy. "Kies broke your phone" *wink*wink* and they can flash it back to stock without messing up your data. You can do it yourself. Plus they have this mysterious awesome SMART tool. Lol
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could you point me in the right direction for that procedure? Im trying to do it on my mac using hiemdall but I think im about to go try odin on a PC.
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Use the link in my previous post (post #13). That has the files and procedures for using Odin to get back to stock 4.2.2 and then you can do the OTA upgrade from there.

stuck in bootloop after mk flash

hello, sorry bout this, i should had read read read, i was just 1/2 alseep and thought i know what i was doing....anyways, i have ( HAD ) the rooted stock 4.3 OS....then i just flashed agrats MK upgrade.. now i stuck in a bootloop.....i can get to ODIN mode but thats about it.....im trying to get into recovery but its tricky...i see the blue/red/yellow letters but it just keeps rebooting normaly when i hold the up/power/home buttons.....i need to fix this,,,,,any solutions please??
stuck in bootloop after upgrade PLEASE HELP
chris-allen said:
hello, sorry bout this, i should had read read read, i was just 1/2 alseep and thought i know what i was doing....anyways, i have ( HAD ) the rooted stock 4.3 OS....then i just flashed agrats MK upgrade.. now i stuck in a bootloop.....i can get to ODIN mode but thats about it.....im trying to get into recovery but its tricky...i see the blue/red/yellow letters but it just keeps rebooting normaly when i hold the up/power/home buttons.....i need to fix this,,,,,any solutions please??
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oh, i can get into recovery.....i can mount SD card as storage...i guess i need to flash something that will save my ass and boot me back into android....any suggestions of something i can flash without bricking? i also have a nandroid of 4.2.2....can i restor that? will it help? i wont do anything till im told....please help...i hate bootloops
Yeah I had the same problem and after nearly 24 hours of straight tweaking out on it and giving it to someone else even more knowledgeable than me I've still got a completely broken device.
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Just grab the odin mf9 stock tar. If your on mf9 bootloader. Takes 5 minutes and your phone will be back to stock mf9 but working.
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All fixed...ty
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Another fix was.. i flashed philz recovery.. then cynogenmod...that booted up.. then i donwloaded sacs rom and flash.... everything back to normal now
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