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I was uninstalling some apps to get ready to back up and flash my phone because my microphone volume was stuck at minimum and no one could hear me. After rebooting my back and multitask (menu) button won't light up or respond. This has happened to me before occasionally. I could fix it by powering the screen off and back on. I believe I read somewhere it had something to do with xposed.
I tried flashing using MOP and my buttons didn't come back so I loaded a TWRP, wiped all partitions, rebooted in download mode and flashed with regular ODIN. Still can't get the buttons to function. Home button works just fine, though.
I tried finding a solution to this but I can't seem to find one. I had the same issue intermittently on my Galaxy S4 but I fixed it by wiping the partitions and reflashing. G900R4 USC variant.
So I went into stock recovery and did a factory reset. It was already as wiped as it could possibly get afaik but I thought I'd try just to see. My buttons lit up in stock recovery so I knew they were getting power. I did a factory reset and low and behold upon reboot my buttons came back.
Did I fix it or is there a circuit starting to fail on my phone and it was just luck? I'm curious.
Hello, I am having an issue with my S4.
I was having random reboot issues and my rom was quite old (omega 30 or something) so I decided to update my phone. I flashed stock from odin, then installed TWRP again and tried flashing roms. Roms previously would boot up to the point where I would setup android and then reboot. Now my phone seems to reboot almost directly after the "Samsung Galaxy S4" logo. Some roms have let me boot into the android setup but once the Mobile Network seems to try to connect, the phone reboots right away.
I have tried flashing 3 different stock roms thru ODIN and they all have the same issue. I have tried clearing cache/data in recovery but it hasnt helped.
Does anyone have any suggestions or advice? Thanks!
Might be a power button issue. A friend had a similar problem. The phone would boot and work for some time and then turn off.
At some point it just wouldn't turn on anymore.
It was the power button.
GDReaper said:
Might be a power button issue. A friend had a similar problem. The phone would boot and work for some time and then turn off.
At some point it just wouldn't turn on anymore.
It was the power button.
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Thank for your reply!
Just curious, if it was the power button, wouldnt my phone also restart in recovery and in download mode? In both of those modes, there is no issue. I'm worried that I flashed a modem incorrectly some time in the past and that could be casuing me issues. If the stock rom passed in odin, shouldnt the modem be working correctly?
BigNaes said:
Thank for your reply!
Just curious, if it was the power button, wouldnt my phone also restart in recovery and in download mode? In both of those modes, there is no issue. I'm worried that I flashed a modem incorrectly some time in the past and that could be casuing me issues. If the stock rom passed in odin, shouldnt the modem be working correctly?
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Stock roms have modems and bootloaders included. So it must be something else.
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Stock roms have modems and bootloaders included. So it must be something else.
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It's very odd. I have no problems getting into recovery or download mode, but absolutely anything I flash will not boot with any reliability and not for more than a few seconds. I was able to flash Omega 42.1 and that worked for about 30 minutes yesterday and then began bootlooping as well.
I have no ideas.
I hate when people solve their problems and don't follow up on their own threads so here I am to post my solution.
Turns out my battery was slightly swollen and causing the battery to disconnect and make the phone restart. I noticed this after a bunch of various testing with the phone plugged in and unplugged. The phone would work fine plugged in but within a minute of being unplugged it would turn off or reboot.
I purchased a new battery and have had no problems at all since, everything works great. When I compare my swollen battery to the new battery, you can see it is slightly swollen but hardly noticeable if they are not side by side.
Anyway, for anyone reading this thread in future, my solution was to replace the battery which had swollen.
Hi..
My s6 edge plus model is SM-G928C (Saudi Arabia). I saw the Iraq version of MM and flashed it through Odin. Everything runs fine except the following:
1. Battery draining faster,
2. Whenever I shut down or reboot the phone, it shows "Android is installing, Optimising Apps 2 of 2",
3.USB Debugging is greyed out.
I tried to reflash the firmware but I still get the problem. Hard resetted it 2 times, no luck. My knox counter is still 0x0. What should I do? Can I downgrade to 5.1.1 again? Coz the battery was much better in it than MM.
Yes you can ?
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Yes you can and I'll tell you how.
I also have the 928C from UAE. What you must do is, flash the 5.1.1 stock firmware via odin. Uncheck auto-reboot. If it automatically rebooted, you will get a bootloop again and again. So the phone doesn't automatically leave, uncheck auto-reboot. Then when you're inside Download/Odin mode and you finished flashing original firmware, manually restart the phone yourself into stock recovery and do the full wipe of everything. It will reinstall the firmware from fresh and you won't get bootloop. This is what I did. And it worked. It took me a few hours to figure this out because I kept getting bootloop after flashing when the simple solution was to go into stock recovery and just factory reset all data...Not sure why this works but it does. Good luck
So that means I don't have to mess with the bootloader version or stuff? Cos I really don't know all that stuff. Thanks for the reply.
Did you notice the battery drain in MM? And is that why you went back to 5.1.1? Please help me on this.
I always preferred using TouchWiz. It's not too bad. On mm I didn't have battery drain because I had root and it fixed the deep sleep issue which disallows the phone to power down during screen off. I came back to lollipop because on mm TouchWiz lagged. With lollipop I'm using the arter97 kernel. And it's blazing fast. So I'll have to wait for arter kernel for mm once it's stabled and try that on mm. I never had to mess with a bootloader. I thought I was going to have to after getting boot loop. But the simple fix was to enter recovery right after Odin. And factory reset
Ok. So I flashed the firmware back, but I dont know how to go directly to recovery mode from Download mode. How to do that?
I tried by exiting Download by pressing Volume down and power, and as it rebooted, I quickly help volume up, home and power button. But still it didnt go in recovery mode. Can you please help me how?
mnbaseer2006 said:
Ok. So I flashed the firmware back, but I dont know how to go directly to recovery mode from Download mode. How to do that?
I tried by exiting Download by pressing Volume down and power, and as it rebooted, I quickly help volume up, home and power button. But still it didnt go in recovery mode. Can you please help me how?
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The same buttons that you press to enter Odin/Download mode, hold again when you finish flashing. For maybe 10 seconds. AS SOON as the screen turns off, move and hold the buttons for recovery mode. I can't remember which is which, I get the combination for recovery mode and odin confused. Remember. AS SOON as Odin mode exits and screen turns black, release all buttons and then hold the recovery mode buttons until the Galaxy s6 + logo appears, wait a few seconds. Then release and you should be in recovery.
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The same buttons that you press to enter Odin/Download mode, hold again when you finish flashing. For maybe 10 seconds. AS SOON as the screen turns off, move and hold the buttons for recovery mode. I can't remember which is which, I get the combination for recovery mode and odin confused. Remember. AS SOON as Odin mode exits and screen turns black, release all buttons and then hold the recovery mode buttons until the Galaxy s6 + logo appears, wait a few seconds. Then release and you should be in recovery.
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Thanks. Done it after trying 3 times. Lol.. And back to 5.1.1
Thank you very much.
mnbaseer2006 said:
Thanks. Done it after trying 3 times. Lol.. And back to 5.1.1
Thank you very much.
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No problem bro. And if you have any issues with deep sleep (Where the phone doesn't shut off CPU cores during screen off) then you can download CPU spy and if Deep Sleep is 0, then you have the deep sleep issue and will cause battery drain. And the phone gets hot in your pocket. IF you have this problem. Then flash Arter97 kernel version 11.0
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mnbaseer2006 said:
Thanks. Done it after trying 3 times. Lol.. And back to 5.1.1
Thank you very much.
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how can i comeback to 5.1.1
Just downloaded CPU spy and it shows deep sleep as 2%. Meaning no problem? I mean the phone has just flashed.
Update: Deep sleep has raised to 43% after an hour and a half. That means good?
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No problem bro. And if you have any issues with deep sleep (Where the phone doesn't shut off CPU cores during screen off) then you can download CPU spy and if Deep Sleep is 0, then you have the deep sleep issue and will cause battery drain. And the phone gets hot in your pocket. IF you have this problem. Then flash Arter97 kernel version 11.0
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For Arter97 kernel do I have to root the phone? Cos I don't like that.
mnbaseer2006 said:
For Arter97 kernel do I have to root the phone? Cos I don't like that.
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Yea, you have to flash philz recovery via odin. Then inside philz recovery flash kernel then root.
s6 edge plus sm928c
hii. can anyone help me.. i tried to flash my 928c 6.0.1. to 5.1.1. but odin fails to flash. i tried to uncheck autoboot but still fail... i tried many times. plsss help me. i want to turn to 5.1.1. coz 6.0.1 battry drain fast. so killing me..
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conde brutal said:
hii. can anyone help me.. i tried to flash my 928c 6.0.1. to 5.1.1. but odin fails to flash. i tried to uncheck autoboot but still fail... i tried many times. plsss help me. i want to turn to 5.1.1. coz 6.0.1 battry drain fast. so killing me..
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me too
My phone got stuck at DOwnloading Do not turn of target.
Not responsive to a restart. Any suggestions?
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For those ending up in the same boat; Go back 2 download mode (vol. down + menu + power) and then do the rest.
Sveneezy said:
My phone got stuck at DOwnloading Do not turn of target.
Not responsive to a restart. Any suggestions?
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For those ending up in the same boat; Go back 2 download mode (vol. down + menu + power) and then do the rest.
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Remember to hold the same buttons you use to enter download mode, but this time hold it for like 10 seconds to escape. That's what I did.
I got stuck on bootloop too but marshmallow completely messed up my phone:
The 6.0.1 BTU MM update has royally messed up my phone.
It was ok at first but my Google contacts wouldnt sync constantly throughout the day so i cleared the data and it kept going crazy rebooting crashing every 2 mins even not letting me factory reset from recovery it would boot a bit then crash.
I did it OTA then used smart switch desktop to reload the firmare to have a clean install still same problem would freeze and crash after couple mins or secs of use.
Does anyone know what might have happened?
I was up all night tryna fix it resorting to flashing with odin the last lollipop OJ2 that i was using before but it still was crashing and rebooting i tried clearing cache partition and master reset several times while still on marshmallow and also with lolilop it would crash and not even let me factory reset as it would freeze when i try to use volume down key to click yes to clear everything.
It was working fine before on lollipop now even tho i am back on it it isnt the same randomly reboots. When i get to the start up screen aftrr factory reset it crashes halfway through adding my wifi etc unless i do it quickly i try clearing cache partition after flashing lollipop but it gets stuck on bootloop which i cant clear except pressing vol down and power button for 20 secs then it freezes.
I finally i hope have some stability in the firmware but every time i go to android recocrry to clear cache partition it crashes while booting up and restarts again then freezes. What the hell is going on?
I thought clearing cache partition master reset etc should restore it to a clean firmware.
What is causing this crashing? Traces of marshmallow should be cleared once odin flashes over lollipop and also factory reset clear cache partition yet i still have this issue.
pete101 said:
I got stuck on bootloop too but marshmallow completely messed up my phone:
The 6.0.1 BTU MM update has royally messed up my phone.
It was ok at first but my Google contacts wouldnt sync constantly throughout the day so i cleared the data and it kept going crazy rebooting crashing every 2 mins even not letting me factory reset from recovery it would boot a bit then crash.
I did it OTA then used smart switch desktop to reload the firmare to have a clean install still same problem would freeze and crash after couple mins or secs of use.
Does anyone know what might have happened?
I was up all night tryna fix it resorting to flashing with odin the last lollipop OJ2 that i was using before but it still was crashing and rebooting i tried clearing cache partition and master reset several times while still on marshmallow and also with lolilop it would crash and not even let me factory reset as it would freeze when i try to use volume down key to click yes to clear everything.
It was working fine before on lollipop now even tho i am back on it it isnt the same randomly reboots. When i get to the start up screen aftrr factory reset it crashes halfway through adding my wifi etc unless i do it quickly i try clearing cache partition after flashing lollipop but it gets stuck on bootloop which i cant clear except pressing vol down and power button for 20 secs then it freezes.
I finally i hope have some stability in the firmware but every time i go to android recocrry to clear cache partition it crashes while booting up and restarts again then freezes. What the hell is going on?
I thought clearing cache partition master reset etc should restore it to a clean firmware.
What is causing this crashing? Traces of marshmallow should be cleared once odin flashes over lollipop and also factory reset clear cache partition yet i still have this issue.
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Do the following things to get rid of this bootloop: go to sammobile.com and download the Iraqi firmware G928CXXU2BPB8_G928COJV2BPB7_MID MM, put your device into download mode (sure you know how to?), using Odin3_v3.10.7 flash it and report...
Sent From my SM-G928F via Tapa
When I was dabbling with firmware from another country/model I upgraded to 6.01, I then hastily downgraded back. My OP is here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=65588641&postcount=167
Hope it helps.
Also... my knox isnt tripped!!
Hi all,
I have a weird problem with my Galaxy S4 (i9505) as follows:
-The screen was broken, then replaced the screen and worked for fine so I upgraded the phone to the offered 5.0.1 OS.
-It worked fine for two days, and then suddenly turned off, and kept stuck on Samsung Logo.
-It only could go to Download mode, but never to Recovery mode.
-If connected to the wall charger, it keeps vibrating and displaying the battery symbol alternatively for ever.
-I tried every all the tricks I could find on the forums such as
----Using a new battery
----Writing the official firmware 4.4.2, 5.0.1, recovery firmwares (4 files AP, BL, CS, CCS), all completed successfully.
----Tried PIT files (disparately reset NAND).
-It kept showing "Memory Booting ..." message either when starting normally or with Recovery mode.
-Installed TWRP (latest) and then it showed "RECOVERY BOOTING ...", "RECOVERY IS NOT SEANDROID ENFORCING", " Set Warranty Bit : recovery".
-Lastly installed official firmware 4.4.2 and again showing "MEMORY BOOTING ...".
Your help is tremendously appreciated.
Also, I've noticed that I can go to the download mode only by pressing (Power + Vol Down) buttons, without the need to press the Home button, does that mean that the Home button is already pressed all the time (could be a faulty screen?).
I have an s4 sgh-i337m that will also go into download modem by only pressing volume down and power. The phone does function properly and I can get into recovery without any issues.
audit13 said:
I have an s4 sgh-i337m that will also go into download modem by only pressing volume down and power. The phone does function properly and I can get into recovery without any issues.
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Thanks audit13, now the possible home button issue has been eleminated.
Any other suggestions?
Have tried flashing the stock rom with Odin 3.07 as a single tar file in the pda slot and performing a factory reset before letting the phone both for the first time?
When booting to recovery, are you letting go of the power button after the phone starts to boot?
Yep, I did all possible firmwares 5.0.1, and 4.4.2 either in one file or in 4 files, also I've tried every possible combination but didn't let me into Recovery mode.
Sounds like there may be something wrong with the phone's internal memory.
Only thing I can suggest is getting the phone flashed via jtag.
audit13 said:
Sounds like there may be something wrong with the phone's internal memory.
Only thing I can suggest is getting the phone flashed via jtag.
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Happy to do anything in this stage, any guidelines about this jtag (never used before)?.
Thanks a lot
You'll have to take it to a cell repair shop to flash it.
Hello,
I downloaded cf auto root for the s8+ and flashed on it.
and then I flashed twrp on it.
I flashed it with Odin 3. 12. 3.
the phone tried to boot, but then it went out and now nothing works anymore. (I tried all sorts of keyboard shortcuts, didn't work)
The screen still remains black.
Now my question is if there's any way to save the phone?
I'm asking for help.
Hey,
can you still access odin? you could download stock firmware and see if that fixes it
Does not work, the display remains off. The phone doesn't make any vibrations or anything else
Sorry, i don't know how to help with that, only possible solution i found was pressing vol-down and power until it reboots