Got my S4 4 days ago sprint 4.2.2 MF9 and rooted using odin 1.85, CF-Autoroot by chainfire (CF-Auto-Root-jfltespr-jfltespr-sphl720), CWM flash, then MF9 Odexed hotspot mod (MD5: b1f54ecf82719255ff39eb88d0095ccd). All went well with no error's or issue's, so I did same on 2nd new S4 - same 4.2.2 MF9 for my wife. Made CWM images of both on SD cards. Installed link2sd and foldermount, did nothing else but move movable apk's to SD with link to SD, never used foldermount (yet).
4 day's later my phone froze while texting and re-booted, froze while making a phone call 5 minutes later and re-booted (by itself). After about 6 re-boots it failed to boot and went into a boot loop, making it to the Sprint screen at first and then only to the Samsung logo screen upon subsequent re-boots. Removed battery after the 2nd re-boot (early on), and tried leaving it out for 10 minutes and then half an hour after 6 or 7 re-boot's - no change. Tried restoring from CWM image, showed success but same boot loop. Even tried image from other S4, same results.
Read as many posts as I could, and after study re-flashed stock recovery and stock firmware. Phone still will not boot, but is stuck in boot loop, now with stock recoevry. Other phone with same done to it, same programs (apk's), all exaclty the same is fine. Is it possible that the phone has a hardware problem?! Since I rooted I have 'Custom' now in Download mode so am afraid to take it back for replacement and can't get to boot so triangle away is not possible. Any suggestions, or have I just lost?! Need a phone for work, so don't have much time to play with it, have tried for 2 days now to remedy - but very...well upset :crying: Any thoughts or suggestions?! Thank you!
JJ2013 said:
Got my S4 4 days ago sprint 4.2.2 MF9 and rooted using odin 1.85, CF-Autoroot by chainfire (CF-Auto-Root-jfltespr-jfltespr-sphl720), CWM flash, then MF9 Odexed hotspot mod (MD5: b1f54ecf82719255ff39eb88d0095ccd). All went well with no error's or issue's, so I did same on 2nd new S4 - same 4.2.2 MF9 for my wife. Made CWM images of both on SD cards. Installed link2sd and foldermount, did nothing else but move movable apk's to SD with link to SD, never used foldermount (yet).
4 day's later my phone froze while texting and re-booted, froze while making a phone call 5 minutes later and re-booted (by itself). After about 6 re-boots it failed to boot and went into a boot loop, making it to the Sprint screen at first and then only to the Samsung logo screen upon subsequent re-boots. Removed battery after the 2nd re-boot (early on), and tried leaving it out for 10 minutes and then half an hour after 6 or 7 re-boot's - no change. Tried restoring from CWM image, showed success but same boot loop. Even tried image from other S4, same results.
Read as many posts as I could, and after study re-flashed stock recovery and stock firmware. Phone still will not boot, but is stuck in boot loop, now with stock recoevry. Other phone with same done to it, same programs (apk's), all exaclty the same is fine. Is it possible that the phone has a hardware problem?! Since I rooted I have 'Custom' now in Download mode so am afraid to take it back for replacement and can't get to boot so triangle away is not possible. Any suggestions, or have I just lost?! Need a phone for work, so don't have much time to play with it, have tried for 2 days now to remedy - but very...well upset :crying: Any thoughts or suggestions?! Thank you!
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Go into stock recovery and hit wipe/factory reset and see if boots up after.
GS4 Stock Rooted MJA 4.3,Philz Touch CWM,HotSpot Mod,Transparent Weather Widget...
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Go into stock recovery and hit wipe/factory reset and see if boots up after.
GS4 Stock Rooted MJA 4.3,Philz Touch CWM,HotSpot Mod,Transparent Weather Widget...
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+1.
If doesn't work I suggest to try the one click mf9. You can find it on development section and do a factory reset after. Also that should bring Odin status to normal. It did for me.
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Go into stock recovery and hit wipe/factory reset and see if boots up after.
GS4 Stock Rooted MJA 4.3,Philz Touch CWM,HotSpot Mod,Transparent Weather Widget...
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Yes, I neglected to include that I tried wiping cache first, then re-boot attempt, then cleared cache and factory reset, then tried to boot, then wiped cache and factory reset followed by CWM recovery then boot attempt, then cleared cache, re-boot attempt, then all over again and flashed stock - all with no change - boot loop prevailed. What troubles me is that with no other changes the phone froze and re-booted on stock firmware?? And weirder still that once it re-booted the first time it stayed alive for 5 minutes, then 2 minutes, then less than 1, to 'that's all folks' and continued to decrease how far it even went in boot attempt. To the 'slightly informed' like me that seems strange - that's why I was wondering if it could be a hardware failure causing ROM or RAM to be corrupted further with each boot attempt - or - with time 'on'.??
Will try one click mf9 and post back
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If doesn't work I suggest to try the one click mf9. You can find it on development section and do a factory reset after. Also that should bring Odin status to normal. It did for me.
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I had not tried that - put myself under the assumption that is was the same as what I had done 'manually' with oden so didn't also try that. With your suggestion I will however - what have I got to loose at this point?! Will post back with results - have to wait until later, meetings call
Downloading it from rwilco12 in the meantime, both rooted no data restore and stock factory restore versions. I will obviously try the stock factory version first as I have wiped already and have no data to loose.
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I had not tried that - put myself under the assumption that is was the same as what I had done 'manually' with oden so didn't also try that. With your suggestion I will however - what have I got to loose at this point?! Will post back with results - have to wait until later, meetings call
Downloading it from rwilco12 in the meantime, both rooted no data restore and stock factory restore versions. I will obviously try the stock factory version first as I have wiped already and have no data to loose.
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This is why when you get new phones always test them out on their full capacity for a week or so. So that you know you dont have a defective device.
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Very wise advise
ROMANTiC KiD said:
This is why when you get new phones always test them out on their full capacity for a week or so. So that you know you dont have a defective device.
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The title say's it all - but this is very wise advise for us all! Electronics can suffer from infant mortality issue's, and I would agree 101% with you!
Just curious...By any chance could it be possible that the 4.3 update snuck into your phone and your trying to download MF9?
GS4 Stock Rooted MJA 4.3,Philz Touch CWM,HotSpot Mod,Transparent Weather Widget...
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Just curious...By any chance could it be possible that the 4.3 update snuck into your phone and your trying to download MF9?
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I am actually sure it was on 4.2.2 the day it died - still had the notification nag that update was downloaded. I was going to look for how to remove that 'nagging' notification but hadn't yet. Since I rooted the day I got it and installed CWM any OTA update (4.3) should have failed even 'if' I accidently hit the 'system update downloaded' prompt on my notifications screen, which I didn't. The phone had been on for about 4 hours when it first locked and re-booted while texting - and had it updated it would have had to re-boot which I think I would have heard/seen/witnessed some kind of evidence that it had. I think you are going in a good direction though, looking at all possibilities. I know from root checker it rooted successfully and since I made a CWM backup I know stock recovery was gone - so very unlikely 4.3 found it's way in.
Have you tried to boot without the micro SD card installed? The card might have corrupted after you used foldermount and now the phone would t boot.
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Have you tried to boot without the micro SD card installed? The card might have corrupted after you used foldermount and now the phone would t boot.
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No, I only installed but never opened or set up folder mount so that never even crossed my mind. I just got home and have a few things to try - and I think the first and simplest is removing the SD card! OK, tried that to no avail - boot loop get's to samsung logo and repeats. Tried to clear cache and factory reset with card removed and tried again after battery removal for 2 minutes. Same situation - nothing has changed. Will try 1 step restore next. Downloaded on my laptop but had to leave that with a co-worker for data aquisition project - have to download again here at home.
This is off track, but I have never asked for help and//or participated in a forum like this before. I am happily suprised by the intelligent, thoughtful responses I have recieved so far. Didn't expect anything, but am glad I asked - and even though I am still 'stuck' I have had incredibly good input into potential resolutions for this issue. Thank you all for the assistance so far
The best thing for you to do at this point is to odin a full tar and do a factory reset. To make sure you load the correct one we need to confirm your version. Enter download mode by holding volume down and power. Once it loads, select volume up to enter download mode. The should be a bunch of text lines in the upper left. Look for a line that says knox warranty. If you have that line you are on the mja update. If you don't have that line than you are on mf9. Goto sammobile.com and download the full mf9 tar file through odin and it should return you to full stock unrooted. You may need to do a factory reset in the stock recovery if it doesn't boot all the way. If you do have the knox warranty line than your phone updated to MJA and you need to install that tar instead. Good luck.
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Verified through download mode - no Knox line present
cruise350 said:
The best thing for you to do at this point is to odin a full tar and do a factory reset. To make sure you load the correct one we need to confirm your version. Enter download mode by holding volume down and power. Once it loads, select volume up to enter download mode. The should be a bunch of text lines in the upper left. Look for a line that says knox warranty. If you have that line you are on the mja update. If you don't have that line than you are on mf9. Goto sammobile.com and download the full mf9 tar file through odin and it should return you to full stock unrooted. You may need to do a factory reset in the stock recovery if it doesn't boot all the way. If you do have the knox warranty line than your phone updated to MJA and you need to install that tar instead. Good luck.
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Didn't know that line would appear on MJA, but as suspected that line is not in download mode screen's top left verbiage so that gives me confirmation that device didn't sneek from mf9 to MJA.
Late last night I tried both rooted no data restore and stock factory restore 1 click versions from rwilco12. Both appeared to go without a hitch and still after flash and clear cache and factory reset neither allowed the phone to go past the Samsung logo screen. I even tried removing the battery and replaced with that from my wife's S4 to rule out any weird voltage induced issue, but no luck.
I am downloading the L720VPUAMF9_L720SPTAMF9_SPR.zip from sammobile per your suggestion and will give that a whirl. I borrowed a cell phone from a friend who has an extra month of contract with another carrier he is leaving - so actually have a phone to use during this 'downtime' for emergencies - but am begining to wish I had kept my old EVO 3D which never missed a beat. Okay, not really - I like my wifes functioning S4 so far, and her has been fine. I don't even want to think about how stressed I would be right now if it had been her phone that took the dump instead of mine! She simply wants to turn it on and have it work and only appreciates any modifications when every now and then she uses something in front of one of her friends who comments 'cool' I wish I could have/do that with my phone (like hotspot on the boat to a kids tablet).
No luck - bricked or dead phone...
JJ2013 said:
Didn't know that line would appear on MJA, but as suspected that line is not in download mode screen's top left verbiage so that gives me confirmation that device didn't sneek from mf9 to MJA.
Late last night I tried both rooted no data restore and stock factory restore 1 click versions from rwilco12. Both appeared to go without a hitch and still after flash and clear cache and factory reset neither allowed the phone to go past the Samsung logo screen. I even tried removing the battery and replaced with that from my wife's S4 to rule out any weird voltage induced issue, but no luck.
I am downloading the L720VPUAMF9_L720SPTAMF9_SPR.zip from sammobile per your suggestion and will give that a whirl. I borrowed a cell phone from a friend who has an extra month of contract with another carrier he is leaving - so actually have a phone to use during this 'downtime' for emergencies - but am begining to wish I had kept my old EVO 3D which never missed a beat. Okay, not really - I like my wifes functioning S4 so far, and her has been fine. I don't even want to think about how stressed I would be right now if it had been her phone that took the dump instead of mine! She simply wants to turn it on and have it work and only appreciates any modifications when every now and then she uses something in front of one of her friends who comments 'cool' I wish I could have/do that with my phone (like hotspot on the boat to a kids tablet).
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Downloaded and tried L720VPUAMF9_L720SPTAMF9_SPR.zip from sammobile. Odin process went flawlessly as always, no errors, started process after clear cache and factory reset - followed by battery removal for 10 minutes, then turned on phone directly into download mode and odin''d. Re-boot revealed same behavior, tried clearing cache and factory reset again, then battery removal, no luck - looks like I have an unrecoverable phone :crying: At this point I have samsung recovery and firmware so it's going back. I will give my replacement a good week to wring itself our before trying anything with it. On a positive note, my wife's S4 which was an exact replica of this unit continues without missing a beat. This gives me some confidence that it wasn't CF root process or CWM recovery that caused this issue. I am still very nervous going forward but after 6 phones and 3 tablets successfully rooted with custom recovery and no other issues over the last 2 1/2 years i would like to think this really was a hardware failure.
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Downloaded and tried L720VPUAMF9_L720SPTAMF9_SPR.zip from sammobile. Odin process went flawlessly as always, no errors, started process after clear cache and factory reset - followed by battery removal for 10 minutes, then turned on phone directly into download mode and odin''d. Re-boot revealed same behavior, tried clearing cache and factory reset again, then battery removal, no luck - looks like I have an unrecoverable phone :crying: At this point I have samsung recovery and firmware so it's going back. I will give my replacement a good week to wring itself our before trying anything with it. On a positive note, my wife's S4 which was an exact replica of this unit continues without missing a beat. This gives me some confidence that it wasn't CF root process or CWM recovery that caused this issue. I am still very nervous going forward but after 6 phones and 3 tablets successfully rooted with custom recovery and no other issues over the last 2 1/2 years i would like to think this really was a hardware failure.
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I haven't tried this and not sure of the possibility of it working but if you could establish a connection via fastboot or download mode to a computer running adb you could be able to pull the log from dev/log/ and see exactly what is going wrong.
Look here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12995030/how-to-use-adb-pull-command for info on pulling files in adb
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Returned phone, Sprint tried to factory reset and a few other things they didn't seem to want me to see and then declared phone dead. Updating this post on my replacement S4 which I plan on using heavily for a couple weeks before doing anything with!! At that time I guess I will use CF root and CWM only because that's what I have used on my wife's without issue...have to say I am quite nervous after what happened, mostly because I don't have a solid idea of what in the world happened!...I see many are using Phil's touch but don't see any reason to try something different based on my 'issue'. If anyone is still following this post and has an opinion on the safest route other than what I did take I'm open to suggestions! Thanks for checking back...
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JJ2013 said:
Returned phone, Sprint tried to factory reset and a few other things they didn't seem to want me to see and then declared phone dead. Updating this post on my replacement S4 which I plan on using heavily for a couple weeks before doing anything with!! At that time I guess I will use CF root and CWM only because that's what I have used on my wife's without issue...have to say I am quite nervous after what happened, mostly because I don't have a solid idea of what in the world happened!...I see many are using Phil's touch but don't see any reason to try something different based on my 'issue'. If anyone is still following this post and has an opinion on the safest route other than what I did take I'm open to suggestions! Thanks for checking back...
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ing same issue
So you didnt fix it?, im having same issue, after battery died it wouldnt turn on again and got stuck in a boot loop, i was running G.E. 4.4.2 and i had CWM philz touch, now i did everything, f reset wipe all cache, tried without sd card, restored via CWM to 4.4 stock, restored via odin to 4.4 now i did to touchwiz cause i thought it may has been ROM problem, and still stuck in boot logo, anyone? i think i lost warranty causa its was rooted cant return it
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So you didnt fix it?, im having same issue, after battery died it wouldnt turn on again and got stuck in a boot loop, i was running G.E. 4.4.2 and i had CWM philz touch, now i did everything, f reset wipe all cache, tried without sd card, restored via CWM to 4.4 stock, restored via odin to 4.4 now i did to touchwiz cause i thought it may has been ROM problem, and still stuck in boot logo, anyone? i think i lost warranty causa its was rooted cant return it
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No garantee, but I had rooted mine before it went haywire and bootlooped. When I took it in they had the phone for 15 minutes in the back out of my site - expect they went into download mode and could see it was not original (rooted) but replaced it anyway without any fanfare. BTW, after 3 weeks with the new device I rooted it as before - this time using TWRP becouse I had recently helped a friend root a tablet and used TWRP recovery - liked it so... In any case, I have had my rooted S4 (#2) running without issue ever since.
This is my wifes phone, who has always refused to have her phone altered in any way. Today, it started getting hung on the yellow sprint screen. A couple of times, another reboot would get past it. But now it's stuck for good.
She has some pics and thousands of contacts and SMS messages on it that she doesn't want to loose, so kind of afraid to do a factory reset or odin a fresh ROM. I don't know if she allowed it to take the latest firmware updates, so I don't know for sure what version is on it.
Can I odin CWM or TWRP only so that I can do a nandroid backup?
Once I know all the data is backed up, I can try the factory reset and/or odin rooted stock rom and use titanium backup to restore data.
Thanks
I don't know the answer but in my head I'd think you would have to have a working rom to back up in the first place. Maybe she ran out of memory? Flashing the stock Rom won't delete anything. Just did that a few days ago.
I went ahead and flashed CWM and did a nandroid backup. I used my other phone to look at the backup with Titanium Backup.
It looks like I will be able restore contacts and other apps/data. Not sure which item in the backup is for SMS history. In TB, I see a line that says "Messaging" and "Messaging+" and i don't see "com.adroid.providers.telephone".
I know the SMS's are in the backup, I extracted the tars in linux and see the folder /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/
Used odin to flash the pre-rooted OD2 lollipop. It stayed on the yellow screen for several minutes, but I did notice that it played the full boot tune, which it hadn't been before. After a few minutes, it finished booting and started the setup wizard!
tl;dr phone is in some kind of bootloop, tried flashing stock firmware (successful but can't get past start splash screen), plz halp me
So I was just simply browsing on my phone on reddit is fun app, some Google Chrome sites, and 9gag. So then I saved a gif on 9gag and the phone just gives up on me. It went straight to shut down without any warning whatsoever and proceeded to restart. Thinking that it was just an unusual one time thing, the phone kept rebooting and I started really getting worried. I kept getting the Samsung Galaxy S4 splash screen and after that a black screen and then it vibrated twice and I saw the splash screen again. Didn't even get to see the menu for SafeStrap. After several unsuccessful attempts, I finally accessed SafeStrap after restarting the phone from download mode pressing the volume down button. To make as much precious time as I had, I made a backup (although I checked enable compression which I shouldn't have but I didn't have a lot of space on my SD card) and made an advanced wipe cleaning everything except the SD card. I then proceeded to flash a different custom ROM (GoldenEye if you were wondering) and hoped that it was just a custom ROM error that kept giving bootloops. No such luck. The different ROM didn't even help. So I went back to SafeStrap and made another advanced wipe. At this point, I decided to flash stock firmware via Odin from this link (http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-att/general/guide-odin-to-stock-updating-rooting-t2926642) with NB1 base. I remember having flashed the non-rootable version successfully and restarted the phone after that. Got past the Samsung Galaxy S4 splash screen and went all the way to ATT splash screen but then it crashed right there. After that, I couldn't figure out the problem and I couldn't flash any more stock firmware (at least from that link) via Odin because I kept getting a fail notice. I asked this question on reddit and the responses kept saying that I may have a defective power button but it doesn't stay shut down and instead bootloops. Should I try to find a new GS4, get another phone or try sammobile firmwares next to see if there's any luck? I really need to save this phone as it is super dear to me. I'm at the point where I can cry right now :crying:
If you guys need any pictures or videos, I will be more willing to do so
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tl;dr phone is in some kind of bootloop, tried flashing stock firmware (successful but can't get past start splash screen), plz halp me
So I was just simply browsing on my phone on reddit is fun app, some Google Chrome sites, and 9gag. So then I saved a gif on 9gag and the phone just gives up on me. It went straight to shut down without any warning whatsoever and proceeded to restart. Thinking that it was just an unusual one time thing, the phone kept rebooting and I started really getting worried. I kept getting the Samsung Galaxy S4 splash screen and after that a black screen and then it vibrated twice and I saw the splash screen again. Didn't even get to see the menu for SafeStrap. After several unsuccessful attempts, I finally accessed SafeStrap after restarting the phone from download mode pressing the volume down button. To make as much precious time as I had, I made a backup (although I checked enable compression which I shouldn't have but I didn't have a lot of space on my SD card) and made an advanced wipe cleaning everything except the SD card. I then proceeded to flash a different custom ROM (GoldenEye if you were wondering) and hoped that it was just a custom ROM error that kept giving bootloops. No such luck. The different ROM didn't even help. So I went back to SafeStrap and made another advanced wipe. At this point, I decided to flash stock firmware via Odin from this link (http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-att/general/guide-odin-to-stock-updating-rooting-t2926642) with NB1 base. I remember having flashed the non-rootable version successfully and restarted the phone after that. Got past the Samsung Galaxy S4 splash screen and went all the way to ATT splash screen but then it crashed right there. After that, I couldn't figure out the problem and I couldn't flash any more stock firmware (at least from that link) via Odin because I kept getting a fail notice. I asked this question on reddit and the responses kept saying that I may have a defective power button but it doesn't stay shut down and instead bootloops. Should I try to find a new GS4, get another phone or try sammobile firmwares next to see if there's any luck? I really need to save this phone as it is super dear to me. I'm at the point where I can cry right now :crying:
If you guys need any pictures or videos, I will be more willing to do so
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I'd say try redownloading the firmware and make sure your cable is good, try a back USB port, etc. I'd guess the firmware files didn't download properly and so it didn't flash properly. Before you do anything though, try going into stock recovery and wiping everything you can from there.
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I'd say try redownloading the firmware and make sure your cable is good, try a back USB port, etc. I'd guess the firmware files didn't download properly and so it didn't flash properly. Before you do anything though, try going into stock recovery and wiping everything you can from there.
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Thank you for the reply. As for the firmware, where should I acquire them? The link I posted has only one firmware (NB1) and I cannot access stock recovery AT ALL. When I do, I can see the blue text in the corner "Recovery booting..." and then the phone restarts again. This is really frustrating
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Thank you for the reply. As for the firmware, where should I acquire them? The link I posted has only one firmware (NB1) and I cannot access stock recovery AT ALL. When I do, I can see the blue text in the corner "Recovery booting..." and then the phone restarts again. This is really frustrating
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NB1 is the only one you can get, just try downloading either one again.
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NB1 is the only one you can get, just try downloading either one again.
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I did twice today and I keep getting the same message in Odin, like setting up a connection and then it fails
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I did twice today and I keep getting the same message in Odin, like setting up a connection and then it fails
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When you plug in the phone in Download Mode, does the blue box in Odin light up? If not, reinstall samsung drivers
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I'm usually fairly good at troubleshooting my own stuff but this really has me stuck in the same place for a few hours now.
So basically Flipboard has been nagging me(well play store is, not the app itself but anyway) so I said to myself why don't I uninstall it since I've never used it and don't plan to, and besides I hate to have pointless apps installed. So I open TitaniumBackup and I see it is installed as a system app, I thought what's the worst that can happen? so I do uninstall it and a minute later my phone shuts off. I try to turn it on and it doesn't go past the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 flash screen, it either reboots or stays like that.
I try to go into recovery to restore a backup and I can't, it is stuck at Recovery Booting and again it either stays like that or reboots and does it again and again and again.
Now, I haven't made any changes or installs on my phone for weeks now, so this is either because I unistalled Flipboard(I know I shouldn't have risked it since it was a system app but I really could not see it going this way) or the hardware is on it's way out(don't see what else could it be).
I figured I should flash a stock rom with odin, I can get into download mode, and reinstall everything from scratch.
I took a stock image from xda and flashed it and it does exactly the same thing.
Right now I'm downloading another stock image from sammobile for my country/provider to see if this will change anything.
What else can I try? I'm completely stuck and I really don't want to send the phone back like this, I doubt amazon is gonna be happy about it.
Specs:
N910F
Emotion Revolution 12.1 Rom
POK1 BL&CP
TWRP 2.8.7.0
Really sorry for the double-post. I'm quite desperate and need my phone for work.
Since last post I've tried flashing N910FXXU1COH4_N910FH3G1COH3_H3G.zip through Odin from SamMobile and it did the same thing with rebooting constantly.
Then I've installed Kies and went to Tools -> Firmware Upgrade and Initialisation and gave it the model and S/N and it downloaded something and everything went all right, the phone reboots and I'm back in the same circle, it just shows me the splash screen(in some video's I've seen that after this procedure they get the splash screen and then the android bot with a progress bar, I don't get that, I only get the splash screen and reboot) and reboots.
I thought this was a last resort thing? Is the phone completely dead or is there something I can try?
Again sorry for the double-post.
Update: still no progress so I've contacted Amazon and they said to send it back so hopefully this works out in the end, no matter how annoying the waiting time will be, if you do have any suggestions on what I should try please let me know as I haven't posted the phone yet.