I was rooting an S4 and bricked the phone. It sticks in the Samsung logo bootloop. I had TWRP recovery on there and now phone won't boot into recovery mode. I can only boot into download mode. Kies says the device times out while trying to connect and won't recognize anything connected for firmware recoveries. My computer installs drivers for it when I connect in bootloop but doesn't charge the phone. I have tried using Odin to flash recovery and a custom rom (which is where all the trouble started), factory recovery and factory rom to reset everything and Odin fails during the writing portion of the procedure. ADB and fastboot don't even detect a device and all attempts to push, install, recover etc have all been failures. I haven't yet began to Google about JTAG but I've heard that's what you have to do for seriously F'd devices. Any suggestions?
cyberratt said:
I was rooting an S4 and bricked the phone. It sticks in the Samsung logo bootloop. I had TWRP recovery on there and now phone won't boot into recovery mode. I can only boot into download mode. Kies says the device times out while trying to connect and won't recognize anything connected for firmware recoveries. My computer installs drivers for it when I connect in bootloop but doesn't charge the phone. I have tried using Odin to flash recovery and a custom rom (which is where all the trouble started), factory recovery and factory rom to reset everything and Odin fails during the writing portion of the procedure. ADB and fastboot don't even detect a device and all attempts to push, install, recover etc have all been failures. I haven't yet began to Google about JTAG but I've heard that's what you have to do for seriously F'd devices. Any suggestions?
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Can you get into stock recovery or download mode? Which build were you on?
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bad cable?
Dougrun said:
bad cable?
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It worked fine when I rooted. I can get into download mode, but recovery mode starts to run and then it reboots to the Samsung screen. Odin fails on write operations. I was on the stock 4.3 before. I never managed to get another flash to take so now i'm not running anything haha.
cyberratt said:
It worked fine when I rooted. I can get into download mode, but recovery mode starts to run and then it reboots to the Samsung screen. Odin fails on write operations. I was on the stock 4.3 before. I never managed to get another flash to take so now i'm not running anything haha.
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Try re flashing a stock 4.3 again
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Try re flashing a stock 4.3 again
GS4 Stock Rooted MJA 4.3,Philz Touch CWM,HotSpot Mod,Transparent Weather Widget...
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I have tried. It's impossible to write anything to the phone. I can't load past the Samsung screen. I can't boot into recovery. I can boot into download and my computer recognizes the phone is plugged, but no data can be read or written from the phone and i'm unsure whether it charges or not (the icon when the phone is powered off but plugged in is a gray battery with the arrow circle in the middle but it doesn't spin). I can't flash anything onto it from Odin. ADB doesn't recognize it. Fastboot doesn't recognize it.
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I have tried. It's impossible to write anything to the phone. I can't load past the Samsung screen. I can't boot into recovery. I can boot into download and my computer recognizes the phone is plugged, but no data can be read or written from the phone and i'm unsure whether it charges or not (the icon when the phone is powered off but plugged in is a gray battery with the arrow circle in the middle but it doesn't spin). I can't flash anything onto it from Odin. ADB doesn't recognize it. Fastboot doesn't recognize it.
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Check your PM..
GS4 Stock Rooted MJA 4.3,Philz Touch CWM,HotSpot Mod,Transparent Weather Widget...
I had the same problem. I had to install Phils recovery through Odin. Luckily, I had a stock rooted 4.3 rom downloaded to my ad card. Flashed it using the new recovery. If you don't have a 4.3 stock rooted rom, there are odex/deodex rims in the development section.
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I had the same problem. I had to install Phils recovery through Odin. Luckily, I had a stock rooted 4.3 rom downloaded to my ad card. Flashed it using the new recovery. If you don't have a 4.3 stock rooted rom, there are odex/deodex rims in the development section.
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Yea that is what I was going to suggest. Odin just the latest Philz recovery. If that takes you have opened up a lot more options to go from there.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2322679 download link in OP.
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I just followed this thread and successfully rooted my S4
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2387577
I think i deleted some core apps thru titanium backup and the phone could not display normally (keep Blinking)
then I tried to downloaded Goo Manager and installed TWRP Recovery on my S4. when I restart my phone can only boot to ODIN mode. I fixed this by using
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2360859
Now the phone can boot up but stuck at ATT logo Screen. Any body can help me?
PS. I try KIES emergency recovery and it keep telling me there is a error of updating.
I bricked my s4 (i337 Canadian, bell) the day I bought it, TWRP 2.6.0.0 was what bricked my phone (I think, or improper use of TWRP) and it wouldn't boot whatsoever (even my recovery was bricked), I managed to fix it by flashing stock firmware from ODIN 1.85 on PC to the phone (couldn't access recovery, so I flashed from PC) , make sure you download a stock firmware that is .tar to use with the PC version of ODIN, the second thing I had to do was flash CF Auto Root again using ODIN 1.85 from PC to phone, since I still couldn't boot my phone or recovery (other root flashing methods wouldn't unbrick my phone, but CF Auto Root did, download the MF3 version of CF auto root).
after all this crap I installed TWRP 2.5.0.0 as my recovery and haven't had any issues since :victory:
this was done on a I337MVLUAMG1 which I believe is the bell equivalent of the MF3 (update that blocked rooting by most methods like motochopper ect)
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Amb669 said:
I bricked my s4 (i337 Canadian, bell) the day I bought it, TWRP 2.6.0.0 was what bricked my phone (I think, or improper use of TWRP) and it wouldn't boot whatsoever (even my recovery was bricked), I managed to fix it by flashing stock firmware from ODIN 1.85 on PC to the phone (couldn't access recovery, so I flashed from PC) , make sure you download a stock firmware that is .tar to use with the PC version of ODIN, the second thing I had to do was flash CF Auto Root again (other root flashing methods wouldn't unbrick my phone, but CF Auto Root did, download the MF3 version of CF auto root).
after all this crap I installed TWRP 2.5.0.0 as my recovery and haven't had any issues since :victory:
this was done on a I337MVLUAMG1 which I believe is the bell equivalent of the MF3 (update that blocked rooting by most methods like motochopper ect)
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Thanks for your reply.
I have the same problem as this guy
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2407950
Any Idea how to fix it?
jerryhuanginusa said:
I just followed this thread and successfully rooted my S4
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2387577
I think i deleted some core apps thru titanium backup and the phone could not display normally (keep Blinking)
then I tried to downloaded Goo Manager and installed TWRP Recovery on my S4. when I restart my phone can only boot to ODIN mode. I fixed this by using
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2360859
Now the phone can boot up but stuck at ATT logo Screen. Any body can help me?
PS. I try KIES emergency recovery and it keep telling me there is a error of updating.
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Dont thinknthere is antthing you can do. We have no return to stock method at this point in time. This is why it is important to follow forum rules and read and search before doing something youll regret, im nkt saying this to be mean...but there has been at least 5 people these past few days who have done the exact same thing as you and have gone in here looking for help...
My best advice, throw in some money for the bootloader unlock bounty and hope somethung happens soomer than later
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jerryhuanginusa said:
I just followed this thread and successfully rooted my S4
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2387577
I think i deleted some core apps thru titanium backup and the phone could not display normally (keep Blinking)
then I tried to downloaded Goo Manager and installed TWRP Recovery on my S4. when I restart my phone can only boot to ODIN mode. I fixed this by using
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2360859
Now the phone can boot up but stuck at ATT logo Screen. Any body can help me?
PS. I try KIES emergency recovery and it keep telling me there is a error of updating.
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If you read through the threads it specifically stated that the MF3 boot loader is locked and you cannot install twrp or custom ROMS on it. I have seen so many posts regarding this it makes me sick. It's kies seeing the device? But is falling to recover? Or is it not seeing it?
Tylor
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44570305&postcount=366
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If you read through the threads it specifically stated that the MF3 boot loader is locked and you cannot install twrp or custom ROMS on it. I have seen so many posts regarding this it makes me sick. It's kies seeing the device? But is falling to recover? Or is it not seeing it?
Tylor
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the Kies can detect the phone buy it fail to recover it. the progress bar runs a little and stopped. error message pop out on PC screen says "Emergency recovery failed, Please contact Samsung Customer Service"
So I tried updating from 4.2.2 to 4.3 using this method: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2509605
Needless to say that didn't work and I have no clue what to do.
I flashed back with Odin to stock MF9 just like the tutorial said to. Then I downloaded the MJA rom, put it on my SD card, went into recovery, and installed it. It seemed like it succeeded, but then I got stuck in a boot loop..So I booted into download mode and tried flashing back to MF9 but that failed and now I'm stuck with the error "Firmware Upgrade Encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again". But that recovery mode thing won't work, and neither does attempting to flash back to stock MF9, so I have no idea what to do. I cannot boot into recovery either. Please help.
Whoskraiten said:
So I tried updating from 4.2.2 to 4.3 using this method: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2509605
Needless to say that didn't work and I have no clue what to do.
I flashed back with Odin to stock MF9 just like the tutorial said to. Then I downloaded the MJA rom, put it on my SD card, went into recovery, and installed it. It seemed like it succeeded, but then I got stuck in a boot loop..So I booted into download mode and tried flashing back to MF9 but that failed and now I'm stuck with the error "Firmware Upgrade Encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again". But that recovery mode thing won't work, and neither does attempting to flash back to stock MF9, so I have no idea what to do. I cannot boot into recovery either. Please help.
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First things first questions go in the Q&A and help thread. Second, I provided a solution to you when you first posted in @Ingenium13 thread..
GS4 Stock Rooted MJA 4.3,Philz Touch CWM,HotSpot Mod,Transparent Weather Widget,8SMS(Stock Messaging,KitKat)
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Whoskraiten said:
So I tried updating from 4.2.2 to 4.3 using this method: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2509605
Needless to say that didn't work and I have no clue what to do.
I flashed back with Odin to stock MF9 just like the tutorial said to. Then I downloaded the MJA rom, put it on my SD card, went into recovery, and installed it. It seemed like it succeeded, but then I got stuck in a boot loop..So I booted into download mode and tried flashing back to MF9 but that failed and now I'm stuck with the error "Firmware Upgrade Encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again". But that recovery mode thing won't work, and neither does attempting to flash back to stock MF9, so I have no idea what to do. I cannot boot into recovery either. Please help.
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I have the same problem, Im stock in galaxy s4 boot-loader window. Can any body help pleaseeeee
fabian0203 said:
I have the same problem, Im stock in galaxy s4 boot-loader window. Can any body help pleaseeeee
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Hi there. I think I soft-bricked my phone. I am running mf3 firmware on my i337 galaxy s4 and i tried to flash Graviton. I was using safestrap and I, like an idiot, didn't use a romslot and did it over my stock. Seemed to work fine until I actually booted the phone. It can't access wifi and therefore wont go past the find wifi screen. I try to enter recovery but it just keeps going to the download screen. After trying every way I could find I still cant either wipe my phone or flash the stock firmware. I have tried kies and odin but nothing works. Can anyone help me out or am I royally screwed?
LCubed22 said:
Hi there. I think I soft-bricked my phone. I am running mf3 firmware on my i337 galaxy s4 and i tried to flash Graviton. I was using safestrap and I, like an idiot, didn't use a romslot and did it over my stock. Seemed to work fine until I actually booted the phone. It can't access wifi and therefore wont go past the find wifi screen. I try to enter recovery but it just keeps going to the download screen. After trying every way I could find I still cant either wipe my phone or flash the stock firmware. I have tried kies and odin but nothing works. Can anyone help me out or am I royally screwed?
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as long as the phone can go into download mode, you can use odin to reflash the stock firmware (and factory recovery). Check samsungupdates for your model/region and stock/official firmware. You'd have to re-root after. I did the same thing a while back, lost my recovery and this is the method I used to bring my phone back to life, was just sitting at the samsung logo and had no recovery (but had download mode).
LCubed22 said:
Hi there. I think I soft-bricked my phone. I am running mf3 firmware on my i337 galaxy s4 and i tried to flash Graviton. I was using safestrap and I, like an idiot, didn't use a romslot and did it over my stock. Seemed to work fine until I actually booted the phone. It can't access wifi and therefore wont go past the find wifi screen. I try to enter recovery but it just keeps going to the download screen. After trying every way I could find I still cant either wipe my phone or flash the stock firmware. I have tried kies and odin but nothing works. Can anyone help me out or am I royally screwed?
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Does Odin recognize the phone? Also, when you say it won't go past the "find wifi" screen, does that mean it booted to the "Welcome" screen?
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Does Odin recognize the phone? Also, when you say it won't go past the "find wifi" screen, does that mean it booted to the "Welcome" screen?
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Sorry should have edited the first post. I actually fixed my original problem and am now having a different one. I got all the way through nd did a restore of my stock rom. I then tried to flash the graviton one to a different rom-slot in safestrap. So now there is a completely different partition in the storage and the flash didnt work so I'm now completely stuck in download mode. I have tried to flash the tar files in odin and it fails every time. I should have all of the necessary files for mf3.
LCubed22 said:
Sorry should have edited the first post. I actually fixed my original problem and am now having a different one. I got all the way through nd did a restore of my stock rom. I then tried to flash the graviton one to a different rom-slot in safestrap. So now there is a completely different partition in the storage and the flash didnt work so I'm now completely stuck in download mode. I have tried to flash the tar files in odin and it fails every time. I should have all of the necessary files for mf3.
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If you have the 16GB Galaxy, try flashing this file in the PIT slot in Odin.. Don't put any other files in the PDA slot, etc. It's worked many times when phone would only boot to download..
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fptxnxsqevjhnt9/SGS-I337_16GB.pit
Hey Nerdyblonde, what does this pit file do?
I softbricked my phone when trying to flip from CWM to TWRP. (Thought I could just wipe phone and odin flash on top of CWM... VERY WRONG). Now I can't get into recovery and my phone is telling me to use kies recovery *shudder*. So I tried kies when I couldn't Odin flash to stock rom and still nothing.
nerdyblonde said:
If you have the 16GB Galaxy, try flashing this file in the PIT slot in Odin.. Don't put any other files in the PDA slot, etc. It's worked many times when phone would only boot to download..
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fptxnxsqevjhnt9/SGS-I337_16GB.pit
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snoops609 said:
Hey Nerdyblonde, what does this pit file do?
I softbricked my phone when trying to flip from CWM to TWRP. (Thought I could just wipe phone and odin flash on top of CWM... VERY WRONG). Now I can't get into recovery and my phone is telling me to use kies recovery *shudder*. So I tried kies when I couldn't Odin flash to stock rom and still nothing.
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Sorry it took a few days to answer.. The Kies screen was the same thing that happened to me... I have the MF3 version, so I can't install custom recovery, but I couldn't boot into recovery period. I flashed that pit file in the pit box on Odin, it restored my recovery.
Do you have MDL or MF3? If you have MDL, I would be really careful not to flash MF3 unless you want to stick with basically stock until one of the geniuses here figures out how to unlock the bootloader.
Hi everyone,
I hope someone can help me with this problem. Basically I was updating my phone to mk2 BTU via kies and it failed. Kies stopped recognising the phone and it kept going in to stock recovery.
I tried manually flashing stock mk2 via odin but I kept getting the same result.
Then I got fed up and I rooted (cf auto root) and installed TWRP and my phone booted in to a rooted mk2. My knox is now triggered which is a bit annoying but at least it works now.
The problem is if I try to flash stock rom via odin it still does the same thing boots in to stock recovery and then I have to root and install twrp again. I blame all this on KIES!
Does anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks
Any ideas anyone?
evo6 said:
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The problem is if I try to flash stock rom via odin it still does the same thing boots in to stock recovery and then I have to root and install twrp again. I blame all this on KIES!
Does anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks
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Not clear here - by stock rom do you mean stock MK2 ROM (unrooted, same CSC as the rooted one that works)?
Have you also tried in Kies the special "emergency recovery mode" (under tools)?
xclub_101 said:
Not clear here - by stock rom do you mean stock MK2 ROM (unrooted, same CSC as the rooted one that works)?
Have you also tried in Kies the special "emergency recovery mode" (under tools)?
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Yes thats right MK2 stock unrooted and same CSC. I tried KIES the first time with emergency recovery but it kept saying device unsupported, that's when i rooted it and installed TWRP and it worked. I don't understand it.
I'm sure this particular thing has happened before but I want to be sure by giving the details of my problem. I just updated my modem to MJA from MDA. Basically, I was following http://galaxys4root.com/galaxy-s4-t...n-sprint-galaxy-s4-android-4-3-mja-stock-rom/ when I got to the part where I have to choose my custom ROM to install. It got an error so I reboot it and basically now I can get into recovery and download mode. I tried to factory reset but it isn't working. Is there a way to fix this WITHOUT the knox thingy going off? If not, please let me know anyhow.
you can or can't get into recovery? if you mean you just can't reboot normally, it's because you're on mja baseband with mda firmware. flash a mja or mk2 rom and you should be fine if you can still boot into recovery.
ymf331 said:
you can or can't get into recovery? if you mean you just can't reboot normally, it's because you're on mja baseband with mda firmware. flash a mja or mk2 rom and you should be fine if you can still boot into recovery.
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I can. Sorry my wording is horrible. How can I go about flashing a rom if while in recovery or DL mode my phone doesn't show up on my cpu while connected?
once you find a rom you want to try, you could use a microsd with an adapter to put the .zip on. if you're just having problems with mtp 'cause your phone doesn't boot, but still connects in download mode, you could just use odin.
ymf331 said:
once you find a rom you want to try, you could use a microsd with an adapter to put the .zip on. if you're just having problems with mtp 'cause your phone doesn't boot, but still connects in download mode, you could just use odin.
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Why the heck didn't I think of the adapter....hours of wasted time. Thanks.