[Q] [HELP] Bootlooped i9500, cant access download mode - Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey there everyone, and thank you all in advance for any help i might receive with my issue. I have a S4 gt-i9500, i havent played around with rooting or installing any custom firmwares so as not to void my warranty, but today, out of the blue my phone just turned off and started an incessant bootloop. I cant even get it to stay off, when i try to access recovery mode i get this little pic that goes by so fast i cant really see it, but it looks like the android dummy lying down dead , with a red exclamation mark on top of it. I can access the first stage of download mode, but when i press Vol up, nothing happens and after a few secs the bootloop starts again(even if i dont press anything). I took my phone to my provider and they told me my warranty was violated because of some bs key scratches on the chrome bezel, id really appreciate any info on how to make it stay in download mode long enough to flash a rom or custom recovery on it to see if i can get it fixed.

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I have a rooted Note 3 from verizon on the hyperdrive rom. today I got a message from SUbinary (something like that) that there was an update and that I need to reboot to update. So I just clicked okay and my phone restarted. However since then I'm stuck in a boot loop with the blue message in the upper left corner saying "recovery loading.." with the note 3 white logo appearing. Then the phone vibrates twice and comes back to the same screen. I don't see the custom/lock picture like I used too. I've tried multiple times to take the battery out but no luck. I can't seem to actually enter the recovery panel at all. I've tried holding the home/power/volume up but it just starts the boot loops again. Not sure what to do. I just want to the phone to work but it seems like a hard brick?
secants said:
Hey guys,
I have a rooted Note 3 from verizon on the hyperdrive rom. today I got a message from SUbinary (something like that) that there was an update and that I need to reboot to update. So I just clicked okay and my phone restarted. However since then I'm stuck in a boot loop with the blue message in the upper left corner saying "recovery loading.." with the note 3 white logo appearing. Then the phone vibrates twice and comes back to the same screen. I don't see the custom/lock picture like I used too. I've tried multiple times to take the battery out but no luck. I can't seem to actually enter the recovery panel at all. I've tried holding the home/power/volume up but it just starts the boot loops again. Not sure what to do. I just want to the phone to work but it seems like a hard brick?
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If you soft brick then u can only access download mode and if you hard brick then you need an expert. The problem is that verizon and at&t have locked bootloaders. Safestrap recovery is usually used there.
Can you reflash safestrap recovery via Odin ?
This link might be helpful cause im not so used to safestrap only know the basics.
Galaxy-note-3.wonderhowto.com/how-to/install-custom-recovery-your-bootloader-locked-galaxy-note-3-at-t-verizon-0156667/
If you cant access the recovery and only download mode then you have soft brick and need to reflash stock firmware.

[Q] (S4 I9500) Stuck on Samsung Logo + Can't go to Recovery or download mode

First thank you for viewing my question and issue.
I'm new in here hoping to find a solution to my problem. I bought a used S4 I9500 last year it was lagging acting up slow did a search and read online that I might need to install better version via Odin (I'm totally new to the android world so I think I did a mistake here somewhere). So I did install I9505 version which I thought will work fine. (sorry for not doing enough researches coming from IOS which is less complicated). The phone apparently did a restart and got stuck on the Samsung logo which kept glowing for few minutes.
It was mid night by the time I was cracking this stuff out, so thought to myself to keep it plugged and go n rest for few hours. I woke up and the Phone was still stuck on the Samsung logo which was glowing not like paused or something. The phone was hot so i thought I should stop the whole operation before something worst happen. Did some searches and found that people are fixing this issue by going to recovery mode or download mode etc.
The thing is Vol+ and home button + power or Vol+ and power trick doesn't show the menu anymore. When i click any of these it just does a random reboot showing Galaxy I9500 logo and then back to the glowing samsung logo. notice that I was able to go to download mode and recovery mode prior to this issue but now I just can't for some reasons.
Would appreciate any help. Thank you
Find someone that can use Jtag maybe they can fix it.
Hard lesson for you. Never flash a firmware for another device onto your phone.
If they can't fix it, then you can buy a new phone. You bricked it.

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Hi,so i replaced LCD in my I9515, I've been doing this with youtube tutorial. Before 1-2 weeks ago my phone boot normally but i couldnt see anything due to broken LCD. In store, guy took my battery and connected it to a naked motherboard and lcd to see if it's working. After replacment when i try to boot it's stuck on Samsung Galaxy S4 logo and wont boot further. I can go into download mode, computer and odin are seeing connected phone, but i cannot boot into recovery it's just showing blue "booting recovery" and nothing happening. When I charging it, the grey battery pops out, but when i unplug it the battery is still there like it's still connected. Sometimes when i try to turn it off when it's stuck on galaxy s4 logo it's turning off then on by itself like 2 or 3 times. Any ideas how to fix it? It's hardware or software problem? In a minutes i'll try to flash stock soft from sammobile. Phone was never rooted and no custom roms were installed.
Thanks for all help.
EDIT Flashing with ODIN not solved the problem
EDIT Now phone doesnt show battery when connected just one vibrate and screen is blank, and when i try to boot it while connected it's just vibrating and still black screen. When it was connected to pc it was vibrating every 2 seconds. When I try to boot it's by itself trying to boot recovery but it's not booting and blue "recovery booting" just hang on top of screen and nothing happening.
EDIT After restarting it from download mode it's get back to the problem i had in the beggining
EDIT Just flashed 4-files soft with PIT and nothing changed
I think the screen may not have been replaced properly.
And motherboard is broken now ? I think i did everything right.
There might be a short circuit somewhere. I can't tell you exactly.
So the best option now it's tech look at it?
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So the best option now it's tech look at it?
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Yes. Unless you have some tech-savvy friends who could also look at it.

Help please.FRP blocks custom binary loading and booting, cant access recovery mode.

What happened was that, i dropped my phone, i gess the battery came off somehow and it switched off. When i turned it on again it did not boot and on the top of screen it wrote: Custom binary blocked by FRP.
And under that a litte red text SECURE FAIL: KERNEL.
Does anyone have any idead how i could just flash my phone back to stock, data does not matter too much, so far since i cant go into recovery mode, when i hold home power and vol down it just restarts to the screen i previously describe.
Is my phone completely bricked?
Just go to sammobile and download your stock firmware, access download mode and flash that stock image you just downloaded, what you got is a soft brick it is easy to fix just by following the process i just described

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