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Bootloader Loop problem

Hi, my phone acted weird today, been running custom room for over couple months without any problem, but then when i resart my phone today it got to the bootload screen and stuck there ever seen. I can able to go into custom recover and did a full wipe but nothing change, could anyone help me out? I have loki also. Using S4 ATT version.

Try wiping cache in your recovery

i did that, always do that after install a new rom, don't know why my phone is soft bricked now...

akahimaro said:
i did that, always do that after install a new rom, don't know why my phone is soft bricked now...
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if you've done a full wipe and tried either re-flashing your rom or restoring a nandroid and neither was successful, you may need to consider going back to stock via odin and starting over.
i've never seen a phone run on the same rom and kernel settings for months and then just shut down and softbrick without something having been changed recently.

xBeerdroiDx said:
if you've done a full wipe and tried either re-flashing your rom or restoring a nandroid and neither was successful, you may need to consider going back to stock via odin and starting over.
i've never seen a phone run on the same rom and kernel settings for months and then just shut down and softbrick without something having been changed recently.
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yes, i'm doing that right now, thanks for the tips, i had that happen to my s2 before. Really weird...

Before ODIN'ing back to MDL/MDB...
akahimaro said:
yes, i'm doing that right now, thanks for the tips, i had that happen to my s2 before. Really weird...
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What recovery image are you running? You are not the only one that had this problem. I am trying to piece this together.

Process System crashs and bootloop

Hi,
I've a big problem with my note 3 (SM-9005).
Root and under Foxhound Diamonds ROM 1.2
All worked perfectly during one month and I don't do any modifcation last month.
Just i flashed Faux's recovery 2 days ago.
After that, Note3 works perfectly. But I had needed to do a reboot. But after reboot I had many problems. PIN code was not query after reboot, I have no signal and after several seconds it's show me "system process doesn't respond" wait or close?. Then the phone reboot and reboot until I removed the battery.
I tried to reflash the rom but I had still the same problem. I also tried to reflash a Samsung firmware with ODIN. Flash was OK, but problem is still there. No signal, and reboot after system process crash...
Any idea? My Knox counter is at 0x1...
Sorry for my poor English.

pystolero said:
Hi,
I've a big problem with my note 3 (SM-9005).
Root and under Foxhound Diamonds ROM 1.2
All worked perfectly during one month and I don't do any modifcation last month.
Just i flashed Faux's recovery 2 days ago.
After that, Note3 works perfectly. But I had needed to do a reboot. But after reboot I had many problems. PIN code was not query after reboot, I have no signal and after several seconds it's show me "system process doesn't respond" wait or close?. Then the phone reboot and reboot until I removed the battery.
I tried to reflash the rom but I had still the same problem. I also tried to reflash a Samsung firmware with ODIN. Flash was OK, but problem is still there. No signal, and reboot after system process crash...
Any idea? My Knox counter is at 0x1...
Sorry for my poor English.
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Hi, from the sounds of it you had the same problem I had, I followed what this guy said in this thread and it worked perfectly again: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2540822 Hope it works for you too

danielsf said:
Hi, from the sounds of it you had the same problem I had, I followed what this guy said in this thread and it worked perfectly again: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2540822 Hope it works for you too
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Thank you for your answer. But Root was done Two month ago by myself. So...
And I had flashed a stock Rom with ODIN. But when we flash a stock ROM with ODIN, we lost the root. Why I Still had the same problems after flashing a stock rom?

pystolero said:
Thank you for your answer. But Root was done Two month ago by myself. So...
And I had flashed a stock Rom with ODIN. But when we flash a stock ROM with ODIN, we lost the root. Why I Still had the same problems after flashing a stock rom?
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Because you corrupted your EFS partition flashing either a kernel that didn't like the phone or a ROM that had issues, (Samsung Note 3 is prone to EFS issues currently). And it needed rebuilt. Re-Flashing stock in most cases won't rebuild it but sometimes it does, then you have you use this to fix. No need to go back to stock or wipe or anything, just flash it and voila! fixed

radicalisto said:
Because you corrupted your EFS partition flashing either a kernel that didn't like the phone or a ROM that had issues, (Samsung Note 3 is prone to EFS issues currently). And it needed rebuilt. Re-Flashing stock in most cases won't rebuild it but sometimes it does, then you have you use this to fix. No need to go back to stock or wipe or anything, just flash it and voila! fixed
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Really thanks. I'll try this soon! And thanks for the explication. I hope it will work!

Ok, I've not my note 3 with me. I tried to return it to after-sales services. But Samsung said that I had flashed the device and that warranty is broken...
I'm waiting the estimate but I think it will be too expensive. I want try to repair it by myself but they have not brought back the phone yet.
But the last solution :
radicalisto said:
Because you corrupted your EFS partition flashing either a kernel that didn't like the phone or a ROM that had issues, (Samsung Note 3 is prone to EFS issues currently). And it needed rebuilt. Re-Flashing stock in most cases won't rebuild it but sometimes it does, then you have you use this to fix. No need to go back to stock or wipe or anything, just flash it and voila! fixed
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needs to have a custom recovery. But it seems to me that after i had flashed the stock firmware, I didn't have the custom recovery but only the stock... How I can flash the file? Is it possible with the stock recovery?

Grab TWRP or CWM recoveries and ODIN, boot the phone into download mode - when it is off. Load up one of your custom recoveries in to PDA - hit start and let it install. Once it's done your phone will still bootloop, so take the battery out. Put back in - hold volume up, power button and home button - it'll boot into recovery, then just flash your efs fix zip via the install button
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Great! I'll try as soon as they brought me back the phone.
I didn't knew how to flash custom recovery with ODIN.
THX!

radicalisto said:
Because you corrupted your EFS partition flashing either a kernel that didn't like the phone or a ROM that had issues, (Samsung Note 3 is prone to EFS issues currently). And it needed rebuilt. Re-Flashing stock in most cases won't rebuild it but sometimes it does, then you have you use this to fix. No need to go back to stock or wipe or anything, just flash it and voila! fixed
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+1. This is because EFS partition is corrupted
Just flash that script radicalisto linked to, it will fix your phone

Ratata82 said:
+1. This is because EFS partition is corrupted
Just flash that script radicalisto linked to, it will fix your phone
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I'm hopeful! I'll test it as soon as i've recover my phone from the after-service.

pystolero said:
I'm hopeful! I'll test it as soon as i've recover my phone from the after-service.
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Did you manage to get your phone back up and running again?
Best regards

Ratata82 said:
Did you manage to get your phone back up and running again?
Best regards
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I'm still waiting for the after-service.
Samsung refuse my device. Warranty is broken because I flashed it. They saw Knox's counter of course...
They asked 250€ ~ 340$ to repair it. I refused I prefer to try your solution and i'm waiting. The phone will be back in average the 15th january.

Ratata82 said:
Did you manage to get your phone back up and running again?
Best regards
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radicalisto said:
Because you corrupted your EFS partition flashing either a kernel that didn't like the phone or a ROM that had issues, (Samsung Note 3 is prone to EFS issues currently). And it needed rebuilt. Re-Flashing stock in most cases won't rebuild it but sometimes it does, then you have you use this to fix. No need to go back to stock or wipe or anything, just flash it and voila! fixed
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Some news!
I just recover my phone!
I have immediately flashed the recovery, and flash the file you got me. And.... it's running!!!! :laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
I'm so happy!!! What a shame for Samsung! They said in the estimate 340$ to repair it with a change of motherboard while just a little flash was enough.
If you have a paypal adress, radicalisto, I buy you a beer!

Glad you got sorted - I cannot take credit for that script I'm afraid.. If you head over to the thread it was posted in you can thank the guy who made it
Sent from my SM-N9005 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

radicalisto said:
Glad you got sorted - I cannot take credit for that script I'm afraid.. If you head over to the thread it was posted in you can thank the guy who made it
Sent from my SM-N9005 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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It makes me happy, but you're right, i will thank the man who made the script!

Soft bricked, can't wipe or restore old backups, help!

Okay, so I recently (yesterday) rooted my Note 3, I was running X-Note v7.0 and CWM Based Recovery v6.0.4.5., Samsung Voice was annoying me so I decided to delete it via Root Explorer, it seems it wasn't actually Samsung Voice and upon reset it struggled to boot into the ROM, the background was black, I couldn't access anything but the notification bar.
I was a bit annoyed, but no worries, I'll just re-install X-Note and it'll replace the missing file and I'll be good to go. Wrong. It was exactly the same. So I thought I'll have to wipe and re-install, slightly more annoyed as it's taken me a day to set the device up nicely!
I wiped, re-installed and still, it's the same. I've wiped the data and factory reset five times in a row from recovery, wiped dalvik, formatted, /System, /Data & /Cache separately. Re-installed the ROM again and it still won't work.
It will do the normal long boot, showing the boot animation, then boot into the setup screen, won't let me use Wi-FI, so I skip that and all Google logins etc etc, load the new ROM and it's just black, again.
So now I am soft bricked, I can't wipe, I can't re-install, I cant't lay my stock backup over the ROM. I'm currently downloading Omega v6.0 to see if another ROM will fix it.
Any advice? I'm fast running out of ideas! Is there any way to totally format the internal memory like the Galaxy Nexus had? That way I can do a complete fresh install which should fix my issue. :crying:

Flash stock
Root
Flassh cwm
Flash xnote
hit 'thanks' if i helped you
SM-N9005 DBT-DMJ7 0x0
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Killberty said:
Flash stock
Root
Flassh cwm
Flash xnote
hit 'thanks' if i helped you
SM-N9005 DBT-DMJ7 0x0
XDA Developers 4 premium app
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Do you know where I can find the stock UK Vodafone ROM? I haven't seen a repository.

Kalavere said:
Do you know where I can find the stock UK Vodafone ROM? I haven't seen a repository.
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Sammobile, but if you want a faster download grab one from dejmbey's thread in the dev section (pre-rooted)

radicalisto said:
Sammobile, but if you want a faster download grab one from dejmbey's thread in the dev section (pre-rooted)
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I've found the thread here, can I install any on a UK Vodafone N3? Is the first one okay to flash?

Okay, so I have no baseband or IME it seems, I've found this thread and I think it will solve my problem. I am getting zero reception and my phone is rebooting so fast I can barely get into the settings menu.

Kalavere said:
Okay, so I have no baseband or IME it seems, I've found this thread and I think it will solve my problem. I am getting zero reception and my phone is rebooting so fast I can barely get into the settings menu.
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Here flash this HERE this will fix your bootloop, efs corrupted, it happens sometimes, so don't panic too much!!

radicalisto said:
Here flash this HERE this will fix your bootloop, efs corrupted, it happens sometimes, so don't panic too much!!
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Radicalisto, you are my new best friend! :victory:

Okay, so the ROM seems stable enough. I have data service as I'm writing this through the network, but, I can't receive texts or calls, I can call and send texts out, but I can't receive any in return.
Any ideas?

Kalavere said:
Okay, so the ROM seems stable enough. I have data service as I'm writing this through the network, but, I can't receive texts or calls, I can call and send texts out, but I can't receive any in return.
Any ideas?
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Double check your APN regarding the txts - calls however, you may need to fresh flash as it may have caused some coruption - did you dirty flash? if so, probably your issue.

radicalisto said:
Double check your APN regarding the txts - calls however, you may need to fresh flash as it may have caused some coruption - did you dirty flash? if so, probably your issue.
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It was a clean flash, which wasn't great. So I restored an older backup which was also crap, so I dirty flashed over it and I've got some call and texts received but it keeps dropping to one bar of HSDPA and then dropping out completely.
Regarding the APN, I'm on stock Vodafone contract. I've not looked into changing it. It all seems in order.

Kalavere said:
It was a clean flash, which wasn't great. So I restored an older backup which was also crap, so I dirty flashed over it and I've got some call and texts received but it keeps dropping to one bar of HSDPA and then dropping out completely.
Regarding the APN, I'm on stock Vodafone contract. I've not looked into changing it. It all seems in order.
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It could be a modem/radio isssue then - I'm not 100% on that subject and would hate to hazard a guess on how to fix, as they can brick your device if you mess up. Safer to see if anyone else chimes in mate, I wouldn't wanna risk telling you something that may ruin your device
I'm sure you'll get sorted though :good:

radicalisto said:
It could be a modem/radio isssue then - I'm not 100% on that subject and would hate to hazard a guess on how to fix, as they can brick your device if you mess up. Safer to see if anyone else chimes in mate, I wouldn't wanna risk telling you something that may ruin your device
I'm sure you'll get sorted though :good:
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I've flashed many radios via ADB before, it's no worse than flashing a ROM. Although I doubt it's as easy on a frigging Samsung phone!
I can't see how the radio got messed up though, I'll have to have a look through the dev section for updated radios.

It seems of all the days for Vodafone to have a bad signal day, yesterday was it. After getting into work this morning a couple of work colleagues also struggled to send and receive texts/calls. I text 'web' to 40127 on Vodafone UK to get the correct APN settings delivered to my phone regardless and I'll seems well except a double boot when rebooting or cold booting the phone, but I can live with that.

Kalavere said:
It seems of all the days for Vodafone to have a bad signal day, yesterday was it. After getting into work this morning a couple of work colleagues also struggled to send and receive texts/calls. I text 'web' to 40127 on Vodafone UK to get the correct APN settings delivered to my phone regardless and I'll seems well except a double boot when rebooting or cold booting the phone, but I can love with that.
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Ahahaha bloody typical eh! - Least you're sorted man :good:

radicalisto said:
Ahahaha bloody typical eh! - Least you're sorted man :good:
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I walked into Carphone Warehouse yesterday in a strop and nearly bought a Nexus 5 instead, if they'd have had the 32gb version I'd be messaging on that right now. Good job they didn't have it in stock, haha.
Thanks again Radicalisto. :victory:

Lmao! - No problem man

Freezing and other issues. Please help.

Running an Australian N9005.
I was running Temaseks unofficial CM11 build just fine. Got bored and wanted to go back to a more Samsung styled phone.
Decided to flash X-Note. As I'd used it before CM11. It worked fine then.
Attempted to flash X-Note but it wouldn't boot, stuck at initial screen with the Kernel warnings at the top of the screen. Was told it was because I hadn't got the new 4.4 bootloader.
I was told to follow the instructions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=46223545&postcount=2
Which I did.
Using these download links and instructions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=49931269
That fixed the boot issue. I suppose I'm not on the 4.4 bootloader.
However when I booted up the stock Polish ROM, the initial Samsung Setup Wizard would crash at the end of the setup and force me back to the start of the setup. Tried ignoring it and just flashing the custom recovery and then XNote. Same issue, the setup wizard in XNote crashes as well.
Someone then told me I should try repartitioning the device using a PIT. I don't know what that is, but it was suggested.
Using this ROM: https://mega.co.nz/#!QVwlVDgJ!QyAxmDMcsIA-56cX_28Ua2aPZLcJATVvdM07LOs0V10
And this PIT: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=50614669&postcount=77
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Same issue............... That being a third separate ROM (official? at that)....
Samsung Setup Wizard crashes...
I even tried flashing XNote and removing the setup wizard just to get past it. That fixes it for about 10 minutes or so. After about 10 minutes of use the phone freezes and I have to hold the power button to force it to restart. If I leave the phone off, it still freezes, as soon as I try to unlock it it freezes and need to force restart.
I really don't know what to do now... Any help guys? I'm trying my best here...
Please, if you need any more information, please ask.

Might not help, but have you wiped your phone clean using custom recovery ( data,cache, dalvik, internal sd ) before flashing xnote or factory reset on recovery when on stock?

Do you have reactivation lock enabled?
Sent from my fingers to your face using my Samsung Galaxy Note 3!

hey_joe said:
Might not help, but have you wiped your phone clean using custom recovery ( data,cache, dalvik, internal sd ) before flashing xnote or factory reset on recovery when on stock?
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Yes.
nicholaschum said:
Do you have reactivation lock enabled?
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No.

This has puzzled me, not sure why it's still acting up especially after re-partitioning and flatlining everything.

radicalisto said:
This has puzzled me, not sure why it's still acting up especially after re-partitioning and flatlining everything.
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Yes indeed. I'm very confused...

So... I don't want to get ahead of myself, but my phone seems to have sorted itself out...
I decided to just send it back to the carrier to get it replaced. So I decided to just flash the official Firmware again. (I accidentally left repartition ticked)
Once it started I thought... Oh ****... But I was sending it back anyway so who cares. (the carrier said they will just swap it for me if they can see it not working)
So I let it finish and turn it on to see what happens, run through the setup to make sure it still crashes at the same spot so I can show them... and it doesn't crash... wtf?
So I flash the custom recovery and XNote... And it seems to be working now. Now freezing, no nothing... I... I don't know...

Crazy, least it appears somewhat sorted lol

radicalisto said:
Crazy, least it appears somewhat sorted lol
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So far, yeah... I think I got the runt of the litter or something... Haha

Reynbow said:
So far, yeah... I think I got the runt of the litter or something... Haha
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Just out of curiosity, as I see you have an AU model, did you buy it from Kogan? -- Reason I ask is that they used HK firmware on some models and HK models have issues flashing normal firmware (similar to the issue you had)

radicalisto said:
Just out of curiosity, as I see you have an AU model, did you buy it from Kogan? -- Reason I ask is that they used HK firmware on some models and HK models have issues flashing normal firmware (similar to the issue you had)
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Not from Kogan, no. From Optus. Pretty standard.

What caused the soft brick?

Ok, I sold my S4 i9505 (rooted and stock firmware 5.0.1) on evilbay and it was working perfectly when I sent it. 10 days after it got to the buyer they say it won't boot and want to return the phone. I'm extremely suspicious and would like to know if it is possible to find out if they have installed something they shouldn't have. A phone doesn't suddenly soft brick itself or does it?

schnurrbidurr said:
Ok, I sold my S4 i9505 (rooted and stock firmware 5.0.1) on evilbay and it was working perfectly when I sent it. 10 days after it got to the buyer they say it won't boot and want to return the phone. I'm extremely suspicious and would like to know if it is possible to find out if they have installed something they shouldn't have. A phone doesn't suddenly soft brick itself or does it?
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What does he mean with wont boot. The phone doesnt even turn on or he gets bootloop at samsung logo etc..?

obol2 said:
What does he mean with wont boot. The phone doesnt even turn on or he gets bootloop at samsung logo etc..?
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I assume bootloop, because she said it was "constantly stuck in re-boot" . She apparently managed to get into Recovery Mode. I haven't got the phone back yet, but wanted to make sure I got all the info beforehand.

schnurrbidurr said:
I assume bootloop, because she said it was "constantly stuck in re-boot" . She apparently managed to get into Recovery Mode. I haven't got the phone back yet, but wanted to make sure I got all the info beforehand.
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Have you done a full wipe before you give it away? Maybe wiped the system partition?

aboodyaiman said:
Have you done a full wipe before you give it away? Maybe wiped the system partition?
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I did a full factory reset and did a quick test boot afterwards - all was ok. I may have wiped the cache partition but I'm pretty certain that that I didn't delete the system partition.

Does it has guarantee? When yes how long it left.
If you get the phone back I would flash a stock rom from sammobile with Odin, reboot and if it comes to the setup wizard you can give it her back .

obol2 said:
Does it has guarantee? When yes how long it left.
If you get the phone back I would flash a stock rom from sammobile with Odin, reboot and if it comes to the setup wizard you can give it her back .
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Ultimately that's what I'll do, but I won't be sending it back to her. I'm already £££s out of pocket.
Honestly, I think she played about with it and messed it up. It took her 10 days to contact me. And since I booted the phone to the setup screen before I shipped it and it was working fine.
But I would like to know if it's possible to find out if and what she did and subsequently prove that