Hi all,
I really need you guys help there..
I own a Asian version galaxy tab...
I first wanted to try out modaco r3 kernel so i flash the non-EXT4 version and it brings me to boot loop( doesn't get pass first samsung screen....)
then i had no clue about what to do and decided to flash back to HK rom with odin and when it is done it does get pass the first screen but it is now stuck and the samsung screen...where it occasionally vibrate and is stuck there
I really have no clue what's going on and it's the first time i encountered such problem since I've been a member in xda
I really hope if anyone can help out and lead me somewhere i can just turn my tab on and use it..
many thanks..
-Wilson
Also I've root my phone before and when i am done with the odin flash for the firmware...it actually gets me into recovery instead of to reboot directly
not sure what else is needed for you guys to help out...but if i can provide anything, please let me know
@season007
I encountered a similar problem just yesterday night while trying to flash to the New Modaco Kernel and Rom. While flashing the kernel, ext4 conversion took place and since then it just took me to a samsung boot window where a yellow window with half written text along with constant vibrations occurred.
I was able to get rid of it by installing Roto JMI v2 rom using Odin. ( Just put the "pit" file and the PDA rom and start. It takes about 5 minutes and my device is working again! P.S its a pretty good rom. Blazing fast!
You can get it here along with instructions : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=939360
Cheers!
Hi all,
I think I have soft bricked my S4 i337m rogers Canadian variant.
I had rooted / unlocked the bootloader with motochopper successfully.
- I am using CWM
First thing I tried to do was backup the phone onto the external SD which would not work so I just went onto the next step.
I tried flashing a ROM onto the phone after doing phone restore and clearing cache. All installed correctly (apparently) and now when I boot up the phone the Samsung logo will appear for about 5 seconds then the phone will go black and try to boot up again.
The good:
- i have access the recovery mode still
The bad:
- no recovery made for the phone
- seems to be boot looping
As a side not I have tried installing a couple other ROMs which all result in the same issue.
Is there anything that can possibly be done?
I would happily put the stock ROM back on the phone.
All help would be greatly appreciated!
Rob.
9 times out of 10 a factory reset will get you out of a boot loop. Do that in recovery and reboot.
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Hi thanks for the reply. I have tried the factory reset and still does not fix the issue
Robby29 said:
Hi thanks for the reply. I have tried the factory reset and still does not fix the issue
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If you are flashing a custom ROM that is not specifically for your phone, say a i9505 rom, you need to flash a Canadian kernel right after or you will bootloop. You also cannot flash any loki based roms either. As for the CWM backups, are you trying to back up to your external SD? If so, ensure the card is formatted fat32. To help get through your softbrick, just get into download mode and flash with odin
kiru said:
If you are flashing a custom ROM that is not specifically for your phone, say a i9505 rom, you need to flash a Canadian kernel right after or you will bootloop. You also cannot flash any loki based roms either. As for the CWM backups, are you trying to back up to your external SD? If so, ensure the card is formatted fat32. To help get through your softbrick, just get into download mode and flash with odin
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Okay great I will try these. Does the kernel have to be specific to the ROM?
Robby29 said:
Okay great I will try these. Does the kernel have to be specific to the ROM?
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The kernel is specific to your device. so you would use the i337M kernel.
So the procedure would be flash the rom of your choice, then before you boot flash YOUR i337M kernel, it will boot.
Good luck.
And make sure you do not flash a rom for the i9500 as you will hard brick
Also,
Make sure you choose the right i337m kernel. ie. a TouchWiz kernel for TW Roms and an AOSP kernel for CM10.1/AOSP Roms.
You should be able to:
remove your sdcard,
format it to fat32,
download the correct rom and kernel for you i337m to your freshly formatted sdcard,
put the card back into your phone,
boot into recovery,
install ROM zip from ext-sdcard,
install Kernel zip from ext-sdcard,
reboot.
phew....sounds like a lot of steps but not really I guess.
we good up in here....
Soft Brick S4
TheAxman said:
we good up in here....
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Hello,
Greetings to you, I am sorry you have come to this point. I myself have bricked my phone just yesterday from flashing a bad ROM and not backing up my ROM properly. But I hope I can help you with some tips that i did to recover my phone fully. I apply some links to help you out but I recommend some patience lots of HW. ( Kies didn't work for me bugger =p.)
Unbrick S4 [Guide] -- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2265477&page=40
there is a user by the name of samersh72. you can request for a link to download your correct firmware it's best to get back to stock, ( don't forget to thank the user . )
this is someones video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a3qghhpDxg ( this helped me out as well)
I have these files/programs readied when I reverted back to stock
odin 1.3 ( i have odin 3.0 and didn't work for me reverting stock as it couldnt detect my tar.md5 file, but for some reason it worked for odin 1.3)
have your correct firmware ( I downloaded mine from http://www.sammobile.com, but for some reason I can't find yours, there is one on this site for sure just have the patience to look) make sure its for your correct carrier too.
im pretty sure you know how to do the DL mode, but just incase ill assume that you may or may not know, ill type this in anyway:
Get your S4 Download mode, [pressing up+power+home], (sometimes if i feel its not kicking in, just quick release then do it again)
open your odin 1.3, plug your phone in, tick auto-reboot, and F. reset time. PDA ticked, then find your correct firmware. hit start, then i hope from this something good will come out.
Best of wishes in your journey here in xda.
Cheers!
car154 said:
Hello,
Greetings to you, I am sorry you have come to this point. I myself have bricked my phone just yesterday from flashing a bad ROM and not backing up my ROM properly. But I hope I can help you with some tips that i did to recover my phone fully. I apply some links to help you out but I recommend some patience lots of HW. ( Kies didn't work for me bugger =p.)
Unbrick S4 [Guide] -- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2265477&page=40
there is a user by the name of samersh72. you can request for a link to download your correct firmware it's best to get back to stock, ( don't forget to thank the user . )
this is someones video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a3qghhpDxg ( this helped me out as well)
I have these files/programs readied when I reverted back to stock
odin 1.3 ( i have odin 3.0 and didn't work for me reverting stock as it couldnt detect my tar.md5 file, but for some reason it worked for odin 1.3)
have your correct firmware ( I downloaded mine from http://www.sammobile.com, but for some reason I can't find yours, there is one on this site for sure just have the patience to look) make sure its for your correct carrier too.
im pretty sure you know how to do the DL mode, but just incase ill assume that you may or may not know, ill type this in anyway:
Get your S4 Download mode, [pressing up+power+home], (sometimes if i feel its not kicking in, just quick release then do it again)
open your odin 1.3, plug your phone in, tick auto-reboot, and F. reset time. PDA ticked, then find your correct firmware. hit start, then i hope from this something good will come out.
Best of wishes in your journey here in xda.
Cheers!
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Thanks for posting this. I hope many people read it. Anyone who flashes needs to know how to return to stock before they start flashing roms. You will need it someday!
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i have a samsung s4 the gtI9505, and i have been trying to install the 4.3 firmware from google play onto my phone but when i installed it, they asked me the rom may flash stock recovery question , that question never popped out for the people doing the guides, i clicked yes and now my phone is stuck at the samsung screen please help!!!!!
packard10 said:
i have a samsung s4 the gtI9505, and i have been trying to install the 4.3 firmware from google play onto my phone but when i installed it, they asked me the rom may flash stock recovery question , that question never popped out for the people doing the guides, i clicked yes and now my phone is stuck at the samsung screen please help!!!!!
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Go in downloadmode and flash a custom recovery with Odin.
packard10 said:
i have a samsung s4 the gtI9505, and i have been trying to install the 4.3 firmware from google play onto my phone but when i installed it, they asked me the rom may flash stock recovery question , that question never popped out for the people doing the guides, i clicked yes and now my phone is stuck at the samsung screen please help!!!!!
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Never click yes to flash stock recovery. Also you might want to make sure you wiped all the cache and system data before flashing it.
gee2012 said:
Go in downloadmode and flash a custom recovery with Odin.
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thanks for the answers i will try it, totally in panic mode.
Hey guys i wanna reflash to back to stock rom cuz sadly i did some weird stuff which deleted my playstore and jammed all the google apps so yeah....
PLUS whenever i try to go into cwm and flash something it says \Cant mount sd card and iv tried alot of things and it just wouldnt open...
I can easily open the files on my pc and my phone so idk whats wrong so PLEEEEASE give me a fix for this...
As of the reflashing i downloaded a stock rom according to my area and everything is fine in odin cuz my phone is recognized in download mode and i upload all three files correctly as in
PDA ---> Pda file
Phone----> modem file
CSC-----> CSC File
And start the process and its all fine until it says
Processes ( 0 completed ,1 failed)
And then in the big box on top it also says failed....
Can someone please tell me what the problem is cause i cant flash a rom or get a new cwm or switch to stock rom....
Is this a problem because im already on stock rom and kernel ?
Is it cuz im doing it wrong ?
Some help would be great because im really frustrated
Well you must use the new version of ODIN or if it still runs into errors,go to CWM on your phone and format system,data and cache and then try to flash the stock ROM via ODIN.
Amnesia404 said:
Hey guys i wanna reflash to back to stock rom cuz sadly i did some weird stuff which deleted my playstore and jammed all the google apps so yeah....
PLUS whenever i try to go into cwm and flash something it says \Cant mount sd card and iv tried alot of things and it just wouldnt open...
I can easily open the files on my pc and my phone so idk whats wrong so PLEEEEASE give me a fix for this...
As of the reflashing i downloaded a stock rom according to my area and everything is fine in odin cuz my phone is recognized in download mode and i upload all three files correctly as in
PDA ---> Pda file
Phone----> modem file
CSC-----> CSC File
And start the process and its all fine until it says
Processes ( 0 completed ,1 failed)
And then in the big box on top it also says failed....
Can someone please tell me what the problem is cause i cant flash a rom or get a new cwm or switch to stock rom....
Is this a problem because im already on stock rom and kernel ?
Is it cuz im doing it wrong ?
Some help would be great because im really frustrated
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i experienced same problem.. u can just restart ur system sometimes it may save.. another thing is galaxy y phones sd card.. when it occurs in cwm i just pull the battery and remove sd card and reinsert it.. it will become correct..
Galaxy Y : Running Cyanogenmod 11 Android Kitkat 4.4.4
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Amnesia404 said:
Hey guys i wanna reflash to back to stock rom cuz sadly i did some weird stuff which deleted my playstore and jammed all the google apps so yeah....
PLUS whenever i try to go into cwm and flash something it says \Cant mount sd card and iv tried alot of things and it just wouldnt open...
I can easily open the files on my pc and my phone so idk whats wrong so PLEEEEASE give me a fix for this...
As of the reflashing i downloaded a stock rom according to my area and everything is fine in odin cuz my phone is recognized in download mode and i upload all three files correctly as in
PDA ---> Pda file
Phone----> modem file
CSC-----> CSC File
And start the process and its all fine until it says
Processes ( 0 completed ,1 failed)
And then in the big box on top it also says failed....
Can someone please tell me what the problem is cause i cant flash a rom or get a new cwm or switch to stock rom....
Is this a problem because im already on stock rom and kernel ?
Is it cuz im doing it wrong ?
Some help would be great because im really frustrated
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before dat which rom u were using??
oh lol ty alot guys
turned out that it wasnt working because i hadnt installed samsung kies so yea ._.
But thanks anyway
I've tried to install TWRP on this device but it kept on failing and the other versions won't work. So I got clockworkMod instead but it won't let me boot to recovery and it just says, "Recovery booting..." when it first boots and it doesn't go further then the Samsung logo and it just loops forever...:crying::crying::crying: Someone help Idk how to fix this... and I was planning on getting a new ROM on it too. What the most confusing thing is, is that the code name says hltexx and usually the model's code is hlte so maybe it's cuz of that? Or maybe is it the ROM? The ROM I have is called Dokdo project and it's Android 5.1.1 and the ROM's version is 7.3.2. I've been trying to get a new ROM on it cuz the current one kept on rebooting at a random interval by itself after I installed this app (idk what it is...) I can still use it fine but I want to change it...anyone know why I can't boot to recovery? PLZ HELP :crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying: I personally like that phone very much and wish to continue using it...
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I've tried to install TWRP on this device but it kept on failing and the other versions won't work. So I got clockworkMod instead but it won't let me boot to recovery and it just says, "Recovery booting..." when it first boots and it doesn't go further then the Samsung logo and it just loops forever...:crying::crying::crying: Someone help Idk how to fix this... and I was planning on getting a new ROM on it too. What the most confusing thing is, is that the code name says hltexx and usually the model's code is hlte so maybe it's cuz of that? Or maybe is it the ROM? The ROM I have is called Dokdo project and it's Android 5.1.1 and the ROM's version is 7.3.2. I've been trying to get a new ROM on it cuz the current one kept on rebooting at a random interval by itself after I installed this app (idk what it is...) I can still use it fine but I want to change it...anyone know why I can't boot to recovery? PLZ HELP :crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying: I personally like that phone very much and wish to continue using it...
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I'm sorry I'm not exactly an expert...in recovery stuff maybe try the Q&A section for general rather then for a specific phone?
Start by flashing stock rom via Odin .
N9005 TWRP
https://twrp.me/samsung/samsunggalaxynote3qualcomm.html
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