[Q] Booting Problems After Water Damage - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin

Hello all,
Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on this, I have done pretty substantial research and haven't come accross anyone with the same problem. Water damaged phone, taken apart and cleaned well, the phone boots to the Galaxy S4 splash screen and freezes. Sometimes it resets into a loop, but no further. I have tried both ODIN and recovery booting, phone restarts itself out of the recovery option (only see blue recovery line at top, then reboot). In ODIN I get the "Downloading... don't turn off target!!!" with the text below in the upper corner. Any thoughts on how to get past this screen (seems to freeze). Thanks in advance all.
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: SGHI337
CURRENT BINARY: SAMSUNG OFFICIAL
SYSTEM STATUS: Official
KNOX KERNEL LOCK: 8x8 (Might be 0x0, very tiny print)
KNOX WARRANTY VOID: 8X8 (Might be 0x0, very tiny print)
CSB-CONFIG-LSB: 8X30 (Might be 0x30, very tiny print)
WRITE PROTECTION: Enable
eMNC BURST MODE: enabled

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[Q] S4 worked perfectly 18 mos; froze; now won't boot

I have an AT&T Galaxy S4. It is unlocked, but running stock 4.2.2 OS. It has run perfectly for 18 mos. It's never been wet; never suffered trauma. Today, for no apparent reason, it simply locked up. When I couldn't get it to respond after several minutes, I pulled the battery. That's when things got weird. From then on, every time I try to reboot, it gets about 3 or 4 seconds into the AT&T screen splash and then it freezes up. I tried to go into recovery (power + home + vol. up), but the screen says,
Could not do normal boot.
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: SGH-I337
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
CURRENT STATUS: Custom
CSB-OEM_CONFIG_LSB 0x30
WRITE PROTECTION: Enable
[PHOTO OF ANDROID DUDE]
Downloading...
Do not turn off target!!
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Q. - What do I do from here?
If it won't even boot into recovery (to the point where you could install an update from zip), then what do I do? Plug it into PC, run ODIN and install a new OS?
The phone is in download mode. If it can stay in that mode, you can connect to PC and run Odin. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2926642

Custom Binary blocked by Reactivation Lock. Secure fail: Recovery

Note 4: SM-N910F btu
Rooted
Boots phone, but stays on samsung animated boot screen, left for hours and still the same.
Tried booting into power + home + up, comes up with
Custom Binary blocked by Reactivation Lock. Secure fail: Recovery
And then shuts down.
Can not access any menu in that part.
Tried odin Mode
and tried to Odin original firmware what is on the phone so it matches apart from the root.
Odin sees the phone, tries, but fails, on the phone itself a blue bar appears but does not move and freezes the phone.
Odin Mode: high speed
product name sm-n910f
current binary custom
system status custom
reactivtion lock on
knox warranty 0x1 (4)
qualcomm secureboot enable (csb)
ap swrev s1, t1, r1, a1, p1
secure download enable
UOC Start
Phoned samsung, they will not even touch or talk to me about it as it is rooted and breaks their warranty. Bit mardy with the, told them why would I buy a phone outright if I could not install root and adaway? Im sick of ads from Google popping up all over the place, Google didnt buy the phone I did, about time you sorted that, mr samsung. no comment, just we cant get involved with your phone. and we can not give you a price to fix it.
Al I want is either to get rid of the lock, or just wipe the dam thing so I can start using it again.
All attempts fail.
Can anyone else help or has seen this issue with Odin? is it the lock what is stopping it working? is there any other settings I missed?
New on here today, so if Iposted in the wrong area, sorry.
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S8+ goes back to swipe after setting pin, proccessing failed in samsung account!HELP!

I downgraded my S8+ by accident, I flashed the wrong firmware. After that, my phone couldn't find the IMEI. Then i flashed with Odin the latest firmware. After flashing successfully, my phone booted up showing 'Encryption failed', with a reset button on the bottom, I bypassed that by flashing the 'no-verity-opt-encrypt-5.1.zip'. Then, IMEI was fine but now every time I set a password, pin it goes back to swipe(I don't have any devices connected to my phone), when i try adding a fingerprint it says 'An error has occurred with the fingerprint sensor...', neither face nor iris work,can't login to Samsung account because it says 'Processing failed!'. What could be wrong or what can I do to help fix this. HELP!
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OEM Lock: OFF

Galaxy S5 SM-G900M boot loop (?)

Hey there I have a Galaxy S5 that was running LineageOS, I started having some trouble recharging it, couldn't figure out if it was the battery or recharger.
I decided to leave it at a repair shop and afterwards buy a new battery from them. The first day it was working normally and I left it the whole day just recharging but then it started having some problems rebooting automatically. Now it keeps "rebooting" all the time which wasn't a problem with the old battery, the Galaxy S5 logo appears then it reboots and appears again etc.
I can't boot into recovery either but strangely enough I can get into download mode without it rebooting and it seems to work fine, even unplugged from any power source, this confuses me because I thought it was the battery.
Without being connected to a USB cable:
Power: Vibrates, Galaxy S5 logo appears, "recovery booting..." appears on top left, reboots immediately afterwards (doesn't enter recovery).
Volume UP + Home + Power: Vibrates, nothing appears on screen, slight flash on the screen as if it was damaged (but it isn't).
Volume DOWN + Home + Power: Boots into download mode absolutely fine, screen working 100%, doesn't reboot (can flash normally).
Being connected to a USB cable:
As soon as I connect it, the phone automatically tries to turn on as if I pressed the Power button ("recovery booting..." appears on top left), keeps rebooting as mentioned before, if I remove the battery while keeping it plugged in, it keeps doing the same thing but the Galaxy S5 Logo lasts longer on the screen and no "recovery booting..." appears on top left.
Volume UP + Home + Power: Same as just pressing Power mentioned before, keeps rebooting as mentioned but no slight flashes and screen works unlike when unplugged.
Volume DOWN + Home + Power: Boots into download mode absolutely fine, screen working 100%, doesn't reboot (can flash normally).
What I've tried so far:
Flash original ROM with Odin, flashed fine but still rebooting.
Flash TWRP on top of original ROM with Odin, flashed fine but still rebooting.
Flash "G900MUBU1BOE1_IUS1BOE1_v5.0_Repair_Firmware" along with the included .pit file, flashed fine but still rebooting.
Flash https://www.sammobile.com/samsung/galaxy-s5/firmware/SM-G900M/ZVV/download/G900MUBU1CPF2/88002/, flashed fine but still rebooting.
Flash "G900MUBU1BOK3", flashed fine but still rebooting.
Flash "G900MUBU1ANG3", flashed fine but still rebooting.
Download mode info:
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: SM-G90M
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Custom
REACTIVATION LOCK(KK): Off
KNOX WARRANTY VOID: 0x1 (2)
QUALCOMM SECUREBOOT: Enable (CSB)
RP SWREV: S1, T1, R1, A1, P1
SECURE DOWNLOAD: Enable
UDC START
Anyone knows what could be the cause? If more info is needed on model, battery etc let me know.
Thanks in advance.
Did you ever manage to fix this problem?
Im having the same drama... and im only a basic user looking to use the stock OS again.
cheers
blinky8u said:
Did you ever manage to fix this problem?
Im having the same drama... and im only a basic user looking to use the stock OS again.
cheers
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No luck
Same problem here, with a G900I. No luck, I've tried two "4 file" repair firmwares with repartitioning and one stock single file, no luck either.

S8 problem - keeps rebooting

Hi , I've received phone from friend of mine to fix, after unsuccessful root , his phone get Samsung logo, and after a while it restarts and returns to the logo again, and so on in a loop. I can get Bixby, volume down and power to get to download mode. Tried to flash official firmware (AU Telstra, G950FXXSADTI1_G950FTELADTI1_TEL) using ODIN, goes OK , then restart to blue screen installing system update and goes to recovery mode. After restart from recovery mode it is back to the begging - endless loop. Try to install TWRP but phone doesn't want to accept. Info from download mode screen: model SM-G950F, FAP Lock OFF, OEM lock OFF, KG State: Prenormal, Current Binary: Samsung Official, Secured download Enabled, Warranty void 1 (0x030c) RP SWREV: B5 K4 S4, CCIC = S2MM005 hw:6 boot:7 main 43 .
Odin is responding to it. Any idea how to bring it back to life ? Something to do with Knox Guard state Prenormal ?
Thanks a lot
sbill said:
Hi , I've received phone from friend of mine to fix, after unsuccessful root , his phone get Samsung logo, and after a while it restarts and returns to the logo again, and so on in a loop. I can get Bixby, volume down and power to get to download mode. Tried to flash official firmware (AU Telstra, G950FXXSADTI1_G950FTELADTI1_TEL) using ODIN, goes OK , then restart to blue screen installing system update and goes to recovery mode. After restart from recovery mode it is back to the begging - endless loop. Try to install TWRP but phone doesn't want to accept. Info from download mode screen: model SM-G950F, FAP Lock OFF, OEM lock OFF, KG State: Prenormal, Current Binary: Samsung Official, Secured download Enabled, Warranty void 1 (0x030c) RP SWREV: B5 K4 S4, CCIC = S2MM005 hw:6 boot:7 main 43 .
Odin is responding to it. Any idea how to bring it back to life ? Something to do with Knox Guard state Prenormal ?
Thanks a lot
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What happens when you try to flash twrp? Post logs here.
Try to factory reset from recovery after flashing.
Also make sure to flash the latest firmware

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