Hi all,
I recently switched over from apple to Android, it was all going really well until recently my phone soft bricked....
Ill try and be as detailed as i can, and respond as quickly as possible.
The phone specs
Canadian 16gb Samsung galaxy s4, Telus.
The phone boots and sticks at the Samsung Galaxy S4 screen.
I cant access the recovery mode.
I can access Odin.
I would love to get the phone rooted and maybe a mod on it, but as of right now its incapable of doing anything, ive read around the forums for the past 2 nights on how to fix the phone but all have come up fairly dry.
Would love some fresh input and help
Thanks Guys and Gals!
Scott
sdawg1010 said:
Hi all,
I recently switched over from apple to Android, it was all going really well until recently my phone soft bricked....
Ill try and be as detailed as i can, and respond as quickly as possible.
The phone specs
Canadian 16gb Samsung galaxy s4, Telus.
The phone boots and sticks at the Samsung Galaxy S4 screen.
I cant access the recovery mode.
I can access Odin.
I would love to get the phone rooted and maybe a mod on it, but as of right now its incapable of doing anything, ive read around the forums for the past 2 nights on how to fix the phone but all have come up fairly dry.
Would love some fresh input and help
Thanks Guys and Gals!
Scott
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Flash a stock .tar with ODIN, and start over
L Chupacabra said:
Flash a stock .tar with ODIN, and start over
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Is there any reliable soures for a stock .tar...
Also I cant get the phone to access recovery.
" Kernal is not seandriod enforcing"
"Set warranty bit: Kernel"
Thanks again.
sdawg1010 said:
Is there any reliable soures for a stock .tar...
Also I cant get the phone to access recovery.
" Kernal is not seandriod enforcing"
"Set warranty bit: Kernel"
Thanks again.
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Goto sammobile download for i337m, they are all Bell based but they will get you going. Make sure you download the right one, 4.3 or 4.4 if you took the update before you started messing around. You say you can't get into recovery, would be helpful to know what it was you were trying to do to get here....
Gage_Hero said:
Goto sammobile download for i337m, they are all Bell based but they will get you going. Make sure you download the right one, 4.3 or 4.4 if you took the update before you started messing around. You say you can't get into recovery, would be helpful to know what it was you were trying to do to get here....
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Thank you, and it was on 4.3, and the phone would randomly restart itself, that started probably a week ago, and then it started doing it more often till it got to the point where, i was like screw it, ill factory reset, and after the factory reset, it has appeared to get stuck in a bootloop, but the bootloop wont allow me to enter recovery mode either...
Ive been through multiple tutorials and what not on how to access the recovery, i had accessed the recovery before it stopped allowing access to it.
Very frustrating..but thanks for a pointer in the right direction.
Scott
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Hey,
I have following problem:
Few days ago I bought a Samsung Galaxy S4 Lte (I9505 jfltexx). I wanted to root it and then flash CM onto it.
Rooting went fine but when I flashed CM it aborted with Error 7. After that it was soft bricked but i managed to flash the Stock Rom back and everything was fine again.
But today I tried it again but got following problem. CWM was gone and i had to reflash it. But then everytime I tried to get into recovery mode the phone freezed at the "Samsung Galaxy S4 I9505" Logo with the little blue "recovery booting" in the left upper corner. I tried to flash CWM and also twr but it did not help.
SO my final thought was flashing the stock rom again to at least have a working phone. But when I tried to flash the Stock Rom ODIN failed and my phone gave this error "SW REV. CHECK FAIL : fused:2, Binary: 1".
Then every time it started it booted into download mode and said "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies & try again". I googled how I can solve this and someone said that it has something to do with root. So again I flashed the CF auto root and thank god it booted up normally.
But now my problem: I have no root on my phone(superSu says that there are no SU-binarys), I can't update my stock-firmware because the software update says that my phone has been changed. What can I do to 1. gain root access again 2. flash a custom rom(best would be SlimBean)?
Hope you can help me
lup3x said:
Hey,
I have following problem:
Few days ago I bought a Samsung Galaxy S4 Lte (I9505 jfltexx). I wanted to root it and then flash CM onto it.
Rooting went fine but when I flashed CM it aborted with Error 7. After that it was soft bricked but i managed to flash the Stock Rom back and everything was fine again.
But today I tried it again but got following problem. CWM was gone and i had to reflash it. But then everytime I tried to get into recovery mode the phone freezed at the "Samsung Galaxy S4 I9505" Logo with the little blue "recovery booting" in the left upper corner. I tried to flash CWM and also twr but it did not help.
SO my final thought was flashing the stock rom again to at least have a working phone. But when I tried to flash the Stock Rom ODIN failed and my phone gave this error "SW REV. CHECK FAIL : fused:2, Binary: 1".
Then every time it started it booted into download mode and said "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies & try again". I googled how I can solve this and someone said that it has something to do with root. So again I flashed the CF auto root and thank god it booted up normally.
But now my problem: I have no root on my phone(superSu says that there are no SU-binarys), I can't update my stock-firmware because the software update says that my phone has been changed. What can I do to 1. gain root access again 2. flash a custom rom(best would be SlimBean)?
Hope you can help me
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mate mine says the same as yours. so might just be because it failed not sure tho we will just have to wait and see if someone can come up with a answer. regards
joecool666 said:
mate mine says the same as yours. so might just be because it failed not sure tho we will just have to wait and see if someone can come up with a answer. regards
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thank god somebody with the same problem! Is your device rooted? because whenever i try to root it odin says pass and SuperSu is installed but the phone is not rooted
lup3x said:
thank god somebody with the same problem! Is your device rooted? because whenever i try to root it odin says pass and SuperSu is installed but the phone is not rooted
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not now its not. going to wait for c-f for fix until then i am staying where i am stock unrooted lol just to be safe.
joecool666 said:
not now its not. going to wait for c-f for fix until then i am staying where i am stock unrooted lol just to be safe.
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GOTCHA! I used the auto root from here https://plus.google.com/+Chainfire/posts/5ggu7naWtaW and it finally worked! I don't know if it will work for u but i tried it out and i finally got it. Now to the ROM Part
What is this great advantage that rooting and installing cf brings, that makes you run the risk of destroying your brand new, very expensive phone?
YIKES1412 said:
What is this great advantage that rooting and installing cf brings, that makes you run the risk of destroying your brand new, very expensive phone?
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The fact that i really don't like this mess which samsung calls a firmware. When i buy a pc i want to do anything i want with it. Same goes for smartphones.
lup3x said:
The fact that i really don't like this mess which samsung calls a firmware. When i buy a pc i want to do anything i want with it. Same goes for smartphones.
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Ok, I'm just wandering what big difference it makes. What extra does it enable your phone to do? I mean it must be really good to run this risk.
Sent from my GT-I9505 using xda app-developers app
YIKES1412 said:
Ok, I'm just wandering what big difference it makes. What extra does it enable your phone to do? I mean it must be really good to run this risk.
Sent from my GT-I9505 using xda app-developers app
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First of all it's the principle that I don't want to have a phone where Samsung tells me what to do and what not. Then there are things like root which are necessary for me because I'm also using it to test my apps which require root access. And also of course apps from the play store which need it. I'm currently using Slimbean because there's no AOKP build for the I9505. It requires less space on the phone, it's heavily customizable and it has the look of vanilla android. And a huge portion of why I am doing this is just me being curious about such things.
In the end it worked and I learned very much new stuff.
Sry 4 bad english
Hey your English is very good mate. And I was just curious as to why you run the risk, thanks for explaining it to me. I rooted and put a new rom onto an orange san francisco (zte blade) once. But that was not an expensive phone. My wife would kill me if I messed up this s4 with almost 2 years of contract to go lol
I am stuck at the samsung galaxy note screen and it won't go any further. I cant turn it off with out taking out the battery. I can still get to odin mode but i dont know what to do
ulfhednar11 said:
I am stuck at the samsung galaxy note screen and it won't go any further. I cant turn it off with out taking out the battery. I can still get to odin mode but i dont know what to do
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I think people will need more info . What version of software are you on and what were you doing or trying to do ?
ulfhednar11 said:
I am stuck at the samsung galaxy note screen and it won't go any further. I cant turn it off with out taking out the battery. I can still get to odin mode but i dont know what to do
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LONG story Short if you fail in SafeStrap and dont reinstall a zip and restart your phone wont recognize SafeStrap so your ONLY option is at that point to ODIN back to stock w/ root or the new MJ6 update. it all depends on what your on but either way if you WIPE DATE or FAIL in Safestrap and dont properly install a nandroid or a Zip file then your stuck at boot. This has happened a lot to me lately.
I am on the new MJ7 update and i was rooted. I was trying to install a program from this site. i cant remeber what it was called now but one of the mods had a night mode for the screen. when it rebooted it just stuck on the screen that i mentioned
ulfhednar11 said:
I am on the new MJ7 update and i was rooted. I was trying to install a program from this site. i cant remeber what it was called now but one of the mods had a night mode for the screen. when it rebooted it just stuck on the screen that i mentioned
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i believe that it was a program by chainfire
wroder84 said:
LONG story Short if you fail in SafeStrap and dont reinstall a zip and restart your phone wont recognize SafeStrap so your ONLY option is at that point to ODIN back to stock w/ root or the new MJ6 update. it all depends on what your on but either way if you WIPE DATE or FAIL in Safestrap and dont properly install a nandroid or a Zip file then your stuck at boot. This has happened a lot to me lately.
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im a noob so im a little confused
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2483380&highlight=brick
Impuls3101 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2483380&highlight=brick
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I've been trying to work on this but have had trouble with some of the downloads
I tried putting in a rom earlier for my note 3 and it didn't take.
I ended up on that, vibration boot loop.
Odin still worked fine so I tried putting in an original stock rom with root, so I can add recovery.
I could not actually find a fully suitable rom choice, and the samsung website didn't play well with me either. firstly it would not let me register for some reason...anyway.
I am UK on O2 running 9005 SO I put in N9005XXUDMJ7-PRE-ROOTED-KNOX-FREE-ODEX-BL-FREE
I don't know if that was the right choice, I set it up on PDA, and unclicked partition
It's been stuck possibly hanging on ext4 sys for over an hour.
The references I have seen suggest it takes a long time but how long is too long?
I don't want to pull the plug to brick the device completely.
I have a cwm recovery so all I need is to put the recovery back in and I should be good to go...
If this is hanging, what other options do I have?
How long is too long?
Any help fixing this would be greatly appreciated, and a drinks on me...
I am kinda freaking out, have seen similar threads, but because the firmwares are so different they didn't really help..or perhaps I misread things...but nothing really covered not being able to load the recovery software itself
consider me lizard brain in freak out mode right now..
please reply promptly with something.
Can you still boot to cwm or download mode only?
hey_joe said:
Can you still boot to cwm or download mode only?
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Odin mode only. But it's still hanging.And I am worried that if I pull it now it's going to brick it and not even give me access to ODIN.
8thsiner said:
Odin mode only. But it's still hanging.And I am worried that if I pull it now it's going to brick it and not even give me access to ODIN.
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Over one hour is too long to flash something even a full stock rom. Something is wrong there.
So you're saying you have no access to an original stock rom of your phone? If there is a problem like this flashing, I would flash the stock rom first then just root and install cwm. The first thing you want to do is have a working phone then just do the other stuff after like rooting, etc..
If what you posted is your stock rom, then download here and flash through odin.
There's also a newer one which is MK2 which you can download here.
Either one is stock.
Downloading the mk 2 now to test
That sorted me out thank you very much.
If you got a pay9all or something let me know, drink on me
8thsiner said:
That sorted me out thank you very much.
If you got a pay9all or something let me know, drink on me
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No problem. Don't have paypal though and it's not necessary.
Enjoy your phone.
8thsiner said:
That sorted me out thank you very much.
If you got a pay9all or something let me know, drink on me
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Mate the reason you got into trouble was you weren't flashing a stock rom...
N9005XXUDMJ7-PRE-ROOTED-KNOX-FREE-ODEX-BL-FREE means it has been altered and is considered custom...
A stock rom has not been altered.
8thsiner said:
That sorted me out thank you very much.
If you got a pay9all or something let me know, drink on me
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There are a lot of good people here that will help you. You don't need to give anything back. And be sure to ALWAYS have a NANDROID backup so that you can restore your phone if anything bad happens.
I have an i337 NC1 build Galaxy S4 (AT&T). I'm totally new to custom roming, but I wanted to give it a shot for fun. I tried using towelroot along with SuperSu, and TWRP Manager to flash TWRP onto my phone because it supposedly worked on NC1. Apparently I did something wrong because I no longer have a recovery mode. It just gives the downloading/target screen when I try to access it. Am I screwed or is there some possible way for me to fix this? Thanks!
Nebni said:
I have an i337 NC1 build Galaxy S4 (AT&T). I'm totally new to custom roming, but I wanted to give it a shot for fun. I tried using towelroot along with SuperSu, and TWRP Manager to flash TWRP onto my phone because it supposedly worked on NC1. Apparently I did something wrong because I no longer have a recovery mode. It just gives the downloading/target screen when I try to access it. Am I screwed or is there some possible way for me to fix this? Thanks!
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im also now suffering with this problem, rom just stopped working and ive been trying for 3 days to get it back ......
cant get into recovery but can get into download mode.............stock rom doesnt work even with a pit flash.....
ive even tried that qhusb repair thing.
if anyone knows how to get a recovery back it would be great??
Tried using ODIN to flash a recovery (TWRP for example) through download mode?
Example, google up: odin twrp recovery I9505
Also, using volume up or down to enter recovery mode?
Nebni said:
I have an i337 NC1 build Galaxy S4 (AT&T). I'm totally new to custom roming, but I wanted to give it a shot for fun. I tried using towelroot along with SuperSu, and TWRP Manager to flash TWRP onto my phone because it supposedly worked on NC1. Apparently I did something wrong because I no longer have a recovery mode. It just gives the downloading/target screen when I try to access it. Am I screwed or is there some possible way for me to fix this? Thanks!
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You can't just install a recovery just like that because at&t has a locked bootloader. You will probably need something like safestrap.
Go to the proper forum for help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-att/help
Gavin01 said:
im also now suffering with this problem, rom just stopped working and ive been trying for 3 days to get it back ......
cant get into recovery but can get into download mode.............stock rom doesnt work even with a pit flash.....
ive even tried that qhusb repair thing.
if anyone knows how to get a recovery back it would be great??
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That's a completely different problem. Sounds more like a hardware failure. But you should make your own thread with way more information if you want people to take a closer look.
Lennyz1988 said:
You can't just install a recovery just like that because at&t has a locked bootloader. You will probably need something like safestrap.
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Ah, right. Forgot about AT&T not exactly being so customize friendly, unlike the non-AT&T phones. Scratch what I said in my above post. AT&T phones have more restrictions (security) when it comes to flashing, etc. Use the link above and make sure you find a proper thread that will help you out.
Hey all,
I really messed up, and I know it, so please don't lecture me, I'll never do it again, I swear. I'm a complete N00B, and I should most definitely know better....
My phone was rooted, and I got that "intermediary" OTA update between 4.4.4 and 5.0 today, and lost my root, as well as not being able to update to 5.0. So, I downloaded Odin, and attempted to follow these instructions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2784880 It didn't go well, as I was stuck at the Verizon screen. So I attempted to flash back to the NK2, again using Odin, and got stuck at the Android boot screen. Now, after messing around with it some more, that's where I'm at.
Please help! Thank you!
Tony
Toekneetwo said:
Hey all,
I really messed up, and I know it, so please don't lecture me, I'll never do it again, I swear. I'm a complete N00B, and I should most definitely know better....
My phone was rooted, and I got that "intermediary" OTA update between 4.4.4 and 5.0 today, and lost my root, as well as not being able to update to 5.0. So, I downloaded Odin, and attempted to follow these instructions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2784880 It didn't go well, as I was stuck at the Verizon screen. So I attempted to flash back to the NK2, again using Odin, and got stuck at the Android boot screen. Now, after messing around with it some more, that's where I'm at.
Please help! Thank you!
Tony
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Have you tried flashing the retail NK2, since you're already starting over?
Rapunzl said:
Have you tried flashing the retail NK2, since you're already starting over?
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I believe I did try that already, but I'm trying it again right now.... aaaand.... still stuck on the Samsung Galaxy s5 start screen after reboot. After about a minute, it goes to the Android system recovery menu.
Tony
Toekneetwo said:
I believe I did try that already, but I'm trying it again right now.... aaaand.... still stuck on the Samsung Galaxy s5 start screen after reboot. After about a minute, it goes to the Android system recovery menu.
Tony
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You have to boot into download mode to flash the retail NK2 from Odin. (Volume Down+Power+Home)
Rapunzl said:
You have to boot into download mode to flash the retail NK2 from Odin. (Volume Down+Power+Home)
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Yes, I tried that... I know just enough to get myself into trouble, but not enough to get myself out of it.
Tony
Oh, I see why you said that... Yes, after booting into download mode, and running Odin and flashing the NK2 kernel, the phone reboots and THEN I'm stuck on the start screen. Thanks!
Tony
Toekneetwo said:
Oh, I see why you said that... Yes, after booting into download mode, and running Odin and flashing the NK2 kernel, the phone reboots and THEN I'm stuck on the start screen. Thanks!
Tony
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Not just the kernel. You want the NK2 retail tar. That's the full package.
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Not just the kernel. You want the NK2 retail tar. That's the full package.
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Yes, that did it... I was on that page earlier, and didn't scroll down far enough to see the .tar files. Thank you so much for your help!!
Actually, it does still get stuck at the red Verizon screen.
Tony
*Scratch that, I figured it out....thanks again!