Hi all,
I really need any kind of help or advice badly.
Phone is Sprint Galaxy S4, rooted, stock 4.4.2 rom with clockwork. And I was playing with flashing different roms. I even did the clockwork backup first.
When I restored backup everything was messed up. My mobile network and data were not working, wifi won't turn on, or applications couldn't write to internal memory and phone is laggy or reboots, Kies doesn't work
After that I tried flashing several different bootloaders, roms, modems...I tried with odin, clockwork...I am trying everything for two days now.
It is Sprint phone, but I am using it in Europe, so I cannot go with it to Samsung service center.
If needed I can provide additional screenshots or any info.
I will also reward if anyone helps me get phone to normal.
best regards
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Hi Guys, I have had this phone for around a week now. I have it rooted and installed a T-mobile ROM. The problem I am having is that I cannot do the 3 button trick. I have been browsing the forums and everyone who is having this problem is told to exchange it.
Since I have a different ROM, and accidentally wiped my phone during the install not very smart on my behalf). My phone boots up with this ugly pink "stick together" logo and irritating sound.
Is there a download where I can change it back to the original one that came with my Bell?
I originally posted this in the Vibrant section and realized that more Bell users were over here in the forum. Sorry for the double posting.
ayy yai yai viejo... this is complicated.
Where are you in Canada?
try these methods that people have tried,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=754673&page=3
some of them worked, some of them not, but still should try it, to at least get it to Download mode, so you can flash it back to the stock JG9 or JH2 ROMs
I am unable to do the three button trick, but through ROM manager I can load other ROMs. I just don't know where I can download a stock ROM?
I am located in Calgary, Alberta.
good, at least you got that working
go to the ROM Manager topic in Development section and ask for help there for the ROM that you need to fix the phone.
Thanks for your input guys, I actually ended up taking at back and told them I accidentally loaded the wrong ROM. And without the three button enabled I was unable to flash it back to the proper ROM. Thus killing two birds with one stone. And now I have a device that has the 3 buttons enabled.
nice! good to hear that
Hi there. Very sorry to post about this - I've tried my best to solve the issue on my own and doing various searches, here and elsewhere, but to no avail. Long and short of it is that WiFi and Bluetooth both seem to have died on me.
I have a Canadian Bell Samsung Galaxy S4 (SGH-I337M). I have been installing Danvdh's Google Edition ROM for some time now, and so far, it's been great. After installing 4.4.4 (clean, after a full wipe), it seemed to work, but my phone froze up - completely unresponsive, including the power switch. Pulled the battery but then afterwards could not turn on WiFi or BT - just says "Turning Wifi On" but nothing ever happens - the message just stays there perpetually. Bluetooth same thing, except the message goes away after a few seconds.
I've tried all of the following to try to restore WiFi, none of which has worked:
- Odin reflash of modem.bin and NON-HLOS.bin, multiple times (from the most recent stock ROM for my device - I337MVLUFNE1, 4.4.2)
- Complete reversion to stock (I337MVLUFNE1, 4.4.2) using Odin - neither WiFi nor BT worked under stock either
- Factory reset while in stock
- After rooting stock, using an SQL editor to check the value of wifi_display_on - it was 0 but just to make sure I set it to 0 again
- After rooting stock, deleting wpa_supplicant.conf in both /data/misc/wifi/ and /etc/wifi/
- Reinstalling Danvdh 4.4.4 (clean), but this time with the Googy kernel rather than the KT kernel (in both cases it was the customized version, not the pure Nexus one)
- Also tried, just for the heck of it, switching to ART to see if that might make a difference - it didn't
- Ringing a bell, opening a book and lighting a candle
In other words, I am at my wits' end. If anyone might have any suggestions - even just a link to some other possible solution I would be most grateful. I have tried searching, both in XDA and elsewhere, for a possible solution and have tried everything I've found, but so far, nothing has worked. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
Please note - I originally posted this in the thread for Danvdh's ROM. I didn't get any feedback there, so suspect I perhaps might be posting the question in the wrong place, so am trying here, in addition to the thread for Canadian S4s. I trust such cross-posting is OK (but if not please let me know).
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- Ringing a bell, opening a book and lighting a candle
In other words, I am at my wits' end. If anyone might have any suggestions - even just a link to some other possible solution I would be most grateful. I have tried searching, both in XDA and elsewhere, for a possible solution and have tried everything I've found, but so far, nothing has worked. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
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To be honest, I have no idea if that could be related... on one of my I9300, directly after OTA, I lost the WiFi and BT. Problem was WiFi or/and BT, when I pressed to switch it on, was turning on, for maybe 0.5 sec, and then was turning itself off.
now the funny story: because I unrooted it and cleaned prior to OTA, it was immaculate, so I took it to Sammys hiTech local specialists.
They two times were returning phone to me, stating that they are unable to repeat the problem. So, I asked them to not send it back, and that I'll pick it from Service Centre. I used that opportunity, and asked another local master to show me how to use the WiFi on my 100% working phone. He itself packed it into same envelope and disappeard for half a time, after that itme I was informed that my phone will be sent to me after motherboard replacement.
now, the correlation: no (in theory) action which could affect hardware, obviously CAUSED damage. If I'd be you, I'd try to restore the clean condition, and I'd go to service centre.
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now, the correlation: no (in theory) action which could affect hardware, obviously CAUSED damage. If I'd be you, I'd try to restore the clean condition, and I'd go to service centre.
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Thanks very much - appreciate the suggestion, but the warranty on my phone ended last month, so I'd get hit for a bill for the repair.
You raise a good point - it may well be a simple hardware failure that happened, coincidentally, when I updated. Alas, I wouldn't know where to begin to try to figure out whether or not it is a hardware failure...
I have the same problem with WiFi (bluetooth works though) after upgrading to 4.4.2 today.
The only modification I had done before were CF-AutoRoot and TWR.
I unrooted from SuperSU's menu prior to upgrading to stock 4.4.2 with KIES, everything seemed to work, except now I can't turn on wifi.
Where can I get the modem.bin for a Canadian Bell Samsung Galaxy S4 (SGH-I337M)?
Thanks for any help!
Here's the about screen: (Shouldn't the Baseband version be the same as the build? What gives?)
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Where can I get the modem.bin for a Canadian Bell Samsung Galaxy S4 (SGH-I337M)?
Thanks for any help!
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Tsuushin said:
I have the same problem with WiFi (bluetooth works though) after upgrading to 4.4.2 today.
The only modification I had done before were CF-AutoRoot and TWR.
I unrooted from SuperSU's menu prior to upgrading to stock 4.4.2 with KIES, everything seemed to work, except now I can't turn on wifi.
Where can I get the modem.bin for a Canadian Bell Samsung Galaxy S4 (SGH-I337M)?
Thanks for any help!
Here's the about screen: (Shouldn't the Baseband version be the same as the build? What gives?)
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I don't remember where I got mine but it was extracted from the latest stock rom. Googling the build led me to this page, which seems to have links to download the most recent stock for the S4.
Not sure about your other question. I know when I update a new custom rom, the baseband version doesn't change - that only changes when I update the modem or flash an updated stock rom using Odin. You might also want to try flashing the NON-HLOS.bin file - I read elsewhere that that has helped others. Of course, feel free to also try all the other options I've noted above.
In case it helps other people with the same problem, here's what I did that fixed the WiFi issue:
I flashed the latest modem.bin (twice) and NON-HLOS.bin, but it didn't fix the WiFi.
I flashed the latest stock ROM, and now WiFi works.
Cheers.
Hi all, I apologize for my low level of English. I want to tell that to write this report use the google translator.
I also thank in advance the help that you can give me.
Acontinuacion expose my problem:
I followed the steps in a tutorial, to release my samsung i9505 galaxy s4, exposed one of the most important forums, Htcmania.com my country, Spain.
By exposing my problem in the same forum that supra and receiving no response clarification about my problem, I turn to the more important to try to find a solution forum. I go to XDA-Developers.
I do a copy and paste of the report I wrote on the forum that I quoted earlier as I explained my problem well:
My s4 with Android 4.4.2 was completely "virgin" had installed the rom Stock samsung, was not released, was "Yoigo" any advanced recovery had not installed, and had no permits super user "root".
I wanted to release it (Unlocksim) seeking information HTCMania, and I found the following topic "Free S4 I9505 (Unlocksim) in 4.4.2" I followed all the steps in the tutorial. One of the "requirements" was to be root to do a backup of the EFS before touching anything, and to use the application "Region lock away"
So no, I did root, flashing by odin CF-Auto-Root 4.4.2 package.
Being root installed the advanced recovery "CWM" philz touch. And I found myself at this point I made a backup of the EFS system being completely "virgin" that is, with stock rom samsung and android 4.4.2. I followed the steps in the tutorial that I have made previously to unlocksim. One of the requirements to release the phone was change the modem to modem I9505_DXUAME2_MODEM, so I changed the phone modem and followed the guidelines set by the tutorial,
Region to use the application could lock away briefly display an error is possibly to blame for me as I'm seeing. This error could display for two seconds, but from that moment everything seemed to work well, the phone was released. So I changed the modem again for mine.
At this point I decided to choose to install a cooked rom based on stock, namely Omega rom v38.1 for s4 I9505.
And at this point is when my headaches begin to appear. I have experienced problems with the release ... see, the issue is that when the network coverage data is in H + the phone works perfectly, but only if H is not able to load websites etc. This has led me to the edge as I can not be aware every moment of the type of data coverage.
My questions are:
1. Is there a way to stop the phone as he was before unlocksim, ie leave it as it was originally being from Yoigo? (Remember to keep a copy of SAI realized when the system was completely untouched.)
2. How I can solve this problem with the network coverage data?
3. What do you advise me to do?
Please help. Greetings.
you might want to try searching sammobile to see there is a ROM you can download and flash that's for your country and ideally for your phone provider as well. I've run into issues like this on a couple of occasions. One was indeed that the country's ROM I flashed uses differant frequencies and I had the same mobile data connectivity issues you're talking about. This is rare for the international Samsung phones but it does happen. The other scenario I ran into was after flashing a port of the Google Play Edition onto tit, which gave it extended network options, and everything worked quite well but when I restored to stock from a backup on my sdcard I had connectivity issues, once again just like you're describing. In this scenario flashing a fresh stock ROM entirely solved the problem.
Note that in the second scenario I didn't redo the data partition. Presumably flashing the system fixed it or reflashing the firmware partition reinitialized things the way they are meant to work for me.
search for I9505 (or whatever the model of your phone is) where it says search for your device http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
Google around the codes if the results aren't revailing enough for what's stock for you and try reflashing in odin. If it persists then backup your apps, wipe the data partition, possibly backup your internal storage as well if you have a stock recover, and try again. Beyond that I haven't had to deal with further problems than that yet but I saw that no one else had responded...
I was trying to install CM12.1. So before I start. I formatted my phone systems and data and all. But suddenly after my phone boot up I can't get any signal and my IMEI is unknown and baseband too. Please help me out. This is my second thread about this on this forum. In the first post no one seems to be helping. Now am running on GearCM12
Reinstall the stock ROM. If that doesn't correct the issue the S4 will need to be serviced.
If this is the second thread you've posted on this topic, let the mods know so they can lock the earlier thread.
I had an S1 and wiped the IMEI a few times. Without a backup, the only solution was to restoring to the latest stock ROM that could be flashed via Odin, so that was GB 2.3.
I'm sure, if you do this with 4.2.2, you'll be fine.
I was trying to root my at&t s6 edge+ using Odin. As soon as the process completed, my phone froze on Samsung screen. Then I tried wiping cache and data but nothing worked. I downloaded few stock ROM for Odin but flashing keeps on failing. I read in some thread that new Samsung devices do not support downgrading. I went and checked my current build number and found that to be G928AUCS4CPK1. However, the firmware I was trying to flash were older version.
Has anyone experienced similar issue before? The main problem here is I cannot find the exact build number anywhere. I spent a lot of time searching and finally decided to post here.
Your valuable suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
hey man, you flashed an older version of the firmware? even if it wasnt bricked, your phone is essentially useless now. the efs is gone, meaning you cant make phonecalls or connect to wifi at all. sorry; your phone is bricked. perm.
download mode dosen`t work ?if so the only thing you can try is to use samsung kies to restore your phone but don`t know if that works
I done something similar to my standard S6 Edge the only difference was i was able to start it up ok and i thought everything was ok until i realised i had no reception. I so happened to notice my imei number was gone. I had no back ups of the partition that saved this info so i totally bricked my phone.
I did however find a website that would be able to do a work around ( for a fee of course) for it however it does question your morals as its essentially illegal in alot of countries. I dont want to post anything on here so if you want any info send me a PM.
Exact same thing happened to me... went to AT&T repair center but they didn't have the 'K1' firmware..
anyhow managed to find the latest firmware (gsm-firmware.com)... cost me $4, but the phone is up and running... I only flashed the AP file.. also used Odin 3.12.5..