I was wondering if anyone here knows of a way to unbrick an Expo.
Just got phone today and was flashing the lastest dragonstorm rom onto it when My computer crashed and I recieved a blue screen. Now when I push the power button the green light and the backlight turn on but the scren stays blank. Have tried re-flashing with both the LG update rom and the dragonstorm one but the only effect is occasionaly the 'Emergancy download' message comes on and stays on until I pull battery out.
Have you tried flashing with a different computer? was your computer running vista?
No. My computer is Windows 7. Have tried flashing on a laptop running Xp but the dragonstorm rom comes up with a message saying can not read whats on phone. Have also tried with the base rom and update rom but both go right through and say update complete but the phone is still the same.
My phone is "bricked", it won't load into the orange windows logo screen anymore, just LG logo and turn lcd off, that's it. Help
Try, Power on + space key, then you should see "emergency download".
And then try reflash phone.
up help then....
OK, yesterday I ****ed up really bad. I have a Sprint Galaxy S4 (SPH-L720T)
My phone was acting slow, so I factory reset it and cleared the cache partition.
Then I reflashed the custom ROM I had on it before the factory reset.
ODIN said it was a success and the phone automatically rebooted.
Except this time, it stayed stuck on the yellow "Sprint Spark" screen.
I tried to go into recovery mode (I have ClockWorkMod) and the phone shuts off as soon as I turn it on into recovery mode.
I have reflashed the root and CWM successfully, but no matter what I do, it just won't go into recovery mode or get past the "Sprint Spark" screen.
On top of that, my internet speed is approximately 150 Kb/s, so there is no ****ing way I can download another ROM.
Every time I try, the download will complete prematurely, and not download the whole file, or it will get about 80% through and say "unexpected network error".
I have the latest version of Google Chrome on my Windows 8.1 Lenovo desktop.
Let me know if I missed any information, and please please please help me.
This phone is my daily user and I need it to be working.
I was actually going to flash a stock lollipop rom from Saudi Arabia this morning but little did I know, I didn't know what are the procedures to manually flash it on odin. So I followed sammobile.com's instructions. I went to download mode in my phone and then I start it. And it showed an error in odin but I have not copied it to be able to distinguish what's really the problem. Being a noob, I unplugged my phone and tried to repeat the procedures but now it won't boot, can't even go to download/recovery mode, vibrates with an interval of 2 seconds and the screen stays black.
1. Am I able to fix this?
2. If yes, can somebody help me.
Edit: My phone was actually rooted 4.4 kitkat
Boot it normally, It'll say something like this "Firmware upgrade failed. Connect to Kies to restore firmware". Leave it like this and connect it to your computer and Open Odin it should say Added! in the white info box. now you can start flashing again the firmware.
I have a Note 4 and I was very satisfied with the performance until a few weeks ago, an upgrade to Android 6.0.1 was downloaded and applied.
It seems the update failed and despite I'm now in Android 6.0.1, the phone is working very erratic. Sometimes it freezes for a while (10 seconds, 30, 1 minute, 2 minutes) and then just continues as normal (when it freezes for more than a minute, it goes directly to lock screen ). Sometimes it says some app or system process (touchwiz and the like) has failed and sometimes it simply reboots without any reason. I have restarted it in secure mode but there is no difference.
I have uninstalled all downloaded apps but there is no difference. I have reset it to factory defaults but keeps failing.
I have downloaded latest 6.0.1 Firmware from Sammobile and flashed it with Odin but the fail is still there.
One thing I have noticed is when I start in recovery mode (power+home+vol up), instead of the recovery menu, the android robot appears and the text installing update. It goes for a while, then crashes (robot with red triangle) and then the recovery menu appears. This happens every time I start in recovery mode so it looks like there is some update that was applied (since I have 6.0.1 instead of 5.x) but only partially.
Any help?
is there a way to revert it back to Lollipop?
Hi!
Same thing happened to me. Connect to a computer and use Samsung Smart Switch to do an emergency recovery.
But the phone will be erased.
After that, my Note 4 got even better than before!
Good luck!
Tried Emergency Recovery but phone doesn't show up in the list, so I tried Update Firmware. It told me the firmware I have would be replaced by current version (The SAME version) but I went ahead anyway. Firmware was downloaded from internet, phone booted in Download mode and Smart Switch copied the firmware to the phone, then restarted, installing... Error Message: "No Command", nothing else.
I removed battery, rebooted and error message appeared telling there was a problem with firmware update and I would need to use emergency recovery from Kies (I understand I have to use Smart Switch, no Kies). So I connected it again to Kies and opened Emergency Recovery but once again, it doesn't appear in the list. So trying again with Firmware update. If this doesn't work, I'm afraid I have a very expensive paperweight
Failed again. At 25% update, Download screen showed:
ODIN: flash write failure
A window in Smart Switch tells me something went wrong and offers me Emergency Recovery. It also tells me I have to write a recovery code if using another PC. The recovery code is blank. not a good signal.
Again, Emergency Recovery is showing nothing in the list of devices
Ok, I finally downgraded to Firmware 5.1.1 using Odin and the phone is alive again, but I don't think everything is OK. First time I tried to update the firmware with Odin, it failed at the middle of the process, just like Smart Switch did. But second time it completed the process and rebooted. I will leave it as is a few days for testing and if no issues appear, I will allow it to update OTA. In any case, if update OTA fails again, I always can go back to where I am now.
Restarting in recovery mode now shows the android guy with the blue thing spinning (no text) and after a while the fallen android guy with the danger signal and then the recovery menu. That's not what should appear. It should go directly to recovery menu, so I think it is still not 100% good.
jedikalimero said:
Ok, I finally downgraded to Firmware 5.1.1 using Odin and the phone is alive again, but I don't think everything is OK. First time I tried to update the firmware with Odin, it failed at the middle of the process, just like Smart Switch did. But second time it completed the process and rebooted. I will leave it as is a few days for testing and if no issues appear, I will allow it to update OTA. In any case, if update OTA fails again, I always can go back to where I am now.
Restarting in recovery mode now shows the android guy with the blue thing spinning (no text) and after a while the fallen android guy with the danger signal and then the recovery menu. That's not what should appear. It should go directly to recovery menu, so I think it is still not 100% good.
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please keep posting your observations, i am on the verge of trying flashing 5.1.1 myself.
would be great to know if this resolves our issues.
Phone kept failing also with 5.1.1 so it was not a problem of the Android version. The difference is that while at first phone freezing was the regular thing and reboots were the exception, now reboots are the regular thing, so the situation is worse.
Since it was failing with 5.1.1 and the situation was not better but worse, I didn't wait anymore an installed the OTA update that obviously appeared as soon as the phone booted in 5.1.1
After the phone said it would reset itself, it didn't turn on again. I had to turn it on manually and the the installation began without any incidents. then a new OTA update appeared (this time only ~350 MB). I'm not sure if this was a new update that appeared yesterday or was already applied when mi phone updated to 6.0.1 before the problems started.
So I accepted this update and it was downloaded but then failed to install and the phone told me to contact the repair service.
So now I am just as in the beginning, with a failing phone that freezes and reboots frequently.
I went to the repair service. The guy there didn't know how to fix it an told me to send it to Madrid for repair. But I haven't sent it yet for two reasons. The phone is still under warranty (as ANY OTHER Note 4 bought in the EU), but first, he told me it would take 25 days to repair (this is Spain, you know. In UK it would take 3 days) and second, my front glass cracked so I had to take it to a repair shop to replace just the glass for 30 euros instead of the 200 euros it would have costed to replace the whole (and totally functional) screen officially. So I'm afraid they would find out the glass was replaced and take this as an excuse to void my warranty. In older models you could replace the glass and nobody would notice it, but in the Note 4 you have to break a copper heat dissipation foil that lies between the back of the screen and the metal frame in order to disassemble the phone.
jedikalimero said:
Phone kept failing also with 5.1.1 so it was not a problem of the Android version. The difference is that while at first phone freezing was the regular thing and reboots were the exception, now reboots are the regular thing, so the situation is worse.
Since it was failing with 5.1.1 and the situation was not better but worse, I didn't wait anymore an installed the OTA update that obviously appeared as soon as the phone booted in 5.1.1
After the phone said it would reset itself, it didn't turn on again. I had to turn it on manually and the the installation began without any incidents. then a new OTA update appeared (this time only ~350 MB). I'm not sure if this was a new update that appeared yesterday or was already applied when mi phone updated to 6.0.1 before the problems started.
So I accepted this update and it was downloaded but then failed to install and the phone told me to contact the repair service.
So now I am just as in the beginning, with a failing phone that freezes and reboots frequently.
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so sad!
Hi,
My galaxy S4 decided to poop itself yesterday. I was browsing my emails and the phone restarted by itself. . but then it kept restarting over and over again (Boot loop). The phone felt hot, so i took the battery out and left the phone for a while.
Once i put the battery back in, the phone kept boot looping. I managed to get it into safe mode and make sure all my photos were safe – I've just returned from a holiday in Hawaii, so this was very important to me.
After i was able to make sure photos were backed up on the computer, i cleared the cache partition and even did a hard reset. The phone kept boot looping. My phone now gets stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy S4 GT I9505" start up page. I read about issues with the power button, so even atempted to open the phone up and wiggle the power button around a bit by squeezing it with some tweezers. This made no difference. I've even swapped batteries and tried charging it.. this also doesn't work. Currently my phone has the "Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9505".
I have been on whirlpool forums and it was suggested that i reinstall the firmware through odin.. i did, but with great difficulty and many attempts. My phone was able to boot up and i was able to send one message and make one phone call before it went into bootloop again or just switches off and doesn't want to be switched back on again. When the phone was on, no sound was apparent when a phone call/text message came through for testing. I've retried dowloading the software on odin, but when i try to switch my phone on it says "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again".
I've also tried putting the phone on the charger and no sound or green battery coloured animation comes up on the screen now.
Please somebody help
It was the latest stock firmware from sammobile.com that was flashed to the phone? Was the phone factory reset from stock recovery before booting the phone after fllashing with Odin?
As far as I know it was the latest unbranded firmware from sammobile.com.
A factory reset was one of the first things I did after starting the phone up in safe mode and trying to recover files.
The phone has never previously been tampered with. I've only ever upgraded the software through WiFi or Samsung kies. Using Odin was a learning experience for me.
Maybe the factory reset needs to be done from the recovery screen rather than from the ROM settings?
The factory reset was originally performed from the recovery screen. I can no longer get into recovery mode though. It only seems the phone wants to get into download mode
Have you tried flashing a ROM designed for a particular carrier in your country?
This is going to sound silly.. But I thought that's what I was doing when I went through Odin and got the firmware from sammobile.com
Which version of Odin and firmware was flashed?
What errors occurred during the flash process according to the Odin log?
Tried flashing with a pit file?