This is my friends s4 he gave me to fix, its never been rooted or anything but after installing the 4.3 update the phone never had service and always has the "preparing network" thing in the notification menu, and if you go into certain things such as the about phone settings it will just freeze. ive tried factory restoring it but nothing has worked. Maybe downgrading to 4.2.2 would work but is that possible atm?
You won't be able to downgrade it to 4.2.2 after going to 4.3. 4.3 is different that way.
If the phone was never rooted, I'd say take it back to Sprint and let them fix it.
Hi,
I've rooted my Samsung S5 SM-G900F with Odin3 v.3.07, but as soon as I start up the phone it tells me the Health Service has been stopped, soon after that there's another alert which tells me the Context Service has been stopped. I've tried a lot, but nothing seems to work.
Could someone PLEASE help me out?
Thanks!
B.
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Got this fixed just by installing a custom rom.
For a few weeks now, I have been unable to update my galaxy s5 to lollipop 5.0. I the download the update perfectly fine, but when I go to install it, it loads for a minute then says error. Now my phone was rooted, but one day it became unrooted. I tried to reroot it but it didn't work at all. I have a feeling when it unrooted, it didn't fully unroot? So I may have done something wrong here.. if anyone has similar issues and knows what may be wrong can you please help me!! I have reset my phone many times and nothing works!!
Hello all,
I have a Samsung Galxy S5 with AT&T model SM-G900A. Any time the phone reboots, on the "Samsung Galaxy S5" boot screen, it says "Custom" and has an "Unlocked Padlock" logo as if the phone were rooted or something. A while back, I was trying to do a basic root to allow use of Titanium Backup using the Towelroot app, which failed because it said my phone was not supported. I'm not sure if this has caused it, or if, as I read elsewhere, it was caused by my once changing from Dalvik to ART. However, I have since switched back to Dalvik, I know its not rooted because SU and other such apps wont work, and I have even Factory Reset the device but I can not get rid of this. I would like to return my phone to its default state. How can I get rid of this "Custom" and Lock Logo? Your help is greatly appreciated! Thanks so much!
-Noomrise
It won't hurt anything as long as Knox isn't tripped but you can download the full stock retail ROM and flash it in Odin or Kies 3.
Update: Phone thinks its rooted?
Noomrise said:
Hello all,
I have a Samsung Galxy S5 with AT&T model SM-G900A. Any time the phone reboots, on the "Samsung Galaxy S5" boot screen, it says "Custom" and has an "Unlocked Padlock" logo as if the phone were rooted or something. A while back, I was trying to do a basic root to allow use of Titanium Backup using the Towelroot app, which failed because it said my phone was not supported. I'm not sure if this has caused it, or if, as I read elsewhere, it was caused by my once changing from Dalvik to ART. However, I have since switched back to Dalvik, I know its not rooted because SU and other such apps wont work, and I have even Factory Reset the device but I can not get rid of this. I would like to return my phone to its default state. How can I get rid of this "Custom" and Lock Logo? Your help is greatly appreciated! Thanks so much!
-Noomrise
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Okay, so here is an update. After performing a factory reset in order to try and fix this issue, I was playing around and opened the "Softcard" app and received the message that it doesn't work on rooted phones. Since the Towelroot app did not work, I don't understand this. I have also been unable to get SuperUser to install binaries, saying the phone is not rooted. Don't know what this means or if it helps, but thought id give an update. Thanks again!
Would you be so kind as to provide me with a link to the retail ROM and instructions on flashing it through Kies 3? THANKS!
I'd have to do a search. .. or you could. ?
Rapunzl said:
I'd have to do a search. .. or you could.
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Thanks, I found the file (I hope) and downloaded odin, and it is currently flashing. I will let you know if it a) removes the custom lock and b) fixes the softcard app thinking the phone is rooted. Thanks for your help!
It Worked!!!!!
Rapunzl said:
It won't hurt anything as long as Knox isn't tripped but you can download the full stock retail ROM and flash it in Odin or Kies 3.
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I would like to report that flashing the stock ROM has fixed both the Custom Lock boot screen as well as SoftCard thinking my phone was rooted. Thank you Rapunzl for your help, you are awesome!
Just got the S10+ yesterday. No root and no plan to root at present (it's my husbands phone and he's weird lol)
His voicemail isn't giving him a notification. Nothing on the icon on the home screen and nothing when I open the app. I've cleared cache and data, app is up to date, rebooted phone, searched sprint and searched XDA and can't find an answer.
Anyone have any ideas what I need to do?
Have you tried updating the phone via the OTA updates? You might need to do a factory data reset or flash the latest stock firmware with Odin if all else fails.
StoneyJSG said:
Have you tried updating the phone via the OTA updates? You might need to do a factory data reset or flash the latest stock firmware with Odin if all else fails.
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I'll double check to see if an OTA was done or not. I was thinking my next step would be to do a factory reset. Weird thing is my note 10+ doesn't have VM either. It's not activated yet so I didn't know if that could be why.
I also tried to download the app from the play store (on my husbands phone) and it would get to downloading 2%, say it was installing then give an error of "this application cannot be installed"
Sounds like you need a factory reset and if that fails reflash the firmware with Odin. I have voicemail on my S10+ here running the AT&T firmware. Some firmware like Version or others might have visual voicemail. I have the icon for it on my phone, but never use it.
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Sounds like you need a factory reset and if that fails reflash the firmware with Odin. I have voicemail on my S10+ here running the AT&T firmware. Some firmware like Version or others might have visual voicemail. I have the icon for it on my phone, but never use it.
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I have no idea what I did but it just suddenly started working. Thank you so much!