Unable to boot - Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

So today, randomly my phone restarted. It started to boot up and got stuck on the Google logo screen (I think, the screen where all the circles are overlapping) and just simply won't boot. The battery just gets extremely hot.
I'm not sure where to go from this.

Nathhhh said:
So today, randomly my phone restarted. It started to boot up and got stuck on the Google logo screen (I think, the screen where all the circles are overlapping) and just simply won't boot. The battery just gets extremely hot.
I'm not sure where to go from this.
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Hi
Mate in order to help we need more info , what s4 you have ,root , recovery , stock or custom , what did you do before this happen , what have you done after this happen......

MAX 404 said:
Hi
Mate in order to help we need more info , what s4 you have ,root , recovery , stock or custom , what did you do before this happen , what have you done after this happen......
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Im using the GT I9505 with the ktoonsez rom. I basically unlocked my phone and opened an already running app and turned off and wouldnt boot from there. I managed to get into recovery (TWRP) and tried wiping the caches, still the same. In the end I did a factory reset.
I'm still baffled as to why this happened though.

Nathhhh said:
Im using the GT I9505 with the ktoonsez rom. I basically unlocked my phone and opened an already running app and turned off and wouldnt boot from there. I managed to get into recovery (TWRP) and tried wiping the caches, still the same. In the end I did a factory reset.
I'm still baffled as to why this happened though.
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Hi,
Is hard to tell what went wrong ......but is running ok now? if not try to reflash rom again , no wipe........maybe a file got lost or damage.

MAX 404 said:
Hi,
Is hard to tell what went wrong ......but is running ok now? if not try to reflash rom again , no wipe........maybe a file got lost or damage.
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Yeah, it is working fine now. Weird.
Thank you for your response.

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[Q] I think i'm bricked

So i flashed something that my phone doesnt agree with and now it gets stuck in boot. it gets to samsung screen then goes black and back to samsung over and over..
through clockwork i've wiped everything, tried to recover, tried to flash fresh roms, new kernels everything but i'm still stuck.. is this a situation to try odin? I don't have access to a pc so i just wanted to know if that is the next step cause its kinda of a pain in the ass to get a hold of one
illtema said:
So i flashed something that my phone doesnt agree with and now it gets stuck in boot. it gets to samsung screen then goes black and back to samsung over and over..
through clockwork i've wiped everything, tried to recover, tried to flash fresh roms, new kernels everything but i'm still stuck.. is this a situation to try odin? I don't have access to a pc so i just wanted to know if that is the next step cause its kinda of a pain in the ass to get a hold of one
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what exactly did you flash to your phone that it didnt agree with
i flashed geek's uv superfast test and then followed his links to enable the BLN.. i think i might have flashed a bln mod for another device by accident but i'm having trouble finding the links i clicked so i'm not positive.. all i know is after i flashed it my boot animation changed to i 9000 and then it got stuck and then it got stuck in boot lock
to be frank, i can't find what the **** i did so i'm starting to think i was in a diff device forum or something... i musta flashed something for another device
illtema said:
i flashed geek's uv superfast test and then followed his links to enable the BLN.. i think i might have flashed a bln mod for another device by accident but i'm having trouble finding the links i clicked so i'm not positive.. all i know is after i flashed it my boot animation changed to i 9000 and then it got stuck and then it got stuck in boot lock
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illtema said:
to be frank, i can't find what the **** i did so i'm starting to think i was in a diff device forum or something... i musta flashed something for another device
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yeah you are pretty much screwed
screwed as in i should go to verizon w/ a sob story or screwed as in try odin
Couldn't you use Odin to restore? Or have you already tried that?
yeah man just revert to stock via Odin . Youre fine , happens to everyone at some point . Get back on that Android horse and ride it haha .
Yes, use odin.
If flashing other kernels doesn't fix this, (ie you still get stuck after the Verizon logo with lit buttons) let me know. I've got a trick up my sleeve for this, but I've only seen it happen twice, it's pretty rare.
i'm not proud of myself but i went to verizon and they gave me a brand new device...
illtema said:
i'm not proud of myself but i went to verizon and they gave me a brand new device...
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if you plan to root/mod this device dont put other sgs firmware on it
illtema said:
i'm not proud of myself but i went to verizon and they gave me a brand new device...
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awwwww wheres the fun in that XD
OK I did the same thing last week. I fixed it by running voodoo uninstaller. Don't know why it worked or how but I was desperate after being without a phone for 2 days. Then that afternoon my replacement showed up via fedex
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[Q] HELP i9505 wont boot.

hi my i9505 will not boot past the samsung s4 screen. I have tried to flash stock firmware via odin it says its completed but phone still will not boot. Any help would be great thank you.
saxopimp said:
hi my i9505 will not boot past the samsung s4 screen. I have tried to flash stock firmware via odin it says its completed but phone still will not boot. Any help would be great thank you.
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Boot into recovery and factory reset the phone, CWM has that option and regular recovery does too if im not mistaken.
soulja30589 said:
Boot into recovery and factory reset the phone, CWM has that option and regular recovery does too if im not mistaken.
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Ok i'm totally going to sound like a noob but that actually worked. You my friend are a star. many thanks. ( i am flashing a long time now since my galaxy s2 days and this is first time anything like this has happened.) THANK YOU :laugh:
saxopimp said:
Ok i'm totally going to sound like a noob but that actually worked. You my friend are a star. many thanks. ( i am flashing a long time now since my galaxy s2 days and this is first time anything like this has happened.) THANK YOU :laugh:
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No problem mate im glad it worked.

GE ROM, won't reboot

Hi,
I flashed the google edition rom a few weeks ago, all was working fine. This morning, I decided to flash a stock rom from sammobile (was this a bad idea)? I used CF autoroot and twerp custom recovery. It failed. So wiped everything, reflashed the google edition rom, but when I reboot the phone it gets stuck showing "Samsung galaxy s4" white text.
To boot it again i have to wipe data, cache and dalvik, then reflash the ROM, then qipe cache and dalvik, then it reboots. But when I turn it off then on again the whole process starts again.
Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong? This is the same ROM that worked faultlessly for weeks...
Thanks
Did u wait long enough, first reboot after flashing a new rom can take a while.
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richard2311 said:
Did u wait long enough, first reboot after flashing a new rom can take a while.
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Yeah, I gave it 5 minutes, but it's not even getting to the boot animation.
When I tried to flash the stock rom could that have messed something up? It said failed, then for ages after that, it kept saying "error-failed to open \data\data .... I/O error" in twrp.
To avoid that I have to wipe data seperately, reboot recovery, then flash the ROM again from scratch. Every time I reboot the phone I have to do a full wipe and flash the rom before it even boots..
dickson123 said:
Yeah, I gave it 5 minutes, but it's not even getting to the boot animation.
When I tried to flash the stock rom could that have messed something up? It said failed, then for ages after that, it kept saying "error-failed to open \data\data .... I/O error" in twrp.
To avoid that I have to wipe data seperately, reboot recovery, then flash the ROM again from scratch. Every time I reboot the phone I have to do a full wipe and flash the rom before it even boots..
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Have a read if this great guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=43340522&postcount=3297
mobileguynz said:
Have a read if this great guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=43340522&postcount=3297
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Ok, thanks, I'll give it a go later. I'm at work and was hoping for a solution that didn't require ODIN (work PC too locked-down )
dickson123 said:
Ok, thanks, I'll give it a go later. I'm at work and was hoping for a solution that didn't require ODIN (work PC too locked-down )
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Well depending on which stock ROM you flashed you maybe affected by the enabled SElinux issue see https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13xxnmzvyeihn00w23wcdp55terwvove
mobileguynz said:
Well depending on which stock ROM you flashed you maybe affected by the enabled SElinux issue see https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13xxnmzvyeihn00w23wcdp55terwvove
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I don't understand what the issue is though. I'm not doing anything different than I did 3 weeks ago, and yet this time it doesn't work.
It's now gotten to the stage where it won't boot at all, just sits at the white text, no boot animation.
Is it possible that flashing a stock un-rooted ROM has messed it up somehow? Technically it never flashed because it just failed immediately.
dickson123 said:
I don't understand what the issue is though. I'm not doing anything different than I did 3 weeks ago, and yet this time it doesn't work.
It's now gotten to the stage where it won't boot at all, just sits at the white text, no boot animation.
Is it possible that flashing a stock un-rooted ROM has messed it up somehow? Technically it never flashed because it just failed immediately.
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If you flashed the latest stock ROM it maybe be one with Knox and that has a secure boot loader and kernel secure Selinux Knox stops you from modifying and installing.
Try using ausdims v16 kernel or wadams Adam kernel for stock roms. Note when I flashed the last ROM waited 10 minutes and had do a wipe and reset for it to boot see last pages for discussion http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2250824
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[Q] stuck in boot animation

my i9500 stucked in boot animation and doesnt boot up. i tired to install a new rom and even with full wipe it still stuck in boot animation. did it again with another official rom, same result again. how can i boot it up?
kamiar1 said:
my i9500 stucked in boot animation and doesnt boot up. i tired to install a new rom and even with full wipe it still stuck in boot animation. did it again with another official rom, same result again. how can i boot it up?
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Did you tried flashing the firmware through Odin? Give all the wipes n check. All the best
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Mandark52 said:
Did you tried flashing the firmware through Odin? Give all the wipes n check. All the best
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i did it several times with different ROMs. but it didnt work.
i just read someone had almost the same problem like me and his problem was the battery. can it make any problem? (my battery is somehow bigger than usual)
kamiar1 said:
i did it several times with different ROMs. but it didnt work.
i just read someone had almost the same problem like me and his problem was the battery. can it make any problem? (my battery is somehow bigger than usual)
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Ok so check if your battery is swollen. I would advice you to borrow a battery and test. If it works then you are good to buy a new one.
kamiar1 said:
i did it several times with different ROMs. but it didnt work.
i just read someone had almost the same problem like me and his problem was the battery. can it make any problem? (my battery is somehow bigger than usual)
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You dont explain what firmwares u were flashing or what process u were doing. Give more details :fingers-crossed:
Joku1981 said:
You dont explain what firmwares u were flashing or what process u were doing. Give more details :fingers-crossed:
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ok. first i installed MaxFour kernel but after installing the phone freezed several time and i had to reboot the phone. so i decided to flash a new rom ( NC1) after flashing the new rom i didnt have any signal so i thought there is a problem with efs and i tried to restore my efs.img . i found a method in xda to restore it and followed it ( it was a code which i did it through teminal) after rebooting the phone, it stucked in boot animation. i flashed another rom like nb3 and ml1 but it didnt work and the phone is still stucked in boot animation.

Red screen after installing twrp

I installed the twrp app on my rooted samsung s7 edge, it downloaded and installed the image, now when rebooting all i have is a red screen? someone please help
thanks
nevermind all sorted now phew
stephenuk said:
nevermind all sorted now phew
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How did you sort it out?
Flame_Beard said:
How did you sort it out?
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Reinstall twtp agaim that worked for me
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Flame_Beard said:
How did you sort it out?
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Used an older version through odin
This ended up being sorted for me, as it just booted after about a half hour. But how, if you hit this red screen can you reflash? You aren't getting to dowload mode or recovery with that perma-red screen
lol, I spoke too soon again, was reflashing twrp after going back to a stock rom, this happened again for me only its not budging from red screen now. I can't get into download mode as I mentioned above too
hey guys I have the same
the phone dont even switch off
how did you fix it?
edit SOLUTION : I managed to reboot the phone with adb
add reboot
then I flashed the version 3.0.0.0 of TWRP and it worked !
Help!
stephenuk said:
I installed the twrp app on my rooted samsung s7 edge, it downloaded and installed the image, now when rebooting all i have is a red screen? someone please help
thanks
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I rooted my phone, had twrp recovery successfully. then i tried to install xposed and it was probably the wrong version. tried to use odin to get the stock rom, but the screen is only red, and i can hear the volume sounds... any help?
sammobile.com/firmwares/database/SM-G935F/TEN/ i used the newest version
adrianbjorvatn said:
I rooted my phone, had twrp recovery successfully. then i tried to install xposed and it was probably the wrong version. tried to use odin to get the stock rom, but the screen is only red, and i can hear the volume sounds... any help?
sammobile.com/firmwares/database/SM-G935F/TEN/ i used the newest version
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I am having the same problem. Odin is stuck in "Setup Connection"
Do you have any ideas?
Thanks
You have probably flashed a wrong kernel.
The solution is to flash the right kernel for your device.
I was flashing S7 root on S7Edge
Flame_Beard said:
How did you sort it out?
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i just used an earlier version
julien32 said:
how did you fix it?
edit SOLUTION : I managed to reboot the phone with adb
add reboot
then I flashed the version 3.0.0.0 of TWRP and it worked !
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Thank you very much, worked for me!:good:
i tryed the posted solutions, but won´t work for me.
I found a another version an flash it, so that the red sceen is gone, but this was the wrong version.. so i tried to flash the right twrp image, but odin freezes everytime...
what can i try?
Hi Guys,
I flashed everything stock after having some issues with encrypton and a custom ROM.
After flashing twrp-3.1.1-0-herolte.img with Odin 3.17 I only get a red screen when booting into recovery and the phone won't even boot the OS.
Any idea how to get TWRP working so I can get back to a custom ROM?
Thanks,
Nicolas
Edit: Hero2lte worked
flashed ****ty rom /** THE GALAXY PROJECT **/ with twrp + themes and hard bricked my phone
my usb doesnt work, just for charging, i was told something gone on my mobo of s7 edge.
i can boot into download mode but nothing to do without pc...
Nikouy said:
Hi Guys,
I flashed everything stock after having some issues with encrypton and a custom ROM.
After flashing twrp-3.1.1-0-herolte.img with Odin 3.17 I only get a red screen when booting into recovery and the phone won't even boot the OS.
Any idea how to get TWRP working so I can get back to a custom ROM?
Thanks,
Nicolas
Edit: Hero2lte worked
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you are a live saver!!i love you!!!
juda iskariotsky said:
flashed ****ty rom /** THE GALAXY PROJECT **/ with twrp + themes and hard bricked my phone
my usb doesnt work, just for charging, i was told something gone on my mobo of s7 edge.
i can boot into download mode but nothing to do without pc...
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Lol. I have the very same problem: Flashed The Galaxy Project ROM and hit "update bootloader etc...." and now all I have is this red screen..... - Though the ROM worked for a couple of hours, but when I tried to enter the recovery I stock with this red screen. Cant even go into download mode...
Any help? How did you solved this issue?
I didn't, ****ty Rom just bricked it.
Just reflash the recovery or flash stock. I can't, my pc doesn't recognize my s7 anymore.
He doesn't even bother to mention that bug...
NandorHUN said:
Lol. I have the very same problem: Flashed The Galaxy Project ROM and hit "update bootloader etc...." and now all I have is this red screen..... - Though the ROM worked for a couple of hours, but when I tried to enter the recovery I stock with this red screen. Cant even go into download mode...
Any help? How did you solved this issue?
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Same here. Only in my case I use this ROOM for weeks

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