Alright, So I bought a brand-new Galaxy S4 i-9500 a couple of weeks back. Ever since day one, the phone has major problems working with my Sandisk Class 10 64gb sdxc card, which I was using in my Galaxy Note N7000, without any problems. The card also works perfect in my wife's Galaxy S3 i9300.
The problems include:
-> The phone showing card as "Damaged" and not mounting it.
-> Sometimes it mounts the card, but shows the card as 'Blank' or 'Wrongly Formatted'
-> And yet sometimes, it mounts the card, but does not read some specific files. Opening those will give a message which says "File format not supported". In the process, the phone heats up to pretty nasty levels, and the battery drain will be massive. The phone also becomes very slow, gets stuck, and sometimes even restarts, and the problem keeps continuing.
If I remove the memory card, the phone works like a charm. I tried a 16gb memory card which also produced more or less the same results.
Now, the real problem is this. Recently, I had tried to root the phone, and for that purpose, I tried flashing CWM from cofface, through ODIN 3.07 and 1.85. Both the times, the flashing process was successful, with ODIN giving the green "PASS" message. However, nothing seemed to change on my phone, and CWM was never installed. I could never get the CWM screen no matter what I tried (every instruction on the net, literally). I then left the matter.
When my aforementioned card problem bothered me a lot, today, I decided to re-flash the stock firmware to my phone. So I downloaded the stock ROM from Sammobile, the correct pit file from XDA and started the flash process. Flashing was successful, as shown by ODIN, and the phone rebooted. But to my horror, the phone was exactly in the same state, when I had switched it off. Nothing was ever changed, all my files and everything were intact, and nothing had happened at all!!!!
How is this possible??? The bootloader shows "Downloading" and the blue bar while flashing, ODIN shows everything and even says it succeeded, but then how come things on my Phone remains absolutely unchanged??? So then what did it re-flash and where to?? And is there any way to get rid of this memory card problem??
I googled a lot to see if anyone else is experiencing the same problem as mine, but never found anything, which leads me to believe that my device is one weird thing!
vivz990 said:
Alright, So I bought a brand-new Galaxy S4 i-9500 a couple of weeks back. Ever since day one, the phone has major problems working with my Sandisk Class 10 64gb sdxc card, which I was using in my Galaxy Note N7000, without any problems. The card also works perfect in my wife's Galaxy S3 i9300.
The problems include:
-> The phone showing card as "Damaged" and not mounting it.
-> Sometimes it mounts the card, but shows the card as 'Blank' or 'Wrongly Formatted'
-> And yet sometimes, it mounts the card, but does not read some specific files. Opening those will give a message which says "File format not supported". In the process, the phone heats up to pretty nasty levels, and the battery drain will be massive. The phone also becomes very slow, gets stuck, and sometimes even restarts, and the problem keeps continuing.
If I remove the memory card, the phone works like a charm. I tried a 16gb memory card which also produced more or less the same results.
Now, the real problem is this. Recently, I had tried to root the phone, and for that purpose, I tried flashing CWM from cofface, through ODIN 3.07 and 1.85. Both the times, the flashing process was successful, with ODIN giving the green "PASS" message. However, nothing seemed to change on my phone, and CWM was never installed. I could never get the CWM screen no matter what I tried (every instruction on the net, literally). I then left the matter.
When my aforementioned card problem bothered me a lot, today, I decided to re-flash the stock firmware to my phone. So I downloaded the stock ROM from Sammobile, the correct pit file from XDA and started the flash process. Flashing was successful, as shown by ODIN, and the phone rebooted. But to my horror, the phone was exactly in the same state, when I had switched it off. Nothing was ever changed, all my files and everything were intact, and nothing had happened at all!!!!
How is this possible??? The bootloader shows "Downloading" and the blue bar while flashing, ODIN shows everything and even says it succeeded, but then how come things on my Phone remains absolutely unchanged??? So then what did it re-flash and where to?? And is there any way to get rid of this memory card problem??
I googled a lot to see if anyone else is experiencing the same problem as mine, but never found anything, which leads me to believe that my device is one weird thing!
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Same problem for me... i wanted reinstall the stock firmware completely but when i flashed it with ODIN nothing happened...
Markz88 said:
Same problem for me... i wanted reinstall the stock firmware completely but when i flashed it with ODIN nothing happened...
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Odin doesnt wipe your device or delete anything of your data...
If you flash the same firmware with your device firmware then nothing's really happened..
But if you root or change anything to system - boot - recovery - modem partition then simply is going again to stock or to the version you flash..
Thanks
Maybe there is something wrong with flashing memory (emmc).
There is an app on play store to check it, but i dont know if it works on s4.
I suggest to replace your phone. Or send it to service center
Edit: flash another different stock firmware, and check pda and csc if has changed
sent from my galaxy
vivz990 said:
Alright, So I bought a brand-new Galaxy S4 i-9500 a couple of weeks back. Ever since day one, the phone has major problems working with my Sandisk Class 10 64gb sdxc card, which I was using in my Galaxy Note N7000, without any problems. The card also works perfect in my wife's Galaxy S3 i9300.
The problems include:
-> The phone showing card as "Damaged" and not mounting it.
-> Sometimes it mounts the card, but shows the card as 'Blank' or 'Wrongly Formatted'
-> And yet sometimes, it mounts the card, but does not read some specific files. Opening those will give a message which says "File format not supported". In the process, the phone heats up to pretty nasty levels, and the battery drain will be massive. The phone also becomes very slow, gets stuck, and sometimes even restarts, and the problem keeps continuing.
If I remove the memory card, the phone works like a charm. I tried a 16gb memory card which also produced more or less the same results.
Now, the real problem is this. Recently, I had tried to root the phone, and for that purpose, I tried flashing CWM from cofface, through ODIN 3.07 and 1.85. Both the times, the flashing process was successful, with ODIN giving the green "PASS" message. However, nothing seemed to change on my phone, and CWM was never installed. I could never get the CWM screen no matter what I tried (every instruction on the net, literally). I then left the matter.
When my aforementioned card problem bothered me a lot, today, I decided to re-flash the stock firmware to my phone. So I downloaded the stock ROM from Sammobile, the correct pit file from XDA and started the flash process. Flashing was successful, as shown by ODIN, and the phone rebooted. But to my horror, the phone was exactly in the same state, when I had switched it off. Nothing was ever changed, all my files and everything were intact, and nothing had happened at all!!!!
How is this possible??? The bootloader shows "Downloading" and the blue bar while flashing, ODIN shows everything and even says it succeeded, but then how come things on my Phone remains absolutely unchanged??? So then what did it re-flash and where to?? And is there any way to get rid of this memory card problem??
I googled a lot to see if anyone else is experiencing the same problem as mine, but never found anything, which leads me to believe that my device is one weird thing!
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go to this link....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2219803
get rooted from here ( even if u are)
in the same page u get a link to flash back to stock recovery. get that flashed
boot into stock recovery and get a factory reset done.
pull battery and back in...
turn on ur phone into download mode and flash ur stock rom using odin....
this is how i got mine working.... i had ur similar issue....
kiwimalayalee said:
go to this link....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2219803
get rooted from here ( even if u are)
in the same page u get a link to flash back to stock recovery. get that flashed
boot into stock recovery and get a factory reset done.
pull battery and back in...
turn on ur phone into download mode and flash ur stock rom using odin....
this is how i got mine working.... i had ur similar issue....
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ok..will try this now...my last resort
vivz990 said:
ok..will try this now...my last resort
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i assure u its gonna work perfectly...
I am literally having the same problem on my S4 I337M, I'm gonna try what was suggested on here, maybe it'll work lol
i have exactly the same problem right now, i searched for a solution and i found ur thread.
going through the thread to see a solution
vivz990 said:
ok..will try this now...my last resort
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was ur problem solved after flashing cf-auto_root? i mean were u then able to flash custom recovery via odin?
Is solved?
vivz990 said:
... I decided to re-flash the stock firmware to my phone. So I downloaded the stock ROM from Sammobile, the correct pit file from XDA and started the flash process. Flashing was successful, as shown by ODIN, and the phone rebooted. But to my horror, the phone was exactly in the same state, when I had switched it off. Nothing was ever changed, all my files and everything were intact, and nothing had happened at all!!!!
How is this possible??? The bootloader shows "Downloading" and the blue bar while flashing, ODIN shows everything and even says it succeeded, but then how come things on my Phone remains absolutely unchanged??? So then what did it re-flash and where to?? And is there any way to get rid of this memory card problem??
I googled a lot to see if anyone else is experiencing the same problem as mine, but never found anything, which leads me to believe that my device is one weird thing!
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OMG. I just experienced the EXACT same issue with a Galaxy Exhibit (MetroPCS) SGH-T599. I picked up this phone 2nd hand. It has Philz Touch v6.25 recovery already installed on it. But the phone is stuck in a boot loop. So I decided to flash the stock ROM, a custom ROM via ODIN and later even via flashable zips from the Philz recovery! I even tried to flash TWRP to replace Philz Touch thinking there was something wrong with Philz recovery.
No matter what I did, EVERY TIME, the phone remained in EXACTLY the same state, i.e., with Philz recovery still on there.
I have searched everywhere for the last 3 days including XDA but never found anyone else with the same ODIN flashing issue. Thank goodness I found your post. I'm reading the thread now looking for a solution.
I've noticed a couple other things beneath the surface. When I flashed a CM custom ROM for the phone, the default.prop indicated that there was a new system on the phone (I can access the phone via ADB and look at the files including the system files). It also appears the phone was rooted by the previous owner. Another thing I noticed is that some cases when I tried to install a custom ROM via the custom recovery, the phone would suddenly reboot just at the point the recovery attempts to write the ROM.
Yes, it is clear the phone is good and bricked. But how on earth to unbrick it if ODIN isn't actually changing ANYTHING on the phone and installing a ROM via Philz recovery changes little to nothing either.
CVAngelo said:
OMG. I just experienced the EXACT same issue with a Galaxy Exhibit (MetroPCS) SGH-T599. I picked up this phone 2nd hand. It has Philz Touch v6.25 recovery already installed on it. But the phone is stuck in a boot loop. So I decided to flash the stock ROM, a custom ROM via ODIN and later even via flashable zips from the Philz recovery! I even tried to flash TWRP to replace Philz Touch thinking there was something wrong with Philz recovery.
No matter what I did, EVERY TIME, the phone remained in EXACTLY the same state, i.e., with Philz recovery still on there.
I have searched everywhere for the last 3 days including XDA but never found anyone else with the same ODIN flashing issue. Thank goodness I found your post. I'm reading the thread now looking for a solution.
I've noticed a couple other things beneath the surface. When I flashed a CM custom ROM for the phone, the default.prop indicated that there was a new system on the phone (I can access the phone via ADB and look at the files including the system files). It also appears the phone was rooted by the previous owner. Another thing I noticed is that some cases when I tried to install a custom ROM via the custom recovery, the phone would suddenly reboot just at the point the recovery attempts to write the ROM.
Yes, it is clear the phone is good and bricked. But how on earth to unbrick it if ODIN isn't actually changing ANYTHING on the phone and installing a ROM via Philz recovery changes little to nothing either.
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Totaly same problem with my Galaxy Note 10.1 (N8010). Tried flash stock ROM over Odin a totaly nothing changed. It is in bootloop everytime with totaly same Marshmallow logo, even if I flash stock ROM which is KitKat... Only sometime it boot to system where it say to me "Encryption unssucessfull" - WTF? i never have password, and when i click on something it just reboot to BootLoop...
I have TWRP recovery on it, but when i want to flash some ROM it flash it but nothing change... Maybe EMMC memory chip is death or I dont know...
Fellas, try on other PC/Laptop or reinstal Windows/Ubuntu whatever you use... That helped me..
Hi,
Hope someone can offer some advice.
I have recently noticed some serious drain in the last couple of weeks. From the battery being at 100% when I went to sleep I woke up 6 hours later and the battery was down to 71%! Android OS was showing as 49% of the battery usage. I did a fresh wipe and install however this hasn't made any difference and the drain is still there.
I also have an issue with the external memory card not working, I have so far used a 32gb and 64 gb card and each time they work for a few minutes and then appear to no longer be formatted and info gets corrupted on the cards, i have reformatted and they work fine in a htc desire hd, but then when i put them back in the note they corrupt again.
And finally, I have tried to install cwm through Odin, Odin shows everything has gone through however when I go into recovery mode stock recovery is still shown. so unable to add a custom rom or change the kernel to try and improve battery life.
My baseband version is N900XXUCMK1
Kernel is 3.4.39-2217357 [email protected]#1
Build Number JSS15J.N900XXUCMK2
I am in the UK on Three network
Apologies if this is in the wrong thread but this is the only thread I can post in currently
yetiweston said:
Hi,
Hope someone can offer some advice.
I have recently noticed some serious drain in the last couple of weeks. From the battery being at 100% when I went to sleep I woke up 6 hours later and the battery was down to 71%! Android OS was showing as 49% of the battery usage. I did a fresh wipe and install however this hasn't made any difference and the drain is still there.
I also have an issue with the external memory card not working, I have so far used a 32gb and 64 gb card and each time they work for a few minutes and then appear to no longer be formatted and info gets corrupted on the cards, i have reformatted and they work fine in a htc desire hd, but then when i put them back in the note they corrupt again.
And finally, I have tried to install cwm through Odin, Odin shows everything has gone through however when I go into recovery mode stock recovery is still shown. so unable to add a custom rom or change the kernel to try and improve battery life.
My baseband version is N900XXUCMK1
Kernel is 3.4.39-2217357 [email protected]#1
Build Number JSS15J.N900XXUCMK2
I am in the UK on Three network
Apologies if this is in the wrong thread but this is the only thread I can post in currently
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Anybody able to offer any help?
yetiweston said:
Hi,
Hope someone can offer some advice.
I have recently noticed some serious drain in the last couple of weeks. From the battery being at 100% when I went to sleep I woke up 6 hours later and the battery was down to 71%! Android OS was showing as 49% of the battery usage. I did a fresh wipe and install however this hasn't made any difference and the drain is still there.
I also have an issue with the external memory card not working, I have so far used a 32gb and 64 gb card and each time they work for a few minutes and then appear to no longer be formatted and info gets corrupted on the cards, i have reformatted and they work fine in a htc desire hd, but then when i put them back in the note they corrupt again.
And finally, I have tried to install cwm through Odin, Odin shows everything has gone through however when I go into recovery mode stock recovery is still shown. so unable to add a custom rom or change the kernel to try and improve battery life.
My baseband version is N900XXUCMK1
Kernel is 3.4.39-2217357 [email protected]#1
Build Number JSS15J.N900XXUCMK2
I am in the UK on Three network
Apologies if this is in the wrong thread but this is the only thread I can post in currently
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I think you should factory reset your phone then flash a KitKat ROM. Check out my battery saving thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2579075
Good battery life.
Maybe faulty memory cards?
And try correct Jelly Bean (2013/11/21) or after upgrade correct KitKat (2014/01/25) recovery from here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2454079
Cheers!
I'm, sure some of the members here have heard it a hundred times before but I'm struggling to find a solution for it, any help would be appreciated, thanks.
For all intents and purposes, assume I am your grandmother, that's how much of a noob I am at this stuff. That being said I have flashed once or twice before, last time I softbricked it as well and found a solution on here. I was running SlimKat but tried to flash Aryamod using the instructions here ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-3/development/rom-aryamod-v1-tw-lollipop-t2990920 ) The instructions said to wipe the internal card and this is where I messed up, I wiped SDCard1 (Which I now realise is the external sd card?) and in doing so clockworkmod crashed, and it just said something along the lines of "failed" over and over. I was forced to remove the battery and reboot. Now it won't boot past the Samsung GN3 logo (but also shows "KERNEL IS NOT SEANDROID ENFORCING; set warranty bit : kernel") I've tried using odin to install the rom I tried last time I softbricked it but to no avail. I'm downloading the official rom from Samsung but it's taking hours so in the meantime just thought I'd pose the question here. It goes into both Download and Recovery Mode but I haven't been able to load a new rom using Odin, Odin passes but it stays in the bootloop. I've tried clearing caches/partitions in Recovery Mode.
I'm sure it's just a noob issue and hopefully an easy fix so I apologise for wasting anyone's time, thanks again.
Put back the arya rom zip into sdcard and flash the rom.
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In Odin, uncheck everything except f.reset time. Connect the phone and flash a stock rom. When you see the word reset in the status window, remove USB cable from phone, remove battery, wait 5 seconds, replace battery, boot into recovery, wipe data and cache, reboot.
Classic "my phone keeps freezing and rebooting". I am quite in the know about flashing roms and such.
It started on the stock firmware 6.1.1 (i think it was). I dd factory resets, cache wipes the lot. It would still randomly reboot.
So i flashed Telstra version of 7.0. Still froze every now and then. Did the same things as above.
Flashed TWRP and wiped everything, flashed Renovate Rom and the bootloader for it, Still did it. Numerus factory resets and wipes of everything. It would freeze at any point from startup, to having setup the phone and making phone calls or on facebook or whatever. It would even freeze in twrp, or loading twrp.
I found that the data partition was corrupt so i re partitioned to ext4. Still nothing. I reformatted every partition so the phone was a complete brick with nothing on it and after flashing clean again it would still do it.
Whats the issue that I'm missing, or is there a way to log so i can find where it keeps getting stuck? It gets hot and blue light flashes and i have to hard reset it or sometimes i have to let the battery drain so i can turn it back on again.
pls help?
Hmm i will give you an advice so you dont have to wait for your battery to drain...just press volume down and power button for like 5 secs and phone will force boot. Anyway back to your problem...did you tried flashing latest stock samsung firmware?
raz_il_dio said:
Hmm i will give you an advice so you dont have to wait for your battery to drain...just press volume down and power button for like 5 secs and phone will force boot. Anyway back to your problem...did you tried flashing latest stock samsung firmware?
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This advice doesn't work with my phone even with holding the buttons for 30 secs and more. For rebooting I can only wait until the battery is completely drained. With little hope for another way shortening time to the next reboot any help is appreciated.
Same here...experiencing the same prob...
Same problem.
Sent from my Redmi Note 4 using Tapatalk
smallcapsicum said:
Classic "my phone keeps freezing and rebooting". I am quite in the know about flashing roms and such.
It started on the stock firmware 6.1.1 (i think it was). I dd factory resets, cache wipes the lot. It would still randomly reboot.
So i flashed Telstra version of 7.0. Still froze every now and then. Did the same things as above.
Flashed TWRP and wiped everything, flashed Renovate Rom and the bootloader for it, Still did it. Numerus factory resets and wipes of everything. It would freeze at any point from startup, to having setup the phone and making phone calls or on facebook or whatever. It would even freeze in twrp, or loading twrp.
I found that the data partition was corrupt so i re partitioned to ext4. Still nothing. I reformatted every partition so the phone was a complete brick with nothing on it and after flashing clean again it would still do it.
Whats the issue that I'm missing, or is there a way to log so i can find where it keeps getting stuck? It gets hot and blue light flashes and i have to hard reset it or sometimes i have to let the battery drain so i can turn it back on again.
pls help?
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Sounds like you need your motherboard replaced i had the same issues on marshmallow thought the nougat update would fix it but realized it was a hardware fault not software..left it in store to get fixed and on repair sheet it said faulty motherboard..
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As i know some S7 have motherboard hardware problem, mine has too, what help? warranty and they replaced motherboard. But if you root, you can say good bye to warranty, they look at knox first with this problem.
I have had the s7 edge for a while. I root it and change the rom to superman rom. I made several formatting, installed xposed, uninstalled xposed, installed again ... I changed several times of rom (Superman Rom, King Rom). I alternate between stock and custom.
I do not remember when the crashes started but I tried to format the sd card, it did not work, I tried to take the sd card, it did not work. I formatted the cell phone several times, put up stock MM, it did not work. Now it is stocked Nougat and it continues the same thing. It locks up and has to restart, when it hangs fully - like now - I have to wait until the battery zeroes and plug the charger back to life.
Yesterday it gave a drizzle on the screen and a noise of interefencia and locked everything and then I tried to restart and I could not, it was when a warning appeared on the screen;
Bootloader Exception, etc ....
In another forum I was told that the problem is in a piece called flash memory, only changing it that this problem will stop. What do you think?
someone?
You need to flash your stock bootloader and modem via Oden
Redbeard8 said:
You need to flash your stock bootloader and modem via Oden
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you kiddin, right?
I already did that a hundred times