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I bricked my s4, Help!

I think i bricked my s4. This is what i've done.
I had echoe illusion rom installed on my s4 and it worked fine but then i wanted to remove it to get a vanilla phone with a simple root. So i deleted cache and everything that you're suppose to do, and it worekd fine i had a vanilla phone with root, then i wanted to use gamekiller 2.6 but that wouldnt work unless i had a custom rom, so i download PAC rom and tried to flash that onto my device by installing zip from odin menu on the phone. it failed because there was a type error in the file and this made my phone brick, I get the message firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies & try again.
what i've tried:
Flash a stock rom using odin (used 4 files, bootloader, pda, phone and csc) did not work it failed.
Re-root the phone. It passes but then it restarts and goes to the startup logo and stay there forever, i left it for half an hour and nothing happened.
flash a custom rom. doesn't work it fail.
use the recovery in kies, doesn't work i dont know what my number is.
I really need help with this as i have important things to do with my phone and i need it on ASAP!
samsung galaxy s4 GT-I9505

If your phone gets download mode there is still a hope..
Reinstall samsung drivers on your pc again. restart it , change your data cable USB port (choice another port), try to flash... sometimes datacables and ports are tricky trolls.
Enviado desde mi Samsung Galaxy S4 I9500

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Frennesson said:
I think i bricked my s4. This is what i've done.
I had echoe illusion rom installed on my s4 and it worked fine but then i wanted to remove it to get a vanilla phone with a simple root. So i deleted cache and everything that you're suppose to do, and it worekd fine i had a vanilla phone with root, then i wanted to use gamekiller 2.6 but that wouldnt work unless i had a custom rom, so i download PAC rom and tried to flash that onto my device by installing zip from odin menu on the phone. it failed because there was a type error in the file and this made my phone brick, I get the message firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies & try again.
what i've tried:
Flash a stock rom using odin (used 4 files, bootloader, pda, phone and csc) did not work it failed.
Re-root the phone. It passes but then it restarts and goes to the startup logo and stay there forever, i left it for half an hour and nothing happened.
flash a custom rom. doesn't work it fail.
use the recovery in kies, doesn't work i dont know what my number is.
I really need help with this as i have important things to do with my phone and i need it on ASAP!
samsung galaxy s4 GT-I9505
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#1: go to http://SamMobile.com and download the 1 file official firmware for your specific phone's model.(TAR.MD5)
#2: go into recovery and do a complete wipe including Factory Reset, Wipe Cache, Data, System and
Dalvik cache.
#3: odin flash the original stock firmware which you downloaded from http://SamMobile.com
Doing that should fix the problems you are experiencing.
Good luck!

Galaxy S4 bricked?

Hey guys,
I got jamals google edition installed on my S4 and when I forgot to charge it and I started the device I got a bootloop. I dont know why, but I also could´t get into the recovery mode, so I flashed an originial Samsung firmwar via Odin on my S4 (4.4.2)
After that, it restarted but I got a "android.process.acore has stopped" message and I couldn't use the S4 because the message kept popping up and the S4 automatically restarted and when it restarted the message appeared again, so i had a very strange loop i couldnt interrupt. So i flashed another 4.4.2 firmware and also again the same firmware, but nothing helped, I still got the message and the S4 kept restarting.
So I flashed the Omega Pre-rooted 4.4.2 firmware via odin (and the exact same thing happened). But whats strange is, that before it started it said "updating 1 of 172 apps) so that must mean, that even though I flashed 3 firmwares via Odin, my apps somehow stayed on the S4? And also the wallpaper was the same wallpaper I had before, what was very strange.
Then I installed Philz CWM Recovery because I waned to perform a factory reset. But after I installed it and tried to get into recovery mode, I couldn't and only this was displayed :
Recovery Booting...
Recovery is not Seandroid Enforcing
Set Warranty Bit: recovery
So it seems like nothing works and I'm getting really desperate, does anyone of you has an idea how to fix this? Otherwise I guess my S4 is bricked
Regards and thanks for your help

Flash latest firmware via odin with auto reboot option unchecked and before u boot into os simply open stock recovery and perform a factory reset.. hope it will help u..
Sent from my GT-I9500

coolkoushik07 said:
Flash latest firmware via odin with auto reboot option unchecked and before u boot into os simply open stock recovery and perform a factory reset.. hope it will help u..
Sent from my GT-I9500
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Thx, I'll give it a try! Could you maybe tell me, where I get the latest firmware?

coolkoushik07 said:
Flash latest firmware via odin with auto reboot option unchecked and before u boot into os simply open stock recovery and perform a factory reset.. hope it will help u..
Sent from my GT-I9500
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Thx man it worked :good:

thomas333 said:
Thx man it worked :good:
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Glad to know that it worked...
Sent from my GT-I9500

I'm assuming you know about KNOX now that you've flashed an official firmware you will have KNOX and you've already tripped KNOX by installing recovery but you won't be able to use a lower version firmware just bare that in mind when flashing official stock again.
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[Q] Killed my Tab 4 (SM-T230NU)

I was looking to factory reset my Tab 4 7.0 to sell, but since I've rooted it and installed TWRP, the process wasn't as simple as I'd have liked. I tried the standard Factory Reset function of TWRP, but it didn't do anything. I tried Wipe Data, still nothing. Then I did an Advanced Wipe and checked off everything, not realizing one of the options was to wipe /system. Now my Tab 4 keeps rebooting to TWRP, and the recovery also states "No OS is installed".
I'm currently downloading the new NH1 firmware from SamMobile and considering flashing it through Odin 3.09. Would this be the most effective method, considering I had no prior backup made to the tablet? Will this likely remove my root access and custom recovery? Is there a chance of tripping something like a Knox counter and bricking my device (happened once when I tried an old method to root my Note 3, Knox blocked part of the flash and left the system halfway between two OS images)

Sounds like you're on the right track with downloading the firmware off of SamMobile. I had a similar issue with my Galaxy Tab 2 and that got my tablet out of its funk.
Sent from my SM-T330NU using Tapatalk

At this point I've tried all the ROMs listed on SamMobile for my tablet and all fail to completely flash. Odin says it was fully successful, but when the tablet tries to boot, I only hear half the boot sound and then the boot animation just sits there saying Samsung with the little blue dots popping out of it, and that's it.
Are there any other types of ROMs I can flash to this system? Does it matter what version of Odin I'm using? (Tried 3.06 and 3.09, both unsuccessful)

chuman72486 said:
At this point I've tried all the ROMs listed on SamMobile for my tablet and all fail to completely flash. Odin says it was fully successful, but when the tablet tries to boot, I only hear half the boot sound and then the boot animation just sits there saying Samsung with the little blue dots popping out of it, and that's it.
Are there any other types of ROMs I can flash to this system? Does it matter what version of Odin I'm using? (Tried 3.06 and 3.09, both unsuccessful)
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hi i have a tab 3 7.0. why dont you try using odin 3.07 if that fails try emergency firmware recovery in kies. odin flashing of official firmware does not increase binary counter as stated by sammy tech support. but you flashing twrp does increase binary count. hope i helped.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using XDA Free mobile app

chuman72486 said:
At this point I've tried all the ROMs listed on SamMobile for my tablet and all fail to comCellular allsh. Odin says it was fully successful, but when the taalso tries to boot, I only hear half the boot sound and then the boot animation just sits there saying Samsung with the little blue dots popping out of it, and that's it.
Are there any other types of ROMs I can flash to this system? Does it matter what version of Odin I'm using? (Tried 3.06 and 3.09, both unsuccessful)
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I have successfully flashed ND9 and N2E firmwares with Odin 3.07. The NH1 firmware is corrupt when I download it. These are the Cellular South versions which I assume are the US firmwares. I did also flash the Canada versions and I couldn't tell them apart. Currently on ND9 firmware so I could get it rooted. I only have the WiFi 230NU.

chuman72486 said:
At this point I've tried all the ROMs listed on SamMobile for my tablet and all fail to completely flash. Odin says it was fully successful, but when the tablet tries to boot, I only hear half the boot sound and then the boot animation just sits there saying Samsung with the little blue dots popping out of it, and that's it.
Are there any other types of ROMs I can flash to this system? Does it matter what version of Odin I'm using? (Tried 3.06 and 3.09, both unsuccessful)
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this question may sound silly but have you tried to wipe data/cache after full odin firmware install?
I believe i was able to keep all my apps and data after full firmware upgrade using odin, so it isnt doing full wipe after all.
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I rooted and installed TWRP on this device and decided I wanted to get the SM-T330NU instead. I returned the T230 and the clerk tried to factory reset the device and it booted up into TWRP - the clerk made the comment "What in the world" but did not say anything. I had tried to factory reset it before returning and it would not work either.

rsktkr1 said:
I rooted and installed TWRP on this device and decided I wanted to get the SM-T330NU instead. I returned the T230 and the clerk tried to factory reset the device and it booted up into TWRP - the clerk made the comment "What in the world" but did not say anything. I had tried to factory reset it before returning and it would not work either.
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If you power off the device and then boot up into download mode, connect the usb to your pc and run odin you can flash the factory stock image to the device using odin and that will reset the device to stock. Replacing TWRP with the factory recovery image and everything else. You can download the stock files for the device either by searching these forums or going to sammobile. Try starting with the oldest version available and update from there. I rooted and unrooted the SM-T230NU several times using this method and had no issues. Be patient. Allow the device 5 minutes to boot up after flashing the stock. Make sure the device has 80% charge or better before starting. Leave the device connected to the PC with odin open until you see a message in odin that reads, "passed".

chuman72486 said:
I was looking to factory reset my Tab 4 7.0 to sell, but since I've rooted it and installed TWRP, the process wasn't as simple as I'd have liked. I tried the standard Factory Reset function of TWRP, but it didn't do anything. I tried Wipe Data, still nothing. Then I did an Advanced Wipe and checked off everything, not realizing one of the options was to wipe /system. Now my Tab 4 keeps rebooting to TWRP, and the recovery also states "No OS is installed".
I'm currently downloading the new NH1 firmware from SamMobile and considering flashing it through Odin 3.09. Would this be the most effective method, considering I had no prior backup made to the tablet? Will this likely remove my root access and custom recovery? Is there a chance of tripping something like a Knox counter and bricking my device (happened once when I tried an old method to root my Note 3, Knox blocked part of the flash and left the system halfway between two OS images)
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Just install deodexed rom from twrp

I don't think sm-t230's have Knox do they? You didn't kill your tablet just flash a stock ROM from sammobile. And you'll be a-OK
Sent from my SM-T230 using XDA Free mobile app

[Q] GT-I9505 stuck at boot screen, No Recovery

Hi all.
I have big problems with a Galaxy S4 (GT-I9505).
A friend gave it to me becouse it doesnt start anymore. He was licen to Musik whan the screen turn black and the phone doesnt start anymore.
So it stucks at Bootscreen. I can start Odin mode and i tryied to flash CWM and TW Recovery. Also i tried to flash original Rom from Sammobile.
Odin passes with the recoveries but it doesnt work. The rom failed.
I got a error message when i try to start recovery mode.
Recovery Booting
Recovery is not seandroid enforcing
Set Warranty Bit: recovery
I cant get into fastboot mode. The informations in the Internet are that there is no fastbootmode for the gt-i9505.
Is there anybody who can help me? And sorry for my bad english

ScO_oT said:
Hi all.
I have big problems with a Galaxy S4 (GT-I9505).
A friend gave it to me becouse it doesnt start anymore. He was licen to Musik whan the screen turn black and the phone doesnt start anymore.
So it stucks at Bootscreen. I can start Odin mode and i tryied to flash CWM and TW Recovery. Also i tried to flash original Rom from Sammobile.
Odin passes with the recoveries but it doesnt work. The rom failed.
I got a error message when i try to start recovery mode.
Recovery Booting
Recovery is not seandroid enforcing
Set Warranty Bit: recovery
I cant get into fastboot mode. The informations in the Internet are that there is no fastbootmode for the gt-i9505.
Is there anybody who can help me? And sorry for my bad english
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Hi mate,
Some more information would be nice.
Which was the latest firmware and which version did you want to flash?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2265477
Take a look at this, especially to the "Odin troubleshooting" part.
Sent from my Galaxy S4 using Tapatalk

DarkerTimes said:
Hi mate,
Some more information would be nice.
Which was the latest firmware and which version did you want to flash?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2265477
Take a look at this, especially to the "Odin troubleshooting" part.
Sent from my Galaxy S4 using Tapatalk
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Hey. Thank you for the answere.
I tried to flash I9505XXUGNF6_I9505DREGNF2_I9505XXUGNF6_HOME.tar
The latest firmware was 4.2.2 (Austria 3)
I tried now another Odin version and i flashed it with PID file. The only result is that i get a recovery booting
in the top left corner but it still stucks... i cannot open recovery to wipe cache / factory reset.
The last thing i tried was to flash the original recovery. <- back to the 3 errors.
now i try another odin software with another usb port. odin passes with everything but i cannot open recovery. just stuck at Recovery Booting

ScO_oT said:
Hey. Thank you for the answere.
I tried to flash I9505XXUGNF6_I9505DREGNF2_I9505XXUGNF6_HOME.tar
The latest firmware was 4.2.2 (Austria 3)
I tried now another Odin version and i flashed it with PID file. The only result is that i get a recovery booting
in the top left corner but it still stucks... i cannot open recovery to wipe cache / factory reset.
The last thing i tried was to flash the original recovery. <- back to the 3 errors.
now i try another odin software with another usb port. odin passes with everything but i cannot open recovery. just stuck at Recovery Booting
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Hi,
does Odin give a fail log? Or does it finish successfully?
Which Odin versions did you try?
And the firmware you want to flash now is a Austria 3 one as well? You can also take another version (but still with the same csc) in case that your current one is damaged or something like this.
Sent from my Galaxy S4 using Tapatalk

DarkerTimes said:
Hi,
does Odin give a fail log? Or does it finish successfully?
Which Odin versions did you try?
And the firmware you want to flash now is a Austria 3 one as well? You can also take another version (but still with the same csc) in case that your current one is damaged or something like this.
Sent from my Galaxy S4 using Tapatalk
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Hi again.
I used Odin 3.04 and 1.85. Also i tried diffrent USB Ports.
I tried to flash CWM 6.0.4.7 Touch and Non Touch, also twrp.
It passes with all the recoverys as well with the rom from sammobile and the stock recovery rom from the other tread.
i tried with and without pit file. Odin passes everytime.
Afther restarting the phone i just get the blue (booting recovery) or the 3 error messages in the top left corner and it stucks for hours.
Iam not able to boot recovery and wipe the cache... and iam not able to boot into the system do something else.
the only thing working is the download mode.
iam out of ideas.

ScO_oT said:
Hi again.
I used Odin 3.04 and 1.85. Also i tried diffrent USB Ports.
I tried to flash CWM 6.0.4.7 Touch and Non Touch, also twrp.
It passes with all the recoverys as well with the rom from sammobile and the stock recovery rom from the other tread.
i tried with and without pit file. Odin passes everytime.
Afther restarting the phone i just get the blue (booting recovery) or the 3 error messages in the top left corner and it stucks for hours.
Iam not able to boot recovery and wipe the cache... and iam not able to boot into the system do something else.
the only thing working is the download mode.
iam out of ideas.
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You can try to flash a three or four part firmware with Odin 3.09, it will wipe your device itselfs
Sent from my Galaxy S4 using Tapatalk

Try flashing the recovery again with auto-reboot unchecked.
But it sounds more like a hardware failure to me.

Thank you all for your help.
And yes. It was a Hardware failure.

bricked s5 g901f "could not do normal boot"

hello everyone, after rooting and flashing lots of phones, i have probably managed to brick one
since i am using linux, i tried heimdall wich detected but couldnt flash , not even read pit
i tried to root it, with kingroot, failed
then i tried kingoroot desktop app, it seemed to work then after flashing philzcwm using rashr, it went into download mode
at some time i may have flashed a recovery img onto BL, wich i NOW know is the bootloader
i knew that i shouldnt mess with the bootloader, but didnt think BL was bootloader
now using odin 3.10.6 in win xp it doesent seem to do nothing
it automatically goes into download mode with first line saying
"could not do normal boot"
i am now downloading an original firmware 4.4.6 from sam mobile
can anyone help me or is it bricked?

Lost count of how many things you did wrong there
Get a Native Windows 7+ PC running, boot the phone into download mode, flash stock ROM with ODIN 3.10.7
If it fixes it - spend a long time reading threads here on XDA before trying anything else

i dont think i flashed the bootloader, i remembered, odin was crashing before i ever hit start cause i was selecting the md5 and it didnt have the tar
now after flashing twrp 2.8 it boots fine, but if i try to boot in recovery, it goes to download mode "cant do normal boot"
flashed cf autoroot it also goes to download mode
i remember on galaxy s3 if you didnt restart straight to recovery just after flashing it would overwrite with stock recovery
but now if i try to restart to recovery after flashing it doesent do anything, i have to unplug it and take out the battery
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if i press vol[-] home power it goes to normal download mode
if i press vol[+] home power it supposed to go to recovery but goes to download mode with "could not do normal boot" message
if i press power alone it boots normally
in download mode it says
product name: sm-g901f
current binary:custom
system status:custom
reactivation lock: off
knox warranty void 0x1(4)
qualcomm secureboot: enable (csb)
RP SWREV: S1 T1 R1 A1 P1
secure download : enable
UDC start
i dont mind learning but android is pretty ugly with all the lack of documentation and standards
i learned a lot of stuff reading this forum, and will always respect people who know more than me
i just dont understand what the hell just happened, didnt encountered this before

Yea.. So follow my instructions

i am following your instructions precisely , will spend the day installing crap win7 wich i am running away from, to use with 3.10.7
in the meantime can you explain to me what happened?
i read somewhere something about odin bad usb on xp, would that pe hardware, driver, odin or usb protocol error

fixed, was flashing klte recovery, damn dozen versions of every phone
only clean rom i found was cm12 and dokdo7, both 5.1 based
waiting for network unlock, and case and im good to go
would have loved more after-market roms omni,aokp,pac, maybe 4.4
5.1 has the crap pie (position independent executable) so i cant play with perl 5.20, im stuck with 5.7
if anyone knows where to find more clean roms for g901f / kccat6xx i would be greatful
a more recent version of perl to work on 5.1 would also be nice

did you ever get this fixed?
having the same trouble with my Note4...just happened out of nowhere.

broad_st_bully said:
did you ever get this fixed?
having the same trouble with my Note4...just happened out of nowhere.
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His last post says he fixed it...

*Detection* said:
His last post says he fixed it...
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this phone is making me think I'm crazy...after pure hell all day yesterday and last night I wake up (after accepting the fact the phone was R.I.P.) and it turns right on and lets me set up after a factory reset.
This happened yesterday too though so I'm not gonna get all happy yet...

broad_st_bully said:
this phone is making me think I'm crazy...after pure hell all day yesterday and last night I wake up (after accepting the fact the phone was R.I.P.) and it turns right on and lets me set up after a factory reset.
This happened yesterday too though so I'm not gonna get all happy yet...
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S5 or NOTE 4?

Could not do normal boot odin mode
I just rooted my phone so i can install a rom on my sm-n900s but i didnt realise that it was for an sm-n900.I flashed it on my phone with flashify and now all i can do is go to my custom recovery TWRP to wipe everything but still to no avail.I really do not know what to do.PLS HELP :crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:

zpimp said:
fixed, was flashing klte recovery, damn dozen versions of every phone
only clean rom i found was cm12 and dokdo7, both 5.1 based
waiting for network unlock, and case and im good to go
would have loved more after-market roms omni,aokp,pac, maybe 4.4
5.1 has the crap pie (position independent executable) so i cant play with perl 5.20, im stuck with 5.7
if anyone knows where to find more clean roms for g901f / kccat6xx i would be greatful
a more recent version of perl to work on 5.1 would also be nice
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How did you fix it ??? if i flash a custom rom i get the same issue and my device is the same as yours. I flashed back stock rom, samsungs own recovery works well but as soon as i flash a custom recovery (twrp-3.0.0-0-klte-klte.img.tar or philz_touch_6.57.8-klte.tar.md5) i get your issue. How can i fix this and install a custom recovery ? When i install CF-Auto-Root-kccat6-kccat6xx-smg901f.tar.md5 the recovery is back but even when i flash within the os (terminal) the recovery is broken "again"
FIXED!!!! Installed CWM-based Recovery v6.0.5.1

MichelN said:
How did you fix it ??? if i flash a custom rom i get the same issue and my device is the same as yours. I flashed back stock rom, samsungs own recovery works well but as soon as i flash a custom recovery (twrp-3.0.0-0-klte-klte.img.tar or philz_touch_6.57.8-klte.tar.md5) i get your issue. How can i fix this and install a custom recovery ? When i install CF-Auto-Root-kccat6-kccat6xx-smg901f.tar.md5 the recovery is back but even when i flash within the os (terminal) the recovery is broken "again"
FIXED!!!! Installed CWM-based Recovery v6.0.5.1
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Download stock rom and flash by odin.They are plenty of websites online.Just search for ur phone model followed by stock rom and u will find the exact rom for u to download and flash via odin.

The problem was the recovery, same as the user on page 1. See my last notes in prev. post