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[Q] GT-i9505 works but screen is black, no splash

Hi people. I have been running a rooted phone for a while and decided to go back to unrooted recently. I decided I would like to use the barclays app and apply the new updates that samsung rolled out recently. However when I flashed the stock firmware I found that the screen no longer worked. The phone seemed to boot up and play the samsung startup jingle but no splash logo. just a black screen. To test I decided to call it and the call came through ok and answered with the home button, speech all functional???!! Just no screen ... completely black??? Would this likely be a fault with the firmware or is it just uncanny timing with a faulty screen??? confused and wondered if anyone else has come across this before I go but a new screen. I downloaded the firmware from hotfile "I9505XXUDMH8_I9505OXXDMHA_I9505XXUDMH8_HOME"
thanks in advance

jamhot said:
Hi people. I have been running a rooted phone for a while and decided to go back to unrooted recently. I decided I would like to use the barclays app and apply the new updates that samsung rolled out recently. However when I flashed the stock firmware I found that the screen no longer worked. The phone seemed to boot up and play the samsung startup jingle but no splash logo. just a black screen. To test I decided to call it and the call came through ok and answered with the home button, speech all functional???!! Just no screen ... completely black??? Would this likely be a fault with the firmware or is it just uncanny timing with a faulty screen??? confused and wondered if anyone else has come across this before I go but a new screen. I downloaded the firmware from hotfile "I9505XXUDMH8_I9505OXXDMHA_I9505XXUDMH8_HOME"
thanks in advance
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i would say to stay away from new firmwares at this time....you are stuck in the locked bootloader.
can you boot in recovery or odin modes and see the screen?
wipe data and cache and reflash the MH8 then do the wipe. see if that works
can not determine if it is a HW or SW issue.
if you want to use app that doesnt require root like Barcley and you are rooted, you can hide the root with some available app.

It seems I am able to get the device into download mode, although nothing comes on the screen. I just have to do the procedure blind. No matter what I do nothing comes up. It also seems I can only get the phone to read the internal memory through USB once a flash procedure has completed. It seems to force a boot up but when I try to restart manually it does nothing but vibrate and only seems to be able to put into download mode while blind. I find it very unusual that the screen should suddenly stop working the moment I try and flash the standard firmware. Getting worried now. nothing seems to work

Can anyone help here??? I have tried flashing several times. Just vibrates and does nothing. I can get it into download mode but I don't get any warning screen up. I just go through the button combo's blind and it manages to get into communication with a odin com port. I have tried doing a PIT download. What I was then finding is that the phone can bring up a recovery screen with option to reset, I reset but the phone will just be a black screen and play the samsung start jingle without the splash screen. It then seems to boot and receive notifications with a totally black screen. completely unresponsive.

If you can't see a splash screen or even recovery and download mode screens, then I'd say its a hw issue and no ROM is going to fix it, because those mentioned things are not even tied to the ROM.
Your screen has broken some how, it could be as simple as a flexi connector falling out or as bad as your screen being totally gone.
Sent from my GT-I9505 using xda app-developers app

It doesn't look like hardware problem
i am facing exactly similar situation with a 9505, i tested LCD with another of my 9505, and LCD is ok
is just happened after an Odin flash of stock firmware.

Huge problem...[roms]

I was curious and flashed a stock 4.4 on my phone. turns out I missed some cm feature and I tried to flash 10.1.3. Problem occurs here. After flashing, the phone speaker or earpiece is not working. I tried searching everywhere and none of them help. Another problem is the volume control is lagging. It hangs when I try to use the volume button to adjust the ringtone volume. Wifi is stuck on "turning wifi on"... What did I do?...
seems like the system is lagging because I would not respond to my touch while the volume panel appears and haven't make the changes to the volume.
The volume control runs normally while in the lock screen...but with no sound

Gemichi said:
I was curious and flashed a stock 4.4 on my phone. turns out I missed some cm feature and I tried to flash 10.1.3. Problem occurs here. After flashing, the phone speaker or earpiece is not working. I tried searching everywhere and none of them help. Another problem is the volume control is lagging. It hangs when I try to use the volume button to adjust the ringtone volume. Wifi is stuck on "turning wifi on"... What did I do?...
seems like the system is lagging because I would not respond to my touch while the volume panel appears and haven't make the changes to the volume.
The volume control runs normally while in the lock screen...but with no sound
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If you downgrade to other ROM other than KitKat, you need to flash different radio other than .97 for solving the wifi issue. Or you might want to start fresh by flashing the factory images for 4.3 and then re-root and flash CM ROM.

taodan said:
If you downgrade to other ROM other than KitKat, you need to flash different radio other than .97 for solving the wifi issue. Or you might want to start fresh by flashing the factory images for 4.3 and then re-root and flash CM ROM.
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You saved my life! :angel::angel:

[Q] unable to factory reset SM N900

HELP.
I flashed Custom Rom TR ROM T21 to my note 3 and all was going well till this morning when the phone would not boot up. It just froze or Stuttered/skipped best way to describe it is like a dj scratching a record back and forth. I powered off tried to boot to recovery and TWRP screen flashed up then disappeared. After numerous attempts at everything I made this mistake.... I used Odin 3.07 and flashed CF-Auto-Root-ha3g-ha3gxx-smn900 BEFORE doing a factory reset and data and cache wipe( so the T21 was still installed).......now I cant boot to recovery to do a factory reset, TWRP does not work, the android icon does not appear and if i try press home + key +power and volume up buttons, the phone turns on, the samsung logo comes up, then screen goes black and few seconds later logo comes back then black then logo......you get the drift...HELP!!!!! Im stuck in hospital I have no phone, no contact numbers and freaking out because usually I have fixed much worse problems.....I would be really greatful if someone could help me out

alessandro77889900 said:
HELP.
I flashed Custom Rom TR ROM T21 to my note 3 and all was going well till this morning when the phone would not boot up. It just froze or Stuttered/skipped best way to describe it is like a dj scratching a record back and forth. I powered off tried to boot to recovery and TWRP screen flashed up then disappeared. After numerous attempts at everything I made this mistake.... I used Odin 3.07 and flashed CF-Auto-Root-ha3g-ha3gxx-smn900 BEFORE doing a factory reset and data and cache wipe( so the T21 was still installed).......now I cant boot to recovery to do a factory reset, TWRP does not work, the android icon does not appear and if i try press home + key +power and volume up buttons, the phone turns on, the samsung logo comes up, then screen goes black and few seconds later logo comes back then black then logo......you get the drift...HELP!!!!! Im stuck in hospital I have no phone, no contact numbers and freaking out because usually I have fixed much worse problems.....I would be really greatful if someone could help me out
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Flash recovery of choice via odin(preferably one that has a compatible rom backup)then restore previous/new rom of you choice

Spitwista said:
Flash recovery of choice via odin(preferably one that has a compatible rom backup)then restore previous/new rom of you choice[/QU
Thank you. Would openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.7-ha3g.img work?
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alessandro77889900 said:
Spitwista said:
Flash recovery of choice via odin(preferably one that has a compatible rom backup)then restore previous/new rom of you choice[/QU
Thank you. Would openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.7-ha3g.img work?
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I don't use TWRP and don't know which version works perfectly on our device...
Flash the last one you used
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Thank you
Thank You. It worked. Appreciate your help.

VNS L21 Nougat C432B336 working and not working stuff

Hello all, i am planing to describe all good and not working things about this Nougat version i found and also process i did to install it.
I would be grateful if someone can help me resolve not working things or maybe this will help developers fix them.
First, one month ago, i unlocked and rooted my phone because i wanted some additional features. TWRP was installed and worked like it should. I did not unroot phone.
Yesterday, i downloaded those 2 files needed for Nougat 336 update. I used DLOAD method.
Steps i did was:
1. Put BOTH files on SD car in dload folder.
2. Power off phone.
3. Enter TWRP via Power + Volume down button.
4. Flashed 1st (Update.zip) file and got some red line errors. (Because i read it is normal i went further).
5.Flashed 2nd file WITHOUT reboot. All was done in 1 or 2 mins, and no loading and installing screen was shown, just rebooted normally.
6. Huawei logo showed and phone start normally with nougat update (1. December security patch).
Good things i noticed while few hours of testing:
1. Better battery life
2. Twin apps working
3. App drawer working
4. System is a bit faster (apps load and work faster)
5. Less ram is used (900-1000 MB free when cleaned)
THING THAT DON'T WORK AND I NEED HELP TO GET THEM TO WORK:
1. Camera app show black screen, than shut down and restart itself. That happens all the time until i close it with square button and click on trash can. SO CAMERA NOT WORKING. I even tried some apps from app store. App works but screen is full black.
2. I have no Huawei stock apps like clock, alarm, stopwatch, calendar, calculator, file manager, not even stock sound for ringing nor message etc. They are MISSING FROM PHONE apparently.
3. Problem with sound manage. Those bars that regulate sound dont work very well. I put my Ringtone bar to MAX and i hear phone ringing and SMS sound but I dont hear app sound like Viber or Messenger sound.
4. "MOST IMPORTANT ONE": I thought maybe 2nd file did not install normally so i tried to enter TWRP again and flash it again, but I CANT ENTER TWRP!
I pressed Power+ Volume down like 10 times, I tried Power - Volume up too, even all 3 buttons, nothing happens. Just Huawei screen and phone boot up normally. When i did 3 buttons EMUI screen appeared and it said, installing updates, went to 5% and wrote: FAILED, Reboot phone.
So now i cant flash ANYTHING again. Can someone help me with this thing please. Maybe many other people will find this thread helpful.
Thank you.

Hello
I think best and remake to own.
It seems to me that the
MM recovery solution, is written at the bottom of this post. Http://forum.xda-developers.com/hua...t/android-7-emui-5-0-vns-l31-l21-l23-t3513816.
To install nougat b336, maybe you should follow the original post also that is also written down this post.

your bootloader is locked

did you face nfc and bleutooth not working in that case what may i do to fix the problem and thanks in advance

Volume down suddenly broken. Stuck in safe mode

Alright.
So yesterday i was just cassualy using my phone, when suddenly my volume down button started to act weird.
It kept pushing itself and raise or lower the volume. Since i didnt update my phone in a while, i figured it might be a software issue.
So i installed the latest update, and suddenly my phone booted in safe mode. Tried to reboot, no luck. Now my volume down key is unresponsive... I opened the phone up and cleaned the ports, but still no luck...
Looks like the key is dead. Now i am rooted and have twrp installed.
What are my options here?
Can i install an android 9 rom, maybe they wont boot into safe mode, i'm not sure?
I do still have warranty, so i could try my luck with relocking the phone and sending it back, but i also already opened it to look at the volume keys.
Do you guys have any ideas on how to handle this?