Hi everyone,
I am having a bit of a problem with my s4-i9505. A few weeks ago I upgraded to Android 5.0.1 manually (using Odin) and all seemed to work like a charm. I also rooted it to. So far so good
Last week an OTA was pushed and I mistakenly clicked okay. Suddenly the battery drain was insane. I read up on it and one of the solutions was to clear the cache. I powered down my s4, pressed the Volume Up + Home + Power button and for an instant I saw in small blue letters in the upper left corner: Recovery mode and underneath it the Samsung logo. Then the screen went black and booted normally.
Since then I've tried
using apps that make the S4 boot into recovery
reflashed the stock 5.0.1 firmware
reflashed an older version (4.4.2) causing a bootloop
reflashed the stock 5.0.1 firmware (solving the bootloop)
Flashing CWM recovery using ODIN.
Still only the text Recovery mode shows up, before rebooting and booting up normally.
Does anyone have a solution to my conundrum?
I managed to fix it myself eventually. I did a factory reset from within Android settings. And now i can get back into recovery mode.
JeeWeeBee1979 said:
Hi everyone,
I am having a bit of a problem with my s4-i9505. A few weeks ago I upgraded to Android 5.0.1 manually (using Odin) and all seemed to work like a charm. I also rooted it to. So far so good
Last week an OTA was pushed and I mistakenly clicked okay. Suddenly the battery drain was insane. I read up on it and one of the solutions was to clear the cache. I powered down my s4, pressed the Volume Up + Home + Power button and for an instant I saw in small blue letters in the upper left corner: Recovery mode and underneath it the Samsung logo. Then the screen went black and booted normally.
Since then I've tried
using apps that make the S4 boot into recovery
reflashed the stock 5.0.1 firmware
reflashed an older version (4.4.2) causing a bootloop
reflashed the stock 5.0.1 firmware (solving the bootloop)
Flashing CWM recovery using ODIN.
Still only the text Recovery mode shows up, before rebooting and booting up normally.
Does anyone have a solution to my conundrum?
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Hello, for abou two months I have installed the JDC AOSP firmware on my phone. I encountered many faults and bugs on this rom, and the best of all was the sd corrupt and the last days wasn't even opening. When i touched the screen it was rebooting, so i decided to go back on officiak firmware. I installed two different official firmwares but still the problem remains. On the first touch it reboots. What could possibly go wrong? thank you
Maybe a power button issue?
Does the phone reboot by itself in download or recovery mode?
audit13 said:
Maybe a power button issue?
Does the phone reboot by itself in download or recovery mode?
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no it was by the little papers i have placed on sim card due to common problem on galaxy s4 "sim card removed". But now there is more important isue. The phone yesterday suddenly turned off and since then it doesn t boot on. It is stuck on galaxy logo and also it is not booting in rocovery mode. I have tried and installed via odin official firmware again it says pass, also today i have installed CWM but still none of these problems solved. Is there anything we can do?
What did you do after installing cwm? Factory reset?
I would use twrp as a custom recovery because cwm has not been updated for a long time.
Hi, I have a Galaxy S4 I9500 and I'm using GEAR CM13
The ROM was working fine until a while ago, but now suddenly there's a bootloop. Last thing I remember doing was accidentally holding the power button a bit long (while trying to lock the phone) so the power off/reboot menu came up and and then I tried to exit from it, but the menu didn't go away and the phone entered into a boot loop
Now, the Samsung i9500 logo just keeps flashing every 5 seconds. I'm unable to enter into recovery mode. I can enter download mode but it just exits out of that after 5 seconds and starts flashing i9500 logo again. I read about a hack to remove battery as soon as I enter download mode and it worked. It stays on download mode now. ODIN recognizes the device. What can I do using ODIN to fix the bootloop? Is there any ODIN flashable zip? I'm on the latest [20160711] build. I have important data in my device. Please help me recover it
I know I can reflash stock ROM and from there, reflash GearCM13 but I do not want to lose data as much as possible. I'm trying for fixes which do not wipe my data partition. I will go ahead with the standard method if I do not find a fix to recover from bootloop without losing data.
Hi,
I would suspect the power button first (probably stuck). Some hits to the power button using a solid, hard surface will help.
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Model is SM-AG500
-> On 5.0.2 i rooted it and and used it for couple of weeks and unrooted it successfully. Got 5.1.1 update via OTA and everything was working well.
-> When marshmallow OTA update was done, play store didn't work and i tried every solution for it. Fed up in a hurry i went back to 5.0.2 with latest Odin and flash gave no errors.
-> Now m stuck at Samsung logo and can't go to recovery mode. I let the battery drain and went to recovery mode to wipe data and cache but it was no help.
-> I waited for few days and flashed successfully the marshmallow firmware but it still gets stuck at logo. After the battery drain i did a wipe of data and cache in recovery mode. Nothing helped.
All drivers were perfectly installed and i double checked the firmware's. The latest odin software gave a pass with no error. I am stuck a boot logo. I can't go into recovery mode unless the battery drains out and neither wipe data and cache is helping. Now my Sister's gonna be back for weekend and i have to fix this by 6 days please help !!
tony43stark said:
Model is SM-AG500
-> On 5.0.2 i rooted it and and used it for couple of weeks and unrooted it successfully. Got 5.1.1 update via OTA and everything was working well.
-> When marshmallow OTA update was done, play store didn't work and i tried every solution for it. Fed up in a hurry i went back to 5.0.2 with latest Odin and flash gave no errors.
-> Now m stuck at Samsung logo and can't go to recovery mode. I let the battery drain and went to recovery mode to wipe data and cache but it was no help.
-> I waited for few days and flashed successfully the marshmallow firmware but it still gets stuck at logo. After the battery drain i did a wipe of data and cache in recovery mode. Nothing helped.
All drivers were perfectly installed and i double checked the firmware's. The latest odin software gave a pass with no error. I am stuck a boot logo. I can't go into recovery mode unless the battery drains out and neither wipe data and cache is helping. Now my Sister's gonna be back for weekend and i have to fix this by 6 days please help !!
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Same issue happen with me after flashing stock 6.0.1, but the below method saved my phone.
if its stuck on Samsung logo don't wait for battery drain try this.
reboot to recovery by holding POWER + HOME + VOL DOWN.
As soon as the screen goes blank change to VOL UP whilst still holding the other buttons.
in the stock recovery wipe the cache then power off the device for 30 seconds. (this will completely clear all the cache).
Now you can turn on the device.
sheraz777 said:
Same issue happen with me after flashing stock 6.0.1, but the below method saved my phone.
if its stuck on Samsung logo don't wait for battery drain try this.
reboot to recovery by holding POWER + HOME + VOL DOWN.
As soon as the screen goes blank change to VOL UP whilst still holding the other buttons.
in the stock recovery wipe the cache then power off the device for 30 seconds. (this will completely clear all the cache).
Now you can turn on the device.
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I did as you said twice, didn't go past the logo. I flashed the firmware again and repeated . ****IN YEA IT WORKED !!! FINALY !!! Thank you so much bro ! Your awesome:victory::good::highfive:
sheraz777 said:
Same issue happen with me after flashing stock 6.0.1, but the below method saved my phone.
if its stuck on Samsung logo don't wait for battery drain try this.
reboot to recovery by holding POWER + HOME + VOL DOWN.
As soon as the screen goes blank change to VOL UP whilst still holding the other buttons.
in the stock recovery wipe the cache then power off the device for 30 seconds. (this will completely clear all the cache).
Now you can turn on the device.
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Play store did't work, cleared cache and data still nothing. If i hard reset it gets stuck at logo, any other option ?
Hello guys this is my first post.
I have a SM-G930V Verizon S7 that previously was in bootloop with OREO, but constantly rebooted at the beginning of the setup I mean when it says hello and so on.
I flashed Nougat without problems and booted normaly but then the FRP was doing his work, I could not boot since I didnt know the email or password.
I then flashed a file that I found to bypass FRP and succeded. I finally got it working very well.
After a while when I tried to clean bloatware suddenly frozen and then never booted again, I wanted to root but couldn´t.
NOW when I flash any ROM from Marshmellow , Nougat and Oreo, it says PASS in ODIN but I cannot enter the recovery.
Vol+, Home and Power gives me a blue line top left saying RECOVERY BOOTING..... then a blue screen saying ERASING... and the reboots again and again. The menu that I can get is the Maintenance Boot Mode (Vol- Power). This menu has 4 items:
1.Normanl Boot, 2.Factory Reset, 3.Safe Mode, 4.Power Down, and the only who works is power down.
I don´t know how much batery is left because I don´t know if in this menu or in download mode the battery charges.
I flashed the last OREO from SAMMOBILE, I also flashed the ROM wich I grabbed when using VZW Software Upgrade Assistant which supposed to be repairing the device but nothing whatsoever.
I don´t have any new ideas my head is full and hot now. PLEASE HELP will be appreciated.
My Galaxy S4 VE (GT-I9515) crashed. (the screen went black) It was not rooted and ran the latest Andoid 5.0.1 ROM.
When I turned it on, it went into a bootloop, randomly crashed during booting, or turned on normally. I removed sd and sim card and tried a different battery. Furthermore I tried to boot into recovery mode and wiped the system data and the cache. It did not help.
Sometimes it was not possible to get into recovery mode because the phone's screen went black and it rebooted.
Then I tried flashing multiple stock ROM files using Odin, but it did not solve the problem.
After that i tried rooting the device and installed a custom recovery (TWRP), but i still got random crashes during booting and sometimes it got stuck showing the samsung boot animation. The only things that work reliably are the Download Mode and the charging animation.
Now, what can I do to fix my phone?
I read a bit about flashing a .pit file but I don't think that will help?
Is this a hardware or a software issue?
How can I find out, what caused the problem?