Hi everyone, Apologies for the message I'm about to write as I'm very new to Samsung and not overly sure what to do here.
Basically I'm use to having a simple Jailbroken iPhone and got told this was the same when rooted, me and a friend of mine THOUGHT we rooted my edge, I ended up factory restoring it back to normal and setting all my phone up again.
But since then, I've had the 150.49mb Update come up a few times, It downloads fine but when I go to install it, It restarts my phone, then It comes up with the blue screen with the Galaxy & Android Logo for about 15 seconds.. Then the Yellow Triangle appears on top of it, and the Android logo looks like it dies lol
Does anyone know what I have to do to update my phone? I really shouldn't have touched my phone in the first place as I wasn't too sure what I was doing, I only done it to get this Certain UI Theme that didn't even work anyway!
Sorry to be a pain, very new to Samsung like I said. I'm learning as quick as possible
Thanks alot,
Courtney
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Hi. I have a Samsung Galaxy 5s SM-900S. I discovered after buying it that it is a clone. Oh well!
I rooted it using Root Genius (Chinese) from Shuame download.
It was working great. Then I deleted some bloatware apps, and disabled others.
After that, all hell broke loose. I was stuck in a flash screen boot loop.
A techie friend put the phone in download mode, and it was able to open up, but no home page.
Then he downloaded Nova launcher, and I got my home page back.
But it was a slightly different home page.
The phone originally said 900T (under- about device), but I know it is G900S (from 3 apps that display the phone specs).
Now it says G900.
The problems now are:
1. my phone dialer disappeared. I downloaded another, but it wont ring when a call comes in
2. Every few minutes when doing anything, I get a message- Unfortunately, the process android process.acore has stopped.
I then must press the ok button to continue.
Can anyone help me? Do I need to flash a new ROM?
I don't wantto reset to factory settings if I can avoid it.
I am a newbie. But I learn fast.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Arnele
arnele said:
Hi. I have a Samsung Galaxy 5s SM-900S. I discovered after buying it that it is a clone. Oh well!
I rooted it using Root Genius (Chinese) from Shuame download.
It was working great. Then I deleted some bloatware apps, and disabled others.
After that, all hell broke loose. I was stuck in a flash screen boot loop.
A techie friend put the phone in download mode, and it was able to open up, but no home page.
Then he downloaded Nova launcher, and I got my home page back.
But it was a slightly different home page.
The phone originally said 900T (under- about device), but I know it is G900S (from 3 apps that display the phone specs).
Now it says G900.
The problems now are:
1. my phone dialer disappeared. I downloaded another, but it wont ring when a call comes in
2. Every few minutes when doing anything, I get a message- Unfortunately, the process android process.acore has stopped.
I then must press the ok button to continue.
Can anyone help me? Do I need to flash a new ROM?
I don't wantto reset to factory settings if I can avoid it.
I am a newbie. But I learn fast.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Arnele
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I'm just going to let you know right now... You're not going to get support in an official device thread for a clone.
I`m sorry you got scammed mate, try to get your money back or file a police report for fraude if the device was advertised as a genuine Galaxy S5.
There is no support for this (also not by the manufacturer) device and even finding a working rom wil be very difficult.
Good luck and hope you learn from this, if it sounds to be too good to be true, it usualy is
Sad to say, but he's pretty much out of luck. Scammers know they're selling a phone that's not genuine, so chances of getting money back are slim to none. Police also don't care. If you bought it with cash just take this as a life lesson, because there's pretty much nothing else you can do.
Hello guys. I bought a S5 in 2014 here in Brazil (the G900M model), But last year the screen presented some problems (the famous green glitch at the bottom of the screen), which was replaced last year.
So, until this january everythin was working fine, however , I decided to upgrade to Android 6 by odin, downloading the stock at sammobile. With the new OS , he started to give some strange problems , such as:
- black screen that starts to go green and restarts.
- The screen goes black but the phone continue working. This happens usually when the phone is charging, so I'm thinking it has something to do with overheating.
Usually I turn it off and wait for it to cool down. But sometimes, it restarts and go back to the "optimizing apps" like I'm installing the OS for the first time. I googled it but did not find anyone with the similar problem .
I thought the problem could be the screen, but it's extremely odd that it only happend once I upgraded to Android 6. I'm even thinking of going back to the 5 to test .
Has anyone ever seen something like that?
Thanks ...
go back to samsung service and demand it fixed.
_NakedTruth_ said:
go back to samsung service and demand it fixed.
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Yeah, but the warranty has expired, and I don't wanna pay almost another phone for a simple screen lol
Anyway, I think it's very strange that this only happened after I upgraded to Android 6.
Just put it in download mode the. Just flash an update with samsung kies putting in your model number and serial number then you just wait like an hour and your phone shod be using 5.0 which to be honest is exactly the same thing as 6.0 believe me....other thing you can do is just flash a custom recovery with odin and then installing cm13 which is based on 6.0 good luck with it anyways and let me know if there is anything else to help with.
Cheers
Hi guys i just baught my first android device its a note 4 , i had never used a samsung phone before, it was a used one cuz the brand new was a little expensive for me, so i got this phone and used it like a weak or more but then i found his samsung account in settings so i tried to contavt him to remove it and i couldnt remove it myself, soni decided to do a factory reset , i got tutorial on google and when i resetted it everything was going great life was awesome ,
But when i connected it to wifi its just stuck there asking for a samsung account, i tried entering my samsung account and a friend's too so it is bricked , i cried like a little B*tch overnigbt and wokeup and now im posting on xda forums , everything is destroyed in my life except hope, maybe one day a great person who will read my story reply me and give me a solution, this little piece of crap is nothing more then a brick now, please gentle man help me,
Btw will downgrading help me? I think its on lollipop or marshmallow
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Hi guys i just baught my first android device its a note 4 , i had never used a samsung phone before, it was a used one cuz the brand new was a little expensive for me, so i got this phone and used it like a weak or more but then i found his samsung account in settings so i tried to contavt him to remove it and i couldnt remove it myself, soni decided to do a factory reset , i got tutorial on google and when i resetted it everything was going great life was awesome ,
But when i connected it to wifi its just stuck there asking for a samsung account, i tried entering my samsung account and a friend's too so it is bricked , i cried like a little B*tch overnigbt and wokeup and now im posting on xda forums , everything is destroyed in my life except hope, maybe one day a great person who will read my story reply me and give me a solution, this little piece of crap is nothing more then a brick now, please gentle man help me,
Btw will downgrading help me? I think its on lollipop or marshmallow
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I am willing to bet the phone is not bricked.
Try switch it off, (remove battery and put back in if necessary).
Then all at same time press power on, volume down and home button. When it vibrates let the buttons go. this should get to download mode.
If you see that yellow triangle you can be saved.
Then you need to get a Stock rom from Sam Mobile, for your model of phone. SM910F ???
Download program called PC Odin.
The rest you will see on you tube etc. How do I flash stock rom on Galaxy note 4.
If your lucky you will have a perfectly good phone. :laugh:
Either way you have nothing to lose.. If Download mode can be reached, there is a fix for your phone.
Hey sorry for late reply,i just went to the "experts" who had somekind of "box" callef device and he fixed it for me , octopus box or something. So i sold the phone and got a moto x plau xt1562. I didnt like the touchwiz vibe anyway. Love the stock android experience.
Hi looking for some help please, after a small root snafu I have had to (I think) reinstall Lollipop, earlier today my phone went flat and after plugging it in to charge and turning it on it got stuck on the flashy samsung splash screen, after some googlefu I figured bootloop so I held down the power button until the first Samsung Galaxy S4 screen popped up then I released it and pressed the down volume key and the "Don't install custom OS" screen popped up so I pressed the up volume key and the downloading screen popped up.
Anyway that was about an hour ago so I'm thinking it's poked but I don't want to permabrick my phone by interrupting the installation so I need some advice on what I do now, anything constructive would be massively appreciated, cheers
It's not downloading anything. If you want to install something, you have to do it yourself. These smartphones are not that smart to unbrick themselves
GDReaper said:
It's not downloading anything. If you want to install something, you have to do it yourself. These smartphones are not that smart to unbrick themselves
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Ye I'm an egg, I realize now after a bit more google-fu that I was in the wrong place for some reason I thought it was actually downloading the OS hahaha.
Anyway now I'm here and after actually doing some research rather than just kingo-root I have decided on an action plan. However if I may be so bold, to a noob this site is quite daunting so if someone could point me to a good place to checkout some forum favorite "building block" rom's, thinks like bloat removers, alarm clocks that run off system volume not media volume (grrrrr!) things of that nature it would really help a fella out.
So again any help would be massively appreciated as I am a raging noob and this is my first ever proper name brand phone and from what I have read roming is the best way to get the most out of it. Cheers
I'm in college and I recently busted my little LG HD Tribute and I decided I would look at the market for a new phone.
One of the new college students fixes busted up phones and sells them so I went to see what he had.
He was selling a brand new Galaxy S7 Edge for 50$ and I thought it was a steal, so I looked at it and it was working well for about 3 days.
I had it turned off charging the other night and I went to turn it on and it began to flicker the Samsung Galaxy Edge screen it shows whenever you turn it on, and just kept flashing. and does literally nothing else. I didn't know what to do, so I tried to reboot it in recovery and all it does is flash "recovery booting" and that's it. So, I can't even get into the BIOS settings of the phone to try and reset it to factory settings or anything like that.
The only thing I can get to pop up is the Custom OS Downloading screen and the "An error has occurred while updating the device software. Use the Emergency recovery function in the Smart Switch PC Software." screen. So, I downloaded the Smart Switch PC program and ran it, plugged it in and it doesn't recognize the S7 Edge as a supported device. I tried changing USB ports and all, but it just doesn't recognize it. I tried the Emergency feature and that doesn't help either. Even with the SN and the Model ID it still can't fix it.
So I'm guessing it updated while I was sleeping? And something went wrong? I don't know, I didn't physically buy the phone from the carrier myself so I don't think I can just walk into T-Mobile and ask them to help. I'm not sure what to do. Any advice would be wonderful.
Have you tried reflashing everything with odin?
jsbarrett said:
I'm in college and I recently busted my little LG HD Tribute and I decided I would look at the market for a new phone.
One of the new college students fixes busted up phones and sells them so I went to see what he had.
He was selling a brand new Galaxy S7 Edge for 50$ and I thought it was a steal, so I looked at it and it was working well for about 3 days.
I had it turned off charging the other night and I went to turn it on and it began to flicker the Samsung Galaxy Edge screen it shows whenever you turn it on, and just kept flashing. and does literally nothing else. I didn't know what to do, so I tried to reboot it in recovery and all it does is flash "recovery booting" and that's it. So, I can't even get into the BIOS settings of the phone to try and reset it to factory settings or anything like that.
The only thing I can get to pop up is the Custom OS Downloading screen and the "An error has occurred while updating the device software. Use the Emergency recovery function in the Smart Switch PC Software." screen. So, I downloaded the Smart Switch PC program and ran it, plugged it in and it doesn't recognize the S7 Edge as a supported device. I tried changing USB ports and all, but it just doesn't recognize it. I tried the Emergency feature and that doesn't help either. Even with the SN and the Model ID it still can't fix it.
So I'm guessing it updated while I was sleeping? And something went wrong? I don't know, I didn't physically buy the phone from the carrier myself so I don't think I can just walk into T-Mobile and ask them to help. I'm not sure what to do. Any advice would be wonderful.
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"selling a brand new Galaxy S7 Edge for 50$" a phone that cost around 700$?
The fact that it was sold "brad new" for 50$, didn't trigger some warning light in your brain?
Your s7e is no more than a cheap replica of the original, so "good luck" with the fix!!!
jsbarrett said:
I'm in college and I recently busted my little LG HD Tribute and I decided I would look at the market for a new phone.
One of the new college students fixes busted up phones and sells them so I went to see what he had.
He was selling a brand new Galaxy S7 Edge for 50$ and I thought it was a steal, so I looked at it and it was working well for about 3 days.
I had it turned off charging the other night and I went to turn it on and it began to flicker the Samsung Galaxy Edge screen it shows whenever you turn it on, and just kept flashing. and does literally nothing else. I didn't know what to do, so I tried to reboot it in recovery and all it does is flash "recovery booting" and that's it. So, I can't even get into the BIOS settings of the phone to try and reset it to factory settings or anything like that.
The only thing I can get to pop up is the Custom OS Downloading screen and the "An error has occurred while updating the device software. Use the Emergency recovery function in the Smart Switch PC Software." screen. So, I downloaded the Smart Switch PC program and ran it, plugged it in and it doesn't recognize the S7 Edge as a supported device. I tried changing USB ports and all, but it just doesn't recognize it. I tried the Emergency feature and that doesn't help either. Even with the SN and the Model ID it still can't fix it.
So I'm guessing it updated while I was sleeping? And something went wrong? I don't know, I didn't physically buy the phone from the carrier myself so I don't think I can just walk into T-Mobile and ask them to help. I'm not sure what to do. Any advice would be wonderful.
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I don't think it was brand new. Because it only started acting weird just after three days. The screen would never flicker only because of an update, so it is definitely a defective phone or a fake one because no body in this world would sell such an expensive device for such a low price, considering that it costs more than 700$ brand new.
It may have been a brand phone, but since the guy according to you sells refurbished phones.
In your mind you should of known, he may have worked on it because it was defective for some reason.
To get it for a cheap price.
Not even defective refirbs would sell for that cheap.. most likely a fake goophone s7 there less than $100 New and they don't last long at all
Post some pics of it :good:
imgur com/a/zd8J8
^ That is the album everyone has requested.
It's spaced out because of spam filter xda-developers website has, so just add period.
I went back to the guy today and he admitted that he had actually stolen the phone from his step dad which makes a ton of sense.
This man had stolen the phone and apparently couldn't get into his step dad's Google account so he flashed it with Odin himself and that's how he got it working. He said he couldn't keep the phone due to his step dad would eventually found out he had it but honestly, I don't want the phone knowing this now. It's hot, and it's almost a brick. I seriously feel like a criminal having it, but I spent my work-study money on it and if I'm going to have it in my possession, I want it to at least work.
I left prior to him telling me that he had stolen the phone because I was disgusted and frankly I don't want to associate with this guy knowing this, even if he was honest...
I took it upon myself to try and fix it. I have tried flashing it with Odin myself like one of the users have suggested using the SM-G935T that is on the back of the phone as a reference for downloading the necessary files for the phone's model.
Every time I run Odin while it's plugged in saying it's "Downloading Custom OS" I get the error message: FAIL! (Auth) in Odin.
I don't know what to do.
Any advice would be lovely.
Thanks in advance.
The information you might want:
SM-G935T UD FCC ID:A3LSMG935US
Designed & Engineered by Samsung Manufactured in Vietnam
IMEI: 356164075069116
Sorry for the poor quality of the pictures BTW, was taken with the aforementioned HD Tributed.
can you go in to download mode? you need it in download mode for it to flash with odin.
power+vol down+home button
edan1979 said:
can you go in to download mode? you need it in download mode for it to flash with odin.
power+vol down+home button
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I did, it was installing it for like 5 secs then after a few logs it says FAIL! (Auth) and that's it lol.
I put it in custom os download mode and all, tried Odin. idk