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[Q] (S4 I9500) Stuck on Samsung Logo + Can't go to Recovery or download mode

First thank you for viewing my question and issue.
I'm new in here hoping to find a solution to my problem. I bought a used S4 I9500 last year it was lagging acting up slow did a search and read online that I might need to install better version via Odin (I'm totally new to the android world so I think I did a mistake here somewhere). So I did install I9505 version which I thought will work fine. (sorry for not doing enough researches coming from IOS which is less complicated). The phone apparently did a restart and got stuck on the Samsung logo which kept glowing for few minutes.
It was mid night by the time I was cracking this stuff out, so thought to myself to keep it plugged and go n rest for few hours. I woke up and the Phone was still stuck on the Samsung logo which was glowing not like paused or something. The phone was hot so i thought I should stop the whole operation before something worst happen. Did some searches and found that people are fixing this issue by going to recovery mode or download mode etc.
The thing is Vol+ and home button + power or Vol+ and power trick doesn't show the menu anymore. When i click any of these it just does a random reboot showing Galaxy I9500 logo and then back to the glowing samsung logo. notice that I was able to go to download mode and recovery mode prior to this issue but now I just can't for some reasons.
Would appreciate any help. Thank you

Find someone that can use Jtag maybe they can fix it.
Hard lesson for you. Never flash a firmware for another device onto your phone.
If they can't fix it, then you can buy a new phone. You bricked it.

GT-I9505 unable to boot; freezes constantly in Download Mode; can't flash anything

Hello,
my Galaxy S4 got soft bricked recently and I am looking for a solution for 5 days now and now I decided to ask you guys for help since I can't find anyone with the same problem.
I had Albe95 LolliROM 9.0 (15/05/16) [HPA1] flashed on my phone for about 3 weeks and everything was perfect.
I was using my phone when it suddenly restarted itself and it got stuck in a bootloop (SAMSUNG animation). After many attempts I could boot into recovery (TWRP) but it would freeze there and I had to remove the battery...
I could also boot into Download Mode so I decided to flash a stock rom (I9505XXUHOJ2_I9505OXAHOJ2_I9505XXUHOJ2_HOME.tar) which I downloaded from Sammobile. Odin would always stuck at system.img.ext4 but again after many attempts it workted and I had success. When it was booting my phone froze at "optimizing apps". So I had to turn it off and restart again, but this time the phone was always freezing at the first samsung logo and wouldn't go further.
I can still go into Download mode but can't flash anything because eather Odin fails (complete(write) operation failed) or my phone freezes. Sometimes when I boot my phone into Download Mode the screen would do strange things like flickering and weird colors would show in DL Mode.
So my problem:
- booting into Download mode after works though it freezes sometimes
- can't flash roms because phone is freezing all the time

The model # in download mode is 9505? Was the phone ever dropped? You're using the original Samsung USB cable to flash?

audit13 said:
The model # in download mode is 9505? Was the phone ever dropped? You're using the original Samsung USB cable to flash?
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Thanks for the reply.
-yes modelnr is 9505.
-i have not dropped my phone recently. I mean its over 3 years old so of course I've dropped it but never really bad and it has no scratches or anything.
-I've tried different cables and samsung cable was one of them.
I also tried all ports of my laptop even tried another pc

Maybe flash the stock rom with a pit file?

audit13 said:
Maybe flash the stock rom with a pit file?
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I didn't try this pit file thing because I don't understand the meaning of it exactly..
But after many many Odin flash attempts I got a success with a stock rom 5.0.1.
I think I figured out what the problem is but I can't really tell why it's happening (Hardware broken maybe, but which one?)
So after the flashing the stock rom successfully the phone restarted and started the first boot but it froze during the samsung animation again...
I thought maybe if I try a lot of times eventually it will work, so I tried and tried and it always got stuck at samsung animation. (before every boot I had to remove the battery and wait ca 10 sec because otherwise the phone would not start booting at all)
I did not come further than the samsung animation so I removed the battery and placed the phone (I almost gave up).
But after one hour I tried again and this time it passed the samsung animation and got to the Optimization part of the apps. aaaaand it froze there again.
I thought maybe if I wait again for 1 hour I can pass the optimization part. So I did and it really worked. I got to the startscreen.
So the current problem is:
- The phone boots and makes it to the homescreen and freezes after ca 10 seconds. And also I have to wait for about half an hour or one hour to get that far. If I try again right after the freezing I can't get passed the Samsung logo.
What could cause this freezing? Maybe the cpu has to "cool down" in the one hour of waiting and freezes because it gets to hot? I really don't know what it could be.

Something on the motherboard, likely either CPU, EMMC chip, or GPU, is failing. Why or how I don't know, but I'd have a tech look at it.

Galaxy Note 4 - No Power , Wont Charge

Hi All,
I've done a fair bit of Googling about this problem and I'm fairly certain my phones (hard) bricked, but I said I'd post just to make sure.
I have a Galaxy Note 4 N910F running a custom rom ( I cant remember which ROM, I think it was like Kyros Final Edition Note 5 Port or something) , I've been running it for a few months with no problem, last night I was uninstalling various apps from my phone, games etc... when my phone froze and turned off, when I turned it back on it was stuck in a bootloop, showing the galaxy note 4 screen vibrating twice and turning off and repeating.
I tried to boot into TWRP but it just froze on the Note 4 logo with "Warranty Bit Recover Set" or something along those lines at the top, when I took the battery out and put it back in, the phone would no longer turn on, nor will it charge, its completely dead.
I somehow managed to get it turned on again after a while, went into download mode and using Odin installed a stock rom, the install went fine however when the phone restarted after the install it said "booting to recovery" and ended up with a dead Android dude and a "no command message" , I got into recovery mode then and cleared the cache. Then I restarted the phone again and the same thing happened.
Now the phone wont turn on again, I've soft reset it, left it plugged in charging for a while and still nothing. Has anyone experienced something similar to my problem before? Any advice/help is much appreciated.
Thanks
Alan

Note 3 SM-N900L bootloop issue

hi guys..so I was using phronesis rom on my Korean note 3 with custom kernel..when I used to turn the phone on it to say set warranty bit kernel on the top and used to get stuck at the logo then I would remove the battery and turn it on again and it would turn on..but yesterday my phone turned off automatically and was stuck in bootloop.it was not booting into twrp..so I flashed stock rom via odin but the bootloop was still there and I can not boot into recovery it would just restart and go back to booting normally and again bootloop..but if I remove the battery for a few minutes and then turn it on it works fine until i turn it off..now
thanks in advance.

Axad101 said:
hi guys..so I was using phronesis rom on my Korean note 3 with custom kernel..when I used to turn the phone on it to say set warranty bit kernel on the top and used to get stuck at the logo then I would remove the battery and turn it on again and it would turn on..but yesterday my phone turned off automatically and was stuck in bootloop.it was not booting into twrp..so I flashed stock rom via odin but the bootloop was still there and I can not boot into recovery it would just restart and go back to booting normally and again bootloop..but if I remove the battery for a few minutes and then turn it on it works fine until i turn it off..now
thanks in advance.
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From what I can tell, a possible issue you could have is with the battery. I used to have this problem, my phone would re-start for no apparent reason, couldn't even get to recovery. I switched the battery for another and it worked again. So maybe you could try that

ShaDisNX255 said:
From what I can tell, a possible issue you could have is with the battery. I used to have this problem, my phone would re-start for no apparent reason, couldn't even get to recovery. I switched the battery for another and it worked again. So maybe you could try that
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thanks for the reply sir..i will give it a shot and would let you know ASAP..

Got a sm-n900k last year on vacation and same problem please someone help fix this!!!!!

Leontina said:
Got a sm-n900k last year on vacation and same problem please someone help fix this!!!!!
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Well buddy in my case it was not a battery issue..and after few times my phone is not even turning on its dead..:crying:

Won't power up or boot into download/recovery after interrupted update

Please help! My S5 Neo was in a drawer for a few months after the LCD got smashed. I recently bought a new LCD assembly and connected it to make sure it worked before fitting and it was fine. However, the phone immediately started doing a software update but was interrupted after a few seconds as the battery was dead. Now the phone won't power up or boot into download mode or recovery. When I plug the phone in to its charger, the LED flashes red but nothing is displayed on the screen. I had a new battery for it and charged it in another device but still no joy. I've been messing around with old galaxy phones for a couple of years now, flashing custom ROM's etc, so I wanted to just re-flash a stock ROM into it but there's no way I know of performing this without getting the device into recovery or download mode. Does anyone have any ideas? The device is totally stock and hadn't even been rooted. I'm currently using an S4 Active running Lineage OS 17.1 so I'm not desperate for a phone, but I loved my S5 and really would like to get it up and running again. It never once had any problems.