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[q] help telus s4 stuck in bootloop

I am familiar with flashing custom roms, I used to own a Canadian Rogers Note 2 and flashed many different roms on the phone before. I recently signed up with Telus and upgraded to the S4. I installed TWRP and rooted the phone. Last night I made an EFS backup with TWRP and tried to flash this rom on my phone http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2391142 . Now my phone is stuck in a bootloop it keeps showing the galaxy s4 screen trying to start up but it wont. I can still get into TWRP and I tried doing a restore but Im stuck in the bootloop and its doing the same thing. I just want to restore my phone back to stock or stock root, can someone help me out please?

q] help telus s4 stuck in bootloop
youll have to use odin with the telus original files foud her on forum re flash to stock start over again i went thru the same thing last week.hope this this helps
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youll have to use odin with the telus original files foud here on forum re flash to stock start over again i went thru the same thing last week.hope this this helps

Did you flash a kernel for your phone after flashing the rom? And when you say it's in a boot loop, how long did you give it? It can take a long time on the first boot.

I didnt flash any kernal just the rom, the phone tries to turn on by showing the samsung galaxy s4 screen then shuts down and tries to reboot, it continued to do this for 10 min and everytime I try to turn on the phone it does the same thing

ron31 said:
youll have to use odin with the telus original files foud her on forum re flash to stock start over again i went thru the same thing last week.hope this this helps
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youll have to use odin with the telus original files foud here on forum re flash to stock start over again i went thru the same thing last week.hope this this helps
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Can you let me know which files you had to use just so i make sure im doing it properly? Thanks

Please Help !!

Hello all:
I foolishly tried to root my note 3 and now all i have is the screen telling me that upgrade issues were encountered and to use software repair, and the little text on top says knox warranty void.
Is this the end of my phone or is there hope for me.
Thank you !

ivyleaguer said:
Hello all:
I foolishly tried to root my note 3 and now all i have is the screen telling me that upgrade issues were encountered and to use software repair, and the little text on top says knox warranty void.
Is this the end of my phone or is there hope for me.
Thank you !
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Yeah try to use the Verizon Repair assistant on your pc. Another one to try is Kies 3 which you can download to your pc and run.
Pull the battery and then put in back in and hold down power+home+volume down. Once in custom screen press volume up.
If you can do this your okay.
You can use Verizon Repair assistant, Kies 3 or the latest version of Odin and download the tar file for the version you were on.
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Az_biker has a nice guide on Odin here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2576104
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Harleydroid said:
Yeah try to use the Verizon Repair assistant on your pc. Another one to try is Kies 3 which you can download to your pc and run.
Pull the battery and then put in back in and hold down power+home+volume down. Once in custom screen press volume up.
If you can do this your okay.
You can use Verizon Repair assistant, Kies 3 or the latest version of Odin and download the tar file for the version you were on.
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Az_biker has a nice guide on Odin here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2576104
* * * How To Flash In ODIN & Factory Reset * * *
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Thanks, but I think I am kind of screwed here. My phone is giving me the image below, and the PC will not recognize my phone at all, so I cannot even do a thing with any program.:crying:

ivyleaguer said:
Thanks, but I think I am kind of screwed here. My phone is giving me the image below, and the PC will not recognize my phone at all, so I cannot even do a thing with any program.:crying:
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You can hook your phone into your pc and run Odin. If you go to that thread up above it got the info and links for all you need.
Your not screwed at all. Just takes some time to download the files to your pc.
What version were you on before trying to root?
Also what we're you using to root?
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Also sometime it takes hooking up to different usb ports on your pc to get it to install drivers
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Here's another thread to help get you back up and running. Download Odin on your pc then which ever version you were on. Being MI9,MJ7,or MJE. Download and extract the tar and place in Odin and run. Those threads explain everything great. Read up on those. Good luck bud
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2528707
[Firmware][Guide][Q&A] FIRMWARE MIRROR / OTA & ROOT GUIDE / TECHNICAL Q&A

Harleydroid said:
You can hook your phone into your pc and run Odin. If you go to that thread up above it got the info and links for all you need.
Your not screwed at all. Just takes some time to download the files to your pc.
What version were you on before trying to root?
Also what we're you using to root?
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Also sometime it takes hooking up to different usb ports on your pc to get it to install drivers
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Here's another thread to help get you back up and running. Download Odin on your pc then which ever version you were on. Being MI9,MJ7,or MJE. Download and extract the tar and place in Odin and run. Those threads explain everything great. Read up on those. Good luck bud
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2528707
[Firmware][Guide][Q&A] FIRMWARE MIRROR / OTA & ROOT GUIDE / TECHNICAL Q&A
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You stuff was awesome, however, it is not that the programs do not work, it is the fact that my pc, under no circumstances will recognize my phone when plugged into these programs, or even recognize it as a device after the drivers are in. The note literally has to be up and running for it to be recognized.
Thanks

ivyleaguer said:
Thanks, but I think I am kind of screwed here. My phone is giving me the image below, and the PC will not recognize my phone at all, so I cannot even do a thing with any program.:crying:
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From the looks of your photo your warranty is still good. You are stuck in download (odin) mode. The Knox warranty void line shows 0x0 witch is still good. When the line says 0x1 your warranty is toast. I have the identical screen when I enter download mode and my phone is bone stock. I haven't tried root yet because Verizon has allowed disabling and stopping most of the bloat apps. Also I do not want to trip Knox. Have you tried holding down the power button until it reboots? As for the note having to be fully powered up to be recognized is not so. When you enter download mode is when you connect your usb. I would try a different usb port or a standard usb 2.0 Motorola cable if you have one. Either way your warranty is not toast.

Misterxtc said:
From the looks of your photo your warranty is still good. You are stuck in download (odin) mode. The Knox warranty void line shows 0x0 witch is still good. When the line says 0x1 your warranty is toast. I have the identical screen when I enter download mode and my phone is bone stock. I haven't tried root yet because Verizon has allowed disabling and stopping most of the bloat apps. Also I do not want to trip Knox. Have you tried holding down the power button until it reboots? As for the note having to be fully powered up to be recognized is not so. When you enter download mode is when you connect your usb. I would try a different usb port or a standard usb 2.0 Motorola cable if you have one. Either way your warranty is not toast.
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Your advice is truly appreciated, but i think my computer hates my note. I have tried every port, all the drivers are on the machine, and I still do not get recognized. When the phone was working, it had no problem getting recognized, now, all of a sudden....poof

Yea same screen most of us have or had. You need to install ODIN connect to PC and run ODIN it should tell you if it reads it when "ID:COM" shows "0:[COM4]" or any other number. If it does show "0:[COM4]" you are good flash a stock image of the version you were on before attempting root (MI9, MJ7, or MJE).
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Xirix12 said:
Yea same screen most of us have or had. You need to install ODIN connect to PC and run ODIN it should tell you if it reads it when "ID:COM" shows "0:[COM4]" or any other number. If it does show "0:[COM4]" you are good flash a stock image of the version you were on before attempting root (MI9, MJ7, or MJE).
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Below are the screens I get, I tried flashing the delavega root before, and of course got the error shown. I am now downloading the stock tar file, mje, and try to flash it with odin when done downloading.
Is odin showing the com box the correct way, or should it be another color and say something else?
Thanks.

ivyleaguer said:
Below are the screens I get, I tried flashing the delavega root before, and of course got the error shown. I am now downloading the stock tar file, mje, and try to flash it with odin when done downloading.
Is odin showing the com box the correct way, or should it be another color and say something else?
Thanks.
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How about entering recovery mode (home+vol up+ power on) and clearing cache and or factory reset. Clearing cache worked on my old S3 with a similar issue.

Misterxtc said:
How about entering recovery mode (home+vol up+ power on) and clearing cache and or factory reset. Clearing cache worked on my old S3 with a similar issue.
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Success :good:
I am very happy that I was able to flash the factory version back to the note. You have all helped me very much, I truly appreciate it, and I hope to contribute to the site as well.
My best.

Awesome, I'm glad you worked it out...Merry Christmas

Cannot activate phone with Cyanogenmod 11

I have a sprint galaxy s4 running cyanogenmod 11. I just bought the phone from someone. I went and got a new SIM for the device and tried to activate online. Did not work. I opened chat window with sprint and they put in the device's numbers and sim card number and asked me to make a test call, which did not work. They then asked me to type in ##72786#. They said it would auto reboot the device. It did nothing. They then started asking questions about if this was a used device. Obviously I don't want to have to go to the sprint store, I'm sure they would tell me they cannot activate a modded device.
Can anyone tell me how to activate?
edit: also had me enter ##659143# and said it should bring up a menu screen. It did nothing

Pretty sure those codes won't do anything unless you're on a TW based rom. I would flash the stock rom, then call and try to activate.
(And please remember questions go in the Q&A section)
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As said above you'll need a touchwiz rom to get activated. I had the same problem when I got my phone.

Beezer80 said:
As said above you'll need a touchwiz rom to get activated. I had the same problem when I got my phone.
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Thanks. I really like this rom and how its performing... can you please point me to a tutorial on how to bring back to stock, then to reinstall the same rom after activation? Person I got it from said the files are on the sd card

Download a touchwiz rom to your SD card. Boot into recovery and make a backup of your current setup. Then flash the touhwiz ROM. Activate your phone then boot back into recovery and restore your CM11 ROM.

Beezer80 said:
Download a touchwiz rom to your SD card. Boot into recovery and make a backup of your current setup. Then flash the touhwiz ROM. Activate your phone then boot back into recovery and restore your CM11 ROM.
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Where do I get touchwiz? Cannot find it on google or xda.

You really need to learn ALOT before you start using a rooted phone. And flashing.
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Touch wiz refers to any Samsung bloated ROM. There are numerous ones in the development section.
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daniel4653 said:
You really need to learn ALOT before you start using a rooted phone. And flashing.
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Touch wiz refers to any Samsung bloated ROM. There are numerous ones in the development section.
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What's done is done, I have a rooted phone. At this point I need to get through this. All help is appreciated.
I used a youtube tutorial, downloaded touchwiz and odin. Tried to install but it hung up in the middle and failed install. Now won't install through odin and I get the error 'firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in kies & try again".
Installed Kies, went to tools>firmware upgrade initialization... but it keeps saying incorrect serial.
Any ideas?

Boot into Download Mode, post what the text is in the upper-left-hand corner. (after saying "yes" to the warning.) As long as you don't do anything with Odin nothing will download.
There's nothing in that text that has any personally identifiable information.

guyrelax said:
What's done is done, I have a rooted phone. At this point I need to get through this. All help is appreciated.
I used a youtube tutorial, downloaded touchwiz and odin. Tried to install but it hung up in the middle and failed install. Now won't install through odin and I get the error 'firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in kies & try again".
Installed Kies, went to tools>firmware upgrade initialization... but it keeps saying incorrect serial.
Any ideas?
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First of all, what baseband version are you on? Mdc, mdl, mf9,mk2, mja? That is important to know. If on say mf9, then flash with odin a stock mf9, therevare plenty of videos on youtube as to how to use odin. As for the kies error page or wathever justbpull the battery and go into download mode again and start over again. If it only goes half way and stops try a different usb port and make sure you are using the factory original usb cable, I had that same problem you describe of the kies error and itvwas the usb port. Give it a try, just take your time and don't loose your patience. Odin is pretty safe but at the same time you do not want to mess up. Triple check your settings and make surebyou have the right files. Good luck sorry about the typos.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2303917
Link to all roms, just scroll down to the stock touchwiz roms and choose the one you need.

matraca said:
First of all, what baseband version are you on? Mdc, mdl, mf9,mk2, mja? That is important to know. If on say mf9, then flash with odin a stock mf9, therevare plenty of videos on youtube as to how to use odin. As for the kies error page or wathever justbpull the battery and go into download mode again and start over again. If it only goes half way and stops try a different usb port and make sure you are using the factory original usb cable, I had that same problem you describe of the kies error and itvwas the usb port. Give it a try, just take your time and don't loose your patience. Odin is pretty safe but at the same time you do not want to mess up. Triple check your settings and make surebyou have the right files. Good luck sorry about the typos.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2303917
Link to all roms, just scroll down to the stock touchwiz roms and choose the one you need.
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I also have the same issue with my secondary phone line that is an S4. I wasn't quite sure what the heck the issue was with my device since it was working perfectly fine in one month and then all of a sudden I can no longer dial out anymore! I was puzzled as all hell and was wondering whats going on? So i had thought instantly that its either needing a PRL Update or it has to upgrade the radio and at the time i had just literally updated the radio from MF9 i believe. everything worked BUT the phone line kept saying that wonderful "we are sorry but your account could NOT be validated" line and again and again didnt realize that untill reading this post that i didnt remember to upgrade to the latest firmware update. So your saying that is the issue? Doesn't a PRL update help some of those issues with connectivity as well right? that way if you wanted to downgrade your firmware in your radio you could still do so and just update your PRL correct me if i am wrong but i haven't messed with the issue in about 4-5 months so im a lil dusty and need some clarification. I also CANT find an option to Update the PRL in CM 11 at all and sprint had told me that was what i needed to do and i couldnt find that anywhere when i changed my number i basically got data connectivity ONLY... has the Update PRL option in CM11 become obsolete or removed? does just a radio firmware update solve all the connectivity issues? or i should say just most not all... Thank you too by the way I have been stumped and just needed another head to miss what was so an obvious issue if this works out to be the problem that has agitated me time and time again!

Bricked - can you help?

Hello everyone - I attempted to root my phone today ended up bricking it. Originally I was unable to boot into recovery, I was getting a boot loop with a red message - only official binaries are allowed to be flashed. I tried flashing twrp but no luck. I tried flashing original firmware back to my phone using Odin which was failing every time. I have also tried the restarting the phone method and then quickly going back into download mode to proceed with Odin which also isn't working. Currently - I can only go into download mode and if I restart it just brings me to a giant message and exclamation mark that says - "An error has occurred while updating the device software. Use the emergency recovery function in the Smart Switch PC software." (i have never used smart switch before). At this point - I'm not sure how to proceed - any help is appreciated. Thank you

doublevisionsfc said:
Hello everyone - I attempted to root my phone today ended up bricking it. Originally I was unable to boot into recovery, I was getting a boot loop with a red message - only official binaries are allowed to be flashed. I tried flashing twrp but no luck. I tried flashing original firmware back to my phone using Odin which was failing every time. I have also tried the restarting the phone method and then quickly going back into download mode to proceed with Odin which also isn't working. Currently - I can only go into download mode and if I restart it just brings me to a giant message and exclamation mark that says - "An error has occurred while updating the device software. Use the emergency recovery function in the Smart Switch PC software." (i have never used smart switch before). At this point - I'm not sure how to proceed - any help is appreciated. Thank you
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I would try using smart switch method first to restore your phone. Link below is a start
http://www.blogtechtips.com/2017/06/24/easily-restore-samsung-device-firmware-with-smart-switch/
Odin errors can range. Without knowing what error Odin is telling you it's a bit hard to say.

try latest firmware with july patches...it will work use odin 3.13.1 or prince comsy odin
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8+/help/help-potential-softbrick-g955f-t3747425 read this carefully

spawnlives said:
I would try using smart switch method first to restore your phone. Link below is a start
http://www.blogtechtips.com/2017/06/24/easily-restore-samsung-device-firmware-with-smart-switch/
Odin errors can range. Without knowing what error Odin is telling you it's a bit hard to say.
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I just tried this out.. had to download an older version of smart switch - unfortunately I get the message that my device model the 950F is not supported for initializing on smart switch. Any other suggestions? Thanks!

khawarjaved said:
try latest firmware with july patches...it will work use odin 3.13.1 or prince comsy odin
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8+/help/help-potential-softbrick-g955f-t3747425 read this carefully
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I've been using the 3.13.1 Odin - but I will try with some different firmware - i have a couple different versions maybe they are not the latest firmware. Thank you.

no problem man

If you have any issues or errors with Odin make a note of it and post.

same problem here what was the firmware you use ?

cezhartac said:
same problem here what was the firmware you use ?
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cezhartac said:
same problem here what was the firmware you use ?
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As long as you can enter download mode you just need the latest firmware which I was able to find on Sammobile.com. I was using some older versions which was why I couldn't get out of being bricked. Thanks to Khawarjaved on this thread who pointed out the major change in the newer firmware.

khawarjaved said:
try latest firmware with july patches...it will work use odin 3.13.1 or prince comsy odin
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8+/help/help-potential-softbrick-g955f-t3747425 read this carefully
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Thanks again! I was using older firmware the whole time which was the problem.

SM-G925F Flashing and bootloader issue

Hey guys,
I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
Tried flashing the G925F with the latest firmware, but the phone is stuff on the boot logo and wont move past it.
I can ONLY access download mode, recovery mode is unavailable. I've looked for a bootloader but theres so many versions all over the place and I dont want to pick the wrong one.
G925FXXU6ERF5 is the phone with the following details:
UK XEU CSC running Android 7.0 (well supposed to be lol)
The amount of threads I've gone through end up with the end of having users PM'ing each other for the answer or 'search for the answer'
So any help would be grateful.

royds said:
Hey guys,
I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
Tried flashing the G925F with the latest firmware, but the phone is stuff on the boot logo and wont move past it.
I can ONLY access download mode, recovery mode is unavailable. I've looked for a bootloader but theres so many versions all over the place and I dont want to pick the wrong one.
G925FXXU6ERF5 is the phone with the following details:
UK XEU CSC running Android 7.0 (well supposed to be lol)
The amount of threads I've gone through end up with the end of having users PM'ing each other for the answer or 'search for the answer'
So any help would be grateful.
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OK, got some progress. After reading a similar issue I followed a guide on installing TWRP recovery and was finally able to boot into some kind of recovery mode. Now I'm just stuck with what to do hahaha. Its just strange that when I flash with Odin with the official firmware in the AP, I cant access the recovery mode, but flashing with TWRP the their recovery mode works perfectly.

Update, after a lot of searching on youtube and forums etc, was able to find out the data section was read as 0MB so wiped the storage via change the format of the storage then changing it back. This was able to make the data storage read correctly.
Installed the correct firmware which I had tried before, but this time the phone went through the update and was able to go through a full set up.
Just typing out this info for anyone else having the same issues.

My s6 edge is dead, doesnt boot stock recovery only twrp. Gets frozen after 2 minutes, I can use twrp but i have to be fast. tried reinstalling with odin nothing. IS your phone working now, if it is what did u do exactly
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xperiaking247 said:
My s6 edge is dead, doesnt boot stock recovery only twrp. Gets frozen after 2 minutes, I can use twrp but i have to be fast. tried reinstalling with odin nothing. IS your phone working now, if it is what did u do exactly
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ALSO EDIT it doesnt work AT ALL if its without usb cable

xperiaking247 said:
My s6 edge is dead, doesnt boot stock recovery only twrp. Gets frozen after 2 minutes, I can use twrp but i have to be fast. tried reinstalling with odin nothing. IS your phone working now, if it is what did u do exactly
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ALSO EDIT it doesnt work AT ALL if its without usb cable
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After I got it working it did a bunch of updates but then stopped working.. back with the boot loop and failing to get to normal recovery. Only twrp works perfectly. If yours works only with usb attached I'd say it could be the battery or something linked to the battery.