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I was using my note 3 and all of a sudden, it turned off. It's not rooted or anything; just stock.
When it boots up; it shows the Galaxy Note 3 boot logo, but never the samsung one. A horizontal line appears below the text and the text disappears simutaneously.
Recovery does this too, it says RECOVERY BOOTING at the top, but it eventually just kicks out with the same line.
Downloading mode seems to be the only mode tha tworks, but I've tried doing an emergency firmware recovery via KIES but its still not working.
At this point I'm at a loss and have no idea what to do. Rogers told me they would take about 5 weeks to send it out and get it replaced, but I really don't want to wait this long. Is there anything I can do to try to fix this?
DDRFAN said:
I was using my note 3 and all of a sudden, it turned off. It's not rooted or anything; just stock.
When it boots up; it shows the Galaxy Note 3 boot logo, but never the samsung one. A horizontal line appears below the text and the text disappears simutaneously.
Recovery does this too, it says RECOVERY BOOTING at the top, but it eventually just kicks out with the same line.
Downloading mode seems to be the only mode tha tworks, but I've tried doing an emergency firmware recovery via KIES but its still not working.
At this point I'm at a loss and have no idea what to do. Rogers told me they would take about 5 months to send it out and get it replaced, but I really don't want to wait this long. Is there anything I can do to try to fix this?
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Pull the battery out for 1 minute that should do it, well maybe lol
jaythenut said:
Pull the battery out for 1 minute that should do it, well maybe lol
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I'll give this a shot............
DDRFAN said:
I'll give this a shot............
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Did it work
jaythenut said:
Did it work
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Unfortunately not, I even tried a battery that I knew was charged 100%.
Any other ideas?
DDRFAN said:
Unfortunately not, I even tried a battery that I knew was charged 100%.
Any other ideas?
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Maybe go into download mode and flash stock rom from www.sammobile.com and install in odin
Hello there guys.
I have a problem with my Note 4 the SM-910F model.
I had some battery problems so I decided to go to my settings and factory reset my phone from the menu, Not through recovery mode or anything. Just through the samsung galaxy note 4 settings. I have rooted the phone with CF-Auto-Root.
So now the phone is trying to turn on and it keeps saying Installing system update... with the android robot guy logo. It keeps coming on and off, on and off. The logo and text comes up for less than a second, and then it goes off for 3 seconds.. and comes back.
I don't know what to do. I am currently downloading the correct firmware for the phone, it's like 1.5 gigs.. and I've got Odin as well.. however my phone is not recognized. As in nothing is detected. So I don't know what I should do.
I even tried going to recovery mode by pressing VolUp+Power+Home button. Nothing.
Please help me.
Thank you!!
I am terribly sorry. I am an Idiot.
It was VolDown+Power+Home button. Now I am on the downloading screen...
Once again. I am sorry. I now fixed it somehow. I just had to read and look at the stupid guides.. which said VolDown.. not Up.
Please remove this thread.. or keep it so people can use this as an example..of how to be an idiot.
Dont be so mad bro
Just a mistake
One piece of advice for you is to install CWM, looks like you haven't installed it. So next time if you want to try out something you can do a backup.
Saturday evening I got a notification saying 5.0 lollipop was available for my s5 so I eagerly downloaded the update. During the update my phone froze and crashed (had this happen twice earlier in the day) and it rebooted to the update screen. Once the update finished installing the phone rebooted like normal and sat at the verizon screen for about 2 minutes before crashing again. This caused the phone to enter a boot loop that ended up making an open padlock symbol appear on the start screen. After this appeared it took me to a screen that said "System software not authorized by Verizon has been found on your phone". After getting this error I tried using Odin and Kies to reinstall 4.4 on my device. The install was successful but after the phone booted it was freeze and crash again leading to another boot loop and a "recovery booting" message in the top left screen. It now either boots back to the System software screen or loops until it hits the recovery menu. Is there any way to fix this or did Verizon brick my phone?
koerng said:
Saturday evening I got a notification saying 5.0 lollipop was available for my s5 so I eagerly downloaded the update. During the update my phone froze and crashed (had this happen twice earlier in the day) and it rebooted to the update screen. Once the update finished installing the phone rebooted like normal and sat at the verizon screen for about 2 minutes before crashing again. This caused the phone to enter a boot loop that ended up making an open padlock symbol appear on the start screen. After this appeared it took me to a screen that said "System software not authorized by Verizon has been found on your phone". After getting this error I tried using Odin and Kies to reinstall 4.4 on my device. The install was successful but after the phone booted it was freeze and crash again leading to another boot loop and a "recovery booting" message in the top left screen. It now either boots back to the System software screen or loops until it hits the recovery menu. Is there any way to fix this or did Verizon brick my phone?
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Try doing a wipe and then factory reset from recovery mode.
Rapunzl said:
Try doing a wipe and then factory reset from recovery mode.
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Still boots with the custom rom padlock and freezes on the verizon screen
Try pulling the battery. I've read where that's helped some people get it to boot.
newmanx4 said:
Try pulling the battery. I've read where that's helped some people get it to boot.
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I've got to pull it when it freezes, I think the problem is that its reading it as a rooted rom even though its not
Same problem
koerng said:
Saturday evening I got a notification saying 5.0 lollipop was available for my s5 so I eagerly downloaded the update. During the update my phone froze and crashed (had this happen twice earlier in the day) and it rebooted to the update screen. Once the update finished installing the phone rebooted like normal and sat at the verizon screen for about 2 minutes before crashing again. This caused the phone to enter a boot loop that ended up making an open padlock symbol appear on the start screen. After this appeared it took me to a screen that said "System software not authorized by Verizon has been found on your phone". After getting this error I tried using Odin and Kies to reinstall 4.4 on my device. The install was successful but after the phone booted it was freeze and crash again leading to another boot loop and a "recovery booting" message in the top left screen. It now either boots back to the System software screen or loops until it hits the recovery menu. Is there any way to fix this or did Verizon brick my phone?
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I am having the EXACT same issue. I need to something up and going. Any help here would be appreciated.
BryceRuss said:
I am having the EXACT same issue. I need to something up and going. Any help here would be appreciated.
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Have you tried talking to verizon yet? I'm gonna take my phone down to the store tomorrow and see if theres anything they can do.
koerng said:
Have you tried talking to verizon yet? I'm gonna take my phone down to the store tomorrow and see if theres anything they can do.
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Ok, so I am safe now. I was able to flash a stock NK2 Kernal.
Pull the battery on the phone. Hold down Vol. Down, Home, and Power and go to download mode. Plug in the phone, and open Odin. Flash the kernal.
Reboot and you should be ok. This just worked for me.
BryceRuss said:
Ok, so I am safe now. I was able to flash a stock NK2 Kernal.
Pull the battery on the phone. Hold down Vol. Down, Home, and Power and go to download mode. Plug in the phone, and open Odin. Flash the kernal.
Reboot and you should be ok. This just worked for me.
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I tried flashing the kernel, it booted and I got an error that said "processing system isn't responding" and it crashed back to the verizozn software screen.
koerng said:
I tried flashing the kernel, it booted and I got an error that said "processing system isn't responding" and it crashed back to the verizozn software screen.
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If Kies doesn't work, try Verizon Update Tool. It also has a repair tab and may help you get back to stock.
Rapunzl said:
If Kies doesn't work, try Verizon Update Tool. It also has a repair tab and may help you get back to stock.
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The verizon tool won't even recognize my phone
koerng said:
The verizon tool won't even recognize my phone
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Instead of flashing only the kernel, flash a stock, unrooted retail version of KK 4.4.4.
BryceRuss said:
Ok, so I am safe now. I was able to flash a stock NK2 Kernal.
Pull the battery on the phone. Hold down Vol. Down, Home, and Power and go to download mode. Plug in the phone, and open Odin. Flash the kernal.
Reboot and you should be ok. This just worked for me.
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This worked for me as well, thanks! For anyone that wants to know, I used "NK2_Stock_Restore.tar.md5" specifically. You can get it from this thread labeled as "NK2 Stock Restore".
Hello i just bought new Galaxy Tab A 9.7 LTE SM-T555 , once i did rooted and it was working well , but currently it just hanged and i did hard restart with "Volume Down + Power button" it start well at first then after few minutes it just restarting continuous and freezes in Samsung Logo, i even try to flash ROM with KIES and even with ODIN (ROM downloaded from Samsung website), but non of them seems working, after successful completion of the Flashing when it comes to restart the TAB, it goes on same Previous stage , freezes in Samsung LOGo. i am trying for two days but could not figure out, Please anyone who has same problem and SOLVED , could you just help me to get rid of this Problem. It is killing me, i am spending hrs and hrs to figure but no success. I hope to get the any suggestion and help :crying: . Thank you in Advance.
pitho said:
Hello i just bought new Galaxy Tab A 9.7 LTE SM-T555 , once i did rooted and it was working well , but currently it just hanged and i did hard restart with "Volume Down + Power button" it start well at first then after few minutes it just restarting continuous and freezes in Samsung Logo, i even try to flash ROM with KIES and even with ODIN (ROM downloaded from Samsung website), but non of them seems working, after successful completion of the Flashing when it comes to restart the TAB, it goes on same Previous stage , freezes in Samsung LOGo. i am trying for two days but could not figure out, Please anyone who has same problem and SOLVED , could you just help me to get rid of this Problem. It is killing me, i am spending hrs and hrs to figure but no success. I hope to get the any suggestion and help :crying: . Thank you in Advance.
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First or second Samsung logo?
Try factory reset in recovery.
ashyx said:
First or second Samsung logo?
Try factory reset in recovery.
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Thank you. It is in second logo where it only shows "Samsung" i tried even in factory reset but could not help.
pitho said:
Thank you. It is in second logo where it only shows "Samsung" i tried even in factory reset but could not help.
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Hang on second boot usually means a corrupt data partition or bad app.
After factory reset leave your tablet alone for 15mins. It should boot after that.
ashyx said:
Hang on second boot usually means a corrupt data partition or bad app.
After factory reset leave your tablet alone for 15mins. It should boot after that.
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i reset in factory and leave it for couple of hrs but still same freezing in logo. I think now am slowly loosing hope :crying:
Go to recovery and factory reset again then immediately boot to Download mode and flash the correct firmware with odin.
Make sure there are no errors when flashing and it flashes successfully.
Reboot and wait at least 10mins.
ashyx said:
Go to recovery and factory reset again then immediately boot to Download mode and flash the correct firmware with odin.
Make sure there are no errors when flashing and it flashes successfully.
Reboot and wait at least 10mins.
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I did even tried as you said, but still same problem, i feel now its completely permanently broken. Can we use other custom rom ?, is there any available for these model?. May be i can try with other unofficial ROM. and let see.
pitho said:
I did even tried as you said, but still same problem, i feel now its completely permanently broken. Can we use other custom rom ?, is there any available for these model?. May be i can try with other unofficial ROM. and let see.
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It is not broken @pitho. I have been in this situation. The problem is occurring because Samsung is such a heavily modded rom, it takes a long time to load and just as @ashyx said, because of a bad app. Some apps are aimed for Vanilla Android, but the developer does not restrict the app only for Vanilla devices but makes it universal. So, in order to get out, download the correct firmware from Updato.com
Press on the OS Updates in the website and you type in the device's name and the current build and what kind of version you want. (Ex: If you have Marshmallow, and your device had Lollipop before, you could degrade your firmware)
Download Odin (Just search it up on Google and you should find a download link)
Plug in your device to the PC after it is in Download Mode (Volume Down + Power Button + Home Button)
On Odin, it should say Device added!
Press AP slot and find the firmware (.tar.md5 or just .tar) you downloaded from Updato.com and select it.
Press Start on the bottom of the application and it should start. It takes about 2 minutes or longer to finish flashing.
There! You just restored your device! It will take a few minutes for the device to boot up and should be installing any additional files that were included in the Official Firmware.
Happy Flashing with ODIN!
I have a TMobile/MetroPCS GS4 model SGH-M919N that got stuck in a boot loop last week. I was finally able to find working firmware last night and used Odin to flash. Once it got to PASS my phone automatically rebooted with the blue recovery boot text in the top left, but then it just went back into a boot loop. I tried all other firmwares and none of them got to 100% so now I don't know what else I can do.
I have the same issue on a GT-i9505. I was using my phone this evening when it randomly rebooted and just keep rebooting until I removed my battery. After that, it was dead . Flashing stock firmwares like shooting a minigun and nothing works. Smells like a hard brick?
alesu69 said:
I have the same issue on a GT-i9505. I was using my phone this evening when it randomly rebooted and just keep rebooting until I removed my battery. After that, it was dead . Flashing stock firmwares like shooting a minigun and nothing works. Smells like a hard brick?
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Have you tried replacing the battery? I figured I would try that but I havent gotten around to it yet
Not yet, i have no spare battery. Looks like when i plug the charger my phone just vibrates, like it's rebooting, and it's not showing anything. I found a similar issue here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2532447
Looks like one guy did solve his problem.
*need to mention that by dead I mean it shows the "Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9505" logo and also shows "RECOVERY BOOTING", even though I didn't enter in recovery mode. Looks like now it doesn't shows anymore "RECOVERY BOOTING", but still, it doesn't boot. I was able to flash firmwares via odin and kies, but still no luck.
LE: It start booting by.. magic, i got to samsung boot logo, but that's all, crashed again.
After flash with Odin, immediately boot into recovery, perform a factory wipe, and reboot.
The problem is it doesn't boot into recovery.
LE: I managed to flash twrp via odin and boot into recovery, but i have an error:
"Unable to mount /data"
Any ideas?
LE2: Everything is useless, i managed to flash the rom, manage to boot into the rom, but then it will still reboot (which it did). Next step will be maybe to disassemble and clean all contacts.
alesu69 said:
The problem is it doesn't boot into recovery.
LE: I managed to flash twrp via odin and boot into recovery, but i have an error:
"Unable to mount /data"
Any ideas?
LE2: Everything is useless, i managed to flash the rom, manage to boot into the rom, but then it will still reboot (which it did). Next step will be maybe to disassemble and clean all contacts.
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How did you manage to get into recovery?
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How did you manage to get into recovery?
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Yes, but if I leave my phone in recovery (stock or custom), it just either freezes, either reboots, even though i don't do anything, just let it idle.
I can't manage to boot into the ROM 'cause eventually it will reboot. I couldn't finish the setup wizard.
OK so I don't know if this helps, but I managed to at least get past the "blue recovery boot" part. When the phone vibrated I let go of the power while still holding home + vol up, and I managed to get to the android guy with a blue progress bar below him. My phone shut off as the progress bar got 80-90% but now I know it's not impossible to start recovery.
Well, nothing works. After flashing pit file, an 4.4.2 odin prerooted image from here, cf auto root and then twrp, it will still randomly reboot. I manage to get past the boot logo into setup wizard, but phone just freezes after a couple of minutes, can't finish the setup wizard. Also, if i idle in twrp it will reboot sooner or later, tested already.I left my phone idling in twrp just to recharge my battery.
At least i have no more "unable to mount /data" errors.
I finally got it to work, all I had to do is keep flashing twrp and stock firmware back and forth. But it is just one problem after another with this thing, the problem now is every 5 minutes it will freeze and restart, also it tells me there is no sim even though it worked the first time i put it back in.
Operation Ivy said:
I finally got it to work, all I had to do is keep flashing twrp and stock firmware back and forth. But it is just one problem after another with this thing, the problem now is every 5 minutes it will freeze and restart, also it tells me there is no sim even though it worked the first time i put it back in.
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What do you mean with back and forth?
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What do you mean with back and forth?
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It means he flahsed and reflashed many times until he got lucky and it worked. That's what happened to me also. But i have the same issue, phone reboots or freezez after a couple of minutes, even though everything else is installed properly.
Dude, we have the same issue. Btw, is this happening to you too? Like, now and then when the phone freezes, that the screen is turning to a bright yellowish green?
I know a friend who repairs phone hardwares for a living, i gave it to him, i'll let you know how this went.
alesu69 said:
It means he flahsed and reflashed many times until he got lucky and it worked. That's what happened to me also. But i have the same issue, phone reboots or freezez after a couple of minutes, even though everything else is installed properly.
Dude, we have the same issue. Btw, is this happening to you too? Like, now and then when the phone freezes, that the screen is turning to a bright yellowish green?
I know a friend which repairs phone hardwares for a living, i gave it to him, i'll let you know how this went.
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I got several times into Recovery Mode now, flashed several ROMs. I had no issues with freezing, especially not in TWRP Recovery Mode. But sometimes if i am trying to go into Recovery Mode or i just want to start ROMs, the screen turns into yellow behind the Samsung logo. If i dont take out the battery this wents into a complete white, but nothing happens.
Yes please tell if you got some news..
guys its not hard bricked its a problem wiht your power button
my friend had the same issue and then i killed the battery by letting it keeep bootlooping
then plugged it in and let it charge to around 10% and booted it
just try to press the power button slowly
Joashrox said:
guys its not hard bricked its a problem wiht your power button
my friend had the same issue and then i killed the battery by letting it keeep bootlooping
then plugged it in and let it charge to around 10% and booted it
just try to press the power button slowly
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But it is sure that the power button is working because i get this blue "recovery booting". Or am i wrong?
So.... bad news, the guy whom i gave the phone to said that it's a short on the motherboard and there's nothing he can't do other than changing the motherboard. If you guys found another solution and that guy is mistaking, let me know.
alesu69 said:
So.... bad news, the guy whom i gave the phone to said that it's a short on the motherboard and there's nothing he can't do other than changing the motherboard. If you guys found another solution and that guy is mistaking, let me know.
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Replace power button to new one. I have the same problems with s3 and this works. Try it.
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My phone is dead, it's not even charging anymore. The guy whom I give it to said it's a short on the motherboard. You guys managed to solve something with your phones? Or still a dead end?
alesu69 said:
My phone is dead, it's not even charging anymore. The guy whom I give it to said it's a short on the motherboard. You guys managed to solve something with your phones? Or still a dead end?
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If You can't charge phone... Yup, motherboard is died. If You plug the charger and see something this have to be button but if You plug charger and don't see anything this is motherboard.