HELP! Samsung S5 (SM-G900A) continually freezing! - Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have a Samsung S5 that someone gave to me because of a "freezing" issue. So far, I have tried re-flashing the phone with ODIN 3.11.1 using the stock ROM (AP_G900AUCS4CPA2_CL5869384_QB9138830_REV00_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT.tar). I am flashing all 4 of the files (AP, BL, CP & CSC). Sometimes it take a few flashes for the phone to actually boot up. Once it does, it's only a matter of time before it freezes and locks up. When it freezes, I get this "rainbow colored digital noise" across the screen.
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Can someone please tell me what I need to do in order to fix this phone?

it looks like a ribbon cable issue. I think your phone is effed

It sounds like there is a "known" issue with these phones? Will Samsung do anything about it for me under warranty?

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Anybody ever seen this image on their phone?

It happened in between odin tries. ( I have never got odin to work on the first try)I was trying to go back into downloading mode and this poped up. I can only assume this is the picture you get when you dont have a rom on your phone maybe? Anyway I pulled the battery and the odin'd back to stock no problems just though i would snap a picture first.
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Yeah, what you said - it's what you'd see between ROM flashes. ODIN crapped out the first time I ever tried it, and that's the image that was on my phone until it successfully flashed.
never on my epic, but yes i saw it on my moment

Anyone else got this?

Action Memo is appearing 4 times in the app listing, and Merry sure it wasn't like that before.
Can anyone please confirm if they do or don't have this on their Note 3?
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It's not the same apk appearing 4 times, they're different apks. It's always been like that since the Note 3 was released, nothing new.
Thanks for that. I've only had the phone less than 2 weeks but this, problems with the Samsung Apps, video player and lagging was making me consider flashing the stock firmware and starting over.
I guess I won't be going that route after all, just checked SamMobile and their firmware CSC is N900502UDMJ1, mine is N9005OXADMJ4
I'm guessing the PDA is the phones AP number, and the modem is the phones CP number. These both match.
Anyone know if I can safely use this firmware? Thanks

Why does a part of S4 L720 screen goes dead?

My Sprint S4 (L720) phone has stock 4.4.2 (NG2) and is rooted with TWRP v2.8.4 recovery installed. The carrier is RingPlus (Sprint network). Every once in a while the top 1/2" of screen goes dead. When this happens I can't swipe the Notification screen nor activate any icons in that region of screen. I've learned that if I toggle the power button, the issue goes away for awhile. I've not found any correlation as to what causes it to appear. Any ideas on what may be happening and how to cure it?
Any hints?
Try to Odin the stock NG2 tar.
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Cannot flash firmware.

Hello my friends, hope You can help me.
My friend recently came to me with her smartphone - SM-G531F
She said to me this story: during using tinder/snapchat (or some similar sh**) phone freezed. After put-out-in battery phone came up with this:
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And here is the thing. I tried to flash it with odin but no success - no pit partition(3.07 and this new one), I tried to flash it with kies but smarphone acts strange (keep connecting and disconnecting, never connected succesfully).
All tried to do on win8.1 and 10.
Am I missing something? I know the basics, but I'm more familiar with LG and Sony devices.
I'll be happy if someone can give me hand Thanks!
lock bootloader
Are you sure that your USB hubs are working fine?
Nd most probably thats issue of Locked Bootloader. What method are you using to flash it with Odin?

Samsung Galaxy S8+flickering-green-screen

Hello,
my S8+ wasn't dropped and keep the screen green to more colors yesterday back to normal so turned off for charging
but again back flickering screen, please advise
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Probably software update caused it
I tried hard reset, how ti update the software with a screen like this
Have you looked at using Odin yet to flash your device?
Is your device rooted, unlocked?
Really more info is required at this time.
the device is not rooted its stock, i didn't use Odin to flash the device
what else you can help me with, there's any way can read data via laptop so you can assist me with

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