Hi guys i need help recovering my s4 gt-i9500 i'm a newbe and i think i might have bit off more than i can chew.a few nights ago i download FlymeOS v6.7.1 just to see how it works i did the whole procedure of doing nandroid backups of my current rom which was marshmallow aicp v11 after that i flashed the flymeOS..when i was done exploring it i didnt like that much cause of its limited customization levels so i figured i'd just flash back my nandroid and get on with my life but it didnt go as planned i left the phone restoring and slept next thing i saw in the morning was black screen with an empty battery,i've tired everything flashing twrp from odin,stock rom but i still get stuck on initialization in odin and my phone wont boot into recovery mod it's just stuck on samsung logo at times it passes and led light glows but thats just it with a blank screen i need help it's the only phone i have and i love it:crying::crying:
Tried using different USB cables and USB ports to flash a stock ROM from Sammobile.com?
you need to flash repair firmware with pit file
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Hi all
sgs1 in boot loop when switched on regularly,
and when going to recovery i get what you can see in the attached picture
tried to burn stock rom and custom rom, there's no difference , odin burn pass ok but then it reboots the phone
to the same state.
if any one can help, it would be great.
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?
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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.
I9500 stuck on black screen or rom splash (after boot logo"samung galaxy s4")
Hi
So i got stuck on a black screen (or rom splash for CM 13 and RR ) with every rom i tried(CM13 , RR , MIUI , FirstFlight Note7 Themed V4 ... ) even the stock 'I9500XXUHOH6_I9500OJVHOG3_I9500XXUHOG2_HOME) with ODIN is stuck on black screen.
the past week ResurrectionRemix-M was working great .. till it restarted and got stuck on it's bootlogo ..
PS : my phone is simlocked
PS 2 : MIUI7 6.5.21 by shuaidi is still working (with camera , storage and other bugs )
Update : MIUI's setting says that IMEI is empty
Did you boot into stock recovery and perform a factory wipe before booting the stock rom for the first time?
i did .. didn't work :/
Maybe flash the stock ROM with a pit file?
If the IMEI is empty, you need to inject the imei back into the phone.
sorry i dont get it , how do i do all of these things ?
why does the MIUI7 6.5.21 by shuaidi works ??
you probably marked the option "auto reboot". Unmark it the next time. If it doesnt straight boot from download mode then reboot the phone and it will work. Also it could have just been corrupted rom.
i tried 2 stock roms and like 5 or 6 costum roms only one worked
why don't you just flash a twrp recovery? More efficent than using odin.
i did ! costum roms can only be flashed with twrp anyway ...
If the imei is not shown with any ROM, then the phone won't be able to connect to a network. I recommend fixing the imei problem first so the phone can connect to a network. If you can't get the phone to boot any ROM, not sure how to fix the imei issue.
please help
for now i dont care for the imei problem as much as i do for the phon getting to start !
i also have a Can't mount efs problem
You probably can't mount efs because the directory has been wiped or is corrupt which caused the loss of imei.
well i flashed a "Modem" file and it's now okay with the stock and costum roms but i dont have imei and baseband ...
trying to write them i lost completely my phone... it dont even turn on now ...
first it restarted for like 3 times then won't turn on ...
Is the battery drained?
no .. it dont even turn on with the charger plugged in
So you got the phone to boot properly with a stock rom and still no imei? After this, you started flashing custom Roms which caused phone to restart and not turn on anymore? Were the custom Roms made for your phone?
no it turned of with the lastest stock rom btw thank you a lot for responding you're a great man !
Hi,
My galaxy S4 decided to poop itself yesterday. I was browsing my emails and the phone restarted by itself. . but then it kept restarting over and over again (Boot loop). The phone felt hot, so i took the battery out and left the phone for a while.
Once i put the battery back in, the phone kept boot looping. I managed to get it into safe mode and make sure all my photos were safe – I've just returned from a holiday in Hawaii, so this was very important to me.
After i was able to make sure photos were backed up on the computer, i cleared the cache partition and even did a hard reset. The phone kept boot looping. My phone now gets stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy S4 GT I9505" start up page. I read about issues with the power button, so even atempted to open the phone up and wiggle the power button around a bit by squeezing it with some tweezers. This made no difference. I've even swapped batteries and tried charging it.. this also doesn't work. Currently my phone has the "Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9505".
I have been on whirlpool forums and it was suggested that i reinstall the firmware through odin.. i did, but with great difficulty and many attempts. My phone was able to boot up and i was able to send one message and make one phone call before it went into bootloop again or just switches off and doesn't want to be switched back on again. When the phone was on, no sound was apparent when a phone call/text message came through for testing. I've retried dowloading the software on odin, but when i try to switch my phone on it says "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again".
I've also tried putting the phone on the charger and no sound or green battery coloured animation comes up on the screen now.
Please somebody help
It was the latest stock firmware from sammobile.com that was flashed to the phone? Was the phone factory reset from stock recovery before booting the phone after fllashing with Odin?
As far as I know it was the latest unbranded firmware from sammobile.com.
A factory reset was one of the first things I did after starting the phone up in safe mode and trying to recover files.
The phone has never previously been tampered with. I've only ever upgraded the software through WiFi or Samsung kies. Using Odin was a learning experience for me.
Maybe the factory reset needs to be done from the recovery screen rather than from the ROM settings?
The factory reset was originally performed from the recovery screen. I can no longer get into recovery mode though. It only seems the phone wants to get into download mode
Have you tried flashing a ROM designed for a particular carrier in your country?
This is going to sound silly.. But I thought that's what I was doing when I went through Odin and got the firmware from sammobile.com
Which version of Odin and firmware was flashed?
What errors occurred during the flash process according to the Odin log?
Tried flashing with a pit file?
I have a samsung s8+ SM-G955F well i had a custom rom on it and all and it worked great for over a year well one day it turned off and when i went to boot it up it would not get past the Samsung Galaxy S8+ logo not the flashing Samsung logo . Well i go and downloaded a the Batman rom by accident and i flashed it through TWRP . went fine booted it same thing as before so i went back into TWRP and restored a backup i had made . Well not knowing the the Batman rom was not the right rom for my phone i tryed installing it again same thing tryed it 4 times well the last time i did it said did i want to install the latest TWRP . So i was alright maybe this will fix it well nope same thing stuck on that logo but then my recovery did not want to work then and i was currently stuck at work and the phone would not shut off well i get home and i find a offical oreo rom for my phone i go into odin and try to flash the BL well it failed and then i learned a trick of a guide to get it to work . well it flashed successfully and my phone turned off and now it wont turn on or anything even when i connect it to a a wall charger or my PC i figured maybe the battery died on me but my issue is when i plug it to the charger it does nothing nothing comes up saying it is charging at all and i am lost what to do if i can just get it to power on i will be able to fix my stuff any solutions as to what i did to it ?