My sister acquired a Galaxy S5 on Craigslist that is seemingly soft-bricked. It boots up until part way through the animated Samsung logo and black screens.
The model is SM-G900A according to the sticker under the battery and it is an AT&T phone. I've attempted to follow one of the recovery guides floating around here to reflash the stock firmware, but I'm still stuck at the exact same place where it goes black during that Samsung logo.
If someone would be so kind as to point me to the correct guide if one exists on how to recover from this.
If more information is needed I'll try to provide it as best I can.
Hi guys,
I've bought a used s4, and after some time spended knowing the new cell phone I saw on the boot screen "Galaxy GT-I9515L" and start to look for a custom rom to this model. But there isn't any one right?
But there's some weird thing , in the back part of the cell where's located the battery is written model "I9505" and the box that came with it have the same thing, "model "i9505".
But when I tried to install a custom or the original rom for this version using the Odin an error message appears and I can't install. Then I tried to put a original lolipop version to "I9515L" and works fine whitout problems and errors.
So what can it be? Maybe the older owner had put an wrong rom? If so, how can I fix this?
Sorry for my bad English. Hope that you guys can understand and help me.
Thanks
Boot into download mode. There is your model.
Ignore everything else, just look at the download mode.
Hi people. As you may imagine, i've been trying to update to Lollipop since it was released for my device like a month ago (i have a SM-G530M, LTE version in Argentina), but i'm experiencing, like some people, a weird problem whenever i try to flash the last firmware through ODIN ( G530MUBU1BPH2_G530MUUB1BPH2_G530MUBU1BPG1_HOME.tar.md5 ).
>>I'll give details about my issue to make myself clear
The thing is that, Odin shows me the "Passed" message, and when the phone should reboot and make a fresh start (i made sure to wipe /data, /cache and dalvik), it shows the initial "Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime - Powered by Android" screen (which i must tell..., shows up for many seconds, and then, the screens turns gray with many bars, so after a couple of minutes, it restarts again.
In this scenario, i can't access the recovery mode, though i can still fortunately get into download mode, so i had to stick in kitkat searching for a solution.
After some googling, i came across with this:
htcmania. com/showthread .php?t= 1067200
Effectively, the problem is caused by owning a NON-original touchscreen replacement, and to make sure, i asked for help to my friend to disconnect the screen while trying to boot into Lollipop. The idea behind this was to wait for the typical startup sound since the system didn't even show the boot animation during the failure (and the phone would get warm too). So, with the display and digitalizer disconnected, we could hear the startup sound! and the heat was gone. So my problem is that i have the touchscreen of another Grand Prime variant, made for the G530H "Duos". It works ok, but only in Kitkat.
I tried to get the original replacement specifically for my variant (G530M), but i can't get it even on the internet.
In the meanwhile, i thought about installing lollipop and then, restoring/installing the previous Kitkat bootloader over, but i suspect this may be dangerous.
Would this brick my device? I'm aware that Lollipop brought changes to the bootloader so the problem is to make the system boot in the first place.
Just that, thanks a lot in advance!
alpha-ro said:
Hi people. As you may imagine, i've been trying to update to Lollipop since it was released for my device like a month ago (i have a SM-G530M, LTE version in Argentina), but i'm experiencing, like some people, a weird problem whenever i try to flash the last firmware through ODIN ( G530MUBU1BPH2_G530MUUB1BPH2_G530MUBU1BPG1_HOME.tar.md5 ).
>>I'll give details about my issue to make myself clear
The thing is that, Odin shows me the "Passed" message, and when the phone should reboot and make a fresh start (i made sure to wipe /data, /cache and dalvik), it shows the initial "Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime - Powered by Android" screen (which i must tell..., shows up for many seconds, and then, the screens turns gray with many bars, so after a couple of minutes, it restarts again.
In this scenario, i can't access the recovery mode, though i can still fortunately get into download mode, so i had to stick in kitkat searching for a solution.
After some googling, i came across with this:
htcmania. com/showthread .php?t= 1067200
Effectively, the problem is caused by owning a NON-original touchscreen replacement, and to make sure, i asked for help to my friend to disconnect the screen while trying to boot into Lollipop. The idea behind this was to wait for the typical startup sound since the system didn't even show the boot animation during the failure (and the phone would get warm too). So, with the display and digitalizer disconnected, we could hear the startup sound! and the heat was gone. So my problem is that i have the touchscreen of another Grand Prime variant, made for the G530H "Duos". It works ok, but only in Kitkat.
I tried to get the original replacement specifically for my variant (G530M), but i can't get it even on the internet.
In the meanwhile, i thought about installing lollipop and then, restoring/installing the previous Kitkat bootloader over, but i suspect this may be dangerous.
Would this brick my device? I'm aware that Lollipop brought changes to the bootloader so the problem is to make the system boot in the first place.
Just that, thanks a lot in advance!
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Did you ever try to buy it at Samsung Store? They maybe have it
I didn't consider that, i'll see if i can contact them directly, hopefully i can get the replacement i need. Thanks friend!
Hi im new here i have failed to remove the built in optus splash screen on startup and shut down.. flashing is not an option as there is no rom custom or stock at all i looked through 87 google results including samsworld .i tried rom toolbox pro file explorer and es file explorer and they both only found the samsung boot and shutdown screen images i am rooted and running jellybean im not game to flash anyway as have not done it before and it seems like a lot of techy work is involved of which i am not good at there were plenty of results for the I9505 and the I9500 but not for my version of the s4 is there any way around flashing to rid my annoyance of the optus splash screen as it seems there are no roms for my model of phone i hope i am not stuck with it thank you all
Hi there,
I will move your thread in the correct forum dedicated to Samsung S4 for more relevant answers.
Good luck
Here you can find ROMs for your model. Specifically, the JDCTeam ROMs support it.
But is it worth removing that splash screen? You only see it for a few seconds during a reboot. And, unless you reboot like 10-20 times a day, I don't see how adding a new one would be beneficial, as you're not going to see it so much.
I honestly don't think it's worth it. But I'm an idiot, so what do I know
PS: The phone model is I9507 (with an i) not 19507.
Got a slight problem here.
First of all how do I find out the original network / carrier the phone was on?
I stupidly went and flashed the XSA (Australia) firmware without making note of the original carrier. Is there a way I can find out?
Secondly every time I boot the phone up it does a boot loop at least 4 times before it gets into the system.
Any ideas on this?
Thanks
G900i
My device came with Telstra firmware. I have flashed XSA, Optus, Vodafone, Spark NZ and India.
No problems.
Did you use Odin to flash your firmware?
What country are you in?
Hi
Yes I am in Australia and yep I used Odin.
It seems that even flashing TWRP the same issue I encounter but the strange thing is, although it shows up 'Recovery booting' and shows the Samsung Galaxy S5 splash logo I can still press buttons on the phone and I know this because it vibrates. Its almost like TWRP is there and is open in the background but its just not displaying at all. I have honestly tried so much.
I have downloaded (Using Sam Firm) the latest XSA and even found the PIT file to re partition but that made no difference.
The phone has had a total of around 7 LCD screens installed which came from various sellers in China. Due to the constant connection and disconnections of them I would say it may well be responsible for this issue as it has caused no doubt some considerable amount of stress to the motherboard. Maybe I am wrong I am just not sure.
It is a bizarre issue. I have never come across it before.
Standard stock recovery is also behaving the same way... I am getting, in blue, on the top of the screen 'Recovery Booting' then thats it... just that... waiting for ages and nothing happens but I am pretty sure that it is actually open behind the message which says 'Recovery Booting'
The whole things a bit of a mess.... When starting up the OS normally it takes around 5 bootloops for it to actually load up lol
Wow!! That's just crazy. Sounds like your device might have seen better days.
Occasionally I think its good to take the phone back to kitkat then to MM before twrp and custom roms.
I currently run klte version of /e/ pie ROM on my device which works very good. Un-Googled so my tired battery lasts better.
Best of luck with your problem.
Happy New Year mate.