Hi, im having an issue with my Galaxy S4 I9505.
I was having random reboot issues where the phone would boot up and then turn back off.I decided to try flashing the stock ROM via Odin. I tried flashing the stock ROM many times, still no luck . So i then tried flashing a custom Touchwiz ROM (THOR) via TWRP and it worked . It booted up normally and came up to the setup screen. After about 5 minutes of using it, the screen went off and carried on rebooting. I've tried many different ROMs and now the phone won't boot up at all (bootloop) .
Please reply as i've been trying to fix this problem for about 3 days now.
Your help will greatly be appreciated.
By bootloop you mean it constantly reboots or it gets stuck at the boot animation?
If it constantly reboots, it may be a problem with the power button circuit of the button itself.
Pwnycorn said:
By bootloop you mean it constantly reboots or it gets stuck at the boot animation?
If it constantly reboots, it may be a problem with the power button circuit of the button itself.
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it constantly reboots and sometimes gets stuck.
Pwnycorn said:
By bootloop you mean it constantly reboots or it gets stuck at the boot animation?
If it constantly reboots, it may be a problem with the power button circuit of the button itself.
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What do you think I should try doing?
FazXD said:
What do you think I should try doing?
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Well, I'd say it's definitely a hardware issue. Could be your power button, which is an easy fix. But anything else might require a whole motherboard replacement.
Yes i was thinking of buying a new mootherboard
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Hi all, i installed the CM11 on my gf's Galaxy s3 (i9300 international version), the problem is that sometimes it randomly reboots and get stuck in an unusual bootloop. It reaches the bootsplash logo and it keeps rebooting, the only solution to get it back to work is to remove the battery for at least 30 seconds and try to turn it on, sometimes it works.
When the bootloop happens i'm not able to enter the recovery mode, because it just turns on and it keeps rebooting, same thing with download mode.
So, i'm new here, but i read about a common issue which is the sudden death syndrome and half-sds, it might be that? I checked and it has the insane chip.
Any advice/idea? It would be better to flash a stock ROM to be safe?
I would backup the whole device, recover initial firmware using kies emergency recovery mode and then start over again.
Had a similar problem but even worse: same bootloop, but no dice on recovery :\
Was unable to reflash or restore old firmware using Odin, Kies was the only thing that worked for me.
Nemed said:
Hi all, i installed the CM11 on my gf's Galaxy s3 (i9300 international version), the problem is that sometimes it randomly reboots and get stuck in an unusual bootloop. It reaches the bootsplash logo and it keeps rebooting, the only solution to get it back to work is to remove the battery for at least 30 seconds and try to turn it on, sometimes it works.
When the bootloop happens i'm not able to enter the recovery mode, because it just turns on and it keeps rebooting, same thing with download mode.
So, i'm new here, but i read about a common issue which is the sudden death syndrome and half-sds, it might be that? I checked and it has the insane chip.
Any advice/idea? It would be better to flash a stock ROM to be safe?
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Do the reboots occure few seconds after pressing the power button?
I have exactly the same problem and I figured out that my power button is kinda stuck and thus permanently pressed.
This causes the permanent reboot, because holding the power button for a certain amount of time causes a reboot.
Try to push "Vol down"+"Homebutton" instantly after a reboot. If your galaxy enters the download mode (before rebooting again), you have the proof, that it's the fault of the power button due to the fact that pressing the power button would have been necessary.
I hope the fix will be for free under warranty.
At the first moment I also thought it would be the Sudden Death syndrom, but thankfully it's not the case and only the power button has to be fixed.
Togholl said:
Do the reboots occure few seconds after pressing the power button?
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I don't know, i didn't paid attention to it. Anyway thanks to both of you for the replies, i'll check the power button as soon as possible since i don't have the phone with me right now. If that's not the cause, i think i'll do an emergency recover with kies as suggested by Cy4n1d3.
Now i still have a doubt, CM11 should have the fix for the sudden death syndrome merged into its code right? I'm asking this because if i'm right i could exclude sds as the cause of the problem...
Rebooting is not an SDS symptom, SDS is totally dead -suddenly.
Power button failure is diagnosed by inserting the battery, if it turns on by itself then button contacts are shorted out.
Your problem sounds more like corruption of the cache or dalvik, wipe and reflash your rom or go back to stock to test. Check MD5 of downloads and don't restore anything before you test.
Hi guys,
I have an issue with my phone:
Yesterday, tried to restore factory settings, since the phone was quite slow.
A second or so after I confirmed the reset, the phone turned off and wouldn't start.
I took out the battery and it was swollen.
I bought a new battery today, inserted and stated the phone.
What happens now, is that the phone boots, Samsung logo appears, then the TWRP logo appears, from this point, the phone stuck at this logo screen,
and flashes every few seconds (I can't post a video here, so I can share the link in private, if anyone can take a look).
I tried to leave the phone for about 20mins without battery at all, removed SD cards, removed SIM cards, no use.
Trying to boot to recovery or download mode gives the same result.
Tried today with an original battery of a friend's Galaxy S4 , same result.
Does anyone have an idea what I can do?
Thanks in advance for you help
webking said:
Hi guys,
I have an issue with my phone:
Yesterday, tried to restore factory settings, since the phone was quite slow.
A second or so after I confirmed the reset, the phone turned off and wouldn't start.
I took out the battery and it was swollen.
I bought a new battery today, inserted and stated the phone.
What happens now, is that the phone boots, Samsung logo appears, then the TWRP logo appears, from this point, the phone stuck at this logo screen,
and flashes every few seconds (I can't post a video here, so I can share the link in private, if anyone can take a look).
I tried to leave the phone for about 20mins without battery at all, removed SD cards, removed SIM cards, no use.
Trying to boot to recovery or download mode gives the same result.
Tried today with an original battery of a friend's Galaxy S4 , same result.
Does anyone have an idea what I can do?
Thanks in advance for you help
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Sound to me your power button is stuck/faulty. Does it reboot also when in download mode? If so, then it's your power button. Wiggle it loose or replace it.
Lennyz1988 said:
Sound to me your power button is stuck/faulty. Does it reboot also when in download mode? If so, then it's your power button. Wiggle it loose or replace it.
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It never gets to download (or recovery) mode...
It keeps flashing at the logo of the TWRP
Trying to boot to download or recovery modes, gives the same results
I don't think it's the power button. Otherwise it would turn off if it is stuck or not turn on at all if it's faulty.
Still, I wouldn't exclude it.
The screen flashing might related to a GPU problem. I don't think it is a problem you can fix yourself.
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?
audit13 said:
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.
Hi guys, I have a big problem: I was testing Android 7.0 from GtrCraft, but seeing problems with my SIMcard, I wanted to reflash the stock firmware.
Well, after flashing I'm stuck in a strange bootloop that keeps "erasing" with the green robot screen and reboot. I can do nothing. I reflashed, ri-reflashed, tried twrp but it gives me many load errors and reboots. I tried power off, but it stucks anyway on erasing screen. I'm desperate, I don't know what to do...
EDIT: Solved, I forgot a sparsechunk
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Hi, i get the same problem that u told above. My X Play keeps boot loop and start itself again and again unlti the batery is out. When i recharge, it will....bootloop with earsing screen again. Can u tell my how to turn it to flashmode? Thanks so much
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Hi, i get the same problem that u told above. My X Play keeps boot loop and start itself again and again unlti the batery is out. When i recharge, it will....bootloop with earsing screen again. Can u tell my how to turn it to flashmode? Thanks so much
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Turn it off (or wait for it to turn off) and then press power+volume down and hold for 5 seconds
it's work
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Turn it off (or wait for it to turn off) and then press power+volume down and hold for 5 seconds
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Thanks
I had similar issue. To ensure you don't miss anything when flashing stock rom, use Rsdlite
Im so lost with this, im all stock but one day my phone just freezes then bootloop, I would be able to get it work by just leaving it and let it drain itself since it will be boot looping and lock me out completely, like the power button + low volume button would not work even after 10 minutes of holding it, would not boot to download or recovery mode, just the soft touch keys light on and the blue LED.
I reflashed my ROM from sammobile yesterday but did it half-effort, just dirty flashed it but it seemed to reformatted my phone anyway, after reflashing it, everything seemed to work properly for 20 hours and then now im back to this piece of ********* boot looping...
S7 Edge
running the Australia unbranded XSA-G935FXXS1DQG4 from the branded G935FXXS1DQG5,
would flashing de-branded affect this? or this is hardware?, one thing I did that I think was a mistake is that I chose to restore from old device, can apps cause this?
the very first time this happened, I plugged it in to charge then crash and bootloop.
UPDATE:
Things I've tried,
-Booting with NO sim card and SD Card
-Wiping cache and partition then reflashing stock XSA and OPS firmwares
im convinced that this is a hardware issue and will go to Samsung.
mine does this too. crashes then gets into a bootloop at the Samsung logo. I usually try holding the lock and volume down button. I factory reset the phone once but it still keeps happening, this started happening around 4 weeks ago
Guys your Main/Mother-boards are broken.. u need to replace it, or send back to Samsung..
Damn! Crash reboot samsung logo
Damn you say broken mother board...
did this. Press vol down, power button and home key...hmmm... i think...pressed so many combos hard to tell themapart