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I9505 (euro/international, not connected to any carrier)
I used to run samsung's 4.2, it ran fine. later I ran some hacked google 4.3, it ran fine too.
after that I tried 4.4.1, and after many trials and tribulations managed to get it to work, with functional wifi and phone. Not sure if I get LTE, never saw the appropriate letter on the signal bar, but then again I can't vouch for LTE network where I live anyway.
but... started getting random lockups/reboots. typically once or twice a day, when phone is idle. I only notice those as I get a notification from startup manager than boot took NN seconds. twice witnessed this first-hand. once while fiddling with the phone, another time during a call.
screen, button backlight, notification etc all go blank, phone stops responding to any buttons. stays like that for half a minute or a minute. after that responds to voldown-power-home hold force reset and possibly a little later to power button hole power on. if left unattentded boots up after a while too.
a possible hint to what's going on, camera freezes sometimes, when it does other apps, like flashlight, refuse to start claiming that dive is already used.
upgraded to janjan 4.4.2 v2.2, problem still there.
verified that I'm running recommended XXUEMKE modem.
not sure what other flashable parts are recommended. e.g. non-hlos.
can someone who runs 4.4.x on i9505 possible tell me exact versions of all the partitions?
or download said partitions and tell me e.g. md5 hashes thereof?
thanks
Hi,
I am new to this forum and do not know much of the technical terms. So here is my problem as best as I could say...
I have a unlocked Samsung S4 purchased last Sept (Philippines/SE Asia version, I think). The phone worked fine until the latest upgrade to Kitkat 3 weeks ago.
A week after the upgrade, the phone started rebooting itself. After checking this forum, it looked like a battery problem. On checking, it did have a swollen battery. At the same time, the S4 stopped working as a phone - meaning I could browse, use apps, but could not make calls.
First changed the battery with an original from Samsung, hoping everything would sort out. Unfortunately, it did not. The phone still kept restarting and the network signal showed as not available. So I went to my provider and got a new SIM card and changed it.
Unfortunately, that has also not solved my problem.
Now, my phone keeps rebooting itself. If I connect it to the charger, then the phone starts successfully. At times, it behaves well, but suddenly/randomly, if I touch an app (any app, no pattern) it will reboot again. Once it starts rebooting, it keeps doing that in the screen which has the samsung music comes - it would turn off again and keep restarting until that screen reaches again. Only if I connect to the charger would it start. Again, there is signal at times and there is no signal most of the times. My area has good network signal, so that should not be the problem.
I tried clearing the cache and clear all data/apps, but still no luck. Also, my battery still has / holds charge - so that is not the problem.
Could somebody please help me!!! Please let me know if you need any other details regarding this.
TIA.
Baseband version: I9505XXUFNBE
1. Sig & log in Sammobile.com
2. Download ur firmware: HERE
3. Unzip it
4. Phone in DOWNLOAD MODE
5. Flash the firmware through ODIN like the pic attached
It has nothing to do with your battery...but yes a swollen battery can be dangerous. Follow the steps told by @Joku1981 and don't upgrade to kitkat. Wait for a stable release from samsung.
Hi,
I have already upgraded to kitkat, so cannot downgrade now.. . I had the request to upgrade to kitkat by the phone (Samsung).
As mentioned by Joku1981, I downloaded the Philippines firmware and did as mentioned. However, the phone was still randomly shutting down on opening some apps (esp Gallery, Playstore, Chrome) and failed to reboot.
I also tried to download the pit file and flash it again as mentioned in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2265477. Still no lock.
I tried with UK's version of firmware, still same problem.
The phone can be restarted only if connected to the usb cable.
The "No Signal" issue seems to have been solved, but the rebooting randomly seems to be a real pain now.
After my latest flash, while i was in the third screen setting up the phone for language/accessibility --> "wi-fi setup" --> "Accept Samsung t&c's", the phone shut down again...
Is there any counter to identify the number of times the phone is flashed? Would it cause any problem?
Thanks
Also No Service now!
Also noticed that after the last 2 restarts, the network signal shows full strength. However the default lock screen shows "No Service" (see picture). When I try to call when the phoneis in this status, the phone gets stuck in the dial screen and has to be rebooted...
akpreets said:
Also noticed that after the last 2 restarts, the network signal shows full strength. However the default lock screen shows "No Service" (see picture). When I try to call when the phoneis in this status, the phone gets stuck in the dial screen and has to be rebooted...
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Though you flashed, do a factory reset one more time to be on the safe side - make sure the phone is 100% charged, and given your case do NOT touch the phone until the reset has completed.
One more thing to try - from experience some batteries are bigger than others and you said your previous one became swollen. This may cause the power pins to become too compressed causing the new battery to lose contact. This manifests on the phone as rebooting at the slightest of movement/flexing, try this:
1. Remove the battery
2. GENTLY pull out slightly the power pins on the phone - don't pull too hard.
3. Put the battery back, put a piece of cardboard or something at the bottom of the battery to make sure there's good contact
Let us know of the results
Nothing seemed to work but only got worse. The phone could not stay on even for a few hours. Finally gave it to the Samsung Service centre yesterday. They sad it might take upto 3 weeks if there was a motherboard change needed.
Fingers crossed...:crying:
It started as a weird feeling. I thought that I had just forgotten that I had changed a setting or two. But now I am certain that the phone changes some settings by itself.
Knock on keeps turning off by itself . I did also enable led notifications a couple of hours ago only to find them turned off now , after I plugged in my device (I didn't see the red light when I locked the screen). I am completely stock . I haven't received the latest OTA update though. Do I need to see a shrink or something strange is going on with the phone's software ?
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It started as a weird feeling. I thought that I had just forgotten that I had changed a setting or two. But now I am certain that the phone changes some settings by itself.
Knock on keeps turning off by itself . I did also enable led notifications a couple of hours ago only to find them turned off now , after I plugged in my device (I didn't see the red light when I locked the screen). I am completely stock . I haven't received the latest OTA update though. Do I need to see a shrink or something strange is going on with the phone's software ?
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I suggest you get an exorcist for your phone immediately, anyways all joking aside did this just begin or has it been happening for a while now, have you installed any weird apps/modules(if rooted), as a last resort you can backup apps(via carbon if not rooted or titanium backup if you are rooted) and music/videos/pictures to your pc and factory resetting to see if the issue persist
XxZombiePikachu said:
I suggest you get an exorcist for your phone immediately, anyways all joking aside did this just begin or has it been happening for a while now, have you installed any weird apps/modules(if rooted), as a last resort you can backup apps(via carbon if not rooted or titanium backup if you are rooted) and music/videos/pictures to your pc and factory resetting to see if the issue persist
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Thank you once again for you answers. I have the phone 3-4 days as I wrote to you in the other thread ! It has been happening from day one. I am completely stock , no root , no nothing. I don't want to hard reset but it may be obligatory in this case.
Yes, I have seen the LGG2 reset settings as well
sachilleas said:
It started as a weird feeling. I thought that I had just forgotten that I had changed a setting or two. But now I am certain that the phone changes some settings by itself.
Knock on keeps turning off by itself . I did also enable led notifications a couple of hours ago only to find them turned off now , after I plugged in my device (I didn't see the red light when I locked the screen). I am completely stock . I haven't received the latest OTA update though. Do I need to see a shrink or something strange is going on with the phone's software ?
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I am so glad to see someone else posting about this. This happens to me so often and is so frustrating.
I see several different changes happening fairly frequently:
1. Date/time settings get changed (auto date time gets disabled, auto time zone gets disabled, use24 hour gets enabled, various combinations of these 3 settings change)
2. Knock on/off gets turned off
Less frequently:
1. Auto rotate turns off
2. Home Screen Background resets and/or theme changes
3. Allow Home screen looping gets disabled
I have Verizon LGG2, rooted,
Android 4.4.2
Baseband version: VS98024A-M8974A-AAAANAZM-2.0.20046
Kernel Version 3.4.0-perf-gdf89a11
Build Number: KOT491,VS98024A
have been unsuccessful updating to the latest OTA - figured it was because of root, after uninstalling root still had the error.
Not sure if that is related.
Both the reset issue and the lack of OTA update are annoying, but not so problematic that I want to reset my phone.
If anyone has seen this issue and/or has suggestions (including reset, I suppose), I'd appreciate it.
Thanks i n advance.
Dave
hi all,
since a day i have an extremely annoying issue with the note3 (sm-9005)
first, when it boots - it takes ca.10 minutes. stuck on the samsung animated logo.
then the black screen appears with the status bar (which i can drag down). normally i should have a lock screen appearing. but it just remains black. and in the status bar i have a message " you can now safely remove sd card" and "tap to enter knox". nothing happens when tapping those two...
can i play back an update from the SD card so that FW renews and i don't have to so factory reset and reinstall everything?
(ps. when connecting phone to a pc it shows no disks inside the phone so that if it still was locked...)
thanks in advance!
What do you mean by an update ???
JJEgan said:
What do you mean by an update ???
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well same thing as one would do using kies, only somehow without kies. i saw in the recover boot an option "apply update from external storage" and was wondering what file could i use for that?
i have SWC region on my device...
Answer is no via above.
Firmware update is via Kies or Odin .
Alternative is custom rom via custom recovery .
Sent from my SM-N920C using XDA-Developers mobile app
UPD: after some searching i was able to unlock the device through samsung's findmomybile. however, half of the apps are missing, most of the ones which are not missing do not work, etc...
i guess not much left but factory reset. hopefully these are not corrupt internal storage problems.
spad said:
UPD: after some searching i was able to unlock the device through samsung's findmomybile. however, half of the apps are missing, most of the ones which are not missing do not work, etc...
i guess not much left but factory reset. hopefully these are not corrupt internal storage problems.
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Did anyone come up with a solution to this other than findmymobile? I have had the same problem with my Note 3, e.g. taking 5-10 mins to load up from power off, the dreaded black screen with the power / wifi / etc icons shown on the top. My Note 3 was password protected as well, meaning I can't get into it even with Kies. I have the latest stock firmware installed.
I hadn't installed any apps to my phone before it died, however I do recall a security update being installed earlier in the day (this looked like an official Android one).
Any ideas? I went along to a Samsung Service Centre for help and they had told me that they had seen at least 5 cases of this on a Note 3 over the last two days.
Security update ??
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same problem
hi,
I have the same problem. how did your problem solved?
jake2097 said:
Did anyone come up with a solution to this other than findmymobile? I have had the same problem with my Note 3, e.g. taking 5-10 mins to load up from power off, the dreaded black screen with the power / wifi / etc icons shown on the top. My Note 3 was password protected as well, meaning I can't get into it even with Kies. I have the latest stock firmware installed.
I hadn't installed any apps to my phone before it died, however I do recall a security update being installed earlier in the day (this looked like an official Android one).
Any ideas? I went along to a Samsung Service Centre for help and they had told me that they had seen at least 5 cases of this on a Note 3 over the last two days.
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Solved !!!!!!!!!
sade9gh said:
hi,
I have the same problem. how did your problem solved?
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I did not receive any response from anyone from anywhere. So I tried on myself and started manipulating every corner. I tried bluetooth and I could backup my contacts. It was the first victory.
I restarted into safemode by holding down the Down Volume for about 10 minutes! I wanted to try calling via pc via bluetooth. Just as a blind try. Meanwhile I saw a Knox notofication I had seen before so I just clicked carelessly. Vow!! The Knox Lock Screen was there blinking behind some error messages. I tried my lock pattern but nothing happended. I tried more and more, I was thinking this may corrupt the LCD! because it was blinking and went on off rapidly.
I saw that a counter is reducing. 20 attempts left.. 19 attempt... I worked hard till 4 or 3 then some message popup saying knox may be uninstalled. I said who cares? and went on. finally knox was uninstalled. I continued manipulating other available corners of the Note 3 and after a while I restarted and vow!! It was like back to life!
I came here writing for those who are out there seeking every corner of the web for a liitle bit of information.
I backed up my stuff and did a factory reset. It seems fine now.
I suggest manipulating every possible sequence of events. It will pop up some error and then the answer may rise!
best wishes
in my case i unlocked it with findmymobile, backed up stuff to SD card and did factory reset without much further thinking.
phone works fine until today
Hi guys, first of all, I came from miui 11.0.6.0 global stable rom and rooted with magisk. I update my note 7 to android 10 global stable version which release recently via "choose update package" in the setting. Everything works perfectly until I boot it up and got "System UI error" pop-up. After clicking wait, the UI restarted but its getting worst. Everything I did even locking the screen was sluggish. So in the end I change back to my original rom and unfortunately, my phone lags too but no error pops up. Trying to clear cache and even clearing the system via orangefox and reinstall the OS but it still lag. Wonder if anyone have the same issue and has solved it?
Alifirdaus said:
Hi guys, first of all, I came from miui 11.0.6.0 global stable rom and rooted with magisk. I update my note 7 to android 10 global stable version which release recently via "choose update package" in the setting. Everything works perfectly until I boot it up and got "System UI error" pop-up. After clicking wait, the UI restarted but its getting worst. Everything I did even locking the screen was sluggish. So in the end I change back to my original rom and unfortunately, my phone lags too but no error pops up. Trying to clear cache and even clearing the system via orangefox and reinstall the OS but it still lag. Wonder if anyone have the same issue and has solved it?
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Format data !
Z750z said:
Format data !
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already done that and it's still lag. Tried it several times and reinstall but no luck. I think it has something to do with my phone compatibility..idrk
Alifirdaus said:
already done that and it's still lag. Tried it several times and reinstall but no luck. I think it has something to do with my phone compatibility..idrk
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Try to flash fastboot stock rom , maybe it will fix your problem.
Stuck on dark mode
I successfully installed the Android 10 OTA update on my Redmi Note7 about two hours ago, however, my phone has been stuck on dark mode ever since.
The toggle isn't activated from quick settings, neither is it switched on from the display settings. This is happening despite my battery being at 68%. It only disable dark mode when I plug it in power outlet.
Please, who knows how I could fix this? I like dark mode but not during the day or in a well lit environment.
I've tried downloading the Themes for Telegram app, using the security app to scan as I read somewhere, heading into developer settings to make sure that dark theme isn't enabled, rebooted my phones a couple of days ago times, with and without charger charger plugged in. I should note that my status bar has been acting weird since I updated to MIUI 11 in January, like showing black icons and text on black background, and vice versa. And the battery icon not reflecting the actual battery status.
Someone help, please. This is getting to my nerves already. ??
Cyb3rFr4nk said:
I successfully installed the Android 10 OTA update on my Redmi Note7 about two hours ago, however, my phone has been stuck on dark mode ever since.
The toggle isn't activated from quick settings, neither is it switched on from the display settings. This is happening despite my battery being at 68%. It only disable dark mode when I plug it in power outlet.
Please, who knows how I could fix this? I like dark mode but not during the day or in a well lit environment.
I've tried downloading the Themes for Telegram app, using the security app to scan as I read somewhere, heading into developer settings to make sure that dark theme isn't enabled, rebooted my phones a couple of days ago times, with and without charger charger plugged in. I should note that my status bar has been acting weird since I updated to MIUI 11 in January, like showing black icons and text on black background, and vice versa. And the battery icon not reflecting the actual battery status.
Someone help, please. This is getting to my nerves already.
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Seems like the only option left
Z750z said:
Format data !
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I've resorted to doing that, but I have to first find a way to backup my app data. My concern, however, is that being that I don't have OrangeFox/TWRP already flashed and rooted, doing that now might lock me out, as I've read comments, on custom recovery threads, that flashing a custom recovery triggers password/PIN request, and formatting data is the only way past it.
My decision not to modify the phone is hitting me hard, now.
Fixed!
I only charge my battery fully every now and then. I don't usually leave it plugged in up to 90% even. Well, I decided to do that, yesterday—to fully charge it. And voila! At 90%, a notification came in that said something along the line of: 90% charged – features enabled (unrestricted)
The notification came from "Battery Saver" but not MIUI. Seems to be fragments of AOSP, can't say for certain, but when I tapped on the notification, it just opened a blank (white) screen. And trying to open the app info reveals it as the "Settings" app.
I had the hunch that it could be caused by remnants of AOSP—one of the first things I tried was use Nova launcher's activities shortcut to see if I could get an activity that points to AOSP battery saver. Then I also used "Hidden Settings For MIUI" to run advanced search for "battery" and "saver", but got no result.
I'll monitor to see if it would come back, in which case I'd try to clear settings app data, and hope that it'd get rid of it entirely.
MIUI 11 based on Android 10 has really got the phone performing nicely again, something MIUI 11 pie update wrecked. The update before this one, MIUI 11.0.6.0, was the worst OEM update I've ever had since I started using Android back in 2012. Just horrible performance, considering the specs of the phone.