device half bricked, after attempted custom rom install - P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I`m able to unbrick my phone by rolling back to android 5.0.1 and with that installed it works just fine. It works just fine with a emui 3.1 stock rom and witch a custom rom based on lollipop, but everything android 6 and above won`t work, it doesn`t matter if it`s a stock rom or a custom rom. Must of the time it boots until it comes to this the system is optimised screen, but from there on it keeps resetting, sometimes it is at let`s say 55% before it resets after it reset it continues on from there let`s say 91% but after resetting after that it is back to let`s say 45%. Another weird thing i got to the setup using a stock marshmallow rom and while i was trying to set up the phone it kept resetting at different stages of the setup almost as if it was timesurten. One time i got it set up but it still kept resetting after some time. And if i go to something based on a even more recent operating system like for example oreo it keeps bootlooping to the startup animation. Bootom line my phone is doing weird things now and i need help.

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Stock Everything

What I want to do is install a stock non rooted rom, kernel, and recovery. I am not sure how to change recovery to stock either is it like flashing a rom? Please give me some links for these I can't seem to find them, besides the stock kernel I found that.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------The reason I want the above is bellow, if it matters.-----------------------------------------------------
My phone is about 95% broken.
Before, every rom/kernel combination would randomly restart, it was my phone it self I believe.
I went to a stock rooted rom, but then it restarted, and my lock screen worked, yet my home screen was black all i could do was slide my status bar down.
After that i restarted my self and then it got stock forever on the screen where it says Samsung galaxy s4.
The 5% working part is my recovery, for the most part.
I keep having to do a full wipe, not just system wipe otherwise it says error unable to mount preload or i/o or a few other things, I have to system wipe before every rom attempt.
I tried several popular roms such as sacs and triforce and a few other roms and all the kernels also.
The phone will turn on, work for a little normally, then crash again and go into the infinite loading screen where is simply says galaxy s4.
This phone is only 3 months old, so I want to take it back to sprint being completely stock so they give me a new phone.
I need links to files I need, and if i am forgetting to change anything back to stock please let me know. Thank you.
I replied to you in the newbie thread, but to return to complete stock download the latest firmware from here: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/ and install it with odin. Do a factory reset before and after install to make sure you have cleared out what ever is causing your problems. After this process you will be completely stock and unrooted. If you are still having problems after this it is probably hardware related.

[Q] Weird issues after trying to restore stock ROM

Help please! I flashed an S5 port ROM onto my Note 3 which ran well, then I decided to go back to stock and tried to flash the latest stock Telstra (Australia) ROM via Odin and got weird process failed errors after first boot on my N9005 model.
Decided to try a custom ROM again which loads OK, but the phone isn't right. It doesn't respond correctly when I press the power button, and when it does, I swipe to unlock but 80% of the time it doesn't respond. It also seems to randomly vibrate every now and then. Something is really screwed up with it. I've tried flashing the latest SweetRom and also the S5 port I had on there before but they both have the same issue. Camera isn't working properly, the app loads but doesn't show an image and eventually says "media server failed. camera needs restart". This is on the S5 ROM
Did flashing the S5 ROM update something on the phone to a newer version which I've screwed up trying to go back to the Telstra ROM? I am doing a full wipe of cache/system/dalvik before flashing as well. The stock ROM is completely unusable, I can't proceed through the setup wizard because I get an endless loop of process failure error prompts. With custom ROMs I can at least get through the setup wizard but the phone isn't functioning right.
Video I recorded below after a clean flash of SweetRom which should make the issues easier to understand,
So I've just done some experimenting and flash an AOSP ROM (Liquid Smooth) and have NO issues, even the camera works perfectly. Phone locks and unlocks instantly. I'm completely stumped as to why this is only happening on Samsung ROMs
This has been fixed, I flashed N9005XXUGNG1_N9005OXAGNG1_N9005XXUGNG1_HOME.tar.md5 via Odin and my phone is working perfectly now

Optimizing Apps on every boot.

I noticed a week or so ago that every time I reboot my Nexus 4, I have to sit through the optimizing apps every time. I have been going crazy searching for info on this and cant seem to find anything that helps. Phone is running 5.1.1, nothing custom, OTA update. I tried rolling back to 4.2 and everything seemed ok up until I got back to 5.1.1, then optimizing apps every boot again. I prefer Lollipop, but this constant half hour + delay before I can use the phone is unacceptable.
Any help would be appreciated, I really can't afford to buy another phone right now but this is driving me crazy trying to figure it out.
orangej said:
I noticed a week or so ago that every time I reboot my Nexus 4, I have to sit through the optimizing apps every time. I have been going crazy searching for info on this and cant seem to find anything that helps. Phone is running 5.1.1, nothing custom, OTA update. I tried rolling back to 4.2 and everything seemed ok up until I got back to 5.1.1, then optimizing apps every boot again. I prefer Lollipop, but this constant half hour + delay before I can use the phone is unacceptable.
Any help would be appreciated, I really can't afford to buy another phone right now but this is driving me crazy trying to figure it out.
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I'm not an expert but I have some experience with my Nexus 4..
any root? SuperSu maybe?
You receive the 'Android is starting optimising app xx of xx'?
if you have SuperSu, install the last version...
Another cause may be some file in your internal storage, make a backup, delete all and restart 2 times to see if there is a change...
Last resort, flash the rom stock with nexus root toolkit with all wipe
I did use NRT to flash 4.2 back on and wiped it, then let it work its way through the upgrades again. Once it got back to 5.0+ the optimizing problem started. Phone was not rooted, just bootloader unlocked.
I flashed a custom rom based on Oreo on it and the problem stopped, so I am assuming this is a Lollipop problem, but I would really rather be able to run stock Lollipop on my phone.

Phone stops charging midway, cannot install updates after installing LineageOS 14.1?

im not sure if this is related to the Lineage installation but after installing it and restoring it back to stock OS my phone will randomly stop charging. further the other day battery % was stuck at 89% for like 15 minutes which i found strange, i immediately rebooted and it gave me a different number. cannot install samsung updates either, every time i tap the manual installation setting it says my OS was modified in a non-authorized manner
its a J320-FN btw. thanks
Cannot install updates etc
You say you have restored your original OS but your phone is still rooted - this will most likely flag an error with the updates. I have been running Lineage since last December and would never go back to the outdated OS it was installed with.
djrigsby said:
You say you have restored your original OS but your phone is still rooted - this will most likely flag an error with the updates. I have been running Lineage since last December and would never go back to the outdated OS it was installed with.
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my phone isnt rooted as far as i know (i've tried to use apps which require root and it tells me it isnt rooted). i've had this issue before the last time i installed and reinstalled Lineage and it eventually let me update (after a couple of days/reboots iirc). either way that doesnt concern me as much as the battery thing

SM-P580 blackscreen problem

So tl;dr version - i was using my tablet, saw an update to magisk, installed it, now it boots to black screen while running sambones rom
[SM-P580] [BQK1] SaMBoNeS
TWRP 3.2.3.0 --> 3.3.1.0
longer story:
i was trying to get a game to run, it wasnt...and realized it has been a while for a restart, so i checked to see if anything needs to be updated and saw magisk needed an update. i didnt note what version it was before but it was a version or two earlier than what it was trying to install.
rebooted to blackscreen no samsung logo
have tried restarting a dozen times, booted to TWRP, tried to force normal system boot through the UI, nothing.
I tried installing a new kernal [SiriKernel], it made it to the samsung logo, waited 15 - 20 minutes and it never made it past. restored a backup using TWRP
updated TWRP to 3.3.1.0, still no luck.
i had this problem a long time ago, and cannot figure out how i fixed it....it may have fixed itself but it isnt this time. any advice would be appreciated. I am trying to avoid wiping and starting again if at all possible because the problem seems familiar. also trying to stick to a rom for use with adaptive storage. if i do have to wipe if that can be done on a newer stock OS that's fine as well but last time i messed with this tablet it wasnt

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