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Hi,
**Long Story**
I'm new here - I refrained from posting as I know a repeat post can p*** people off but I can't find my problem or fix it.
My own Sony was stolen a week ago - My brother in law kindly gave me his old S5 as a back up phone.
He has never had any problems with it EVER. I did a factory reset (from the settings menu) to clear his data and straight away I was in a boot loop (Handset vibrates, Samsung logo displays, blue LED, vibrates, handset switches off.. over and over again) the only way to stop this is to remove the battery. I cannot enter recovery mode but I CAN enter download mode. According to the settings the handset was running the latest version of lollipop.
I took the phone home anyway, thinking I could fix it - leaving the battery out in my pocket.
When I got home, I put the battery in and the phone turned on, unfortunately I forgot to put the sim card in - so I removed the battery, put in the sim card and... Boot Loop!
At this point I was really frustrated so I left the battery out and went to sleep. I woke up in the morning, put the battery in and it worked fine, all day, then all of a sudden the phone switched itself off and now I'm back in a boot loop and this time it isn't wanting to work again.
I have:
- Flashed with stock roms using Odin (5.0 & 4.4.2) - Yes, I used the correct firmware for my handset.
- Flashed with Kies to the latest firmware
- In desperation, tried the "Bash your power button against a hard, flat surface" trick
- Shouted at the handset
None of these have worked and every post I have found says to put the phone in recovery mode, I CANT. When I try, the blue "Recovery Booting" text is displayed, but just restarts anyway...
Weirdly and at random times, twice, the phone has powered on while plugged into my laptop, but the screen is blank, I get message sounds and the soft keys below the screen light up, but the screen is blank.
Any body have any idea?!?!! I'm vaguely techy, however not with this kind of thing. Any help would be much appreciated. What confuses me is there was no problem before I did the factory reset.
didscub said:
Hi,
**Long Story**
I'm new here - I refrained from posting as I know a repeat post can p*** people off but I can't find my problem or fix it.
My own Sony was stolen a week ago - My brother in law kindly gave me his old S5 as a back up phone.
He has never had any problems with it EVER. I did a factory reset (from the settings menu) to clear his data and straight away I was in a boot loop (Handset vibrates, Samsung logo displays, blue LED, vibrates, handset switches off.. over and over again) the only way to stop this is to remove the battery. I cannot enter recovery mode but I CAN enter download mode. According to the settings the handset was running the latest version of lollipop.
I took the phone home anyway, thinking I could fix it - leaving the battery out in my pocket.
When I got home, I put the battery in and the phone turned on, unfortunately I forgot to put the sim card in - so I removed the battery, put in the sim card and... Boot Loop!
At this point I was really frustrated so I left the battery out and went to sleep. I woke up in the morning, put the battery in and it worked fine, all day, then all of a sudden the phone switched itself off and now I'm back in a boot loop and this time it isn't wanting to work again.
I have:
- Flashed with stock roms using Odin (5.0 & 4.4.2) - Yes, I used the correct firmware for my handset.
- Flashed with Kies to the latest firmware
- In desperation, tried the "Bash your power button against a hard, flat surface" trick
- Shouted at the handset
None of these have worked and every post I have found says to put the phone in recovery mode, I CANT. When I try, the blue "Recovery Booting" text is displayed, but just restarts anyway...
Weirdly and at random times, twice, the phone has powered on while plugged into my laptop, but the screen is blank, I get message sounds and the soft keys below the screen light up, but the screen is blank.
Any body have any idea?!?!! I'm vaguely techy, however not with this kind of thing. Any help would be much appreciated. What confuses me is there was no problem before I did the factory reset.
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Who is your service provider? Is the phone unlocked? Where did you get the stock firmware from?
Cryceratops said:
Who is your service provider? Is the phone unlocked? Where did you get the stock firmware from?
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Thanks for the reply!
Service Provider - o2 UK
Stock from sanmmob
Phone is not unlocked
I did my best to try & get the firmware for my particular service provider but sammob and a few of the other sites use those awful restricted speed file sharing sites.
didscub said:
Thanks for the reply!
Service Provider - o2 UK
Stock from sanmmob
Phone is not unlocked
I did my best to try & get the firmware for my particular service provider but sammob and a few of the other sites use those awful restricted speed file sharing sites.
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Did you try the one I linked to you or a different one?
Cryceratops said:
Did you try the one I linked to you or a different one?
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Only just saw that - I didnt - thank you.
I will try now but may take a while to get back to you while I wait to download.
Try flashing the PIT file along with the stock ROM in ODIN
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2721101&d=1399024091
Extract to .pit - add to PIT section in ODIN, add ROM to AP or PDA section, flash them both at the same time
*Detection* said:
Try flashing the PIT file along with the stock ROM in ODIN
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2721101&d=1399024091
Extract to .pit - add to PIT section in ODIN, add ROM to AP or PDA section, flash them both at the same time
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Thanks, did that, now the phone has started but it stuck at the first "Powered by Android" screen, not restarting but can't go any further and still cant get into recovery.
didscub said:
Thanks, did that, now the phone has started but it stuck at the first "Powered by Android" screen, not restarting but can't go any further and still cant get into recovery.
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Try flashing just the ROM again, and then try booting into recovery, and factory reset
Or try flashing TWRP 2.8.7.0 with ODIN, and then boot into recovery and factory reset
Use this guide (Don't worry about the SuperSU part if you don't need root, and ignore the reactivation part as you can't boot the phone yet - start at No.3)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=64961009&postcount=2
Are you flashing the latest Lollipop ROM too?
https://mega.nz/#!fVhhzRBC!A79uC8Fgg1mGCZOaujQCzBxcUUN9z_ctVVkigD8ffVM
*Detection* said:
Try flashing just the ROM again, and then try booting into recovery, and factory reset
Or try flashing TWRP 2.8.7.0 with ODIN, and then boot into recovery and factory reset
Use this guide (Don't worry about the SuperSU part if you don't need root, and ignore the reactivation part as you can't boot the phone yet - start at No.3)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=64961009&postcount=2
Are you flashing the latest Lollipop ROM too?
https://mega.nz/#!fVhhzRBC!A79uC8Fgg1mGCZOaujQCzBxcUUN9z_ctVVkigD8ffVM
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flashed TWRP 2.8.7.0 - Doesn't go into revovery:
Recovery is not SEANDROID ENFORCING
Set Warranty Bit : Recovery
I was flashing with G900FXXU1BOJ1_G900FOXA1BOJ1_G900FXXU1BOJ1_HOME.tar.md5
didscub said:
flashed TWRP 2.8.7.0 - Doesn't go into revovery:
Recovery is not SEANDROID ENFORCING
Set Warranty Bit : Recovery
I was flashing with G900FXXU1BOJ1_G900FOXA1BOJ1_G900FXXU1BOJ1_HOME.tar.md5
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Did you follow the guide I linked?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=64961009&postcount=2
Pull the battery after flash, do not allow the phone to reboot first etc?
Because that error is usually associated with you allowing the phone to reboot Automatically after flashing TWRP
*Detection* said:
Did you follow the guide I linked?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=64961009&postcount=2
Pull the battery after flash, do not allow the phone to reboot first etc?
Because that error is usually associated with you allowing the phone to reboot Automatically after flashing TWRP
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Pulled as soon as it said Pass.
This is so confusing, is the Stock firmware that you've linked to in Mega the same as the one I have downloaded?
Will retry with TWRP again. BRB
didscub said:
Pulled as soon as it said Pass.
This is so confusing, is the Stock firmware that you've linked to in Mega the same as the one I have downloaded?
Will retry with TWRP again. BRB
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BOJ1 yea, same one
Try different versions of ODIN, 3.09 up to 3.10.7 (Maybe even 3.07)
*Detection* said:
Did you follow the guide I linked?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=64961009&postcount=2
Pull the battery after flash, do not allow the phone to reboot first etc?
Because that error is usually associated with you allowing the phone to reboot Automatically after flashing TWRP
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Definitely didt let it reboot & pulled the battery. Tried it twice to make sure.
I am downloading the Stock firmware that you have linked and will try that, is there any reason why it started to reboot constantly after I factory reset? It can't be hardware because there was never a HW problem before I reset it. I don't suppose you want to pop down from Durham and fix it?! lol
didscub said:
Definitely didt let it reboot & pulled the battery. Tried it twice to make sure.
I am downloading the Stock firmware that you have linked and will try that, is there any reason why it started to reboot constantly after I factory reset? It can't be hardware because there was never a HW problem before I reset it. I don't suppose you want to pop down from Durham and fix it?! lol
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To London? wanna pay the plane fare? lol
If you got that firmware from Sammobile, the one I linked you to is the same one, that's where I got it from, you could try some different droid versions, try a KitKat ROM too
Not sure why it would boot loop after you factory reset it, if reactivation lock was left on, you should still have managed to get to the welcome screen, but then be locked out of the phone until you entered his samsung account login
Sounds like something bugged out during the reset, and didn't reset properly, or corrupted one of the partitions, which the PIT file should have fixed
Stock recovery is cr4p though, I've ended up with a bootloop just clearing caches from it before, and had to flash TWRP to clear them properly, then flash stock on top again just to get it to boot
*Detection* said:
To London? wanna pay the plane fare? lol
If you got that firmware from Sammobile, the one I linked you to is the same one, that's where I got it from, you could try some different droid versions, try a KitKat ROM too
Not sure why it would boot loop after you factory reset it, if reactivation lock was left on, you should still have managed to get to the welcome screen, but then be locked out of the phone until you entered his samsung account login
Sounds like something bugged out during the reset, and didn't reset properly, or corrupted one of the partitions, which the PIT file should have fixed
Stock recovery is cr4p though, I've ended up with a bootloop just clearing caches from it before, and had to flash TWRP to clear them properly, then flash stock on top again just to get it to boot
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OK - Sorry for the delay but unfortunately I had to do stuff - I would have happily sat and tried to fix it all day.
So, I did spend some time on it earlier and a few things happened.
I reinstalled different firmwares, and also tried TWRP 2.8.7.0 a few times with different versions of Odin but nothing would work.
I reinstalled the firmware BOJ1, nothing
Tried PIT again, nothing
Then, after trying PIT I got the Firmware error and connected to Kies... It worked, but now I just have a blank screen (another seemingly common issue with these paperweights) - Unsure what to do now, the phone is on, i can call it, find it with device manager but the screen is just blank. FML.
didscub said:
OK - Sorry for the delay but unfortunately I had to do stuff - I would have happily sat and tried to fix it all day.
So, I did spend some time on it earlier and a few things happened.
I reinstalled different firmwares, and also tried TWRP 2.8.7.0 a few times with different versions of Odin but nothing would work.
I reinstalled the firmware BOJ1, nothing
Tried PIT again, nothing
Then, after trying PIT I got the Firmware error and connected to Kies... It worked, but now I just have a blank screen (another seemingly common issue with these paperweights) - Unsure what to do now, the phone is on, i can call it, find it with device manager but the screen is just blank. FML.
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OK, so they phone is working, there's just no display...
OK, try resetting the phone remotely from here first
https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager
If it's not connected to the network - try this
http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...ory-reset-galaxy-s5-computer.html#post4365754
If that still fails, try flashing a stock KitKat ROM from Sammobile, see if downgrading the OS is a big enough change for it to overwrite whatever is causing the problem
Wondering if TWRP has flashed, but the no screen thing is stopping you from knowing one way or another - if we could get into TWRP, we'd have a lot more options, including custom ROMs
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Uploaded the latest KitKat ROM
Code:
https://mega.nz/#!eIQEAQ6a!ztOhVwFuI2MpD6OBhxC-TtgwUJQCxtwnfDQvFOl3g40
*Detection* said:
OK, so they phone is working, there's just no display...
OK, try resetting the phone remotely from here first
https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager
If it's not connected to the network - try this
http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...ory-reset-galaxy-s5-computer.html#post4365754
If that still fails, try flashing a stock KitKat ROM from Sammobile, see if downgrading the OS is a big enough change for it to overwrite whatever is causing the problem
Wondering if TWRP has flashed, but the no screen thing is stopping you from knowing one way or another - if we could get into TWRP, we'd have a lot more options, including custom ROMs
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Uploaded the latest KitKat ROM
Code:
https://mega.nz/#!eIQEAQ6a!ztOhVwFuI2MpD6OBhxC-TtgwUJQCxtwnfDQvFOl3g40
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Thanks,
I'll wait for that to download and try.
So - I used accessibility mode to get into settings and do a factory reset... It was difficult, I even thought that the Dark Screen setting might have mysteriously have been turned on but nope.
Rebooted and got the Bootloader screen with the Samsung logo and Recovery Booting text, after a few minutes the screen went blank and the phone vibrated and then nothing!!! :crying::crying::crying:
I have just put it into download mode (I only know this because the many hours I've spent doing this I noticed that the battery and device goes cool when its in download mode) and will try the KitKat flash once its downloaded - Thank you for that btw.
Its so strange - it cant be an issue with the actual screen because it *sometimes* displays the logo.. What can it be?? Its also odd that from when I originally reset it, it could'nt boot into recovery. I'm worried that everything I have done has screwed it up more? Can the Recovery/Bootloader be "Broken"? Its so confusing, I hate tech that doesn't behave.
didscub said:
Thanks,
I'll wait for that to download and try.
So - I used accessibility mode to get into settings and do a factory reset... It was difficult, I even thought that the Dark Screen setting might have mysteriously have been turned on but nope.
Rebooted and got the Bootloader screen with the Samsung logo and Recovery Booting text, after a few minutes the screen went blank and the phone vibrated and then nothing!!! :crying::crying::crying:
I have just put it into download mode (I only know this because the many hours I've spent doing this I noticed that the battery and device goes cool when its in download mode) and will try the KitKat flash once its downloaded - Thank you for that btw.
Its so strange - it cant be an issue with the actual screen because it *sometimes* displays the logo.. What can it be?? Its also odd that from when I originally reset it, it could'nt boot into recovery. I'm worried that everything I have done has screwed it up more? Can the Recovery/Bootloader be "Broken"? Its so confusing, I hate tech that doesn't behave.
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Does sound like a possible hardware problem, but unlikely or a huge coincidence that it all started after resetting, so I'd be more inclined to think otherwise
Just remembered about this unbrick image / tutorial
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/general/g900f-debrick-img-lollipop-t3240626
Might be worth giving that a shot
*Detection* said:
Does sound like a possible hardware problem, but unlikely or a huge coincidence that it all started after resetting, so I'd be more inclined to think otherwise
Just remembered about this unbrick image / tutorial
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/general/g900f-debrick-img-lollipop-t3240626
Might be worth giving that a shot
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OK - might be a massive chore rooting and installing busybox.. Worth a shot though. Can I not use it with Odin??
didscub said:
OK - might be a massive chore rooting and installing busybox.. Worth a shot though. Can I not use it with Odin??
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You don't need busybox, that's for creating your own debrick image, the tutorial stops here:
Flash this Debrick file to your 16GB Micro SD card with Win32DiskImager
*Insert your Micro SD card into your computer (backup any information you may have on it we are going to ERASE, FORMAT it to ex FAT
*Open win32DiskImager
*Navigate to the location where you downloaded the correct Debrick file
*Select your Debrick file by double clicking on it
*In the upper right corner of Win32DiskImager you should make sure that the drive letter assigned to your sd card is selected.
***Which ever drive that is listed will be erased, formatted
*Click write in the bottom right hand side
put the Debrick SD card in the Phone, Pull and Replace the Battery
Plug phone in usb and boot into download mode
yout phone should boot into download mode then flash stock firmware via odin
Download link : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByA...ew?usp=sharing
You're saying you can't see anything on screen in download mode, just guessing it's there because it cools down - but that could also mean it's not in any mode
With this method, you might get a display to use, then you can flash normally with ODIN with download mode visible on screen
Hello i just bought new Galaxy Tab A 9.7 LTE SM-T555 , once i did rooted and it was working well , but currently it just hanged and i did hard restart with "Volume Down + Power button" it start well at first then after few minutes it just restarting continuous and freezes in Samsung Logo, i even try to flash ROM with KIES and even with ODIN (ROM downloaded from Samsung website), but non of them seems working, after successful completion of the Flashing when it comes to restart the TAB, it goes on same Previous stage , freezes in Samsung LOGo. i am trying for two days but could not figure out, Please anyone who has same problem and SOLVED , could you just help me to get rid of this Problem. It is killing me, i am spending hrs and hrs to figure but no success. I hope to get the any suggestion and help :crying: . Thank you in Advance.
pitho said:
Hello i just bought new Galaxy Tab A 9.7 LTE SM-T555 , once i did rooted and it was working well , but currently it just hanged and i did hard restart with "Volume Down + Power button" it start well at first then after few minutes it just restarting continuous and freezes in Samsung Logo, i even try to flash ROM with KIES and even with ODIN (ROM downloaded from Samsung website), but non of them seems working, after successful completion of the Flashing when it comes to restart the TAB, it goes on same Previous stage , freezes in Samsung LOGo. i am trying for two days but could not figure out, Please anyone who has same problem and SOLVED , could you just help me to get rid of this Problem. It is killing me, i am spending hrs and hrs to figure but no success. I hope to get the any suggestion and help :crying: . Thank you in Advance.
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First or second Samsung logo?
Try factory reset in recovery.
ashyx said:
First or second Samsung logo?
Try factory reset in recovery.
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Thank you. It is in second logo where it only shows "Samsung" i tried even in factory reset but could not help.
pitho said:
Thank you. It is in second logo where it only shows "Samsung" i tried even in factory reset but could not help.
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Hang on second boot usually means a corrupt data partition or bad app.
After factory reset leave your tablet alone for 15mins. It should boot after that.
ashyx said:
Hang on second boot usually means a corrupt data partition or bad app.
After factory reset leave your tablet alone for 15mins. It should boot after that.
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i reset in factory and leave it for couple of hrs but still same freezing in logo. I think now am slowly loosing hope :crying:
Go to recovery and factory reset again then immediately boot to Download mode and flash the correct firmware with odin.
Make sure there are no errors when flashing and it flashes successfully.
Reboot and wait at least 10mins.
ashyx said:
Go to recovery and factory reset again then immediately boot to Download mode and flash the correct firmware with odin.
Make sure there are no errors when flashing and it flashes successfully.
Reboot and wait at least 10mins.
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I did even tried as you said, but still same problem, i feel now its completely permanently broken. Can we use other custom rom ?, is there any available for these model?. May be i can try with other unofficial ROM. and let see.
pitho said:
I did even tried as you said, but still same problem, i feel now its completely permanently broken. Can we use other custom rom ?, is there any available for these model?. May be i can try with other unofficial ROM. and let see.
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It is not broken @pitho. I have been in this situation. The problem is occurring because Samsung is such a heavily modded rom, it takes a long time to load and just as @ashyx said, because of a bad app. Some apps are aimed for Vanilla Android, but the developer does not restrict the app only for Vanilla devices but makes it universal. So, in order to get out, download the correct firmware from Updato.com
Press on the OS Updates in the website and you type in the device's name and the current build and what kind of version you want. (Ex: If you have Marshmallow, and your device had Lollipop before, you could degrade your firmware)
Download Odin (Just search it up on Google and you should find a download link)
Plug in your device to the PC after it is in Download Mode (Volume Down + Power Button + Home Button)
On Odin, it should say Device added!
Press AP slot and find the firmware (.tar.md5 or just .tar) you downloaded from Updato.com and select it.
Press Start on the bottom of the application and it should start. It takes about 2 minutes or longer to finish flashing.
There! You just restored your device! It will take a few minutes for the device to boot up and should be installing any additional files that were included in the Official Firmware.
Happy Flashing with ODIN!
I've spent all day fighting with the boot loop on my A500f.
I had the phone running really well with Ahmed's Resurrection Remix ROM on this post:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/sa...om-resurrection-remix-5-8-2-sm-a500h-t3572062
He doesn't detail TWRP installation, so I used DeadSquirrel's 3.1.0 post here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/sa...overy-twrp-3-0-2-0-samsung-galaxy-a5-t3439233
I hadn't seen that TWRP can be installed without root, so I rooted with Chainfire first. I'm not sure, but I think I got the Chainfire file from this post:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/sa...-to-root-galaxy-a5-a500fu-lollipop-5-t3137613
The file I downloaded for the A500f is "CF-Auto-Root-a5lte-a5ltexx-sma500f.zip" (contains tar.md5)
The post says it is for Lollipop, but the instructions say this is a Chainfire root zip for Android 4.4.4. One post suggested this might be the cause of my boot loop.
The instructions say that this Chainfire Auto Root solution also contains a recovery file, but I was never able to boot into this recovery, so I went directly to installing DeadSquirrel's TWRP. I was able to boot into this recovery. From there I installed the Resurrection Remix ROM. WIthin the ROM, I installed SuperSU from the Play Store, but SuperSU informed me the phone was not rooted, so I flashed the SuperSU root zip from their website, which I believe was the file, A500FXXS1CQC2_A500FOJV1CPH3_XFE.zip
SuperSU now reported root was present, so I installed WiFi Connection Manager from the Play Store, granted it root access in SuperSU, and used the Fix Problems menu item to repair the wifi shutting off the phone problem that I was originally working on. That fix worked well, so I left the wifi on and ran YouTube on Autoplay for about 4 hours. Deciding the problem was solved, I gave the phone back to my son, and he brought it back to me dead 5 minutes later. I'm not sure if it already that the boot loop problem at that point.
The phone would no longer boot. I noticed a seandroid enforcing notification, and thought it might be a security issue preventing boot. I found a thread that said I needed that flashing back to a Samsung ROM would remove the seandroid notice and that I needed to update to Android 6.0.1 before installing TWRP to solve the boot loop issue. I went to Sammobile and found the newest ROM for my A500f was the A500FXXS1CQC2_A500FOJV1CPH3_A500FXXU1CPH2_HOME.
I installed this in Odin, and the phone has never come back to me since then. I've made endless retries throughout the day, trying different combinations of the Chainfire root, different versions of TWRP, and different root methods, but all to no avail. One post even suggested that if you flash factory ROM from Odin just once, it will create a boot loop, but if you flash twice, it solves it, but it didn't work for me. It's also gotten increasingly difficult to get into recovery. Whether in stock ROM or TWRP, I was only able to get in about 10% of the time. Boot loop behavior has varied between boot logo - vibration - black screen and battery charge logo - vibration - black screen.
I found this thread that is supposed to address the boot loop problem, and I tried these versions of root and TWRP, but it didn't help:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/sa...overy-samsung-galaxy-a52015-sm-a500f-t3360802
At the moment, I'm on stock ROM. On power up, you get the Galaxy A5 screen, then it vibrates and goes black, then the lightening battery logo comes up, it vibrates, and goes black, and then the green battery status logo comes up, and then the phone goes black. It's also booting into stock recovery okay, and I can do the recovery functions. I just can't boot the phone.
So now, I try the instructions again in ashyx's TWRP post. Now I can get into TWRP. I power up and the phone sticks on the Galaxy A5 boot screen for a long time. Then it vibrates and repeats. It's basically the same as above, but there is a long delay before rebooting instead of instantly as before. Now I go back into TWRP and flash the Resurrection Remix ROM and the behavior is the same. Power up and get the Galaxy A5 boot screen for 8 seconds (this time sporting a warranty bit: kernal notice), 2 seconds of black screen, vibration, battery/lightening logo blinks on, then off, vibration, battery/lightening logo blinks on then off. Black screen, then standard battery charging percent indicator. I did that three or four times to make note of the behavior. Then the power switch wouldn't work, so I used the technique to press the volume up and down key together with the power key to turn it back on. Now it is in a non-stop 5 second cycle of vibrate - flash the icon - black screen that won't quit. Throughout the day I've been stuck with this in both stock and custom ROM. Only once during the day did I see the custom ROM boot all the way through. The stock ROM has never booted.
Now the recovery key combination won't boot TWRP either. The key combination just makes the Galaxy A5 screen flash instead of the battery icon. But I can get into TWRP by rebooting with the recovery key combination on leaving Download mode.
If anyone understands what's wrong here, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks
If I were you, I'd flash an older version of stock ROM with Odin, reboot with factory reset then I will let Samsung Smart Switch to upgrade my phone. After that I will notice the CORRECT version of ROM...
MoshPuiu said:
If I were you, I'd flash an older version of stock ROM with Odin, reboot with factory reset then I will let Samsung Smart Switch to upgrade my phone. After that I will notice the CORRECT version of ROM...
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Thank you. That did the trick. Going back to the original factory ROM of Android 5.0.1 brought the phone back to being bootable again. I wish I understood what is going on on the low level to cause these things!
MoshPuiu said:
If I were you, I'd flash an older version of stock ROM with Odin, reboot with factory reset then I will let Samsung Smart Switch to upgrade my phone. After that I will notice the CORRECT version of ROM...
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Samsung Smart Switch what is it?
Faraz_74 said:
Samsung Smart Switch what is it?
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Samsung app:
http://www.samsung.com/us/smart-switch/
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Hello PJK2011 . I'm having the same problem can you please help me to find the link of the Stock ROM you installed?
xoein said:
Hello PJK2011 . I'm having the same problem can you please help me to find the link of the Stock ROM you installed?
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I believe Sammobile is the standard location to download stock Samsung ROMS:
https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-a5/SM-A500F/
xoein said:
Hello PJK2011 . I'm having the same problem can you please help me to find the link of the Stock ROM you installed?
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you can download in here also updato.com
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SM-G950FD
Recently just got the s8 and tried to flash and root to get the batman rom. My attempt was a huge failure. I failed the instructions and even had a friend you had already done this process check if I did anything wrong. Once in Odin and flashed with Twrp my s8 did not boot up to the os homepage nor was it in recovery mode. It was a black screen saying something along the lines of "verification reject" and the only option I got was to reset the phone. Reset the phone and tried to flash it again, same thing happened.
At this point I just wanted to use my s8 stock everything so I tried to go back into recovery mode but now I'm stuck in a boot up loop and I can only go into download mode. I tried flashing it with all stock everything except now one in Odin the process fails. Odin is still able to pick up my phone but once you hit start it will say "fail"
I can't turn off the device I just pretty much left it to die so it's kind of "turned off" but I've tried virtually everything I could think of. Not sure if there is anything else I could do or if this s8 is just literally a brick now. Any help would be gladly appreciated!
I_Love_My_Brick said:
SM-G950FD
Recently just got the s8 and tried to flash and root to get the batman rom. My attempt was a huge failure. I failed the instructions and even had a friend you had already done this process check if I did anything wrong. Once in Odin and flashed with Twrp my s8 did not boot up to the os homepage nor was it in recovery mode. It was a black screen saying something along the lines of "verification reject" and the only option I got was to reset the phone. Reset the phone and tried to flash it again, same thing happened.
At this point I just wanted to use my s8 stock everything so I tried to go back into recovery mode but now I'm stuck in a boot up loop and I can only go into download mode. I tried flashing it with all stock everything except now one in Odin the process fails. Odin is still able to pick up my phone but once you hit start it will say "fail"
I can't turn off the device I just pretty much left it to die so it's kind of "turned off" but I've tried virtually everything I could think of. Not sure if there is anything else I could do or if this s8 is just literally a brick now. Any help would be gladly appreciated!
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Did you follow the steps exactly as it says here?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...pment/recovery-twrp-galaxy-s8-exynos-t3595102
eg: when you press start in Odin to flash TWRP hold recovery button combo?
I would suggest starting again, go to download mode and start and read the instructions a few times step by step.
Or flash stock firmware and then start again. If you get an error in Odin post it here for help.
Hello
I have the same Problem
No boot, nothing
It only shows the Bootlogo
I cant flash Recovery anymore, only get failed
I can only go to Download Mode
What is this a new block by Samsung
I really hate Samsung!
Hope there is any help
Sent from my SM-G920F using XDA-Developers Legacy app
callumbr1 said:
Did you follow the steps exactly as it says here?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...pment/recovery-twrp-galaxy-s8-exynos-t3595102
eg: when you press start in Odin to flash TWRP hold recovery button combo?
I would suggest starting again, go to download mode and start and read the instructions a few times step by step.
Or flash stock firmware and then start again. If you get an error in Odin post it here for help.
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I have tried that as well. I tried again this morning and still the same issue. I load up all the files that are need for the stock flash and once in odin and I hit start the process starts but then says fail.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8/help/stuck-bootloop-flashing-aqg5-fix-t3636857
Try this
Saved my Love
Works like a Charm
OMG....
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Denis Meissner1990 said:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8/help/stuck-bootloop-flashing-aqg5-fix-t3636857
Try this
Saved my Love
Works like a Charm
OMG....
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I'm gonna give this a try!!!
What was the link that you used to get the firmware? I know sammobile the free download servers are down for maintenance
I downloaded the BL from BatMan Rom so there is no need to load the full Firmware
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Denis Meissner1990 said:
I downloaded the BL from BatMan Rom so there is no need to load the full Firmware
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I'm able to get into TWRP with the method you just showed me so thank you!!
I keep running into problems every time I move a step forward. Now when I move the batman rom file to the storage it says "failed" or file "corrupted" am I still doing something wrong?
even with TWRP, Magisk and no-verity installed my phone still can not boot up into the phone's OS I'm still stuck with a boot loop.
I've tried to wipe everything already and start over and still I'm in the loop
I_Love_My_Brick said:
I'm able to get into TWRP with the method you just showed me so thank you!!
I keep running into problems every time I move a step forward. Now when I move the batman rom file to the storage it says "failed" or file "corrupted" am I still doing something wrong?
even with TWRP, Magisk and no-verity installed my phone still can not boot up into the phone's OS I'm still stuck with a boot loop.
I've tried to wipe everything already and start over and still I'm in the loop
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Sry for late answer :/
Have you tried to dl BatManRom again?
Maybe your dl wasn't successful
Try again, should work
I also installed BatManRom ?
Best Rom out there
Install BL and CP from BatManRom via Odin, then boot in TWRP
Advanced wipe all except external and then flash Rom
Choose your Settings, no need to install BL and CP again
after install, Reboot, wait for around 10 mins, then Setup System and all should work fine ?
Cheers
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I_Love_My_Brick said:
SM-G950FD
Recently just got the s8 and tried to flash and root to get the batman rom. My attempt was a huge failure. I failed the instructions and even had a friend you had already done this process check if I did anything wrong. Once in Odin and flashed with Twrp my s8 did not boot up to the os homepage nor was it in recovery mode. It was a black screen saying something along the lines of "verification reject" and the only option I got was to reset the phone. Reset the phone and tried to flash it again, same thing happened.
At this point I just wanted to use my s8 stock everything so I tried to go back into recovery mode but now I'm stuck in a boot up loop and I can only go into download mode. I tried flashing it with all stock everything except now one in Odin the process fails. Odin is still able to pick up my phone but once you hit start it will say "fail"
I can't turn off the device I just pretty much left it to die so it's kind of "turned off" but I've tried virtually everything I could think of. Not sure if there is anything else I could do or if this s8 is just literally a brick now. Any help would be gladly appreciated!
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Hey same happened to me if you still need help ask me. I can send you my number through email and you can call me.
Hello to day i got an Hardbrick S8+ (HK region its G9550ZHU....) , its only detect by QHUSB 9008 and nothing more (no charge, no downloadmode , nothing .... just 9008 ) . The victim say he is trying to flash Combine file from octoplus box but the file have G9550ZCU , he want to bypass FRP lock. So any one have a idea ?
pardon
kertikhuseyin said:
pardon
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You need the edl firehose and XML files and the software for recovering from a brick like that.
And frp bypass is not an allowed subject here because people who ask tend to have a device that is likely stolen
Hi guys,
I have big problem with my new G950F. I try to install custom recovery (twrp) via ODIN. I do it like I suposs to do. All was be fine. ODIN pass but now my phone won't turn on. They don't respond to anything , recovery buttons and download butont nothing. They take 0,16 A and computer dont recognize it.
After flashing custom recovery phone was be powered down when samsung logo appears. after that phone doesn't respond to anything.
I was try:
Download combo - 2 min
Recovery combo - 2 min
Restart combo - 5 min
JIG 301K (work on A510F) - also nothing happens.
what I can do?
Someone please help. Thanks
Hi there. My friends phone switched off during an update and basically it's bricked. It appeared trapped in a boot loop at first. However recovery mode is gone. It wont load. Also by looking at the bootloader, im not sure it has any firmware left in it. It shows nothing for bootloader or base band numbers. I tried downloading firmware for it but it needs to be flashed in recovery mode so im stuck and can't do it. Does anyone know how I would recover this phone?
Digideath said:
Hi there. My friends phone switched off during an update and basically it's bricked. It appeared trapped in a boot loop at first. However recovery mode is gone. It wont load. Also by looking at the bootloader, im not sure it has any firmware left in it. It shows nothing for bootloader or base band numbers. I tried downloading firmware for it but it needs to be flashed in recovery mode so im stuck and can't do it. Does anyone know how I would recover this phone?
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Here's the unbrick guide: https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-5/how-to/guide-unbrick-guide-hard-bricked-t3761706
Thank you. That is exactly what I needed.