I've been searching around and found that Smart Switch isn't longer providing this function, it was so useful.
Only option Odin?
I've restored the phone to factory settings and wiped the cache partition from recovery mode. Is a reflash with Odin going to do a more thorough job?
The previous owner complained about random reboots, especially during phone calls. I just want to clean it up as much as possible and see if it makes any difference or if it's a hardware issue.
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I recently flashed my GT-i9506 and installed CyanogenMod. After finishing, the back and menu buttons (more often the menu button) kept getting pressed with the backlight on and vibrations too without me touching them. The weird thing is that while I was trying to fix it by going to various recovery modes after constantly switching the problem happened there too. The screen was recently replaced but I don't recall this happening at all on the stock ROM after the repairment.
Here's what happened:
I used Heimdall to flash TeamWin recovery but kept getting a common problem with PIT files while in download mode (can't post links because I'm a new user)
I compiled SaburoJiro's Heimdall fork as suggested and that seemed to fix the issue. TeamWin recovery was flashed succesfully.
I flashed the official CyanogenMod rom for gt-i9506 following the instructions on their wiki page. Everything seemed to work fine up until the point where the OS started up.
What I tried:
Tried various recovery images including TeamWin and ClockworkMod Recovery. The problem happens on both.
Used both Odin and Heimdall to flash.
Factory resets and cache clearing
A temporary solution is to enable the on screen navbar, which disabled the hardware keys which were causing the problem. The keys still keep lighting up while the screen is on but they don't do anything.
Is there any way to restore the phone beyond recovery mode (which this seems to happen in too)? I'm pretty sure this isn't a hardware issue.
SwoodGrommet said:
I recently flashed my GT-i9506 and installed CyanogenMod. After finishing, the back and menu buttons (more often the menu button) kept getting pressed with the backlight on and vibrations too without me touching them. The weird thing is that while I was trying to fix it by going to various recovery modes after constantly switching the problem happened there too. The screen was recently replaced but I don't recall this happening at all on the stock ROM after the repairment.
Here's what happened:
I used Heimdall to flash TeamWin recovery but kept getting a common problem with PIT files while in download mode (can't post links because I'm a new user)
I compiled SaburoJiro's Heimdall fork as suggested and that seemed to fix the issue. TeamWin recovery was flashed succesfully.
I flashed the official CyanogenMod rom for gt-i9506 following the instructions on their wiki page. Everything seemed to work fine up until the point where the OS started up.
What I tried:
Tried various recovery images including TeamWin and ClockworkMod Recovery. The problem happens on both.
Used both Odin and Heimdall to flash.
Factory resets and cache clearing
A temporary solution is to enable the on screen navbar, which disabled the hardware keys which were causing the problem. The keys still keep lighting up while the screen is on but they don't do anything.
Is there any way to restore the phone beyond recovery mode (which this seems to happen in too)? I'm pretty sure this isn't a hardware issue.
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It's 100% a hardware issue. No software would cause this and even then it also happens in recovery. It's impossible to have the same behavior in recovery and in normal android without it being a hardware issue.
SwoodGrommet said:
I recently flashed my GT-i9506 and installed CyanogenMod. After finishing, the back and menu buttons (more often the menu button) kept getting pressed with the backlight on and vibrations too without me touching them. The weird thing is that while I was trying to fix it by going to various recovery modes after constantly switching the problem happened there too. The screen was recently replaced but I don't recall this happening at all on the stock ROM after the repairment.
Here's what happened:
I used Heimdall to flash TeamWin recovery but kept getting a common problem with PIT files while in download mode (can't post links because I'm a new user)
I compiled SaburoJiro's Heimdall fork as suggested and that seemed to fix the issue. TeamWin recovery was flashed succesfully.
I flashed the official CyanogenMod rom for gt-i9506 following the instructions on their wiki page. Everything seemed to work fine up until the point where the OS started up.
What I tried:
Tried various recovery images including TeamWin and ClockworkMod Recovery. The problem happens on both.
Used both Odin and Heimdall to flash.
Factory resets and cache clearing
A temporary solution is to enable the on screen navbar, which disabled the hardware keys which were causing the problem. The keys still keep lighting up while the screen is on but they don't do anything.
Is there any way to restore the phone beyond recovery mode (which this seems to happen in too)? I'm pretty sure this isn't a hardware issue.
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I think Lennyz knows best but did you erased the internal storage too while doing a factory reset?
I've got some strage issues after I flashed a ROM and I could resolve it when I erased the internal storage too on factory reset.
Lennyz1988 said:
It's 100% a hardware issue. No software would cause this and even then it also happens in recovery. It's impossible to have the same behavior in recovery and in normal android without it being a hardware issue.
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Okay, I guess something went wrong when the screen was repaired. I'll call the company that fixed it later. Is there no possible way that any software can enable these buttons?
PePeMoke said:
I think Lennyz knows best but did you erased the internal storage too while doing a factory reset?
I've got some strage issues after I flashed a ROM and I could resolve it when I erased the internal storage too on factory reset.
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I factory reset a couple of times using both ClockworkMod and TeamWin. It still kept all the images from the camera though. How would you erase all internal storage using ClockworkMod? Format /system? Or perharps just /data and /storage/sdcard1? Asking since I don't want to brick my phone by doing something I shouldn't be doing.
SwoodGrommet said:
Okay, I guess something went wrong when the screen was repaired. I'll call the company that fixed it later. Is there no possible way that any software can enable these buttons?
I factory reset a couple of times using both ClockworkMod and TeamWin. It still kept all the images from the camera though. How would you erase all internal storage using ClockworkMod? Format /system? Or perharps just /data and /storage/sdcard1? Asking since I don't want to brick my phone by doing something I shouldn't be doing.
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For CWM I do not know..
I use TWRP and there you can select what should be wiped under "advanced wipe".
You can select system, boot, data, cache and internal storage.
If you got TWRP use this!
Note that everything on your phone will be deleted including custom recovery.
You'll have to flash it again via Odin afterwards.
Then flash the ROM and Gapps via custom recovery.
I do not know whether this will solve the problem because it really could be a hardware issue as Lennyz said..
Maybe you should wait with that after the company repaired it again.
SwoodGrommet said:
Okay, I guess something went wrong when the screen was repaired. I'll call the company that fixed it later. Is there no possible way that any software can enable these buttons?
I factory reset a couple of times using both ClockworkMod and TeamWin. It still kept all the images from the camera though. How would you erase all internal storage using ClockworkMod? Format /system? Or perharps just /data and /storage/sdcard1? Asking since I don't want to brick my phone by doing something I shouldn't be doing.
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It's possible but not in your case. There is no software booted when you are in the recovery except the recovery itself.
@SwoodGrommet
Could you figure it out?
This is on two standard Galaxy S5's, with standard ROM, etc - not rooted, or anything else.
Every time I turn off WiFi, or enable Mobile Hotspot, I get 'Unfortunately System UI has stopped'.
To fix I have to Power off/on the phone.
(Turning on WiFi is no problem, just turning it off.)
I have gone into 'Safe Mode', and same issue, so it looks to not be a bad App.
I have also uninstalled 'Google' updates, and again no change...
Any thoughts?
All of a sudden my S5 showed the exact same error message for no aparent reason... I didn't do anything, and now I can't use my phone at all because of that bug. It happens on every boot so I can't even unlock my phone. Tried reinstalling everything, ROM, recovery, kernel, with/without root = still same, what just happened here??
EDIT: Same thing if I'm in Safe Mode -_-
Seeing noone knows a solution here's what I did yesterday.
1. Backed up all my stuff from internal storage to the sd card
2. Did factory reset in TWRP recovery
3. Flashed completely stock official firmware from Samsung
4. Waited for it to boot up and try to restore some of my settings (it restored all folders on their places, made same amount of home screens as I had before the reinstall and downloaded all of my previously installed apps from the Play Store, ofcourse without the cracked ones, and it also restored most apps' data as well so it's not as bad as you may think to factory reset and reinstall everything)
5. Started rooting, flashing TWRP again, installing Dolby Audio, Xposed and everything I had before, took me one full day to set it up as it was before.
Now when I set it up I always make a nandroid backup from when things are working fine, in case it goes crazy for no reason again... Good luck!
when the wifi radio is acting weird, a dirty flash of your current ROM susually fixes is as its probably a radio issue. Id do that before doing anything drastic like the boot-n-nuke Odin flash and starting from scratch (which will fix that issue)
I don't think I have a ROM issue, as I have two S5's, and both have the same issue... and both are standard ROMs.
I will do a factory re-set on one at some point, but this looks to be a 'simpler' issue.
I have tried a full Cache delete, as well as other 'clean' processes.
Nothing works.
I tried to re-flash my stock ROM as @youdoofus said but still had that annoying popup. Try everything you can think of, if all else fails, reset.
koragg97 said:
I tried to re-flash my stock ROM as @youdoofus said but still had that annoying popup. Try everything you can think of, if all else fails, reset.
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well, you can wipe cache, and dalvik 3x each (not kidding about the 3x each), then dirty flash the rom, pray to the gods of android, reboot. If failure occurs, its Odin Nuke time unless you want to try to flash an individual radio file by itself (not recommended)
I am looking for a method that works for all.
My story is that I tried Nemesis ROM, with SpaceLemon kernel. Would like to return to stock due to various problems.
No problem... right?
Well, the thing is, I cannot factory reset.
1) I issued Stock restore from the Samsung interface. Both on Nemesis, and after installing the stock OS.
2) I have used TWRP to clean / wipe data.
The problem however remains. After installing apps, I see my previous settings, they load the previous state and so on.
But this thread is not just about my case, but in general.
I want to wipe clean my phone. How do I do that?
I do know ODIN has many options, but what is a fail-safe way that people can use with the latest version that will do a full clean?
https://twrp.me/faq/whattowipe.html
Hello there,
Today I flashed TWRP 3.0.2-1 using Odin 3.10.7 on my sisters Galaxy A5 2016 (sm-a510f). After that, I installed SuperSU 2.78 using TWRP.
Since that, the WiFi does not turn on. When you press the button to turn it on, it shows the "loading circle", and seems to do nothing. The circle stays forever.
Other than that, the phone appears to work fine. It did never report any error messages.
I already tried wiping cache, dalvik and data. I also made a factory reset using the option in the settings.
Later I found a newer version of TWRP (3.1.1-0) by Zonik . Flashing this did not fix the problem.
Do you have any ideas on what I could do to make it work again?
Edit:
In the meantime, I flashed a custom rom. Everything appears to work fine at the moment.
I didn't want to do that initially, so the phone could get the stock updates without me doing anything.
But still I am interested, what steps should I have done, to keep stock? And where might I be able to download the stock rom?
You should have flashed a later version of SuperSU.
You can use Samsung Smart Switch to restore factory settings.
Alternatively you can always find the latest firmwares on updato.com
Oh, I have just seen that I forgot to reply to that. I'm sorry.
@ashyx Thank you, I'm going to do that the next time. I was following a manual someone wrote on the Internet. I should have been smart enough not to trust a manual that's been lying around for some time.
@Vinhixus I tried that. Samsung Smart Switch did not like to do that (Don't ask me why, it said the device is not supported for factory reset).
Finally I "fixed" the wifi-bug by installing a custom rom wich i did not want to do in the first place because I did not want to change the OS on the device, just the bloatware samsung puts on their device.
Not much of a fix, more like a dirty hack to me
Thank you for your support
Actually you needed to flash correct modem. The custom ROM fixes it because modem was compatible for it. For the stock one you need modem that matches it i guess.
Thanks in advance for any who can offer help, and I'm sorry if I missed something obvious.
I did a stupid thing and started playing with Odin, attempting to switch from Unlocked firmware on my 950U1 to T-Mobile firmware, in an effort to get RCS support. Before flashing I was running the latest available snapdragon pie beta.
At this point I have flashed all sorts of things in an attempt to restore my device, but I am fairly sure that I flashed a Factory Binary for my device that for some unknown reason would no properly boot and would then crash, rebooting into a kernel panic screen. I decided to abandon my project and flash back to stock and now my S8 will not completely boot. It will go through the Galaxy S8 splash screen, through the animated Samsung screen, then into a Starting Android screen were it will almost immediately freeze the animation and reboot.
I can't remember how exactly I got here but what I thought was that flashing stock firmware via odin succesfully should result in a complete restore. I have always chosen the CSC file as opposed to the HOME_CSC file in order to make sure that data is wiped. I have wiped the cache and data via recovery which resulted in no change.
Any thoughts on how to recover this device? I'm at wit's end with it after several hours of trying everything that google brings up so far as I can figure.
carterra3 said:
Thanks in advance for any who can offer help, and I'm sorry if I missed something obvious.
I did a stupid thing and started playing with Odin, attempting to switch from Unlocked firmware on my 950U1 to T-Mobile firmware, in an effort to get RCS support. Before flashing I was running the latest available snapdragon pie beta.
At this point I have flashed all sorts of things in an attempt to restore my device, but I am fairly sure that I flashed a Factory Binary for my device that for some unknown reason would no properly boot and would then crash, rebooting into a kernel panic screen. I decided to abandon my project and flash back to stock and now my S8 will not completely boot. It will go through the Galaxy S8 splash screen, through the animated Samsung screen, then into a Starting Android screen were it will almost immediately freeze the animation and reboot.
I can't remember how exactly I got here but what I thought was that flashing stock firmware via odin succesfully should result in a complete restore. I have always chosen the CSC file as opposed to the HOME_CSC file in order to make sure that data is wiped. I have wiped the cache and data via recovery which resulted in no change.
Any thoughts on how to recover this device? I'm at wit's end with it after several hours of trying everything that google brings up so far as I can figure.
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Flash stock firmware with nand erase all
Tried flashing stock firmware with Nand Erase checked, no change.