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[Q] Bricked S4

I'm not sure what type of "bricked" this would be but, I tried to flash my Canadian Fido S4 I337m with a MF3 modem. I did this through Odin Mobile Pro. At first it was all good, it started to restart with a blue android figure. It started to take a really long time and nothing was happening so I decided to turn the phone off. Now the phone won't turn back on and it won't connect to the PC. I have my backup saved on my sd card but I can't get the phone to load at all.
It's currently stuck the battery charging power up screen. I can't post a picture since I haven't posted 10 times apparently... So it's the grey battery icon, the circle in the middle isn't moving whatsoever.
Did a battery pull, tried starting it in safe mode, and tried to restart it in the download mode. All of which have failed.
Any advice would be helpful.
Thanks
*Update*
The blue android figure is back. Does anyone have any information on how long this little android guy is supposed to be around for?

benjiyap said:
I'm not sure what type of "bricked" this would be but, I tried to flash my Canadian Fido S4 I337m with a MF3 modem. I did this through Odin Mobile Pro. At first it was all good, it started to restart with a blue android figure. It started to take a really long time and nothing was happening so I decided to turn the phone off. Now the phone won't turn back on and it won't connect to the PC. I have my backup saved on my sd card but I can't get the phone to load at all.
It's currently stuck the battery charging power up screen. I can't post a picture since I haven't posted 10 times apparently... So it's the grey battery icon, the circle in the middle isn't moving whatsoever.
Did a battery pull, tried starting it in safe mode, and tried to restart it in the download mode. All of which have failed.
Any advice would be helpful.
Thanks
*Update*
The blue android figure is back. Does anyone have any information on how long this little android guy is supposed to be around for?
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Download Odin 3.07 for the PC.... you flashed the wrong mode... I believe you flashed a US modem not a Canadian on... suggest NC1 can be found in the forum...
With the phone unplugged, press volume down +home+power if you get a warning, release buttons and press voulme up to go to download mode...
Start Odin.... important... take off auto reboot....
there are instructions on how to properly flash the modem... likely in the same thread you found the file.....
Flash only the modem.bin file inside the folder... do not flash the nonhalos file....
Most instructions sau flash once... reboot to download mode.. flash again....
Basically let me know if you can get to download mode... I tried to google blue android on screen but didn't find anything yet... first I have heard of blue... I have seen green dead ones though....

Gage_Hero said:
Download Odin 3.07 for the PC.... you flashed the wrong mode... I believe you flashed a US modem not a Canadian on... suggest NC1 can be found in the forum...
With the phone unplugged, press volume down +home+power if you get a warning, release buttons and press voulme up to go to download mode...
Start Odin.... important... take off auto reboot....
there are instructions on how to properly flash the modem... likely in the same thread you found the file.....
Flash only the modem.bin file inside the folder... do not flash the nonhalos file....
Most instructions sau flash once... reboot to download mode.. flash again....
Basically let me know if you can get to download mode... I tried to google blue android on screen but didn't find anything yet... first I have heard of blue... I have seen green dead ones though....
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No, I can't seem to get into download mode. It just keeps heading on to the the blue android. I purchased a dongle jig to get it to download mode on ebay hoping that would work.
Method 1 Odin Mobile
Extract TAR and place modem.bin on Internal or External SD Card
Open mobile Odin (free version works but pro is awesome)
Select modem 2 and find extracted bin file
Press flash firmware button
System will boot to download
Hold power button for 10 seconds if download mode in green comes up.( should be blue)
Odin will install modem files
Done
This is what I was following. It said if it comes up as a blue android it's good.

benjiyap said:
No, I can't seem to get into download mode. It just keeps heading on to the the blue android. I purchased a dongle jig to get it to download mode on ebay hoping that would work.
Method 1 Odin Mobile
Extract TAR and place modem.bin on Internal or External SD Card
Open mobile Odin (free version works but pro is awesome)
Select modem 2 and find extracted bin file
Press flash firmware button
System will boot to download
Hold power button for 10 seconds if download mode in green comes up.( should be blue)
Odin will install modem files
Done
This is what I was following. It said if it comes up as a blue android it's good.
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If you put the modem file on an external sd card.... maybe you could pull the card, put it in a usb reader and put the proper modem.bin file on the card and put it back in the phone and power it up.... see what happens. I am guessing it couldn't finish the process because you have the wrong modem file...... Okay so now I realize you are stuck on the mobile odin logo... (blue guy) search google for how to get out of that or go to the mobile odin thread and ask chainfire... it is his app....

I've got the problem fixed. I re-flashed my whole firmware and managed to get the phone into download mode using a USB Jig. This is for reference if anyone encounters the same problem in the near future.
Thanks for the help and advice though.

Please help me! My Note 4 is in "soft brick" ??

I was about to sell my rooted Note 4, and I did a "reset phone" in the settings menu to wipe the data out , so I can sell it. When the phone turned back I saw on the top left a blue "recovery mode" message and the next is my phone black, and on the middle of the screen appear every 5-8 sec a green android logo with "Installing System update" but just for a second, and goes back to black.
And again, and again...
What a hell happened?I am stuck.. I tried to take the battery out , waited and put it back, than I was holding the volume up+home+power on bottoms to get a recovery mode menu, but it does the same "flashing" screen thing.. Please help me I have a buyer for this phone , really need to fix it!

atti_mac said:
I was about to sell my rooted Note 4, and I did a "reset phone" in the settings menu to wipe the data out , so I can sell it. When the phone turned back I saw on the top left a blue "recovery mode" message and the next is my phone black, and on the middle of the screen appear every 5-8 sec a green android logo with "Installing System update" but just for a second, and goes back to black.
And again, and again...
What a hell happened?I am stuck.. I tried to take the battery out , waited and put it back, than I was holding the volume up+home+power on bottoms to get a recovery mode menu, but it does the same "flashing" screen thing.. Please help me I have a buyer for this phone , really need to fix it!
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Download firmware for your model from www.sammobiles.com extract firmware file ,take your phone in download mode by pressing volume down+home+power .you will see warning screen then press volume up.download odin tool for pc and samsung usb drivers for note 4 then open odin press Ap in odin and select firmware file and hit start,wait until odin pass .and your device will be good to go.

Trex888 said:
Download firmware for your model from www.sammobiles.com extract firmware file ,take your phone in download mode by pressing volume down+home+power .you will see warning screen then press volume up.download odin tool for pc and samsung usb drivers for note 4 then open odin press Ap in odin and select firmware file and hit start,wait until odin pass .and your device will be good to go.
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The sammobiles website down for maintenence this weekend , great.....

atti_mac said:
The sammobiles website down for maintenence this weekend , great.....
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Tell me your model and I'll provide you a link to download firmware

Trex888 said:
Tell me your model and I'll provide you a link to download firmware
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SM-N910T
Will be unlocked after this upload?
Thank you so much, can't wait

If Sammobile is down, you can find lots of Samsung firmwares even for SM-N910T on www.updato.com. Hope this helps.

atti_mac said:
SM-N910T
Will be unlocked after this upload?
Thank you so much, can't wait
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To be honest i donno about unlocking but here is the link to download firmware
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24665509702140550

Trex888 said:
To be honest i donno about unlocking but here is the link to download firmware
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24665509702140550
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I downloaded from there , opened a zip file copied to a folder. Took the phone in download mode, Opened Odin, clicked on AP and got the file to point ( not a zip file anymore) and hit start.
My phone shows downloading, and like a line started from the left (light blue , but only very short, and doesn't move anymore.
The pc's latest log shows ID:0/003> NON-HLOS.bin
So is it stopped ? the phone said don't turn off target, i don't want to brick it so what to do?

I had no choice i unplug it, and took out the battery, still not brick I started all over again, and now the latest log is : boot.img but the line still not moving...
binary size shows : 3793.1 mb
Update , 2nd time it was moving further.. passed boot, recovery.img, latest log : system.img.ext4. the blue line moved 1/2" and it is stopped again. I don't know what to do...
I am using Odin 3 V3.12

Try odin 3.10 and use pit file with firmware it will repartation your device and hopefully it ahould fix here is the link for pit file
https://mega.nz/#!yE0QkRgR!8DvGvAauRkb-2xmtH_3ZluoYwCvqNaaSOnXMLYB_CAI
Select AP for firmware and PIT for pit file and hit start

Trex888 said:
Try odin 3.10 and use pit file with firmware it will repartation your device and hopefully it ahould fix here is the link for pit file
https://mega.nz/#!yE0QkRgR!8DvGvAauRkb-2xmtH_3ZluoYwCvqNaaSOnXMLYB_CAI
Select AP for firmware and PIT for pit file and hit start
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Same thing, is it possible the md5 file is not the right one?
Update, I downloaded a different file from the www.updato.com. website , and it is already passed that point when was stuck before. Cross fingers.

atti_mac said:
Same thing, is it possible the md5 file is not the right one?
Update, I downloaded a different file from that other website you guys mentioned, and it is already passed that point when was stuck before. Cross fingers.
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No the firmware file is correct qnd i have tested it. What is exatly happening while you flash firmware?

Ok, i used that 2nd file, and was everything perfect! I got a message on Odin : "PASS" the phone turned on, passed a Samsung logo, the T-Mobile screen turned on, and the T mobile song, and stuck on that screen....
this is a file I used a second time , and I stuck now at boot by the T-Mobile logo
N910TUVU2DOK2_N910TTMB2DOK2_N910TUVU2DOK2_HOME.tar.md5
and this file was the one stuck always at the beginning :
N910TUVS2EPG2_N910TTMB2EPG2_N910TUVS2EPG2_HOME.tarmd5
just a note, my Note 4 was rooted and It wasn't a latest firmware , actually probably like 8 months old or at least 6 month old firmware on it.
WORKING!! 100% Working. I just took out a battery , and was waiting a bit, turned it back and working! Thank You guys!!

you shoud have clear cache and data through recovery after that successful flash..
but you didn't

atti_mac said:
Ok, i used that 2nd file, and was everything perfect! I got a message on Odin : "PASS" the phone turned on, passed a Samsung logo, the T-Mobile screen turned on, and the T mobile song, and stuck on that screen....
this is a file I used a second time , and I stuck now at boot by the T-Mobile logo
N910TUVU2DOK2_N910TTMB2DOK2_N910TUVU2DOK2_HOME.tar.md5
and this file was the one stuck always at the beginning :
N910TUVS2EPG2_N910TTMB2EPG2_N910TUVS2EPG2_HOME.tarmd5
just a note, my Note 4 was rooted and It wasn't a latest firmware , actually probably like 8 months old or at least 6 month old firmware on it.
WORKING!! 100% Working. I just took out a battery , and was waiting a bit, turned it back and working! Thank You guys!!
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Wipr cache and make factory reset in recovery to get clean system firmware.

Note 4 won't boot anymore... :-s

Hi,
I'm having issues booting the Note 4.
The first time the problem appeared is when I flashed the stock rom from 5.1.1 to 6.0.1
I started then having problem with the battery, I switched to un non official one. It made the problem worse.
Now The phone won't start anymore. It's either blocked on the logo or the logo + the blue recovery booting...
I flashed it back to 5.1.1 with no results. I just want to do a wipe/factory reset but can't enter recovery mode.
I flashed a TWRP recovery but then It says : "recovery booting, recovery is not seandroid enforcing, set warranty bit..." so I read that I have to boot to a stock rom...on the internet it says that if you are having issues to enter recovery you should flash twrp recovery...So I'm kinda stuck here.
Can someone help me unlock my phone please? I just want to enter recovery to try the wipe/factory reset
Thank you very much

I've just tried a 4 files flash (BL, AP, CSC, CP) I checked Re-partition and a Nand Erase All...still same problem...
Is my phone dead?

Aryo.b said:
I've just tried a 4 files flash (BL, AP, CSC, CP) I checked Re-partition and a Nand Erase All...still same problem...
Is my phone dead?
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3488114
Use the device specific recovery firmware from this thread.
It consists of pit, ap, bl, cp and csc.
Also the instructions to flash a recovery firmware are mentioned , follow them.
Sent from my SM-N910G using Tapatalk

@yashthemw Thanks a lot for the link.
So you are saying that my phone is bricked?
I'll try all that in I'll keep you posted.

Aryo.b said:
@yashthemw Thanks a lot for the link.
So you are saying that my phone is bricked?
I'll try all that in I'll keep you posted.
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Kinda soft bricked.
Sent from my SM-N910G using Tapatalk

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3fU3AHc0FpCNWs0MHltUUR2dEE
This link doesn't work anymore what file it is?
Thanks a lot

Aryo.b said:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3fU3AHc0FpCNWs0MHltUUR2dEE
This link doesn't work anymore what file it is?
Thanks a lot
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Its the debrick.img for n910f.
You will have to download it from mega server.
Sent from my SM-N910G using Tapatalk

Hi,
I was not able to try this till now.
Something is not clear in the procedure :
-Open win32diskimager, load the debrick.img(3.74gb for n910f and 16mb for n910g).
-Flash it on a blank sd card, the card should be completely formatted and should be in fat32 format.
[/B ]-Once done, put that sd card in your bricked device.
-Connect it to your pc.
-Hold the power button for at least 10 sec or try the download mode key trio.
-It should vibrate.
-If it doesnt, hold it in front of an air conditioner,
let it cool( this has been tested).
-If it still doesnt vibrates, remove the battery, hold the power button for 10sec and then insert the battery.
-Now again try to press power button.
>So, once it vibrates, leave it for around 5min.
-Then press the volume down key+power+home.
-It should boot in to download mode.
-Now you can flash stock rom or recovery firmware.
This procedure doesn't explain what to do with that Debrick file that is in the sd card. I was able to connect to the pc, and enter the download mode, it has never been an issue.
So please once the sd card (with debrick.img in it) is in the phone and the phone in download mode what to do with that debrick.img? Am I missing something?
Thanks a lot

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what if you try the stock from here https://androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=26335 and flash one of the BLs w/ that

Note 4 won't charge or boot - Fixed
Hello,
My note four recently started running sluggishly and the battery would only charge to 77%. I rebooted it and it was now stone dead, would not charge, boot , nada. This is the fix I found that worked for me:
Take out battery, sim card, and mem card. Install back cover. Place phone in ziplock sandwich bag and seal. Place bag into freezer for 20 minutes. Remove bag/phone from freezer, reassemble battery, sim and mem cards. Press the start key and phone should boot(mine did). If not, plug into Samsung fast charger and try booting again.
Regards

Newbie Mistake, Loop boot, G950FD rooted. Help!

Hi,
I've looked everywhere before writing this so please forgive me as I saw there are a number of threads similar to this but couldn't find an answer.
Have rooted the phone a few days ago and flashed the Alexis Rom Oreo2.1S9PORT. As I had several apps that where acting up (no MIcrosoft Active Sync, no Outlook notifications among other things) I made a bit of a mess of it and decided to reset the phone by erasing all contents. As I went to boot up again the phone was in loop.
It goes on download mode and have tried with ODIN to reflash AP, BL, CP, CSC read everywhere looked on youtube but Odin fails each time. I've downloaded samsung drivers and firmwares to have Samsung Oreo back but to no avail.
Could someone please give me a hand in restarting the phone somehow? It's now in loop and I will wait until it dies down from battery failure as suggested in some threads in here.
Sorry to pester you.
Newbie...:crying:

latest ODIN screenshot. I don't know what more to try...please help...

Can you boot into Recovery Mode?
(Power off your phone, than hold: Bixby + volume up + power on button until you see the recovery mode)

Norup58 said:
Can you boot into Recovery Mode?
(Power off your phone, than hold: Bixby + volume up + power on button until you see the recovery mode)
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No unfortunately. NOw the phone is battery drained.

THis is the Downloading mode. I can't think of what to do unfortunately. I've tried 3 or 4 firmwares as well.
Since I deleted through the phone system reset and not through TWRP (which I've now lost obviously) what would be the best way to reflash the mod (or the original Samsung one for that matter)?

ok I thought I made some progress, I've managed to reinstall TWRP and flashed again the Rom, Rom fix, and AOD fix. I was able to check the options of the Rom and the ROm installed succesfully. As I went to reboot I got stuck again in a loop with the SAMSUNG logo flashing continuosly. I can feel I'm close to a solution, could you point me in the right direction please?

The continuosly boot-loop could be the firmware doesnt match the Rom.
If you are game, try installing Renovate Ice: https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...ovate-ice-g950-g955-android-7-0-aqdg-t3598040
Click the orange colored RENOVATE ICE WEBPAGE link.
From the menu choose FIRMWARE, download and flash.
Then download and flash R.Ice rom - follow the How to Flash guide

Norup58 said:
The continuosly boot-loop could be the firmware doesnt match the Rom.
If you are game, try installing Renovate Ice: https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...ovate-ice-g950-g955-android-7-0-aqdg-t3598040
Click the orange colored RENOVATE ICE WEBPAGE link.
From the menu choose FIRMWARE, download and flash.
Then download and flash R.Ice rom - follow the How to Flash guide
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Thanks a lot. I managed alone 5 minutes ago. Reflashed the TWRP, then the Oreo ROM, and then the samsung firmware... result now I have a working fresh empty Samsung S8 with all Samsung apps... I now know how to do it. :laugh::laugh::laugh:

Bootloop after update and flash of firmware

Hi,
Im Matt, new to the forum. Pleased to meet you.
Im commonly known as Matt the fixer of everything, this is why I was given this Samsung Galaxy s8+ to fix. The story is, the guy updated it to the latest software update pushed to his phone. After the pushed update, the phone went into a bootloop.
The phone wont go into the options to allow me to restore, factory reset or clear cache. I can get it into download mode.
I tried a few firmwares before hitting too many errors, so decided to buy a subscription to sammobile to get the latest firmware, G955F - under the correct carrier listed on the phone XEU.
Here is the order I did things:
Open Odin 3.13.1
vol down, bixby +power - vol down to reject, then vol down, bixby + power again. (the phone wouldnt connect properly before and this worked)
Plug phone into the USB
place each file into the correct slot
Start
This would give me the progress bar, and flash with a PASS! it would take approximately 4m30
This put me into a boot loop again.
So i googled and found another option. I did the above but this time I extracted the .pit file from HOME_CSC and added that under the Pit tab and addedd the files for BL AP and CP.
Again, it successfully flashed, but again went into a continuous bootloop.
Im now stuck.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. according to the phone owner the next option involves a hammer, and im not convinced thats going to help...
Kind regards
Matt