[Q] SGH-T989 Wont shutdown/Restart - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4

I have a T-Mobile Galaxy S2 That i have rooted and still running the stock rom vers. 4.0.4. Everything runs fine except the ability to restart or shutdown the phone.For some reason it gets stuck on the pink goodbye screen. Also i have tried to flash different roms only to get a boot loop. The only way i can get the phone to start is to restore a old backup. Sorry for being such a noob.thanks for any help!

Perhaps you should try posting in the correct forum, no?
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najaboy said:
Perhaps you should try posting in the correct forum, no?
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Failed to boot 2 on gigngerblur?

While trying to update my device from ginger blur v4.5 to ics rom , i have discored that my phone wont go into cwm recovery and gives me the failed to boot 2 error
has this happened to anyone on gingerblur?
Have you unlocked bootloader?
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dont rreally know see the phone was give to me rooted and with an old version of ginger blur which i updated to the current one a few months back (in other words i did go to recovery in order to update)
it those have clockworkmod but again i havent personally unlock the bootloader
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xsessive said:
While trying to update my device from ginger blur v4.5 to ics rom , i have discored that my phone wont go into cwm recovery and gives me the failed to boot 2 error
has this happened to anyone on gingerblur?
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Ouch... failed to boot 2 errors are from trying to downgrade. ??? You might get lucky and flash a SBf using RSd.
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leperkuan said:
Ouch... failed to boot 2 errors are from trying to downgrade. ??? You might get lucky and flash a SBf using RSd.
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how do i do this lol
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ok so i figured the whole rsd thing im suppose to but now i have a nother issue
my device is not detected by rsd even with the proper drivers installed
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That means its gone. It wont charge the battery either?
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yes its charging the battery on my pc. ...im gonna try it on another pc see if i have any luck
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Before you muck it up....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1165154
Scroll down it explains how to fix it. Never downgrade!!
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This is exactly why ALL Android phones should come with Bootloaders unlocked. It's such a fail safe for end users to fix their phones.
YEAH I know companies don't like users flashing ROMS, but this is Android. If companies have an issue with it, then don't make Android phones. Samsung obviously doesn't have an issue with that.
Don't get me wrong I LOVE MY ATRIX!, but it still blows that we needed to do all the end user work on our time to make this phone great...
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His original problem was simple to solve. Gingerblur used a bootstrap apk to boot into cwm (this is talking before we even had official gingerbread like a year ago). That bootstrapped version of cwm wouldnt allow him to flash anything new. All he would've had to do was flash a version of cwm with rom manager and boot into recovery. (Probably should wipe as well). U guys mucked him up good.
Pretty sure his phone was mucked up from the get go. He had err 2 since I replied...
Once you have errors like this you must sbf flash the latest 2.3.4?? Pudding firmware
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ok fixed read that win 7 64bit was the culprit on not recognizing things...thankfully had a win 7 32bit laptop that did the job thanks for all the help guys
xsessive said:
ok fixed read that win 7 64bit was the culprit on not recognizing things...thankfully had a win 7 32bit laptop that did the job thanks for all the help guys
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I need I 605 vrall4 stock image

I had my phone unlocked and rooted cleanrom 3.5 I downloaded triangle away because I was told it would fix allshare cast and that I needed a zero count so I bought the app and ran it ...Big mistake I lost trwp in the process and somehow got stuck in a bootloop so I did adams unroot method and went back to stock i605 vralljb great right ? Well no because in the process of when I went back to stock I ended up receiving the garbage ota vrall4 and I was having a hella time re rooting so I made a huge mistake I tried to use odin with bootloader locked to get back to I 605 vralljb it wont do it so now my phone goes through the process in odin but when it gets to recovery it fails halfway through the download ...When I turn my phone on it says Firmware Upgrade encountered an issue .Please select recovery mode in Kies n try again....WTF do I do ? Am I screwed ?
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Search forums..... It's there!!!!!!!!
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jsuch2002 said:
Search forums..... It's there!!!!!!!!
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Actually there isn't aLL4 stock image only the JB.
OP you need the alternate restore download from imnuts thread
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Yeah.... That's what I meant
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jsuch2002 said:
Yeah.... That's what I meant
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Gotcha. ...It's early here.
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kintwofan said:
Gotcha. ...It's early here.
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i think we need to put "use alternate restore file" in our sigs lol.
droidstyle said:
i think we need to put "use alternate restore file" in our sigs lol.
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And update your TWRP
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Help can't flash a thing

Well the problem started a while ago when my settings wouldn't work...so i restored my ROM(JEDI X) via a back up...and everything was good
Now i want to flash Pacman rom and it wont flash...
Next choice, Liquid Smooth, it wont flash
i just went flash wild trying to flash anything and everything but it keeps saying Failed in ugly red letters -_-
I just want to be able to flash something new, please help!
zaksween said:
Well the problem started a while ago when my settings wouldn't work...so i restored my ROM(JEDI X) via a back up...and everything was good
Now i want to flash Pacman rom and it wont flash...
Next choice, Liquid Smooth, it wont flash
i just went flash wild trying to flash anything and everything but it keeps saying Failed in ugly red letters -_-
I just want to be able to flash something new, please help!
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I have the latest TWRP installed, i have tried a lot to try to fix this, please helpppp
STOP MAKING SO MANY THREADS. I answer only one of them. Jesus
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maybe bad downloads try downloading them again and flashing
Bad sdcard. Move to internal and try again.
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zaksween said:
Well the problem started a while ago when my settings wouldn't work...so i restored my ROM(JEDI X) via a back up...and everything was good
Now i want to flash Pacman rom and it wont flash...
Next choice, Liquid Smooth, it wont flash
i just went flash wild trying to flash anything and everything but it keeps saying Failed in ugly red letters -_-
I just want to be able to flash something new, please help!
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You need a "triangle away" app maybe you have incurred the limit for flashing rom that's why your seeing the red line!!!
gelo20ify said:
You need a "triangle away" app maybe you have incurred the limit for flashing rom that's why your seeing the red line!!!
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No.
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1ManWolfePack said:
No.
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its the only just try it out... nothing to lose!!
gelo20ify said:
its the only just try it out... nothing to lose!!
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Except there is no limit it's just a number and you don't trip or flashing in recovery. It only gets tripped by flashing non official Samsung firmware in Odin so I doubt his is higher then 1
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kintwofan said:
Except there is no limit it's just a number and you don't trip or flashing in recovery. It only gets tripped by flashing non official Samsung firmware in Odin so I doubt his is higher then 1
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This^^
You (not kintwofan) don't know what you're talking about.
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Is this the Definition of a soft brick? Fix?

So I rooted my S4 and all was good (Not my first rodeo)
I was running a Stock Deodexed ROM and I flashed a mod to change the toggles to blue. Still... all was good, but
then I decided to start fresh and clean up a bit. So I formated the device, wiped caches, data reset, yadda ya...
Flashed a different Stock Deodex and everything still seemed fine. I tried flashing the blue toggle mod and then got stuck on boot. Pulled battery and still nothing. Wiped all data again and flashed the ROM again without doing the toggle mod. Ever since then, no matter what ROM I'm on or have any mods, if I reboot I get stuck at boot screen. The only way to get past this is to wipe EVERYTHING again and start over. However... Hot/Quick/Shell reboot doesn't lock up on me.
So basically I'm at a point with my S4 that makes it impossible to flash anything and be able to boot. I even have to wipe everything before I can do a successful restore.
I'm using TWRP 2.5.0.2 and currently on my latest backup of cleanrom 1.3
Any ideas are greatly appreciated and welcomed. Thanks community!
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Not sure but twrp has been giving some people issues. Try oudhs cwm.
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BladeRunner said:
Not sure but twrp has been giving some people issues. Try oudhs cwm.
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I'd love too, but idk how to go about replacing a recovery. Do you push it with Odin or something? Where can I get it?
Thanks for your reply. Good to know I'm not the only one, but that still sucks for all of us. Lol
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dopediculous said:
I'd love too, but idk how to go about replacing a recovery. Do you push it with Odin or something? Where can I get it?
Thanks for your reply. Good to know I'm not the only one, but that still sucks for all of us. Lol
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I had your issue happen to me last week. I tried everything to fix it and nothing worked. I ended up flashing back to stock. Started flashing again using TWRP with no problems.
Here is where I got info to go back to stock. Go to android development and scroll down to (Guide) No-wipe factory image by open1your1eyes and follow as instructed. Happy flashing bud!
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So, "unroot" then re root?
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dopediculous said:
So, "unroot" then re root?
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It worked for me. I just edited my last post. Check it out.
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dopediculous said:
I'd love too, but idk how to go about replacing a recovery. Do you push it with Odin or something? Where can I get it?
Thanks for your reply. Good to know I'm not the only one, but that still sucks for all of us. Lol
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flashable zip here; http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2291976
just put on your SD card and flash with your current TWRP
or you can install it with this utility; http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301720
Whelp... I got that other recovery on there, but now I can't boot or anything. No ROM works
I think I tried everything, but it looks like I'll need to get Odin involved and go from there. Its too bad that the cwm recovery can't restore a twrp backup. This sucks. Ugh. First world problems... Anyone got a link for the stock image or whatever I need to push via Odin? Ideas?
Thanks again for your help guys. I do appreciate it and know I'll get up and running again soon.
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dopediculous said:
Whelp... I got that other recovery on there, but now I can't boot or anything. No ROM works
I think I tried everything, but it looks like I'll need to get Odin involved and go from there. Its too bad that the cwm recovery can't restore a twrp backup. This sucks. Ugh. First world problems... Anyone got a link for the stock image or whatever I need to push via Odin? Ideas?
Thanks again for your help guys. I do appreciate it and know I'll get up and running again soon.
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http://www.247xtreme.com/S4/
From DarkMenace's signature, quite a nice resource he has composed. I ran into a similar situation with TWRP and ClearnRom 1.3 last night, ended up using Odin to push the "SCH-I545_MDK_562219_Stock_Restore.tar.md5.gz" in that link. Went back to bone stock, but it's nice to know there is a fallback incase something ever goes awry.
Hethor said:
http://www.247xtreme.com/S4/
From DarkMenace's signature, quite a nice resource he has composed. I ran into a similar situation with TWRP and ClearnRom 1.3 last night, ended up using Odin to push the "SCH-I545_MDK_562219_Stock_Restore.tar.md5.gz" in that link. Went back to bone stock, but it's nice to know there is a fallback incase something ever goes awry.
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Bro. Thank you! This reminds me of the good ol' fascinate. Lol
So will this take away root too?
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dopediculous said:
Bro. Thank you! This reminds me of the good ol' fascinate. Lol
So will this take away root too?
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Yes, but there are root files there also.
So then what? Or do I just use Odin to do the whole kernel flashing thing again to gain root? Sorry to sound so noobish, just don't wanna go through this again. Lol
Should I just maybe try that VRUAMDK no wipe .tar?
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dopediculous said:
So then what? Or do I just use Odin to do the whole kernel flashing thing again to gain root? Sorry to sound so noobish, just don't wanna go through this again. Lol
Should I just maybe try that VRUAMDK no wipe .tar?
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You use Odin. You can use either file.
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Yeah I know I use Odin. I guess I should have worded that better.
If I push the .tar you mentioned, I lose root, but some root files will still be there. So my question is... What files and what can I do with them? Or do I just start the whole root process over again as in the first place with those two modified kernels?
The other "no data wipe .tar" file you push with Odin as well, but would you retain root? If so... I would prefer the no wipe .tar, but you know better than me and I greatly appreciate your help and guidance. If the first .tar file is the better way to go and start all over, that's what I'll do. Its almost done downloading anyways, but was just curious about the no wipe and if ya knew anything more about it. I owe you man!
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Both files will remove root. You would need to reflash with the kernel files.
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Cook thank you again! El fiƱ
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[Q] Device won't boot after Odin frimware flash

Hi guys, i'm trying to restore my S3 to stock so I can sell it, however after trying to use Odin around 5 times to install stock frimware, I either end up in a boot loop or constant boot-up. I've tried 3 different versions of Odin and still no luck. It passes every time.
Any idea's anyone? I did notice I only ever have one file to put into Odin, which is a PDA compatible file, none of the others. I'm not sure if this is just due to bad downloads or what.
Any ideas anyone?
Factory reset from recovery
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blazevxi said:
Factory reset from recovery
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THATS IT! Thanks man!!!!
JustArchiee said:
THATS IT! Thanks man!!!!
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No problem, glad to help
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