Had some issues with my phone so I tried to flash to stock using Odin. Odin wouldn't connect so I flashed to stock using Heimdall. Stuck with stock for few hours and flashed a new CWM to get back to MIUI, screwed up so I decided to re-flash with Heimdall again. Flashing went okay, but the phone will not boot up or even go into download mode. Have I bricked the un-brickable or is there something else I can do with ADB etc?
might have bricked it. did you use the right cwr for your phone? if theirs now cwr and only stock take it in to a store and say the ota update for 2.3 screwed up your phone. if not buy a new phone like the galaxy nexus
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1656825 i tried flashing via odin and recover back my device using the shown link. I got the following error as shown in image. And i am not able to install any custom rom also. Every time i do get stuck on the logo of the device. And when i remove battery it gets back to the normal recovery mode. What shall i do now the device is brcked and i cnnot get it back plz help me.
Did you try factory reset then use odin to flash? Might help you.
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I have a SGH-i527 that got the 4.4.2 OTA update last night. I'm not sure what I did, but I think I tried to flash the 4.2.2 via Odin when I was encountering problems with Kit Kat. Now when trying to boot, I am stuck on the "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again." screen.
I have tried to get Kies to go through emergency recovery but the phone never shows up there. And obviously, trying the flash the 4.2.2 firmware in odin will not work. So I am stuck. Any thoughts?
If you did flash the JB ROM after the KitKat update, you will have to flash the KitKat firmware since you cannot downgrade the bootloader and you have probably voided the warranty. Flash the KitKat update for the specific model and DO NOT try to root, flash custom recovery or downgrade to Jellybean since it will trip the Knox boot loader and you will have a brick. Hope this helps
To my understanding, there is not a KK stock rom that I can flash (at least for the i527). And since I can't flash back to 4.2.2, it looks like I'm stuck.
Why flashing 4.2.2 by Odin did not change your situation? Maybe try to flash another ROM?
Well here's the story..... So I want to install a custom ROM via SS, the install goes without issue. (I'm running stock NK1 Rooted at the time) I go to install a ROM , and It fails, so I go to reboot the device, and Its back into a bootloop. No big deal, iv'e delt with this before... .I attempt to flash it back to stock NC5 to root it and start over, the flash succeeds, but when I try to boot it i just get the "Samsung Galaxy S4" logo and it sits there doing nothing, and I cant boot into recovery for some reason, just goes back to ODIN mode. Is there anything that can be done?
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Well here's the story..... So I want to install a custom ROM via SS, the install goes without issue. (I'm running stock NK1 Rooted at the time) I go to install a ROM , and It fails, so I go to reboot the device, and Its back into a bootloop. No big deal, iv'e delt with this before... .I attempt to flash it back to stock NC5 to root it and start over, the flash succeeds, but when I try to boot it i just get the "Samsung Galaxy S4" logo and it sits there doing nothing, and I cant boot into recovery for some reason, just goes back to ODIN mode. Is there anything that can be done?
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Try a reflash via Odin. It may help. Which image are you flashing?
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Hi, I have a GS4 (SCH-I545) and I tried to get TWRP and then CyangenMod, so I rooted my phone, used ROM Manager to get TWRP, rebooted into recovery, only to get the stock recovery. So I tried Flashify, rebooted, but got the Verizon warning screen, so then I used the workaround to get back in to my phone. I then tried again but then I couldn't get bacl into a recovery mode, just odin mode with "Could not do normal boot" in the top left. So I did the workaround again, I then figured something was wrong with the bootloader, so I used Flashify to flash "a-boot.img" hoping it would work, now I can't get into recovery mode, can't get into Android, can't even charge my phone, the odin mode will always come on, I can go intpo normal odin mode though, but that's it, I can't do anything on my phone, only go into odin mode, so I guess I've bricked my phone. What should I do?
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Hi, I have a GS4 (SCH-I545) and I tried to get TWRP and then CyangenMod, so I rooted my phone, used ROM Manager to get TWRP, rebooted into recovery, only to get the stock recovery. So I tried Flashify, rebooted, but got the Verizon warning screen, so then I used the workaround to get back in to my phone. I then tried again but then I couldn't get bacl into a recovery mode, just odin mode with "Could not do normal boot" in the top left. So I did the workaround again, I then figured something was wrong with the bootloader, so I used Flashify to flash "a-boot.img" hoping it would work, now I can't get into recovery mode, can't get into Android, can't even charge my phone, the odin mode will always come on, I can go intpo normal odin mode though, but that's it, I can't do anything on my phone, only go into odin mode, so I guess I've bricked my phone. What should I do?
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Well, first of all, if your galaxy didn't have the MDK bootloader (first version of firmware, android 4.2.2) you are not able to get CM nor Recovery (CWM, TWRP...), because Verizon locked the bootloader in all the other versions. If you touched our "lovely" bootloader you could have messed up your device, but you can get into download mode so you should try downloading a stock rom equal or newer to the android version you used to have before you bricked your device (you cannot downgrade your phone), if that doesn't work you can try Samsung Smart Switch to repair it.
Okay ill try downloadig a stock rom, but I don't really know how to do it, got any links telling how?
Well, we can't point you to a stock ROM to odin with. You can't just simply Odin back to MDK. That has been blocked off by a physical qfuse, which will further mess up your device. Can you get into download mode and tell us what version do you have?
All download mode says is this: odin mode
Product name: SCH-I545
Current binary: Samsung Official
System status: custom
CSB-CONFIG-LSB: 0x30
Write protection: Enable
eMMC BURST MODE enabled
Nothing about the version
Id say the version I have was later than 4.2.2 considering I couldn't get a recovery working, the previous owner updated it some time in early 2014 maybe june so any version of KitKat later than that might work