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I have a stock Note that gets stuck in the boot.
I had a charger cable that was not connecting properly and I was having charging issues. When my phone tried to boot it must not have had enough juice. Here's the recent history
within the last 2 weeks a few random reboots. the ones i remember most were when taking a picture after i took the picture the phone would reboot. there may have been 2 instances when it would reboot and then crash and reboot again and crash. i would remove the battery and restart and it would work fine.
yesterday It rebooted and the Samsung image came up and then the ATT logo along with the Att sound but after that nothing would happen. The Att image screen just stayed on and nothing would happen. i removed battery for a few minutes and retried and got same result. I was able to ( volume down + home + power and get the ": warning customer OS warning " but i could not get anything from ( volume up + home + power. )
today when i replace the battery and try to restart I get Nothing on the screen except the vibration that continues about every 2 seconds as long as i have the power button pushed.
I dont mind rooting if I have to but I assume it would need to boot from SD card or from computer. I do have a backup samsung phone if i need to install something to an SD card.
Thanks in Advance.
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Shortpour said:
I have a stock Note that gets stuck in the boot.
I had a charger cable that was not connecting properly and I was having charging issues. When my phone tried to boot it must not have had enough juice. Here's the recent history
within the last 2 weeks a few random reboots. the ones i remember most were when taking a picture after i took the picture the phone would reboot. there may have been 2 instances when it would reboot and then crash and reboot again and crash. i would remove the battery and restart and it would work fine.
yesterday It rebooted and the Samsung image came up and then the ATT logo along with the Att sound but after that nothing would happen. The Att image screen just stayed on and nothing would happen. i removed battery for a few minutes and retried and got same result. I was able to ( volume down + home + power and get the ": warning customer OS warning " but i could not get anything from ( volume up + home + power. )
today when i replace the battery and try to restart I get Nothing on the screen except the vibration that continues about every 2 seconds as long as i have the power button pushed.
I dont mind rooting if I have to but I assume it would need to boot from SD card or from computer. I do have a backup samsung phone if i need to install something to an SD card.
Thanks in Advance.
M
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sounds like your phone was dirty flashed or something in the system was corrupted/faulty... hopefully not hardware. Are you using the wall outlet to charge with an official.. or somewhat similar, cable? If you can get into download mode (Power + Vol down at boot) .. no need to hold home on the the note i717 by the way.. if you can get into DL mode you can flash a custom recovery (Team Win) or whatever and get into a more robust recovery (stock sucks) by holding Vol up + down + Power at boot then releasing after seeing the samsung logo . . you could try going into the stock recovery and or the system and doing hard resets with wiping the data and all that good... fix permissions for sure
If you are able to get into download mode I would recommend trying to flash a recovery, getting in it.. wiping everything like 4 times and also going into settings and using the -rm way . . then if you wanna keep it stock, go to samsung-updates and get the latest and flash it through ODIN. or if you wanna get root and keep custom recovery just download a ZIP from the dev section and flash it from the recovery. All you gotta do there is put the zip file on the SD card and select flash ... make sure to wipe tho, avoiding the install file of course.
The vibrating every 2 sec sounds like youre not letting it charge right tho... pull the battery , wait.. put it back in. . plug it into a WALL . if it vibrates nonstop when you do that, or when the button is pushed... your button is stuck. may not feel like it but internally those things break. might wanna give it a lil love with the duster. these suckers are easy to open . .
if you need a jtag lemme know!
good luck
old school Note wont reboot
Can I flash a recovery if the phone is not rooted and if so can you tell me how.
If i understood your instructions below I am going to goto samsung-ipdates ( .com/device/?id=SG H-I717 ) and download to my sd card and then insert the sd card and (volume down + power ) and that is all ?
thank you for your patience
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sounds like your phone was dirty flashed or something in the system was corrupted/faulty... hopefully not hardware. Are you using the wall outlet to charge with an official.. or somewhat similar, cable? If you can get into download mode (Power + Vol down at boot) .. no need to hold home on the the note i717 by the way.. if you can get into DL mode you can flash a custom recovery (Team Win) or whatever and get into a more robust recovery (stock sucks) by holding Vol up + down + Power at boot then releasing after seeing the samsung logo . . you could try going into the stock recovery and or the system and doing hard resets with wiping the data and all that good... fix permissions for sure
If you are able to get into download mode I would recommend trying to flash a recovery, getting in it.. wiping everything like 4 times and also going into settings and using the -rm way . . then if you wanna keep it stock, go to samsung-updates and get the latest and flash it through ODIN. or if you wanna get root and keep custom recovery just download a ZIP from the dev section and flash it from the recovery. All you gotta do there is put the zip file on the SD card and select flash ... make sure to wipe tho, avoiding the install file of course.
The vibrating every 2 sec sounds like youre not letting it charge right tho... pull the battery , wait.. put it back in. . plug it into a WALL . if it vibrates nonstop when you do that, or when the button is pushed... your button is stuck. may not feel like it but internally those things break. might wanna give it a lil love with the duster. these suckers are easy to open . .
if you need a jtag lemme know!
good luck
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You don't need root access to flash a custom recovery, only phone in download mode and Odin on a pc.
I have the same exact issue today. I'm thinking my power button got bumped in my pocket weird and caused a catasprophe. I have a new battery and external charger coming in the mail. Hopefully that fixes me up.
My atrix 2 always had that issue.
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Shortpour said:
Can I flash a recovery if the phone is not rooted and if so can you tell me how.
If i understood your instructions below I am going to goto samsung-ipdates ( .com/device/?id=SG H-I717 ) and download to my sd card and then insert the sd card and (volume down + power ) and that is all ?
thank you for your patience
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To get a recovery on the phone you have to be able to get to download mode or into the rom. If you are in the rom, use GOO Manager app from the play store and have it install it. If you cant get into the rom and can just get into download mode (vol down + power) then you will have to use ODIN flashing tool. There are other ways but I recommend getting familiar with ODIN.
You can get ODIN flashable recoveries from teamw.in website... thats the Team Win website http://teamw.in. In odin you are gonna wanna load up the file in the PDA section.. make sure not to select anything other than what is already selected by default in odin.. make sure you have proper samsung drivers installed. if you are unsure, install samsung kies from the website (it installs drivers) or find driver package for samsung devices. With proper drivers installed, you should be able to run ODIN, as administrator, and then plug in the phone that is in download mode... and get a device ID to show up in the box. If you see the box with the device, place the phone down in a safe secure spot, make sure the file is in the PDA spot and then flash. Dont touch it until the box either says PASS or the device fully resets and reboots (sometimes the pass never comes or comes super late). The same procedure goes for downloads from Samsung-updates.com ... PDA slot, device in download mode, ODIN with admin privileges , plug it in, see device ID, put phone down, press flash, wait for the thing to give you a PASS. Flashing full roms takes ALOT long than just a recovery so just chill. When it reboots let it settle for 5-10 min, do a few reboots for good measure.
The instructions to flash a rom via the SD card were as follows: if you get into a custom recovery and have a recovery flashable ZIP file on the SD card that is a full rom which is compatible with the device.. then you can select the ZIP file from the SD card and flash it that way. . . ODIN flashable files come in tar.md5 or just tar. . you cant flash ZIP files from Odin.
To smooth over any issues the phone may have, I would flash a FULL, stock, OFFICIAL rom onto the device.. once booted , if you get that far... do factory reset + format SD.
When you're in download mode does your phone turn itself off quickly? Download mode only stays on for about 4 seconds for me. On normal boot I get 2 glimpses of the Samsung, then a vibration and nothing after that. If I plug into the wall I get eternal rhythmic intermittent vibrations.
Sorry for the questions. I only had this phone for 3 days before this happened so I'm a notenoob.
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skearton said:
When you're in download mode does your phone turn itself off quickly? Download mode only stays on for about 4 seconds for me. On normal boot I get 2 glimpses of the Samsung, then a vibration and nothing after that. If I plug into the wall I get eternal rhythmic intermittent vibrations.
Sorry for the questions. I only had this phone for 3 days before this happened so I'm a notenoob.
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sounds like a stuck power button. May try and see if its stuck by pressing it a bunch to free it or tapping on the back of the phone where the button is
skearton said:
When you're in download mode does your phone turn itself off quickly? Download mode only stays on for about 4 seconds for me. On normal boot I get 2 glimpses of the Samsung, then a vibration and nothing after that. If I plug into the wall I get eternal rhythmic intermittent vibrations.
Sorry for the questions. I only had this phone for 3 days before this happened so I'm a notenoob.
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def a stuck power button.. slide your finger really fast back and forth on it to press and depress it quickly while trying to get it to boot . . . stop to see if it worked, if not keep on doing it till you get lucky.
if youre down to take the phone apart, which is very easy ... 7 or 8 small screws and a lil prying and you can get in there and clean the inside but the button and blast the thing with duster. . on the chip the button is really tiny and could use a lil unstickification im sure. . . duster. . and if youre way down flux remover :x
Thanks.
I took it apart yesterday and ran out of time. I have continuity across both pins on the board above the power button so I imagine you're right.
Thanks again.
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No matter how many times I clicked and sprayed duster, I wasn't able to resolve the issue. Due to my lame soldering I used an ebay company for repair. If I am allowed to post the link, please let me know. $40 for the service.
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Hi, don't think this is the place to be asking, but can someone point me in the right direction.
Have locked up / bricked my HTC One max.
Had previously;
- dev-unlocked via htc site,
- flashed cwm recovery via adb,
- backed-up via cwm,
- flashed nusense rom via cwm.
was running all good for a few weeks, although had lost root.
manually re-rooted flashing superuser.zip via cwm and got root back working fine.
made another cwm recovery backup.
installed xposed framework (got working via soft reboot), updated sense toolbox via xposed installer, rebooted working fine.
installed gravitybox via xposed installer. then on a soft reset its locked up (black screen, not responding, red charging led stays on when power is unplugged).
can't get to recovery via vol/power buttons.
can't see device via adb devices.
Would be removing the battery at this point on my HTC DHD but thats not happening here.
bit screwed at the moment, can anyone help?
Pep Streebek said:
Hi, don't think this is the place to be asking, but can someone point me in the right direction.
Have locked up / bricked my HTC One max.
Had previously;
- dev-unlocked via htc site,
- flashed cwm recovery via adb,
- backed-up via cwm,
- flashed nusense rom via cwm.
was running all good for a few weeks, although had lost root.
manually re-rooted flashing superuser.zip via cwm and got root back working fine.
made another cwm recovery backup.
installed xposed framework (got working via soft reboot), updated sense toolbox via xposed installer, rebooted working fine.
installed gravitybox via xposed installer. then on a soft reset its locked up (black screen, not responding, red charging led stays on when power is unplugged).
can't get to recovery via vol/power buttons.
can't see device via adb devices.
Would be removing the battery at this point on my HTC DHD but thats not happening here.
bit screwed at the moment, can anyone help?
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Are you sure your phone is charged. If so try this. Hold both vol u and d and power. the button at bottom should start flashing. Then quickly vol d and power. The vol u and d will or should restart phone.
thayl0 said:
Are you sure your phone is charged. If so try this. Hold both vol u and d and power. the button at bottom should start flashing. Then quickly vol d and power. The vol u and d will or should restart phone.
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Bo' Selecta! It lives!
Took several attempts; home/back just flashed on a few tries & didn't go to recovery. But eventually it reset & booted up fully
Guess I`ll go remove the GravityBox module then.
ta fella.
Pep Streebek said:
Bo' Selecta! It lives!
Took several attempts; home/back just flashed on a few tries & didn't go to recovery. But eventually it reset & booted up fully
Guess I`ll go remove the GravityBox module then.
ta fella.
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Just so you know for future reference, exposed drops an exposeddisabler.zip file onto your sd card when installed. It's there for just this very thing. Should it happen again hold those buttons and the second it reboots press volume down and then boot to your recovery and flash the disable zip. Your phone will boot up with xposed disabled and everything else as is.
dottat said:
Just so you know for future reference, exposed drops an exposeddisabler.zip file onto your sd card when installed. It's there for just this very thing. Should it happen again hold those buttons and the second it reboots press volume down and then boot to your recovery and flash the disable zip. Your phone will boot up with xposed disabled and everything else as is.
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I was aware of this either. Thanks for telling everyone.
dottat said:
Just so you know for future reference, exposed drops an exposeddisabler.zip file onto your sd card when installed. It's there for just this very thing. Should it happen again hold those buttons and the second it reboots press volume down and then boot to your recovery and flash the disable zip. Your phone will boot up with xposed disabled and everything else as is.
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Yeh clocked that just didn't know the button reset. I'm used to pulling the battery. Thx tho.
Started out with Z4, updated to Z8. I tried this with TWRP installed after making both EFS backup and regular nandroid backup, installed fine. I made sure to use the recommended partition zips. Here's the ROM I used. However after turning my phone off it will turn on into safe mode (lollipop) in limited, seemingly random instances. I have yet to access recovery. However, the one part I know that I screwed up is I installed xposed (forgot to install the xposed helper), so I receive unlimited errors for that and can't do anything.
I've tried rebooting my phone normally, rebooting into recovery, and cutting all of my losses and flashing back to stock. Any advice? I'm trying to follow the directions here to revert back to stock, but my computer will only recognize an unrecognized device.
Thanks for the help!
Flash the rom labeled "BarePop_TE_V1 " it has the files need to fix your issues (make sure to thank @engine95). Heres the link to the rom it is pretty much a debloated version of that lollipop rom you were running:http://forum.xda-developers.com/sprint-lg-g3/development/barepop-zv8-t3035551
That reboot problem you are having is because of a bug with the stock rom so just flash that one to fix everything.
I appreciate the help, however my main problem still lies with the fact that I can't access recovery. I've gotten it to where I can reboot normally (albeit I still can't do anything due to the constant errors), but holding pwr+vol down and then letting go and reclicking those once the lg sign comes up won't let me into recovery. Do you have any advice for that? Thanks again for the help!
1619415 said:
Flash the rom labeled "BarePop_TE_V1 " it has the files need to fix your issues (make sure to thank @engine95). Heres the link to the rom it is pretty much a debloated version of that lollipop rom you were running:http://forum.xda-developers.com/sprint-lg-g3/development/barepop-zv8-t3035551
That reboot problem you are having is because of a bug with the stock rom so just flash that one to fix everything.
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I appreciate the help, however my main problem still lies with the fact that I can't access recovery. I've gotten it to where I can reboot normally (albeit I still can't do anything due to the constant errors), but holding pwr+vol down and then letting go and reclicking those once the lg sign comes up won't let me into recovery. Do you have any advice for that? Thanks again for the help!
I've had similar issues in the past trying to boot into recovery and the method you said (vol down+power then let go and press again when LG logo comes up) also wouldn't work for me. Have you tried just holding it down and not letting it go until you see "Recovery Mode"? That actually worked for me.
death_muffins said:
I've had similar issues in the past trying to boot into recovery and the method you said (vol down+power then let go and press again when LG logo comes up) also wouldn't work for me. Have you tried just holding it down and not letting it go until you see "Recovery Mode"? That actually worked for me.
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I've tried doing that a few times as well, it just boots up as normal at that point. I'm welcome to trying anything though so if you have any other ideas, please let me know.
bdpope88 said:
I've tried doing that a few times as well, it just boots up as normal at that point. I'm welcome to trying anything though so if you have any other ideas, please let me know.
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death_muffins said:
I've had similar issues in the past trying to boot into recovery and the method you said (vol down+power then let go and press again when LG logo comes up) also wouldn't work for me. Have you tried just holding it down and not letting it go until you see "Recovery Mode"? That actually worked for me.
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I don't know why it worked this time... but it worked on my second attempt! I have access! Only issue is the touchscreen is messed up on the ROM, but it works!
With all of these issues you may want to flashtool back to ZV4 and reroot or ZV8 your call.
bdpope88 said:
I don't know why it worked this time... but it worked on my second attempt! I have access! Only issue is the touchscreen is messed up on the ROM, but it works!
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That's a step in the right direction!
death_muffins said:
I've had similar issues in the past trying to boot into recovery and the method you said (vol down+power then let go and press again when LG logo comes up) also wouldn't work for me. Have you tried just holding it down and not letting it go until you see "Recovery Mode"? That actually worked for me.
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Not to be redundant, but my understanding is the only way it will go into recovery from full off is to keep holding power+vol down until you see "recovery mode", if you let up on the buttons before you see recovery mode it will simply reboot.
When rooting an ATT G3 I could not for the life of me get it to boot into recovery using the button combo, instead I just used adb reboot recovery instead, worked every time, to this day the guy can only reboot to recovery from within rom, gonna suck if he gets soft bricked.. My Sprint G# holding the buttons works like a charm
When I want to boot into recpvery I always have to do volume + power up until the lg logo comes up then let go and press them again. Then I have to press the factory reset button and click yes. For me and I guess others when you hold volume + powerdown you just end up going into safe mode. If you end up always having problem just download a app that can make your phone reboot itself or download terminal and run:
su
reboot recovery
That always works because it is built into the phone.
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When I want to boot into recpvery I always have to do volume + power up until the lg logo comes up then let go and press them again. Then I have to press the factory reset button and click yes. For me and I guess others when you hold volume + powerdown you just end up going into safe mode. If you end up always having problem just download a app that can make your phone reboot itself or download terminal and run:
su
reboot recovery
That always works because it is built into the phone.
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For me if I go into recovery by volume down + power. It just goes into recovery.
If I'm using phone, i use terminal command. su -c reboot revovery
I'm using ls990 gold edition.
It's still very early an I see a few people going stir crazy over finding a way to root their phones. I for one am not sure I want to root just yet, the reason being Samsung pay. If it's going to be as awesome as they say it will be I don't wanna miss out due to tripping Knox.
Now I do love flashing and all things root related but I'm willing to hold out.
What about you? Root or no root? Why?
I root right away even if I don't have a "good" reason too. Its the because I can. I don't really care about the tripping knox thing I guess because if you have insurance there is always a chance the device could get "broken". Then you don't have to worry about if its tripped or not. Thats the position Samsung has put me in I wouldn't typically do something like that. So ya now I'm just waiting for TWRP then I will try and make a ROM.
I tried to use chainroot, and got stuck on the logo screen. normally you'd battery pull, go to recovery and wipe data. but i can't find any way to shut down the phone, before doing power-upVol-home.
And now i've tried to odin a stock recovery to undo chainroot, odin fails. could re-run odin with auto-reboot off, but again, no way to shut off and go to recovery.
at this point i'm stuck with the blue screen asking me to use smart switch on PC to do emergency recovery. but smartswitch says the device is not recognized.
thoughts? thanks!
I don't care about warranty just samsung pay. I heard it was harder to make roms with exinos is that true?
jasonastley said:
I tried to use chainroot, and got stuck on the logo screen. normally you'd battery pull, go to recovery and wipe data. but i can't find any way to shut down the phone, before doing power-upVol-home.
And now i've tried to odin a stock recovery to undo chainroot, odin fails. could re-run odin with auto-reboot off, but again, no way to shut off and go to recovery.
at this point i'm stuck with the blue screen asking me to use smart switch on PC to do emergency recovery. but smartswitch says the device is not recognized.
thoughts? thanks!
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That sucks bro. I feel your pain. What happens if you press volume down, power and home for like 30 seconds?
jasonastley said:
I tried to use chainroot, and got stuck on the logo screen. normally you'd battery pull, go to recovery and wipe data. but i can't find any way to shut down the phone, before doing power-upVol-home.
And now i've tried to odin a stock recovery to undo chainroot, odin fails. could re-run odin with auto-reboot off, but again, no way to shut off and go to recovery.
at this point i'm stuck with the blue screen asking me to use smart switch on PC to do emergency recovery. but smartswitch says the device is not recognized.
thoughts? thanks!
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Not sure what device you have but there was a video that said not to use the edge version of the root, and to use the regular S6 version. Running the S6 version will fix your broken device. Take this with a grain of salt, I'm just telling you what I saw. I will post the video link if I get a chance.
PS not sure if this actually helps you or not..
Rooting broke Google Play Movies on my phone, battery life was miserable and phone never went to sleep. After I unrooted everything went back to normal. So I am not going to root and just wait until things are cleaned up.
Every phone I've ever had has been rooted as soon as I got it. Not this time though, because of Samsung Pay.
If rooting breaks Samsung Pay, I'll never root the phone
IakobosJ said:
Every phone I've ever had has been rooted as soon as I got it. Not this time though, because of Samsung Pay.
If rooting breaks Samsung Pay, I'll never root the phone
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You and me both!
mrnovanova said:
That sucks bro. I feel your pain. What happens if you press volume down, power and home for like 30 seconds?
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Volume down and power for 7 seconds = battery pull
alexkaye said:
Volume down and power for 7 seconds = battery pull
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not for me right now: i have the turquoise error screen telling me to use smart switch. volDown + power for 7 seconds turns the screen off... and then right back on a couple seconds later. and i can't seem to slip in the recovery key sequence during that gap.
volDown + power + home is a diff story: that brings me into download mode. but i don't have anything that works in odin right now without failing. very possible that i don't have the correct rom, or that the rom is fine but i just need to go into recovery mode to complete, but i can't seem to do that!
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not for me right now: i have the turquoise error screen telling me to use smart switch. volDown + power for 7 seconds turns the screen off... and then right back on a couple seconds later. and i can't seem to slip in the recovery key sequence during that gap.
volDown + power + home is a diff story: that brings me into download mode. but i don't have anything that works in odin right now without failing. very possible that i don't have the correct rom, or that the rom is fine but i just need to go into recovery mode to complete, but i can't seem to do that!
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How about volume up+power+home to stock recovery to perform a factory reset?
No root for me I'm afraid! If I root this device I lose my nfc payment app (Semble) as it checks for root and locks the app if it's detected. Besides I've rooted every other phone I've had since iPhone Gen 1 and I don't really have the time anymore now I've got a 1 year old boy!
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How about volume up+power+home to stock recovery to perform a factory reset?
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nope. that's what i meant by "the recovery key combination" that i mentioned. only the dload mode key combo works, volUP + power + home does nothing.
jasonastley said:
nope. that's what i meant by "the recovery key combination" that i mentioned. only the dload mode key combo works, volUP + power + home does nothing.
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Oh shoot. Sorry to hear that.
jasonastley said:
I tried to use chainroot, and got stuck on the logo screen. normally you'd battery pull, go to recovery and wipe data. but i can't find any way to shut down the phone, before doing power-upVol-home.
And now i've tried to odin a stock recovery to undo chainroot, odin fails. could re-run odin with auto-reboot off, but again, no way to shut off and go to recovery.
at this point i'm stuck with the blue screen asking me to use smart switch on PC to do emergency recovery. but smartswitch says the device is not recognized.
thoughts? thanks!
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Why is ODIN failing? Drivers installed? Where did you get this recovery? If ODIN can see your device you flash back to unrooted stock firmware.
Also, someone mentioned that you can Vol down + power will shut the device down. As soon as the screen goes black take your finger off the power button, press and hold Vol up + home then press power. You can go right from download mode to recovery with just the buttons.
great questions:
jamcar said:
Why is ODIN failing? Drivers installed? Where did you get this recovery? If ODIN can see your device you flash back to unrooted stock firmware.
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1. i got them from mobile.com/firmwares/database/SM-G925F/
I would love to hear if this is a good source. also, I don't know if it matters exactly which of those firmwares to choose (there are many, you choose country and carrier)-- i don't know which one came with this phone as it was sent as a demo to me and i didn't take a screen shot of the info screen (does it matter?)
Also, someone mentioned that you can Vol down + power will shut the device down. As soon as the screen goes black take your finger off the power button, press and hold Vol up + home then press power. You can go right from download mode to recovery with just the buttons.
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2. that doesn't work for me, tried 15 times. I'm stuck with this turquoise error screen telling me to use emergency recovery in smart switch. i can easily get over to dload mode too. From either place, volDown + power gets the black screen and then immediately goes right back to the turquoise error screen, ignores anything else i seem to press, can't get into recovery.
No root for me either. It's hard lol. I miss it mostly for the adblocker. But I'm too worried that rooting with make it so I wouldn't be able to use Samsung pay when it comes out! If a root method is released that won't trip the KNOX sensor then heck ya, I'll root right away!
jasonastley said:
great questions:
1. i got them from mobile.com/firmwares/database/SM-G925F/
I would love to hear if this is a good source. also, I don't know if it matters exactly which of those firmwares to choose (there are many, you choose country and carrier)-- i don't know which one came with this phone as it was sent as a demo to me and i didn't take a screen shot of the info screen (does it matter?)
2. that doesn't work for me, tried 15 times. I'm stuck with this turquoise error screen telling me to use emergency recovery in smart switch. i can easily get over to dload mode too. From either place, volDown + power gets the black screen and then immediately goes right back to the turquoise error screen, ignores anything else i seem to press, can't get into recovery.
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Did you ever fix this? I'm having the same issue, but because I flashed TWRP...
I need to use Smart Switch, but that says my device is unsupported... SM-G925F
EDIT: Re-flashed root, and all good again!
Tripledrop said:
Did you ever fix this? I'm having the same issue, but because I flashed TWRP...
I need to use Smart Switch, but that says my device is unsupported... SM-G925F
EDIT: Re-flashed root, and all good again!
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yep, i think that was a key step for me too: re-flashed the root thing, after trying to re-flash stock a bunch of times.
So, I was off attempting to root my phone with CF-Auto-Root. I have an S6 Edge from T-mobile, and so I selected the one for the SM-G925T, which was my phone's model number. On using Odin, following all the steps from the youtube video titled "How to Root Galaxy S6 or S6 Edge!" by Max Lee at High on Android (Sorry I can't post a link, I'm too new) Anyway, once I got to the part where I was rooting, upon restart, my phone seems to be locked in the startup screen. In the upper right corner in red, it says "Recovery is not seandroid enforcing" other than that, the screen is black with some white text that says "Samsung / Galaxy / S6 Edge / Powered By / Android" With each "/" representing a line break.
When I hold down the power button, nothing happens. Did I just ruin this phone, or is there something I can do to fix it? (I fear I may have unplugged it too early... I waited ~5 minutes before I figured it was totally frozen and that I would need to do something. Hopefully that didn't ruin the root...)
Thanks for any help!
Disclaimer, I'm no expert.
First, take a couple of deep breaths, your phone is not lost to the world.
Sounds like your stock firmware is kicking up a fuss about being booted from a non-samsung recovery.
There are several threads about this particular error already, but the general gist seems to be to get your phone back into Download Mode (power button + volume down + menu button) and flash your stock firmware back in.
That will probably remove root and clear your data though.
Do a Google for "Recovery seandroid enforcing s6" if you havn't already
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This is quite normal. The same thing happened to me.
If you've got as far as flashing TWRP via Odin then it should just be a matter of booting into recovery. As you're in a place where your phone will keep trying to boot even if you power off, it's just a matter of timing.
To shut the phone down you need to hold Power and Vol Down for about 10 seconds. What you'll find though is the phone will boot up again straight away and show you the annoying Seandroid screen so what you need to do is power off the phone then as soon as the screen goes black hit Vol Up, Home and Power. Keep holding them and instead of booting to Seandroid it should boot to TWRP. If you get Seandroid just try again. You need to get those buttons pressed as soon as the phone starts to boot-cycle though.
Once you're in TWRP you can install root, and then install the kernel which will allow the phone to boot normally again.
Good luck!
Mischala said:
Disclaimer, I'm no expert.
First, take a couple of deep breaths, your phone is not lost to the world.
Sounds like your stock firmware is kicking up a fuss about being booted from a non-samsung recovery.
There are several threads about this particular error already, but the general gist seems to be to get your phone back into Download Mode (power button + volume down + menu button) and flash your stock firmware back in.
That will probably remove root and clear your data though.
Do a Google for "Recovery seandroid enforcing s6" if you havn't already
Sent from my SM-G925I using Tapatalk
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Yeah, I was just googling around to see if anyone had more luck. I'm currently downloading 5.1.1 (I didn't know that Samsung changed the bootloader, so I'll have to wait for that root to come out. Oh well...) Hopefully it goes well I'll update with results once it's done downloading!
The s6 is weird. This is the first Samsung phone that when using cf-auto root it soft-bricks my phone. You have to flash recovery through odin, then root through recovery for it to work. Dont forget the no sleep fix while you're there.
Here are the steps and links:
1. Download ODIN v 3.10.6 from http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2711451 and extract it to a folder.
2. Download TWRP v2 by eousphoros (Odin Flashable Version) from https://mega.co.nz/#!aQhTnQRR!k-M-j9...swZO3CWYi0mMtI
3. Download the latest SuperSu Beta from http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps...v2-05-t2868133 and transfer it to your internal storage on the phone.
4. Download Deep-Sleep flashable fix from http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...7&postcount=56 and transfer it ot your internal storage on the phone.
5. Put your phone into Download Mode. Power Off, then hold Power+Home+VolDown. At the warning press VolUp to continue.
6. Connect your phone to your computer via the USB cable.
7. Launch ODIN.
8. You will see the text Added! in the status panel (left side).
9. Checkmark the box beside AP and then click on AP.
10. Browse to the TWRP tar.md5 file you downloaded earlier and select it.
11. Wait a few seconds for MD5 check to finish successfully.
12. Press Start. You will see the progress bar at the top and when it's complete status window will have message "All Threads Complete (Succeed 1, Failed 0)".
13. Boot into TWRP (Button combination Power+Home+VolUp) and then flash/sideload SuperSu beta zip and then the deep sleep fix zip that you have on internal storage.
14. Reboot to system. Congratulations, your phone is now rooted.
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H00pyFr00d said:
This is quite normal. The same thing happened to me.
If you've got as far as flashing TWRP via Odin then it should just be a matter of booting into recovery. As you're in a place where your phone will keep trying to boot even if you power off, it's just a matter of timing.
To shut the phone down you need to hold Power and Vol Down for about 10 seconds. What you'll find though is the phone will boot up again straight away and show you the annoying Seandroid screen so what you need to do is power off the phone then as soon as the screen goes black hit Vol Up, Home and Power. Keep holding them and instead of booting to Seandroid it should boot to TWRP. If you get Seandroid just try again. You need to get those buttons pressed as soon as the phone starts to boot-cycle though.
Once you're in TWRP you can install root, and then install the kernel which will allow the phone to boot normally again.
Good luck!
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I'm confused... When I use the Vol Down + home + power button, it boots into the normal (as far as I can tell) samsung bootloader thing (at least, the one from 5.1.1) So I don't think I have TWRP installed even. Anyway, it shows up in Odin, so how do I start loading everything? In the Files [Download] section in Odin, I see boxes that say BL, AP, CP, and CSC. Which of those do I select to load up the full backup that I got? (It's about 4GB of data with an .iso, if that makes a difference)
Edit: Basically, I have no MD5 files in the download. (I got it off high off android)
KaminKevCrew said:
I'm confused... When I use the Vol Down + home + power button, it boots into the normal (as far as I can tell) samsung bootloader thing (at least, the one from 5.1.1) So I don't think I have TWRP installed even. Anyway, it shows up in Odin, so how do I start loading everything? In the Files [Download] section in Odin, I see boxes that say BL, AP, CP, and CSC. Which of those do I select to load up the full backup that I got? (It's about 4GB of data with an .iso, if that makes a difference)
Edit: Basically, I have no MD5 files in the download. (I got it off high off android)
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You will not be able to flash anything in odin if youre not in download mode. If you have trouble getting in download mode, you're doing it wrong. Turn off phone, then press Vol down + power + home and dont release any of those until you see something unusual, such as an android robot. While using odin, NEVER EVER load anything in any other option than AP. As far as backup goes, I don't know what backup you made but you don't restore it though odin thats for sure, you will hardbrick your phone.
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You will not be able to flash anything in odin if youre not in download mode. If you have trouble getting in download mode, you're doing it wrong. Turn off phone, then press Vol down + power + home and dont release any of those until you see something unusual, such as an android robot. While using odin, NEVER EVER load anything in any other option than AP. As far as backup goes, I don't know what backup you made but you don't restore it though odin thats for sure, you will hardbrick your phone.
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I can get into the stock Samsung download mode (light blue screen, it says downloading on it..) On the links posted in post number five, none of them worked for me... The thing is, I was trying to load TWRP while my phone was updated to 5.1.1 if that makes any difference... Anyway, it appears that the stock download mode is working, so what do I do now? (From what I've read, I can't really put TWRP on it??)
Alright, I got it working! (Hopefully this will help others get redirected to the right thread, since it took me a while to find this!) Depending on whether or not I am allowed to post links at this point, I may need to post repeatedly here, and I apologize for that, but it's all with the best intents in mind!!!
Anyway, if you do what I did, which is this:
No backup, attempt to root GS6 Edge (SM-G925T from T-mobile) with the 5.0.2 CF auto root, while your phone has already been updated to 5.1.1. It puts you in a boot loop, which really isn't fun, because it doesn't appear that you can fix it... Anyway, I went to the thread, which you can find here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmo...recovery-twrp2-8-6-0-g925t-5-1-1-of6-t3143002 . Anyway, what you need to do is boot into download mode (which you can still do when you are in the boot loop, just hold the volume down + home + power buttons until the device boots into the downloader screen. At that point, you use Odin, and install the file called "OF6 Stock Recovery". That should fix it! Anyway, go to the thread above, it helped me a TON!!!
This isn't really rocket science. Yes, there are different root options for 5.0.1 and 5.1.1 but this is clear in the OP when you decide which root to use.
The only things you need to consider are, if you flash a custom recovery (not the 'download mode' that you use for Odin) then the stock rom won't boot. It's not bricked but you just need a custom kernel. Therefore the steps are:
Download and copy the custom kernel and root to the phone
Boot into Download mode -Vol down, home, power - and flash recovery (TWRP etc) via Odin
Boot into TWRP custom recovery - Vol up, home, power - and flash kernel and root
Reboot
Profit
It really is just a matter of reading the steps carefully and doing exactly what they tell you.