well this is becoming quite a ride. thanks to edgardo uchiha i was able to root my sch-i545. then i screwed it up with an improper mod. finally got it back into download mode after several attempts with the phone's buttons and seemed like i was back in rooted vrugoc1 state. then when i restarted it today it said no longer rooted. so i tried to reroot and upon reboot it is now stuck on verizon logo. really want to get this thing in a state that wont cause problems if possible ? being a verizon pos.
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well this is becoming quite a ride. thanks to edgardo uchiha i was able to root my sch-i545. then i screwed it up with an improper mod. finally got it back into download mode after several attempts with the phone's buttons and seemed like i was back in rooted vrugoc1 state. then when i restarted it today it said no longer rooted. so i tried to reroot and upon reboot it is now stuck on verizon logo. really want to get this thing in a state that wont cause problems if possible ? being a verizon pos.
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Do a battery pull, then once the phone is off, go into download mode. Then flash stock OF1 with odin (this may take while). After you have successfully booted, root again.
thanks for the tip. like you said time involved due to size of the rom which is downloading now. will try and let you know if it does the trick.
nope pretty sure no go .... let it sit for an hour and no reboot. if it takes longer than that id be surprised. anyone want a pos verizon s4 chunk? what is the hangup on this part?
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nope pretty sure no go .... let it sit for an hour and no reboot. if it takes longer than that id be surprised. anyone want a pos verizon s4 chunk? what is the hangup on this part?
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What part of the process did it not boot? Flashing stock OF1?
will try again overnight just in case that wasnt long enough. will reply may be as late as monday after the jig comes in the mail. gonna try different options until i get this thing. trying everything possible to not have to send it in to the shop.
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will try again overnight just in case that wasnt long enough. will reply may be as late as monday after the jig comes in the mail. gonna try different options until i get this thing. trying everything possible to not have to send it in to the shop.
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I just had to flash the stock OF1 using Odin3 v1.85. Newest version of Odin would not work for me. I was stuck on the Custom boot screen but was able to get to download mode. I could flash OC1 & OF1 using Odin3 v3.10.7 but the phone would hang on the boot screen. Not sure what version of Odin your using but maybe this helps you.
thanks for the odin 1.85 tip. how long does it take to flash such a large 2gb+ file ? it just seemed that an hour would be long enough to flash so i stopped the process after it seemed to me to hang on odin last line says aboot.mbn. but im gonna let it go overnight just to let it go if it needs that long on the older odin like you said.
still no luck on getting s4 to load past the verizon logo
cant find odin 1.85 without warnings saying this requires a subscription and then those links cause my pc to say this site is loaded with trojans. isnt there a trustable link to download files? just tried again with odin3.10.6 and stock oc1 using my new jig and still no reboot of the phone even after waiting an hour . so i either get no reboot with the large rom file or it reboots but hangs on the verizon logo on the small rom file. its frustrating to not see a progress bar during flash to know if it is doing anything especially on these huge full stock rom files. and i think i may be using the wrong button in odin. shouldnt i be using bl on these full stock oc1 and of1? for me i dont know enough to just grab any version of odin and any version of rom and hit the buttons and know it will work. so kinda back to square 1 on knowing what to do now.
still hangs on verizon logo more on whats goin on
went on YT and found a good 1.85 link and it showed the blue progress bar. mine does not move. glad there is one but sad mine sits. here is a link to my dropbox screen snip of failed attempt to flash fullstock of1 using odin1.85 as described above. it failed quickly in just a few seconds it didnt sit there and try for awhile.
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one last point about how i may be doing this wrong : i pulled sim and sd card both is that part of the problem?
decided to go back to an angle i gave up a week ago. that was for a couple of days at boot attempts the phone would stop at a screen saying the following : " startup fail! run verizon software repair assistant..." when trying that on my desktop the repair galaxys4 button is grayed out until i put it in download mode and it takes about 10-15 sec to turn red . all looks good until 83% +/- when it says "unable to complete repair because phone was disconnected. try repair again do not unplug phone until repair is complete. obviously i didnt unplug it but something is going wrong. maybe its the same thing that is happening when i try to flash the stock of1 rom and cant complete as described above. just wish it was known what that is causing disconnection....
just so everyone knows who may see this ** i sold the stupid i545 to someone on swappa! ** thank you swappa another successful sale!
and thank you buyer for taking it off my hands i lost only a few bucks. then i turned right around and got an att model sgh-i337 on kitkat for a little less than what i bought the i545 and a little more than i sold it for. so im good again & will be on that forum learning that model. to the moderator this can close.
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The 2.3 OTA soft bricked my fathers Fascinate and I want to push it back to 2.2 with ODIN3 so that I can try again. Anyone have a link to drop box or anywhere that I can grab up the stock unrooted image so that I can try again with the OTA?
I used this to get mine to ed05, hope it helps. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1178544 in case you need directions you can get them here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1026746
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The 2.3 OTA soft bricked my fathers Fascinate and I want to push it back to 2.2 with ODIN3 so that I can try again. Anyone have a link to drop box or anywhere that I can grab up the stock unrooted image so that I can try again with the OTA?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1238070
It seems that Odin3 and heimdal are not able to see the fascinate.
This is all I can get.
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I've had this Fascinate on this laptop running ODIN many times before I gave it to my father, the drivers were all there and ODIN worked fine. Now, it is like the phone is not even there. Maybe this is past being saved and I just have to accept the warranty replacement. I thought once I got to download mode I was golden.... but it is not acting as I would have expected. This should be a simple cut and dry slam a md5 file at it and reboot. Not so.
Just for informational reasons, after doing the Gingerbread 2.3 OTA the phone was shutting off and required battery pull to restart.... it was doing this a couple times an hour... I did a reset from within the phone menu to try and get it back and this what it did during the auto restart that is done during a factory reset:
This happens no matter what you do, the only way to not do this is to remove the battery and keep it out, hold volume down in and plug in USB cable that is connected to PC. Doing that is how I can show the DOWNLOAD screen. But in download, it is still acting like a brick from the ODIN/HEIMDAL perspective.
I'm calling this puppy dead. I hate to admit defeat, but I guess it is time to suck it up and do the warranty replacement.
larry0071 said:
Just for informational reasons, after doing the Gingerbread 2.3 OTA the phone was shutting off and required battery pull to restart.... it was doing this a couple times an hour... I did a reset from within the phone menu to try and get it back and this what it did during the auto restart that is done during a factory reset:
This happens no matter what you do, the only way to not do this is to remove the battery and keep it out, hold volume down in and plug in USB cable that is connected to PC. Doing that is how I can show the DOWNLOAD screen. But in download, it is still acting like a brick from the ODIN/HEIMDAL perspective.
I'm calling this puppy dead. I hate to admit defeat, but I guess it is time to suck it up and do the warranty replacement.
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have you actually tried heimdall or just odin? changed usb ports, tried it with battery in and with battery out?
sometimes randomly trying different things works
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have you actually tried heimdall or just odin? changed usb ports, tried it with battery in and with battery out?
sometimes randomly trying different things works
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Something is up, somewhere for it not to be listed in the COM port. What condition is the cable in? I had to drive all around on Saturday to find a new data cable that would work. After awhile (from rolling it up, twisting, etc) they just don't work well enough to use ODIN. There isn't a Verizon store near me so I ended up finding one at US Cellular. The cables from Radio Shack wouldn't work for me.
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Something is up, somewhere for it not to be listed in the COM port. What condition is the cable in? I had to drive all around on Saturday to find a new data cable that would work. After awhile (from rolling it up, twisting, etc) they just don't work well enough to use ODIN. There isn't a Verizon store near me so I ended up finding one at US Cellular. The cables from Radio Shack wouldn't work for me.
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I might know the answer to this, since I have faced the wall of this problem myself. The solution for me was to install Kies, and let it update the driver for the Samsung device. Because Heimdal installs another driver that replaces the Kies driver, and messes it all up. And it seems Heimdal does not replace Odin. Not sure what Heimdal is good for really that Odin cannot do, other than installing Heimdal specific ROMs.
I hope this helps, I know it helped me get a bit further. Now I am stuck at getting a ICS rom or Jelly Bean rom working.
Ok so the strangest thing happened yesterday. I left work, phone fully functional and got in the car to drive away. Where I was parked I was still getting the wifi from the building I work in and I wanted to start streaming music. I turned off wifi and tried to use the data network. No signal. Now, sometimes, it takes a really long time to switch back over to cellular after leaving wifi and especially if I use wifi calling. So, instead of waiting, I pulled the battery like I've done dozens of times before. Only, this time the phone didn't restart. The splash screen comes up and then it shows what appears to be the default android animation. I've never seen this on this phone or any of the roms I've loaded. It never starts the phone; the animation just keeps running. I couldn't get into recovery, it just returned me back to the bootloader screen.
Now when I got home I tried a few things with the all in one tool. I thought if I could load a recovery, I could re-flash my ROM and possibly get the phone working again without data loss. That didn't work. ADB couldn't even identify the device. Then, I downloaded the latest ICS leak onto my sd card, renamed it and put it in my phone. It started to load the file and showed me the 15 or so things that will be updated. I started the update and each of the 15 items said "Fail PU" except nfc. Its as if the partitions are just gone.
As you can see from the image, I have S-off, with unlocked boot loader. So now it appears that the battery doesn't charge on the bootloader screen. I left it plugged in all night in an attempt to charge the battery. I couldn't plug the phone in without it turning on and going right to the bootloader. So, I left it plugged in with the screen on all night and the battery is still dead. Now I can't start the phone to attempt anything further.
I've alreay called T-mobile to do a warranty exchange so there is a new phone on the way. Once I have it I should be albe to get a battery charged and into the old phone and try to restore it. I would like to get it back to factory with S-On with bootloader locked in the event that they decide they don't want to honor my warrany.
Any advice is welcome.
Thanks!
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Ok so the image cuts off the S-off and hboot version, sorry.
You should lock your bootloader before flashing ics leak
Try flashing eng bootloader by naming it ph85img.zip and flashing in bootloader. That will give u a locked bootloader. Then try flashing ics ruu
All of this after getting a new battery of course.
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failed pu is full brick. You should check out the unbricking thread in the dev section.
Check it out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1627882
Thanks for the replies. I don't think that the unbrick tool supports my situation, but I will give it a try as I don't have much to lose. T-mobile is already sending a replacement so either way I should be ok. I have reverted to my trusty HD2 running ICS 4.04. Flashed probably over 100 ROMS onto the HD2 and never had a problem.
Just curious.
You said that ADB didn't recognize your phone. ADB only sees your phone when the phone is in recovery or fully booted up. When it is in bootloader, you can use fastboot as you have done trying to flash the ICS leak.
Did you try flashing the stock boot.img? The faux's kernel may not work as it is designed for GB. Well, I haven't tried it on my ICS so I'm not too sure.
Well, actually, you should try flashing things in the following order.
1. recovery.img from fastboot. If you can get it flashed successfully, at least you can adb shell into the system and see if your data is intact and nandroid back up to be safe.
2. kernel (boot.img) from fastboot.
3. some gb roms starting with something as close to stock GB as possible. Do it only if you can get recovery to work and flash only from the recovery, initially. RUU zips usually contains more stuff and if flashing fails, like in your ICS case, the system may go crazy.
I hope it helps.
well I got the replacement phone and charged the battery up. I put the battery into the old Amaze and it won't even turn on. It's completely dead. I guess I'm gonna just send it back. No hope for my data. Luckily have a backup from 4/28.
Thanks for the helps folks.
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well I got the replacement phone and charged the battery up. I put the battery into the old Amaze and it won't even turn on. It's completely dead. I guess I'm gonna just send it back. No hope for my data. Luckily have a backup from 4/28.
Thanks for the helps folks.
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Hey, just wondering, sounds like even if you have rooted your phone and install custom ROM T-Mobile will still honor the warranty. Is that correct? I thought they won't if you have rooted your phone...
Slavid said:
well I got the replacement phone and charged the battery up. I put the battery into the old Amaze and it won't even turn on. It's completely dead. I guess I'm gonna just send it back. No hope for my data. Luckily have a backup from 4/28.
Thanks for the helps folks.
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Hope you have a better luck with the new phone!
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Hey, just wondering, sounds like even if you have rooted your phone and install custom ROM T-Mobile will still honor the warranty. Is that correct? I thought they won't if you have rooted your phone...
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By reading many threads relating to unlocking/warranty, I am convinced that they will honor the warranty as long as the problem you are having is NOT related to the unlocking and subsequent modding of the device by you.
Well, sometimes it's hard to tell what happened if your phone is completely dead, though.
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Hope you have a better luck with the new phone!
By reading many threads relating to unlocking/warranty, I am convinced that they will honor the warranty as long as the problem you are having is NOT related to the unlocking and subsequent modding of the device by you.
Well, sometimes it's hard to tell what happened if your phone is completely dead, though.
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Failed pu means the memory is shot. Nothing will write to the partitions. Warranty job
That's what I thought. The internal memory must have fried. I've had this happen to SD cards where suddenly they are blank. I imagine the same thing can happen with internal memory.
I already got my new phone and it's all restored, unlocked, s-off and running a custom rom.
thanks everyone.
Hello. I came across this problem after attempting to upgrade to ICS manually via RAZR Utility 1.7. I follow the instructions to the letter. I tried searching, figuring this was a common problem, but all threads relate to rooted phones. Mine has never been rooted.
Basically, the upgrade got up to a point where it displayed an error about the side loader and aborted, fairly close to the end. I decided to give up and hit reboot, which is when this splash screen freezing started. I got back into recovery and did a factory reset, to no avail. I went back to recovery and wiped the cache, with no change. I think what might have started the problem is when I used the RAZR Utility 1.7 it tells me in each step that it could not find the path specified. I'm thinking it basically did nothing even though I followed the instructions to the letter.
I was upgrading a never-rooted RAZR from 2.3.6, version .181 as specified. I can get into AP FastBoot and Recovery modes, however it does not appear to be connecting to the computer. I'm using the official OTA update with the .zip file on the SD card. I have RSD Lite installed and tried using that, but it gave an XML error.
Try re flashing using my thread and see if that works http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1735935 if your wanting to go to the ota. 211
And if that dont work i can help you when i get off work
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The 1.6 Utility also gave the "system could not find the path specified" error at each step. Nothing else happens.
Ill look into it tonight for you can you post me any pics and all the specs
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Here's a screen of the 1.6 Utility after selecting option 1 and hitting enter. 1.7 does exactly the same thing. I'm not sure what is missing.
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Specs... standard Droid Razr (not MAXX). Android 2.3.6, 6.12.181. Completely unmodified, not using any other ROMs, mods, whatnot. Exactly as it was from the factory, aside from the OTA update to .181 a few months back. Again I did a factory reset when this happened. Bootloader 0A.6C, if that helps. Device locked, status code 0.
Let me know if you anything else.
Ty thats a perfect reply, ill get back to you asap ill be off work soon
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Try booting in to BP Tools. I went to .211 but after trying to fastboot back to .181 everything failed. I side loaded back to .211 but on boot it goes to ap fastboot mode. However booting into BP Tools it boots flawlessly.
Doesn't seem to be able to get into BP Tools. Freezes at the splash screen again...
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Here's a screen of the 1.6 Utility after selecting option 1 and hitting enter. 1.7 does exactly the same thing. I'm not sure what is missing.
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Specs... standard Droid Razr (not MAXX). Android 2.3.6, 6.12.181. Completely unmodified, not using any other ROMs, mods, whatnot. Exactly as it was from the factory, aside from the OTA update to .181 a few months back. Again I did a factory reset when this happened. Bootloader 0A.6C, if that helps. Device locked, status code 0.
Let me know if you anything else.
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That means you didn't unzip all the files to the same directory, I had the same problem a couple of times. Make sure all the files are there.
Good point. I'm used to opening files from a .zip without unzipping everything... that seems to be making a difference but now I need to charge the phone again before I can move on lol. No juice after 7 hours. Really wish I had waited a month for the MAXX hah.
I have it on the wall charger now so I'll try again and report back after it gets a good charge.
You'll be just fine after you charge and run it now. So many people have failed to extract the utility
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I am in the same boat as rknapp.
I used the utility and did not realize that I had not actually installed the ics recovery. I tried to install the ics update file and of course, the installation failed. I was stuck in the boot screen, pushed power and volume up/down and got to recovery but cannot reboot without getting stuck on the boot screen. I can get into AP fastboot, but the utility does not work, even after I extracted the files into the same folder (I know that I should have done that to begin with, but I messed up).
What do you think I can do?
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I am in the same boat as rknapp.
I used the utility and did not realize that I had not actually installed the ics recovery. I tried to install the ics update file and of course, the installation failed. I was stuck in the boot screen, pushed power and volume up/down and got to recovery but cannot reboot without getting stuck on the boot screen. I can get into AP fastboot, but the utility does not work, even after I extracted the files into the same folder (I know that I should have done that to begin with, but I messed up).
What do you think I can do?
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does your computer recognize your phone at all ?
It does when I get into ab fast boot. I get to fast boot by holding down vol up/down and power for 10 seconds and then letting up the power. I can then, sometimes scroll down to fast boot.
Then download utility 7 for ics and do opinion 1 and it will put the ics recovery on your phone and you will be able to correctly flash update
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Makes sense, but I can't get past the cant find the path issue. I extracted all the files into the same folder, ran the utility and the path does not work. I know that I am missing something.
Just flash it again. It's do the whole process then reboot.
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I'm starting to think someone up there doesn't want me to have a functional phone...
Since the phone appears to be "soft" bricked, I can't charge it and need a factory cable. Of course when that realization occurred, apparently a truck drove by my house and ripped my FiOS line out, killing my internet. I reactivated my Droid2 and went to buy a factory cable on eBay (don't trust my soldering skills to make one that doesn't short out)... PayPal saw I was using my phone instead of my computer, panicked, and froze the account, telling me to access it from a computer... which I couldn't do until FiOS finally came out this morning to repair my service.
Oy vey... baby steps I guess.
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I'm starting to think someone up there doesn't want me to have a functional phone...
Since the phone appears to be "soft" bricked, I can't charge it and need a factory cable. Of course when that realization occurred, apparently a truck drove by my house and ripped my FiOS line out, killing my internet. I reactivated my Droid2 and went to buy a factory cable on eBay (don't trust my soldering skills to make one that doesn't short out)... PayPal saw I was using my phone instead of my computer, panicked, and froze the account, telling me to access it from a computer... which I couldn't do until FiOS finally came out this morning to repair my service.
Oy vey... baby steps I guess.
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Bootloader>plug phone into wall charger>select BP Tools
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I wound up having to get a factory cable to get the phone to run... refused to charge. I got that cable today and restored 2.3.6. This past weekend I went to a major car show with a number of friends from around the country... several had Razrs and they got the update over the weekend. Sure enough, a quick check showed VZW had pushed the update to my phone as well. I let it do its thing instead of screwing around with it further. Phone is now working as it should!
Thanks for the help guys, I really appreciate it!
New to the S4 world, but have been a stalker on XDA for a long time; mainly for my Droid RAZR and Kindle Fire HD.. I've searched, and found several threads about being stuck at the boot screen. Most recommendations were to installed a fresh stock firmware along with a .pit file, boot into recovery, and all is well. Not the case for me..
Long story short, I got this phone from a family friend. He said he took an OTA update, and immediately saw the firmware upgrade encountered an issue screen on boot. He had an upgrade on his account, and so he just gave me the phone. He had not idea what firmware he was on..
First thing I noticed is the phone does not take charge. I have a friend with an S4 (none verizon) and he at least confirmed the battery started with ~80% charge.
I tried flashing the MK2 stock firmware through ODIN, and immediately get a response on the phone of fused 6 binary 1, which I found through searching meant that he was on a later firmware (probably NC5), and since we cannot downgrade, thus the error.
I successfully flashed the NC5 stock firmware (ODIN would hang with the .pit file, so the md5 file only was used) from the following link, and am presented with the following issues:
1. Still won't charge when the phone is off.. tried several cables, and a few 2A chargers. Though ODIN still recognizes it when I am in download mode.
2. The phone decides when it wants to boot.. it usually takes me 4-5 battery pulls before it does anything. I know when it boots by the vibrate.
3. Normal boot gets hung up at the Samsung boot screen.. doesn't advance.
4. Can still boot into Download mode when it decides to boot (see #2).
5. Cannot boot into Recovery (stock). It hangs at the Samsung logo with the blue "booting into recovery" up top.
Also, my knox warranty bit is shown as 0x1:
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I've replied to a thread about the debrick image for NC5, but no response yet. Could something hardware wise be wrong? Any help is much appreciated!
DTCsk8er said:
New to the S4 world, but have been a stalker on XDA for a long time; mainly for my Droid RAZR and Kindle Fire HD.. I've searched, and found several threads about being stuck at the boot screen. Most recommendations were to installed a fresh stock firmware along with a .pit file, boot into recovery, and all is well. Not the case for me..
Long story short, I got this phone from a family friend. He said he took an OTA update, and immediately saw the firmware upgrade encountered an issue screen on boot. He had an upgrade on his account, and so he just gave me the phone. He had not idea what firmware he was on..
First thing I noticed is the phone does not take charge. I have a friend with an S4 (none verizon) and he at least confirmed the battery started with ~80% charge.
I tried flashing the MK2 stock firmware through ODIN, and immediately get a response on the phone of fused 6 binary 1, which I found through searching meant that he was on a later firmware (probably NC5), and since we cannot downgrade, thus the error.
I successfully flashed the NC5 stock firmware (ODIN would hang with the .pit file, so the md5 file only was used) from the following link, and am presented with the following issues:
1. Still won't charge when the phone is off.. tried several cables, and a few 2A chargers. Though ODIN still recognizes it when I am in download mode.
2. The phone decides when it wants to boot.. it usually takes me 4-5 battery pulls before it does anything. I know when it boots by the vibrate.
3. Normal boot gets hung up at the Samsung boot screen.. doesn't advance.
4. Can still boot into Download mode when it decides to boot (see #2).
5. Cannot boot into Recovery (stock). It hangs at the Samsung logo with the blue "booting into recovery" up top.
Also, my knox warranty bit is shown as 0x1:
Lastly, and strangest of all symptoms is that I've gotten some strange colorful screens when i am trying to boot up
I've replied to a thread about the debrick image for NC5, but no response yet. Could something hardware wise be wrong? Any help is much appreciated!
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Odin recognizing the phone does not necessarily negate a hardware issue. It sounds like you may have a bad USB port otherwise you would be able to charge the phone. Did it get wet or something?
"It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery." - Galatians 5:1
liljoe727 said:
Odin recognizing the phone does not necessarily negate a hardware issue. It sounds like you may have a bad USB port otherwise you would be able to charge the phone. Did it get wet or something?
"It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery." - Galatians 5:1
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Thanks for the reply. From what I am told (I have no real reason to not believe a family friend), it did not get wet. That being said, I haven't ruled out something wrong on the charge IC or USB port. I think I might pop open the case and see if I can find any signs of corrosion.. as this could also cause the weird screen issue I am seeing from time to time.
Bump for the weekend crew ..
DTCsk8er said:
Bump for the weekend crew ..
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Try removing the Screen, and re-inserting all the ribbon cables after cleaning the connectors with alcohol. Just google "Ifixit teardown verizon s4"
npjohnson said:
Try removing the Screen, and re-inserting all the ribbon cables after cleaning the connectors with alcohol. Just google "Ifixit teardown verizon s4"
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Thanks for your reply. I'll give it a shot tonight. I planned on tearing the whole thing down anyways, just haven't had any time. I'll report back results when finished.
Hey to my fellow people of earth !
My tablet suddenly not booting up properly ...
Every time when I use my tablet, I turn it on and when I finish to use it I turn it off (maybe it's the problem?!)
I don't use it too often ... Yesterday It worked normally and today I picked it up, turned it on and I've no fk'n idea why it got stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy TAB S3" logo.. so I tried to do something to make it work...
I tried to go to recovery mode (Home+V up+Power) and since then It always says on the top left corner with a blue color "RECOVERY BOOTING...." and it not get into the ASR (android system recovery)
Then I tried to flash an official firmware Android version 8.0.0 from Germany and it didn't work too...
I tried to flash an old firmware version 7 and I got a failed massage on Odin and FRP block something like that.. on my tablet.
ohh yeah I just remembered that I tried to update it with Kies and Smart Switch
and of course.. I got a "SAMSUNG not supporting this device..." massage.. (Son of a..)
I have no idea what do....
I can't root it 'cause I can't change the OEM and the USB debugging..
I can't even put any file on it since I cant turn it on..
Indeed it's a Weird situation guys.
Someone ?
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I have some questions to help me understand your problem.
You can boot into download (Odin) mode?
When you tried to flash the stock firmware what version of Odin did you use and what were the errors you got when you tried to flash it.
I haven't used the stock recovery for awhile on the tab so could you remind me what happens when you try to get into recovery? Does it look like a dead Android?
@jd1639
Hi.
Yes, I can boot into download mode.
I used Odin3_v3.13.3.
When I tried to flash the stock firmware (T820XXU3BSD1_T820DBT3BSD1_Germany_8.0.0_4)
I got an error massage. Fail massage on Odin and block massage by FRP on my Tablet.
When I try to get into recovery mode, I don't see a dead Android. I just see on the top left corner of the tablet
with blue color a "RECOVERY BOOTING...." massage.
p1234p1 said:
@jd1639
Hi.
Yes, I can boot into download mode.
I used Odin3_v3.13.3.
When I tried to flash the stock firmware (T820XXU3BSD1_T820DBT3BSD1_Germany_8.0.0_4)
I got an error massage. Fail massage on Odin and block massage by FRP on my Tablet.
When I try to get into recovery mode, I don't see a dead Android. I just see on the top left corner of the tablet
with blue color a "RECOVERY BOOTING...." massage.
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This is what I would do:
Download the firmware again, sometimes you get a bad download.
Try different USB cables, and if your using a PC use the ports on the back, not the ones on the front. Odin can be sensitive to cables and ports.
In Odin flash the BL, AP, and CSC. Don't use the CSC Home. Also, don't have re-partition checked.
Did you ever enable developer mode and enable OEM unlock in it? You'd do this through settings, about tablet, system software and tapping on the build number 7 times.
jd1639 said:
This is what I would do:
Download the firmware again, sometimes you get a bad download.
Try different USB cables, and if your using a PC use the ports on the back, not the ones on the front. Odin can be sensitive to cables and ports.
In Odin flash the BL, AP, and CSC. Don't use the CSC Home. Also, don't have re-partition checked.
Did you ever enable developer mode and enable OEM unlock in it? You'd do this through settings, about tablet, system software and tapping on the build number 7 times.
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That's the problem, I can't enable developer mode and enable OEM so because of that I always get an error on my Tablet.
I'll try your method tomorrow, Hope it'll work :good:
@jd1639
OK.
I tried to flash two different firmware.
1) T820XXU3BSD1_T820DBT3BSD1_Germany_8.0.0_4File
2) T820XXU1ARA1_T820OXA1ARA1_BTU
When I flashed to first one, I got a pass installation on Odin and my Tablet did a reboot but it still stuck on bootloop and it shows a blue massage on the top left corner.
But, the second one gave me a fail massage on Odin and on my Tablet I got also something like that.
Some pictures of the second attempt :
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@jd1639
OK.
I tried to flash two different firmware.
1) T820XXU3BSD1_T820DBT3BSD1_Germany_8.0.0_4File
2) T820XXU1ARA1_T820OXA1ARA1_BTU
When I flashed to first one, I got a pass installation on Odin and my Tablet did a reboot but it still stuck on bootloop and it shows a blue massage on the top left corner.
But, the second one gave me a fail massage on Odin and on my Tablet I got also something like that.
Some pictures of the second attempt :
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I think you have to wait for 7 full days (168h) 'cos you got locked outside your phone. Read https://forum.xda-developers.com/samsung-a-series-2017/how-to/guide-root-install-twrp-samsung-t3747535
try with 4 file firmware
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Guys ! come on I need help...
SAME
I have the exact same problem and it drives me crazy. I also flashed 2 or 3 times through ODIN, but nothing. Same freaking blue message "Recovery booting"....
p1234p1 said:
@jd1639
OK.
I tried to flash two different firmware.
1) T820XXU3BSD1_T820DBT3BSD1_Germany_8.0.0_4File
2) T820XXU1ARA1_T820OXA1ARA1_BTU
When I flashed to first one, I got a pass installation on Odin and my Tablet did a reboot but it still stuck on bootloop and it shows a blue massage on the top left corner.
But, the second one gave me a fail massage on Odin and on my Tablet I got also something like that.
Some pictures of the second attempt :
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Got? I have the same mistake
Had a similar problem with my T820, sorry I haven't found a solution as yet. One day the tablet went to a black screen, frozen. After a full charge was able to soft-reset and it booted fine, but decryption took ages, and then on PIN security screen the tablet was locked.
Booted into recovery, and tried to do a factory reset - but there are messages about missing partitions, so the delete starts, but never finishes.
Finally, downloaded official roms for v9 and v8 - but the odd thing, in Odin (re-partition unchecked) if I use default CSC (not CSC Home) it fails when trying to remove userdata. If I use CSC Home, then it passes but on reboot it goes into recovery and a blue "erasing screen" appears, and just endlessly tries to erase until the battery is flat.
Other similarity... region is Germany, so could there have been an update which has bricked devices here? Any advice appreciated... should I try using re-partition in Odin as well, as there could be some partitioning based on the error messages?
Get the tablet into recovery mode (power+vol UP+home), then select the option to wipe data/cache.
Then boot the tablet into download mode (power+vol DOWN+home)
In ODIN, only load the AP and BL files. Nothing else. Then start the process. DO NOT load the CSC or HOME CSC files.
I was having the same issue for almost a year. I gave up for 6+ months. Then I spent the last couple days trying to get the unit out of the boot loop it was stuck in (Samsung S3 start screen shows, then it attempts to go to the recover mode screen, then turns off, then turns back on and repeats the process until the battery died). I tried to reload the firmware through ODIN (either 3 or all 4 files) but the tablet would fail to install the "update" once it restarted. It would fail at 32%. I read someone else in this forum only loaded the AP and BL files and ended up working. Make sure your tablet is fully charged.
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Get the tablet into recovery mode (power+vol UP+home), then select the option to wipe data/cache.
Then boot the tablet into download mode (power+vol DOWN+home)
In ODIN, only load the AP and BL files. Nothing else. Then start the process. DO NOT load the CSC or HOME CSC files.
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Thanks for the reply, having spent many more hours on this I'm pretty sure it's a fault in the actual memory. It comes down to the userdata.img...
I've tried with Odin 3.13 the following
- re-partition: same issue, it fails when flashing userdata.img
- re-partition + nand erase... here it gets interesting, as it fails just as it starts, and on the tablet it displays "erasing userdata", so it seems even with nand erase set, the tablet refuses the clear this data. It also would explain why after a flash with HOME_CSC (which succeeds because it doesn't have a userdata.img) the boatloader goes into an erase loop, as it's probably trying to clear userdata.
I've got no idea what could cause this, corrupt memory chips? or just buggy buggy software - but I'm guessing Samsung really don't care too much and don't need to since all devices are out of warranty. Shame really!
woke up to the same issue on my tablet out of nowhere
squatticus said:
woke up to the same issue on my tablet out of nowhere
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Mind me asking which region @squatticus...
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Mind me asking which region @squatticus...
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US
A couple of weeks ago, i found a video titled: <<34C3 - eMMC hacking, or: how I fixed long-dead Galaxy S3 phones>>
This guy made an SD Card with a code inside, and basically "revived" a dead Galaxy S3. He also explains that eMMC is the one at fault if your phone is stuck in bootloop. Now i don't know anything about how this works, I whish i could just knew how to alter his code, I'll try to text him and tell him if it's possible to try it on my Tab S3, since i have literally tried everything to revive it.
If any1 here knows how to do it, pls pls pls help us out!!!!
I might be late for the party but i got the same issue out of no where, sent it to Samsung and they called me saying they need to replace the PCB (Main Board) guess what, in the last 2 years they replaced it twice coz i had a wifi not turning on at all. Now they wanna charge me 250$ , guess i am happy now coz i am getting rid of this garbage tab never seen a laggy piece of **** like it and nothing came out of but headaches.
My 5 years old ipad air 2 running like a champ since day one until today, not showing any sign of aging and still getting updates.
Tbh, i think the worst devices samsung ever had gets the number 3. Tab S3 and the Galaxy S3.
My advice to anyone who read this, save your time and money, never buy android tabs especially Samsung, spend a few more bucks and get the ipad which will last forever. PS: Without mentioning the huge gab of performance as IpadOS beats the **** out of any android tab