Is there a firmware that's possible to roll back to that will get the Note 7 to at least charge a little bit again, 30%, 60%... anything more than 0? If not, is that last firmware still available to download somewhere? I tried flashing a firmware with a lower fused binary 3 > 2 and now even after a factory reset the phone wont boot. Any links would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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Hi all
On Thursday evening, my cellphone was drained flat as usual by the evening.
When I got home, I put it on charge. After a few minutes I tried turning it on, it got stuck at the Samsung splash screen,
wouldn't boot any further. After trying a few times, removing the battery, etc, I ended up just leaving it off but on charge
the whole night. The battery was fully charged the next morning(so it's not a battery issue). I had the same issues that
morning.
I spent the whole day on Friday, trying to fix this cellphone of mine. I tried tons of fixes I found on this forum(although
a lot of them use programs/files uploaded to a file service that has been closed down[really annoying]). Posting here
is definitely my last resort, I can't think of anything else to try...
I have tried flashing the firmware
I tried to get Kies to do a firmware update and initilisation
I tried various fixes and went through many, many forum posts.
Last thing I tried is to flash the .PIT and flash what I thought was the original firmware I eventually got hold of from sammobile
I tried the last step twice and am busy downloading another version.
What happened with this, is it'll boot, I see the android with his stomach open and something happening inside, it then reboots
and does exactly the same thing as it had previously done, gets stuck on the Samsung splash.
Could someone maybe step me through how to flash it again? I think I need to basically start from scratch, new PIT and all.
I have the GT-i9300(International) 32Gb - I bought it in South Africa
Thanks very much for any help in advance
Sinjin
Sounds like partition corruption when the battery went flat. If flashing a full rom or the rescue firmware (see general thread), followed by a factory reset, didn't help then you'll probably need a new motherboard.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk
I flashed my note 8, then the battery life started playing up and reported either 100% or straight down to 1%. Now using Odin it fails to do anything, trying a re flash with a different tar fails and also something as simple as a root fails at the same point. It gets to sboot.bin and fails . any advice appreciated. Just want to get back to a stock ROM which doesn't have battery issues.
I've already tried wiping the cache partition. And also factory wipe, no joy....
Also started to look at pit today but that fails too.... I can still boot and use the device but only until the battery fails, which isn't long... If I could root I could perhaps use a battery app to reset the log file it uses....
Please help!!!
JUst looking at this firther for a couple more days - i am trying to use it to understand the performance of the issue.
If i plug it in at any point of the day - for just a second, the battery goes to 100% immediately. I can then use it for different amounts of time - sometimes 10 mins, sometimes a few hours until it flicks immediately back to 1% and goes dim.
I have tried to completely discharge and recharge but have the same issue
What can i do or try to resolve this??
Experts,
After 2 days of searching, I could not find a solution to my specific problem. If I missed it, please accept my apologies, and send me the link to the existing thread.
My Samsung Galaxy SIII (i9300) has been playing up. I did a factory reset 4 times during the last 2 months. Two days ago, it started by itself. Then, I could not get into factory reset, anymore. Whenever I start it, the screen is full of some white pattern (no readable text). I can get into the download mode (Volume Down, Power, Home buttons), though.
I thought of downloading a new firmware. I tried using ODIN 3.10, with no luck. I got a message complaining about the PIT file (sorry, forgot the exact message), although I was not using one. Then, I tried to use some PIT files, none of them helped
I tried Heimdall ver 1.4.0. I fiddled around many times, until I figured out that the firmware files in samMobile.com cannot be used as is by Heimdall. I had to unzip them, and get a PIT file. By the time, I got this far, my mobile won't respond in any way or form. Did I use all of the battery charge doing the above? Does it need to be "working" for battery charging to work?
1. Do I need a charged battery to resume my trials to fix it, or it now became hard bricked :crying:?
2. Is there a way to tell for sure if an i9300 is hard bricked?
3. On another note, and with the assumption that it is NOT hard bricked and that a charged battery would help, I suppose the use of a JIG dongle won't be any different than using ODIN/Heimdall. Right?
Thank you very much for your effort and time in trying to help me.
Try another battery first, usb jig can force download mode.
The white pattern sounds like emmc corruption or failure, go read the dead boot restore thread in general forum.
Hello everyone.
Last week my phone got an OTA update from Sprint and went to android 4.4.2 . I have a stock Samsung Galaxy Note 2 never rooted or rommed it before. After the update the phone acted weird right away. It would freeze up or restart or icons disappeared. About an hour after it shut down then went into this loop of it starts goes to the Samsung Note 2 Model splash and that was it. I would have to pull the battery to turn it off. I tried restarts about 2 dozen times yanking battery holding start button then reinserting battery same thing every time. I also tried 4 different batteries to make sure it wasn't a battery issue.I made sure to pull my sd card to make sure that wasn't an issue. Finally I figured oh well Ill just do a full factory wipe and install. It took a bit but I was able to get into the recover panel.. Its weird when I went in there it went through a whole bunch of red talking about E:failed to mount/cache no such file ...or something to that. I went ahead choose wipe data/factory reset.....This said that failed.....I tried to wipe the cache which seemed to work then tried reset again...same thing failed.. I tried powering off and do this a few times but nothing. I then went on to see if maybe odin would work.. I have odin 3.10, have my samsung drives loaded,kies is not on my machine. I found the sprint tar fil for my note 2 believe its 4.3 . I put my phone in odin dl mode...I opened odin as admin....I selected AP (in new vesion its this old versions was pda)..I went ot my unzipped tar file loaded that in...phone is shown on com4..odin says md5 completed successful so I hit start.....It sits for awhile log says something to likes of communicating..Then after about 15 minutes I get the failed sign.......Can anyone help me fix this and tell me what happened. The phone was fine until that damn ota.....Below are a few images showing the different times I mentioned....I do notice when I put my phone in odin dl mode I have 2 lines I dodnt see if I look at others images of their phone in odin dl mode... One is something about Knox Warranty Void:0 and under that AP:SVREV:A3 .........OK I dont see how to put images in here .I click the add image and it wants a link so I cant getr them from my computer...If anyone knows how Ill add them
Flash 4.3 oder 4.4 Fule via odin. But you need the 3-part firmware and the PIT. Then it works perfectly.
battlekaier said:
Flash 4.3 oder 4.4 Fule via odin. But you need the 3-part firmware and the PIT. Then it works perfectly.
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Can you explain more Im not real sure how to do what your saying? Where do I get the files your talking of? Thanks for responding....ps just for updates I can not longer get into recovery mode only odin DL mode
Bump..anyone?
So I've reached out to this forum as I've tried a million and one things but can't seem to get my phone to boot.
Here's the situation:
I fell asleep watching a video on my phone and my phone died. I plugged it into the charger and it wouldn't boot, would just endlessly be stuck in a boot loop. Looked it up and saw this is a common issue. Went through the standard fixes:
Wiped the cache
Factory reset the phone.
Attempted to boot in safe mode. (Wouldn't work, still boot looped)
After all this failed I thought I would just flash it using Odin v3.14. T-Mobile is my carrier and I'm based in the US so I used this firmware: SM-N950U TMB, LINK(https://updato.com/download-samsung...sa/sm-n950u/B094B9DAF04A11EAB4A2FA163EE8F90B/)
It still didn't work after this. It booted up and the startup process began asking me to agree to the terms and conditions. Before even getting to agree, the phone crashed. I tried this again and it just kept failing and crashing. I did this all while plugged into a charger. What I did begin to notice is that the phone would get hot on the left side, where the battery sits. I'm not sure if this is related to the crash or just the fact that its been discharging and charging a lot while I troubleshoot it. I have tried different firmware as well just in case I had the wrong one, but nothing has been working. When I update the firmware I used the CSC file and not the HOME_CSC and I also use the USERDATA file since at this point I kind of accepted I'm not getting my pictures and files back and I'm just trying to get the phone to work once again, thus just trying to factory restore it. Also, when the phone does start booting it says optimizing apps on the bottom each time I boot it I feel this number is changing. I'm not sure what else to do or if anyone has any suggestions? Thank you in advance