Trying to wipe locked S7 Edge, can't go into recovery mode - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi, I have someone's old s7 edge which I'd like to use in place of my A10e lol, it still has their password on it tho. The screen seems to have some really weird issues, if I power it on using the home button or power button half the time the screen will be extremely dim/green and half of it will flicker. It looks and works perfectly fine the rest of the time though. I got it to the "recovery booting" screen, but the screen just flashes then goes near-black (still slightly glowing, doesn't turn off) then boots normally about a minute later.
I've tried around 40 times and can't get it to go into recovery mode. I have no idea what I'm doing but I put it in download mode and tried using Odin to flash it with files I got off sammobile. It didn't even connect at first but did after I installed Kies. Odin said it passed, the phone restarted, then just booted back up to the same lock screen. I then tried installing TWRP onto it, which failed saying it couldn't open the serial(com) port? That's where I am now... does anyone know if there's any way to wipe the phone?

@eggy1
If you've phone's Stock ROM ( ZIP file ) at your fingertips then you simply re-flash phone with this Stock ROM to bring back the phone to its initial state.
If you can access phone by means of ADB/Fastboot then it's really simple to do a clean install of phone's Stock ROM..

jwoegerbauer said:
@eggy1
If you've phone's Stock ROM ( ZIP file ) at your fingertips then you simply re-flash phone with this Stock ROM to bring back the phone to its initial state.
If you can access phone by means of ADB/Fastboot then it's really simple to do a clean install of phone's Stock ROM..
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I can't get adb to detect the phone, but I flashed it successfully with Odin using the files from this thread:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/sprint-s7-edge/how-to/sm-g935p-stock-odin-firmware-t3582821
It now seems to be stuck in a loop of recovery booting into the download mode screen, and occasionally into a caution screen that says no command.. should I try another rom?

@eggy1
Use SamFirm Tool what allows you to manually search and download the Stock ROM matching your phone.
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[Q] ODIN3 unable to write??

Hi,
My sons Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 GT-P7510 has decided to wipe its self. On startup it goes straight to ODIN3 Download mode (Protocol v2.1)
I have spent the entire day reading what to do and finally came up with the following:
1. Download Kies ( Which will not connect)
2. Download Odin3 v1.85
3. Download an md5 file ( of which I have tried many and none seem to work)
4. start Odin3 > click PDA and select the md5 file > connect the tab and turn it on (the tab tells me its connected and the 0:[com7] turns yellow) > click start.
it starts off promising by going green, but then it goes red and tells me write : failed.
I have tried a few PIT files just incase and some bootloader files also to without success.
Am I using the right files?
firstly what has my son done!!! and secondly how the hell do I sort this, I am starting to loose my patience.... bescause I have no idea.
Any help very much appreciated
Slavraf
Go to www.sammobile.com and download the proper stock ROM for your tab, extract the zip, then flash the .tar.md5 file inside. You should uninstall kies too if I'm not mistaken. And if your version of Odin doesn't work, try the one I'm using, v1.87. https://www.dropbox.com/s/dib0w993qc284ki/Odin3v1.87.zip?dl=0
Your son probably simple pressed the power and volume buttons and he unintentionally went into recovery mode and wiped the tab I guess, this is the only thing I can think of, tho I don't know how it can completely wipe the tab, its been a long time since I've went into the stock 3e recovery.
Sent from my GT-P7500 using Tapatalk
Thanks
Unfortunately I get the same result..... write error.
Thanks for your suggestion though
Did you try using the Odin version I attached?
I have same problem now... Yesterday my tab crashed and I tried to reboot it but get a bootloop, recovery crashed also, tried to flash stock Rom and recovery through Odin but failed. Tablet showed few error lines, as you can see at picture. Would be very thankful if anyone could help.
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[Q] [HELP][Urgent] I9100g bricked, Odin flash failed

My I9100g 's screen unable to turn on when i m charging today , i tried to go on recovery mode and reboot it, but the screen is stuck at the samsung logo, so i guess my phone is bricked
I'm currently using CynogenMod , and just updated to the latest version yesterday
I tried to flash stock rom via odin like what i did when my phone is bricked previously
But unfortunately this time it failed
I've tried to flash for several times
Here's the print screen
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Anyone please help?
waynettcheng said:
My I9100g 's screen unable to turn on when i m charging today , i tried to go on recovery mode and reboot it, but the screen is stuck at the samsung logo, so i guess my phone is bricked
I'm currently using CynogenMod , and just updated to the latest version yesterday
I tried to flash stock rom via odin like what i did when my phone is bricked previously
But unfortunately this time it failed
I've tried to flash for several times
Here's the print screen
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Anyone please help?
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are you flash recovery but recovery not for 19100G . you flash 9100! This is different
eray0687 said:
are you flash recovery but recovery not for 19100G . you flash 9100! This is different
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Same case..
download stock rom from samfirmware
make sure that you download the right model for your phone
boot into download mode...plug your phone
flash stock rom via Odin
I can't enter to download mode. I phone end up in yellow triangle between phone and computer screen. "Firmware upgrade encountered and issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again." And yes i tried to flash stock rom, also failed.
you confirm that you can't enter to download mode or recovery mode? are you sure? What happend when you plug the phone (when it power off of course) to the charger?
Leo

[Q] softbrick s5830i

Hi! First i'm sorry for my bad english
I must repair a s5830i, but i don't find a way.
it's go in boot loop when i turn on it, logo-->boot animation-->logo-->at infinite.
Hence i will flash a new stock rom, but when i link the smarthphone at pc(w7) odin ( v3.07 or v1.84) don't
detects the phone.
I have install the samsung driver and i also tried kies but but without results, odin don't detects the phone.
(an other phone like s6 is normally detects).
Therefore how can I do to make it recognize?
( if my english is very bad and you don't understand it, please tell me)
Try another data cable to connect phone with pc and then go to download mod and connect phone to pc
amolgosavi said:
Try another data cable to connect phone with pc and then go to download mod and connect phone to pc
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With the same cable i have link s6 and s4 and odin detective their, so i have try to flash custom rom from Samsung recovery like explain the tutorial in this forum for unbrixk s5830i
But now i can't go i download mode o recovery, it is freeze in the logo "samsung"
Press vol up and vol down and power button for download mod..
i rewrite beacuse the situation is change, now odin recognize it but when i flash the firmware(pda, csc ,phone) the flash is successful but when the phone reboot i see this in the screen
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after this the phone return in boot loop logo-->boot animation-->infinite
I found the problem .
I had the userdata corrupt , so I downloaded a new pda which contained a new userdata, i have flashed it and now...it goooo!!
I'm so happy, you can close the thread

Not booting with blinking screen

Hello, it's 6 month since i using my s6 edge never had any problem , like 1hour ago i took phone wanted to call and went off when and now not booting when i press power button to boot it shows me boot logo and down is light screen but screen is like blinking not able to show in picture can anybody tell me what happend to the phone ?
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i reflesh it with same ROM that it had official one , but still same can anybody help meeee?

			
				
Don't know what's wrong but I can suggest u to install a custom ROM.
tra_dax
I can't access recovery mode ...
Nikusha04 said:
I can't access recovery mode ...
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If u have any official cm rom for ur device then flash it via Odin.
And if it doesn't work, try out loading the CSC and BL file with the PDA file. This might work.
tra_dax
mine did the exact same thing with that goofy lower half of the screen. It went away after a reboot and I stopped using the phone. Going to upgrade to 5.1.1 on the chance it's a software problem if it happens again.
I took it in guarantee service they said motherboard is dead need replace
The same here ...
This confirmed that the main board is damaged ??
I flashing an official rom and done correctly, but the restart stay in bootloop ...
VooDooKill said:
The same here ...
This confirmed that the main board is damaged ??
I flashing an official rom and done correctly, but the restart stay in bootloop ...
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Did you try to get Download Mode again?
CrashTestDroid said:
Did you try to get Download Mode again?
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Yes... I enter to download mode again, I flash official stock rom in three times correctly but always restarts with the bootloop ...

Vince bootloop out of the blue

So about a week ago I was doing stuff on my PC. I take my Redmi 5 Plus (at the time with Pixel Experience installed) and I see that the screen is completely black.
Try to reboot, nothing. Vibration, Black screen for like 5 seconds, repeat.
Try to boot into TWRP, nothing. Fastboot, still that damned black screen.
I decided to reinstall the stock firmware, and I do it through the test point method. The software takes like 40 minutes to do so, but in the end it says "Success!".
Nothing, black screen.
So, I write this post to try and find a solution, or at least now what could have happened as since then I bought the Huawei P20 Lite. It could still be usefull though.
Thanks in advance and good day
@apd911
The time that MiFlash Tool spends to flash a rom in edl mode is aproximately 13 minutes.
Try flashing the firmware that came pre-installed.
You mentioned that you can´t enter to recovery nor fastboot mode before to reinstall the rom stock but after that now you can enter to recovery stock or fastboot?
SubwayChamp said:
@apd911
The time that MiFlash Tool spends to flash a rom in edl mode is aproximately 13 minutes.
Try flashing the firmware that came pre-installed.
You mentioned that you can´t enter to recovery nor fastboot mode before to reinstall the rom stock but after that now you can enter to recovery stock or fastboot?
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No, same thing, black screen for five seconds then reboot, even in fastboot and recovery
apd911 said:
No, same thing, black screen for five seconds then reboot, even in fastboot and recovery
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I flashed many roms in edl mode. here you have two possible situations; if your emmc is damaged pc will detect device and will listed how it´s showed in the screenshot attached but the flash won´t be succesfull not even will start, and second if device it´s not detected in the same way that in the picture then it´s not flashing correctly.
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Can you attach some screenshot?

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