Hi all.
I have a Tab3 stock Samsung OS, not rooted (SM-T210) and after a few good years of service I got a new 8" tab.
I decided to do a factory reset on the tab 3, which appeared to work. Rebooted and went into download mode and stayed there.
After 30mins I got fed up with waiting and powered it off.
Fast forward 6 months or so....
Powering back on all I get now is the Samsung Galaxy Tab3 logo and nothing else.
I have tried a few key combo's to try and reset but no joy.
Open to suggestions from people with more knowledge than me on theses matters.
Cheers
John
Hi, try HARD Reset :
If that doesn't help you, then reflash stock firmware for your region using ODIN.
One example:
Good luck
Thanks Teddy Lo, I stuck with the power/vol down and home button and it took a while but I got to the download option and I have Odin connected to the tablet.
Where is best to obtain the firmware/image to apply to the device?
cheers
john
After some hunting I found a Firmware file (GalaxyFirmware.com) and tried via Odin using the default options, and selecting AP and browsing for the tar.md5 file
Part of the check failed. <ID:0/021> Fail! (DeviceInfo)
Cheers
john
Further update. I decided to try again and chose the BL option, and pressed start. And worked. Took a while and optimising apps appeared and completed.
What I am surprised at is the old settings/apps are still present even though I did try and a system reset.
cheers
I decided to hit the reset button and go back to defaults. It worked. A bit unstable initially and an odd error about not having enough space and no access to the internet.. But after updating GooglePlay etc, things came back to life.
Thanks all.
John
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Hello
i'm in the situation that i have read several times in the forum, but unlike those cases,
i dont get to fix the point.
I got a Samsung Ace S5830i. No root, no custom rom/fw, all original.
The phone has been used for 2 years and recently it was often disconnected from the mobile network. Until some days ago, i was not able to restart it.
When i try to switch on, it was stuck on Samsung logo screen.
After that, i have tried to start it in Recovery Mode (Vol - Home and Power on keys).
I have tried all options in that mode, but i never understood ih those actions were completed successfully. Anyway, any choice fixed my problem.
So i try to play with Kies, Odin and stock firmware from Sammobile.com.
Odin recognized the phone in download mode, but i did not get to flash.
Sometines Odin message was Failed, sometimes it was stuck at "setup configuration" message.
I have changed PC, USB port, different Odin version, different FW, but every time the same results.
Im now thinking that the Flash EEPROm is damaged. Is there any way to check its integrity?
Please help me, because i would avoid to change the phone.
Thank you very much
allora
same problem
allora80 said:
Hello
i'm in the situation that i have read several times in the forum, but unlike those cases,
i dont get to fix the point.
I got a Samsung Ace S5830i. No root, no custom rom/fw, all original.
The phone has been used for 2 years and recently it was often disconnected from the mobile network. Until some days ago, i was not able to restart it.
When i try to switch on, it was stuck on Samsung logo screen.
After that, i have tried to start it in Recovery Mode (Vol - Home and Power on keys).
I have tried all options in that mode, but i never understood ih those actions were completed successfully. Anyway, any choice fixed my problem.
So i try to play with Kies, Odin and stock firmware from Sammobile.com.
Odin recognized the phone in download mode, but i did not get to flash.
Sometines Odin message was Failed, sometimes it was stuck at "setup configuration" message.
I have changed PC, USB port, different Odin version, different FW, but every time the same results.
Im now thinking that the Flash EEPROm is damaged. Is there any way to check its integrity?
Please help me, because i would avoid to change the phone.
Thank you very much
allora
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Hello, same happened to my wife's phone. With exactly same symptoms. I tried all you have described with no luck.
If you find some solution, let me know, I will do the same
Jerryzak73
jerryzak73 said:
Hello, same happened to my wife's phone. With exactly same symptoms. I tried all you have described with no luck.
If you find some solution, let me know, I will do the same
Jerryzak73
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Jerryzak73,
bad news.
Yesterday i have got to flash the original firmware with Odin 3.07.
I was very happy to see the completion of the flashing process (100%, successfull), but ...
when the phone restarted, it was again stuck at boot with message:
-- Appling Muti-CSC --
i dont't what this message means and ask to the forum board some help,
to definetely assert that my phone is broken hardware and i have to trash it!
:crying:
fixed
Allora,
I gave up on trying to fix it myself and gave it to a mobile shop. they reinstalled the phone to factory settings for 10EUR, so far so good.
BR, jerryzak73
Hello All!
My first post here, even though I have long been a lurker. I hope I'm posting in the right place. If not, apologies, and Mods - please redirect me, and I shall re-post in the correct place.
Phone: SAMSUNG GALAXY S3 GT-I9300 International version
Last known installed/running OS: Official SAMSUNG JB ROM (Unsure WHICH version) after having run on CM 4.4 for a couple of weeks.
PROBLEM:
a few months after going back to stock, Phone suddenly developed issues of random reboots. These would happen at any point in time, with no predictability whatsoever. One fine day, it rebooted, and wouldn't get past the Samsung splash screen. Pulling the battery and trying to restart phone resulted in the same stuck at Samsung logo issue.
Left the phone alone for a couple of months after this as I had a spare, but finally decided to try and revive the S3.
Phone does not charge when connected to charger. At least, it shows no visible signs of it. It DOES, however, try booting itself when plugged in, but gets stuck on the first screen of ODIN Download mode, instead of the Samsung logo splash screen as it used to earlier. Also note that this screen it gets stuck on is a pixellated screen, not the clear normally seen screen when entering ODIN mode.
The Vol UP, Home and power button combo brings me to this very same screen, there is no recovery menu to be seen, as would be normally. The Vol DOWN, Home and power button combo brings me to the regular clear ODIN mode as usual.
The headings at this screen read:
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: GT-I9300
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: No
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Custom
I have read through most posts regarding similar issues on XDA as well as other forums, and tried flashing stock firmwares (single AND multiple part ones) through ODIN, with no success. The error i always get is as in the attached screen captures.
I've tried ALL versions of ODIN, and many PIT files. All were failures.
So, is this a dead for all purposes phone, or do I still have hope since ODIN mode is still available?
I don't think USB debugging was checked before bricking, because ADB toolkits just keep waiting for phone to be detected.
All drivers are up to date and installed correctly. Kies is not installed.
Any help is welcome.
@Mohanms04: if you flash a 3part-PIT, what result views ODIN after finishing?
I have a Device here which seems to have the same or at least a similar problem, however, i got it for free from someone else to experiment with, so there is no urgent need to repeir it.
I tried flashing a pit and erasing nand, but when i start to do it, odin just gets stuck at "erasing", if i try to flash a full firmware it just hangs at "getting pit for mapping" so i assume the nand is gone for good... however, i have one more dead s3 arround that seems to have a burned cpu, probably i manage to solder over the nand or the cpu
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@Mohanms04: if you flash a 3part-PIT, what result views ODIN after finishing?
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ODIN stays at "Setup Connection" without any progress. I've left it overnight a few times, just to ensure I was giving it enough time.
When the cable is pulled, it reads "there is no pit partition"
@Mohanms04: I suppose, it's hardbricked
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@Mohanms04: I suppose, it's hardbricked
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Aargh.. was afraid of that. Well, guess its JTAG to try next, and then paperweight if that dont fix it.
Thanks anyways!!
Mohanms04 said:
Aargh.. was afraid of that. Well, guess its JTAG to try next, and then paperweight if that dont fix it.
Thanks anyways!!
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Try this recovery firmware, if not the jtag is required.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30087735
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?
Hi all,
I am stuck. Here is my sad story.
I have an ATT S7 that I was attempting to load the S7 Tmobile image using Odin. After hitting the encryption error in odin, my searching led to the PrinceComsey version and that got around that problem. I then hit a Fail(Auth) error and tried a few other suggestions that I found. The last part I tired as ticking the "update phone bootloader" option. Odin failed again, this time, the phone was stuck in recovery menu loop. I tried to clear and restore to factory settings, but couldn't get out the loop. Finally, it stopped booting the base menu and now I get the wonderful blue screen exclamation mark that tells me I need to use Samsung's Emergency recovery. I can't even turn the device off now. The only other thing I can get it to do is to get to the download screen.
From all I have read, it seems the next step is to upload a valid stock image with Odin and that should be that. So that's where I am stuck. I have tried a couple different images, but they all fail in one way or another. I think what I need help with is figuring out which image is the right one to install. At this point I just want to get back to a working phone, so an ATT image is fine for now, but would ultimately want to get to a Tmobile image now that I have switched carries.
Any help is much appreciated!
Use smartswitch to restore stock software.
Also, try to use the right forum , you probably get more help
Oh dang... I claim temporary insanity for putting this in the S6 forum. ugh.
In any case, thanks for the response. I got it all figured out. Here are some tidbits in case it is helpful to someone in the future.
1) Yes I tried the emergency recovery using smart switch. It turns out that you need the device serial number. It also turns out that on my ATT supplied S7, there is no s/n etched on the back. And just for laughs, it isn't even printed on the original box. So if you do not have it written down and your device isn't functioning. You are SOL.
2) After several failed attempts, the magic formula was the modified Odin and the Jan'17 SM-G390T build that I found. I selected all four files for flashing and the n-th time was the charm.
3) I am now running the Tmobile build of Nougat on my ATT S7 with everything working as it should. That includes the phone using the tmobile signal booster that the ATT build couldn't find and has wifi calling available. It is exactly as I wanted.
This problem has been driving me absolutely mental. About 2 months ago, I tried to root my Galaxy Tab 4 8.0 by T-Mobile (it was an old device anyways), I used the Odin method, and while it was installing, it said that the process was successful, and I saw it all come through. However, when my device restarted, it was stuck at "Starting apps..." for about an hour, so I tried restarting. Then it was stuck on the T-Mobile logo for 1.5 hours. I did a hard wipe/reset, and it was fine... for about a week.
The funny thing about it is, after I did the hard reset, certain bugs would happen, a different bug each time. (For example, Google Play apps would be stuck at "installing", screenshots wouldn't save, apps would crash repeatedly, etc) So if I tried to restart, it wouldn't fix it, but instead it would bootloop. I have to hard reset/wipe my whole system each time it happens, and it drives me up the friggin wall.
I saw online that you can try flashing your system by installing the default drivers onto your computer, and install it on your system through Odin. (or something like that, I'm not that professional at mobile technology) Awesome. Just one problem.. I have looked everywhere and I can't find the driver specifically for my system. I have looked for the driver ever since the problem got worse and I found out about this information, but I found nothing.
If anyone has any idea on how you can help, please respond as soon as you can. Thank you very much.
iamnekro said:
This problem has been driving me absolutely mental. About 2 months ago, I tried to root my Galaxy Tab 4 8.0 by T-Mobile (it was an old device anyways), I used the Odin method, and while it was installing, it said that the process was successful, and I saw it all come through. However, when my device restarted, it was stuck at "Starting apps..." for about an hour, so I tried restarting. Then it was stuck on the T-Mobile logo for 1.5 hours. I did a hard wipe/reset, and it was fine... for about a week.
The funny thing about it is, after I did the hard reset, certain bugs would happen, a different bug each time. (For example, Google Play apps would be stuck at "installing", screenshots wouldn't save, apps would crash repeatedly, etc) So if I tried to restart, it wouldn't fix it, but instead it would bootloop. I have to hard reset/wipe my whole system each time it happens, and it drives me up the friggin wall.
I saw online that you can try flashing your system by installing the default drivers onto your computer, and install it on your system through Odin. (or something like that, I'm not that professional at mobile technology) Awesome. Just one problem.. I have looked everywhere and I can't find the driver specifically for my system. I have looked for the driver ever since the problem got worse and I found out about this information, but I found nothing.
If anyone has any idea on how you can help, please respond as soon as you can. Thank you very much.
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What you read in the internet means re-flashing your stock rom (system), that is the fix for your problem, the way to do it is to download and install Samsung USB drivers if you hadn't done that already, and Download stock rom from here or here search your model number in the search box and choose the stock rom based on your country, and flash with Odin, it's pretty much the same way you tried to root using CF-ROOT method:
1-you boot into download mode (volume down + home button + power button)
2-and then connect your phone to PC.
3-open Odin and uncheck everything except "auto reboot" and "F. Reset Time" (you should find it like that already), make sure your phone is recognized by Odin, you will see a blue box with a message saying "0:[COMX]" where X is a number.
4-press AP (or PDA in some versions) locate your stock rom which should be in .md5 format, and choose it, then 5-press start.
6-wait for the process to finish (takes a while) and then the phone should reboot itself and you will get a message in Odin saying "Reset!"
PS: you must register on the sites to download..bad thing i know but it's obligation.
Searched both of these websites for the drivers, found nothing.. I've been searching the internet for hours and not one driver was found. Extremely disappointed.
iamnekro said:
Searched both of these websites for the drivers, found nothing.. I've been searching the internet for hours and not one driver was found. Extremely disappointed.
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Give me your model number.
Sorry found it in the thread title
@iamnekro
That is the link from the first site:
SM-T337T latest firmware android 5.1.1
That is the link from the second site:
SM-T337T latest firmware android 5.1.1
Obviously you didn't search at all...LOL
PS: It's called Stock Firmware or Stock ROM.... not Drivers
Register on any of the sites first to download.
And press the thanks button please
Regards Migo
I'll have to close the thread.. my computer isn't that advanced and is low on space anyways...
iamnekro said:
I'll have to close the thread.. my computer isn't that advanced and is low on space anyways...
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It doesn't need any advanced computer and only the size of the stock rom and Odin, it's no big deal.