Hello new to the orum nort sure if this is posted undwer the right catagory so i just cleaned my grandpas place out he paased away a month ago i found a few older cell phones he had over the years one being a Galaxy A21 my question is the phone says "Phone Locked" this device was lost it has a pincode and airplane mode on the screen cant power it down or put in download mode or recovery mode i wouldnt getting his pics off of it or at the very least resetting it ive taken the back off the phone to disconnect the battery to see if i could get recovery mode that way or download mode i believe its running android 10 as i updated it for hgim. im wondering if there is any program i can download to get the phone to go into download mode or recovery mode to atleast get by the pin ive tried every button combination i can and every passcode i think he moght have use to no avail. is there anything out there that can help me. plz
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Hello new to the orum nort sure if this is posted undwer the right catagory so i just cleaned my grandpas place out he paased away a month ago i found a few older cell phones he had over the years one being a Galaxy A21 my question is the phone says "Phone Locked" this device was lost it has a pincode and airplane mode on the screen cant power it down or put in download mode or recovery mode i wouldnt getting his pics off of it or at the very least resetting it ive taken the back off the phone to disconnect the battery to see if i could get recovery mode that way or download mode i believe its running android 10 as i updated it for hgim. im wondering if there is any program i can download to get the phone to go into download mode or recovery mode to atleast get by the pin ive tried every button combination i can and every passcode i think he moght have use to no avail. is there anything out there that can help me. plz
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Hello new to the orum nort sure if this is posted undwer the right catagory so i just cleaned my grandpas place out he paased away a month ago i found a few older cell phones he had over the years one being a Galaxy A21 my question is the phone says "Phone Locked" this device was lost it has a pincode and airplane mode on the screen cant power it down or put in download mode or recovery mode i wouldnt getting his pics off of it or at the very least resetting it ive taken the back off the phone to disconnect the battery to see if i could get recovery mode that way or download mode i believe its running android 10 as i updated it for hgim. im wondering if there is any program i can download to get the phone to go into download mode or recovery mode to atleast get by the pin ive tried every button combination i can and every passcode i think he moght have use to no avail. is there anything out there that can help me. plz
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Could you please screenshot of the phone if possible?
daveyboy180 said:
Hello new to the orum nort sure if this is posted undwer the right catagory so i just cleaned my grandpas place out he paased away a month ago i found a few older cell phones he had over the years one being a Galaxy A21 my question is the phone says "Phone Locked" this device was lost it has a pincode and airplane mode on the screen cant power it down or put in download mode or recovery mode i wouldnt getting his pics off of it or at the very least resetting it ive taken the back off the phone to disconnect the battery to see if i could get recovery mode that way or download mode i believe its running android 10 as i updated it for hgim. im wondering if there is any program i can download to get the phone to go into download mode or recovery mode to atleast get by the pin ive tried every button combination i can and every passcode i think he moght have use to no avail. is there anything out there that can help me. plz
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Try extracting the flash with MTKClient (it appears to be a MediaTek device from GSMArena) while the phone is off and connected to your PC. Make sure you have the proper drivers installed. Let me know if you need help. I hope you are able to recover the data
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Try extracting the flash with MTKClient (it appears to be a MediaTek device from GSMArena) while the phone is off and connected to your PC. Make sure you have the proper drivers installed. Let me know if you need help. I hope you are able to recover the data
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i cant even power the phone down unles i disconnect the battery i was hoping there was a button combo i could do to get recovery or download mode i have the proper firware for the phone and everything i need to do an odin reflash but it fails cause no download mode ive tried a few of the paid unlock software but none wprk
mvikrant97 said:
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sorry had to use laptop camera for it
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Try extracting the flash with MTKClient (it appears to be a MediaTek device from GSMArena) while the phone is off and connected to your PC. Make sure you have the proper drivers installed. Let me know if you need help. I hope you are able to recover the data
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I tried to download and install that mtk but it wanted me to install some other programs as well and couldnt get it working any help wouldnbe greatly appreciated
Any help at all plz anyone??
daveyboy180 said:
Any help at all plz anyone??
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hello all, two days ago my brother Samsung galaxy s 2 broke whilst updating the new tubemate apk, now his phone is stuck at the Samsung logo when the phone is turned on, also the phone wont go into recovery mode (up home and power) the only thing it will do is go into odin mode, please help me
dillinja said:
hello all, two days ago my brother Samsung galaxy s 2 broke whilst updating the new tubemate apk, now his phone is stuck at the Samsung logo when the phone is turned on, also the phone wont go into recovery mode (up home and power) the only thing it will do is go into odin mode, please help me
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just flash a stock firmware from ODIN, thats the only solution for now
Sun90 said:
just flash a stock firmware from ODIN, thats the only solution for now
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Bad advice.
@ OP
If you can go into odin mode, simply flash Siyah kernel and then you should be able to go into recovery or even probably boot into your rom. Try this before flashing a stock rom over your old.
If you dont care/need your current rom/data etc then flashing stock rom over is fine.
PS. In future look at the Q&A section or use search first, there are plenty of topics on "my phone wont boot" discussion so no need for another. Also use descriptive titles, not silly ones like this that dont describe your topic to browsers of forum in any way.
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As stated, you need to use search and always give a better title than 'help needed please'. Advice has been given, thread closed.
Hello buddies,
I think I have a big problem. Flashing failed on my Galaxy S2 I9100. As a result I cannot turn on the phone, I cannot get to Download mode, neither recovery mode, I cannot connect via USB, it doesn't recognize any devise, I reinstalled USB drivers, I tried on different PCs, I only get the "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again." ONLY when I plug in the charger. When plug it off, it's gone and nothing else appears on screen whatever I try. I just don't know what to do now... I do not have an access with PC. Can somebody help me please, I'm very discouraged now. Every post will be appreciated!
That message on the screen with the phone---!---pc pic is download mode - forced download mode.
The only way you're fixing it is if you get it to successfully take an Odin flash. Find Hopper8's 'Odin won't flash thread' & try the stuff in that thread till it works. Most people in this situation are looking for an easy fix & there isn't one. It may not work the first time you try, but it might on the 10th try. Persevere.
Edit - Oh, and your phone is staying busted until you do get access to a PC.
MistahBungle said:
That message on the screen with the phone---!---pc pic is download mode - forced download mode.
The only way you're fixing it is if you get it to successfully take an Odin flash. Find Hopper8's 'Odin won't flash thread' & try the stuff in that thread till it works. Most people in this situation are looking for an easy fix & there isn't one. It may not work the first time you try, but it might on the 10th try. Persevere.
Edit - Oh, and your phone is staying busted until you do get access to a PC.
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Thank you veeeery much for this help!!!
There were 2 problems. First my battery was completely drawn and it wasn't charging it at all when plugged in the charger because all the energy was in use for that super power consuming emergency mode (the device was getting hotter than never before). Then I took the battery and charged it fully on another Galaxy S2 (hopefully I could find one). Then I was able to enter the normal download mode. Then I prepared an original ROM and I tried to install it through Odin. The second problem was my maybe faulty cable which didn't let the installation to continue from the initialization. Then I used another unbranded cable from $1.99 and it just RAN! I installed the latest official ROM and the phone works as it should. A happy end I think. There is one more thing however.. Before the new installation the camera had a little pink spot in the middle only when shooting inside. Many say that all S2 have this problem and that this is a software issue of the white balance. I tried to play with the white balance settings and when turn off the auto-balance and for example choose daylight the pink spot is not present anymore... With the new ROM the problem is still here. I was wondering whether if I change the camera itself with a new this will solve the problem...?? But who knows if it's really a soft problem...
Thanks again for the tips it helped me a lot as I'm new to this.
Regards,
Nick.
guys emergency
i have the same problem too................my phone is rooted and i flashed a custom rom..............yesterday when i made an update the didnt let me go t recovery mode any more..............when i made a reboot it totally bootlaoder ...........and i forgot to usb debug before................i tried t flash a new rom with odin but when i opened odin and on pda sellect tar and press the start my phone falled down by mistake and left the cable...............now thye only thing i can do is t go t download mode..........also odin doesnt recognise my phone...............when i try t open my phone it saysfirmware upgrade encounteran issue.please select recovery mode in kies & try again..................................is there any way t fix it please tell me...................tnx in advance
i need help i tried to upgrade my software to 4.1.2 from 4.0.4
using a rom can it failed half way now i stuck in
a "bootloop" of odin download screen and help please
Rom was from
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2154790
My phone info
Samsung note 1 (SHV-E160L)
Adam1337 said:
i need help i tried to upgrade my software to 4.1.2 from 4.0.4
using a rom can it failed half way now i stuck in
a "bootloop" of odin download screen and help please
Rom was from
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2154790
My phone info
Samsung note 1 (SHV-E160L)
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I do not have the Korean model, but understand your present moment of craziness. I am sorry if I may not b able to provide you with actual technical support. however, if you find someone that can help here, they might need a bit more information. I have looked at the thread and wow, flashing is a bit more involved with you model.
don't get offended when I ask you some very basic questions here, many times it is something so simple and was simply overlooked. I thought that I had read somewhere else that the screen you posted was an alternate download mode screen. I always make extra preparations when I need to Odin anything.
did you read OP ? (I know, but I read several times) I read some of it and it seems as if you are not the only one to have similar problem.
did you et ALL the files you needed ? do you know where they are ?
were there any tutorals on Youtube ? they helped me
did you actually rehearse ? silly, I know. walk though everything in your head an compare to thread / youtube.
I hope somebody else will come around offer some more help, sometimes when someone brings up the most basic things, it triggers switch, and you realize what went wrong.
I hope this does that for you, good luck
Its there a way to reboot normally or its it broken i have read it a lot and prepared everything when i tried it fail i'm not sure how to restore it because when i try plug it in to my computer it doesn't come up only on Odin i tried kies did not find my phone so yeah oh and i tried to reboot in to recovery mode didn't work so i'm kina stuck and as far as i know it could be in a bootloop or somthing.
Many thanks,
Adam
Is download mode boot looping? If so it sounds like a stuck power button. Try tapping the power button rapidly and see if it stops looping.
Odin won't recognize a looping device. Neither will kies. Once you stop looping flash files again.
440bro said:
Is download mode boot looping? If so it sounds like a stuck power button. Try tapping the power button rapidly and see if it stops looping.
Odin won't recognize a looping device. Neither will kies. Once you stop looping flash files again.
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i've try tapping the power button rapidly nothing happened
Phone name : Samsung note 1 korean version
on the phone it saids :
ODIN MODE
Product name: SHV-E160L
Custom Binary download : No
Current Binary : samsung Official
(The photo) Real one is in korean same meaning
Adam1337 said:
i've try tapping the power button rapidly nothing happened
Phone name : Samsung note 1 korean version
on the phone it saids :
ODIN MODE
Product name: SHV-E160L
Custom Binary download : No
Current Binary : samsung Official
(The photo) Real one is in korean same meaning
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can you pull battery and get into download mode?
captemo said:
can you pull battery and get into download mode?
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Ok i'll made a video , will be uploaded soon
www *dot* youtube *dot* com/watch?v=JWr67N122r8&feature=youtu.be
By the way i'm using Odin v 3.07 do i need to use a lower version?
It can't hurt trying version 1.85
Adam1337 said:
Ok i'll made a video , will be uploaded soon
www *dot* youtube *dot* com/watch?v=JWr67N122r8&feature=youtu.be
By the way i'm using Odin v 3.07 do i need to use a lower version?
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may I suggest posting under the general forum here, there is a sub forum for your device there which may give you some more target specific technical help.
just go back out from here and up t the general section. it might be about 5 or 6 threads down. there may be more people there with same device with a post as recent as yesterday.
good luck and keep us posted here. you are getting some reaction from your phone so I am sure it is not bricked.
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It can't hurt trying version 1.85
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Tried it didn't work as well lol
Hi guys. I have seen and read through plenty of the same problems regarding the bootloop issue on the forum. I seem to be stuck somewhere different so I post this question. I hope someone can help.
I have a standard S3 I-9305 LTE in South Africa. Not rooted before or any mods. But somehow it started bootlooping a couple of weeks ago. I read and implemented the Recovery Mode- Cleared the cache and then rebooted, and it worked, plenty of times.
But now it has gone into a solid bootloop and i cannot access recovery mode. So read up about Download mode and installed Odin, Kies and the Cf Root file on my PC.
Now when I enter Download mode on the phone, and continue( press Volume Up) after the warning, the device restarts again. This I have done a hundred times and each time removing battery and waiting a couple of minutes. So essentially I cannot get Download mode to function but I do have access to it.
So this I know, this is a software , possible ROM problem, NOT hardware as the device worked perfectly after bootloop issue started.
I did the latest Firmware Upgrade to Android 4.2( i think, i r noob in this) yesterday. This was done on the phone itself under About-check-firmware. The Phone worked fine afterwards but then went into this never ending tormenting bootloop without yielding.
I live far from a proper service centre and I need my phone for work, thus very urgent.
I also have checked if the power button is stuck but it is not.
I am prepared to root the device and install any other ROM, Flash anything that can get me back on.
Any advice please?
Thanks in advance
Report your own post and ask a moderator to move it to the i9305 q&a forum.
Sounds like the emmc chip is corrupt or damaged, you may require a new motherboard.
Try plugging your phone into pc before you access download mode, remove the battery before you press volume up.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk
Caution and thanks
boomboomer said:
Report your own post and ask a moderator to move it to the i9305 q&a forum.
Sounds like the emmc chip is corrupt or damaged, you may require a new motherboard.
Try plugging your phone into pc before you access download mode, remove the battery before you press volume up.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk
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Hi Boom,
I have seen you have diligently answered many queries, please to be cautious saying it is a motherboard or hardware issue, it makes peoples heart sink before trying other avenues first. But don't get me wrong, the fact that you took the time to answer me makes you my hero. :good: And thanks.
I will try the other option you gave as I know the phone is fine the answer is just a few tries away.
Hello guys,
I flashed the Android 11 firmware on my Samsung Galaxy A21s (SM-A217F) using odin. The progress didn't finish successful because of an fail.
Now my phone seems to not boot anymore. It shows the "Samsung powered by Android" - Screen and after this nothing more is happening. It's not possible to fully start the device. Also downloadmode doen't work. Connect the phone to PC doesn't work because phone is not turned on.
Is it possible to install OS/ROM/firmware with an SD-card or otherwise?
Do you have any other ideas to safe the phone und make it running again?
Please bear with me if the topic already exists and I didn't find it in the search. I apologize in this case and ask for reference to the forum post.
Thanks a lot!
Knut222 said:
Hello guys,
I flashed the Android 11 firmware on my Samsung Galaxy A21s (SM-A217F) using odin. The progress didn't finish successful because of an fail.
Now my phone seems to not boot anymore. It shows the "Samsung powered by Android" - Screen and after this nothing more is happening. It's not possible to fully start the device. Also downloadmode doen't work. Connect the phone to PC doesn't work because phone is not turned on.
Is it possible to install OS/ROM/firmware with an SD-card or otherwise?
Do you have any other ideas to safe the phone und make it running again?
Please bear with me if the topic already exists and I didn't find it in the search. I apologize in this case and ask for reference to the forum post.
Thanks a lot!
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download mode will work again once device left boot-loop. shutdown can be achieved by draining battery or long press power
aIecxs said:
download mode will work again once device left boot-loop. shutdown can be achieved by draining battery or long press power
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Hello alecxs,
thanks for your answer. The phone is turned off. It shuts off automaticly after showing the first screen. Nothing else happens.
Downloadmode with pushing the buttons and insert the data cabel is not working. It also shows that screen and goes to black screen again.
It can work if phone Is bootloop will go again on download mode open your phone disconnect battery and replace wait for 7 or 10second then connect the battery hold volume up and down connect usb cable will redirect you for download mode thank you
Verspot said:
It can work if phone Is bootloop will go again on download mode open your phone disconnect battery and replace wait for 7 or 10second then connect the battery hold volume up and down connect usb cable will redirect you for download mode thank you
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Hello Verspot,
thanks for your answer!
The battery is permanently installed and not possible to take out.
Knut222 said:
Hello Verspot,
thanks for your answer!
The battery is permanently installed and not possible to take out.
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It's possible sir you can do it also for doing that there's no skill required
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It's possible sir you can do it also for doing that there's no skill required
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well, that's not true. this device requires high skills and hair dryer - I do strongly not recommend this
just wait few weeks for the battery is drained
aIecxs said:
well, that's not true. this device requires high skills and hair dryer - I do strongly not recommend this
just wait few weeks for the battery is drained
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I will give it a try, if there is no other option.
But is my phone really in a bootloop? I don't think so. In the loop the Android-screen shows again and again. In my case, it only shows once including vibration and after this the screen turn off again. No second boot. The phone seems to turn off again.
In this case it will take ages to let the battery be empty.
yes that's boot-loop
if device would have powered off you would see charging animation when plugged..
according to this factory reset will solve?
Fingerprint sensor after update
Just installed UPDATE for A22. Fingerprint sensor not working any suggestions?
eu.community.samsung.com
aIecxs said:
yes that's boot-loop
if device would have powered off you would see charging animation when plugged..
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I've tried it. The is truely no charging animation.
So now I need to let die battery die and once that happend booting into download-mode is possible again?
Why did u try to flash using odin in the first place?
don't nail me but I believe buttons for download mode are read from ABL (aboot.mbn) it's very unlikely that OTA or stock ROM caused corrupted bootloader...
you can see Samsung logo, guess that means aboot is alive
@Verspot pointed out it requires vol dn + vol up + usb cable to enter download mode (imho bit unusual)
https://www.hardreset.info/devices/samsung/samsung-galaxy-a21s/download-mode
aIecxs said:
don't nail me but I believe buttons for download mode are read from ABL (aboot.mbn) it's very unlikely that OTA or stock ROM caused corrupted bootloader...
you can see Samsung logo, guess that means aboot is alive
@Verspot pointed out it requires vol dn + vol up + usb cable to enter download mode (imho bit unusual)
https://www.hardreset.info/devices/samsung/samsung-galaxy-a21s/download-mode
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The mentioned button combination is the one I used to get to download mode before I flashed the firmware.
Now the button combination is not working.
It will not boot to recovery or the download mode.
Yes but what I meant the usb cable is important (instead pwr button) - obviously you did it right before, just wanted to clarify intentionally/unintentionally.
The error screen "fingerprint protection failed." suggest it can not read fingerprint so I guess your phone stucks somewhere beyond aboot, that's why it does not work
after doing some more research I have bad news for you:
found two other sites with same issue "fingerprint protection failed" (in espanol and nepalese) both suggest bricked bootloader which can only fixed by JTAG or ISP.
If that's true I recommend RMA to Samsung there is a good chance they treat as hardware failure (don't tell anything)
https://www.google.com/search?q=a21s+dead+boot+repair
Woo
aIecxs said:
well, that's not true. this device requires high skills and hair dryer - I do strongly not recommend this
just wait few weeks for the battery is drained
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Woow but it's possible and easy maybe for myself
aIecxs said:
after doing some more research I have bad news for you:
found two other sites (in espanol and nepalese) both suggest bricked bootloader which can only fixed by JTAG.
If that's true I recommend RMA to Samsung there is a good chance they treat as hardware failure (don't tell anything)
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I don't like to hear that but after nothing so far worked, I expacted something like that.
Is my idea to boot the phone from an SD-card (like booting windows from USB-drive) and reinstall Android Firmware nonsense or is it somehow possible?