Hi all,
I bought a supposingly A7 lite slightly more than a month ago (its a parallel import model with only 1 month warranty from the shop). Its giving me a lot of problem. Just 2 weeks back it was stuck in a boot loop and I sent to back to the shop. The told me it was a software problem and fixed it after I left the tablet with them for a day. It was working again until yesterday and the boot loop problem came back. The shop is no longer willing to repair it for free since its already pass the 1 month warranty.
I tried to flash the official samsung rom on my own using Odin and its giving me lots of problems. When I go into recovery mode, I see this:
samsung/gta7litexx/gta7lite
12/SP1A.210812.016/T225XXS3CWC2
So I went to sammobile to download the rom for flashing. I only manage to successfully flash a rom with the same PDA (T225XXS3CWC2) using odin, but its still gives me the boot loop. I tried downloading other PDA to try but they will give me an Auth error on odin. I am totally lost on what to do to get the tab to work again. I am quite beginner with flashing, rooting etc. Hope someone here can help and provide some advise on what I can do. Thanks in advance!
Have you performed a factory reset?
V0latyle said:
Have you performed a factory reset?
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Yes, I have done a factory reset, clear the cache, have reflash the ROM also, but it is still in the bootloop.
Well, considering that a professional repair shop wasn't able to fix it, I suspect a hardware issue.
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Hello,
I reciently rooted my samsung galaxy s2. I tried a few roms so i could get used to the system or restoring etc. However i encountered a problem whilst having a peek at an alpha jellybean rom, where i noticed that my CWM app on the phone had vanished? I attempted the restore using the 3 button combo and found that i kept recieveing E: can't mount/ E: can't cache messages whilst on the restore screen. i could find my latest restore on my sd card however it wouldnt restore. I believe the CWM was removed from my phone which caused it to not work. I was then stuck in a bootloop. no matter what i done, boot to a stock rom via odin, try the different CF roms i and try to put CWM back on to the phone? I read a post on here from someone who had the same problem, who was told it looked as though there is a problem with the partitions. i followed a tutorial and used odin to put Latona 20110114.pit on the phone. it said i would get a blank screen once this has done and i needed to remove then place the battery back in the phone then put it into download again. This didnt happen!! I done as instructed and now my phone wont go into recovery mode, download mode or even boot loop. I fear i have completely bricked my phone so i am trying to use oneclick heimdall to sort it however my PC keeps saying i need admin rights to install it which i have.
Can someone please help me out. I am new to this so please go easy on me.
many thanks
If you have no signs of life from the phone, it's probably cactus.
You might as well try a jig (but unlikely to work; still try one tho). Only option is service centre & hope they can't tell/don't care you've been messing with it & fix it under warranty or JTAG repair by a 3rd party repairer, at your cost obviously; will be cheaper than having Samsung/an authorised repairer fix it if they refuse warranty service which they're quite within their rights to do.
edinsam said:
i followed a tutorial and used odin to put Latona 20110114.pit on the phone.
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First result of searching suggests that's meant for the I9003. Good job.
HA
Hello,
Awe well then. never mind eh, whats done is done! Its totally bricked so i thought i would chance my luck by sending it back to O2 for repair. I was reading the only other way to get the phone running again was to take it to bits and hook it up for some stock flashing. so heres hopping they sort it!
lesson learnt!!!
Firstly, I apologiise if my question has already been covered in another thread, but I didn't find it.
A few months ago, an OTA Samsung update to my English I9300 screwed up and after trying to reboot, it seemed my phone was bricked and wouldn't get past the Samsung logo on startup. I didn't realise at the time that my original USB cable was broken (or I may have been able to fix my S3 with Odin)....so, unhappily, knowing I'd lose all my installed data and apps, I had it repaired under warranty by Samsung, I'd already rooted my S3 long before that, but it still came back from the service centre as good as new, working, albeit missing all my valuable data
Ok, to cut to the chase, last night, about 5 months after having my phone repaired, I took that leap again of rooting it with Odin 3. Now, this is where I'm puzzled.....after starting Odin, and flashing it with "CF-Root-SGS3-v6.4.tar" in PDA mode, the box said 'RESET', not 'PASSED', as one would expect.Is there a reason for this? I have since installed a few system root apps such as Titanium Backup, BusyBox, etc and run Triangle Away successfully....all reporting that my S3 is once again rooted; but, what I still can't understand is Odin reporting the flash as 'Reset' instead of 'Passed'. Can one or more of you folk please try to shed some light on this for me.....Thanks in advance
Al.Gray said:
Firstly, I apologiise if my question has already been covered in another thread, but I didn't find it.
A few months ago, an OTA Samsung update to my English I9300 screwed up and after trying to reboot, it seemed my phone was bricked and wouldn't get past the Samsung logo on startup. I didn't realise at the time that my original USB cable was broken (or I may have been able to fix my S3 with Odin)....so, unhappily, knowing I'd lose all my installed data and apps, I had it repaired under warranty by Samsung, I'd already rooted my S3 long before that, but it still came back from the service centre as good as new, working, albeit missing all my valuable data.
Ok, to cut to the chase, last night, about 5 months after having my phone repaired, I took that leap again of rooting it with Odin 3. Now, this is where I'm puzzled.....after starting Odin, and flashing it with "CF-Root-SGS3-v6.4.tar" in PDA mode, the box said 'RESET', not 'PASSED', as one would expect.Is there a reason for this. I have since installed a few system root apps such as Titanium Backup, BusyBox, etc and run Triangle Away successfully....all reporting that my S3 is once again rooted; but,m what I still can't understand is Odin reporting the flash as 'Reset' instead of 'Passed'. Can one or more of you folk please try to shed some light on this for me.....Thanks in advance
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That just means he finished operation cleaned cache and its rebboting
Dont worry
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium
Cheers for that, it's quite a relief it wasn't an error.....just a result I hadn't encountered previous.
I recently went to unlock my phone via Z3X box, my phone was on 4.3 they said to downgrade to 4.1, I followed the steps using Cygwin Terminal in making a custom firmware, I flashed it via Odin and it passed, however was stuck at the Samsung Logo, no usally in this case I would boot into recovery and wipe data and cache, however my Home Button does not work, so I used my Jig to force in to download mode and flashed stock I747m 4.3, went to boot and same thing stuck at the Samsung logo???? any ideas what's wrong here???
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I recently went to unlock my phone via Z3X box, my phone was on 4.3 they said to downgrade to 4.1, I followed the steps using Cygwin Terminal in making a custom firmware, I flashed it via Odin and it passed, however was stuck at the Samsung Logo, no usally in this case I would boot into recovery and wipe data and cache, however my Home Button does not work, so I used my Jig to force in to download mode and flashed stock I747m 4.3, went to boot and same thing stuck at the Samsung logo???? any ideas what's wrong here???
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Tried to factory reset after the 4.3 upgrade? Sounds like you might have borked your EFS partition with the z3x box, if a reset doesn't help...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2471421
Some info from there might be helpful if you are still stuck. I know it is for the Note 3, but many of the same ideas apply, though the mount points are most likely different thus you can't just copy and paste those commands and hope it works (might even make it worse if the partitions are that different).
Is the Home button broken or just stopped working after trying to do this stuff?
Yeah the Home button just doesn't work when you press it that's why I needed the Jig to get in to Download Mode, and the phone was fine after trying with Z3X box it didn't do anything with Samsung tools because I was on 4.3 it started when I created that custom firmware and flashed it, haven't been able to get it to boot since that even with Stock Firmware..
Think you might need to check out this thread then:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2549068
Sounds like an issue with the downgrade / bootloader deal. No Home button sounds like it might really cause some issues here though. Owning a repair shop, I'm pretty familiar with the S3 construction and it's pretty rare that the Home button stops working. Has it been repaired or gotten wet or something?
the phone was water damaged I just replaced the main board with a new one and the phone was fine minus the Home Button, and I have tried the SD card thing about 3 times now and it doesn't do anything???
So, my phone got stuck in a bootloop two weeks ago, I tired everything I could and nothing worked. I even went to the Samsung experience shop in Best Buy and they tried flashing stock firmware and also tried resetting my Samsung galaxy s6 edge but it was still stuck in a boot loop. So, last week I sent my phone to a Samsung repair center in Texas.
Today I got the phone back with a letter saying, "Dear ......, Thank you for giving us the opportunity to ensure that you have the best experience with your Samsung product. We have performed a thorough examination of your device, and it has been determined that the unit is beyond economical repair. The unrepaired device has been returned to you. If you have further questions or need additional support please do not hesitate to reach out to us at 1-800-SAMSUNG with your service ticket number: ........."
Also the phone has NO physical or water damage, and it has not even been 2 years since I got the phone. I am beyond frustrated right now. I am going to contact them and talk about this, but I am sure they will just repeat what this letter said.... Do you guys know how I can deal with this problem?
Why don't you just flush a new rom? If you can go into recovery mode you should also be able to into dowbload mode as well. If that's the case you shoul be able to flush an original samsung ROM (download from sammobile.com). Search the forum for a tutorial on flushing samsung rom with Odin
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Why don't you just flush a new rom? If you can go into recovery mode you should also be able to into dowbload mode as well. If that's the case you shoul be able to flush an original samsung ROM (download from sammobile.com). Search the forum for a tutorial on flushing samsung rom with Odin
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I tried what you said before taking it to Samsung experience shop in Best Buy and later on sending it to Samsung repair center.
I have no clue but it could be something with the encription
But flashing stock shud normaly fix that.
If you dont care about flashcounter you could try another rom
If it is only bootloop and you can flash the stock roms, why not flash twrp recovery and flash every custom rom you can find here in xda. I bet one of those roms will fix it (wait 10-20mins before flashing another rom).. Downside is if your knox is still 0, custom roms will trip it and your warranty may become void.
Tip: Before flashing a rom in twrp, wipe everything (data, cache, system, dalvik, internal). Then format data (type yes)
Good luck!
Hi, guys... Basically a little while ago a certain idiot attempted to root his phone, it all went wrong and said phone is now either dead or in the bootloop. I'm able to get it into download mode and thats all i can do! Ive tried reinstalling the stock firmware via odin however I haven't had any luck so far. It either straight up fails or gets stuck on NAND write start or setup connection. Can somebody please help because id really rather not have to go into a mobile repairs shop if i don't have to. Thanks to all
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Hi, guys... Basically a little while ago a certain idiot attempted to root his phone, it all went wrong and said phone is now either dead or in the bootloop. I'm able to get it into download mode and thats all i can do! Ive tried reinstalling the stock firmware via odin however I haven't had any luck so far. It either straight up fails or gets stuck on NAND write start or setup connection. Can somebody please help because id really rather not have to go into a mobile repairs shop if i don't have to. Thanks to all
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Hi! Were you able to resolve this issue? I have a similar problem. Thanks!
try to get your phone to out of battery, and use the charger to boot into the download mode, when charge it, press vol + - until you see the download mode, enter and flash firmware to get back to the original samsung UI
and if it stucks on NAND Erase try to find a new usb cable or try to find a newer firmware
the lastest firmware's bootloader have upgraded, if these solution wont work, i am afraid i cannot help you