samsung sm-g800f issue - Galaxy S5 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello.
I rooted my samsung sm-g800f phone using odin, first time i forgot to put the phone in the loader menu and the phone got broken.
I got the message: firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies and try again
I found a firmware here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...m-g800f-samsung-galaxy-s5-mini-4-4-2-t2861093
I installed it, and the phone is working again, but i get the message "has stopped working" On gmail, clock, and other apps.
I thought when i installed this firmware my stuff would be gone, but i got the same background, apps and so on.
The country for this firmware is wrong that might cause this issue, i didn't backup my original firmware.

Do a wipe cache/data and factory reset from the recovery . Save your data first because everything is going to be erased .

seaman5705 said:
Do a wipe cache/data and factory reset from the recovery . Save your data first because everything is going to be erased .
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I already fixed it, but thank you for reply

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Constant crashes after firmware update

Hi guys, I just updated to the new version through Kies. As soon as my phone booted and I exited lock screen, a lot of popups of processes that crashed show up. This includes android.process.acore, com.google.processes.gapps, Daily Briefing, calendar... pretty much everything shows up and I don't have access to anything on the phone. Apparently usb debug got back on so I can't get kies to recognize the phone.
I have a contract-free galaxy s from germany. Rooted. Uninstalled ryans lag fix through market before upgrading. I don't know what I did wrong.
What can I do? Thank you very much!
ClashBR said:
Hi guys, I just updated to the new version through Kies. As soon as my phone booted and I exited lock screen, a lot of popups of processes that crashed show up. This includes android.process.acore, com.google.processes.gapps, Daily Briefing, calendar... pretty much everything shows up and I don't have access to anything on the phone. Apparently usb debug got back on so I can't get kies to recognize the phone.
I have a contract-free galaxy s from germany. Rooted. Uninstalled ryans lag fix through market before upgrading. I don't know what I did wrong.
What can I do? Thank you very much!
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Try a factory reset. It will wipe your phone.
dakine said:
Try a factory reset. It will wipe your phone.
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Just did a factory reset via recovery mode. Did not solve the problem. Weird thing: How can it still know remember what's my lockscreen password if it was factory reset?
Have the same problem here... Before Factory reset the phone was stuck at the Big S, after reset, it started, I could enter my pin and then the force closes started
Now downloading firmware and hope restoring via Odin will work. Luckily downoad mode still works
Hey mate can you please provide links of firmware you are using and odin? Please report if you have sucess too. Thanks!
check the faq:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=723596
Go into the phone settings, manage applications, Choose GMail, clear the data. Go back and choose GMail Storage and choose to clear that data. Try to force a sync.
Then reboot the phone.
Chronos12 said:
Go into the phone settings, manage applications, Choose GMail, clear the data. Go back and choose GMail Storage and choose to clear that data. Try to force a sync.
Then reboot the phone.
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I can't do anything on my phone mate, the popups won't stop showing up
thanks for the link
tried flashing directly from ODIN, now it got even worse
error is at booting
E:Can't mount /dev/block/st110 (invalid argument) E:copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount DBDATA
Help? I have tried with 512.pic and 803.pic, both failed
Aww, that's bad.
Here all went well. Used Odin to flash back to the original FW I had installed (XXJF3), then used kies to go again to JM2 and just finished installing Froyo
Now to get all my apps back. Hopefully Titanium Backup does what it promises
dabeetle said:
Aww, that's bad.
Here all went well. Used Odin to flash back to the original FW I had installed (XXJF3), then used kies to go again to JM2 and just finished installing Froyo
Now to get all my apps back. Hopefully Titanium Backup does what it promises
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restore apps only, do not restore settings, else it will crash or cause other weird problems

[Q] [HELP] S3 mini I8190 specialbricked -.-

Good morning,
at first, I'm sorry for my english, I'm not very good at it, but I'll try to give my best. :silly:
I've got the Cyanogenmod 11-20140414-UNOFFICIOL-golden from novafusion.pl and it worked fine.
But then I downloaded Telegram, my Phone crashed and since then I got my problems and my I8190 is some kind of useless now
The Problems are the follwing:
often it just crashes
as soon as it restarted, everything is like before the problem appeared (new installed apps aren't there anymore and uninstalled ones are there again, background is the same again, contacts, settings, everything...)
I cant boot in the recovery mode anymore
I can flash whatever I like, nothing changes
I hope you can help me somehow :good:
MaverickSkaw said:
Good morning,
at first, I'm sorry for my english, I'm not very good at it, but I'll try to give my best. :silly:
I've got the Cyanogenmod 11-20140414-UNOFFICIOL-golden from novafusion.pl and it worked fine.
But then I downloaded Telegram, my Phone crashed and since then I got my problems.
The Problems are the follwing:
often it just crashes
as soon as it restarted, everything is like before the problem appeared (new installed apps aren't there anymore and uninstalled ones are there again, background is the same again, contacts, settings, everything...)
I cant boot in the recovery mode anymore
I can flash whatever I like, nothing changes
I hope you can help me somehow :good:
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did you made a clean install (factory reset, wipe data, cache and dalvik)?
which custom recovery?
is Telegram an official playstore app? didn`t find it on google playstore
try this mentioned above please.
if it doesn´t help, flash stock rom (google for it), custom recovery again and after that omniROM by golden-guy * Android-Andi (if you like it)
Good luck
moonryder said:
is Telegram an official playstore app? didn`t find it on google playstore
try this mentioned above please.
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Telegram is like Whatsapp just with encryption
play.google [point] com/store/apps/details?id=org.telegram.messenger&hl=de
here you have the Link
the flash itself was via Odin for custom recovery I chose the ClockWorkMod.
I tried to flash everything, from the stockROM to a Odin factory reset, but nothing changed (even the flashcounter didnt changed) Even tried to reset the flashcounter via triangle away and it told me it was successfull. (forum.gsmhosting [point] com/vbb/f777/guide-samsung-galaxy-s3-mini-i8190-hard-reset-1587261/)
Thats the main problem, I cant even completly reset it. Or better: I CAN reset/flash it (Odin tells everything is okay) but after the restart nothing changed.
ps: I cant paste links here, since I'm new in this forum.
MaverickSkaw said:
Telegram is like Whatsapp just with encryption
play.google [point] com/store/apps/details?id=org.telegram.messenger&hl=de
here you have the Link
The instalation was completly clean, the flash itself was via Odin for custom recovery I chose the ClockWorkMod.
I tried to flash everything, from the stockROM to a Odin factory reset, but nothing changed (even the flashcounter didnt changed) Even tried to reset the flashcounter via triangle away and it told me it was successfull. (forum.gsmhosting [point] com/vbb/f777/guide-samsung-galaxy-s3-mini-i8190-hard-reset-1587261/)
Thats the main problem, I cant even completly reset it. Or better: I CAN reset/flash it (Odin tells everything is okay) but after the restart nothing changed.
ps: I cant paste links here, since I'm new in this forum.
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try to flash twrp with odin. if finish.off your device.. log on twrp. choose wipe factory reset-advance wive chace,data,dalvik.SYSTEM and internal sd. next power off your device. log in to download mode .flash again stock rom. you must sure if your file flasher not corupt. try it !!!
hardi7690 said:
try to flash twrp with odin. if finish.off your device.. log on twrp. choose wipe factory reset-advance wive chace,data,dalvik.SYSTEM and internal sd. next power off your device. log in to download mode .flash again stock rom. you must sure if your file flasher not corupt. try it !!!
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I did it.. but after flashing twrp with odin, nothing changed,
booting with Vol+, Home and Power caused no change, only the Samsung Logo, and after some seconds again and then its stuck, i have to pull the battery out to restart it.
So I'm not even able to boot in the TWRP, which is really annoying.
Hope you still got ideas

Downgraded to Kitkat phone worked at first then slowly begin crashing

I sent my phone into Samsung for a repair and they replaced the motherboard, the screen almost a whole new phone. When it was returned they had already downloaded lollipop which towelroot would not work. Found a site that showed me how to downgrade back to kitkat root, install safestrap and I could return to lollipop. I never did the lollipop part as I did not like it much. It worked great at first I was able to return back all my data. After a week it begin to act funny, not wanting to wake up from sleep and then slowly apps begin crashing and not working. I would restart my phone and things were fine. Another week apps were crashing left and right and then my data begin disappearing like my messages and the levels of my saved games. Then it begin restarting on its own 3 times during the night. I tried to reinstall the rom and re-partitioned the phone and did factory reset but it continues to periodically restart even though I have given up on reinstalling my data since it factory resets on its own. I guess I am in a very slow bootloop. Can anyone suggest what I can do? Thanks in advance
meregirljj said:
I sent my phone into Samsung for a repair and they replaced the motherboard, the screen almost a whole new phone. When it was returned they had already downloaded lollipop which towelroot would not work. Found a site that showed me how to downgrade back to kitkat root, install safestrap and I could return to lollipop. I never did the lollipop part as I did not like it much. It worked great at first I was able to return back all my data. After a week it begin to act funny, not wanting to wake up from sleep and then slowly apps begin crashing and not working. I would restart my phone and things were fine. Another week apps were crashing left and right and then my data begin disappearing like my messages and the levels of my saved games. Then it begin restarting on its own 3 times during the night. I tried to reinstall the rom and re-partitioned the phone and did factory reset but it continues to periodically restart even though I have given up on reinstalling my data since it factory resets on its own. I guess I am in a very slow bootloop. Can anyone suggest what I can do? Thanks in advance
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When you downgrade to KitKat did you use an All-In-One Odin file which went in the AP Slot? If you did, then Flash all four Odin files for NC2 (KitKat) BL https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=96042739161891602 AP https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=96042739161891890 CP https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=96042739161891603 CSC https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=96042739161891604 Odin http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3109599&d=1420980613 That will put you back on stock Kitkat and just root with Towelroot.
Rooted i747 said:
When you downgrade to KitKat did you use an All-In-One Odin file which went in the AP Slot? If you did, then Flash all four Odin files for NC2 (KitKat) BL https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=96042739161891602 AP https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=96042739161891890 CP https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=96042739161891603 CSC https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=96042739161891604 Odin http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3109599&d=1420980613 That will put you back on stock Kitkat and just root with Towelroot.
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When I downgraded I did use an all in one but later when I realized it was all bad and reinstalled the rom I did it both ways. Used an all in one and then did it with the four individual files. It still has the problem, it will be working fine then suddenly freeze and the phone will auto reboot. Is there a way to clean it all out then try to stock rom. I am concerned that there is something lingering causing this problem. I did clear the cache several times but it does not help.
meregirljj said:
When I downgraded I did use an all in one but later when I realized it was all bad and reinstalled the rom I did it both ways. Used an all in one and then did it with the four individual files. It still has the problem, it will be working fine then suddenly freeze and the phone will auto reboot. Is there a way to clean it all out then try to stock rom. I am concerned that there is something lingering causing this problem. I did clear the cache several times but it does not help.
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After you put all four files in Odin, go to Options and check Nand Erase All (picture 1). Then Once phone reboots, power off and go into stock recovery and wipe data/factory reset, then do wipe cache partition (picture 2).
Awesome Thanks!
Rooted i747 said:
After you put all four files in Odin, go to Options and check Nand Erase All (picture 1). Then Once phone reboots, power off and go into stock recovery and wipe data/factory reset, then do wipe cache partition (picture 2).
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Appreciate the info I will give it a go!
Did not work
Rooted i747 said:
After you put all four files in Odin, go to Options and check Nand Erase All (picture 1). Then Once phone reboots, power off and go into stock recovery and wipe data/factory reset, then do wipe cache partition (picture 2).
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I did exactly what you said, put the files in Odin and selected the Nand Erase. It loaded rebooted, then I powered off went into recovery mode did a wipe data and then wiped cache. Turned on well, looked good but in the middle of restoring my texts and contacts through Kies it shut down restarted and now getting the same kind of messages that various apps and processes have stopped. It literally is now popping up with so many messages that one thing or another has stopped that I can not even select to restart the phone. This is crazy. I don't know what else to fix. The phone got a new motherboard so what else could be causing this craziness Any help you can provide or light on the subject is very appreciated.
meregirljj said:
I did exactly what you said, put the files in Odin and selected the Nand Erase. It loaded rebooted, then I powered off went into recovery mode did a wipe data and then wiped cache. Turned on well, looked good but in the middle of restoring my texts and contacts through Kies it shut down restarted and now getting the same kind of messages that various apps and processes have stopped. It literally is now popping up with so many messages that one thing or another has stopped that I can not even select to restart the phone. This is crazy. I don't know what else to fix. The phone got a new motherboard so what else could be causing this craziness Any help you can provide or light on the subject is very appreciated.
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If you didn't root it yet, then do a wipe data/factory reset, then do wipe cache partition in recovery and don't restore anything with Kies and see what happens. If everything works great then, then you know it's Kies messing up your phone.
Still happening
Rooted i747 said:
If you didn't root it yet, then do a wipe data/factory reset, then do wipe cache partition in recovery and don't restore anything with Kies and see what happens. If everything works great then, then you know it's Kies messing up your phone.
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So it is taking longer and I don't get the message that apps have stopped because there are no updated apps since I did not connect to the play store but after a while like before it is freezing and restarting. So it is back to the original problem of being a slow bootloop. Sorry it is being a pain.
meregirljj said:
So it is taking longer and I don't get the message that apps have stopped because there are no updated apps since I did not connect to the play store but after a while like before it is freezing and restarting. So it is back to the original problem of being a slow bootloop. Sorry it is being a pain.
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Did it have any problem when you first got it back, before you did anything to it?
Hard to really know.
Rooted i747 said:
Did it have any problem when you first got it back, before you did anything to it?
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When I first got it back it started right up and it was on lollipop. I went to restore my stuff through titanium backup but realized that I could not root it with Towelroot. I kept the phone like it was for a two days and I don't believe I had any real problems. Nothing I noticed but I did not have all my data completely back. I read up on downgrading my phone back to kitkat in order to root and it also had the option to re upgrage to lollipop and keep the root but I did not like the look and feel of lollipop so I kept it at kitkat. Although I did install the safetstrap program like suggested but never used it, could that be causing the problem? I restored my data and things were just fine for about a week. Then it slowly started having problems being difficult to wake up, then apps crashing, to data disappearing then finally restarting on its own over and over. This process of breakdown took about three weeks. I was concerned that my data could have been the problem so when I restored the ROM the first time and wiped it clean I hope that would take care of the problem but like what happened today it still begin the out of the blue restart for no reason. I would not be using the phone or anything, it would just restart on its own.
meregirljj said:
When I first got it back it started right up and it was on lollipop. I went to restore my stuff through titanium backup but realized that I could not root it with Towelroot. I kept the phone like it was for a two days and I don't believe I had any real problems. Nothing I noticed but I did not have all my data completely back. I read up on downgrading my phone back to kitkat in order to root and it also had the option to re upgrage to lollipop and keep the root but I did not like the look and feel of lollipop so I kept it at kitkat. Although I did install the safetstrap program like suggested but never used it, could that be causing the problem? I restored my data and things were just fine for about a week. Then it slowly started having problems being difficult to wake up, then apps crashing, to data disappearing then finally restarting on its own over and over. This process of breakdown took about three weeks. I was concerned that my data could have been the problem so when I restored the ROM the first time and wiped it clean I hope that would take care of the problem but like what happened today it still begin the out of the blue restart for no reason. I would not be using the phone or anything, it would just restart on its own.
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Safestrap will keep your stock recovery from booting up if Kies needs it to. After you had Safestrap on it did you use any Odin files (not the "all-in-one" as it will not wipe your phone)?
Rooted i747 said:
Safestrap will keep your stock recovery from booting up if Kies needs it to. After you had Safestrap on it did you use any Odin files (not the "all-in-one" as it will not wipe your phone)?
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Sorry it took me so long to respond to your question. No I followed the process from the below website. After I installed safestrap, SuperSU , Busybox and towel root, I just connected to Kies reinstalled most of my data then used Titanium backup to install my games levels. I did not follow the process to bring it back to lollipop.
http://zidroid.com/how-to-keep-root-att-galaxy-note-3-on-lollipop-oc1/
meregirljj said:
Sorry it took me so long to respond to your question. No I followed the process from the below website. After I installed safestrap, SuperSU , Busybox and towel root, I just connected to Kies reinstalled most of my data then used Titanium backup to install my games levels. I did not follow the process to bring it back to lollipop.
http://zidroid.com/how-to-keep-root-att-galaxy-note-3-on-lollipop-oc1/
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If you wouldn't mind download Phone INFO ★Samsung★ from play store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.vndnguyen.phoneinfo&hl=en and take a screen shot of the Firmware and Android. Your's will be different than mine.
Here are mine
Rooted i747 said:
If you wouldn't mind download Phone INFO ★Samsung★ from play store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.vndnguyen.phoneinfo&hl=en and take a screen shot of the Firmware and Android. Your's will be different than mine.
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Ok see below. I can't tell you how much I appreciate your helping me!
meregirljj said:
Ok see below. I can't tell you how much I appreciate your helping me!
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Everything looks good. Where you on NC2 when you did your backup with Kies (with the old motherboard)? Because there is NJ 5 and NL1 which are Kitkat too.
I realized I have no idea
Rooted i747 said:
Everything looks good. Where you on NC2 when you did your backup with Kies (with the old motherboard)? Because there is NJ 5 and NL1 which are Kitkat too.
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I don't remember what it was before. When I got my phone before I only needed to install towelroot and moved everything over. I never paid attention to which version of kitkat I was on. Hindsight I probably should have but I only remember being on Kitkat and not the specifics.
meregirljj said:
I don't remember what it was before. When I got my phone before I only needed to install towelroot and moved everything over. I never paid attention to which version of kitkat I was on. Hindsight I probably should have but I only remember being on Kitkat and not the specifics.
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If you only installed Towelroot, then you was on NC2. This is up to you, if you want to. But I would Odin the [100% Stock] Lollipop 5.0 (N900AUCUEOC1) Odin Tars http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-3-att/general/100-stock-lollipop-5-0-n900aucueoc1-t3069609 (the Individual/Wipe Tars ones) and then upgrade it to OC2 (though phone) and see if it gives you any problems. If it does, I would say that motherboard is the problem then. If there is no problems, you can always Odin back to NC2. Or if you want, install Busybox, supersu and Safestrap on what you have now and put your backup from Titanium and Kies on your phone and then boot into Safestrap and tap WIPE > ADVANCE WIPE > DALVIK CACHE and swipe to wipe. Then ADVANCE > FIX PERMISSIONS > swipe to confirm.
Adaway
Just thought you might not know of this Adaway https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.adaway
I will try the lollipop way.
Rooted i747 said:
If you only installed Towelroot, then you was on NC2. This is up to you, if you want to. But I would Odin the [100% Stock] Lollipop 5.0 (N900AUCUEOC1) Odin Tars http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-3-att/general/100-stock-lollipop-5-0-n900aucueoc1-t3069609 (the Individual/Wipe Tars ones) and then upgrade it to OC2 (though phone) and see if it gives you any problems. If it does, I would say that motherboard is the problem then. If there is no problems, you can always Odin back to NC2. Or if you want, install Busybox, supersu and Safestrap on what you have now and put your backup from Titanium and Kies on your phone and then boot into Safestrap and tap WIPE > ADVANCE WIPE > DALVIK CACHE and swipe to wipe. Then ADVANCE > FIX PERMISSIONS > swipe to confirm.
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I will try this when I get back home. I am traveling back from vacation and will try it Monday night after I get off work. I will let you know how it goes. Thanks!!!

[PLEASE HELP] Phone stuck on bootloop (tried everything I know)

Hello! My Galaxy note 5 (SM-920G) has been stuck on a boot loop for a week now, I've tried everything. I've used "wipe cache partition", "Wipe data/factory reset", even flashed stock firmware from sammobile using odin. I'm still stuck on a bootloop. I am gonna proceed to explain the events that occurred before and after the bootloop in a level of detail that I'm capable of, also one that I think should be sufficient.
Events before the bootloop:
So here's what happened. I was using my phone as usual when I noticed that I couldn't play any music. Spotify, which I was using at the time, refused to play any song. So, I checked out Phonograph(music app that uses local library) and I couldn't seem to play anything from my local library either. I then proceeded to go ahead and open YouTube only to realize that I couldn't play a video on YouTube either. After much fiddling (I don't remember what exactly I did that caused it) but a YouTube video played, but I heard no sound. From here on out, I could PLAY/VIEW any media related file and such but I heard no sound. I searched it up and apparently a cache partition wipe seemed to do the trick (I should have dug deeper into this but this is what I found). I proceeded to the recovery menu and selected "Wipe Cache Partition" (Forgive me, memories a little fuzzy from here on), If I recall correctly, I got into a bootloop and I wiped the cache partition again and it booted up fine. However, there was still no sound, since it was late at night I decided to give up and go ahead and sleep for now.
The next day, when I woke up, everything was working perfectly. I had no idea why.. but hey, I wasn't about to complain. Fast forward a few days, the sound issue popped up again, so I proceeded to wipe the cache partition again. I repeated this a few times but it didn't work, so I gave up. My phone was booting perfectly fine then. During the course of a week or so (maybe less) I had done quite a few cache partition wipes hoping that it would fix the sound issue. I also tried calling someone, only to figure out that person on the other end couldn't hear me and I couldn't hear them. So, one of these days when I did the whole cache partition wipe, my phone wouldn't boot up. This is where it got stuck in a bootloop.
Events before the bootloop:
So yeah, my phone was stuck in a bootloop. If I remember correctly I used the "cache partition wipe" a lot and even opted for the factory reset option. Which didn't work out either. I finally opted to flash stock rom today but over the course of some days I have been trying a combination of "cache partition" wipe and factory resets. Of course, my attempts were in vain. SO, I decided to flash stock rom today. I found the firmware I needed and used Odin to flash it on my phone and that didn't work either, still stuck on the bootloop. I tried a factory reset and cache wipe after the flash as well.
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1- Screen I'm stuck on
2- When I go to recovery mode, first screen that pops up.
3- The so called update fails, second screen that pops up
4- and finally the recovery menu pops up
So yeah, that's it. I'm currently in the midst of my A level's, so my days are pretty hectic and stressful. I apologize for the long post, first time making a thread on XDA. Please help ;-;
maskimmortalsucks said:
Hello! My Galaxy note 5 (SM-920G) has been stuck on a boot loop for a week now, I've tried everything. I've used "wipe cache partition", "Wipe data/factory reset", even flashed stock firmware from sammobile using odin. I'm still stuck on a bootloop. I am gonna proceed to explain the events that occurred before and after the bootloop in a level of detail that I'm capable of, also one that I think should be sufficient.
Events before the bootloop:
So here's what happened. I was using my phone as usual when I noticed that I couldn't play any music. Spotify, which I was using at the time, refused to play any song. So, I checked out Phonograph(music app that uses local library) and I couldn't seem to play anything from my local library either. I then proceeded to go ahead and open YouTube only to realize that I couldn't play a video on YouTube either. After much fiddling (I don't remember what exactly I did that caused it) but a YouTube video played, but I heard no sound. From here on out, I could PLAY/VIEW any media related file and such but I heard no sound. I searched it up and apparently a cache partition wipe seemed to do the trick (I should have dug deeper into this but this is what I found). I proceeded to the recovery menu and selected "Wipe Cache Partition" (Forgive me, memories a little fuzzy from here on), If I recall correctly, I got into a bootloop and I wiped the cache partition again and it booted up fine. However, there was still no sound, since it was late at night I decided to give up and go ahead and sleep for now.
The next day, when I woke up, everything was working perfectly. I had no idea why.. but hey, I wasn't about to complain. Fast forward a few days, the sound issue popped up again, so I proceeded to wipe the cache partition again. I repeated this a few times but it didn't work, so I gave up. My phone was booting perfectly fine then. During the course of a week or so (maybe less) I had done quite a few cache partition wipes hoping that it would fix the sound issue. I also tried calling someone, only to figure out that person on the other end couldn't hear me and I couldn't hear them. So, one of these days when I did the whole cache partition wipe, my phone wouldn't boot up. This is where it got stuck in a bootloop.
Events before the bootloop:
So yeah, my phone was stuck in a bootloop. If I remember correctly I used the "cache partition wipe" a lot and even opted for the factory reset option. Which didn't work out either. I finally opted to flash stock rom today but over the course of some days I have been trying a combination of "cache partition" wipe and factory resets. Of course, my attempts were in vain. SO, I decided to flash stock rom today. I found the firmware I needed and used Odin to flash it on my phone and that didn't work either, still stuck on the bootloop. I tried a factory reset and cache wipe after the flash as well.
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1- Screen I'm stuck on
2- When I go to recovery mode, first screen that pops up.
3- The so called update fails, second screen that pops up
4- and finally the recovery menu pops up
So yeah, that's it. I'm currently in the midst of my A level's, so my days are pretty hectic and stressful. I apologize for the long post, first time making a thread on XDA. Please help ;-;
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Was that Lollipop or MM 6 that you were on? In Download mode what does it say on that screen? Is FRP enabled?
P.S what country are you in?
Before flashing in odin do the format in recovery.
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MrMike2182 said:
Was that Lollipop or MM 6 that you were on? In Download mode what does it say on that screen? Is FRP enabled?
P.S what country are you in?
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I could have sworn I replied to this... I can't seem to post any links here. I pm-ed the images to you! Frp was on, yeah. I was on Marshmallow. I live in the Maldives.
maskimmortalsucks said:
I could have sworn I replied to this... I can't seem to post any links here. I pm-ed the images to you! Frp was on, yeah. I was on Marshmallow. I live in the Maldives.
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I'm pretty sure I replied to your private message already. On the picture you showed me it said the CSC was SLK and I gave you the link to the correct firmware for the device
You can also download the firmware to flash through odin here too.
https://samsung-firmware.org/download/Galaxy Note 5/9hs6/INS/N920GDDS2BPD2/N920GODD2BPC3/
You can't post any links because you don't have enough "posts" on here yet to prove you're not just coming on here to post some crazy links lol.
MrMike2182 said:
I'm pretty sure I replied to your private message already. On the picture you showed me it said the CSC was SLK and I gave you the link to the correct firmware for the device
You can't post any links because you don't have enough "posts" on here yet to prove you're not just coming on here to post some crazy links lol.
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Alright so, my cousin somehow managed to get rid of the bootloop with some fiddling and the audio issues still remained. So, he tried to downgrade to 5.1.1 by downloading the firmware for it and the phone got stuck in another bootloop. Tried to flash 6.0.1 again and it didn't work, still stuck on bootloop.
I tried what you have suggested but I can't seem to get into the recovery menu.
maskimmortalsucks said:
Alright so, my cousin somehow managed to get rid of the bootloop with some fiddling and the audio issues still remained. So, he tried to downgrade to 5.1.1 by downloading the firmware for it and the phone got stuck in another bootloop. Tried to flash 6.0.1 again and it didn't work, still stuck on bootloop.
I tried what you have suggested but I can't seem to get into the recovery menu.
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Already replied to your private message.
Can you not select this directly after odin...
Flush twrp for yours model go to recovery then wape os and every think then flush firmware by odin
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My Galaxy S4 active (AT&T) is bricked, tried to restore it

This is my backup phone so I don't care for the data that is on it and just want it working again. It was rooted before and I needed it unrooted in order to download an app that was blocked by root detection. I tried uninstalling the root using Super SU in its settings, when I restarted my phone it just freezes at the AT&T white screen.
I'm still able to go into the boot recovery menu, I tried putting on the I537UCUCOC7 (5.0.1) firmware found here (https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2629093). I downloaded it, extracted the zip, and renamed the file "update.zip" and put the file on a microSD then in the recovery boot menu I went to install from external and selected the update.zip. It sorta kinda looked like it accepted it but I get a red error message about the sideloader and I'm still stuck at the white screen when it boots.
What else can I do from here?
P.S. I already tried wiping the cache and data/factory restore options and that didnt work.
Is there anything else that can be done?
I restored my phone to 4.4.2. How can I install 5.0.1? When I search for software updates it says theres nothing available even though I know it can go to 5.0.1 cause thats what I had before it bricked.
Please share how did you restore when I only able to boot into recovery and clearing cache and factory reset does not help. Phone just stack on boot loop
RemixDeluxe said:
I restored my phone to 4.4.2. How can I install 5.0.1? When I search for software updates it says theres nothing available even though I know it can go to 5.0.1 cause thats what I had before it bricked.
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alex4cta said:
Please share how did you restore when I only able to boot into recovery and clearing cache and factory reset does not help. Phone just stack on boot loop
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-active/general/guide-update-to-i537-att-firmware-t2835481

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