Hello all! This is the second time this has happened to me, I've rooted my phone for about a week, and then for some reason when I decide to restart my phone -- it no longer boots up. It is stuck at the t-mobile screen and vibrates for a bit then stops, I have booted in to recovery mode and tried wiping that cache, but to no avail.
Any help would be appreciated -- or even how I can backup my data would be great too.
Wah gwan! My T-Mobile S7 Edge running TekHD v2. To have your phone running very nicely, you need to download the APD8 fireware. Make sure everything on your phone running APD8. download the files from max on highonandroid, flash the tar file twice using modified Odin from max. Once boot up screen say custom, next step download and extract TekHD.rar file .there's a part in the file that operates like cmd, right click and let it do its thing. Make sure your phone is on and a low USB debugging.
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Also this TekHD Rom is best for unlimited hotspot for Windows, Android and Mac. I have download about 20 more GB of files to make sure its good. The tutorial from max is good, the easiest way I see so far is to click on the root.dat in max files to add superSU. For TekHD click tekhd.bat. That was the easiest way after flashing the tar file. The hold process take 2 minutes once done right. I'm not a developer but a big Samsung Android fan. I have a Note 3,4,5 S6 Edge+ and S7Edge, I tried and tested many Roms at my own risk. Never had any problems. Make sure you always have the stock rom tar file for your device before any flashing any roms, is case something goes wrong you can start over.
first of all this is an eng boot root, so expect some hiccups and proble.. before u root make sure u back up everything then odin back to stock then root or else u will run into problems
You're going to have to ODIN back to stock. This seems to be happening to a lot of people (myself included) and a stock flash is the only way anyone has been able to recover. Flash all 4 files in ODIN simultaneously, but if you don't have a backup, try flashing the Home_CSC and see if it'll boot. I've heard reports that the Home-CSC file doesn't wipe your phone. If that doesn't work, then unfortunately you're going to have to re-flash, but this time use the standard CSC file, which will wipe your phone. Good luck.
I just had this happen for my second time and was stuck phoneless out of the house :/ I wish we could figure out the cause... Not sure if related, but my recovery has red text on the bottom "dm-verity verification failed"
ph00ky said:
Not sure if related, but my recovery has red text on the bottom "dm-verity verification failed"
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No, that is not related, dm-verity verification fails because recovery still checks dm-verity even though the kernel does not.
Damn same thing just happened to me at work. Had to do factory reset...
When at that tmobile screen, hold down volume down + home button + power. It will reboot,and as soon as it does, switch volume down to vol up until it loads recovery to reset
This happened to me also. Go to lockscreen and security options and disable automatic security updates.
I think it could be new firmware update from Google. I tried to install TekHD Rom after update to the newest APG1. And it hapened to me also. Stuck on Samsung screen with random weird vibrations.
I can almost certainly say that the vibrate crash has something to do with the phone installing something behind the scenes. After getting the Amazon/Google/Samsung services multiple crash followed by the reset to the vibrating T-mobile screen I did a non-wipe ODIN, which works and works perfectly. What seems to not work though is re-installing root, it just leads back to the same screen, so I think Samsung is pushing something sneaky onto our phones probably through the security thing as mentioned.
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pawel30w said:
I think it could be new firmware update from Google. I tried to install TekHD Rom after update to the newest APG1. And it hapened to me also. Stuck on Samsung screen with random weird vibrations.
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TekHD Only works on PD8, it's mentioned in the thread.
pawel30w said:
I think it could be new firmware update from Google. I tried to install TekHD Rom after update to the newest APG1. And it hapened to me also. Stuck on Samsung screen with random weird vibrations.
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Can't run that ROM on APG1. If you want to try it, you will have to ODIN PD8. There is a post in a thread in this section that shows how.
I just had this same thing happen on PG1. Using ODIN with all of the various parts and Home_CSC got me back in without having to wipe and everything survived. Going to try and re-root with the engineering boot image now that I made a decent backup. Would be great if someone smarter than me figures out what is updating/changing and causing this problem.
I said it on page 1: In settings, go to lockscreen, then security options and disable automatic security updates.
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I said it on page 1: In settings, go to lockscreen, then security options and disable automatic security updates.
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That might work to prevent this problem -- but what needs to be reverted once this problem starts? I can flash stock PG1 and if I use the (home_csc) it will fix the problem and not wipe my data.... but if I reflash the engineering bootloader it goes back to hanging at the tmobile screen.
im stuck on tmobile screen, and it keeps vibrating, idk what to do
swaggyyd said:
im stuck on tmobile screen, and it keeps vibrating, idk what to do
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I haven't rooted but if your stuck just Odin back to stock.
I came to post that I'm having these issues as well, this is the second time it's happened to me.
The first time I had TEKHD on my Phone, and so with it constantly nagging to do a system update.
I figured when it did this the first time, it was because the update ran over my TEKHD side load "ROM" and corrupted. Ok , whatever, reloaded.
But now I'm just rooted, and stock ROM otherwise. Just happened to me again
Each time it's happened, I start getting "playstore has crashed" errors - dismiss and it comes right back. So I reboot, and then it boot loops and gets CRAZY hot. Man I've never been able to fry an egg on a phone quite like my S7 Edge...
Is there any light shed on what could be doing this? I may have to remain stock which makes me want to :crying: but I can't keep bothering my Work Admin's to unlock my Token account so I can re-register my same phone -
I shall try that home_CSC Flash when I get home though, hopefully I can recover it at least in a way to transfer token to my tablet or something.
posted that at work, I'm at home now. I tried to flash just the home CSC and that did not work, just booted into recovery with an error and wouldn't resurrect at all.
I shall try that disable auto updates thing though and see if it helps in the long run...
wotan2525 said:
I just had this same thing happen on PG1. Using ODIN with all of the various parts and Home_CSC got me back in without having to wipe and everything survived. Going to try and re-root with the engineering boot image now that I made a decent backup. Would be great if someone smarter than me figures out what is updating/changing and causing this problem.
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you got a link for the home csc file you can send me I was good for about a month and a half and it finally happened to me as well and can confirm I was getting the play store/ google services errors right before the reboot and tmobile screen
Was having this issue as well, forgot that I needed to turn off Security policy updates.
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I downloaded the kies version of the firmware of the froyo update and updated the firmware using odin.
After i installed froyo, i wanted to root to apply swype patch and everthing went ok but when i restarted, the phone was stuck on the i5801 loading screen for about an hour
so i flashed the firmware again.
Odin saves the data onto phone and restarts the phone and the phone opens recovery mode but now it gets stuck on a screen saying "delete app data"... "delete files please wait" and it has been stuck there for about 3 hours now and even when i try and open recovery mode, it opens but then this screen comes up
i tried flashing multiple times but nothing works, cant even factory reset now
Please help me out..
note:odin for a change shows a disabled reset time box.. it is faded out)
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here is a screenshot of the screen at which my phone has been stuck for about 3 hours
Also suggest if i should go to the service center coz the phone is under warranty, i really doubt theyd do it for free considering its rooted but i dont mind paying up.
And let me know if there is anyway the service center ppl will know i rooted/flashed
Try taking out the battery and then putting it back, and press the 2 volume buttons+home+power until the phone boots up in recovery mode... Try wipping the memory from there
that is the entire problem, as soon as it goes into recovery mode it starts off like shown in the screenshot
therefore it is not displaying the menu (which has options to factory reset/clear cache) instead its jumping directly to the update sequence but then getting stuck at deleting apps
Try flashing a different firmware, such as an eclair rom. Note that your phone is 5801, so look for those firmwares.
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Try flashing a different firmware, such as an eclair rom. Note that your phone is 5801, so look for those firmwares.
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k ill try flashing an eclair rom. I did flash firmware specific to my version it self..
But the problem is that even after the flashing is done, the recovery window has to open where the update begins and thats when the "deleting apps" screen kicks in and doesnt progress
never the less ill try flashing another rom/firmware and see
Hmm, that is weird. Did you flash the bootloader?
tried flsahing a eclair firmware but no luck..
odin runs for a couple of mins, and says pass but still the phone is stuck on the delecting apps screen..'
For some odd reason, my recovery mode is hell bent on deleting some apps but is not able to and is getting stuck and therefore i cant reset/ clear cache..
Do u ppl think this could be coz of the root??
Please suggest something, i dont want to know my phone is bricked for ever considering its not even been a year since i bought it
a second flashing of eclair did it thanks man!!!
it usually works if you flash the very first rom that worked the last time you got problems.
did you flash with your sdcard in your phone?
anyways im just glad you fixed it
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a second flashing of eclair did it thanks man!!!
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No problem. Nothing beats the feeling of helping someone out.
Except an orgasm and drugs
Ok, talk to me like I'm an idiot about this stuff, because apparently I am.
I decided to root using chainfire autoroot, and that was successful, aside from a couple weird things like my UCCW widgets suddenly not stretching fully across the desktop, and what seemed like some new lag. I then flashed slimbean. My contacts didn't restore from google or anywhere, and my sd card seemed to be having problems. I then decided to flash blue kaban or whatever, and that straight up wouldn't boot. However, at that point my sd card fully stopped working, and that is the place I had the slimbean zip. So I did not have a working rom on my phone.
So what I decided to do was unroot and start from scratch. I used the method in this video on youtube by qbking
The result is that my wifi is not working and I have a persistent notification that says Prevention information the device has detected an application attempting etc.
Also software version is MDL, Baseband version is MDL, and Build number is MDC. I was under the impression that they would all be MDC and it would automatically push the MDL but apparently I suck.
My ultimate goal is get back to pure out-of-the-box stock so I can start the rooting process over and try flashing something stable again. But abviously the most important thing right now is to get the wifi working and (I think) the Basbeband and build numbers to match. But I don't know. Please help me. Please. I beg of thee.
ok so after an hour or so it pushed the update to me and my wifi is now working, and everything is MDL. The SD card still says damaged and my contacts aren't there. Any ideas on why those two things would be casualties of rooting and flashing?
I've got the same problem after flashing back to stock from some rom. Would you mind telling me how you got the wifi to work and that notification to go away? I'm not getting an update.
Did the SD card problem happen afterwards? Did you do a factory reset and delete data before you reflashed it? Sometimes when you flash over a partial thing system apps get corrupted.
I have actually performed this and had this happen a few times. What I have found thay it does on some devices is will not properly install random MDL firmware(Saw MDL Firmwares In Settings Still Being Reported). So what I found to be the proper steps for me is before installing any ODIN tarballs thatcare firmware based besides rec9eries are to boot into Recovery and wipe "System, Data, Dalvik, Cache and Preload(Dont Know Why All Of Those) then immediately reboot into Download Mode, install tarball and then when it reboots I go ahead and let it go into recovery and do what it wanrs and when it reboots from stock recovery I hold vokume down to go into download mode and if it says Samsung Official/Official for both options then you are set but if not then I reinstall tarball while I am already in Download Mode again. It happens literally every time I ODIN back to bone stock. I have had to do it at the most 2 extra times after the initial ODIN install.
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Now, I also do go ahead and after initial install of tarball go into OS and if I dont have working wifi then I go ahead and do an FDR while I am in the OS just in case even though should helo whatsoever lol then start going to download mode to check Recovery and Software Status.
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Brains, did you ever get it to work?
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I left my phone charging overnight as I have done many times with no issue. When I woke up I pressed the home button and the only thing that shows was my wallpaper. Wouldn't show anything else. I then did a battery pull. It now gets stuck at the note 4 powered by android screen. A little history in case it helps. This is an unlocked at&t model that I am using on t-mobile. It's not rooted or anything. A few weeks ago I downloaded the recent 5.0.1 small update. In the past week a notification keeps appearing and disappearing from the menu. It was dm software download or something which would disappear if I clicked it.
So it's stuck on the boot screen today. I booted in to the recovery screen. It starts by saying "installing system update" with the little android. Then it goes to recovery menu. At the bottom it says "dm-verity verification failed". I tried to wipe cache and reboot but it still gets stuck at the boot screen. Another small detail is after turning phone off if I plug it in the charger it stays at the grey lighting screen and does not show any battery percentage.
I don't know what to do. I really need my phone today as I am traveling. I hope someone can please help me. Thank you.
In the case u tried recovery now u should flash ur stock rom.
How do I flash the stock rom? Should I do that before trying a factory wipe/reset? I haven't tried that because I really dont want to erase everything unless I have to.
When u do the flashing everything in your device will be lost. So if u do the flashing then u just need to backup all your data.
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First u have to download your stock rom
Anyone else have any ideas? I really have no clue how to flash the stock rom. Is there a guide I can follow? Thanks
Just google your device name flashing
morjam401 said:
How do I flash the stock rom? Should I do that before trying a factory wipe/reset? I haven't tried that because I really dont want to erase everything unless I have to.
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I would suggest you start download stock as already mentioned by previous mentor
Than try to make a factory reset from recovery while stock is downloading. In case factory reset all your apps and settings will be gone but your data stay untouched.
If positive with factory reset no need to flash stock anymore
I just tried doing factory reset/date wipe and it's still getting stuck at the boot screen. I guess I need help now to flash the stock rom. Again I have never done this so I appreciate it if someone has or could find a simple guide for me. I just don't want to download the wrong file and mess phone up even more. It's an at&t model SM-N910A. Thanks again
How long did you wait after wiping? For lollipop its normal after wiping to see nothing but Samsung boot up logo up to 20 minutes
In response to above. It did the date wipe/reset which did it in like 5 seconds. I rebooted and left it on the boot screen for about 3 minutes. I should wait longer then? Another thing I was going through kies to see if anything could help. I ended starting a firmware upgrade. I entered my model # and S/N#. It then asked me to go to recovery and made it to a screen with an android, "downloading do not turn off target". That's loading now and i'll see what happens. I also checked on google and it looks like there is a program called odin that will flash the stock rom. I need to find that program and also find the stock rom file to download?
Yep. Google for Odin, download and extract it on your PC. You'll need to download a stock firmware from Sammobile for your device. It will be as Archiv so extract it. In Odin click on AP and choose extracted file.
Another update. The firmware upgrade through kies went through fine. It booted up like normal afterwards. I didn't know it would happen but I am back to kit kat 4.4.4 as well. I wasn't too thrilled with lollipop so maybe that isn't a bad thing.
tl;dr phone is in some kind of bootloop, tried flashing stock firmware (successful but can't get past start splash screen), plz halp me
So I was just simply browsing on my phone on reddit is fun app, some Google Chrome sites, and 9gag. So then I saved a gif on 9gag and the phone just gives up on me. It went straight to shut down without any warning whatsoever and proceeded to restart. Thinking that it was just an unusual one time thing, the phone kept rebooting and I started really getting worried. I kept getting the Samsung Galaxy S4 splash screen and after that a black screen and then it vibrated twice and I saw the splash screen again. Didn't even get to see the menu for SafeStrap. After several unsuccessful attempts, I finally accessed SafeStrap after restarting the phone from download mode pressing the volume down button. To make as much precious time as I had, I made a backup (although I checked enable compression which I shouldn't have but I didn't have a lot of space on my SD card) and made an advanced wipe cleaning everything except the SD card. I then proceeded to flash a different custom ROM (GoldenEye if you were wondering) and hoped that it was just a custom ROM error that kept giving bootloops. No such luck. The different ROM didn't even help. So I went back to SafeStrap and made another advanced wipe. At this point, I decided to flash stock firmware via Odin from this link (http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-att/general/guide-odin-to-stock-updating-rooting-t2926642) with NB1 base. I remember having flashed the non-rootable version successfully and restarted the phone after that. Got past the Samsung Galaxy S4 splash screen and went all the way to ATT splash screen but then it crashed right there. After that, I couldn't figure out the problem and I couldn't flash any more stock firmware (at least from that link) via Odin because I kept getting a fail notice. I asked this question on reddit and the responses kept saying that I may have a defective power button but it doesn't stay shut down and instead bootloops. Should I try to find a new GS4, get another phone or try sammobile firmwares next to see if there's any luck? I really need to save this phone as it is super dear to me. I'm at the point where I can cry right now :crying:
If you guys need any pictures or videos, I will be more willing to do so
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tl;dr phone is in some kind of bootloop, tried flashing stock firmware (successful but can't get past start splash screen), plz halp me
So I was just simply browsing on my phone on reddit is fun app, some Google Chrome sites, and 9gag. So then I saved a gif on 9gag and the phone just gives up on me. It went straight to shut down without any warning whatsoever and proceeded to restart. Thinking that it was just an unusual one time thing, the phone kept rebooting and I started really getting worried. I kept getting the Samsung Galaxy S4 splash screen and after that a black screen and then it vibrated twice and I saw the splash screen again. Didn't even get to see the menu for SafeStrap. After several unsuccessful attempts, I finally accessed SafeStrap after restarting the phone from download mode pressing the volume down button. To make as much precious time as I had, I made a backup (although I checked enable compression which I shouldn't have but I didn't have a lot of space on my SD card) and made an advanced wipe cleaning everything except the SD card. I then proceeded to flash a different custom ROM (GoldenEye if you were wondering) and hoped that it was just a custom ROM error that kept giving bootloops. No such luck. The different ROM didn't even help. So I went back to SafeStrap and made another advanced wipe. At this point, I decided to flash stock firmware via Odin from this link (http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-att/general/guide-odin-to-stock-updating-rooting-t2926642) with NB1 base. I remember having flashed the non-rootable version successfully and restarted the phone after that. Got past the Samsung Galaxy S4 splash screen and went all the way to ATT splash screen but then it crashed right there. After that, I couldn't figure out the problem and I couldn't flash any more stock firmware (at least from that link) via Odin because I kept getting a fail notice. I asked this question on reddit and the responses kept saying that I may have a defective power button but it doesn't stay shut down and instead bootloops. Should I try to find a new GS4, get another phone or try sammobile firmwares next to see if there's any luck? I really need to save this phone as it is super dear to me. I'm at the point where I can cry right now :crying:
If you guys need any pictures or videos, I will be more willing to do so
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I'd say try redownloading the firmware and make sure your cable is good, try a back USB port, etc. I'd guess the firmware files didn't download properly and so it didn't flash properly. Before you do anything though, try going into stock recovery and wiping everything you can from there.
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I'd say try redownloading the firmware and make sure your cable is good, try a back USB port, etc. I'd guess the firmware files didn't download properly and so it didn't flash properly. Before you do anything though, try going into stock recovery and wiping everything you can from there.
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Thank you for the reply. As for the firmware, where should I acquire them? The link I posted has only one firmware (NB1) and I cannot access stock recovery AT ALL. When I do, I can see the blue text in the corner "Recovery booting..." and then the phone restarts again. This is really frustrating
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Thank you for the reply. As for the firmware, where should I acquire them? The link I posted has only one firmware (NB1) and I cannot access stock recovery AT ALL. When I do, I can see the blue text in the corner "Recovery booting..." and then the phone restarts again. This is really frustrating
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NB1 is the only one you can get, just try downloading either one again.
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NB1 is the only one you can get, just try downloading either one again.
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I did twice today and I keep getting the same message in Odin, like setting up a connection and then it fails
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I did twice today and I keep getting the same message in Odin, like setting up a connection and then it fails
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When you plug in the phone in Download Mode, does the blue box in Odin light up? If not, reinstall samsung drivers
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I'm usually fairly good at troubleshooting my own stuff but this really has me stuck in the same place for a few hours now.
So basically Flipboard has been nagging me(well play store is, not the app itself but anyway) so I said to myself why don't I uninstall it since I've never used it and don't plan to, and besides I hate to have pointless apps installed. So I open TitaniumBackup and I see it is installed as a system app, I thought what's the worst that can happen? so I do uninstall it and a minute later my phone shuts off. I try to turn it on and it doesn't go past the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 flash screen, it either reboots or stays like that.
I try to go into recovery to restore a backup and I can't, it is stuck at Recovery Booting and again it either stays like that or reboots and does it again and again and again.
Now, I haven't made any changes or installs on my phone for weeks now, so this is either because I unistalled Flipboard(I know I shouldn't have risked it since it was a system app but I really could not see it going this way) or the hardware is on it's way out(don't see what else could it be).
I figured I should flash a stock rom with odin, I can get into download mode, and reinstall everything from scratch.
I took a stock image from xda and flashed it and it does exactly the same thing.
Right now I'm downloading another stock image from sammobile for my country/provider to see if this will change anything.
What else can I try? I'm completely stuck and I really don't want to send the phone back like this, I doubt amazon is gonna be happy about it.
Specs:
N910F
Emotion Revolution 12.1 Rom
POK1 BL&CP
TWRP 2.8.7.0
Really sorry for the double-post. I'm quite desperate and need my phone for work.
Since last post I've tried flashing N910FXXU1COH4_N910FH3G1COH3_H3G.zip through Odin from SamMobile and it did the same thing with rebooting constantly.
Then I've installed Kies and went to Tools -> Firmware Upgrade and Initialisation and gave it the model and S/N and it downloaded something and everything went all right, the phone reboots and I'm back in the same circle, it just shows me the splash screen(in some video's I've seen that after this procedure they get the splash screen and then the android bot with a progress bar, I don't get that, I only get the splash screen and reboot) and reboots.
I thought this was a last resort thing? Is the phone completely dead or is there something I can try?
Again sorry for the double-post.
Update: still no progress so I've contacted Amazon and they said to send it back so hopefully this works out in the end, no matter how annoying the waiting time will be, if you do have any suggestions on what I should try please let me know as I haven't posted the phone yet.