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need help... I messed up might have bricked my phone

Hey guys,
So I'm running Ricks rom 4.4.2 and I had installed xposed and added a few mods from there. For some reason I added the four option boot menu from there. Didn't think anything about it for a couple if days and today I go to download the base 5 version. All is fine till it finishes downloading I hit the power button and it pops up the four option menu and without thinking I hit the boot to recovery option and the phone reboots and at the top in blue says booting to recovery. Problem is now its in a boot loop and keeps doing this same thing over and over and I can't seem to do anything to get out of it. I've pulled the battery tried button combos but nothing.does anyone have an idea our am I royally screwed. I'm going this blunder doesn't cost me a phone. All help is appreciated and greatly needed. Just fyi its a vzw note 3 and was running ricks rom 4.4.2. I had back up the stock rom from beanstown. PleAse help

fireproof1905 said:
Hey guys,
So I'm running Ricks rom 4.4.2 and I had installed xposed and added a few mods from there. For some reason I added the four option boot menu from there. Didn't think anything about it for a couple if days and today I go to download the base 5 version. All is fine till it finishes downloading I hit the power button and it pops up the four option menu and without thinking I hit the boot to recovery option and the phone reboots and at the top in blue says booting to recovery. Problem is now its in a boot loop and keeps doing this same thing over and over and I can't seem to do anything to get out of it. I've pulled the battery tried button combos but nothing.does anyone have an idea our am I royally screwed. I'm going this blunder doesn't cost me a phone. All help is appreciated and greatly needed. Just fyi its a vzw note 3 and was running ricks rom 4.4.2. I had back up the stock rom from beanstown. PleAse help
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First of all don't worry, it will be fine. You're going to have to grab the MJE .tar.md5 file and flash it in download mode with Odin then reroot with Kingo 1.1.6. You can get the MJE file from HERE.

Yeah. Seriously, don't worry. The, almost, exact same thing happened to me when I installed Safestrap v3.72. If you have not solved the bootloop problem yet then all you have to do is remove the battery, pop it back in and reboot into download mode by pressing the the power, volume down and home button at the same time. Simply pressing the power button after inserting the battery will just initiate the bootloop. As airmaxx23 stated above, you then have to use Odin to flash the MJE tar.md5 file.

[Q] GS4 problems

so my sister has an att galaxy s4. And she started having this problem with it only booting into download or factory mode. So after two days of struggling I finally got it to boot normally only after doing the download mode button combo, and selecting for it to cancel the boot. Then it kept on doing it after every boot so I thought i would flash the stock firmware from odin. This did not work as well and I kept getting "fail". Now I did an over the air update and as far as I can tell, it is still having the issue. Also I cannot get into recovery with the button combo to delete the cache. Thanks for the support and any help would be greatly appreciated as I do not know where to go with this.

Carub_Sunn said:
so my sister has an att galaxy s4. And she started having this problem with it only booting into download or factory mode. So after two days of struggling I finally got it to boot normally only after doing the download mode button combo, and selecting for it to cancel the boot. Then it kept on doing it after every boot so I thought i would flash the stock firmware from odin. This did not work as well and I kept getting "fail". Now I did an over the air update and as far as I can tell, it is still having the issue. Also I cannot get into recovery with the button combo to delete the cache. Thanks for the support and any help would be greatly appreciated as I do not know where to go with this.
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Update: after the update it has now started to boot successfully without the extra steps, will report here again if it reoccurs.

problem still persisting
Well now the phone can boot into the normal stock Rom just fine, only after the previous method is done. Phone does not stay off after powering down and just reboots automatically into download mode. Thanks for any help guys, no idea what to do now.

Kind of sounds like some of the buttons are sticking. Maybe the power button (why it won't stay off) and/or the volume button rocker switch. You could try repeatedly pressing to clear whatever is making it stick. Also you can open the phone up and use a can of air to clean out the buttons. The only thing I can think of that may be causing this issue

note 4 boot problem

hello
this is my first time on here and my first android phone,
i need your help, i had a rooted note 4 4.4.4 snapdragon phone i wanted to reset it all, but when i did all i get now is a recovery booting..... message and then installing system update..... and its flashing all the time, its been stuck on there for 2 hours and i have restarted it, tried the volume home and power button but nothing is working ,
please help
Paul

Pull the battery. Then boot into recovery . [press and hold simultaneously Volume Up, Home and Power/Release the buttons when the screen flickers and then wait for the Recovery Mode main screen to appear.]
Choose wipe data/clear cache. That shouldt do it

i tried all that the only thing to work was reflashing root on to it, i don't know if that was a good thing or not but at the moment its working, and restarting fine,

If its working fine now..youre problem is solved..:fingers-crossed:

Still working ok, if there was a update for my phone what would be the best way of updating
it wont let me do it on my phone ota its saying to update on pc,
How do i unroot and update to factory reset for me to restart over?

cmorebutt6969 said:
Still working ok, if there was a update for my phone what would be the best way of updating
it wont let me do it on my phone ota its saying to update on pc,
How do i unroot and update to factory reset for me to restart over?
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You will have to flash the update using Samsung kies on your computer. Your Knox will be tripped since you've flashed cf auto root, so carrier OTA updates won't work (even if you unroot)
SM-N910W8 on Rogers Canada

[Q] Note 3 boot loop (can't get into download mode).

Hi guys i think ive screwed up here massively. I was running stock lollipop on my note 3 and i attempted to gain root using odin and cf auto root hlte hltexx smn9005. After Odin said PASS i unplugged it but i may have done it too soon (not sure). Now when i turn it on it appears to automatically attempt to boot in to recovery over and over. I've removed the battery and tried to boot in to recovery and download holding all the button combinations and it doesn't boot long enough to get into any mode. Any advice to fix or is it completely bricked?

Artriel said:
Hi guys i think ive screwed up here massively. I was running stock lollipop on my note 3 and i attempted to gain root using odin and cf auto root hlte hltexx smn9005. After Odin said PASS i unplugged it but i may have done it too soon (not sure). Now when i turn it on it appears to automatically attempt to boot in to recovery over and over. I've removed the battery and tried to boot in to recovery and download holding all the button combinations and it doesn't boot long enough to get into any mode. Any advice to fix or is it completely bricked?
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To root you need to flash twrp. Then flash supersu.zip. Don't think cf auto root working with lollipop.
So now try to flash twrp 2.8.5. If your phone boots successfully into twrp, flash supersu2.4.6.zip which your can find it by google.
If your phone still doesn't boot, odin whole firmware.

Rosli59564 said:
To root you need to flash twrp. Then flash supersu.zip. Don't think cf auto root working with lollipop.
So now try to flash twrp 2.8.5. If your phone boots successfully into twrp, flash supersu2.4.6.zip which your can find it by google.
If your phone still doesn't boot, odin whole firmware.
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Thats the problem though i cant get the phone into download mode so i can flash stock or anything im stuck in a bootloop and i cant get it into recovery or download.

Artriel said:
Thats the problem though i cant get the phone into download mode so i can flash stock or anything im stuck in a bootloop and i cant get it into recovery or download.
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Did you try pulling the battery? When using Odin the best (safest) way to do it is pull the battery (without the USB cable plugged in ) wait 10 secs or so then put it back in and hold down the DL mode keys. There seems to be a fundamental difference between a hot boot into DL and a physical restart via battery removal.

Happened to me the other day too. Just hold volume down + power + home and THEN plug in the battery. It worked like a charmo for me.

It worked
Wow battery out then insert worked!!! So stoked. You guys are awesome i thought the phone was gone so i went out and got a note 4 on my plan as i was out of contract lol. Oh well all good new phone and i can get the note 3 on ebay. Cheers guys!!!

No access to Recovery mode after getting into it once i9505

Hey guys,
i never flashed/rooted/modified my Samsung Galaxy S4 I9505 before. Sitting on my desk, my phone turned off suddenly. At the first moment i thought, that the battery is just empty. After i charged the phone and went away, i got back and saw, that it was rebooting (the whole time?)
As i said, i got never in contact with modding/flashing, so i had to read pretty much about these things. After several days of reading and trying i did this:
Tried to get into Recovery Mode with VOL Up and Power button to wipe - "recovery is not seandroid enforcing set warranty bit recovery" in blue, red and yellow.
Flashed several Stock ROMs by Sammobile. After every flash i flashed TWRP - no change.
I get easily into Download Mode to flash the Stock ROMs, no errors in Odin, didn't check autoboot and repartition
Yesterday i flashed I9505XXUFNA5 - Open Europe - KK 4.4.2 (four-pieced) sucessfully. Then i flashed TWRP and tried to get into Recovery Mode - same results, i thought. But after i put the phone on my desk to think about what to do next, TWRP Recovery Mode was starting. I was totally happy, but didnt want to do something wrong in my euphoria. So i put out the battery to read about what to do, allthough i knew i wanted to do a wipe. After i read i wanted to try it again - no chance! I couldnt get into recovery mode again. I waited, nothing happened. Tried it again and again.. and again. Then i flashed the Stock ROM again, flashed TWRP again - no change. Meanwhile did this 8 times again and i didnt get into recovery mode again. Thats absolutely illogical in my opinion.
Please help me to get out of this, i dont know what to do now... THANKS

Recovery is volume up, home, and power button?

audit13 said:
Recovery is volume up, home, and power button?
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Yes, home is optional (as i read) but i press this 3 buttons. I pressed it in several variations, for example like one user here in xda: "right after it vibrates release the power button only, keep pressing the volume up and home buttons for another 5-10sec as Whosebat recommended..."

Home button is not necessary, just vol up / down + power button. I also have the same issue as you. I went to a GSM service earlier today and over there was another S4 with exactly the same issue. Looks like lifespan of our phone reached to an end?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4/help/phone-stuck-boot-loop-flashing-stock-t3398068

alesu69 said:
Home button is not necessary, just vol up / down + power button. I also have the same issue as you. I went to a GSM service earlier today and over there was another S4 with exactly the same issue. Looks like lifespan of our phone reached to an end?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4/help/phone-stuck-boot-loop-flashing-stock-t3398068
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Just speculating, but: I didnt update to the firmware version, from which you couldnt get back to the earlier versions. The reason would be some safety reasons. I thought about a relation to that for a short period of time.

#push

harary said:
#push
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I think "bump" is the word you're looking for
After you flash the stock ROM, does it actually boot into the stock recovery?

GDReaper said:
I think "bump" is the word you're looking for
After you flash the stock ROM, does it actually boot into the stock recovery?
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No, i have never seen the stock recovery. I was 2 times in TWRP Recovery, but meanwhile i dont get there anymore. I have no clue why i get after doing exactly the same things into TWRP Recovery and 3 minutes later i dont get there anymore.
I came two times into TWRP with flashing I9505XXUFNA5 - Open Europe - KK 4.4.2, then TWRP 2.8.6.0.
With other Stock ROMs i got never into Recovery Mode.
Please help me

harary said:
No, i have never seen the stock recovery. I was 2 times in TWRP Recovery, but meanwhile i dont get there anymore. I have no clue why i get after doing exactly the same things into TWRP Recovery and 3 minutes later i dont get there anymore.
I came two times into TWRP with flashing I9505XXUFNA5 - Open Europe - KK 4.4.2, then TWRP 2.8.6.0.
With other Stock ROMs i got never into Recovery Mode.
Please help me
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So stock recovery doesn't work either?
It's really weird.
Have you tried flashing TWRP using the app Flashify (requires root)?

GDReaper said:
So stock recovery doesn't work either?
It's really weird.
Have you tried flashing TWRP using the app Flashify (requires root)?
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Unfortunately i cant start to install apps, because i am caught up in bootloop.
I tried to flash now a GT-I9505-Factory-Firmware-Full-Wipe-DBT with following files, but nothing changes except i get Warranty bit : kernel if i want to start normally without booting into recovery mode.