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bricked and cant get back to stock

so here's what happened.....
i rooted my note 2 a few days after i purchased it. everything was fine. the only reason i was tryng to get back to unrooted stock was because i was having issues with sms and needed to take the phone to sprint to have them look at it.
well i found and followed the instructions here- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2086769
everything was fine til i got home from an event in my city and realized that my phone wasnt charging no matter how long i left it on the charger.
so i downloaded odin3 v3.04 and tried to use lj1 firmware package to put the phone in the state it was when i pulled it out of the box.
well, i tried 3 times and it failed i believe at writing the system.
my battery is at 15% and have no way of charging it. oh, and when i try to turn the device on, the only thing that comes up on the screen is "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again." and i cant even get kies to install on my pc, dont know why it just keeps reinstalling the hotfix and never gets past that point.
what can i do to save my phone?
my sis inlaw has the same device i do and i might be able to use her battery if i have to.
EDIT: I cant believe it but i fixed my phone!!!!!!!!!!!
After alot of rewording my search criteria with the search function on this forum, i finally found this- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2241136
This was my salvation! and i did it with only 15% battery to work with.

Its because it wasn't bricked. If it had been actually bricked you wouldn't be able to do anything with it except hold papers in place
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Sorry, soft bricked is what I was gettin at. Im from redneck central and we use one word for just about everything. My bad.
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Lol. No worries.:beer:
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Boot Looping with no other options

Hello all,
I hate to be posting in this sections but I am having a problem with one of my S3 (s). The phone all of a sudden started boot looping and will not stay on recovery or download mode for more than 5 seconds. It will not show the battery icon when plugged in or get past the 2nd Samsung icon. The phone was running MOAR 6.1 and was wiped before flashing and working perfectly for about a month. I am wanting to know what my options are as I have searched this forum and have not found a solution yet. Of course my 1 year warranty expired about 7 days ago which I was told when I was calling in to complain about the phone dropping calls and getting hot while charging.
The only thing I am concerned about is if I take it to a Sprint store the phone will get to download mode and shows "custom" in the binary field and flash count of 1 which I think will tell them I am on a custom rom....
Thanks in advance

I attempted to odin the phone back to stock but it restarted an 1/8th of the way through and now get the message: Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Klies and try again.
What does this mean exactly?
The phone is also powering up when the battery is being inserted and nothing being pressed??

Sounds like your power switch is bad. Mine had the same symptoms, local shop replaced it for $20 today and it works fine now. Not sure on the partial Odin flash.
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Only see grey and white stripes and some other colored dots on screen when turned on

Yesterday, when I tried to use my note 2 in the middle of the day, I found the phone stuck at the Samsung galaxy logo. I took the battery out, then put it back. This time I won't even able to see the note 2 logo when trying to turn on the phone. All I have seen is a relative grey screen with white horizontal stripes parallel to each other and some dots in different colors randomly scattered on the screen. Tried to hold VOLUME + Home + Power, I was able to enter the warning screen and see the warning clearly. So I don't think it is something wrong with the screen. Installed odin on my PC, but it seems the phone is not detected by odin.
Questions:
1. Have I lost everything on my phone?
2. What can I do to fix the problem?
3. If I lost all the data and apps, how do I get all the apps back after I can restore/reinstall the android?
Thanks for any help in advance. And suggestions, helpful links are appreciated.

stanzauid said:
Yesterday, when I tried to use my note 2 in the middle of the day, I found the phone stuck at the Samsung galaxy logo. I took the battery out, then put it back. This time I won't even able to see the note 2 logo when trying to turn on the phone. All I have seen is a relative grey screen with white horizontal stripes parallel to each other and some dots in different colors randomly scattered on the screen. Tried to hold VOLUME + Home + Power, I was able to enter the warning screen and see the warning clearly. So I don't think it is something wrong with the screen. Installed odin on my PC, but it seems the phone is not detected by odin.
Questions:
1. Have I lost everything on my phone?
2. What can I do to fix the problem?
3. If I lost all the data and apps, how do I get all the apps back after I can restore/reinstall the android?
Thanks for any help in advance. And suggestions, helpful links are appreciated.
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Is your phone Rooted?
Have you ever been able to see the phone with Odin?
What happens when you try to enter recovery?

Yes....
We need information...
Are you able to see the device storage while connected to PC ??
If yes....then your data can be saved...
Please tell us what rom....kernel....and other info....g
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me too
Hi, I am in the same boat here. Rooted SGH-i317 running Jedi x2 on T-Mobile. It froze one day while searching in chrome browser. I pulled the battery, and now it only boots to the same white screen, with squiggly horizontal lines, it never even gets to the Samsung logo. I can get into download mode, but not recovery. Kies won't recognize the device but Odin does. I have tried flashing the most current official at&t KitKat build and a couple others, but it fails with a "no pit file". When I try to repartition with the pit file it fails as well. Wtf!
Thanks for any suggestions.

guruvince said:
Hi, I am in the same boat here. Rooted SGH-i317 running Jedi x2 on T-Mobile. It froze one day while searching in chrome browser. I pulled the battery, and now it only boots to the same white screen, with squiggly horizontal lines, it never even gets to the Samsung logo. I can get into download mode, but not recovery. Kies won't recognize the device but Odin does. I have tried flashing the most current official at&t KitKat build and a couple others, but it fails with a "no pit file". When I try to repartition with the pit file it fails as well. Wtf!
Thanks for any suggestions.
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Sounds like hardware failure.

creepyncrawly said:
Sounds like hardware failure.
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That's too bad. I was going to give this to my kids to fool around with. I guess it's a mixed blessing since Tmob screwed up my insurance, and ended up giving me a $300 discount on a new Note4.

[Q] A sordid tale of Misery & Woe

[Rooting fail: Kernel not seandroid enforcing / Reflashing issue / knox counter]
Greetings all! I have been an avid lurking fan for quite some time and have gained great insights from this forum. So first, I would like to thank the community for being what it is. Second, I would like to apologize for the looming wall of text.
Now onto the show...
So I thought I was being smart when I got one of those cheap memory cards off ebay (generic 32GB). Why pay the extra for the brand name stuff when it was just a piece of plastic, right? Oh if I could only go back in time to slap myself (first of many well-deserved slappings).
So I plugged the card into the phone (T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S4) and everything seemed to work just great. Then, being the incredibly intelligent person that I am, I moved (slap) all of my photos & music to the card. My gut was telling me to 'copy' them, but I was too smart to listen (slap), because I was being smart: I was backing up my valuable pictures to a solid-state memory card - and those things never fail, right? (SLAP) (no mention of dropbox or google drive please, I have already slapped myself once each for those) Again, everything seemed to work just great - for the first couple of days. Then suddenly, quick as a hotflash, the card was just not readable. Tried it in another phone, tried it in a card reader (apparenly even the generic adapters suck - I had to go and use one of my SanDisk-branded adapters) and the computer didn't even know it was there.
So I did some reading and thought to myself, "Self, those pictures should still be there unless the space was overwritten by something else, right?" Right? Then started the research on things that could dig up these things and after trying a couple (don't remember the names and can't check because the phone is now hosed, but I digress), none found anything.
Being the long-time lurker that I am, I searched this forum and found mention of a program called Diskdigger, however it required Root access (Dun Dun DUUUUUUUUN!) Yeah, I was always a bit squidgy about that. . . .but I REALLY wanted (and still want) to try and recover the pictures. 6-months worth of my heart-wrenchingly adorable kids.
. . .so lurker-me did more reading and found all sorts of threads here (and warnings) about how to root. So I downloaded Odin and installed Kies, and grabbed CWM and the rooting .zip file. Everything seemed to go just swimmingly until the final battery pull and subsequent reboot.
Then came the neverending Samsung Galaxy logo with the microprint message of death: Kernel is not seandroid enforcing
Wha-wha-WHAT? I didn't even know there was such a word, (I am referring to the whole 'seandroid' thing) and didn't know it needed to be enforced.
Back to lurker-based research. I found a couple of threads that talked about this issue and something about a Knox counter came up. Aaaah yes. Samsung Knox. So we finally meet even though I didn't set you up because I didn't like the sound of some of the things you wanted. I don't even remember what they were at this point. Anyway, apparently this protects some of the sensitive areas of the phone sort of like a baseball cup (if a phone had testicles). It also seems to have replaced the binary counter that everyone loves to reset with things like Triangleaway, and is causing this whole tangled mess (over and above my initial stupidity that is [slap])
ANYWAY, I found a thread here and started to participate, however it turned into something that started to look like a thread hijacking, so I figured I would move it into a posting of its own so that everyone can help me bask in the glory of my peny-wise and pound-foolishness.
Onto the current recovery efforts...
Based on the thread I almost hijacked (and others), apparently this issue could be solved by flashing back to the stock rom (although the binary/knox counter would still be tripped)
First I grabbed what I thought was a stock rom-tar-thingy (slap) and waited for it to download in all of its 1.5GB glory - but it wasn't a .tar file. It was a .7z file and Odin's PDA would have none of it. So I tried again with a different file. Again, it took forever (as things do with large files), and again it came up as one of those .7z files. So me being as incredibly intelligent as I am (double-slap), I figured I would game the system and just change the extension and make it a .tar file. (begin histerical laughter and a firm round of slapping)
I am sure you can guess what a rousing success that was.
Back to lurking. Lo & behold, I found more 1+GB files to download! I had no idea if I was v4.2.2 or 4.4.2, so I just grabbed 'em both. About a century later when they were done, I was ready to try again, although it occurred to me (yet another moment of brilliance) that reflashing back to stock would most likely kill the very pictures I had hoped to try and recover in the first place. *cue the sypathetic "aaaaawwww" from the audience* (come on, work with me here)
In any case, I took the first file (I figured I would start with the 4.2.2 file - mostly because the 4.4.2 file had not finished downloading at the time) and plugged it into Odin's PDA line, although I had no idea Odin was into Public Displays of Affection. So the first scary thing was when I set the PDA in Odin (v3.07) to the .md5 file, it apparently had to do a check of its own:
<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..
<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..
<OSM> Please wait..
<OSM> M919UVUAMDL_M919TMBAMDL_M919UVUAMDL_HOME.tar.md5 is valid.
<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..
<OSM> Leave CS..​...I say "scary" because it took a while and I was not prepared for it (I thought the program had locked-up). Then again I guess anything takes a while with a 2+GB file. :silly:
So I got the phone into download mode and clicked Start, then saw the following:
<ID:0/010> Added!!
<ID:0/010> Odin v.3 engine (ID:10)..
<ID:0/010> File analysis..
<ID:0/010> SetupConnection..
<ID:0/010> Initialzation..
<ID:0/010> Get PIT for mapping..
<ID:0/010> Firmware update start..
<ID:0/010> sbl2.mbn
<ID:0/010> NAND Write Start!!
<ID:0/010> sbl3.mbn
<ID:0/010> rpm.mbn
<ID:0/010> aboot.mbn
<ID:0/010> FAIL! (Auth)
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)​Based on that (and the big red "FAIL!" in the top left corner), I had the sneaking suspicion that the program was not quite as successful as I had hoped, so I unplugged the phone (the process had not been gong on for very long).
As soon as I unplugged the phone, I got that error saying there was some sort of problem with the firmware download and that I should use Kies to restore my phone. I thought "YAY! Let's let Samsung clean up my mess!!" But oh no... Kies wouldn't have anything to do with my (now) modified phone and said it was (now) not compatible.
So I tried the Odin thing again (still in process) and noticed what I thought was a graphical error of some sort under the "Do not turn off target !!!" message. I do believe that this is actually the initial tippy tip of a progress meter that is just moving at about the speed of congealed phlegm (again, as everything takes a long time with a 2+gb file).
So that is where I am for now. I figure I'll give this thing 30-40 min and see if this tippy-tip would-be progress meter becomes something a bit more profound. The problems that I have (above the obvious) at this point are:
Odin has marked this as a "FAIL!"
Odin's message box lists this as "All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
Odin appears to not be doing anything at the moment and is waiting for my next move
The progress meter (wannabe) is not progressing
There is some microprint in the top left corner of my phone screen that reads:
(red text)ODIN MODE
(white text) PRODUCT NAME: SGH-919
CURRENT BINARY: Custom
SYSTEM STATUS: Official
KNOX KERNEL LOCK: 0X0
KNOX WARRANTY VOID: 0X1
CS8-CONFIG-LS8: 0X30 (not sure about the 8s - it is very hard-to-read)
(grey text)WRITE PROTECTION: Enable
eMMC BURST MODE: enable (not sure about the "eMMC", again hard-to-read; also interesting to see the lower-case e's here)
(red text)START [224 1440]
SW REV. CHECK FAIL : fused : 5 , Binary : 1​
My hopes are not high, but I will keep the faith for now to see if that progress meter grows up and makes something of itself in this world of ours. I am not sure if it is just my innately blind sense of optimism, however it seems that the tippy-tip has become a little larger in the time that it has taken to type this posting.
Then again, my marker may have just shifted. I guess we will just have to wait and see.
It is just barely 8am now and I think I need a beer already.

UPDATE: It has been about an hour since I have started that failed Odin reflash thing and that progress meter seems to have failed to live up to its name as there has been no progress. Thankfully the 4.4.2 file has finished its downloading journey and is now in the process of going through the unzipping circus that surrounds any soon-to-be 2+GB file.
Next steps are to run that through Odin and hope for a hail-mary pass. If that doesn't work, I am all out of thoughts (and energy) at this point. Makes me REALLY think I should have just paid the $40 to have one of those "guaranteed" programs do the rooting work for me.

Update: A not-so-happy moment
. . .and now it's time for another edition of "What the hell did that idiot do?"
So the 4.4.2 thing seemed to work. I never thought I would be so happy to hear that tell-tale TMobile "do-do-DEE-do". As it turned out, I must have been 4.2.2 because android started updating. Then checked the apps for compatibility. Then rebooted. Then sent me to the TMobile screen. Then apparently went out and got itself a sandwich as it left me there hanging.
I gave it a reasonable amount of time then determined it was stuck in some sort of error loop. I determined this because I noticed that about every 20-25 seconds or so, the phone would buzz every so quickly and stealthily. I noticed this and determined the buzz interval because I have nothing better to do and am out of steam.
So as I go and try to make a jovial pancake breakfast for those of my family who actually got sleep last night, I would truly appreciate any thoughts at this point.
Help me Obiwan kenobi, you're my only help. . .

When you get done with your slapapocalyps go to development section and download Shinysides NK2 firmware, load into Odin, connect your phone while in download mode and flash NK2 firmware and be done with your slapalanch..
Pp.

Do as above, and use 'cf-auto-root' to root the device. Its the same procedure as flashing the firmware with odin

Thank you to both PanchoPlanet and Serio22 for your responses! The problem with being a 5-year lurking veteran is that I have not yet crossed that magic 10-post threshold, so I can't access the development section just yet.
I will be cooking up a stir fry sunday night madness and then come back to find something on which I can post either something intelligent or insightful.
Serio22, is it safe to assume the cf-auto-root you mentioned is also in the development section? (my apologies for posting before searching - it has been a long day)
One more thing if I may. . . When it comes time to reset the counter, will triangleaway still work or is knox still going to get all up in my BBQ?

Here's Shinyside's link to his firmware thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=54155517 this was in general section.
And here's Chainfires CFautoroot http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41797153 this was in original development.
Follow directions and read through thread for some insight for possible hangups.
And don't sweat Knox, it only comes into play while you still have warranty with Samsung ( 12 months ) once your warranty is up it doesn't matter.
Hopefully this will save you from any further slapattacks.
Enjoy your stir fry. And save us some BBQ.
Pp. :sly:

So I was impressed with that hosting site (Mega) - simple, elegant and fast.
Only problem is: Where the heck did it put the file? I did a search for filename and for filesize and couldn't find a thing. Am I as blind as I feel?
By the way, 10th post - I'm all good now!

Dandman808 said:
So I was impressed with that hosting site (Mega) - simple, elegant and fast.
Only problem is: Where the heck did it put the file? I did a search for filename and for filesize and couldn't find a thing. Am I as blind as I feel?
By the way, 10th post - I'm all good now!
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At the end of the download a window should come up and ask where you want to save the file, if it didn't, you probably closed the tab too quickly so i would try again and wait for the window

serio22 said:
At the end of the download a window should come up and ask where you want to save the file, if it didn't, you probably closed the tab too quickly so i would try again and wait for the window
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Thanks serio22 - you two are racking up some serious thank you button pushings. Serves me right for swatting away those annoying popups like a horse's tail on a hot summer day. Then again, I guess I am a bit of a horse's tail for getting myself into this predicament in the first place.
Is there an award somewhere for 'most downloads of ridiculously large files by a non-hacker'? If so, can I self-nominate?
On a different note, while the phone is out of warranty, I do have that monthly 'insurance' thing I pay for that replaces my phone if it ever malfunctions/stops working. Not expensive, only like 4 bucks a month with a $5 deductible. It has served me well as a cheaper alternative to paying for phone upgrades. (I have found that getting/using the most advanced handsets turns you into a paying beta tester, hence I am not what one would call an early adopter of cutting edge mobile phones). Anyway I think I just screwed the pooch on that thing. I'll save the whole 'how do I reset the knox thingy' research for once I am out of this pickle. So for now, back to waiting for the file to download... (think I have a black belt in filewaiting-fu, in the style of the Briqued Fone).

No pop-ups
For some reason, I just am not getting that popup (using firefox 37.0.1). I am going to try on a Mac to see if I get a different result.
Time to sit around like a lump on a pickle while this thing downloads for the third time now...

Oh - Em - Gee!
After the 4th attempt to download that big file, I finally was able to find it. There were no popups or any prompting to save. I just found it on the desktop of the iMac that finally did the trick
1st flash attempt didn't work (boot loop) = curling up to a cold beer & crying.
2nd flash attempt got me back to stock! Sing Hallelujah!
...and I noticed that I was back to where I was before. So I said to myself: Self, those pictures might still be there. After repeated flashings and other memory abuse, they just might still be there! (I may get 3 points for stupidity, but at least 1 point for tenacity)
So I tried the cf-auto-root and got back to my homescreen after a reboot. Quickly tried Diskdigger and couldn't get superuser rights. No SU app. Hmmm... must not have taken. So I tried again, only this time I remembered something I read in another thread where sometimes you have to flash without a reboot, remove the battery, then reconnect and reflash, then remove the battery, then reboot. Not sure why, but apparently in some cases that is what was needed.
...and that is exactly what I did.
Got back to my homescreen and SuperSU was there! So I lit up Disk digger and a SuperUser request came up!! Faster than you could say
OneOne was a horse.
TwoTwo was one too.
OneOne won one race.
TwoTwo won one too.​I lit up diskdigger and started the recovery.
Lo and behold, pictures started to come up! Of course, the very first to come up was a photo of my clothed . . .er. . . derriere from a butt-selfie I sent to my wife. What a way for the universe to greet my success.
Long and short of it is that I got SOME of my pictures back. All of my movies were torn to shreds though. Some were recovered in pieces (no audio, only 2-3 seconds of video), others were just unplayable. Still though, after multiple flashings and other such craziness, I managed to get some back. And I have a working phone. That is rooted.
I am not sure how many times I can say how awesome you guys are. Thank you SO much for all of your help and patience. CF will definitely be getting a donation from my neck of the fishbowl.

Good. Glad I was able to help.
Pp.

Nice! Well hopefully now you've learned your lesson. Never buy cheap memory cards, you get what you pay for. And even with a memory card, I still back everything up to a cloud cause you never know what's gonna happen, better safe than sorry

Ok so donation to chainfire sent - that guy deserves a beer.
If I ever want to go back to the land of Stock, will the latest version of Triangle Away reset the counter or am I now blessed with a rooted (knox-tripped) phone?
Not that I am complaining or anything, just curious...

Dandman808 said:
Ok so donation to chainfire sent - that guy deserves a beer.
If I ever want to go back to the land of Stock, will the latest version of Triangle Away reset the counter or am I now blessed with a rooted (knox-tripped) phone?
Not that I am complaining or anything, just curious...
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Forever blessed

The audience groans as the OP dusts this thread off and crawls back for a fresh dose of why-am-I-still-awake...
I fell asleep playing a game. At least that is what my sin seemed to be. While waiting for my little one to fall asleep, I was fadoodling around (with an established game that has sucked-up more of my life than staring at pictures of Salma Hayek) and got bagged by the sandman. Meanwhile, the game ate my battery and the phone powered down. Next thing I know, I wake up (with a crimp in my neck for sleeping on the floor) to a dead phone.
Figuring that this was simply a case of a dead battery, I plugged it in, felt that quick bzzzzt, saw the "Samsung Galaxy S4" graphic, then the screen went black. ...it was the lack of a flashing LED that queued me into the fact that something was amiss. Well that and the fact that it wouldn't boot.
So I cracked open the case (nicely of course) and pulled the battery. When I put the battery in, I was greeted with that friendly bzzzt again (I do believe that is a technical term), saw the logo, then nothing. I kept the phone plugged in to give the battery time to charge a bit more and tried again - with the phone still plugged in. Same result.
So I tried power+volume down. Got the warning screen, then went black after about 3 seconds. Tried again and pressed 'volume up' to confirm, got the 'downloading' screen, then it went black.
I tried doing the same thing with the phone plugged in and couldn't even get a Logo splash. So I tried the impossible combo of a near simultaneous battery insert/volume down/power plug insert / volume up - and after succeeding at this death-defying feat, I got a black screen.
I am at a loss. What did I do? I am not even sure for what I should be slapping myself. The only thing I could think of was that I did recently update the SU binary (from within SU itself), but while that did happen within the past 24 hours, it was at least 18 hours ago, so I am not sure if that is the culprit.
Any thoughts? Is the fact that I can't seem to get anything onscreen or to download mode an indicator of a somehow newly-created high-tech brick?

With the addition of a home button press (I think), I was able to get the downloading screen up and on. I tried to get Odin to flash CF autoroot (download of stock ROM in progress), but couldn't get it to complete, so I rebooted the phone and I am back to a BBQ with no coals. I even at one point got that battery graphic to come on - you know the one where you plug in a phone that is turned off. Then the graphic froze and all I could hear was my daughter singing "Let it go.... Let it goooooo...."
I have tried:
Vol Down + power / Vol Down + Home + Power / Vol Down + Home
Warning screen came on, then screen turned off​
Home / Home + Power
Got the Samsung Galaxy S4 Splash Screen, then screen turned off​
Vol Down + Home + Power then Vol Up
Got to "Downloading" screen, then screen turned off​
If I tried any of the above while quickly inserting the charging cord, it made no difference other than I had to unplug the power cord before I could try anything again (otherwise nothing would happen at all)
Each time I get to the Downloading screen and get the plug inserted, a window will pop up and let me know the phone was detected - which would quickly disappear when the screen turns off. I have left the phone plugged in just in case it was charging anyway - doesn't seem to have made a difference.
At this point, I have been sitting so long that I have semi-permanent chair-prints in my backside. I gotta get up... I'll try again when the stock ROM finishes downloading... (a remote THANK YOU to ShinySide for maintaining those links!!)

I kept fiddling with different combinations above. At one point I got the battery graphic to work semi-consistently, so I tried a reboot and it took! I made sure everything that is important was backed-up. The battery was at 14% and charging (albeit slowly). Perhaps because I was backing things up and deleting things to clear space, or perhaps I was just paranoid.
The LED was on, so I tried to soft power-off. The screen turned off, but would not turn back on. I press & held the power button and got a bzzzt as if I turned it off. The battery charging animation was going on but the LED was on a steady red. I press & held the power button, got the brief Bzzt and the SG4 splash, then the screen turned off and I am back to where I was.
I have no idea what is going on - could it be a virus? I do have lookout installed (assuming that is worth the paper it isn't printed on)
I am at a loss...

I think it could be a battery problem. Do you have another battery to try?

[Q] need help with bricked galaxy note 2 (sph-l900)

Recently bought a bricked note 2 off my friend thinking i was going to fix it and was sadly mistaken! Everytime i try to put a new firmware on the phone it either A- goes through the whole process on odin, reboots at the end, the galaxy logo pops up, the screen flashes and just gets stuck at the charging screen frozen or B- fails in the first 5 seconds trying a different firmware and reboots itsself and goes back to the frozen charging screen. it will only turn only if i plug the phone in and really hate to see it sitting around not being used. I guess my friend was trying to root it and he hit the usb cord and It interrupted the download. is there anyway i can fix it and if so how? It would be much appreciated!

BigJohm216 said:
Recently bought a bricked note 2 off my friend thinking i was going to fix it and was sadly mistaken! Everytime i try to put a new firmware on the phone it either A- goes through the whole process on odin, reboots at the end, the galaxy logo pops up, the screen flashes and just gets stuck at the charging screen frozen or B- fails in the first 5 seconds trying a different firmware and reboots itsself and goes back to the frozen charging screen. it will only turn only if i plug the phone in and really hate to see it sitting around not being used. I guess my friend was trying to root it and he hit the usb cord and It interrupted the download. is there anyway i can fix it and if so how? It would be much appreciated!
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Well if it only turns on while plugged in then one issue is bad battery. Now about the odin problem what version of odin and which tar file are you using?
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