I have samsung s4 mini that suddenly won't turn on. The phone was not rooted, neither had custom recovery installed or custom rom. It was working fine and one day suddenly won't turn on. If i connect it with usb cable to pc in device manager, under 'other devices' it's shown as QHSUSB_DLOAD.
Any idea what happened to the phone and can it be fixed?
Peter770 said:
I have samsung s4 mini that suddenly won't turn on. The phone was not rooted, neither had custom recovery installed or custom rom. It was working fine and one day suddenly won't turn on. If i connect it with usb cable to pc in device manager, under 'other devices' it's shown as QHSUSB_DLOAD.
Any idea what happened to the phone and can it be fixed?
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sadly, welcome to the club, the emmc memory chip is probably dead, but if you are lucky it's just corrupted (thought it might just be your battery). If corrupted you can try botching it with a debrick file put onto a 16Gig or 32Gig & boat from that, refer to the hard debrick thread. You need one that matches your bootloader (BL) rev so either a debrick image from an android 4.4.2 or 4.4.3 ( BL v1 & BL v2 respectively).
You might have to try the whole procedure multiple times, some report, but it never worked for me.
A repair shop may also be able to flash new system if memory chip is OK.
Else you can order a new motherboard, but you may decide a new phone is better to spend your money on
Yes, i think new phone will be better solution.
Hi, i can say for sure that the mobile's eMMC memory is dead. I already had that problem with another S4 Mini, and that was the reason. There is no fix for that (unless you want to send it to replace that memory, and would be more expensive than buying a new motherboard for that device)
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Hi all. I have had a poke around the internet but cannot find a solution to this problem, bar one, which didn't work.
Model: N-7105
Carrier: Vodafone NZ (sim is in s4 now)
Firmware: None yet
Recovery: Philz touch 5.15.0
Brief description: Won't accept a charge or communicate with any pc, including adb, but can flash things through odin.
My N7105 has been sitting in my draw for about a year and the problem is bugging me again.
I had rooted it one day when I didn't really know what I was doing. I had used the CORRECT version of cf-auto root at the time, but it randomly stopped accepting a charge about a week later. Since I'd rooted my s3 and my other s3 before that, I was sure that it was the micro-usb port and not my root procedure. I ordered a new usb module and put it in, only to find it still not working.
I fooled around with different firmware/recovery programs, but nothing is working and the battery is now completely flat. I can still get it to do things by awkwardly pushing my s4 battery against the 3 pins on the phone and holding it there. The battery for the note charges when inserted into my s4. It's also worth noting that I've tried different chargers and cables, all OEM samsung products.
So the phone will boot normally with ROMS on it. When booted, the phone doesn't see the computer/charger or interact with it, and sideload doesn't work with the recovery. I install the ROM's via my micro sd in the recovery. Odin, however, mysteriously seems to be able to see the phone in download mode and I can the recovery programs to it from that.
Has anyone seen this before and seen a fix for it? Do you think it could still be hardware?
I'm curious about the Bootloader, phone and csc buttons in odin, any files that could bring me out of this hole?
Thank you for your time!
I have an AT&T Note 3 SM-N900A. I Installed X-Note Rom on it a while ago, but I recently have been having problems charging the phone and was going to take it to an AT&T Device Support Center to fix it. I tried to install the stock firmware N900AUCBMI9 using Mobile Odin, only to see the a boot up screen that says "System Software not authorized by AT&T has been found on your phone . Please turn off your phone and go to the nearest AT&T store for help." I tried to get the phone to connect to Odin on my Windows PC, but the computer will only say USB Device not recognized, and it won't show up in Odin at all. The weird thing is that it says USB device not recognized even while the Note 3 is off. The phone also stays on while in Download Mode when connected to USB with no battery.
I was wondering if there's anything I can do to at least ensure that the people at AT&T can't power up the phone and see this message. I should have just left it on the custom rom, this looks way worse. I'd rather have a hard brick at this point, at least they wouldn't be able to see it was rooted and flashed. I really screwed this up, if I knew I'd be having issues I would have never rooted it. Any help would be extremely appreciated. Thanks for your time.
I need some advice here since I don't know what else to do in order to get a S4 GT-I9190 UD un-bricked. For some reason, unknow to me, I promise I do nothing weird or touch it, my phone was working fine and from one moment to another just got restarted and never power on again.
I've found several post talking about flash stock ROM using Odin, others says there are some kind of unbrick.img file somewhere (I can't find for this model atm) and so others but none will works for me since phone doesn't power on so my question is: is the phone really dead? There is nothing I can do in order to get it back? Why the PC recognizes it as QHSUSB_DLOAD and some places says there is a way to get phone back? Can any give me some help on this?
Thanks in advace
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I need some advice here since I don't know what else to do in order to get a S4 GT-I9190 UD un-bricked. For some reason, unknow to me, I promise I do nothing weird or touch it, my phone was working fine and from one moment to another just got restarted and never power on again.
I've found several post talking about flash stock ROM using Odin, others says there are some kind of unbrick.img file somewhere (I can't find for this model atm) and so others but none will works for me since phone doesn't power on so my question is: is the phone really dead? There is nothing I can do in order to get it back? Why the PC recognizes it as QHSUSB_DLOAD and some places says there is a way to get phone back? Can any give me some help on this?
Thanks in advace
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Hi everyone,
I have the exact same problem on a S4 mini, GT-I9195. A few days ago, it shut down while playing a video and refused to restart. I thought it was the battery, so a few hours later i changed the battery ... it booted again, but came back to life just for a minute, before shutting down again. Since that moment, nothing i tried succeded. When the phone is plugged to a PC, the computer sees a Qualcomm Device connected (it uses the "Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008" v2.1.2.2 driver, to be precise), as reynierpm mentionned, but nothing else.
Do you think it could be worth a try to change the motherboard or another hardware piece ?
Thanks for reading !
i have the same problems, need a solution
i have same problem
Is there a way to recover data by switching a "memory chip" from a defective motherboard to a new one ?
i got the same issue with that S4 Mini
i found the tool "emmcdl" that it is supposed to dump the emmc into a file but when I try i got the error: Expecting SAHARA_END_TRANSFER but found: 0
i searched all of internet and maybe it could be the wrong programmer file (firehose) used within the tool
then i tried with other programmer files, like 8916, 8976, 8936... but i got always the same error
So:
- what is the right firehose programmer files for Samsung i9195 ??
- am i missing some other things related this "Sahara" ??
- is there another way to make a dump of emmc ??
Hello all
I've a S4 mini rooted twrp installed. running touchwiz based custom rom from a long time.
day b4 yesterday i found it s.off when i turned it on. it stucked on SAMSUNG LOGO.
then i boot into recovery mode its twrp installed, there i saw internal memory 0MB. and in the mean time it was not taking charging.
and now.. it doesn't turn on, charge, or anything. If i plug it into a pc I get a sound from Windows 10 saying the USB device has been connected but nothing from the S4 mini itself.
any help?
inder23 said:
Hello all
I've a S4 mini rooted twrp installed. running touchwiz based custom rom from a long time.
day b4 yesterday i found it s.off when i turned it on. it stucked on SAMSUNG LOGO.
then i boot into recovery mode its twrp installed, there i saw internal memory 0MB. and in the mean time it was not taking charging.
and now.. it doesn't turn on, charge, or anything. If i plug it into a pc I get a sound from Windows 10 saying the USB device has been connected but nothing from the S4 mini itself.
any help?
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i m getting sound of connecting my s4 mini to pc thats all.... plz any dev look in to this matter
inder23 said:
i m getting sound of connecting my s4 mini to pc thats all.... plz any dev look in to this matter
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I think 0Mb suggests it was originally a corrupted partition as you were able to use TWRP to see 0Mb. Which flashing stock might have fixed.
But now it won't charge or boot might suggest something worse like failed hardware or hard brick.
But perhaps, as windows is seeing it (I forget now if Windows will detect usb on bricked phone, as luckily I've never had this), it may just be that you have run the battery down too low so now it won't recharge.
IronRoo said:
I think 0Mb suggests it was originally a corrupted partition as you were able to use TWRP to see 0Mb. Which flashing stock might have fixed.
But now it won't charge or boot might suggest something worse like failed hardware or hard brick.
But perhaps, as windows is seeing it (I forget now if Windows will detect usb on bricked phone, as luckily I've never had this), it may just be that you have run the battery down too low so now it won't recharge.
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i hv tried a [plug n charge] charger to charge my battery,after all this my phone wont boot or nothing happens but just to b very sure, for now i need to arrange fully charged battery, then i ll update the same...
thank u very much 4 replying...
My friend had his i9195 bricked. I don't know how he did it, he was on stock rom and didn't have anything to do with custom roms so far. However, when connecting to a computer (PC or Mac, doens't matter) the device is shown as QHSUSB_DLOAD.
He has ordered a new phone (because he wanted a new one anyway) so he doesn't mind the phone not working anymore but is there a way to recover data from the internal storage?
elementzero23 said:
My friend had his i9195 bricked. I don't know how he did it, he was on stock rom and didn't have anything to do with custom roms so far. However, when connecting to a computer (PC or Mac, doens't matter) the device is shown as QHSUSB_DLOAD.
He has ordered a new phone (because he wanted a new one anyway) so he doesn't mind the phone not working anymore but is there a way to recover data from the internal storage?
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I think it's possibly by taking it to a shop with a jtag they can do it, even probe the memory direct if they don't fix the brick.