As far as I know, this should be impossible, right?
HOW THIS HAPPENED
Honestly, I don't even know what I did to get this. I was watching YouTube and the phone completely locked up. As in, only the removal of the battery was able to shut it off. At that point, it wouldn't restart anymore, so I tried to flash the stock ROM over Odin, but that didn't work. It has had a few moments of clarity since I finally got it to install, but then it corrupted my SD card somehow. In the middle of all of this, it gained the custom badge on the boot splash screen. I'll take a picture of this tomorrow.
I'll try to answer any questions I receive, but the AT&T Note 4 section seems to be dead now, so...
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I unlocked and rooted my phone the day I got it on launch day and haven't had any problems until now. My phone randomly turned off and is now stuck in a bootloop. I never installed a custom rom or anything and only rooted to install some root only apps. It just gets to the first screen with Google and the unlocked lock at the bottom and then the google and the lock kind of flicker and move side to side and change colors and then it starts over again.
I'm currently lost, kind of freaking out, and have no idea how to fix this. Any help? Thanks!
Go into fast boot mode and flash stock images.
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Tried that, but the phone won't turn on at all. Completely dead. Going to Verizon later today, hopefully for it to be replaced. I don't really understand how this happened...if I was messing around with ROMs I would assume it was my fault, but I haven't been.
To those members who may have more insightful smartphone hardware knowledge... here's an issue I'm struggling with:
Got my Note2 two weeks ago. Intermittently after initiating a reboot (either to android, recovery, or from within recovery back to android) the phone freezes on the first Samsung splash screen ("Samsung Galaxy Note II" in white). The ONLY way to proceed is via a battery pull. It seems to be random and occurs anywhere from 20-40% of the time. Really annoying to pull case and battery this often, but I have finally have my phone setup the way I want. Running CleanROM v3.3, Perseus kernel v28.2, and TWRP recovery 2.3.2.3. No OC or UV. I should have seen this as a premonition as the day I opened the box and tried to boot up the ATT stock phone, it froze on this splash-screen.. but a battery pull resolved and I discounted it to some fluke. Now that I'm flashing more, reboots are more common. So, bottom-line: could this be hardware related or firmware? Thx
EDIT: more info: here's the strange part... after a request to reboot to recovery... splash-screen freezes... I do the battery pull... reinsert and power up... and somehow it remembers what I requested and boots directly into TWRP recovery! I thought a battery pull erased memory, but it proceeds to TeamWin recovery after power up...
DoctorQMM said:
To those members who may have more insightful smartphone hardware knowledge... here's an issue I'm struggling with:
Got my Note2 two weeks ago. Intermittently after initiating a reboot (either to android, recovery, or from within recovery back to android) the phone freezes on the first Samsung splash screen ("Samsung Galaxy Note II" in white). The ONLY way to proceed is via a battery pull. It seems to be random and occurs anywhere from 20-40% of the time. Really annoying to pull case and battery this often, but I have finally have my phone setup the way I want. Running CleanROM v3.3, Perseus kernel v28.2, and TWRP recovery 2.3.2.3. No OC or UV. I should have seen this as a premonition as the day I opened the box and tried to boot up the ATT stock phone, it froze on this splash-screen.. but a battery pull resolved and I discounted it to some fluke. Now that I'm flashing more, reboots are more common. So, bottom-line: could this be hardware related or firmware? Thx
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You changed the rom and kernel and if it is still doing the same thing I would suspect a partitioning problem. Well I don't suggest you to change or play with partitioning now just I said so because you might brick your phone. I don't know much about partitioning, if it can cause such problem or not. wait until someone with more knowledge chime in...
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Wow... no love on this one... since today is my 14th day of ownership, I opted to return the phone... and AT&T is sending a new one. If I had waited one more day, Warranty dept would handle. They started to work this through Warranty, but after I insisted I'm still within my "return" period, they forwarded me to Customer Care. Interestingly, Warranty stated (based on the splash-screen freezing issue) that it's correctable and was being caused by either (1) "have bad data on my external SD which is loading back into the phone"; (2) during Google setup, GMAIL has been known to load bad data back into the phone" ? Huh? I told the rep how could my external SD or GMAIL account load bad data into the bootloader? Anyone heard of this? Crazy.
Reps don't know that some people actually know the boot sequence of a phone. ...... :what: It's a bull**** story cause they didn't know the answer to the problem lol
If This has Already been Posted I'm Sorry, I couldn't Find anything that fit..
I have a Samsung Note 2 Unlocked on 4.1.2 stock. I have a recovery on it..
This is what is going on and I Really Could USE Some HELP..
I tried to download an App last week but it wouldn't download. Then Friday the App just started downloading. It was just a simple Pic App. Friday Night, My phone died, so I charged it about an hour or so and Tried to turn it on. When it comes up with the Samsung screen then All of a Sudden the word Samsung starts jumping up and down and gets lines through it. The phone boots on up but the screen Stay Black. The lights come on where the buttons are and it makes the sounds from my text messages and things like that.. It also makes the sound and vib when I Unlock the screen but Still can't see Anything.. I can put it into Download Mode and see the Screen Fine but when trying Recovery Mode or Anything like that then the screen goes back to moving with lines and looks like static y.
What can I do??
I've went through all the files on my phone and SD card though my computer and Removed that APP but it Still didn't help... I'm Not Sure but I was thinking I could use the Factory Image to redo it but I'm not sure how to go about it. Also Will I have to re unlock my phone and I would like to upgrade so do I Need to 1st put what was on my phone then upgrade from there or just use the new one??
THANK YOU for Any and All the Help..
I have now Tried to re load the Stock Software 4.1.2. It was Successful and after it rebooted then it did the same thing with the Samsung Note screen. Then it showed some lines and lights kind of like it was going to come up but Never did, Just went back to the BLACK Screen... PLEASE SOMEONE HELP! Is there a way to Wipe Clean and Start Fresh by using the Computer..
Thanks for Any Help...
All I can think of is use Odin to flash the latest factory Rom, and see if that fixes it.
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Let me start with some details about the phone:
- It's a Sprint Samsung Galay S3, SPH-L710
- It was rooted and Cyanogenmod was installed successfully, no problems
- Phone was given to my aunt, and she used it for a while
Here's the problem:
A little while ago, she told me the phone turned off and wouldn't turn off again. I told her to charge the phone and see if that helped. She charged the phone and waited for the battery animation to show up full, and then turn on the phone. It booted past the Galaxy S3 logo, past the animated purple Samsung logo, got halfway through the Sprint 4G LTE boot animation with the music and then boom. Shut off. And then back to the battery charging screen but displayed the battery as if it was only 15% remaining. What?? Wasn't it full a minute ago???
Here's what I did to fix it:
Okay so I thought, it's a battery problem. I purchased a second battery from eBay (not OEM) and the same issue occured. Same exact thing happened. I looked up the issue online and it appeared to be a soft brick. I forgot exactly what I did but I downloaded a recovery file and flashed it via ODIN and it turned on. Phew.
I gave the phone back to my aunt and a week later, the same thing happened. Phone dead. Won't start. Won't get past the Sprint boot animation. So I thought to myself, hmm ok. I'll just reflash and do what I did before. But I mean, how often do I have to keep doing this? And she loses data every time I have to flash the phone.
And so I did. I put it into download mode, opened ODIN, browsed for the md5 file (I forgot what file it was, I'm mad at myself for that now) and flashed the phone. It flashed successfully but this time, the phone wouldn't turn on. It kept vibrating as if it's about to turn on but then dies immediately. I left the phone on my desk for a while and all I could hear was *bzzt* [pause] *bzzt* [pause] *bzzt* and I'm thinking, okay. Time to get an OEM battery.
I finally found an original Samsung battery from an authorized Samsung dealer, I was pretty surprised he still had the battery in stock and bought it from him and ran home. Still the same thing. Kept buzzing but won't turn on. And if I do turn it on, it won't get past the Sprint boot animation.
So I looked and looked and looked and looked online and found this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2755793
Long story short, I followed the instructions, flashed successfully with no errors, and now I can boot past the Galaxy logo, boot past the Samsung logo, and finally past the Sprint boot animation until I landed on the Samsung screen. Just a black screen with Samsung that seemed to have a glowing purple around it. I was getting excited. After about 10 seconds, it went to the main welcome screen (the Google setup thing) with the next button and the language selector in the bottom. I was on that screen for about 2 seconds AND THE PHONE TURNED OFF. Back to the battery screen.
What am I doing wrong? Is there something wrong with the phone? Battery? Am I flashing the wrong software? If so, can someone please direct me to the right place?
P.S. If you're thinking, "dude just get her a new phone" she does have a new one now. It's a Galaxy S7 but I really really want to know what's wrong with this phone and it's been annoying me lol
have you tried any other tar.md5 files on it?
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have you tried any other tar.md5 files on it?
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I honestly lost track of what I flashed on this phone. Cam you provide me with links to files or just the software version to flash?
heres rwilcos repository. his site is a great place for many things sprint related
http://rwilco12.com/downloads.php?dir=Files/Devices/Samsung Galaxy S3 (SPH-L710)/Stock ROMs/
Might be the power button is faulty...
So, unluckily today i find myself here lookin' for help with my phone. I had already took a look on other brick threads, but i can't find an appropriate answer to my problem.
I'm (i was) running lineage-14.1-20170602-nightly, i had ne0zone75's TWRP 3.1.0.0-0, and that's how the brick came in a strange way; i was simply on XDA Labs app browsing the forum, when i received a call. I've answered, and when i shut off the call the phone shut off immediately after. I thought it was a reboot, but keeping pressed the power button didn't switched on the phone anymore. So i've tried to remove the battery and re insert it after some minutes, but the only thing i can get is the screen with the samsung logo that goes all black after 5 seconds. I already had other bricks due some errors of mine in the past, but this time it's really difficult.
1: I can't access recovery mode. Ow, how i wish i could.
2: I can access download mode, but after that i reach the ODIN MODE screen with the details of product binary, KNOX, ecc. the phone shuts off again.
3: If i keep the power button pressed, the phone doesn't starts. It only starts if i replug the battery in, but after some seconds it shuts off again.
4: How could a call as another mess up the whole phone?
5: I didn't installed nothing new from at least a week... yesterday an automatic update of the Play Store took place, but except that nothing has been changed. Nothing of nothing! No settings, no apps...
What could i do? Installing Kies with Samsung drivers could help me flashing a stock rom for example? Because at the moment, there isn't too much that i can do with the phone in this state... I hope this little jewel won't have to become a stone to be thrown away. Any help would be great, and really appreciated. Thanks in advance...
Things has got worse. Now my device doesn't starts at all; no vibrations, no signs of life, nothing. I've tried even to put it for 6 hours in my refrigerator, because i've read that the cold temperature could be helpful to fix some broken contacts on some component, but i'm losing hope 'bout it. I supposed that at this point is something hardware-based and not software, because it's just impossible that a call like an other one could be the cause of this hard brick... The only thing is that if connected to my PC, it is being showed as QHSUSB_LOAD. I'll try some methods that i've seen in other forums, like softwares that tries to fix this, but i think that i'll be forced to buy a new device. Neither an usb-jig could help me to force the download mode if the phone is dead in every aspect... the only thing that i still didn't understood, is if a debrick.img on my SD card (sadly i've read that a microSD class 10 with at least 16 GB is required, and i don't have one) could help somehow on a situation like this one of not. Still no one could advice me with some tip, guys
Edit - feel free to close this thread, I have another phone now