Hi,
I have a J200H (Spreadtrum). I used to daily drive custom ROM (RR). One day it started randomly rebooting continuously. It was charging and got into a bootloop out of nowhere. I booted to the recovery and trued formatting the phone, turns out partitions were corrupt. Tried some of the simple solutions I found on the internet but none worked. I then flashed a one-file stock firmware via odin but it still didn't turn on. I downloaded a 4-file firmware, extracted the PIT file, ticked re-partion and nand erase all. It showed pass but it was dead completely. I asked a couple of 3rd party repair shops and suggested a flash via UEFI box. They said it won't work and they need to replace the motherboard.
Has anyone faced dead boot on J200H before, what did you do?
TL,DR: Dead boot J200H, repair shops insist on motherboard replacement. I suggested a flash via a eMMC box, as it died because of a wrong odin flash. But they disagree.
Any thoughts?
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I have sold my n7105 on ebay running an actual Carbon ROM (4.4.x). (did a factory reset - booted into Android and checked if all personal user data was deleted and sold it that way)
The buyer is now complaining that the device is not starting and stucks at Note 2-device screen. The auction is a month ago and I got the device back yesterday...
In TWRP recovery I see that no OS is installed anymore. Even my microSD is not detected.
In PC Odin I tried to flash newest Samsung 4.3 stock ROM , but Odin tells that PIT partitions is missing!
What has happened to the device? Could an exhaustively discharged battery (and an electric shock) has led to a sudden death syndrome?
TazZHD said:
I have sold my n7105 on ebay running an actual Carbon ROM (4.4.x). (did a factory reset - booted into Android and checked if all personal user data was deleted and sold it that way)
The buyer is now complaining that the device is not starting and stucks at Note 2-device screen. The auction is a month ago and I got the device back yesterday...
In TWRP recovery I see that no OS is installed anymore. Even my microSD is not detected.
In PC Odin I tried to flash newest Samsung 4.3 stock ROM , but Odin tells that PIT partitions is missing!
What has happened to the device? Could an exhaustively discharged battery (and an electric shock) has led to a sudden death syndrome?
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My only guess, did you run the partition remapper tool found in the N7105 thread?
He made a flash able zip to revert now, if that's the case.
sry, I cant find it..
Is it a tool for repartitioning? Do I need a PIT file then?
Look man, I have Lost my phone Recently Like that
The problem as i thought first, Is in The EMMC card (Sudden death syndrome)
so I have do A JTAG JIG Unbrick for my NOTE 2
But I think that was a big ERROR, because JTAG has failled simply and the EMMC card is gone too...
So I'm now trying to change the Main board but it is too high price for me....
I thing that the loosing PIT Repartition means that the internal MEMORY is dead,
and I'm working hard to find the cause because so many members complain of this problem recently
but what did you do?
Hi,
This morning I woke up to see my phone seemingly booting up but after a few minutes I realised that it was stuck on the boot screen. I can only assume something hardware or software related messed up while I was sleeping and now after reading a few threads I am very scared that my phone could possibly be bricked.
First up, I updated to 4.3 from 4.1.2 about 3 weeks and it has been running fine albeit a few annoyances at the new firmware Samsung deployed. To get root I had to install philz_touch_5.11.2 recovery through ODIN and then go into my new recovery to install root through Dr Ketan's Multi Tool which seemed to work well with no problems, it was quite flawless through the whole update. But now I guess something has happened to my phone and that has changed. When I saw it was stuck, I thought that it would be possible to just reflash to stock firmware and that would fix it. It was working up until the point ODIN got "cache.img" which failed the install. Now, I exited ODIN since it didn't work and restarted my phone and tried to flash the stock 4.3 ROM again. This time, immediately I got a screen telling me that there was "no PIT partition"
(Look at the attachment for the screen, I am new so no outside links)
and now I am getting the message on my phone after restarting "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again." I am now downloading Kies to try this but does anyone have any suggestions or solutions?
GoonReb0rn said:
Hi,
This morning I woke up to see my phone seemingly booting up but after a few minutes I realised that it was stuck on the boot screen. I can only assume something hardware or software related messed up while I was sleeping and now after reading a few threads I am very scared that my phone could possibly be bricked.
First up, I updated to 4.3 from 4.1.2 about 3 weeks and it has been running fine albeit a few annoyances at the new firmware Samsung deployed. To get root I had to install philz_touch_5.11.2 recovery through ODIN and then go into my new recovery to install root through Dr Ketan's Multi Tool which seemed to work well with no problems, it was quite flawless through the whole update. But now I guess something has happened to my phone and that has changed. When I saw it was stuck, I thought that it would be possible to just reflash to stock firmware and that would fix it. It was working up until the point ODIN got "cache.img" which failed the install. Now, I exited ODIN since it didn't work and restarted my phone and tried to flash the stock 4.3 ROM again. This time, immediately I got a screen telling me that there was "no PIT partition"
(Look at the attachment for the screen, I am new so no outside links)
and now I am getting the message on my phone after restarting "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again." I am now downloading Kies to try this but does anyone have any suggestions or solutions?
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Update: I spent the past two days trying to solve this and I'm at a standstill in progress. It seems that my phone was one that suffered SDS with a corrupt eMMC chip so I've lost both my firmware and recovery but I can still get into Download mode. It also seems like I have lost my PIT table and I am just completely unable to flash the PIT file back to the phone for some reason. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could just factory reset my phone or reinstall my partition table so that i can get a simple recovery installed? Please help
Exact same issue!
I know exactly what you are going through!
My phone did the exact same thing back in June. It downloaded the firmware update over wifi, then when it went to install, it restarted to the boot logo, and went no further. I had left it for a number of hours, so time doesn't seem to make any difference.
I've been working on it since the end of July, and haven't been able to find a solution yet.
dkinniburgh said:
I know exactly what you are going through!
My phone did the exact same thing back in June. It downloaded the firmware update over wifi, then when it went to install, it restarted to the boot logo, and went no further. I had left it for a number of hours, so time doesn't seem to make any difference.
I've been working on it since the end of July, and haven't been able to find a solution yet.
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Yeah, it doesn't seem like time would fix it, so frustrating. Right now I am getting the glass of my Note replaced (it has a slight crack) which apparently voids my warranty when I went into my carrier to organise a replacement. After it's repaired I will take it to another store and try to get it sent off to Samsung, hopefully they are understanding about it and will honour their warranty end as I do believe it was SDS so it would be their fault for using faulty eMMC chips. The only thing I wish I could do it just start over, flash the PIT file so I can just install CWM to see if any of my files are still there. I just want some peace of mind and it seems impossible at this point. I guess it is impossible to flash a PIT when the storage chip is corrupt, sucks to lose all my messages and data, just wish I had a backup in place but it is a good learning experience for the next time I have a functioning phone.
GoonReb0rn said:
Yeah, it doesn't seem like time would fix it, so frustrating. Right now I am getting the glass of my Note replaced (it has a slight crack) which apparently voids my warranty when I went into my carrier to organise a replacement. After it's repaired I will take it to another store and try to get it sent off to Samsung, hopefully they are understanding about it and will honour their warranty end as I do believe it was SDS so it would be their fault for using faulty eMMC chips. The only thing I wish I could do it just start over, flash the PIT file so I can just install CWM to see if any of my files are still there. I just want some peace of mind and it seems impossible at this point. I guess it is impossible to flash a PIT when the storage chip is corrupt, sucks to lose all my messages and data, just wish I had a backup in place but it is a good learning experience for the next time I have a functioning phone.
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I was lucky having most of my info already backed up. I also had just upgraded another line, so I had a new phone to work with. It just sucks having to switch everything over to a new phone, reloading all the apps etc.
Symptoms: Over a period of weeks, possibly months, the phone started rebooting itself more and more frequently. Now I have reached the point where my phone bootloops, often at the Note II logo, sometimes it goes on and gets stuck on the ROM's logo for ages then bootloops again. Occasionally after an age (hours) and if I am lucky the ROM may load up but then it soon starts bootlooping again. I also noticed that one time there was some graphical distortion on the ROM's animated logo. TWRP Recovery and Download Mode both work perfectly fine.
What I have done Wiped everything, reinstalled the ROM through recovery which achieved nothing. I then tried a fresh install of the stock ROM with ODIN (update bootloader ticked). Although the ODIN install went fine, I still have exactly the same problem.
What should be my next step? Repartion with PIT?
Well I went ahead and re-partitioned with a PIT file, still no luck. I guess this must be a hardware issue.
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Well I went ahead and re-partitioned with a PIT file, still no luck. I guess this must be a hardware issue.
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You have what is known as Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS). In short the eMMC chip has failed. It or the motherboard needs to be replaced.
Flashing PIT will not help
Sorry about that
Check battery , update phone software .go to a repair centre , u may fry it like me .
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Hello,
I know that this issue had been posted again and again here recently and I've just read a lot of these threads but none of them reached to a solution that suits me, not to mention the difference in details between my case and others. I've experienced soft-bricks before but this is my first time to experience hard-brick. I've used this phone for 3 years (since 2012) and I don't want to lose it now.
TL;DR: The phone is stuck on Bootloader screen "Galaxy Note II", but Odin is able to flash Stock ROMs with PIT and repartition option ticked with no issues (NAND RW). TWRP recovery can be flashed and opened but sees the Internal Storage size as (0 MB) and cannot mount any partition.
That happened 5 months ago, my Note 2 was running Ivan Miller's CM 12.1 and updated to the last version without any issues, and I was charging my phone that day, then unplugged it and got out of home then discovered that my phone is dead.
When I got back home, I tried to charge it again but nothing happened. The lid didn't turn on, and the device didn't give me the charging screen. I tried to turn it on a few times with no avail.
Then I got to a Repair center which told me that the phone needs a new motherboard, which costs practically a new one's price. So I threw it in a drawer and bought a used phone instead.
2 weeks ago, I got my phone back from the drawer and went to another repair center, where they revived the phone again and told me it's a (harddisk issue) which should be replaced with a new one (which costs here in Egypt, a lot of money). But I was happy that the phone is back again and can be turned on, and I had a renewed hope that I can fix it again!
When I got back home, I fired up hiemdall (because I had no access to Windows at that time), downloaded the last stock version from SamMobile, and flashed it on the phone, but it was stuck on the "Galaxy Note II bootloader screen". I flashed TWRP and I could boot to the recovery but it sees the Internal Storage size as (0 MB). When I tried to wipe anything, I got errors in mounting the partitions (this is the only place I can see the logs since TWRP boot).
I followed the guide here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2154890 but with a PIT file from a different thread because the last versions of Stock ROMs have no PIT file inside them and the recovery ROM in the Guide points to HotFile website which had been suspended. (First I used Heimdall to repartition and use the PIT, but it couldn't write the PIT partition, then I used Windows with Odin 3.10.7 and it didn't give me any errors).
I flashed the stock ROMS without and with PIT file for repartition but no avail. The phone is stuck on bootloader screen "Galaxy Note II". I don't want to lose hope and give up for purchasing new eMMc chip because I believe the NAND is still able to read and write unlike other cases that I've read here in different threads where they couldn't repartition the phone because Odin couldn't NAND RW or something like that.
Do you have any pointers that can help me solving this issue?
Sorry for the long post.
Hello and sorry if this is the wrong category...
It's my first time making a thread on xda.
I've been looking for an answer for the past 2 hours, but I still have a bricked phone... As the title says, I can't enter the recovery mode anymore. I tried to do a factory reset (when I could enter the recovery mode) and the phone got stuck at erasing. Now I can't enter the recovery mode anymore. I downloaded a new firmware from sammobile for the SM-G925F. The firmware works since I used it on an other phone and everything worked just fine. The problem is, when I open Odin and add the .tar file to AP, it gets stuck at nand write and sometimes on boot.img. The phone isn't showing that it's downloading anything (it has no progress bar). At this point I have no idea what to do...
Some extra info that could be helpful:
The phone was bootlooping when I got to fix it;
I work in a kind of phone repair store where customers bring their phones for hardware and software repair. I do the software;
I've installed new firmwares on multiple phones and I never had something like this... Normally some time with google and xda could help me to find a working way to fix the problem, but as I said... I've been looking for 2 hours and the problem is still here;
I'm not a pro with Android and phones. I just like to learn new things and I'm still learning.
Could it be a hardware problem?
Can you show me your phone's download mode image to see where could be the problem?
Also, make sure you are flashing latest firmware, if you are downgrading it - than you will get such boot errors.
*Update*
I found out what was wrong. The eMMC chip was broken.