Issue with Note 4 possible bad memory? - T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

(While I was in a rooted DOK2 FW - Tmobile SM-910T3)
So heres the deal, trying to walk around I wanted to mock my location but was interrupted and placed my phone in my pocket which "locked" the bootload.
I managed to flash the stock image and unlocked the bootloader loaded TWRP and restored from my backup
Now this is where hell starts. It looked fine until I rebooted my phone.
Symptoms:
On a reboot the phone will not turn back on after I opt to reboot my phone
At this time the phone will not turn back on (i noticed this when i rebooted while plugged in the charging light was not on) I pull the battery for a few minutes to turn it back on
When I power the device back on sometimes it is stuck in the Bootloader Screen (unable to get into recovery and download) so I need to pull battery wait and turn back on
When the device does boot I can get into recovery and download mode on when it boots properly
Sometimes its stuck on the tmobile screen and I need to reboot it.
When the phone is operational it will occasionally lock up and I will need to wait a few minutes before the device is able to respond.
Any ideas what I can do? I had thought flashing a stock rom (from sammobile) would fix the boot issues
As of now:
I've recently flashed to the new Tmobile marshmallow stock via odin. I am still seeing these symptons. I'm currently installing the Maximum Overdrive Rom hoping it will fix some issues

Still seeing some of the same issues. Stock romantic and a deflated romantic did nothing. Is there a way to reflash a bootloader?

I'm having the same issues....I have odined back to stock dok2 twice....I think the pe3 bootloader files are floating around the forums somewhere...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=67514260&postcount=4
When my N4 boots up I occasionally get the emmc boot error...I brought it to tmobile and explained the issue to the rep. She brushed it off as being my battery. I know its not my battery as its a 3 month old 10000mah zerolemon. So I'm going to just limp this phone along until its time to jump to the Note 7. I've been flashing roms since the golden era of windows mobile/palm os days and on android since my G1...And some rookie rep who doesn't even know how to put a phone in recovery or download mode tries to brush it off as the battery.... My girl has the sprint note 4 and hers did the same thing, she took it to a store the rep ended up giving her a fully functional refurb... (which is the right thing to do if the phone has emmc failures) Anyways I hope you have better luck than I've had

i had the exact same issue as you guys started 2 months ago got worse overtime now my emmc is dead it wont write anything or even go into recovery or download i had tried all types of roms stock firmwares even took the phone apart swapped the power button and bought a new battery now my memory is dead and i can actually say its the emmc chip, seems to me these note 4s are starting to die i bought mine when it first came out in 2014 kind of feel ripped off but best phone i ever had imo

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after turning off phone it only loads bootloader till taking battery out

so I got a new (new to me was used) g1 today from a friend at work and everytime I turn the phone off with the power button it only starts in boot loader without pushing the camera button it does it on its own if I take the battery out and wait a minute or two then it will boot and run normally
history of the phone
not sure if this was a problem with previous owner he said that for the 3 months he owned it he never turned it off and so never saw the problem (thats crazy that he kept it charged all the time for 3 months)
phone was off when I got it running the latest ota firmware
I turned it on into bootloader and downgraded to rc29
downloaded telnet never got it to connect
while playing with telnet noticed the problem of booting into bootloader
downloaded flashrec.apk and put 1.4 cyanogen recovery on
made nandroid back up
did hard spl from the g1 faq
put on ota-tmobile cupcake with root
put expansion on for ota-tmobile cupcake with root
bump I will be back tomorrow afternoon to see if any one knows thanks everyone

[Q] Random reboot into bootloop- cannot access recovery. Please help!

a few days ago my fiance was complaining her basically stock Nexus was rebooting into a bootloop - where it displays the loading X and vibrates and then reboots and repeats every few moments (a few days after her doing the system update)- if I remove the battery for a few minutes then put battery back and reboot it will boot into the OS where it will stay sometimes for a few minutes othertimes an hour or more before going into the bootloop- so I told her I would attempt to flash a new rom. after many hours of messing with the phone and attempting to access the recovery it just will not work- the phone just goes into the bootloop - exactly as mentioned above. I have used fastboot to flash new images (userdata, system, boot, recovery etc) numerous times and it still does the same thing- crashes and reboots into the bootloop from the OS randomly and bootloop when trying to access recovery. I am pretty sure it is a hardware issue (the phone is only 3 months old) but the company i bought the phone from is stating it is a software issue and not covered by tehir warranty.
Problem is I unlocked the bootloader while messing with the rom's yesterday and am now concerned they wont honour the warranty anyway- does anyone have any suggestions as to anything else I can try? As far as I can tell as I cannot access recovery I cannot install any other roms..
Please help- otherwise I will be posting a yourtube video of me destroying a basically brand new nexus one- I really am that frustrated....
a bit more info- it was rooted but still had locked bootloader when this started- rooted using onclickroot or something- which after the update it wasn't rooted anymore- I am wondering if this has caused some low level conflict somehow- I have rooted again using superoneclick - and as stated have unlocked the bootloader.
is there any way to flash a rom using fastboot or adb on this thing- I would hazard surely there is but amongst all the information floating around for this phone I cannot find out how- I am thinking maybe I try and load cyanogen 6 or something if I could work out how to flash a rom using adb (because njo matter how many times I try to flash different recovery images it wont boot into recovery- I can access fastboot etc but as soon as i select recovery I get the bootloop...
and before I get flamed I have spent three days searching and reading and attempting everything short of voodoo witch magic. I thought my X10 was a P.I.A. to root and flash etc but really it was simple compared to the trouble this phone has given me..
I am wondeirng if some of the rom's are incompatible with some hardware- and I don't quite understand the whole radio thing either... can someone explain that?
BTW Im not a total noob- I have been around for a while without an account - then have had this account for a while but mostly just read the forums as I have no real input and knowledge to give...
...help!
Can no one help?
I have managed to get into recovery (by putting the phone in the freezer for ten minutes at a time to reduce the temperature and stabilise it enough to run for 15-20 minutes at a time)...
Have flashed different kernels this way and nothing is stable- it still bootloops because of heat....
I contacted HTC Hong Kong (it was purchased from a Hong Kong company) and they have told me there is a $350 fee to repair it as its a UK phone. Now the phone is exactly 55 days old not three months and I am really really frustrated.
Does anyone know if its worth contacting HTC UK?
I have friends in the UK I can have them send it in and recieve it from repair....
Someone please help- even if its just a comment of "just smash the damn thing..."
Thanks guys sorry about the long self centred posts but I am ready to destroy this phone- it doesnt have a mark on it either- any ideas what its worth for spare parts?

My eMMC bug story

OK, here is my story with my Galaxy Note brick. Though I never tried custom ROMs after upgrading to ICS but rooted with temp CWM & superSU. All seem to be working ok. One fine day I did a factory reset, booting failed, Stock ROM with PC ODIN stuck at FACTORYFS. Then comes XDA with a solution to use a patched PIT file.
Vola, my phone was up and running with ICS but missing 3GB space. It wouldn't have bothered me had the phone been stable. It used to freeze 2-3 times a day especially while downloading from Google play. Digging further in XDA forums for a fix cleared about eMMC bug and and no way returning back to normal So I ran to SSC with a factory reset phone hoping they will replace mobo, as it failed to boot and stuck at Samsung logo. Told them that Kies update to ICS 4.0.4 caused the problem. But couple of hours later, I got my phone back but with 8.24GB space & ICS 4.0.4
Now, I needed a fool proof way of bricking but couldn't go for pulling out battery half way through stock flash ROM. Thought it would be tricky to explain what I was upgrading when I've already got the latest stock ROM just a day ago from SSC. hmmm... then I got hold of stock PIT file... flashed it. And now perfectly stuck at home screen. No recovery menu but only download mode.
Next visit to SSC within 24hours and a simple story line with a sad face.... "Installed many apps, caused force close. So I did a Factory reset. And the phone does not boot now". It was stuck on the very first screen.
Finally it is gone for mobo replacement and expected to be ready in 2 days - covered under warranty Now coming to my question part, "What are the quick essentials checks to be done before accepting my phone from SSC" I really wish that it is all fixed properly and I do not want to visit a service center again
arvichan said:
OK, here is my story with my Galaxy Note brick. Though I never tried custom ROMs after upgrading to ICS but rooted with temp CWM & superSU. All seem to be working ok. One fine day I did a factory reset, booting failed, Stock ROM with PC ODIN stuck at FACTORYFS. Then comes XDA with a solution to use a patched PIT file.
Vola, my phone was up and running with ICS but missing 3GB space. It wouldn't have bothered me had the phone been stable. It used to freeze 2-3 times a day especially while downloading from Google play. Digging further in XDA forums for a fix cleared about eMMC bug and and no way returning back to normal So I ran to SSC with a factory reset phone hoping they will replace mobo, as it failed to boot and stuck at Samsung logo. Told them that Kies update to ICS 4.0.4 caused the problem. But couple of hours later, I got my phone back but with 8.24GB space & ICS 4.0.4
Now, I needed a fool proof way of bricking but couldn't go for pulling out battery half way through stock flash ROM. Thought it would be tricky to explain what I was upgrading when I've already got the latest stock ROM just a day ago from SSC. hmmm... then I got hold of stock PIT file... flashed it. And now perfectly stuck at home screen. No recovery menu but only download mode.
Next visit to SSC within 24hours and a simple story line with a sad face.... "Installed many apps, caused force close. So I did a Factory reset. And the phone does not boot now". It was stuck on the very first screen.
Finally it is gone for mobo replacement and expected to be ready in 2 days - covered under warranty Now coming to my question part, "What are the quick essentials checks to be done before accepting my phone from SSC" I really wish that it is all fixed properly and I do not want to visit a service center again
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Be in safe kernel if your on ics. You could check your device of the bug by downloading eMMC check in google play. Dont put your fate in that if your on stock ics rom not rooted you will not get the bug, be on the safe side.
arvichan said:
OK, here is my story with my Galaxy Note brick. Though I never tried custom ROMs after upgrading to ICS but rooted with temp CWM & superSU. All seem to be working ok. One fine day I did a factory reset, booting failed, Stock ROM with PC ODIN stuck at FACTORYFS. Then comes XDA with a solution to use a patched PIT file.
Vola, my phone was up and running with ICS but missing 3GB space. It wouldn't have bothered me had the phone been stable. It used to freeze 2-3 times a day especially while downloading from Google play. Digging further in XDA forums for a fix cleared about eMMC bug and and no way returning back to normal So I ran to SSC with a factory reset phone hoping they will replace mobo, as it failed to boot and stuck at Samsung logo. Told them that Kies update to ICS 4.0.4 caused the problem. But couple of hours later, I got my phone back but with 8.24GB space & ICS 4.0.4
Now, I needed a fool proof way of bricking but couldn't go for pulling out battery half way through stock flash ROM. Thought it would be tricky to explain what I was upgrading when I've already got the latest stock ROM just a day ago from SSC. hmmm... then I got hold of stock PIT file... flashed it. And now perfectly stuck at home screen. No recovery menu but only download mode.
Next visit to SSC within 24hours and a simple story line with a sad face.... "Installed many apps, caused force close. So I did a Factory reset. And the phone does not boot now". It was stuck on the very first screen.
Finally it is gone for mobo replacement and expected to be ready in 2 days - covered under warranty Now coming to my question part, "What are the quick essentials checks to be done before accepting my phone from SSC" I really wish that it is all fixed properly and I do not want to visit a service center again
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Just check the service job sheet whether they replaced the mobo or not before taking the delivery ? As simple As that.
got my gnote back with new mobo
Well, it is almost like the 'law of attraction'... I didn't want any problem and when I got my gnote today... guess what ? phone vibration didn't work. I had to go back to the SSC.
Fortunately, they responded immediately and the SSC guy fixed it on the spot without another round of formal servicing process. As explained to me, an insulation sticker of the vibrator was not removed while slipping in the new mobo. I didn't care less to understand if that is true as I was excited to get my phone with 11GB internal storage .
All seem to be working fine as of now with stock ICS 4.0.4 :good:

Help! Stock Note 3 BRICKED, cant recover. Expert needed.

I have an AT&T Note 3. I was rooted using the KINGO app, but returned my phone to stock several weeks ago and the rom shows official and the knox count is 0. I am running the stock AT&T Note 3 Android 4.3
The other day, an official AT&T android update was pushed to my phone. The update bricked my phone and now I am unsure if I can even recover what was on my phone...or at the very least get it running again. For now, I am without a phone.
When I can get the phone to power up, the phone attempts to "Recovery Booting" (this is displayed in blue letters in the top left corner with the galaxy Note 3 Logo in the middle). It tries to install this AT&T update following the recovery wording when powering it on normally and when using Volume UP/Home/Power . The update progresses towards 100% then "completes" sometimes, but then the screen goes black and the phone does not start back up. I have to remove the battery for a period of time and replace to get the phone to do anything
I can get the phone to go into download mode (Volume down/Home/power), but my phone did not have USB debugging turned on the last time I was able to access the options, so it is not recognized by kies/odin, etc!
Even though their update caused the problem, AT&T wont help me (over the phone or at the store) as my phone is over a year old...their solution is to buy a new phone and plan as they say they can't do anything to fix the phone.
ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!
Can you get into recovery?..if so try to factory reset then maby you will be able to power up get to developer options and turn on debug so you can use odin...other option..I have heard of some doing this..go to Bestbuy Samsung counter..ask them if they have the odin tool. If they do they may be able to get you up and running.
FIREKAT V11/S5-V1
Don't worry bro.
Just follow this post to put your phone back to stock and get it rooted again. My phone used to brick and I went through it.
Follow the steps carefully, and you'll get your phone back.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2559715

Cant restore to stock

I got an unlocked note 4 last week and have been fighting tooth and nail to restore it to stock while waiting for batterys to get here for it.
What I know about it. Previoius owner put TWRP on it and flashed it with Resurrection Remix ROM.
I want to return to stock because I cant get my Gear Fit 2 to work with this rom.
All info I can find on the phone points to:
N910TUVU2EQI2
Trying to load a stock rom it with ODIN gets me to the tmobile boot screen and nothing, will sit there for 40+ mins until the battery dies. Smart switch says it isnt compatible with the phone keis wont connect(in download mode)
I can put TWRP and RR back on it with no troubles
Omg. I left it plugged in when we left 10 hours ago, got home posted and went to check it. Was on the setup screen. Guess it needed a few hours to figure things out? Mods you can delete this or leave it for laughs

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