Hello everyone, just looking for a bit more of information on this issue, want to make sure nothing else i can do. So i have a Galaxy S4 Active i537 USA AT&T Version, it was a friends phone he tried to root the phone and seems he had no idea what to do so now the phone seem to be soft bricked, i can access the recovery and download mode tried to flash several stock rom using odin 4.3 and 4.2.2 and it fails as soon it starts tried factory reset thru recovery it goes thru but then it errors out no message just error and phone reboots not sure what else to do i have tried looking for a 4.4.2 stock odin flash rom but cant seem to find one other then an OTA. if anyone has any idea or has experience this problem and can help me out would be great. And to add on this if i just turn the phone on normally phone gets to the AT&T Orb Logo spins once then stuck there.
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rv0206 said:
Hello everyone, just looking for a bit more of information on this issue, want to make sure nothing else i can do. So i have a Galaxy S4 Active i537 USA AT&T Version, it was a friends phone he tried to root the phone and seems he had no idea what to do so now the phone seem to be soft bricked, i can access the recovery and download mode tried to flash several stock rom using odin 4.3 and 4.2.2 and it fails as soon it starts tried factory reset thru recovery it goes thru but then it errors out no message just error and phone reboots not sure what else to do i have tried looking for a 4.4.2 stock odin flash rom but cant seem to find one other then an OTA. if anyone has any idea or has experience this problem and can help me out would be great. And to add on this if i just turn the phone on normally phone gets to the AT&T Orb Logo spins once then stuck there.
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I'm trying to use Odin to Fix my soft bricked i537 AT&T version, however I can't find the stock firmware for the S4 active anywhere. Can you please send me a link if you have one. And how did you solve the problem. I'm not sure using Odin will even solve my problem, however it seems similar to yours. Thanks in advance.
immij said:
I'm trying to use Odin to Fix my soft bricked i537 AT&T version, however I can't find the stock firmware for the S4 active anywhere. Can you please send me a link if you have one. And how did you solve the problem. I'm not sure using Odin will even solve my problem, however it seems similar to yours. Thanks in advance.
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It seems bricking your phone is a common samsung thing. Look at this thread I have laid out how to fix it----->>> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2768220
Get my upgraded ota here --->>> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2722073&page=24
Follow instructions carefully and be patient.
Bought a G870A off of Ebay (I know I know). Came with OF3 and still has alot of previous user crap on it. Tried factory reset but got the "MDM server does not allow factoryReset" message. Being root is out the window, what are my options? Can I ODIN a new rom... perhaps OJ3 stock full and get the factory reset?
Any help is appreciated.
Okay, finally got logged into account and into phone. Reset phone. But still has the activation lock on. Do I need to update to 5.1 ?
I am new on xda! I flashed stock bootloader extracted from factory img and my phone got network back but after rebooting i lost it again please help me on this luckily i have unlocked bootloader and custom recovery. And i noticed an app wich i never installed naming CQAtest don't know what it is?
Any suggestions on this issue will be much appreciated
I'm not at all experienced with Android or mobile devices in general, and I have an old T813 WiFi (2016) that I needed to root.
I flashed twrp-3.5.0_9-0-gts210vewifi and that worked fine. Except, TWRP couldn't see the download directory where I dropped the magisk zip. I didn't seem to see any internal storage besides the root FS (tab has 60 gig and no sd card).
So on the advice of the internet, I used TWRP to wipe and reformat, resulting in not being able to boot. It gets stuck at the pulsing Samsung logo forever.
I did a factory reset with TWRP and no change.
I then tried to flash stock 6.x firmware using Odin but it failed with an Auth error, I believe due to the device not permitting "downrgades".
So then I used Odin to flash the closest thing to a stock 7.0 ROM that I could find, which was T813XXS2BSJ3_T813XAR2BSA2_XAR from www.sammobile.com. That flashed successfully, the tab rebooted to the stock recovery and loaded the new image, but on the next reboot we were back to same old pulsing Samsung. I left it for a couple of hours, then tried rebooting again, but no change.
I hope it's just that that firmware was for the cell version of the tab, an. d I need the WiFi version. If anyone knows where I can find the right 7.0 firmware for the SM-T813 (2016) it would be greatly appreciated.
I would also welcome any other advice for dealing with this thing.
I'm from the US, and I still have boxes for 3 of my 4 T813s. The part numbers all end in XAR. That being said I went through my filers, and the last ODIN file I used was a XAC file. Looking at Sammobile, just looks like XAC is Canada, XAR is celluar south.
I'm assuming if TWRP couldn't see the directory, you had an encryption issue.
I know I'm still running Akipe's beta TWRP, found in this post. I know it's an "older" version, but I've never upgraded as it had a bunch of fixes that the official one didn't have. Not sure if that ever got corrected or not at this point. That's a question I will ask actually.
OhioYJ,
I have the WiFi version, so it has no sim and no LTE radio, I assume. I'm pretty sure the XAR file is for cellular tabs. I did try it, and it did flash OK via Odin, but it wouldn't boot.
I couldn't find the stock 7.0 version for WiFi anywhere, so I ended up flashing Lineage instead. The tab works now, rooted, so all is well.
I also used the modified TWRP version linked on the Lineage site, which allows MTP in recovery mode so I could dump files where TWRP could find them.
I do wish I could find the stock ROM for the WiFi tab, just in case.
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I have the WiFi version, so it has no sim and no LTE radio, I assume. I'm pretty sure the XAR file is for cellular tabs. I did try it, and it did flash OK via Odin, but it wouldn't boot.
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All the T813s in my house are wifi too, no LTE. Those boxes end in XAR, it's like that even on my newer Tab S5e. So I don't think cellular south necessarily refers to LTE. That being said, the one I have saved on my PC is XAC (Canada), and there are still plenty of XAC firmware files that site.
Either way glad you got it working.
Hi,
I'm super new here, so apologies if I'm doing something I'm not meant to.
My partner recently updated her device (s21 ultra - G998B) and from that point she was stuck in a boot loop.
A few people recommended I download Odin and flash the firmware. We tried that initially with the same firmware the device was seemingly running (g998bxxu5dvjc), that left us in the same boot loop.
After that someone mentioned it might be worth trying different firmware. I downloaded a few different options - 2 newer and 1 older than the initial firmware we tried all with the same under the same carrier.
Since then the boot loop has seemingly got worse. At this point it loads less of the boot than it was prior.
We have yet to factory reset the device as the data on there is more important to us than the phone itself.
It seems the data might be a lost cause but if you have any ideas, please let me know.
From here should I just factory reset? Should I be doing it through Odin with the CSC and not the Home_CSC now? Or is it time for me to just factory reset directly through the device?
Thanks so much for your input!
Try installing a different ROM (e.g, Dr. Ketan). Follow the instructions by the letter, you should be fine.