Greetings to you all,
Long time lurker first time poster.
I made an account because nothing seems to be working and I'm in need of some professional insight regarding a particular problem.
So the problem is that one day, while chatting on whatsapp having edited no settings at all, on a completely stock (non-rooted, no customization of any kind) international version (I'm in Germany, bought it carrier-independent, ) of the S4 (GT-i9505), the phone shut off and was stuck in a bootloop.
I thought I can go into recovery mode and maybe wipe the dalvik cache since it may have gotten corrupted, but recovery mode wasn't working as it was getting stuck/not booting.
Luckily, download mode is available. Here's what I've tried so far to no avail:
1. I tried flashing the stock firmware using odin, but it didn't work.
2. I thought of flashing TWRP and using that to flash the tar file via the sd card, but TWRP wasn't flashing either. But I used an older version of Odin and it worked. However, once it boots normally or boots into recovery, it says at the top of the screen "Recovery is not SE-enforcing. Set warranty bit: recovery" and gets stuck again. Download mode still works but gets stuck sometimes.
3. Tried using the very helpful thread about kies emergency recovery found here on the site, but kies doesn't recognize the phone (but odin does) even though I have all the needed Samsung drivers.
I'm honestly at a loss right now. Trying to flash anything with Odin gets stuck in "setupconnection" most of the time or just fails. Have any of you had a similar problem? How did you resolve it? Any tips or advice from the pros? I have some important files I didn't have time to backup, much to my disappointment. Any help is very much welcome.
Could the hardware be dying? The internal storage/NAND maybe?
Long time lurker first time poster.
I made an account because nothing seems to be working and I'm in need of some professional insight regarding a particular problem.
So the problem is that one day, while chatting on whatsapp having edited no settings at all, on a completely stock (non-rooted, no customization of any kind) international version (I'm in Germany, bought it carrier-independent, ) of the S4 (GT-i9505), the phone shut off and was stuck in a bootloop.
I thought I can go into recovery mode and maybe wipe the dalvik cache since it may have gotten corrupted, but recovery mode wasn't working as it was getting stuck/not booting.
Luckily, download mode is available. Here's what I've tried so far to no avail:
1. I tried flashing the stock firmware using odin, but it didn't work.
2. I thought of flashing TWRP and using that to flash the tar file via the sd card, but TWRP wasn't flashing either. But I used an older version of Odin and it worked. However, once it boots normally or boots into recovery, it says at the top of the screen "Recovery is not SE-enforcing. Set warranty bit: recovery" and gets stuck again. Download mode still works but gets stuck sometimes.
3. Tried using the very helpful thread about kies emergency recovery found here on the site, but kies doesn't recognize the phone (but odin does) even though I have all the needed Samsung drivers.
I'm honestly at a loss right now. Trying to flash anything with Odin gets stuck in "setupconnection" most of the time or just fails. Have any of you had a similar problem? How did you resolve it? Any tips or advice from the pros? I have some important files I didn't have time to backup, much to my disappointment. Any help is very much welcome.
Could the hardware be dying? The internal storage/NAND maybe?
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