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Pls help!!! Battery mod bricked my phone :( PLS!!

Hey guys
I have a Samsung Galaxy S. Last week I tried installing a battery icon and after installation, it rebooted my phone. It's now stuck giving me the message titled, "Factory Test Failed" w/ error,"no package was found that provides the factory_test action‏" I have the "Confirm" button, but everytime I click it, the same msg pops up again. This happens after the Galaxy and rogers logo loads. I tried going to recovery mode and clean up my user data and cleaned up the internal SD, but nothing seems to work.
I don't have my USB in debugging mode, so I am not sure if Odin is going to work on it. Any help? I did upgrade it to 2.2.

You may have to reflash 2.2 to get everything back to stock and/or do a factory reset within recovery if you can

You crashed your phone - try to reinstall the software.

Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge is not booting even after a factory reset

My Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge is not booting even after a factory reset
A mobile app. for Android was installed successfully and since then I’m only having issues with my Samsung mobile:
- Since the installation of both the Hockey & Mobile Banking apps, my mobile freezes during any regular action and after a few seconds the device auto-restarts itself intermittently; this happened during the weekend while in use;
- Sunday night I uninstalled both the Hockey & Mobile Banking apps and the phone continued to freeze and restart intermittently. I was able to boot in SAFE MODE.
- This morning after the phone was turned off and turned on, the phone is not loading; the boot is looping and unable to reach the menu. I’m able to boot in SAFE MODE.
- This morning I did a Factory Reset, when done I get the “welcome” screen and right thereafter, the mobile freezes, auto-restarts and the boot keep looping.
Any help would be highly appreciated.

Hey guys, any suggestions...? I tried last night restoring the OS using Samsung Smart Switch application and the process went just fine the first time and during the setup process the phone just restarted against and for stuck in bootloop again.
I did a second attempt but after the PC is don and the phone boots it gets stuck.

Sometimes after restoring stock firmware and you get a bootloop, you have to boot to stock recovery and factory reset then wipe cache partition.
I know you said you did that once before you posted, you did that before you used SmartSwitch. Have you tried factory reset since restoring with SmartSwitch?

Yes, I did with SS last night; I did it again this morning and after completing the 100% software download, it started updating the device and at 97% it stopped and got the message "FAILED".
now as we speak, I restarted it again and now it's at 66^ downloading the files.

How can I perform a clean install using SS...? or do I need ODIN...? I want to keep the mobile as original as possible.

If you can find your stock firmware, download it and flash it with Odin, it's more reliable.

Maybe a stupid question: Where can I find my stock firmware...?

My info:
PDAIX / CSCI2 / PHONE: PHH (XFA)
I found the Firmware on SAMMOBILE: https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-s6-edge/SM-G925F/XFA/download/G925FXXU4DPIX/108273/
Is this a stock Firmware and reliable source...?

Sammobile is a very reliable source, if that firmware is the newest one for your model number and country/region/carrier then you're good to go.

I did install Firmware corresponding to my phone (PDAIX / CSCI2 / PHONE: PHH (XFA)) using Odin, I can use the phone for like 2 or 3 minutes and then it freezes, restarts and gets into boot loop.
Any more drastic measurements to take...? Is there an online tool to test the hardware function(s)...?

After flashing stock firmware, have you tried booting to stock recovery then do the factory reset and wipe cache then reboot.

Yes, I did...!
In ODIN, do I load only the "AP"...?

In most situations, AP is all you need if the firmware is an all in one firmware file, if you have a 4 part firmware then you need to put each part in its corresponding tab/slot in Odin.
Sometimes you have to flash more than once to be successful.

My phone is running like a horse now...! No more intermittent restarts nor boot looping.
I just did a clean install of Android 7.

The clean install of Android 7 went fine and now it's working back again, was because I changed the "Reactivation Lock" to OFF; I think this helped.

Phone broke during update - mixed success with flash

heyo - I have a G930w8 Samsung S7 (Exynos.) I don't know what CSC the phone has. It was just sold new-in-box on Ebay as an unlocked Canadian Samsung S7. I'm using it in the US.
I've had it for a while. While attempting to update today, the phone, well... didn't update. It was stuck updating for a day. Could not get into recovery menu, but Odin/downloading mode worked.
I used Odin to flash this stock firmware: sammobile. com/samsung/galaxy-s7/firmware/SM-G930W8/XAC/download/G930W8VLS6CSH1/288555/ to the phone, using the CSC file (not HOME_CSC.) It worked. I did not flash the userdata and didn't use PIT as neither are included in the sammobile package. I didn't use re-partition, because whenever I try that, Odin (3.13.1) fails to flash with "Can't open the specified file, line 1892"
So, post-flashing, the phone boots to a "Erasing" screen, then to an "installing system updates..." screen, stops at 32%, then goes back to "Erasing". After a while on "Erasing", the Android logo freezes. I left it in this state for 30 minutes and nothing happened - I now plan to leave it there overnight, but in the meantime:
- if I force restart the phone, once it reboots it tries "Erasing" for a moment, then goes into a permanent "No Command" boot loop.
- If I re-flash the firmware, it goes back to the previously described "Erasing > Installing System Updates 32% > Erasing > Frozen logo on Erasing" state.
- If I go to the recovery menu, the phone usually randomly freezes or reboots. A couple times I successfully selected the factory reset option, at which point the phone would print "formatting /data...". It remained in this state for 30 minutes with no change, so I am not sure if it's freezing or actually doing something. I intend to also try leaving this overnight.
Can anyone help me get this phone functioning again? I am not sure what's going wrong here, if I have installed the wrong firmware, if I have installed the wrong CSC, do I need to use a PIT file, etc.
Edit: The phone is working again. For posterity, here is what I did:
- left it overnight at the "erasing" screen. It was still there when I woke up.
- went into recovery, tried a factory reset. It almost instantly went through. Rebooted the phone from recovery menu.
- phone now did "Erasing" for a moment, then, reboot > glowing samsung logo > setup screen > rebooted (with no prompting) into bootloop while I was setting up
- re-flashed the firmware, removed SD card
- now it does "Installing updates > 32% > erasing" except it doesn't freeze on erasing this time, it completes "Erasing" and reboots
- phone now boots normally
- encountered a crash/boot into bootloop after setting up the phone, but re-flashing (this time with HOME_CSC) fixed it
And I'm currently in the phone, able to use it... hopefully no more bootloops. What a cluster****.
Edit 2: I kept getting unprompted reboots into boot loops after 5-10 minutes of using the phone (after flashing.) Re-flashing with HOME_CSC would un-bootloop it, but I decided to let it boot loop for 30 minutes to see what would happen. It eventually stopped boot looping and stayed on the Samsung logo, not booting into recovery or anything. I turned off the phone (power + volumedown) and started it up and it booted just fine. Phone now doesn't appear to be bootlooping randomly.
Edit to the edit of the edit - actual solution: The phone still randomly rebooted every now and then, although no bootloop. I ended up installing TWRP through Odin and hard-wiping the phone ("Format Data".) A normal wipe did not work. I then finally re-flashed the stock ROM and now the phone has been working perfectly for hours.
Here's to hoping future Android updates don't prompt two days of attempts to un**** the phone!

Help Get My P5110 Working Again!

Hi all. Hoping someone can finally help me get my Galaxy Tab 2 working again.
A few years ago I decided to root it and install CyanoGenMod. It worked much faster after that and everything was fine. Then one day out of the blue I turned the tablet on and it eventually loaded to the home screen but it was messed up. A few seconds later the Tab 2 reboots itself and this just repeats over and over.
If I go into recovery mode I get the message "installing system update" for less than a second and then it changes to "no command" and eventually a message loads:-
# MANUAL MODE #
-- Appling Multi-CSC ...
Applied the CSC-code : BTU
did not match sized '/system/csc/common/system/csc/others.xml (No Data Available)"
If I try selecting the wipe cache partition option, it will try for a second or two and then shows error and reboots.
If I try the wipe data/factory reset option, it says the data has been wiped but the Android logo in the background changes to say 'error' underneath it. It then powers itself off. Turning it on brings up the boot loop as before with the messed up home screen appearing for a few seconds before it reboots. So it doesn't appear to be wiping any data at all.
Can anyone offer any assistance on how to get this working again please? I would be forever grateful.

PFMC84 said:
Hi all. Hoping someone can finally help me get my Galaxy Tab 2 working again.
A few years ago I decided to root it and install CyanoGenMod. It worked much faster after that and everything was fine. Then one day out of the blue I turned the tablet on and it eventually loaded to the home screen but it was messed up. A few seconds later the Tab 2 reboots itself and this just repeats over and over.
If I go into recovery mode I get the message "installing system update" for less than a second and then it changes to "no command" and eventually a message loads:-
If I try selecting the wipe cache partition option, it will try for a second or two and then shows error and reboots.
If I try the wipe data/factory reset option, it says the data has been wiped but the Android logo in the background changes to say 'error' underneath it. It then powers itself off. Turning it on brings up the boot loop as before with the messed up home screen appearing for a few seconds before it reboots. So it doesn't appear to be wiping any data at all.
Can anyone offer any assistance on how to get this working again please? I would be forever grateful.
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See the best way to get out of this is to install the stock Samsung firmware using the ODIN tool.
Then if you ever wish to install a custom rom again you can do as you like. Hope this helps. If you are require assistance, feel free to reply to this conversation.

I have tried a few times to flash the stock firmware with ODIN but it would either install the whole thing but it actually didn't work, or the install would crash part way through.
Unless there is some error with the stock firmware I've found online, is there a link to the proper one that I can download from somewhere? Or a specific version of ODIN that is needed for it to work?

My Google Pixel seems bricked - Could someone confirm there is nothing I can do ?

Hi, here's a description of what happened, what I did to solve my problem, and where I am now...
I left my Google Pixel and 2 hours later found it stuck into a booting loop (Google logo displayed > black screen > Google logo displayed > blackscreen...).
I first entered fastboot and tried to power off, restart, etc a few times, but it stayed stuck into the booting loop.
So I downloaded latest OTA from Google for my phone (my phone was already updated to the latest version via the phone update manager, which goes back to december 2019 I think).
I first verified that my linux pc could correctly see the devices, and then from fastboot I entered recovery mode and chose "Apply update from ADB".
I used the adb command to load the OTA I had downloaded.
The update progressed until it finished with the following error message :
Code:
install from ADB completed with status 1
Installation aborted
E:Failed to clear BCB messages: failed to write /dev/block/platform/soc/62400.ufshc/by-name/misc: I/O error
I was back on the recovery menu screen, and this is where I think I did something stupid : I selected "Reboot system now".
The phone did not reboot, the screen just went black and stays black. The phone is cold so I guess not running anything. And it does not respond to any button, so not starting up, no fastboot, etc. No more when I connect it to a PC or plug it in a power plug.
I don't really care about the phone, I was just trying to get back my picture/videos from the last 6 months.
I don't have much hope but I will appreciate any help, even if its just to confirm that there is nothing to do

rraphrr said:
Hi, here's a description of what happened, what I did to solve my problem, and where I am now...
I left my Google Pixel and 2 hours later found it stuck into a booting loop (Google logo displayed > black screen > Google logo displayed > blackscreen...).
I first entered fastboot and tried to power off, restart, etc a few times, but it stayed stuck into the booting loop.
So I downloaded latest OTA from Google for my phone (my phone was already updated to the latest version via the phone update manager, which goes back to december 2019 I think).
I first verified that my linux pc could correctly see the devices, and then from fastboot I entered recovery mode and chose "Apply update from ADB".
I used the adb command to load the OTA I had downloaded.
The update progressed until it finished with the following error message :
Code:
install from ADB completed with status 1
Installation aborted
E:Failed to clear BCB messages: failed to write /dev/block/platform/soc/62400.ufshc/by-name/misc: I/O error
I was back on the recovery menu screen, and this is where I think I did something stupid : I selected "Reboot system now".
The phone did not reboot, the screen just went black and stays black. The phone is cold so I guess not running anything. And it does not respond to any button, so not starting up, no fastboot, etc. No more when I connect it to a PC or plug it in a power plug.
I don't really care about the phone, I was just trying to get back my picture/videos from the last 6 months.
I don't have much hope but I will appreciate any help, even if its just to confirm that there is nothing to do
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Well you could try and see if the phone is in deep flash mode, if it is flash system, boot and other sensitive partitions but make sure that the versions are the same. If you don't have the firmware you can pull user data partition from phone and get your data back that way

muhammad42620 said:
Well you could try and see if the phone is in deep flash mode, if it is flash system, boot and other sensitive partitions but make sure that the versions are the same. If you don't have the firmware you can pull user data partition from phone and get your data back that way
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Thanks for your help. This is probably beyond my capabilities. I don't know how to check if it's in deep flash mode. Pulling the data out is what I'm interested in most.
Maybe this is something that a phone repair shop is able to do...

rraphrr said:
Thanks for your help. This is probably beyond my capabilities. I don't know how to check if it's in deep flash mode. Pulling the data out is what I'm interested in most.
Maybe this is something that a phone repair shop is able to do...
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These phones get emmc errors. Common issue with this device