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S6 international bricked

Hi all, so i got my S6 international today and decided to immediately root it with cf autoroot. Something whent wrong although Odin reported it as successful. Now my phone won't boot up and gets stuck in the bootscreen. Can't get in download mode anymore. Anybody has an solution?
For some reason i can't upload a screen shot but it's the default screen saying
Samsung
Galaxy S6
Powered by
Android
Thanks in advanced,
Mark

Try holding the 3 buttons to get into download mode till you reach download mode. What I did is I released them when the black screen appeared. That just makes your phone reboot again. So hold it till you reach download mode. Then this worked for me:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=60048471&postcount=4

Thanks for the reply, i accedently held the three keys after reboot and i came into download mode again. Flashed the stock rom and now I'm back in business

markladage said:
Thanks for the reply, i accedently held the three keys after reboot and i came into download mode again. Flashed the stock rom and now I'm back in business
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No problem! Fyi: the latest chainfire update makes the autoroot work. I'm on the international version too

Ok I'll try it

Wish I could root my Canadian variant

Well after 2 attempts it finally works

ive got my note 2 soft bricked. PLEASE HELP!!!!!

hey all,
i was trying to root my note 2. ive done this once before but this time something went wrong. everytime i tried rooting it( through odin), it showed pass but whenever i tried to open super su, it said super su couldn't find binary *something* and its unable to create one. and a notification kept popping up saying that an unauthorized access to some secure files or areas has been blocked. so i tried rooting again and again but nothing happened. then my friend told me to factory reset my phone. i did as told. but now my phone is stuck at the samsung logo. i thought it may start later but i left it there for 2 hours and still the screen shows the samsung logo and the blue notification led light
please help me. also my custom binary download counter has reached to 13
so please please please help me ASAP. I cant afford to buy a new phone at this moment. also i know this is just a software problme so i dont wanna waste my money by giving my phone to the service center. So please you guys help me. :'(

chris_sharma said:
hey all,
i was trying to root my note 2. ive done this once before but this time something went wrong. everytime i tried rooting it( through odin), it showed pass but whenever i tried to open super su, it said super su couldn't find binary *something* and its unable to create one. and a notification kept popping up saying that an unauthorized access to some secure files or areas has been blocked. so i tried rooting again and again but nothing happened. then my friend told me to factory reset my phone. i did as told. but now my phone is stuck at the samsung logo. i thought it may start later but i left it there for 2 hours and still the screen shows the samsung logo and the blue notification led light
please help me. also my custom binary download counter has reached to 13
so please please please help me ASAP. I cant afford to buy a new phone at this moment. also i know this is just a software problme so i dont wanna waste my money by giving my phone to the service center. So please you guys help me. :'(
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Here's an unbrick tutorial: http://galaxynote2root.com/galaxy-note-2-tutorials/how-to-unrootunbrick-galaxy-note-2-with-stock-firmware/
Report back on how it went.

i will try that for sure but i forgot to mention one more problem, while i try to access my recovery mode by using home+ volume up + power button, nothing happens. only my screen flickers for some time and then i get back to the samsung galaxy note 2 logo. if i leave the button, my screen( above the home key, back key and options key) vibrates but nothing on display.

I think you only need download mode to unbrick, not recovery

chris_sharma said:
i will try that for sure but i forgot to mention one more problem, while i try to access my recovery mode by using home+ volume up + power button, nothing happens. only my screen flickers for some time and then i get back to the samsung galaxy note 2 logo. if i leave the button, my screen( above the home key, back key and options key) vibrates but nothing on display.
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Use vol down instead
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just flashed official samsung 4.3 rom. My phone is alive again ^_^

madchainsawer said:
Use vol down instead
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Awesome! Also, you could just hit the thanks button instead of a new post

If you want root you're probably better off flashing TWRP through ODIN and then flashing supersu.zip using TWRP.
https://download.chainfire.eu/696/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.46.zip

[Completed] I would like to know what has gone wrong with my rooted Samsung Galaxy j7

Before you read my problem plz note that i am only 16 and i have very little knowledge about anything related to rooting.
I rooted my phone a month ago because i wanted to use Xmod for Clash of Clans. I tried using Kingroot but it didnt work so i installed TWRP using Odin through my pc. After that i flashed SuperSU and the phone got rooted.
I didnt want xmod anymore so i decided to unroot my phone. I wanted to install the stock recovery and i read that i can do this by flashing the recovery.img file using Flashfy. So when i flashed it the app said that i need to reboot my device. So i pressed reboot and the screen went blank. But it didnt reboot. The screen that says Samsung Galaxy J7, which comes whenever i reboot or restart my phone, shows up but doesnt change. It also says "recovery is not seandroid enforcing" on top of the screen. It started coming when i installed TWRP. Nothing happened when i long pressed the power button. So i took out the battery, put it back and did 3 things:
1) Switching it on using the power button,
2) Directly going to recovery, and
3) Putting it for charging without switching it on.
The same screen comes everytime. PLEASE tell me what has gone wrong as soon as possible and if there is a way to fix this. Thanks a lot in advance.

XDA Visitor said:
Before you read my problem plz note that i am only 16 and i have very little knowledge about anything related to rooting.
I rooted my phone a month ago because i wanted to use Xmod for Clash of Clans. I tried using Kingroot but it didnt work so i installed TWRP using Odin through my pc. After that i flashed SuperSU and the phone got rooted.
I didnt want xmod anymore so i decided to unroot my phone. I wanted to install the stock recovery and i read that i can do this by flashing the recovery.img file using Flashfy. So when i flashed it the app said that i need to reboot my device. So i pressed reboot and the screen went blank. But it didnt reboot. The screen that says Samsung Galaxy J7, which comes whenever i reboot or restart my phone, shows up but doesnt change. It also says "recovery is not seandroid enforcing" on top of the screen. It started coming when i installed TWRP. Nothing happened when i long pressed the power button. So i took out the battery, put it back and did 3 things:
1) Switching it on using the power button,
2) Directly going to recovery, and
3) Putting it for charging without switching it on.
The same screen comes everytime. PLEASE tell me what has gone wrong as soon as possible and if there is a way to fix this. Thanks a lot in advance.
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Greetings,
Thank you for using XDA Assist.
There are no specific forums for your device on XDA.
However, if you create an XDA account, you can post your question here:
Android Q&A
You'll receive expert advice there.
Good luck and welcome to XDA!

Thanks for answering.
I have already asked the question on Q&A but there has been no reply. I will keep checking. Thanks again

Okay XDA, I need your help getting my phone running. (Black screen problem)

Okay so I bought this S6, 2 days ago from a guy really cheap. I have some experience with Samsung devices so I thought I could fix it piece of cake turns out I can't. So I got twrp, and download mode working and I can transfer files to the phone while in twrp no problem. Download mode works fine too. The problem I have is that whatever I do the phone shows the "Samsung Galaxy S6, powered by android" logo and then the screen turns black. The little led light keeps shining blue light and the phone even vibrates sometimes.
At first I though that I could just flash stock 6.0.1 rom though odin and I did that. Same problem black screen (I got the firmware from sammobile). After that I tried the tyrannus rom and I followed his instruction and same problem again. At last I tried XtreStoLite and same problem. A guy in another thread told me that I need to reflash a kernel so I tried the SpaceX MM Kernel and still the same problem.
Oh almost forgot the device is the SM-G920F.
Any thoughts?

So you have TWRP, format all data.
Download the modem and bootloader for MM and flash with odin in download mode.
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24531172553916563 under BL button
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24531172553916564 under CP button
Then flash stock 6.0.1 firmware
*links are from XtreStoLite DeoMod Edition 3.3.1 MM thread

Nedrozak said:
So you have TWRP, format all data.
Download the modem and bootloader for MM and flash with odin in download mode.
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24531172553916563 under BL button
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24531172553916564 under CP button
Then flash stock 6.0.1 firmware
*links are from XtreStoLite DeoMod Edition 3.3.1 MM thread
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I've done exactly that and now I tried it again. So after everything is flashed I get the "Samsung Galaxy S6, powered by android" and then a blue droid logo that said "Installing system update" and something about erasing data, then it went back to "Samsung Galaxy S6, powered by android" and then black screen with a blue/cyan light. How long should I wait on that screen? I waited about 10 minutes and then I got a vibration from the phone but still black with the light. The samsung boot animation should come up if it's working right?

JD. A said:
I've done exactly that and now I tried it again. So after everything is flashed I get the "Samsung Galaxy S6, powered by android" and then a blue droid logo that said "Installing system update" and something about erasing data, then it went back to "Samsung Galaxy S6, powered by android" and then black screen with a blue/cyan light. How long should I wait on that screen? I waited about 10 minutes and then I got a vibration from the phone but still black with the light. The samsung boot animation should come up if it's working right?
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Can you check if the EFS partition is not erased? In TWRP it should be like 2MB data.

Nedrozak said:
Can you check if the EFS partition is not erased? In TWRP it should be like 2MB data.
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I clicked "backup" and it says that Boot is 28MB, System 3352MB, Data 766MB, Cache 0MB, Modem 42MB and EFS 2MB. This is so weird, I've never had this problem on any phone. By the way I let it "boot" for 20 minutes and after that vibration I got nothing more out of it.
EDIT: I tried to get it to boot again by just pressing reboot in twrp and now the "Samsung Galaxy S6, powered by android" keeps poping up and then it turns black and then it pops up again.

Are you flashing the correct country/carrier firmware?

Nedrozak said:
Are you flashing the the correct country/carrier firmware?
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Should that matter? The guy I bought the phone from said that it was unlocked and I've tried to flash the Nordic firmware from Sammobile. There's 2 swedish stock firmwares, one is "Tre" and the other one is "VDS". I don't know what "VDS" means even though I tried to google it and Tre should be really bad for my reception. Should I try to flash the vds one?

JD. A said:
I clicked "backup" and it says that Boot is 28MB, System 3352MB, Data 766MB, Cache 0MB, Modem 42MB and EFS 2MB. This is so weird, I've never had this problem on any phone. By the way I let it "boot" for 20 minutes and after that vibration I got nothing more out of it.
EDIT: I tried to get it to boot again by just pressing reboot in twrp and now the "Samsung Galaxy S6, powered by android" keeps poping up and then it turns black and then it pops up again.
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Is it still like that? You can stop it by holding the buttons for download mode and it will power off to go into download mode but when it powers off just press buttons for recovery and you will be back there.
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JD. A said:
Should that matter? The guy I bought the phone from said that it was unlocked and I've tried to flash the Nordic firmware from Sammobile. There's 2 swedish stock firmwares, one is "Tre" and the other one is "VDS". I don't know what "VDS" means even though I tried to google it and Tre should be really bad for my reception. Should I try to flash the vds one?
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Sure give it a try, you have nothing to loose! On the upper post when I said format all data, did you factory reset or used the "format all data" button?

Nedrozak said:
Is it still like that? You can stop it by holding the buttons for download mode and it will power off to go into download mode but when it powers off just press buttons for recovery and you will be back there.
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Sure give it a try, you have nothing to loose! On the upper post when I said format all data, did you factory reset or used the "format all data" button?
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I stopped the Samsung Galaxy S6 logo bootloop after a while. I pressed the advanced wipe and selected everything except for USB Storage, that's the same thing as format all data right?

JD. A said:
I stopped the Samsung Galaxy S6 logo bootloop after a while. I pressed the advanced wipe and selected everything except for USB Storage, that's the same thing as format all data right?
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Yes! In the advanced wipe section look for the file system of the partitions.
System, Data and Cache should be ext4

Nedrozak said:
Yes! In the advanced wipe section look for the file system of the partitions.
System, Data and Cache should be ext4
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I'm 99% sure that they're ext4 right now I'm flashing the Sweden(VDS) stock rom after that if it's not working I'll check. :good:

Nedrozak said:
Yes! In the advanced wipe section look for the file system of the partitions.
System, Data and Cache should be ext4
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So after flashing the Sweden(VDS) it went back to the black screen, so I did a battery pull vol down + power and then I tried to start it again. Now it got to 2 cog wheels spinning and saying Android is starting optimizing app x out of 32. Then it went to Android is starting and starting apps. I waited there for 10 minutes and I got a vibration and then nothing, the cog wheels only kept spinning. Seems like it got stuck there. So I did the battery pull again, black screen then I tried to do a factory reset in the stock recovery and nothing change. Now I'm getting the black screen again.
This is so weird :crying:

OK! Try to flash it again and when you see optimizing turn the phone off. Then make a factory reset and boot up to see what is going to do.

Nedrozak said:
OK! Try to flash it again and when you see optimizing turn the phone off. Then make a factory reset and boot up to see what is going to do.
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Okay, so I flashed the Sweden(VDS) and then when it booted it ended up with black screen, and then I did the battery pull and I got back to the android is starting screen with the cog wheel. Then I turned the phone off and and did a factory reset with samsungs recovery. Then when I started it I ended up with black screen again so I did a battery pull once again and started it. Then I got to the Android is starting screen with the cog wheels again, it changed the language to swedish though. Then it started optimizing apps xx of 34 and now its stuck at Android is starting starting apps. Do you think this might be a hardware problem? I'm have no clue what to do anymore.
Right now I'm downloading the Sweden(Tre) stock rom from sammobile, will report back later of if there's some changes.

If it is a hardware problem I can't think of what could it be. Anyways, waiting on the report. Hope this will work!

@Nedrozak Okay after a break I continued to try, the Sweden(Tre) firmware won't flash in odin. I've also tried to flash the phone in Kies and Smart Switch PC. Both programs ended up the same as before with the black screen with the blue led light. I couldn't even get it to the optimizing screen. I've also tried 5.1.1 and I can get it to the optimizing apps screen too, 5.0.2 can't be flashed.
I also found out using Kies and Smart Switch PC that the original firmware the phone used to have is the NEE firmware (Nordic Countries). Tomorrow I might go and ask some tech shop to estimate a repair cost, I might be able to get a new motherboard too for free we'll see what happens. I'm like out of options anyway seems like no one else on this forum seems to have the same problem so maybe it's the hardware that's faulty.
The last thing I might try is a custom rom like cyanogenmod, that I can try to flash otherwise I'm out of ideas, and energy too :silly:
Maybe leave it on cogwheels Android is starting and Starting apps during night? Then I'm afraid that the screen will burn and the screen in almost new and worth a bit of money.

JD. A said:
@Nedrozak Okay after a break I continued to try, the Sweden(Tre) firmware won't flash in odin. I've also tried to flash the phone in Kies and Smart Switch PC. Both programs ended up the same as before with the black screen with the blue led light. I couldn't even get it to the optimizing screen. I've also tried 5.1.1 and I can get it to the optimizing apps screen too, 5.0.2 can't be flashed.
I also found out using Kies and Smart Switch PC that the original firmware the phone used to have is the NEE firmware (Nordic Countries). Tomorrow I might go and ask some tech shop to estimate a repair cost, I might be able to get a new motherboard too for free we'll see what happens. I'm like out of options anyway seems like no one else on this forum seems to have the same problem so maybe it's the hardware that's faulty.
The last thing I might try is a custom rom like cyanogenmod, that I can try to flash otherwise I'm out of ideas, and energy too :silly:
Maybe leave it on cogwheels Android is starting and Starting apps during night? Then I'm afraid that the screen will burn and the screen in almost new and worth a bit of money.
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Yes, it will be very bad to leave it on. Maybe going to the tech shop is the best option even if you can't get free motherboard.

Hard Bricked S7 After Stuck on Samsung Logo

Hey guys,
I flashed DARKLORD's S8 port yesterday evening. Everything was perfect. However, I noticed that the ROM was rooted with SuperSU system-less and thus didn't pass SafetyNet. I wanted to install Magisk in order to get Magisk Hide and pass SafetyNet. So I checked which kernel the ROM used. It was SuperStock 2.5.0.
I downloaded a clean, non-rooted SuperStock 2.5.0 kernel and flashed it through the recovery in order to get rid of SuperSU. The next reboot took really long. I went to bed after waiting for 30min, leaving the phone plugged in and on the Samsung boot logo with the typical blue notification LED that shines when the phone powers on. When I woke up the next morning, I noticed that the notification LED had turned off, but the Samsung logo was still there. I force rebooted the phone with the power-volumedown-homebutton combination. I noticed that it took quite long for the phone to turn back on again after the screen went black (10 seconds or so). I went into recovery and flashed DARKLORD's ROM again in order to get the original, working kernel back. Halfway through the flashing process the phone turned off and now it's dead.
I plugged it in for an hour, nothing. Not even the notification LED turns on when plugging it in. I can't get into download mode or recovery, I can't do anything.
Is my only option to send it to Samsung or is there any other way to get it to work again? Thank you in advance!

Kikill3r said:
Hey .... Thank you in advance!
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Can you Boot into Download Mode or TWRP Recovery? If Recovery isn't working for you - Boot into Download Mode and use Odin to Flash the Stock Firmware - And extracted then Flash TWRP img.tar with Odin and go from there.
Edit: just re-read your post and you are certain that you can't get into Download Mode? Have you tried to only Press Power and Volume Down as well?
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shaggyskunk said:
Can you Boot into Download Mode or TWRP Recovery? If Recovery isn't working for you - Boot into Download Mode and use Odin to Flash the Stock Firmware - And extracted then Flash TWRP img.tar with Odin and go from there.
Edit: just re-read your post and you are certain that you can't get into Download Mode? Have you tried to only Press Power and Volume Down as well?
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I tried everything. Nothing worked, it did nothing. As I said, not even the LED turned red when I plugged it in. In the end, I went to a Samsung support center and they replaced it. Apparently it was so broken that they couldn't even find out that it had Knox 0x1....

Kikill3r said:
I tried everything. Nothing worked, it did nothing. As I said, not even the LED turned red when I plugged it in. In the end, I went to a Samsung support center and they replaced it. Apparently it was so broken that they couldn't even find out that it had Knox 0x1....
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Hmmm sounds like a plan :good: when something happens to knox 0x1 device hard brick it to still have warranty.