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Can't Root Galaxy S5 Stuck At Blue Bar

TLDR;
Trying to install custom recovery with odin auto-reboot checked off so stock doesnt replace odin says PASS I disconnect the phone but in downloading mode the blue bar is full and the phone doesn't want to shut down. I remove the battery and try to boot into custom philz-recovery it gets stuck in samsung logo. But functions perfectly on normal boot. I reset the whole phone and try the cf-auto-root method and the phone gets stuck in samsung logo now not even booting up normally. So i reset the whole phone again with odin and firmware from sammobile now sitting with a stock android and knox warranty ticked without having a root.
(Sorry for the long post I've tried to provide as much info as I can) So I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 exact model number SM-G900H. And I'm trying to root it. I go into download mode than I launch Odin and check off Auto-Reboot so it won't boot up and the stock recovery replaces the custom I'm trying to install, I connect the phone it says its connected than I select AP and than choose philz-recovery (latest version) and start it. So the Odin finishes its work says "PASS" in green letters. I disconnect the phone but on S5 the blue bar is full and it does not want to shut down (if the auto-reboot is checked it just reboots and it doesn't even want to boot into stock recovery just stuck on samsung logo) I've waited a good hour and still nothing. So I pull out the battery for it to shut down and than I straight try to boot into recovery and it just gets stuck on samsung logo and the blue letters don't even show up. Before rooting the recovery worked and I factory resetted the device before so samsungs knox does't interrupt with its not-being-able-to-boot-into-recovery-if-you-dont-know-the-password-to-the-samsung-account. And I'm now sitting here now with knox warranty ticked and not even rooted BUT I CAN STILL USE THE PHONE PERFECTLY WITHOUT TRYING TO BOOT INTO RECOVERY JUST BOOTS UP NORMALLY. So what I do than is reset the phones firmware with Odin from sammobile. Ok stock android. Than I try the Cf-auto root method with Odin. No luck phone just doesn't even boot up. So I reset the phone again same method. Ok stock android again. Sitting here reading through google for 8 hours 5 of thise spent on xda. STILL NO LUCK. So I hope someone can resolve the issue. I can't provide any pictures as I just rage closed my computer and didn't take pics. And if I install cynogenmod with heimdall is it going to be rooted (i know you don't need a root to do that) and can someone provide a guide to that heimdall cynogenmod install method?

My S7 Duos is totally unresponsive, black screen but blue LED is on

I had my phone just sitting on a wireless charger this morning and had been there for about 15-30 minutes. I noticed it was rebooting, odd I thought? I took it off and then realized it was going into a boot loop. I gave it a soft reset and then it would turn on and stay on for about 10 seconds before boot looping again. I again gave it a soft reset after a couple loops and now it seems to totally dead, as the title implies.
No button combination has worked and I've held them all down for well over 30 seconds each. I've tried plugging it into my PC and haven't gotten any response that way. The blue LED is on so I know it's not dead...I think? To make matters worse, I bought this phone off Craigslist about 5 months ago and it's the Exynos version so I definitely can't get any kind of warranty on it. I'm hoping someone has had this problem and can help or just has some advice. Thanks everyone.
EDIT: To keep this updated, I have been able to get into Odin Mode and have tried to flash stock firmware. Odin says everything went fine but the phone hangs up at the Samsung Galaxy S7 logo. I'm unable to boot into recovery mode and I've even tried to reinstall TWRP with Odin and that has not worked.

Seen the LED only problem before, waiting for the battery to drain and the phone to turn off seems to be the only known cure atm
Once it does, connect the charger for 15 mins, then boot directly into recovery and clear caches to try fix the bootloop, possible it may need factory resetting / clean flash of stock ROM
Using the MicroUSB > USB white adapter, you may be able to connect a power hungry USB peripheral to the phone to drain the battery faster, I use a USB desktop fan, but some people report it not working when it is stuck in this LED loop and have just had to wait it out

Thanks for that advice, I'll let it drain over night. However, I have been able to get it to boot into Odin Mode and Odin v.3 recognized it. I flashed the stock firmware but upon rebooting nothing happened and now it gets stuck at the Samsung logo screen. I can still get it back into Odin mode, which I believe will be the fastest way to kill the battery, but I find it odd that I can get into that but not recovery? I am rooted and have TWRP installed, if that matters at all.

If you can get into Download (ODIN) mode, then letting the battery drain probably won't help, that only seems to help when the phone is completely stuck with nothing but the LED working
Make sure you flash CSC (Not HOME_CSC) along with the other 3 sections of the ROM, using ODIN 3.12.3, that should factory reset the phone after the flash
If you successfully flashed stock with ODIN already, you are no longer rooted and do not have TWRP installed, flashing stock with ODIN replaces all that with stock

I updated Odin and once again tried to flash the 4 parts, making sure I used the right CSC file, but I'm still getting hung up at the Samsung Galaxy S7 logo. Do you have a suggestion as to which region's firmware I should use? I have been trying the Australia one from SamMobile's site.
EDIT: And to clarify, I have the G930FD(the duos one).

jonny727272 said:
I updated Odin and once again tried to flash the 4 parts, making sure I used the right CSC file, but I'm still getting hung up at the Samsung Galaxy S7 logo. Do you have a suggestion as to which region's firmware I should use? I have been trying the Australia one from SamMobile's site.
EDIT: And to clarify, I have the G930FD(the duos one).
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Any region would work, and the F firmware works for the FD too

Help!! Galaxy s7 won't boot ; System status: CUSTOM

Hi, I really need some help with my s7. As of recently my s7 just randomly stopped booting and got stuck with the blue LED notification light still on. I tried everything to get it to boot but it never did. I can get to the recovery menu so I tried flashing a stock room via ODIN off of Sammobile. It still wouldn't boot and the system status changed to (system status: custom).
Now I've fixed this issue before and what I did last time was I flashed a stock rom and then used Kies and / or Smart switch and the Firmware upgrade and Initialisation which changed it from custom back to official and it finally would boot. However, that is not working this time. I've tried 3 different stock roms including UAE 6.01 / UAE 7.0 / UK 6.01 and I've tried using kies and smart switch a million times to no avail. I don't remember if I turned on developer options last time or not but either way I can't get the phone to boot now.
I live in Japan and I imported this phone so If i can't find a solution on these boards I'm out $750. I'll try anything, I'm desperate to get this damn thing working again. Please help , you guys are my only hope.
Here is some info about the phone and what it says:
PRODUCT NAME: SM-G930F
Current Binary: Samsung Official
System Status: Custom
FAP Lock: OFF
AP:G930FXXU1BPJG
CP:G930FXXU1BPJG
CSC:G930FOJV1BPK1
Model:SM-G930F

Also, when I use KIES or Smartswitch it says,
Initialised version: PDALB / CSC: PK2 / PHONEJJ (AFR)

try to install twrp recovery then if u can boot to it
you can install custom rom to boot your phone

hussain ali khan said:
try to install twrp recovery then if u can boot to it
you can install custom rom to boot your phone
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Hi, I tried installing TWRP but I still can't get into the recovery mode. Only the download mode. Do you access TWRP recovery via the same key method as the regular recovery mode? Volume up, home, and power, in my case? I try volume up, home, and power but nothing happens. The only keys that work are volume down, home and power to access download mode.

you could very well have a bad phone as this has happened to you before.

If you could get to download mode, you could use ODIN to install stock Samsung firmware

Revontheus said:
If you could get to download mode, you could use ODIN to install stock Samsung firmware
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Hi, I've tried installing stock firmware from Sammobile's website. I tried various firmware's that I though would fit my phone but no luck so far. Is there a way to tell for sure what firmware to use and if so can you tell me which?

You could base the firmware on what region you bought the phone from, for instance, I bought my S7 here in Southeast Asia, thus I have the G930FD variant.

status_broke said:
Hi, I really need some help with my s7. As of recently my s7 just randomly stopped booting and got stuck with the blue LED notification light still on. I tried everything to get it to boot but it never did. I can get to the recovery menu so I tried flashing a stock room via ODIN off of Sammobile. It still wouldn't boot and the system status changed to (system status: custom).
Now I've fixed this issue before and what I did last time was I flashed a stock rom and then used Kies and / or Smart switch and the Firmware upgrade and Initialisation which changed it from custom back to official and it finally would boot. However, that is not working this time. I've tried 3 different stock roms including UAE 6.01 / UAE 7.0 / UK 6.01 and I've tried using kies and smart switch a million times to no avail. I don't remember if I turned on developer options last time or not but either way I can't get the phone to boot now.
I live in Japan and I imported this phone so If i can't find a solution on these boards I'm out $750. I'll try anything, I'm desperate to get this damn thing working again. Please help , you guys are my only hope.
Here is some info about the phone and what it says:
PRODUCT NAME: SM-G930F
Current Binary: Samsung Official
System Status: Custom
FAP Lock: OFF
AP:G930FXXU1BPJG
CP:G930FXXU1BPJG
CSC:G930FOJV1BPK1
Model:SM-G930F
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Hi, i have got exactly same problem, did you find any solution for this..?
i have tried all available methods on internet, but no luck..

https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-s7/SM-G930F/AFR/download/G930FXXU1BPJG/111891
Use Odin version that matches, Samsung cable and usb 2.0 if possible.
If it's issue to get to download mode then press three buttons used to get to recovery but switch to vol up when screen turns off and hold
Likely will need to wipe data with CSC
Deselect auto reboot before flashing firmware then boot back into download and use odin to either reflash firmware again then boot or flash recovery to boot into and factory reset (I think android stock recovery does on boot after retirning to stock in odin). I find sometimes it takes a couple tries in odin to stick at least with modems and BL. Maybe remove micro SD beforehand too, corrupt data can do weird things on boot.
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Please Help with SM-G920V Verizon S6

Hello All,
My friend has a Verizon S6 that is not booting up. Stays frozen or in a boot loop on Samsung logo.
No idea what Android version it had.
I downloaded the latest firmware md5 file for it from SamFirm and tried to flash it with Odin. It was a single file so I used the AP button as usual.
It starts flashing but when it comes to System.img Odin fails. I tried many times with many Odin Versions and re-downloaded the firmware file and tried many usb cables and 2 different PCs but no go.
As I'm writing this, I tried it again and it completed the flash successfully but the phone booted up in a blue Android screen and it said installing system update, then erasing and it froze right there. I go into recovery and reset to factory settings and wipe cache. And the purple LED is on all the time.
So now it's stuck in a boot loop on the Verizon logo red screen.
I believe something is messed up in the partitions or memory, I'm not sure. Anyway I can revive this phone for him?
He's not interested in rooting but if it's a must, no problem; anything to get the phone started.
The phone is sim unlocked cos he was using it on sim cards outside the US, so he would like to keep doing that as he no longer lives in the US.
Thank you kindly in advance.

[sm j730f] Bootloader fail and TWRP boots into black screen

Greetings everyone,
I decided to post my problem with my phone after searching the entire internet for similar problem but with no luck. Anyway I used to play around with my Samsung j7 pro for 2 years, I managed to flash twrp and thus many other custom roms, until last week when I recklessly flashed a sboot.img.tar file through Odin in order to fix cellular network in a rom I flashed earlier, this alone bricked my phone refusing to get past the Samsung logo, so like I do always, I tried to restore my phone by flashing the stock firmware (9.0) which I always keep on my PC, but surprise, the phone refuses to go through the process and gives me this error:
sw rev check fail bootloader device -1 binary 6
(same with 8.0 and 7.0 firmware)
I searched the internet for same error but with no luck, because I understand it's a mismatch between device bootloader current version and the firmware bootloader's, that they should be the same or higher, meaning you can't downgrade, I get that! but I never seen device with negative figure (-1) what that's supposed to mean? my device bootloader used to be on 6, how did it managed to jump to minus one ?
then I tried to flash TWRP to see if I could flash a rom and get around it, so I did, but when booting into recovery the screen goes black, I thought first the phone turned off, but not really, because TWRP seems to work with screen completely black, I knew that because I accidentally touch the screen and I sense vibration, I managed to reboot the phone via twrp just by guessing the buttons location (screen always black) in order to prove that TWRP is working with screen off. I tried to flash multiple TWRP versions but the same problem, no screen just touch, by the way there is nothing wrong with display hardware because it shows Samsung logo at start and also can boot into download mode just fine.
I hope someone could help me overcome this big of an issue, because I tried everything.