I have 2 Note 8's that I have somehow managed to achieve soft bricks on, on the Sprint variant and the other AT&T, I have researched and odin is failing everytime on both of them
is there anything anyone has figured out? It says "model mismatch fail" when flashing with odin on each phone, on is a pet project the other is a customer's. Any advice would be much appreciated!!
Hold Volume Down and power button until device powers off...it can take up to 5 min...you have to wait
Yes, BlueFox721 has posted the correct method to get out of upload/cp-crash or some other semi-bricked mode.
To recap it, keep holding down Vol Down + Power buttons only, until you see the screen starts rebooting, then release both buttons. Sometimes the reboot may take up to a few minutes, and make sure that the battery is charged at least 50%, otherwise it will fail.
If it keeps booting back into upload/cp-crash or some other weird mode, then hold down the above buttons again, but this time as soon as you see the reboot, do not release them but also quickly hold down the BIXBY button along with first two, which should kick you into download mode (or use a download jig). Then re-flash with full stock firmware using Odin. You may have to try both the normal and patched versions, sometimes it works with the first or the other (when you see a model fail error).
Samsung_Odin_v3.13.1.ZIP
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=746010030569965841
Samsung_Odin_v3.13.1_Patched.ZIP
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=673956719939831735
I have a Samsung galaxy s8 plus, it stops charging beyond 60% an then i tried to reset it, it stacked and unable to be powered off neither be in safe mode. Please tell me what can i do.
The less than 100% battery charging issue could be caused by several reasons, here they are:
1. The phone was flashed with an eng-boot/kernel which has a charge limitation built in. To fix it, reflash with full stock firmware.
2. The battery may have weakened or about to go bad (check the voltage and capacity with a multi meter first). To fix it, replace the battery.
3. The charging circuit may have gotten damaged from an over-current spike, or the port has been physically damaged either mechanically or by liquid damage.
To fix it, you can try replacing the small circuit board along with the port, or perform the world famous "BillA Bypass" (lol), whereby I physically modify the main circuit board to force charge the battery by bypassing the charging circuit entirely.
