Odin flash auto-reverts after rebooting

[nexware]

Hi guys, i have an s4 active i9295 with a bootloop, so i decided to flash stock rom via odin as i always did with samsung phones with this problem but every time i flash a rom (i tried different ones) the phone restarts as normal but when the samsung logo appears then it says on the top left with blue letters revocery booting, then it does something with a progress bar and an android logo above and restarts. When it boots again its back at the bootloop, im an absolute noob in this but what i understand is happening is that the phone is reverting the flash i did with odin and i want to know what am i doing wrong, is this supposed to happen? Any help will be much appreciated

 

[Droidriven]

Hello,
Welcome to XDA.
To better assist you, your thread will be moved to your device Q&A forum linked below.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-active/help

The experts there may be able to help. Good luck.

 

[nexware]

I need help, its quite an expensive phone to just give up and throw it away

Hi guys, i have an s4 active i9295 with a bootloop, so i decided to flash stock rom via odin as i always did with samsung phones with this problem but every time i flash a rom (i tried different ones) the phone restarts as normal but when the samsung logo appears then it says on the top left with blue letters revocery booting, then it does something with a progress bar and an android logo above and restarts. When it boots again its back at the bootloop, im an absolute noob in this but what i understand is happening is that the phone is reverting the flash i did with odin and i want to know what am i doing wrong, is this supposed to happen? Any help will be much appreciated

C'mon guys you may know what is going on with my s4, no matter what i do it bootloops, tried everithing
pit + firmware on odin, still bootloops, wipe data/cache after and before flashing, still bootloops, i researched a lot and tried almost everithing with the same result, please help me, i'll personally bake a cake to the first nice guy to help me get out of the bootloop

 

[Droidriven]

C'mon guys you may know what is going on with my s4, no matter what i do it bootloops, tried everithing
pit + firmware on odin, still bootloops, wipe data/cache after and before flashing, still bootloops, i researched a lot and tried almost everithing with the same result, please help me, i'll personally bake a cake to the first nice guy to help me get out of the bootloop

I'll try to help you, what did you install or modify that caused the bootloop in the first place? Was your device rooted? Did you have custom recovery? What recovery? Did you have a custom ROM? What ROM?

 

[nexware]

I'll try to help you, what did you install or modify that caused the bootloop in the first place? Was your device rooted? Did you have custom recovery? What recovery? Did you have a custom ROM? What ROM?

I received the phone as it is with the bootloop, don't know much of its state before but i was told that it was a bad flashing procedure the cause of the problem. It had stock recoverys from the different roms i flashed in odin: I9295XXUDOB4
I9295XXUCNE5
I9295VJUDOF1
There was one time i managed to make it boot flashing CWM and installing cyanogenmod 12.1 but on restart it kept bootlooping again and i was unable to get it to boot again even repeating exactly the same steps i did before.
I want to make an absolute clean firmware flash with the original rom that this phone came in my country (VJUBMK4) but from what i understand once im on newer versions (im not sure if 4.3 or 5.0) i cant downgrade.
I really don't know what is it causing the bootloop, how can i get the pone to factory firmware? Am i doing something wrong?

 

[Droidriven]

I received the phone as it is with the bootloop, don't know much of its state before but i was told that it was a bad flashing procedure the cause of the problem. It had stock recoverys from the different roms i flashed in odin: I9295XXUDOB4
I9295XXUCNE5
I9295VJUDOF1
There was one time i managed to make it boot flashing CWM and installing cyanogenmod 12.1 but on restart it kept bootlooping again and i was unable to get it to boot again even repeating exactly the same steps i did before.
I want to make an absolute clean firmware flash with the original rom that this phone came in my country (VJUBMK4) but from what i understand once im on newer versions (im not sure if 4.3 or 5.0) i cant downgrade.
I really don't know what is it causing the bootloop, how can i get the pone to factory firmware? Am i doing something wrong?

Ah, it sounds like you have one of the devices with locked bootloaders then if you can't downgrade, if that is the case you can't use CWM, TWRP, CM or AOSP custom ROMs, those devices have to use Safestrap and modified Stock ROMs. Or you may can unlock the bootloader. I'm not sure that is your problem but you can check it out.

You can flash the newest stock firmware and just be done with it, you may not be able to root and flash custom but the device will at least work.

Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk

 

[nexware]

Ah, it sounds like you have one of the devices with locked bootloaders then if you can't downgrade, if that is the case you can't use CWM, TWRP, CM or AOSP custom ROMs, those devices have to use Safestrap and modified Stock ROMs. Or you may can unlock the bootloader. I'm not sure that is your problem but you can check it out.

You can flash the newest stock firmware and just be done with it, you may not be able to root and flash custom but the device will at least work.

Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk

How can i be sure that the device has a locked bootloader? If that's the case, what can i do to make it to just work as stock? I need a special kind of stock firmware?

 

[JASONRR]

How can i be sure that the device has a locked bootloader? If that's the case, what can i do to make it to just work as stock? I need a special kind of stock firmware?

Boot into download mode by holding the volume down + power button and see what is the device name listed there

 

[Devo7v]

How can i be sure that the device has a locked bootloader? If that's the case, what can i do to make it to just work as stock? I need a special kind of stock firmware?

Take the cover off and pull the battery, the label under the battery should have the model number for the phone.

• If the model is GT-i9295, then you have an unlocked bootloader and should be able to flash any firmware.
• If the model is SGH-i537, then you have a locked bootloader and can only flash firmware meant for that phone.

Once we know which phone you have we can help you.

 

[nexware]

Boot into download mode by holding the volume down + power button and see what is the device name listed there

It says this:
PRODUCT NAME: GT-I9295
CURRENT BINARY: Custom
SYSTEM STATUS: Official
CSB-CONFIG-LSB: 0x30
SECURE DOWNLOAD : ENABLE
WRITE PROTECTION: ENABLE
eMMC BURST MODE enabled

 

[nexware]

Take the cover off and pull the battery, the label under the battery should have the model number for the phone.

• If the model is GT-i9295, then you have an unlocked bootloader and should be able to flash any firmware.
• If the model is SGH-i537, then you have a locked bootloader and can only flash firmware meant for that phone.

Once we know which phone you have we can help you.

Its GT-i9295

 

[Devo7v]

Can you flash VJUCNI1 or VJUDOF1?