[Q] Today's update soft-bricked my phone

[pstuart82]

Hello. Last week I got impatient with the fact that I could not write to my sd card under the newest versions of Android (thanks, Google!), so I rooted my phone with a (supposedly) unobstrusive ROM as described here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2143479.

And today, after installing the baseband update, my phone will no longer boot. The screen just goes dark after saying Samsung Galaxy Note II.

I tried reinstalling the root, I tried installing a custom ROM, I tried resetting to factory and clearing the cache. Nothing has worked.

I really would like to have my phone back Does anyone have any suggetions?

 

[azRisky]

OTA update

Hello. Last week I got impatient with the fact that I could not write to my sd card under the newest versions of Android (thanks, Google!), so I rooted my phone with a (supposedly) unobstrusive ROM as described here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2143479.

And today, after installing the baseband update, my phone will no longer boot. The screen just goes dark after saying Samsung Galaxy Note II.

I tried reinstalling the root, I tried installing a custom ROM, I tried resetting to factory and clearing the cache. Nothing has worked.

I really would like to have my phone back Does anyone have any suggetions?

Try Kies software (samsung), let me know if this works for you.

 

[pstuart82]

Try Kies software (samsung), let me know if this works for you.

I only backed up some of my applications. I am not sure this will work but I will try when I get home.

If anyone else has any ideas, I would still appreciate to hear them. I need the phone for business reasons, so I need to purchase another tonight if I am not able to fix this one.

FWIW, at one point I noticed that the phone still made my speakers crackle when I put it near them, so it was transmitting *something*. The screen is blank though.

 

[tplaistow]

Try Kies software (samsung), let me know if this works for you.

I'm in his exact same boat. Rooted about a month ago, the update soft bricked my phone. I've tried everything from flashing rom after rom to trying to recover in Kies.

No dice, when you try to recover in Kies, it won't recognize your device, it just saying Connecting until it asks you to reboot your device.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Been triyng to fix this for 18 hours so far
If you need any info to help just tell me I'll provide everything.

Some info:
In download mode, this is displayed;
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: SGH-I317
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Custom
KNOX WARRANTY VOID: 1
RP SWREV: A3

 

[pstuart82]

I'm in his exact same boat. Rooted about a month ago, the update soft bricked my phone. I've tried everything from flashing rom after rom to trying to recover in Kies.

No dice, when you try to recover in Kies, it won't recognize your device, it just saying Connecting until it asks you to reboot your device.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Been triyng to fix this for 18 hours so far
If you need any info to help just tell me I'll provide everything.

Some info:
In download mode, this is displayed;
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: SGH-I317
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Custom
KNOX WARRANTY VOID: 1
RP SWREV: A3

Your specs are EXACTLY the same as mine. I am getting the dreaded SW Rev. Invalid Magic string when I try to flash from Kies. I am currently downloading a 4.4.2 ROM from d-h.st to try to fix it; I will keep you updated.

Side rant: If you're a tiny website like d-h.st, probably not a good idea to force the user to type in their credit card by hand. Seriously, I was all ready to throw money at the screen and get this stupid thing over with, but like heck if I'm going to type my credentials into that kind of site.

 

[jaybeerange]

Just curious guys but have you all tried flashing stock rom back to the phone using odin?

 

[pstuart82]

Just curious guys but have you all tried flashing stock rom back to the phone using odin?

jaybeerange- this will not work because Samsung Kies tries to restore to version 4.1.2, but the boot loader disallows it because it's too old.

If you have a 4.4.2 sitting around, by all means, let us know. I've been trying to download from d-h.st, but rumor has it that it will fail.

I am literally out of options.

 

[jaybeerange]

Yeah the one from dhst is the one im talking about. I dont know why it wouldnt work. If I remember right it doesn't contain the bootloader so that shouldnt be a problem. The bootloader just wont allow itself to revert to an older version but its a 4.4.2 rom so it should work

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Just to be clear you know that when I say odin I mean the odin application and not kies right?

 

[MikeyFTL]

This OTA update bricked mine as well. Don't install this if your rooted!!!

 

[jaybeerange]

I was able to take the update and im rooted and running custom recovery. Only thing I can think of that might be different is that I never took the official ota update. I flashed a stock 4.4.2 rom in recovery so im still on the 4.3 bootloader

 

[pstuart82]

Sweet mother of Zeus, I downloaded the 4.4.2 ROM off d-h.st, flashed it in Odin, and unbricked my phone.

Instructions for everyone else:
* Download Android 4.4.2 stock here: http://d-h.st/8HG. FYI, don't bother buying a subscription to the site to speed up the download unless you're doing it to thank the owners. Membership WON'T DO ANYTHING to help your speed. You'll just have to wait ~4 hours.
* Flash with Odin 3.0.7.

If anyone who has rights wants to post in this thread, it might be helpful.

I plan to set up a torrent tonight for anyone who wants to download it without the long wait.

 

[pstuart82]

Here is the magnet link: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:03336f24f4d6b9e86ca608d7766287edc7cd5d73&dn=I317-ODIN-UCUCNE5-Stock-No-Recovery.zip&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80

By all means download, but PLEASE seed if you do. I am allocating a lot of bandwidth but I can only upload so much!

PS. If you're worried about the reliability of the torrent, d-h.st provides an md5 sum that you can use to check the file after you've downloaded it.

 

[BattlestarSC2]

Exactly what the guy said about flashing the stock rom is right. However, since my phone didn't have enough space, it didn't reset my phone. Maybe it works if you go into download mode (power, volume up and home) and then reboot it works. Have rebooted it twice since then and it still works. Everything is just how i had it before the update, but with the update.

 

[xCAVEMANx]

no seeds for the torrent?

 

[pstuart82]

no seeds for the torrent?

I don't know what to tell you. Three people have already downloaded it from me (unfortunately, none is seeding).

 

[xCAVEMANx]

I don't know what to tell you. Three people have already downloaded it from me (unfortunately, none is seeding).

I think the technical term in torrent speak is leeches. So your torrent has zero seeders, zero peers, and 3 leeches.

 

[dicksteele]

ATT update

Rule #1 of OTA. No root and stock completely.

This link here shows you every file that the OTA checks for and many other things before it does anything.
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95784891001611244

If something does not match, it craps out.

I'm downloading the Zen's ODIN NE5 from dev-host now. They must have fixed issues because it's flying.

I should have it in 10-15 minutes. I have uploaded a version that I had to androidhost, but I'm waiting to hear from Zen if he's ok with me posting a mirror.
And I need to make sure that what I'm downloading and what I have uploaded in the same. But like I said looks like Dev-Host is working better, or at least better than it has been the past couple of days.

 

[pstuart82]

I think the technical term in torrent speak is leeches. So your torrent has zero seeders, zero peers, and 3 leeches.

It wouldn't be so bad if I hadn't explicitly asked people to seed. Anyway, there's pne seeder: me. Interestingly, I tried to attach to it with uTorrent, and I can't connect to the host. So maybe there's something wrong with my torrent server. If you want, PM me and I will sign in to Windows and seed from there.

 

[rxc777]

Had exact same issue and flashed the boot loader and now my phone works great!

here is the link: http://d-h.st/qDY

Have a good one guys

 

[CharleeBucketz]

Had a lot of hope for this, but I'm now getting one step further in my loop (I see the ATT logo spinning then it just hangs).

Any ideas?