SM-N950F soft bricked?

[fzoli469]

Hey all! New here. I just soft bricked my phone, i woke up to it not booting. I tried various fw in Odin, but no success. This is my day to day use phone, I don't have anything else, so I'd like to make it work again ASAP, hopefully without factory reset.

 

[pendor24]

Hi
what manipulation did you do to get there before flashing a lot of stuff in odin?

 

[fzoli469]

I've been just pressing the buttons all around, then I read about Odin, so I tried it. Now my battery died, let's see if I can get to wipe the cache...
Update: no success. Is there a way to get it into recovery? the old volume up+bixby doesn't seem to work.

 

[gandyprakoso]

Sometimes its because the recovery itself is error so that button combination is not working..

Charge your battery until full, then factory reset it with odin, let see if that works

But before you do that make sure you download correct fw that match your phone model. dont try all fw available there, make sure you download fw for SM N950F..

 

[fzoli469]

Well it worked and it broke again... Back to square one.

 

[cyanGalaxy]

Your infos are kinda vague.
Did you modify your phone and it got triggered by user-action, or did it hit the fan by itself?

 

[fzoli469]

I think it was a suicide attempt, I never flashed before, only major thing was just a battery change in a samsung service last summer. It's weird, because since last time it turned on again, but seems like the wifi didn't want to communicate, plus as I look back, sometimes it restarted when I touched the wifi or some random setting. Somewhere else I read that it could be a motherboard failure.