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[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] kojam:
Mine was in all the way through the Odin flash..

No probs.

Cannot take it out during the flash...may corrupt something during the flash (is my thinking) if i do...
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] Cowdrey:
I manage to get a pass flash in odin (with sd card in ) the phone will start and let me set it up etc but as soon as I take sd card out you can't turn the phone on again
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] xollen:
Got problem managet get to downlaod mode, tired odin added all files and im getting error most of time it says .pit file error.... and now for long time i cant get in download mode phone vibrates but noting, does it matter what version i was on before and what im flashing? i was on 6.0.1 stock and trying yours 5.1.1

edit. now only getting flash write failure, pls help
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] alquistador:
I had all the same problems. I had to freeze the phone. You only get one chance to flash then the phone has to be re froze.
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] xollen:
how to do that?
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] yashthemw:
Literally "freeze".

Put it in the freezer.

This isnt a joke.
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] Doemer:
My N910F shows the bootloader everytime and time by time its also possible to enter TWRP. However when I föash a ROM it seems like my Data Partition (as well as the System partition) gets corrupted and the TWRP Screen stucks with blurry lines.

Sometimes I was able to reboot and format the corrupted partition and sometimes I had to reflash the recovery as well (i tried different custom recoveries).

However I managed to flash complete samsung Firmware through odin as well. After a successfull flash the device boots into the recovery and is doing an update. This process stucks with blurry lines as well and the phone than stucks on the samsung logo.

Sounds like a broken eMMC?

Regards

Doemer
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] danivancouver:
My problem is similar, the data partition is corrupted. Twrp does not seem to clean or form well. I recommend doing it with philz. This has the option of formatting each partition separately. So I managed to recover the note 4 910f. I'm with Rom Stock KK.

https://xdaforums.com/note-4/snapdragon-dev/trltexx-philz-touch-t2927930

Enviado desde mi SM-N910F mediante Tapatalk
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] xollen:
it helped Thanks you, but now phone shut downs, freezes, tried install twrp from odon it says completed, but when i try open recovery from phone there is no twrp... duno what to do phone is unusable some times its hard to start have to remove battery freeze in freezer it again...
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] logosA:
i would like here to thank the OP an all people who with their comments and links helped me get back my phone.

A friend of mine gave me the Galaxy Note 4 N910 F that i have right now, which was totally bricked. Black screen, no lights no charging led, nothing.

Was ready to take it to service and pay alot of money to change , at best , the motherboard, if that could brink it back in life.

Until i found you thread.

So I did everything posted here. And let me explain

1. made a sdcard and booted my phone in download mode almost with the first attemp! using files given in the post 1

After that, I previously had download my phones original 6.01 stock rom from Sam mobile and flashed with odin3.11.1

That was it! Phone booted, put my google account downloaded and installed al my apps, sync perfect and everything.

But when tried to reboot , same again. Totally dead phone. :(

Second time took me 6 hours with 15 unsuccefull tries, two of them odin failed to flash stock rom again and the other were just not booting at all.

In the end managed to boot in download mode and flashed with odin3.11.1 BL and pit file found in the files downloaded from

http://pastebin.com/7KQxRRNF that OP is mention in page 9 if i remember well

Phone shut-ed down and after one very long minute I saw samsung logo and booted normally. For some 5 minutes it was luggy and freesing but in the end everything is perfect in my phone.

BUT, I AM AFRAID TO REBOOT!

I will keep it like this for sometime to watch it and I will report anything new comes up

I which again to thank you for your time and all your efforts :) :)

As a member of XDA , feel free to mention me at any time and I will answer to everything, any one else may need to know.

THANK YOU
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] alquistador:
I was reading about thread about the EFS file being contaminated with spy wear. I will post the link atleast try.

Unable to post link

It is regarding fix DRk and Dm vertify repair

Link posted

https://xdaforums.com/note-4/orig-development/fix-drk-dm-verity-factory-csc-serial-t3422965
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] Doemer:
Hi

Could you please send me a PM with the link?

Thx in advance

Doemer
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] logosA:
Coming back today to report back that my phone has the same symptoms again. Until today was perfect and took it with me at work. When after 1/2 hour took it out of my jacket, it was black again with the same symptoms.

Now I have managed to go to download mode faster than before , but Odin can do nothing. It always fails. Tried all the files in the zip( bl, AP,.....) All fail. Now I am using Odin 3.12 which at least let me change pit . But after that, no lack. Some time phone shows logo and goes to emergency recovery but nothing can be done, since phone cannt mount system as it shows. At this moment I am in download mode again and trying once more

I am afraid nothing can be done :(

I am getting system.img.ext4

fail.

can any one tell me if i can format system with odin or any other method ?
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] yashthemw:
Are you using the recovery firmware given in the op.

The one on mega server, with android version 5.1.1.

If not, then try with that.

Reporting Via N910G
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] logosA:
isnt that the same from the pastebin site? I have that , and trying with it from the begining

I think my problem is because i have android 6.01 and this downgrade is making the error

Do you have anything to suggest? I have the stock firmware downloaded from sammobile , could that help?

I have tried to flash it twice the first one successfully but right after some hours came back to zero.

Now odin is not flashing it, it always fail

I will try to flash it with another pit I found in sammobile a while ago and see if it helps, because with the pit in NOTE4 zip from mega , it shows pass but then firmware is not flashing

Every idea will be very much appreciated

:)

Thanks again for your replay
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] fofinho3116:
Hello everyone

I have N910f and i have a bit problem the note 4 .

The problem is if i want to reboot the phone is take more than 2 min to turn on again and many times I need to remove the battery and replace it again to turn on the phone and it happens the same problem when i want to reboot the phone to recovery I should wait more than 3 min for phone to enter to recovery. And sometimes the phone freeze and sometimes restar it self. I have tried many different stock firmware from 5.0.1 intill 6.0.1 but the problem it still not resolved. And sometimes I rebooted the phone and phone entered to download mode it self. So I don't really know what's the problem with my phone and if my phone needs unbrick or there is another solution to fix my N910f. I forgot to say that I have too used many different roms from xda site and I still have the problem.
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] xollen:
i managing to install new roms but no one works like it should, phone turns off, and wont charge? what can i do?

Edit. Installed [ROM] [7.1.1] EmotionOS now phone works fine for couple hours no reboots will test more.

Edit2. Was happy to early phone freezes and stops... Dunno what to do...
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] vndkmr97:
Hi guys,

As of now now luck for me (N910G).. do we have any trick to unbrick ??? .. The phone just detects in my laptop ... when i use win32disk manager along with 17.9MB debrick image (Sandisk - 32GB) to write the image and insert the SD in phone ... The device wont vibrates ... Please help me!!!!!

Thanks and awaiting any sort of help .....
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] vndkmr97:
N910G

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[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] alquistador:
Did you freeze it?
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] vndkmr97:
You mean !!! i have to put the device and battery separate in zip lock cover & keep it in Freezer ?? ... - > nope i didnt as of now ... how long should i keep ?? SD card inside the phone ??

Please suggest and thanks for your reply .
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] alquistador:
Overnight!! make sure everything is preloaded on your PC so you install when the phone is its coldest. Stupid but it works
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] yashthemw:
I think, [MENTION=6949733]dyasten[/MENTION] has used a different method to create the debrick for n910f.

Cause his debrick is of 3.74gb and the one that i have created using the method claimed by him is of 16mb.

Although it has worked for few n910g users, it isnt working for many.

Can somebody find out, what makes the n910f debrick file so big?

Reporting Via N910G
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] xollen:
can some one explain why freezing phone helps? i can use phone for like 5h without problem then have to freeze it again ;D
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] logosA:
really cannt find out why. When unzip it with 7zip, nothing comes up so big

I have enabled show hidden files , so to see if there is something hidden but no, nothing that can explain the size

Could it be an image file that we cannt see?
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] alquistador:
I read another thread and it implies that there might be spy wear in the efs file.
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] logosA:
After i read your post about the size of the size of debrick file and why its so big, you saw my post before a while up there where I was trying to find out my self what was so wrong and I couldnt unbrick my phone.

So I decided to try once more( I had the pnone boxed to give it as a spair part).

Put it in the freezer for some time, I estimate about one hour until phone was at about 5-6 C .

Followed the steps as shown in the pastebin thread that OP is mentioning in post 1.

I had putted the phone in a zip bag without battery in it, in the freezer.

Had prepaired in that time the sdcard (16 Gb class 10 kingston)

Had open odin3 v3.12.3 as administrator.

Put first card then battery and then tried to press power. NOTHING

Connected phone to pc and press volume- , power, home

Phone vibrated and opened but not in download mode but in that half download mod where to screens are shown and a message says to connect to kies and try recovery.

As it was on that screen I PRESS again volume down - power-home and the phone this time got in download mode.

All this time the phone is connected in pc and I hear it sound when it opens.

Odin says added!!

starting to adding all files in the 511 folder with finger closed ( i first tried the BL.tar.md5 for bootloader wich is in separate folder as an alternative BT, but oddin answered invalid file)

so followed the files in the folder as they are givven

BT AP CS CSC

Press start and oddin started

I was waiting in system.img.ext4 to say again FAIL as it ded 5 times in past days.

BUT IT PASSED THIS TIME.

Everything was completed successfully this time.

phone rebooted and Samsung logo appears and then green android announcing update, deleting, installing.

Finishing up phone shutted down and

BLACK SCREEN AGAIN

I though that's it , again fail

After some seconds battery sign appears and I tried to open phone (which is still connected to pc)

Nothing happened also

Had a final idea, disconnected it and connected to wall charger, after 2 very long seconds screen light up with battery sign saying

0% and started to charge and a very bright red led in the top of the phone

I was inpatient to see what is happening so after 1/2 an hour i pressed power button an saw battery to 52%

Though let try to switch it on now.

The phone was to hot.

After i pushed power the battery sign turned of and the phone is black totally again :(

Tried to run the process once again but this time I received FAIL IN Odin again

So I have putted the phone to charge and after an hour I will put it in the freeze again and leave it all night.

Tomorrow morning I will try once again. If it fails this will be my final attempt.

I will put it in the box for real this time(for this week at least)

sorry I don't have anything good to report , lets see tomorrow.

take a look in odin's log in the successful attempt, something useful can come to notice.
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] alquistador:
Pull the SD card when u r in download mode before u install
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] logosA:
thanks, i will try it in morning :good:
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] yashthemw:
Some say, there is a bad soldering, thats why there isnt any permanent solution to it.

Reporting Via N910G
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] alquistador:
I was looking around in my settings and noticed that my internal sD card is showing my system to be 7.39 gigs. Can we have some other users check what their system partition is in size. I think the old system is still on our note 4 and it is causing a memory conflict. I was unable to do a full format with my recovery installed. Just a thought. You can check thought the settings.
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] logosA:
no luck guys, Odin fails in half of system.img.ext4

had it all night in the freeze

I removed sdcard this time after phone booted in recovery
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] logosA:
after 7 hours in the freeze i tried again

Everything finished smooth with no errors and everything said Passed, success, OK

Phone restarted , and thats it

Its not opening. Total black
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] alquistador:
Let it sit for 30min plugged in. Hopefully it will start. If not re install a different ROM. Is working you just have to figure out what work for your phone
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] logosA:
You are so right:)

After 15 minutes in charger , I put back sdcard and press just power

See what I got:):):good:

In German this time

Phone is completing installation now from my Google account. But what do I do next? Restart? Take of the SD card, or just watch it for sometime and see what's happening?

Thank you all for holding my hand:)
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] logosA:
It decided for me, downloaded update and rebooted installing it. I have all my finger crossed
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] logosA:
I am sorry if I am spamming the thread. I am very excited and very frightened
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] alquistador:
Leave it for 20minutes each time. It should work but I still get freezing and screen will not wake. I also had a hard time getting Root. There is more to this, I don't know what.
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] logosA:
system finished installation and rebooted normaly this time, everything seems normally.

After some seconds a new update poped up again, New firmware update as it says . I am playing all in . Gave yes, update again and system is downloading new update right now, 25% and going...

Wish me luck

---------- Post added at 11:24 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:11 PM ----------

thank you all, my dear friends. I am feeling now like a big company of good people has hugged me in the moment of need. Even if it will not be fixed, this really meant a lot for me.

I wish you luck and happiness in your life.

After all its just a phone, but this you are doing for me right now worth more than everything

Meanwhile 75% and going :)

---------- Post added at 11:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:24 PM ----------

i have a payed app Galaxy Charging Current which monitors charging and temperature of the battery,

In the beginning of this proccess reached 30 C , meaning that the phone was to hot, straggling to make things happend. In the last 5 minutes temperature has droped to 22 C and a new message has come up( from system and not APP)

Fast charging is enabled

I take it as a good sign.

meanwhile system has rebooted in recovery, with no errors this time and has now reached 90% of ''installing system update''
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] logosA:
Guys, that's it.

System completed update. I will stop here to rest my phone but more my heart

Thank you for been with me tonight.

Tomorrow, I will write down step by stem what I did, so some one else can be helped of this.

Don't laugh about freezer. That did the trick

:)
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] Cid6.7:
I have a Canadian SM-N910W8 on Bell

None of my PC's detect the phone, I can get into Download Mode but that is it.

When I try & boot it "normally" I get a quick flash screen that says RECOVERY BOOTING in blue letters Then the can not do normal boot ODIN mode (high speed) blahblah UDC START.

But thats where it sits & does nothing else. I can boot into normal download mode but that does no good cause my pc wont detect the phone at all.

Is there any way to boot these devices from a sd card & fix the recovery bootloader..?
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] logosA:
OP in the first post has detailed files for every type F G and W8 follow these and i think you will find the way.

I had done all these steps more that 10 times. Eventually what had helped my is before doing that, put my phone on a zip bag for 7 hours (without battery) and when i took it out I had everything ready as they are described inOP.

You can only do it once in odin. If it fails, back in the freeze for another 6 hours and try from the beggining.

I did the freezer trick 4 times until made it working.

After finishing, even if you see black screen and nothing is happening, leave it on charger for at least 1/2 hour. Phone is still trying in the background.

Good luck friend. Read all the steps one by one and have patience

:good::good: :)
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] Cid6.7:
Thank you I'll try the freezer trick but my phone lost connection to my PC before I screwed up the recovery bootloader or whatever it is..

What happened was it lost connection to pc so I used flashify to remove TWRP so I could put the stock recovery on it. But in the works something went wrong & now the phone wont boot to OS or into recovery mode. Only boots into odin download mode, but like I said is useless if it cant connect to pc.. Its almost like the USB port was disabled as I could not change it in settings whatever I'd select even MTP wouldnt make a difference.. So idk what else to try I guess someone with a JTAG could fiddle with it if this doesnt work.

Did you leave the sd card in the phone while freezing it.?

Cheers
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] logosA:
take of your battery and press and hold power for some seconds (10 is enough) , connect your phone to pc

try to hear connect sound

Go to settings coms and lpt and see if it shows there and how is described.

If its not QUALCOMM HS-USB QDLOADER 9008 and is like RELINK HS-USB QDLOADER 9008 or anything else uninstall port and tick also delete software related to this device. reboot your pc with your phone unpluged

Have download and install the qualcomm drivers mentioned in the first post

plug your phone. Windows will try to install drivers from microsoft server. STOP IT

Now they will install the qualcomm drivers for your phone your phone must still be with NO battery or extsdcard.

go to devices and printers and see if now is named QUALCOMM HS-USB QDLOADER 9008, if YES you are good to proceed.

If not, uninstall everything related to your phone, KIES, SMART SWITCH, Samsung USB drivers and do the proccess from the beginning.

I used CCleaner to clean the registry after all that so to have nothing left.

After that, when your phone is recognized as we said , put it in the freeze and get ready the sdcard, odin and everything else you will need. Wait 6 hours and try again.

Which you luck

:)

no battery or sdcard in the freezer, before put it there try to leave your battery on it and charge it as long as you can. (2 hours i think is enough) then take off the battery and put just the phone in there in a zip bag
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] alquistador:
So I checked a working note 4 and the file in the ESF folder are a mess. I'm not a programer...... If someone is maybe they can have a look at our EFS files?
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] logosA:
i am not either, but i have friends who are good in this, also know a couple of rom developers , let me try to show to them and see what they can tell us. They are in NOTE 2 most of them but I am sure they know alot much more than us. what exactly do you want me to show them?

Are you rooted, because i am not , as you can understand and cannt see anything in esf folder
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] alquistador:
I have no idea....Lol
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] logosA:
Ok i will try with my friend as soon as i can reach him and show him my phone. How is the concumption of your battery by the way? Do you think its safer to leave phone in charger overnight just to be sure?
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] alquistador:
I don't think it matters.
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] logosA:
you was very right about been in the hood still :)

Left the phone to charge for some hours and then took it of and went to sleep. After 4 hours( i was very unxious)

walk up and the phone was closed and couldn't wake.

Did all the tricks as you can understand but nothing.

So back to the freezer for 1/2 hour this time and phone is back where it was working like nothing happened

I have installed an app called Wake Lock - CPU Awake from play that keeps CPU always on and prevents phone to deep sleep. Lets see how that will go

I must buy a lot of zip bags :)
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] alquistador:
Just leave the battery out for 5 minutes and try to restart.
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] logosA:
I will try that next time. For now the phone is running again.

I , at first, though , it could be working in the background and that cause battery to discharge in these 4 ours and that cause the phone to shut down.

So i putted in the charger and then tried again, with no sdcard, with sdcard but nothing.

Connected it to pc without card and saw it was recognized like before '' QUALCOMM HS-USB QDLOADER 9008 ''

so i put it in the freezer and was ready to make the process again from the begging. But when i took it out and put sdcard and press power , phone just rebooted by it self. Booted all up the way, froze for a while, rebooted and from that moment its working
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] feifelm1983:
People here from Germany with the N910F?

Gesendet von meinem MHA-L29 mit Tapatalk
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] logosA:
No, sorry I am from Greece. I dont know about the other users
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] G@vi:
Successfully unbricked N910G by using 16GB SDHC class 10. Its started normally no need of flash rom & OTA update done. All working fine for 2 days but now its brick again and unable to flash by odin becoz of PIT partition error.
[Galaxy Note 4 Android Development (Snapdragon)] yashthemw:
Are you using the recovery firmware?