[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Woody3D:
I am a cancer survivor, trying to rebuild my career after 3 yrs in hospital and 7 months in intensive care ( I was NOT expected to live had last rites read 3 times)

I, now back and trying to get real work going, was making my Proposal and new Graphics and VR Scenes, and was just about to apply for funding for my VR Startup (focused on creating Teaching and Training Tools Ironically) and suddenly, my ONLY WAY TO VIEW MY WORK my Note 4 has gone to pot! The thing never worked right after the 6.0.1 update, I may have over filled the internal chip too and that was the last straw,..

Symptoms:

1) It Reboots over and Over,.

2) When I go into recovery boot mode, it 1st shows Android guy and says 'Installing Updates' then into boot menu

3) Whenever I boot I see it saying 'FINALIZING UPDATES' then second window pops up 'Updates Installed Successfully' This should not happen every time I boot.

4) Will take forever then NOT Boot at All, I have to take battery out for 1+ minutes then it will boot

I have gone to EVERY Conceivable Website, (I have been trying to fix it for 8 days 16-18 hours a day and pot after pot of coffee tearing my hair out, My entire career rests on the line right now. Took me over 3 days of non stop Rebooting trying to get into Developer mode and turn on USB Debugging. Allow Unknown Sources and Delete Caches. All thing that 1 of the 30 Youtube and WWW AndroidFLASHING Step by Step videos and webpages I have completed repeatedly all to no avail (ODIN ALWAY FAILS< I TRIED EVERY SINGLE RELEASE OF ODIN 'FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL'. The info out there is so sparse and inadequate, the 'EASY STEP by STEP sites send one to to SITES LIKE THIS: https://samsung-firmware.org/model/SM-N910P/ I suppose I am to GUESS which of the 20 files WON'T BRICK MY PRECIOUS WORK TOOL.. Which one for my NOTE 4 SM-N910P???

and send me to sites like this: http://odindownload.com/Samsung-Odin/#.WKq-728rKOk I suppose I'm to GUESS which of the 8 versions WON'T BRICk MY PRECIOUS WORK TOOL.

Someone please help! ACTUAL REAL HELP, THE HELP I GET IS always:

"Just go FIND ONE OF THE STEP BY STEP Android FLASHING WEB PAGES." Great,../. Been there done that, 50 times... (and nearly every site)

ODIN Fails Every Time. I see the option for: 'flash from SD card', but there seems to be NO Info out there about that, (sparse at best certainly NONE of the type of info I remember from the 1990's when Step-By-Steps included ALL THE STEPS< and no, language shortcuts, or half terms , or GOD FORBID acronyms the person has to waste time asking about and waiting again for a response...)..)

Somehow I don't think I've bricked my phone, in all this 'trial and error' step by step garbage,.. It will still boot into the 'factory reset I did 8 days ago,. (still reboots spontaneously within a few moments) , uses battery too fast, all the bad stuff mentioned by the HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE online about what happened to their Note 4 when MarshMallow 6.0.1 came out,.. I wish I could go back to 5.1.1 but 5 days trying tell me that will not happen. (of course simply REFLASHING 6.0.1 to try to get a perfect copy hasn't worked either,.. Anyways, like all online info, the info about ODIN is so sparse and incomplete I am essentially GUESSING and doing Trail and Error, (there are FOUR sometimes 5 slots in Odin whee you can link to an MD5 file (?) or etc.. and I have yet to find a page that mentions WHAT the Categories are, (they say : BL, AP, CP, CSC, UMS,. Means nothing to me and I after over a week haven't found anything actually helpful..

I am an Animator and CGI Artist that worked in Hollywood for 20+_ years, if you need an Animated LOG or a VR Advertisement for your service, you help me get back up and running I will create you a Logo, or Animated Character Avatar or Environment and Advertisement in a Virtual Reality Video for upload to Youtube VR and Facebook VR,..? Scratch my back get back scratched! I am also a Orchestral Composer and recording Artist I can make you a custom score piece, Page opening, or? , or music for your Youtube page etc, I can sound like a Full Orchestra so realistic you will think its the real deal! .

SORRY if I sound upset or frustrated, ( I am,) My life is breaking and my career is dying right before my eyes, I can NOT afford a new VR device of any kind, I was trying to GET FUNDING - though this week introduced by the dam bad or corrupt update has probably made my funding impossible, that was the time I had to work... but I have to keep trying anyways ;~) PLEASE HELP! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE

EDIT: I found out one thing here at XDA so far! :)

"They are they same except for csc settings.

SPR will give you sprint branding and csc.

XAS will give you regular samsung branding. "

COOL, THANKS XDA< I hate Anything to do with Sprint, I use my Note 4 for developing VR ONLY in the new 2016 Gear VR - I'm one step closer I sense,.. ;~)

update 2:

i BOOTED MY PHONE TO TRY TOP TAKE THE NEXT STEP (THAT I CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER NOW IT'S GOTTEN SO CRAZY) ooops caps, and it took up the whole screen with:

"UPDATE AVAILABLE: Download and Install" I about jumped up and down happy thinking, surely they noticed the the 6.0.1 update nearly destroyed the Note 4's (and if not the hundreds of people complaining about it online should have told them) UNFORTUNATELY< it crashed halfway through, I re-booted it finished downloading, I finally clicked APPLY NOW, it seemed to do all the usual stuff and turned it self off, then 'UPDATING Android'

It got to 25% and DIED> (Literally there is the 'DEAD ANDROID with ERROR underneath it'

Whoever makes these updates must have hired that programmer that sent out the Windows NT Death By UPDATE LOOP mistake a decade or so back,. . Well, that's it. I can't do the HOME+Volume up+Power trick anymore, in order to have any control,. the HOME+Volume Down+Power still brings me to the download screen, but as 8 days of frustration tells me that is a useless setting and the whole ODIN thing is a joke (perhaps an actual joke by some hackers or something)/// Even if ODIN DID Work, I am unable to get any of the files i need, I get 'network errors' on downloading the Flash File from https://samsung-firmware.org/model/SM-N910P/ It will NOT DOWNLOAD< I have tried every day for days,.. (If anyone knows of a source for the file (s) I Need for ODIN and a SM-N910P that doesn't want to Charge $ to download, (or take forever then cancel out). I would surely appreciate it,. Be nice to at least TRY the binary that is supposed to be the 'correct' file,..

Though I think I am beating a dead horse. I am afraid of myself tonight, I want relief, I want peace and this damn stress to go away,.. I want to end it so badly now, I see no future, no hope, nothing good will ever happen again in my life and I cant even see the Virtual Worlds I create,. There finally, Truly is no reason to continue.

THANKS SAMSUNG FOR DESTROYING MY TOOL AND MY ART AND MY WORK AND MY FUTURE.

and my LIFE.

Robert