Bricked S4

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Bricked S4 2016-09-10 19:08:45 Post No. 56535179
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Bricked S4 Anonymous 2016-09-10 19:08:45 Post No. 56535179 [Report]

So long story short, I'm pretty sure I bricked my AT&T S4. I tried to install a ROM through Safestrap, and it all went well until the first boot. It won't go past the "Samsung" logo, and it's not being recognized by my computer anymore. I made a backup of my stock ROM through Safestrap, which is on my external SD card. So what can I do to possibly restore it, as I cannot reach the Safestrap recovery? I'm on 4.4.2 NB1, BTW.

>inb4 sticky and/or install gentoo

Anonymous 2016-09-10 20:04:09 Post No.56536081
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Anonymous 2016-09-10 20:04:09 Post No.56536081 [Report]

>>56535179
I'll help you anon... can you get into download mode?

Anonymous 2016-09-10 20:06:43 Post No.56536124
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Anonymous 2016-09-10 20:06:43 Post No.56536124 [Report]

>>56536081
Yes, I can go into both Recovery and Download.

Anonymous 2016-09-10 20:37:24 Post No.56536686
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Anonymous 2016-09-10 20:37:24 Post No.56536686 [Report]

Hopeless bump :^(

Anonymous 2016-09-10 20:47:37 Post No.56536856
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Anonymous 2016-09-10 20:47:37 Post No.56536856 [Report]

>>56536124
What's your carrier? What version of ODIN do you have?

>>56536686
No not hopeless I'm still here

Anonymous 2016-09-10 20:48:34 Post No.56536866
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Anonymous 2016-09-10 20:48:34 Post No.56536866 [Report]

>>56536686
Get a copy of stock rom tar and flash it via Odin. Also try xda forums not 4chan for this shit

Anonymous 2016-09-10 20:52:30 Post No.56536923
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Anonymous 2016-09-10 20:52:30 Post No.56536923 [Report]

>>56536866
I was getting to that BTW. I wanted to know what Odin he has though. It might not flash due to Sha 256 or mdm mismatch... but ya just do that

>>56536856

Anonymous 2016-09-10 20:52:58 Post No.56536930
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Anonymous 2016-09-10 20:52:58 Post No.56536930 [Report]

>>56536856
>>56536866
I would've used Odin plenty earlier if my phone was recognized by my computer. Since the flash, it hasn't been. My carrier is AT&T, FYI

Anonymous 2016-09-10 20:54:07 Post No.56536947
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Anonymous 2016-09-10 20:54:07 Post No.56536947 [Report]

>>56536923
Also I have 3.09

Anonymous 2016-09-10 20:55:51 Post No.56536971
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Anonymous 2016-09-10 20:55:51 Post No.56536971 [Report]

>>56536930
Did you even try to flash a stock firmware? Even if it's not recognized it might go through

Anonymous 2016-09-10 20:58:21 Post No.56537007
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Anonymous 2016-09-10 20:58:21 Post No.56537007 [Report]

>>56536947
>Odin 3.09
You need 3.10 minimum. When I had my s5 anything below 3.10 didn't work

Anonymous 2016-09-10 21:05:41 Post No.56537120
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Anonymous 2016-09-10 21:05:41 Post No.56537120 [Report]

>>56537007
Just grabbed the latest version. Thanks for that info

>>56536971
I should be able to flash back to NB1, correct?

Anonymous 2016-09-10 21:11:34 Post No.56537218
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Anonymous 2016-09-10 21:11:34 Post No.56537218 [Report]

>>56537120
If that's the firmware you were on before this happened, then yes. If not no.

Anonymous 2016-09-10 21:13:36 Post No.56537262
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Anonymous 2016-09-10 21:13:36 Post No.56537262 [Report]

>>56537218
I seriously thank you for helping. Hope this works, but still thanks for attempting either way.

Anonymous 2016-09-10 21:19:37 Post No.56537377
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Anonymous 2016-09-10 21:19:37 Post No.56537377 [Report]

>>56537262
Report back here. If it doesn't work I have another idea. If it does then congrats

Anonymous 2016-09-10 21:24:48 Post No.56537487
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Anonymous 2016-09-10 21:24:48 Post No.56537487 [Report]

>>56537377
Thread may die before I get any results, unfortunately.

Anonymous 2016-09-10 21:26:45 Post No.56537522
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Anonymous 2016-09-10 21:26:45 Post No.56537522 [Report]

>>56536124
>Yes, I can go into both Recovery and Download.
then how is it bricked?

Anonymous 2016-09-10 21:28:17 Post No.56537552
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Anonymous 2016-09-10 21:28:17 Post No.56537552 [Report]

>>56537522
Won't go any farther than the Samsung logo. I believe the proper term is "soft-brick"?

Anonymous 2016-09-10 21:29:13 Post No.56537572
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Anonymous 2016-09-10 21:29:13 Post No.56537572 [Report]

>>56537552
about as much of a "brick" as a PC with no OS installed

Anonymous 2016-09-10 21:31:02 Post No.56537616
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Anonymous 2016-09-10 21:31:02 Post No.56537616 [Report]

>>56537572
Thus making it a paperweight, much like a brick? :^)

Anonymous 2016-09-10 21:34:47 Post No.56537699
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Anonymous 2016-09-10 21:34:47 Post No.56537699 [Report]

>>56537616
no, making it a perfectly functional machine waiting to run something

a brick is when it's fucked up enough that it isn't functioning properly or at all, and requires invasive repairs

just having functional download mode means it's not bricked, as you can reinstall recovery/the main rom from there

Anonymous 2016-09-10 21:38:39 Post No.56537794
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Anonymous 2016-09-10 21:38:39 Post No.56537794 [Report]

>>56537699
Fine, I'll give you that. But since I didn't know what else to call it, I used the term "brick". Point is that my phone is generally unusable until I flash the proper firmware.

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I'm aware that Imgur.com will stop allowing adult images since 15th of May. I'm taking actions to backup as much data as possible.
Read more on this topic here - https://archived.moe/talk/thread/1694/