How to fix a galaxy s4 stuck on boot at samsung logo when Odin doesnt work?

[Ash Welsh]

I have a sch1545 and Odin says success and reboots every time and get stuck in the same spot. Ive tried different stock roms for my phone from different sites and none of them worked. Ive used Odin before and its taken a few minutes but everytime Ive tried since its been getting stuck it takes less than a minute, I dont know if that matters. It goes into stock recovery and download mode. Ive tried to take the battery out and wait a few minutes before trying again but nothing works.

 

[itguyjax8430]

I have a sch1545 and Odin says success and reboots every time and get stuck in the same spot. Ive tried different stock roms for my phone from different sites and none of them worked. Ive used Odin before and its taken a few minutes but everytime Ive tried since its been getting stuck it takes less than a minute, I dont know if that matters.

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Have you tried pulling the battery out and letting it sit for a few minutes before putting it back in? Also, are you able to boot in to recovery?

 

[Ash Welsh]

Yes Ive taken the battery out. It loads into stock recovery and download mode.

 

[Rukbat]

It sounds as if some of the storage in the system partition is bad. You could try repartitioning storage (you'd probably want to write a walking bit test that can run from recovery first, so you know where the problem is) so that the bad part isn't being used (and you'd have a smaller userdata space), or you could just replace the motherboard.

 

[Ash Welsh]

How do I write a walking bit test and repartition storage?

 

[spagman]

You didn't mention this... So I will just say it.

Did you wipe /factory reset from recovery after the flash?

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[itguyjax8430]

Yes Ive taken the battery out. It loads into stock recovery and download mode.

Did you get this resolved? If not have you tried looking for a factory stock image for you phone flashing it?

 

[Ash Welsh]

Did you get this resolved? If not have you tried looking for a factory stock image for you phone flashing it?

I've tried reflashing it with just the tar and the tar and pit and nothing has worked

 

[itguyjax8430]

I've tried reflashing it with just the tar and the tar and pit and nothing has worked

OK. check out this guys blog, he has a PIT file that will partition the phone for you before you actually reflash the stock firmware.

http://www.droidviews.com/how-to-unbrick-your-bricked-samsung-galaxy-s4-gt-i9500-gt-i9505/