My Samsung Galaxy Core Prime randomly goes into ODIN Mode! Why? And what can I do about it?

[Android Central Question]

Recently my phone has been acting up. It will randomly stop working. When this happens it will either go into ODIN Mode or it will try to restart. When it tries to restart whatever audio is playing will start stuttering before a long beep and lines will come up across the screen. It will then try to restart sometimes making it all the way to the lock screen before crashing and trying to restart again other times it will fail to even make it past the screen which shows the make and model of the phone. When it goes into ODIN Mode however the following text will appear:

NO IMAGE: warningmessage.jpg
NO IMAGE: download_image.jpg
ODIN Mode(MULTI CORE DOWNLOAD) (Red Text)
PRODUCT NAME: SM-G361F
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Custom
FRP LOCK: OFF
KNOX WARRANTY VOID: 0x1
Secure Download : Enabled (Blue Text)
RP SWREV: S1, L1, M1 (Grey Text)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Rukbat]

Sounds like a hardware problem (somewhere in the SoC on the motherboard). It's probably cheaper to replace than to repair, but get an estimate before you make your decision. (You could also try reflashing the ROM first - see [Samsung] How to flash Stock ROM via ODIN - but it looks as if even the download partition [the "Odin mode"] is having problems.)

 

[Garoid16]

Sounds like a hardware problem (somewhere in the SoC on the motherboard). It's probably cheaper to replace than to repair, but get an estimate before you make your decision. (You could also try reflashing the ROM first - see [Samsung] How to flash Stock ROM via ODIN - but it looks as if even the download partition [the "Odin mode"] is having problems.)

Thanks a million.