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Help GALAXY S5 IS STUCK IN UNREPAIRABLE BOOT LOOP

Same as mine! It says custom and stay custom without being ever modified! It stays that way despite all the original software flashed successfully with odin.
Does yours say "set warranty bit kernel"?
Does it always go on recovery or sometimes it gets stacked on "recovery booting"?
 
oile said:
Same as mine! It says custom and stay custom without being ever modified! It stays that way despite all the original software flashed successfully with odin.
Does yours say "set warranty bit kernel"?
Does it always go on recovery or sometimes it gets stacked on "recovery booting"?
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Yesss, Do you know any fixes? Please I'm so desperate..
And yes it does say set warranty bit kernel and sometimes set warranty bit recovery or something like that.
If you know any fixes please don't hesitate to tell.
TBH my dad doesn't know that my phone is broken like this and I don't want him to find out. I want to fix it as soon as possible without him finding out.
BTW It does get stuck on recovery booting.
Thank you
 
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So sad to say no, any solution as of now. Tried every official rom, Samsung said that it's outside warranty! They have refused to repair it!
I have not managed to install cm12 because recovery is not always loaded and I didn't have too much time. Only download mode works everytime but for now this s5 is only a waste of 500€
 
I Flashed with odin official kitkat and lollipop, everytime is successful but Bootloop remains! Also ripartitioned with pit and updating bootloaders nothing changed
 
Does it get recognized in kies? It finishes without errors?
If you go into download mode and press down instead of up (canceling instead of continuing) does it bootloop?
 
oile said:
Does it get recognized in kies? It finishes without errors?
If you go into download mode and press down instead of up (canceling instead of continuing) does it bootloop?
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It doesn't get recognized.
It finishes without errors.
Instead of up if you press down, same boot loop same issue.
thanks
 
I have to get it from my girlfriend and do some tries. If you flash the Philz recovery only, did you manage to get into it? I remember I tried flashing twrp but not booted recovery.
 
oile said:
I have to get it from my girlfriend and do some tries. If you flash the Philz recovery only, did you manage to get into it? I remember I tried flashing twrp but not booted recovery.
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I did manage to get into philz touch recovery every time i flashed it but there was one time that i couldn't access it. it fixed itself after i left the phone for like a day.
BTW every time i flash a new rom, philz gets deleted.
 
Yes I remember that too : it gets into recovery just sometimes, and specially when you leave it for a long time.
Did you manage to install cm12?
 
oile said:
Yes I remember that too : it gets into recovery just sometimes, and specially when you leave it for a long time.
Did you manage to install cm12?
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I cannot find the file for cm 12 for galaxy s5 online.
If u have the link, I would appreciate it if u could send it to me.
Thanks
 
oile said:
Yes I remember that too : it gets into recovery just sometimes, and specially when you leave it for a long time.
Did you manage to install cm12?
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BTw im also gonna try formatting data, cache, system and everything in philz then reflash it. haven't tried that one.
 
I had that s5 in my hands for a too short time, didn't manage to boot Philz. But it was one of my ideas to format every partition.
Remember to have lollipop bootloader with this cm12!
For cm11 you would need the kitkat ones
 
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Sorry for not mentioning earlier but in keys 3 enter fw upgrade NOT EMERGENCY FW UPGRADE and enter your model and serial number it will download an oficial firmware and fix it. i hade the same problems. the knox warranity is void but it still worked fine
 
This could be HUGE news! Sorry if I both r you, could you give me the details?
You had a sudden reboot, and then set Warranty bit kernel and infinite bootloop. Recovery working only sometimes randomly, and download mode always working. Odin successfully flashes it but Bootloops remain.
Is it right?
 
oile said:
This could be HUGE news! Sorry if I both r you, could you give me the details?
You had a sudden reboot, and then set Warranty bit kernel and infinite bootloop. Recovery working only sometimes randomly, and download mode always working. Odin successfully flashes it but Bootloops remain.
Is it right?
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It is right.
Recovery works most of the time.
One more thing to mention, every time I flash to philz, set warranty bit is not kernel any more, its recovery.
Everything else is right.
 
John2001 said:
Sorry for not mentioning earlier but in keys 3 enter fw upgrade NOT EMERGENCY FW UPGRADE and enter your model and serial number it will download an oficial firmware and fix it. i hade the same problems. the knox warranity is void but it still worked fine
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I did exactly what u said, Enter my model number and S/N and not EMERGENCY RECOVERY. Still same issue.
 
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