Help Update Bricked my phone

[twcw5804]

Woke up this morning to a notice of software update on my Verizon Galaxy S4. So long story short it stuck on the red Verizon screen booting and won't go past. I've done everything online I can find about wiping cache and then doing a reset. But in the end it just boots to red screen of death.

Since I never rooted my phone is there any way to download a ROM to my memory card in a different phone and then run it in my s4?

Real mad because this phone was in mint condition in a otterbox and one month from getting a new phone.

 

[ironass]

Woke up this morning to a notice of software update on my Verizon Galaxy S4. So long story short it stuck on the red Verizon screen booting and won't go past. I've done everything online I can find about wiping cache and then doing a reset. But in the end it just boots to red screen of death.

Since I never rooted my phone is there any way to download a ROM to my memory card in a different phone and then run it in my s4?

Real mad because this phone was in mint condition in a otterbox and one month from getting a new phone.

Hello and welcome to Android Forums twcw5804

First and foremost, your phone is not, "bricked". The term, "bricked", is reserved for phones that cannot be switched on and usually refers to a fried motherboard.

What you have is quite common after an update and is usually resolved by clearing the phone's cache partition in Recovery Mode as per the instructions in #1.3 of S4 Lollipop Update Problems - Dummies Guide. Failing that, you may need to do a Factory Data Reset as described in post #2 of the aforementioned guide.

 

[twcw5804]

I wiped the cache, and wiped the phone. Still stuck on Verizon boot screen with a pulsating V

 

[ironass]

I wiped the cache, and wiped the phone. Still stuck on Verizon boot screen with a pulsating V

If, after a cache partition wipe and a Factory Data Reset, your phone is still not booting up, you can try removing the battery and external SD card, replacing the battery and try rebooting, in case the SD card is causing the issue. Failing that, it will need a firmware flash by Verizon or yourself, as per #2.7 of the guide.