Hello everyone good day.

Sadly my phone Samsung galaxy A22 has stumbled into a boot loop been happening for couple days it started when I put the phone on charge and heard it vibrating to which It was constantly rebooting over and over as soon as the Home Screen loads after a second it just reboots I tried to do a reset using power + volume down and no luck also tried wipe cache partion in the recover menu and repair apps but no luck tried searching YouTube for fixes and also called a phone repair shop and said it’s a tough one as I want to keep my data meaning I can’t do a factory reset as I have a lot of stuff I need on the phone so I am reaching out here as a last resort it would make my day if someone could help thanks.

Note: after many restarts the phone managed to come on a couple of times to which after entering my pin a pop up would happen saying “ serious software issue detected check for update “ if i click check the message goes away then it says android starting but fails to start up after 30 seconds to a minute it just re boots again I had some hope as it happened a few times it allowed me to put my pin in but on the android starting screen it would never get past and eventually reboot again I haven’t updated the phone for a while so is it also possible to update from download mode without losing my data or do I need some room for that??

Read I could try safe mode unfortunately that didn’t work either

Try downloading your phones firmware on samfw and installing it with the HOME_CSC, not CSC without HOME!!!

HeroGamer007 said:

Try downloading your phones firmware on samfw and installing it with the HOME_CSC, not CSC without HOME!!!

Hey how can this be done? Never done this before any guides you could link me to?

ThePhoneGuyy1 said:

Hey how can this be done? Never done this before any guides you could link me to?

IF SOMETHING FAILS DO NOT PROCEED TO AVOID ANY FURTHER DAMAGES!!!
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES DO TO YOUR PHONE!!!

1. Power off your Phone
2. Now hold the volume up + down button and while doing that plug in a usb cable that is connected to your pc
3. You should see some kind of blue screen, press volume up and it will show "Downloading..."
4. Now Download Odin3, unzip it and Open the EXE on your PC (Click OK on the Warning)
5. You should see COM0 (the 0 can be any other number) under the ID:COM label, if it doesnt appear check your USB connection
6. Download your Device's Firmware:
go to SamFW.com and search for your model on the big Search Bar, if you don't know if its the F or M variant check the packaging, it should be on there. then Click on the Country you're in (or the Country your phone is from) and scroll down until you see this section:

Click on the Most-Top Version and select "Download on Browser" (you might need to login with google).
7. after that you should have 5 files starting with AP_, BL_, CP_, CSC_ and HOME_CSC
8. go into Odin and click "BL", then select the "BL_" file, do that for BL, AP and CP
9. now select the "HOME_CSC_" file on the "CSC" button, make sure its the HOME_CSC File!!!
10. after you made 10 time sure its the HOME_CSC file click start and pray
11. after the whole process your device should reboot and work.

HeroGamer007 said:

IF SOMETHING FAILS DO NOT PROCEED TO AVOID ANY FURTHER DAMAGES!!!
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES DO TO YOUR PHONE!!!

1. Power off your Phone
2. Now hold the volume up + down button and while doing that plug in a usb cable that is connected to your pc
3. You should see some kind of blue screen, press volume up and it will show "Downloading..."
4. Now Download Odin3, unzip it and Open the EXE on your PC (Click OK on the Warning)
5. You should see COM0 (the 0 can be any other number) under the ID:COM label, if it doesnt appear check your USB connection
6. Download your Device's Firmware:
go to SamFW.com and search for your model on the big Search Bar, if you don't know if its the F or M variant check the packaging, it should be on there. then Click on the Country you're in (or the Country your phone is from) and scroll down until you see this section: View attachment 5891443
Click on the Most-Top Version and select "Download on Browser" (you might need to login with google).
7. after that you should have 5 files starting with AP_, BL_, CP_, CSC_ and HOME_CSC
8. go into Odin and click "BL", then select the "BL_" file, do that for BL, AP and CP
9. now select the "HOME_CSC_" file on the "CSC" button, make sure its the HOME_CSC File!!!
10. after you made 10 time sure its the HOME_CSC file click start and pray
11. after the whole process your device should reboot and work.

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I’ll make sure to give it a good read I appreciate that hopefully this can fix for good quick question before i proceed do I need enough storage for this to update because I remember it being almost full if that’s the case is this possible by inserting an SD card without losing data? Just wanted to check before I proceed as my storage was close to being full

ThePhoneGuyy1 said:

I’ll make sure to give it a good read I appreciate that hopefully this can fix for good quick question before i proceed do I need enough storage for this to update because I remember it being almost full if that’s the case is this possible by inserting an SD card without losing data? Just wanted to check before I proceed as my storage was close to being full

It shouldn't need storage, it rewrites the system files and does not just "adds" them, so it should be at max 1-5 hundred MB bigger

HeroGamer007 said:

It shouldn't need storage, it rewrites the system files and does not just "adds" them, so it should be at max 1-5 hundred MB bigger

Perfect thank you so much will give this a try soon will update you what happens really appreciate you taking the time

ThePhoneGuyy1 said:

Perfect thank you so much will give this a try soon will update you what happens really appreciate you taking the time

Oh also to check the Country from which your phone is (you need to select that when downloading firmware) you can apparently use recovery mode, go into recovery mode (volume up + power while being plugged into a pc) and check if it says something with CSC-Code on the bottom, the 3-digit code after that is the Country Code which you will need to download.

T0stbrot said:

Oh also to check the Country from which your phone is (you need to select that when downloading firmware) you can apparently use recovery mode, go into recovery mode (volume up + power while being plugged into a pc) and check if it says something with CSC-Code on the bottom, the 3-digit code after that is the Country Code which you will need to download.

Sadly I haven’t been able to get this to fix used Odin and downloaded correct version for my model and csc code Odin said pass but phone still in boot loop

ThePhoneGuyy1 said:

Sadly I haven’t been able to get this to fix used Odin and downloaded correct version for my model and csc code Odin said pass but phone still in boot loop

I seen a video of someone using Odin once done there phone rebooted and showed a pop up saying updating apps etc along those lines but for me it just rebooted after Odin showed pass then bootloop again and a menu saying phone couldn’t start properly and get the same message “ serious software issue check for update “

ThePhoneGuyy1 said:

I seen a video of someone using Odin once done there phone rebooted and showed a pop up saying updating apps etc along those lines but for me it just rebooted after Odin showed pass then bootloop again and a menu saying phone couldn’t start properly and get the same message “ serious software issue check for update “

Try going into recovery maybe and deleting the cache and repair apps

T0stbrot said:

Try going into recovery maybe and deleting the cache and repair apps

Is that wipe cache partion? If so sadly not work for me and repair apps no fix but upon some research I’ve read it’s possible the storage can cause a bootloop also? Not sure if true but my phone was literally almost full as unfortunately didn’t make some room in time it seems this is most likely the reason as before bootloop I never installed any updates or did anything just simply put the phone on charge then it bootloop I’ve read that because there is almost no storage the phone just can’t boot up properly? No idea tbh but seems most reasonable as of now :/

ThePhoneGuyy1 said:

Is that wipe cache partion? If so sadly not work for me and repair apps no fix but upon some research I’ve read it’s possible the storage can cause a bootloop also? Not sure if true but my phone was literally almost full as unfortunately didn’t make some room in time it seems this is most likely the reason as before bootloop I never installed any updates or did anything just simply put the phone on charge then it bootloop I’ve read that because there is almost no storage the phone just can’t boot up properly? No idea tbh but seems most reasonable as of now :/

Also whilst my phone was bootlooping I got a menu similar to recovery menu saying android failed and a few options I believe was

1) try again
2) wipe app data
3) power off

Also a message saying if you don’t want to lose any data then it should be taken to a technician however one of the places I called said there is not much they can do as I wanna keep my data :/