Note 7 is one of the finest phones of 2016. It has impressive looks. It is one of the most elegant-looking phones released to date. It has all that makes it the best phone ever released by Samsung. It has two variants. One is running on Snapdragon 820, and the other variant is running on Exynos 8890. Note 7 is packed with a 3500 mAh battery. One of the innovative features that was introduced in Note 7 is the iris scanner. It comes with Android 6.0.1, and soon it will get Android Nougat. Fix Note 7 stuck at the Samsung logo in bootloop at Startup using the guide below.
Try the easy methods first; this might fix your phone.
- Go to the Recovery Menu of your Samsung Galaxy Note 7.
- Press the Volume Up + Home button + Power button at a time, and keep holding until you see the Android logo and recovery menu on your phone’s screen.
- Now use the volume buttons to navigate to Clear/Wipe Cache
- Press the power button to select.
- Reboot and Try.
- Suppose clearing the cache doesn’t help. Get back in the recovery menu and perform a factory reset. (But it will delete all the data in your phone, although the method below won’t delete the data.)
Above are easy tricks that can be helpful at times. But the following is the working and self-implemented solution to fix a Note 7 that is stuck at the Samsung Logo.
Fix Note 7 Stuck at the Samsung logo at Startup using SmartSwitch:
Smart Switch is an excellent tool to backup, restore, or fix Samsung smartphones. It also lets you flash stock firmware, even if your phone is not booting up. It won’t boot up if your Note 7 sticks to the Logo screen. This tool can help you fix it.
Precautions and Prerequisites:
- Make sure your phone is charged and its battery percentage is over 50%.
- Download and Install Samsung drivers for Windows PC. (This is required for your computer to recognise your phone; open the link and click on the third line from the top to download.)
- Download Smart Switch. (It has both Windows and MAC versions)
Guide on how to flash new firmware to fix Note 7 stuck at the Samsung logo at Startup:
- First of all, install Smart Switch.
- Now, connect your phone to your PC using a USB data cable.
- Click on “More”. It’s present on the top right corner of Smart Switch.
- Click on “Emergency Software Recovery and Initialisation.”
- Now Select Software Update and Initialization.
- Click on okay.
- Now, you will be warned that all the data in your phone will be wiped out. Click Okay.
- Smart Switch will show you a version of Android firmware that will be installed on your phone. Click okay.
- Now, all the precautions and warnings will be displayed on the screen. Although it says that you might have problems if your phone is rooted. But when a friend of mine used a smartswitch to fix a rooted Note 7 stuck on the Samsung Logo. It went through just fine.
- Now, SmartSwitch will give you an option to backup all your data. Using this option, you can back up all the data inside your phone.
- After the backup, Smart Switch will download the appropriate firmware for your Galaxy Note 7, which might take some time, depending upon the speed of your internet connection.
- Once the download is complete, Smart Switch will put your phone in download mode.
- Finally, the new firmware on your Note 7 will be installed. You will see a progress bar on your phone and your PC. It might take 10 minutes.
- After the installation is complete, your phone will reboot.
- Lastly, Smart Switch will ask you to disconnect and reconnect the USB cable.
- Finally, the phone will reboot. This tool can restore the data you backed up from your phone.
Note: If Smart Switch gets stuck at 51%. Then download a VPN software like HotSpot Shield or Zenmate, change your location to the US, and try again. Both VPNs are free to use.
I hope this guide worked out for you and that you fixed your phone. Let me know in the comments if you have any issues with this guide. Or try out the guide below. It’s a manual way to flash stock ROM on Note 7 to fix bootloop.
- Also Checkout: How to Track and Locate Lost Note 7
Method 2: Fix Note 7 Stuck at the Samsung Logo in Bootloop by flashing stock ROM using Odin.
If the above method doesn’t work for you and your Note 7 is stuck at the Samsung Logo, you must manually flash the stock firmware using Odin. It’s not that difficult; you must download the correct ROM for your phone and flash it via Odin.
You can see this guide if you haven’t tried it before. However, this guide is for Galaxy S7. You can use it for Note 7. The only thing that you have to do is to install the stock firmware of Note 7 from Sammobile instead of S7.
I hope this guide helped fix your phone. If you have any issues with the focus above, let us know in the comments. Also, if you have another solution for Note 7 stuck at the Samsung logo at Startup. Do let us know in the comments.