This is an ODIN factory image similar to the one posted here but this is an emergency recovery image that will help you recover and restore your device from nearly ANY possible soft-brick by entirely wiping, refreshing, and repartitioning your device to out-of-box OEM firmware.
WARNING: Please use this with caution as this will wipe your ENTIRE device with no chance of restoring back old data afterwords!
How to Use
Download file from: http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23203820527944861
Unzip file to your computer (desktop or some location)
Use ODIN v3.09 to flash in AP section once your device is connected
Ahh finally! Thanks. I thought Verizon was gonna troll us
I see what you did there I was going to pull the emergency recovery tar next.
open1your1eyes0 said:
This is an ODIN factory image similar to the one posted here but this is an emergency recovery image that will help you recover and restore your device from nearly ANY possible soft-brick by entirely wiping, refreshing, and repartitioning your device to out-of-box OEM firmware.
WARNING: Please use this with caution as this will wipe your ENTIRE device with no chance of restoring back old data afterwords!
How to Use
Download file from: http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23203820527944861
Unzip file to your computer (desktop or some location)
Use ODIN v3.09 to flash in AP section once your device is connected
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Is there a rooted Odin file of this soon? :thumbup:
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Stupid question. When you say emergency recovery, does this include radios and all?
ljv said:
Stupid question. When you say emergency recovery, does this include radios and all?
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Yes
do u think i can recover my imei from that?
my imei says 00, no backup from efs folder (i actually had one but it was on my phone's storage then it wiped too)
i reflashed original firmware but still no result.
open1your1eyes0 said:
This is an ODIN factory image similar to the one posted here but this is an emergency recovery image that will help you recover and restore your device from nearly ANY possible soft-brick by entirely wiping, refreshing, and repartitioning your device to out-of-box OEM firmware.
WARNING: Please use this with caution as this will wipe your ENTIRE device with no chance of restoring back old data afterwords!
How to Use
Download file from: http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23203820527944861
Unzip file to your computer (desktop or some location)
Use ODIN v3.09 to flash in AP section once your device is connected
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I flashed this to my soft bricked phone. It is still stuck at the small Verizon logo, just like the previous ROMs. I did the factory reset. I think the phone is trying to build something. What else can I do?
BaSingSe said:
I flashed this to my soft bricked phone. It is still stuck at the small Verizon logo, just like the previous ROMs. I did the factory reset. I think the phone is trying to build something. What else can I do?
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How long did you wait? There's a long delay after the first boot while the Dalvik cache is rebuilt. I'd wait at least 30 minutes before assuming that it's locked up.
I waited several hours. Stuck. I think it is just my phone. Stuck at previous ROMs too. The new ROM does not fix this.
BaSingSe said:
I waited several hours. Stuck. I think it is just my phone. Stuck at previous ROMs too. The new ROM does not fix this.
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Trying flashing the OP factory image again.
open1your1eyes0 said:
This is an ODIN factory image similar to the one posted here but this is an emergency recovery image that will help you recover and restore your device from nearly ANY possible soft-brick by entirely wiping, refreshing, and repartitioning your device to out-of-box OEM firmware.
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When you say out-of-box OEM firmware, does this mean it would return you to MDK?
jonathanp63 said:
When you say out-of-box OEM firmware, does this mean it would return you to MDK?
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You serious, Clark?
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redwings73 said:
You serious, Clark?
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Fingers crossed
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jonathanp63 said:
Fingers crossed
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Given the number of times that it has been repeated that you CAN NOT GO BACK?
Dream on.
Is this back to MDK?
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k1mu said:
Given the number of times that it has been repeated that you CAN NOT GO BACK?
Dream on.
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He said OEM...
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Tada10 said:
Is this back to MDK?
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I don't want to sound glib but what does the title of the thread say!
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Tada10 said:
He said OEM...
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Thank you that was my point
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jonathanp63 said:
When you say out-of-box OEM firmware, does this mean it would return you to MDK?
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Sorry, that was probably poor word choice on my part. Mean to clarify that it completely refreshes the device to software condition as if coming "out-of-box". Unfortunately you will not downgrade the very original "out-of-box" MDK firmware. With this device it's pretty much once you go up, you can't come back down. Sorry for the confusion.
open1your1eyes0 said:
Sorry, that was probably poor word choice on my part. Mean to clarify that it completely refreshes the device to software condition as if coming "out-of-box". Unfortunately you will not downgrade the very original "out-of-box" MDK firmware. With this device it's pretty much once you go up, you can't come back down. Sorry for the confusion.
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Understand now. Thanks for the clarification.
Related
Hey guys I need to return my phone to be fixed, but have a slight problem. The firmware is all stock except for when it boots up it says it is a GT-I9100. This is left from a previous flash that I did, but I went back to stock and never bothered to fix that, because it didn't really bug me. Now my phone won't recognize a charger or any usb plugs. My question is will Samsung/AT&T still accept my phone for replacement with this? If not is there anyway I can fix the boot screen without plugging my phone in? Thanks guys sorry for the noob question, but I am not really sure what to do and this is kind of a specific problem, so I couldn't find anything in the search. Once again really appreciate any help!
Play dumb and say it's always said that you didn't know the model number of your phone was a 727 lol
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crusecontrl said:
Play dumb and say it's always said that you didn't know the model number of your phone was a 727 lol
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777 you mean? This isn't the skyrocket forums
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crusecontrl said:
Play dumb and say it's always said that you didn't know the model number of your phone was a 727 lol
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No, don't do that.
You can either use Mobile Odin to remove it, or do a complete Return to Stock using Odin.
mattdm said:
No, don't do that.
You can either use Mobile Odin to remove it, or do a complete Return to Stock using Odin.
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Can I use Mobile Odin with a stock firmware? Seems like you shouldn't be able to flash your phone from your device.
snowcamo said:
Can I use Mobile Odin with a stock firmware? Seems like you shouldn't be able to flash your phone from your device.
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You're absolutely right. For some reason I thought you were stock rooted...my mistake. Use my second option then.
As long as you root it, you can use Mobile Odin. Not like it matters anyway, you just need to get rid of the GT-I9100 and then flash back to stock again, thus eliminating root.
Did Odin one-click back to stock not work for you? Because it sounds like you might have flashed I9100 bootloaders and flashing I777 bootloaders should fix it (which if I'm not mkstaken, the one click does include). Someone correct me on both points if I'm wrong , I'm simply conjecturing.
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It would be great if I could just flash the bootloaders, but I can't connect my phone to my computer
Some folks have reported that they could get their phone to connect via usb after cleaning the usb port with alcohol. Have you tried that?
Can you get into dl mode?
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creepyncrawly said:
Some folks have reported that they could get their phone to connect via usb after cleaning the usb port with alcohol. Have you tried that?
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Yea I tried this, didn't work. I could probably get it into download mode, if I borrowed someones battery, but I am not sure why that matters if the computer won't detect it.
I finally got my phone to connect after cleaning it for like an hour, I just have to hold it at a certain angle. Everytime I try and flash the bootloader I get a fail though, I am using odin 1.8.5 and the bootloader here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18859438&postcount=199. After it fails I have to reflash using the one click no bootloader here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18859438&postcount=199. Is there any one click with the stock bootloaders someone could please link me to? Thanks once again guys
Both links appear to be the same.
Anyway, why would you flash the bootloader?
votinh said:
Both links appear to be the same.
Anyway, why would you flash the bootloader?
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That was my suggestion, I thought it might be an I9100 bootloader that he flashed which causes the GT-I 9100 to show up on boot, and he wants it back at stock for returning. Again I could be wrong, and of course flashing bootloaders is very dangerous, especially with your faulty USB connection (I didn't know it was faulty when I posted before).
EDIT: Did you ever try rooting so you can go the Mobile Odin route (which would be much safer)?
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karate104 said:
That was my suggestion, I thought it might be an I9100 bootloader that he flashed which causes the GT-I 9100 to show up on boot, and he wants it back at stock for returning. Again I could be wrong, and of course flashing bootloaders is very dangerous, especially with your faulty USB connection (I didn't know it was faulty when I posted before).
EDIT: Did you ever try rooting so you can go the Mobile Odin route (which would be much safer)?
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No I never tried that, would you recommend that? This is the screen I get when it boots http://img2.garfield.in/images/garfield/logoold_350x583.jpg, but my phone is a sgh-I777. That means it is the wrong bootloader right? Or am I misunderstanding something? Feel so useless haha, thanks guys.
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votinh said:
Both links appear to be the same.
Anyway, why would you flash the bootloader?
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Meant to post this for bootloader link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20229527&postcount=46, and I want to get it back to the stock loader so I can send it in for repair.
snowcamo said:
No I never tried that, would you recommend that? This is the screen I get when it boots http://img2.garfield.in/images/garfield/logoold_350x583.jpg, but my phone is a sgh-I777. That means it is the wrong bootloader right? Or am I misunderstanding something? Feel so useless haha, thanks guys.
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I know that's the screen you're referring to, bootloader is just my random guess.
mattdm said:
No, don't do that.
You can either use Mobile Odin to remove it, or do a complete Return to Stock using Odin.
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Since your USB connection is buggy, and since flashing bootloaders is really dangerous anyway, I'd try this instead. If it doesn't help, let us know.
EDIT: what does your flash counter say when you boot in to download mode?
karate104 said:
what does your flash counter say when you boot in to download mode?
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This first, please. This will tell you which bootloader you currently have.
If the usb connection is lost while the bootloader is flashing, the phone will hard brik, and will require jtag repair to recover, which costs about $50 to $60. Therefore, it is necessary to know what the phone status really is before taking that risk.
If you determine that you really do have the I9100 secondary bootloader, then you put the I777 UCKH7 sbl.tar in the PDA slot of Odin3 v1.85. Or you could flash the I777UCKH7-CL503881 FULL Odin3 One-click Downloader which includes the param.lfs and the secondary bootloader.
Mobile Odin will not flash bootloaders or param.lfs
creepyncrawly said:
This first, please. This will tell you which bootloader you currently have.
If the usb connection is lost while the bootloader is flashing, the phone will hard brik, and will require jtag repair to recover, which costs about $50 to $60. Therefore, it is necessary to know what the phone status really is before taking that risk.
If you determine that you really do have the I9100 secondary bootloader, then you put the I777 UCKH7 sbl.tar in the PDA slot of Odin3 v1.85. Or you could flash the I777UCKH7-CL503881 FULL Odin3 One-click Downloader which includes the param.lfs and the secondary bootloader.
Mobile Odin will not flash bootloaders or param.lfs
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Where can I get the full one click? On the download custom binary: no. Samsung official. Model: GT-I9100. Thanks
snowcamo said:
Where can I get the full one click? On the download custom binary: no. Samsung official. Model: GT-I9100. Thanks
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Huzzah, I guessed right! You flashed I9100 secondary bootloaders.
Read this thread (I suggest reading the OP closely), paying special attention to 3) Special Problems. The downloads you need are here.
karate104 said:
Huzzah, I guessed right! You flashed I9100 secondary bootloaders.
Read this thread (I suggest reading the OP closely), paying special attention to 3) Special Problems. The downloads you need are here.
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Whenever I try to do this with odin it fails . I think I just need the one click with bootloaders, but I can't find it.
I have a backup of my stock rom from when I got the phone and I would like to restore that back but it won't let me. When in recovery and I hit restore I get "E:Can't mount /sdcard" so I try advanced restore and then I get "E:Can't mount sdcard" and finally I tried restore from internal sdcard and then I get an error saying "Couldn't open directory. No files found." bearing in mind I don't have any sd card inserted but it's how I always used to do it. So I tried going to mounts and storage then mounting the sd card from there but get an error saying "Error mounting /sdcard!".
What do I do please?
Tried re flashing the recovery or trying another recovery?
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oggta said:
Tried re flashing the recovery or trying another recovery?
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It's the only recovery I have, but how would I go about re flashing it? Just put it in a .zip or something?
have you tried looking for another recovery or looking into the android development for your phone.
shouldnt be that hard to put one on, in fact if it becomes that hard, it should only be as hard as running a few ADB commands. look for one that you like and check out the instructions
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It's the only recovery I have, but how would I go about re flashing it? Just put it in a .zip or something?
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No , hes talking about kernel. You need to try a different kernel (they include cwm recovery).
Flash the kernel/recovery you used when backing up the rom.
TheATHEiST said:
No , hes talking about kernel. You need to try a different kernel (they include cwm recovery).
Flash the kernel/recovery you used when backing up the rom.
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I can't even remember what kernel I was using back then. It was 2 years ago now.
I'm not sure if it's all worth it, I'm only recycling it at the O2 store for money, does it matter? Is installing custom roms illegal? Because my only worry is them testing it by turning it on or something and seeing that I'm running cMIUI.
f8ct said:
I can't even remember what kernel I was using back then. It was 2 years ago now.
I'm not sure if it's all worth it, I'm only recycling it at the O2 store for money, does it matter? Is installing custom roms illegal? Because my only worry is them testing it by turning it on or something and seeing that I'm running cMIUI.
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Dude don't worry and that phone is worth the fix. As far as I c it you don't even have it that bad. What atheist said is correct.
All you need to do is look for a recovery / kernel that most of the time come together and flash it. Just read the instructions on that post.
After all you're in the right place to get your phone hooked up and fixed whenever u have problems. Don't be nervous about it. Unless u want a new phone lol.
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oggta said:
Dude don't worry and that phone is worth the fix. As far as I c it you don't even have it that bad. What atheist said is correct.
All you need to do is look for a recovery / kernel that most of the time come together and flash it. Just read the instructions on that post.
After all you're in the right place to get your phone hooked up and fixed whenever u have problems. Don't be nervous about it. Unless u want a new phone lol.
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Well I already have a new phone man, I'm just getting rid of this one at a store who will pay me money for it. But I wasn't sure whether to flash the stock back or not in case they checked.
best bet then is just put it back to stock and wipe it like new
oggta said:
best bet then is just put it back to stock and wipe it like new
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That's what I would like to do but can't work out how really. Is there just a stock ROM I could flash instead of having to restore my last backup of one?
f8ct said:
That's what I would like to do but can't work out how really. Is there just a stock ROM I could flash instead of having to restore my last backup of one?
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Yes, official releases from Samsung at sammobile.com. Flash through Odin.
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Donnie Sins said:
Yes, official releases from Samsung at sammobile.com. Flash through Odin.
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I have Odin, I have the stock tar md5 file or whatever it is. I think the only thing I'm missing is the OPS files which I can't find because the only link I found was dead. Any help please?
The tar.md5 file is all you need. Flash it in the PDA section of Odin as previously advised.
MistahBungle said:
The tar.md5 file is all you need. Flash it in the PDA section of Odin as previously advised.
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Right. I have to boot my phone into download mode too right? Power button + home button + volume down? Because I'm doing this and it's not working. Stuck on 'SetupConnection..' at the moment.
edit: it finished and said "Complete(Write) operation failed."
Anyone know why this isn't working? :s
can't get to Download Mode?
Time for usb jig.
or this thread.
Sorry, I typed that out wrong. I'm in download mode (I think) but I'm getting those errors that I posted about when I have it plugged in with Odin opened..
Install/Reinstall Kies and shut it all up before you open odin, then flash.
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gastonw said:
Install/Reinstall Kies and shut it all up before you open odin, then flash.
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I totally forgot about kies man, never even had it installed. It seems to have worked, and I'm on a stock ROM now but when I boot up it's stuck on the Samsung Galaxy S II logo where it keeps illuminating..
I'm not sure if that matters, if the store I take it to for money does end up testing it, at least they can see it turns on, just boot loops for some reason? :/
f8ct said:
I totally forgot about kies man, never even had it installed. It seems to have worked, and I'm on a stock ROM now but when I boot up it's stuck on the Samsung Galaxy S II logo where it keeps illuminating..
I'm not sure if that matters, if the store I take it to for money does end up testing it, at least they can see it turns on, just boot loops for some reason? :/
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Wipe data/factory reset in recovery, should sort it.
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Alright guys as my title states I pulled a "noob move" and it looks like I've soft bricked my phone (It won't boot past the verizon splash screen). I've done a little research and I'm pretty familiar with Odin and how it works. Seems to be the same concept as jungle flasher and I've modded a few 360's in my time. I've tried, to no avail, to flash my phone back with the stock image numerous times and I figured it was time to consult the experts. What I've done so far: Downloaded the factory stock restore TAR from Rwilco12's site and put that in the PDA file browser of Odin. My phone shows up in Odin when connected in download mode with a light blue com:4 box. I read sometimes this is supposed to be yellow? Other versions of Odin it is yellow. This instance was attempted in 3.07. 1.85 it shows up as yellow. Regardless of either version, they both fail after the "aboot" step. I've tried two computers and have failed miserably all morning. Any help or advice would be much appreciated.
-Be easy on me, it's my first time.
-HerdOn
HerdOn said:
Alright guys as my title states I pulled a "noob move" and it looks like I've soft bricked my phone (It won't boot past the verizon splash screen). I've done a little research and I'm pretty familiar with Odin and how it works. Seems to be the same concept as jungle flasher and I've modded a few 360's in my time. I've tried, to no avail, to flash my phone back with the stock image numerous times and I figured it was time to consult the experts. What I've done so far: Downloaded the factory stock restore TAR from Rwilco12's site and put that in the PDA file browser of Odin. My phone shows up in Odin when connected in download mode with a light blue com:4 box. I read sometimes this is supposed to be yellow? Other versions of Odin it is yellow. This instance was attempted in 3.07. 1.85 it shows up as yellow. Regardless of either version, they both fail after the "aboot" step. I've tried two computers and have failed miserably all morning. Any help or advice would be much appreciated.
-Be easy on me, it's my first time.
-HerdOn
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Have you tried a different USB cable and/or running odin as an administrator?
BladeRunner said:
Have you tried a different USB cable and/or running odin as an administrator?
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Yes, I've used the factory samsung and another cable while running as an administrator. Thanks for the thought though!
HerdOn said:
Yes, I've used the factory samsung and another cable while running as an administrator. Thanks for the thought though!
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which Verizon release are you on VRUAMDK or VRUAME7?
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which Verizon release are you on VRUAMDK or ?
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VRUAME7 is the most recent with the latest OTA update correct? If so that's the one I was on. Now I did root it successfully initially, it got stuck this way after installing SuperSU... I guess I should have said that initially. My apologies.
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VRUAME7 is the most recent with the latest OTA update correct? If so that's the one I was on. Now I did root it successfully initially, it got stuck this way after installing SuperSU... I guess I should have said that initially. My apologies.
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ME7 is the current OTA, yes. Are you using the correct .TAR file from here? http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23032113221600748? Also did you try doing a data wipe/factory reset in stock android recovery?
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ME7 is the current OTA, yes. Are you using the correct .TAR file from here? Also did you try doing a data wipe/factory reset in stock android recovery?
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The link you sent was broken, I'm using the rwilco12 factory image. It wont let me post a link because I don't have enough posts.
I have tried doing the data wipe/factory reset but it kept saying error. and now it says Firmware upgrade encountered an issue please select recovery mode in kies and try again. That's when going to the volume up "recovery" mode. Volume down, "download" mode still works fine.
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23032113221600748
The link BladeRunner posted had an extra question mark. Try that one.
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HerdOn said:
The link you sent was broken, I'm using the rwilco12 factory image. It wont let me post a link because I don't have enough posts.
I have tried doing the data wipe/factory reset but it kept saying error. and now it says Firmware upgrade encountered an issue please select recovery mode in kies and try again. That's when going to the volume up "recovery" mode. Volume down, "download" mode still works fine.
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sorry, here is the link to the Odin files thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301259 Download the VRAUME7 factory image. I'm not sure but I think you may have the MDK image from RWILCO and there's no going back to that once you've updated to ME7.
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Checkm8 said:
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23032113221600748
The link BladeRunner posted had an extra question mark. Try that one.
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Thanks! Don't know where that extra "?" came from
Alright I'm downloading that version now. Its capping my connection so it should be done in 25 mins and we'll try again! Thanks for your help so far bladerunner. Seems like we're getting somewhere...
Bladerunner, you were right my friend! The image is finally going to the phone. After nearly pulling all of my hair out, we're making extreme progress!
Ten minutes later my phone is back to factory flawless condition. Thanks Bladerunner for all your help! It's very much appreciated..
HerdOn said:
Ten minutes later my phone is back to factory flawless condition. Thanks Bladerunner for all your help! It's very much appreciated..
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Excellent! No problem
My note 3 will only boot to the samsung note logo and keeps looping back to it with out anything else. i tried stock rom and reset but nothing works. is the phone bricked and can i get a replacement.
Did you update your firmware before flashing any ROMS?
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nolimit06 said:
Did you update your firmware before flashing any ROMS?
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No i was on the MI3 stock
ruffes21 said:
No i was on the MI3 stock
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Try using ODIN and flashing the stock tar file. That should set you straight. You should be able to find what you need in the Android Dev section. If you are new to ODIN, open the app on your pc, click PDA, find the stock tar file, ensure "repartition" is unchecked and hit start. That should get you back to 100% stock. Do any applicable system updates and attempt the root process again. If you have any troubles look for qbking77's Note 3 root guide. Good luck. If all else fails I'd try a return and hope they don't know how to check for the flash flags.
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nolimit06 said:
Try using ODIN and flashing the stock tar file. That should set you straight. You should be able to find what you need in the Android Dev section. If you are new to ODIN, open the app on your pc, click PDA, find the stock tar file, ensure "repartition" is unchecked and hit start. That should get you back to 100% stock. Do any applicable system updates and attempt the root process again. If you have any troubles look for qbking77's Note 3 root guide. Good luck. If all else fails I'd try a return and hope they don't know how to check for the flash flags.
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Tried flashing stock tar, didn't work. i'm going to end up going to sprint tomorrow and see what happens.
ruffes21 said:
Tried flashing stock tar, didn't work. i'm going to end up going to sprint tomorrow and see what happens.
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Someone found a way to fix the galaxy 3's soft brick problem that was like this over at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840030 I'm hoping someone creates those files for the Note3 so I can try it.
ruffes21 said:
Tried flashing stock tar, didn't work. i'm going to end up going to sprint tomorrow and see what happens.
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I had the same problem, flash CF-Auto-Root again
this happened on my 2nd day with my new note 3. had to exchange it. There was no way to fix it.
I had the same problem but I was able to get my phone to boot into recovery. I did a wipe data/factory reset and it worked afterwards.
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factory reset and reflash didnt work. exchanged at sprint, rooted new phone and everything is working fine:laugh:
Bricked note 3/help
Tried to root my NOTE 3 through Odin and instructions here and is bricked stuck at the screen below.. Anyone can help or recommend a repair place in NYC?
I had the same problem, except my problem was when I tried to restore nandroid back up....the root, and flashing of the rom went well.
I went to restore my nandroid back up, and it started bootlooping. This was the 2nd time this issue occurred, the first time downloading the tar resolved it. The second time it did not.
Nice dude..glad all worked out!
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krios66 said:
Tried to root my NOTE 3 through Odin and instructions here and is bricked stuck at the screen below.. Anyone can help or recommend a repair place in NYC?
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I can help you if you still need it
solved it by accident
Thanks so much for your reply and availability to help but after some hours of despair I read somewhere that Kies would be help and fiddled with the settings a bit and realized that I could download and restore factory settings through the software... Such a relief not ending up with a $800 paperweight!!! (and tought me a lesson not to trust just about any rooting direction posted here!!!)
krios66 said:
Thanks so much for your reply and availability to help but after some hours of despair I read somewhere that Kies would be help and fiddled with the settings a bit and realized that I could download and restore factory settings through the software... Such a relief not ending up with a $800 paperweight!!! (and tought me a lesson not to trust just about any rooting direction posted here!!!)
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How do i get to this software if im stuck in bootloop...I tried everything and nothing has wurked...Tell me how i can get into Kies and do this if u please...???
ronny71 said:
How do i get to this software if im stuck in bootloop...I tried everything and nothing has wurked...Tell me how i can get into Kies and do this if u please...???
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As I'm on a Mac will try to reconstruct the scene
On Kies go to Tools and choose Firmware Upgrade and Initialization
After some prompts for inputing first the Model number and the S/N, Kies will start downloading the software and will prompt you when to connect your phone..
Very easy....
krios66 said:
As I'm on a Mac will try to reconstruct the scene
On Kies go to Tools and choose Firmware Upgrade and Initialization
After some prompts for inputing first the Model number and the S/N, Kies will start downloading the software and will prompt you when to connect your phone..
Very easy....
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Where did you find the serial number? The numbers on the box and under the battery don't work for me so I can't get past that screen.
Trahloc said:
Where did you find the serial number? The numbers on the box and under the battery don't work for me so I can't get past that screen.
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Well, that's exactly what I used what was below the battery and the box... without those you can't really move forward... does it give you an error when you log in with those?
krios66 said:
Well, that's exactly what I used what was below the battery and the box... without those you can't really move forward... does it give you an error when you log in with those?
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Yeah says they're invalid serial numbers. I asked a buddy of mine to give me his numbers and I get the same error with his. I did the DEC number as both full XXXXXXXXXXXXX and XXX XXX XXX XXX etc ...
Neither work. Also tried with HEX. Guess I'm just seriously SOL.
I was trying to flash an updated version of the ROM i had, but a verizon message came up, essentially telling me my bootloader was still locked. I looked it up, and the fix is supposedly flashing it back to stock, which I tried, but it has no internet connection (wifi or service) and it loaded the ROM i had been trying to install earlier.
I double checked my model number, to see if that did anything, and it's changed from what it was when I flashed the first ROM, so i tried flashing the firmware for that model, but Odin just gives me a fail message for that, so i can get my ROM to run, but my internet is borked, and I can't get it back to stock to see if that fixes it.
Because I can't get internet access it's screwing up a lot of my attempts to fix it, and my computer refuses to read it, so I can't do anything from that end.
Also, while my WiFi refuses to turn on (switch pops back to grey after trying to turn it on) my service bars act like they're receiving, changing up and down, but they're greyed out and the carrier name is 'Empty'.
NickBroomfield said:
I was trying to flash an updated version of the ROM i had, but a verizon message came up, essentially telling me my bootloader was still locked. I looked it up, and the fix is supposedly flashing it back to stock, which I tried, but it has no internet connection (wifi or service) and it loaded the ROM i had been trying to install earlier.
I double checked my model number, to see if that did anything, and it's changed from what it was when I flashed the first ROM, so i tried flashing the firmware for that model, but Odin just gives me a fail message for that, so i can get my ROM to run, but my internet is borked, and I can't get it back to stock to see if that fixes it.
Because I can't get internet access it's screwing up a lot of my attempts to fix it, and my computer refuses to read it, so I can't do anything from that end.
Also, while my WiFi refuses to turn on (switch pops back to grey after trying to turn it on) my service bars act like they're receiving, changing up and down, but they're greyed out and the carrier name is 'Empty'.
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Going to need more info.
What is your original build?
What rom were you trying to flash?
How are you trying to flash it?
etc..........
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riker147 said:
Going to need more info.
What is your original build?
What rom were you trying to flash?
How are you trying to flash it?
etc..........
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Original Build: if you mean what I was using before flash, I can't find the link to it, it was one of the first stock android ROMs for the GS4. If you mean prior to that, it was the standard Samsung TouchWiz the GS4 comes with.
I was trying to flash the ROM found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2340783
I flashed it using TWRP > wipe data/cache, factory reset > install zip > wipe dalvik cache > boot. When that didn't seem to work, I tried flashing stock using Odin, as I can't get the zips onto my phone now.
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Original Build: if you mean what I was using before flash, I can't find the link to it, it was one of the first stock android ROMs for the GS4. If you mean prior to that, it was the standard Samsung TouchWiz the GS4 comes with.
I was trying to flash the ROM found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2340783
I flashed it using TWRP > wipe data/cache, factory reset > install zip > wipe dalvik cache > boot. When that didn't seem to work, I tried flashing stock using Odin, as I can't get the zips onto my phone now.
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I mean the last official build the phone was on before you started flashing. (MDK, ME7, MI1, MJ7 or MK2)
Did you ever take any OTA's?
When you say TWRP, do you mean TWRP with Safestrap or just TWRP?
riker147 said:
I mean the last official build the phone was on before you started flashing. (MDK, ME7, MI1, MJ7 or MK2)
Did you ever take any OTA's?
When you say TWRP, do you mean TWRP with Safestrap or just TWRP?
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Erm, I believe it was MDK, but I'm not certain, and I wouldn't know how to go about checking that retroactively if I could.
I didn't knowingly take any OTA's
Just TWRP.
NickBroomfield said:
Erm, I believe it was MDK, but I'm not certain, and I wouldn't know how to go about checking that retroactively if I could.
I didn't knowingly take any OTA's
Just TWRP.
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OK so if your phone was running Twrp, and not SafeStrap twrp, we can then probably assume your phone was on MDK.
What tar file did you use to Odin?
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Mistertac said:
OK so if your phone was running Twrp, and not SafeStrap twrp, we can then probably assume your phone was on MDK.
What tar file did you use to Odin?
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I don't know what you want exactly, the name of the file I tried to use to flash back to stock is 'SCH-I545_MD2_423399_Kernel.tar', I can't link because xda says I can't link outside sources until 10 posts, and I'm a tad new.
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I don't know what you want exactly, the name of the file I tried to use to flash back to stock is 'SCH-I545_MD2_423399_Kernel.tar', I can't link because xda says I can't link outside sources until 10 posts, and I'm a tad new.
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OK so that looks like the pre release kernel and not the stock firmware file. So that may explain why you're having issues still.
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You need to go here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2289325
Click the link in that op then click on the TAR folder once your on that site it sends you to.
That's the mdk stock firmware
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Mistertac said:
OK so that looks like the pre release kernel and not the stock firmware file. So that may explain why you're having issues still.
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Oh, I did flash this 'SCH-I545_MDK_562219_Kernel.tar' afterwards, which didn't make anything better or worse.
NickBroomfield said:
Oh, I did flash this 'SCH-I545_MDK_562219_Kernel.tar' afterwards, which didn't make anything better or worse.
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Those files youve been mentioning are from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2290798
Those are needed to r
ROOT the phone AFTER you flash the stock firmware I linked you to.
So am I confused here or are you trying to get it back to stock MDK....or just trying to root the phone?
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Those files youve been mentioning are from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2290798
Those are needed to r
ROOT the phone AFTER you flash the stock firmware I linked you to.
So am I confused here or are you trying to get it back to stock MDK....or just trying to root the phone?
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Oh, that might be why I'm having problems. You're not confused, I just probably shouldn't be doing this on my own.
NickBroomfield said:
Oh, that might be why I'm having problems. You're not confused, I just probably shouldn't be doing this on my own.
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Tell you what... Go to this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301259
It has a very nice set of instructions that the first one I linked you to doesn't.
That links you to the no wipe MDK tar file. You should be OK to use that one.
Very important that you use the MDK file and not one of the others as those will lock your phone back up and no more custom recovery for you.
Its fairly easy. Let me know how I can help
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I'm hitting the hay ... Good luck with that.
If you run into problems with the no wipe tar files in the second link go and download the mdk tar file from
http://www.rwilco12.com/downloads.p...Galaxy S4 (Verizon) (SCH-I545)/Stock ROMs/TAR
And try that.
Make sure you're using a good USB cable as well.
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Mistertac said:
Tell you what... Go to this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301259
It has a very nice set of instructions that the first one I linked you to doesn't.
That links you to the no wipe MDK tar file. You should be OK to use that one.
Very important that you use the MDK file and not one of the others as those will lock your phone back up and no more custom recovery for you.
Its fairly easy. Let me know how I can help
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I got my phone back to stock, made sure my internet was working, rooted it, installed TWRP, and everything worked fine, but I have a question that might be a bit out of the bounds of this post. When I tried to use TWRP to flash stock android onto it I get the message "Verizon has detected unauthorized software [etc]". This is linked to the bootloader, if I recall correctly, but I can't find some really good help with it.
Further help would appreciated, but what you've done already has helped me far more than I had hoped when I posted, so thank you, oh so much.
NickBroomfield said:
When I tried to use TWRP to flash stock android onto it I get the message "Verizon has detected unauthorized software.
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Ok so you're in TWRP and what file are you trying to flash exactly??
We use Odin to flash stock firmwares. And devs do make"stock ROMs" that can be flashed in twrp...so really I need to know what it isv exactly you're trying to do...
Again
What file and what steps you're taking and then I can help more
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Ok so you're in TWRP and what file are you trying to flash exactly??
We use Odin to flash stock firmwares. And devs do make"stock ROMs" that can be flashed in twrp...so really I need to know what it isv exactly you're trying to do...
Again
What file and what steps you're taking and then I can help more
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In TWRP, trying to flash the ROM I linked in my second post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2340783
As for steps: I boot into TWRP > factory reset > wipe Dalvik > Install zip (for the ROM and GApps) > Wipe Dalvik > reboot system.
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In TWRP, trying to flash the ROM I linked in my second post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2340783
As for steps: I boot into TWRP > factory reset > wipe Dalvik > Install zip (for the ROM and GApps) > Wipe Dalvik > reboot system.
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Ok from I saw in that post that ROM is for the i9505 S4 I believe, which is the international version of our phone.
Try downloading this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2384362
It's a stock ROM based off our Verizon S4
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Mistertac said:
Ok from I saw in that post that ROM is for the i9505 S4 I believe, which is the international version of our phone.
Try downloading this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2384362
It's a stock ROM based off our Verizon S4
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His post currently says 'uploading' under downloads, so for now, after I get it, my process is correct, right? Just the wrong software? Or is there a problem with what I'm doing as well?
NickBroomfield said:
His post currently says 'uploading' under downloads, so for now, after I get it, my process is correct, right? Just the wrong software? Or is there a problem with what I'm doing as well?
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OK . no you're process is ok.
Try looking here for another ROM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-verizon/development
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Or look here for aosp ROMs
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-verizon/orig-development
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I'm not sure what state your phone is in now however. You may have to Odin back to stock mdk then reroot and install twrp again. What is your phone doing now? Can still get into recovery
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OK . no you're process is ok.
Try looking here for another ROM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-verizon/development
Or look here for aosp ROMs
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-verizon/orig-development
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So just any ROM?
Mistertac said:
I'm not sure what state your phone is in now however. You may have to Odin back to stock mdk then reroot and install twrp again. What is your phone doing now? Can still get into recovery
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I already flashed to stock/rerooted/reinstalled twrp, previously it was giving me the error "Verizon has encountered unauthorized software on this device, please turn off your phone and take it to the nearest store" or something along those lines.
newb question: what does AOSP stand for?
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So just any ROM?
I already flashed to stock/rerooted/reinstalled twrp, previously it was giving me the error "Verizon has encountered unauthorized software on this device, please turn off your phone and take it to the nearest store" or something along those lines.
newb question: what does AOSP stand for?
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AndroidOpenSourceProject
And yea those two links I sent you are for our Verizon s4. You an install any ROM from either one of those forums, just read the posts and follow the devs directions and you're Golden
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