About a week ago, I was reading about Samsung will start pushing an OTA update to limit the phone more and maybe brick them so we can return them.
After reading a few threads, I downloaded package disabler. Unfortunately, the package disabler developer was contacted by Samsung or whatever to not show the OTA packages so that they can push the update.
I have to say, I'm not sure if this is just a rumor or if it's true, a lot of stuff like this can be found in any forum.
Also disabled update automatically and disabled the play store's automatic update as well. Paranoid much...
But I still received the notification of a new update. Now I know that this is what they want so I tried to avoid it. Then it started bugging me, so I'm like let me click on it and cancel it. Don't be fooled, there's no cancel button! There's a counter too! Which was funny. I tried putting the phone into recovery mode in hopes that it would cancel the update, but after the phone rebooted it just installed the updates.
Phone will only charge to 60, and a more annoying pop up will show saying it's illegal to have the phone or give it and have to return it and so on.
Anywhooo, I managed to get the stock rom from the previous version and decided to try and flash it maybe it'll override the update.
IT DID!!! Now my phone charges to 100 again the recall pop up is still there and its the old one not the scary one. I downloaded package disabler 6.3 and managed to block the correct packages to avoid this from happening again.
You can Google "note 7 stock rom" and find yours or you can message me and I'll send you the link.
My phone is a Roger's phone. Downloaded this N930W8VLU2API3 (release date 16.09.2016) this is the build from September.
The download was very slow speed, so be patient!
Settings, developer options, and checked "OEM unlock" and "USB debugging". Then lock screen and security and disabled SD encryption. Screen lock settings none.
TIP
Go to phone and type *#06# and write down the IMEI and S/N just incase something goes wrong and you have to use smart switch to recover the firmware. Also, back up the phone.
After downloading the firmware, I downloaded another copy. I did this to check the files' sizes and see if the download was interrupted or caused files to break.
TIP
UNZIP THE FILES FROM THE FOLDER, do not attempt to only open the zip and choose the files as it might crash.
Files should have "AP, BL, CSC, CP". I opened Odin(3.12), plugged the phone.
Odin should say that the phone is connected in port X.
Chose the files from the unzipped folder. One of the files is almost 4 GB in size, so it will take time for Odin to read. Windows might display (application not responding) on top, ignore it and wait.
Selected and checked all the files in Odin. If there's no check next to it, it won't work.
Put the phone in recovery mode (vol down + home + power), then click (vol up).
Start on Odin. It should pass.
Phone displayed the blue screen and that its installing the "update" which really should be a downgrade. Then it took a while displaying the Samsung logo. It was waving so waited.
Now the phone went back to how it was before the OTA update. :good:
That's exactly what I did after I received the OTA update. not sure if I was lucky or not but my data was still there. Didn't have to restore it. If it deleted your date, it should be fine since you backed it up.
Don't forget to uninstall package disabler then install the 6.3 version and disable the update packages!!!
This has worked for me few days ago!! All went too smooth!
Good Job Raider! This will be useful to so many people.
knight-raider said:
About a week ago, I was reading about Samsung will start pushing an OTA update to limit the phone more and maybe brick them so we can return them.
After reading a few threads, I downloaded package disabler. Unfortunately, the package disabler developer was contacted by Samsung or whatever to not show the OTA packages so that they can push the update.
I have to say, I'm not sure if this is just a rumor or if it's true, a lot of stuff like this can be found in any forum.
Also disabled update automatically and disabled the play store's automatic update as well. Paranoid much...
But I still received the notification of a new update. Now I know that this is what they want so I tried to avoid it. Then it started bugging me, so I'm like let me click on it and cancel it. Don't be fooled, there's no cancel button! There's a counter too! Which was funny. I tried putting the phone into recovery mode in hopes that it would cancel the update, but after the phone rebooted it just installed the updates.
Phone will only charge to 60, and a more annoying pop up will show saying it's illegal to have the phone or give it and have to return it and so on.
Anywhooo, I managed to get the stock rom from the previous version and decided to try and flash it maybe it'll override the update.
IT DID!!! Now my phone charges to 100 again the recall pop up is still there and its the old one not the scary one. I downloaded package disabler 6.3 and managed to block the correct packages to avoid this from happening again.
You can Google "note 7 stock rom" and find yours or you can message me and I'll send you the link.
My phone is a Roger's phone. Downloaded this N930W8VLU2API3 (release date 16.09.2016) this is the build from September.
The download was very slow speed, so be patient!
Settings, developer options, and checked "OEM unlock" and "USB debugging". Then lock screen and security and disabled SD encryption. Screen lock settings none.
TIP
Go to phone and type *#06# and write down the IMEI and S/N just incase something goes wrong and you have to use smart switch to recover the firmware. Also, back up the phone.
After downloading the firmware, I downloaded another copy. I did this to check the files' sizes and see if the download was interrupted or caused files to break.
TIP
UNZIP THE FILES FROM THE FOLDER, do not attempt to only open the zip and choose the files as it might crash.
Files should have "AP, BL, CSC, CP". I opened Odin(3.12), plugged the phone.
Odin should say that the phone is connected in port X.
Chose the files from the unzipped folder. One of the files is almost 4 GB in size, so it will take time for Odin to read. Windows might display (application not responding) on top, ignore it and wait.
Selected and checked all the files in Odin. If there's no check next to it, it won't work.
Put the phone in recovery mode (vol down + home + power), then click (vol up).
Start on Odin. It should pass.
Phone displayed the blue screen and that its installing the "update" which really should be a downgrade. Then it took a while displaying the Samsung logo. It was waving so waited.
Now the phone went back to how it was before the OTA update. :good:
That's exactly what I did after I received the OTA update. not sure if I was lucky or not but my data was still there. Didn't have to restore it. If it deleted your date, it should be fine since you backed it up.
Don't forget to uninstall package disabler then install the 6.3 version and disable the update packages!!!
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How do you go about doing this"Don't forget to uninstall package disabler then install the 6.3 version and disable the update package" where in the phone i much go to uninstall and disable update package
joseph- said:
How do you go about doing this"Don't forget to uninstall package disabler then install the 6.3 version and disable the update package" where in the phone i much go to uninstall and disable update package
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In my case, my date wasn't deleted. I had "Package Disabler Pro" application installed (the latest update which didn't show the OTA packages).
I uninstalled it, then downloaded the 6.3 version (which shows the packages) and disabled the OTA files
knight-raider said:
About a week ago, I was reading about Samsung will start pushing an OTA update to limit the phone more and maybe brick them so we can return them.
After reading a few threads, I downloaded package disabler. Unfortunately, the package disabler developer was contacted by Samsung or whatever to not show the OTA packages so that they can push the update.
I have to say, I'm not sure if this is just a rumor or if it's true, a lot of stuff like this can be found in any forum.
Also disabled update automatically and disabled the play store's automatic update as well. Paranoid much...
But I still received the notification of a new update. Now I know that this is what they want so I tried to avoid it. Then it started bugging me, so I'm like let me click on it and cancel it. Don't be fooled, there's no cancel button! There's a counter too! Which was funny. I tried putting the phone into recovery mode in hopes that it would cancel the update, but after the phone rebooted it just installed the updates.
Phone will only charge to 60, and a more annoying pop up will show saying it's illegal to have the phone or give it and have to return it and so on.
Anywhooo, I managed to get the stock rom from the previous version and decided to try and flash it maybe it'll override the update.
IT DID!!! Now my phone charges to 100 again the recall pop up is still there and its the old one not the scary one. I downloaded package disabler 6.3 and managed to block the correct packages to avoid this from happening again.
You can Google "note 7 stock rom" and find yours or you can message me and I'll send you the link.
My phone is a Roger's phone. Downloaded this N930W8VLU2API3 (release date 16.09.2016) this is the build from September.
The download was very slow speed, so be patient!
Settings, developer options, and checked "OEM unlock" and "USB debugging". Then lock screen and security and disabled SD encryption. Screen lock settings none.
TIP
Go to phone and type *#06# and write down the IMEI and S/N just incase something goes wrong and you have to use smart switch to recover the firmware. Also, back up the phone.
After downloading the firmware, I downloaded another copy. I did this to check the files' sizes and see if the download was interrupted or caused files to break.
TIP
UNZIP THE FILES FROM THE FOLDER, do not attempt to only open the zip and choose the files as it might crash.
Files should have "AP, BL, CSC, CP". I opened Odin(3.12), plugged the phone.
Odin should say that the phone is connected in port X.
Chose the files from the unzipped folder. One of the files is almost 4 GB in size, so it will take time for Odin to read. Windows might display (application not responding) on top, ignore it and wait.
Selected and checked all the files in Odin. If there's no check next to it, it won't work.
Put the phone in recovery mode (vol down + home + power), then click (vol up).
Start on Odin. It should pass.
Phone displayed the blue screen and that its installing the "update" which really should be a downgrade. Then it took a while displaying the Samsung logo. It was waving so waited.
Now the phone went back to how it was before the OTA update. :good:
That's exactly what I did after I received the OTA update. not sure if I was lucky or not but my data was still there. Didn't have to restore it. If it deleted your date, it should be fine since you backed it up.
Don't forget to uninstall package disabler then install the 6.3 version and disable the update packages!!!
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Funny because i tried same thing and odin failed. It won't allow rolling bk to original rom.
knight-raider said:
About a week ago, I was reading about Samsung will start pushing an OTA update to limit the phone more and maybe brick them so we can return them.
After reading a few threads, I downloaded package disabler. Unfortunately, the package disabler developer was contacted by Samsung or whatever to not show the OTA packages so that they can push the update.
I have to say, I'm not sure if this is just a rumor or if it's true, a lot of stuff like this can be found in any forum.
Also disabled update automatically and disabled the play store's automatic update as well. Paranoid much...
But I still received the notification of a new update. Now I know that this is what they want so I tried to avoid it. Then it started bugging me, so I'm like let me click on it and cancel it. Don't be fooled, there's no cancel button! There's a counter too! Which was funny. I tried putting the phone into recovery mode in hopes that it would cancel the update, but after the phone rebooted it just installed the updates.
Phone will only charge to 60, and a more annoying pop up will show saying it's illegal to have the phone or give it and have to return it and so on.
Anywhooo, I managed to get the stock rom from the previous version and decided to try and flash it maybe it'll override the update.
IT DID!!! Now my phone charges to 100 again the recall pop up is still there and its the old one not the scary one. I downloaded package disabler 6.3 and managed to block the correct packages to avoid this from happening again.
You can Google "note 7 stock rom" and find yours or you can message me and I'll send you the link.
My phone is a Roger's phone. Downloaded this N930W8VLU2API3 (release date 16.09.2016) this is the build from September.
The download was very slow speed, so be patient!
Settings, developer options, and checked "OEM unlock" and "USB debugging". Then lock screen and security and disabled SD encryption. Screen lock settings none.
TIP
Go to phone and type *#06# and write down the IMEI and S/N just incase something goes wrong and you have to use smart switch to recover the firmware. Also, back up the phone.
After downloading the firmware, I downloaded another copy. I did this to check the files' sizes and see if the download was interrupted or caused files to break.
TIP
UNZIP THE FILES FROM THE FOLDER, do not attempt to only open the zip and choose the files as it might crash.
Files should have "AP, BL, CSC, CP". I opened Odin(3.12), plugged the phone.
Odin should say that the phone is connected in port X.
Chose the files from the unzipped folder. One of the files is almost 4 GB in size, so it will take time for Odin to read. Windows might display (application not responding) on top, ignore it and wait.
Selected and checked all the files in Odin. If there's no check next to it, it won't work.
Put the phone in recovery mode (vol down + home + power), then click (vol up).
Start on Odin. It should pass.
Phone displayed the blue screen and that its installing the "update" which really should be a downgrade. Then it took a while displaying the Samsung logo. It was waving so waited.
Now the phone went back to how it was before the OTA update. :good:
That's exactly what I did after I received the OTA update. not sure if I was lucky or not but my data was still there. Didn't have to restore it. If it deleted your date, it should be fine since you backed it up.
Don't forget to uninstall package disabler then install the 6.3 version and disable the update packages!!!
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WORKED FOR ME AS WELL!!! Green Battery is back! now lets see if it charges over 60%
I've downloaded Package Disabler Pro 6.3 on my Note 7 after sucessfully using Odin to go back one software update.
However, I've disabled all the following...
com.policydm
com.sec.android.soagent
com.samsung.android.omcagent
com.wssyncmldm
com.sec.spp.push
Except for the most important ones...
com.samsung.firmware.sensorhub
com.samsung.android.firmware.tsp
Because they don't come up.
Will this be an issue?
Can you not just root and install a custom rom?
marvi0 said:
Can you not just root and install a custom rom?
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No root for the snapdragon
Maiesta_Miyabi said:
I've downloaded Package Disabler Pro 6.3 on my Note 7 after sucessfully using Odin to go back one software update.
However, I've disabled all the following...
com.policydm
com.sec.android.soagent
com.samsung.android.omcagent
com.wssyncmldm
com.sec.spp.push
Except for the most important ones...
com.samsung.firmware.sensorhub
com.samsung.android.firmware.tsp
Because they don't come up.
Will this be an issue?
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Did you have a previous version installed?
knight-raider said:
About a week ago, I was reading about Samsung will start pushing an OTA update to limit the phone more and maybe brick them so we can return them.
After reading a few threads, I downloaded package disabler. Unfortunately, the package disabler developer was contacted by Samsung or whatever to not show the OTA packages so that they can push the update.
I have to say, I'm not sure if this is just a rumor or if it's true, a lot of stuff like this can be found in any forum.
Also disabled update automatically and disabled the play store's automatic update as well. Paranoid much...
But I still received the notification of a new update. Now I know that this is what they want so I tried to avoid it. Then it started bugging me, so I'm like let me click on it and cancel it. Don't be fooled, there's no cancel button! There's a counter too! Which was funny. I tried putting the phone into recovery mode in hopes that it would cancel the update, but after the phone rebooted it just installed the updates.
Phone will only charge to 60, and a more annoying pop up will show saying it's illegal to have the phone or give it and have to return it and so on.
Anywhooo, I managed to get the stock rom from the previous version and decided to try and flash it maybe it'll override the update.
IT DID!!! Now my phone charges to 100 again the recall pop up is still there and its the old one not the scary one. I downloaded package disabler 6.3 and managed to block the correct packages to avoid this from happening again.
You can Google "note 7 stock rom" and find yours or you can message me and I'll send you the link.
My phone is a Roger's phone. Downloaded this N930W8VLU2API3 (release date 16.09.2016) this is the build from September.
The download was very slow speed, so be patient!
Settings, developer options, and checked "OEM unlock" and "USB debugging". Then lock screen and security and disabled SD encryption. Screen lock settings none.
TIP
Go to phone and type *#06# and write down the IMEI and S/N just incase something goes wrong and you have to use smart switch to recover the firmware. Also, back up the phone.
After downloading the firmware, I downloaded another copy. I did this to check the files' sizes and see if the download was interrupted or caused files to break.
TIP
UNZIP THE FILES FROM THE FOLDER, do not attempt to only open the zip and choose the files as it might crash.
Files should have "AP, BL, CSC, CP". I opened Odin(3.12), plugged the phone.
Odin should say that the phone is connected in port X.
Chose the files from the unzipped folder. One of the files is almost 4 GB in size, so it will take time for Odin to read. Windows might display (application not responding) on top, ignore it and wait.
Selected and checked all the files in Odin. If there's no check next to it, it won't work.
Put the phone in recovery mode (vol down + home + power), then click (vol up).
Start on Odin. It should pass.
Phone displayed the blue screen and that its installing the "update" which really should be a downgrade. Then it took a while displaying the Samsung logo. It was waving so waited.
Now the phone went back to how it was before the OTA update. :good:
That's exactly what I did after I received the OTA update. not sure if I was lucky or not but my data was still there. Didn't have to restore it. If it deleted your date, it should be fine since you backed it up.
Don't forget to uninstall package disabler then install the 6.3 version and disable the update packages!!!
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So this is funny but i kinda fixes my phone lol now it charges up to 100. I tried koodo firmware and i was able to restore it. Originally i tried the general Samsung firmware for note 7 nd it kept on failing in odin then i realized wen i put my simcard in back wen first got the phone it looked to koodo. Now i used pkg disabler to disable updates too.
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Mine is SM-930A. It's the AT&T version. Please help.
knight-raider said:
About a week ago, I was reading about Samsung will start pushing an OTA update to limit the phone more and maybe brick them so we can return them.
After reading a few threads, I downloaded package disabler. Unfortunately, the package disabler developer was contacted by Samsung or whatever to not show the OTA packages so that they can push the update.
I have to say, I'm not sure if this is just a rumor or if it's true, a lot of stuff like this can be found in any forum.
Also disabled update automatically and disabled the play store's automatic update as well. Paranoid much...
But I still received the notification of a new update. Now I know that this is what they want so I tried to avoid it. Then it started bugging me, so I'm like let me click on it and cancel it. Don't be fooled, there's no cancel button! There's a counter too! Which was funny. I tried putting the phone into recovery mode in hopes that it would cancel the update, but after the phone rebooted it just installed the updates.
Phone will only charge to 60, and a more annoying pop up will show saying it's illegal to have the phone or give it and have to return it and so on.
Anywhooo, I managed to get the stock rom from the previous version and decided to try and flash it maybe it'll override the update.
IT DID!!! Now my phone charges to 100 again the recall pop up is still there and its the old one not the scary one. I downloaded package disabler 6.3 and managed to block the correct packages to avoid this from happening again.
You can Google "note 7 stock rom" and find yours or you can message me and I'll send you the link.
My phone is a Roger's phone. Downloaded this N930W8VLU2API3 (release date 16.09.2016) this is the build from September.
The download was very slow speed, so be patient!
Settings, developer options, and checked "OEM unlock" and "USB debugging". Then lock screen and security and disabled SD encryption. Screen lock settings none.
TIP
Go to phone and type *#06# and write down the IMEI and S/N just incase something goes wrong and you have to use smart switch to recover the firmware. Also, back up the phone.
After downloading the firmware, I downloaded another copy. I did this to check the files' sizes and see if the download was interrupted or caused files to break.
TIP
UNZIP THE FILES FROM THE FOLDER, do not attempt to only open the zip and choose the files as it might crash.
Files should have "AP, BL, CSC, CP". I opened Odin(3.12), plugged the phone.
Odin should say that the phone is connected in port X.
Chose the files from the unzipped folder. One of the files is almost 4 GB in size, so it will take time for Odin to read. Windows might display (application not responding) on top, ignore it and wait.
Selected and checked all the files in Odin. If there's no check next to it, it won't work.
Put the phone in recovery mode (vol down + home + power), then click (vol up).
Start on Odin. It should pass.
Phone displayed the blue screen and that its installing the "update" which really should be a downgrade. Then it took a while displaying the Samsung logo. It was waving so waited.
Now the phone went back to how it was before the OTA update. :good:
That's exactly what I did after I received the OTA update. not sure if I was lucky or not but my data was still there. Didn't have to restore it. If it deleted your date, it should be fine since you backed it up.
Don't forget to uninstall package disabler then install the 6.3 version and disable the update packages!!!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
worked thank you
I did the same thing as instructed and was able to downgrade my note 7 snap dragon to a previous stock version before the forced update. Battery is back to 100%, no update messages everything seems to be running great. However I noticed my Secure folder is no longer working. Has anyone else having this issue? When I try to open secure folder or setup the folder it gives me a error message saying " Secure folder cannot be set up because unauthorized software was installed on the device. I got the rom from Sam mobile for my Rogers phone Sept update. Sometimes the error messages says " Failed to create knox mode. Try again. When I use an app to check my if my knox has been tripped is says everything is normal, 0x0 valid warrenty. Any ideas what a solution could be?
By the way... Thanks for posting how to downgrade and get my note 7 back to normal working condition!
goldensun7 said:
I did the same thing as instructed and was able to downgrade my note 7 snap dragon to a previous stock version before the forced update. Battery is back to 100%, no update messages everything seems to be running great. However I noticed my Secure folder is no longer working. Has anyone else having this issue? When I try to open secure folder or setup the folder it gives me a error message saying " Secure folder cannot be set up because unauthorized software was installed on the device. I got the rom from Sam mobile for my Rogers phone Sept update. Sometimes the error messages says " Failed to create knox mode. Try again. When I use an app to check my if my knox has been tripped is says everything is normal, 0x0 valid warrenty. Any ideas what a solution could be?
By the way... Thanks for posting how to downgrade and get my note 7 back to normal working condition!
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Ok looks like I fixed the problem. I only flashed the larger AP file and not all the files in the stock rom. Once I flashed the other files, secure folder became available.
Be sure to flash all files in the stock rom.
oh man I cant thank you enough for helping me bring some life back into my phone! the 60% was brutal! back to 100% charge now!!!
I did run into some issues, and in case this helps anyone else who couldnt get odin to pass the most important thing is to make sure your downloading the right carrier version of the firmware. You need to use the carrier version that matches the same one the phone was originally activated. In my case, my Bell note 7 was originally activated using a virgin mobile sim card so odin would fail until I used the VMC region instead of BMC.
Thanks again!
would someone be kind enough to post a youtube video for those of us who are not so familiar with using ODIN
Thank You.
Its great that some of you are able to fight back against the 60 percent update, i blocked mine before it even happened but nothing will help us when the carriers block our devices... i just got off the phone with sprint (US) and they told me they will definately block the note 7s in the near future long before the 8 comes out... if someone has a solution, please pm me or post it here if you can...
Personally my story about keeping the no seven is probably a lot different than most people...
In February my now ex wife stole my Note Edge and kicked me out of my own house at gunpoint.... thankfully i got away with my tab 4... but it got stolen when i was homeless from being kicked out and living in my car...
So two devices stolen from me in less than a year, but hope was on the horizon. I had heard the note seven was coming out and so I stayed without a phone for three to four months and got the note seven the day it was released.
The note 7 is my trophy, it is my monument to not ever getting robbed again and then samsung wants to take it.
rkawli said:
would someone be kind enough to post a youtube video for those of us who are not so familiar with using ODIN
Thank You.
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check youtube there are a lot of instructional vids. the process is the same for every ROM. you can download the ROM from sammobile.com firmware section. let me know if you can't figure it out still. I can try and help.
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hi all,
Since a week or 2 my phone is constantly giving messages like this: "The application LogsProvider (process com.sec.android.provider.logsprovider) has stopped unexpectedly"
When i make a new contact or a new file on my phone, it disapears after rebooting. When i uninstall all my apps and reboot the phone, all the apps are back and nothing has been uninstalled. Even when i format the sd card on my pc, and reboot the phone, all the content is back as if nothing has happened.
When i try to reset it to factory settings, it opens in recovery mode. When i then select to wipe all data or wipe cache and reboot, nothing has happened to it, everything is still on the phone like before. Even when i deselect the backup and automatic recovery checkboxes before i reset to factory settings, nothing has been wiped.
When i try to update the phone with kies, the update installs correctly, but when the phone reboots, the same old firmware is still installed and the settings are intact.
When i try to update the phone with Odin, everything goes well, and it says 'pass' in green color. when i reboot the phone, the same old firmware and settings are still there.
I run stock firmware from november '11, which i can tell by dialing *#1234*
Can anyone help me identify this problem, and is there a solution? It really looks like this phone has some write protection or something..
i made a youtube video that describes the problem, but this forum doesn't allow me to make a link.
anyway, my phone stays stuck on the 3rd of september and that sucks.. any solutions plz?
the video
i can't post the link, so let's try it like this:
First type the 'www', then the 'youtube', then the '.com', then type 'watch?v=n6SH8QDJr94&feature=g-upl'
Flash custom kernel, do a factory reset in CWM and see if the data is gone.
i've already tried to install cwm, but first i needed to root my phone. When i tried to root it, it could not find the Root.zip on the sd card, although i'm pretty sure i put it there, it just disapeared after the reset, just like all the other files..
Flash it [kernel] through Odin (PC).
allright, i will try that, thanks already!
ehm, even that didn't do anything, i will upload a youtube video in a few minutes..
the youtube video:
type 'youtube', then '.com', then '/watch?v=P_D2EbPF0Ik&feature=youtu.be', without the '..
really strange how i can update the kernel and nothing has changed!
I really start thinking there is some kind of write protection or the internal storage is totaly screwed up?
Seems your nand is partially borked, and is stuck in a state where it will not update the memory, so it is "stuck" at a specific point in time.
I have heard that it's POSSIBLE (and I stress possible) that flashing with repartition ticked with the PROPER .pit file will resolve your issue, but I cannot say this with any certainty as I have not actually done this myself. But at this point, it seems you don't really have anything to lose by trying.
I can't seem to find a reliable download link for the .pit file for the I9100 right now... it's called u1_02_20110310_emmc_EXT4.pit. I'll see if I can't find one when I have a spare moment.
EDIT: Found one - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28321934&postcount=35. BUT!!! Only use it if you are positive you have an I9100. (check on the label under the battery) Flash it with a stock firmware with re-partition checked.
False alarm. Turns out the link is dead.
EDIT 2: This looks promising... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1448351
Hello,
recently I downloaded a Glamour S4 and installed it. Also I downloaded, what is propably obvious, CWM. I used it for some time, but didn't like bacause of many bugs and limitations. I tried to download other rom, Project Chaos, but what is driving me crazy I couldn't download it from mega.co.nz becauze it freezes all the time on 66 or 90%. So after two days of trying to download and having this issue I decided to go back to original. I did everything as in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2323847 but after finishing I realized that the software is branded by one of operators here in Poland, and it was freezing too long (about 30 minutes and samsung logo stayed still).
Fortunetly I had my backup from CWM. So what I did then was:
Installed CWM
backed up software
Installed original recovery
Set binary counter to default
Then I figured that root is still on my phone, so I choosed option in SU to fully unroot
Voila! Soft is smooth and as it was orginally. Status is original. Everything as it was before I changed any software, except one thing - I cannot check if there is a new update. I have internet connection, can access websites through wifi or mobile data etc., but when I check if there is new software, phone only shows "checking if there is new software" and progress bar, and it stays for 5, 10, 30... 60 minutes even, and nothing is happening...
It is annoying cause I wanted to back to fully original and wait for the official update, but right now something is wrong... Do anyone know, why?
Cheers!
Adam.st said:
Hello,
recently I downloaded a Glamour S4 and installed it. Also I downloaded, what is propably obvious, CWM. I used it for some time, but didn't like bacause of many bugs and limitations. I tried to download other rom, Project Chaos, but what is driving me crazy I couldn't download it from mega.co.nz becauze it freezes all the time on 66 or 90%. So after two days of trying to download and having this issue I decided to go back to original. I did everything as in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2323847 but after finishing I realized that the software is branded by one of operators here in Poland, and it was freezing too long (about 30 minutes and samsung logo stayed still).
Fortunetly I had my backup from CWM. So what I did then was:
Installed CWM
backed up software
Installed original recovery
Set binary counter to default
Then I figured that root is still on my phone, so I choosed option in SU to fully unroot
Voila! Soft is smooth and as it was orginally. Status is original. Everything as it was before I changed any software, except one thing - I cannot check if there is a new update. I have internet connection, can access websites through wifi or mobile data etc., but when I check if there is new software, phone only shows "checking if there is new software" and progress bar, and it stays for 5, 10, 30... 60 minutes even, and nothing is happening...
It is annoying cause I wanted to back to fully original and wait for the official update, but right now something is wrong... Do anyone know, why?
Cheers!
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You will need to flash a stock ROM with odin use: SAMSUNG GALAXY S3 UNIFIED TOOLKIT
Hey guys.
Reaching out to see if any has been able to use the Firmware Finder app to update the firmware? Currently I'm on 108 however can download 122 via the app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teammt.gmanrainy.huaweifirmwarefinder
Now is does say its incompatible at first however you can indeed download either the latest OTA or full firmware, but seemingly can't get the device to acknowledge it. Things I've tried:
- Using the VPN and DNS options in firmware finder, then checking for system updates
- Putting the downloaded OTA zip in a created folder on internal storage called DLOAD, rebooting to recovery, but nothing happens.
- Tried extracting all the contents of the zip into that folder, again recovery doesn't acknowledge it.
It'd be great if we could perform manual updates like this, though annoying if the best we could do is merely download it!
Anyone any suggestions?
Let's see if we can get this working...
*update - seems I was entering recovery (power off and then power on holding power button + volume up) where I should have gone to download mode (hold both volume up and down). It gets to a screen but says Installation Failed. That's with the zip directly in the DLOAD folder and then sigh the contents extracted....
I used to use this app on my Honor 9 Lite, however it hasn't worked for a long time.
The method they used was to spoof the Huawei servers using DNS etc to trigger an OTA but Huawei changed the server location.
This app purely exists now to tell you there is an update available to download, however you'll need to use other methods to get it installed, which probably requires an unlocked bootloader at the very least, then a firmware flash tool.
jusumgeezer said:
I used to use this app on my Honor 9 Lite, however it hasn't worked for a long time.
The method they used was to spoof the Huawei servers using DNS etc to trigger an OTA but Huawei changed the server location.
This app purely exists now to tell you there is an update available to download, however you'll need to use other methods to get it installed, which probably requires an unlocked bootloader at the very least, then a firmware flash tool.
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Is there a way to establish that new location, to then use the correct proxy/DNS details?
cd993 said:
Is there a way to establish that new location, to then use the correct proxy/DNS details?
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Apparently not, or at least the developer of that App doesn't seem to think so.
I am also looking to update to the latest firmware too, it has been pushed out to some devices, but nothing for me yet. Although I did get a 3 branded update, I'm hoping that hasn't messed up my OTA's from Huawei
jusumgeezer said:
Apparently not, or at least the developer of that App doesn't seem to think so.
I am also looking to update to the latest firmware too, it has been pushed out to some devices, but nothing for me yet. Although I did get a 3 branded update, I'm hoping that hasn't messed up my OTA's from Huawei
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See I was on Three but moving over to O2. When I first set the phone up, I used the O2 sim but then put my Three sim in and will use until my number gets transferred over. Ive no Three branding yet
cd993 said:
See I was on Three but moving over to O2. When I first set the phone up, I used the O2 sim but then put my Three sim in and will use until my number gets transferred over. Ive no Three branding yet
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That's similar to what I did, put my old Tesco(O2) sim in slot 1 - No branding. The next day I also put my 3 sim into slot 2, after a few minutes an OTA pops up.
Checked on here a a few people said it's safe to install, it just activates Wi-Fi calling & the 3 apps.
After reboot it had also installed a 3 splash screen & changed my chrome homepage to the 3 website.
Minor annoyances yes, apparently fixed by a Factory reset. I just hope the change in software version doesn't delay future updates. Hopefully this 122 update pushes out soon.
jusumgeezer said:
That's similar to what I did, put my old Tesco(O2) sim in slot 1 - No branding. The next day I also put my 3 sim into slot 2, after a few minutes an OTA pops up.
Checked on here a a few people said it's safe to install, it just activates Wi-Fi calling & the 3 apps.
After reboot it had also installed a 3 splash screen & changed my chrome homepage to the 3 website.
Minor annoyances yes, apparently fixed by a Factory reset. I just hope the change in software version doesn't delay future updates. Hopefully this 122 update pushes out soon.
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Cool yeah well I'm on Three network but yet to be branded, but still haven't received an update so likely the branding isn't a cause, perhaps...
Hey all,
My phone updated today and ever since I cannot move past the initial lock screen. When unlocked, the UI appears to crash and send me back to the lock screen. My pin code works for turning the phone off, restarting the phone and putting it into emergency mode, which indicates some sort of UI crash.
Because this is a new account I can't post a link to a video of the issue directly, but the YouTube video code is: 8ZhlH-Tt-NU
I have tried the standard fixes like wiping the cache partition and booting into safe mode, but these don't seem to make any difference. Unfortunately I never logged into my Samsung account on this device, so their 'Find My Mobile' service is not an option. I am however signed into my Google account on the device and it does have wifi/network enabled.
The phone is running PPR1.180610.011/G965FXXU2CSA8
On the phones internal memory is a bunch of photos from a recent trip to Japan, I'm a fool for not backing these up sooner but I would hate to lose them.
Has anybody experienced anything like this before, and is there any way for me to get back into the phone, or atleast recover the photos that I took?
Thanks!
Edit:
One potential route out of this I can see is sideloading the same or a subsequent OTA update using ADB to hopefully fix the issue. Unfortunately despite some digging I can't find any updates that will allow installation from: PPR1.180610.011/G965FXXU2CSA8
If anybody has any information on this specific firmware version (Is it beta 3? beta 4? ect.), its installation path and where files relating to it may be listed/hosted it would be appreciated. Also how disasterous would it be to take a mismatched OTA upgrade and modify the metadata to allow it to be sideloaded onto the phone? I assume this would almost certainly break the OS completely but I'm not too sure.
You can try to flash your firmware again with ODIN, but with the HOME_CSC (Important!)
profi_fahrer said:
You can try to flash your firmware again with ODIN, but with the HOME_CSC (Important!)
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Thanks for the reply Profi I had no idea using HOME_CSC would retain user data. I have tried flashing a few different versions of Pie (wish HOME_CSC) using Odin but with no luck, every time the phone boots I have the same problem. Do you know if there is a sure way to downgrade to Oreo while retaining user data? I have seen a few posts of people attemping this and getting stuck in bootloops, eventually requrining them to factory reset.
To give a final update on this. I attempted the Oreo downgrade, upon reboot the phone was stuck in a bootloop so I updated to Pie again. When the phone booted I tried the pin code as quickly as I could, and after some glitchy graphics on the screen it unlocked. From here I turn on the stay awake while plugged in feature in the developer options and managed to transfer all my data over to PC.
I don't believe it was the firmware changes that actually made any difference, because any further attempts to put my pin in, to remove the pin code for example, failed and cause the same crashing behaviour.
All data is recovered, I have factory reset the phone and all appears to be behaving as normal again. If anybody stumbles upon this with the same issue, all hope is not lost, but unfortunately I was unable to determine a realiable way to overcome it. It seems in this case it was just dumb luck.
Thanks for the assistance.
Hello, I write from Italy, where I bought an Honor 9 in December 2017.
I never tampered with this phone: no root, nor flashing, nor whatever fancy trick, as in fact I'm not really exactly good with smartphones.
The night between the 20th and the 21st of April 2019, after being prompted by my phone to install the new EMUI 9 update [ STF-L09 9.0.1.162(C432E2R1P5) ], I accepted and let it install overnight (note that the update was downloaded, probably automatically, 1 or 2 days before, but I didn't accept the prompt to install it yet, because I needed my phone for a 15-hours long car trip, and so I figured I wouldn't risk it by installing the update just before my trip - LUCKILY apparently, because otherwise I would have had to stay with this eRecovery thing the whole day without a computer).
I woke up this morning (21st of April) to find it was on eRecovery, giving me the following choices:
(some message I don't remember, probably "Serious problems occurred when the device boot etc. etc.")
Download latest version and recovery
Wipe data/factory reset
Reboot
Shutdown
I did the "Download latest version and recovery" option at first: after clicking it, it searches for WiFi around, and after writing my router password and connecting it to my router, it downloaded the 3941 MB (if I recall correctly) update; however, I left my phone downloading only to find it like this (I was away while it was downloading because I have a bit of a slow internet, so I don't exactly know what happens after it finishes downloading):
(some message I don't remember, probably "Serious problems occurred when the device boot etc. etc.")
Wipe data/factory reset
Shutdown
So I did "Shutdown" and I restarted the phone shortly after, and it restarted itself twice (one was my restart, but after that it restarted itself automatically), then always finishing on the eRecovery with 4 options like I wrote before. I did the "Download latest version and recovery" option again, and I had the same result.
What should I do? I really wish NOT to delete all my internal data, even because after reading some other threads I understood it might even be useless. Do you have any counsel?
Thanks in advance guys, I'm really going crazy and have no idea whatsoever about what to do, please help me!
P.S. I believe I found some other people with my same problem (or atleast similar) on the Huawei UK community site (I'm not allowed to post links yet as I just created this account).
The only way to recover this is download the update completely with pc in install to memory in dload folder after it finishes then boot to download mode and hopefully should work again it sounds like you have faulty update hope this helps
Try to update with HiSuite, if it doesn't work just grab your files with HiSuite and update using dload. If it still doesn't work, warranty claim.