Hi, I have an S21 and it is now bricked. I get the 'super build-id does not match with the reference' screen, every boot. I can get it into Download mode and it does show up with a com port in Odin. It is an unlocked phone bought directly from Samsung with a VZW sim card put in it. It was running G991U1UEU5CVDC (see attached screen shot of exactly what was running before bricked) and I want to put the same build back on it (or any build that will do the trick) with Odin to be able to get my Pictures off of it. From Sammobile I can get G991U1UEU5CVDC (https://www.sammobile.com/samsung/galaxy-s21/firmware/SM-G991U1/XAA/download/G991U1UEU5CVDC/1641071/)
Questions:
1. Do I get the XAA or the VZW firmware? (I assume XAA but not sure)
2. Both the XAA and VZW G991U1UEU5CVDC have the date of Apr 22, 2022 that matches my phone but the firmware times are 00:32:45 +0000 and my time is 09:59:55 KST. Does that matter? If so, what else do I do?
3. In Odin, if I put the BL, AP, CP files in and put the HOME_CSC file in the CSC, it won't delete my pictures right?
4. Anything else I should be doing to recover my pictures? i.e. is what I am trying to do going to work?
Thank you so much for any assistance, I appreciate it!
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Hi, I have an S21 and it is now bricked. I get the 'super build-id does not match with the reference' screen, every boot. I can get it into Download mode and it does show up with a com port in Odin. It is an unlocked phone bought directly from Samsung with a VZW sim card put in it. It was running G991U1UEU5CVDC (see attached screen shot of exactly what was running before bricked) and I want to put the same build back on it (or any build that will do the trick) with Odin to be able to get my Pictures off of it. From Sammobile I can get G991U1UEU5CVDC (https://www.sammobile.com/samsung/galaxy-s21/firmware/SM-G991U1/XAA/download/G991U1UEU5CVDC/1641071/)
Questions:
1. Do I get the XAA or the VZW firmware? (I assume XAA but not sure)
2. Both the XAA and VZW G991U1UEU5CVDC have the date of Apr 22, 2022 that matches my phone but the firmware times are 00:32:45 +0000 and my time is 09:59:55 KST. Does that matter? If so, what else do I do?
3. In Odin, if I put the BL, AP, CP files in and put the HOME_CSC file in the CSC, it won't delete my pictures right?
4. Anything else I should be doing to recover my pictures? i.e. is what I am trying to do going to work?
Thank you so much for any assistance, I appreciate it!
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Sounds to me to be exactly as you're guessing. The phone orig was unlocked and XAA. But with the VZW sim it becomes as u have now.
So flash the XAA, it shouldn't change from the pattern it is now. And yes, home CSC avoids deleting apps and data, which is what you want.
Odd though you're needing to do this? Was it due to an update gone wrong? Something you did?
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Sounds to me to be exactly as you're guessing. The phone orig was unlocked and XAA. But with the VZW sim it becomes as u have now.
So flash the XAA, it shouldn't change from the pattern it is now. And yes, home CSC avoids deleting apps and data, which is what you want.
Odd though you're needing to do this? Was it due to an update gone wrong? Something you did?
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Thank you for the reply.
It was randomly rebooting daily. Device care said battery issue. Not sure if it was a hardware or software issue. I let it do the latest update that I had been putting off and it bricked. Not sure if it rebooted during the update or it was already in a bad state and the update failed.
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How can this be?
I bought a S6 Edge which was originally on the three (UK) network. My carrier is Vodafone, so I want their build on my device to access carrier specific features such as wi-fi calling.
Simple right?
Download latest Vodafone UK firmware (G925FXXU2POHC), load up Odin and flash you would have thought. Side step the hidden.img Odin fail by reflashing hidden.img once the original flash has failed. Reboot into data wipe menu and clear cache and other data etc, reboot and job is a good 'un.
But no.
When I restart the phone, no matter how many times i've tried - the device proceeds to install Three (UK) branded bloatware; these are the Three likes, Three In Touch and a couple of other Three branded apps.
How can this be?
Is there a way I can reflash the device to give me an exclusive UK Vodafone rom experience? Whilst the three bloatware is removable manually, this should not be happening and I'd prefer to have the vanilla vodafone experience. Any ideas?
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How can this be?
I bought a S6 Edge which was originally on the three (UK) network. My carrier is Vodafone, so I want their build on my device to access carrier specific features such as wi-fi calling.
Simple right?
Download latest Vodafone UK firmware (G925FXXU2POHC), load up Odin and flash you would have thought. Side step the hidden.img Odin fail by reflashing hidden.img once the original flash has failed. Reboot into data wipe menu and clear cache and other data etc, reboot and job is a good 'un.
But no.
When I restart the phone, no matter how many times i've tried - the device proceeds to install Three (UK) branded bloatware; these are the Three likes, Three In Touch and a couple of other Three branded apps.
How can this be?
Is there a way I can reflash the device to give me an exclusive UK Vodafone rom experience? Whilst the three bloatware is removable manually, this should not be happening and I'd prefer to have the vanilla vodafone experience. Any ideas?
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In hidden.img and cache.img are those files that "customizes" your phone the way that carrier wants. So if you can't flash them, then it is not a very easy thing to do
Managed to sort it by reflashing with a PIT so i'm on latest voda which is multi CSC.
Only problem with this is that the CSC choice has defaulted to Slovenia, when it needs to be VOD for the UK. Anybody know how to change this? Seems with a multi-CSC stock rom without rooting you just have to take what you're given.
I would like to access the wifi calling features from Vodafone so guessing i'll need the correct CSC to achieve this.
PIT FILE
Could you please tell me which pit file you used? I too want to use vodafone wifi calling but had a European device. Just like you I got the good old Slovenia CSC, had to root the phone then became a simple as using Samsung Phone Info to change the CSC so now I have VOD as my CSC but still have no wifi calling option which I believe should be there in their latest release ..... But cannot be used as it needs activating at account level and they are still beta testing it with some users .... I missed out on the testing as my phone was not branded
Andy
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Could you please tell me which pit file you used? I too want to use vodafone wifi calling but had a European device. Just like you I got the good old Slovenia CSC, had to root the phone then became a simple as using Samsung Phone Info to change the CSC so now I have VOD as my CSC but still have no wifi calling option which I believe should be there in their latest release ..... But cannot be used as it needs activating at account level and they are still beta testing it with some users .... I missed out on the testing as my phone was not branded
Andy
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Sure i went for the 200mb PIT which was enough to flash the vodafone stock. You can find it here http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6-edge/general/g925-pit-files-multi-thread-download-t3171636
Did rooting the device trip the Knox or do you anticipate any warranty issues doing so? Sounds like there is no other option to obtain the UK CSC
It did trip Knox so I just hope Samsung phones live up to their reputation for being sturdy. Thanks for the info, will flash the pit at the weekend
SM-T860 that is unlocked, rooted with Magisk, TWRP recovery installed, WETA Kernel installed, running ASK1 November security update firmware.
I'm not new to rooting and all, but am fairly new to Samsung devices and am still learning all the tricks and tips.
I know that OTA updates are not possible in my current state, but Is it possible to some way manually update the firmware to the ASL3 version without having to just reflash stock and loose everything, starting from scratch to reroot, TWRP, reinstall all my apps etc?
I already have Odin installed and have downloaded the full ASL3 firmware package.
You don't have to lose everything - just flash ASL3 on top of ASK1, then install the rest of the mods (WETA kernel, TWRP, Magisk). In the downloaded zip of ASL3, you should have five files: mostly the same file names, except for the beginning few characters, similar to this:
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So the five images you'll most likely have are AP (the main system + boot.img), BL (bootloader, modem, other low level stuff), CP (other small tidbits), CSC (carrier-specific customizations, also contains country-specific stuff, basically the layer above system that makes the OS specific to a country, with apps, configurations for WiFi, 4G/5G, Bluetooth, and even things like Samsung Pay), and HOME_CSC (same as CSC, but doesn't flip the "wipe device" flag).
What you need to do is do the update via ODIN using the default files, then for the CSC field, select HOME_CSC instead of the regular CSC file. The only difference between the two is just this, HOME_CSC won't wipe the device, CSC will.
Same applies if you want to go back to complete stock, just flash the phone using ODIN, and use the regular CSC image instead of HOME_CSC.
Thank you for the detailed explanation of what to try and what all of the different parts of the big firmware packages are. I've had this Tab S6 just about a month now and have been doing my best to get used to how Samsung does things. Lots of reading various posts, lots of experimenting. I've gotten the basics down on flashing firmware using Odin, but don't yet have a solid grasp on what all is really going on. I've just been very carefully following directions, and praying to the Android/Samsung gods I don't end up with a brick when I hit "start." LOL So far so good!
I'll give it a go doing what you described. If it works, Yay! If not, no big deal and I'll start over from fresh/stock. I've grown used to that being "just the way it is" when you want to run modified/custom stuff. As long as I don't permanently brick the thing I do enjoy the experimenting and learning process.
Thanks again.
ragtop429 said:
Thank you for the detailed explanation of what to try and what all of the different parts of the big firmware packages are. I've had this Tab S6 just about a month now and have been doing my best to get used to how Samsung does things. Lots of reading various posts, lots of experimenting. I've gotten the basics down on flashing firmware using Odin, but don't yet have a solid grasp on what all is really going on. I've just been very carefully following directions, and praying to the Android/Samsung gods I don't end up with a brick when I hit "start." LOL So far so good!
I'll give it a go doing what you described. If it works, Yay! If not, no big deal and I'll start over from fresh/stock. I've grown used to that being "just the way it is" when you want to run modified/custom stuff. As long as I don't permanently brick the thing I do enjoy the experimenting and learning process.
Thanks again.
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Please tell me how it goes!
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Please tell me how it goes!
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Well, it worked... sort of. The system booted and ran, but I started to get random reboots for no apparent reason. I wiped cache and such but nothing helped.
Ultimately I decided to completely wipe the tablet, flash back to stock, and then reroot and just reinstall everything "clean."
Did you apply TWRP and the WETA kernel again? If so, my gut is that the old kernel is not compatible with the updates. Just my thoughts, nothing to support this but an update should work. This is one of the reasons I am waiting till the updated TWRP is released with the new SL3 kernel.
I bought an unlocked SM-T878U for AT&T and since the tablet for T-Mobil has the same model number for either provider, can I Flash the firmware for the T-Mobile Tab S7 onto my tablet without any problems? Sorry if this has been asked I searched around for over an hour and didn't find the info I wanted.
Edit: this is the 5G version not the LTE but both are 5G
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Yes... you can flash firmware from the same model.
T-Mobile and AT&T should be using the same firmware (T878USQU1BUAC).
Your SIM card and device CSC determines what carrier specific apps and features to load.
Thanks for the info mine is using a different version then the one you listed I just don't want to brick a tablet I just paid 500 for...
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Yes... you can flash firmware from the same model.
T-Mobile and AT&T should be using the same firmware (T878USQU1BUAC).
Your SIM card and device CSC determines what carrier specific apps and features to load.
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gitit20 said:
Thanks for the info mine is using a different version then the one you listed I just don't want to brick a tablet I just paid 500 for...
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ATK1 is an older version. Just make sure whatever version you flash is for the same model number. T878U.
It will install without issue... make sure to flash HOME_CSC to keep all of your data, apps, and settings.
Thank you for the info and I didn't know that home CSC would keep all my data... Thank you.
gitit20 said:
Thank you for the info and I didn't know that home CSC would keep all my data... Thank you.
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You're welcome.
The rule applies to all Samsung firmware.
Flash CSC_OMC to do a clean install.
Flash Home_CSC to keep your stuff.
That did not work I downloaded the firmware and flashed it and now it just goes to recovery mode and won't even boot up anymore figures this would happen, just the way this year has been going, you have a place I could download a good firmware to just completely nuke it and go back to stock? It was stock before I mean I just tried to put the T-Mobile Version on.
From this site, https://galaxyfirmware.com/model/SM-T878U and I used this build number T878USQU1BUAC
Edit: Edit it did end up finally booting up after doing the app repair function in the recovery and also a factory data reset but still says AT&T only thing that has changed is I now have android 11 lol
I just want to get all the att stuff out so I can use the t-mobile texting and whatnot I can't use that now because of the att junk.
It is like a VIRUS infesting it.
Again thank you for all the help.
rjohnstone said:
You're welcome.
The rule applies to all Samsung firmware.
Flash CSC_OMC to do a clean install.
Flash Home_CSC to keep your stuff.
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Looks like you'll have to manually change you CSC.
This post has some advice on how to get this done.
SM-T978U Odin Firmware Flash
Purchased a sim unlocked SM-T978U (Verizon Tab S7+ 5G) and am trying to flash the unlocked or Tmobile stock firmware to it. I've gotten "passed" flashes everything when flashing all of the files from the corresponding stock firmwares, but...
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Also make sure you are using a patched version of Odin when flashing packages... I assumed you know that, but in case not, here is a link to download it... https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=1322778262903995077
From all the digging I did. It is not possible as you have to unlock the bootloader to change the CSC. And well I spent over 3 days on this crap to no avail. I just sold my ATT model and bought the tmobile version. So ridiculous that Samsung does not just sell an unlocked version to avoid this hassle. Very annoying.
I am currently running:
Build: ALEXNDR.N960FXXU6FTJ5
Baseband version: N960FXXU6FTJ1
>MAKE SURE YOU HAVE LATEST MODEM AND BOOTLOADER INSTALLED!
Getting ready to flash a new rom, but I haven't done this for a while.
1) How do I check what modem version I have?
Based on the I *think* the modem is "FTJ1", but I'm not 100% sure.
2) How do I find out if there is a newer modem available?
3) What Bootloader version do I have? Is it "6" (the 5th character from the right in the Baseband version)?
Download the latest firmware from samfw.com. Since that website source builds official Samsung servers, the latest firmware there should be always the latest.
Thank you, @Cyndaquissshhh . Just to confirm, it doesn't matter that, in the past, I had flashed an unofficial ROM to my Note 9?
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Now where can I find the BL/CP N960FXXS9FVB1 for downloading and then flashing via ODIN.
I found BL and CP here - scroll down a bit.
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Thank you, @Cyndaquissshhh . Just to confirm, it doesn't matter that, in the past, I had flashed an unofficial ROM to my Note 9?
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Yes, no problems. I have done this a few times before.
@Cyndaquissshhh what's the trick to downloading the firmware? I click it and it won't download...
Oh, there are three buttons (on some pages there will be four). You can either download it from Google Drive or "Download SamFW server". I don't recommend "download on browser" since the downloaded file would get stored as site data. As you can imagine that's not a good thing...
I find their site to be very confusing. Thank you for your help, @Cyndaquissshhh . I finally ended up download a file named "Samfw.com_SM-N960F_INS_N960FXXU9FUK1_fac.zip".
Can you (or anyone) verify that I have the correct file?
(Last time I tried something like this I soft-bricked my phone... thanks.)
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I find their site to be very confusing. Thank you for your help, @Cyndaquissshhh . I finally ended up download a file named "Samfw.com_SM-N960F_INS_N960FXXU9FUK1_fac.zip".
Can you (or anyone) verify that I have the correct file?
(Last time I tried something like this I soft-bricked my phone... thanks.)
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I don't own a Note 9, but yeah, you have the right files
@notnoelchannel thank you.
Is there a step-by-step showing how to update this file? I believe I can either use Odin or TWRP...?
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@notnoelchannel thank you.
Is there a step-by-step showing how to update this file? I believe I can either use Odin or TWRP...?
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If there's 4 tars in it, choose what it says. Like if it says AP, then choose the AP in Odin (you'll have to use ODIN ofc)
I don't know how it goes for newer devices but I had to always choose only a single file and then flash..
@notnoelchannel the .zip file has 5 files that all match up as you said (AP, BL, CP, and CSC) but the 5th file starts off with "HOME_". Does that go in the "USERDATA" box in Odin?
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@notnoelchannel the .zip file has 5 files that all match up as you said (AP, BL, CP, and CSC) but the 5th file starts off with "HOME_". Does that go in the "USERDATA" box in Odin?
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Don't use the HOME_CSC (i guess)
You need only 4 files, try flashing the 4 files but don't put the "HOME_" one
But as I said I don't own a Note 9, so I recommend to ask someone else :/
But if you choose all the files, it will flash the whole stock rom back!!!so don't!!! only BL and CP as Painkiller-axel said
Thank you. I have other questions regarding the flashing process but I think I will start another thread so this one doesn't get too confusing for people to read.
Hello, colleagues,
I've bricked Samsung S9+ (SM-G965F). The story is the following:
1. I rooted it with LineageOS 19.1, but after some time of use decided to back it to original firmware
2. Using https://github.com/samloader/samloader I downloaded original firmware for my country (SEK, G965FXXUHFVG5)
3. And using this instruction - https://techbeasts.com/how-to-unroot-samsung-galaxy-s9-and-s9-plus/ - tried to restore original firmware
4. After this phone did not reboot, stucked with white "Samsung" word on the black screen
The error, I guess, was on step (3) above - phone probably was not official and when (too late!) I looked at https://www.sammobile.com/samsung/galaxy-s9-plus/firmware/ I got that, probably, I was need the most widely used European firmware G965FXXUHFVG4 instead of ...FVG5 and, having phone responsive, tried to repeat step (3).
At the end of this procedure, Odin said "RQT_CLOSED !!" and soon reported failed update, while phone stuck in "Downloading... Do not turn off target..." state in 1-2 pixels before the end of progress bar. Now, if I try to boot it, it shows exclamation sign and a message "An error has occurred while updating the device software. Use the Emergency recovery function in the Smart Switch PC software" (of course, Smart Switch do not help - it says something about "plugin lost connection" or something like).
Since I tried to write wrong firmware, I then decided, using the following procedure - https://technastic.com/samsung-pit-file-download/ - to repartition it using PTI file according to instructions. It did not help - situation the same, Odin reports "RQT_CLOSED" and phone stucks in 1-2 pixels before the end of progress bar.
Now is the question - whether it's possible to revive the phone? Any comments, suggestions are highly welcome.
Thank you.
You can still flash firmware with Odin from that Emergency screen. Just do button combo for download mode if you get that screen again, flash away. Just make sure you are using correct formware
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You can still flash firmware with Odin from that Emergency screen. Just do button combo for download mode if you get that screen again, flash away. Just make sure you are using correct formware
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Thanks for the suggestion. To be more precise - are you about this way? - https://www.droidwin.com/create-samsung-combination-firmware-flash-it-via-odin/ Why I'm asking - I don't see in Odin nothing about 'Combo', there is my screen:
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Thank you
Just use stock firmware
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Just use stock firmware
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I'm sorry for misunderstanding. When I use samloader to download firmware, in fact I get enc4 file, which need to be decrypted and result is Zip archive with 5 files inside - BL, AP, CP, CSC and HOME_CSC. So, four of them I can specify in Odin configuration - BL, AP, CP and either CSC or HOME_CSC. When you say 'stock firmware', what exactly do you mean? Some single file of those mentioned above or something else? I will appreciate if you can give more details. Thank you!
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Download firmware. Extract, place AP in AP spot in odin and so on with other files
Thanks a lot, firmware from this site helped, now I'm in. The difference was in CSC files, while other were the same. Thanks again, appreciate your help.