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HELP phone, yeild, computer sing! (BRICKED?)

PLEASEEE!!! help me out i tried upgrading from kies mini to froyo. I did this with success earlier in the past on my old vibrant but had it replaced to a referbished one and i tried upgrading it now.. but my vibrant was stuck at downloading the uprade on kies mini at 1% for half an hour... and the vibrant had the android shoveling yellow sign saying do not turn off target... for half an hour as well.. I knew something was wrong there because it didnt take even close to that long last time..
NOW I tried unplugging the usb wire restarting the phone in emergency mode still nothing... now all i have is a cellphone...yeild sign... computer icon showing..
PLEASE HELP!!!

Dont worry you totally didnt brick your phone. Its pretty common, can you get your phone into download mode? If you can then just odin to stock.
1.Take your battery, sim card and SD card out
2. Plug in USB Cable
3. Hold volume up/down and plug in battery (There are a few ways of doing download mode and I believe its phone specific, or if you have bootloaders installed its different as well, google around a bit...
4. Start odin and presto, your phone works again!

hey thanx... I just did that.. I never used odin but i installed odin with all the files... I believe my vibrant is hardware locked because i was trying to get into download mode for 2 hours with different techniques.. such as just volume keys and power button... taking out the battery holding volume keys then putting it back in.. but nothing put me into a downlaod mode... somehow odin still found my phone while i was still stuck under that picture...
I loaded the .pit file without the jfd image.... becuase i didnt know what window i was suppose to load the jfd image from... like pda.. or etc???
anyway so i just loaded the .pit file and clicked start it reset the phone and the phone went into restart mode and it turned on fine i checked it works fully... lol.
It makes no sense... was i suppose to load the jfd file somewhere?????
i still want to upgrade my vibrant to 2.2... but now whenever i turn on the keis mini it promps me to emergency recovery upgrade... so i tried doing that and went into download mode since now i can.. and plugged in my phone but the progress bar on my computer for upgrading never moved from 0%... its odd... am i doing something wrong?
so again i disconnected and "bricked" my vibrant again lol... went into odin followed the same steps just loading the .pit file and it reset the vibrant back to normal again lol...
Im so confused yet happy that i have my phone working but i still want my froyo... i love the fact that i can use yahoo video messaging on it with froyo and have flash and other benefits..
any advice?
Thanx again

try this...........
power off phone
pull out battery
GRAB THIS STUFF : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1047087
turn on odin
attach phone to pc with usb cable
now while holding down both volume buttons put battery back in.
now you should be in download mode and go back to stock with odin from here!
make sure u put the proper .pit and .pda file in there proper places on odin and ur set to go.
Enjoy and also make sure u have the proper samsung drivers
put pit in pit and tar in pda on odin

Connect it to the PC and see if ODIN recognizes it.
If it does, you are safe, flash stock.
EDIT: nvm, didn't notice the third post was yours.
Anyways, if ODIN can STILL recognize it, get the first from the link on the post above, FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS and enjoy your again-useful phone.
I had that same issue once.

Try a JIG. And do a search, I see like 50 posts a week like this.

First.
Thank you all for taking your time to help. I have one last question... since I used Odin but it just reset my phone and I didn't flash the old firware on it..... ever since that now I tried to update my phone with kies mini and it says phone unregistered... in that place before it used to say new firmware available and showed old forward numbers/letters.
So if I use odin all the way will this resolve "unregistered device" problem?
Thanx again
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AlexSochi8 said:
First.
Thank you all for taking your time to help. I have one last question... since I used Odin but it just reset my phone and I didn't flash the old firware on it..... ever since that now I tried to update my phone with kies mini and it says phone unregistered... in that place before it used to say new firmware available and showed old forward numbers/letters.
So if I use odin all the way will this resolve "unregistered device" problem?
Thanx again
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It should.
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Bricked
I have a similar issue, was soft bricked, Odin to stock then, while using Mini Kies to upgrade back to Froyo the phone turned off and never came back on. I cannot get any response from the phone as far as light's or sounds. Checked a few batteries and still no use. I'm curious if anybody else has had a similar experience?

so if it should solve the unregisted problem... where I put in the pda file... is it possible to put in the last froyo there so odin could flash froyo on my phone so basically i wont have to go through kies process?

odin back to 2.1 then root and then flash a 2.2 rom way better then a stock 2.2 rom

Dan_Brutal said:
Try a JIG. And do a search, I see like 50 posts a week like this.
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I might be late to the party but I've built a jig and I can't believe how quickly this thing saved my ass...
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dsuycott said:
I might be late to the party but I've built a jig and I can't believe how quickly this thing saved my ass...
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Yeah man. Jigs are the balls. Saved my ass this morning with a bad bootloader flash. I got lucky though.....
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Make sure you have the right odin files, once you have gotten back to normal just do a factory reset on your phone if that is possible. Then root, flash, and do whatever you want to do. Without your proper files for odin you'll get bricked or get something different.

How screwed am I? Odin doesn't recognize phone, vibrant aio toolkit can't adb phone into recovery or download mode. Flashing different rom screwed up during kernal phase and I stupidly rebooted phone. I CAN use a jig I bought to get into download mode but computer Odin doesn't 'see' it.
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dcboi said:
How screwed am I? Odin doesn't recognize phone, vibrant aio toolkit can't adb phone into recovery or download mode. Flashing different rom screwed up during kernal phase and I stupidly rebooted phone. I CAN use a jig I bought to get into download mode but computer Odin doesn't 'see' it.
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Do you have the drivers installed on your PC?
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Dan_Brutal said:
Do you have the drivers installed on your PC?
Yes, not sure what changed but I plugged the phone in again and Odin recognized it, the file I loaded is PDA_T959UVKB5.tar.md5, the process has hung up at SetupConnection...
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id keep trying it odin is finicky! maybe try different usb ports

ok guys i know i aksed for a lot of help.. but i have a newly discovered problem.. when i connect my vibrant thru the original usb port to transfer files back and forth it never lets me transfer even the smallest picture image... on both internal 16gb or sd... the phone computer just constantly shows transferring animation.... i tried many times.. i even scanned the phones hard drive and sd card for errors... nothing... could it be i messed something up with kies? or thats why kies in general never went with the upgrade past 1%?
its a refurbished phone.. when i got it.. i uploaded my old pics without a problem with the same usb cable..... its weird.... i dont know what to do? what is it likely the phone itself or i messed it up with kies upgrade????
please help.. its frustrating me

Frustrated, out of ideas and posts to read...

Every time I was reboot the phone goes to this menu, Odin doesn't recognize it, windows doesn't see any device attached, and no options(or combo of) have worked.
Any ideas appreciated!
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i almost bricked my phone several times but i never seen that...

dcboi said:
Every time I was reboot the phone goes to this menu, Odin doesn't recognize it, windows doesn't see any device attached, and no options(or combo of) have worked.
Any ideas appreciated!
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If you have a tmobile vibrant, you need to flash the original JDF firmware ... if you gonna flash the KB5 firmware after make sure "re-partition "is not checked off in odin ...You are getting that error cause you are missing some data files that are only in the original firmware...

ive gotten that screen when i flashed without disabling vodoo. i always use the "froyo that does not brick" flash through odin.

as they say!
power off phone
pull out battery
GRAB THIS STUFF : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1047087
turn on odin
attach phone to pc with usb cable
now while holding down both volume buttons put battery back in.
now you should be in download mode and go back to stock with odin from here!
make sure u put the proper .pit and .pda file in there proper places on odin and ur set to go.
Enjoy and also make sure u have the proper samsung drivers

U can buy or make a jig I made one easy and cheap gets in download mode everytime

Oh man, everytime I odin, that screens comes by, flash froyo that doesn't brick by eugene with re-partion check, then flash a stock odin rom with unticked repartition. And there you go, a clean phone. I had to odin last night.
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Chwek13 said:
U can buy or make a jig I made one easy and cheap gets in download mode everytime
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Jig doesn't put the phone into download mode, neither does key combo+ usb+ battery insert. I think I'm screwed, unless there's a way to access a zip file from the external sdcard.
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dcboi said:
Jig doesn't put the phone into download mode, neither does key combo+ usb+ battery insert. I think I'm screwed, unless there's a way to access a zip file from the external sdcard.
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Hey, I'm helping another XDA member with the same exact problem and it took me a long time, but made good progress. He's running froyo now, but can't install apps. So I'll definitely be able to help you with this.

crazy25000 said:
Hey, I'm helping another XDA member with the same exact problem and it took me a long time, but made good progress. He's running froyo now, but can't install apps. So I'll definitely be able to help you with this.
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That would be great! I've run out of Google searches, blogs to read, and patience. I'm afraid of trying anything cause it feels like one more mistake could make me an expensive paper weight
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dcboi said:
That would be great! I've run out of Google searches, blogs to read, and patience. I'm afraid of trying anything cause it feels like one more mistake could make me an expensive paper weight
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I totally understand. Unplug the battery, take out the sim card, and sd card....leave it alone. PM me so we can set up a time to work on it and I prefer skype because of screen share, it makes it easier for me to show someone what to do.

CM7 .. Radio change

Hey guys...first post but long time lurker...ran into an issue maybe someone knows the answer to...
I currently have CM7 w/ the latest nightly working flawless. Im still rockin the DJ05 radio and i wanted to upgrade to the ec09. Followed the instructions on how to do it via Odin, phone off 1 button volume down to connect. But when i hit start on odin nothing happens...am i doing something wrong? or am i going about this all wrong and theres another approach after cm7 is installed?

Hm. Did you pull the battery before putting the phone into download mode? Does the device appear in odin? Put the modem file in PDA slot? Tried a different cable or usb port?
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yes, NO, yes yes
my computer was wiped clean from last time i used the Odin software, come to find out i need to reinstall my samsung driver...OOPS! Problem solved

slvrmx99 said:
yes, NO, yes yes
my computer was wiped clean from last time i used the Odin software, come to find out i need to reinstall my samsung driver...OOPS! Problem solved
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Yea lol, a little common sense is usually the solution to most problems. But, you've made it abundantly clear here that common sense apparently isn't too common. Thanks for the example.
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There is nothing your missing. My advice to you would be to try a different USB cable. Remove Odin completely and redownload it. Then it should appear. Also make sure you have downloaded the drivers for your device. It may sound stupid or whatever but it's possibly the issue.
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did i brick my phone?

Tried to install odin and it wouldn't pass.
Took the usb out and tried to reset the phone & now it's stuck here
i.imgur.com/3kyQ9.jpg
Help

Your phone isn't bricked. Just take out the battery, if the usb cord you used is the stock samsung cord try using a different usb. Take out your sd card as well and while the battery is out go into download with usb cord plugged in and re-odin.
Always remember if you can see something on the screen your phone isn't bricked.
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thanks so much
unfortunately, all i have is the stock samsung usb.
Could that be why odin failed?

mrmondaynight said:
thanks so much
unfortunately, all i have is the stock samsung usb.
Could that be why odin failed?
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It's okay, just try to re-odin and see what happens. You should invest in a blackberry usb cord, samsung stock usb is unreliable imo.
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mrmondaynight said:
thanks so much
unfortunately, all i have is the stock samsung usb.
Could that be why odin failed?
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Very possible! You might want to try a different USB port also.

Tried to re odin and it stays stuck here.
i.imgur.com/WjwdY.png
Gonna buy another usb tomorrow.
Also, how do i get OUT of download mode?
If i try to reset the phone, i get the same screen as before.

mrmondaynight said:
Tried to re odin and it stays stuck here.
i.imgur.com/WjwdY.png
Gonna buy another usb tomorrow.
Also, how do i get OUT of download mode?
If i try to reset the phone, i get the same screen as before.
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You might have made an error while odin-ing. Tell me the steps you took to Odin?
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I followed this video
youtube.com/watch?v=kwFRzzIqouE
downloaded the kernal gb file
opened odin
made sure only auto reboot was click
pressed pda to add the kernal file
went into download mode(usb was out)
once in download mode, attached the usb
waited to see the yellow box that says com5
pressed start.

mrmondaynight said:
I followed this video
youtube.com/watch?v=kwFRzzIqouE
downloaded the kernal gb file
opened odin
made sure only auto reboot was click
pressed pda to add the kernal file
went into download mode(usb was out)
once in download mode, attached the usb
waited to see the yellow box that says com5
pressed start.
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I don't think kernels are supposed to be odined that might be your problem right there.
You can flash kernels through CWM, no need for odin.
Just odin back to stock using the info from QBKing odin video.
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masaidjet said:
I don't think kernels are supposed to be odined that might be your problem right there.
You can flash kernels through CWM, no need for odin.
Just odin back to stock using the info from QBKing odin video.
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It didn't pass, so it should still be stock, no?
Also, i don't see the info on how to revert back to stock

mrmondaynight said:
It didn't pass, so it should still be stock, no?
Also, i don't see the info on how to revert back to stock
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFazLOVXPns

Everything you need to know is written in the thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
I recommend odin-ing the EC05.tar that's there, instead of the EL30.tar because it's easier to root and you'll be able to flash a custom stock EL30 GB easily(after updating your CWM to CWM5)
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You didn't do anything inccorect its just that crappy stock cable.
And yes the gb3a.tar should've been flash prior to clockworkmod for it to stick so you followed correctly its not an error on your part just a flawed cable go out and buy a new one like a blackberry or something really good not a cheap one .
Good job guys thanks.
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Big Goron said:
You didn't do anything inccorect its just that crappy stock cable.
And yes the gb3a.tar should've been flash prior to clockworkmod for it to stick so you followed correctly its not an error on your part just a flawed cable go out and buy a new one like a blackberry or something really good not a cheap one .
Good job guys thanks.
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You should ask him do he want you to root it for him, with your rooting service.
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masaidjet said:
You should ask him do he want you to root it for him, with your rooting service.
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I was going to ask but I figured he had it down pat the video is pretty much solid.
Just needs a better cable anyways to the original poster if you would like I can remotely root your phone via teamviewer. Google it install it and pm me the id and password...if of course you'd like me to do it.
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see, now that'd be awesome.
Downloading now.

mrmondaynight said:
see, now that'd be awesome.
Downloading now.
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Did you get a non stock usb?
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still stock usb
Followed the steps here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
Took longer than 10 minutes, so i unplugged to start again..now i can't get into download mode. Screen is completely blank.
I guess now it's bricked

mrmondaynight said:
still stock usb
Followed the steps here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
Took longer than 10 minutes, so i unplugged to start again..now i can't get into download mode. Screen is completely blank.
I guess now it's bricked
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Pull the battery for a while, and see what happens.

okay, that worked.
Got it back into download mode.
Still have the stock usb, so im sol till it's replaced. No phone ftl

Need Help, i Bricked my S5 and Odin is failing.

Hi guys, i have a GS5 AT&T SM-G900A. My phone is rooted with towelroot. Last night it got stuck on the android bootup screen and from there nothing else. I try to flash it back with Odin but it keeps failing. Anybody has any idea how can i get this phone to work again?

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fffft said:
Of course you'd prefer a fast answer. We all do when something happens. But it's presumptuous to label a post urgent as if your personal predicament is somehow more important than everyone else's. I know that urgent labels discourage me from helping as much as I otherwise would. Certainly I won't subscribe to your thread unless you remove the urgent label.
You also failed to provide us much information. In particular critical details like an Odin log, verbatim Odin errors, Odin version, your firmware version, et cetera.
First, boot to recovery mode and wipe your system cache. Then see if your phone will reboot normally. If not, then you need to repair it with Odin. And no one will be able to more than guess at what you did wrong unless you provide more details.
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Thank you sir, sorry about the urgent label. i am trying to take off the urgent label but i am not able to edit that part here.
I am using Odin V3.07, i am trying to post an screen shot of it. My firmware is kitkat 4.4.2. I already did the recovery mode and wiped the system cache but nothing.

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fffft said:
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An Odin log or even screen shot would be invaluable. And you still haven't told us the exact file name that you are trying to write to your phone with Odin?
At a guess, it's just Odin being temperamental. But I am only guessing since we don't have much information about your configuration yet. Odin is infamous for being sensitive to USB timing just like IOS is.
Use the newer Odin 3.09. Write a pre June 6th build of stock firmware to your phone. Temporarily disable any firewall, antivirus, antimalware, et cetera software on your PC. Do not use a USB hub. Try a different USB cable and USB port. The latter is important. Odin often fails because of a noisy USB cable. Use, borrow or buy a different one that appears to be well constructed.
Also crucial. Ensure that you entered download mode by pulling your battery and then pressing and holding in sequence volume down + power.. If your Odin write fails, do not close the Odin window. Pull your phone battery again, replace it enter download mode again and then press the start (write) button on the Odin screen again. It's important that Odin screen remains open through out.
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Thank you so much, all of those are great tips. I will try again tonight cause right now i am at the work computer. I will also have more info about the file i am trying to write in Odin. Thank you again for your great help and patience.

So i can't catch a break, now my laptop hard drive is making a ticking noise and i can't use it till i fix it.

Finally fix my laptop, Odin still failing like before. I changed computers and many usb ports and cables and nothing still stuck on boot.

Dra444 said:
Finally fix my laptop, Odin still failing like before. I changed computers and many usb ports and cables and nothing still stuck on boot.
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First pull the battery, wait 30 seconds and boot in recovery mode and data factory reset. If that fails disable Kies in windows task manager. Power down, pull the battery and wait 30 seconds and then reboot in downloadmode and try again.

Thank you so much everyone, after many sleepless nights I finally figured it out. Somehow the firmware from sammobile wasn't working in Odin. I download one from here and it pass right away. Got my phone back
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What file, link did you use. Trying to fix fiancees phone having problems after last update and wanted to back to original furmware. Odin making me mad.
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cm0818 said:
What file, link did you use. Trying to fix fiancees phone having problems after last update and wanted to back to original furmware. Odin making me mad.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2714455
This is the one I used, good luck man. It pass right away in Odin. Only thing I don't have no more is the setting to shut off the camera shutter sound but that's no big deal.
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cm0818 said:
What file, link did you use. Trying to fix fiancees phone having problems after last update and wanted to back to original furmware. Odin making me mad.
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This is the one I used, good luck man. It pass right away in Odin. Only thing I don't have no more is the setting to shut off the camera shutter sound but that's no big deal.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2714455
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cm0818 said:
What file, link did you use. Trying to fix fiancees phone having problems after last update and wanted to back to original furmware. Odin making me mad.
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This is the one I used, good luck man. It pass right away in Odin.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2714455
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cm0818 said:
What file, link did you use. Trying to fix fiancees phone having problems after last update and wanted to back to original furmware. Odin making me mad.
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I feel your pain, this is the one I use. The one that kept failing was the one from sammobile. Feels great having my phone back. Now I need a custom recovery mode just in case.http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2714455

fffft said:
@Dra444
Glad you got your phone working again. Please link me to the firmware file that wasn't working for you to, so that I can try to figure out what was wrong with it. Perhaps find a way to identify bad files in the future. Or at least build a list of known good /bad firmware builds.
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Thanks man, well I would need to upload the big file here. I almost gave up and then xpa came to the rescue.

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fffft said:
xda?
You don't need to upload any big files here. Just a link or the exact file name of the troublesome build.
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Oh Ok, here is a link to the firmware from Sammobile. Anyway i could get back the setting to shut off the camera shutter sound off? My Stock firmware had it before. http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/3/?download=28224

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fffft said:
For the camera shutter sound, check these two files.
After editing, check that the file permissions are 0644
Edit or add this parameter.
/system/csc/feature.xml
<CscFeature_Camera_ShutterSoundMenu>true</
CscFeature_Camera_ShutterSoundMenu>
Edit or add this parameter
/data/local.prop
ro.camera.sound.forced=0
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Thanks man, i am still learning here. Can you take me step by step for this, don't want to mess my phone again.