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[Q] Big problem! I need help!

Hi everyone!
First of all I am sorry for my poor english, it's my third language...
I have a Samsung S4 SGH-I337M (The canadian one with Fido).
I used to root it, and then try some different custom rom and after this I wanted to put back the orginal firmware using ODIN because I installed not correctly a ROM and I didnt have the application to purshase APPs lol,... But my usb wire got disconnected from the phone while I was puting the firmware back into the phone! Now I cant boot my phone.... It tell me : " Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again. "..
And when I use ODIN, I receive a fail message telling me I am missing a PIT file.
But I dont have any PIT file,... I am lost haha... I hope someone can help me with it!
And if its possible, maybe I can dirrectly install a new custom ROM dirrectly from ODIN ? At this moment nothing work on my phone....

[q] please help!! No os installed!!

hi i was updating my phone from cm11 m8 to m9 when things went bad e.g. F.C. and there was no way around it so i formatted eveything via cwm (i mean everything) i normally do this when flashing and i flashed EE 4.4.2 NC4 stock firmware which first failed but installed 2nd time. then i tried my root file which again failed and passed 2nd time. last i tried flashing my standard cwm which kept failing so when i powered up my phone and it keeps saying no os installed. odin has always flashed first time round for me but today i dunno what happened. i've been flashing phones for years and i just dont know what i have done wrong today. i have tried odin 3.09, 1.87. tried flashing with pit file and two difernet usb cables. xda fourms seems like theres no soloution or thye links in the threads are removed. cant get into recovery only download mode. atm im on another pc downloading another firmware which is going to take 2.3 hours which is mental. (free registered)
on odin it says "complete write failed"
and in download mode on left corner says "
ODIN MODE,
PRODUCT NAME - GT I9505
CURRENT BINARY CUSTOM
SYSTEM STATUS CUSTOM
KNOX KERNERL LOCK 0X0
KNOX WARRANTY VOID 0X1
CSB-CONFIG-LSB 0X30
write protection enable
eMMc BURST enabled
tried keys which failed me ( no suprise there anyway)
please please is there anyone outthere to help me or atleast give me a link where i can download btu 4.4.2 firmware for free. many thanks

189cutter said:
hi i was updating my phone from cm11 m8 to m9 when things went bad e.g. F.C. and there was no way around it so i formatted eveything via cwm (i mean everything) i normally do this when flashing and i flashed EE 4.4.2 NC4 stock firmware which first failed but installed 2nd time. then i tried my root file which again failed and passed 2nd time. last i tried flashing my standard cwm which kept failing so when i powered up my phone and it keeps saying no os installed. odin has always flashed first time round for me but today i dunno what happened. i've been flashing phones for years and i just dont know what i have done wrong today. i have tried odin 3.09, 1.87. tried flashing with pit file and two difernet usb cables. xda fourms seems like theres no soloution or thye links in the threads are removed. cant get into recovery only download mode. atm im on another pc downloading another firmware which is going to take 2.3 hours which is mental. (free registered)
on odin it says "complete write failed"
and in download mode on left corner says "
ODIN MODE,
PRODUCT NAME - GT I9505
CURRENT BINARY CUSTOM
SYSTEM STATUS CUSTOM
KNOX KERNERL LOCK 0X0
KNOX WARRANTY VOID 0X1
CSB-CONFIG-LSB 0X30
write protection enable
eMMc BURST enabled
tried keys which failed me ( no suprise there anyway)
please please is there anyone outthere to help me or atleast give me a link where i can download btu 4.4.2 firmware for free. many thanks
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Hi mate ,
For the firmware go here:
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
in case you softbricked the phone:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2265477

ive read that link before and thats like a newbie guide but i did try but no luck. the problem i think is at the end of flashing odin it says complete (write) failed. im guessing the transferring files are not sticking on the phone thus installion isnt possible. ive tried 2 different pit files for gt i9505 and its still not working. im running out f ideas and really dont want to spend 200-300 pounds on a new phone. i have tried 3 differnt firmware one ee and two btu ones but same problem

yes yes! i done it. simple or maybe pure luck...i re installed usb driver and flashed btu and pit file and vola!!. thaks for your help btw

189cutter said:
yes yes! i done it. simple or maybe pure luck...i re installed usb driver and flashed btu and pit file and vola!!. thaks for your help btw
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Great man!!
Glad you did it.

[Q] [HELP] phone behaving strangely after unrooting

hello everyone
phone: i9505
I few weeks ago i rooted my phone (no problem) made a back up using rom manager on sdcard.
I decided to restore my phone with the back up i had made. Once it had finished restoring, I rebooted phone, go to unlock the screen and i am spammed with messages like: unfortunately process com.google.process.gapps has stopped and so on. Could not use phone because there was so many messages coming up!
my friend advised me to re-root it so i did, the problem didnt go away......
searched google found no answer to my problem
I thought un-rooting will solve the problem so I downloaded latest stock uk firmware (4.4.2) from sammobile, ran odin, put MD5 file in PDA, successfully un-rooted but when i turn my phone on now there is some writing on the top left corner it says (its pretty hard to make out it goes so fast):
REBOOT MODE = 0X684E39A6
POWER ON REASON = 0X1 (key power on)
CABLE: 0X00
DEBUG LEVEL MID
BOARD REV: 11
MSM CHIP REV 2
MSM HW ID: 0X71B0E1
BOOTLOADER VERSION: I9585XXEGNG8
BOOTLOADER AP SWAEV: 4
SPEED BIN: 2
ACPU PVS:2
SERIAL NUM:0X07FF9243
when i put my phone in dowload mode it says all this^ as well
after unrooting i went to setting and did a factory reset
ive tried rooting again, then unrooting but my phone doesnt seem fully unrooted? it says im on official, i also noticed i cant place widgets on screen
i tried google search but could not find an answer, mainly because i dont know what to search for but i know somethings not right
i just want my phone back to how it was, for now
if you need anymore info please let me know!
thanks in advanced!

Have you tried this guide to installing stock? I used this and it worked fine.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2265477
There's a bit at the bottom about bootloops, I don't remember if I had one but I know I had to flash it anyway due to a problem I had after flashing the stock rom, so to be safe you should probably flash that after stock is flashed on as well.

lichking21st said:
Have you tried this guide to installing stock? I used this and it worked fine.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2265477
There's a bit at the bottom about bootloops, I don't remember if I had one but I know I had to flash it anyway due to a problem I had after flashing the stock rom, so to be safe you should probably flash that after stock is flashed on as well.
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thanks for the reply
ill try this and seee how it goes! i hope it gets it sorted

Soft Bricked Galaxy S4 LTE while downgrading

Hello,I had this rom installed(https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4/i9505-develop/rom-super-wizcyan-29-nov-15-t3259562) and since I'm kind of noob I tried to downgrade to this one ( https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2454205). I flashed it in TWRP recovery and when the phone finished and restarted i got into a bootloop( i think that's how it's called) - the samsung logo with the light from behind but that's it. I cannot open the TWRP recovery anymore,I cannot restore the stock firmware with KIES, I tried to restore 5.0.1 lollipop stock firmware through ODIN with and without PIT file and also 4.4.2 stock ( i did not find one for my country - Romania, I found one for Germany). Please help me with this issue..I will install any software and just leave it if it works..I just need my phone .. yep,desperate ..)
I'm sorry if I broken any rule by opening a new thread I'm just desperate to solve this issue..been working at it for almost 4 hours..
L.E. Odin says there is no partition when trying to flash the stock roms so i used this PIT file ( CSB_signed_Fusion3_EUR_0325_V2.pit)

Have you tried Smart Switch?

Pwnycorn said:
Have you tried Smart Switch?
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I don't really know what that is or how should I do it )

Problem fixed. I flashed from a different pc a complete stock rom(bootloader,pit file,csc and all of the other stuff) and it worked perfectly.

I cant flash the original stock rom for Galaxy Note 4 sm-n910f .Ton of failes

Hi! I recently formated my galaxy note 4 n910f becuse it had some problems and now i cant restore my back up or flash the stock rom from sammobiles . odin process is completed with success but i am getting failed to mount efs,cache, data,system etc plus device doesnt have DRK. I am a noob with all that but i didnt had any kind problems like that at the past years. i tried restore my backup no luck , flash the latest firmware no luck either and the original lollipop firmware but nothing . everytime its completed then it goes to recovery bootting then it says installing and at the 1/3 of the bar it says erasing and then it goes either to a bootloop or it crashes (blank screen). if i flash twrp at the backup section is empty also..i dont know what to do . i tried so many things but i coudnt find any solution and samsung service didnt even checked the phone when i gave it to them and told them what happend. they told me that i need to chnage motherboard and it will cost 315 euros. ANY IDEAS?

Messinis said:
Hi! I recently formated my galaxy note 4 n910f becuse it had some problems and now i cant restore my back up or flash the stock rom from sammobiles . odin process is completed with success but i am getting failed to mount efs,cache, data,system etc plus device doesnt have DRK. I am a noob with all that but i didnt had any kind problems like that at the past years. i tried restore my backup no luck , flash the latest firmware no luck either and the original lollipop firmware but nothing . everytime its completed then it goes to recovery bootting then it says installing and at the 1/3 of the bar it says erasing and then it goes either to a bootloop or it crashes (blank screen). if i flash twrp at the backup section is empty also..i dont know what to do . i tried so many things but i coudnt find any solution and samsung service didnt even checked the phone when i gave it to them and told them what happend. they told me that i need to chnage motherboard and it will cost 315 euros. ANY IDEAS?
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Did you tried to do factory reset from stock recovery after flashing ?

Trex888 said:
Did you tried to do factory reset from stock recovery after flashing ?
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thanks for responding! yep i did it but then when i reboot it it showed me a ton of fails. the weird thing is even with my micro usb flash drive during the procress of flashing a custo rom or my stock backup the phone crashes. it doesnt show me any error ...