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[N9005] Boot looping + unknown baseband

Hi,
After flashing the MJ6 ROM with the Universal root de la vega method (I have the old bootloader from MJ1) and flash the MJ4 modem, the camera and and wifi were not working, I tried to downgrade the modem to MJ2 with Odin to give a try.
However now I'm facing several boot loops (on first notification model screen) and when the Note succeed in corectly booting, I have an FC from system process, and some others applications.
I tried to check the phone parameters and saw that baseband was "unknown", but didn't succeed to see the screen where the IMEI is displayed because the phone is rebooting automaticaly when I try to access to this screen.
The phone is very instable : sometimes I'm not able to access to parameters with the tactil button.
In all cases the phone is auto rebooting after several minutes.
I tried several things withoot result :
- Wipe cache + factory reset
- Flash several modems
- Flash MI7 stock ROM with Odin
> no change
Actually I have :
- baseband unknown
- boot looping
- no wifi
- no sound
- no root
- acces to download mode and stock recovery is OK.
As someone have some cloues to help me?

Crystal7_Magic said:
Hi,
After flashing the MJ6 ROM with the Universal root de la vega method (I have the old bootloader from MJ1) and flash the MJ4 modem, the camera and and wifi were not working, I tried to downgrade the modem to MJ2 with Odin to give a try.
However now I'm facing several boot loops (on first notification model screen) and when the Note succeed in corectly booting, I have an FC from system process, and some others applications.
I tried to check the phone parameters and saw that baseband was "unknown", but didn't succeed to see the screen where the IMEI is displayed because the phone is rebooting automaticaly when I try to access to this screen.
The phone is very instable : sometimes I'm not able to access to parameters with the tactil button.
In all cases the phone is auto rebooting after several minutes.
I tried several things withoot result :
- Wipe cache + factory reset
- Flash several modems
- Flash MI7 stock ROM with Odin
> no change
Actually I have :
- baseband unknown
- boot looping
- no wifi
- no sound
- no root
- acces to download mode and stock recovery is OK.
As someone have some cloues to help me?
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I'm pretty sure your Knox warranty void has been tripped... Flash the MJ6 stock firmware. You have the new bootloader now anyway, that's why you are in the bootloop.. I had the same problem and when I checked and found warranty void triggered I figured can't hurt.
Flashed stock MJ6 firmware. Baseband comes back, all thos little things not working get fixed. I then flashed CF-root as the warranty void was 0x1...
It seems if you flash the Modem.bin file you are stuck, you need to flash the MJ6 firmware to fix....

ultramag69 said:
I'm pretty sure your Knox warranty void has been tripped... Flash the MJ6 stock firmware. You have the new bootloader now anyway, that's why you are in the bootloop.. I had the same problem and when I checked and found warranty void triggered I figured can't hurt.
Flashed stock MJ6 firmware. Baseband comes back, all thos little things not working get fixed. I then flashed CF-root as the warranty void was 0x1...
It seems if you flash the Modem.bin file you are stuck, you need to flash the MJ6 firmware to fix....
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I had the same pb ..... and flash MJ6 full and now it's OK .... so I rooted ... Knox 1 ....but everything OK I am happy

Ok, but normaly I always have the old bootloader because I do not have flash the MJ6 stock > It has been modified with universal root de la vega before flashing with Odin, and my flag is still on 0x0.
> So normaly the MJ6 I flashed should not contain the new bootloader.
It will be troublesome for me if flashing a stock MJ6 is needeed as I do not want to trigger the Knox flag.
I always have the solution to return my Note to my seller for refund, so I'm seeking for a way which do not trigger Knox

ultramag69 said:
I'm pretty sure your Knox warranty void has been tripped... Flash the MJ6 stock firmware. You have the new bootloader now anyway, that's why you are in the bootloop.. I had the same problem and when I checked and found warranty void triggered I figured can't hurt.
Flashed stock MJ6 firmware. Baseband comes back, all thos little things not working get fixed. I then flashed CF-root as the warranty void was 0x1...
It seems if you flash the Modem.bin file you are stuck, you need to flash the MJ6 firmware to fix....
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LIPA said:
I had the same pb ..... and flash MJ6 full and now it's OK .... so I rooted ... Knox 1 ....but everything OK I am happy
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Finaly I have decided to flash the MJ6 stock ROM and everything go ok.
I still have my knox 0x0 but will trigger to 0x1 if I try to root by now : hard decision.
Thanks for your help you two

Crystal7_Magic said:
Finaly I have decided to flash the MJ6 stock ROM and everything go ok.
I still have my knox 0x0 but will trigger to 0x1 if I try to root by now : hard decision.
Thanks for your help you two
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Mate, I modified with root de la vega myself but it seems the new bootloader got through....

Where can I find the MJ6 firmware

ultramag69 said:
Mate, I modified with root de la vega myself but it seems the new bootloader got through....
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It will be strange, because I succedeed to root the Note withoot triggering Knox
You have to be sure that you do not have take update from OTA or official stock ROM when you was on ROM before MJ3 (if you take stock MJ3 bootloader is altered)
yazzie said:
Where can I find the MJ6 firmware
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You can find it on Sammobile website (create an account is needed to access to download section)
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/1/?model=SM-N9005&pcode=0#firmware

After flashing the MJ6 stock firmware to recover my baseband, I have juste noticed that wifi is not properly working.
> Wifi is blocked on activation
> Sometime the Note succeed to activate wifi and show me networks which are available, however when I'm trying to connect to one of them I got a freeze then wifi go back to activating statuts.
Any explanation?

SM-N900W8 Boot Loop
Has anyone else resolved this issue. Phone was rooted with "CF-Auto-Root-hltecan-hlteub-smn900w8" and used TWRP 2.6.3.0. Upon doing a restore with TWRP, the phone is now in this crazy loop. Phone boots but always fails prior to seeing home screen. Tried going to SamMobile and restoring original Rogers firmware with no resolution.
Any help is most appreciated.

ultramag69 said:
Mate, I modified with root de la vega myself but it seems the new bootloader got through....
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thanks a million. i had the same problem, following my ordeal with samsung on region sim lock.
i tried the mj6, it seemed too work, for now.
will root it and see how that goes. thanks once again

Ahmads001 said:
thanks a million. i had the same problem, following my ordeal with samsung on region sim lock.
i tried the mj6, it seemed too work, for now.
will root it and see how that goes. thanks once again
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If you flashed the stock MJ6 then you have the new anti-root bootloader. ANY attempt to root will end in Warranty void being triggered...
Unfortunately this is a problem that hasn't been fixed yet. Just a heads up to let you know you will probably trigger the warranty void.
Then again Designgears is back developing RDLV again so it might be updated soon... :fingers-crossed:

ultramag69 said:
If you flashed the stock MJ6 then you have the new anti-root bootloader. ANY attempt to root will end in Warranty void being triggered...
Unfortunately this is a problem that hasn't been fixed yet. Just a heads up to let you know you will probably trigger the warranty void.
Then again Designgears is back developing RDLV again so it might be updated soon... :fingers-crossed:
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thanks again for usual insight.
unfortunately, the bootloop problem was back after a restart yesterday. took several loops (about 30 mins) before it started up. i had to reflash with the latest stock N9005XXUDMJ7_N9005OJVDMJ4_KSA. now im scared to restart the phone for any reason, since i cant tell if it will entre bootloop again - it gets worse with every reset.
Since the knox already tripped 0x1, i still desire to root it ASAP.
So,
1. how do i get rid of this bootloop menace, PERMANENTLY
2. how do i safely root the phone (SM-N9005)
will appreciate a lot of help.

Ahmads001 said:
thanks again for usual insight.
unfortunately, the bootloop problem was back after a restart yesterday. took several loops (about 30 mins) before it started up. i had to reflash with the latest stock N9005XXUDMJ7_N9005OJVDMJ4_KSA. now im scared to restart the phone for any reason, since i cant tell if it will entre bootloop again - it gets worse with every reset.
Since the knox already tripped 0x1, i still desire to root it ASAP.
So,
1. how do i get rid of this bootloop menace, PERMANENTLY
2. how do i safely root the phone (SM-N9005)
will appreciate a lot of help.
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As Knox is tripped use cf-autoroot found in the original android developement section of the Note 3 forum. This will give you root...
I would also try a different region rom, I used MJ7 from the UK. It didn't cause any issues.
I had bootloops and found going to wifi, clicking on menu button, advanced.& unticking "Scanning always available" seemed to fix my bootloops but this was for my MJ1 firmware.
Otherwise can't really help anymore tonight. Gotta go to work tomorrow and its 2am here in Oz....

ultramag69 said:
As Knox is tripped use cf-autoroot found in the original android developement section of the Note 3 forum. This will give you root...
I would also try a different region rom, I used MJ7 from the UK. It didn't cause any issues.
I had bootloops and found going to wifi, clicking on menu button, advanced.& unticking "Scanning always available" seemed to fix my bootloops but this was for my MJ1 firmware.
Otherwise can't really help anymore tonight. Gotta go to work tomorrow and its 2am here in Oz....
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thanks, and good morning.
will be back later (sorry some of us -docs- dont actually have the 'day/night' thing).
will try the wifi thing, and see what happens.
once again, thanks

Same problem here :
- Supposed to be MK2 rom (N9005XXUDMK2) and was rooted
- Recovery and download mode are OK
- Flashed several time with ODIN, including modem.bin from the same archive
- Obviously Knox is 0x01
But phone is still unuseable ....Boots up, pass the intial setting. Then error message about system not responding and reboot ...
Any help would be appreciated

Follow this it'll fix it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47014662
Sent from my SM-N9005 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

You saved my day !!! Thanks

Crystal7_Magic said:
After flashing the MJ6 stock firmware to recover my baseband, I have juste noticed that wifi is not properly working.
> Wifi is blocked on activation
> Sometime the Note succeed to activate wifi and show me networks which are available, however when I'm trying to connect to one of them I got a freeze then wifi go back to activating statuts.
Any explanation?
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I have the same problem
You solved your problem?
Thanks

sbdz said:
I have the same problem
You solved your problem?
Thanks
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Hi,
Unfortunately for you no, I made a swap with a brandnew one with the seller.

[Q] bricked note 3

Hey guys, so I have a note 3 n9005,which i had rooted previously. This morning, I tried to flash the new touchwiz kitkat firmware via Odin and failed. Now the phone wouldn't boot up, but I an able to make it into the download mode. I have tried flashing several firmwares but neither of them works, I also had cm11 installed, so odpnt know f the bootloader has been updated or not...
So of anybody could please help me with this, that would be greatly appreciated

i have excatly the same problem tried to update s9005 via odin hong kong version to german 4.4.2 and now wont boot, odin fails only 20 seconds in read so many threads would also like to see some solutions to op.

CaptaiinCaveman said:
Hey guys, so I have a note 3 n9005,which i had rooted previously. This morning, I tried to flash the new touchwiz kitkat firmware via Odin and failed. Now the phone wouldn't boot up, but I an able to make it into the download mode. I have tried flashing several firmwares but neither of them works, I also had cm11 installed, so odpnt know f the bootloader has been updated or not...
So of anybody could please help me with this, that would be greatly appreciated
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You also need to add some of the stuff it is written in download mode and the log in Odin when in fails. If you went to 4.4.2 on N9005 you can not return to 4.3 (which you should have read by now, there are only 200 posts in 50 threads about it). What kind of N9005 was yours (16/32/64GB), what region/CSC?

xclub_101 said:
You also need to add some of the stuff it is written in download mode and the log in Odin when in fails. If you went to 4.4.2 on N9005 you can not return to 4.3 (which you should have read by now, there are only 200 posts in 50 threads about it). What kind of N9005 was yours (16/32/64GB), what region/CSC?
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I flashed the DBT FW again with this pit file created by HSDPilot http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=50614669&postcount=77.
It worked and lash was complete now however i am stuck in SAMSUNG logo after restart.
ANy help?

solution
newapostlenew said:
I flashed the DBT FW again with this pit file created by HSDPilot http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=50614669&postcount=77.
It worked and lash was complete now however i am stuck in SAMSUNG logo after restart.
ANy help?
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hi i followed your instructions afte having the same problem.
once it was flashed and at the samsung logo
i took battery out, replaced it and started phone in recovery mode. go to wipe factory reset
then reboot
mine worked and is ok .

CaptaiinCaveman said:
Hey guys, so I have a note 3 n9005,which i had rooted previously. This morning, I tried to flash the new touchwiz kitkat firmware via Odin and failed. Now the phone wouldn't boot up, but I an able to make it into the download mode. I have tried flashing several firmwares but neither of them works, I also had cm11 installed, so odpnt know f the bootloader has been updated or not...
So of anybody could please help me with this, that would be greatly appreciated
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darkman13 said:
i have excatly the same problem tried to update s9005 via odin hong kong version to german 4.4.2 and now wont boot, odin fails only 20 seconds in read so many threads would also like to see some solutions to op.
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Do either of you have a 16 GB version?

Hi All,
My problem :
I wanted to install the official kitkat rom but I made a big mystake : I took N900 files instead of N9005...
After that I successfully installed the right bootloader and CWM.
I installed some cuustom roms but the setupwizard crash at the last step
I tried to flash the complete official 4.4.2 rom but odin failed with message on the phone : "ODIN : invalid ext4 image"
Anybody has any idea to help me ?

hi guys i manage to fix it, well mine anyway worked by flashing the pit i found on xda and selecting repartion on odin 3.7 along with german 4.4.2 to my n9005 from Hong Kong, re booted and done a factory reset via volume button also wiped cache and re started and it came back alive on the selected german rom 4.4.2. hope it hels others. ps my note 3 was from hong kong n9005 32gb

xclub_101 said:
You also need to add some of the stuff it is written in download mode and the log in Odin when in fails. If you went to 4.4.2 on N9005 you can not return to 4.3 (which you should have read by now, there are only 200 posts in 50 threads about it). What kind of N9005 was yours (16/32/64GB), what region/CSC?
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hey, i wasnt trying to downgrade, i was going from cm11 to official 4.4.2. i've got a 32gb model from france i believe (the box has french written all over it so do the manuals)

newapostlenew said:
I flashed the DBT FW again with this pit file created by HSDPilot http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=50614669&postcount=77.
It worked and lash was complete now however i am stuck in SAMSUNG logo after restart.
ANy help?
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dude, you are god thank you so much for that, working perfect now

xclub_101 said:
You also need to add some of the stuff it is written in download mode and the log in Odin when in fails. If you went to 4.4.2 on N9005 you can not return to 4.3 (which you should have read by now, there are only 200 posts in 50 threads about it). What kind of N9005 was yours (16/32/64GB), what region/CSC?
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After installing DBT NB4 FW ( or with Polish NB3 FW) my LTE speeds become almost 0.
I tried multiple installs.
Any guidance?

Quick tip: Uninstall KIES.
Kies is like a big brother.
Use ODIN 1.85 and tick update phone bootloader. That's how I fixed mine. The other versions of Odin wouldn't let me update bootloader.
Of course, before you do this Flash/wipe data in recovery mode.
But uninstalling KIES solved my issue.
Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk

[Q] Soft brick? Hard brick? Sort of firm'ish brick really

I've made a bit of a mess and I need help please. My s4 is softbricked, but as softbricks go, it's rather hard.
I have an early S4 i9505 bought from Carphone Warehouse (UK, unlocked, pre knox). I rooted it, installed TBackup, greenify and got it how I wanted it. Then I downloaded a stock firmware from Sammobile and tested to see if I could get it back to 'warranty' condition, which was a success.
Confident that I could obtain warranty if I needed it, I re-rooted it, installed TB and greenify, and it ran sweetly for months from that point onwards.
I read about the arrival of updates (and knox) and concluded I didn't need them. It was working, leave it alone.
Then out of the blue, my nice stable machine broke. I didn't change anything I was aware of to cause it.
No normal boot.
No recovery.
Download only.
Using Odin, I tried allsorts, eventually getting the same Sammobile firmware to run.
2 days later, it broke again, same as before, but worse!?
Then I tried all sorts of stuff downloading no end of things trying to get it to boot or even go into recovery. The most promising approach was to reload the firmware along with a .pit file, but still no joy. I've lost track of the other things I tried, but I've been doing it for a week, so a lot has been done. In desperation, I even tried downloading the latest firmware, so I now have signs of knox of the odin page.
I now have the following symptoms:
Booting into recovery brings up the blue 'booting recovery' message then just blackness.
Normal boot is exactly the same as above.
Unpowered conection to my laptop gives a 5 second boot loop featuring the buzz only.
I can reliably boot into download and download stuff with Odin and change the little Odin page status messages. After (foolishly) trying the latest firmware, these messages say
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME GT-I9505
CURRENT BINARY Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS Official
KNOX KERNEL LOCK 0x0
KNOX WARRANTY VOID 0x0
CSB-CONFIG-LSB 0x30
WRITE PROTECTION: enable
eMMC BURST MODE enabled
Please can anyone give me some advice on what else I could try?
Thanks
Steve

Wrinklespots said:
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME GT-I9505
CURRENT BINARY Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS Official
KNOX KERNEL LOCK 0x0
KNOX WARRANTY VOID 0x0
CSB-CONFIG-LSB 0x30
WRITE PROTECTION: enable
eMMC BURST MODE enabled
Please can anyone give me some advice on what else I could try?
Thanks
Steve
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If anything else is not working (especially, if you're unable to go to recovery) I'd call sammy service center. Your download mode says that you did not rooted your phone, and knox is untouched either.

spamtrash said:
If anything else is not working (especially, if you're unable to go to recovery) I'd call sammy service center. Your download mode says that you did not rooted your phone, and knox is untouched either.
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Thanks for looking spamtrash.
I was wondering if I could get away with that. It does look good from the Odin display, but the flash counter must have a pretty high number in it by now! Won't that show up somewhere?
Do you think it does actually have a fault on it, rather than just some software that's messed up and needs tweaking?
Thanks
Steve

Wrinklespots said:
Thanks for looking spamtrash.
I was wondering if I could get away with that. It does look good from the Odin display, but the flash counter must have a pretty high number in it by now! Won't that show up somewhere?
Do you think it does actually have a fault on it, rather than just some software that's messed up and needs tweaking?
Thanks
Steve
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1. Are you able to go to recovery mode?
2. Assuming that your previous communicates were taken from the screen in download mode - you're clean.
If answer for 1 is: NO, and assuming 2: do not bother the flash counter. Flash counter does not means you messed with custom ROMs, it just means amount of the ROM update tries. As they are unable to prove that the counter was not increased by failed KIES updates, you're safe.
To go deeper, service will have to flash and wipe your phone.
One thing: remove your sd card prior to giving/sending it out.

Try a different usb cable.I was in same boat as you (after stupidly thinking mobile odin pro liked modems).
Luckily I had an unused cable off my tab 3.

[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.

Custom binary blocked by frp lock

need urgent help really.
my phone has been rooted and has twrp installed for months now with no issues, all of a sudden my phone rebooted to the samsung logo screen with the mentioned error message. i have no idea how and why this error has occured but my phone wont boot to system. i really dont want flash stock firmware as i havent backed things up, is there a way to fix this issue with out doing a full wipe?

you might have accidentally disable oem unlock. so phone is bricked , and you need to flash stock firmware with odin , no other choices . and as you know knox counter will stay 0x1 , root or no root, once you break knox its permanent as knox is hardware, once you root it break an electronic fuse so once you flash stock firmware I really suggest you to install custom rom and twrp again as many things will be blocked if you stay on stock firmware as your device will stay marked as " rooted "

robhug said:
you might have accidentally disable oem unlock. so phone is bricked , and you need to flash stock firmware with odin , no other choices . and as you know knox counter will stay 0x1 , root or no root, once you break knox its permanent as knox is hardware, once you root it break an electronic fuse so once you flash stock firmware I really suggest you to install custom rom and twrp again as many things will be blocked if you stay on stock firmware as your device will stay marked as " rooted "
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Yeah I had to do firmware install in the end. It's just crazy though. I very rarely go into dev options, I had noto kernel installed and everything on stock aqh3, rooted with magisk and everything worked great, so annoying as this happened at 3am and I have slow internet connection and took me 2 hours to download the 3.5gb firmware file. Urgh o was on the verge of installing a custom rom too, ah well good job I had a lot of stuff saved in Samsung cloud.

sofir786 said:
Yeah I had to do firmware install in the end. It's just crazy though. I very rarely go into dev options, I had noto kernel installed and everything on stock aqh3, rooted with magisk and everything worked great, so annoying as this happened at 3am and I have slow internet connection and took me 2 hours to download the 3.5gb firmware file. Urgh o was on the verge of installing a custom rom too, ah well good job I had a lot of stuff saved in Samsung cloud.
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yes hopefully cloud is our new god ^^ yes its annoying I agree but its also a great feeling to begin with a clean phone like new after a reset , and I have also a crappy download speed so yes its a pain to download 4gb , and even better when its corrupted and need to download agin good luck with your device

Hey guys I need help.
My phone got bricked as you said (I accidentally turned off OEM unlock on my rooted phone) so I tried to flash stock firmware, but odin fails and on my phone it says (sw rev. check fail. device:3 binary:2). Plz help!
My phone: S8+
FIRMWARE: CRF7
FRP LOCK: ON
OEM LOCK: ON

Just had the very same problem meself ?
Thank god for Odin and https://updato.com/
Bt like previous posters says its like havin a new phone apart from samsung pay not working

Can someone help??
I got the "FRP lock" on my Samsung S8 (Exynos) and tried to flash Stock Oreo but Odin fails and the device shows "KERNEL REV. CHECK FAIL. DEVICE:3 BINARY:2".
This stock Samsung Rom worked earlier today so it should be the right Rom for my phone.
Also tried to flash TWRP recovery via AP in Odin which failed with "RFP lock" message showing on the device..
I tried to add a snapshot here but couldn't.
Anyone please, I'm helpless..

nattyniz said:
Can someone help??
I got the "FRP lock" on my Samsung S8 (Exynos) and tried to flash Stock Oreo but Odin fails and the device shows "KERNEL REV. CHECK FAIL. DEVICE:3 BINARY:2".
This stock Samsung Rom worked earlier today so it should be the right Rom for my phone.
Also tried to flash TWRP recovery via AP in Odin which failed with "RFP lock" message showing on the device..
I tried to add a snapshot here but couldn't.
Anyone please, I'm helpless..
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Your issue is trying to flash older firmware than what is on your phone. You will need to download firmware with bootloader ver. 3 or higher ( bl ver no. is 5th number from right of firmware name )
Flashing twrp failed because of locked bootloader.

spawnlives said:
Your issue is trying to flash older firmware than what is on your phone. You will need to download firmware with bootloader ver. 3 or higher ( bl ver no. is 5th number from right of firmware name )
Flashing twrp failed because of locked bootloader.
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That helped. Flashing the right version worked just fine.
Thanks!!

FRP lock
Hi people,
I got the "FRP lock" on my Samsung S8 SM-G950F(Exynos) and tried to flash Stock Oreo but when I press start Odin say PASS but recovery won't start.
please help

i flashed my S8 SM-G9500 variant however the phone has been locked and it is saying that i need to see the samsung service provider for the device has been locked. how can i solve this problem

Mark Nyombi said:
i flashed my S8 SM-G9500 variant however the phone has been locked and it is saying that i need to see the samsung service provider for the device has been locked. how can i solve this problem
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can you get a pic of the screen youre talking about?

Hello guys i rooted my S8+ G-955F and i turned off usb debugging and ome lock
And i have android 9 installed on my device, i tried all the way but for nothink , any help please