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[Q] i9505 wont boot or recover

I was trying to reinstall the firmware after having issues with service mode and followed the odin procedure to do so but it came up failed and the phone as not booted up since.
The phone if just powering on say it need to run a recovery through Kies but that does not see the phone so no joy there, I can get it to download mode but thats about it Odin see the phone but fails every time I try to install firmware. Ive note in gray on the phone it says Write protection enabled

docurley said:
I was trying to reinstall the firmware after having issues with service mode and followed the odin procedure to do so but it came up failed and the phone as not booted up since.
The phone if just powering on say it need to run a recovery through Kies but that does not see the phone so no joy there, I can get it to download mode but thats about it Odin see the phone but fails every time I try to install firmware. Ive note in gray on the phone it says Write protection enabled
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go with the no wipe factory restore... The file is big, but thats probably the only thing that can get you working.

theidoctor said:
go with the no wipe factory restore... The file is big, but thats probably the only thing that can get you working.
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How do I do that?

docurley said:
How do I do that?
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FOLLOW THIS LINK -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301259

theidoctor said:
FOLLOW THIS LINK -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301259
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Thanks will give that a go

docurley said:
Thanks will give that a go
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just be patient... the process takes a while

theidoctor said:
just be patient... the process takes a while
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lol I will, just downloading the file is going to take 20min they got a slow connection

docurley said:
lol I will, just downloading the file is going to take 20min they got a slow connection
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well you're lucky. it took me 3 hours to download that file.

docurley said:
I was trying to reinstall the firmware after having issues with service mode and followed the odin procedure to do so but it came up failed and the phone as not booted up since.
The phone if just powering on say it need to run a recovery through Kies but that does not see the phone so no joy there, I can get it to download mode but thats about it Odin see the phone but fails every time I try to install firmware. Ive note in gray on the phone it says Write protection enabled
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You got a PM.
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DarkMenace said:
You got a PM.
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Great phone working but service mode still buggered, wont allow me to use menu stuck in some sort of information screen.

docurley said:
Great phone working but service mode still buggered, wont allow me to use menu stuck in some sort of information screen.
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Once you installed the Stock Image did you go in to recovery and do the data wipe and cache wipes?
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DarkMenace said:
Once you installed the Stock Image did you go in to recovery and do the data wipe and cache wipes?
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No I did not

docurley said:
No I did not
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Try to reflash and then do the data wipes by pulling the battery before it boots after the stock image is installed.
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Please pay attention to the model number and forum you are in
You can permanently damage your phone by flashing things for the wrong phone
Moved to correct device forum

docurley said:
I was trying to reinstall the firmware after having issues with service mode and followed the odin procedure to do so but it came up failed and the phone as not booted up since.
The phone if just powering on say it need to run a recovery through Kies but that does not see the phone so no joy there, I can get it to download mode but thats about it Odin see the phone but fails every time I try to install firmware. Ive note in gray on the phone it says Write protection enabled
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I have the Original 4.2.2 Stock Firmware for you. I sent you a Pm awaiting your response. The links will be sent to you after the response.

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So i used goo manager to install twrp on my att s4. I was running the new firmware. MF3. I rebooted my phone to find my self set right to download mode and it says, Could not do normal boot! Please help me, i would like the re flash that firmware but cant find it.

nicholascap said:
So i used goo manager to install twrp on my att s4. I was running the new firmware. MF3. I rebooted my phone to find my self set right to download mode and it says, Could not do normal boot! Please help me, i would like the re flash that firmware but cant find it.
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so you were rooted and running MF3, you simply installed twrp via goo manager and the device only boots to the error/warning screen, right? normally, flashing the stock firmware via odin clears up this issue but in this case, you cannot flash back to MDL or MDB from MF3, nor is there an MF3 firmware tar that i've seen anywhere. hmmm...

Link me to a stock MF3 recovery.img and I can make it a .tar for you...

;44285866 said:
Link me to a stock MF3 recovery.img and I can make it a .tar for you...
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Yea, good luck with that! Linking to the image I mean.

jd1639 said:
Yea, good luck with that! Linking to the image I mean.
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Someone pulled it about a week back trying to make an MF3 ROM that doesn't lock things down... I'm not looking for it, my phone has and always will work...

Try this open back panel take out batt. get you s/number put everything back together and run kies emergency recovety. All you need is module number and s/number and it will reinstall back to stock had a similar issue my first hr with my SGS4
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VICIOUSVIC1 said:
Try this open back panel take out batt. get you s/number put everything back together and run kies emergency recovety. All you need is module number and s/number and it will reinstall back to stock had a similar issue my first hr with my SGS4
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That will also work, but wasn't he rooted on MF3? I've stopped following XDA for the most part since i have to lay low... MF3 has been rooted after a full update to it?

;44286151 said:
That will also work, but wasn't he rooted on MF3? I've stopped following XDA for the most part since i have to lay low... MF3 has been rooted after a full update to it?
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Mf3 has been rooted, but no way to put on a custom recovery or return to stock via odin. There's no firmware available.

<=LongJohnSilver=> said:
That will also work, but wasn't he rooted on MF3? I've stopped following XDA for the most part since i have to lay low... MF3 has been rooted after a full update to it?
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Rooted, yes, but no exploit or recovery.

jd1639 said:
Mf3 has been rooted, but no way to put on a custom recovery or return to stock via odin. There's no firmware available.
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xBeerdroiDx said:
Rooted, yes, but no exploit or recovery.
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Kies it is then...
@OP
Uninstall the Samsung USB Drivers
Run CCleaner
Reboot
Install Kies and do an Emergency firmware recovery with the phone in download mode

Ljs is hopefully here to stay.

jd1639 said:
Ljs is hopefully here to stay.
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Never know...

No luck
xBeerdroiDx said:
so you were rooted and running MF3, you simply installed twrp via goo manager and the device only boots to the error/warning screen, right? normally, flashing the stock firmware via odin clears up this issue but in this case, you cannot flash back to MDL or MDB from MF3, nor is there an MF3 firmware tar that i've seen anywhere. hmmm...
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Ya I have looked every where for the MF3 firmware no one has it. I'll try the kies idea

nicholascap said:
Ya I have looked every where for the MF3 firmware no one has it. I'll try the kids idea
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Look in here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2378946
That recovery.img can be made into a .tar
EDIT - I dont see recovery.img, use KIES

Recovery img
Where on that page is the recovery.img? Is the it rom file?

;44287529 said:
Look in here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2378946
That recovery.img can be made into a .tar
EDIT - I dont see recovery.img, use KIES
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But will the efuses allow it to be flashed?

nicholascap said:
Where on that page is the recovery.img? Is the it rom file?
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I was mistaken, it's not there... Those are just dumps of his partitions... You are having a reccovery issue, since the stock 3e recovery is gone...
Just use KIES, follow my steps a few posts back to prevent a connectivity issue.

can you see if you can find that for me. thx

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KIES
KIES will only pull up a old firmware not the new one so it wont flash. IDK what to do now,

Hard bricked phone?

Hello everyone,
I recently tried to flash a kernel and it seems that it was a corrupted download or something of the sorts and no whenever my phone powers on, the phone sits on a black screen and just vibrates. I have gotten into download mode and ODIN'd it with the stock image but it put me right back at the same thing. Has anyone else had this issue and if so can itt be fixed?
Thanks in advance!

It would help to know what device you have, what firmware you where on and what kernel you tried to flash

hailthethief said:
Hello everyone,
I recently tried to flash a kernel and it seems that it was a corrupted download or something of the sorts and no whenever my phone powers on, the phone sits on a black screen and just vibrates. I have gotten into download mode and ODIN'd it with the stock image but it put me right back at the same thing. Has anyone else had this issue and if so can itt be fixed?
Thanks in advance!
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Can get into recovery?
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I did some more reading. My phone is hard bricked. What I'm reading is that it needs to JTAG or exchanged. Thanks anyways.
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hailthethief said:
I did some more reading. My phone is hard bricked. What I'm reading is that it needs to JTAG or exchanged. Thanks anyways.
Sent from my SGH-I337 using xda app-developers app
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Does Odin say successful? Do you know what firmware you were on?

hailthethief said:
I did some more reading. My phone is hard bricked. What I'm reading is that it needs to JTAG or exchanged. Thanks anyways.
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I'm not for sure about it being hard bricked if you can still get into download mode. Did you use a jig to get into download mode becuz I think that would be the only way to get to it if it was hardbricked,if not you may be able to get the pit file and fix it
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jd1639 said:
Does Odin say successful? Do you know what firmware you were on?
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Odin does say successful. Can you tell me how I could find the firmware version? I odin to amdl then rooted and installed TWLite and tried to flash the KToonzes kernel when this happened.

captivated1971 said:
I'm not for sure about it being hard bricked if you can still get into download mode. Did you use a jig to get into download mode becuz I think that would be the only way to get to it if it was hardbricked
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I did not use the jig.
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hailthethief said:
Odin does say successful. Can you tell me how I could find the firmware version? I odin to amdl then rooted and installed TWLite and tried to flash the KToonzes kernel when this happened.
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In settings, about device would show the firmware. If you odined and you were on the mdl firmware. You can't get into recovery right now? Only download mode? Did you try to flash a rom before the kernel? I assume you have an i337?

id try this again with odin least wise if it works you will have to reroot again http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261573

jd1639 said:
In settings, about device would show the firmware. If you odined and you were on the mdl firmware. You can't get into recovery right now? Only download mode? Did you try to flash a rom before the kernel? I assume you have an i337?
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Yes. I have a hard time putting it in Download mode. I don't know if I can hit recovery. Ill try though.

hailthethief said:
Yes. I have a hard time putting it in Download mode. I don't know if I can hit recovery. Ill try though.
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After odin says sucessful,you have to remove the battery cause it will be stuck stuck on the download screen and go into recovery and factory reset the phone and it should boot right up.I dont think your phone is hard-bricked if you was able to use odin.

Azzair113 said:
After odin says sucessful,you have to remove the battery cause it will be stuck stuck on the download screen and go into recovery and factory reset the phone and it should boot right up.I dont think your phone is hard-bricked if you was able to use odin.
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yeah i have done the samething. i went from stock rooted and had cyanogenmod 10 successfully downloaded and running one night. The next morning i installed ktoonsez kernel 100% certain it was for my cyano and everything i was running and its 90% hard bricked. The only thing i can do is get it into odin mode. Ive also flashed my att ucuamdl file with odin to try and reset it and it has said successful. The only thing i had checked was t ime reset and reboot. So i pulled the battery to try and fire it back up and nothing happens but a black screen and a little vibration. Kind of pisses me of since im not the only one who has had this happen. So far ive still had no luck with anything about the phone. no recovery, no nothing. Anybody else know anything?

hayden55 said:
yeah i have done the samething. i went from stock rooted and had cyanogenmod 10 successfully downloaded and running one night. The next morning i installed ktoonsez kernel 100% certain it was for my cyano and everything i was running and its 90% hard bricked. The only thing i can do is get it into odin mode. Ive also flashed my att ucuamdl file with odin to try and reset it and it has said successful. The only thing i had checked was t ime reset and reboot. So i pulled the battery to try and fire it back up and nothing happens but a black screen and a little vibration. Kind of pisses me of since im not the only one who has had this happen. So far ive still had no luck with anything about the phone. no recovery, no nothing. Anybody else know anything?
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If you can get into odin mode flash the mdl file again but make sure you have nothing ticked such as the f rest time or auto boot.And once you done pull out your usb cord and it should still say downloading on the screen.So pull the battery and then place it back in but dont boot up go into recovery what i do to get in recovery is hold the volume up,power and home button until i see the recovery booting sign at the top left corner then i let go off the power button and hold the volume up and home button until it boots into recovery.but when you go into recovery it will download the install the mdl file so you might have to do the recovery part twice after it installs the file then factory reset your phone and it should boot right up.

Azzair113 said:
If you can get into odin mode flash the mdl file again but make sure you have nothing ticked such as the f rest time or auto boot.And once you done pull out your usb cord and it should still say downloading on the screen.So pull the battery and then place it back in but dont boot up go into recovery what i do to get in recovery is hold the volume up,power and home button until i see the recovery booting sign at the top left corner then i let go off the power button and hold the volume up and home button until it boots into recovery.but when you go into recovery it will download the install the mdl file so you might have to do the recovery part twice after it installs the file then factory reset your phone and it should boot right up.
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thanks for the reply. i will give it a shot. *Fingers Crossed*

hayden55 said:
thanks for the reply. i will give it a shot. *Fingers Crossed*
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np hope it works

Azzair113 said:
np hope it works
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no success. recovery just isn't there. maybe somebody should ask the kt747 guy?

hayden55 said:
no success. recovery just isn't there. maybe somebody should ask the kt747 guy?
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What kt kernel did you install was it the aosp kt kernel or the tw kt kernel you might flashed the wrong kernel.

Azzair113 said:
If you can get into odin mode flash the mdl file again but make sure you have nothing ticked such as the f rest time or auto boot.And once you done pull out your usb cord and it should still say downloading on the screen.So pull the battery and then place it back in but dont boot up go into recovery what i do to get in recovery is hold the volume up,power and home button until i see the recovery booting sign at the top left corner then i let go off the power button and hold the volume up and home button until it boots into recovery.but when you go into recovery it will download the install the mdl file so you might have to do the recovery part twice after it installs the file then factory reset your phone and it should boot right up.
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I just tried this with the UAMDB md5 file since thats the one that came with my phone and it didn't work. hmmmm

Azzair113 said:
What kt kernel did you install was it the aosp kt kernel or the tw kt kernel you might flashed the wrong kernel.
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I know that you would think that it would be the newbie mistake to install an tw kernel on top of a aosp ROM, but I made 100% sure to choose the correct ROM. I know the difference between touch wiz and also.
Also, sorry to hijack the thread I just saw it and figured since we both have the same problem we might all solve it together.

[Q] S4 Bricked?

So I installed the hyperdrive rom and was having trouble with the wifi so i downloaded the kernel in a seperate zip. went back in recovery, and installed everything, kernel kept erroring in recovery while installing, I decided to restart, and it asks if i want to prevent stock recovery from installing. Not sure what I hit, as I was clipping on the back, but whatever i did, now when the phone boots up, it vibrates for about 1 second, the screen stays black. It does this about every 10 sec. I can get into download mode so i tried installing the stock firmware with ODIN but i still have the same problem. Any suggestions?

Can you link to the kernel you installed. Also are you on mdl firmware and was Odin successful out were there errors?

jd1639 said:
Can you link to the kernel you installed. Also are you on mdl firmware and was Odin successful out were there errors?
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I was installing ktoonz kernel and Idk what firmware i was on, i think it was the the uCAMDL or whatever one didnt need safestrap

XxSHaDoWxSLaYeRxX said:
I was installing ktoonz kernel and Idk what firmware i was on, i think it was the the uCAMDL or whatever one didnt need safestrap
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Are you sure the kernel you used was for the i337?
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jd1639 said:
Are you sure the kernel you used was for the i337?
Sent from my Nexus 5
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yes. i think it bricked because when i rebooted, the recovery asked if i wanted to prevent the flashage (is that even a word?) of the stock recovery, and atm i was putting on the back, so i may have hit yes.

XxSHaDoWxSLaYeRxX said:
yes. i think it bricked because when i rebooted, the recovery asked if i wanted to prevent the flashage (is that even a word?) of the stock recovery, and atm i was putting on the back, so i may have hit yes.
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You've tried to Odin the mdl firmware? Of that doesn't work I'm afraid you're sol
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can u even enter recovery, also which FW are u trying to install with ODIN

Bradl79 said:
can u even enter recovery, also which FW are u trying to install with ODIN
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I cant enter recovery, all i can enter is download mode. It's MDL
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You've tried to Odin the mdl firmware? Of that doesn't work I'm afraid you're sol
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I337UCUAMDL_I337ATTAMDL_I337UCUAMDL_HOME.tar is the name of the file and when its done, the phone reboots and i get a black screen, and the phone vibrates every 10 sec or so

XxSHaDoWxSLaYeRxX said:
I cant enter recovery, all i can enter is download mode. It's MDL
I337UCUAMDL_I337ATTAMDL_I337UCUAMDL_HOME.tar is the name of the file and when its done, the phone reboots and i get a black screen, and the phone vibrates every 10 sec or so
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if you can get into download mode and that's stable and not rebooting on you. I'd look at then using Odin once in download mode and the cf-auto-root tool to get back to a working phone. you may lose data but may get out of the bricked state

thnkyle said:
if you can get into download mode and that's stable and not rebooting on you. I'd look at then using Odin once in download mode and the cf-auto-root tool to get back to a working phone. you may lose data but may get out of the bricked state
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Where can i find this cf-auto-root tool? Is it in the S4 section as I cant seem to find it.

Soft brick? fix not working

I Have this problem with my S5 G900f it is on firmware recovery mode and odin doesn't seem to work tried everything.... Please help somebody

ibby665 said:
I Have this problem with my S5 G900f it is on firmware recovery mode and odin doesn't seem to work tried everything.... Please help somebody
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why are you using any slot other than AP in odin? Just get the tar.md5 appropriate for your phone, load it in the ap slot in odin and flash it with the phone in download mode.

youdoofus said:
why are you using any slot other than AP in odin? Just get the tar.md5 appropriate for your phone, load it in the ap slot in odin and flash it with the phone in download mode.
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I have tried multiple ways. Normally I used one but It failed so I have tried different ways... I have sort of made progress as it fixed the firmware error and now its doesn't boot it just goes to the Samsung logo and reboots PS... Recovery doesn't boot up

ibby665 said:
I have tried multiple ways. Normally I used one but It failed so I have tried different ways... I have sort of made progress as it fixed the firmware error and now its doesn't boot it just goes to the Samsung logo and reboots PS... Recovery doesn't boot up
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can you get it to DL mode?

ibby665 said:
I have tried multiple ways. Normally I used one but It failed so I have tried different ways... I have sort of made progress as it fixed the firmware error and now its doesn't boot it just goes to the Samsung logo and reboots PS... Recovery doesn't boot up
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Also can I have a link for the download, I have downloaded it from sammobile and it's doesn't work.. Thanks

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can you get it to DL mode?
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Yh I can

ibby665 said:
Also can I have a link for the download, I have downloaded it from sammobile and it's doesn't work.. Thanks
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youll want to dl the oldest version of the firmware that youre phone had on it from sammobile. the newer ones wont work

youdoofus said:
youll want to dl the oldest version of the firmware that youre phone had on it from sammobile. the newer ones wont work
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I don't know what it had last as I haved custom OS for some time now

Do you know what bootloader it had on it?
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youdoofus said:
Do you know what bootloader it had on it?
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No...

ibby665 said:
No...
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Stuck on this

ibby665 said:
Stuck on this
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Helppp

ibby665 said:
No...
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whats the entire filename of the tar.md5 you were using?

Somehow I got to try but then it shuts down like after a couple of Mind and when it boots the led only pulses and the the screen off

youdoofus said:
whats the entire filename of the tar.md5 you were using?
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I have tried loads.. Do u want the one in the pic

ibby665 said:
I have tried loads.. Do u want the one in the pic
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sure. also, do you know the last one you actually were able to get successfully loaded on the phone and have it boot with?

youdoofus said:
sure. also, do you know the last one you actually were able to get successfully loaded on the phone and have it boot with?[/ Somehow i managed to get on twrp but everytime i try to flash a rom and freezes mid flash and shuts down
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reflash twrp, or try a different version of twrp

youdoofus said:
reflash twrp, or try a different version of twrp
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flash via odin? what version shall i flash

ibby665 said:
flash via odin? what version shall i flash
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Won't flash ??