I got my S5 last thursday and have some questions.
*if reactivation lock is turned on, what will happen if I flash a stock firmware on odin? Or try factory reset on recovery? Or flash a custom recovery and do a factory reset? Is this feature really techie thief proof?
*my usb port flap doesnt close all the way in, should i be worried and return it?
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Hi,
Been having issues with the phone and am planning to rma it. I have rooted/unlocked it and tripped knox. What is the best way to restore it to stock as much as poss? Is it just a case of flashing the stock rom?
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Wipe data from CWM or Twrp before running triangle away...Check and make sure your model is supported, not sure if I ran triangle away for the Note 3 or the S4 to get all the "custom" back to "official" in download mode. Then reflash phone with stock rom, a bit hard if you're on KK and your region doesn't have it yet, then factory reset...
You won't get Knox trigger back to 0x0 but just play dumb....
Best advice I can give if there's a problem with the hardware...
I bought my phone used off of Swappa. The phone was initially a stock rooted phone. I did a factory reset, then flashed to NK4 stock then rooted. For some reason it seems to have retained the previous owners fingerprints and backup password so I cannot change them. Is there any way around this? I'm assuming I probably have to go into recovery and do a full wipe, but I'm hoping to avoid that. The seller isn't responding so seems like that isn't an option either.
That ore a kdz flash with total wipe
Hi there,
Friend of mine using Lenovo A6000+, Doesn't have google account in that phone. It was secured with the pattern lock. But unfortunately he forgot the unlock pattern. Since he have a lot of contacts in that phone, there is no way to reset it. Its full stock version. Just a basic user., so no root access or anything. In this scenario any other way to unlock the phone without doing a factory reset? The google answers are helpful only if the usb debugging is enabled. Since it is not rooted and basically a very common user used that phone, i don't think usb debugging is enabled. Any help appreciated.
By the way, i'm also thinking of flashing a custom recovery into the phone. Will that be of any help? Would it cause the phone to lose data? Will that need usb debugging enabled to do it?
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lava_owner said:
Hi there,
Friend of mine using Lenovo A6000+, Doesn't have google account in that phone. It was secured with the pattern lock. But unfortunately he forgot the unlock pattern. Since he have a lot of contacts in that phone, there is no way to reset it. Its full stock version. Just a basic user., so no root access or anything. In this scenario any other way to unlock the phone without doing a factory reset? The google answers are helpful only if the usb debugging is enabled. Since it is not rooted and basically a very common user used that phone, i don't think usb debugging is enabled. Any help appreciated.
By the way, i'm also thinking of flashing a custom recovery into the phone. Will that be of any help? Would it cause the phone to lose data? Will that need usb debugging enabled to do it?
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I dont think, there's anything you can do about it. Ask him first, if he had ever connected to pc and authorized it for usb debugging. Otherwise, the only option left is to factory reset.
Edit: Brother, I'm working on something to change the pattern, which obviously I'll tell you. I'll make a flashable zip which you can flash through twrp. Lets see how this goes.
I'm not sure, if I'll be able to do it. But if it does, it would be very helpful for everyone.
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Edit 2: Finally I got it working!!! hurray!!
Just flash this zip below and the next time your phone boots, you can enter any "more than 3-dot" pattern and the phone will accept. Later, you can set new pattern or anything.
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P.S. I used CWM recovery on stock KK to flash it. Don't know why but I couldn't manage to flash twrp. Who cares anyway, if our job gets done. :silly:
It all started when I rooted my phone (Samsung J5 2016 - SM-J510FN), installed TWRP through Odin, did a reset and flashed Extreme UX (9.0). Everything worked so as a noob I decide to turn off USB Debugging and OEM Unlock. I reboot my phone and get the message "Custom Binary blocked by FRP". So I decide to look up how to fix it. Kies didn't work so I go through sammobile and download the Stock ROM. I searched SM-J510FN and filtered for my country (Greece). I downloaded the first ROM I found and flashed it through Odin. I was really excited. Then I unlock my phone. I get dozens of popup messages of "x has stopped working" and the launcher wasn't working properly. I would appreciate any help. Is it a firmware problem? Should I do a hard reset and try installing stock again? Thanks.
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It all started when I rooted my phone (Samsung J5 2016 - SM-J510FN), installed TWRP through Odin, did a reset and flashed Extreme UX (9.0). Everything worked so as a noob I decide to turn off USB Debugging and OEM Unlock. I reboot my phone and get the message "Custom Binary blocked by FRP". So I decide to look up how to fix it. Kies didn't work so I go through sammobile and download the Stock ROM. I searched SM-J510FN and filtered for my country (Greece). I downloaded the first ROM I found and flashed it through Odin. I was really excited. Then I unlock my phone. I get dozens of popup messages of "x has stopped working" and the launcher wasn't working properly. I would appreciate any help. Is it a firmware problem? Should I do a hard reset and try installing stock again? Thanks.
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Doing factory data reset should clear out those errors
Thanks for your answer. I don't really know how to do a factory reset because I can't access the device's settings.
Anyone that knows how to do a factory reset without accessing the device's settings?
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Anyone that knows how to do a factory reset without accessing the device's settings?
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recovery
Just finished the factory reset. Setting up the phone now. I'll update if any errors happen next. Thanks for your help
Hi, recently I accidentally bricked my Galaxy Tab A 10.1 with Spen (SM-P580) by accidentally disabling "OEM Unlock" in the developer settings while I had TWRP and a custom ROM installed. I was only able to get into download mode due to the factory reset protection lock, so I tried downloading the stock firmware online and then flashing it to bring the device back to fully stock firmware so I could get past the lock and not have a brick. Unfortunately, when I flashed the firmware, despite it seemingly being for my specific device (and matching my build number), I was no longer able to boot the device at all. It would turn on and would seem to immediately lose power, charging would turn on the flash and cause it to heat up, and no amount of charging would fix the issue. It was completely bricked and there was no way for me to go back into download mode to try flashing again or try flashing a different firmware. Thankfully, I contacted Samsung and because it's still under warranty they were nice enough to fix it for free, and did so by completely replacing the motherboard according to the repair slip, which is not something I would have been able to do.
My question is: How do I make a full backup of the stock firmware and recovery so if this somehow ever happens again where the FRP lock kills my device, I can reflash in download mode the original firmware that I know is 100% going to work with it and is correct? I don't want to gamble with potentially using the wrong firmware again, seeing as that gamble killed the thing.
The Model is SM-P580NZKAXAR. Based on the last part (XAR) and the fact that other non-sammobile sites listed the US wifi only firmware as XAR, I assumed "Cellular south (XAR)" was the correct firmware I needed which was obviously incorrect as it completely bricked the device. For this reason, I'm wondering if there's a way with software on windows or something to completely backup the existing stock firmware before I do anything, because I doubt Samsung would be so nice a second time, and I'd really rather not go through all this again. Obviously these websites get the original firmware that's flashable via download mode somehow, so I'd like to know how or if that's possible. Also before I went and downloaded the firmware I checked the Samsung desktop app that allows you to fix firmware issues but it said my device wasn't supported so it wasn't much help. I'd like to avoid installing any custom recoveries ahead of time as if something gets messed up there will be no way for me to actually boot into recovery as far as I'm aware, and the FRP lock will block me from reflashing the custom recovery or anything else that isn't stock. It goes without saying that if this is possible I'd like to do it without installing a custom recovery or rooting as I'd like to have a proper fully stock backup that isn't going to trip the FRP lock.
Also the way I accidentally disabled OEM Unlock was I simply toggled the developer options off and then back on in a slimmed down version of the stock rom, but in doing so it also reset the OEM unlock setting and I completely forgot to make sure it was still enabled. Next thing I know I go to reboot (was trying to figure out an issue with a usb device) and then the thing was FRP locked. Needless to say, it was something extremely simple and easy to do by accident. I also just checked the device and the build number matches the firmware that I downloaded, so I don't know if it was mislabeled or what but something was not correct.