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[Q] Trying to go back from CM12 to Touchwiz

Hi all,
Here's my story. I have a US T-Mobile Galaxy S5. I wanted to try Lollipop as the new Touchwiz wasn't available yet for my device in early April. So hearing that it is very fast I chose CM12 and used their guide for the S5. I had a little trouble (Heimdall didn't work for some reason), but I successfully used Odin to install the custom recovery (TWRP). Then I was able to wipe and install the CM12 nightly image just fine using TWRP.
Since then I realized that my Gear 2 is only partially compatible with CM12. I've yet to find a thread that shows specific steps to get it working well with CM12, only partially, and many have had trouble even getting partial functionality. And now that Lollipop Touchwiz is available for my phone, I'd like to switch to that.
Last weekend I tried just that. I took a second backup of my CM12 build, then restored my backup from touchwiz 4.4. When I booted to it, the phone was severely crippled. The menu bar and navigation drawer were missing, and the home button did not work at all. I performed a factory reset, and it seemed to be working fine again. Next, I tried an OTA update to 5.0. That didn't work: the phone realized it had been tampered with and told me to use Kies. So I installed Kies, and attempted the update there. After some wrestling with it, I finally got the update to 5.0 started. It finished successfully (so it said anyway) but the phone failed to boot up. It was stuck on the Samsung logo screen for quite a long time. There was some blue text about recovery and I was panicking thinking somehow TWRP screwed up my ability to update w/ Kies. I tried rebooting and could not get into recovery or the OS no matter what. I tried Kies' emergency options only to have it not recognize my phone as compatible. So I went to download mode and installed TWRP again using Odin. Then I was able to boot into recovery, and I restored the backup of CM12 I took before I started all this (thank God I did that).
So now I'm back on CM12 with everything working fine, except of course my watch. I did not expect the restore back to Samsung software to be more difficult than going to CM12.
Can anyone see what I did wrong?
I gather I can install a stock rom with Odin. But all the links I find for this download take me to some sketchy download site that crawls at 50 K/s unless you pay. Am I missing something? Kies downloaded the update in a matter of minutes. Maybe that is still somewhere on my system, and I can use that w/ Odin?

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Have a look here for a stock ROM for your model S5 (Example, mine is the G900F)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2715487
If there isn't one, you'll need to do the slow-ass download from sammobile dot com, then use ODIN to flash it

*Detection* said:
Have a look here for a stock ROM for your model S5 (Example, mine is the G900F)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2715487
If there isn't one, you'll need to do the slow-ass download from sammobile dot com, then use ODIN to flash it
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Thanks. That thread is such a mess. I searched for "G900T" and "T-mobile" but couldn't find it. I will use sammobile then. I wasn't sure before whether to trust it. Having a senior member here vouch for it helps a little.

pianowow said:
Thanks. That thread is such a mess. I searched for "G900T" and "T-mobile" but couldn't find it. I will use sammobile then. I wasn't sure before whether to trust it. Having a senior member here vouch for it helps a little.
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That's where everyone gets them from, there and samsung - updates dot com
Both sites are banned here for linking to, but not because they are dodgy, just because the owners refused to adhere to XDA rules
They are safe to download from

so frustrating
I downloaded the lollipop stock image from sammobile, and installed with Odin. Odin reported success just like Kies did, and also just like the Kies process, my phone is still stuck in the recovery boot loop. It says RECOVERY BOOTING... in blue at the top and shows the Samsung logo powered by android. What a mess.
Is there something I can do from here to fix this?

Try flashing the PIT file along with the stock ROM, that will repartition the phone then flash the ROM, sounds like something got corrupted using KIES maybe
Double check that this is in-fact the exact model phones PIT file first or you could end up with an even worse brick
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=52767244&postcount=16
More PIT files here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2737448
There's a video of someone using PIT with ODIN on a different phone, but steps are the same
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qtbEevn1VA
Basically you want it looking like this
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"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
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"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
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"lightbox_download": "Download",
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"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
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Thanks again for your help. I think for now I will stick with 4.4 touchwiz. I hear bad things about the touchwiz 5.0 battery life. I simply restored from the TWRP backup I used when I started all this lollipop experimentation, then did a factory reset. I should have my watch working again later tonight.

[Q] No wifi, sound and very slow phone after reverting to stock

After using official CM12 for more thatn one year, I decided to go back to stock to sell phone. I moved out of stock before knox, so I didn't have it on my phone.
First I did exactly as described in this post using Odin: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2265477
They indicate 2 ROMs for Brazil, and I chose 4.4.2 - ZTO-I9505VJUFNB2-20140305104104.zip
Everything seemed OK, but there was no wifi. The button to turn it on simply didn't move to ON position. That's when I messed things up.
This is the list of actions I did after that:
1 - Hard reset. No success.
2 - Re-flashed same ROM using re-format and PIT file. No success.
3 - Flashed different modem (VJUFNC1) as described here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2192025. Original modem before that was VJUBMG3 (I'm not 100% sure). Things got worse. I still had no wifi, but I also lost sound (even on boot screen there is no sound. Phone also got very slow stuttering. I'd say it's not usable.
4 - Tried flashing a different ROM form Sammobile specific for my country/carrier: I9505VJUFNC1_I9505ZVVFNC1_ZVV. Stil slow, no wifi, no sound.
I've reflashed these same two ROMs with and without pit a few time now. Tried hard resetting and reverting to original modem. No succes. I'm lost, to be honest. Any ideas how to fix this?
I've attached some screenshots from Phone INFO Saumsung details app:
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perr0.br said:
I've reflashed these same two ROMs with and without pit a few time now. Tried hard resetting and reverting to original modem. No succes. I'm lost, to be honest. Any ideas how to fix this?
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Problems that i see:
- Bootloader and baseband didn't update for that you still having problems.
SOLUTION:
1. The correct firmware for you is this ONE. Download, unzip it and flash the .tar.md5 via ODIN like on the example (pic attached).
2. Let it boot normally till the final. Shutdown your phone and boot in DOWNLOAD MODE again.
3. Flash the same firmware like in the step 1 via ODIN.
4. Dial *#1234# when the process finish and tell me what appears.

Joku1981 said:
Problems that i see:
- Bootloader and baseband didn't update for that you still having problems.
SOLUTION:
1. The correct firmware for you is this ONE. Download, unzip it and flash the .tar.md5 via ODIN like on the example (pic attached).
2. Let it boot normally till the final. Shutdown your phone and boot in DOWNLOAD MODE again.
3. Flash the same firmware like in the step 1 via ODIN.
4. Dial *#1234# when the process finish and tell me what appears.
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Hey, you rock! I flashed it only once and everything is working again. Sound, wifi, everything! Should I still flash second time? Since it's all fine I'm afraid of messing again.
Dialing *#1234# gives me:
AP: I9505VJUFNB2
CP: I9505VJUFNB2
CSC: I9505ZTOFNB3

perr0.br said:
Hey, you rock! I flashed it only once and everything is working again. Sound, wifi, everything! Should I still flash second time? Since it's all fine I'm afraid of messing again.
Dialing *#1234# gives me:
AP: I9505VJUFNB2
CP: I9505VJUFNB2
CSC: I9505ZTOFNB3
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It's not necessary. Everything is solved now. Only press "THANKS" button if I helped you :highfive:

Gonna try this guide too. Im facing the same problems
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Need G928V Odin Firmware with PIT file.

I tried looking everywhere but I have a Galaxy S6 Edge+ which took an OTA and got into a boot loop, nothing helps at all. I tried to ODIN Pl1 version I found but it won't get past the application optimization part with the gears before it shuts off and restarts again. I also found the PC2 version, but it won't even flash for me, that version fails, maybe because it's older than Pl1?
I just need to locate the latest file and associated PIT that I can flash on the Verizon device. I think the partitions are possibly jacked up.
I also don't want to pay an arm and a leg for the firmware.
Any help is appreciated!

I have been able to get a PF2 firmware as well, I place it in the AP area (PDA) and once connected, hit Start and the thing keeps failing, just like it did with PC2. When I do the Pl1 version though it actually goes all the way through, what gives?
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Any help would be great.

ssconceptz said:
I have been able to get a PF2 firmware as well, I place it in the AP area (PDA) and once connected, hit Start and the thing keeps failing, just like it did with PC2. When I do the Pl1 version though it actually goes all the way through, what gives?
View attachment 3969966
Any help would be great.
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Did you try emergency recovery with smart switch?

ssconceptz said:
I tried looking everywhere but I have a Galaxy S6 Edge+ which took an OTA and got into a boot loop, nothing helps at all. I tried to ODIN Pl1 version I found but it won't get past the application optimization part with the gears before it shuts off and restarts again. I also found the PC2 version, but it won't even flash for me, that version fails, maybe because it's older than Pl1?
I just need to locate the latest file and associated PIT that I can flash on the Verizon device. I think the partitions are possibly jacked up.
I also don't want to pay an arm and a leg for the firmware.
Any help is appreciated!
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What's the version that you've got by ota? Just flash that version(must be latest in case), try to boot if it doesnt; boot into stock recovery; wipe cache/dalvik, factory reset(I dont remember which options were there). The fact is; bootloaders of latest firmwares are lock up which means you can't downgrade even previous one you've been using. Custom roms would helpful to get rid of that bootloop but don't know if its available for Verizon devices. Good luck.

(re) locking boot loader?

Please bear with me as this may be a biblical post
Around 3 weeks ago I bought a nice shiney new Huawei P9 Lite from CPW in the UK. Out of the box the phone was listed as VNS-L31C432B131 with EMUI 4.0 . The first thing I did was read all the various bits and bats on different threads about updating and custom roms. Then I unlocked the bootloader, installed TWRP and also rooted my phone.
I was then reading about one version of nougart so installed Meticulus TWRP in preperation to install that rom, however due to working 14 hrs a day I didnt get chance to do it being so tired.
A little while later I saw a thread on updating to B160 which would then give me the HiCare update to B370 through OS early update.
So the other day I fired up Firmware Finder and pushed the update ( via FF proxy ) to the official update app and moved from B131 to B160 with out any issue. During the " upgrade " I saw no errors or warning messages and nothing exploded so I thought all was good.
The next evening I went into HiCare and saw I could update from B160 to B370, so I did and again everything seemed to go fine. Although at the end I had no root so my Viper4Android mod wouldnt work. No biggy I though....Ill just root it again and go from there.
I then noticed I was on build version : NRD90M test-keys and I had some missing apps ie themes etc
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Also on my app drawer the settings Icon has a red 1 on it.
Most of my phone seems to work ok but as I am missing various apps and some functions are not working I have tried to fix it. I downloaded update_data_full_VNS-L31_hw_eu.zip but I can't flash it as I have lost TWRP.
If I boot with all three buttons held I get the standard software installation failed screen, even though I have placed the above file into the root of my phone, in to a folder called " dload " and into a separate " dload " folder on my external SD card.
If I press Vol up and power, I can get my standard recovery screen with the three opions reboot, wipe data/factory reset or wipe data partition
Pressing Vol down and power achieves nothing.
No matter what I do I cant get into TWRP to try and flash the above update file to get all my apps and functionality back.
I have even tried to go back into Firmware Finder to see if there is an update package available for me but I can't get that to work either as I get a cant reach the server error.
When I try to set up the proxy it is asking me to sign into my internet connection(??)
It seems I have somehow ballsed things up in an epic way while still keeping a semi working phone. So my only option is to take the phone back to CPW and exchange it for a new phone ( hopefully already on nougart or at least B160 ) however while ever I get the warning message about my device being locked I doubt they will take it back.....
So is there a way to be able to lock the bootloader again so I can take it back?
Or could someone please help me get out of NRD90M test-keys and get everything working again with root so I can install Viper4Android again.

You should've tried searching. You can rollback to MM B160 using official Huawei guide. Make sure your update package has 3GB size, as it's the complete MM with all the apps. Then you'll be able to update to B370 through firmware finder.

you need to plugin your cable in some cases .. e.g. to enter fastboot mode.

I have tried to relock the bootloader with ADB etc however I get remote access denied errors.

*Tutorial*Flash China S6 EDGE G9250 to Hong Kong firmware to get Gapps etc.

Howdy peeps i see that there's no tutorials like this here so i decided to help out fellow China s6 edge owners
So as you know G9250 China model doesn't have Gapps on it cuz china things google is spying on them i suppose here's a way to flash Hong Kong firmware on China model to get the gapps
For starters you will need 3 things
5.1.1 Firmware- Link you can risk with 6.0 firmware but i did it with 5.1.1 and worked fine didn't test 6.0 and if you're curious yes it will still work even if you have 6.0 installed i had 6.0 installed and it installed fine SO CHILL BOIZ plus if u want to downgrade to 5.1.1 this is your way to do so
Hong Kong firmware Tar file- Link
Kies for drivers mainly Link
Odin- to install this all *duh* Link
Firstly download everything *duh*
Go to this guide to unlock your bootloader XDA Link
Install KIES just to have all possible drivers installed
Then turn phone off and put it in download mode
To do that turn it off completely and press and hold Volume Down+Home+Power you will see a blue screen with load of chinese text just click volume up that's it connect the phone to your pc via USB
After that open up odin and click on pit it will show a warning just click ok and proceed select Tar file downloaded before and click ok
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Then click AP and select downloaded and extracted firmware and click Start
Go watch some my little pony while it installs
After done it it will show Green PASS and boot into recovery to do *Something*
Just wait then it will restart and boot
Theres a small chance that it will show a black screen with some chinese text and 1 button wait for that button to become clickable and click it it will just do a factory reset on the phone wait up and it will reboot and after erasing via recovery it will boot in and BOOOOOM it will show setup screen so select a language and go through a setup and
CONGRATZ now u haz gapps and other google services it has plenty of languages so if you're lazy to look for english then select a random one and then go through a setup then go to settings select the language settings and then change it to English
There u go folks ur china S6 Edge became Sort of international s6 edge thanks to hong kong firmware which has all the gapps etc.
So in a nutshell this will give you
Gapps
Remove chinese bloatware like alipay baidu search etc
Make your phone usable outside of China as pretty much everyone uses google services lol
Credits to
Me hah
Sammobile for firmware
The.Jericho.Initiative for bootloader unlock guide