So, I was trying to flash 4.4.2 on to my Verizon S5. I downloaded the G900VVRU1ANE9 rom from androidfilehost[.] com. Then, I installed Odin, installed Samsung USB drives, put my phone into download mode, put the downloaded firmware file into the AP part of odin, and hit start. It seemed to load fine, and it ended with a PASS!, and said "All threads completed (succeed 1/ failed 0)", and then "Removed!!"
Next, my phone rebooted, went through the samsung animation with sound, went though the verizon animation, but has been stuck the red verizon screen for over 20 minutes.
So, I then pulled the battery, reflashed with odin, which passed, and it's been at the verizon screen for 10 minutes.
This is the first time I have tried to do anything like this to my phone. I had a Galaxy Nexus previously, and had a lot of success with flashing roms, but I am having trouble with my phone.
At this point, I just want to be able to have a working phone, regardless if I lose any data. I don't care what I lose, I backed everything up. How do I get back to the OS? Did I screw something up bad?
Sorry for all the text, I appreciate any help.
EDIT: I'm coming from lollipop
Hey everyone, I fixed the problem. I did a factory reset from recovery, and I was able to get into android.
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900A, AT&T, WAS 4.4.4. I rooted my phone with towelroot by downgrading via ODIN then reflashing 4.4.4. I've had the phone for a year and wanted to experiment with some custom roms--specifically Twi5ted Lollipop. The version I found last night was V3. Anyways I followed the instructions of installing safestrap then attempting to create a partition to host the mod. Every time I tried to boot the partition I would wait 12 minutes with nothing but a black screen (I presume a bootloop.) After reading some posts here I found it requires a clean flash--not a dirty flash. So I used safestrap to backup, then I wiped it and installed the mod. Nothing--still black screen. I then attempted to restore the backup I saved--fails every time.
At this point being the noob I am, I started to get very concerned. I went into advanced wipe and for some reason selected 'system' and wiped it. After a reboot, it shows the Samsung logo, goes blank, vibrates then goes back to the Samsung logo. I went into the standard bootloader and attempted to restore to factory settings but there is nothing to restore of course cause I wiped everything.
I'm currently at work bored as heck cause my phone is wiped. I can still go into download mode thankfully. Should I have no problems flashing stock via ODIN when I get home on my lunch break? Which stock firmware should I flash for this phone?
Thanks!
Unfortunately my lunch break brought me no good news. I downloaded stock found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2714455
After I flashed all the files (Except BL) when it boots, it get's to the Samsung logo--freezes halfway through then goes blank with the blue LED light on. I waited 10 minutes just to see what it does with no luck.
Another thing I found was weird-why when I boot does it still say 'Custom' when I flashed the stock firmware?
I really hope I don't have to drop $650 on a new phone Any help would be incredibly appreciated. Thanks guys!
DETAILED INFO: KOT49H. 6900AUCU1ANCE
MODEL: SM-6900A UD
FCC ID : A3LSMG900A
GALAXY S5 AT&T
why didn't you also flash the bootloader?
mike-y said:
why didn't you also flash the bootloader?
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AT&T bootloader is locked right? Regardless I tried flashing the bootloader as a last resort and ODIN failed. Figured it just confirmed what everyone else said that it's locked.
Is there a specific way I need to flash the files? Like one at a time?
Do I need to restore factory settings/delete cache THEN flash each? or vice versa?
Am I basically screwed since I have AT&T?
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FIXED!
After flashing 4.4.2 several times and trying different things, I came across this thread which finally brought my phone back to life. Thanks XDA!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/att...w-to-unbrick-flash-to-stocknce-g900a-t3077652
Bought a 'new" Note 4 and right of the bat, I rooted the phone, flashed a custom rom, followed instructions one by one, last time I did this was 2 years ago. Everything was great, but wasn't able to call or text on a Sprint network, but had LTE/3G data.
I downloaded the stock firmware from SamMobile, cant flash it with Odin, it crashes right away with some error "BEX". So, copying the firmware to my sd card and installing it thru TWRP or PhilzTouch, instantly crashes, says install aborted and when it reboots, the Samsung powered by android is displayed and than keeps re-booting about every 10 seconds.
At this point, I at least want the phone to run stock. But is much harder than I thought it would be. IS there something im missing or not doing right?
Hello, my SM-G935A is rooted, and I have 2 issues with it. Firstly, I'm unable to receive texts or phone calls (I can send them), and I've tried a factory reset and I even got a new SIM, but nothing worked. I think if I flash stock firmware, it might fix the issue. Second problem, when I go into download mode and select my AP in Odin and press start, my phone gets an error and Odin freezes at Initialization.
Any help would be appreciated. I would prefer to fix the texting issue, as I don't want to return the phone to ATT. In either case, the Odin issue needs to be fixed
I'm having a similar issue. This afternoon, 2 apps threw errors and closed. I rebooted, which apparently was the wrong thing to do. The reboot stalled on the AT&T logo and stayed that way for 5 min - the unit became very hot & the power button did not respond, even while holding it down. I got into recovery, cleared the cache and factory reset, then rebooted. The unit came back up and started reinstalling everything. I took it back down into the download status and attempted to reload 935x via Odin, only to stall at "initialzation" [sic] as you did. I got out of that after waiting for some sort of response. SuperSU was still in my apps as was Root Checker. Root Checker indicates the system is rooted. SuperSU indicates it needs the binary updated. BusyBox and TiBu indicate they cannot find root. I deleted all the root apps and tried reinstalling root via adb which completed successfully, but the same outcome with all the root apps. So I'm not sure if I'm still really rooted as Root Checker claims, or not.
EDIT: I just saw that I have 2 "Knox Settings" apps. Clicking on either returns, "Unfortunately, Container Agent2 has stopped."
use the odin from the stock firmware thread to flash it again. if it fails you can flash the u firmware and then the stock again. then you have to use a different odin if you want to flash the root api file the one you flash the firmware with wont work. also there is help in one of the threads about fixing the volte problem so you dont have to turn it off to get calls. i didnt have to do it as using the odin i mentioned fixed it for me when i came from the u firmware.
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Hello, my SM-G935A is rooted, and I have 2 issues with it. Firstly, I'm unable to receive texts or phone calls (I can send them), and I've tried a factory reset and I even got a new SIM, but nothing worked. I think if I flash stock firmware, it might fix the issue. Second problem, when I go into download mode and select my AP in Odin and press start, my phone gets an error and Odin freezes at Initialization.
Any help would be appreciated. I would prefer to fix the texting issue, as I don't want to return the phone to ATT. In either case, the Odin issue needs to be fixed
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I was having the exact same problem you had with Odin. It seemed I was able to flash stock firmware using this version of Odin: http://www.mediafire.com/download/2t2sjqxtogbkafk/odin_3.12.3.rar
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use the odin from the stock firmware thread to flash it again. if it fails you can flash the u firmware and then the stock again. then you have to use a different odin if you want to flash the root api file the one you flash the firmware with wont work. also there is help in one of the threads about fixing the volte problem so you dont have to turn it off to get calls. i didnt have to do it as using the odin i mentioned fixed it for me when i came from the u firmware.
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did you have any problems with the u version of the s7 edge firmware, like the fingerprint scanner not responding? i am on that version and cant get any odin version or any version of s7 edge g935a firmware to flash, tried unrooting and was forced to use the U version of the s7 edge firmware, everything works except the fingerprint scanner, cant get back to full stock firmware, need help!
im having the exact same problem, when i put my phone into download mode and flash the stock at&t firmware, Odin get stuck in "initialization" and my phone screen displays and error message.
Same stuff was happening to me, I went back to stock and took the update. When your phone stops working as an actual phone, it's time to roll it back.
I played with it for a week and my phone was so freaking hot (with hot weather) equals a wait and see if this gets more stable in the near future. I did use the Odin 3.12.3 mentioned by King James III. Honestly, I did so many things to get it back to stock I forget what actually worked (it was the wee hours of the morning and I was spent). Don't give up guys, it will and can work.
edit: It may be as simple as not right clicking Odin and running it as Administrator.
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Same stuff was happening to me, I went back to stock and took the update. When your phone stops working as an actual phone, it's time to roll it back.
I played with it for a week and my phone was so freaking hot (with hot weather) equals a wait and see if this gets more stable in the near future. I did use the Odin 3.12.3 mentioned by King James III. Honestly, I did so many things to get it back to stock I forget what actually worked (it was the wee hours of the morning and I was spent). Don't give up guys, it will and can work.
edit: It may be as simple as not right clicking Odin and running it as Administrator.
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I used Odin_v3.12.3_Patched_SHA256 to flash the 935U Firmware then used Odin3_v3.11.2 to flash the June Firmware release.
My father gave me his dead phone to fix. He said he dropped it in water and has been working nice until he rebooted to "installing sytem update", then goes the yellow triangle with dead droid and the stock recovery comes up.
No custom recovery, no root, no custom rom.
I naturally tried to flash a stock firmware (6.0.1, BP6), and failed. I tried with a 4 files firmware (same, 6.0.1, BP6) and aye, it passes on Odin but boots exactly the same (installing system update etc).
Then I tried to downgrade, to root, to everything, but the FRP LOCK is On and seems to screw up.
I tried to find a 4 files 5.1.1 firmware but couldn't find any working, maybe I didn't find the right one I don't know (France, XEF).
I get a different fail on Odin each time I'm trying to flash something, like there is always a reason to fail.
The best I get is with the 4 files 6.0.1 but still, I'm stuck on stock recovery.
What can I do ? I can't believe I'm stuck forever, I'm pretty sure it can be fixed, unless you guys tell me I'm wrong and the battle is over...
I can't believe no one has any idea
did you tried any other country software for this?
give it a shot.it might work
Yes I did
I gave it to a guy who has a box to get rid of the google limitation..
Hi ladies/gents,
I've just flashed my Samsung S5 (SM-G900F) with the latest UK BTU stock firmware from sammobile.com for my unlocked device (I've used SIM cards in the device in 3 different countries fine).
I reset the device into Boot mode, cleared the cache and factory reset, then boot the phone into download mode.
Using Odin I flashed the .tar.md5 file under the "AP" section of Odin with auto-reboot & F.Reset Time checked , the process was a success (according to Odin), and then when the phone restart: nothing but being stuck on the Samsung S5 boot flashing boot screen.
I've tried clearing the cache and factory resetting again, as well as installing the AP file again, to no joy.
I'm pretty dumbfounded by this as it seems this is the most straight forward and "safe" flashing to do on the device, yet now I seem to have bricked the phone in doing so.
Most of the advice I can find on the internet to fix the boot loop issue suggests doing the exact process I have just ran through, so I'm pretty close to calling it quits and looking at another brand of smartphone.
If anyone has any advice on how I can try and recovery the use of my phone, I'd be most grateful.
Thanks.
Okay guys/gals in the time it took me to feel sorry for myself and get desperate enough to create a post here the phone seems to have just turned on and working fine
I did restart the phone a bunch of times, but it seems just leaving it 20-30+ minutes does the trick.
Patience is a virtue!
Hi
I am having exactly the same issue with a G900I - tried everything!
Any advice??