I flashed the wrong CF autochain root (Fing stupid! and downgraded from stock TW 5.0 to 4.4.x, in an attempt to flash twrp, sigh all I needed to do was uncheck reboot in odin).
Anyway, I had the baseband unknown and no sim card installed issue. I flashed the modem again and still didn't work. I did a stock 5.0 flash with multiple resets, device keeps crashing. completely unusable, status menu is blank. Cannot read serial (its a replacement device, the serial # i do have isn't working in kies). I can't recover via kies.
After doing some searching, it looks like I need something called param.bin or param.lfs. I can't find one anywhere for my SM-G900T. I'm begging someone to provide me that file, I'm not sure how you can get it or if you must be on stock TW for it to work.
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I have tried everything I can find on the internet. Various Odin versions, and a bunch of stock roms from sammobile and other websites. I have been trying to follow everything to the dot, but I keep getting the same error: FAIL (AUTH) seconds after I press start. I have turned on USB debugging on my phone and I honestly don't know what do to. I just want to unroot and be done with this already. Please, someone help!
have you tried supersu to unroot? lol
No I haven't and I haven't even heard of that program yet, let me try and see. I'll post back the results.
Everything ran smoothly but I still have the "Custom" with the unlocked lock icon on my phone's start up. Also, my phone still can't update its software. It boots like it's going to but the installation is stalled at 25% until it just reboots and gives me a message that the update was interrupted. Please help!
what rom are you on? maybe the rom your on removed the update apks from the rom? the custom lock will be there until you manage to flash a full stock odin tar successfuly..
theres no reason the odin tar isnt unrooting the device if youre using the full odin tar.. this should put original rom/kernel/modem and wipe device completely
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what rom are you on? maybe the rom your on removed the update apks from the rom? the custom lock will be there until you manage to flash a full stock odin tar successfuly..
theres no reason the odin tar isnt unrooting the device if youre using the full odin tar.. this should put original rom/kernel/modem and wipe device completely
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See, I think that's the problem too. I had this phone rooted once before and I intalled a rom (that i forgot the name of) and then i installed the supposedly official ROM for SM-G900A and I think that's where it got messed up. What should I do now?
Actually it was not known to me that my g901f was rooted. I just flashed it with NEE stock firmware lolipop, which eventually bricked the set.
I tried Smart Switch manual insertion of Model and S/N, but it says no database verification. So i tried again odin 3.09 to flash with various firmwares which results in zero.
Set is in white screen mode, upon pressing power+lower vol+home it enters in downloading mode. I flashed 4 files + PIT of jovilonas but to disappointment. One strange thing I experienced that during flashing it always struck at image.ext.4 and failed, but I selected the T Flash option then it completed successfully but after reboot it is same as if there was no flashing at all. Before bricked it was having KitKat 4.4.2 and upon Kies software update check it showed country KSA Product Code NHK7 (as i recall but not sure about Product Code accuracy but at last there was 7, but dead sure about KSA as Country).
Please help me with flashable firmware link and proper procedure. Grateful to you.
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Memory 1: as i have come to realize that my G901F was not Stock Rom Flashed and then Reflash to Root that ROM. It was already a Rooted Firmware Mod. Cause simply rooted Stock ROM when executed as Factory Reset it removes Root (as some one told me during my quest to unbrick it). Now it is clear to me that before flashing with Stock ROM, i factory restored the set but there was nothing changed and the root was there. Only issue was that it asks for wifi password whenever it restarts rather than storing it once.
Memory 2: There was no KNOX counter while it was on KITKAT 4.4.2. Neither in the Device Info nor in the Downloading mode (power+vol down+home). It always shows, ODIN MODE
MODEL G901F
System Binary Samsung official
System Status Custom
I have a Samsung S5 G900F, bought from vodafone on payg. Long story short, it is under warranty, but when I took it to Samsung they said the knox had been tripped. I'm going to pursue this with them, as this phone is used by the mrs and (as far as we know) has never had custom software on it.
Anyway, it started randomly rebooting a while ago, and I tried updating the software with kies, which seemed to fix it for a while. It has now gotten progressively worse, to the point that it is not even getting past either the boot logo, or as part way through the boot process (samsung logo etc). Occasionally, after a cold start, it makes it to the OS, but then reboots shortly after.
I've now tried using odin to install the stock firmware (vodafone branded - G900FXXU1BOJ1_G900FVFG1BOJ1_G900FXXU1BOJ1_HOME.tar.md5). I've also installed philz custom recovery (tried twrp too), and then to install a custom rom. Ive tried cyanogen and phoenix. They install fine, but the phone continues to reboot when starting up. I've not yet managed to get to the OS for either custom rom.
The phoenix rom also came with a bootloader/modem package, which I have installed.
I've run out of ideas. It's probably a hardware fault. But is there anything else I can try before binning it?
Thanks.
KNOX is definitely tripped now even if it was not before (Custom ROMs, and Recovery trip KNOX)
Anyway, you could try flashing the G900F PIT file along with the stock ROM, and see if that helps, the PIT file will 100% delete and recreate the phones partitions, before flashing the ROM, so if it was a firmware bug, that should fix it, if it still does it after that, I'd say hardware
Google G900F PIT file
Add it to the PIT section in ODIN
Add the stock ROM to the PDA or AP section in ODIN
Flash and hope for the best
I tried the PIT file. It flashes successfully. However, the stock rom still fails with "auth SIZE" (cant remember the exact message). Does that mean I've used the wrong PIT? I can still successfully flash custom recovery and then a custom firmware, but the boot loops continue.
Can you double check in download mode, which model S5 is shows?
I expect it to be G900F, but a few people have had something other than what the sticker and box say
And as long as you downloaded the G900F PIT file, then you flashed the correct one
If everything matches G900F, and it's still doing it after flashing PIT, Custom and Stock, and stock is complaining about the wrong size, it looks like something corrupted your phones internal storage
There are manual ways to recreate partitions etc, but you'll have to search them out
Hello everyone. I used Albe95 N5+S6 Port rom for my GT-i9500 and it worked flawlessly. I had TWRP recovery. After a lot of using I thought to re-flash the rom and start using it new, so I reinstalled the Rom file on my external SD card and flashed the rom using TWRP recovery and it was a success, but then I noticed I accidentally backed up some things which I didn't wanted to I re-flashed the Rom again, but this time when I (in recovery mode) wiped the data, I chose "Advanced Wipe" or "Advanced Reset" (It was something like that I don't exactly remember. So after that I reflashed the rom and when I had to press "Reboot" a message appeared above saying "Looks like super user is not installed in your phone. Do you wish to install it?" I said Yes and the screen went blank. I tried to reboot but It didn't. I removed the battery and then put it back again and tried to get into recovvery but recovery seemed to be lost and I ended up in Samsung's own factory mode where we have options like reboot, flash using external sd card, flash using adb, enable cp logging and etc. I tried to flash back everything but nothing works. Tried Odin and tried flashing custom firmware but it fails. If I reboot Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-i9500 comes on screen and then it goes blank no boot animation or anything like that. Please help me, Your help will be highly appreciated
I used advanced wipe many times before, I'm pretty sure something else caused your dilema.
And most Odin fail messages are caused by the USB cable, PC USB ports (back ports are recommended) and Windows version.
So what should I do now?
If the problems are caused by the above mentioned, you should obviously try to change things up.
It appears that your phone is in soft-brick.
Also, you lost your TWRP.
Check your bootloader version and install the stock firmware via odin. (If you still fail in odin, As GDreaper pointed out, odin fail could cause by usb cable, port and windows version so you need to keep changing until it works)
Root the phone. Reinstall the TWRP.
Then flash the custom rom again. When you install the custom rom please follow the cooker (custom rom maker) instructions on wiping.
Thanks for your comment. I'm kind of a noob, how do I check bootloader version? and how will I know after checking my bootloader version which stock firmware to install?
Bootloader has nothing to do with it.
If you flash a stock firmware, the Bootloader will also be updated to whatever Bootloader the download firmware has.
The only situation where the Bootloader would matter is if you try to go from lollipop to kitkat, in which case it will fail.
Thank you. My device is back now.
I am glad to hear that your problem is solved.
When I was on kit-kat, I did not check my bootloader version and flash the stock firmware with older version of bootloader which tripped the knox counter on my i 9500. That was why I said to check the bootloader version before installing the stock firmware. You can use app like phone info to see the bootloader info. Then install the firmware with the same or newer bootloader.
I recomend to Update drivers, Windows, Bootloader install Samsung Kies and Install TWRP again, After stock
I know there might be another similar topic but I couldn't find any help so far.
Basically two days ago I flashed custom ROM on my phone, I didn't make any backup. At first it worked perfectly. I decided to flash ROM again and formated my phone and found out that EFS partition was lost. I didn't get any mobile data and my IMEI number was lost (0000000). I've read that IMEI is actually stored on some chip so is there any way to restore it back? My phone is Samsung Galaxy A5 2017. Any help will be appreciated.
Trying to flash latest stock rom from sammobile but after flashing it with odin it starts bootlooping and saying "no command" again and again. When holding power + home + volume up I can NOT access recovery. Any solutions, please?
Anyone? Is there any solutions for my problem??
Is it possible to downlaod EFS file for my phone and somehow change IMEI in the file?
just flash stock rom, i did on my galaxy ace i flashed custom rom and imei gone, after stock flashed via odin imei back.
Thanks for your answer! I tried indeed flashing latest stock rom from sammobile with latest odin. But when I bootet phone up it said "no command" with dead android logo and kept bootlooping. I can try different version of rom, maybe it helps.
Still my problem is unsolved. Any clues what to do would be great.
You probably flashed a wrong firmware which is not for your variant.
Can you remove your battery? If so remove it and put it back and enter download mode by pressing volume down,power and home button. Afterwards, find the firmware which is for the specific variant of the phone. Only get the "HOME_CSC" version or else you will lose all you data. In odin, if it says added, flash the stock firmware and see if it boots to the system. If you could give me your variant, I could help and give you an even more detailed guide.