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Downgrade Impossible (I9500 Folks) Help

After flashing 4.3 leak on my I9500 using Odin 3.09, it doesn't boot up as it should, I have wiped data/cache, but to no avail. I even flashed the Russian official 4.3 firmware, but it just doesn't boot up as it should.
When I turn on the phone, the phone stops right after the "Galaxy S4 I9500," screen. I see a black screen right after that.
I tried to downgrade my phone using Odin 3.09, 3.07 and 3.04, but it keeps failing. My S4 shows "unsupported version," when I try to flash stock 4.2.2.
I am guessing this is probably happening because of the newer bootloader, the newer bootloader is making it impossible to downgrade to an older version.

exclaimed said:
After flashing 4.3 leak on my I9500 using Odin 3.09, it doesn't boot up as it should, I have wiped data/cache, but to no avail. I even flashed the Russian official 4.3 firmware, but it just doesn't boot up as it should.
When I turn on the phone, the phone stops right after the "Galaxy S4 I9500," screen. I see a black screen right after that.
I tried to downgrade my phone using Odin 3.09, 3.07 and 3.04, but it keeps failing. My S4 shows "unsupported version," when I try to flash stock 4.2.2.
I am guessing this is probably happening because of the newer bootloader, the newer bootloader is making it impossible to downgrade to an older version.
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ok try this first use the cf root provided in the cf root thread and then dload the latest 4.2.2 http://samsung-updates.com/details/14135/Galaxy_S_4_Exynos_Octa/GT-I9500/XFE/I9500XXUBMH1.html from here and flash it see what happens

Solved.
The problem was that I didn't flash the stock rom that came with my phone. I flashed that and my phone was restored to its factory settings. However my imei was messed up, it was showing me 0049. I rooted, flashed twrp recovery and used twrp to restore from a backup and I got my imei back along with my data.
I will wait for 4.3 to become flashable and see how it goes then.

hypergamer1231 said:
ok try this first use the cf root provided in the cf root thread and then dload the latest 4.2.2 http://samsung-updates.com/details/14135/Galaxy_S_4_Exynos_Octa/GT-I9500/XFE/I9500XXUBMH1.html from here and flash it see what happens
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Hi, I got back from version 4.2.2 to say. Thank you. But the 4.2.2 's what I want to install other versions (eg Russian version) still odin error. Is it possible to install other versions?

volkantipi said:
Hi, I got back from version 4.2.2 to say. Thank you. But the 4.2.2 's what I want to install other versions (eg Russian version) still odin error. Is it possible to install other versions?
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i had this issue on my gs3 , try to move the odin md5 rom file and the odin folder to C: or my documents . maybe one of those directories where u have them right now are too large (odin has issues with long directories)

[Q] Note N9005 modem flashing

Hello everyone,
I know this question showed up a couple of times before, but I'm confused about the whole situation.
I own a Note3 International version bough from an official Samsung retailer in Poland.
Updated to 4.4 KitKat through official Samsung OTA update and a month later decided to go with a custom room. Installed TWRP and Omega 14 rom. Everything is fine, but I can't flash any modem.
Currently I'm running XXUENB1 modem and tried flashing the latest XXUEND6 from Omega repos and XXUENC2 from ALEXNDR development base, but with no sucess.
Tried flashing two times with Odin and than pulling the battery etc. The modem version stays the same. In download mode, it says write protection enabled, is it of any concern?
Is it possible to flash a modem on my Note 3?
Thanks for any help.

ea66 said:
Hello everyone,
I know this question showed up a couple of times before, but I'm confused about the whole situation.
I own a Note3 International version bough from an official Samsung retailer in Poland.
Updated to 4.4 KitKat through official Samsung OTA update and a month later decided to go with a custom room. Installed TWRP and Omega 14 rom. Everything is fine, but I can't flash any modem.
Currently I'm running XXUENB1 modem and tried flashing the latest XXUEND6 from Omega repos and XXUENC2 from ALEXNDR development base, but with no sucess.
Tried flashing two times with Odin and than pulling the battery etc. The modem version stays the same. In download mode, it says write protection enabled, is it of any concern?
Is it possible to flash a modem on my Note 3?
Thanks for any help.
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Under some conditions it seems that modems are hard to be written on phones with certain bootloaders and a custom recovery - but with stock recovery it seems to work better (and it also works with Mobile Odin Pro).

Right, so I tried the Odin Pro and it says after booting to recovery "Memory lock in place - TriangleAway may fix this. Skipping flash."
So I downloaded TriangleAway, did its magic, but with no result.
Still can't flash because of memory lock.
What can I do next?
Should I flash a stock rom with never modem like this one?
http://wccftech.com/update-galaxy-note-3-n9005-to-xxuend6-kitkat/

ea66 said:
Right, so I tried the Odin Pro and it says after booting to recovery "Memory lock in place - TriangleAway may fix this. Skipping flash."
So I downloaded TriangleAway, did its magic, but with no result.
Still can't flash because of memory lock.
What can I do next?
Should I flash a stock rom with never modem like this one?
http://wccftech.com/update-galaxy-note-3-n9005-to-xxuend6-kitkat/
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At this point do you have the stock recovery or a custom recovery?

xclub_101 said:
At this point do you have the stock recovery or a custom recovery?
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Now I have a custom recovery TWRP 2.7.
Now trying stock... no go. Back with stock rom and recovery and still stuck with the old modem.
edit2: went stoch, rooted and tried to flash using mobile odin pro - no success because of write protection.

Could it be you need to Sim Unlock first? I'm sure I heard that somewhere. Give it a Google to see.
Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk

martinbrettphilo said:
Could it be you need to Sim Unlock first? I'm sure I heard that somewhere. Give it a Google to see.
Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk
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But I got the phone unlocked so there is no sim lock, what about this write protection?
Is there any way around it?
EDIT: I've tried with RegionLock Away it did it's magic but still I cant flash modems

Use triangle away. Even if the counter is zero, thew is a hidden counter that trips a write protect on the modem. After triangle away, it should work. Just be sure to follow the directions.
Sent from my leanKernel 2.5 powered stock 4.4.2 SM-N900T

toastido said:
Use triangle away. Even if the counter is zero, thew is a hidden counter that trips a write protect on the modem. After triangle away, it should work. Just be sure to follow the directions.
Sent from my leanKernel 2.5 powered stock 4.4.2 SM-N900T
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Yeah, your're right, I've messed it up completely.
Flashed a stock kernel, triangle away and odin pro... everything is fine. Flashed like crazy
Anyway manged to flashed the modem from XXUENC2 from ALEXNDR development base which is around 60MB's and has modem and modem #2 partitions. Question is how can I flash the modems from omega repos which are only 8MB and have one partition only. When flashing with Odin Pro version doesn't change, although flash is a success.

ea66 said:
Yeah, your're right, I've messed it up completely.
Flashed a stock kernel, triangle away and odin pro... everything is fine. Flashed like crazy
Anyway manged to flashed the modem from XXUENC2 from ALEXNDR development base which is around 60MB's and has modem and modem #2 partitions. Question is how can I flash the modems from omega repos which are only 8MB and have one partition only. When flashing with Odin Pro version doesn't change, although flash is a success.
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Are they modem.bin or the non-hlos files? Id really recommend doing modem flashes through desktop odin, especially if they're piece meal modems and not a full stock modem flash file.
Other than that I can't offer much assistance for non stock modems, but good luck in your endeavor, and glad I could point you in the right direction to at least get a stuck fladh to work. ?
Sent from my leanKernel 2.5 powered stock 4.4.2 SM-N900T

toastido said:
Are they modem.bin or the non-hlos files? Id really recommend doing modem flashes through desktop odin, especially if they're piece meal modems and not a full stock modem flash file.
Other than that I can't offer much assistance for non stock modems, but good luck in your endeavor, and glad I could point you in the right direction to at least get a stuck fladh to work. ?
Sent from my leanKernel 2.5 powered stock 4.4.2 SM-N900T
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The files are tar packed with a non-hlos.bin file inside.
Can I use those?

ea66 said:
The files are tar packed with a non-hlos.bin file inside.
Can I use those?
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Those should be fine then. Might have to triangle away again first to remove the write lock again, but otherwise should be ok.
Sent from my leanKernel 2.5.1 powered stock 4.4.2 (NE6) SM-N900T

ea66 said:
The files are tar packed with a non-hlos.bin file inside.
Can I use those?
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If you have 2 files modem.bin and non-hlos.bin on the sdcard, download this Terminal Emulator and try these commands: (required ROOT)
Code:
su
dd if=/sdcard/non-hlos.bin of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1
dd if=/sdcard/modem.bin of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p2
reboot

vndnguyen said:
If you have 2 files modem.bin and non-hlos.bin on the sdcard, download this Terminal Emulator and try these commands: (required ROOT)
Code:
su
dd if=/sdcard/non-hlos.bin of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1
dd if=/sdcard/modem.bin of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p2
reboot
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The problem is that modems from omega repos have only one file - non-hlos.bin.
They lack the modem.bin, for some reason.

ea66 said:
The problem is that modems from omega repos have only one file - non-hlos.bin.
They lack the modem.bin, for some reason.
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You don't have to unzip the files from omega as they are tar and can be used in odin on computer(press pda look for your modem tar file & flash)

ea66 said:
The problem is that modems from omega repos have only one file - non-hlos.bin.
They lack the modem.bin, for some reason.
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You can download the firmware for your device and extract to obtain the modem files.

ea66 said:
The problem is that modems from omega repos have only one file - non-hlos.bin.
They lack the modem.bin, for some reason.
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If you still have a problem flashing the Modem, I used this 5 min. ago and it worked perfectly fine(used flashing instruction from x-note)
Download Odin3 v3.09 to your pc, download Modems from Omega(I used NC2) both GSM & LTE.
Put Odin and the Modems from Omega on PC Desktop.
Turn off your Cell Phone (power off normally). Take out your battery(wait 5 sec.) put it back in and boot in download mode(volume down+home+power) and than connect your phone to pc.
Open Odin and press AP and choose the GSM tar file from Omega.
Press start and wait for the phone to reboot.
Turn the phone off again and boot in download mode (same steps as before). Now look for the LTE tar file in AP and press start again.
You should now have your Modem Installed. Good luck mate

emotion revolution on note 4

Hi,
I want to install emotion revolution and I have some questions:
- I have a SM-N910F with android 5.1.1 and baseband N910FXXU1COH4 Kernel 3.10.89-emotion-TW-5.1.1-nigltly-r21 . TWRP is installed and device is rooted. Can I directly flash or should I flash modem or bootloader first?
- Is the note 5 port release also working or note 4 or is there a specific one (didn't find anything)
Sorry if my questions are stupid, I'm a little bit lost with the version numbers COI4 COH4...
thanks
in advance
Olivier

oliverw68 said:
Hi,
I want to install emotion revolution and I have some questions:
- I have a SM-N910F with android 5.1.1 and baseband N910FXXU1COH4 Kernel 3.10.89-emotion-TW-5.1.1-nigltly-r21 . TWRP is installed and device is rooted. Can I directly flash or should I flash modem or bootloader first?
- Is the note 5 port release also working or note 4 or is there a specific one (didn't find anything)
Sorry if my questions are stupid, I'm a little bit lost with the version numbers COI4 COH4...
thanks
in advance
Olivier
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firmware version numbers are really simple.
the higher the letter in the alphabet, the newer the version.
that's all there is to it.
so COI is newer than COH.
the Emotion rom topic should have a clear explanation of how to flash it all though.
i think they even added the bootloader and modem that you need.
and a note 5 port...of course that works on a note 4, that's why it's called a port

oliverw68 said:
Hi,
I want to install emotion revolution and I have some questions:
- I have a SM-N910F with android 5.1.1 and baseband N910FXXU1COH4 Kernel 3.10.89-emotion-TW-5.1.1-nigltly-r21 . TWRP is installed and device is rooted. Can I directly flash or should I flash modem or bootloader first?
- Is the note 5 port release also working or note 4 or is there a specific one (didn't find anything)
Sorry if my questions are stupid, I'm a little bit lost with the version numbers COI4 COH4...
thanks
in advance
Olivier
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1. You must update BL and Modem, else it won't work. Both are available on their homepage, and they're the same as for Emotion Revolution r10.1
2. The Note 5 port is working on the N910F. Be aware though that the Note 5 port "features" stock Samsung colours, i.e. it's plain ugly (IMHO ). That's what's keeping me from flashing it atm. Emotion Revolution r10.1 has a more stock Android colour scheme (e.g. b/w toggles), which I find much more pleasant to the eyes than Touchwiz turquoise. But unlike r10.1, the Note 5 port has a working Theme Store (should have at least), so it's probably possible to theme the ROM to your liking.

Hi, I tried to flash modem and bl with the files on the site. I ended with an unknown baseband and the Phone powering off after 2 minutes... I used odin and put the bl file in the bl section and the cp file un the ap section and clicked start. Is this wrong?
I flashed a stock rom to get the Phone working Alain.

oliverw68 said:
Hi, I tried to flash modem and bl with the files on the site. I ended with an unknown baseband and the Phone powering off after 2 minutes... I used odin and put the bl file in the bl section and the cp file un the ap section and clicked start. Is this wrong?
I flashed a stock rom to get the Phone working Alain.
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Why didn't you flash cp in the cp section?

Xelasarg said:
Why didn't you flash cp in the cp section?
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good question. I saw a video telling it must be put in AP. I tried again and put it in CP but this gives the same result, baseband unknown and mobile restarting after 1 min...
any suggestion?

oliverw68 said:
good question. I saw a video telling it must be put in AP. I tried again and put it in CP but this gives the same result, baseband unknown and mobile restarting after 1 min...
any suggestion?
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Hard to tell. I'd try this:
1. Flash BL and modem via Odin
2. Boot into recovery (TWRP 2.8.7.0)
3. Wipe /dalvik cache, /data, /system, /cache
4. Flash Emotion rom.
If that fails, download a COI3 stock rom from SamMobile, flash it via Odin, then try again.
Ah, the sweet moment when your phone finally boots up and runs. I can't tell how many times im the past years I believed I had murdered my phone.

Xelasarg said:
Hard to tell. I'd try this:
1. Flash BL and modem via Odin
2. Boot into recovery (TWRP 2.8.7.0)
3. Wipe /dalvik cache, /data, /system, /cache
4. Flash Emotion rom.
If that fails, download a COI3 stock rom from SamMobile, flash it via Odin, then try again.
Ah, the sweet moment when your phone finally boots up and runs. I can't tell how many times im the past years I believed I had murdered my phone.
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Hi,
thanks for the reply. I also installed phone info. After the flash from modem and boot loader, phone info displays the new BL but an empty CP...
I also tryed to flash the COI3 modem and bootloader found on alexndr ROM but with the same result
Do you think it is because I flashed COI3 Modem on a COH4 firmware? This means that flashing emotion will "repair" it?
COI3 Firmware is not availlable for Switzerland for the moment...

oliverw68 said:
Hi,
thanks for the reply. I also installed phone info. After the flash from modem and boot loader, phone info displays the new BL but an empty CP...
I also tryed to flash the COI3 modem and bootloader found on alexndr ROM but with the same result
Do you think it is because I flashed COI3 Modem on a COH4 firmware? This means that flashing emotion will "repair" it?
COI3 Firmware is not availlable for Switzerland for the moment...
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Flashing a custom rom won't repair your modem. You can try, of course, but I doubt that will fix it. If nothing helps, you can start from scratch, flash the older OH4 firmware with Odin, make sure everything's working, then update BL and Modem, and flash Emotion rom. I hope you've made a backup of all your stuff?

N910C EFS partition is ?corrupted? Not a single ROM boots. In dire need of help.

Everything was fine until I flashed CM13 unofficial.
Now, my bootloader is updated to 6.0 (COJ5 something or COH4), I can't revert to something prior to that: odin fails at sboot.bin NAND write start fail.
-While this issue has occured to many others than me, I'm the only one who can't even boot into CM13 or AOSP based ROMs, even after pushing different variants of ROMs several times through ADB, bootloops are still persistent.
-Any other 5.1.1 Official ROM that's not COJ5 or COH4 fails to flash at odin. COJ5/COH4 ROMS flash succesfully, but the phone doesn't boot past the samsung text.
-I have tried flashing various COH4 ROMS along with their AP,BL,CSC etc, everything flashes succesfully apart from the bootloader file, and after that it's the same samsung text brick. I couldn't find the PIT files (bootloader csc n such) for COJ5..
Is there a place I can find a backed up EFS partion ?file? and restore it myself? Would this get me out of the****hole i'm currently in?
What can I do about this...

Nortabun said:
Everything was fine until I flashed CM13 unofficial.
Now, my bootloader is updated to 6.0 (COJ5 something or COH4), I can't revert to something prior to that: odin fails at sboot.bin NAND write start fail.
-While this issue has occured to many others than me, I'm the only one who can't even boot into CM13 or AOSP based ROMs, even after pushing different variants of ROMs several times through ADB, bootloops are still persistent.
-Any other 5.1.1 Official ROM that's not COJ5 or COH4 fails to flash at odin. COJ5/COH4 ROMS flash succesfully, but the phone doesn't boot past the samsung text.
-I have tried flashing various COH4 ROMS along with their AP,BL,CSC etc, everything flashes succesfully apart from the bootloader file, and after that it's the same samsung text brick. I couldn't find the PIT files (bootloader csc n such) for COJ5..
Is there a place I can find a backed up EFS partion ?file? and restore it myself? Would this get me out of the****hole i'm currently in?
What can I do about this...
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Hi, this may help you http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/help/fix-note4-exynos-n910c-bootloop-problem-t3312161

mangui said:
Hi, this may help you http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/help/fix-note4-exynos-n910c-bootloop-problem-t3312161
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Yea i came across this, but there was one tiny problem
how on earth am i supposed to root, get busybox, and apply usb debugging on my phone while it has no functional ROM?
and how on earth am i supposed to transfer a backup from my ROMless phone?

Do you have a pit file for repartition
If so, access twrp , wipe everything including your internal storage. Then boot into download mode.
In the computer, load the pit file and your stock coj5 into Odin 3.10 , tick "repartition" and "Nand Erase All"then click start.
Back to your phone - which now should be boot looping - access the stock recovery and wipe. Root - try using a different root method like chainfire's Odin autoroot - then twrp ur phone. Flash cm13 then start running the steps I threaded ( [fix] note 4 exynos bootloop problem ...... )
PM me for what you get
Sent from my HTC Desire 820s dual sim using Tapatalk

Flashing roms and getting bootloop

Hello guys I need a little help here in every time I flash marshmallow rom or nougat rom I got bootloop so after googling for an answer I found that the solution is by changing or updating the baseband version so I need you guys to give me a link for a modern baseband version and tech me how to flash the baseband version.
I know I am asking too much but I really love flashing those roms so please help me.
My baseband version is SM-G7102XXUBOE1
I am now using CM12.1
And I tried to flash stock firmware then flashing those roms but still Getting a bootloop.
Note: all lollipop roms work good (except blisspop Rom when I flash it I got bootloop so I extracted the cm12.1 boot.img then I flashed it so blisspop rom booted but Wifi, hotspot and ril didn't work.

Revert to stock ROM using Odin (use NAND erase all option). Then back to install CM13.

rickyyohanes626 said:
Revert to stock ROM using Odin (use NAND erase all option). Then back to install CM13.
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I have already done that but still the same.
Do you know how to flash a baseband version file???

Sorry sorry that is my fault I didn't use that method but if I used the nand and erased all options wouldn't that will brick my device please explain how please I will do everything step by step so are you going to tech me as I say I am going to follow you step by step and I will take full risponsibility for everything could happen

So any decisions

mahmmoud1231 said:
Hello guys I need a little help here in every time I flash marshmallow rom or nougat rom I got bootloop so after googling for an answer I found that the solution is by changing or updating the baseband version so I need you guys to give me a link for a modern baseband version and tech me how to flash the baseband version.
I know I am asking too much but I really love flashing those roms so please help me.
My baseband version is SM-G7102XXUBOE1
I am now using CM12.1
And I tried to flash stock firmware then flashing those roms but still Getting a bootloop.
Note: all lollipop roms work good (except blisspop Rom when I flash it I got bootloop so I extracted the cm12.1 boot.img then I flashed it so blisspop rom booted but Wifi, hotspot and ril didn't work.
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I was facing the exact same problem,what i did was to reflash stock frimware containing all 4 file i.e BL,AP,CP,CSC and PIT via odin and this problem was fixed:victory:

Usmandexter said:
I was facing the exact same problem,what i did was to reflash stock frimware containing all 4 file i.e BL,AP,CP,CSC and PIT via odin and this problem was fixed:victory:
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Thank you so much but do you know where to get the BL,CP,CSC files???

mahmmoud1231 said:
Thank you so much but do you know where to get the BL,CP,CSC files???
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I downloaded from some misc website so I don't remember it now,but you can try searching on Google for grand 2 4 files repair frimware.

mahmmoud1231 said:
Hello guys I need a little help here in every time I flash marshmallow rom or nougat rom I got bootloop so after googling for an answer I found that the solution is by ch....
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1.download NK1 firmwire from here
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-grand-2/general/stock-firmware-grand-2-google-drive-t2849501
2.Extract zip to get a .tar file
3.Download Odin.
4.Select AP and click on the .tar file you extracted
5.Factory format the phone,then take out battery for 8 sec(not so necessary ).Then switch off grand 2.Then hold vokume down+power button and click volume up when asked for confirmation
6.Attach the phone to PC and click on flash
7.After finishing,turn on mobile,complete first setup in stock ROM then install TWRP recovery on the device and install any ROMs. Your problem won't occur again

I have the same problem but i can still run my phone on boot but after some few seconds, it will reboot and then goes back to lock screen and then does it again. I flashed Ressurection Remix for Grand 2 btw