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I made a newbie mistake.

So I was following xBeerdroiDx guide on backing up/rooting/flashing the AT&T Samsung Galaxy S4. I got right up to step 4B before I realized my PC wasn't detecting my S4 or external SD card, so I couldn't put a rom on there. I restarted and nothing will load...I'm trying to get into download mode, but it just restarts into the battery logo and shows no sign of charging. Please help.

IIMaxII said:
So I was following xBeerdroiDx guide on backing up/rooting/flashing the AT&T Samsung Galaxy S4. I got right up to step 4B before I realized my PC wasn't detecting my S4 or external SD card, so I couldn't put a rom on there. I restarted and nothing will load...I'm trying to get into download mode, but it just restarts into the battery logo and shows no sign of charging. Please help.
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Turn the phone off, take the battery out (maybe 30 seconds), put the battery back in, but keep the phone off. Plug the charger into the phone and let it charge for a while without turning it on (you may need to let it charge to 100%). Then, try to get into download mode, Odin the factory firmware, factory reset, and start again. That is, if it works. Good luck.

IIMaxII said:
So I was following xBeerdroiDx guide on backing up/rooting/flashing the AT&T Samsung Galaxy S4. I got right up to step 4B before I realized my PC wasn't detecting my S4 or external SD card, so I couldn't put a rom on there. I restarted and nothing will load...I'm trying to get into download mode, but it just restarts into the battery logo and shows no sign of charging. Please help.
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When I power it on it just shows Samsung with custom underneath it and my PC immediately attempts to install Samsung Mobile MTP Device.

IIMaxII said:
When I power it on it just shows Samsung with custom underneath it and my PC immediately attempts to install Samsung Mobile MTP Device.
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Ok, You are giving conflicting information. Try to get into recovery. Use the various button combinations to get into recovery. If you don't know them, search for them. If you can get into recovery, try to install a nandroid (if custom) or try factory restore if 3e. Again, if you can get into download mode and let ODIN do a factory install would be better. Or you can try Kies emergency restore.

scott14719 said:
Turn the phone off, take the battery out (maybe 30 seconds), put the battery back in, but keep the phone off. Plug the charger into the phone and let it charge for a while without turning it on (you may need to let it charge to 100%). Then, try to get into download mode, Odin the factory firmware, factory reset, and start again. That is, if it works. Good luck.
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Did what you said. Plug it in the battery logo shows up but it doesn't show if it's red or green it just stays there, I'm assuming it's still accepting the current and charging though.

scott14719 said:
Ok, You are giving conflicting information. Try to get into recovery. Use the various button combinations to get into recovery. If you don't know them, search for them. If you can get into recovery, try to install a nandroid (if custom) or try factory restore if 3e. Again, if you can get into download mode and let ODIN do a factory install would be better. Or you can try Kies emergency restore.
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I love you! I got into TWRP Recovery...now how can get my phone working again? Is this recovery the same to where I can just use odin? or do I need to be in download?

IIMaxII said:
So I was following xBeerdroiDx guide on backing up/rooting/flashing the AT&T Samsung Galaxy S4. I got right up to step 4B before I realized my PC wasn't detecting my S4 or external SD card, so I couldn't put a rom on there. I restarted and nothing will load...I'm trying to get into download mode, but it just restarts into the battery logo and shows no sign of charging. Please help.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1984717 try this

IIMaxII said:
I love you! I got into TWRP Recovery...now how can get my phone working again? Is this recovery the same to where I can just use odin? or do I need to be in download?
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have you placed the ROM and any other potentially necessary files (gapps, loki-doki) on your device or it's micro sd card yet? if so, what rom?
i'm assuming you've already wiped everything and thats why your device wouldnt boot up.

IIMaxII said:
I love you! I got into TWRP Recovery...now how can get my phone working again? Is this recovery the same to where I can just use odin? or do I need to be in download?
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If you are in TWRP, you need to either restore a nandroid backup (if you have one) or download a compatible ROM (and Kernel if necessary) and flash it. But make sure it is compatible to your device! If you don't have a ROM available on your SD Card, download one onto your PC and transfer it to your SD card (manually if needed). Once it is on your SD card, just flash through TWRP.
And always start making Nandroids before you do anything...just in case.

norbarb said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1984717 try this
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The thing is...I wiped before I had a rom on my internal storage or SD card...and while I was in TWRP, my pc wouldn't detect internal storage or external for me to copy it over...so I just rebooted my phone hoping that it would work...stupid mistake.
Is this right and safe to continue? I'm in download mode.
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xBeerdroiDx said:
have you placed the ROM and any other potentially necessary files (gapps, loki-doki) on your device or it's micro sd card yet? if so, what rom?
i'm assuming you've already wiped everything and thats why your device wouldnt boot up.
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I actually meant to respond to you in the post above. :/

IIMaxII said:
I actually meant to respond to you in the post above. :/
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do you have a micro sd card?

xBeerdroiDx said:
do you have a micro sd card?
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Yes. 64 GB Class10. Can you tell me if the post above is correct? I'm going to restore to stock firmware and then try the process again with the rom actually on the sd card. xD

Make sure if you use ODIN to restore that you get into recovery on the first boot and do a factory reset.

IIMaxII said:
Yes. 64 GB Class10. Can you tell me if the post above is correct? I'm going to restore to stock firmware and then try the process again with the rom actually on the sd card. xD
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scott14719 said:
Make sure if you use ODIN to restore that you get into recovery on the first boot and do a factory reset.
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OP, do you have a card reader for your pc that has a micro sd port or an sd adapter?

xBeerdroiDx said:
OP, do you have a card reader for your pc that has a micro sd port or an sd adapter?
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Lets ignore the flashing for now...can you guys tell me if that appears correct in the screenshot I took? 0:[COM4] a youtube video I watched showed 0:[COM6] and I just want someone to confirm that what I'm doing is okay.

So twrp Dont find exsd?

IIMaxII said:
Lets ignore the flashing for now...can you guys tell me if that appears correct in the screenshot I took? 0:[COM4] a youtube video I watched showed 0:[COM6] and I just want someone to confirm that what I'm doing is okay.
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The picture you posted looks fine. As long as your phone shows in the com port, ODIN recognized it. But there is never any guarantees. Everything should go OK, but there is always risk. I can tell you that it "appears" to be ready, but you will have to click the start button and see if it goes OK. As mentioned, make sure to boot into 3e recovery after ODIN reports successful and do a factory restore or it might not boot up right. Good luck. Let us know if it goes OK.

scott14719 said:
The picture you posted looks fine. As long as your phone shows in the com port, ODIN recognized it. But there is never any guarantees. Everything should go OK, but there is always risk. I can tell you that it "appears" to be ready, but you will have to click the start button and see if it goes OK. As mentioned, make sure to boot into 3e recovery after ODIN reports successful and do a factory restore or it might not boot up right. Good luck. Let us know if it goes OK.
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I managed to restore to stock and everything is perfect! Now to get Cyanogenmod 10.1 on, unless you guys think there's something better?

IIMaxII said:
I managed to restore to stock and everything is perfect! Now to get Cyanogenmod 10.1 on, unless you guys think there's something better?
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Make a nandroid...now. :good:

[Q] Bootloop please help -Process system isn't responding

It all started with the plan to root the device Samsung Galaxy Note 3
I had rooted the device using Kingo Android root. This had gone successfully. Then I tried to install some apps which needs root access. I tried an app called EFS, I though I would back up EFS and NV_ *, When I clicked on backup NV_* (cant remember the whole name), thats when the problem started. It had been 2 days since I had been trying different things to recover the device.
I went into recovery mode and tried
Clear cache
Then Back up my data and did factory reset
Between boot loops I had the opportunity to uninstalled the EFS app
Then installed twrp and tried this blog http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2471421
eventually, I thought of letting go of my data, so did the format of data
used ODIN to and flashed this ROM from this blog http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2540822
Despite all these steps I cannot get it working.
Current phone behaviour
The phone keeps booting again, once the UI of the phone starts, I get a window of 1 min before the phone restarts again. I get a message saying "Process system isn't responding"
I am willing to try anything to get the device functional, if it means to build it from scratch. This is my first time venturing into this side of the world, I would be thankful if you can guide me with the steps to perform a build from scratch, or direct me to a blog where I can do this?

eagle909 said:
It all started with the plan to root the device Samsung Galaxy Note 3
I had rooted the device using Kingo Android root. This had gone successfully. Then I tried to install some apps which needs root access. I tried an app called EFS, I though I would back up EFS and NV_ *, When I clicked on backup NV_* (cant remember the whole name), thats when the problem started. It had been 2 days since I had been trying different things to recover the device.
I went into recovery mode and tried
Clear cache
Then Back up my data and did factory reset
Between boot loops I had the opportunity to uninstalled the EFS app
Then installed twrp and tried this blog http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2471421
eventually, I thought of letting go of my data, so did the format of data
used ODIN to and flashed this ROM from this blog http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2540822
Despite all these steps I cannot get it working.
Current phone behaviour
The phone keeps booting again, once the UI of the phone starts, I get a window of 1 min before the phone restarts again. I get a message saying "Process system isn't responding"
I am willing to try anything to get the device functional, if it means to build it from scratch. This is my first time venturing into this side of the world, I would be thankful if you can guide me with the steps to perform a build from scratch, or direct me to a blog where I can do this?
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Flash THIS it'll fix your EFS issues and your bootloop -
Grab CWM/TWRP and flash via Odin
Run that zip from custom recovery
Job done
Stay away from EFS back up apps, they're notoriously unreliable and can brick your device

radicalisto said:
Flash THIS it'll fix your EFS issues and your bootloop -
Grab CWM/TWRP and flash via Odin
Run that zip from custom recovery
Job done
Stay away from EFS back up apps, they're notoriously unreliable and can brick your device
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Sounds like a dumb question but How to I upload this zip file to my phone. Note3 does not come with external SD slot and I am not able to connect the phone through PC either by Kies or ADT, none of them are recognising?
Can I upload this zip file through ODIN? it only accepts .tar or .md5 files?
Any tips?

eagle909 said:
Sounds like a dumb question but How to I upload this zip file to my phone. Note3 does not come with external SD slot and I am not able to connect the phone through PC either by Kies or ADT, none of them are recognising?
Can I upload this zip file through ODIN? it only accepts .tar or .md5 files?
Any tips?
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Ahh, you will need to find an ext SD card, then you'll have to transfer it across via your PC then insert into phone, boot into Recovery and flash it.
Not flashable via Odin atm I'm afraid

eagle909 said:
Sounds like a dumb question but How to I upload this zip file to my phone. Note3 does not come with external SD slot and I am not able to connect the phone through PC either by Kies or ADT, none of them are recognising?
Can I upload this zip file through ODIN? it only accepts .tar or .md5 files?
Any tips?
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Yes it does comes with an ext SD card slot... Beside ur sim card slot. Put that file into it then put into ur phone. Boot into custom recovery and flash it.
Sent from my proudly temaseked +Yankied note 3.

Yeah SD Card slot is above the sim card slot, -- I read it wrong, thought you said -- "it doesn't come with an EXT SD Card"

radicalisto said:
Flash THIS it'll fix your EFS issues and your bootloop -
Grab CWM/TWRP and flash via Odin
Run that zip from custom recovery
Job done
Stay away from EFS back up apps, they're notoriously unreliable and can brick your device
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radicalisto said:
Yeah SD Card slot is above the sim card slot, -- I read it wrong, thought you said -- "it doesn't come with an EXT SD Card"
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I never knew there was a slot of SD card, else I would have backed up my data thanks!
But this solution didnt work for me. After the install of this script through twrp the phone behavior is unchanged.

Try flashing the stock rom for your phone. Then you can go back and root again....
99% of the time this will fix things...

eagle909 said:
I never knew there was a slot of SD card, else I would have backed up my data thanks!
But this solution didnt work for me. After the install of this script through twrp the phone behavior is unchanged.
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The screenshot of the install. I suspect if there is something wrong with the install?
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eagle909 said:
The screenshot of the install. I suspect if there is something wrong with the install?
sorry too big of the picture
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ultramag69 said:
Try flashing the stock rom for your phone. Then you can go back and root again....
99% of the time this will fix things...
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downloading this Rooted Stock ROMs for Note 3 SM-N9005
http://galaxynote3root.com/rooted-stock-roms/

That screenshot looks OK to me. The Mount error is standard in TWRP. Reboot your device and see.. or as posted re flash stock as it pretty much fixes everything
Sent from my SM-N9005 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

eagle909 said:
downloading this Rooted Stock ROMs for Note 3 SM-N9005
http://galaxynote3root.com/rooted-stock-roms/
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I have just flashed this ROM and reran the fix, but with out any luck?
The phone keeps rebooting

eagle909 said:
I have just flashed this ROM and reran the fix, but with out any luck?
The phone keeps rebooting
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You haven't flashed a stock rom... That is rooted and so is no longer a stock rom. Go to Sammobile.com to get a pure stock rom...
Just a note for you, whether it says stock is solely reliant on it being NOT tampered with. Rooting a stock rom no longer makes it stock, it is just a description that means no tweaks were applied or bloatware removed...
Remember that the bootloader must match the stock rom. If you are trying to flash a lower version rom onto an MJ3 or higher bootloader you will get bootloops.
The same applies if you have updated to Kitkat rom.

If you haven't updated to 4.4.2, then you should check this[first post]
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2540822
But this will trip your Knox counter
Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk

I checkout this post and did exactly as described. but the phone rebooting doesnot stop. Also when the phone is turned on I am not able to open Phone option and under settings I am not able to launch status option under about device? Could my EFS is lost/corrupted?
Dahdoul said:
If you haven't updated to 4.4.2, then you should check this[first post]
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2540822
But this will trip your Knox counter
Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk
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eagle909 said:
I checkout this post and did exactly as described. but the phone rebooting doesnot stop. Also when the phone is turned on I am not able to open Phone option and under settings I am not able to launch status option under about device? Could my EFS is lost/corrupted?
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Use This It'll fix it. - You have to install a custom recovery via Odin then flash that fix and you'll be alright, you EFS is warped is all.

I had already tried that fix, but with no luck. I flashed that fix with a lot of combinations like with fresh install of stock rom, with rooted rom etc. No luck
radicalisto said:
Use This It'll fix it. - You have to install a custom recovery via Odin then flash that fix and you'll be alright, you EFS is warped is all.
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eagle909 said:
I had already tried that fix, but with no luck. I flashed that fix with a lot of combinations like with fresh install of stock rom, with rooted rom etc. No luck
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Is the phone bootlooping constantly ? and crashing after around 1minute?

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radicalisto said:
Is the phone bootlooping constantly ? and crashing after around 1minute?
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When you mean "install a custom recovery via Odin", you meant to install something like TWRP to install the zip using recovery mode?
The phone keeps booting again and again, once the UI of the phone starts, I get a window of 1 min before the phone restarts again. I get a message saying "Process system isn't responding" before the phone restarts.

Help! No response from phone anymore!

All I did was hold Vol - and Power to get to Download Mode, but forgot to hold Home. I walked away for a minute while it booted supposedly to the Warning screen, came back and noticed the blue light was on. Went to investigate but the phone turned off before I got to see what was up.
Now the phone won't charge, won't power on, no response to plugging into computer, can't get to Download Mode or Recovery, no vibration when trying to power it on. It's a bone stock device, no root/recovery/rom. Never even got USB Debugging turned on. What the hell happened here?

Looks like you put it into safe mode
http://www.gottabemobile.com/2016/01/07/samsung-galaxy-s5-problems-fixes/
Tried removing the battery for 5 minutes?
That's supposedly how to exit safemode
http://www.basictechtricks.com/2014/05/safe-mode-in-samsung-galaxy-s5.html

*Detection* said:
Looks like you put it into safe mode
http://www.gottabemobile.com/2016/01/07/samsung-galaxy-s5-problems-fixes/
Tried removing the battery for 5 minutes?
That's supposedly how to exit safemode
http://www.basictechtricks.com/2014/05/safe-mode-in-samsung-galaxy-s5.html
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battery was out for over an hour, still nothing. safe mode disables charging as well? and no vibration when you try to turn it on either?

dragonhart6505 said:
battery was out for over an hour, still nothing. safe mode disables charging as well? and no vibration when you try to turn it on either?
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Take battery out wait ten sec hold recovery buttons insert battery.. Try a few times
Stock? Custom?.. Ive seen blue light on freinds s4 usually a fail install .. Stock.
I usually just keep trying for recovery.. And usually do it after a few attempts
Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk

Yep looks like you got it into safe mode, in order to exit safe mode hold volume up and power button for 10 seconds. Good luck.
Press thanks if I helped.

Christiancs1969 said:
Take battery out wait ten sec hold recovery buttons insert battery.. Try a few times
Stock? Custom?.. Ive seen blue light on freinds s4 usually a fail install .. Stock.
I usually just keep trying for recovery.. And usually do it after a few attempts
Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk
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phone is stock. was going to start a restore, but didnt get that far to start it. been trying, about 10 times now. no response from the phone still...

dragonhart6505 said:
phone is stock. was going to start a restore, but didnt get that far to start it. been trying, about 10 times now. no response from the phone still...
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Could give this a shot
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/general/g900f-debrick-img-lollipop-t3240626

dragonhart6505 said:
phone is stock. was going to start a restore, but didnt get that far to start it. been trying, about 10 times now. no response from the phone still...
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[emoji20] thats not nice .. If i get any other ideas..
My friends does it when he has auto update.. It downloads then sticks on install.. Maybe because of low battery.. I charge then just repeat steps .. Until i get lucky
Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk

*Detection* said:
Could give this a shot
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/general/g900f-debrick-img-lollipop-t3240626
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ah, im familiar with this for a Galaxy S3 that had the same problem im experiencing now, but that was after flashing a wrong modem in that instance. i have a 16gb SD card, need this debrick for G900A

dragonhart6505 said:
ah, im familiar with this for a Galaxy S3 that had the same problem im experiencing now, but that was after flashing a wrong modem in that instance. i have a 16gb SD card, need this debrick for G900A
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Looks like someone uploaded one
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3zpnc774z3dih22/AAA8C1AyjrGDzaqom96YTp8Ea?dl=0
Source:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/att...-create-g900a-debricking-image-t3085344/page2

*Detection* said:
Looks like someone uploaded one
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3zpnc774z3dih22/AAA8C1AyjrGDzaqom96YTp8Ea?dl=0
Source:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/att...-create-g900a-debricking-image-t3085344/page2
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much obliged

dragonhart6505 said:
much obliged
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Hope it sorts it, good luck

*Detection* said:
Looks like someone uploaded one
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3zpnc774z3dih22/AAA8C1AyjrGDzaqom96YTp8Ea?dl=0
Source:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/att...-create-g900a-debricking-image-t3085344/page2
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file no longer exists and thread is dead for some time now. anyone have a backup of the debrick img? por favor?

dragonhart6505 said:
file no longer exists and thread is dead for some time now. anyone have a backup of the debrick img? por favor?
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I must be psychic, when I posted those links, it was working, so I upped it to my MEGA incase this happened (Links were live for almost 10 months too, weird)
G900A debrick
Code:
https://mega.nz/#!HVJzxZ4a!GeVibA3jIUAZqv9hfDyQdvJTEnT60hXCNN1fWqP4WxQ

*Detection* said:
I must be psychic, when I posted those links, it was working, so I upped it to my MEGA incase this happened (Links were live for almost 10 months too, weird)
G900A debrick
Code:
https://mega.nz/#!HVJzxZ4a!GeVibA3jIUAZqv9hfDyQdvJTEnT60hXCNN1fWqP4WxQ
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lol k thanks. now...i absolutely need a 16gb sd? or could i do with my 32...

dragonhart6505 said:
lol k thanks. now...i absolutely need a 16gb sd? or could i do with my 32...
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Not sure, give it a shot with the 32, I'd imagine the worst that will happen is it will force the card into thinking it is only 16GB, which you should be able to reverse with a free partitioning program, by deleting and recreating the partitions once you're done

*Detection* said:
Not sure, give it a shot with the 32, I'd imagine the worst that will happen is it will force the card into thinking it is only 16GB, which you should be able to reverse with a free partitioning program, by deleting and recreating the partitions once you're done
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ok so just throw this in win32diskimg? what am i doing again? lol

Flash this Debrick file to your 16GB Micro SD card with Win32DiskImager
*Insert your Micro SD card into your computer (backup any information you may have on it we are going to ERASE, FORMAT it to ex FAT
*Open win32DiskImager
*Navigate through the browse button to the location where you downloaded the correct Debrick file
*Select your Debrick file by double clicking on it
*In the upper right corner of Win32DiskImager you should make sure that the drive letter assigned to your sd card is selected.
***Which ever drive that is listed will be erased, formatted
*Click write in the bottom right hand side
put the Debrick SD card in the Phone, Pull and Replace the Battery
Plug phone in usb and boot into download mode
yout phone should boot into download mode then flash stock firmware via odin
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/general/g900f-debrick-img-lollipop-t3240626

*Detection* said:
Flash this Debrick file to your 16GB Micro SD card with Win32DiskImager
*Insert your Micro SD card into your computer (backup any information you may have on it we are going to ERASE, FORMAT it to ex FAT
*Open win32DiskImager
*Navigate through the browse button to the location where you downloaded the correct Debrick file
*Select your Debrick file by double clicking on it
*In the upper right corner of Win32DiskImager you should make sure that the drive letter assigned to your sd card is selected.
***Which ever drive that is listed will be erased, formatted
*Click write in the bottom right hand side
put the Debrick SD card in the Phone, Pull and Replace the Battery
Plug phone in usb and boot into download mode
yout phone should boot into download mode then flash stock firmware via odin
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/general/g900f-debrick-img-lollipop-t3240626
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awesome sauce. any link to official 5.0/5.1 odin package? already on lollipop, cant downgrade (wont even bother trying)

Can't see one on any of the usual places, sammobile or samsung-updates
I`ll have a look around and post back if I find one, but doesn't look good if it's not on Sammobile
EDIT - Found this
http://downloadmirror.co/android/KR/Copy-of-G900AUCU3BOC4-OneClick.zip
The instructions for flashing that specific one-click ROM are here
http://www.droidviews.com/install-android-5-0-lollipop-firmware-on-att-galaxy-s5-sm-g900a-oc4/
Maybe try that too
Found another OTA with instructions
Android 5.1.1 Lollipop G900AUCU4COI5 firmware update file for AT&T Galaxy S5 SM-G900A
https://www.reddit.com/r/galaxys5/comments/3qgvom/android_511_lollipop_g900aucu4coi5_firmware/
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OK, looks like that One-Click includes ODIN - so I'd go through the debrick routine with the SDCard, then when it says to load up ODIN and flash stock, use the One-Click File
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SM-G930A Unbrick Image

I have a hard bricked AT&T Galaxy S7 (SM-G930A). I'm trying to unbrick it by using an SD card and an unbrick image, as described here or here. However, I don't have access to a rooted Galaxy S7 of the same model. Can someone create an unbrick image I can use?
Thanks!

PantherMan594 said:
I have a hard bricked AT&T Galaxy S7 (SM-G930A). I'm trying to unbrick it by using an SD card and an unbrick image, as described here or here. However, I don't have access to a rooted Galaxy S7 of the same model. Can some create an unbrick image I can use?
Thanks!
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How did you hard brick it? Did you mess with settings in Odin? Try to flash the wrong FW?

Ph0nysk1nk said:
How did you hard brick it? Did you mess with settings in Odin? Try to flash the wrong FW?
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I don't know how it was bricked, I'm trying to fix it for a friend. It doesn't turn on at all, so I can't get it into download mode to flash the stock rom. I know it's a Qualcomm variant because I can see "Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008" in device manager when I plug it into my computer, so the SD card method might work.

PantherMan594 said:
I don't know how it was bricked, I'm trying to fix it for a friend. It doesn't turn on at all, so I can't get it into download mode to flash the stock rom. I know it's a Qualcomm variant because I can see "Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008" in device manager when I plug it into my computer, so the SD card method might work.
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So... can you please post either a picture or the names of the the files you attempted to flash? I have an idea

Ph0nysk1nk said:
So... can you please post either a picture or the names of the the files you attempted to flash? I have an idea
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I can't flash anything because it won't turn on at all, so I can't get into download mode.

PantherMan594 said:
I can't flash anything because it won't turn on at all, so I can't get into download mode.
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Not what I asked. What files did you TRY TO FLASH? Give me a link to the site you got them from or put them in a folder and take a pic of the files.

Ph0nysk1nk said:
Not what I asked. What files did you TRY TO FLASH? Give me a link to the site you got them from or put them in a folder and take a pic of the files.
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I haven't tried to flash anything yet, and I don't know what my friend flashed to brick the phone. I will try to flash this if I can boot the phone into download mode.
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So... I'm gonna take a guess and assume that your friend didn't really know what he was doing and flashed the first firmware he saw. (Which was probably the F firmware.) Causing it to brick. The F firmware IS NOT MEANT four our devices. Hence he broke it. Probably unrecoverable. Plus he might not have used Odin making it even worse.

Ph0nysk1nk said:
So... I'm gonna take a guess and assume that your friend didn't really know what he was doing and flashed the first firmware he saw. (Which was probably the F firmware.) Causing it to brick. The F firmware IS NOT MEANT four our devices. Hence he broke it. Probably unrecoverable. Plus he might not have used Odin making it even worse.
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Well that's discouraging... I would still like to try booting from and SD card though, so it would be great if you (or anyone) can provide a debrick image.

PantherMan594 said:
Well that's discouraging... I would still like to try booting from and SD card though, so it would be great if you (or anyone) can provide a debrick image.
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Even that might not because of our locked bootloader. Friend is more than likely dicked out of his phone unless he files a for replacement or something. :/

I have a hard bricked Galaxy S7 (SM-G9300). I'm trying to unbrick need unbrick image
create a Debrick IMG :
-you need to have a rooted device
-need to install busybox
-need a terminal
-open terminal type
(su
busybox dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/200mb.img bs=4096 count=50000)

I think this is a waste of time in this forum. All clever guys have left, just kidds remained.
They just copy others posts...
Can anyone really make an unbrick image? Is it soo difficult?
Seems everybody just cares for themselves....
Lets hope...
And just a comment, you dont need a "rooted" phone to create the image.
Insert a blank sd card on your phone, at least 32GB
Enter download mode,
Load files in ODIN
Select in options tab in Odin (T-Flash)
And flash
All flash will happen to the SD card NOT in the phone and TADA, you have a sd card where you can extarct the recovey image
Piece of cake.
Anyone help?

PadsPCB said:
I think this is a waste of time in this forum. All clever guys have left, just kidds remained.
They just copy others posts...
Can anyone really make an unbrick image? Is it soo difficult?
Seems everybody just cares for themselves....
Lets hope...
And just a comment, you dont need a "rooted" phone to create the image.
Insert a blank sd card on your phone, at least 32GB
Enter download mode,
Load files in ODIN
Select in options tab in Odin (T-Flash)
And flash
All flash will happen to the SD card NOT in the phone and TADA, you have a sd card where you can extarct the recovey image
Piece of cake.
Anyone help?
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Did you ever get the debrick image? My S7 bricked while trying to downgrade with flashfire :/

g930a-v models same sda flash
my phone same problem bro help me
If for some reason it doesn't work, then try to create an emergency scdard from an identical model with identical firmware version as your broken one, root it by eng-boot, read out the first 1GB of the "sda" partition, write the dump to a fast class U1/U10 32GB sdcard using Win32Disk, insert the card into the sdcard slot and power it up while holding Vol Down + Home + Power. If everything was done correctly, the phone should boot into download mode, then just flash the latest full stock to fix it.
To create an emergency sdcard for Qualcomm based G930/G935:
adb shell
su
dd if=/dev/block/sda of=/storage/emulated/emergency.bin bs=1024 count=131072
exit
adb pull /storage/emulated/emergency.bin
g930a-v models same sda flash
PantherMan594 said:
I have a hard bricked AT&T Galaxy S7 (SM-G930A). I'm trying to unbrick it by using an SD card and an unbrick image, as described here or here. However, I don't have access to a rooted Galaxy S7 of the same model. Can someone create an unbrick image I can use?
Thanks!
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I have a bricked S7, att variant. I used modded odin to force a lower bootloader and now it will only boot to a screen that says sbl error. I got the edl cable. What do I do now?

reviving a thread for a minute. I too was given a phone that is hard bricked. meaning that it will not be recognized by odin. however, it is recognized and i have the qualcomm drivers through my work. so i have access to qpst and qfil. the downside is that i cannot find a full copy of the software.
qpst requires both phone image and boot image in .hex format,
and qfil gives me a bit more playing area such as elf type and the xml files, or i can extract the files needed if i have the FFU.
my problem is the only versions of the software that i keep finding are for odin. so my request is, i have a couple of different software versions for the g930a, can someone extract the hex files, or convert to FFU? that's the part i'm getting stuck in. lots of tutorials on how to extract to convert to md5 for odin, or how to extract if you have a rooted g930a, but i don't have access to that.

S7 Edge bricked by flashing Chainfire root without OEM unlocked..

Hello everyone,
Sadly I've been stupid enough to flash Chainfire root trough Odin without enabling the "OEM Unlock" setting in android.
The phone is now stuck at the boot logo. Is there any way to get it to boot again? Or obtain the data that is on the phone?
It is an S7 Edge SM-G935F hero2lte
I was thinking to flash TWRP and create a backup, but I've got no idea if this is possible.
Luckily most of the pictures are on a External SD.
Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks for reading.
Lurninn

Download offical firmware from sammobile and flash it with Odin

Boot in download mode and flash official stock firmware...

Try flashing stock official firmware with HOME_CSC instead of CSC file so that it doesn't wipe your phone.
TWRP backup method will not work here since it also require OEM unlock and it must format /data once to remove encryption, so that it can read the partition which defeat the purpose since your current data are gone from the format.
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@Lurninn
download Kies for samsung and run emergency firmware download and install.
no need for Odin

artaniss11k said:
@Lurninn
download Kies for samsung and run emergency firmware download and install.
no need for Odin
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Thanks! But will it wipe my data?

Lurninn said:
Thanks! But will it wipe my data?
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No.
It will ask you for phone model and serial number.
Read them from the back of the phone.
Install kies, run the program, put your phone to download mode and connect to pc.
In the upper section there must be a tab where you find "emergency firmware download and install" or something like that.
This is where you will be ask for model and serial number and the restauration begins.
If you want a clean install with all the data wiped, there a custom recovery will be handy from where you format everything and after that you will use kies.
Good luck

is kies even compatible with s7 edge? I have to use Smart Switch
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Thanks all, I'll try tomorrow and let you know if it worked.

HeatOfLisboa67 said:
is kies even compatible with s7 edge? I have to use Smart Switch
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Yes it is. I used it myself a week ago

artaniss11k said:
Yes it is. I used it myself a week ago
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thank you I'll have a go kies 3 I suppose?
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HeatOfLisboa67 said:
thank you I'll have a go kies 3 I suppose?
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There are 2 versions of kies, one for older devices until galaxy s4, and one for newer devices.
I can't remember wich one is, but the app warns you if you didn't install the correct version

I have to mention, the firmware on the phone is the UK one instead of the Dutch one. I did this back then to get the 7.0 update earlier.
Will the Kies method still be possible?

NonXtreme said:
Try flashing stock official firmware with HOME_CSC instead of CSC file so that it doesn't wipe your phone.
TWRP backup method will not work here since it also require OEM unlock and it must format /data once to remove encryption, so that it can read the partition which defeat the purpose since your current data are gone from the format.
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Thanks for your help. but: Stock my S7 comes with PHN firmware ( Which is dutch ) but recently I've downloaded the BTU firmware. ( UK Unbranded ) in order to receive the 7.0 update earlier. So, : I downloaded the latest BTU Firmware for the S7 edge.
It comes with 5 files.
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Now, should I just open the HOME_CSC_OXA in the CSC tab in ODIN and flash it?

artaniss11k said:
No.
It will ask you for phone model and serial number.
Read them from the back of the phone.
Install kies, run the program, put your phone to download mode and connect to pc.
In the upper section there must be a tab where you find "emergency firmware download and install" or something like that.
This is where you will be ask for model and serial number and the restauration begins.
If you want a clean install with all the data wiped, there a custom recovery will be handy from where you format everything and after that you will use kies.
Good luck
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The emergency option isn't available somehow. It shows "Lists of devices requiring emergency recovery" , but the list is empty.
When i choose the firmware upgrade option, I indeed have to enter my model name + Serial number, but the message states that data WILL be wiped.

@Lurninn
Here... my bad Take a closer look
This is what i used and on my device it didn't wipe data.
I don't know if it is available for you too but i did it a couple of times when i really messed up my phones and each time my photos and videos weren't deleted.
No matter what firmware you are on right now, kies will download the latest one corresponding to your device and the country it was released for.

artaniss11k said:
@Lurninn
Here... my bad Take a closer look
This is what i used and on my device it didn't wipe data.
I don't know if it is available for you too but i did it a couple of times when i really messed up my phones and each time my photos and videos weren't deleted.
No matter what firmware you are on right now, kies will download the latest one corresponding to your device and the country it was released for.
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The thing is, my phone originally is a PHN (Dutch) Phone, however, I flashed BTU (UK) Firmware on my phone.
And btw, Could it be that your pictures were on an external SD card? because using this recovery doesn't touch the external SD. I'm still not convinced that this will keep internal data untouched. ;(
The method of flashing HOME CSC seems the most safe/logical to me at this moment.

Lurninn said:
And btw, Could it be that your pictures were on an external SD card? because using this recovery doesn't touch the external SD. I'm still not convinced that this will keep internal data untouched. ;(
The method of flashing HOME CSC seems the most safe/logical to me at this moment.
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I did it on my s6edge wich doesn't have a external SDcard support only via otg.
Regarding the firmware, i told you that kies doesn't care about that becauce it will read your original trace of csc and will download the coresponding firware ( if the original firmware was Dutch it will download Dutch firmware )
I don't tell you to use my method and i don't guarantee you that this is 100% safe for what you want, but i'm telling you that i used this method and for me it worked even on non-external SDcard phones with no data loss except the third party apps.
Analize all advices you got here and chose a method.
I' m really curious. Don't forget to post the result.
Good luck.
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Also i dit it on my g935f. When i bought it i did some test photos, no SDcard in it.
At home i rooted it uncorespondingly and i bricked it.
Kies was my savior and after the process my taken pictures were there

NonXtreme said:
Try flashing stock official firmware with HOME_CSC instead of CSC file so that it doesn't wipe your phone.
TWRP backup method will not work here since it also require OEM unlock and it must format /data once to remove encryption, so that it can read the partition which defeat the purpose since your current data are gone from the format.
Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk
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artaniss11k said:
I did it on my s6edge wich doesn't have a external SDcard support only via otg.
Regarding the firmware, i told you that kies doesn't care about that becauce it will read your original trace of csc and will download the coresponding firware ( if the original firmware was Dutch it will download Dutch firmware )
I don't tell you to use my method and i don't guarantee you that this is 100% safe for what you want, but i'm telling you that i used this method and for me it worked even on non-external SDcard phones with no data loss except the third party apps.
Analize all advices you got here and chose a method.
I' m really curious. Don't forget to post the result.
Good luck.
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Also i dit it on my g935f. When i bought it i did some test photos, no SDcard in it.
At home i rooted it uncorespondingly and i bricked it.
Kies was my savior and after the process my taken pictures were there
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Most of my pictures are on the SD-Card, It are mostly the 3'rth party apps that I was worrying about.
BUT: I've followed NonXtreme's method, and I SUCCEED!!!
I downloaded latest BTU Firmware from Sammobile, and flashed all 4 files (and CSC_Home) trough Odin.
At first I was kinda worried because after flashing the phone booted with "Erasing" in screen. The phone successfully booted, and remained just like I left it.
You might want to try this method next time artaniss11k if you want to keep your apps & settings.
Thanks guys for your help/suggestions.