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Hi all!
Does anybody know, is it possible to unlock bootloader on galaxy A3?
I try use QPST utility foк backup and restore QCN file from NV. It only possible read info from phone to file, but not write to phone.
Can anybody, who have rooted A3 with TWRP recovery help to try write QCN file to phone?
Thank you!
Samsung doesn't have bootloader actually?
tahmid_shahriar said:
Samsung doesn't have bootloader actually
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ok. i mean if it possible to write qcn file to phone? how?
qpst utolity say write error.
Samsung doesnt lock bootloaders. The only locked ones i've seen are Verizon Samsung Phones.
I havent heard nor researched QCN files, care to elaborate?
Att also lock down some of their phones.
PlutoDelic said:
Samsung doesnt lock bootloaders. The only locked ones i've seen are Verizon Samsung Phones.
I havent heard nor researched QCN files, care to elaborate?
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i read by qpst QCN file from phone, then try to write it to phone, but it come with error.
i want write normal imeis to qcn file (my imeis is 000000 after upgrade A3 by OTA).
I might be wrong, but i think the IMEI stuff is stored on the EFS partition...
Try reflashing a Stock ROM, with the Bootloader Update ticked in Odin. If that won't do it, try doing the same with a Stock ROM through SamFirm, the difference is that it doesn't download the rom as a single package, and i have managed to rescue a few Samsung phones with this method...
PlutoDelic said:
I might be wrong, but i think the IMEI stuff is stored on the EFS partition....
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I tried use ODIN and SamFirm, but nothing. IMEIs also are zeros.
Maybe it is possible to read EFS, modify it and write to phone?
Im not sure, give this a try: Phone ID Changer
You are going to need Xposed Framework from arter97, and for that your rom needs to be deodexed.
Ps, i havent tried the module, but the description is quite bold.
PlutoDelic said:
Im not sure, give this a try Phone ID Changer
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Does this utility change second IMEI or just one?
My phone is dual SIM. I never saw utility for change both IMEIs.
Plz help me
How to unlock bootloader on my galaxy A700fd
Hello everyone, so here is what happened.
I bought a used galaxy S5 (SCL23) 16GB from a store in Japan, but the stock rom installed on it (with android 4.4.2) only had japanese or english as languages and I wanted to use french and I also wanted to try CM13 for a while so I flashed it and it worked almost fine for a while but I had some issues with not being able to send/receive SMS so I wanted to go back to stock. I found a stock file that I thought was the right one for my phone but ended up hardbricking it.
No download mode, no recovery mode, nothing, it doesn't even seem to power on, no response whatsoever.
I've heard a lot of success stories using a debrick.img on a 16GB class 10 microSD to enable download mode and flash the right stock rom with odin and I'd like to try that but cannot seem to find any debrick img for this model.
If someone has this model and would be kind enough to create and upload one, or knows someone who does, or if anyone knows if I can use a debrick file for another carrier model and still get it to work, I would be so grateful !
go to sammobile.com/firmwares (or heres the link http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/database/SCL23/) download the appropriate version and the boot.img is in the tar.md5
Thanks youdoofus, I already downloaded the appropriate stock rom from there but I'm not sure boot.img is the same as a debrick image, a lot of people are asking how to create debrick images from stock roms but nobody figured it out yet apparently. Still, it's worth a try I guess, will update with the results tomorrow.
I also found out that my phone is in the old qualcomm 9008 mode (recoginized as QUALCOMM HS-USB QLOADER 9008 (COM4) in the COM/PORTS when connected to the PC, no drive storage, no red light) so I tried to follow some tutorials on how to flash the rom with QFIL but got stuck on a sahara protocol error). I read somewhere that this doesn't work with win10, so I will retry with a win7 laptop this weekend.
I cannot buy a new phone until november so I'm ready to try anything in the meantime.
If anyone has any other idea, I'm all ears.
As I expected this did not work, nor did QFIL in win7.
Looks like only JTAG could save it but this is absolutely not known in Japan and nobody offers this service.
Since it's cheaper to buy a new phone than to buy an octoplus box or a riff box, I guess I'll have to wait and do that...
same problem for me
please someone help me
Hi,
Does anybody have any of these files:
patch0.xml
rawprogram0.xml
I have the prog_emmc_firehose_8996_ddr.mbn but only need these 2 xml files.
Problem that is.... I flashed the phone selecting the wrong firmware with LG Tools downgrading the phone to 10j and got stuck in qualcomm mode 9008
Anybody?
Jabbacks said:
Hi,
Does anybody have any of these files:
patch0.xml
rawprogram0.xml
I have the prog_emmc_firehose_8996_ddr.mbn but only need these 2 xml files.
Problem that is.... I flashed the phone selecting the wrong firmware with LG Tools downgrading the phone to 10j and got stuck in qualcomm mode 9008
Anybody?
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Just a word of caution using a firehouse will most likely leave your phone in an undesirable state.
Sent from my LG-H910 using XDA Labs
Jabbacks said:
Hi,
Does anybody have any of these files:
patch0.xml
rawprogram0.xml
I have the prog_emmc_firehose_8996_ddr.mbn but only need these 2 xml files.
Problem that is.... I flashed the phone selecting the wrong firmware with LG Tools downgrading the phone to 10j and got stuck in qualcomm mode 9008
Anybody?
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You're SOL, one of our devs tried several months ago with someone else who was bricked and still had no luck. Plus whatever firehose you found almost certainly won't work on an H918, you need one explicitly for the H918, and not any random other msm8996 phone.
runningnak3d said:
@menmunirith If you want to try the debug firehose, I will be glad to send it to you. However, generating the XML files is something you will have to do (sorry, that is not effort that I am willing to expend).
I created the XML file to root by bricking and then flashing TWRP and the engineering aboot, but I have not created the XML files needed to completely reflash a phone (which is what you will need to do).
Let me know if you want to give it a try, and I will send you a link.
-- Brian
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Originally Posted by runningnak3d @menmunirith If you want to try the debug firehose, I will be glad to send it to you. However, generating the XML files is something you will have to do (sorry, that is not effort that I am willing to expend).
I created the XML file to root by bricking and then flashing TWRP and the engineering aboot, but I have not created the XML files needed to completely reflash a phone (which is what you will need to do).
Let me know if you want to give it a try, and I will send you a link.
-- Brian
Yes please... I tried to generate XML files with Qualcomm Premium Pool but always run into errors with the PrimaryGPT_0 file saying there's no gpt in it....
Jabbacks said:
Yes please... I tried to generate XML files with Qualcomm Premium Pool but always run into errors with the PrimaryGPT_0 file saying there's no gpt in it....
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Like Phoenix591 said; even with the xml files, what are you going to do? Can't do anything in 9008 mode without the signed firehose loader for H918.
In this post you can find some examples of these files generated for various LG G5 variants.
The firehose included in the rar-file is the same one mentioned by runningnak3d (but it won't work for H918). Just remove the Chinese characters from the link.
So it's a dead end eh.... Why are they making things so hard for the consumers..... SMH!
I know right... Had the same "shock" myself a while back. I'd been dabbling a little with phones before I purchased an el'cheapo H918 on ebay to play with, but those where of a different breed, as I never expected there would be no way to recover from a brick.
I have lots of experience with computers and arm devices like tv-boxes. Been playing with firmware, bios modding etc... Now suddenly LG and Qualcomm tells me I can't even load the original firmware back onto the device.
Just to give an example of what talking about:
I have a fanless mini-pc I bought from Aliexpress 3-4 years ago. Recently it's been acting up with the later Win10 updates, I logically concluded I needed to update the bios, but... good luck finding a bios update for a no-name aliexpress pc.
So what I did was; I used some Intel specific tools to dump the bios and then modify it, updating vga rom, gop rom and cpu microcode. And now I can actually continue to use it. Previously I could not, as it was randomly restarting. Most ppl would have thrown it away at that point.
Now imagine if it was not possible to dump and/or flash a new bios to the motherboard, how ridiculous would that be.
I will not stop harassing anyone I can until I can write my OWN RSA key into the CPU so I can have verified boot AND run my own firmware.
On PCs we can install our own SecureBoot keys -- that is EXACTLY what this is, SecureBoot for phones. We should have the exact same rights. The modem being the ONLY exception.
I understand the need to not have people messing with the modem firmware, since you could crank up transmission power, and do other nasty things.
Simple solution -- keep a separate RSA key just for modem firmware verification.
-- Brian
Ok.... I forgot to mention that I made a TOT backup of this device. (LGH918AT-01-V10t-310-260-MAR-06-2018-ARB01+0.tot) What are my chances of recovering from this TOT?
No. You haven't been able to flash TOT files since MM.
-- Brian
Phoenix591 said:
You're SOL, one of our devs tried several months ago with someone else who was bricked and still had no luck. Plus whatever firehose you found almost certainly won't work on an H918, you need one explicitly for the H918, and not any random other msm8996 phone.
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No. You haven't been able to flash TOT files since MM.
-- Brian
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How about extracting the files and compile to make xml files out of this TOT?
Jabbacks said:
How about extracting the files and compile to make xml files out of this TOT?
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The firehose you have is almost certainly not the correctly signed by LG firehose for the H918 (which is even different from the LG firehose for the other V20s), and even when a correct firehose was used (the firehose for the v20s except the H918 which IS a different key and was attempted in the post I quoted) it still wasn't able to unbrick a different model V20 (presumably judging by their public silence after the attempt).
You have spare parts unless you want to send to LG to give them a chance to fix it.
Jabbacks said:
How about extracting the files and compile to make xml files out of this TOT?
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Can I ask how did you make this TOT, qualcomm premium tool, or something?
Probably it contains the needed files, yes.
If you hang onto it, and the phone, then perhaps eventually you'll be able to unbrick. But you don't really need a dump of *your* phone to accomplish that, unless you erased some important unique partitions.
Would be cool if we'd have a leak of LG factory tools/firehose soon
askermk2000 said:
Can I ask how did you make this TOT, qualcomm premium tool, or something?
Probably it contains the needed files, yes.
If you hang onto it, and the phone, then perhaps eventually you'll be able to unbrick. But you don't really need a dump of *your* phone to accomplish that, unless you erased some important unique partitions.
Would be cool if we'd have a leak of LG factory tools/firehose soon
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I used Z3x LG to create TOT file.... the file is still the same..... haven't changed anything. I tried to extract this TOT but it's telling me the PrimaryGPT is around 40Gigs when extracted... I don't have that much space available in my laptop
I'm sorry, it seems you have trouble absorbing the info that's been handed to you.
My last post was not to indicate that the TOT could help you in some way, simply that it contains the bootloader (just like any KDZ).
Read Phoenix591's post just above mine. He explains it well.
And here's my supplement: You told us you have this: "prog_emmc_firehose_8996_ddr.mbn"
That file will not work on any LG phone. That can be determined from the name itself - *emmc* and *mbn*. Those are wrong, the right ones are: *ufs* and *elf*.
Second, there exist no known firehose, publicly, that will work on a LG H918.
Your only hope is that eventually one will leak, or that the Z3x, Infinity, Octoplus etc... Team will be able flash in 9008 mode on H918.
Or send it to LG for repair.
Can someone send me the firehose? I won't use it on my phone, i'm just curious how this all works.
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Like Phoenix591 said; even with the xml files, what are you going to do? Can't do anything in 9008 mode without the signed firehose loader for H918.
In this post you can find some examples of these files generated for various LG G5 variants.
The firehose included in the rar-file is the same one mentioned by runningnak3d (but it won't work for H918). Just remove the Chinese characters from the link.
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Thank you.
I soft bricked the phone and now can only get into download mode. The phone only has two partitions and I was hoping that flashing a KDZ would fix this.
I'm running Linux Mint on my machine and using SALT an LG type open source program in order to flash.
Question: I heard that I should flash something before the Dec 2017 security patch. I can't find any KDZ files unfortunately and was hoping someone here would have a server I could pull it from.
onedeathbyflame said:
I soft bricked the phone and now can only get into download mode. The phone only has two partitions and I was hoping that flashing a KDZ would fix this.
I'm running Linux Mint on my machine and using SALT an LG type open source program in order to flash.
Question: I heard that I should flash something before the Dec 2017 security patch. I can't find any KDZ files unfortunately and was hoping someone here would have a server I could pull it from.
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dear atleast mention model number , variant of lg v20.
anyhow, https://lg-firmwares.com/ , here you can find kdz of all lg models
hahmad78 said:
dear atleast mention model number , variant of lg v20.
anyhow, https://lg-firmwares.com/ , here you can find kdz of all lg models
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Oh goodness I'm so terribly sorry I seem to have over looked it.
It's an LGV20 H910
What happened is that I used a ROM that was for another model and it kept crashing. After some time I started tinkering with some other software before I realized that even though I bought the device as a 996 I got the 910 version from the eBay seller.
In any case I remember someone mentioning that if I'm going to flash a stock kernel I should stick to something that was before the DEC 2017 security patch so that I can keep the exploit that enables ROM flashing.
Not sure if that's referring to the bootloader that I'll have to flash or the stock ROM itself.
Oh and lastly I remember someone mentioning that the KDZ for my variant of V20 doesn't have any stock images so I'll have to take one from another model flash it to boot then root it and flash a custom bootloader and then re-flash a custom ROM.
That's probably not how it's suppose to work but it's roughly what I remember.
onedeathbyflame said:
Oh and lastly I remember someone mentioning that the KDZ for my variant of V20 doesn't have any stock images so I'll have to take one from another model flash it to boot then root it and flash a custom bootloader and then re-flash a custom ROM.
That's probably not how it's suppose to work but it's roughly what I remember.
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dear what is the condition of your mobile now? does lg up detect the mobile? if so than use LG UP patched version and try to flash your stock kdz.
hahmad78 said:
dear what is the condition of your mobile now? does lg up detect the mobile? if so than use LG UP patched version and try to flash your stock kdz.
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Sorry darling that it took so long to reply!
My phone is detected by SALT (the open source program developed by steadfasterX) BUT it is doesn't want to work with LGup on a windows system because I don't have the proper .dll to work with my model type.
The LGup log file says
"LGUP can't load the model."
funny enough though the log file shows the model type right after a hex key string.
It says "LG-US996.. US99610d..."
I can get the phone into download mode but the phone doesn't have any partitions right now. So for now it's a paper weight.
onedeathbyflame said:
Sorry darling that it took so long to reply!
My phone is detected by SALT (the open source program developed by steadfasterX) BUT it is doesn't want to work with LGup on a windows system because I don't have the proper .dll to work with my model type.
The LGup log file says
"LGUP can't load the model."
funny enough though the log file shows the model type right after a hex key string.
It says "LG-US996.. US99610d..."
I can get the phone into download mode but the phone doesn't have any partitions right now. So for now it's a paper weight.
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every kdz has dll file, even lg up has dll file. you can extract kdz and get dll for your specific model.
use lg up patched version, search on xda, it will solve your problem.
i can not help on linux and SALT, as i dont have these. if you have access to windows machine, than i can try to sort problem for you.
My LG G6 is hard bricked, it's originally g600s, i accidentally flashed h872 firmware on it.. The phone isn't booting anymore, and i accidentally clicked "erase entire flash", and now flashing partition manually using qfil isn't working anymore... Anyone has "Rawprogramm.xml" file for lg g6? I would really appreciate if someone could share me their rawprogram file.
Unlike Samsung phones, which sport a Download Mode which is really Fastboot, the G6 should have a special D/L mode in addition to Fastboot.
I never used it on the G6, could be by holding the switched off phone's vol up or down button during attaching the phone to usb.
If not even the D/L mode screen appears, which is the most basic fallback option, the phone is a real brick, serviceable, but not w/o special equipment.
Roowz said:
My LG G6 is hard bricked, it's originally g600s, i accidentally flashed h872 firmware on it.. The phone isn't booting anymore, and i accidentally clicked "erase entire flash", and now flashing partition manually using qfil isn't working anymore... Anyone has "Rawprogramm.xml" file for lg g6? I would really appreciate if someone could share me their rawprogram file.
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The unbrick guide here provides the xml files you will need to recover, make sure to thank the dev there:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g6/how-to/lg-g6-unbrick-method-t3935924
While the guide is for US non-T-Mobile devices specifically and your modem partition may not be functional afterwards but I am hopeful that it will at least restore the download mode and from there you can flash a kdz. You may have lost your IMEI info/efs partition but if you remember your IMEI number or if it is etched on the back of the phone, there are ways to fix that partition and IMEI. Be mindful of the legality of these fixes where you live. Google for the IMEI fix information because I am not sure if it is allowed on XDA.
Android# said:
The unbrick guide here provides the xml files you will need to recover, make sure to thank the dev there:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g6/how-to/lg-g6-unbrick-method-t3935924
While the guide is for US non-T-Mobile devices specifically and your modem partition may not be functional afterwards but I am hopeful that it will at least restore the download mode and from there you can flash a kdz. You may have lost your IMEI info/efs partition but if you remember your IMEI number or if it is etched on the back of the phone, there are ways to fix that partition and IMEI. Be mindful of the legality of these fixes where you live. Google for the IMEI fix information because I am not sure if it is allowed on XDA.
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Thanks but i couldn't find raw_program file on that thread, there's only patch.xml files and also i think i destroyed the partition table, is there any way to recover my partition table back?
Roowz said:
Thanks but i couldn't find raw_program file on that thread, there's only patch.xml files and also i think i destroyed the partition table, is there any way to recover my partition table back?
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LG G6 UnBrick (New Method)
LG G6 Unbrick First Thing First: If you try this method, I nor anybody else is responsible for any further damage done to your phone. [CENTER]!!!YOU CANNOT FLASH THIS TO AN H872!!! If you have destroyed the partitions, you are going to have to...
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you can make the rawprogram0.xml (and the other other ones) yourself using your device's KDZ per the post up there. Was tested in Linux on Ubuntu and python 3.