I tried to update my J500FN to Android 6.0 according to some guide from a website called "rootupdate" which showed up when I googled "update samsung galaxy j5 to 6.0"
This was a mistake because it was too vague, and I ended up trying to install the rom using some TWRP Manager app by Jmz Software.
Now when I try to boot it up, the Samsung screen shows up as normal, but at the top left it says "set warranty bit: recovery". Also I can only get to the Samsung screen once, afterwards I have to remove my battery and reinsert it to see it again.
Since then, I've tried to unbrick it according to several different guides which all follow the same beat: download the firmware you need, and use Odin to flash it or whatever it does. Problem is that I can't find a firmware with my model number anywhere (J500FNGSMH) and whenever I try to flash anything with Odin it takes its sweet time until kindly informing me that the operation has failed by yelling "FAIL!" at me. I've used Odin 3.09 and 3.10 and they both provide the same result. Now I'm at a loss, so I figured I'd create this thread to ask for help. Just remember that I suck at this type of thing so you'll probably have to explain it like I'm 5 years old.
PS: I just copied most of this from another forum post I made in sammobile, which somehow got me banned immediately so now that website is on my list of things to get revenge on, so if it doesn't make any sense that's probably why.
ihatedust said:
I tried to update my J500FN to Android 6.0 according to some guide from a website called "rootupdate" which showed up when I googled "update samsung galaxy j5 to 6.0"
This was a mistake because it was too vague, and I ended up trying to install the rom using some TWRP Manager app by Jmz Software.
Now when I try to boot it up, the Samsung screen shows up as normal, but at the top left it says "set warranty bit: recovery". Also I can only get to the Samsung screen once, afterwards I have to remove my battery and reinsert it to see it again.
Since then, I've tried to unbrick it according to several different guides which all follow the same beat: download the firmware you need, and use Odin to flash it or whatever it does. Problem is that I can't find a firmware with my model number anywhere (J500FNGSMH) and whenever I try to flash anything with Odin it takes its sweet time until kindly informing me that the operation has failed by yelling "FAIL!" at me. I've used Odin 3.09 and 3.10 and they both provide the same result. Now I'm at a loss, so I figured I'd create this thread to ask for help. Just remember that I suck at this type of thing so you'll probably have to explain it like I'm 5 years old.
PS: I just copied most of this from another forum post I made in sammobile, which somehow got me banned immediately so now that website is on my list of things to get revenge on, so if it doesn't make any sense that's probably why.
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As it seems you still have recovery there. You can use it to flash any custom rom try odin 3.11 and try different firmware from updato.com
You can get Firmware from sammobile
I don't even remember how, but i flashed some rom and Odin told me it failed, but my phone started working normally anyway. Technology am i right lads
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Guys, Ma name's Vasanth And i just registered as i found this site very useful.
Here is my problem.
Today i was mingling with my phone and i found an update for my S plus to 2.3.6. So i got to a forum and downloaded Odin and the 2.3.6 firmware, i started odin v 1.83, and ran it but failed but still the phone worked. Then i started Odin v1.43 multi-android or something. Then i t started with the OPS and the One package. it also sent a message "Big partition" 4 times and the AMSS download began and took ages, so i force closed the Odin. And i disabled my phone from the Download Mode. i got in the Normal mode and i got this Phone connecting to the PC with Dots and a hazard yellow mark on the Dots. I think the Firmware is messed up. I bought it in Dubai and got it to India. It's warranty Card is in Russian language and so does the Instruction i think.
I need solution and quick
Please and extremely please help
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Vasanth
flash your phone again and stick to this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1345671
Can you say how do i flash the phone again? I'm pretty new at Phones and I need help with this android and When i tried updating as the guide says.
It goes
"Big partition size" 4 times and begins downloading the AMSS. Should i let it go or? what?
Read this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1578821
Download my attachment, run Odin as administrator and use my AriesVE.ops
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1405357 download the firmware (or any other I9001 (!!) firmware you would like to install).
Restart your phone into download mode, run Odin and select one package. Pick the file from the unzipped archive and start Odin. Wait till its finished.
Thanks for all the help. The Phone came back from the brick. I finally unbricked it.
I appreciate all your work. This site has became home for my Phone and i will come and learn more about my phone from here and will make this home for my Android.
You guys have been alot of help for me. I won't forget this.
Hello all!
First of all i want to thank this site (and the people behind it) that makes everything android possible.
I feel privileged to be a member of this forum specially on rough times like what i am facing right now.
I rooted my Galaxy A8-A800i the other day and everything went great. I followed the instructions that i found here. Unfortunately, yesterday i turned off the OEM Unlock on my phone. Now, as the thread title says it. it is stuck on the Logo Screen with the annoying " Custom Binary blocked by FRP Lock ". i read a guide that ashyx made and i felt stupid. I didn't know that turning the OEM Unlock will do that to my Phone.
Right now, I am digging deep on this forums to try and revive my phone that is currently in Brick state.
i am downloading a firmware from sammobile for my phone, the problem i have is... i don't know how to use it. I don't know much about my phone but I do want to learn a lot and i know that this is the right place. I would like to ask assistance on how to use the firmware that I am downloading right now, and also, can i make the Knox Counter go "0" again?
Thanks for everything guys. I highly appreciate everything i've learned here so far.
rissered said:
Hello all!
First of all i want to thank this site (and the people behind it) that makes everything android possible.
I feel privileged to be a member of this forum specially on rough times like what i am facing right now.
I rooted my Galaxy A8-A800i the other day and everything went great. I followed the instructions that i found here. Unfortunately, yesterday i turned off the OEM Unlock on my phone. Now, as the thread title says it. it is stuck on the Logo Screen with the annoying " Custom Binary blocked by FRP Lock ". i read a guide that ashyx made and i felt stupid. I didn't know that turning the OEM Unlock will do that to my Phone.
Right now, I am digging deep on this forums to try and revive my phone that is currently in Brick state.
i am downloading a firmware from sammobile for my phone, the problem i have is... i don't know how to use it. I don't know much about my phone but I do want to learn a lot and i know that this is the right place. I would like to ask assistance on how to use the firmware that I am downloading right now, and also, can i make the Knox Counter go "0" again?
Thanks for everything guys. I highly appreciate everything i've learned here so far.
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you can try flashing the official firmware I hope it fixes your phone.
and knox cannot be reset to 0
nepalbiraj said:
you can try flashing the official firmware I hope it fixes your phone.
and knox cannot be reset to 0
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Thank you!... i downloaded the stock firmware from sammobile. but whenever i extract it there's a rar message saying it is corrupted so i DLed a new one, it has the same result. I haven't tried using it to fix my phone but i will try right now. Ill give an update on how it goes.
Tried flashing the new firmware but Odin can't detect my phone. i have the latest Driver for SAMSUNG and i have the latest Odin. I tried restarting my phone and my computer several times but it still fails. i am really frustrated and our of options right now. Even if Odin detects my phone there's no guarantee that the stock firmware will be installed properly since it always shows corrupt when i extract it from zip
rissered said:
Tried flashing the new firmware but Odin can't detect my phone. i have the latest Driver for SAMSUNG and i have the latest Odin. I tried restarting my phone and my computer several times but it still fails. i am really frustrated and our of options right now. Even if Odin detects my phone there's no guarantee that the stock firmware will be installed properly since it always shows corrupt when i extract it from zip
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Install the Samsung drivers first, reboot your pc.
Start odin in Admin mode then put your device in download mode, plug in the usb cable. Your device should be detected.
Don't try flashing a corrupt firmware, it will be rejected anyway as it will fail the md5 check.
I suggest you use a different browser to download.
@ashyx hey! thanks for all your help. my internet went offline while i was trying to respond to the other thread. my phone is now fixed with your help. Thank you so much! only took 3 mins for the while Odin flashing to complete
This issue is now FIXED
rissered said:
This issue is now FIXED
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but how? I have installed official firmware and flashed via odin and it shows"success", but then it gets stuck in the samsung logo. please help
Hello and I apologise in advance for the size of the post. I'll try to be as succinct as possible but there's a lot to say. First off, I had a Wind Note 3. Then sick of the reception I swapped to Mobilicity. I rooted the phone 8 mos. ago and it went well, but a month later when I tried to install a new rom with Odin I did something wrong. To the best of my abilities, i made sure that what I was installing was for my type of phone. My Note ended up caught in an unending rebooting process with the message 'Recovery Booting...Recovery is not Seandroid Enforcing Set Warranty Bit: recovery'. So I reconnected it to Odin and let it do its thing and I had a mediocre working phone. The menu and back keys were useless. I lived like that until I saw this post. So I downloaded the first item from this site. For Gapps I got the first choice of this list . However when I went to put my mobile in recovery mode it did the same 'Recovery Booting' message as it did the last time. Then I ran Odin again with this and while the phone was still not working properly when I tried to boot on recovery mode it allowed me to. I then uploaded the new rom but I got this message: (please follow this link for pictures.
So I need some guidance in what to do even if it is to tell me to use it as a paperweight. However, I think there's still hope for it. Any input will be much appreciated it.
I suggest you start over by flashing a stock rom from sammobile.com.
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audit13 said:
I suggest you start over by flashing a stock rom from sammobile.com.
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I did found the rom as u advised. The problem still persist, Odin shows no button called PDA as a mention but AP instead. Any ideas?
Sorry for pestering you, I dont mean to spam you. Thank you kindly,
PW
AP=PDA
Sent from my SM-G925F
PDA appears in Odin 3.07. AP appears in newer versions.
Hello everyone
My phone has an issue after it downloaded and tried to install the OTA update from December. When I turn it on, it has a blue screen and says "No Command". I've successfully been able to boot into recovery mode and do attempt a factory reset but still doesn't work.
After some googleing, it looks like I need to install the firmware manually using Odin. I'm not exactly sure where I can download the firmwhere. I've gone to a lot of very sketchy sites that promise a download, only to then be presented with a "You must be a premium member" page. (Specifically, I've tried sammobile and am currently downloading slowly from updato.com, which looks the most promising)
Is there an official repository that has Samsung firmware or another way to recover my phone? I've tried the Frija tool but it doesn't work on my Windows 10 machine since C++ 2008 is not supported on it anymore.
I'm sorry if this is a really noob question. I promised I tried searching on the forum already and either my search terms are not right or the results aren't obvious to me.
scuba_mike said:
Hello everyone
My phone has an issue after it downloaded and tried to install the OTA update from December. When I turn it on, it has a blue screen and says "No Command". I've successfully been able to boot into recovery mode and do attempt a factory reset but still doesn't work.
After some googleing, it looks like I need to install the firmware manually using Odin. I'm not exactly sure where I can download the firmwhere. I've gone to a lot of very sketchy sites that promise a download, only to then be presented with a "You must be a premium member" page. (Specifically, I've tried sammobile and am currently downloading slowly from updato.com, which looks the most promising)
Is there an official repository that has Samsung firmware or another way to recover my phone? I've tried the Frija tool but it doesn't work on my Windows 10 machine since C++ 2008 is not supported on it anymore.
I'm sorry if this is a really noob question. I promised I tried searching on the forum already and either my search terms are not right or the results aren't obvious to me.
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Updato and Sam mobile are your best bets. Legit sites. Just slow. You can try internet download manager to speed it up some as it multi threads. On the no command screen try spamming the vol buttons and power buttons. And it should go back to recovery. But if not a full flash may fix
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Updato and Sam mobile are your best bets. Legit sites. Just slow. You can try internet download manager to speed it up some as it multi threads.
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I must but using sammobile wrong. When I click the free link, it counts down from 30 seconds and then goes to their join page. When I join, then it says I have to pay. Is there a trick to this or is this by design?
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On the no command screen try spamming the vol buttons and power buttons. And it should go back to recovery. But if not a full flash may fix
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I can get into "Maintenance Boot Mode" (where it asks if you want to safe boot) and the "recovery" mode (where it asks if you want to apply an update using sd or adb). But now, it won't even go into "No Command" and just stays at the Samsung logo.
I'm hoping a full flash will fix it.
Thanks for all the help!
Took six hours to download from Updato but it finally did and was able to flash the firmware using Odin.
Hello there,
I recently tried to get Android 10 onto my old phone. But i already got stuck on trying to root it. First I could not install new firmware because of FAP lock.
Then when I tried to get around the lock, I tried to root the phone with this tutorial. But Odin failed at hidden.img. Several times. And now I am stuck with "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue Select recovery mode in Kies".
I tried flashing with deleted hidden.img - it does not work. When I add an .md5 extension, Odin says binary invalid. When I remove the ".md5", Odin just crashes.
Any ideas?
If it is somehow important: I once rooted this device, but for some update or app, idk, i went back to normal, I dont really remember. I use Windows 10.
Thanks
tHr4sh3R said:
Hello there,
I recently tried to get Android 10 onto my old phone. But i already got stuck on trying to root it. First I could not install new firmware because of FAP lock.
Then when I tried to get around the lock, I tried to root the phone with this tutorial. But Odin failed at hidden.img. Several times. And now I am stuck with "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue Select recovery mode in Kies".
I tried flashing with deleted hidden.img - it does not work. When I add an .md5 extension, Odin says binary invalid. When I remove the ".md5", Odin just crashes.
Any ideas?
If it is somehow important: I once rooted this device, but for some update or app, idk, i went back to normal, I dont really remember. I use Windows 10.
Thanks
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there is no Android 10 available for this phone
2gg1 said:
there is no Android 10 available for this phone
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Well thank you, but that not helping with the issue that i cannot flash my phone with stock rom via odin.
tHr4sh3R said:
Well thank you, but that not helping with the issue that i cannot flash my phone with stock rom via odin.
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So you have download the samsung drivers? Unzipped the file with result of a .md5 file? connected your phone to the pc with download mode? And then putted the file on the AP section? And clicked start?
Everything i just mentioned (except the .md5) can you find on HighOnAndroid website. Try to get the odin from there.
Please reply if it worked
2gg1 said:
So you have download the samsung drivers? Unzipped the file with result of a .md5 file? connected your phone to the pc with download mode? And then putted the file on the AP section? And clicked start?
Everything i just mentioned (except the .md5) can you find on HighOnAndroid website. Try to get the odin from there.
Please reply if it worked
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Well yes, I already did all you described, but did not get it from HighOnAndroid (I also tried, but the "samsung drivers" are Malware which is blocked by Windows, so...).
I know how to flash a phone. It just does not work because of some weird Error with the hidden.img. I also saw a ton of other people trying to flash their phone with this Error, but their solutions do not work. So I need someone with another solution.
tHr4sh3R said:
Well yes, I already did all you described, but did not get it from HighOnAndroid (I also tried, but the "samsung drivers" are Malware which is blocked by Windows, so...).
I know how to flash a phone. It just does not work because of some weird Error with the hidden.img. I also saw a ton of other people trying to flash their phone with this Error, but their solutions do not work. So I need someone with another solution.
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Try get the samsung drivers from samsungs official website
I once again tried it with these drivers. No change.
I just want to tell you, that I am no idiot and I know how to flash a phone. It just is a very specific problem, that occurs a lot apparently: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=flash+galaxy+hidden.img+stuck
The problem is, that the solutions posted on Youtube and other places do. not. work. As I explained in my starting post.