I found my old Note 3 in a closet and decided I would gift it to my 12 year old as a faux-tablet. I powered the Note 3 up and got to the Verizon flash screen where is just locked-up. I then attempted to go through recovery and factory reset (keep in mind that I am using the stock recovery). I rebooted and still stuck on the verizon flash screen. So what is the trick to get past the boot screen? Personally, I would like to blow away all things Verizon and change to another ROM, but I need to get past this issue. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!
From where i can see it, u can just flash it with stock Rom or another as u like, cz the other option is what u have tried already.
flash firmware with odin
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900A, AT&T, WAS 4.4.4. I rooted my phone with towelroot by downgrading via ODIN then reflashing 4.4.4. I've had the phone for a year and wanted to experiment with some custom roms--specifically Twi5ted Lollipop. The version I found last night was V3. Anyways I followed the instructions of installing safestrap then attempting to create a partition to host the mod. Every time I tried to boot the partition I would wait 12 minutes with nothing but a black screen (I presume a bootloop.) After reading some posts here I found it requires a clean flash--not a dirty flash. So I used safestrap to backup, then I wiped it and installed the mod. Nothing--still black screen. I then attempted to restore the backup I saved--fails every time.
At this point being the noob I am, I started to get very concerned. I went into advanced wipe and for some reason selected 'system' and wiped it. After a reboot, it shows the Samsung logo, goes blank, vibrates then goes back to the Samsung logo. I went into the standard bootloader and attempted to restore to factory settings but there is nothing to restore of course cause I wiped everything.
I'm currently at work bored as heck cause my phone is wiped. I can still go into download mode thankfully. Should I have no problems flashing stock via ODIN when I get home on my lunch break? Which stock firmware should I flash for this phone?
Thanks!
Unfortunately my lunch break brought me no good news. I downloaded stock found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2714455
After I flashed all the files (Except BL) when it boots, it get's to the Samsung logo--freezes halfway through then goes blank with the blue LED light on. I waited 10 minutes just to see what it does with no luck.
Another thing I found was weird-why when I boot does it still say 'Custom' when I flashed the stock firmware?
I really hope I don't have to drop $650 on a new phone Any help would be incredibly appreciated. Thanks guys!
DETAILED INFO: KOT49H. 6900AUCU1ANCE
MODEL: SM-6900A UD
FCC ID : A3LSMG900A
GALAXY S5 AT&T
why didn't you also flash the bootloader?
mike-y said:
why didn't you also flash the bootloader?
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AT&T bootloader is locked right? Regardless I tried flashing the bootloader as a last resort and ODIN failed. Figured it just confirmed what everyone else said that it's locked.
Is there a specific way I need to flash the files? Like one at a time?
Do I need to restore factory settings/delete cache THEN flash each? or vice versa?
Am I basically screwed since I have AT&T?
:crying::crying::crying::crying:
FIXED!
After flashing 4.4.2 several times and trying different things, I came across this thread which finally brought my phone back to life. Thanks XDA!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/att...w-to-unbrick-flash-to-stocknce-g900a-t3077652
Hello,
So I tried to get CM 10 or 11 on my AT&T S4 a year ago and bricked it (so I thought). Got a Moto E and switched to Cricket. Back in November I was fiddling with the S4 and I could get it in to download mode. Odin wasn't able to see it. I formatted and restored default OS, which I think was a mistake.Samsung setup won't finish. I was really struggling to get anything to work.
Can anyone hold my hand and walk me through the steps to determine if this thing is totally useless?
Thanks!
Did you perform a factory reset/wipe before booting the newly restored rom?
Yes. 99.9% sure.
hippomofatumas said:
Hello,
So I tried to get CM 10 or 11 on my AT&T S4 a year ago and bricked it (so I thought). Got a Moto E and switched to Cricket. Back in November I was fiddling with the S4 and I could get it in to download mode. Odin wasn't able to see it. I formatted and restored default OS, which I think was a mistake.Samsung setup won't finish. I was really struggling to get anything to work.
Can anyone hold my hand and walk me through the steps to determine if this thing is totally useless?
Thanks!
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Do you have samsung usb drivers installed correctly? If so, try another usb cable or another usb port.
The only way to restore your phone is flashing the firmware via odin.
Hey Sway,
Thanks for helping me out. Can you lay out the steps to check these things and run Odin? I've totally forgotten how to do any of this.
Thank you
so my phones on pk1, my phone decided it wanted to update while rooted with the rooted boot image flashed via odin and this is what happens. can i downgrade or reflash pk1 to fix this? i dont want to touch it and render it a paper wait as when my friend gave it to me it was a paper weight only would go into download and recovery said you get it working again you can have it, any options/advice is greatly appriecated, i am unsure what to try, ive been told samsung isnt hard to figure out but i had rendered 3 galaxy s3s paper weights them being a verizon, tmobile and att
Hey guys,
I could use your expertise and help.
After updating my stock Note 4 Att variant from 5.1.1. to 6.0.1, I came back to my phone powered off. After turning it back on it freezes at the Att logo screen. Trying to boot into safe mode was a no go so I tried booting into recovery. Everything looked go for a second, I was greeted with an installing updates animation but that quickly was shut down and I got the "dm-verity verification failed..." error.
I tried wiping the cache and doing a factory reset. Talking with att technical support was no help at all. They basically told me if wiping the cache and factory reset didn't work I would have to get the phone replaced and pay a $150 deductible. I'm not paying them another dime when their update bricked my phone
So I'm here heart in hand hoping you guys could help me out. I did root my note 2 back in the day but forgot most of what it entails and was pretty bummed when I found out there was no root for the note 4. So I'm not a total noob but bear with me.
I did try Kies 3 but my phone wont connect. I tried off, on and in recovery still nothing.
Searching online it seems like most of the solutions require root access which this phone doesn't have. It also looks like it needs the stock firmware but most of the links I found here and elsewhere are dead, and sammobile doesn't have them either.
So what should I do? Am I out of options? Should I junk it cause Att sucks? Any sort of direction would be a big help! :highfive:
Mal-0 said:
Hey guys,
I could use your expertise and help.
After updating my stock Note 4 Att variant from 5.1.1. to 6.0.1, I came back to my phone powered off. After turning it back on it freezes at the Att logo screen. Trying to boot into safe mode was a no go so I tried booting into recovery. Everything looked go for a second, I was greeted with an installing updates animation but that quickly was shut down and I got the "dm-verity verification failed..." error.
I tried wiping the cache and doing a factory reset. Talking with att technical support was no help at all. They basically told me if wiping the cache and factory reset didn't work I would have to get the phone replaced and pay a $150 deductible. I'm not paying them another dime when their update bricked my phone
So I'm here heart in hand hoping you guys could help me out. I did root my note 2 back in the day but forgot most of what it entails and was pretty bummed when I found out there was no root for the note 4. So I'm not a total noob but bear with me.
I did try Kies 3 but my phone wont connect. I tried off, on and in recovery still nothing.
Searching online it seems like most of the solutions require root access which this phone doesn't have. It also looks like it needs the stock firmware but most of the links I found here and elsewhere are dead, and sammobile doesn't have them either.
So what should I do? Am I out of options? Should I junk it cause Att sucks? Any sort of direction would be a big help! :highfive:
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Make sure samsung kies or samsung usb drivers are installed on your pc.
Download stock marshmallow firmware and flash through odin .this method does not require root.
After flashing dont let the phone boot just go to recovery and wipe cache+wipe data factory reset then reboot.
Wait 10 to 15 minutes.
Stock rom link.
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24651430732238073
Extract file and choose AP tab in odin.
Upload firmware file then connct device via usb cable to pc.
Hit start in odin.
You're the man! Not only did you save my phone, you stuck it to Att's money grubbing hands in one fell swoop. People will write songs about you, you'll go down in the history books as the man, the myth, the legend! People will swoon in your presence!
In all seriousness though you're awesome! Thank you!
One last question, will I be able to use the ota updates from here? Not that I would be too comfortable using them after this debacle, just wondering if they should work.
Mal-0 said:
You're the man! Not only did you save my phone, you stuck it to Att's money grubbing hands in one fell swoop. People will write songs about you, you'll go down in the history books as the man, the myth, the legend! People will swoon in your presence!
In all seriousness though you're awesome! Thank you!
One last question, will I be able to use the ota updates from here? Not that I would be too comfortable using them after this debacle, just wondering if they should work.
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Thanks for the compliment. you just made me feel like i am a Hercules :victory:
If you want my advice dont ever take ota updates.
Just go to www.sammobiles.com/firmwares and grab latest rom for your model and flash in odin as you did.
Latest rom comes with the same security patch update the 1 comes in ota.
I personally do this way all the time.
Hope that helps and have a good day.
so heres the situation, a couple weeks ago my sammy a5 meet a horrible end and ive been without a phone. My buddy gave me his old s7 edge, its got cracked screen and has been sitting inn a drawer(hes rocking a pixel xl instead). so got it home charged it up turn it on and it got this blue sceen says there was a problem updating.
so longer story short got the stock 6.0.1 for bell 935w8 but i only run ubuntu, now while im able to flash smaller tars or img files flashing all stock at once wont work with either heimdall or Jodin3.
thought i could maybe flash twrp and go straight into custom roms i cant flash anything onto the device because of FAP lock in download mode.
Can anyone help me out? i know this would be easier with a windows comp but i dont have one.
can anyone help me