It seems that it should be possible to make recovery SD using Odin T Flash. I was able to hard brick my phone by downgrading the firmware to 4.4.4, so would like to see if it would wake up again by SD boot. Is there a file available? I don't have another similar A500FU phone available for creating the file.
It seems that I'm not the only one who have bricked the phone by downgrading to 4.4.4 firmware. Is there any place where such a SD recovery file could been found?
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For anyone who doesn't wanna wait for the OTA to hit your phone (because some phones might take awhile) just download this file and place it on your EXTERNAL SD CARD and then power off your phone and boot into stock recovery and apply update from external sd card.
You must be on unrooted stock NAE ROM and stock recovery to take the OTA update.
Also if your phones fails to update the baseband then just use Odin to flash the MK2 modem and then reflash the NAE modem and take the OTA again (that worked for me)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1u83mpbu2j18qbp/Update.zip
Also you might need a computer to place the file on your external sd card because of the "Write to sd card issue" that was introduced in the Kitkat update.
Have S5 SM-G900F - 16GB with PhilZ Touch 6.26.2 and Clockworkmod V6.0.4.7
Was using XtreStoLite_ROM_v2.2_LP_XXU1BOD3 and Blaze.Kernel_ver15 that I installed through SD card and Recovery.
As my S7 has shipped (finally) I want the GF to have my old S5 but need THL (Thailand) system support (I.E. not just thai language but also on the system menus).
I downloaded what I thought was a ROM for this but at the end of Odin flash I had Bad EXT4 flash and on phone 'invalid ext image size is too big'
Reading through the thread someone stated you need the .PIT.
I have ALWAYS avoided these but tried the SM-G900F_pit_16GB file. Yes I need a slap, I know better.....
OK so here it is, I do not know if NAND is corrupt as I do not know the symptoms.
Also, if I only have a soft brick, what is the best approach for recovery / ROM flash ?
Do I always need to do it from SD card / Recovery using a .zip?
Current state of phone.
Seen in Odin.
Can go into download mode.
Can now go into Recovery mode after flashing philz_touch_6.26.2-klte.tar.md5 in Odin.
Reboot loop (obviously, not valid ROM on it now).
I am assuming all is good and it's not a BAD brick, but still have not had a successful flash.
Many thanks
Yes I don't have many posts because I have always searched and found answers, but this time I am a little unsure and don't want to royally screw it up.
Help is much appreciated.
FizzerUK said:
Have S5 SM-G900F - 16GB with PhilZ Touch 6.26.2 and Clockworkmod V6.0.4.7
Was using XtreStoLite_ROM_v2.2_LP_XXU1BOD3 and Blaze.Kernel_ver15 that I installed through SD card and Recovery.
As my S7 has shipped (finally) I want the GF to have my old S5 but need THL (Thailand) system support (I.E. not just thai language but also on the system menus).
I downloaded what I thought was a ROM for this but at the end of Odin flash I had Bad EXT4 flash and on phone 'invalid ext image size is too big'
Reading through the thread someone stated you need the .PIT.
I have ALWAYS avoided these but tried the SM-G900F_pit_16GB file. Yes I need a slap, I know better.....
OK so here it is, I do not know if NAND is corrupt as I do not know the symptoms.
Also, if I only have a soft brick, what is the best approach for recovery / ROM flash ?
Do I always need to do it from SD card / Recovery using a .zip?
Current state of phone.
Seen in Odin.
Can go into download mode.
Can now go into Recovery mode after flashing philz_touch_6.26.2-klte.tar.md5 in Odin.
Reboot loop (obviously, not valid ROM on it now).
I am assuming all is good and it's not a BAD brick, but still have not had a successful flash.
Many thanks
Yes I don't have many posts because I have always searched and found answers, but this time I am a little unsure and don't want to royally screw it up.
Help is much appreciated.
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Have you tried to flash a stock rom from sammobile ?
Soufiansky said:
Have you tried to flash a stock rom from sammobile ?
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Yeah!
I tried various and get EXT4 file size incorrect errors.
It was the .PIT incident that was lead from that error.
I have since re-acquired the original de-oxed ROM and flashed that from .zip on SDcard.
All good now, I just thank god I didn't screw it up with a .PIT file.
I was lucky! Leave them files for the DEV's and ignore posts that suggest getting a .PIT file and trying that for .EXT4 partition errors.
Reading posts later, chances are that your getting that error because you have the wrong ROM to flash, having a hidden partition in the ROM, from someone like the UK EE provider.
Hope you remembered to disable reactivation lock during first boot
The reason the ROM was removed in the first place...
Hi,
Been working on this problem for a few days and getting frustrated.
I soft bricked my SM-T337A, and while reflashing the stock OS from this post using Odin, the cord disconnected from the computer.
Now the tablet won't go into download/fastboot mode so I can reinstall the OS using Odin files. I can access SD storage, however, and was wondering if anyone had a .zip recovery file for SM-T337A Lollipop. If not, does anyone know if/how it's possible to convert Odin files to a bootable .zip file?
Thanks.
Hey all,
How would I create a debrick img for my samsung J500F?
What tools would I use?
I have a 16GB SD card I would like to put the image on, as well and the firmware (a.k.a. stock rom) for the phone
I bricked my phone and would like to try this method to restore it.
Thanks.
nikole13 said:
Hey all,
How would I create a debrick img for my samsung J500F?
What tools would I use?
I have a 16GB SD card I would like to put the image on, as well and the firmware (a.k.a. stock rom) for the phone
I bricked my phone and would like to try this method to restore it.
Thanks.
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You can reinstall stock firmware with odin. You can find your firmware on sammobile.com
Dear friends!
I have the device sm-t533. It was on kitkat4.4.4 and i rooted by using kingroot app. Later i decided to update to latest firmware via samsung smartswich and did the update. But after the update i am unable to boot the device. No power no download mode, no recovery mode. I tried 300k jig method but no luck. It was hard bricked. I recently found a solution sd card boot method for galaxy s3 device. I would like to try the method but my bad luck is i have not any other same device to create debrick boot file. Dear friends kindly anyone can create and share the debrick sd card boot file please...?
Anyone having rooted kitkat version of the same device? Please help me..
ajeeva said:
Dear friends!
I have the device sm-t533. It was on kitkat4.4.4 and i rooted by using kingroot app. Later i decided to update to latest firmware via samsung smartswich and did the update. But after the update i am unable to boot the device. No power no download mode, no recovery mode. I tried 300k jig method but no luck. It was hard bricked. I recently found a solution sd card boot method for galaxy s3 device. I would like to try the method but my bad luck is i have not any other same device to create debrick boot file. Dear friends kindly anyone can create and share the debrick sd card boot file please...?
Anyone having rooted kitkat version of the same device? Please help me..
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Method for getting debrick image here at #25# :https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2549068&page=3
Anyone have a debrick file for the SM-T533?
Godsend999 said:
Anyone have a debrick file for the SM-T533?
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Use Stock ROM downloaded from Sammobile and FLASH using ODIN V14
Back working again.
Best way to restore back to working. Then you experiment with Rooting with Magisk and NEW ROMS.
Cheers