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[Q] Soft Bricked after Flashing Back

After I updated my Verizon Galaxy S5 to Lollipop, I tried to flash a lower version official .tar through Odin, and got stuck in a bootloop I can still flash .tars through Odin, but I cannot actually use my phone. How do I get my phone working again? Can I?

waffleman1230 said:
After I updated my Verizon Galaxy S5 to Lollipop, I tried to flash a lower version official .tar through Odin, and got stuck in a bootloop I can still flash .tars through Odin, but I cannot actually use my phone. How do I get my phone working again? Can I?
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Can you be more specific? What TAR did you flash? Did you flash an older corresponding kernel?
What is your ultimate goal?

Thanks
kprice8 said:
Can you be more specific? What TAR did you flash? Did you flash an older corresponding kernel?
What is your ultimate goal?
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I figured out how to restore on my own. Turns out I can only restore to NCG. I fixed my own problem. Thanks for helping though!
To any users who visit this form in the future, you can only flash back to NCG after updating to OTA Stock Lollipop.

waffleman1230 said:
I figured out how to restore on my own. Turns out I can only restore to NCG. I fixed my own problem. Thanks for helping though!
To any users who visit this form in the future, you can only flash back to NCG after updating to OTA Stock Lollipop.
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This is not true. You can restore back to whatever version you want. If you get stuck in a bootloop just hold down the home, volume down and power buttons for about 10 seconds and the phone will boot in to a maintenance menu. From there select factory data reset with the volume down key and then press the home button to execute the option. It should boot normally after that. To avoid this just enter the stock recovery after flashing the tar in Odin and factory data reset from there.

I think I know what you did
waffleman1230 said:
After I updated my Verizon Galaxy S5 to Lollipop, I tried to flash a lower version official .tar through Odin, and got stuck in a bootloop I can still flash .tars through Odin, but I cannot actually use my phone. How do I get my phone working again? Can I?
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If you downgraded the kernal it won't let you so you have to go back to a lower verison of android or flash the lollipop kernel

Stock ROM Backup

Hi,
I have rooted and installed TWRP on my 910F Note4 as I was fed up waiting on the lollipop update rolling out. I am currently on 4.4.4 and have made a full backup using TWRP of the stock rom.
My intention was flashing the Cyanogen ROM and using that, but i now see on sammobile there is a stock 5.01 rom available. I have a few questions about this.
1. If I flash to Cyanogen can I still revert back to the stock rom 4.4.4 I have made a backup with? I read somewhere there might be problems as I was on KitKat then moved to lollipop(Cyanogen).
2. Can I flash the stock lollipop rom from within TWRP? Or do you have to do this via ODIN?
3. If I flash the Lollipop stock ROM with Odin I assume I will lose root and TWRP? So this would have to done again?
Guess I am asking what is the best way to proceed?
Thanks again
Paul

pmlfrew said:
Hi,
I have rooted and installed TWRP on my 910F Note4 as I was fed up waiting on the lollipop update rolling out. I am currently on 4.4.4 and have made a full backup using TWRP of the stock rom.
My intention was flashing the Cyanogen ROM and using that, but i now see on sammobile there is a stock 5.01 rom available. I have a few questions about this.
1. If I flash to Cyanogen can I still revert back to the stock rom 4.4.4 I have made a backup with? I read somewhere there might be problems as I was on KitKat then moved to lollipop(Cyanogen).
2. Can I flash the stock lollipop rom from within TWRP? Or do you have to do this via ODIN?
3. If I flash the Lollipop stock ROM with Odin I assume I will lose root and TWRP? So this would have to done again?
Guess I am asking what is the best way to proceed?
Thanks again
Paul
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hi Paul,
1. i beleve to flash CM from kitkat you will need to install the lollipop bootloader first.
2. You have to flash the stock rom via Odin, you will keep all apps settings and files but you will lose root (you u can re root in 3 minutes)
Best thing you could do is flash the stock rom first with odin, see how that feels (IMO its good been using it for months now) and then root it and back it up and flash CM12 (you dont have to flash any boatloader at this point)
grtz
Luc

Racinghart91 said:
hi Paul,
1. i beleve to flash CM from kitkat you will need to install the lollipop bootloader first.
2. You have to flash the stock rom via Odin, you will keep all apps settings and files but you will lose root (you u can re root in 3 minutes)
Best thing you could do is flash the stock rom first with odin, see how that feels (IMO its good been using it for months now) and then root it and back it up and flash CM12 (you dont have to flash any boatloader at this point)
grtz
Luc
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Thanks will flash to lollipop today then....

pmlfrew said:
Thanks will flash to lollipop today then....
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Ok tried to flash Stock O2 UK lollipop ROM via ODIN and got error message on screen. MD5 too big or something. Had to pull battery on phone. Had to then reflash TWRP. Got back into TWRP and tried to do a recovery of the backup I took but phone is stuck at Galaxy note 4 screen. It then shuts down and restarts and gets to the same screen again.
Do I try a different ROM? What can I do?
Thanks
Paul

pmlfrew said:
Ok tried to flash Stock O2 UK lollipop ROM via ODIN and got error message on screen. MD5 too big or something. Had to pull battery on phone. Had to then reflash TWRP. Got back into TWRP and tried to do a recovery of the backup I took but phone is stuck at Galaxy note 4 screen. It then shuts down and restarts and gets to the same screen again.
Do I try a different ROM? What can I do?
Thanks
Paul
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I got it working by flashing the German non branded ROM... Got the error message again but then used a "All samsung recovery.tar" as stated on another post in here and it booted fine eventually... Now on Lollipop. Now time to flash with TWRP.... Again!!!

Please, i need help !
I need help, urgently !
My Note 4 SM-N910C does not work. I can enter the Recovery and the Download Mode. When attempting to install a Custom ROM gives me an error that says I have no data. In the internal memory I have 0mb.
I tried using odin, but I can not .. Salta error.
Someone who can make a backup of your phone (which is factory), leave me a link to download it? So I install the TWRP. Please.
They have another solution?
Thank you.:good:

Anyway to revert back to 100% Stock?

So I need to revert my OP2 back to 100% stock. I found my self some flashable stock firmwares but I'm not certain if using odin would work. Im noob at this lol. I currently have installed TWRP and root on my OP2. Can anyone tell me the process to undergo in order to go back to 100% stock

Yeah flash the 2.0 image and then apply the ota update. This will give you stock firmware and recovery.

dj_aj said:
Yeah flash the 2.0 image and then apply the ota update. This will give you stock firmware and recovery.
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so it's safe to use odin then?

shigi1231 said:
so it's safe to use odin then?
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Do not use Odin for anything related to OnePlus devices. Odin is used to flash firmware on Samsung phones.
Just flash the stock recovery image through TWRP. Wipe cahce & dalvik. Let the phone boot into Oxygen OS 2.0. It will then prompt you to update the firmware to 2.1.1. Apply that update and it will get you back to stock on the latest firmware.

dj_aj said:
Do not use Odin for anything related to OnePlus devices. Odin is used to flash firmware on Samsung phones.
Just flash the stock recovery image through TWRP. Wipe cahce & dalvik. Let the phone boot into Oxygen OS 2.0. It will then prompt you to update the firmware to 2.1.1. Apply that update and it will get you back to stock on the latest firmware.
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I did what you say, and I'm back to stock! THank you! Also after doing full reset, TWRP prompted me if it were to overwrite the stock recovery, i said no, and then the device is 100% stock again!

HLTEVZW 5.0 Recovery Image

I rooted my hltevzw 5.0 which has a locked bootloader with CMF 4.4... I'm on 5.0. That resulted in my entered a boot loop after corrupting my recovery partition. I flashed another file that got me back in the phone... but I don't have the stock 5.0 recovery and every custom recovery for this phone is 4.4.
Can anyone who used the yemen or dr.android root for 5.0 make me an img.tar that I can flash to fix my seandroid not enforcing error when I try to use stock 5.0 recovery?

cyberoptics said:
I rooted my hltevzw 5.0 which has a locked bootloader with CMF 4.4... I'm on 5.0. That resulted in my entered a boot loop after corrupting my recovery partition. I flashed another file that got me back in the phone... but I don't have the stock 5.0 recovery and every custom recovery for this phone is 4.4.
Can anyone who used the yemen or dr.android root for 5.0 make me an img.tar that I can flash to fix my seandroid not enforcing error when I try to use stock 5.0 recovery?
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Cyberoptics,
It's bad form to post the same request in multiple threads.
You'll probably have to odin back the official OF1 5.0 image and start fresh.
Cheers,
B.D.

cyberoptics said:
I rooted my hltevzw 5.0 which has a locked bootloader with CMF 4.4... I'm on 5.0. That resulted in my entered a boot loop after corrupting my recovery partition. I flashed another file that got me back in the phone... but I don't have the stock 5.0 recovery and every custom recovery for this phone is 4.4.
Can anyone who used the yemen or dr.android root for 5.0 make me an img.tar that I can flash to fix my seandroid not enforcing error when I try to use stock 5.0 recovery?
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Image here : https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347806840
recovery here : https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347806842
That is what you need right ?

aaroon200 said:
Image here : https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347806840
recovery here : https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347806842
That is what you need right ?
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YES! The recovery imaged flashed in Odin and I'm looking at my stock recovery.
Why folks told me to re-image my boot partion I have no idea... the recovery image is a whole different partition than the data... absolutely no reason to lose data.
Thanks again aaroon!

cyberoptics said:
YES! The recovery imaged flashed in Odin and I'm looking at my stock recovery.
Why folks told me to re-image my boot partion I have no idea... the recovery image is a whole different partition than the data... absolutely no reason to lose data.
Thanks again aaroon!
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Ok no problem, but please don't flash any custom recovery (ClockworkMod/TWRP) on your note 3, it won't work , the only option is to download " flash fire" if you want to flash the JasmineROM v6.1 or something else.

i'm try but not working on 5.0.

aaroon200 said:
Ok no problem, but please don't flash any custom recovery (ClockworkMod/TWRP) on your note 3, it won't work , the only option is to download " flash fire" if you want to flash the JasmineROM v6.1 or something else.
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I have SM-900V verizon note 3 and I am running the latest TWRP...
And Running JasmineROM v6.1 after using TWRP to flash it.

@CL3WL3SS
You are commenting on a thread from March 2016 - a time when boot loader unlocking was not available to retail Note3 phone owners.
There's probably not much point in reviving old threads and correcting folks over points that they could not possibly have been aware of.
But yeah, *now* you can run TWRP in the recovery of an unlocked bootloader phone. They didn't have that option in March.

bftb0 said:
@CL3WL3SS
You are commenting on a thread from March 2016 - a time when boot loader unlocking was not available to retail Note3 phone owners.
There's probably not much point in reviving old threads and correcting folks over points that they could not possibly have been aware of.
But yeah, *now* you can run TWRP in the recovery of an unlocked bootloader phone. They didn't have that option in March.
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Sorry I didn't go back that far, I thought. I will definitely look at the dates from now on. Apologies.

how to use flasfire
CL3WL3SS said:
I have SM-900V verizon note 3 and I am running the latest TWRP...
And Running JasmineROM v6.1 after using TWRP to flash it.
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How did u do that my friend? Is flashfirelike safestrap? Locked bootloader bypass?

Need help upgrading bootloader and modem

I've gotten no help at all with this. Very unlike this forum. My phone is a kltevew, which is straight talks version of a g900v. I need help, there are lots of great looking Roms that require you to have mm firmware I'd like to try!

Not sure why I'm getting g no responses on this. Surely someone must know something... The only response I got was not only not helpful but jerky and obnoxious. Doesn't anyone know how to upgrade the firmware on my phone? (And no, google has no answers for me on this.. I look everyday)

ddjr said:
Not sure why I'm getting g no responses on this. Surely someone must know something... The only response I got was not only not helpful but jerky and obnoxious. Doesn't anyone know how to upgrade the firmware on my phone? (And no, google has no answers for me on this.. I look everyday)
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Download it with samfirm http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-s/general/tool-samfirm-samsung-firmware-t2988647 (Model= SM-G900V Region= VZW) or from sammobile http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/database/SM-G900V/ , do you know how to flash firmware with odin?

I do. Thanks so much for responding. Every time I try with Odin, a few different releases, it always gives me the error message fail. Can it be done with flashfire?

What stands in the log of odin when the flash completes?

Ill have to do it again to see... Be back in a bit!

I think it says FAIL! modem but I'll have to run it again... Brb

Last night I used flash fire to install firmware. That didn't get past the red Verizon logo, so I put twrp on it with Odin. Twrp showed it as dpd1, but it just wouldn't boot. So I wiped it once and flashed a ROM that requires mm firmware. Same thing, justbootloop. So I put stock back on it, then mokee 6.0.1. which works, I'm just not on mm firmware and all the great new roms are still unavailable to me.

ddjr said:
Last night I used flash fire to install firmware. That didn't get past the red Verizon logo, so I put twrp on it with Odin. Twrp showed it as dpd1, but it just wouldn't boot. So I wiped it once and flashed a ROM that requires mm firmware. Same thing, justbootloop. So I put stock back on it, then mokee 6.0.1. which works, I'm just not on mm firmware and all the great new roms are still unavailable to me.
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Have you enabled the option to flash bootloader on flashfire setting?

What? No, I haven't... but do do right now. Thanks for the tip! Actually, where would I find it?

So would I do it in this order? Flash the dpd1 bootloader, then modem, them rom, then jrkruse patch? All in flash fire?

ddjr said:
So would I do it in this order? Flash the dpd1 bootloader, then modem, them rom, then jrkruse patch? All in flash fire?
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It's in setting of flashfire...but only do it if odin doesn't work because do it from flashfire is more riskiy...
1)do a backup
2)check the bootloader flash option
3)install the firmware with all the wipe except internal storage(it mean that flashfire delete /data excluding /data/media/0 (sdcard) but include it in your backup copy because you never know )
4)wait till reboot skip setup wizard "spamming" the next button then install the rom with flashfire or twrp
On the flashfire site i found this:
Flash bootloaders
"This setting controls if FlashFire will attempt to flash bootloader partitions. By default, bootloader partitions are only read and never written. Even when enabled, flashing bootloader partitions may not succeed - many devices have protections in place against the bootloaders being overwritten.
Please note that flashing bootloaders is extremely dangerous. Any bug, error, or failure may result in an unrecoverable hard-brick. Do not use this feature unless you know exactly what you are doing.
Due to the danger of this feature, it is automatically turned off every time FlashFire starts. You have to manually re-enable it every time you want to use it.
If you must flash bootloaders, it is advised to use a bootloader-based flashing tool such as fastboot or ODIN to do it, as these are the safest methods. OTAs may also update bootloaders, and though slightly less safe than fastboot/ODIN, it is still much safer than having FlashFire flash bootloader partitions directly."
So i suggest to try to flash the firmware directly from odin first

No dice... still doesn't boot up past the red Verizon logo

ddjr said:
No dice... still doesn't boot up past the red Verizon logo
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did you install the firmware in the "AP" box on odin? (after you factory reset your phone)

I did. At this point guess I'm lucky I haven't bricked my phone. Ive tried every possible combination, nothing works!

ddjr said:
I did. At this point guess I'm lucky I haven't bricked my phone. Ive tried every possible combination, nothing works!
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Redownload the firmware extract it again,factory reset your phone,and try to install the firmware,maybe it's a bad download

Should I be flashing a kernel too? Will it even start/boot without the right kernel?

find out if you phone is refurbished. to install stock ROM you would need the main board and boot to be the same model.
if it's not, then you just need to install bootloader/modem without full ROM. look around in xda for bootloader/modem.