So I'm not so versed at this stuff. But while updating a previously owned Tab A T387VVRU1AR15, I got stuck with failed startup, "This is old binary. Please update latest binary!" Did this tab have a custom O.s.? I think it got to the 6.5 update and crashed after trying to just do the conventional updates. What is the best way to recover this device?
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Hi,
First time Android user and getting to grips with the whole flashing scene.
Have 1905 Factory unlocked model with 4.3 stock.
My network recently launched 4G but only mobiles bought from them directly recieved the OTA update to enable it.
I was getting frustrated with the battery life aswell so I decided to try install a custom rom - namely one of the google edition 4.4.2 ones.
I have the phone rooted,wiped etc but every time I try to install eitheir of the two custom builds I downloaded I get the "footer is wrong" message twice followed by verification failure. I have renamed the build to update.zip.
Am i missing something obvious here? Is it even possible?
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android182 said:
Hi,
First time Android user and getting to grips with the whole flashing scene.
Have 1905 Factory unlocked model with 4.3 stock.
My network recently launched 4G but only mobiles bought from them directly recieved the OTA update to enable it.
I was getting frustrated with the battery life aswell so I decided to try install a custom rom - namely one of the google edition 4.4.2 ones.
I have the phone rooted,wiped etc but every time I try to install eitheir of the two custom builds I downloaded I get the "footer is wrong" message twice followed by verification failure. I have renamed the build to update.zip.
Am i missing something obvious here? Is it even possible?
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Hello i have the same issue ,have you fix this problem allready .
And how tell me please .
So, my friend directed me to this site to receive assistance, I'll keep things short and simple. I have a Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime
Model: SM-G530AZ
Bought it from "Cricket Wireless"
So a few months ago, I lost some data (pictures/videos) and I was trying to recover them with software I found online "Kingoroot" so now my phone is rooted, and I'm trying to unroot it so that I can once again receive OTA updates.
I've tried factory resetting but that did not solve my issue, as during boot up, the phone still has some customer lockpad that's unlocked image, and when I click system software update in my settings, I get an error message stating "device was modified in an unauthorized manner"
During the rooting process , /system is mounted RW .
If you boot to download mode , you'll see that your system status is Custom ...
This is why you can't get official update . ?
Hello all,
I recently discovered that my S5 was only running KitKat despite Marshmallow having been released for it. I checked for OTA updates and it found nothing, so I decided to flash a custom 6.0 ROM onto it (and for some reason I ended up deciding not to make a backup of the phone beforehand, the ultimate mistake).
The problem became that it didn't recognize Tracfone for my service provider and wouldn't connect to the mobile network. I then downgraded it to a 5.0 ROM, and it no longer even recognized the SIM card, saying there was none.
So I tried to flash the original stock ROM a few times, but every time either got errors from ODIN, the phone itself, or the TWRP bootloader.
Long story short, I seem to have screwed up multiple times trying to install a ROM to get around KitKat and now my phone appears to be softbricked. I can get into the TWRP menu and the "download" mode, but when trying to start the phone, it sits on the "Samsung Galaxy S5" screen with the "Set Warrenty Bit : kernel" text at the top left.
I'm just wondering if there's a way to fix it at this point, or if I've completely trashed the phone.
If anybody has suggestions or experience with this, all help is welcome!
Thanks!
MevNav said:
Hello all,
I recently discovered that my S5 was only running KitKat despite Marshmallow having been released for it. I checked for OTA updates and it found nothing, so I decided to flash a custom 6.0 ROM onto it (and for some reason I ended up deciding not to make a backup of the phone beforehand, the ultimate mistake).
The problem became that it didn't recognize Tracfone for my service provider and wouldn't connect to the mobile network. I then downgraded it to a 5.0 ROM, and it no longer even recognized the SIM card, saying there was none.
So I tried to flash the original stock ROM a few times, but every time either got errors from ODIN, the phone itself, or the TWRP bootloader.
Long story short, I seem to have screwed up multiple times trying to install a ROM to get around KitKat and now my phone appears to be softbricked. I can get into the TWRP menu and the "download" mode, but when trying to start the phone, it sits on the "Samsung Galaxy S5" screen with the "Set Warrenty Bit : kernel" text at the top left.
I'm just wondering if there's a way to fix it at this point, or if I've completely trashed the phone.
If anybody has suggestions or experience with this, all help is welcome!
Thanks!
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Are you sure you have the stock firmware for the 902l and not the 903vl? The reason you didn't get the update for 6.0 is you have the 902l model. If you had the 903vl model you'd have 6.0. Straight talk never released it for the 902l model. No idea why being both models are very similar. Im not sure but if you make it back to stock on kitkat. I think you can use safestrap from the Verizon s5 to use some custom roms that run kitkat. If your bootloader is in fact unlocked and you can install a custom recovery other then safestrap. I believe you can install pretty much anything but I'm pretty sure straight talk ships the phones with the Toshiba chip so the bootloader isn't unlockable
Hello, recently I've been rooting my SM-T555 like a year ago and something went down, and I think I didn't root it properly. But everything on it works perfectly fine, except one thing. When I try to update it from Android settings, it says something along the lines of "This device has been modified in unauthorized way. Try downloading devices using blablabla..". So my question is, would there be a way to completely unroot my table so I can update it this official way?
Hey guys, I recently tried to root my phone, went kinda wrong --> my phone got stuck in boot loop. I had to root it correctly to make it work again. Now, I wanted to buy something online but I couldn't bcs that came with the root or something? I got the notification to switch on OEM and something else with USB so, I did, without knowing to turn it off again. After a few weeks, visited another country but didn't got signal and stuff so I thought it would help if I'd put my phone off and back on. Y'all be facepalming right now, for sure. And yeah, I shouldn't have tried to root it in the first place because I had almost no knowledge about any of this so please spare me. Well, as you all know probably, I got the message that my FRP is locked so I tried to unlock it, using forums like these ones and others. They all said the same things but somehow they don't work with me. I downloaded a few Odin version because they all got stuck in SetupConnection or failed. I have downloaded the stock firmware and did everything I should (I think).
I downloaded this firmware:
"https://updato.com/firmware-archive-select-model/?record=9A306FC2821911E9951FFA163EE8F90B" (I can't post links yet because I'm a new user)
Like I said, I downloaded a few Odin version because I read somewhere that if your device has Android 8.0.0 or higher, your Odin had to be Odin3_v3.13 or higher. So I did, I downloaded 2 higher versions (Odin3_v3.13.1 and Odin3_v3.13.3) but also Odin3_v3.12.3. I tried my firmware on all of them but it keeps saying "FAIL", I know that's because it's not the right firmware but idk which other it could be then...
Also, does that new message I've got have impact on certain things? "SW REV. CHECK FAIL (BOOTLOADER) DEVICE: 4, BINARY: 3
I've spend hours and hours searching for a solution but there's always something in my way. And yes, I downloaded the Samsung USB driver and stuff, I tried the Samsung Switch method but the app doesn't 'support this device'. I've seen guys with the same problem getting send from one link to another to download things, I'm willing to delete all I've already downloaded before if it just works... I feel like apologizing for doing stuff I didn't know much about. Please let me know if I explained something poorly, my head is just everywhere it shouldn't be right now. Thanks in advance.
Phone model: Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge
Version: SM-G935F
Android version 8.0.0 Oreo