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Soft bricked n900

I'm not sure which version of the Note 3 I have. I know for sure its the n900 but not which country it's from I used Odin to try get it back to stock but its stuck on "firmware upgrade encountered an issue..". I also tried samsung kies but that didn't work either, How do I revive this?
Edit: I just figured out I could enter "download mode" so what can I do?

Well I managed to fix this. I'm just posting an update to help anyone who ran into the same problem.
-I just went to the samsung site > went through the firmware one by one > flashed via odin.
-I ended up getting android kitkat while my phone was rooted so that's pretty cool.
-the app that stuffed up my phone (even after following all the instructions) SoftKey Enabler. It even happened to someone else...next time I'll read the reviews lol.

FRP.....im not willing to give up. but this has been a battle.

im at my witts end. I have a galaxy s5 sm-g900t3 firmware 6.01 that I brought from a guy on CL.long story short. he didn't remember his gmail info n now I cant do anything with the phone due to frp....this has been a month long battle with me trying to find the answer.
1. sidesync did nor recognize phone
2. odin .....tried to downgrade fw in hopes of bypassing frp ....odin error "nand write start!fail auth.....when I look at the phone,it says "sw rev check fail [abot] fused3> binary
3.Otb cable......my otb cable did nothing when plugged into my phone with mem card.
4.Realterm...after putting command [atd number ;\r\n] I was directed to go to http goo.gl /hk80wd........"your request has been denied for security reasons"
im trying to upload pics to clarify.
please someone give me a hand?

iszak76 said:
im at my witts end. I have a galaxy s5 sm-g900t3 firmware 6.01 that I brought from a guy on CL.long story short. he didn't remember his gmail info n now I cant do anything with the phone due to frp....this has been a month long battle with me trying to find the answer.
1. sidesync did nor recognize phone
2. odin .....tried to downgrade fw in hopes of bypassing frp ....odin error "nand write start!fail auth.....when I look at the phone,it says "sw rev check fail [abot] fused3> binary
3.Otb cable......my otb cable did nothing when plugged into my phone with mem card.
4.Realterm...after putting command [atd number ;\r\n] I was directed to go to http goo.gl /hk80wd........"your request has been denied for security reasons"
im trying to upload pics to clarify.
please someone give me a hand?
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i ran into this when i was trying to fix mt dads S5 and i wasnt able to get around it. Had to get his samsung account credentials to log in and get past it. Im not sure what luck youre gonna have without paying for it by a third party service like isoneapps.com. I know they can do it, but ive searched for the exact same thing with no luck.

I'm a noob and I need help/advice Sm T-330NU

So I've searched the forums for a while now, and being the noob I am, I do not know what i am looking for. I was trying to root my daughters tablets (Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 8''). I used the CF auto root. Everything list on his download page matched perfectly with what the tablet said in the about device tab (I'm talking about the model number and all the version number were exact. So i use Odin and everything went perfectly. The tablet went through its steps and Odin said PASS in big green letters. But it got stuck in the screen that says "Samsung". So I let it sit there for a while and finally i held the power button and it rebooted. It booted up fully but it kept popping up that all the apps were stopping. Touchwiz and all the storage "has stopped" along with tons of other apps. So i can't go home to get to the apps. I can go into settings and do stuff, but I cant get anything else to work. Is there anything i can go to get Touchwiz to work so that I can navigate? I can provide more info if anyone is willing to help me. Please this my daughters favorite toy in the world. I'll donate $15 to anyone who can help me get the tablet back functional. Thanks! I am such an idiot. I have no idea what I am doing and no clue why I decided to root her tablet.

Duster1d said:
So I've searched the forums for a while now, and being the noob I am, I do not know what i am looking for. I was trying to root my daughters tablets (Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 8''). I used the CF auto root. Everything list on his download page matched perfectly with what the tablet said in the about device tab (I'm talking about the model number and all the version number were exact. So i use Odin and everything went perfectly. The tablet went through its steps and Odin said PASS in big green letters. But it got stuck in the screen that says "Samsung". So I let it sit there for a while and finally i held the power button and it rebooted. It booted up fully but it kept popping up that all the apps were stopping. Touchwiz and all the storage "has stopped" along with tons of other apps. So i can't go home to get to the apps. I can go into settings and do stuff, but I can't get anything else to work. Is there anything i can go to get Touchwiz to work so that I can navigate? I can provide more info if anyone is willing to help me. Please this my daughter's favorite toy in the world. I'll donate $15 to anyone who can help me get the tablet back functional. Thanks! I am such an idiot. I have no idea what I am doing and no clue why I decided to root her tablet.
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*UPDATE*
I was able to do a factory reset and start over. Although still have the custom kernel warning when it reboots. Is there a way to get rid of that? Thanks!

Do not use CF Auto Root for now, use chainfire's latest Systemless Root, in this time of writing, i can't find the link to his latest systemless root zip, flash it using a custom recovery.
About that kernel warning, it means that you modified something OR rather the CF Auto Root you flashed in the kernel, this happens also when you flash a custom firmware. You can't remove it. But beware if this warning comes out whenever you restart or power on the device, you might have triggered the KNOX status to 0x1 and that means your warranty is now borked and sammy can use it whenever you want a repair from them to deny your request.

Need Help With Account Verification on Samsung Galaxy Tab E SM-T560NU?

I have recently master reset my tablet Samsung Galaxy Tab E SM-T560NU and i forgot that i had my old email synced in that i don't remember my password, now i am stuck with account verification saying this device was reset please use last sign in information that i used before which i don't know the password. System is android 7, does anyone have a working solution for this to bypass this security issue most recent, i have tried other different ways but nothing has worked yet. I would appreciate for someone to help. I also tried to install TWRP but sadly the OEM Unlock is disabled so i cant even install that or root though that would help with this but i cant do unless OEM Is enabled.

Anyone got a working solution for this?

I think i screwed myself (Galaxy S8 Root)

Hey i couldnt find anything else so i hope this isnt a duplicate,
im somewhat of a noob when it comes to rooting but i know a little bit
Today i rooted my Galaxy s8 , everything whet smooth and without a problem,
but then for some reason i deactivated the OEM unlock and rebooted my phone.
Obviously that locked me out of my phone, after trying to flash my phone with the stock firmware that i downloded through samfirm
i got the error sw rev check fail bootloader device 5 binary 4 and i couldnt get that to work.
My next step was to try the Samsung smart switch emergency recovery, which failed.
I got the error that my device was not supported.
After that my S8 also stared showing me a blueish screen with the message : "An error has occurred while updating the device software....",
i can still access downlod mode tho
At this point i really dont know what to do and i should really be in bed because its 2 in the morning .
I really hope someone can help me out here, thanks in advance and a good night for now.

Hirnvitamin said:
Hey i couldnt find anything else so i hope this isnt a duplicate,
im somewhat of a noob when it comes to rooting but i know a little bit
Today i rooted my Galaxy s8 , everything whet smooth and without a problem,
but then for some reason i deactivated the OEM unlock and rebooted my phone.
Obviously that locked me out of my phone, after trying to flash my phone with the stock firmware that i downloded through samfirm
i got the error sw rev check fail bootloader device 5 binary 4 and i couldnt get that to work.
My next step was to try the Samsung smart switch emergency recovery, which failed.
I got the error that my device was not supported.
After that my S8 also stared showing me a blueish screen with the message : "An error has occurred while updating the device software....",
i can still access downlod mode tho
At this point i really dont know what to do and i should really be in bed because its 2 in the morning .
I really hope someone can help me out here, thanks in advance and a good night for now.
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Device 5 binary 4 means you are flashing lower version of firmware than what is on your phone. Samsung will let you downgrade ( bootloader ) versions numbers.
You will need to flash a bootloader 5 or higher to fix.
Note: Don't relock oem in developer option.

spawnlives said:
Device 5 binary 4 means you are flashing lower version of firmware than what is on your phone. Samsung will let you downgrade ( bootloader ) versions numbers.
You will need to flash a bootloader 5 or higher to fix.
Note: Don't relock oem in developer option.
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Thanks for your reply!
That's what I found out too but I couldn't find a "higher" bootloader, I would have thought that if I download it through SamFirm it should have the proper BL
Do you have any recommendations on where to download the proper bootloader?
Yea that was a big f**k up haha
I just tried to get Poke Go to run but it wouldn't let me login because it detected that the Device was rooted I guess and after changing my device fingerprint and adding PokeGo to MagiskHide and still not being able to login I followed some FAQ blindly Wich recommended to turn off OEM unlock, and other things to hide the hardware site or the root, thinking about it again it should have been super obvious that this is a stupid idea, but you are always smarter afterwards right? Haha

spawnlives said:
Device 5 binary 4 means you are flashing lower version of firmware than what is on your phone. Samsung will let you downgrade ( bootloader ) versions numbers.
You will need to flash a bootloader 5 or higher to fix.
Note: Don't relock oem in developer option.
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Wow I feel stupid, I'm flashing the stock through Odin right now as I type this, I've downloaded 2 firmwares first one was a random one from online second one was the SamFirm , after realizing the first didnt work I must have deleted the samfirm variant by accident, I redownloaded it and now it's working , but thanks for replying!