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Need help regarding which frimware to flash

I have s5 900F and i've installed sixperience rom and now i want to downgrade it to stock rom, Im in india and had purchased this phone from Hong Kong, dont have any idea about which frimware should i install.. I can flash the rom but please help me with the url about which firmware to install..
Thanks please respond as soon as possible
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Are you sure that you are running the G900F, make sure to boot into download mode to find the proper phone model.
Then find the latest firmware from sam mobile that supports your aforementioned phone number found on the download mode.
Download Odin, and flash away. Does not really matter what android version, just make sure your phone model number matches.
Reboot your phone and make sure to do a clear of cache and data wipe, just to avoid those bootloops.

Can not upgrade or install roms

I have Maximum OvrDrive 7.1 installed on my Note4 I've downloaded 6.0.1 firmware from sammobile, tried to flash via Odin, install different roms all with fails. Last night I noticed while trying to flash in Odin the screen on my phone says it's the model 910t3. In the settings it says 910t. I have not tried downloading the t3 versions from sammobile and was wondering if this is the problem. I'm at work now and can not test this theory and was hoping one of you could help so I can upgrade when I get home. Thanks in advance

Nightcatfisher said:
I have Maximum OvrDrive 7.1 installed on my Note4 I've downloaded 6.0.1 firmware from sammobile, tried to flash via Odin, install different roms all with fails. Last night I noticed while trying to flash in Odin the screen on my phone says it's the model 910t3. In the settings it says 910t. I have not tried downloading the t3 versions from sammobile and was wondering if this is the problem. I'm at work now and can not test this theory and was hoping one of you could help so I can upgrade when I get home. Thanks in advance
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Whatever it says in download mode is the correct model of your phone. Go by download mode not settings

[Q] How do i know firmware of soft bricked I9500?

My GT-I9500 is stuck at Samsung logo after installing TWRP recovery and rebooting. I used flashy app. Now i am trying to find solution to recover my phone. When i enter recovery mode it is shown as stock recovery(IMO). i am newbie.
However i don't know my phone's firmware number. All i know is there is "LRX22C.I9500XXUHOAA" in stock recovery mode. Is this firmware version? what is it? Just like shown in this pic: (i can't post link. cuz it's my first post)
cdn.droidviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/galaxy-s6-recovery-screen.jpg
Using Kies 3 is no option. It doesn't show firmware version when i enter my S/N in firmware upgrade. (some error)
So my question is which version of stock firmware/rom should i download? Because there is no specific version for my country.
Please Help me. Thank in advance

Any for your device.

Put phone in downlad mode. Flash with Odin the tar version of Twrp.

What do you mean there is no specific one for your country?
It has to be one, flashing a firmware different from your country's may cause signal lost issue, or no sim card detected or imei problems, where are you from?
from where did you buy the phone?

Help recovering data

So I have a friend who decided to mess with his phone, of course without doing a backup, and now he's stuck in a situation that it can't boot even into recovery.
Currently all I see when booting to recovery:
Recovery Booting. . . . .
Set Warranty Bit : recovery
The phone is G900F
He has no idea what version was installed on it before.
I don't need the phone to boot, I need to recover the files on it.
Being a oneplus person myself, I'm not that familiar with samsung phones (my latest samsung was s2).
I've tried to install with odin (3.0.7 - if that matters) the following recoveries:
official twrp 2.8.7
twrp
cwm
All these recoveries showed "Recovery is not seandroid enforcing" message as well as the above when trying to boot into recoveries.
I've tried the official recovery as well:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/general/sm-g900f-stock-recovery-5-0-lollipop-t3228871
which removed the "seandroid" message, but that's all.
Not sure what I'm missing.
Any help would be appreciated!

Tahvok said:
So I have a friend who decided to mess with his phone, of course without doing a backup, and now he's stuck in a situation that it can't boot even into recovery.
Currently all I see when booting to recovery:
Recovery Booting. . . . .
Set Warranty Bit : recovery
The phone is G900F
He has no idea what version was installed on it before.
I don't need the phone to boot, I need to recover the files on it.
Being a oneplus person myself, I'm not that familiar with samsung phones (my latest samsung was s2).
I've tried to install with odin (3.0.7 - if that matters) the following recoveries:
official twrp 2.8.7
twrp
cwm
All these recoveries showed "Recovery is not seandroid enforcing" message as well as the above when trying to boot into recoveries.
I've tried the official recovery as well:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/general/sm-g900f-stock-recovery-5-0-lollipop-t3228871
which removed the "seandroid" message, but that's all.
Not sure what I'm missing.
Any help would be appreciated!
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Hmm...
I see that your friend messed up his phone very well .....
Hopefully the eMMC memory is not corrupted becuase then only motherboard replacement would be necessary.
Summarising what you wrote:
1. you flashed "official recovery 2.8.7" -> where did you get it from? 2.8.7 is the very old version!
2. you flashed unofficial TWRP very old (2014) recovery (I checked your link)
3. you flashed unofficial CWM very old (2014) recovery (I checked your link)
4. finally you flashed stock, from old OS 5.0 Lollipop recovery provided from entrusted source - nobody reported that it works in the thread.
I listed this for you in order to underline one thing - READ, READ, READ, ASK, ASK, ASK .... before flashing anything to the phone and tell it to your friend.
Le's start with flashing from ODIN ver 3.12.7 (I am using it) this version of TWRP:
twrp-3.1.1-0-klte.img.tar for G900F which is the latest official recovery:
https://twrp.me/samsung/samsunggalaxys5qualcomm.html
Read how to flash it with odin method (when you open the link).
Edit: Are you sure the phone is SM-G900F? Please check model number on the label under battery (inside the phone).
Edit2: When you enter odin mode check phone model version as well - it is provided by installed bootloader.

Many40 said:
Hmm...
I see that your friend messed up his phone very well .....
Hopefully the eMMC memory is not corrupted becuase then only motherboard replacement would be necessary.
Summarising what you wrote:
1. you flashed "official recovery 2.8.7" -> where did you get it from? 2.8.7 is the very old version!
2. you flashed unofficial TWRP very old (2014) recovery (I checked your link)
3. you flashed unofficial CWM very old (2014) recovery (I checked your link)
4. finally you flashed stock, from old OS 5.0 Lollipop recovery provided from entrusted source - nobody reported that it works in the thread.
I listed this for you in order to underline one thing - READ, READ, READ, ASK, ASK, ASK .... before flashing anything to the phone and tell it to your friend.
Le's start with flashing from ODIN ver 3.12.7 (I am using it) this version of TWRP:
twrp-3.1.1-0-klte.img.tar for G900F which is the latest official recovery:
https://twrp.me/samsung/samsunggalaxys5qualcomm.html
Read how to flash it with odin method (when you open the link).
Edit: Are you sure the phone is SM-G900F? Please check model number on the label under battery (inside the phone).
Edit2: When you enter odin mode check phone model version as well - it is provided by installed bootloader.
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First, thank you for trying to help me!
Please see attachments:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1euC7-CoBeeUQxTGXQnPPgRE2-5VxFXLh
You can see that it is indeed g900f. I've also checked under the battery.
I've flashed the recovery you asked, however I could not find odin 3.12.7 only 3.12.10, so I've flashed with that (the odin thread on xda does not provide a link for 3.12.7 download).
You can see that it's still not booting with that recovery, it's just stuck at "booting recovery" screen.
I'm thinking perhaps it has a bad bootloader? How would you suggest to proceed?

Tahvok said:
First, thank you for trying to help me!
Please see attachments:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1euC7-CoBeeUQxTGXQnPPgRE2-5VxFXLh
You can see that it is indeed g900f. I've also checked under the battery.
I've flashed the recovery you asked, however I could not find odin 3.12.7 only 3.12.10, so I've flashed with that (the odin thread on xda does not provide a link for 3.12.7 download).
You can see that it's still not booting with that recovery, it's just stuck at "booting recovery" screen.
I'm thinking perhaps it has a bad bootloader? How would you suggest to proceed?
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Ok. Let's continue ... I hope (as I had very similar situation) that the phone is not hardbricked and eMMC memory is not corrupted -> I faced this on my phone and finally had to replace motherboard.
But let's be optimistic:
1. For data recovery - I don't have a silver bullet for this but I found this software: http://www.recover-android-iphone.com/recover-android/how-to-recover-data-bricked-samsung.html
It needs working odin mode so under condition that it supports s5 G900F it should be able to restore some data.
2. For unbricking - I recommend to flash via odin the latest official Samsung stock firmware dedicated to your friend's country/region:
https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-s5/SM-G900F/
You must be registered to download the software. Link for odin 3.12.7 is available on the bottom of the download page.
Just to underline - odin flash most probably (anybody please confirm that) will wipe your data so be aware of that.
Good luck.

Many40 said:
Ok. Let's continue ... I hope (as I had very similar situation) that the phone is not hardbricked and eMMC memory is not corrupted -> I faced this on my phone and finally had to replace motherboard.
But let's be optimistic:
1. For data recovery - I don't have a silver bullet for this but I found this software: http://www.recover-android-iphone.com/recover-android/how-to-recover-data-bricked-samsung.html
It needs working odin mode so under condition that it supports s5 G900F it should be able to restore some data.
2. For unbricking - I recommend to flash via odin the latest official Samsung stock firmware dedicated to your friend's country/region:
https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-s5/SM-G900F/
You must be registered to download the software. Link for odin 3.12.7 is available on the bottom of the download page.
Just to underline - odin flash most probably (anybody please confirm that) will wipe your data so be aware of that.
Good luck.
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Why a full firmware is needed? Perhaps I can flash only the parts required to get into recovery? I count mount the phone from recovery, that's why it's my priority.
I would like to know also if odin will wipe everything if flashing a full firmware?

Tahvok said:
Why a full firmware is needed?
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Because it is commonly recommended way to unbrick a phone.
Perhaps I can flash only the parts required to get into recovery?
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Perhaps, yes. But:
1. I don't exactly know what restricts your recovery to run properly. Flashing separate recovery failed.
2. You, for example, could try flashing separately one of the latest bootloaders dedicated to G900F from BL section with odin but I doubt it would help.
I count mount the phone from recovery, that's why it's my priority.
I would like to know also if odin will wipe everything if flashing a full firmware?
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As far as I know yes but I am not 100% sure because I didn't try that myself on s5.
I would appreciate if somebody else confirms that.

Many40 said:
2. You, for example, could try flashing separately one of the latest bootloaders dedicated to G900F from BL section with odin but I doubt it would help.
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Can you suggest a bootloader for me? I would like to try that first.

Tahvok said:
Can you suggest a bootloader for me? I would like to try that first.
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In my opinion, if odin mode works then bootloader should be OK. But as you wish -
tell me first what stock firmware will you later on trying to flash on your friends phone or in which country the phone will be operated.

Many40 said:
In my opinion, if odin mode works then bootloader should be OK. But as you wish -
tell me first what stock firmware will you later on trying to flash on your friends phone or in which country the phone will be operated.
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Hong Kong

Tahvok said:
Hong Kong
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Latest available Firmware version for Hong Kong is G900FZHS1CQD1 however I can't find a separate flashable bootloader for you.
Generaly, in my opinion you might try any of the latest bootloaders compatible with SM-G900F phone (here you can find a collection: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=54094068&postcount=3, I am on G900FXXS1CQI4) but again:
1. I doubt it will help for entering recovery;
2. I still recommend to flash complete stock firmware to unbrick the phone.
However if you anyway decide to try with a bootloader, flash it with odin from BL section (untick auto reboot). Also turn off the phone before and after flashing and pull out battery for about 30 sec. It happens that bootloader doesn't flash properly at once even the odin says "PASS" so some people reported that they needed to repeat flashing a few times. I managed to flash bootloader at first time.

Unfortunateely the phone is not with me anymore, so I won't be able to continue testing. Thank you anyway for trying to help me! I really appreciate your help!

can someone upload full G950FOXM3CRG1 firmware or the new recovery ? got a problem

hello
today i updated my phone to G950FOXM3CRG1 using the ota update from here.
everything was fine until i decided to install TWRP
since than i got boot loop , so i tried to install full firmware from sammobile
i tried to install firmware with june path ( i cant fine full G950FOXM3CRG1 !!!!) and now my phone is stuck on " an error has...)
where can i find full G950FOXM3CRG1 or G950FOXM3CRG1 recovery ?
thanks !

lidor578 said:
hello
today i updated my phone to G950FOXM3CRG1 using the ota update from here.
everything was fine until i decided to install TWRP
since than i got boot loop , so i tried to install full firmware from sammobile
i tried to install firmware with june path ( i cant fine full G950FOXM3CRG1 !!!!) and now my phone is stuck on " an error has...)
where can i find full G950FOXM3CRG1 or G950FOXM3CRG1 recovery ?
thanks !
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maybe this helps, firmware crg1
http://renovate-ice.com/firmware.html

Thor1964 said:
maybe this helps, firmware crg1
http://renovate-ice.com/firmware.html
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thanks but i need stock recovery not twrp

now i cant install firmware from odin !!! its faild after 1 secend

lidor578 said:
now i cant install firmware from odin !!! its faild after 1 secend
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you do not have root? This firmware can only be flashed with root.
wait a few days until the official firmware comes out

i do not have root
twrp destroyed my phone
what can i do so i could use it ?

lidor578 said:
i do not have root
twrp destroyed my phone
what can i do so i could use it ?
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guess you have to wait until the official firmware from samsung comes out, then you can install the with odin.
I do not know any more, sorry

i think the reason i can not install version f7 with odin that the twrp destroyed something in my data
when i press start after 1 secend its failed
and its official firmware
but not G950FOXM3CRG1...one erlier...

lidor578 said:
i think the reason i can not install version f7 with odin that the twrp destroyed something in my data
when i press start after 1 secend its failed
and its official firmware
but not G950FOXM3CRG1...one erlier...
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you use twrp without root ?? twrp = works only with root

lidor578 said:
i think the reason i can not install version f7 with odin that the twrp destroyed something in my data
when i press start after 1 secend its failed
and its official firmware
but not G950FOXM3CRG1...one erlier...
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You have already upgraded your bootloader to version 3. You cannot flash older firmware now. You will have to wait for an official CRG1 firmware to be released
Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

use samfirm and zto region manual mode !
And you will can download the fw, i did it yesterday because i was stuck on blue screen and cant flash earlier fw because i updated through twrp fw of CRG1
https://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=819057&st=7220

Thor1964 said:
maybe this helps, firmware crg1
http://renovate-ice.com/firmware.html
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coroneta said:
use samfirm and zto region manual mode !
And you will can download the fw, i did it yesterday because i was stuck on blue screen and cant flash earlier fw because i updated through twrp fw of CRG1
https://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=819057&st=7220
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when i use samfirm i can download all the versions exept the new !
when i tried i got this
Checking firmware for SM-G950F/ZTO/G950FXXS3CRG1 /G950FOXM3CRG1/G950FXXS3CRG1 /G950FXXS3CRG1
Error: Could not send BinaryInform. Status code 200/400
Request was invalid. Are you sure the input data is correct?
can you upload for me the full firmware ?

You have to put the region in manual mode and write the name of the fw like in the thread i linked before of 4pda.ru !

coroneta said:
You have to put the region in manual mode and write the name of the fw like in the thread i linked before of 4pda.ru !
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i did it = the same error

This is why you create a back up

Help ? I flashed the new firmware and now i cant use :
Samsung browser - secret mode
Secure folder
Samsung health
What can i do ? I didnt root my phone just flashed twrp
Now i have stock rom

lidor578 said:
Help ? I flashed the new firmware and now i cant use :
Samsung browser - secret mode
Secure folder
Samsung health
What can i do ? I didnt root my phone just flashed twrp
Now i have stock rom
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Installing twrp trips your Knox.
So you never be able to use secure folder, s health etc ...
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S8 using XDA Labs

lidor578 said:
Help ? I flashed the new firmware and now i cant use :
Samsung browser - secret mode
Secure folder
Samsung health
What can i do ? I didnt root my phone just flashed twrp
Now i have stock rom
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Don't know if still helps but some custom roms let you use s health an other apps that got locked by tripped knoxx but in regards to secure folder it's lost