Last night I was trying to install all sorts of stuff onto my GS3 and none of them worked. "Oh well" I thought, so I just did an update to get JB from Verizon... on my rooted phone... with the bootloader Unlocked and cwm flashed. Everything went fine and at the end of installing the update, cwm asked if I wanted to stop the ROM from flashing over the recovery (yes) and that I may have lost root access and if I wanted to fix that (yes). Phone started fine, but when I restarted the phone to make a backup image, it shows the Samsung logo with an unlocked lock with the word "custom" underneath. Then in the top left it says "recovery booting......" and, after a few seconds, the top left changes to "Secure Fail: Kernel" and the yellow triangle appears saying "System software not authorized by Verizon Wireless has been found on your phone. Please turn off your phone and go to the nearest Verizon Wireless store for help. I have tried Power+Vol Up+Home key, Power+Vol Down+Home key, Power+Vol Down, just Power, and nothing seems to work. Have I just completely ****ed my phone?
TL;DR Can't boot into recovery or download with any key combination, top left message "Secure Fail: Kernel", yellow triangle message "System software not authorized by Verizon Wireless has been found on your phone. Please turn off your phone and go to the nearest Verizon Wireless store for help."
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Md5s checked out. Wiped dalvik/user data/ factory reset. Flashed with CWM (though i understand this is not preferred). Goes through full AROMA but reboots into recovery every time. After about an hour in recover reboots to a screen with a yellow triangle exclamation point and says, "System software not authorized by Verizon Wireless has been found on your phone. Please turn off your phone and go to the nearest Verizon Wireless store for help." In the top left it says in red, "SECURE FAIL: KERNEL". Now can't even boot into recovery at all when press power+volume up --> it boots to custom with blue recovery in top left, then shuts down and goes to the above verizon error. I'm coming from 4.4.4. Any assistance greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot.
Looks like the download link from the 5.0 dev thread points to a i9505 version on romhut. should it not be for sch-1545?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2643031
Sometime in 2013, I unlocked my bootloader, messed around with some roms, and eventually settled on CyanogenMod.
I though I was going to sell my phone, so I went back to the stock version, and took the OTA update. But, I decided to hold on to the phone, and not being able to load up a custom ROM, i just rooted it, and carried on my way.
Lately, I started having very weird issues, so I decided to just do a factory reset from the settings menu, hoping it would get my phone back to normal.
Well, it's not. When I booted, it was saying "unauthorized software".
So, I tried 3 different version of Odin to flash KIES_HOME_I605VRAMC3_I605VZWAMC3_1098177_REV04_user_low_ship.tar that I had sitting on my harddrive from the last time I rooted.
And now, when I boot, it says "Firmware update encountered an issue, please select recovery mode in Kies...". But, Kies just get stuck on the "Connecting" screen.
Here's what I have when I boot with Power + Home + Vol Down:
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: SCH-I605
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Custom
AP SWREV: A3
And after the fail, I get "Invalid magic string"
Any help? I just want the phone to work for the next few months, and then I'll be upgrading.
OK I screwed up. I would appreciate any help here. Rogers S6 Edge, G925W8. It was stock 5.0.2.
Wanted to try a ROM so flashed TWRP, then flashed Kingfisher ROM v1.1 (it seemed the safest / W8-friendly). ROM was fantastic (much better battery), but GPS would never lock.
Tried to start over by flashing stock Rogers 5.0.2 via Odin but it wouldn't flash. I read (a little too late) that downgrading isn't something Samsung enjoys. Argh!
Then out of desperation, I flashed the BL (BL_G925W8VLU2BOH8_5.1.1.tar) from http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6-edge/general/canadian-odin-5-1-1-bootloader-twrp-t3196595 , which was a very bad move, I assume because I wasn't on 5.1.1 to begin with. Crap!!
So now the phone gets to the Galaxy S6 edge splash screen, with "KERNEL IS NOT SEANDROID ENFORCING", and it stays there. The phone also gets very warm, and I can't shut it off. Using VolDown+Power+Home reboots it (showing the same message) but doesn't shut it off. Using VolUp+Power+Home reboots it but only says the same thing about Recovery.
Please tell me that I didn't just brick this phone!!
UPDATE:
Am able to get the phone into Download/Odin mode by holding the 3 buttons (voldown+power+home) while plugging the phone into USB. The stock Rogers image refuses to flash (Odin says fail immediately), but I am a step closer thanks to @brar.arsh's thread ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6-edge/general/canada-galaxy-s6-edge-canadian-users-t3069314 )
From there I grabbed the "S6 Edge Stock Firmware OG2" which comes in 4 parts (BL, AP, CP, and CSC). I added all 4 pieces to Odin and started flash. Boot.img and recovery flashed, but then during the system.img flash, it failed about half-way through. Right after that failure, something changed because the device now became "Unknown Device" to windows, and it complained that "a USB device has malfunctioned, and Windows no longer recognizes it".
This gave me hope that I could get into Recovery (since that flash was successful), but the phone likes to boot directly to the "The update failed so please launch Smart Switch" message - regardless of starting with VOLUP+PWR+HOME button combination. So no recovery access... but making progress.
I belive I initiated a flash that contained JUST the BL, CP, and CSC portions, and it passed quickly. This, of course, isn't enough to get the system going. I just wanted to see if it would fail in other areas.
Trying the emergency flash via Smart Switch: Smart Switch said it required the phone to be in Recovery mode, but it still attempted the fix even though I was in Odin/Download mode. Good news, but unfortunately it gave the same result - a failure at around 50% of the entire flash operation.
I have tried re-flashing the AP portion several times and it fails at different progressions (50%, 75%, 90%)... so close.
I was thinking that it was maybe a power issue (since the battery was completely dead during the "kernel is not seandroid enforcing" period, with no way to turn the phone off or pull battery), I wondered if the battery just needed a little juice before starting the operation. I let it stay plugged in for a few minutes after one of the many failed flash attempts (screen was illuminated with the progress bar frozen at the point of failure). I noticed that when I unplugged it, it didn't die immediately, so I plugged it back in (getting the "USB device has malfunctioned" message again), and forced it to restart by holding the VOLDOWN+PWR+HOME buttons). It got back into Odin mode and the PC recognized it again. Loaded up just the AP portion in Odin, hit Start, left the room, and when I came back it said PASS! I cannot prove that it had any battery power from this method... or if it even helped. This could have just been a fluke.
The phone automatically rebooted into Recovery mode (which scared me) so I hit Power Down.
Rebooted the phone - I hear the lame Samsung startup song, and it is booting. Hallelujah.
I'll get straight to the point, yesterday I went and re-rooted my phone with Kingroot (I had already rooted it once with Kingroot) to try something called Magisk, and basically what happened is that I installed Magisk manager and selected the 3rd option to install it (can't remember the details), I am new at this sort of stuff but I knew it would be risky without some sort of recovery mode installed.
Next thing I know the phone shows the LG logo like normal but with an error message on the up left corner of the phone saying:
"ERROR: boot certification verify
[880]--------------------------------------------
[880]
[880] Secure booting error!
[880] Cause: Boot certification verify
[880]
[880]--------------------------------------------"
And then the screen goes black it doesn't really shut down because it takes me about 10 seconds of holding the power key which is force reboot instead of the 2-3 second hold.
I've been trying to get solutions for this around the forums but nothing works as I don't know my exact model number.
I would appreciate some help and thanks in advance!
Hello, I am pretty new to rooting and I have a question. I recently rooted (with TWRP) my phone (Samsung Galaxy J7 2016). Everything seemed to work well until I rebooted the phone. Now whenever I try to boot it, an error message appears at the top right corner saying "Custom binary blocked by FRP Lock".
I tried going to recovery mode, but I wasn't able to get there (I tried holding VolumeUp + Home +PowerButton). However, I got into the download menu without any problems (Holding VolumeDown + Home + PowerButton).
So I did some research on the internet and found a guide (https://technastic.com/remove-frp-samsung-combination-file/) that I followed but in the end, when I started the Combination Firmware in Odin, I got stuck with a message in the log saying "File analysis..". So maybe USB Debugging isn't on. On the other hand, Odin detected my phone so I don't know.
Please help me. Thank you