I tried the CASUAL jailbreak, but it failed near the end. Now, when I try to boot it says I have unauthorized software, contact Verizon. My phone was on the latest OTA, so I tried downloading the "Alternate Restore File" but 7 zip can't extract it. I've tried 3 times and it keeps telling me it's not a valid archive. I downloaded the Root66 image and it extracts fine, but when I flashed it in Odin it looked like it was going to work, but when Odin finished, the phone went back to the "unauthorized software, take to a Verizon store screen".
Can anyone please help asap? I really need my phone tomorrow. Thanks.
slide83 said:
I tried the CASUAL jailbreak, but it failed near the end. Now, when I try to boot it says I have unauthorized software, contact Verizon. My phone was on the latest OTA, so I tried downloading the "Alternate Restore File" but 7 zip can't extract it. I've tried 3 times and it keeps telling me it's not a valid archive. I downloaded the Root66 image and it extracts fine, but when I flashed it in Odin it looked like it was going to work, but when Odin finished, the phone went back to the "unauthorized software, take to a Verizon store screen".
Can anyone please help asap? I really need my phone tomorrow. Thanks.
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Ok, I just tried the Root66 stock image via Odin again and it worked. From here, can I try CASUAL again or am I not supposed to be rooted to use CASUAL?
Nevermind. I was able to get CASUAL to work finally.
glad you got it figured out! not sure why the alternate restore would not extract for you...maybe try a different program such as winrar.
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I rooted my verizon Samsung Galaxy S4 when I first got it with no problem.
A week ago I was misled by Verizon's sucky PC software to "repair" my phone. I inadvertently wiped the whole thing and it was returned to factory preset status, so the root was gone.
Now I'm trying to re-root the phone, but with no luck. I boot my phone into download mode fine. But everytime I try to get Odin to flash the "SCH-I545_MD2_423399_Kernel.tar.md5" rom, it fails at the first step! It just says "Fail", and that's the end of it.
I'm clueless about what to do. I've tried different USB cables, restarted both devices multiple times. I even tried unpacking the tar file before opening Odin.
Can anyone advise? I'm out of ideas.
Kevin
kevlut said:
I rooted my verizon Samsung Galaxy S4 when I first got it with no problem.
A week ago I was misled by Verizon's sucky PC software to "repair" my phone. I inadvertently wiped the whole thing and it was returned to factory preset status, so the root was gone.
Now I'm trying to re-root the phone, but with no luck. I boot my phone into download mode fine. But everytime I try to get Odin to flash the "SCH-I545_MD2_423399_Kernel.tar.md5" rom, it fails at the first step! It just says "Fail", and that's the end of it.
I'm clueless about what to do. I've tried different USB cables, restarted both devices multiple times. I even tried unpacking the tar file before opening Odin.
Can anyone advise? I'm out of ideas.
Kevin
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Unfortunately, it seems as if you took the OTA Update, at this time I don't know if we have root abilities, or Loki/unlocked bootloader hack...
Many people have done this, you're not alone. Have patience, the great team of dev that are in this community are working on it.
Best of kick
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Try downloading the file from internet explorer if u havent already
Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
I need some help here, I've been out of the game since ICS came out for the Droid X, the S3 is my first Samsung phone so I'm new to Odin/Kies whatever. Anyway I tried to root my S3 (Sprint version running on Ting, Android 4.3) through Odin and I soft bricked it, it went to the Kies recovery screen but neither Kies nor Kies3 recognize it. I decided to just reflash stock Sprint 4.3 via Odin, after some initial trouble finding a .tar I finally found one here on XDA that was prerooted, this one didn't work, gave an error, so I went looking for a true Sprint 4.3 .tar. I found this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2565972 It failed the md5 check and the thread mentioned it was corrupted, so I tried downloading the fixed version another user had uploaded to mediafire, after 3 tries and gettting an "unknown network error" 3/4 way through I gave up.
So I've been without a phone for 2 weeks now, and I'm up against a wall. I have no idea where to go from here. Could someone give me a link to a confirmed working 4.3 .tar with instructions on how to proceed?
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I need some help here, I've been out of the game since ICS came out for the Droid X, the S3 is my first Samsung phone so I'm new to Odin/Kies whatever. Anyway I tried to root my S3 (Sprint version running on Ting, Android 4.3) through Odin and I soft bricked it, it went to the Kies recovery screen but neither Kies nor Kies3 recognize it. I decided to just reflash stock Sprint 4.3 via Odin, after some initial trouble finding a .tar I finally found one here on XDA that was prerooted, this one didn't work, gave an error, so I went looking for a true Sprint 4.3 .tar. I found this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2565972 It failed the md5 check and the thread mentioned it was corrupted, so I tried downloading the fixed version another user had uploaded to mediafire, after 3 tries and gettting an "unknown network error" 3/4 way through I gave up.
So I've been without a phone for 2 weeks now, and I'm up against a wall. I have no idea where to go from here. Could someone give me a link to a confirmed working 4.3 .tar with instructions on how to proceed?
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Try downloading the ROM from here - http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
Using Odin, install it. These are official firmwares, not rooted, completely stock.
FrontierProject said:
I need some help here, I've been out of the game since ICS came out for the Droid X, the S3 is my first Samsung phone so I'm new to Odin/Kies whatever. Anyway I tried to root my S3 (Sprint version running on Ting, Android 4.3) through Odin and I soft bricked it, it went to the Kies recovery screen but neither Kies nor Kies3 recognize it. I decided to just reflash stock Sprint 4.3 via Odin, after some initial trouble finding a .tar I finally found one here on XDA that was prerooted, this one didn't work, gave an error, so I went looking for a true Sprint 4.3 .tar. I found this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2565972 It failed the md5 check and the thread mentioned it was corrupted, so I tried downloading the fixed version another user had uploaded to mediafire, after 3 tries and gettting an "unknown network error" 3/4 way through I gave up.
So I've been without a phone for 2 weeks now, and I'm up against a wall. I have no idea where to go from here. Could someone give me a link to a confirmed working 4.3 .tar with instructions on how to proceed?
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I think this is the firmware your looking for. Scroll to the bottom of the page! http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/1/?model=SPH-L710&pcode=0#firmware
FrontierProject said:
I need some help here, I've been out of the game since ICS came out for the Droid X, the S3 is my first Samsung phone so I'm new to Odin/Kies whatever. Anyway I tried to root my S3 (Sprint version running on Ting, Android 4.3) through Odin and I soft bricked it, it went to the Kies recovery screen but neither Kies nor Kies3 recognize it. I decided to just reflash stock Sprint 4.3 via Odin, after some initial trouble finding a .tar I finally found one here on XDA that was prerooted, this one didn't work, gave an error, so I went looking for a true Sprint 4.3 .tar. I found this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2565972 It failed the md5 check and the thread mentioned it was corrupted, so I tried downloading the fixed version another user had uploaded to mediafire, after 3 tries and gettting an "unknown network error" 3/4 way through I gave up.
So I've been without a phone for 2 weeks now, and I'm up against a wall. I have no idea where to go from here. Could someone give me a link to a confirmed working 4.3 .tar with instructions on how to proceed?
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This is not a sprint forum .
See sticky top of the page .
So, I'm trying to fix an AT&T Samsung Mega SGH-I527. The person I am trying to fix it for had bought it rooted, then recently tried to install an update (I'm guessing the NE7 update) and it threw his phone into a bootloop. If I attempt to go into Recovery, it says: "Secure fail: Kernel. System software not authorized by AT&T has been found on your phone. Please turn off your phone and go to the nearest AT&T store for help."
I can still enter download mode.
I've tried repartitioning it with the PIT file and flashing a MK2 tar through Odin, however, that fails every time.
I have tried searching for an NE7 tar file, but with no luck.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get this phone up and running?
Thanks in advance!
check out my thread in like a hour or so. Im uploading the odin package for kitkat 4.4.2.
Link
Andowsdan said:
So, I'm trying to fix an AT&T Samsung Mega SGH-I527. The person I am trying to fix it for had bought it rooted, then recently tried to install an update (I'm guessing the NE7 update) and it threw his phone into a bootloop. If I attempt to go into Recovery, it says: "Secure fail: Kernel. System software not authorized by AT&T has been found on your phone. Please turn off your phone and go to the nearest AT&T store for help."
I can still enter download mode.
I've tried repartitioning it with the PIT file and flashing a MK2 tar through Odin, however, that fails every time.
I have tried searching for an NE7 tar file, but with no luck.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get this phone up and running?
Thanks in advance!
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Go into the General forum, apparently there is a person by the name of SUNDERWER who has come up with an Odin flashable file.
Go check it out
Good luck. I beleive you needed to unroot first before updating via OTA, but your not the first to have this problem.
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Always getting either "Not authorized by Verizon" or "Upgrade encountered an issue"
Hey guys, hoping someone can help me out with what appears to be a soft brick on my phone.
Background
Bought phone in January 2013, immediately rooted and installed custom recovery. Phone stayed this way until yesterday, when I restored with ODIN and then installed all OTA's to prepare for a replacement under a Best Buy service plan, expecting it to work like it used to where I go into the store and drop off the phone, then a new one is sent to the store. I then installed all OTA's up to 4.4.2 (I think that one is ND7 but not sure as I was using AOSP-based ROMS while rooted). The ODIN restore brought me back to saying the firmware was all official.
Currently
Replacement process changed and I am stuck with this phone for another week while a replacement gets mailed to my home, so I decided to play around with ODIN to restore to MJ9 since most root methods seemed to work for MJ9, but I accidentally chose the LJB image that I had downloaded yesterday for the PDA in ODIN. When running this, it failed on sboot.bin.
I restarted the phone and it said "Firmware Upgrade encountered an issue" and tells me to connect it to Kies, which I tried, but for some reason Kies just runs on Connecting to Device and won't do anything else. I didn't spend a whole lot of time on that though, as it also changed the "System Status" to Custom while leaving Current Binary as Official, and from what I read Kies will refuse to do a recovery if anything is Custom.
I tried to install MJ9 through ODIN and it also fails at sboot.bin, resulting in the same message as above. I downloaded the alternate MC3 from this thread and it ran through ODIN fine since it does not have an sboot.bin, but it gives the error about the firmware not being authorized by Verizon and changes both Current Binary and System Status to Custom (I think MJ9 was the first locked bootloader, so I would assume that is why, but I don't know for sure). There was no alternate for MJ9 so I tried to make my own by extracting, removing sboot.bin, and then putting the rest of the files in a new tar file, but ODIN won't run it and gives an error about the MD5 not matching.
At this point the phone working is not so much of an issue since I already have a replacement on the way to my house, but I would prefer to fix this so a) I have a phone for the next few days, and b) so I don't have to go short something inside on purpose to hard-brick it and prevent them from refusing my replacement claim.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Michael
Once you updated the phone to factory stock 4.4.2, you permanently locked the bootloader and you can't downgrade to any other pre 4.4.2 ND7 firmwares. The easiest thing to do now would be to use Odin to restore the device back to to factory 4.4.2 stock firmware. There is GhettoRoot for 4.4.2 if you're wanting to root the device again on 4.4.2... and people are reporting that safestrap works as well for flashing 4.4.2 touchwiz roms. Good luck!
Ahh, I wasn't aware that ND7 couldn't be downgraded at all; I thought anything past MJ9 would work since that was when the bootloader became locked. I don't see any ND7 ODIN images available anywhere and Kies won't allow me to restore the device. Is there another method I should be using to restore? My wife has an i605 on 4.1.1 right now (same background as mine, just not bricked and no OTAs downloaded); if we updated until ND7 was downloaded but not installed, would I be able to pull the OTA from hers and flash in ODIN, or are they not ODIN-compatible?
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Ahh, I wasn't aware that ND7 couldn't be downgraded at all; I thought anything past MJ9 would work since that was when the bootloader became locked. I don't see any ND7 ODIN images available anywhere and Kies won't allow me to restore the device. Is there another method I should be using to restore? My wife has an i605 on 4.1.1 right now (same background as mine, just not bricked and no OTAs downloaded); if we updated until ND7 was downloaded but not installed, would I be able to pull the OTA from hers and flash in ODIN, or are they not ODIN-compatible?
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Here's a link to the Verizon stock 4.4.2 firmware from Sammobile. You'll have to register, but the download should be free. You should be able to use Odin to restore the device with this firmware file and the pit file from Droidstyle's restore guide. If Odin 3.07 doesn't work, try Odin 3.09 from Sammobile... or try Odin 3.10, which I've been using lately with no problems.
Thanks for that link, I was able to download and restore my phone with the ND7 download. I wasn't aware that SamMobile keeps a firmware database, so I also appreciate that piece of info.
Thanks,
Michael
Hey,
Sorry total noob at messing with my phone, buuuuuut I tried to (foolishly) downgrade my Verizon sch-i545 from OC1 because I hate it. I tried to flash back to MDK using ODIN 3.4, 3.7, AND 3.9 all of which failed. From what I can find it seems like flashing to anything from a Verizon sch-i545 running OC1 is destined to fail due to something contained in the update. Is this correct? Since the failed flash, I can't get my phone to turn back on normally, it just gives me the "Software Update Failed, use verizon software repair assistant..." which from what I can find is downloaded from the phone when you plug it in? But it didn't seem to do so for mine when I initially plugged it in to back up files. I can't find an online source to download the verizon software from. So basically I'm asking for help on just getting my phone functioning again? It doesn't seem like I've bricked it, but I don't know what to do after a failed flash? Can I download the 5.0.1 firmware and flash it using odin and it will actually work because it's 5.0.1? I'm tired of waiting 2 hrs to download a firmware to have it immediately fail haha. Or is there another much simpler way to get it out of this mode and back to just running normal ****ty lollipop? I can get the phone back into download mode, but that's it. Thanks for any help. Sorry if anything is silly or redundant, tried searching for hours without finding much.
Thanks.
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BreakThroughCity said:
Hey,
Sorry total noob at messing with my phone, buuuuuut I tried to (foolishly) downgrade my Verizon sch-i545 from OC1 because I hate it. I tried to flash back to MDK using ODIN 3.4, 3.7, AND 3.9 all of which failed. From what I can find it seems like flashing to anything from a Verizon sch-i545 running OC1 is destined to fail due to something contained in the update. Is this correct? Since the failed flash, I can't get my phone to turn back on normally, it just gives me the "Software Update Failed, use verizon software repair assistant..." which from what I can find is downloaded from the phone when you plug it in? But it didn't seem to do so for mine when I initially plugged it in to back up files. I can't find an online source to download the verizon software from. So basically I'm asking for help on just getting my phone functioning again? It doesn't seem like I've bricked it, but I don't know what to do after a failed flash? Can I download the 5.0.1 firmware and flash it using odin and it will actually work because it's 5.0.1? I'm tired of waiting 2 hrs to download a firmware to have it immediately fail haha. Or is there another much simpler way to get it out of this mode and back to just running normal ****ty lollipop? I can get the phone back into download mode, but that's it. Thanks for any help. Sorry if anything is silly or redundant, tried searching for hours without finding much.
Thanks.
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Ok I have already gone down this road myself.
First can you get your phone into download mode ? If so re-flash the original firmware. This file is on the XDA site somewhere ,I remember seeing it. I loaded mine at a very slow download took hours , did it over night . I have had to redo my phone several times trying with Odin after countless lockups.
The OC1 can not be changed it has a locked boot-loader that can not be unlocked @ this time. So no downgrade changes of ant kind. You CAN NOT GO BACK I highly suggest you read more on this site to help you better.
There is only a handful of ROMs you can install & they have to be OC1 compatable
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Ok I have already gone down this road myself.
First can you get your phone into download mode ? If so re-flash the original firmware. This file is on the XDA site somewhere ,I remember seeing it. I loaded mine at a very slow download took hours , did it over night . I have had to redo my phone several times trying with Odin after countless lockups.
The OC1 can not be changed it has a locked boot-loader that can not be unlocked @ this time. So no downgrade changes of ant kind. You CAN NOT GO BACK I highly suggest you read more on this site to help you better.
There is only a handful of ROMs you can install & they have to be OC1 compatable
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Thanks! That worked like a charm. If anyone else sees this and is in a similar situation, flashing the OC1 back definitely work the first time. I had to try and try again, different USB ports, pull the battery out, wait, and try again. Eventually with persistence it worked.