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?
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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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 .
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Hi all I've been on this for a while, since the weekend looked at a serious amount of posts and guides on rooting and unrooting but I'm no further forward.
The problem I have is I wanted to upgrade from gingerbread to ics so I could eventually put the latest cyanogen mod on my phone. I rooted the phone no problem there flashed an insecure kernel with odin 1.85 as per the instructions from one of the guides got the CWM and superuser apps then flashed the original back, got rid of the yellow triangle every thing good so far. I did this coz I expected I had to, to put cyanogenmod on my phone.
Samsung kies says there is a update to ICS but every time I try to update it fails. Try using Odin with a stock mod and it fails. I rang Samsung and they say my build number is the up to date version. One of my colleagues has an older sgs2 and he managed to update his no problem with kies. I'm wondering if there is a problem with my phone preventing it from being updated? Also every time a look at a post or a guide it seems like that post is specific to a particular android version and I can't find one that is specific to mine such as carrier Orange, gingerbread2.3.3 as I think it's too old. PDA I9100BVKH2.
Now I'm thinking I might just try unrooting it and take it to orange and get them to update it but uprooting it to stock seems to be a pain, I need to get rid of that doing flash counter.
Do I need to go to orange or is this easy to update and I'm just missing something. Before I get flamed I did search not just here but all over the Internet to find a reason why I couldn't update but didn't get a definitive answer.
Dodgeyhodgeyuk said:
Hi all I've been on this for a while, since the weekend looked at a serious amount of posts and guides on rooting and unrooting but I'm no further forward.
The problem I have is I wanted to upgrade from gingerbread to ics so I could eventually put the latest cyanogen mod on my phone. I rooted the phone no problem there flashed an insecure kernel with odin 1.85 as per the instructions from one of the guides got the CWM and superuser apps then flashed the original back, got rid of the yellow triangle every thing good so far. I did this coz I expected I had to, to put cyanogenmod on my phone.
Samsung kies says there is a update to ICS but every time I try to update it fails. Try using Odin with a stock mod and it fails. I rang Samsung and they say my build number is the up to date version. One of my colleagues has an older sgs2 and he managed to update his no problem with kies. I'm wondering if there is a problem with my phone preventing it from being updated? Also every time a look at a post or a guide it seems like that post is specific to a particular android version and I can't find one that is specific to mine such as carrier Orange, gingerbread2.3.3 as I think it's too old. PDA I9100BVKH2.
Now I'm thinking I might just try unrooting it and take it to orange and get them to update it but uprooting it to stock seems to be a pain, I need to get rid of that doing flash counter.
Do I need to go to orange or is this easy to update and I'm just missing something. Before I get flamed I did search not just here but all over the Internet to find a reason why I couldn't update but didn't get a definitive answer.
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There are two ways to do this:
1. Update the phone to ICS on your own.
- Visit Sammobile
- Download the firmware for your country/carrier
- Extract the zip file.
- Flash the firmware via odin
- Boot to recovery and perform a factory reset.
done.
2. Reset your binary counter and take it to Orange!
- you can use USB jig to reset your counter.
or
- Flash a Samsung based custom rom via CWM recovery,
- Download Triangle away app by Chainfire
- Use Triangle away app, to reset your binary counter
- flash back your Stock ROM (you can also get it from Sammobile if you dont have a copy)
- take your phone to Orange.
done.
cheers
OK thanks for your help. will give it a go.
You dont need kies or orange-this is why your getting confused.You could go to sammobile and get an unbranded ics for your region/model,and to be "safe",go for 4.0.3.
Then you can flash like siyah kernel,make a nand backup,and efs backup then install whatever rom you want.
theunderling said:
You dont need kies or orange-this is why your getting confused.You could go to sammobile and get an unbranded ics for your region/model,and to be "safe",go for 4.0.3.
Then you can flash like siyah kernel,make a nand backup,and efs backup then install whatever rom you want.
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would like to try that but now odin failed after i flashed a stock rom and now i'm stuck on the samsung galaxy logo with no recovery mode. I can get into download mode though but thats it.
Odin wont flash anything exept kernels.
Seriously thinking about throwing it in the bin. Now i spend days trying to get the phone usable again. why the hell cant i flash roms WTF!
Thanks for your replies.
There's a wealth of knowledge on this forum but i cant seem to find a solution on here to get my phone back.
Ive got my phone back. used upstairs pc and flashed original insecure kernel and recovery came up. ive now done a factory reset. back to square one but at least phone is back on. guess it was the laptop i was using. What is that all about?
Looking at all the how to's on upgrading to ICS i thought if i stuck to the steps it would just work but it didn't
Thanks for every ones input.
Chris.
It's been 3 days since I had my phone soft bricked. Here's what happened. I had rooted 4.1.2 and my sister accepted OTA when 4.3 (MJ9) came out so I lost my root access. Everything was working fine and I wasn't doing much on my phone so I didn't bother to root it back. 4.3 (VRUAND3) OTA failed on my phone when it came out and I didn't care about it because it was still on 4.3. When 4.4 came out, I decided to do OTA update and everything went fine except when it rebooted. It will pass the samsung logo but when it got to Verizon logo, it was just stuck there. So I searched this forum and tried everything that I found about unbricking the soft bricked phone. All stock roms will fail at sboot.bin except for root66_VZW_stock_system.tar (I did try with and without .pit and I only checked autoreboot F. Reset time) but when I do that then I will get the system software not authorized by Verizon Wireless has been found error (with yellow triangle). Here's the list of stock roms I tried and odin versions.
ROM: root66_VZW_stock_system.tar, I605VZWEMJ9, I605VRALJB, I605VZWAND3 (all with and without .pit)
Odin: 1.85, 3.07, 3.09
The only good thing is that I still have my odin mode and the number of binary didn't change. And I didn't get the knox.....
I really need you guys' expertise... any suggestion will help at this moment... Sorry for the lengthy post I really tried to be specific on what I tried so far.... I'm currently downloading VRAND7 (4.4) and I'm out of the option after I try this one with odin.... Thank you.
gomtingeee said:
It's been 3 days since I had my phone soft bricked. Here's what happened. I had rooted 4.1.2 and my sister accepted OTA when 4.3 (MJ9) came out so I lost my root access. Everything was working fine and I wasn't doing much on my phone so I didn't bother to root it back. 4.3 (VRUAND3) OTA failed on my phone when it came out and I didn't care about it because it was still on 4.3. When 4.4 came out, I decided to do OTA update and everything went fine except when it rebooted. It will pass the samsung logo but when it got to Verizon logo, it was just stuck there. So I searched this forum and tried everything that I found about unbricking the soft bricked phone. All stock roms will fail at sboot.bin except for root66_VZW_stock_system.tar (I did try with and without .pit and I only checked autoreboot F. Reset time) but when I do that then I will get the system software not authorized by Verizon Wireless has been found error (with yellow triangle). Here's the list of stock roms I tried and odin versions.
ROM: root66_VZW_stock_system.tar, I605VZWEMJ9, I605VRALJB, I605VZWAND3 (all with and without .pit)
Odin: 1.85, 3.07, 3.09
The only good thing is that I still have my odin mode and the number of binary didn't change. And I didn't get the knox.....
I really need you guys' expertise... any suggestion will help at this moment... Sorry for the lengthy post I really tried to be specific on what I tried so far.... I'm currently downloading VRAMC3 (4.4) and I'm out of the option after I try this one with odin.... Thank you.
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The reason they all fail at sboot is bc you are attempting to downgrade to fix it..that's not possible.. so here is what you need to do.
Go to Sammobile.com
Go to Firmwares (top of page)
Scroll down to Search
Type "SCH-I605"
Select & download ND7 4.4.2
Flash via Odin w/ pit
It should pass and you will be good to go
Sent from my SCH-I605 using XDA Free mobile app
lacoursiere18 said:
The reason they all fail at sboot is bc you are attempting to downgrade to fix it..that's not possible.. so here is what you need to do.
Go to Sammobile.com
Go to Firmwares (top of page)
Scroll down to Search
Type "SCH-I605"
Select & download ND7 4.4.2
Flash via Odin w/ pit
It should pass and you will be good to go
Sent from my SCH-I605 using XDA Free mobile app
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I saw this post on the development forum [ROM][I605VRUFND7][4.4.2]OFFICIAL STOCK ROOTED ODEX/DEODEX[6/19/2014]
so that rom won't work on mine? just asking out of a curiosity...
gomtingeee said:
I saw this post on the development forum [ROM][I605VRUFND7][4.4.2]OFFICIAL STOCK ROOTED ODEX/DEODEX[6/19/2014]
so that rom won't work on mine? just asking out of a curiosity...
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Nope. You taking the 4.3 and 4.4.2 OTA locked your bootloader.. so therfore no flashing custom roms like that one and I don't believe there is even a root method yet..
Oh okay thank you for your info. I flashed it to 4.4 and it`s working. I`ll wait for the developer`s to come up with the rooting method for 4.4 thank you guys for everything
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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.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I527 using XDA Free mobile app
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?
opalelement said:
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
Well the first time I tried to root my note 4, it failed and i ended up with a brick. I've rooted my S4 a bunch of times before.
I tried to root it with a custom recovery and and install supersu but for some reason after flashing the TWRP and rebooting to recovery, the stock recovery came up.
So i decided to use CF-Auto-Root and I used the wrong android version (I think).
I ended up with a screen saying "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies &try again".
(I couldn't access recovery from this point)
I installed Kies but I can't find the S/N that Kies wants, its not under the battery, not even on the box.
I tried downloading and flashing the stock firmware from Sammobile (SM-N910P Sprint 5.0.1) but I got the "sw rev check fail" on the phone, and odin showed "FAIL". After searching around and asking a friend of mine, he said that this will happen if you install the wrong firmware. I tried the same firmware with different versions on odin but they all failed.
After a while I saw what sprint had released an update for the phone that is not available in sammobile.
The latest one in sammobile (The one that I used) and everywhere I've looked is N910PVPU1BOB7, but the current one is N910PVPU2BOE1 as sprint says.
Where can I get this, is it even available for download anywhere? can someone help me recover my Note 4
and also, is it going for a factory reset?
Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 4 SM-N910P