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so i bricked my phone. fortunately though i was able to recover it. the question i have is, there was not a rom for my carrier i.e. cellsouth but there was one for another network(verizon), so i used that. btw my phone is a samsung showcase which is almost identical to the fascinate so i have no problems with it except seeing verizon as the network when i boot up or lock the screen. also when i check to see which carrier i'm on by dialing 611, i get cellsouth. i just dont want to incur any fees i dont know about,so im asking if there are any dangers using a rom from a different network???
No I do not believe that there is between cell south and verizon. I had a hero that ran on a sprint rom then my last phone was a milestone that I was using roms that where for the moto droid from verizon. But can I ask how you bricked your phone and what you did to fix it? I got a galaxy showcase and was trying to install a different kernel to help on the battery life and through odin I messed it up but was able to fix it by install eb11_voodoo.zip and Showcase_eb11_PnP_0.3. Well today I was going down the road and plugged my phone in the car charger and a few minutes later it just rebooted by itself. After that it did not have any service. I went under settings, about phone and it said unknown under several of the options. I took it to cell south after I tried several things and all they did was make it not even boot up. Now if I try to flash a rom from or kernel or anything at all from CWM v3.2.0.0.otb it says, Amen scripting was necessary to remove it when upgrading to the ClockworkMod 3.0 Gingerbread based recovery. Please switch to Edify scripting (updater-script and update-binary) to create working update zip packages. Installation aborted. Can somebody HELP me get back my phone???
to unbrick it
to unbrick samsung showcase.you need samsung drivers, search forums or google ,easy find.
READ COMPLETELY AND DOWNLOAD FILES FIRST BEFORE STARTING.btw follow guide at your own risk. take no responsibility for you bricking your phone.which you already did, i mean for other people lol. it will work if you do it right so dont panic...i think...well, i hope
1) remove battery
2)plug usb cable to computer
3)start odin-
3)connect usb to phone and press volume down same time to activate download mode-that is yellow triangle thing-you should see "added" in odin
4) then make sure repartition auto reboot,reset time are checked-all three
5)then for pit file choose http://www.mediafire.com/?26xbh796jmwvwqb
6)for pda, go to here and download from the link that has "ECLAIR".its suppose to be about 419.5 mb.http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1124391
btw a guy named adrenalyn i believe uploaded these files so thanks to him.
hope this guide helps in you figuring it out.basically summarizing all you need cause i was confused a little bit when i began and realized i messed my phone up.
let me know if this works for yah.half asleep while doing this
I think your actual question was kinda missed here so I will explain it to you. First the rom that you choose to use is not carrier based, but is device based, never flash a rom that is not for your brand and model of phone. The thing that matters for the carrier is the modem, that gives you phone, data, and messaging. The only way your phone will not be on your carriers network is if you go through the involved process of switching it over yourself. Usually if you put the wrong modem on your phone it just won't work, requiring you to find the proper odin program to flash, including repartitioning the phone to get it right again. Hope this answers your questions.
Yea Dale...that answers my question ty
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Btw if anyone is curious..Samsung fascinate and showcase are both SCH-I500 (model) so I suppose they use the same roms
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Roms yes, basically, modems NO.
Sent from my EC09 UKB GB Fascinate.
Yea I realized that after flashing fascinate modem to my showcase nd now my internet dont work
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Hello I messed my phone up (long story). I am on the Sprint network and have a Photon 4g.
I have been trying to get my photon to be usable again. I did have it working using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1798145 procedure EXCEPT I could never get the services on sprint to work even though I flashed the radios. I've been working on this for a couple of days. Well I got frustrated and just decided to flash the US cellular 2.3.5 USC_19 sbf and use the phone that way.
It flashed but now it comes up with the activate screen and I can't get past it to root etc.
At this point I am just hoping to be able to get the US cellular to work and until I can up grade in a few months.
thank you
RoisF350 said:
Hello I messed my phone up (long story). I am on the Sprint network and have a Photon 4g.
I have been trying to get my photon to be usable again. I did have it working using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1798145 procedure EXCEPT I could never get the services on sprint to work even though I flashed the radios. I've been working on this for a couple of days. Well I got frustrated and just decided to flash the US cellular 2.3.5 USC_19 sbf and use the phone that way.
It flashed but now it comes up with the activate screen and I can't get past it to root etc.
At this point I am just hoping to be able to get the US cellular to work and until I can up grade in a few months.
thank you
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Can anyone please help?
Follow steps 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6. OR follow steps 1, 2, 3 and 5 if you want Peetr's ROM. I'm just guessing that maybe you mixed the steps.
Same my problem. When you finish flash stock rom and phone reboot see the motorola logo when it start animation remove battery then go to RSD mode again and flash unbrick when finish you may do factory reset if you got bootloop.
I'm pretty sure I didn't miss any steps but I will go back and try again. Thank you. I've been reading this board for a couple of years and have rooted and flashed a few devices and this is the first time I have had so much trouble. I'll post again when I get a chance to try again.
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stumped
well i followed the steps.
Can i flash the 2.3.x_libmoto_ril.so_254_12 radio via SBF?
If I could get past the us cellular activate screen then I could root by bootstrap and flash by recovery the needed radios, rom etc.
Maybe I'm missing something.
Thanks for any advice.
Anyone have the radios by SBF file?
RoisF350 said:
well i followed the steps.
Can i flash the 2.3.x_libmoto_ril.so_254_12 radio via SBF?
If I could get past the us cellular activate screen then I could root by bootstrap and flash by recovery the needed radios, rom etc.
Maybe I'm missing something.
Thanks for any advice.
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I'm still trying to get past the us cellular activation screen. The radios I have from the above threads dont seem to be able to be flashed by SBF.
Does anyone have the radio SBF files?
thank you
My GPS and Snapchat would never work correctly on almost any ROM I tried, so today I decided to go back to stock which I have done multiple times.
I used the root66 file that I used a few months back. It looked as if it worked but then wouldn't get passed the download screen. I then downloaded yet another stock file to restore it.
It then worked. Started fine. Everything looked GREAT..... BUT now it wont pick up signal. IT wont read my SIM card and the APN Verizon network is greyed out. Everything else is perfect. But what good is this phone if it cant pick up any signal?
Can someone PLEASE help me. Ive spent 6 hours trying to figure this out and cannot.
Now that you flashed that file, do a factory reset and you should be golden
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dahaight said:
my gps and snapchat would never work correctly on almost any rom i tried, so today i decided to go back to stock which i have done multiple times.
I used the root66 file that i used a few months back. It looked as if it worked but then wouldn't get passed the download screen. I then downloaded yet another stock file to restore it.
It then worked. Started fine. Everything looked great..... But now it wont pick up signal. It wont read my sim card and the apn verizon network is greyed out. Everything else is perfect. But what good is this phone if it cant pick up any signal?
Can someone please help me. Ive spent 6 hours trying to figure this out and cannot.
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我的手机也不能上网了。悲剧
Had the same thing happen to me. Clean the cahe in recovery mode. Then factory reset. It worked for me as well.
joecool73 said:
Had the same thing happen to me. Clean the cahe in recovery mode. Then factory reset. It worked for me as well.
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Not working here either ... One bad flash or missed wipe and it's
Clearing cache then factory reset isn't fixing it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2077653 is the XDA fix to restore the IMEI but getting the right driver combo so I can get it onto my phone has been a serious pain in the neck ... been working on it for almost a week.
Here is exactly what I have and did.
Verizon Note 2 sch-i605 VRAMC3 build. This is completely stock never been rooted. Used Odin v3.07 and root66_VZW_stock_system.tar file. I did this on my windows xp sp3 PC. Here are a couple of screen shots before and after root. Now after I rooted, I did have to clear the cache and factory reset phone in recovery mode to get it to boot up. Make sure that you root the phone with Odin v3.07 and only have the PDA and f reset time checked. Ive made that mistake before myself. If that does not work, try flashing the complete stock Verizon ROM back to the phone. That will put the phone into its factory state, ie new out of the box. I always have a full non rooted stock copy just in case. The stock file is called Stock Verizon Note 2 I605VRAMC3_I605VZWAMC3_VZW. This is the most current build.
The 1st pic is before root, the 2nd pic is after root, the 3rd pic is of Odin finishing and shows what options are selected.
Notice the build number and android number are now different.
I'm having the same problem as well. What I did though was I installed phoenix 17 on my i605 like an idiot and realized it wasn't going to work so i went back to the rooted touchwhiz. However, I can't seem to get service no matter what I try. Could somebody post a link to the root66 download?
try to flash the file via odin: toltevzw_mj9_official_firmware.tar.md5 it works for me when i flash the stock 4.3 rom
A couple of weeks ago I bought a Galaxy Note 2 from Simple Mobile began to experiment with it. Later on I managed to root it, but I accidentally flashed a recovery via Rom Manager which after a restart broke my phone.
After that I flashed a OTA through Odin of Verizon 4.1.2. The system booted and everything but the radio was missing meaning that I could not text or use 3G. I looked for many ways to restore it but none worked.
I later on flashed a T-Mobile ROM thinking it will help restore the radio and it did successfully flash the ROM through the recovery. But the ROM turned out to be 4.3 and the radio still didn't work. Later on in the same day I flashed an OTA of T-Mobile through Odin and that's when this happened. My phone bootloops really fast when I turn it on. The recovery doesn't show up at all. And every time I flash anything through Odin it fails. I've felt ashamed all this time and it took me a while to reflect and face what I've done and decided to post on here to get help.
Thanks for reading! Any help is appreciated. I will try every method that gets posted and will post back results.
Chronosin said:
A couple of weeks ago I bought a Galaxy Note 2 from Boost Mobile began to experiment with it. Later on I managed to root it, but I accidentally flashed a recovery via Rom Manager which after a restart broke my phone.
After that I flashed a OTA through Odin of Verizon 4.1.2. The system booted and everything but the radio was missing meaning that I could not text or use 3G. I looked for many ways to restore it but none worked.
I later on flashed a T-Mobile ROM thinking it will help restore the radio and it did successfully flash the ROM through the recovery. But the ROM turned out to be 4.3 and the radio still didn't work. Later on in the same day I flashed an OTA of T-Mobile through Odin and that's when this happened. My phone bootloops really fast when I turn it on. The recovery doesn't show up at all. And every time I flash anything through Odin it fails. I've felt ashamed all this time and it took me a while to reflect and face what I've done and decided to post on here to get help.
Thanks for reading! Any help is appreciated. I will try every method that gets posted and will post back results.
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I have a very similar problem. hope you get help on this, I have been trying to fix this problem for a month.
The 4.3 update is where the issue came from if it will allow you to flash try using a custom rom to get you out the boot loop but because the 4.3 bootloader is locked you now have another issue you will now have to run a virtual rom and there is a certain way you have to do it or you will completely brick your phone try researching first Google your phone model with the rom build 4.3 root you have to root it now before you can do any modifications at this point
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I bought a sprint note 3 last night clean ESN but we couldn't get it activated, took it to sprint found out it was rooted, but had no sprint firmware on it.
ran root checker on it and it showed rooted. i can't get it back in to recovery
i get this message "
Recovery is not Seandroid Enforcing"
in download mode it says knox warranty void 0X1.
i've tried rerooting, and writing factory firmware on it in odin and it keeps failing.
it will write the CF-Root file and won't do much else
got TWRP on it and can now get into recovery.
does anyone have a flashable zip of the stock firmware and rom for this phone please.
tried to flash Vision X rom got message no MD5 file found
and you must flash your device kernel ?? i thought roms came with kernels....
i got the jelly bombed rom on it up and running now BUT it still doesn't have any sprint firmware on it.
so i still can not activate it. what it's missing is anything sprint. the wifi calling ect.
so how do i get all those files and how do i add them.
i found a stock file and installed it in odin and now i'm unrooted, but the phone still will not activate.
i tried to do an update on the software on the phone and it gives a message that the phone has been modified and can not update ???
i have no idea what to do now ... why can't i activate this damn phone it's all stock now.
the tar. file i flashed is 4.3 can i flash a 4.4 tar. filewith wifi calling in odin since it's not rooted anymore?
would that fix it ??
any help will be appreciated.... right no it' just a paper weight
jaco420 said:
i found a stock file and installed it in odin and now i'm unrooted, but the phone still will not activate.
i tried to do an update on the software on the phone and it gives a message that the phone has been modified and can not update ???
i have no idea what to do now ... why can't i activate this damn phone it's all stock now.
the tar. file i flashed is 4.3 can i flash a 4.4 tar. filewith wifi calling in odin since it's not rooted anymore?
would that fix it ??
any help will be appreciated.... right no it' just a paper weight
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Flash the stock tar or one-click, each located in the dev forum.
The OPs of each thread contain thorough instructions for upgrading everything to the latest stock Sprint firmware, baseband, bootloader.
Then, and only then, get the phone activated via a call to Sprint or hie yourself to the store for same. It should propagate quickly, and you'll be able to do all that which one can with a Sprint Note 3 on their network.
Good luck!
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i found the one click file, but where do i find base band and boot loader and firmware ?
jaco420 said:
i found the one click file, but where do i find base band and boot loader and firmware ?
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One click takes care of all that.
micmars said:
Flash the stock tar or one-click, each located in the dev forum.
The OPs of each thread contain thorough instructions for upgrading everything to the latest stock Sprint firmware, baseband, bootloader.
Then, and only then, get the phone activated via a call to Sprint or hie yourself to the store for same. It should propagate quickly, and you'll be able to do all that which one can with a Sprint Note 3 on their network.
Good luck!
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I found the 1 click, and wen't into stock recovery did factory reset, powered off, went into download mode and installed it with the 1 click.
it passed and it don't have sprint 4g splash screen on boot up and still won't activate.
it's still missing all the sprint files.
any ideas what's wrong.
jaco420 said:
I found the 1 click, and wen't into stock recovery did factory reset, powered off, went into download mode and installed it with the 1 click.
it passed and it don't have sprint 4g splash screen on boot up and still won't activate.
it's still missing all the sprint files.
any ideas what's wrong.
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None of which I can think at the moment. The one-click contains everything, and I believe that includes the carrier specific files. I may be wrong, but I believe it's an all inclusive factory image.
Just for kicks, what's it say for the model number behind the physical battery?
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micmars said:
None of which I can think at the moment. The one-click contains everything, and I believe that includes the carrier specific files. I may be wrong, but I believe it's an all inclusive factory image.
Just for kicks, what's it say for the model number behind the physical battery?
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SM-N900P it even has a sprint logo on that white sticker
as i said in the other thread, i've been trying to activate on my online account, by switching service from my note 2
to this note 3 .
when i switch service over to this note 3 my online account says it's activated, but my signal bar on phone has the red X and no signal.
tried forced activation and same story with it.
just tried it again and the thing i have to agree to isn't from sprint it's samsung wifi.
following my online activation on sprints website i try to update profile, initializing application it what pops up when i touch it but nothing else happens, so it won't update anything.and i'm on wifi.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2681268
Sir micmars i found this thread with exactaly the same issue i'm having, you gave a solution at the end of this thread but no one posted if it worked of not, i keep trying all these different nc5 roms installing through odin and i keep getting that red X on my signal bar.
Did you do a full factory reset within the phone's os? A second important thing, since you mentioned a red x for signal. Is the original Sim card in the phone? Cards for Sim slots in sprint phones are not interchangeable like gsm cards are. The card is paired to the phone from factory. After a full reset, maybe go by a corporate sprint store that has, or can get, a replacement Sim card for your phone. This is the only thing I can think of after all you've said so far. If that doesn't work, then there could be some deep programming involved, ##data#, to get it back into shape. Flashing Roms won't change this deep parameters for a sprint phone. Either will factory resets. You might have got a phone that someone phucked with deeply or you might have bought an expensive paperweight.
oscarthegrouch said:
Did you do a full factory reset within the phone's os? A second important thing, since you mentioned a red x for signal. Is the original Sim card in the phone? Cards for Sim slots in sprint phones are not interchangeable like gsm cards are. The card is paired to the phone from factory. After a full reset, maybe go by a corporate sprint store that has, or can get, a replacement Sim card for your phone. This is the only thing I can think of after all you've said so far. If that doesn't work, then there could be some deep programming involved, ##data#, to get it back into shape. Flashing Roms won't change this deep parameters for a sprint phone. Either will factory resets. You might have got a phone that someone phucked with deeply or you might have bought an expensive paperweight.
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the phone came with a new sim card, and we set it up with the phones IMEI on line and it went to the sprint store with that sim and they didn't mention it was an issue. will take it back to the sprint store tomorrow and see what they can do.
Took the phone to my sprint store and the tech messed with it for over an hour this morning and said **** it.
must have a bad radio or something in it, because it never would show my phone number.
the good news is he said, you'll have a brand new phone in 3 days. at no charge.
Lucky day for me. He even knew Knox was flagged.
jaco420 said:
Took the phone to my sprint store and the tech messed with it for over an hour this morning and said **** it.
must have a bad radio or something in it, because it never would show my phone number.
the good news is he said, you'll have a brand new phone in 3 days. at no charge.
Lucky day for me. He even knew Knox was flagged.
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Just seeing this. Outstanding outcome, good sir.
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