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So I want to to root my Vibrant but I can't...Every way I tried it needed to reboot my vibrant to recovery didn't work...
I tried GS Tweaker, ONeSuperClick, rom manager, terminal emulator.....
I got my update.zip file into my SD card but Im stuck with the rebooting thing
I tried all the ways of rebooting: the manual rebooting, Android SDK application... everything thing, I spent the whole day finding ways, watching videos and reading from vibrant wiki..
So what I reached to yesterday is:
while I was talking to one of the pro of android in one of the chat room somewhere, he said maybe because my phone needs "hardware updating" that the buttons can't reboot something like that (since I'm not in the states and I cant get OTA updates from T-mobile)... so I need to download ODIN and find Samsung drivers...
can anyone help me in this please?
try http://www.akaskriller.com/free/flashing.php
there are some files that you may need to ODIN. good luck, hope it works out.
qatarneh said:
So I want to to root my Vibrant but I can't...Every way I tried it needed to reboot my vibrant to recovery didn't work...
I tried GS Tweaker, ONeSuperClick, rom manager, terminal emulator.....
I got my update.zip file into my SD card but Im stuck with the rebooting thing
I tried all the ways of rebooting: the manual rebooting, Android SDK application... everything thing, I spent the whole day finding ways, watching videos and reading from vibrant wiki..
So what I reached to yesterday is:
while I was talking to one of the pro of android in one of the chat room somewhere, he said maybe because my phone needs "hardware updating" that the buttons can't reboot something like that (since I'm not in the states and I cant get OTA updates from T-mobile)... so I need to download ODIN and find Samsung drivers...
can anyone help me in this please?
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ok....thats weird
first try pulling out your battery.....then put it back in...then hold both volume buttons while you turn it back on w/ the power button....when the black samsung screen pops up let them go...the phone should go into the stock 2e recovery...
if you still want the drivers then here you go ....http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728929
Odin and a nice guide on how to use it can be found here...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=849028
or
here...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737
http://androidforums.com/vibrant-tips-tricks/223806-guide-fixing-bricks-odin-errors.html
should have all the info you need.
Thanks man! you're advice just worked with me
Thanks a million guys
Alright, so here's my problem:
I just upgraded to the Galaxy S III yesterday, and today decided to try to 'root' the device. So I found the Toolkit here on XDA (from here), and went through the initial steps without any issues (driver installation, device recognition, etc..).
I then went to the 'rooting option' menu, where I selected the first--and most basic --option, which was to only install Super User, and the push the permissions.
I was following the automated guide, opened Odin, selected the correct file, 'boot-insecure-i9300xxale8-gsm.tar', and made sure only 'auto-restart' and F.reset time' were checked, and clicked 'start'. The flash appeared to have gone well, but when it tried to restart, the phone never rebooted. I attempted to reboot into download mode (Vol. Down + Home + Power), but the device was unresponsive. I then browsed around the forums a bit looking for other methods, including taking the battery out for several minutes, then putting it back in whilst holding down the 'download mode' button combination, and other various variations of that method; yet again, none prevailed.
The device gives no indicator lights when plugged in, no light up when the power button is held down, and is overall seemingly unresponsive. However, when I hold down the 'home' button alone - after about 30 seconds - a green vertical battery appears on the screen, with a little white loading indicator on it, but vanishes after about 5 seconds or so, and the device becomes unresponsive once more.
The device is not being recognized by my computer whatsoever, no beeps or anything when plugged in.
Any ideas as to what I can do?
EDIT: I have been able to get into 'Download mode' somehow, but after trying to reflash the stock rom, it went back to the 'Unresponsive' mode. I have it in Download mode again currently, so what do I do from here?
I assume it is still under warranty, since it is less than a few days old. Return it to the store claiming hardware malfunctioning.
Forget about the toolkit. In my opinion, it's quite useless (as you know by now), and it tends to automate tasks that are simple by nature.
Even although I appreciate the effort the developers of the toolkit put into it, I would never do it, since I want to have control of the entire process: I want to know exactly what is being done and why, and that is something the Toolkit won't give me.
If you want to root your phone and keep it stock, do this:
- Install the drivers for the device.
- Install SiyahKernel for S3 version 1.3 using ODIN.
- Install superSU (from market) and let it update it's binary su
- Install MobileOdin (free version)
- download the latest Samsung ROM (such as DBT [Germany] or ITV [Italy]) using CheckFus downloader
- copy the downloaded and unzipped ROM to your phone's external SD card (just the .md5 file)
- using MobileODIN, flash the ROM and select the "EverRoot" feature
- after reboot the ROM will be updated, stock, but with root
- Install TriangleAway to get rid of any annoying triangles and to reset the binary counter
Done. supposing the ROM is already downloaded, the entire process takes exactly 4 minutes.
Simonetti2011 said:
I assume it is still under warranty, since it is less than a few days old. Return it to the store claiming hardware malfunctioning.
Forget about the toolkit. In my opinion, it's quite useless (as you know by now), and it tends to automate tasks that are simple by nature.
Even although I appreciate the effort the developers of the toolkit put into it, I would never do it, since I want to have control of the entire process: I want to know exactly what is being done and why, and that is something the Toolkit won't give me.
If you want to root your phone and keep it stock, do this:
- Install the drivers for the device.
- Install SiyahKernel for S3 version 1.3 using ODIN.
- Install superSU (from market) and let it update it's binary su
- Install MobileOdin (free version)
- download the latest Samsung ROM (such as DBT [Germany] or ITV [Italy]) using CheckFus downloader
- copy the downloaded and unzipped ROM to your phone's external SD card (just the .md5 file)
- using MobileODIN, flash the ROM and select the "EverRoot" feature
- after reboot the ROM will be updated, stock, but with root
- Install TriangleAway to get rid of any annoying triangles and to reset the binary counter
Done. supposing the ROM is already downloaded, the entire process takes exactly 4 minutes.
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Thank you so much for responding!
I have the phone in download mode right now though, as I've been able to get that far. Is there anything I can do from here to fix the issue? I really don't want to take it back up, and face the chance of confrontation if they decided to call me out on the issue.
I tried flashing the Sinyah Kernel via Odin just now, using the PDA mode, but once again, just flashes the Samsung logo for a brief second, and disappears, leaving me with a black screen.
Samsung don't seem to really care if you have rooted or not, so far about 4 people in 2 days on this and other for mums have returned phones because they have possibly bricked them, all got them exchanged with out a problem.
To unroot and return your galaxy S3 to stock for warranty watch this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Tga_yKywc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Zenno said:
Thank you so much for responding!
I have the phone in download mode right now though, as I've been able to get that far. Is there anything I can do from here to fix the issue? I really don't want to take it back up, and face the chance of confrontation if they decided to call me out on the issue.
I tried flashing the Sinyah Kernel via Odin just now, using the PDA mode, but once again, just flashes the Samsung logo for a brief second, and disappears, leaving me with a black screen.
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Flash a stock rom for your phone and location or if it was a branded phone flash that .
Even if it does not boot you stand a better chance under warranty .
Say you where doing a Kies update and it just failed to reboot .
jje
JJEgan said:
Flash a stock rom for your phone and location or if it was a branded phone flash that .
Even if it does not boot you stand a better chance under warranty .
Say you where doing a Kies update and it just failed to reboot .
jje
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I tried to reboot the stock firmware 'boot-stock-i9300xxale8-gsm.tar', but when Odin failed to reboot the phone, and I manually put it back into download mode, it still said my binary was 'Custom'.
Should I be trying to flash that under 'Bootloader' in Odin or something? Because I've been doing 'PDA' and it hasn't been working.
Download an original, stock ROM from samsung-updates.com or use checkFus downloader.
That is what you'll flash.
This is the one I use: http://samsung-updates.com/get/1932/Samsung_Firmware_GT-I9300_DBT_I9300XXALF6_Android_4_0_4.html
After some further browsing, I was able to fix it thanks to this post here, posted by 'mskip'.
Whew! That was stressing. Thanks guys for helping out though!
How to get out of hard brick to download mode
Zenno said:
After some further browsing, I was able to fix it thanks to this post here, posted by 'mskip'.
Whew! That was stressing. Thanks guys for helping out though!
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After hardware brick, how did you get it back to download mode agian?
i cnat do anything , no turn on no charging, nothing, how you do it?
i think if i can get it back to dowload mode, i can flash out the stock rom again.
any advise will help
Pull the Batteery
jiafu790617 said:
After hardware brick, how did you get it back to download mode agian?
i cnat do anything , no turn on no charging, nothing, how you do it?
i think if i can get it back to dowload mode, i can flash out the stock rom again.
any advise will help
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Remove the battery for about 2 minutes, replace it and immediately try to go into download mode. This worked for me
same problem
Hard bricked it too, flashed a wrong rom made for international model, i have the att model are you sure taking out the battery works?
Zenno said:
EDIT: I have been able to get into 'Download mode' somehow, but after trying to reflash the stock rom, it went back to the 'Unresponsive' mode. I have it in Download mode again currently, so what do I do from here?
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I have the same problem! Do you know how you got into download mode?
Surge411 said:
I have the same problem! Do you know how you got into download mode?
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Just keep trying,I must have removed the battery and pressed the buttons over six times to get into download mode. Hope you get there.
I was going to theme my girlfriends Galaxy S5 with Nova Launcher, but when opening the app, for some reason the phone started to bootloop. It would show the Samsung Screen, then the ATT screen, then it would reach the home screen. After doing so, the same process would occur.
I wiped the dalvik cache and after that, the phone would just stop at the ATT splash screen, and has only done that since. It can last hours on that screen... which in my eyes, means the OS's system files are corrupted.
Now she just came back from Italy and had all of her pictures on the phone (which is only 2 weeks old). I am willing to do whatever to recover the pictures, as long as I don't void the warranty.
I can access the recovery mode and download mode on the device. I have Samsung Kies, ADB, an OTG cable, and a Note 3 for myself. What I am not willing to do is format the device...
Samsung Galaxy S5
ATT
Non Rooted
Stock ROM
Any help? It's all deeply appreciated!
Why not use Odin to reflash the official firmware? If I'm not mistaken, you shouldn't lose any of those pics...as long as you don't wipe data in recovery. I remember doing this for a friend and she was concerned about not losing any pics on her phone. Don't quote me on this though. Do it at your own risk.
If you have any questions, shoot me a PM
naelscp1 said:
I was going to theme my girlfriends Galaxy S5 with Nova Launcher, but when opening the app, for some reason the phone started to bootloop. It would show the Samsung Screen, then the ATT screen, then it would reach the home screen. After doing so, the same process would occur.
I wiped the dalvik cache and after that, the phone would just stop at the ATT splash screen, and has only done that since. It can last hours on that screen... which in my eyes, means the OS's system files are corrupted.
Now she just came back from Italy and had all of her pictures on the phone (which is only 2 weeks old). I am willing to do whatever to recover the pictures, as long as I don't void the warranty.
I can access the recovery mode and download mode on the device. I have Samsung Kies, ADB, an OTG cable, and a Note 3 for myself. What I am not willing to do is format the device...
Samsung Galaxy S5
ATT
Non Rooted
Stock ROM
Any help? It's all deeply appreciated!
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Hmm ... that sounds quite weird. I would just bring it back to support and see if they can do anything.
As for the pictures, I guess the "Android File Transfer" app might still be working if the OS boots up to a certain stage. Have you tried that one yet?
kozen-s4bb said:
Hmm ... that sounds quite weird. I would just bring it back to support and see if they can do anything.
As for the pictures, I guess the "Android File Transfer" app might still be working if the OS boots up to a certain stage. Have you tried that one yet?
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I have a windows computer... any other app you can think of that would be able to access the phone while its off/booting?
And regarding support... Like Samsung Support?
djnoicatse said:
Why not use Odin to reflash the official firmware? If I'm not mistaken, you shouldn't lose any of those pics...as long as you don't wipe data in recovery. I remember doing this for a friend and she was concerned about not losing any pics on her phone. Don't quote me on this though. Do it at your own risk.
If you have any questions, shoot me a PM
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Thanks, I did some searching around and apparently it does wipe.
Bump. With me possessing her phone, she has no mobile device so I really want to make sure she can have a device soon.
Can anyone confirm the recovery by using Odin to flash official firmware?
Here are the steps you should do to recover your GF's phone,
1- download official firmware from Samsung-updates.com (make sure its official at&t firmware)
2- download Odin (this is used to flash official firmware)
3- unzip the firmware you downloaded. Inside should be .tar file. This is the file that must be flashed
4- unzip Odin if needed to, inside should be exe file to run Odin.
5- put phone into download mode (hold vol. Down + home button + power button same time) you'll get a screen where it asks you to press volume up or down to either cancel or proceed to download mode. Go into download mode
6- run Odin and plug in your phone
7- Odin should then recognize your phone telling which port your phone is plugged into (ex. Com4). If it is indeed connected and recognized move on to the next step.
8- press the PDA button on odin, a window should pop up where you can locate the .tar file. Look for the file wherever you extracted it to. After you find it double click it.
9- .tar file should now be in the PDA slot. (Please note that "auto reboot, reset time and pda should be the only boxes that should have a check, make sure nothing else is checked mark) by default the the checks should already be there and you shouldn't have to do anything but I thought I'd let you know just in case.
10- press start and wait till everything is done
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After some research of my own, it seems that flashing the stock firmware over your phone will not wipe any data or apps as long as you didnt wipe/factory reset your phone in recovery
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I've taken the liberty in helping you out in providing the links that needs to be downloaded.
Odin- https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&sour...nU6_0obQ6fr_QnBsA&sig2=OZVGB7LZ4HEzhIe9X2JgwA
Official At&t firmware- http://samsung-updates.com/details/26862/Galaxy_S_4_AT&T/SGH-I337/ATT/I337UCUAMDL.html
Thank You, DJ!
Samsung s5 G900A REbooting issue
Hope Im posting this in the right spot. Hello I rooted my AT&T S5 G900A and had no problems until I went overboard and installed the lucky patch android software I believe its called.Iused it beofre and no problems so thought no biggie.I did the patch to android on the app.And well now Im stuck with a non starting phone.It doesnt get passed the samsung logo and if it does do anything its only to reloop.Ive tried odin and everything i can think of.Right now in recovery mode it says android system recovery<3e> LRX21T.G900AUCU3B0C4.
I dont know if it means I have that or need that.Im now so confused and Im usually pretty good with my phone stuff.Any that can help it would be so appreciated.Thanks,Aeron
I have purchased a new phone and want to give my old S3 to my young son. I wanted to wipe everything on the phone so he could just use it as a music player/internet tool (no actual sim for phone use)
So I held the "volume up, power and home button" together and got myself into Team Win Recovery Projext (TWRP v2.8.7.0) I then accidentally wiped everything , so now the phone wont get past the "Samsung S3" title page when switching it on. I can get into TWRP still but none of the options seem to work. It tells me I have "no OS"
I now have a sad son who was waiting patiently for "dad's old phone" to play with.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
turboninja said:
I have purchased a new phone and want to give my old S3 to my young son. I wanted to wipe everything on the phone so he could just use it as a music player/internet tool (no actual sim for phone use)
So I held the "volume up, power and home button" together and got myself into Team Win Recovery Projext (TWRP v2.8.7.0) I then accidentally wiped everything , so now the phone wont get past the "Samsung S3" title page when switching it on. I can get into TWRP still but none of the options seem to work. It tells me I have "no OS"
I now have a sad son who was waiting patiently for "dad's old phone" to play with.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Just download any ROM you want (a stable one) in the section under Galaxy S III Android Development, save it on a micro-sd card, insert card into phone and flash the zip file in TWRP.
zertyx said:
Just download any ROM you want (a stable one) in the section under Galaxy S III Android Development, save it on a micro-sd card, insert card into phone and flash the zip file in TWRP.
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thanks for your reply but I don't have a micro SD card for it. I read that I can flash the ROM using Odin? Is this a possibility? (I need to youtube instructions - this is new to me)
I went to the s3 ROM section as you suggested. How do I pick one to suit my S3 19300? I am assuming any will do from there? I picked the top one http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/development/rom-archidroid-v2-4-6-power-hands-t2354859
Just go to sammobile, search for your device (i9300) and download latest, https://www.technobezz.com/flash-stock-rom-via-odin-samsung-galaxy-s3/ there u have the easiest way how to do it, nothing complicated just plug your phone in download mode and select file then flash it
turboninja said:
thanks for your reply but I don't have a micro SD card for it. I read that I can flash the ROM using Odin? Is this a possibility? (I need to youtube instructions - this is new to me)
I went to the s3 ROM section as you suggested. How do I pick one to suit my S3 19300? I am assuming any will do from there? I picked the top one http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/development/rom-archidroid-v2-4-6-power-hands-t2354859
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If the phone is btu you can flash this: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4vTiHTBB629OVlvY0pkcXN4ak0/view?usp=drivesdk
If it isn't btu, dont flash it. (btu is unbranded worldwide edition, not locked to a carrier).
Beamed in by telepathy.
thanks for the google drive download link. (my phone is btu) I dl it to my google drive but extracting it is taking forever (whole day and just stalling)
To be clear, I have a samsung galaxy s3 i9300. So I tried flashing the following tar using odin " CF-Auto-Root-m0-m0xx-gti9300.tar.md5" .
It was successful (all green in odin and said success) but when the phone then goes to auto reboot it just stalls on the 'galaxy s111 GT-i9300' opening screen (as it always does now) . any tips?
I am new to all this,
Can someone tell me the difference in flashing this tar file (small file 21MB) compared to other flash files recommended on samsung websites. Large files e.g 4.3 BTU-I9300XXUGMK6-20131216145831.zip nearly 1GB in size?
Open Odin, uncheck everything except f reset time, flash, when you see the word "reset" in the status window, remove USB cable from the phone, remove the battery, boot into recovery mode, factory wipe, reboot.
thanks everyone for your help. My old S3 is up and running!! looks great to see the old beast with a new lease of life. My son is very excited!
My phone is/was a Samsung S5 Neo (SM-G903M) running Android 5.1.1.
I was trying to root the phone to use Titanium Backup, I got a CF-Auto-Root file and used Odin to load the md5 file. I need this root to backup my phone, so I don't have any backup.
The first time, I followed all the instructions and when it reboot I got a red pirate, bootloader locked and the log:
/sbin/unzip: permission denied
/sbin/chcon: permission denied
Then, I tried another CF-Auto-Root file and now my phone is restarting and can't load (bootloop).
1) Is there a way to extract the cache.img and recovery.img file from a stock rom and use Odin to load them?
2) Is there another way to fix this phone with root or not?
3) My wife was the same phone,is it possible to get some file from her phone and fix mine?
It's probably better to flash whole rom if you got warning for bootloader locked but yeah, you can extract from firmware. Open tar.md5 as archive and extract what you want. Make a new tar with the extracted files and flash with odin.
[Solution]
1) Download a stock rom from: https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/database/SM-G903M/
2) Untar cache.img and recovery.img
3) Download tar-Tool_Odin3-v3.10.7 from: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2446269
4) Unzip and copy cache.img and recovery.img to tar-Tool folder
5) Use the batch.bat to create a tar.md5 file from cache.img and recovery.img
6) Download Odin
7) Follow these instructions:
7.1/ Extract it somewhere and launch it in administrator mode.
7.2/ Put your phone in download mode.
To do it, press & maintain 3 buttons (Menu, volume down & power). Then push "Volume up"
7.3/ Quit Kies. Connect your phone to your PC. Odin will detect it in ID :COM
7.4/ Select "AP" and select the file created by tar-Tool in folder "AllFiles"
7.5/ Verify that only "Auto reboot" & "F-reset" is ticked. Click on Start.
7.6/ Wait till the phone reboots.
Grillox said:
My phone is/was a Samsung S5 Neo (SM-G903M) running Android 5.1.1.
I was trying to root the phone to use Titanium Backup, I got a CF-Auto-Root file and used Odin to load the md5 file. I need this root to backup my phone, so I don't have any backup.
The first time, I followed all the instructions and when it reboot I got a red pirate, bootloader locked and the log:
/sbin/unzip: permission denied
/sbin/chcon: permission denied
Then, I tried another CF-Auto-Root file and now my phone is restarting and can't load (bootloop).
1) Is there a way to extract the cache.img and recovery.img file from a stock rom and use Odin to load them?
2) Is there another way to fix this phone with root or not?
3) My wife was the same phone,is it possible to get some file from her phone and fix mine?
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In my opinion u need to flash the stock firmware ur mobile was running before the root with odin....u can download from site samsung firmware.You will have to find the exact firmware u were running and your country.thats only way from my opinion.Then try again with autoroot and please download the cf autoroot file only made for lollipop version.I hope u have flashed the correct cf autooot file.
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thalidomide1111 said:
In my opinion u need to flash the stock firmware ur mobile was running before the root with odin....u can download from site samsung firmware.You will have to find the exact firmware u were running and your country.thats only way from my opinion.Then try again with autoroot and please download the cf autoroot file only made for lollipop version.I hope u have flashed the correct cf autooot file.
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The solution I wrote solved my problem. And guess what? My phone is rooted.
Gentlemen, I tried flashing cf-auto-root for M variant (firmware is at UBU1BPK1), but after ODIN Pass! it reboots and just show the message "Recovery is not seandroid enforced".
After that, it reboots again to normal firmware, not rooted.
I even tried un-checking the "auto reboot" option in ODIN, and doing a manual reboot to recovery mode (as it was supposed to force the cf-root to install).
But it just repeats the same behaviour. I kept holding vol_up+button+power and it kept rebooting trying to enter recovery but just showing the message "recovery is not seandroid enforced".
At the time I released the buttons, it rebooted to normal firmware, not rooted.
Tried different Odin versions (3.10.6, 3.12...), nothing did the trick.
Any tips? May I have to try the F variant? (my phone is dual sim, don't know if it'd disable second sim slot)
I've also enabled "USB debug" and "unlocked OEM" under developer settings.
Couldn't find "reactivation lock" option under account settings / security settings.
ciberglo said:
Gentlemen, I tried flashing cf-auto-root for M variant (firmware is at UBU1BPK1), but after ODIN Pass! it reboots and just show the message "Recovery is not seandroid enforced".
After that, it reboots again to normal firmware, not rooted.
I even tried un-checking the "auto reboot" option in ODIN, and doing a manual reboot to recovery mode (as it was supposed to force the cf-root to install).
But it just repeats the same behaviour. I kept holding vol_up+button+power and it kept rebooting trying to enter recovery but just showing the message "recovery is not seandroid enforced".
At the time I released the buttons, it rebooted to normal firmware, not rooted.
Tried different Odin versions (3.10.6, 3.12...), nothing did the trick.
Any tips? May I have to try the F variant? (my phone is dual sim, don't know if it'd disable second sim slot)
I've also enabled "USB debug" and "unlocked OEM" under developer settings.
Couldn't find "reactivation lock" option under account settings / security settings.
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Just to add that I finally got it working.
Flashed a different country variant (BVO - Bolivia), that has BQA1 firmware and also have the same Modem/CP Version as my ZTO (Brazil) in BPF1. I was afraid of choosing a different variant from Brazil with different modem version, and being not able to use my local area signal provider.
It worked like a charm. I wiped data/factory reset. Then I flashed the BQA1 firmware using ODIN 3.12.3 (last version). Logged in google account (didn't logged on samsung account, neither choosed a lock screen).
Then, flashed cf-auto-root from autoroot.chainfire.eu for g903m BQA1 and it worked like a charm!
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