[Q] Verizon Galaxy Note II Bricked? - Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II

I was trying to update my Verizon Note 2 (SCH-i605) from 4.1.1 to KitKat. Unfortunately, my boot loader was locked and now all I get is a 'System software not authorized by Verizon...' screen at boot. I've try several tutorials using Odin to restore stock but nothing works. Has anyone else had trouble doing this? Is my phone permanently bricked?

can you get the phone in download mode?
also what did you do to get where you are now, we need some more details in order to help.

I got it back up and running. I got into the predicament in the first place by not unlocking my bootloader. I was trying to flash back to stock with a rooted version. When I used the unrooted, it worked fine.

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[Q] Soft Brick, Help!

I've been trying to get my phone back on stock rom for hours or at least to the point where I can use it. Ive tried several methods in the past day. However, I have not been able to do it without success. This was all for the purpose of updating to 4.3 since I hadn't updated since I rooted my phone. First I unrooted it through Supersu and tried to apply the update but it wouldnt work so then I factory reset it. I applied the update again but it didnt seem to want to update to 4.3 . So then I went to TWRP and cleaned out the files, but I never checked to it to the system. After that It was stuck into a boot loop. It never got past the Galaxy s4 boot image. I still have a back up of everything after I rooted my phone, but after applying the following system recovery
stockroms.net/file/GalaxyS4/SPH-L720/L720VPUAMDC_L720SPTAMDC_SPR.zip
I am no longer able to use TWRP and my phone is still in the same situation. All I know about my phone without acess to the information in the about phone section is that it is a Verison Galaxy S4 and before I did anything it was on an android 4.2.2 rooted stock. On the box it say its a SPHl720BKK. If anyone could help me that would be greatly appreciated before I hard brick my phone with the little experiance i have.
santiagorook said:
I've been trying to get my phone back on stock rom for hours or at least to the point where I can use it. Ive tried several methods in the past day. However, I have not been able to do it without success. This was all for the purpose of updating to 4.3 since I hadn't updated since I rooted my phone. First I unrooted it through Supersu and tried to apply the update but it wouldnt work so then I factory reset it. I applied the update again but it didnt seem to want to update to 4.3 . So then I went to TWRP and cleaned out the files, but I never checked to it to the system. After that It was stuck into a boot loop. It never got past the Galaxy s4 boot image. I still have a back up of everything after I rooted my phone, but after applying the following system recovery
stockroms.net/file/GalaxyS4/SPH-L720/L720VPUAMDC_L720SPTAMDC_SPR.zip
I am no longer able to use TWRP and my phone is still in the same situation. All I know about my phone without acess to the information in the about phone section is that it is a Verison Galaxy S4 and before I did anything it was on an android 4.2.2 rooted stock. On the box it say its a SPHl720BKK. If anyone could help me that would be greatly appreciated before I hard brick my phone with the little experiance i have.
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You're posting in a forum for the SCH-I545. That's a Verizon Galaxy S4.
The SPH-L720 is an international phone, You'll need to post on a forum for that particular variant of the GS4 if you expect any help.

Samsung Galaxy S4 Problem [Need Help Badly]

So, I had tryed to install at root and flash a Rom onto my Samsung Galaxy s4 i337 using MF3. I was running Android 4.2.2 and when I had tried to unroot my device, something happened and I wasn't able to FULLY get the root off my device. A couple days ago, I had wanted to upgrade to the Android KitKat 4.4 so when I completed the process. It went into Download mode, and then just crashed. Right now it shows an error message saying
"System software not authorized by AT&T has been found on my phone. Please turn off your phone and go to the nearest AT&T store for help."
Also in the top left hand corner it says Secure fail:Kernel so obviously it means I am missing a Kernel of some sort.
Please help me!
How were you trying to upgrade - via OTA? So you have not successfully flashed 4.3 or 4.4.2 through Odin, correct? But you should be able to find everything you need here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2616221
and/or
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2663545
There's a couple different ways to go depending on if you are trying to save your bootloader to be able to downgrade again easier, if wanted, or not.

[Q] Soft Bricked VZW Note 2

Ok I desperately need some help here. I first got my Note 2 February of last year and quickly rooted it and loaded up Scott's Clean Rom (whichever version was available at the time). I kept going through the updates for Clean Rom and had no issues and was still running Clean Rom until a few weeks ago. Since he was no longer making updates to it I decided just to return to stock since I didn't need root capabilities anymore. I went through the steps in this post, [GUIDE][VZW Edition]How to Root/Rom/Return to Stock the VZW Galaxy Note II! to flash the Official VRAMC3 4.1.2 update to return to stock and had no issues. Everything worked perfectly for several days. Then a friend of mine let me borrow his Note 3 out since I was thinking about buying one. While I had the Note 3, he accepted the latest factory update on my Note 2. Now I'm soft bricked, hopefully not hard bricked.
When I boot up the phone it just sits on the Galaxy Note 2 logo. I can't get into recovery but I can still get into Odin mode. I first tried using Odin to flash the pit file to repartition the phone, and even though I knew it probably wouldn't work I then tried loading the Official VRAMC3 4.1.2 update again. Of course it failed. I've tried multiple times since then to load the Official 4.3 updates, even the newest one that just came out a few days ago. No matter what I have tried I still cannot get the phone to load past the Galaxy Note 2 logo or get into recovery. Also when I go into Odin Mode here is exactly what it reads.
PRODUCT NAME: SCH-1605
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: No
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Official
KNOX WARRANTY VOID: 0
AP SWREV: A2
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I can't buy the Note 3 like I want to until I'm able to fix and sell this phone, so I'm currently stuck using my old HTC Thunderbolt that barely runs at this point. Thanks in advance!!
xashaffer said:
Ok I desperately need some help here. I first got my Note 2 February of last year and quickly rooted it and loaded up Scott's Clean Rom (whichever version was available at the time). I kept going through the updates for Clean Rom and had no issues and was still running Clean Rom until a few weeks ago. Since he was no longer making updates to it I decided just to return to stock since I didn't need root capabilities anymore. I went through the steps in this post, [GUIDE][VZW Edition]How to Root/Rom/Return to Stock the VZW Galaxy Note II! to flash the Official VRAMC3 4.1.2 update to return to stock and had no issues. Everything worked perfectly for several days. Then a friend of mine let me borrow his Note 3 out since I was thinking about buying one. While I had the Note 3, he accepted the latest factory update on my Note 2. Now I'm soft bricked, hopefully not hard bricked.
When I boot up the phone it just sits on the Galaxy Note 2 logo. I can't get into recovery but I can still get into Odin mode. I first tried using Odin to flash the pit file to repartition the phone, and even though I knew it probably wouldn't work I then tried loading the Official VRAMC3 4.1.2 update again. Of course it failed. I've tried multiple times since then to load the Official 4.3 updates, even the newest one that just came out a few days ago. No matter what I have tried I still cannot get the phone to load past the Galaxy Note 2 logo or get into recovery. Also when I go into Odin Mode here is exactly what it reads.
PRODUCT NAME: SCH-1605
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: No
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Official
KNOX WARRANTY VOID: 0
AP SWREV: A2
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I can't buy the Note 3 like I want to until I'm able to fix and sell this phone, so I'm currently stuck using my old HTC Thunderbolt that barely runs at this point. Thanks in advance!!
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Did you try to go into Odin and flash this:
VRUEMJ9 4.3- http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23269279319197589(ONLY USE THIS IF YOU TOOK THE 4.3 OTA!! There currently is no bootloader unlock method for 4.3 which means you can no longer flash custom roms, recoveries, or kernels!!!)
with the pit inlcuded.. If not do so.. Then report back.. If you can not get past "Note 2" screen then see, now, if you can get into recovery.. Press UP+HOME+POWER.. and then proceed to do a Factory Reset.
lacoursiere18 said:
Did you try to go into Odin and flash this:
VRUEMJ9 4.3- USE THIS IF YOU TOOK THE 4.3 OTA!! There currently is no bootloader unlock method for 4.3 which means you can no longer flash custom roms, recoveries, or kernels!!!)
with the pit inlcuded.. If not do so.. Then report back.. If you can not get past "Note 2" screen then see, now, if you can get into recovery.. Press UP+HOME+POWER.. and then proceed to do a Factory Reset.
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That was the first thing that I tried and I still could not get pass the logo or get into Recovery. I will try it again though shortly and let you know what happens.
Just tried it. According to Odin everything Passes, but it still won't go past the logo screen and still won't go into recovery. Any other ideas?

Hard Bricked S3 4.1.1

Okay so i have Galaxy S3 i747 for AT&T. I had downgraded it from 4.2.1 to 4.1.1 using a guide from this site for unlocking the device. Now I wanted to upgrade to the latest version. Now OTA was not available on the phone. So I used Odi3n to manually install the firmware, and after the phone restarted from completing the flash and it showed succeeded and went to the install screen. It finished and never turned back on, I have tried the SD card debrick but it doesn't seem to work. This is also my work phone so if anyone could please help me! I am out of ideas

Softbricked Verizon s4

So I was on lineage 7.1 when I decided to update TWRP for some reason . Anyway after that my phone only booted to download mode and Unauthorized software warning thingi.
So I thought hmm well I can fix this by going back all the way to VRUAMDK. So I flash VRUAMDK-No-Wipe with odin 3.07 but now get a boot loop at the verizon logo.
Followed this guide:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301259
My question is, does anyone have the fully stock VRUAMDK firmware? I cant find an active link anywhere. OR Should I just try flashing some available stock firmware and lose my unlocked bootloader?
Really any advice would be welcome.
Thanks!
Edit- after exhaustive searching I have found https://www.rwilco12.com/Files/Devices/Samsung Galaxy S4 (Verizon) (SCH-I545)/Stock ROMs/ with a stock rom that worked. I hope that link helps anyone out there looking for a working mdk rom.

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