i have a note 2 sch-i605 that is stuck at verizion logo what fiirmware & files do i need to reset this phone back to factory settings with odin? i also noticed in recovery mode i get failed to mount /efs error
No One has any idea's? ive tryed a few files with odin but always same thing stuck at verizon logo and will not go any were after that
cricket1969 said:
i have a note 2 sch-i605 that is stuck at verizion logo what fiirmware & files do i need to reset this phone back to factory settings with odin? i also noticed in recovery mode i get failed to mount /efs error
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If you haven't found it yet, Droidstyle's guide should help you restore your phone. You can find the guide here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34891181
Depending on what firmware version you were on (4.1.2, 4.3, or 4.4.2) you will want to restore the phone back to that firmware version that you were on. If you were on 4.4.2... then you can't downgrade down to 4.3 or any earlier firmware versions. Same goes for 4.3..can't downgrade to earlier builds. There are bootloader security measures in place that prevent downgrading.
I think Droidstyle's 4.1.2 firmware link is down.... so you can get 4.1.2 from XDA developer imnuts thread (under VRAMC3/Mirror 2) at this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35265728.
You can also get all the firmware files at Sammobile by clicking on this hyperlink HERE.
Hope this helps.
im on the nd7 firmware currently im thinking its the newest out so which one can i down grade to?
cricket1969 said:
im on the nd7 firmware currently im thinking its the newest out so which one can i down grade to?
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Unfortunately... if you are on ND7, then you cannot downgrade... it will fail in Odin every time because of bootloader security measures that prevent reverting back to earlier firmware versions.
If you were on 4.4.2, then you can download the firmware for 4.4.2 ND7 from Sammobile and use Droidstyle's Restore guide to flash the 4.4.2 firmware (including the step of flashing the pit file). His guide should still work to help you restore the phone.
After the ODIN flash is complete and you see a pass message in Odin, then power the phone off and boot the phone back up into stock recovery. Then do a factory reset to make sure your getting everything wiped... as I don't believe Odin wipes everything thoroughly.
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I am having trouble resetting the flash counter on my AT&T Galaxy Note I717 phone. I have downloaded the counter reset.zip file I have found on the XDA website and I copied the .zip file on to the phone and rebooted in to the recovery mode and then selected the .zip file and it keep aborting. I keep getting a error
E:signature verification error
install aborted.
What am I doing wrong to get this to rest? Since I have had this phone I have updated it to the ICS rom that is on the XDA website and the converted back to the AT&T GB rom that is on this web site using the Odin program. Now when I hook my Galaxy Note to my pc and use the Kies software to sync my phone I see under Firmware info it says that "Your device does not support software upgrading via Kies." Then is shows the firmware as PDA:LA1/PHONE:LC5/CSC:LA1 (ATT). Is this the correct firmware I should have with this phone? I am back to the GB Rom 2.3.6. I did not back up the factory rom before I did an upgrade to ICS.
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I am having trouble resetting the flash counter on my AT&T Galaxy Note I717 phone. I have downloaded the counter reset.zip file I have found on the XDA website and I copied the .zip file on to the phone and rebooted in to the recovery mode and then selected the .zip file and it keep aborting. I keep getting a error
E:signature verification error
install aborted.
What am I doing wrong to get this to rest? Since I have had this phone I have updated it to the ICS rom that is on the XDA website and the converted back to the AT&T GB rom that is on this web site using the Odin program. Now when I hook my Galaxy Note to my pc and use the Kies software to sync my phone I see under Firmware info it says that "Your device does not support software upgrading via Kies." Then is shows the firmware as PDA:LA1/PHONE:LC5/CSC:LA1 (ATT). Is this the correct firmware I should have with this phone? I am back to the GB Rom 2.3.6. I did not back up the factory rom before I did an upgrade to ICS.
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Just checked my stock GB rooted w/CWM on Kies and it shows PDA:LA1 / Phone:LA1 / CSC:LA1 (ATT). Maybe you have the incorrect radio modem installed?
rsfinsrq said:
Just checked my stock GB rooted w/CWM on Kies and it shows PDA:LA1 / Phone:LA1 / CSC:LA1 (ATT). Maybe you have the incorrect radio modem installed?
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How do I get the correct radio modem firmware installed? I downloaded the AT&T GB rom and the kernal that is on this web site for the Galaxy Note I717 General page then under
[REF] Start up guide for rooting, recovery, ROMs, de-brick, and tether updated 04/2
section. then I downloaded the AT&T kernal and GB rom that I found.
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How do I get the correct radio modem firmware installed? I downloaded the AT&T GB rom and the kernal that is on this web site for the Galaxy Note I717 General page then under
[REF] Start up guide for rooting, recovery, ROMs, de-brick, and tether updated 04/2
section. then I downloaded the AT&T kernal and GB rom that I found.
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Not sure if the incorrect radio is your issue or not, maybe someone else can chime in. Check this thread for stock radio
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1506212
rsfinsrq said:
Not sure if the incorrect radio is your issue or not, maybe someone else can chime in. Check this thread for stock radio
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1506212
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Thanks that fixed the Kies issue not seeing the correct firmware. Now all I need to do is to figure out how to rest the flash download counter. It keeps failing when I copy the .zip file to the phone and go to the recovery and then I select the .zip file and then it fails. Not sure what I am doing wrong or if I need to have some other file to reset the counter.
Viper0580 said:
Thanks that fixed the Kies issue not seeing the correct firmware. Now all I need to do is to figure out how to rest the flash download counter. It keeps failing when I copy the .zip file to the phone and go to the recovery and then I select the .zip file and then it fails. Not sure what I am doing wrong or if I need to have some other file to reset the counte
Check this post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24148683&postcount=24
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Why didn't you do a NANDroid backup of your factory ROM?
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Why didn't you do a NANDroid backup of your factory ROM?
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I just for got to do it untill it was to late. I have already installed ICS rom I found on this XDA site when I knew I for got to back it up. Its just one of those thing I guess. I am also still kind of new to install ROM's and unlocking the phones. But I have it figured out now. My phone is back to normal. I am on GB 2.3.6 and I have the correct stock raido software and every thing. The only thing that I am running is the touch version of the Clockworknod. I was able to reset the flash counter and every thing. The only thing I have to question since I had to run the Clockworkmod to reset the flash counter is how do I get back to the orginial recovery rom with out raising the flash counter? I had to use the the ClockWorkMod to reset the flash counter is because I keept getting a siginature verification error when I put the reset flash counter on my phone and then booted in to recovery and then ran the .zip file and it kept on giving me an error. So all is well now. Now waiting for the ICS OTA to come out.
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.
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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
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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 before I go off with no knowledge and restoring back to stock, I feel afraid. I believe I may have rooted the deodex 4.3 rom (the first one to come out based on the ota for verizon). Note: I did not flash the firmware package in odin. But I did plash a .zop with MJ9 params required for the rom to have working mobile data.
How I got a soft brick was I was nandroid restoring back to when I first unlocked it but my restore failed for some reason. So I restored my nandroid back up of jedi rom (this was in 4.1.2) and it complted however the logo would only stay on the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 logo screen forever. Would never move from there. I am able to access download mode and recovery (TWRP) mode.
I am thinking of restoring back to stock 4.1.2 VRAMC3 baseband version since I unlocked my bootloader on that OTA and since been using custom roms. However, I believe that the 4.3 rom and flashes I've done may interfere and possibly cause worse damage.
I am a bit paranoid right now.
Can someone please lead me in the right direction. Thank you XDA!
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So before I go off with no knowledge and restoring back to stock, I feel afraid. I believe I may have rooted the deodex 4.3 rom (the first one to come out based on the ota for verizon). Note: I did not flash the firmware package in odin. But I did plash a .zop with MJ9 params required for the rom to have working mobile data.
How I got a soft brick was I was nandroid restoring back to when I first unlocked it but my restore failed for some reason. So I restored my nandroid back up of jedi rom (this was in 4.1.2) and it complted however the logo would only stay on the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 logo screen forever. Would never move from there. I am able to access download mode and recovery (TWRP) mode.
I am thinking of restoring back to stock 4.1.2 VRAMC3 baseband version since I unlocked my bootloader on that OTA and since been using custom roms. However, I believe that the 4.3 rom and flashes I've done may interfere and possibly cause worse damage.
I am a bit paranoid right now.
Can someone please lead me in the right direction. Thank you XDA!
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Don't be paranoid or afraid.. You'll be ok..
Ok did you flash MJ9 Deodex ROM? If so thats when you bootlooped? Just trying to see where you are now... If you have MJ9 deodex on your sdcard reflash it.. Does it boot? Let me know.
Also the MJ9 firmware package with params and tz is for you to have working Wifi not mobile data..Just to clear things up
Report back..Ill be on all morning
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Don't be paranoid or afraid.. You'll be ok..
Ok did you flash MJ9 Deodex ROM? If so thats when you bootlooped? Just trying to see where you are now... If you have MJ9 deodex on your sdcard reflash it.. Does it boot? Let me know.
Also the MJ9 firmware package with params and tz is for you to have working Wifi not mobile data..Just to clear things up
Report back..Ill be on all morning
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First off, I'd like to thank you for offering to help me.
Onto the question, when I flashed the mj9 deodex rom, it worked and booted normally. However, I did not flash the Odin firmware package to get wifi working. Yesterday I was trying to nandroid backup to my Jedi x backup and the restore works but I boot loop. I then try to restore my nandroid backup from when I first unlocked and rooted and I get same results.
Basically the only rom that has booted was the mj9 deodex rom. However it is not on my sd cardare to be reflashed. So I'm relying on unrooting / restoring back to stock. But which version do I need to restore back to.
Bump. Still need help with this. I know lacoursiere18 is helping me and has no response possible due to timezones and such and im willing to wait hoping he responds tomorrow but any help is appreciated!
As long as you never took an OTA for 4.3 or higher... and didn't flash anything that is "stock" above build 4.1.2, then you should be able to restore back to stock 4.1.2 VRAMC3 and reroot/ unlock your bootloader. Droidstyle has written a great guide to help with this. You can find the guide here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34891181
Under section 1b in Droidstyle's guide... you would need to choose the download link for the "Official VRAMC3 4.1.2 5/5/13" stock restore image, along with the 16gb pit file to restore the phone to full stock.... and follow Droidstyle's steps to Odin flash those 2 files back to the device.
After you restore to stock... then you can use Adam Outler's Casual program to reroot and unlock the bootloader on VRAMC3. Adam's guide is here-- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2272066
The version of Casual that worked for me was R515.... just make sure you totally disable all virus scanning on your computer before running it.. including Windows Defender...
Good luck!
Sent from my SCH-I605 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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As long as you never took an OTA for 4.3 or higher... and didn't flash anything that is "stock" above build 4.1.2, then you should be able to restore back to stock 4.1.2 VRAMC3 and reroot/ unlock your bootloader. Droidstyle has written a great guide to help with this. You can find the guide here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34891181
Under section 1b in Droidstyle's guide... you would need to choose the download link for the "Official VRAMC3 4.1.2 5/5/13" stock restore image, along with the 16gb pit file to restore the phone to full stock.... and follow Droidstyle's steps to Odin flash those 2 files back to the device.
After you restore to stock... then you can use Adam Outler's Casual program to reroot and unlock the bootloader on VRAMC3. Adam's guide is here-- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2272066
The version of Casual that worked for me was R515.... just make sure you totally disable all virus scanning on your computer before running it.. including Windows Defender...
Good luck!
Sent from my SCH-I605 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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Hey thanks for the response. I have one mroe precaution,
I flashed the rom (the link to the right) : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2561450
I believe it is "based" on stock but not actually stock. I'm not actually sure and hoping you can confirm. Thanks
AldenIsRad said:
Hey thanks for the response. I have one mroe precaution,
I flashed the rom (the link to the right) : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2561450
I believe it is "based" on stock but not actually stock. I'm not actually sure and hoping you can confirm. Thanks
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You are right. The link you reference is not a totally stock version of android 4.3 MJ9... Beanstown106 created that "modified stock 4.3" version for people with unlocked bootloaders. So as long as you never actually installed an unmodified totally stock version of android 4.3 MJ9 ( or any higher full stock build above build version 4.1.2), then you should be able to restore back to full stock VRAMC3/4.1.2 using Droidstyle's guide. If you decide to take the risk to restore back to stock 4.1.2 and reroot with CASUAL...then I hope it works out for you. I know it can be a little scary, but as you know, there is always some risk that we take when we start modifying our phones. For me, the risk has paid off well so far. Good luck.
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Hi guys,
I am trying to help someone get their phone back to stock. It's a verizon galaxy note 2 and all the information I have is that they tried to root or rom it and now it doesn't start (and to get it to boot you have to remove/put in the battery)
I'm following droidstyle's guide and I can get as far as starting the odin flash process to stock, but it goes for a few minutes and then I just get a FAIL.
UPDATE1: So I tried again but with the root66 stock VRALJB and it passed but I'm getting the system software not authorized message. I'll keep trying some things..
Anyway I can get this thing up and running again?
UPDATE2: I'm flashing the stock roms semi-successfully, but even after a PASS on the flash, I get the "Verizon has detected unauthorized software" message. Any ideas?
Bascotie said:
Hi guys,
I am trying to help someone get their phone back to stock. It's a verizon galaxy note 2 and all the information I have is that they tried to root or rom it and now it doesn't start (and to get it to boot you have to remove/put in the battery)
I'm following droidstyle's guide and I can get as far as starting the odin flash process to stock, but it goes for a few minutes and then I just get a FAIL.
UPDATE1: So I tried again but with the root66 stock VRALJB and it passed but I'm getting the system software not authorized message. I'll keep trying some things..
Anyway I can get this thing up and running again?
UPDATE2: I'm flashing the stock roms semi-successfully, but even after a PASS on the flash, I get the "Verizon has detected unauthorized software" message. Any ideas?
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What version of stock firmware was on the phone when the person tried to root it? If it was mj9 4.3 or above you will have to flash the version that was installed through Odin to get it to work. The bootloader starting in mj9 4.3 doesn't allow to downgrade to previous version.
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What version of stock firmware was on the phone when the person tried to root it? If it was mj9 4.3 or above you will have to flash the version that was installed through Odin to get it to work. The bootloader starting in mj9 4.3 doesn't allow to downgrade to previous version.
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Good question. He doesn't really know as he was even newer to this than I am (I've done it on a couple phones in the past only a few times, so I do kinda have the hang of it, but this phone's a bit different).
Can I just try flashing 4.3 or above and see if that works? What would be the way to go if I don't know what was flashed previously?
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