I successfully rooted my phone about a year and a half ago, all went well. Sunday night I had my phone plugged into my computer, and somehow I must have clicked "update" in the Verizon Assistant thing. So it starts updating, and about 2 seconds later I realized what I did. So the phone finishes updating and then goes into the setup wizard. I got a couple questions in and got a message to the effect of "The wizard stopped working", I'd hit "ok" and less than a second later the message would pop back up. So I figured I'd reflash the existing ROM in Odin. "Fail".
Now my phone turns on and goes straight into what I believe is Odin mode. It says "ODIN MODE" with the same text it has in what I know is Odin mode. The only difference is that it doesn't have the green android in the center, it says "Software Update Failed - Your device didn't update successfully, Use the Verizon Software Repair Assistant on a computer to repair your device and complete the update". (Is this the same mode as entering Odin mode with the power/home/vol dn buttons?) So I tried that. Five times. Each time it stops at 83% and says the phone was unplugged. It wasn't, I tried combinations of different cables/USB ports.
From what I've found so far, you need to know my bootloader to help me. The ROM I flashed all those months ago (and tried to reflash recently) was "I545VRUFNC5_I545VZWFNC5", My original build was "KOT49H.I545VRUFNG6", The Verizon Repair Assistant sees "Version OF1"... So I guess I have NC5 or some screwed up combination of NC5 and OF1?
I *may* have had a little bit of data on the phone that I'd like to save, almost everything was on the external card, which I have now removed to prevent accidents. However, I believe I've already lost any data that was in the phone? I'd be perfectly happy to get it working at all, but I would like to update to OF1, since it appears it can be rooted. If that's wrong, I'd like to have the newest version that can be rooted. But like I said, working at all would be great.
Thanks so much for any help
-Jason
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I went to upgrade my unrooted, totally stock Gs2 this morning to ICS via Kies. It downloaded the actual firmware to the PC, but froze on 2% for about 2 hours when upgrading the firmware to the phone
I unplugged it, and when I tried to turn the phone on in recovery mode to do an emergency firmware restore, it simply went to a screen that says "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Select Recovery mode in Kies and try again". I can't get out of this screen, and when I attempt to recover in Kies, it stays at 0% or cancels out...HELP!!!!
It wont let me do a hard reset or boot up in recovery mode.
Btw- The samsung rep I spoke to on Livechat said he had no information about the ICS update and refused to acknowledge it's release.
Am I totally out of luck, or is there a way to save my phone?
If you were running stock, and using Kies for the update, I would call AT&T for a warranty replacement ... unless you bought it as a refurb more than 90 days ago.
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I think any sign of life (screen coming ON) means you can still recover it. Ask creepyncrawly on these forums, he has a ton of information on this. If you can't find him try mobiletechvideos they have JIG's and can recover for a price if you send your phone to them.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1313659
Checking in, I've got the same problem. I'm beyond frustration at this point because I can't even convince it to boot into recovery mode, which means that it can't conduct an emergency recovery...
Edit: Emergency firmware recovery just started working for the first time! I'm at 85%...updates as they come.
ch229151 said:
I went to upgrade my unrooted, totally stock Gs2 this morning to ICS via Kies. It downloaded the actual firmware to the PC, but froze on 2% for about 2 hours when upgrading the firmware to the phone
I unplugged it, and when I tried to turn the phone on in recovery mode to do an emergency firmware restore, it simply went to a screen that says "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Select Recovery mode in Kies and try again". I can't get out of this screen, and when I attempt to recover in Kies, it stays at 0% or cancels out...HELP!!!!
It wont let me do a hard reset or boot up in recovery mode.
Btw- The samsung rep I spoke to on Livechat said he had no information about the ICS update and refused to acknowledge it's release.
Am I totally out of luck, or is there a way to save my phone?
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I would suggest flashing back to stock UCKH7. Follow the guide How to Prepare Your Phone to Return to the Store or for Warranty Replacement which is linked in my signature. Do this whether you were originally on UCKH7 or UCKK6.
If you know you started on UCKH7 then you can probably flash without doing a wipe data/factory reset. If you know you started on UCKK6 then you must do a wipe data/factory reset, and may have to do it anyway if you have any problems. You will lose any installed applications and personal settings.
In Kies "recovery mode" means "Odin mode". Pull/replace battery, hold down your volume keys, plug in USB cable and see what Kies does.
You should have posted in this already existing related thread. Read it, you might find an answer.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1726730
Yup, as out friend Miami pointed out, there is already a thread for this. Lets keep this conversation over there to avoid confusion.
I have my s4(remanufactured with no verizon branding) as my backup phone that i have not toched in months, did a full factory reset to prepare to update it to lollipop and all was well. Phone kept saying "update not available" so i looked up somd possible solutions and tried another reset. I was rooted but upon the reset finishing my custom unlock was gone and my phone said it was official software. So the ota failed again repeatedly so i figured i would try it with kies.
Kies or kies 3 both say phone is incompatible. Tried uninstall/reinstall of drivers, no go. Uninstall/reinstall of kies, no go. Phone is still unknown. Tried Verizon repair, gets stuck at 83% for over an hour. Tried it again, 83%. Tried to do verizon update, 83%. So i figure ok, lets do odin and flash stock 4.4.2 kitkat under download, stops almost instantly in odin. I try 4.3, mk2, all kinds of other official roms, will not go.
I figured for the hell of it let's try the full stock lollipop with the pit file (was using it the whole time) and that actually makes it to the 83%. Its been about 6 months since i have even touched this phone, the only memory i have of what i did is that a while ago i wanted kitkat with root so i downgraded to nc5 then reupgraded with kitkat to keep root on it. Something like that anyways. Am i missing something? I must be right?
Also, it says sw rev fused : 7 binary : 6 if that helps anything. Been looking for a few days, no one seems to have had the numbers in the error I am having.
Thanks guys, i hope i gave enough info. I appreciate the help.
Make sure you are flashing the image for the version of the software you are currently on, or that it was on before all of this.
So I have a S4 i9545 for Verizon. It was on 4.2.2 rooted and I upgraded using Fireflash with I545_OC1_Stock_DeOdexed_ROMwNK4_BL.zip. Everything seemed fine so I was using Titanium back up to remove the bloatware and then my battery died. When I charged it and booted up it got to the Verizon screen and hung there. I reset and tried several more times. I tried to use odin and flash a stock ROM SCH-I545_VZW_1_20140330160240_yni63xq6zh and I also tried one more. Odin gave a an error and failed. I then tried going into the boot loder and flash the I545_OC1_Stock_DeOdexed_ROMwNK4_BL.zip. Not sure if this was foolish or not. When I booted up I got to a black screen and there was a voice talking, maybe some sort of training, but I couldn't do anything.
If anyone can point me in the right direction on how to unbrick my S4 I would appreciate it. I know I screwed up.
Right now when I turn on the phone it says firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in kies and try again. I tried connected to my computer and opening kies but it doesn't find it.
Try disconnecting your phone, completely closing Kies, then re-launching it with your phone still disconnected. Then click Tools > Firmware Upgrade and Initialization then follow the prompts
Recently I rooted my phone, Note 5 (t-mobile variant). It did not go too well. Everything worked fine but when I would power it on, there would be a message in the corner that read, "Kernel is not seandroid enforcing". After I rooted it would randomly shut off, especially during phone calls. I was getting sick of it. Yesterday I accidentally opened the smart manager app and I saw it said threat detected so I clicked on it and it said something about Knox and I pressed restart. Big Mistake! I soft bricked because it was on a constant bootloop. Since then, I was able to install TWRP Recovery. I need the files on my phone. I'm not trying to install a ROM, I just want it back to the way it was. Is it possible to get all my files off the phone before factory resetting it?
Just downloaded original firmware in sammobile and reset your device in odin, always be careful that your really download your right firmware with the right device
Hello all, got a bit of a strange issue here. So I was using the 30b release from runningnak3d, https://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-lg-v10/development/h901-t-mobile-nougat-v30b-twrp-t3639203
I was selling my v10, so I did a reset, skipped or hit next to everything, and verified that all was working. I sold the phone and a couple days after the buyer got it, he told me it was bootlooping. I asked what he did and of course the first time he said nothing, just turned it on. After more conversation, he said when he got it it booted and after a while told him an upgrade was available. He said he accepted the upgrade, and afterwards got the bootloop.
I got the phone back today to try to fix it and give it back to him. Here's what I have found. Definitely bootlooping, stops at T-Mobile logo and reboots. It does still have the unlocked bootloader, still shows the warning right at boot. TWRP is gone! I booted to recovery, answered Yes to those 2 questions, and it did a reset instead of loading TWRP.
I really have no idea what he did, whether is was an OTA update or maybe he tried to load something on his own.
So, is there any hope of getting this thing going again? So far I was able to boot it into download mode, but it won't respond to any fastboot commands. My computer detects it, but in computer management it says LGE USB modem or something like that. When I try to regular boot, the computer does detect the phone, but it doesn't get far enough along to issue ADB commands. I'm thinking it's a paperweight at this point, so I'm game to try whatever.