From Villain rom I tried to revert back to the stock rom.
I used CWM to do this.
At first proces seemed to go normally when it was done I saw the default Samsung bootscreen and also the yellow warning sign was gone. Entering the home screen got 1 or two messages about applications crashing... now that didn't feel right.
Problems:
- Buildnumber still states "VillainROM 1.20".
- CWM is visible. But any backup or update action results in crashing of the app.
- Recovery mode. When entering it seems to claim to be updating. After that's done I can browse for updates but it doesn't show any ZIP to select.
- Download. Immediately when entering it states "Downloading...". I can connect with Odin. But trying to apply any update results in a BSoD.
When entering recover mode I see this:
Code:
-- Copying media files..
Successfuly copied meida files.
-- Updating application..
Successfully updated application.
-- Applying Multi-CSC...
Installing Multi-CSC
Can't access to '/system/csc/XEN/system/'
Succesfully applied multi-CSC.
Seems like what I did wrong was that I should've changed the kernel first. The firmware update didn't complete finish. However I'm no expert.
I guess I screwed up. Hope that there's someone out there that can help me...
Who told you to use CWM..Unless you have built a CWM compatible stock rom .
You flash stock files via Odin as per the instructions in the stock rom post .
jje
I had a driver issue with my laptop. Figured I could just as easily use CWM. It was a stupid move..
Question is if and how I can fix this.
Flash stock rom via Odin .
jje
When entering Download Mode it immediately states "Downloading.. Do not turn of the target". I can connect with Odin, however it crashed into a BSoD as soon as tries to upload "boot.bin".
Load correct firmware to Odin as per the instructions .
Put phone to download mode and follow the instructions on that page .
Then connect cable should have yellow bar in Odin >> Start flash .
#Fail wrong firmware or format not a tar file .
jje
I did all steps before. Yes I do see a yellow bar and therefore I presume it does connect. That's also why I can start the firmware update in Odin.
The problem seems to be that updating the phone hasn't fully finished and it's state is somewhere in the middle. Both Download Mode and Recovery Mode seem to try to resume a previous process.
I wonder if it's at all possible to restart or resume the update. Basically trying to abort whatever it is those modes are trying to do.
That's at least what it looks like to me.
Maybe I just created a lost cause. I'll just have to send it back and except the consequences. Though I still hope there is way to fix it....
Recovery mode format and wipe as much as you can and factory reset .Then flash .
If it has to be service centre say you where updating with Kies and it stopped working .
jje
Sadly enough wiping didn't help.
Guess I'll have to send it back. I'll try blaming KIES but I figure they'll be smart enough to verify that that's not true.
Ah well, lesson learned.
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When entering Download Mode it immediately states "Downloading.. Do not turn of the target". I can connect with Odin, however it crashed into a BSoD as soon as tries to upload "boot.bin".
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Hi. I also had this problem. After a while I found that my files was named ....tar.md5 and when I removed the ".md5" at the end it worked as expected...
I'm a noob and haven't done this much. Thanks for this useful post!
I have an i9205 that I am trying to fix for somebody. The phone was acting weird so he rebooted it and did a battery pull. After doing so the phone would just sit on the samsung boot screen. I could boot into download mode, but if you went into recovery mode it just said installing update. It would get to 100% restart and then just sit on the samsung logo. Everytime you booted into recovery it would do this. I downloaded kies and tried to reflash the phone. during the flash an error popped up and said to retry in emergency mode. That also failed and phone said "sw rev check fail fused 1 binary 0" on the screen. I am thinking now the only option is probably to flash with odin, but was wondering if anyone else had any ideas. thank you
After flashing a lot of samsung phone, I think the best way to reflash is Odin. Try to download the firmware you want and flash it with Odin. And then, reboot. This always save my phones.
For your recovery, have you tried to update your phone with OTA ? The download may be incomplete and make a soft brick.
Sorry for bad english I'm french.
Thanks for the reply. ya thats what I am going to try. There are a ton firmwares based on country and I am trying to figure out which one I need. It is not my phone so I am not sure if he tried to do an ota, but I think thats probably what happened. Tried to do an ota, phone ran poorly, hard rebooted, and finally resulted in a softbrick. I think that may be why the recovery boot keeps saying installing update as well. Also your English was not bad at all.
Great, let me know if that solution solve your problem.
If it don't, it should not but it's possible, try with pit file (never had to use it so it's really in case it don't work correctly).
This will save you 8-12 hours of your time if you are lucky. This means that it also includes the meaningful links of 8-12 hours of searching. Sentences in italic are important. 1 link is for the Odin official website, the rest are re-links back into XDA.
The device in question is a SM-925T Tmobile S6 Edge.
The problem was this. I rooted my phone and messed around with Greenify and the Play store. To prepare for rooting, I allowed unknown downloads, unlocked the bootloader, and turned my security lock off (I had set it to a finger print lock). After I was done rooting, I immediately locked the bootloader again(<--A mistake that caused my bootloop/ soft-brick). After I was finished messing with the above apps (Greenify, etc), I wanted my phone to restart. So I held the Power button and selected restart, while I was on the lock screen (may not be important). I noticed that it took a long time to restart, and upon closer examination, I noticed another error under the "kernel is not seandroid enforcing" (which appears to be natural for rooted phones). The error was "Custom Binary blocked by FRP Lock". It was a new error. I investigated this new problem using the internet , and this dude was panicking like hell, but he didn't appear to fix his problem. He did hint that returning to the bootloader to its locked state was a mistake. Looked a bit more and this guy pointed to another thread, which introduced me to flashing and more importantly his fix, which was to flash the stock 5.1.1 image through odin. He used this link, which contains all the stock firmware for the majority of the new Samsung S6 and S6 edge versions. To make a long story short, most of these fixes involved flashing your firmware to the stock version. So I went to the Odin Website, and downloaded every version, as a couple threads have said that different versions worked for them. Here is a thread with everything you need for Odin. Now, after sorting through and finding micro USB cables that are detectable by Odin, an important step because Odin might develop a pattern of detecting then failing to detect your device through that cable, and testing all the usb 2.0 ports, I was ready, and had Odin with my stock firmware. Odin kept saying "NAND Write", then in the next line "FAIL". This was annoying as Odin wouldn't detect my device again unless I unplugged it, restarted it to download mode, then restarted Odin before plugging it back in. I got confused and found links for somehow fixing the .tar files, stock roms, .pit files (DO NOT MESS AROUND WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT THOSE THINGS DO), and other threads/websites that say to boot into recovery mode , factory reset, then wipe your cache. I could only do that once. After me messing around with all of the above file variants and supposed fixes to help with my issue, I couldn't boot into recovery mode, it got stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge" logo. It did not fix the NAND write failing. There however, are a lot of websites allowing you to download stock software for your phones, and I don't think I can link them as it might break a rule. Surprisingly, some have claimed that using a stock file for another device worked to fix their problem. This thread, which convinced me to use Smart Switch when it failed for everyone else, was very useful, although I recommend downloading Smart Switch from the official website of Samsung. None of the Odin flashing had worked so far, including the Roms and .pit files so I tried Smart Switch. I opened it, and upon selecting the "more" tab on the upper right corner, a bunch of tabs drop down. One should be "Emergency Software recovery and initialization". I had to find my S / N (Serial) number, and I was very confused on how to obtain that number as I was locked out. But to obtain it, do the same process to boot into download (hold volume down, home key, and power key), but stay on the prompt and don't go to the screen that has the word download in the middle. Don't do anything other then reaching the prompt confirming if you want to install a custom ROM. Then, press the home key and it should show your S / N number along with your IMEI number. Once I imputed the code I saw on my phone into Smart Switch, it told me to connect the device. Now, by this time, I realized that Odin only detects my device if it is actually in the download screen. Why shouldn't my computer? I booted into Download on my phone and followed the steps on my computer, making sure that the computer can recognize my phone while it is using a valid USB port and Cable. And after some waiting, for me, my problem was fixed and I could use my phone again, it reverted to it's out-of-box state. I hope this drawn out but very specific explanation helps you guys. It's my first post And also, this thread confirms that you can use a USB hub for flashing(at least for ROMS), Smart Switch, and for rooting.
Thank you for this detailed account, however nothing of the above has worked for me. Odin won't flash the firmware of 5.0.2 (and I tried 5.1.1) and Smart switch does not recognize the device to do anything. BTW phone has been rooted for months and last night decided to turn on its FRP lock randomly and now I'm stuck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Explain throughly what you have tried. Especially different ports, cables, and computers. Did you have the right device drivers? Did you do anything else?
I followed your footsteps and and the step where it has to show me the S/No and IMEI, it only shows IMEI number. I am unable to find the S/NO any suggestions?
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I followed your footsteps and and the step where it has to show me the S/No and IMEI, it only shows IMEI number. I am unable to find the S/NO any suggestions?
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press vol down home keys and power key once you get to the first blue screen release vol and power keep holdind home but I already tried smart swich didn't help
5.1.1 has FRP lock auto turned on whenever you have a google account on the device... This is probably going to cause a lot of problems with all newer devices that get rooted. I even tried removing all google accounts, flashed recovery and flashed boot img back to stock after rooting and still FRP was bricking the device. I got supersu onto the device, all working fine for a 3rd time, as soon as I added a google account onto my device and restarted, it was FRP lock blocked and soft bricked again.... I used kies to restore to factory again, re-rooted it for the 4th time when I finally discovered an option in developer options called OEM unlock, Turning OEM unlock on turns off the FRP lock security feature.
My conclusion, If your going to root 5.1.1 make sure you remove all accounts from the device first, do not change google passwords for 72 hours prior to rooting, once rooted, YOU MUST TURN OEM Unlock ON in settings>developer options before adding any google accounts to the device.
Hi everyone!
I also got a Samsung S6 Edge + from a friend with custom binary blocked by FRP. I don't know what he was planning to do but I guess it was rooting.
He said he want me to backup any files before I try anything. Don't know how to proceed. But as suggestion, I want to ask if using "fastboot oem unlock" command would fix that.
EsperaKing said:
Hi everyone!
I also got a Samsung S6 Edge + from a friend with custom binary blocked by FRP. I don't know what he was planning to do but I guess it was rooting.
He said he want me to backup any files before I try anything. Don't know how to proceed. But as suggestion, I want to ask if using "fastboot oem unlock" command would fix that.
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I'm pretty sure fastboot isn't for Samsung devices. Hard to back up any files u less you can get into TWRP or the phone. If you flash stock firmware is highly likely the files will be wiped
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I'm pretty sure fastboot isn't for Samsung devices. Hard to back up any files u less you can get into TWRP or the phone. If you flash stock firmware is highly likely the files will be wiped
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There is no TWRP recovery on the phone. Yeah you're right about backing up files. I don't even know how to proceed and I can tell you I have huge experience on that stuff, rooting flashing custom recoveries and roms, etc... but in this case, I can't say if files can be backed up.
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There is no TWRP recovery on the phone. Yeah you're right about backing up files. I don't even know how to proceed and I can tell you I have huge experience on that stuff, rooting flashing custom recoveries and roms, etc... but in this case, I can't say if files can be backed up.
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The only way is to 're flash the exact same firmware he is currently using now using the 5 files firmware package. But yo ensure csc_home is used so the data will not be wiped.
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The only way is to 're flash the exact same firmware he is currently using now using the 5 files firmware package. But yo ensure csc_home is used so the data will not be wiped.
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Thank you for you reply.
Please can you tell me where I can find such software or how to do it clearly! I know how to use Odin but I don't know how to exclude user_data to be wiped. Thank you
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5.1.1 has FRP lock auto turned on whenever you have a google account on the device... This is probably going to cause a lot of problems with all newer devices that get rooted. I even tried removing all google accounts, flashed recovery and flashed boot img back to stock after rooting and still FRP was bricking the device. I got supersu onto the device, all working fine for a 3rd time, as soon as I added a google account onto my device and restarted, it was FRP lock blocked and soft bricked again.... I used kies to restore to factory again, re-rooted it for the 4th time when I finally discovered an option in developer options called OEM unlock, Turning OEM unlock on turns off the FRP lock security feature.
My conclusion, If your going to root 5.1.1 make sure you remove all accounts from the device first, do not change google passwords for 72 hours prior to rooting, once rooted, YOU MUST TURN OEM Unlock ON in settings>developer options before adding any google accounts to the device.
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Thank you thank you thank you!!! This is exactly what I was looking for I had just rooted my note 4 running 6.0.1 and had no idea what the oem option was as no rooting method talked about it at all so naturally as soon as i added my Google account phone restarted and locked up.
Kies was the answer I needed as frp lock was active in download mode and my factory reset in recovery failed everytime but running Kies firmware upgrade and entering my model and serial number it installed perfectly in download mode with frp lock still active saved me alot of hassle ?
I switched to samsung from apple and i stupidly tried to flash some firmware without really knowing what i was getting into. I ended up getting my phone stuck on the ATT logo and only being able to get there and download mode, cant even turn it off.
I've googled, tried everything i can find, and used all sorts of combinations to no avail. I've gotten to the point that when the phone boots up, it shows the android man and says "no command". WHen i try and go into recovery mode from there it tells me that i dont have a recovery mode.
From what i've read the best step is to flash stock rom but i cant seem to get anything to work, and although i've been messing with this for a grand total of(probably over) 24 hours, im still as lost as i was in the beginning.
I've got Prince Comsey, Odin3 V3.12.3, Odin3 V3.12.7
With firmwares that APs are
AP_G955USQS3CRE2_CL13001792_QB18008668_REV01_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT_meta.tar.md5
AP_G955USQS5CRI4_CL13889051_QB19733321_REV01_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT_meta.tar
AP_G955U1UEU5CRJ2_CL13889051_QB20199591_REV01_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT_meta.tar
AP_G955USQU1AQC9_CL10895874_QB12856072_REV00_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT_meta.tar
I've done the trick of, when starting the flash, rebooting the phone back into download and starting again. Which actually let odin flash some software(which is how i am now at the android "update" screen) but that was all it did.
Some software give me "Fail (Auth)"
Some say "complete write fail"
But none have worked.
EDIT: to add; I've eddited the configuration settings for all odins to be able to use the "UMS" option for the "USERDATA" file, which seemed to help odin but nonetheless still didnt fully help me.
Someone please help me get my phone working again. WHat else can i do?
Please also, if you have a solution or question, explain what you mean or need in detail because as i said i am very new to android
Afternoon; hoping someone can help as I am at a lose end.
I've been give an S7 (SM-G930F) which is displaying CUSTOM BINARY BLOCKED BY FRP LOCK which means I can't start the phone; I'm assuming the previous owner installed a custom ROM and then did a factory reset which activated this???
I have tried to flash the latest original firmware a few times, downloaded from Sammobile and Frija but still no avail! Odin starts but the fails on param.bin. Unfortunately, I also can't work out the original CSC code, I've tried all the UK ones but again no avail. Also tried just putting the AP in and BL, AP, CP and CSC but again nothing.
So I thought that I'd try to install TWRP and then boot and load in a new OS but Odin will not do this.
Also get a screen saying use Samsung SmartSwitch to do an Emergancy Recovery but when I connect the phone, more, energancy recover there is no phone listed as I've never connected it to a computer.
Anyone help at all? I'm at a lose end.
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Afternoon; hoping someone can help as I am at a lose end.
I've been give an S7 (SM-G930F) which is displaying CUSTOM BINARY BLOCKED BY FRP LOCK which means I can't start the phone; I'm assuming the previous owner installed a custom ROM and then did a factory reset which activated this???
I have tried to flash the latest original firmware a few times, downloaded from Sammobile and Frija but still no avail! Odin starts but the fails on param.bin. Unfortunately, I also can't work out the original CSC code, I've tried all the UK ones but again no avail. Also tried just putting the AP in and BL, AP, CP and CSC but again nothing.
So I thought that I'd try to install TWRP and then boot and load in a new OS but Odin will not do this.
Also get a screen saying use Samsung SmartSwitch to do an Emergancy Recovery but when I connect the phone, more, energancy recover there is no phone listed as I've never connected it to a computer.
Anyone help at all? I'm at a lose end.
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Sorry to say ... Best to return the phone and get a new one without activated FRP.