Good morning (or evening ?) !
I owned a Samsung S9+ (star2lte) with an /e/ OS pre-installed. it was a young OS (based on Lineage) but after 1+ year and several updates, some basic feature were still not working. With the last update, additional apps did not work anymore and it began to be really boring.
So I decided to reinstall my phone with another image. Through the already-installed TWRP I tried to install an image of Lineage OS v18.1. I first copied the ZIP files into the internal storage and TWRP did the job without any issue... Well, this is what I thought !
Before the reboot, TWRP asked me if I wanted to download the last release of this software and I let it checked. Then I clicked onto a button to restart...
But then, the device rebooted in download mode. If I cancel the process, it reboots and, of course, returns in its download mode.
I tried to turn it off with SoundDown + Bixby + Power for seconds... But it restarts and does nothing more.
I tried to return into the TWRP interface with SoundUp + Bixby + Power but it still restarts in download mode.
I used Odin (v3.14.1) to restore an image (recovery.tar.md5) but I find it too quick (just a few seconds) for a 46MB+ file. But Odin says the file is ok, the phone reboots... And goes back in this annoying Download mode.
I would have liked to try to reinstall the Lineage image but I found nothing to convert a ZIP to a .tar.md5 (for instance) and a .tar file created by 7ZIP does not work (Odin even shuts down !).
Do you have any idea of what I could do now ???
Many thanks by advanced for your help !
B.R.
Eric
Just a tiny update... I may finally have found a solution to unblock my phone : Samfirm v0.5.0 was not able to find an image (more precisely, it was able to find images but indicates rights errors) but was able to download something I never heard about : Combination. It contains a firmware in .tar.dm5 (about 2.85Gb) so I am currently installing it.
One will see, I triple-cross my fingers !!!
Eric
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Hi all,
I think I broke my Galaxy S (I9000). I hope you can help me somehow. Here is the history of things I already did/tried
- my phone was working and had cyanogenmod 9.1 installed
- I wanted to give my phone a little speedup and wiped the cache and dalvik cache partition (did this before and it worked before)
- after this, phone was in a boot loop (even the battery loading animation rebooted over and over)
- the download mode still worked, but no recovery menu appeared!
- as given on cyanogenmod homepage in the install guide I flashed ClockworkMod Recovery using heimdall
- after that, recovery worked again
- I copied the cm9.1 zipfile on my phone to flash it, wiped the whole phone (factory reset), but flashing fails at some asserts (even though I disabled asserts) that seem to check that the target device really is a Galaxy S (I9000) (unfortunatly, I do not have a screenshot and cannot provide one now)
- I also had a ClockworkMod backup I tried to recover, but it fails at restoring /system (unfortunatly, I do not have a screenshot and cannot provide one now)
- so I thought, maybe I can use a regular firmware and flash it with Odin3 (1.87) to make things working at least a little
- started odin, selected firmware and started, but Odin3 got hung at some early point, so I closed Odin after ~10 minutes (see screenshot odin.jpg)
- when I now start my phone, only two symbols appear which kind of signal a problem with a connection to a (PC-)host which I have never seen before (see screenshot startscreen.jpg)
I tried a lot, but now I am out of ideas. Can you help?
Robert
missing attachments
Missed the attachments. Here they are.
Robert
Turn off phone, remove usb cable from pc if it's connected, remove battery, wait around 10 seconds, while battery is still not in the phone press the button combination for download mode. While u still holding the button combination for download mode, force reinsert the battery. Now phone should go into download mode automatically. Connect cable to pc and phone and flash stock Rom via Odin. Good luck
Worked! Great! Phone is back in download mode. Unfortunatly my work pc does not detect the Samsung composite device so I have to wait until I am back home. I hope Odin is working then. As given, it did not when I last tried.
Can you tell me what kind of mode this is, when those two symbols appear?
Robert
It's not any mode, it just an indication that earlier download mode flashing via Odin failed or interrupted by user.
U probably need to kill Kies process via Windows task manager before flashing with Odin because it's known to interrupt Odin, make it hung at setup connection.
Hi,
brought my phone into download mode again and this time odin flashed succesful. However, Kies was never installed on this computer so I have no idea why it worked now.
After flashing the phone rebooted, but stated several errors. They are similar to those which appear on reflashing with the cm91 zip via recovery mode ( "unable to mount ... (file exists)" ). I have made a screenshot and attached it. You have an idea how to help?
I have tried both the 512 and the 803 pit file, same results.
Thanks,
Robert
Tried to re reboot after those errors, but the S-Animation of the stock rom during boot never ended.
Robert
I took another stock firmware, JVI, which contains also a CSC and PDA image. Flashing worked, phone booted, Works!
I will see how to come back to my cm91, but a great step forward .
Thanks,
Robert
Made it back to cm91 . Thank you for your support.
Here are the steps ...
- applied I9000XWJVI.zip with 512 pit and repartition (2.3.3 based german stock firmware)
- applied I9000XWJW6_I9000DBTJW2_DBT (2.3.6 based german stock firmware)
- applied cf-root-xx_oxa_jw4-v4.4-cwm3rfs.zip as this clockworkmod recovery is able to disable verifications before appling a zip
- applied cm91 zipfile
- restored my backup
Robert
Hello
Yesterday i have recieved the Pepsi (Koobee) P1S. it was full of bloatware so i decided to flash a modded rom. After i realized that this custom rom is only in english and chinese (Im German) i wanted to switch back to the original. But then i made the biggest mistake: I have flashed the false rom (CM for Mt6592 CPU but false Smartphone). After that i have flashed the right original rom again. but a strange Error appears: the Phone boot up normaly and then freeze and reboot by itself..over and over again. But not at the same step. Sometimes it freeze during the Bootanimation..sometimes it boot up completly and i can swipe through the Screens (for about 10 sec). When i push the standby button (Display went off) the Phone stays in this mode and dont freeze.
the i flashed TWRP and try to wipe the phone. Even in TWRP it freeze, but not during the wipes or in the Boot Mode slelect screen.
I Have a friend with the same phone. Is it possible to copy a complete backup (eMMC etc) to my phone? Or someone had a Idea what i can try next? I have flashed different roms (for this phone) so many times, but the error is still there.
Please help me.. It should be a present for my GF birthday today
SOLUTION
I downloaded the flashtool that flashes MTK Devices then searched google for Pepsi p1s needrom and downloaded the original firmware scatter file, turn off the P1S unplug it from USB,...Start the flashtool, and search the firmware will be second search bar select search and browse your computer for the firmware you downloaded from needrom, then you will see it load all the files.....there is a button bar that has an arrow open the arrow and select firmware update, then hit the green go button after you hit the green go button plug in your powered off PEPSI P1S ....it will give you a red bar on the flashtool at bottom first, then it will format your device properly, then install all the necissary files, its real quick about 3 minutes, after a box will pop up on the screen and say OK with a big check mark, at this point you can unplug your phone, power it up and wait about 3 minutes, everything will be normal again. So sorry I would post the links however I forgot my password and username that I was using for many years and forgot my recovery email as well.....so if you google it you can find the stuff, just hope I helped with the proper method of flashing......good luck, let me know how it goes.
Thanks but i know how to flash the firmware with SP Flash Tool. i have flashed the P1S with 3 different roms..but always the same error (freeze and reboot at different points)
Are you using download mode? Or firmware update? The reason I ask is download mode always gave me a bootloop, but when switched to firmware update mode it formats the device correctly and fixes the file structure, try firmware update mode.
Im using "Format All + Download"
Try using firmware update mode, let me know what happens.
same problem...freeze (at different points) ans reboot.
here you can see what happen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1oFkgUwtOo
try this! P1
power off
then hold power button + volume down
the boot mode will appear
select recovery
it will show you no command
then pres power button first and the press volume up
now you device is on recovery
then select
wipe data/factory reset.
Blueray88 said:
Hello
Yesterday i have recieved the Pepsi (Koobee) P1S. it was full of bloatware so i decided to flash a modded rom. After i realized that this custom rom is only in english and chinese (Im German) i wanted to switch back to the original. But then i made the biggest mistake: I have flashed the false rom (CM for Mt6592 CPU but false Smartphone). After that i have flashed the right original rom again. but a strange Error appears: the Phone boot up normaly and then freeze and reboot by itself..over and over again. But not at the same step. Sometimes it freeze during the Bootanimation..sometimes it boot up completly and i can swipe through the Screens (for about 10 sec). When i push the standby button (Display went off) the Phone stays in this mode and dont freeze.
the i flashed TWRP and try to wipe the phone. Even in TWRP it freeze, but not during the wipes or in the Boot Mode slelect screen.
I Have a friend with the same phone. Is it possible to copy a complete backup (eMMC etc) to my phone? Or someone had a Idea what i can try next? I have flashed different roms (for this phone) so many times, but the error is still there.
Please help me.. It should be a present for my GF birthday today
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I have noted one thing.
when I update supersu to play store and reboot it goes in bootloop.
so I recommend not to upgrade or even to make unroot just after removing apps with viruses
Hello guys,
if someone can help me with this:
- I got a brand new galaxy tab A6 2016 Lte sm-t585.
- The combination Power Vol Up Home never brought me anywhere.
- I managed to get once into what I think is the bootloader mode
(text list of options that loads after you see the image of the droid open being operated)
when I was trying to get into Odin download mode for the first time.
Now I do not know if and how that mode is accessible (I never managed again to get into it).
- I wanted to install xda ULTRALEAN rom. To do this I first looked the tutorial on how to
install TWRP and root the device on xda.
- I installed odin 3.12.3 and samsung usb drivers, downloaded supersu and the verity file
for later,
- I picked the twrp-3.0.2-0-gtanotexllte.img.tar file from the relative
xda thread and followed the instruction exactly (The only difference is I could not load
the .md5 file since odin would hang, I read many people had this problem. I did it with the
.tar file directly and everything went like described in the gui). Until "PASS!"
- Now the bad surprise: after Power Vol Down Home in Download mode (I tried with both USB
cable attached and not) Power Vol Up Home doesn' t work. The system would eventually boot
the stock Rom.
- I repeated all these steps many a time, with no success.
- Then I made what I thought is the big mistake: I ticked Odin Phone bootloader update
button and repeated the procedure.
- Now the phone is stuck on the galaxy samsung a6 splash
screen. The only thing I can do is to go to Download mode.
Ok, don't panic, all is not lost. But first let me tell you that you are not in the correct forum. This one is for the old P7500/7510. You know, first generation.
Anyways, since you can put it in download mode and you have Odin installed, you only have to hunt for your stock firmware (sammobile is a good place to start} and flash that with Odin. Your tab should be as good as new.
Originally posted by: Azpre
Hello
A while ago, I tried to root my Essential Phone using magisk. I unlocked the bootloader, flashed twrp, but when I tried to install the magisk zip file, it failed, and I was stuck in a bootloop.
Easy problem to solve right? I wiped everything from my phone (including the ROM), downloaded a stock ROM (.ZIP file, and I think that’s what ****ed everything up) and when I tried to install it, it failed once again. Therefore, I downloaded another stock ROM file (this time as a .img file) and tried to installed it.
But what I ended up doing, was installing some other .img file as the boot image (on twrp), and after that, my phone kept restarting endlessly. I couldn’t access the recovery mode (if I tried to press the vol down + start buttons, or just the start button, the process would repeat, so I leaved my phone there until it run out of battery, now its off).
I was despaired and tried to search every inch of the internet for a solution, and obviously, I could not find it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks for your attention.
(Im not sure if this is really a soft brick, I named this thread wit my basic knowlage, sorry if Im wrong)
Hi , what is full Model of phone ? and did you tried with fastboot flashing ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrMLqSXcxjI
Teddy Lo said:
Hi , what is full Model of phone ? and did you tried with fastboot flashing ?
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going to give it a shot after I buy another type - C cable, because mine just broke ;-;
but I think that's not going to work, because I can't access the recovery mode menu
when I press the power + vol down keys the Essential's logo appears and get stuck in a bootloop
Thanks anyways
Hi all,
This is a brief guide on what are some things that could go wrong if you decide to flash a new ROM especially GSI as they are quite buggy at the time of writing this post. I'll try to mention as many issues as I can but if something remains, please feel free to write them in the reply.
The guide is aimed for complete beginners who were trying to flash something and are now stuck OR who just want to know what to be prepared for and not to panic. if you are experienced you might not need it but it might just help you with something.
also, as always, I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF SOMETHING DOES NOT WORK. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN ACTIONS.
So let's start with the most common problem. Bootloops!
1 - Bootloops :
What happens? : The title is pretty self-explanatory. You know you are in a bootloop if your phone turns off automatically as soon as it turned on. This generally happens BEFORE the phone actually boots up i.e. in the booting screen but could also happen after the phone completely turned on. There are various causes for this it may be due to a bug in the ROM or missing system files.
How to fix? : If you are flashing a custom ROM then you may want to reboot back to TWRP, wipe and flash it again. It works sometimes if there was an issue with the files.
I am unable to reboot to TWRP my phone is stuck even long pressing the power button does not shut it down! :crying::crying: : well if you are stuck you don't actually need to open the back panel to remove the battery or wait for it to die those won't help. all you need to do is wait for the phone to turn off and IMMEDIATELY press and hold the VOLUME UP and POWER button that should get you into TWRP if that doesn't work then you can try pressing and holding the VOLUME UP + DOWN + POWER key as the phone is about to turn on. it might boot you into download mode. if that does not work as well then as the phone is about to turn on, press and hold VOLUME UP + DOWN and plug the phone into PC that will get you booted into download mode eventually. Once you have access to one of these you can continue doing whatever you were doing. To reset everything back to normal (stock, like a new phone) checkout the solution listed below.
2 - I was doing something and now my phone is stuck at charging mode :
What happens? : This has happened to me while flashing PHH GSI. My phone was plugged into the charger and I restarted the phone. turns out it was a fatal mistake for the bugged gsi. The phone now only showed a battery icon that was charging very similar to the one that you would see if your phone is out of battery and you put it to charge. This happens before the phone actually turns on. usually, once you unplug the charger the phone automatically restarts but in my case it didn't. It was stuck at that screen with no way out.
How to fix? : turns out it's pretty easy, it might seem like its doing NOTHING, not responding to power buttons or anything but internally it is. Surprisingly, if you press and hold the VOL UP + DOWN + plug it into the PC it would get you into the download mode.
3 - I flashed GSI and ... :
What happens? : There are MANY things that can go wrong with GSI if you are a beginner I would suggest you stay away from GSI until it supports the device better. For me, I flashed PHH gsi and it went smoothly I booted in but as soon as I was finishing the setup adding fingerprint the ROM went into bootloop. you know how to fix this now. if nothing works, just refer to the reset solution listed below.
4 - "Custom binary blocked by FRP lock" :
What happens? : This usually (at least with me) happens when you are trying to flash something but forget to flash the DmVerity thing. The phone won't turn on and going to download mode will throw you with a line saying FRP lock.
How to fix? : At this point, trying to install custom binaries with Odin probably won't help as for me it simply stated that you cant install custom binaries only Samsung official updates are allowed or something similar. There might be a better/easy solution to this but I found doing a stock reset with Odin worked great. It is given below refer to that.
5 - Phone is in "Emergency firmware recovery" Mode :
What happens? : Turning on the phone throws you into a cyan screen saying that your phone needs emergency firmware recovery which can be done using Samsung smart switch
How to fix? : I believe it is a fantasy way of Samsung saying that your phone is almost dead and nothing remains on it. Fear not, turns out that cyan screen is actually the download mode. so that's a win you don't even have to boot to download mode just connect your phone to pc odin and follow the reset to stock firmware as mentioned below.
6 - I am back in some OS but my internal memory is shortened!!!
What happens? : well you are in the os you wanted but if you check the storage it appears to be shortened. i.e. if your phone has 64gb internal memory it might appear as 30gb or 20gb.
How to fix? : This is a problem caused by missing PIT file in odin. I would not suggest you to manually download the PIT file from somewhere and flash it using odin because doing so got me stuck in the FRP LOCK (4th) situation. I would suggest that you flash the stock firmware using the method given below.
MASTER SOLUTION/RESET TO STOCK FIRMWARE: if you are new to modding I would suggest that you download the stock firmware files from here BEFORE doing anything as the files exceed more than 3GB in size and not everyone has fast internet. if anything goes wrong and you have access to download mode you can follow this and get everything back to stock. Download the stock file AFH given at the link. once you download the stock firmware you just need to extract it and put the respective files in odin and begin flash. it will RESET everything and make it a new phone. I've tried this method and it works always for me.
That concludes my guide. if anyone knows any better solutions to these problems or think I've written something wrong please feel free to correct me. I've faced all of these issues back to back when I tried flashing a GSI and was able to fix all of them so this is just my personal experience.
Lastly, don't panic if something happens wrong happens there is probably a way to fix it.
Depends on many things, but now that we have a working TWRP, life is much easier, and also we have kitchen tools which help as well.
thvardhan said:
Hi all,
This is a brief guide on what are some things that could go wrong if you decide to flash a new ROM especially GSI as they are quite buggy at the time of writing this post. I'll try to mention as many issues as I can but if something remains, please feel free to write them in the reply.
The guide is aimed for complete beginners who were trying to flash something and are now stuck OR who just want to know what to be prepared for and not to panic. if you are experienced you might not need it but it might just help you with something.
also, as always, I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF SOMETHING DOES NOT WORK. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN ACTIONS.
So let's start with the most common problem. Bootloops!
1 - Bootloops :
What happens? : The title is pretty self-explanatory. You know you are in a bootloop if your phone turns off automatically as soon as it turned on. This generally happens BEFORE the phone actually boots up i.e. in the booting screen but could also happen after the phone completely turned on. There are various causes for this it may be due to a bug in the ROM or missing system files.
How to fix? : If you are flashing a custom ROM then you may want to reboot back to TWRP, wipe and flash it again. It works sometimes if there was an issue with the files.
I am unable to reboot to TWRP my phone is stuck even long pressing the power button does not shut it down! :crying::crying: : well if you are stuck you don't actually need to open the back panel to remove the battery or wait for it to die those won't help. all you need to do is wait for the phone to turn off and IMMEDIATELY press and hold the VOLUME UP and POWER button that should get you into TWRP if that doesn't work then you can try pressing and holding the VOLUME UP + DOWN + POWER key as the phone is about to turn on. it might boot you into download mode. if that does not work as well then as the phone is about to turn on, press and hold VOLUME UP + DOWN and plug the phone into PC that will get you booted into download mode eventually. Once you have access to one of these you can continue doing whatever you were doing. To reset everything back to normal (stock, like a new phone) checkout the solution listed below.
2 - I was doing something and now my phone is stuck at charging mode :
What happens? : This has happened to me while flashing PHH GSI. My phone was plugged into the charger and I restarted the phone. turns out it was a fatal mistake for the bugged gsi. The phone now only showed a battery icon that was charging very similar to the one that you would see if your phone is out of battery and you put it to charge. This happens before the phone actually turns on. usually, once you unplug the charger the phone automatically restarts but in my case it didn't. It was stuck at that screen with no way out.
How to fix? : turns out it's pretty easy, it might seem like its doing NOTHING, not responding to power buttons or anything but internally it is. Surprisingly, if you press and hold the VOL UP + DOWN + plug it into the PC it would get you into the download mode.
3 - I flashed GSI and ... :
What happens? : There are MANY things that can go wrong with GSI if you are a beginner I would suggest you stay away from GSI until it supports the device better. For me, I flashed PHH gsi and it went smoothly I booted in but as soon as I was finishing the setup adding fingerprint the ROM went into bootloop. you know how to fix this now. if nothing works, just refer to the reset solution listed below.
4 - "Custom binary blocked by FRP lock" :
What happens? : This usually (at least with me) happens when you are trying to flash something but forget to flash the DmVerity thing. The phone won't turn on and going to download mode will throw you with a line saying FRP lock.
How to fix? : At this point, trying to install custom binaries with Odin probably won't help as for me it simply stated that you cant install custom binaries only Samsung official updates are allowed or something similar. There might be a better/easy solution to this but I found doing a stock reset with Odin worked great. It is given below refer to that.
5 - Phone is in "Emergency firmware recovery" Mode :
What happens? : Turning on the phone throws you into a cyan screen saying that your phone needs emergency firmware recovery which can be done using Samsung smart switch
How to fix? : I believe it is a fantasy way of Samsung saying that your phone is almost dead and nothing remains on it. Fear not, turns out that cyan screen is actually the download mode. so that's a win you don't even have to boot to download mode just connect your phone to pc odin and follow the reset to stock firmware as mentioned below.
6 - I am back in some OS but my internal memory is shortened!!!
What happens? : well you are in the os you wanted but if you check the storage it appears to be shortened. i.e. if your phone has 64gb internal memory it might appear as 30gb or 20gb.
How to fix? : This is a problem caused by missing PIT file in odin. I would not suggest you to manually download the PIT file from somewhere and flash it using odin because doing so got me stuck in the FRP LOCK (4th) situation. I would suggest that you flash the stock firmware using the method given below.
MASTER SOLUTION/RESET TO STOCK FIRMWARE: if you are new to modding I would suggest that you download the stock firmware files from here BEFORE doing anything as the files exceed more than 3GB in size and not everyone has fast internet. if anything goes wrong and you have access to download mode you can follow this and get everything back to stock. Download the stock file AFH given at the link. once you download the stock firmware you just need to extract it and put the respective files in odin and begin flash. it will RESET everything and make it a new phone. I've tried this method and it works always for me.
That concludes my guide. if anyone knows any better solutions to these problems or think I've written something wrong please feel free to correct me. I've faced all of these issues back to back when I tried flashing a GSI and was able to fix all of them so this is just my personal experience.
Lastly, don't panic if something happens wrong happens there is probably a way to fix it.
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Absolutely well written for new users who wish to get into the world of Android on their Samsung. Might I suggest a few corrections?
Akhil99 said:
Absolutely well written for new users who wish to get into the world of Android on their Samsung. Might I suggest a few corrections?
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Sure by all means, feel free to suggest any modifications/corrections.:highfive: