Hello guys!
I need you help, I've Giorgio Armani Galaxy S I-9010 and I was trying to update the firmware. There was 2.2 on it and I wanted to update to 2.3.5 which is the latest official for Galaxy's.
Anyway; it's my first Android phone, that's why I didn't know how to do that. So I started to play with Odin, Samfirmware etc. As you could easily guess; now my phone is BRICKEd and I can not use that.
Now I need your help and directions. Otherwise I'll have to throw my lovely phone away. I want to restore all the factory firmware and settings back so I installed from samfirmware.com -all the necessary files. I got I9010XXKB2 file which has GT-I9010-CSC-MULTI-OXA902407.tar and I9010XXKB2-REV00-ALL-low-CL909299.tar. And I also have GA3_add_hidden.pit file.
As I read forums, I need to put I9010XXKB2-REV00-ALL-low-CL909299.tar and GA3_add_hidden.pit to Odin and it should have worked but always gives errors. I tried different combinations, I installed older version of Odin as well but can not do!
Also Odin has other parts such as PDA-PHONE-CSC etc. In that case, I use PIT and PDA options, not CSC and PHONE. Because I downloadad latest firmware from samsfirmware and there were only 2 files in zip.
Other than that; in that zip file, in that case again, I use I9010XXKB2-REV00-ALL-low-CL909299.tar and other file; GT-I9010-CSC-MULTI-OXA902407.tar -where do I have to put that?
AS you see, I don't know too much and I need to be directed. Could you please help me about that guys? I 'really' need that! Thanks in advance
QUESTION/PROBLEM SOLVED
FOR THOSE WONDERING HOW TO RESTORE SAMSUNG GALAXY S RELAY 4G TO STOCK USING FIRMWARES DOWNLOADED FROM http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/2/ FOLLOW THE STEPS I GUESSED WOULD WORK BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY DOES WORK
From the sammobile link given, find and select SGH-T699 for the Model and select USA (T-Mobile) - TMB for the Product Code then click Check firmware. To the right of your screen, you will see a Download button. Download it and it may take a while because it is the whole stock system image.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I rooted my Samsung Galaxy S Relay from T-Mobile(ICS 4.0.4) a few months ago. I enjoyed the root and everything but I've been receiving these OTA updates from T-Mobile and I want to update my phone. But of course, it fails to update because it is rooted. I went to www(dot)sammobile(dot)com/ (This is my first post so I am not able to post links yet, but I hope you know what website I'm talking about as you are all probably experts) and went to the Latest Firmwares tab. I typed in my phone information and saw the latest firmware and downloaded it. It was a 591MB file so it took a while to download. I extracted the .zip file and it was one tar.md5 file. I'm planning on flashing the stock firmware from Sammobile to reset my phone to stock as if I just got it in the mail still inside the box and untouched using Odin 3.07. I've done some research on YouTube on how to do so but the tutorials were for Samsung Galaxy SIII, S2, and Note 2. I was wondering if this would work the same way on my phone as it is part of the Samsung family. I'm guessing my steps in doing so are as follows:
1) Connect Samsung Galaxy S Relay from T-Mobile to computer using the USB cable.
2) Make sure USB debugging is enabled in the phone.
3) Check to see if my device can be recognized by typing "adb devices" from the adb program inside platform-tools folder.
4) Make sure in Odin v3.07 that is says Added! on the bottom left area.
5) Make sure that Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time are marked check. (Check F. Reset only if you'd like to actually reset the phone to its stock image like you just got it out of its box.)
6) Click PDA and find the extract file that ended with tar.md5 for your phone.
7) Click Start.
Before doing anything to my rooted phone, were my steps correct?
Thanks!
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Chrizuki said:
QUESTION/PROBLEM SOLVED
FOR THOSE WONDERING HOW TO RESTORE SAMSUNG GALAXY S RELAY 4G TO STOCK USING FIRMWARES DOWNLOADED FROM www(.)sammobile(.)com/ FOLLOW THE STEPS I GUESSED WOULD WORK BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY DOES WORK-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I rooted my Samsung Galaxy S Relay from T-Mobile(ICS 4.0.4) a few months ago. I enjoyed the root and everything but I've been receiving these OTA updates from T-Mobile and I want to update my phone. But of course, it fails to update because it is rooted. I went to www(dot)sammobile(dot)com/ (This is my first post so I am not able to post links yet, but I hope you know what website I'm talking about as you are all probably experts) and went to the Latest Firmwares tab. I typed in my phone information and saw the latest firmware and downloaded it. It was a 591MB file so it took a while to download. I extracted the .zip file and it was one tar.md5 file. I'm planning on flashing the stock firmware from Sammobile to reset my phone to stock as if I just got it in the mail still inside the box and untouched using Odin 3.07. I've done some research on YouTube on how to do so but the tutorials were for Samsung Galaxy SIII, S2, and Note 2. I was wondering if this would work the same way on my phone as it is part of the Samsung family. I'm guessing my steps in doing so are as follows:
1) Connect Samsung Galaxy S Relay from T-Mobile to computer using the USB cable.
2) Make sure USB debugging is enabled in the phone.
3) Check to see if my device can be recognized by typing "adb devices" from the adb program inside platform-tools folder.
4) Make sure in Odin v3.07 that is says Added! on the bottom left area.
5) Make sure that Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time are marked check.
6) Click PDA and find the extract file that ended with tar.md5 for your phone.
7) Click Start.
Before doing anything to my rooted phone, were my steps correct?
Thanks!
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yes that is correct if you want to go back to stock firmware and unroot. but you know if you flash a ROM you wont get any annoying OTA updates from T-Mobile, only from the dev. if he/she enabled OTA updates
Is it just me or does the site you linked to not work? I'm specifying the T699 as my phone and only the "top 10" list is appearing. All I get is, "Loading. Please wait..." Maybe I'm doing something wrong?
anon_az said:
Is it just me or does the site you linked to not work? I'm specifying the T699 as my phone and only the "top 10" list is appearing. All I get is, "Loading. Please wait..." Maybe I'm doing something wrong?
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get the odin image here: link
Thank you!
Chrizuki said:
QUESTION/PROBLEM SOLVED
FOR THOSE WONDERING HOW TO RESTORE SAMSUNG GALAXY S RELAY 4G TO STOCK USING FIRMWARES DOWNLOADED FROM www(dot)sammobile(dot)com/firmwares/2/ FOLLOW THE STEPS I GUESSED WOULD WORK BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY DOES WORK
From the sammobile link given, find and select SGH-T699 for the Model and select USA (T-Mobile) - TMB for the Product Code then click Check firmware. To the right of your screen, you will see a Download button. Download it and it may take a while because it is the whole stock system image.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I rooted my Samsung Galaxy S Relay from T-Mobile(ICS 4.0.4) a few months ago. I enjoyed the root and everything but I've been receiving these OTA updates from T-Mobile and I want to update my phone. But of course, it fails to update because it is rooted. I went to www(dot)sammobile(dot)com/ (This is my first post so I am not able to post links yet, but I hope you know what website I'm talking about as you are all probably experts) and went to the Latest Firmwares tab. I typed in my phone information and saw the latest firmware and downloaded it. It was a 591MB file so it took a while to download. I extracted the .zip file and it was one tar.md5 file. I'm planning on flashing the stock firmware from Sammobile to reset my phone to stock as if I just got it in the mail still inside the box and untouched using Odin 3.07. I've done some research on YouTube on how to do so but the tutorials were for Samsung Galaxy SIII, S2, and Note 2. I was wondering if this would work the same way on my phone as it is part of the Samsung family. I'm guessing my steps in doing so are as follows:
1) Connect Samsung Galaxy S Relay from T-Mobile to computer using the USB cable.
2) Make sure USB debugging is enabled in the phone.
3) Check to see if my device can be recognized by typing "adb devices" from the adb program inside platform-tools folder.
4) Make sure in Odin v3.07 that is says Added! on the bottom left area.
5) Make sure that Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time are marked check. (Check F. Reset only if you'd like to actually reset the phone to its stock image like you just got it out of its box.)
6) Click PDA and find the extract file that ended with tar.md5 for your phone.
7) Click Start.
Before doing anything to my rooted phone, were my steps correct?
Thanks!
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SO... hotfiles has been shutdown and sammobile redirects there. Can i find the file anywhere else?
RockinRita said:
SO... hotfiles has been shutdown and sammobile redirects there. Can i find the file anywhere else?
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I need to unroot as well. Where can I get the stock rom/recovery?
88fingerslukee said:
I need to unroot as well. Where can I get the stock rom/recovery?
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I posted it as a question here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48398896#post48398896) in hopes that it'll catch more eyes. :-/
Recently I believe to have bricked my phone (Stuck at Verizon Logo) I have looked around and downloaded all of the stock roms to flash onto my phone using odin in hopes of restoring it to a working condition but for the last week I havent been able to find any files that would download i would continuously get download errors from all the websites tried this on multiple computers on multiple wifi's so after a week of no phone and lots of frustration i have come here..... any help would be appreciated I just cant seem to find any actual .tar files to flash I beleive that im just missing something very obvious. Sorry if this is a dumb post
Edit: The one time I found a .tar file odin kept instantly crashing i re downloaded odin and it was still crashing
ViTalxDeath said:
Recently I believe to have bricked my phone (Stuck at Verizon Logo) I have looked around and downloaded all of the stock roms to flash onto my phone using odin in hopes of restoring it to a working condition but for the last week I havent been able to find any files that would download i would continuously get download errors from all the websites tried this on multiple computers on multiple wifi's so after a week of no phone and lots of frustration i have come here..... any help would be appreciated I just cant seem to find any actual .tar files to flash I beleive that im just missing something very obvious. Sorry if this is a dumb post
Edit: The one time I found a .tar file odin kept instantly crashing i re downloaded odin and it was still crashing
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Which version of odin are you using? You don't have a mac do you?
Download the actual firmware for your phone from the official Samsung website. sammobile.com. Don't be downloading stock firmware from file hosts, or dropbox. You need to register for free on the official sammobile.com and then attempt to download your firmware. The firmware is a large file, so make sure to have good WiF/data connection. And yes, make sure you're using the latest version of Odin. Good luck!
Hello,
I bought a cheap used live demo unit S7 that I want to use just for the GearVR.
It works great so far but the retail services are annoying, I've found articles that mention how to remove the software on S6 units...
I was wondering if the same instructions apply to the S7? Model is "SM-G930x"
I've also read a couple of posts about someone successfully flashing the stock rom using odin, but when going to sammmobile to download the firmware I don't know which country to choose. I bought it in the US but I don't know if there are different firmwares for Snapdragon versions or Exynos versions.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
In case someone stumbles upon my thread, I have successfully flashed a stock rom into my live demo S7.
I just used Odin and had to delete the same files that needed to be deleted for the S6 demo units using cygwin... cm.bin, sboot.bin and modem.bin. The difference here though is that with the S7 firmware, those files are spread between files, since the firmware zip contains 5 md5 files instead of 1... one is inside the CP file and the other two inside the BL file.
I deleted them all and then flashed with Odin by selecting the main AP file and the 2 modified BL/CP files.
Hope it helps someone in case they are looking to flash an S7 LDU, I'm guessing the same rules apply to the S7 edge though I have not tried that myself.
Everything works perfectly except cellphone calls/internet obviously, and the fingerprint sensor...which appears to commonly not work on live demo units.
Cheers
andrewe1 said:
In case someone stumbles upon my thread, I have successfully flashed a stock rom into my live demo S7.
I just used Odin and had to delete the same files that needed to be deleted for the S6 demo units using cygwin... cm.bin, sboot.bin and modem.bin. The difference here though is that with the S7 firmware, those files are spread between files, since the firmware zip contains 5 md5 files instead of 1... one is inside the CP file and the other two inside the BL file.
I deleted them all and then flashed with Odin by selecting the main AP file and the 2 modified BL/CP files.
Hope it helps someone in case they are looking to flash an S7 LDU, I'm guessing the same rules apply to the S7 edge though I have not tried that myself.
Everything works perfectly except cellphone calls/internet obviously, and the fingerprint sensor...which appears to commonly not work on live demo units.
Cheers
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Any idea if this same method applies to Verizon demo phones that are actually consumer models running retail software?
I don't know...probably? If the model is the same I don't see why not. Don't take my word for it though... This was my first experience flashing an LDU model.
andrewe1 said:
I don't know...probably? If the model is the same I don't see why not. Don't take my word for it though... This was my first experience flashing an LDU model.
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Well, since you managed to do it with an X variant, I have pretty high hopes that it will work with an actual consumer model(SM-G935V).
How did you manage to power off the device and go into Download mode?
KillTheSprint said:
Well, since you managed to do it with an X variant, I have pretty high hopes that it will work with an actual consumer model(SM-G935V).
How did you manage to power off the device and go into Download mode?
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Follow the same instructions here up to the part where you delete the files with cygwin... in that step do what I did:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6/general/g920x-master-thread-guides-firmwares-t3267738
Same passwords and everything.
Hope that helps
andrewe1 said:
Follow the same instructions here up to the part where you delete the files with cygwin... in that step do what I did:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6/general/g920x-master-thread-guides-firmwares-t3267738
Same passwords and everything.
Hope that helps
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Thanks!
I am not sure deleting files from the firmware is needed since you needed to delete them since you were flashing a different model firmware on to the demo model. In my case it is just a verizon stock firmware to a regular consumer phone so hopefully after removing the Retail software, Odin successfully flashes the stock firmware.
Hi, Is it possible to give a step by step process taken and the files used to flash with.
thanks in advance.
try to flash stock rom to your s7
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or try to reset the phone from recovery
Please help guys, I have a Samsung galaxy s7 demo version SM-G930X and stuck in boot loop error. I am trying to install SM-G930F stock rom on this by following this method but don't know how to delete those files from the firmware .tar file. Please can anyone provide a stepwise instruction
flutenpsyte said:
Please help guys, I have a Samsung galaxy s7 demo version SM-G930X and stuck in boot loop error. I am trying to install SM-G930F stock rom on this by following this method but don't know how to delete those files from the firmware .tar file. Please can anyone provide a stepwise instruction
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here you go: basicly just the same but remember to flash s7 roms/firmware not s6.
Edit: /u/servili007 posted this thread on XDA developers forum which is probably a better guide. I'm not an expert so defer to that if it makes sense. /edit
In case you saw this thread a couple of weeks ago and thought you can get a GearVR capable Samsung S6 for cheap by buying a Live Demo Unit (LDU) here's some warnings:
It's a store display unit meaning it's likely used and abused.
There's no phone capabilities as the cellular antenna and SIM slot are removed.
The screen probably has burn in of some sort and has been on a lot.
It's not covered by warranty so you're getting it as is, and likely no return to the Ebay seller
The stock ROM automatically loads "Retail Mode" that's not simple to remove and it resets the phone
GearVR software likely will not load on it without effort.
If you understand the above, read what might be required before making the plunge.
First, watch this and write down the information he says to get: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8LMyRqBViM
Basically you need to disable "Retail Mode" by installing a ROM that's not retail. Again, this probably won't work and will BRICK your phone, but you've been warned. This works for S6 and not the Note 4 which needs different passwords.
Go to the app drawer and open an app called Samsung Retail (not the Retail Mode program).
Go to Configuration Settings and enter the password 5444 to unlock it.
Then uncheck “Disable the factory reset” and enter the following password M729Q16K8546.
Decline the "Factory Reset" and instead turn your Samsung Galaxy S6 off
Boot into Recovery mode by holding down Volume Up, Power and Home button all at the same time.
Go to Wipe data & factory reset and press OK.
Now comes the fun part: Flash a stock firmware with ODIN. These steps I've got from here, here and here.
Go to sammobile and download the fimware you think it is the right one. This firmware which is a 5.0.2 version from New Zealand worked for more than one person
Extract the firmware file which is a 1.5gb tar.md5 file.
You will now have something like this G920IDVU1AOC6_G920INZC1AOC6_G920IDVU1AOC6_HOME.tar.md5
Rename it to something shorter like G920IDVU1AOC6.tar and be sure to delete the .md5 at the end.
Download the pseudo-Linux emulator Cygwin from it's home site here and install it
Move the tar file (G920IDVU1AOC6.tar) to C:\cygwin\home\''username''
Open cygwin and delete all the ''.bin'' files by typing the following commands (use up arrow to reload last command and edit for next command). Takes a few moments per command.
tar --delete --file=G920IDVU1AOC6.tar modem.bin
tar --delete --file=G920IDVU1AOC6.tar cm.bin
tar --delete --file=G920IDVU1AOC6.tar sboot.bin
Close cygwin. You can check if cygwin really deleted the bin files by opening the .tar file with winRAR.
Make sure the Samsung drivers are installed on your computer. Something you should verify ahead of time (before any of this) by seeing if you can access it from "My Computer" when it's connected.
Download the latest Odin3 v3.10.6 from here and unzip it (the link is in the signature block of the comment). Odin is a program for service stores to reload stock roms into units in maintenance.
Open Odin
Click on AP button and choose modified .tar file from step 7.
Connect your Samsung phone to the pc. Turn it on using Down Volume (not Up), Power and Home buttons. When you get the warning screen about loading up roms can be dangerous, press Up volume to accept.
On Odin screen, you should see the phone connect. Click "Start" and hope it works .... your s6 should boot a few times, and then start up like new, if not, try another fimware from another country from sammobile.
Again, the firmware that seems to work is a 5.0.1 and only if you remove the .bin files. The above worked for myself and I was finally able to load up GearVR. However, as it was a LDU there is burn in easy to make out. In addition it was an S6 with older firmware meaning it's missing out on some improvements.
Please note I don't make a habit of rooting smartphones or messing around installing images into hardware. As such, I probably spent way to much time searching around for the above, downloading a few roms and trying to get it to work before finding the correct path. Hopefully the above saves you some headache if you take the unadvised route of using an LDU for your GearVR.
I found this somewhere on this website:
Free simple factory reset - how to
Okay this is how you do it, super easy
Download: https://apkpure.com/free-simple-fact....android?hl=en
1. Connect phone to PC
2. Place Simple Factory Reset.apk in the phone's storage
3. Install Simple Factory Reset.apk
4. Open Simple Factory Reset
5. Click reset
5. Wait untill you see a message that says something like "not allowed to shut down"
6. Once you see that restart the phone (hold: volume down, volume up, power and home button)
7. As soon as phone goes black, boot into recovery (hold power, volume up, and home button)
8. Let phone reset
Done, phone will restart and retail mode is no more.
This works on all samsung, ive tested it myself on s4, s5, s6, and s7 as well
Donnavarro said:
here you go: basicly just the same but remember to flash s7 roms/firmware not s6.
Edit: /u/servili007 posted this thread on XDA developers forum which is probably a better guide. I'm not an expert so defer to that if it makes sense. /edit
In case you saw this thread a couple of weeks ago and thought you can get a GearVR capable Samsung S6 for cheap by buying a Live Demo Unit (LDU) here's some warnings:
It's a store display unit meaning it's likely used and abused.
There's no phone capabilities as the cellular antenna and SIM slot are removed.
The screen probably has burn in of some sort and has been on a lot.
It's not covered by warranty so you're getting it as is, and likely no return to the Ebay seller
The stock ROM automatically loads "Retail Mode" that's not simple to remove and it resets the phone
GearVR software likely will not load on it without effort.
If you understand the above, read what might be required before making the plunge.
First, watch this and write down the information he says to get: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8LMyRqBViM
Basically you need to disable "Retail Mode" by installing a ROM that's not retail. Again, this probably won't work and will BRICK your phone, but you've been warned. This works for S6 and not the Note 4 which needs different passwords.
Go to the app drawer and open an app called Samsung Retail (not the Retail Mode program).
Go to Configuration Settings and enter the password 5444 to unlock it.
Then uncheck “Disable the factory reset” and enter the following password M729Q16K8546.
Decline the "Factory Reset" and instead turn your Samsung Galaxy S6 off
Boot into Recovery mode by holding down Volume Up, Power and Home button all at the same time.
Go to Wipe data & factory reset and press OK.
Now comes the fun part: Flash a stock firmware with ODIN. These steps I've got from here, here and here.
Go to sammobile and download the fimware you think it is the right one. This firmware which is a 5.0.2 version from New Zealand worked for more than one person
Extract the firmware file which is a 1.5gb tar.md5 file.
You will now have something like this G920IDVU1AOC6_G920INZC1AOC6_G920IDVU1AOC6_HOME.tar.md5
Rename it to something shorter like G920IDVU1AOC6.tar and be sure to delete the .md5 at the end.
Download the pseudo-Linux emulator Cygwin from it's home site here and install it
Move the tar file (G920IDVU1AOC6.tar) to C:\cygwin\home\''username''
Open cygwin and delete all the ''.bin'' files by typing the following commands (use up arrow to reload last command and edit for next command). Takes a few moments per command.
tar --delete --file=G920IDVU1AOC6.tar modem.bin
tar --delete --file=G920IDVU1AOC6.tar cm.bin
tar --delete --file=G920IDVU1AOC6.tar sboot.bin
Close cygwin. You can check if cygwin really deleted the bin files by opening the .tar file with winRAR.
Make sure the Samsung drivers are installed on your computer. Something you should verify ahead of time (before any of this) by seeing if you can access it from "My Computer" when it's connected.
Download the latest Odin3 v3.10.6 from here and unzip it (the link is in the signature block of the comment). Odin is a program for service stores to reload stock roms into units in maintenance.
Open Odin
Click on AP button and choose modified .tar file from step 7.
Connect your Samsung phone to the pc. Turn it on using Down Volume (not Up), Power and Home buttons. When you get the warning screen about loading up roms can be dangerous, press Up volume to accept.
On Odin screen, you should see the phone connect. Click "Start" and hope it works .... your s6 should boot a few times, and then start up like new, if not, try another fimware from another country from sammobile.
Again, the firmware that seems to work is a 5.0.1 and only if you remove the .bin files. The above worked for myself and I was finally able to load up GearVR. However, as it was a LDU there is burn in easy to make out. In addition it was an S6 with older firmware meaning it's missing out on some improvements.
Please note I don't make a habit of rooting smartphones or messing around installing images into hardware. As such, I probably spent way to much time searching around for the above, downloading a few roms and trying to get it to work before finding the correct path. Hopefully the above saves you some headache if you take the unadvised route of using an LDU for your GearVR.
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Thanks for the Info, I got my s7 LDU working, I just flashed a normal G930F stock room via Odin and it was stuck in bootloop, then flashed a twrp and later went to recovery mode where it showed "dm varity check failed, need to check drk first". I learned that it happens when you are not rooted, so I flashed cf auto root via Odin and after that it booted correctly. The retail softwares all gone. But there's only a problem that it hangs for 2-3seconds every now and then unfortunately.
https://www.s7fanclub.com/2016/04/flash-stock-rom-galaxy-s7-galaxy-s7-edge.html
https://www.s7fanclub.com/2016/03/download-flash-twrp-recovery-root-galaxy-s7-sm-g930f.html
https://www.s7fanclub.com/2016/02/how-to-root-samsung-galaxy-s7.html
I finally removed the Retail Mode from my Verizon Demo Phone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXrHmD-mee8
KillTheSprint said:
I finally removed the Retail Mode from my Verizon Demo Phone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXrHmD-mee8
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Why don't you post the method you used.. the video, is not only useless it doesn't work anymore....
All I did was flash it with the stock rom. The Verizon demos seem to have a different bootloader/recovery compared to regular demos. What model do you have?
vo_danh said:
Why don't you post the method you used.. the video, is not only useless it doesn't work anymore....
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Not surprising considering the post you just replied to is 9 months old....
*Detection* said:
Not surprising considering the post you just replied to is 9 months old....
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Just wanted to confirm, you got full retail S7 functionality, calls, text, fingerprint reader everything?
KillTheSprint said:
Thanks!
I am not sure deleting files from the firmware is needed since you needed to delete them since you were flashing a different model firmware on to the demo model. In my case it is just a verizon stock firmware to a regular consumer phone so hopefully after removing the Retail software, Odin successfully flashes the stock firmware.
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flutenpsyte said:
Thanks for the Info, I got my s7 LDU working, I just flashed a normal G930F stock room via Odin and it was stuck in bootloop, then flashed a twrp and later went to recovery mode where it showed "dm varity check failed, need to check drk first". I learned that it happens when you are not rooted, so I flashed cf auto root via Odin and after that it booted correctly. The retail softwares all gone. But there's only a problem that it hangs for 2-3seconds every now and then unfortunately.
https://www.s7fanclub.com/2016/04/flash-stock-rom-galaxy-s7-galaxy-s7-edge.html
https://www.s7fanclub.com/2016/03/download-flash-twrp-recovery-root-galaxy-s7-sm-g930f.html
https://www.s7fanclub.com/2016/02/how-to-root-samsung-galaxy-s7.html
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m.jordan89 said:
Just wanted to confirm, you got full retail S7 functionality, calls, text, fingerprint reader everything?
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I don't have a demo unit, and no, you won't get all that because there is no modem or fingerprint reader in demo units, so you can't call or text or use fingerprint security
I was trying to root my phone using Magisk but something went wrong during the final step, (was stuck on prism.img for +30 minutes)
Now, all I see is "An error has occurred while updating the device software" and at the top there is a red message "DN_FAIL_BLOCK_CUSTOM_BIN_OEM"
I have tried various reboot options to get back into download mode with no joy.
Even Smartswitch is not listing an "emergency recovery" option.
Any suggestion(s) as what I could do next?
Many thanks
Ok, I got it sorted
download the latest Odin
download the latest firmware for your phone + region
unpack it all somewhere
copy and then rename the CSC file to remove the .md5 extension
That will allow you to "unzip it" and inside it there is a pit file.
Open Odin and set the path of all the md5 files, except for the last one, (USERDATA).
On the PIT tab set the path of the file you extracted earlier.
Plug the phone in
Start
And it should reboot fine.
You phone was wiped, you will need to reinstall everything
Before messing around with your phone ...
Make sure you know what firmware you are using
Make sure you know your country code.
Hope this helps someone...
Hey siminfrance,
I noticed in restoring your phone you have to download firmware for a specific region. Does the region specific bloatware come back? I need the bloatware back
Thank you
dangercl0se said:
Hey siminfrance,
I noticed in restoring your phone you have to download firmware for a specific region. Does the region specific bloatware come back? I need the bloatware back
Thank you
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Yeah, it has all the Samsung bloatware.
Not sure about all the countries, but in mine there is only one provider specific app and it gets downloaded automatically as soon as you first start the phone.
Make sure you get the correct Android version, (I got 12 in my case).