Stuck on boot screen, restore failed! - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III

I have been running liquid smooth 2.9 for about a year now with no issues. Last night my battery died and I plugged it in and tried to boot up immediately as I needed it. We'll it shut off again and I let it sit for a few minutes then tried to reboot. Now it just stays stuck in the boot splash screen. I can boot into TWRP but get a failure when restoring. It's telling me E: no packages found to fix. Is this a corrupt backup file or something worse? I can get into Odin or TWRP. I have an older backup saved on my PC, is it worth trying to move that to ext sd card. Thanks in advance for any thoughts
Drew

Update - I tried to ODIN back to a stock image. I get a sucessful load with VRUCML1, but it gets hung up on the verizon load screen now. I tried to ODIN VRALG1 and I get a fail after the aboot step every time. I have tried different cables ans usb ports as well. What are my next steps, if any?
Thanks
Drew

Flash tools, boot it in flash mode, click unlock bootloader, then remove USB and try booting.
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justdrew424 said:
Update - I tried to ODIN back to a stock image. I get a sucessful load with VRUCML1, but it gets hung up on the verizon load screen now. I tried to ODIN VRALG1 and I get a fail after the aboot step every time. I have tried different cables ans usb ports as well. What are my next steps, if any?
Thanks
Drew
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You shouldn't of used the 4.3 stock rom. Now you're probably stuck on it. Post what it says in download mode and I'll direct you to a proper fix.
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justdrew424 said:
Update - I tried to ODIN back to a stock image. I get a sucessful load with VRUCML1, but it gets hung up on the verizon load screen now. I tried to ODIN VRALG1 and I get a fail after the aboot step every time. I have tried different cables ans usb ports as well. What are my next steps, if any?
Thanks
Drew
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You cannot uee any odin file but the vrucml1 one because you are forever locked. try to flash it again but after you get stuck on the samsung logo pull your battery and do a factory reset in stock recovery.
seanawake said:
Flash tools, boot it in flash mode, click unlock bootloader, then remove USB and try booting.
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Horrible advice! He is on the 4.3 bootloader after the ml1 flash. If he did that he would hard brick!!

Sorry didn't update sooner. Wish I would have seen about the locked bootloader before flashing. Anyways after a few attempts and battery pulls it finally turned on and allowed me to setup as a new phone. I was able to root the phone with saferoot. Kingo would not work for root access. Hopefully an exploit comes along in the future to unlock the bootloader..
Thanks for the help

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Many problems, odin to stock does not fix. Please help!

My phone feezes instantly when i try to make calls, and when i recieve calls it rings but as soon as i answer it freezes. only way to unfreeze is to battery pull. Whenever i press the power button to unlock my phone, the screen takes 5-10 seconds to actually turn on to be able to unlock it. Every Time!
More importantly, i have tried to odin back to stock many times with no luck.
I am also unable to flash to any other roms - upon flashing ANY rom i get stuck at samsung logo indefinitely. I also get stuck when i try to odin anything other than UCKD5 stock, like it gets stuck when trying to odin to GB stock. I am able to flash community kernel without getting stuck tho.
Any ideas?
EDIT: i also have tried formatting both SD cards
EDIT2: i used Kies to update firmware to UCLB3, this fixed the unlock issue, but whenever i make calls i cannot hear the other person and they cannot hear me. Still unable to flash ROMS
ibCurlyFry said:
My phone feezes instantly when i try to make calls, and when i recieve calls it rings but as soon as i answer it freezes. only way to unfreeze is to battery pull. Whenever i press the power button to unlock my phone, the screen takes 5-10 seconds to actually turn on to be able to unlock it. Every Time!
More importantly, i have tried to odin back to stock many times with no luck.
I am also unable to flash to any other roms - upon flashing ANY rom i get stuck at samsung logo indefinitely. I also get stuck when i try to odin anything other than UCKD5 stock, like it gets stuck when trying to odin to GB stock. I am able to flash community kernel without getting stuck tho.
Any ideas?
EDIT: i also have tried formatting both SD cards
EDIT2: i used Kies to update firmware to UCLB3, this fixed the unlock issue, but whenever i make calls i cannot hear the other person and they cannot hear me. Still unable to flash ROMS
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From what you are describing, I suspect you have have some sort of partition corruption.
You may want to look for any voodoo files and folders on your /sdcard.
Delete them all.
Back up whatever files you want.
Power down.
Take out the microSD for now.
Use the heimdall uclb3 I put together. Alternatively, you can use odin to flash one of the later gb leak like uclb3...but you also need the PIT file and you will need to repartition on the odin interface. If you are unsure, use the heimdall I put together.
Put your phone into DL mode and flash the heimdall or odin.
On the heimdall, if the flash was successful, you will need to check the boot loader box, put your phone back into DL mode and flash it again.
To get cwm recovery, follow the second post in the uclb3 heimdall thread.
gl
I tried Heimdall, it failed at recovery one time and then modem the next. Once it went all the way through without failing, my phone booted into recovery after the flash, and now i am only able to boot into recovery. Odin is now unable to see my device now.
did i do something wrong? :O
ibCurlyFry said:
I tried Heimdall, it failed at recovery one time and then modem the next. Once it went all the way through without failing, my phone booted into recovery after the flash, and now i am only able to boot into recovery. Odin is now unable to see my device now.
did i do something wrong? :O
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download mode again and flash the heimdall again with boot loader checked.
if you cant check the boot loader box, you have to start over with 2 heimdall flash...check the op
odin uses different driver..use a diff usb port
qkster said:
download mode again and flash the heimdall again with boot loader checked.
if you cant check the boot loader box, you have to start over with 2 heimdall flash...check the op
odin uses different driver..use a diff usb port
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Okay i Heimdall flashed without bootloader then again with bootloader and it booted properly (thanks!!). Then powered off and went into download mode and flashed ENTROPY512's 2.2.2012 kernel for CWM and allowed it to boot. Then i powered off again and three fingered into CWM (three finger boot took about 5minutes if thats important), wiped data/cache/dalvik and formatted system/data/cache and flashed my desired ROM (miui 2.2.4) and nowww it is sitting at samsung logo and has been for 10 minutes and im scared to touch it lol
have u tried change another recovery like clockwork mod from odin and flash roms
Well i have been trying Clockwork mod (CWM)
you mean different versions of that?
yup Another version, or any other type
yeah ive tried 3 versions :/
return to stock
ok if thats did not help
return back to stock
by this step u will not need to odin or cwm
thats stock by java
the stock called "Stock_SGH_I997_UCLB3_Repartition-One-Click.jar"
Yes i have already used Heimdall to return to UCLB3... many times.. lol
ibCurlyFry said:
Yes i have already used Heimdall to return to UCLB3... many times.. lol
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MIUI needs to be flashed twice in recovery to stick..same with cm7/cm9 - (unless you know how to flash just the kernel first - don't worry about this last part) - just boot back into cwm and flash again
haha i already tried starting over, im at the first heimdall flash again. but ill do that once i go through it all and let you know what happends, THanks again
SUCESS!
thank you so much! it works
Heimdall FTW
ibCurlyFry said:
thank you so much! it works
Heimdall FTW
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Finally
One thing ive noticed is that before i did all this my phone would boot in under a minute, and now it takes 10-15 :/
but im just glad it works!
ibCurlyFry said:
One thing ive noticed is that before i did all this my phone would boot in under a minute, and now it takes 10-15 :/
but im just glad it works!
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Aft you return to stock...did you do a factory reset?
bigjoe2675 said:
Aft you return to stock...did you do a factory reset?
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yup yup!
ibCurlyFry said:
yup yup!
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The first boot up is always the longest after a stock reset. Usually 5 minutes.
Repeat boot up should only be 2 minutes - providing you did not wipe any cache or data.
If you had a lot of pics and music or files in your external sd card, the boot up will be longer.
To test this, take out your ext sd card.
boot into cwm.
factory reset. wipe system/data/cache.
Download mode and flash heimdall again...Since you had the bootloader already from the last time, you don't need a bl flash this time.
The first ATT boot up should take 5-7 minutes.
Repeat boot up should only be 2 minutes-3 minutes.
If it is longer, you may have some hardware issues.
Once you start to add things or ext-sd and noted increase boot time, you will narrow down the culprit
qkster said:
The first boot up is always the longest after a stock reset. Usually 5 minutes.
Repeat boot up should only be 2 minutes - providing you did not wipe any cache or data.
If you had a lot of pics and music or files in your external sd card, the boot up will be longer.
To test this, take out your ext sd card.
boot into cwm.
factory reset. wipe system/data/cache.
Download mode and flash heimdall again...Since you had the bootloader already from the last time, you don't need a bl flash this time.
The first ATT boot up should take 5-7 minutes.
Repeat boot up should only be 2 minutes-3 minutes.
If it is longer, you may have some hardware issues.
Once you start to add things or ext-sd and noted increase boot time, you will narrow down the culprit
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thanks! ill try it out
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No Download Mode or Recovery Mode

Wow, I've searched over and over and tried all possible methods as described in posts here and other forums but to no avail. Phone is in boot loop. It boots up to the point where you see blaze, etc., then restarts continously.
I flashed recovery thru Odin 1.85 which went alright. Load supersuper thru CWM. It went alright. Then I flashed cm-11-20140224-NIGHTLY-t769 and got error. Wiped Data/Cache/Dalvik. When I reboot the phone,it goes into boot loop. I then took battery out and wait for stock download (SGH-T769_NA_TMB_ICS_Opensource) to return to stock.
After the download, I put battery on, used jig to put phone in download mode but it cannot. Tried to put in CWM (Up/Down/Power) but still cannot. When I let go, it boots up continously.
Is there a way around this?
Thanks!
Jabbacks said:
Wow, I've searched over and over and tried all possible methods as described in posts here and other forums but to no avail. Phone is in boot loop. It boots up to the point where you see blaze, etc., then restarts continously.
I flashed recovery thru Odin 1.85 which went alright. Load supersuper thru CWM. It went alright. Then I flashed cm-11-20140224-NIGHTLY-t769 and got error. Wiped Data/Cache/Dalvik. When I reboot the phone,it goes into boot loop. I then took battery out and wait for stock download (SGH-T769_NA_TMB_ICS_Opensource) to return to stock.
After the download, I put battery on, used jig to put phone in download mode but it cannot. Tried to put in CWM (Up/Down/Power) but still cannot. When I let go, it boots up continously.
Is there a way around this?
Thanks!
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When you flashed cm was the error a "status 7"?
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Maybe adb reboot recovery?
That's if you can get adb
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It's ok now. I pulled battery out and let it sit 24hrs. When I put battery back in and plug in the jig, it went directly to download mode! Before, no matter what I did following procedures it never went recovery or download mode. I then flash back stock T769UVMB1_T769TMBMB1 with odin 1.85.
Thanks guys!

Help softbricked or hardbricked device?

Help softbricked device
well i was running more rom on the device when i droped it then i got the screen and digi replaced
and when the tech tuned it on for the first time after repair we got a udc start screen that says unknown error at the top
i can get to download mode though. but even after trying to restore the bootloader or flash a new modem i cant get to any recovery.
right now this is what it says in download mode.
odin mode
product name : SM-G900P
current binary: custom
system status : custom
knox warranty void 0x1 (4)
i can go to download mode or try and let it boot up to the samsung boot but it says recovery booting in blue and loops there on reboot.
i forget the name of the modem i was on in more rom. i think it was the one be4 ota6
but i want to update to latest version of modem and rom not sure where to start.
i cant seem to get back to stock or custom recovery at all. or even boot up to a rom now. and i honestly have no idea why? =( can someone help?
jackrabbit72380 said:
Help softbricked device
well i was running more rom on the device when i droped it then i got the screen and digi replaced
and when the tech tuned it on for the first time after repair we got a udc start screen that says unknown error at the top
i can get to download mode though. but even after trying to restore the bootloader or flash a new modem i cant get to any recovery.
right now this is what it says in download mode.
odin mode
product name : SM-G900P
current binary: custom
system status : custom
knox warranty void 0x1 (4)
i can go to download mode or try and let it boot up to the samsung boot but it says recovery booting in blue and loops there on reboot.
i forget the name of the modem i was on in more rom. i think it was the one be4 ota6
but i want to update to latest version of modem and rom not sure where to start.
i cant seem to get back to stock or custom recovery at all. or even boot up to a rom now. and i honestly have no idea why? =( can someone help?
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Follow the instructions from this post. Since you are soft bricked at the moment, you'll need to start at step 4. If you have an extSD in your phone, you might want to pull it until after you're up and running because the "Android" folder from Kitkat needs to be deleted and rebuilt for Lollipop.
That's what I tryed first but it didn't work,
First step.... flash SM-G900P_OA6_FullRestore.
(on boot i have samsung galaxy s5 screen with blue letters at the top saying recovery booting and it loops.)
sense that didn't work i tryed... SM-G900P_NI3-Full_Restore_Unrooted (Compressed Archive)
(on boot i have samsung galaxy s5 screen with blue letters at the top saying recovery booting and it loops.)
then i tryed SM-G900P_OA6_FullRestore. again but still no luck im out of ideas
I cant get to any recovery.
please help.
jackrabbit72380 said:
That's what I tryed first but it didn't work,
First step.... flash SM-G900P_OA6_FullRestore.
(on boot i have samsung galaxy s5 screen with blue letters at the top saying recovery booting and it loops.)
sense that didn't work i tryed... SM-G900P_NI3-Full_Restore_Unrooted (Compressed Archive)
(on boot i have samsung galaxy s5 screen with blue letters at the top saying recovery booting and it loops.)
then i tryed SM-G900P_OA6_FullRestore. again but still no luck im out of ideas
I cant get to any recovery.
please help.
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Are you using the wrong terminology? You have to use Odin and a PC to install the .tar. Also, the first boot into Lollipop can take about 20 minutes. You have to be patient. I see you posting in different threads and you seem to be digging deeper into a hole.
Are you using Odin and starting by downloading (to PC) the file in step #4? Then follow the remaining steps "exactly". Re-read those instructions and if you not already downloaded the needed files, do that first.
Ramer said:
Are you using the wrong terminology? You have to use Odin and a PC to install the .tar. Also, the first boot into Lollipop can take about 20 minutes. You have to be patient. I see you posting in different threads and you seem to be digging deeper into a hole.
Are you using Odin and starting by downloading (to PC) the file in step #4? Then follow the remaining steps "exactly". Re-read those instructions and if you not already downloaded the needed files, do that first.
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Yes I downloaded the files to the pc.
Im using odin3.07
in pda I add the file Odin'd the [ODIN][TAR][5.0] SM-G900P OA6 (Official!) - Full Restore (ROM, Modem, Kernel),
put phone in download mode.
flash file!
ODIN SAYS PASS
next phone reboots to samsung galaxy black screen with with blue letters at the top saying
RECOVERY BOOTING......
then boot loops there.
I CANT GET TO STEP 5
I am not able to boot to the rom or recovery
jackrabbit72380 said:
Yes I downloaded the files to the pc.
Im using odin3.07
in pda I add the file Odin'd the [ODIN][TAR][5.0] SM-G900P OA6 (Official!) - Full Restore (ROM, Modem, Kernel),
put phone in download mode.
flash file!
ODIN SAYS PASS
next phone reboots to samsung galaxy black screen with with blue letters at the top saying
RECOVERY BOOTING......
then boot loops there.
I CANT GET TO STEP 5
I am not able to boot to the rom or recovery
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Try this: Do a battery pull, then put the phone in Download mode, hook up to PC and then open Odin and then Odin custom recovery, either twrp or Philz. Uncheck auto reboot in odin and once it passes, pull the battery, unplug and boot into recovery. Also, you might update Odin, there's a link to Odin 3.10.0 in my post. Let's see if we can get that far and go from there.
ramer said:
try this: Do a battery pull, then put the phone in download mode, hook up to pc and then open odin and odin custom recovery, either twrp or philz. Uncheck auto reboot in odin and once it passes, pull the battery, unplug and boot into recovery. Also, you might update odin, there's a link to odin 3.10.0 in my post. Let's see if we can get that far and go from there.
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ok used odin 10
tryied everything you said exactly phone reboots on samsung galaxy s5 boot logo everytime. Whether i try booting to recovery or the rom.
jackrabbit72380 said:
ok used odin 10
tryied everything you said exactly phone reboots on samsung galaxy s5 boot logo everytime. Whether i try booting to recovery or the rom.
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Which recovery tar did you Odin? You pulled the battery after Odin said PASS, then unplugged the phone, put battery back in and immediately tried to get into recovery? If so, I'm stumped.
Ramer said:
Which recovery tar did you Odin? You pulled the battery after Odin said PASS, then unplugged the phone, put battery back in and immediately tried to get into recovery? If so, I'm stumped.
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Yes I tryed
I pulled the battery after Odin said PASS
Yes I tryed
kt_twrp_recovery_boa6_firmware.tar
and
openrecovery-twrp-2.8.4.0-klte
and
philz_touch_6.57.8-klte
NOTHING!
when ever i try and boot the rom the phone vibrates 2 times and resets.
when ever i try to boot to recovery
i get
recovery booting....
recovery is not seandroid enforcing
set warranty bit : recovery
then phone reboots.
then it trys to boot the rom.
and vibrates 2 times and resets.
Im not new to using odin or flashing roms or recoverys i sort of know what im doing. not to sound cocky.
Im Stumped to!
jackrabbit72380 said:
Yes I tryed
kt_twrp_recovery_boa6_firmware.tar
and
openrecovery-twrp-2.8.4.0-klte
and
philz_touch_6.57.8-klte
NOTHING!
Im not new to using odin or flashing roms or recoverys i sort of know what im doing. not to sound cocky.
Im Stumped to!
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I saw your post count, I knew you knew what you're doing, just wanted to double check everything. Sorry, I'm out of ideas. I did ask @tdunham to take a look at this thread, if he has some other ideas, but he's offline right now. Hopefully he'll check in later.
What about flashing back to an older version of android? Full tar flash.
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Like ne5, and nothing else, just see if you can get stock to boot, no messing around trying to flash recovery.
This is RWillco12's NE5 stock.. Have the phone in download mode and run the .exe
Thanks TD.
Ramer said:
This is RWillco12's NE5 stock.. Have the phone in download mode and run the .exe
Thanks TD.
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I tryied ni3 already
but as far as i know you cant downgrade the bootloader.
if i could flash just the bootloader for ota6 maybe that would help.
i will try downloading ne5 now but my last rom was running a nkd modem.
im going to try and flash G900P_NKD_FullRestore.tar in odin if that dont work ill try ne5
and will report back shortly.
well nkd full restore boots up to
unknowen error!
wait..
done!
udc start.
power reset or
unknown
upload mode.
this is the way i got it back from retech after they replaced my bezel and digitlizer and screen
i never had an issue with anything software wize before that.
Have you tried flashing the phone without any sim cards inserted including the sprint card? You are flashing from a powered off state right? You know it wont work unless phone is powered off before going into download mode.
As a last resort attached is the pit file for the 16gb G900P. Unzip and put it into the pit section of odin and flash the stock firmware again. It will repartition the entire phone when it flashes the stock image.
tdunham said:
Have you tried flashing the phone without any sim cards inserted including the sprint card? You are flashing from a powered off state right? You know it wont work unless phone is powered off before going into download mode.
As a last resort attached is the pit file for the 16gb G900P. Unzip and put it into the pit section of odin and flash the stock firmware again. It will repartition the entire phone when it flashes the stock image.
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Yes I was using the pit file and yes I know to go to download mode from power off state. and no sim card is in the phone.
flashing ne5 stock with fingers crossed.
brb
nope
is there any bootloaders only i can flash?
well tryed everything all it does is vibrate 2 times. same as be4 im dead in the water. i don't know what's wrong or what to do.
I have tryed everything i can think of.
I can boot to download mode and flash anything i want but nothing works.
no recovery. no rom.

Need Help With Bricked Note 5

Tried to root my Note 5 using Zedomax's method for 6.0.1 and I think something went wrong. My phone ran through the Odin flashing process and passed, but on reboot I was left with red letter saying "recovery is seandroid enforcing" or something to that effect along with a boot loop. I was unable to boot into TWRP. I can still get the phone in download mode, but it seems like every firmware/recovery I try to flash leaves me in the same predicament or it freezes odin before I can flash it. My note 5 is a 920p Sprint model and on 6.0.1. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
timsmooth said:
Tried to root my Note 5 using Zedomax's method for 6.0.1 and I think something went wrong. My phone ran through the Odin flashing process and passed, but on reboot I was left with red letter saying "recovery is seandroid enforcing" or something to that effect along with a boot loop. I was unable to boot into TWRP. I can still get the phone in download mode, but it seems like every firmware/recovery I try to flash leaves me in the same predicament or it freezes odin before I can flash it. My note 5 is a 920p Sprint model and on 6.0.1. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
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Uncheck auto reboot in Odin and Odin twrp.
Reboot straight from download mode into twrp and flash either smoar rom or the deodexed rom by tdunham. Did you make sure you oem lock is off ?
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djxn40 said:
Uncheck auto reboot in Odin and Odin twrp.
Reboot straight from download mode into twrp and flash either smoar rom or the deodexed rom by tdunham. Did you make sure you oem lock is off ?
Sent from my SM-N920P using Tapatalk
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I already helped him get back to stock so he's at least up and running.
timsmooth said:
Tried to root my Note 5 using Zedomax's method for 6.0.1 and I think something went wrong. My phone ran through the Odin flashing process and passed, but on reboot I was left with red letter saying "recovery is seandroid enforcing" or something to that effect along with a boot loop. I was unable to boot into TWRP. I can still get the phone in download mode, but it seems like every firmware/recovery I try to flash leaves me in the same predicament or it freezes odin before I can flash it. My note 5 is a 920p Sprint model and on 6.0.1. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
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Use the twrp 3.0.2.0 tar.tar found via @tdunham moar for mm threads note 5 recoveries link. I had same issue until using it.
This thread can be closed. Mrmike2182 helped me fix my issue in another thread.
Please help me!
MrMike2182 said:
I already helped him get back to stock so he's at least up and running.
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I have the same exact problem with my phone. Same model and everything. I can make it to Odin mode but when I try and boot the phone I'm stuck on the boot screen with kernel is not seandroid enforcing in red.
N_MBU said:
I have the same exact problem with my phone. Same model and everything. I can make it to Odin mode but when I try and boot the phone I'm stuck on the boot screen with kernel is not seandroid enforcing in red.
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Download one of these for your phone. .
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/database/SM-N920P/
Make sure you uncheck auto reboot in Odin and as soon as it's done and says success disconnect the phone and immediately press and hold the volume down button and the power button at the same time and when the screen comes back up you HAVE to select factory reset wipe if you don't you'll be stuck again just let the little android dude install the update and then the phone will reboot and you'll be ok.
Unzip the md5 you get from the sammobile site and flash only the .tar
This is what he told me that got my phone up and working again. Be warned it is the nuclear option. All of your data will be lost upon recovery good luck.
I hate bringing old posts back to life....But I'm stuck in a series of boot loops that I can't get out of.
I was rooted on MM, decided to go back to stock for a Gallery error I was having.
Downloaded the PD2 from Sammobile, Odin'd it, appears successful.
Reboot
I get to the stock ROM setup screens and the boot loop occurs. I can't complete setup.
I've tried unticking the reboot in Odin and going directly into system recovery...then I do a Factory reset which appears successful.\\Reboot phone, back into the stock ROM Welcome screen....start the setup, and usually after adding WiFi or during Activation reboot.
Any help??
hotspace said:
I hate bringing old posts back to life....But I'm stuck in a series of boot loops that I can't get out of.
I was rooted on MM, decided to go back to stock for a Gallery error I was having.
Downloaded the PD2 from Sammobile, Odin'd it, appears successful.
Reboot
I get to the stock ROM setup screens and the boot loop occurs. I can't complete setup.
I've tried unticking the reboot in Odin and going directly into system recovery...then I do a Factory reset which appears successful.\\Reboot phone, back into the stock ROM Welcome screen....start the setup, and usually after adding WiFi or during Activation reboot.
Any help??
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It's extremely common and has one simple solution. Let the battery completely die and then charge it up a little and you won't loop anymore
Thanks for the reply. Earlier today I visited my local Sprint store and gave them a crack at it. After about 30 minutes in the store, the tech suggested I leave with it them and they were going to completely wipe it and load the stock image.
After about an hour I went back to the store and he gave me the bad news that he was unable to get it out of the boot loop as well. They've ordered me a new device.
I really trust what you say about letting the phone battery die...but I fear that would fix it and I'd be out a new replacement device.
954wrecker said:
It's extremely common and has one simple solution. Let the battery completely die and then charge it up a little and you won't loop anymore
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Dude!! It worked. I put the phone in download mode and just let it sit until it died.
Booted it back up and it went straight into hands free activation. And no reboots.
Why does this work?

Trying to unroot Samsung Galaxy S7 manually with Odin

Everytime I try to unroot my phone with Odin it says the process failed and Auth failed, someone please help..
Download stock firmware from the primary root guide. Use Odin and select all three the ap and the two below it. This will recover you to stock. Without root. But first do a titanium backup or a nandroid backup of all your apps and contact.
Sent from my SM-G930V using XDA-Developers mobile app
I tried but it still says failed... in Odin I put in all BL AP CP and CSC files, in the left text box it says FAIL! (Auth). I've tried this multiple times but it failed.. am I doing something wrong? Will I not be able to unroot my phone.. it's a SM-930T
Antaru123 said:
I tried but it still says failed... in Odin I put in all BL AP CP and CSC files, in the left text box it says FAIL! (Auth). I've tried this multiple times but it failed.. am I doing something wrong? Will I not be able to unroot my phone.. it's a SM-930T
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Have you tried going into super su and hitting on permanent unroot also heres a guide goto the bottom and there should be a part that says full unroot. Link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...-to-notes-root-install-xposed-unroot-t3411039 goto page 1 wont goto page 1 even after editing it oh well. Lol
I've done that too and it says FAILED then the SuperSU app disappears from my phone
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I've done that too and it says FAILED then the SuperSU app disappears from my phone
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Try rerooting the phone through ODIN also make sure you are using the lastest ODIN if you need to boot into recovery and do factory reset and cleat cache but BACK YOU STUFF UP!!! Also what is you model number ex: SM-G935x
Edit also make sure u have secure start up off and have you lockscreen password off just in case
Well uh. now my phone is stuck in recovery mode and won't even start up normally.. and it's the SM-G930T
Antaru123 said:
Well uh. now my phone is stuck in recovery mode and won't even start up normally.. and it's the SM-G930T
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Hate to say this again but just to make sure did you try doing factory reset and clear cache. Also if its still stuck then use odin to flash the s7 engineer root file then go into recovery mode and then clear cache and factory reset it should work fixed my boot loop when my phone was doing it.
I did all this Odin still fails, I've tried all three downloads from XDA for SM-930T which is my phone
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I did all this Odin still fails, I've tried all three downloads from XDA for SM-930T which is my phone
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Well if worst come to it goto best buy and goto the samsung depart ment and belike my phone is stuck in a boot loop and they told me to have you guys reflash it. Thats what i did when my recovery was messed up and had a boot loop. Just tell them that the only thing that works is download mode or if they boot into recovery mode be like the factory reset doesnt do any thing. But i would say do this if its and absolute last option. I would say look around the fourms and mess around with it a bit more and ill do the same since you already tried petty much every thing.
Trying to unroot
Same issue here with 930T. Had rooted and was unsatisfied but I tried flashing TWRP and now I can't even boot into recovery, goes straight into home screen. Now I can't unroot after trying ODIN, SuperSU, Samsung Switch etc. Would love some help.
Make sure you actually try each one of these steps - I actually tried all these steps, and the last step worked for me. Took me 5-6 hours to unroot my phone. I use a Samsung S7 (SM-G930W8).
1. USB Cable matters. Try a different USB cable (best if it is the OEM one, if not one that gives enough power)
2. Plug into a USB 2.0 instead of a USB 3.0
3. Uninstall Kies
4. Re-install your Samsung USB drivers
5. Use a different computer
6. Use a older version of Odin (3.10 did not work for me, when I changed to 3.9 it worked)
Why not just initialize using smart switch.
So I would suggest going to this post here and downloading the ODIN 3.12
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2711451
I was trying to unroot for a clean root and this one worked for me the one made by PrinceComsy did not work for the flashing the stock ROM but it did work for flashing the ENG Boot ROM. I used 3 out of the 4 file to flash the stock rom I didn't select the BL file at all but you can if you want.
If you need any further assistance/help please reply to this and I will try to assist you further.
bfixer117 said:
So I would suggest going to this post here and downloading the ODIN 3.12
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2711451
I was trying to unroot for a clean root and this one worked for me the one made by PrinceComsy did not work for the flashing the stock ROM but it did work for flashing the ENG Boot ROM. I used 3 out of the 4 file to flash the stock rom I didn't select the BL file at all but you can if you want.
If you need any further assistance/help please reply to this and I will try to assist you further.
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Could the issue be the stock firmware? I tried to get mine from GalaxyS7R.. and not trying from SamMobi...
I receive the same errors on PC and on device I am receiving SW REV CHECK FAIL: [about]Fused 3> Binary 2
[1] eWWC write fail: aboot
I am able to boot back into my phone but simply cannot restore back to original stock.
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Could the issue be the stock firmware? I tried to get mine from GalaxyS7R.. and not trying from SamMobi...
I receive the same errors on PC and on device I am receiving SW REV CHECK FAIL: [about]Fused 3> Binary 2
[1] eWWC write fail: aboot
I am able to boot back into my phone but simply cannot restore back to original stock.
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Figured this out myself..need to use the correct build (there are 4 or 5 for TMO)...

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