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Just picked up my G3, rooted and unlocked bootloader as soon as i got home. Downloaded one of the jelly bean roms and cwm, did a backup then flashed the rom. Everything looked fine but the screen went dark after the boot animation then nothing. Wont power up or reset using the power home volume combo. What the heck do i do now, thanks for any help.
Might be a stupid question, but have you pulled the battery?
Be more specific.
VZW GALAXY S 3 4G LTE
Do YOUR homework first
How about reading all the threads about unbricking. It certainly seems you did not read all the threads about rooting the phone. Do that too.
Finally, and I know this is not that helpful. Don't screw with a new phone. Use it at least for a month to make sure there are no problems with it.
That being said, there is plenty of information about how to handle your problem here in xda. Read all that and try what has already been posted before asking people to solve your self inflicted problem.
BTW when you do ask for help specify exactly what you did, with what script. I.E. don't ask someone to solve your problem without you taking the time to be very specific about how you got there.
pull the battery and go into recovery or odin and fix it.
Dead battery?
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Skubacb - Don't be a douche buddy. If you do not have any thing to add then shut the **** up.
With that being said I have been rooting phones for years, never had an issue when I couldn't get the phone to at least go into recovery. The phone is dead. Battery was fully charged and I have done a battery pull. It is a Verizon G3. I have read the unbrick articles but none explain if the phone will not boot into recovery. If someone could could just point me in the correct direction I would greatly appreciate it.
How did you actually do the flash? Odin? Some other way? As noted, more details are needed.
I flashed the new rom using Rom manager, went in to revovery and flashed it
jmill75 said:
I flashed the new rom using Rom manager, went in to revovery and flashed it
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I don't believe rom manager is supported for our phone yet. U need to flash straight from recovery. That said I'm sorry I'm not sure where u go from here.
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If you can't get into either recovery , or download mode you maybe SOL. However I would take this to IRC and see if someone can help on there. #verizons3 channel.
If the phone is under warranty, one other alternate solution is to take it into a VZW store and say it won't start. Of course I'd only go that route if I couldn't get it going any other way. On the plus side, your could at least confirm that battery didn't die on you.
Looks like you forgot to flash the insecure bootloader, buddy.
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Rom manager is supported I flashed clockwork there And the 3 cm nightlies
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Keep this discussion to technical solutions only, please. Leave gray area ethics out of it.
JMink said:
I don't believe rom manager is supported for our phone yet. U need to flash straight from recovery. That said I'm sorry I'm not sure where u go from here.
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Completely incorrect.
mikeew83 said:
Rom manager is supported I flashed clockwork there And the 3 cm nightlies
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Me too, been doing it since 6.0.1.2
abissel22 said:
Looks like you forgot to flash the insecure bootloader, buddy.
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I'm gonna go with this one (possibly). Did you unlock the phone? Sorry, did you say it won't boot into anything? Download/Odin mode? Recovery? Anything at all when you do the vol up/down, home key, and power button?
Idk if this would help but I'd order a downloader jig off ebay for a couple dollars and use that to see if it'll boot to recovery
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Me too
I went to turn on my Verizon SGS3 on this morning and nothing happened. I have not even rooted it yet. It was charged when I turned it off 5 minutes before that and even did a battery swap. Phone is completely dead. Will not turn on. I have had it since it first came out, so I called Verizon and they are over-nighting me a "like-new" one. I hope I don't hear more of these stories.
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Just picked up my G3, rooted and unlocked bootloader as soon as i got home. Downloaded one of the jelly bean roms and cwm, did a backup then flashed the rom. Everything looked fine but the screen went dark after the boot animation then nothing. Wont power up or reset using the power home volume combo. What the heck do i do now, thanks for any help.
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I had a similar issue. If you do the volume/home/power combo (try both volume buttons separately, i forgot which one worked) and hold them through the initial Samsung logo it should put you into download mode, where you can Odin back to stock. I used PureMotive's Unbrick method in the Dev section (I think) and it took all of 20 min. Just make sure to follow the directions carefully.
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Is there a difference is button sequence between recovery and download mode? (I thought it was the same thing)
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Hello all,
I recently rooted my Galaxy S3 only to have my Mic fail on me 2 weeks later... Very dissatisfied with my Samsung about that - even though I am loving the phone. Anyways, back to the issue. Verizon has agreed to send me a replacement and I have to send them mine back. The problem is that I know that if I send them a rooted phone they will not honor the warranty, and I am having a very hard time flashing the Verizon Stock rom.
More specifically, and to see if I am doing anything wrong.. I used ODIN to flash a custom rooted rom onto my phone which worked perfectly, and now I am once again trying to use ODIN in order to flash the stock rom which I downloaded from goo.im - the file that I am using is HOME_I535VRALF2_I535VZWALF2_618049_REV09_user_low_ship.tar.md5
Simple steps - reboot into downloading mode -> check auto-reboot and reset time on ODIN and choose the file above under PDA. All works fine, the phone reboots and I get a PASS, and yet my phone is stuck on the Verizon 4G loading intro. I think that's what they call a soft brick.
The first time this happened, I flashed a different rom and the phone loaded properly but it had the open lock symbol under Samsung which I think means that it was unlocked.. Either way, it was not the unrooted and official stock rom which is what I need on my phone in order to keep my warranty. The file that DOES work is COMBINATION_I535VRBLJ1_I535VZWBLJ1_381038_REV09_user_low_ship(NO_WIPE).tar.md5
I have followed the above steps over and over again and I always get the same result - stock doesn't work, the other one does.
Any ideas? What could the issue be?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762709
Personally I would try the files found in section 5 of this thread.
According to Droidstyles guide before his recent edits, if it freezes on the boot logo after a successful Odin factory flash then you're supposed to pull the battery, boot into recovery, and do a factory reset. Try that.
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SlimSnoopOS said:
According to Droidstyles guide before his recent edits, if it freezes on the boot logo after a successful Odin factory flash then you're supposed to pull the battery, boot into recovery, and do a factory reset. Try that.
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Yes this works, also had this happen to me, and to boot to recovery just hold home+volume up+power button. It should work.
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You should probably factory reset after flashing, for you don't want to be running a buggy phone.
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Use a full wipe version and this would not happen...part of the reason why i removed nowipe versions such as f2. But yes as slimsnoop said, data wipe /factory reset will fix that.
So I bought the s3 Verizon it was rooted and switched to cricket pre paid before my friend sold it to me he tried to root back to Verizon but of course he failed, is there anyway to get the phone completelyback to stock even though he switched providers cuz the phone is stuck on the activating part I'm no noobe at rooting just don't know much bout this phone
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FhtmChandley85 said:
is there anyway to get the phone completelyback to stock even though he switched providers cuz the phone is stuck on the activating part I'm no noobe at rooting just don't know much bout this phone
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Follow section 5 of Droidstyle's (the guy above you) guide. Click the link in his signature. I'm not sure about how this handles modified network configuration though, that's not something I remotely know anything about.
I thought there was a way to bypass the activation screen? On older phones, you could tap the four corners of the screen or something like that? Anyone ever heard that before?
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Long story short, I tried to flash the hellscore kernel (via the HC's management app).... it booted into TWRP... flashed the kernel, then blackness.
Then it wouldn't turn back on... played with button combinations and 10 minutes later, I got into the bootloader, went into recovery and loaded the system and boot backup, thinking I was good to go... Nope... on boot... blackness. Tried a few other things, taking forever to get it into the BL again. Only thing I can figure is that it borked the ramdisk or something.
Now, I am going to go full on, plug into the computer, low level reset. So I've been doing the button tango for a while and figured someone here might know the real mystical incantation I need to do to get it reliably into the BL. It's fully charged and when plugged into my computer, I can hear the USB pinging on and off while I fuss with trying to reset it.
Anyone have an idea?
Flash it back to stock perhaps and start over
Flash it back to stock perhaps and start over
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camerona said:
Flash it back to stock perhaps and start over
developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
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If he can't get into boot loader how is supposed to flash factory image?
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Link to hellscore kernel?
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I was reading about a LG flash tool that could flash devices with out bootloader u might be able to use that to get back.
@Akoolive http://d-h.st/Chu that's the link to hells core. Do not use the hells core app to download the kernel it was made for the n4 and is optimized only for the n4.
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Edit: here is the link to all his n5 kernels
http://d-h.st/users/hellsgod/?fld_id=31631#files
@LeoRex this might be your only option, as he did what you did(an n4 kernel on his n5) and endes up fixing his phone http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/bootloader-bootloader-nexus-5-t2746343
psycho693 said:
@Akoolive http://d-h.st/Chu that's the link to hells core. Do not use the hells core app to download the kernel it was made for the n4 and is optimized only for the n4.
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Edit: here is the link to all his n5 kernels
http://d-h.st/users/hellsgod/?fld_id=31631#files
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NOW you tell me.. [emoji5] yep, that explains why I got screwed.
I eventually got it into fastboot. the adb with the SDK didn't see it, but Wugfresh could (so people who say toolkits are useless can kiss my grass). So I'm back at 444 stock... lost a few files, including the tb backups that I didn't cloud (damnit)... nothing life shattering though.
still sucked hard
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LeoRex said:
NOW you tell me.. [emoji5] yep, that explains why I got screwed.
I eventually got it into fastboot. the adb with the SDK didn't see it, but Wugfresh could (so people who say toolkits are useless can kiss my grass). So I'm back at 444 stock... lost a few files, including the tb backups that I didn't cloud (damnit)... nothing life shattering though.
still sucked hard
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I'm glad you got it working. :good:
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psycho693 said:
I'm glad you got it working. :good:
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yeah... when Wug reported that it connected, I did a little dance of joy. I wonder why it registered but adb couldn't.
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yeah... when Wug reported that it connected, I did a little dance of joy. I wonder why it registered but adb couldn't.
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I'm assuming it didn't connect to adb because you were not in recovery with sideload selected or was not in android. Fastboot is only available in the bootloader, adb is not
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I'm assuming it didn't connect to add because you were not in recovery with sidelined selected or was not in android. Fastboot is only available in the bootleg adb is not
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DOH! Yep... forgot about that... My ADB/Fastboot is a little rusty. I haven't had to fuss in there for months. But I eventually got the key combinations right and got the backup bootloader loaded (the main was overwritten by the HC's overwriting it with the Nexus 4's boot image...).
Bleh...
Samsung galaxy SCH-I535, rooted, stock rom (im pretty sure it was 4.3), Power button removed. The other day I was driving, I had my phone sitting on the passenger seat, checked the time everything was fine on the phone. Checked my phone again about 20 mins later and nothing, black screen. I knew the battery was full and I didn't have a charger to turn it back on (no power button) so I forgot about it until I got home. When I got home I went to turn it on ( hold down home + vol down while plugging it in.) pops up into download menu and I hit cancel and back to battery charge mode. I recently changed out the screen (after I removed the power button) so i thought maybe some loca glue got into the power button contacts on the board. I tore it down and thoroughly cleaned out my frame and board, put back together and now it will boot into download mode, hit cancel, popps up with samsung galaxy s3, then the samsung splash screen, then the verizon splash screen, then back to black screen/charge mode at that point every time. I can get into download mode but if I try to get into recovery it just vibrates every 5 sec or so on a black screen until I release a button then goes to charge mode. I am downloading stock firmware I535VRUCNC1 right now and plan to flash with ODIN am I on the right track or could someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks to all XDA has saved me multiple times in the past this is the first time I have posted and I'm sure you guys can help a noob out again THANKS ALL!!
Ok So I tries to flash both ML1 and NC1 also with a re-partition via ODIN 3.07 with a fail every time.... Finally got ML1 to flash but now it bootloops at the galaxy s3 logo again.... frustrated still cant get into recovery
If Odin is failing every time your more than likely on the locked bootloader. If so you cannot flash any custom roms which is why it isn't working
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I am not flashing any custom roms.... both of the roms I am trying to flash (NC1 and ML1) are both stock 4.3 roms....
I'm pretty sure I am on a locked bootloader I never did anything with safestrap or never tried a custom rom. on a side note when I used to boot my phone up it showed a picture of an unlocked lock and said custom under it (never sure why it did this unless maybe rooting with towelroot) but it no longer shows this icon when boot(looping)
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I am not flashing any custom roms.... both of the roms I am trying to flash (NC1 and ML1) are both stock 4.3 roms....
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If your on NC1 you cannot flash ML1 as it's the previous rom/modem. You'll have to flash back to NC1 using Odin. Even if it is stock what your trying to do will not work
Take a look at this thread, it should be of help to you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2653902
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I figured as much that I cannot go back to ML1 after the NC1 update but I got the phone used and am not totally sure which one it had so I tried both of them. And the links in the thread you posted are the exact same as the ones I am using following this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2586319
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I figured as much that I cannot go back to ML1 after the NC1 update but I got the phone used and am not totally sure which one it had so I tried both of them. And the links in the thread you posted are the exact same as the ones I am using following this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2586319
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True they point to the same thing but are by two separate people. Just trying to help here
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True that... I am just trying to give as much information as I can to anybody who might see this thread
think Im at the point of giving up... Will try again to flash NC1 when I get off work... If I get fails again I guess ill have to finda new board for it. Thanks for trying anyways.
ok so I can (ALMOST) get into my recovery. boots recovery but I get error message "Secure fail: Kernel". Tried Flashing the stock recovery as well there is a .tar file on here I just don't want to look around for the link right now. I can flash the recovery via ODIN with success.... still cant boot recovery on the phone
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True they point to the same thing but are by two separate people. Just trying to help here
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Seems like you are the only one trying to help..
I don't know if it is possible but could I try going up to 4.4.2? I think I'm also gonna try the Hardbrick fix on here cuz why not I don't think it'll hurt it any
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Seems like you are the only one trying to help..
I don't know if it is possible but could I try going up to 4.4.2? I think I'm also gonna try the Hardbrick fix on here cuz why not I don't think it'll hurt it any
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Yea you could try that if you want to. You will have to unroot first. Some people will try to help where they can, I can't really speak for anyone else
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ShapesBlue said:
Yea you could try that if you want to. You will have to unroot first. Some people will try to help where they can, I can't really speak for anyone else
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How do I Unroot without getting into recovery?
SpinalMushroom said:
How do I Unroot without getting into recovery?
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By chance are you using supersu?
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ShapesBlue said:
By chance are you using supersu?
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I believe so... cant remember tho honestly.
SpinalMushroom said:
I believe so... cant remember tho honestly.
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If you have supersu there's an option to unroot within the app but off hand I forget if its only in the pro version or not. I'll look around to find another option
If not here's another possible option
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...laxy-siii-stock-updates-t1710613/post27407556
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Stock 4.4.2 NE1 is currently flashing its already gotten farther than NC1 or ML1 will keep you posted... If I can't boot I don't think I can get into SU
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Stock 4.4.2 NE1 is currently flashing its already gotten farther than NC1 or ML1 will keep you posted... If I can't boot I don't think I can get into SU
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That's great man. Glad I could help. Let me know if there's anything else I can help with
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ShapesBlue said:
If you have supersu there's an option to unroot within the app but off hand I forget if its only in the pro version or not. I'll look around to find another option
If not here's another possible option
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...laxy-siii-stock-updates-t1710613/post27407556
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That's great man. Glad I could help. Let me know if there's anything else I can help with
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4.4.2 flashed successfully.... still bootlooping tho... when I try to get into recovery it popps up in blue "booting recovery" then it goes back to the galaxy s3 logo then back to charge mode... Im not sure but it seems to be the power button causing this since it is the power button you hit to execute commands in recovery (I think)... but since the power button is removed it looks like im back to finding a new board
Hi, I'm new to the forums and rooting in general. I tried to root my 5.1.1 s6 edge with Odin and unikernal using a guide online, and now its restarting over and over showing that message in red. I really appreciate any help in fixing it. Ideally, I would like to root the phone, but I need to at least get it running again.
I've tried searching for this, but everything I saw just said it was no big deal and to put in stock kernel. However, I don't know how to to that. Thanks guys!
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Looks like your phone is in a boot loop. Did you recently flash a custom recovery?
I think so? I put it in download mode and used Odin to put on the unikernel. I think I know why now, too. I had Knox on. From what I read, this can mess it up. I tried to factory reset, but its still boot looping.
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frankielight said:
I think so? I put it in download mode and used Odin to put on the unikernel. I think I know why now, too. I had Knox on. From what I read, this can mess it up. I tried to factory reset, but its still boot looping.
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Just flash stock firmware using Odin to fix the boot issue. Which Unikernel version did you use? Use unikernel_v8-0002
What carrier? I probably have a firmware link in my dropbox you can use for a fast download.
I did use that version of unikernel. My model number is SM-G925F. I'm on straight talk, so I got an unlocked international version off amazon. If I put the stock firmware on it, could I then use unikernal to root it?
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I would flash stock firmware then go to recovery and do a factory data reset > wipe cache partition > reboot.
Boot up then go to settings > about and tap build number 7 times > hit back once and go to developer options and enable "OEM Unlocking" (Pretty sure G925f OJC has OEM Unlocking, but could be mistaken)
Then go to download and flash kernel.
No, mine doesn't have OEM unlocking option. Could you point me to the exact file I need to run threw Odin to get the stock firmware?
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What country and carrier was it originally?
This is the one I bought;
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00TX5PL52/ref=ya_aw_od_pi?ie=UTF8&psc=1
All it says it that its the international version, I don't think it was ever linked to a carrier
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Is there another way to find those out?
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On the back of the phone it says "SM-G925F SAMSUNG, YATELEY, GU46 6GG UK
MADE IN INDIA BY SAMSUNG"
So possibly the UK version. I can't find any other way to see
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On the back of the phone it says "SM-G925F SAMSUNG, YATELEY, GU46 6GG UK
MADE IN INDIA BY SAMSUNG"
So possibly the UK version. I can't find any other way to see
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Here, flash this Tru Odin. Stock Firmware, not connected to carrier http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/65757/G925FXXU3DPAD_G925FOXA3DPAD_XEU/. See if that helps
Neemac said:
Here, flash this Tru Odin. Stock Firmware, not connected to carrier http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/65757/G925FXXU3DPAD_G925FOXA3DPAD_XEU/. See if that helps
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Thanks! That got my phone to working order. I tried the unikernel again and got another error, so I flashed with yours again, followed by a cf auto root and that did it. I really appreciate all the help guys
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Thanks! That got my phone to working order. I tried the unikernel again and got another error, so I flashed with yours again, followed by a cf auto root and that did it. I really appreciate all the help guys
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Glad I could help. :good: