Bought a banged up s6 demo unit on ebay. All I want is a pocketable tablet.
The demo software keeps respawning. Even using the pass codes and resetting.
Update recovery wipe says MDM doesn't allow wipe.
I would love to just Odin a ROM but Odin doesn't recognise when plugged in download mode.
I've tried many different Odin 3.10.6 3.9 etc
Tried dev mode adb to adb push various cfroot twpr etc.
but signature not verified. I can push files like this!!
Also the USB is recognised for normal file transfer.
I can't change the recovery without root.
Can't get root without decent recovery.
What can I do? What is wrong with Odin?
Demo unit...it has antitheft measures built in to protect against theft. I'd get your money back if you can.
Just to let you know Quarzar Odin recognises my S6 demo unit. I may try to flash a custom recovery. I hope nothing goes wrong... Do I need to root first to install a custom recovery with ODIN?
quatzar said:
Bought a banged up s6 demo unit on ebay. All I want is a pocketable tablet.
The demo software keeps respawning. Even using the pass codes and resetting.
Update recovery wipe says MDM doesn't allow wipe.
I would love to just Odin a ROM but Odin doesn't recognise when plugged in download mode.
I've tried many different Odin 3.10.6 3.9 etc
Tried dev mode adb to adb push various cfroot twpr etc.
but signature not verified. I can push files like this!!
Also the USB is recognised for normal file transfer.
I can't change the recovery without root.
Can't get root without decent recovery.
What can I do? What is wrong with Odin?
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This sounds like more of a driver issue than an Odin issue. What does your device show up as in device manager?
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Okay so some of you might know that there is a ram management fix for the Samsung S6 by editing the build.prop file. I tried doing it and my phone went into a boot loop(it just repeatedly show the white text of SAMSUNG GALAXY S6). My phone is rooted by the ping pong method which doesn't trip knox. The last 2 things I want to do is go to a samsung store or flash a stock rom which wipes my data.
I saw a video that you can fix it by using adb. However, when i plug my phone in my pc while my phone was in recovery mode, the pc doesn't detect. But if my phone is in Download or just its boot loop mode, the pc detects but it often says "Your last device is not recognised or malfunctioned" or something like that. Yes I do have drivers installed including Kies3.
All I want to do is just to fix my s6 build.prop file without
1. Tripping the knox,
2.Not visiting the samsung store
3.Factory resetting my phone and flashing a new rom.
Please help. Thanks
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I found out that you can flash a zip file that restores the build prop file here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2212168
It's one of the replies to the post.
But I'm an odin noob so... how do you flash it???
***********EDIT AGAIN*********************
Okay... soooo I'm stuck now. I can't even get my s6 to connect to my pc. It just says usb device not recognised.
I already tried:
-Redownloading samsung usb drivers.
-Installing Kies3
-Installing Smart Switch then clicking more and reinstalling usb drivers.
-Using different port.
-Using different wire.
-Blowing into port and phone port to clear debris.
Help :/
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Flash TWRP in Download-Mode and then connect it to your pc. After doing that, you can use adb and restore your old build.prop
Okay so some of you might know that there is a ram management fix for the Samsung S6 by editing the build.prop file. I tried doing it and my phone went into a boot loop(it just repeatedly show the white text of SAMSUNG GALAXY S6). My phone is rooted by the ping pong method which doesn't trip knox. The last 2 things I want to do is go to a samsung store or flash a stock rom which wipes my data.
I saw a video that you can fix it by using adb. However, when i plug my phone in my pc while my phone was in recovery mode, the pc doesn't detect. But if my phone is in Download or just its boot loop mode, the pc detects but it often says "Your last device is not recognised or malfunctioned" or something like that. Yes I do have drivers installed including Kies3.
All I want to do is just to fix my s6 build.prop file without
1. Tripping the knox,
2.Not visiting the samsung store
3.Factory resetting my phone and flashing a new rom.
Please help. Thanks
*********EDIT***********
I found out that you can flash a zip file that restores the build prop file here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2212168
It's one of the replies to the post.
But I'm an odin noob so... how do you flash it???
***********EDIT AGAIN*********************
Okay... soooo I'm stuck now. I can't even get my s6 to connect to my pc. It just says usb device not recognised.
I already tried:
-Redownloading samsung usb drivers.
-Installing Kies3
-Installing Smart Switch then clicking more and reinstalling usb drivers.
-Using different port.
-Using different wire.
-Blowing into port and phone port to clear debris.
Help :/
I have a rooted S7 with TWRP recovery on it and i recently deleted my OS by accident as i was just trying to reset my phone to factory settings. Now the only thing i can do is boot into recovery mode and download mode, or i can just get stuck at a boot loop.
I have googled and googled and seen so many ways to try and fix this issue but nothing has worked for me. Heres a list of the issues i have and what i've tried so far. [Using Windows 10]
Installing Odin (3.12.3) and stock Samsung firmware from here.
Installing the necessary USB drivers from here.
My PC wont recognize my samsung device in either modes (recovery/download) and Odin wont recognize my phone either, as well as i cant find anything under "Device Manager".
Tried using ADB to transfer files to my S7 but when i activate ADB in recovery mode it just loads for a couple of seconds until it displays an error with no explanation.
I even tried downloading ADB drivers and necessary tools i got from this guide.
I also tried wiping Dalvik cache and cache.
I have tried three different USB cables on all available USB slots on my desktop PC and the one USB slot in my Surface and nothing works.
I have tried rooting previous phones but I'm still new to this rooting thing and there's a lot i don*t understand. Perhaps i downloaded the wrong USB drivers, or maybe I'm just unlucky. I just really need some help to understand how to fix this. If it can't be fixed is it possible to remove all traces of rooting on my phone?
The phone needs to be in Download Mode to use ODIN
The only sign it is connected is a COM port lit up at the top of the ODIN window
Add the .MD5 ROM to AP and hit start
Hello everyone,
so my phone is soft-bricked after failure attempt to flash combination files in order to fix the csc.
I follow this thread, but the problem actually has nothing with that.
I used the latest patched odin V3.13.1, with a combination file named COMBINATION_FAC_FA80_G965USQU3ARG2.tar, and the proccess failed at flashing the system, and now i'm stuck; unable to flash other firmwares.
Before that, the phone was working perfectly after I've flashed a G965U1 firmware on it, in order to get rid of the bloatware of the original branded G965U (I don't live in the US).
Also, it successfully OTA updated to the latest G965U1UEU3ARK5 Firmware just a few days ago.
Things that I've tried so far with no success:
*Used different usb ports, both usb 2 and usb 3; and different cables
*Using both an Intel-based PC, and an AMD-based. (I know it may sound unrelated, but thats actually what prevented me from flashing the G965U1 fmwr the first time I tried, because i was using and AMD PC)
*Reinstalling Drives, installing latest kies, installing latest samsung smart switch
*using older versions of Odin
*tried to install the original Sprint firmware (v2) G965USQS2ARF4 through odin
*tried to install the G965U1UEU3ARK5 firmware through odin
The phone is stuck in download mode. sometimes if I disconnect and reconnect it, I get an unrecognized usb device message. so I need to reboot the phone again to download mode so the pc will recognize it.
and the result is always a failure:
either due to rev check, with the original OEM firmware
during the installation at 'vendor'/'system' step, due to auth error, when trying the G965USQU3ARG2 Combination file or the G965U1UEU3ARK5 files with patched odin
or even before that step with older versions of odin.
I'm out of ideas... I hope someone here has the knowledge to help in some way, Please...
Amsiman said:
Hello everyone,
so my phone is soft-bricked after failure attempt to flash combination files in order to fix the csc.
I follow this thread, but the problem actually has nothing with that.
I used the latest patched odin V3.13.1, with a combination file named COMBINATION_FAC_FA80_G965USQU3ARG2.tar, and the proccess failed at flashing the system, and now i'm stuck; unable to flash other firmwares.
Before that, the phone was working perfectly after I've flashed a G965U1 firmware on it, in order to get rid of the bloatware of the original branded G965U (I don't live in the US).
Also, it successfully OTA updated to the latest G965U1UEU3ARK5 Firmware just a few days ago.
Things that I've tried so far with no success:
*Used different usb ports, both usb 2 and usb 3; and different cables
*Using both an Intel-based PC, and an AMD-based. (I know it may sound unrelated, but thats actually what prevented me from flashing the G965U1 fmwr the first time I tried, because i was using and AMD PC)
*Reinstalling Drives, installing latest kies, installing latest samsung smart switch
*using older versions of Odin
*tried to install the original Sprint firmware (v2) G965USQS2ARF4 through odin
*tried to install the G965U1UEU3ARK5 firmware through odin
The phone is stuck in download mode. sometimes if I disconnect and reconnect it, I get an unrecognized usb device message. so I need to reboot the phone again to download mode so the pc will recognize it.
and the result is always a failure:
either due to rev check, with the original OEM firmware
during the installation at 'vendor'/'system' step, due to auth error, when trying the G965USQU3ARG2 Combination file or the G965U1UEU3ARK5 files with patched odin
or even before that step with older versions of odin.
I'm out of ideas... I hope someone here has the knowledge to help in some way, Please...
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Guys at imeigurus has a service. Check on them. Those guys have access to special Samsung firmware that they can manipulate Samsung's as they like. They do what others can't, they can support you remotely using teamviewer. But snap the download pic here let me see
show me your device in download mode
leonardojt said:
Guys at imeigurus has a service. Check on them. Those guys have access to special Samsung firmware that they can manipulate Samsung's as they like. They do what others can't, they can support you remotely using teamviewer. But snap the download pic here let me see
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successnbd said:
show me your device in download mode
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OK so that's how it looked like:
download-mode
after writing this post I realized that I haven't tried flashing an OEM rev3 firmware
so I downloaded one after finding out which one is the right file
and I tried flashing it on a completly other pc than the 2 I've already tried it on
and it worked:victory:
here's the recovery after the successful flash:
recovery
OK.. so here it is in a nutshell... my S22 is soft-bricked...
I plugged my phone into my Mac (my primary computer) to back everything up. But, Smart Switch said I need to update the phone's version of Smart Switch. This was the fatal mistake. It hung the process. Over an hour later with zero movement on the progress bar I finally unplugged the phone.
Now, it is stuck in Odin mode. Well, I can boot to recovery mode. but none of the options work at all. I keep getting errors saying the partition geometry is corrupted. Normally, this would not be much of a problem, if I could mount the phone on my computers. I have a Mac, and a Forensics laptop setup with Odin3, as well as a number of other apps.
On my mac, in the Linux terminal, I cannot gain access to the device no matter what I have tried so far. I tried adb sideboot, but it cannot gain access to the device.
On the PC, the driver will not recognize the device. I updated to the newest Samsung Adroid drivers, with no joy. If I plug in my Android tablet, the driver is identified as "ssudb.sys". When I plug in my s22, the PC will not allow me to use this driver, insisting it be a .inf file. When I point it to the newest Samsung drivers, it says I am already using the best driver available, which of course does not work.
Natrually, since it is stuck in Odin mode, the s22 will not boot, so therefor I have no control over any aspect of the device.
Please help.
It is most critical I recover the /data partition. But, I would certainly like to have my phone back operational as well. I am stuck using an old s6 with very limited options in the meantime.
PLEAE HELP!
Thank you
How did it come to being bricked?
raul6 said:
How did it come to being bricked?
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I believe he already said so, although I've never used smartswich before and I'm unsure how updating an application would cause a brick, unless I'm missing something or he meant the phone software itself needed the update and that's where things went wonky
"I plugged my phone into my Mac (my primary computer) to back everything up. But, Smart Switch said I need to update the phone's version of Smart Switch. This was the fatal mistake. It hung the process. Over an hour later with zero movement on the progress bar I finally unplugged the phone."
AthlonGFX said:
I believe he already said so, although I've never used smartswich before and I'm unsure how updating an application would cause a brick, unless I'm missing
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It shouldn't cause brick and also software update popup comes before any operation commences
Since you can get into odin download mode, download your phones software from samfw.com or SamMobile.com and flash it with Odin.
When you download the firmware, it will be a zip file. Extract it and you'll get 5 files (starting with BL, AP, CP, CSC, and HOME_CSC)
When you're flashing with Odin, use HOME_CSC for the CSC slot and you won't wipe your data. Don't use CSC or it will wipe your data. Do not use anything for the USERDATA slot in Odin.
Odin 3 will not work. It gets stuck at setup connection. I have all the binaries, including the .pit file.
The partition information on the android is hosed.
So far, I have tried- (on Windows)
Odin 3.14.1
Odin 3.14.4
Droidkit
Fonelab
ADB sideload
Ultfone Android System Repair
Ultfone Android Data Recovery
Reiboot for Android
Android Studio (I have no idea even where to begin with this app)
And several apps on my Mac as well.
I have no joy with any attempts so far.
I finally managed to get the ddrivers installed so at least some of the apps like Odin will see the phone. But that's about it.
Also, I have a replacement phone coming tomorrow, but I still need my data- documents and imagery.
Ghostvet said:
So far, I have tried- (on Windows)
Odin 3.14.1
Odin 3.14.4
Droidkit
Fonelab
ADB sideload
Ultfone Android System Repair
Ultfone Android Data Recovery
Reiboot for Android
Android Studio (I have no idea even where to begin with this app)
And several apps on my Mac as well.
I have no joy with any attempts so far.
I finally managed to get the ddrivers installed so at least some of the apps like Odin will see the phone. But that's about it.
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Use patched odin 3.13
kraz01 said:
Use patched odin 3.13
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Why? What would that do that a newer version wouldn't?
Could you solve the problem? Could you at least recover your data?
No luck. Just shipped it off to Samsung with explicit instructions not to wipe the /data. I told them only to fix the partitions and not to write anything to the /data drive so I can dramatically recover the data.