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Hello if someone could help me with my sch-i535 I would appreciate it soooo much. I bricked my phone by trying to flash cyanogenmod after taking the 4.3 update... Obviously I am new. I tried everything , lots of tries with Odin , I made an image on my sd card with win32 disc imager , I tried a bootloader unlock code with Odin...nothing worked. Then I went onto a Verizon forum , and the very thing that hurt me , the Verizon update assistant , un-bricked my sch-i535. The update assistant has an option "Repair Assistant" I ran this as the instructions said ...connected my phone to my laptop , and unbelievably an hour or so later it finished , and my phone just booted up. I had almost given up...I was ready to do a JTAG. Also my phone was updated to 4.4.2 Kit Kat.
So , my question is: Is there any way to flash cyanogenmod , on the sch-i535 after the 4.3 update ? I read somewhere in the forums that the Firmware can be changed , so that the bootloader is not locked.....or am I doomed to use the Verizon , bloated , battery stealing software ?

williamacker said:
Hello if someone could help me with my sch-i535 I would appreciate it soooo much. I bricked my phone by trying to flash cyanogenmod after taking the 4.3 update... Obviously I am new. I tried everything , lots of tries with Odin , I made an image on my sd card with win32 disc imager , I tried a bootloader unlock code with Odin...nothing worked. Then I went onto a Verizon forum , and the very thing that hurt me , the Verizon update assistant , un-bricked my sch-i535. The update assistant has an option "Repair Assistant" I ran this as the instructions said ...connected my phone to my laptop , and unbelievably an hour or so later it finished , and my phone just booted up. I had almost given up...I was ready to do a JTAG. Also my phone was updated to 4.4.2 Kit Kat.
So , my question is: Is there any way to flash cyanogenmod , on the sch-i535 after the 4.3 update ? I read somewhere in the forums that the Firmware can be changed , so that the bootloader is not locked.....or am I doomed to use the Verizon , bloated , battery stealing software ?
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Nope. Once you've taken the OTA to 4.3 ML1 your stuck on a locked bootloader permanently
There is no way to downgrade or flash custom roms. Your limited to TW(Touchwiz) based only and anything other than those is out of the question
Sent from my Nexus 5

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ShapesBlue said:
Nope. Once you've taken the OTA to 4.3 ML1 your stuck on a locked bootloader permanently
There is no way to downgrade or flash custom roms. Your limited to TW(Touchwiz) based only and anything other than those is out of the question
Sent from my Nexus 5
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Thanks for replying ... That is hard for me to understand , my phone was bricked ... and obviously Verizon has a line or two of code , that unlocked my bootloader , inside their "Repair assistant". The repair assistant then installed Kit Kat on my phone. If the bootloader can be unlocked by code ... and Kit Kat installed , then it stands to reason that other ROM's could be downloaded , if someone could figure out the code that Verizon uses to unlock the sch-i535. I know that this would help more than one or two people , from reading the forums.

williamacker said:
Hello if someone could help me with my sch-i535 I would appreciate it soooo much. I bricked my phone by trying to flash cyanogenmod after taking the 4.3 update... Obviously I am new. I tried everything , lots of tries with Odin , I made an image on my sd card with win32 disc imager , I tried a bootloader unlock code with Odin...nothing worked. Then I went onto a Verizon forum , and the very thing that hurt me , the Verizon update assistant , un-bricked my sch-i535. The update assistant has an option "Repair Assistant" I ran this as the instructions said ...connected my phone to my laptop , and unbelievably an hour or so later it finished , and my phone just booted up. I had almost given up...I was ready to do a JTAG. Also my phone was updated to 4.4.2 Kit Kat.
So , my question is: Is there any way to flash cyanogenmod , on the sch-i535 after the 4.3 update ? I read somewhere in the forums that the Firmware can be changed , so that the bootloader is not locked.....or am I doomed to use the Verizon , bloated , battery stealing software ?
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williamacker said:
Thanks for replying ... That is hard for me to understand , my phone was bricked ... and obviously Verizon has a line or two of code , that unlocked my bootloader , inside their "Repair assistant". The repair assistant then installed Kit Kat on my phone. If the bootloader can be unlocked by code ... and Kit Kat installed , then it stands to reason that other ROM's could be downloaded , if someone could figure out the code that Verizon uses to unlock the sch-i535. I know that this would help more than one or two people , from reading the forums.
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The bootloader used to be able to be unlocked on this phone prior to the 4.3 ML1 update. Just because the firmware can be changed by Verizon does not mean the bootloader is unlocked. If it were as simple as figuring out the code Verizon used, then the bootloaders on all the locked phones on Verizon would have been unlocked by now. The problem is there is a security key and signature verification that is found in several partitions on the phone. The signatures must match or the phone will not boot up. The repair assistant was using official Verizon firmware which contained all the proper signature verifications. That is why it was able to install Kit Kat on your phone. A lot of smart people have been trying for several years now to find or crack the signature verification checks on quite a few phones without success. On Verizon, once you have a phone with a locked bootloader, you are stuck with that and their bloated software.

S6- SM-G920F firmware upgrade --hang @ logo screen --please help urgent

Hi All,
Have s6 SM-G920F international model. now my brother accidentally try wrong attempts in pin to unlock the phone. so phone got locked. and i give to guy who unlock the phone and after that i am not able to get official update . so have decided to install official stock firmware. details are below. when phone is return back to me have below version.
Old firmware :-
G920FXXU1AOCY 5.0.2 Lollipop, Initial release on 3/29/2015 for EE only.
New firmware which i try using ODIN :-
G920FXXU3QOJF Galaxy S6 SM-G920F 5.1.1 Stock Firmware -- This firmware is officially released on November 2015 for EE UK Galaxy S6 alone.Build date: October 12, 2015.
Got success in above firmware , PASS is result in ODIN.
But when phone reboot after this ,after erasing screen appear then it hang on logo screen. have waited around 20 mins but nothing happen. Have tried recovery mode also via wipe cache / factory reset , no change in result.
Have again try to install G920FXXU1AOCY but got sof rev fail in ODIN .
Have tried samsung switch for software update it's successful but when phone reboot it again stop there at logo screen.
In recovery mode -- G920FXXU3QOJF this show on top.
I don't whether phone was root or not as guy says he just unlock the phone. got this from UK .
Can anyone please help which firmware will now work on this case ? how to solve this issue.
Please help me as i mess up with my phone which work great before .
Tons of thanks to all.

Is there any firmware which work on all unlock or root phone for this model ? the above step from 5.0.2 have installed 5.1 is correct step ? i am working this phone from india,before doing this firmware update my sim card work properly. as phone was already unlock or rooted (not sure here whether it's rooted or not but sure as it's unlocked phone) as i can see EE apps in phone. please help me . it's hurt me on my decision to do this upgrade and create mess. :crying:

Can anyone pls help.. Thanks

dbarot87 said:
Can anyone pls help.. Thanks
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have you solved this yet?
this helped me:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...d-development/kernel-stockmod-kernel-t3100395

Samsung On5 G550T1 MetroPCS REV0.4 stock OS anyone?

Hi All,
The short of a long story is that I just changed carriers and found out way late that I couldn't bring my Sprint phone to MetroPCS. So now I'm using the budget PCS On5 that came with the deal when we signed up.
I successfully loaded TRWP and then rooted however, I didn't know about FRP until it smacked me in the face. The root went fine but later SU prompted me to update the binary and when it did, it tripped factory reset protection and soft bricked my phone.
I want to reinstall stock OS on this phone but it appears that I have a software version that I haven't been able to find on the web yet. I found the stock rom for the MetroPCS On5 easily enough but it's Revision 0.0 and the box I have for the phone says REV0.4.
When I try to Odin Flash the REV0.0 version, I get SW REV CHECK FAIL DEVICE 2, BINARY 1 fail. So I guess I had the latest software on my phone and the phone thinks I'm trying to roll back using the 0.0 revsion.
My question is this, does anyone here have the stock rom for G550T1 REV0.4? Help!
If nobody does, maybe I can still fix this phone. I have a TRWP backup from the sister phone (same model same revision 0.4) that I'm using right now but I can't get back into TRWP on the soft bricked phone to recover that way to use the backup file.
Next I thought I might take the backup files and turn it into a rom and just flash that. However, with the tutorials I followed I kept running into problems. When I went to unpack the files per the tutorial, my rar software said that the file was corrupt. Maybe it is. but maybe not. It was my first time attempting to make a rom. If I can't find the software I need, could any of you Android geniuses help me get this backup into a flashable format?
I have to admit I'm daunted by the FRS in 5.0 and above. Is it defeatable? How do you root newer Android versions?
Thanks!

I did the same thing to my phone. did you get yours fixed?> if so could you provide me with the rom?

I haven't found the fix yet. Hopefully somebody will come through with a helping hand!

I finally got it figured out! So here is what i did and hopefully it will work for you.
1. I Odin flashed a good BL from the ROM REV0.0 floating around on the net. So at least I could now get into download mode.
2. Then I used Kies3 > Tools > Firmware Upgrade and Initialisation. It will ask you for your model number and then when you click ok it will ask you for a SN.
3. The trick is that Samsung doesn't put the SN that you need on the phone or the box. (personally, I couldn't find it on the phone either once I got it up and running) so go here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/root-samsung-galaxy-on5-t3435457/page46 and get a SN from post #454 and use that. (don't forget to say thanks)
4. Click Ok. Let it work, and max and relax.
Mine took about 10 minutes. Hopefully this will work for you too! Thanks XDA!

Help!
What is BL from the ROM REV0.0? I need your help, I have the MetroPCS On5 and I installed Reborn ON5 I want to go back to the MetroPCS ROM because the camera and the audio do not work and I tried to install the original ROM through Odin but it does not work I get an error. What I can do? I would like to use this method but I do not have very clear files needed.
You could help me bro, I'll thank you

bought phone from becetech wont update firmware

im sorry if this is in the wrong section but ,ok so i bought an open box galaxy s6 from becetech online and it would not let me update the firmware past 5.1.1 which made me a bit suss, downloaded root checker app and it came too me rooted. apart from not being able to update the firmware past 5.1.1 as far as im aware the phone has no issues and works perfectly fine. i downloaded the *samsung* phone info app, in general under manufacturer it says Samsung/verizon so im assuming that is part of the reason they rooted the phone as it needed to be unlocked from verizon to be refurbished? so what i want to know is how do i find out exactly what becetech have done to the phone and is there an easy way for me to update the firmware to nougat or at least marshmallow without stuffing the phone, like i said the phones running fine its just really bugging me not being to update. obviously im not able to work it out myself but i can follow instructions so any help from someone would be greatly appreciated so thank you in advance.

Benno81 said:
im sorry if this is in the wrong section but ,ok so i bought an open box galaxy s6 from becetech online and it would not let me update the firmware past 5.1.1 which made me a bit suss, downloaded root checker app and it came too me rooted. apart from not being able to update the firmware past 5.1.1 as far as im aware the phone has no issues and works perfectly fine. i downloaded the *samsung* phone info app, in general under manufacturer it says Samsung/verizon so im assuming that is part of the reason they rooted the phone as it needed to be unlocked from verizon to be refurbished? so what i want to know is how do i find out exactly what becetech have done to the phone and is there an easy way for me to update the firmware to nougat or at least marshmallow without stuffing the phone, like i said the phones running fine its just really bugging me not being to update. obviously im not able to work it out myself but i can follow instructions so any help from someone would be greatly appreciated so thank you in advance.
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Could someone with a bit more knowledge please tell me if the reason I can't update the firmware is because the firmware csc is TGY when I'm in Australia or just because it's rooted or what? I'm getting no answers from the company who I bought it off

Benno81 said:
Could someone with a bit more knowledge please tell me if the reason I can't update the firmware is because the firmware csc is TGY when I'm in Australia or just because it's rooted or what? I'm getting no answers from the company who I bought it off
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Are you trying to update via the phone update feature? If so this won't work as rooting disabled the ability Update using ota

First I tried OTA then downloaded samsung smart switch and gave that a go both no good. What I want to know is, if they had to root the phone to refurbish it will it brick it if I try to update? Won't it reset all the company I bought it off has done to it to refurbish it? Which I'm guessing is quite a process as when I look at the open source licenses there's a long list of files that have been changed. It just sucks that it's locked to a three year old version of the firmware that I'm worried apps will start to stop supporting in the near future? Apart from that I can not fault the phone there's been no problems, maybe I'm asking a bit much for a $400 phone?

Benno81 said:
First I tried OTA then downloaded samsung smart switch and gave that a go both no good. What I want to know is, if they had to root the phone to refurbish it will it brick it if I try to update? Won't it reset all the company I bought it off has done to it to refurbish it? Which I'm guessing is quite a process as when I look at the open source licenses there's a long list of files that have been changed. It just sucks that it's locked to a three year old version of the firmware that I'm worried apps will start to stop supporting in the near future? Apart from that I can not fault the phone there's been no problems, maybe I'm asking a bit much for a $400 phone?
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From what I can tell you have a g920v variant if the phone Shows Verizon but the sure fire way to know what variant you have is turn the phone off once off hold home-power-volume down, this will take you to download mode but should tell you your variant. You don't need to root a phone to refurbish It, you can flash Stock firmwares via Odin. I really don't know why they would have Rooted It tbh, you'd need to contact them, but I know for sure you can manually download the latest Verizon firmware and the phone should work. Maybe they Rooted it as part of making it network unlocked, o really can't say

Ok I tried that and a bright blue screen came up warning about custom OS then press up volume for download and down volume for reset? I just pressed down as there was no other info on the screen but it does say it's a sm-g920v in the settings as well as the root checker app. Another thing was I did ring samsung support gave them the serial number and IMEI and they said an authorized modification had been done on the phone but could offer no other support as it wasn't an Australian phone. I'll keep trying to get some info out of the company I bought it off and try to sort it out thanks for your help :good:

Sprint SM-G955U help!!!

Hi I'm not sure if my problem has been answered already but I haven't seen anything so I please if u can help it would be greatly appreciated. I have a Sprint SM-G955U and I was wondering if there is any root method for this device. When I try to downgrade it says: SW REV CHECK FAIL : [abl]Fused 5 > Binary 1.
Can someone please let me know if I can root or is it a waste of time trying to root right now. If anyone can give me any information about it I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

sthumond88 said:
Hi I'm not sure if my problem has been answered already but I haven't seen anything so I please if u can help it would be greatly appreciated. I have a Sprint SM-G955U and I was wondering if there is any root method for this device. When I try to downgrade it says: SW REV CHECK FAIL : [abl]Fused 5 > Binary 1.
Can someone please let me know if I can root or is it a waste of time trying to root right now. If anyone can give me any information about it I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
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By the look of it looks like you're on nougat and as far as I know only oreo could be rooted.

I need help with this to. I think we upgraded to, to new of a revision in the firmware. And thats why it wont work. What is your exact firmware

[email protected] said:
I need help with this to. I think we upgraded to, to new of a revision in the firmware. And thats why it wont work. What is your exact firmware
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I honestly have no clue....I got the phone because someone tried to root it and now it has no firmware or recovery on it anymore....... but now its saying binary 2 not binary 1 anymore and I don't even know how that happened..... I have been working on this for months......I refuse to give up lol......for real though its just bugging me.......

sthumond88 said:
I honestly have no clue....I got the phone because someone tried to root it and now it has no firmware or recovery on it anymore....... but now its saying binary 2 not binary 1 anymore and I don't even know how that happened..... I have been working on this for months......I refuse to give up lol......for real though its just bugging me.......
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What carrier is it thru and it has to gmhave firmware on it to turn on brotha but it might be bricked . Luckily yours a easy fix. All you gotta do is flash the stock firmware back on there. Tell me what carrier and ill give you a link and explain how to do it.

[email protected] said:
What carrier is it thru and it has to gmhave firmware on it to turn on brotha but it might be bricked . Luckily yours a easy fix. All you gotta do is flash the stock firmware back on there. Tell me what carrier and ill give you a link and explain how to do it.
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It's sprint..... can I root it?

sthumond88 said:
It's sprint..... can I root it?
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OK I figured out how to fix it.....I had to flash it in odin with G955USQS5CRH1_G955UOYN5CRH1_SPR firmware which i downloaded from sammobile.com. Than I followed this root method https://forum.xda-developers.com/ve...nt/root-using-odin-modified-firmware-t3693790 ...so try that and see if it works....but I do have one more question....i am trying to unlock my phone and dealing with sprint has been nothing but a headache. so does anyone know where else i could try to get this phone unlocked???? I'd really appreciate the help...

guys,
i have a question,
my friend has a s8+ model G955U. ATT version. unlocked.
baseband is = G955USQU1AQEF
he is on security patch May 1, 2017.
latest patch is september 1, 2018.
he is not receiving updates after that. at least 15 updates are issued after that.
from various online searches i have read that users are facing problems.
now i am asking if i can flash sammobile firmware ????
will he lose sim unlock or not ?
he will backup the data beforehand. MAIN query is about SIM UNLOCKING.