I'm new here to XDA, but tutorials here have helped me so much in the past. I was hoping you guys could help me with something.
My friend's girlfriend's dad passed away recently, and the family (knowing I'm a "tech wiz") asked me to remove the lock screen pin without deleting the files on his Verizon Galaxy S3 (SCH-i535).
ADB is not enabled in the operating system. I tried stock recovery, but it does not have adb either. I tried to use odin to flash custom recovery (TWRP 2.8.7 and Odin 3.09) but I got the error " secure check fail: recovery ". I had a spare s3 (sprint) lying around and was successfully able to flash TWRP and pull the internal storage and remove the pin on that device. Neither device is rooted.
How can I remove the pin without wiping the phone?
Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance!
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im stuck in team win recovery project and cant find a way out on my s3.i tried to reboot system but it says .No OS INSTALLED!ARE YOU SURE YOU WISH TO REBOOT?THEN IT SAYS YOUR DEVICE DOESS NOT APPEAR TO BE ROOTED.INSTALL SUPERSU NOW?SO IT SAYS TWO OPTIONS DO NOT INSTALL OR SWIPE TO INTALL.I SWIPE TO INSTALL.IT SUPPOSELY INSTALLS IT AND NOW IM BACK WHERE I STARTED I TRIED EVERYTHING TO LOAD MY PHONE AGAIN BUT ALL IT DOES IS TAKES ME THE TWRP MENU!!!!!WHAT SHOULD I DO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:confused????????
Hi,
I see 2 choices, since recovery works...
Either download a rom to a micro SD card with another device... Put the card in your phone and flash the rom from it.
Or use Odin to flash your stock firmware.
Here's a frequently asked questions thread in the S3 section. You didn't specify your carrier version/model number, so be sure to use files made for your device for flashing.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/help/frequently-questions-t2148708
Good luck!
bought this second hand verizon galaxy s3 4.4.2, rooted it with towelroot, and flashed twrp using twrp manager and when i tried to boot into recovery, i had a warning sign that software has been tampered with and i should contact verizon for help, i tried to recover using a stock rom with odin but it fails each time, i did some researcch for many hour without success.
sometimes the screen tells me to use software repair assistant, i was able to download it but it never detected the phone, just sits there while phone is connected, btw drivers have been successfuly installed.
i tried kies, didn't work either.
i know now that it had to do with locked bootloader, but this is my first verizon phone.
please any help will be appreciated!
Edit and solved!!!
refer to:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2586319&page=31#post65689151
Ok So my phone got bricked was able to get to boot up with the sdcard boot can go into to download mode but when i try to restore from odin when it resets of course i get this system software not authorized. Can anyone help me recover my phone please.
Anyone please .....
What can I do is there a way to restore the boot process. Any help is appreciated
Sorry I can't help. I have somewhat of a similar issue. Please help...
Here is my issue...
Hello. I have a problem and a question. My problem is that I can't startup my Samsung Galaxy S3. It says the partition is corrupt. I can't boot into any recovery mode, except Odin Mode. I have never rooted my S3 before, but I would like to use Mobile Odin to flash my phone to get it running again. One problem, I don't have access to a computer, but I do have access to another Android device. Is there a way to flash my S3 from a different Android device using Mobile Odin, or any program at all. Or can I run some sort of program from my SD card? I need my S3 back up and running?
Thanks.
--Dominick
Hi, I recently rooted my phone last night to switch emoji and hopefully be able to use Snapprefs. The rooting process went smoothly (I used SuperSU and Odin) And I was able to switch emojis perfectly fine. This morning, I went to show a friend the steps I used to root my phone, and made a small, yet detrimental mistake. I turned off USB debugging and OEM to show the two options, but forgot to turn them back on before I restarted my phone, and I am now stuck with "Custom Binary blocked by FRP". I've tried to flash the stock frameware for my phone from multiple sources, but continue to get the "NAND write start!" Write failed error. I am using a USB 2.0 port with the original samsung cable, and I am running Odin as a administrator. I have also tried factory reset in stock recovery mode, as well as clear cache. I have the Samsung Galaxy S6 SM-G920P. Please help ASAP.
Hi all,
I'm not new in XDA but i'm new in Samsung and yesterday i bricked my device. i own a Samsung Galaxy S8+ G955F
What i did was, first ticked OEM Unlock and USB Debugging in Developer options and then flashed the original TWRP recovery for Galaxy S8+.
After reboot the phone bootloop, i only can go to Download Mode and after that i trigger the Knox too.
If i try to flash an original Samsung rom i solve the problem?
Any help please?
Thx.
Solved by flashing a stock rom.
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S8+ using XDA Labs
Reflash stock recovery.
Jtag dead phone to life and rewrite IMEI
First of all my phone is the s8+ G955fd, but I am sure that the people that helped me can help most Samsung owners with bricked phones.
My phone ended up being stuck on the first boot screen, I couldn't get into recovery or download mode. I installed TWRP and after that I lost my IMEI numbers( dual sim), so I tried to reflash stock and thats when i became bricked. I searched someone to help and found reference to the Fonefunshop in England. I sent it there and they said that the eMMC chip was bad. I searched for someone who could write to it or put a new one on the motherboard . I found A2Z cellular in Ottawa Canada. They used jtag to restore it to stock and they told me that the Fonefunshop had not opened the phone which is necessary to use jtag as they claimed, so avoid them.
The phone was now back doing everything it should except the IMEI's were null like before. I gave them the original IMEI's and the phone is working like new.
If your Samsung is bricked these guys can probably fix it and it won't cost much to find out.
PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!
I tried flashing TWRP Recovery 3.3.1-0 on Galaxy Tab A 10.1 LTE (2016) via Odin and when i tried to load into TWRP in just goes to the custom download mode without showing twrp, on top of all of this my tablet is now soft bricked and i can only access the download mode.
please help me...WHAT CAN I DO?????????????
JimJimJim22 said:
PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!
I tried flashing TWRP Recovery 3.3.1-0 on Galaxy Tab A 10.1 LTE (2016) via Odin and when i tried to load into TWRP in just goes to the custom download mode without showing twrp, on top of all of this my tablet is now soft bricked and i can only access the download mode.
please help me...WHAT CAN I DO?????????????
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You need to find that devices forum and post there. This is for s8 plus only