Hi everyone,
I own a samsung galaxy s5 G900f that I bought from Vodafone while living in Ireland. I also bought HTC one m8s which became my primary phone. So I decided to root my Galaxy s5 and play with it using different custom Roms. I successfully rooted my S5 and settled with cyanogemod 12.1 nightly. Cyanogemod felt lacking in feature to touch wiz. Last September the day of my flight back to home, I.e, Nepal, I decided to restore touch wiz for which I made the back up while rooting the device. I used TWRP for that. However the silliest thing I did was before loading the rom in the device or sd card, I wiped the entire phone via TWRP. After that TWRP wouldn't locate recovery file of either touch wiz or cyanogemod. Initial stages the phone would boot to TWRP mode and stay there. Now the phone still boots to TWRP mode, however the screen keeps flashing instead of screep staying still. I took it to the Samsung smartphone cafe here in Nepal but they were reluctant to help and asked me to try local repair centre who can't be trusted with the device. Is it a soft brick? Should I restore factory firmware using odin or is there any less extreme solution? Please help me out with this guys. You help will be kindly obliged. Thank you.
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Ramesh
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Hi, my name is Andrew.
I bought a phone yesterday(S6 edge G925F) it was rooted with 5.0.2 android, I wanted to flash stock 5.1.1 to it. I flashed this firmware "G925FXXU2COH2_G925FOXA2COH2_XEU", my phone is stuck at the Galaxy S6 edge screen. I tried reflashing another firmware "G925FXXU2BOFJ" without any luck. I can boot into recovery or download mode. My friend told me that i screwed up the bootloader. Is there any way it can be fixed ? I don't have warranty.
Hi,
You've already been helped here... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=62886876#post62886876
Thread closed. :good:
Ok so I'm trying to unroot my s4 through odin using the 2nd one from the list of firmware for my s4 from sam mobile dot come cause the first one came out corrupted i believe
I flashed it through odin and it passed! But it still stuck on the tmobile bootloader screen and i have no idea how to get out of this. EVEN when i try to go to safe mode no matter at what time or order i press on the physical buttons of my phone, i still go to the green android screen where its as if you were trying to flash another rom. I need hellllllppp.. maybe i need to flash the latest firmware? this one is old form 2014 but the first one like i mentioned came out corrupted which is from 2015! thx
Hi
Thank you for using XDA Assist.
Here is a thread that explains how to return to stock: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2258628
And the following thread is a guide to perform several tasks like unrooting your device: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2335109
Good luck
Hello. A few days ago I 've tried to flash a samsung galaxy note 3 with odin because the phone wouldn't boot to android anymore. I downloaded the stock rom for the specific model from sammobile and tried to flash it twice and the process was finished successfully. The problem is that not only the smartphone had theexact same problem but i coul see that nothing was erased. ihad changed the name on the internal memory and even that remained the same. i could see it from my pc. i also noticed the same problem with a samsung galaxy s5 that worked but it's speaker didn't play any sound. i had changed the speaker before flashing it but no luck. It wasn't the speakers fault. All the users files, contacts and settings remained unharmed after three completed flashing processes. I have read from the internet that this problem exists because of the knox security that samsung installed on it's smartphones.
So my question is if there is a way to completely wipe of the rom memory before installing it the firmware from the beginning when i flas a new model of samsung smartphones?
andreasandreou said:
Hello. A few days ago I 've tried to flash a samsung galaxy note 3 with odin because the phone wouldn't boot to android anymore. I downloaded the stock rom for the specific model from sammobile and tried to flash it twice and the process was finished successfully. The problem is that not only the smartphone had theexact same problem but i coul see that nothing was erased. ihad changed the name on the internal memory and even that remained the same. i could see it from my pc. i also noticed the same problem with a samsung galaxy s5 that worked but it's speaker didn't play any sound. i had changed the speaker before flashing it but no luck. It wasn't the speakers fault. All the users files, contacts and settings remained unharmed after three completed flashing processes. I have read from the internet that this problem exists because of the knox security that samsung installed on it's smartphones.
So my question is if there is a way to completely wipe of the rom memory before installing it the firmware from the beginning when i flas a new model of samsung smartphones?
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Greetings and welcome to assist. If you want to return your phone to factory condition the easiest way is to use kies/smartswitch emergency firmware recovery
Good Luck
Sawdoctor
hello all.
long time viewer first time posting..
Ive searched, downloaded, and even called Samsung Tech Support to no avail. After a week now this is my final attempt before the phone goes on Ebay..
I have a Samsung Galaxy On5 (SM-GT550T01) through MetroPCS. Acquired last week when I decided to trade a sibling phones. I had actually rooted the phone for them and it was working fine. switched SIM card out etc, theirs works fine mine isn't. Turns out they did a factory reset with root and somehow managed to even wipe the OS leaving me with just Twrp Recovery.. Ive locked up my fair share so first thought was smart switch the SN i found on Twrps terminal was not the original sn anymore? Searched here saw someone post a sn -tried it - it seemed ok until 100% then states an error use code in emergency recovery but does not give me a code.. eventually says cannot recognize anything, Ive tried ODIN, ADB, countless recovery firmware - same result,,,called support was transferred to "the techs" who said they wouldn't be able to force a new OS onto the phone...I find that very hard to believe...sorry for the rant....just wanting to know now if i waste anymore time or buy a new phone....as for knowledge on all this I would say between beginner and intermediate...lots of google/XDA/YouTube and I am usually able to accomplish something..this had me beat as well as awake at 346am...any help appreciated! Again
Samsung galaxy on5 g550t1 metro pcs
twrp 3.1.1
no OS
not everyone all at once now...
What happened with your Samsung oN5 GT5501
Im currently trying to root my samsung GT5501. Now I notice their is a GT550. Different model. I think the GT550 is the ON5 Pro. 16Gb of internal storage, but the one I'm guessing were both inquiring about has an internal storage of 8GB, correct?? Now hopefully were talkg bout the same phone. Now was it the GT5501 the phone u had rooted? If so, did u do it without a PC?? If so can you direct me to instructions or vids. Can't find any specifically for the GT5501. All the tutorials are for the GT550 model..... sorry I wasn't any help to you, but I hope you got it all sorted out...
I'm feeling like an idiot at the moment. I acquired an S8 today and was planning on giving my old optus acquired S6 to a friend. Not properly following any guides I managed to do a factory reset on my device. Only now it seems to be stuck on the Samsung boot up logo. Not sure what to do from here. Original plan was to root it and have a clean slate.
Any guidance or help would be more than appreciated.
Disregard this.
I managed to get my phone into a download screen and acquire new firmware which I installed via Odin3. Phone is now functioning again, minus all the forced software from my original carrier. Feeling good, even though I probably just lucked out.
Thanks anyway.