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bricked galaxy note 2? Can odin fix this

I used odin to flash what I thought was rooted firmware to my galaxy note ii L900 sprint phone. Odin said it was successfully installed but when it boots up it gets to the samsung screen and stays there forever. I think this maybe be because I used L900VPALJ1 firmware and my phone was on L900VPAMA7. I don't have TWRP installed or anything like that, so is it possible to use ODIN to flash the stock firmware back on? I don't know how I can do this since Odin seems to use only .tar.md5 pda files and the firmware I found was several .img files and 100s of folders... I do have access to my brothers phone which is the same exact model, can I maybe rip his firmware somehow? Thanks.

Power off your phone, (you'll probably have to do a battery pull) then press the power, home and volume up button until you see the samsung screen. This will take you to stock recovery from here you should wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache, wipe system then restore from a back up (if you made one) or just do a factory reset, with a factor reset you will lose all your data. If that doesn't work check out qbking77.com he has a video on how to uroot/unbrick your phone
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My suggestion... You can look for the stock firmware for your phone to flash it with Odin.. You can find it in by searching, because I downloaded it several days ago. I've ever once have it but I think I losted it now... I am sorry. I hope this helps you...
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Hello, all.
I come here to you after trying all my knowledge allowed me and following all instructions I could understand.
My phone got bricked out of nothing, just starting rebooting itself and eventually got stuck on the initial logo.
Tried the hard reset but the files were corrupted and it said it could not load original files.
Then, started to use odin to try to load a stock rom, but odin is not able to complete the operation. I have tried odin3.07, 3.09 and then 1.3, no luck.
So, before I give up I come here asking for some wisdom.
Thanks in advance.

GT N8000 Bricked Urgent Help

OK, Ive been without my note for a whole day and been researching wht to do nonstop
What happened to me was that, since i had updated to official kitkat, i soon developed a taste for lollipop, and went on to try out different ROMs and finally settled on to crDroid
So it was one of those days where everything was going well until the note stopped opening apps for like a minute then showd a black screen and then all of a sudden restarted
Since this was a Sammy i thought it would get back up again.... But no, even a 5 minute didnt wake this beast up, it remained stuck at the boot logo, i.e, Samasung Galaxy Note 10.1
Im like ok ill go on do a factory reset and wipe cache and all, upon trying to accesss the recovery after the boot logo the recovery kinda opens then gets back at boot logo, a black screen shows up then turns on to be a full brightness black screen for a sec then goes back
I can access the download mode and can odin things but they fail every single time.
I have tried to odin a recovery and a stock recovery so far and they show a nand write error
i also have tried to PIT but they get stuck at get PIT for mapping
I have also tried all versions of odin tried changing a USB Port and the wire with no success
So is there any hope for my NOTE??
Please i need help its urgent

Osama Abedin said:
OK, Ive been without my note for a whole day and been researching wht to do nonstop
What happened to me was that, since i had updated to official kitkat, i soon developed a taste for lollipop, and went on to try out different ROMs and finally settled on to crDroid
So it was one of those days where everything was going well until the note stopped opening apps for like a minute then showd a black screen and then all of a sudden restarted
Since this was a Sammy i thought it would get back up again.... But no, even a 5 minute didnt wake this beast up, it remained stuck at the boot logo, i.e, Samasung Galaxy Note 10.1
Im like ok ill go on do a factory reset and wipe cache and all, upon trying to accesss the recovery after the boot logo the recovery kinda opens then gets back at boot logo, a black screen shows up then turns on to be a full brightness black screen for a sec then goes back
I can access the download mode and can odin things but they fail every single time.
I have tried to odin a recovery and a stock recovery so far and they show a nand write error
i also have tried to PIT but they get stuck at get PIT for mapping
I have also tried all versions of odin tried changing a USB Port and the wire with no success
So is there any hope for my NOTE??
Please i need help its urgent
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is it rooted ?
i have the same problem from 2 months and i am finally got that i must replace the motherboard

Sounds like its written its last, flash is dead.

Since you are able to enter in download mode there is hope. Trying to flash recovery which doesn't match the firmware version will always fail. So, try flashing some of the base firmwares which will return everything to stock. I was in your situation few months ago and managed to flash Android Revolution HD 4.4.2 after first flashing stock firmware via odin. I got my 4.4.2 base firmware from "sammobile.com", firmware section (sorry i don't have enough posts for using links).

I remember i tried flashing TWRP for GT N8000 and i also tried Philz then CWM all for GT N8000
I also tried flashing base rom but it gives NAND write fail

Nand write fail can mean damaged PIT or the actual nand memory is damaged and needs a new motherboard .

flash with pit file
found these pit files for the device.
you can flash the pit file for GT-N8000 in odin
don't forget to repartition, it's a very delicate situation, you don't want to mess it up, before going to this, you should confirm if the size are same. you wont like to flash a 16gb to 32gb partition.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41158546#post41158546
good luck and please share your fix if its done

billysam said:
found these pit files for the device.
you can flash the pit file for GT-N8000 in odin
don't forget to repartition, it's a very delicate situation, you don't want to mess it up, before going to this, you should confirm if the size are same. you wont like to flash a 16gb to 32gb partition.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41158546#post41158546
good luck and please share your fix if its done
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thx for telling me... im trying out a new wire so will try it out nxt week
Sorry for the late reply tho

Osama Abedin said:
thx for telling me... im trying out a new wire so will try it out nxt week
Sorry for the late reply tho
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same problem for me, this did not work, still write error

I have a similar problem. Everything is stuck. I am tryingo to go back to stock, but if I try to connect (via Odin, Heimdall, fastbot or adb sideload) i can't.
Is there any advice?
Thanks

nope not yet

I'm early ???
So it turned out that my AMAZING tablet had its storage device corrupted... I. E I exceeded the read write count

Similar problem Bricked N8005
I bought my N8005 (variant of N8000 but phone is disabled just data 3G is available) in 2012. I rooted it once and used custom rom for a while but last year installed official stock ROM again. Yesterday I started a game called "zombidle" (possibly this is an unnecessary info) and tablet restarted itself but stuck on "samsung" logo.
I tried to enter recovery mode but it always restarted and cannot enter recovery mode.
Tried to install different versions of CWM, Philz and TWRP recovery using odin but it always FAILed when NANDwrite started. Tried odin 1.85, 1.87, 3.07, 3.09, 3.12 but all same.
I tried to install same stock ROM but always FAILed.
Then I tried to install a custom rom but it failed too.
I read about bad pit files. Searched internet and found some pit files but nothing changed, FAILed at same point.
Did I finished all solutions?
Should I take it to the doctor?
Any sugesstions?
Thanks in advance.
Edit: Today I took it to the Samsung doctors. They said that; this is a mainboard issue and mainboard needs to be changed. That will be over 400TL (TL=Turkish Lira). Device is still in markets and new N8005 is 1300TL (i think this is also expensive. Because new Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 T817 32GB 9.7" is 1900TL in my country).
Does it worth to fix? Any opinions? Can I fix it myself somehow?

Nand write fail probable defunct memory.

SM-N915V stuck in boot loop

Hey all first post, I have a verizon note edge stuck in a boot loop. I've tried everything I could find online myself. Clearing the cache, doing a factory reset , and finally reflashing the original software. The reflashing through ODIN was successful but did not fix the issue. The phone still is stuck in the boot loop. It now makes it a bit further in the process to the point where you begin the initialization , please wait while we prepare your phone screen and select a language, sometimes you will hear a loud click noise when right as it restarts. Other times nothing at all. No matree what the phone will only stay on for a few seconds before restating. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you! !!

Found any solutions yet?
Hey mate, i have similar problem. Please let me know if you've found a solution. Thanks

Qu1nter said:
Hey all first post, I have a verizon note edge stuck in a boot loop. I've tried everything I could find online myself. Clearing the cache, doing a factory reset , and finally reflashing the original software. The reflashing through ODIN was successful but did not fix the issue. The phone still is stuck in the boot loop. It now makes it a bit further in the process to the point where you begin the initialization , please wait while we prepare your phone screen and select a language, sometimes you will hear a loud click noise when right as it restarts. Other times nothing at all. No matree what the phone will only stay on for a few seconds before restating. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you! !!
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Which fw have u flashed
R u able to get to the optimizing apps screen
If u still have a problem try this
Get into download mode
Flash twrp
Clear or format everything other than ur micro sd and internal storage
Now reboot into download mode
Flash stock fw downloaded from sansung website
Wait for some time it'll take some time to get things done
Ur phone might restart a few times

w8 brick recovery said:
Which fw have u flashed
R u able to get to the optimizing apps screen
If u still have a problem try this
Get into download mode
Flash twrp
Clear or format everything other than ur micro sd and internal storage
Now reboot into download mode
Flash stock fw downloaded from sansung website
Wait for some time it'll take some time to get things done
Ur phone might restart a few times
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I cant remember exactly which firmware i used from sammobile.com/firmwares/database/SM-N915V
I think it may have been version 4.4.4 of android or version 6.0.1. Im fairly certain that i used the older version thinking it would be best to roll it back further. You mentioned flashing TWRP. i am unfamiliar with this. I searched it on this site and came up with this twrp.me/devices/samsunggalaxynote4edgevzw.html Would i want to use the odin install method? Thank you so much for your assistance with this. This has been a nightmare

Soft bricked my device. Can get to download mode but it keeps going off during flash

So last week suddenly my phone after it got switched off, never turned on and got stuck in bootloop. I went to recovery mode and wiped cache and data.
Could see that it showed "failed to load efs mount" something like that. Tried restarting but it was stuck at logo again.
So i downloaded official firmware for my device of my region from sammobile and i flashed it via odin by getting into the download mode. The flash was successful but even after the flash it was STILL stuck in bootloop.
So i thought i will try to flash again which i did via odin but this time it failed at system.img and i started getting a blue screen with a message like "the firmware is corrupted. Please flash via smart switch"
I tried smartswitch but it said invalid serial number even after i entered the correct serial number from the box
Now i tried to flash the firmware again but this time the phone suddenly turned off in the middle of the flash.
I thought it might not be charged so i put it on charging for a long while and tried flashing again.
Now again it got off in the middle of the flash and this thing keeps on repeating i cannot flash the firmware via odin.
Went to service centre today and they said it's a hardware issue and asking for a huge amount for motherboard replacement since it's out of warranty.
I don't want to spend that much
Is there anything i can do to fix it up.
Please help. Please.

If the motherboard is faulty, you need a new motherboard
Check ebay for S7s with broken screens for cheap you can get the board from

The service centre guys here are really noob so i know they must have tried once or twice and just chose the easy way out by saying the motherboard is faulty. I believe it can still be fixed. I am not sure how.

You've done everything possible with software, apart from using CSC and checking the PIT > Repartition option in ODIN
If that still fails then it's almost certainly hardware, sounds like hardware anyway considering the way it happened and the problems you're having trying to flash it

The first and only time when the flash was successful i used home_csc file. Used the same later in my failed attempts and also the csc file.
Haven't checked re partition or pit options.
Also what about the efs mount failed message i saw right in the beginning in recovery mode?

Have a look here, similar problem, different Samsung S phone
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/general/how-to-fix-efailed-to-mount-efs-invalid-t2858056

Went through it. Don't really know what to do next to fix this since the thread didn't have anyone claiming they fixed it. What can i do if i flash twrp?

G955FD Softbricked. OEM Unlock is Disabled.

Help Help Help :
Can I get some help? I bricked my phone because I was trying to install twrp. It flashed but I got TWRP cant install.Because. OEM locked.
It flashed. Great. But now IT STILL DOESNT BOOT. I'm stuck at NO COMMAND, it keeps restarting after 20-30 seconds of showing no command. and it's looping all over.*
i flashed stock firmware.It is flashed.Then reboot.Then install system update.Then Erasing.Then rebooting.Then NO COMMAND.Then reboot itselve recovery mode.Then i wiped factoory and cache.Then press rwboot to system.Then Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus.Then install system update.Erasing.No Command. etc. Keeps rebooting. its on NO command screen. It just restarts. Doesnt boot. I want to enable OEM Unlock. I installed combination binary. But not appear in Developer Mode.
i flash atock with Kies emergency.I flash different stock firmware from updato.com. But nothing happend.

I'm a little confused.
What state is your phone currently in, i.e. can you get into download mode, turn off... what?

JeffDC said:
I'm a little confused.
What state is your phone currently in, i.e. can you get into download mode, turn off... what?
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KIES says that. (THR) Stock. i downloaded it and flashed with Odin. Then reboot. Then system install update. Then Erasing. Then reboot and No Command! 30 seconds keeps rebooting itself 30 seconds interval Random.
I did factory format, cache clear. then the same problem. i want to install twrp recovery with oden. It says Oem Lock. Not allowed. But i flashed Combinary file. I can get into system and i to developer mode but dosnt seem OEM UNLOCK that ll do enable it.

Ok mate, but if you press Vol- + Bixby + power for couple of seconds, can you access to download mode? If you can, I think you'll have to install the firmware all over again.

Try flashing using latest firmware from sammobile. Use Odin to flash all the files contained in firmware download. Make sure you get latest firmware for your carrier. Google how to flash using Odin. Hope this gets you in the right direction. Good luck finding what u need, do copious amounts of research before attempting any rooting of devices and if all steps aren't clear as day to you then do not attempt it unless you don't mind buying multiple expensive phones to tinker with.

Did OP find a fix to this problem?
I am experiencing a similar issue. Picked my phone up to find had randomly gone into a boot loop. Tried soft reset, cache wipe, factory reset - all successful but the phone would still reboot and be stuck on device model screen. Next I decided to flash the device with stock firmware. The flash passed in Odin, the phone then rebooted, loaded to device model screen, then a screen appeared saying "installing updates" which would make it to 25% then crash. After this the phone keeps booting, shows a screen with a dead android icon and says "no command" or "error". I have tried to flash the device using Oreo and Nougat firmware but have failed every time (although the flash did pass in Odin)
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I would rather not buy a new phone due to a random hardware fault which is out of my control.

southsideswaggar said:
Try flashing using latest firmware from sammobile. Use Odin to flash all the files contained in firmware download. Make sure you get latest firmware for your carrier. Google how to flash using Odin. Hope this gets you in the right direction. Good luck finding what u need, do copious amounts of research before attempting any rooting of devices and if all steps aren't clear as day to you then do not attempt it unless you don't mind buying multiple expensive phones to tinker with.
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This is perfect if you have soft bricked your phone!

follow this video maybe it help you
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...g-aqg5-fix-t3636857/post73032395#post73032395
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTi3uBkpJic&t=155s