Hello everyone, I have big problem and I dont know how to solve it. Samsung galaxy tab 2 5100 was stucked in boot loop and with odin I put philz recovery on tablet and with options inside backup all files to sd card. And after that deleted everything on tablet. Now I dont have any rom installed on tablet and when I turn it on it just on black screen with samsung tab 2 logo. I found couple of download links for original factory rom for europe but they are all on hotfile website and that website is shuted down by US court. So now I dont know what to do and I cant download factory rom.
Can someone help me what to do now???
AVVL said:
Hello everyone, I have big problem and I dont know how to solve it. Samsung galaxy tab 2 5100 was stucked in boot loop and with odin I put philz recovery on tablet and with options inside backup all files to sd card. And after that deleted everything on tablet. Now I dont have any rom installed on tablet and when I turn it on it just on black screen with samsung tab 2 logo. I found couple of download links for original factory rom for europe but they are all on hotfile website and that website is shuted down by US court. So now I dont know what to do and I cant download factory rom.
Can someone help me what to do now???
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Put GT-P5100 in the search box and choose the Rom that you want from the list. You'll need to register to get the link.
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
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Thx man for fast reply. But now when i think about this if i install this original factory rom, can I and how recover my data and pictures that i backup with philz recovery on my sd card??? And can i do that with original rom??? (i am doing this stuff for the first time so i am noob so this is all new for me). Thx
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Thx man for fast reply. But now when i think about this if i install this original factory rom, can I and how recover my data and pictures that i backup with philz recovery on my sd card??? And can i do that with original rom??? (i am doing this stuff for the first time so i am noob so this is all new for me). Thx
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You mean a nanodroid backup?
Yes that's possible
AVVL said:
Thx man for fast reply. But now when i think about this if i install this original factory rom, can I and how recover my data and pictures that i backup with philz recovery on my sd card??? And can i do that with original rom??? (i am doing this stuff for the first time so i am noob so this is all new for me). Thx
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You need to quote me in your reply or I don't get a notification.
There's nothing to stop you rooting it again and extracting the data from your nandroid backup once you've installed the Rom
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You can't really restore them, because they're on a different ROM, it'd overwrite all your fresh and fast ROM.
In two words: you can't.
You will need a country specific firmware, where did you buy your P5100; was it from.. anywhere in the world? Check for a sim card slot.
If it doesn't, get on to reading!
1. Find how much bits your windows is.... this can be done by opening the start orb in the bottom left corner, then right-click on computer. Click Properties, and look for 64 or 32.
Pick 64 if you have 64, or pick 32 if you have 32.
2. Install drivers according to your bits.
These will ensure good experience.
- 64bit: http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/MOB...dows-x64.shtml
- 32bit: http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/MOB...dows-x86.shtml
3. Download UK recovery! That is, if you don't have a SIM card slot.
Find here: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/3/?download=22456
Now, I was quite lazy to write a tutorial, so I did copy some sources. they will all be given credit.
1. Download and Install the Samsung USB drivers to your PC from the link above. Reboot your system once after installation. If you have already have KIES installed you can skip this step
Extract the Odin Package you downloaded earlier to your desktop. Look for the Odin exe file. That's the only one we would be using
Extract the downloaded stock firmware zip file to your desktop
On your Tab, go to Settings > Developer Options and Enable USB Debugging
Now Power off your Tab completely. We will now be putting your device into Download mode or Odin Mode as it is also called. Download mode is basically a Samsung Exclusive mode which allows flashing of firmware via Odin. Odin can only communicate with Samsung devices when they are in Download Mode. To get there, press and hold these keys together: Volume Down + Power. Then press Volume Up to enter download mode
On your PC, launch Odin by double clicking the exe file in the Odin folder. Just make sure that Samsung KIES is not running on your PC at this time. KIES and Odin don't like each other very much.
Connect your Tab 2 to PC using the OEM USB cable. Any microUSB cable should work, but I prefer to use the one supplied with the phone to avoid any unforeseen complications. You should see the message Added!! in the main Odin message box like in the screenshot below, as well as as COM Port number in the first slot directly above the message box, which tells you that Odin has recognized your device
odin_zpsc9caf496.jpg
In Odin, click the PDA button, locate the stock firmware .tar file that you extracted in Step 3. If there are additional file for the modem and CSC, add those as well. Make sure the Auto Reboot and the Reset Time boxes are checked and Re-partition box is NOT checked.
Double check everything in Step 8, then hit the Start button to restore your Tab 2 to stock Samsung firmware
Once Odin has finished flashing the CWM recovery, your Tab should automatically reboot. And if the flashing was successful, you should see the word PASS! against a green background at the top-left in the Odin window. This means it is now safe to disconnect your device. (SOURCE: http://androidevolved.com/forums/ga...tore-stock-firmware-gt-p5100-p5110-p5113.html)
Hi,
Okay, I hope this method can help you, so you don’t have to go through the tedious process I went through to fix this fpr lock problem, I personally tried a lot of methods described in forums and finally was able to fix this problem, so I hope this works for you too and you don’t have to spend a lot of time looking for a solution to this problem.
I used this method on my galaxy a5 2016, but I think it will work on other Samsung phones as well if you download the right stock rom for it.
Warning: if you are a newbie, please read through this entire post once before attempting to try it out. It’ll only take a few minutes but at least you’ll know what you’re doing.
since i'm a new user i'm not allowed to post outside links so i'll put spaces between my links to be able to post them.
So I had the same problem as a lot of other guys, I had rooted my Galaxy A5 Sm-a510-fd through CF-Auto-Root, Everything was working fine, But Since I didn't know about OEM Unlocking & FRP Lock (Factory Reset Protection), I Logged Into my google account in my phone, and after restarting my phone after installing an app, my phone showed a red small text at the top left corner of my screen saying "custom binary blocked by fpr lock", now keep in mind I had enabled usb debugging and oem unlocking before but since I logged into my google account, apparently google had disabled the oem unlocking, hence this message.
Now I tried a few methods like a method where someone had said to go into download mode (Hold Volume down + Home + Power) and then pressing the volume down (cancel) instead of volume up (continue) and after the restart the phone for some reason wouldn't show this message again (weird), some had tried this in that forum with success but it didn’t work for me, so first try this see if it works for you, then I tried to flash a new stock rom but I got the same frp lock message in download mode as well, then I tried a few other method which didn’t work and I don’t even remember them (I’m a newbee, and I was confused by all the articles I had read and all the method I had tried so I don’t remember a lot of them, and a few of them may have worked but needed to remove the battery but in galaxy a5 battery isn’t removable), but the method which finally worked for me was this (It was posted in gsmhosting . com by zishhaider user):
1. Download (A510FXXU1AOL1 02.12.2015) from samsung-updates . com/device/?id=SM-A510F or from sammobile . com/firmwares website.
2. Remove .md5 at the end of stock rom you downloaded, extract the .tar file with 7zip to a folder, delete cm.bin and sboot.bin from this folder, open 7zip file manager from you installed program list in windows, navigate to the folder, choose all remaining files, click add, choose tar as archive format and and click ok to compress the files again into a tar format (a better method to re-pack these files into a tar ball is by using a software called unified android toolkit described at the end of this post).
3. Download and install the latest kies from Samsung (it will automatically install the latest usb drivers for your phone) and I recommend restarting your computer after installing kies.
4. Now go to download mode (Volume down + Home + Power >> Volume Up) , Download odin 3.10.7 or newer if available at the time of reading this post, right click on odin and run as administrator, now connect your phone to your computer with the usb cable preferably coming with your own phone, now if you have installed the drivers (from kies software) and if the cable is working and usb debugging is enabled, odin should detect your phone and show <ID:0/003> added in the message section (the number 3 isn't important, it depends on which usb port you use), now check the options tab to make sure only Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time are checked (by default these 2 are always checked, make sure Re-partition is unchecked). I recommend waiting a minute or two to make sure your phone and odin have recognized each other fully and usb drivers are fully installed.
5. Click on AP and browse to the location where you compressed the rom files and choose it, now to begin flashing this stock rom, just hit start.
6. When ODIN is done, you should see a box that will say reset or passed (depending on which version you have, you may see either or both.). At this point it is ok to remove your device.
ODIN has completed the flash, and by now, the device should be going through the reboot screen, if it works for you as it did for me you won't get the frp lock message again.
Any problems, try these few things: Update Drivers, and restart your PC; Different cables; Different USB ports.
Just a tip: If you are in download mode and you want to restart or turn off your phone for any reason and you have an unremovable battery like me, in download mode hold Volume down + Power for 10 to 20 seconds to restart your phone, now if you want to turn it off completely, after the restart hold Volume up + Home + Power to go to recovery and from there choose turn off.
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After this process your phone should boot and the red little text saying “custom binary is locked by frp lock” should disappear. But since you flashed your phone after you removed cm.bin and sboot.bin your phone will be slow and you will aslo, still have to bypass the frp lock from google inside your phone, to do that I will give you a link to youtube from rootjunkey which explains it best how to bypass this frp lock inside the phone, or if you have the user and password of the google account you had previously logged in with to you phone, you can enter those and when asking to backup your previous apps choose "treat this phone as a new device" because you don’t want to install the apps just yet and you’ll have to flash your phone one more time with the complete stock (including cm.bin and sboot.bin). after entering your phone either by logging into your google account or bypassing the google acounot login screen, go to settings >> about >> software info and hit build number several times to enable developers options, then go to developers option and enable usb debugging and the damned oem unlock, and from now on before restarting or turning your phone off check to see the goddamned oem unlock box is on.
www . youtube . com/watch?v=JzywoFS_r9U
www . youtube . com/watch?v=DJ8_qbj1DPQ
Now after I did all these things I tried to flash the whole stock rom I had downloaded but I got the message “sw .rev binary check failed device 2 binary 1” and I think the reason I got this was beacase I had flashed many other recovery and roms before and I had screwed up my bootloader version and my phone didn’t recognize this rom as the right one for my phone, I downloaded a few more roms from my own country (Iran) and each time it either gave me this message or failed because it was stuck in flashing either hidden.img or sboot.bin or … . so what I did was a method I learned from someone in a forum (I don’t remember which forum), I’ll post a picture of that method and explain a little bit about the steps or modifications I made. And before using this method, download unified android toolkit, just google and download it, you’ll need it for this method.
link to the image:
s7.picofile . com/file/8250224492/Galaxy_S6_NAND_Write_Start_Fail_Fix.jpg
this software creates a folder in the root of your operating system drive (c Drive in my case) named Unified_Android_ToolKit, inside it you will find an input and an output folder, put the files you want to re-pack into tar files in the input folder, follow the instructions (99, 8, 1, 3) and your resulting files will be saved in output folder.
So the modifications I made to that method was:
The order I followed in flashing was as follows:
- AP: Boot/Recovery/System : these are the main system and recovery files and have the biggest size.
- CRC: Cashe/Hidden : This is some country code used for the region to flash the ROM against, XE is Europe, AU is Australia, and so on, this part can throw you off, its more then for tracking what region this is based of, in terms of localization and language support. And more importantly, for Kies to recognize the region and to determine if there's firmware update available. It is quite possible to have a CSC that can be limited to one country.
- CP: Modem
- BL: cm/sboot : Your bootloader
This is the order I followed and as you can see I chose all buttons and their corresponding files instead of choosing all of them with AP. Each one of these buttons re-writes the corresponding file into it’s previous partition in your phone.
Also I flashed boot.img first, restarted, flashed recovery.img, restarted, and so on, except for the cm.bin and sboot.bin which I repacked with unified android toolkit into one tar ball instead of 2 tar file, and flashed them together, to do this all you have to do is put these 2 together into the input folder and select 99, then 8, then 2, then yes.
finally I decided to try using Samsung smart switch (which I had tried but didn’t work before) to try to flash a stock rom once again to make sure everything is back to normal, but it still didn’t work and froze just like before, so I decided to use kies and it worked, even though smart switch is newer I believe kies is still better, so I recommend you use kies to update your firmware one more time using this Samsung tool, especially if the previous method still didn't fully work or if your baseband version or IMEI is unknown. To do that after enabling usb debugging, open kies, connect your phone to your computer, unlock your phone screen if it is locked and wait for kies to recognize your phone, if it said kies does not support your device or try smart switch just ignore it, it’s okay even if it doesn’t recognize your phone, just go to tools and choose firmware upgrade and initialization, now enter your model number (Upper-case), then serial number, both are on the box of your phone, sn is also behind your battery or at the back of your phone if your battery is unremovable, follow the instructions, at one point you’ll have to disconnect the cable, turn off your phone, go into download mode and conncet the cable again and then hit update to update the downloaded firmware. This time if everything goes right your phone may work even better and faster than before just like it did for me.
one last thing: I had screwd up my phone so badly that my baseband and IMEI was unknown and I couldn’t make any calls, and what’s worse I hadn’t backed up my efs folder, so I tried a few methods to solve this and finally decided to use kies, kies hadn’t worked before but this time it worked and restored everything to normal.
Now this time after i fixed my phone, I have backed up my efs folder, and my stock rom from clockworkmod recovery, and I have also set up a Microsoft/Samsung drive, google drive and dropbox account and installed some software to backup every contact, message, and app I have to the cloud in case sth like this happens again, I learned my lesson, I hope you do the same.
Developers, please correct any mistakes I may have made explaining this method, I am a newbie and these are what I learned in just 2 days of reading many forums and applying them to solve my own problem, so I may be wrong in some of these, so before people try this method out correct all the mistakes I may have made so people don’t brick their phones. Thank you
I hope this was helpful, thanks for reading, sign out.
quick question, when i try to flash the modified .tar rom a message appears saying: "custom binary(boot) blocked by frp lock"
but without i cant activate developer options and OEM unlock. i cant use my phone atm
edit: phone is a510f
After removing the 2 files from tar, I was able to flash OK.
But after flashing, my phone is stuck in bootloop - it shows Samsung Galaxy A5 and restarts, continuosly.
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After removing the 2 files from tar, I was able to flash OK.
But after flashing, my phone is stuck in bootloop - it shows Samsung Galaxy A5 and restarts, continuosly.
Thanks, this helped my friend he is a n00b
This does not work with 6.0.1
Just for anybody who has that version, dont waste your time downloading 5.1.1, it wont work if you already in 6.0.1
Why should oem unlocking automatically turned off
This actually applies to all Samsung phones...
But, use the right firmware and flash it using Odin.
Side note:
To activate Developer options, tap Build number 7 times on About phone settings. Then, open Developer options and activate OEM Unlock.
You should ready to go flashing everything. Happy flashing!
AlokAk said:
Why should oem unlocking automatically turned off
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OEM Unlock is turned off by default for Factory Reset Protection (FRP) feature to work properly.
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Is there any way by which i turned on OEM UNLOCKING permanentaly..
I have also rooted my A5 2016 by cff auto root.it rooted But after restarting it shows custom binary blocked by Frp lock. I have submitted this phone to samsung care. They fix it.
Now my phone is okk .
But no root access. Now I am not dare to root it by cff auto root
Is there any other way to Root my Galaxy A5 2016 Marshmallow (6.0.1) that after rooting it works without any problemm, if anyone could help me please.
Thanks in Advance
Which country's firmware i download for my galaxy A5 2016 ( SM-A510FD ) INDIA region.
On Sammobile website there is no firmware for india region.
Please tellll
AlokAk said:
Which country's firmware i download for my galaxy A5 2016 ( SM-A510FD ) INDIA region.
On Sammobile website there is no firmware for india region.
Please tellll
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You could try to find it on Updato.
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No firmware for India region infact it only shows four region in filter region section
samsung a5 2016 SM-A510FD firmware fail any [Q-call 9041634416 i help you better
orion7i7 said:
Hi,
Okay, I hope this method can help you.
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tx You saved my phone life
It works also with other software not only old one
não da certo comigo
no meu galaxy a5 deu essa mensagem mas coloco no modo download mas ele não aparece no ODIN pois não reconhece o cel pelo pc e agora ???
Fwatech said:
no meu galaxy a5 deu essa mensagem mas coloco no modo download mas ele não aparece no ODIN pois não reconhece o cel pelo pc e agora ???
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The same thing happened with my phone.
After this message "Custom recovery blocked by FRP lock", the boot does not go ahead and in the download mode is not recognized by the pc.
I can not solve this :crying:
danjercm said:
and in the download mode is not recognized by the pc.
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1) Have you installed USB drivers?
2) Have you tried other cables?
3) Have you tried different OSes, Odin versions, etc...?
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krasCGQ said:
1) Have you installed USB drivers?
2) Have you tried other cables?
3) Have you tried different OSes, Odin versions, etc...?
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Hi
thanks for answering
1) Yes, I installed the most up-to-date version of the samsung driver (SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones_1.5.63.0)
2) Yes, I tried 5 different original cables
3) I tried with 6 different versions of Odin, on windows 7, 8.1 and 10.
so I researched google, the only alternative is to do a procedure called JTAG, but still had hope of being able to solve without having to open the device
If anyone has a suggestion, I'll appreciate it.
Thanks
Many thanks
Me and my A5 want to thank you a lot. You saved his life I don't have to use my Wiko View :silly: anymore
Not simple is write combination firmware to the phone, then enable usb debugging and then just write firmware that not erase user data and cache and use free sw or adb command(this work not depend on software in the phone) to unlock the phone.
Simple software is here and the manual.
http://www.hardreset.info/FRP-Unlocker/
Thank you so much dude! I've searched the internet for 2 days and then this post came by so I decided to read and do it because I had nothing to lose and hell yeah it worked! THANKS!
Previously, I've talked about how I bricked my G920T by using an apk to try to root my phone.
Then I tried to do a factory reset with the stock recovery but it wouldn't even go into the stock recovery. So I flashed TWRP and wiped the whole phone including the system partition.
Then I tried to flash a stock 6.0.1 firmware to the phone but doing so did not improve the situation as my phone still won't boot. Even worse, when I power my phone, all I see is the blue LED indicator, no Samsung logo, nothing.
Then I tried to flash a custom ROM like XtreStoLite but that didn't fix anything either.
When I use TWRP or the stock recovery, the error "failed to mount /efs (invalid argument)" comes up on the log. I tried using the ADB method to fix it but my phone would not get recognized by ADB probably because USB debugging isn't on by default.
I cannot shut down the phone without having it charged to a power source then holding down PWR+DOWN VOLUME+HOME until the screen shuts off.
When I enter download mode, I don't see the warning screen, I enter the download mode directly.
It will warm you when you enter download. Or use TWRP and reboot into Download.Once in download flash the ROM using Odin. Get the latest one from SamFirm.
P.S. Next time root using CF Auto Root
yasteellutch said:
It will warm you when you enter download. Or use TWRP and reboot into Download.Once in download flash the ROM using Odin. Get the latest one from SamFirm.
P.S. Next time root using CF Auto Root
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It doesn't warn me when I enter download mode, that's one of the problems.
I tried flashing the official ROM using ODIN, it still won't boot because of the efs error.
1) Download the latest SmartSwitch
2) Click on more -> Emergency software recovery and initialization
3) Go into Device initialization, enter your model name, search for it and proceed as advised by the assistant
That should fix everything, otherwise:
1) Download the latest official firmware for your model, the 4-File (or 3-File) Version
2) Use latest ODIN, check repartition in options
3) Select all the files and flash it
If EFS or DRK is corrupted, flashing roms, custom or not won`t help, it can be fixed via repair box maybe (Octoplus/Z3X)
Try to flash CF auto root for your model, if it still won`t boot, then find someone with a box to try to help you remotely or not.
But Smart Switch emergency initialization with phone sn would be the first thing I would try.
Orginator said:
1) Download the latest SmartSwitch
2) Click on more -> Emergency software recovery and initialization
3) Go into Device initialization, enter your model name, search for it and proceed as advised by the assistant
That should fix everything, otherwise:
1) Download the latest official firmware for your model, the 4-File (or 3-File) Version
2) Use latest ODIN, check repartition in options
3) Select all the files and flash it
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Which mode should I be in when using SmartSwitch? No devices are shown when I have it plugged in during the bootup, and is so too in download mode but shows a not supported message.
brenner650 said:
If EFS or DRK is corrupted, flashing roms, custom or not won`t help, it can be fixed via repair box maybe (Octoplus/Z3X)
Try to flash CF auto root for your model, if it still won`t boot, then find someone with a box to try to help you remotely or not.
But Smart Switch emergency initialization with phone sn would be the first thing I would try.
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How can someone with a box help me remotely?
zheyizhu said:
Which mode should I be in when using SmartSwitch? No devices are shown when I have it plugged in during the bootup, and is so too in download mode but shows a not supported message.
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Download mode offcourse. Nevermind the not supported message.
Follow instructions from link below, I made it for such occasions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6/help/how-to-smart-switch-emergency-t3383448
zheyizhu said:
How can someone with a box help me remotely?
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Well if you know someone who have a box, it doesn`t have to be remotely.
If not, it is possible to fix it remotely, with help of usb hub (FlexiHub or similar), tunneling (TeamViewer or similar) and box software (you connect phone to your computer, the other guy connects box to his computer, both of you are connected through a gateway to a wonderfull thing called internet, and everybody is happy ) .
Same as on site, just with few more things in between the phone, and the box.
brenner650 said:
Download mode offcourse. Nevermind the not supported message.
Follow instructions from link below, I made it for such occasions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6/help/how-to-smart-switch-emergency-t3383448
Well if you know someone who have a box, it doesn`t have to be remotely.
If not, it is possible to fix it remotely, with help of usb hub (FlexiHub or similar), tunneling (TeamViewer or similar) and box software (you connect phone to your computer, the other guy connects box to his computer, both of you are connected through a gateway to a wonderfull thing called internet, and everybody is happy ) .
Same as on site, just with few more things in between the phone, and the box.
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The S/N sticker on the back of the phone is long gone, is there any other way I can find it besides from going into settings because I can't do that?
EDIT: I am able to borrow a friend's serial and got the firmware installed.
The Samsung boot logo is back now, however, the device still won't boot. The efs error is still there but the download mode warning sign came back.
EDIT #2: Okay, I flashed TWRP now and ADB is working once again. Can I utilize this to fix the efs error?