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N8010 with n8000 bootloader odin question

Hi all, so like a lot of overzealous flashers I loaded up the early release kk rom and flashed the n8000 bootloader on my n8010. Now I would like to reflash my device with a original firmware with odin. But as most of you know you can't flash original 8010 firmware if you have the 8000 bootloader... I saw somewhere that I could unpack the original rom and remove some files then repack it as a tar file for flashing through odin.
I can't find the original post so I was hoping someone could help me with the info about what I need to remove from the factory Img...
Thanks

torchwolfery said:
Hi all, so like a lot of overzealous flashers I loaded up the early release kk rom and flashed the n8000 bootloader on my n8010. Now I would like to reflash my device with a original firmware with odin. But as most of you know you can't flash original 8010 firmware if you have the 8000 bootloader... I saw somewhere that I could unpack the original rom and remove some files then repack it as a tar file for flashing through odin.
I can't find the original post so I was hoping someone could help me with the info about what I need to remove from the factory Img...
Thanks
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+1 plz. If there is a way i wanna do it
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That makes 3 of us
Would really like to get my 8013 back. Any ideas?

[Q] Need Help Downgrading Back To KitKat From Lollipop (Sprint Note Edge)

Hello,
I have a Sprint Note Edge (SM-N915P) and I honestly don't like this lollipop update. I tried flashing with Odin back to KitKat but no luck and research on google says bootloader is the problem. Can anyone help me ? Any information on how to unlock this bootloader or just any method on how to downgrade back to kitkat.
I still need help!! Please anyone?
Thanks in Advance.

kezzmo said:
Hello,
I have a Sprint Note Edge (SM-N915P) and I honestly don't like this lollipop update. I tried flashing with Odin back to KitKat but no luck and research on google says bootloader is the problem. Can anyone help me ? Any information on how to unlock this bootloader or just any method on how to downgrade back to kitkat.
Thanks in Advance.
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You need to flash the apropriate KitKat Bootloader for your Phone through Odin. By apropriate I mean 4.4.4 Bootloader for SM-N915P. You can search Google or download your Firmware from sammobile.com or sth. Then in Odin > BL > select your downloaded Bootloader and after it's done you can flash any KitKat firmware or ROM from recovery.
Hope it helps

kain1979 said:
You need to flash the apropriate KitKat Bootloader for your Phone through Odin. By apropriate I mean 4.4.4 Bootloader for SM-N915P. You can search Google or download your Firmware from sammobile.com or sth. Then in Odin > BL > select your downloaded Bootloader and after it's done you can flash any KitKat firmware or ROM from recovery.
Hope it helps
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Hello, Thanks for this information. I have the 4.4.4 Firmware for SM-915P downloaded but when flashing with Odin i normally use AP or PDA to flash, i never thought of using BL(bootloader) to flash the firmware. I'm gonna try using your suggested method once i get back home and i would post a reply back to you. I truly appreciate it.

kezzmo said:
Hello, Thanks for this information. I have the 4.4.4 Firmware for SM-915P downloaded but when flashing with Odin i normally use AP or PDA to flash, i never thought of using BL(bootloader) to flash the firmware. I'm gonna try using your suggested method once i get back home and i would post a reply back to you. I truly appreciate it.
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NO YOU SHOULDNT. Dude you gotta flash the BOOTLOADER FIRST or it's NOT GOING TO WORK. Open your firmware with WINRAR or sth like that, find the bootloader, boot.img or sth flash through BL and THEN flash firmware through AP / PDA. You had it right all along, but you need to flash KITKAT Bootloader first

kain1979 said:
You need to flash the apropriate KitKat Bootloader for your Phone through Odin. By apropriate I mean 4.4.4 Bootloader for SM-N915P. You can search Google or download your Firmware from sammobile.com or sth. Then in Odin > BL > select your downloaded Bootloader and after it's done you can flash any KitKat firmware or ROM from recovery.
Hope it helps
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Hello again, I tried exactly what you told me to do but still says failed. I downloaded stock kitkat (4.4.4) Firmware, then in Odin > BL > and selected the 4.4.4 firmware. I've attached a picture.
But if you're just talking about just only SM-915P "bootloader" file for kitkat and not the actual full firmware, then it is not present on sammobile.com or on any place with google search. The only bootloader file i found was for the international version (SM-915F) http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-edge/development/n915f-kitkat4-4-4bootloader-tar-unlock-t3063928http://forum.xda-developers.com/not...15f-kitkat4-4-4bootloader-tar-unlock-t3063928, even XDA website don't have the bootloader for SM-915P. :crying:
I've been trying for weeks, trust me. And i feel like i've reached a dead end and stuck with lollipop OS that i don't like.

kain1979 said:
NO YOU SHOULDNT. Dude you gotta flash the BOOTLOADER FIRST or it's NOT GOING TO WORK. Open your firmware with WINRAR or sth like that, find the bootloader, boot.img or sth flash through BL and THEN flash firmware through AP / PDA. You had it right all along, but you need to flash KITKAT Bootloader first
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Yes, i opened the firmware with WINRAR and no bootloader file present. I downloaded it from sammobile.com. Even after extraction no boot.img present in the file. Picture below.

You gotta go deeper...
kezzmo said:
Yes, i opened the firmware with WINRAR and no bootloader file present. I downloaded it from sammobile.com. Even after extraction no boot.img present in the file. Picture below.
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The firmware file you've opened with winrar contains ANOTHER COMPRESSED FILE (the actual firware that's going to be flashed). You have to go deeper. Double-Click on that file ('blabla'.tar.md5). wait a while until you can see its contents in winrar and THERE YOU WILL FIND (among others):
* aboot.mbn
* NON-HLOS.bin
* rpm.mbn
* sbl1.mbn
* sdi.mbn
* tz.mbn
Extract all of the above files >
compress them in a .tar file using 7zip or another program >
flash ONLY THIS FILE through Odin | BL >
when its done flash firmware through AP / PDA
p.s. : If you cannot flash the .zip firmware then extract and flash the .tar.md5 file inside. AFTER you've flashed the bootloader

kain1979 said:
The firmware file you've opened with winrar contains ANOTHER COMPRESSED FILE (the actual firware that's going to be flashed). You have to go deeper. Double-Click on that file ('blabla'.tar.md5). wait a while until you can see its contents in winrar and THERE YOU WILL FIND boot.img. Extract just this file > flash ONLY THIS FILE through Odin | BL > when its done flash firmware through AP / PDA
p.s. : If you cannot flash the .zip firmware then extract and flash the .tar.md5 file inside. AFTER you've flashed the bootloader
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I was so impatient that i opened up a new thread on how to extract a file with winrar. I feel so stupid now. I should have waited for a reply from you first. I guess we still learn everyday. I appreciate the time and effort you're putting in this thread to walk me through. I'm forever grateful and thank you so much. I will do exactly what you mentioned and post a reply afterwards on the result. Thanks again.

kain1979 said:
The firmware file you've opened with winrar contains ANOTHER COMPRESSED FILE (the actual firware that's going to be flashed). You have to go deeper. Double-Click on that file ('blabla'.tar.md5). wait a while until you can see its contents in winrar and THERE YOU WILL FIND (among others):
* aboot.mbn
* NON-HLOS.bin
* rpm.mbn
* sbl1.mbn
* sdi.mbn
* tz.mbn
Extract all of the above files >
compress them in a .tar file using 7zip or another program >
flash ONLY THIS FILE through Odin | BL >
when its done flash firmware through AP / PDA
p.s. : If you cannot flash the .zip firmware then extract and flash the .tar.md5 file inside. AFTER you've flashed the bootloader
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Hello, OK, i did everything step by step as you instructed but it failed to flash the bootloader. I've attached a picture below to see everything. Am i missing anything?

kezzmo said:
Hello, OK, i did everything step by step as you instructed but it failed to flash the bootloader. I've attached a picture below to see everything. Am i missing anything?
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yes you are...
inside the .tar file you created there is a folder that contains the actual files to be flashed. That's wrong. Don't compress a folder, just the files

kain1979 said:
yes you are...
inside the .tar file you created there is a folder that contains the actual files to be flashed. That's wrong. Don't compress a folder, just the files
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Oh ok. i will try it again.

kain1979 said:
yes you are...
inside the .tar file you created there is a folder that contains the actual files to be flashed. That's wrong. Don't compress a folder, just the files
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Now it says "ABOOT" . Is that right?

kezzmo said:
Now it says "ABOOT" . Is that right?
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does it get stuck there? doesnt it go any further???

kain1979 said:
does it get stuck there? doesnt it go any further???
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Just stuck there and wouldn't do anything.

kain1979 said:
does it get stuck there? doesnt it go any further???
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Do you have any suggestions? Or can you link me to a kitkat bootloader i can download, like the one you use for yourself. I don't know if this is a Sprint note edge issue because all other variants of the note edge seems to downgrade back to kitkat.
Lollipop just have too many issues like the one you also posted about the phone heating up badly, that happens to my note edge too. Battery draining like no tomorrow, it's just ridiculous.
I just wanna go back to kitkat.
Thanks again.

S6 920F stuck at first boot screen

Hi everyone my story goes like this...
im currently on axism rom which is lollipop 5.0.2 and i wanted to go to 'xtrestolite deo-dexed rom' which is lollipop 5.1.1 and noticed i needed to flash bootloader and modem for 5.1.1 so i did this using odin and now it will not boot i now realise that it says this will not work with a stock kernel which im geussing the axism rom has so how do i get myself out of this mess any help asap would be greatly appreciated

JamieBlues said:
Hi everyone my story goes like this...
im currently on axism rom which is lollipop 5.0.2 and i wanted to go to 'xtrestolite deo-dexed rom' which is lollipop 5.1.1 and noticed i needed to flash bootloader and modem for 5.1.1 so i did this using odin and now it will not boot i now realise that it says this will not work with a stock kernel which im geussing the axism rom has so how do i get myself out of this mess any help asap would be greatly appreciated
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Have you tried just flashing the stock ROM? May not be axism but could at least get you out of the situation for now

im just hunting for a stock rom now that i can flash using odin
also do i just load the stock rom i download through the 'AP' button in odin

JamieBlues said:
im just hunting for a stock rom now that i can flash using odin
also do i just load the stock rom i download through the 'AP' button in odin
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Yup, thats it I got my ROM from here when my phone wouldn't boot >> http://forum.youmobile.org/downloads/?cat=42

Thanks! im downloading one from sam mobile so i will let you know how it goes in an hour
and when i unzip the download will i get a .tar file from it?

JamieBlues said:
Thanks! im downloading one from sam mobile so i will let you know how it goes in an hour
and when i unzip the download will i get a .tar file from it?
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Yup either a .tar or .md5 as far as I remember, then just mount on AP and hit start

i extracted it to get the md5 file but it has failed in odin i dont know what to do now someone help please

Right im stuck now so heres exactly what i have done
i was on a 5.0.2 custom rom and wanted to go to a 5.1.1 rom (xtrestolite) so i went and flashed the bootloader and modem for 5.1.1 and it was just stuck on the first boot screen i then noticed it said somewhere that this will happen if i had a stock kernel i have tried to flash stock 5.0.2 firmware through odin but it fails so im asking if im doing anything wrong or what to try next
thanks alot in advance, Jay

JamieBlues said:
Right im stuck now so heres exactly what i have done
i was on a 5.0.2 custom rom and wanted to go to a 5.1.1 rom (xtrestolite) so i went and flashed the bootloader and modem for 5.1.1 and it was just stuck on the first boot screen i then noticed it said somewhere that this will happen if i had a stock kernel i have tried to flash stock 5.0.2 firmware through odin but it fails so im asking if im doing anything wrong or what to try next
thanks alot in advance, Jay
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The stock rom that you tried to flash just previously there, was that 5.0.2 or 5.1.1?

PB1 Odin tar NO BOOTLOADER

This is the pb1 Odin tar package without the pb1 bootloader and recovery.
Some users may not want to update their bootloader or may want to Odin while keeping the dev aboot and custom recovery intact.
This Odin package only includes the following:
Boot.img
System.img.ext4
Cache.img.ext4
NON-HLOS.bin
Modem.bin
Flash via Odin in the AP slot
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24533100289590170

I have been trying to find pb1 Odin tar kernel
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sean19661 said:
I have been trying to find pb1 Odin tar kernel
Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk
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https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24533100289590330
There ya go

How do I make the system.img.ext4 and cache.img.ext4 files into system.img and cache.img?
The ROM kitchen I'm using needs .img files

klabit87 said:
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24533100289590330
There ya go
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Thank you so much klabit87
Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

Nandr0idC0nsumer said:
How do I make the system.img.ext4 and cache.img.ext4 files into system.img and cache.img?
The ROM kitchen I'm using needs .img files
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you need to lookup how to use simg2img

Hi I'm sorry if this is a noob question but I've been out of the game for a while.
I never took the OTA update to Lollipop and am still running on 4.4.2 NCG build with Safestrap 3.75.
If I Odin to this package and flash the kernal, this will bring me up to Android 5 and i'll still be able to keep root and go back to 4.4.2 if I need to since it's not updating the bootloader right?
Sorry if I'm asking a stupid question but just have to ask before I do anything.
Thanks in advance.

thaijunk said:
Hi I'm sorry if this is a noob question but I've been out of the game for a while.
I never took the OTA update to Lollipop and am still running on 4.4.2 NCG build with Safestrap 3.75.
If I Odin to this package and flash the kernal, this will bring me up to Android 5 and i'll still be able to keep root and go back to 4.4.2 if I need to since it's not updating the bootloader right?
Sorry if I'm asking a stupid question but just have to ask before I do anything.
Thanks in advance.
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I would just safely install one of Jrkruse's ROM's that have the "No Bootloader" Flashable Zips or update to PB1 using Muniz_ri's Update to PB1 and keep root. Which you can find Muniz_ri's here in the General Section and Jrkruse's ROM's in the Android Development section. Just remember to be sure you flash the No Bootloader Zip after installing the ROM and that you install JrKruse's SafeStrap for Lollipop because it won't appear in your app folder after installing these ROM's.

al50 said:
I would just safely install one of Jrkruse's ROM's that have the "No Bootloader" Flashable Zips or update to PB1 using Muniz_ri's Update to PB1 and keep root. Which you can find Muniz_ri's here in the General Section and Jrkruse's ROM's in the Android Development section. Just remember to be sure you flash the No Bootloader Zip after installing the ROM and that you install JrKruse's SafeStrap for Lollipop because it won't appear in your app folder after installing these ROM's.
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Cool thanks for the prompt reply. I'll give that a shot.

for the record yes this will allow you to still be able to downgrade.
but there are also other ways to get upgraded to lollipop.
This is just what I use just in case something really goes wrong. so i keep my recovery and dev aboot untouched.
of course with a working recovery there are other ways to recover. so to each their own

So I am not rooted and just installed the OTA for 6.0.1. If I Odin with this tar on AP slot will it put me back on PB1 with the ability to root or should I use the full on tar over here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-galaxy-s5/general/g900vvru2bog5-factoryodintarimage-t3179527
on AP in Odin to go back and then use the BPB1 root method?

DraconicSeed said:
So I am not rooted and just installed the OTA for 6.0.1. If I Odin with this tar on AP slot will it put me back on PB1 with the ability to root or should I use the full on tar over here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-galaxy-s5/general/g900vvru2bog5-factoryodintarimage-t3179527
on AP in Odin to go back and then use the BPB1 root method?
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Use the full PB1 tar so that you can rollback your bootloader. since it doesnt trip qfuse.

klabit87 said:
This is the pb1 Odin tar package without the pb1 bootloader and recovery.
Some users may not want to update their bootloader or may want to Odin while keeping the dev aboot and custom recovery intact.
This Odin package only includes the following:
Boot.img
System.img.ext4
Cache.img.ext4
NON-HLOS.bin
Modem.bin
Flash via Odin in the AP slot
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24533100289590170
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@klabit87 , can you update the link ? Thank you

alin919 said:
@klabit87 , can you update the link ? Thank you
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I just checked the link constantly for the past hour.
It's good now.
Afh was just having some maintenance downtime :good:

klabit87 said:
I just checked the link constantly for the past hour.
It's good now.
Afh was just having some maintenance downtime :good:
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In my in is still maintenance now , before it was not available ..... my bad , thanks.

A530F Sofware Problem

Hello guys. İ am new here and ı dont know how can ı use. İ need help for A530F device. İ rooted this phone and I wanted unroot. İ downloaded odin files and upload to device. Device has not opened when ı upload AP\CSC\CP\BL. But when ı upload just AP device starting but S\N and IMEI unknown. How can ı fix. Pls help me. ( Sorry for my English.)

You have to flash the latest firmware for your device. Failures such as yours are due to old bootloader/modem. They're older than the one on your device.
AP does contain system files and recovery, so it'll flash just fine. You need to find out what your actual modem version is, so you can flash a more recent one, if found.
If you can provide more information about your firmware, it'll help us help you.

Firstly, what it means flash.
I have already downloaded latest version (A530FXXULCUI1 TUR). But device not open.

Bulldozer74 said:
Firstly, what it means flash.
I have already downloaded latest version (A530FXXULCUI1 TUR). But device not open.
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Flash means to install something through the recovery. Or Odin.
Can you flash the modem (CP) alone? Using Odin? Can you flash the bootloader (BL) alone?
If it does flash successfully, you should receive your signal back. Unless you have a problem with your EFS partition.

Mohamedkam000 said:
Flash means to install something through the recovery. Or Odin.
Can you flash the modem (CP) alone? Using Odin? Can you flash the bootloader (BL) alone?
If it does flash successfully, you should receive your signal back. Unless you have a problem with your EFS partition.
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When ı flashed (cp) alone ıt is not opening. Just opening with AP. İnteresting.

Bulldozer74 said:
When ı flashed (cp) alone ıt is not opening. Just opening with AP. İnteresting.
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And actually ıt has 64GB rom but after ı flashed ıt was 16 GB