Hello new to forums so forgive any lack of etiquette. I tried flashing Samfail for my Note 8 after OTA update of latest Pie firmware through AT&T (I absolutely detest how Pie is visually and have been regularly flashing back to Oreo, but I kinda grew fed up and tried to root), using this guide: https ://www naldotech com/root-galaxy-note-8-snapdragon-without-tripping-knox-samfail/
I successfully flashed the first file, with a pass in the provided Odin version per the article but the phone did not reboot automatically so I reboot it myself, getting the error message "An error has occurred while updating the device software."
Kies and Smart switch of course don't recognize it, and after volume
+ to confirm download mode it displays the same message.
Is it fixable or am I SoL?
Without looking into what you did specifically, Can you get into either DL or Recovery mode?
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This is a serious problem I am having.
First, this is a back ground of what I did with the device before I have this problem,
I bought this locked on france tele (orange)
I unlocked it.
I rooted and unrooted my phone several times (pretending I am an expert)
I tried to update my phone to 2.2 using kies by reading instructions to change registries (which turned out to be not good instruction as I down loaded 2.1.1)
from this point on, when I connect to kies it says that ''this version cannot be updated'' or something like that.
so I started to familiarize my self with odin and downloaded many android versions for samsung galaxy s mainly from samfirmware trying to get my phone back to be synchronized with kies so it could be updated with kies.
(I decided to back off a little and not to play too much with the system in my galaxy but that seems to be too late)
I tried to install the different versions in my device by download mode and check if kies know the version, it always doesnt.
BUT
at the end I got
firmware version 2.1-update1
Based band version
I9000XXJE2
Kernel version
2.6.29
[email protected] #2
Build number
ECLAIR
FROM NOW ON
I cannot use the download mode in my device to update by odin because it always fails
when I go to download mode I get
a message in red at the top that says
''KeyPressed, 50''
if i got to recovery mode it says at the top
android system recovery <2e>
samsung recovery utils
for BML
and then below are the options
reboot, wipe, etc..
How can I go out of this situation
I want to go back to be able to update normally through kies
or at least be able to install versions by odin
otherwise, it seems my device could not be updated at all.
thanks
same thing happend to me, no reply?
Hi there,
I have a galaxy s6 SMG920F,
i rooted my device when i first purchased, I then decided i wanted to go back to stock so i could update software,
I downloaded a stock rom and proceeded to flash through Odin. v3.10 it got to the end and failed,
And now ii am stuck on a green screen that reads, An error has occurred while updating the software.
Ue the emergency recovery function in the smart switch pc software.
I have doen this twicem and get this error message, Failed to update due to an error. DO you want to run emergency software recover?......You must enter the recovery code from another pc. Please remember the recovery code.
I can still get on download mode, but apart fro that nothing, Including recovery mode vol up home and power.
Please help XDA, i hope i dont have a paperweight!
Thanks in advance
I realize i'm stupid af but here's what happened: I was trying to flash a custom rom to my SM-G920F galaxy s6 and accidentally uninstalled my OS. This morning I attempted to flash G920FXXU2POGN to my galaxy 6, I have no idea what the original software was. Everything was going fine until the last minute when hidden.img appeared in the odin log and the flash failed. My device now reads: An error has occurred while updating the device software. Use the emergency recovery function in the Smart Switch PC software. However, neither smart switch of kies 3.0 support my device!! My device is still bootable into download mode. Please please please help. I've only had this thing for a day and I've already broken it.
moved to the SGS6 Q&A forum.
mcmullan510 said:
I realize i'm stupid af but here's what happened: I was trying to flash a custom rom to my SM-G920F galaxy s6 and accidentally uninstalled my OS. This morning I attempted to flash G920FXXU2POGN to my galaxy 6, I have no idea what the original software was. Everything was going fine until the last minute when hidden.img appeared in the odin log and the flash failed. My device now reads: An error has occurred while updating the device software. Use the emergency recovery function in the Smart Switch PC software. However, neither smart switch of kies 3.0 support my device!! My device is still bootable into download mode. Please please please help. I've only had this thing for a day and I've already broken it.
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Hi there, you should download smart switch and use emergency firmware recovery, From there you should click 'more' then click emergency software recovery. Key in your device SM-G920F then input your serial number (Found on your device Box, remember to connect your phone on download mode) then voila, it should download and install the latest firmware for you. hope it helps!
Last night my mom asked me if I could format her tablet, because it was too slow (Even for that device), and had a lot of crap on it.
So... I took a look at it and started to google about the tablet. Turns out it hadn't been upgraded to the latest firmware; it was on Android 4.1.2, and as it says here: "sammobile.com/tag/gt-p3100/" the latest available firmware is 4.2.2 .
Thus I tried to update it via software update on the device, but it turned out it wasn't able to update because the tablet has been modified. Then I remembered that a long time ago I tried to root it without much success, but didn't try again because I got bored.
Then I downloaded the 4.2.2 firmware UK version (P3110XXDMH1_P3110OXADMH1_BTU), and flashed it via Odin. Sadly it went wrong and a "Failed!" sign appeared. I can't remember what step failed, but it booted anyways, but this time my PC recognized the device as a "GT-P3110". I thought that maybe it was because the UK firmware was a Vodafone version, so I downloaded the Russian brandless version (P3100XWDMK1_P3100SERDMK2_SER) and flashed; it failed again, but this time the tablet didn't turn on normally.
I can't boot it neither normally, recovery or Download mode, it shows only a message that says "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in kies & try again", which as I read on other android sites and this forum, it's a soft brick message.
Then I tried to do as it said, installed Kies and tried to fix what I've done, but when I enter the device data (Model and "S/N") it shows a message saying that the model info cannot be verified and that the device initialization can't continue.
imgur.com/Y89rnNg
imgur.com/OdZhT6C
So... This is as much info as I can remember about what could've gone wrong, please help me, if I can't fix it, mom will continue to be a liiiiittle too much angry
Beforehand thank you very much.
PS: I had to write wrong the links because I created this account just because I had this problem, so I can't post links.
Woah this happen to me once, but i try to flash it again and its work, this happen when i chose the wrong firmware zip, but it work when i instal the right one, maybe u flash wrong firmware bro, try flash the right rom bro
this message is like download mode, you can connect to pc and flash any firmware via odin
Yes, as said you can go in Download Mode and reflash another good ROM ! Make sure the .tar.md5 is not corrupted.
I've tried unrooting my phone and it went infinite loop, then I tried installing a firmware using odin and it failed and now my SM-G920F Samsung Galaxy S6 is
"An error has occured while updating the device software.Use the Emergency recovery function in the Smart Switch PC Software" - i Tried using that but I'm getting an error saying the device can't be initialized...
What to do now guys?
TibiDM said:
I've tried unrooting my phone and it went infinite loop, then I tried installing a firmware using odin and it failed and now my SM-G920F Samsung Galaxy S6 is
"An error has occured while updating the device software.Use the Emergency recovery function in the Smart Switch PC Software" - i Tried using that but I'm getting an error saying the device can't be initialized...
What to do now guys?
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Hi mate, what version of Android were you running on your S6? if you were on nougat youve got to install nougat firmware. they dont let you roll back the android stock from what im aware of. Youve installed all your Samsung Drivers Right?