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bought phone from becetech wont update firmware

im sorry if this is in the wrong section but ,ok so i bought an open box galaxy s6 from becetech online and it would not let me update the firmware past 5.1.1 which made me a bit suss, downloaded root checker app and it came too me rooted. apart from not being able to update the firmware past 5.1.1 as far as im aware the phone has no issues and works perfectly fine. i downloaded the *samsung* phone info app, in general under manufacturer it says Samsung/verizon so im assuming that is part of the reason they rooted the phone as it needed to be unlocked from verizon to be refurbished? so what i want to know is how do i find out exactly what becetech have done to the phone and is there an easy way for me to update the firmware to nougat or at least marshmallow without stuffing the phone, like i said the phones running fine its just really bugging me not being to update. obviously im not able to work it out myself but i can follow instructions so any help from someone would be greatly appreciated so thank you in advance.

Benno81 said:
im sorry if this is in the wrong section but ,ok so i bought an open box galaxy s6 from becetech online and it would not let me update the firmware past 5.1.1 which made me a bit suss, downloaded root checker app and it came too me rooted. apart from not being able to update the firmware past 5.1.1 as far as im aware the phone has no issues and works perfectly fine. i downloaded the *samsung* phone info app, in general under manufacturer it says Samsung/verizon so im assuming that is part of the reason they rooted the phone as it needed to be unlocked from verizon to be refurbished? so what i want to know is how do i find out exactly what becetech have done to the phone and is there an easy way for me to update the firmware to nougat or at least marshmallow without stuffing the phone, like i said the phones running fine its just really bugging me not being to update. obviously im not able to work it out myself but i can follow instructions so any help from someone would be greatly appreciated so thank you in advance.
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Could someone with a bit more knowledge please tell me if the reason I can't update the firmware is because the firmware csc is TGY when I'm in Australia or just because it's rooted or what? I'm getting no answers from the company who I bought it off

Benno81 said:
Could someone with a bit more knowledge please tell me if the reason I can't update the firmware is because the firmware csc is TGY when I'm in Australia or just because it's rooted or what? I'm getting no answers from the company who I bought it off
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Are you trying to update via the phone update feature? If so this won't work as rooting disabled the ability Update using ota

First I tried OTA then downloaded samsung smart switch and gave that a go both no good. What I want to know is, if they had to root the phone to refurbish it will it brick it if I try to update? Won't it reset all the company I bought it off has done to it to refurbish it? Which I'm guessing is quite a process as when I look at the open source licenses there's a long list of files that have been changed. It just sucks that it's locked to a three year old version of the firmware that I'm worried apps will start to stop supporting in the near future? Apart from that I can not fault the phone there's been no problems, maybe I'm asking a bit much for a $400 phone?

Benno81 said:
First I tried OTA then downloaded samsung smart switch and gave that a go both no good. What I want to know is, if they had to root the phone to refurbish it will it brick it if I try to update? Won't it reset all the company I bought it off has done to it to refurbish it? Which I'm guessing is quite a process as when I look at the open source licenses there's a long list of files that have been changed. It just sucks that it's locked to a three year old version of the firmware that I'm worried apps will start to stop supporting in the near future? Apart from that I can not fault the phone there's been no problems, maybe I'm asking a bit much for a $400 phone?
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From what I can tell you have a g920v variant if the phone Shows Verizon but the sure fire way to know what variant you have is turn the phone off once off hold home-power-volume down, this will take you to download mode but should tell you your variant. You don't need to root a phone to refurbish It, you can flash Stock firmwares via Odin. I really don't know why they would have Rooted It tbh, you'd need to contact them, but I know for sure you can manually download the latest Verizon firmware and the phone should work. Maybe they Rooted it as part of making it network unlocked, o really can't say

Ok I tried that and a bright blue screen came up warning about custom OS then press up volume for download and down volume for reset? I just pressed down as there was no other info on the screen but it does say it's a sm-g920v in the settings as well as the root checker app. Another thing was I did ring samsung support gave them the serial number and IMEI and they said an authorized modification had been done on the phone but could offer no other support as it wasn't an Australian phone. I'll keep trying to get some info out of the company I bought it off and try to sort it out thanks for your help :good:

Still on Android 8.1

Is there anyone who didn't received Android 9.0? My p20 dual sim is still stucked on Android 8.1. No news about an update even if I'm checking in settings, changing sim slot, changing language in hi care.! Nothing seems to find any update. Firmware finder finds updates, but I can't install it. My bootloader is still locked and I can't even root my phone.

shtresatu said:
Is there anyone who didn't received Android 9.0? My p20 dual sim is still stucked on Android 8.1. No news about an update even if I'm checking in settings, changing sim slot, changing language in hi care.! Nothing seems to find any update. Firmware finder finds updates, but I can't install it. My bootloader is still locked and I can't even root my phone.
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You can try to update through hisuite on your PC.

I will try. I've never used pc suite

shtresatu said:
I will try. I've never used pc suite
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You just connect your phone to pc, enable HDB in phone settings and than click on update in hisuite on PC, that's it

Still nothing! Pc suite doesn't find any update for my phone.

shtresatu said:
Still nothing! Pc suite doesn't find any update for my phone.
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You have a phone from a weird region SP5C900. Usually in Europe we have C432 region and the latest update is 9.0.0.280. Still waiting for 9.1.

shtresatu said:
Is there anyone who didn't received Android 9.0? My p20 dual sim is still stucked on Android 8.1. No news about an update even if I'm checking in settings, changing sim slot, changing language in hi care.! Nothing seems to find any update. Firmware finder finds updates, but I can't install it. My bootloader is still locked and I can't even root my phone.
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Me and some other people got the update by switching the SIM-Card. One that never has been in your phone, at best with another provider. Sounds weird, but give it a try.

I've tried with another sim card from same provider. Didn't worked. I will buy a different provider sim card.

shtresatu said:
Still nothing! Pc suite doesn't find any update for my phone.
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Canicula is right, your branding is weird, at worst scenerio you can rebrand your phone using funky Huawei(costs like 28$)

Than I will stay on android 8.1, since is not a big change. Does any of you know a good method to root this phone?

shtresatu said:
Than I will stay on android 8.1, since is not a big change. Does any of you know a good method to root this phone?
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One member of this telegram group knows how to obtain bootloader code from Kirin 970 devices but you will need to disassemble your phone, you can ask him(don't PM him or they will ban you) https://t.me/joinchat/I0ghckXZ93L8U-PCP4-YxQ

shtresatu said:
Is there anyone who didn't received Android 9.0? My p20 dual sim is still stucked on Android 8.1. No news about an update even if I'm checking in settings, changing sim slot, changing language in hi care.! Nothing seems to find any update. Firmware finder finds updates, but I can't install it. My bootloader is still locked and I can't even root my phone.
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You should get in touch with Huawei service in your area. You should have received an ugrade long time ago maybe there's an issue with your device. The P20 started to receive Android 9.1 this month already.

I'm having the same issue right now.
Current version is "EML-L29 8.1.0.168(C432)" and it claims that there's no system upgrade available.
I don't have any machine that is capable to run hisuite (or does it properly work with virtualbox).
Is there nowadays any other advice?

hackepeterbroetchen said:
I'm having the same issue right now.
Current version is "EML-L29 8.1.0.168(C432)" and it claims that there's no system upgrade available.
I don't have any machine that is capable to run hisuite (or does it properly work with virtualbox).
Is there nowadays any other advice?
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I think you also have a demo Huawei. That was the answer from my Huawei center! It doesn't work with modified HiSuite! And with Firmware Finder I'm afraid that I will hardbrick my device!

samsung galaxy s7 custom binary blocked by frp lock

Greetings, ever since i tried rooting my phone, i knew something went wrong (i used cf autoroot).
So the first thing i noticed, i was asked to reset the phone or something similar to that, meaning i would lose all my data.
I tried to find a workaround as this had never happened to me before while rooting a phone, and someone had said that i was supposed to download twrp
and change some partition and then change it back. I dont remember what else he mentioned and what exactly i tried doing, i realised it was formatted either way and i had to start fresh. As i setup my phone i went and switched the oem unlock back to "off", as i did not wanna attempt to root again, but i hadn't realised that my phone was infact rooted sucessfully, leading me to my first error after restarting. "Custom binary blocked by frp lock", with absolutely no access to recovery mode at all anymore. Again, trying to find a workaround, i download some stockfirmware that i atleast had hoped was the right one for my phone, after a couple failed attempts of flashing with odin, ( i had gotten various different error messeges on download mode screen such as (REV Check fail device 7 binary 0 and others witch i cannot remember), now im getting a new error screen, stating that an error has occured while updating the device software. I cant flash twrp recovery as the frp lock is on, and the only thing i can guess is that im flashing the wrong firmware, but i cant find a matching code at all.
Its the following: sm-g930fzkadbt
IMEI: 35214310282955
on the back of the phone it says uk yateley, although the phone was purchased in germany.
Im not sure what to do anymore, any advice would be greatly appreciated.
PS: I have managed to get back to the old error screen with the custom binary info, this time with bootloop, by checking the deviceinfo box on odin

Yep you've now learned the hard way not to mess about and read the proper guides.
Anyway "dbt" is just unbranded german firmware. Download UK "BTU" and flash with Odin, it's UK unbranded.
FRP lock means you'll need to unlock the phone with the google account and password that was on it before you started messing about with it.
If you don't know the google email and password you need to read up on how to bypass FRP lock and it's a nightmare.

cooltt said:
Yep you've now learned the hard way not to mess about and read the proper guides.
Anyway "dbt" is just unbranded german firmware. Download UK "BTU" and flash with Odin, it's UK unbranded.
FRP lock means you'll need to unlock the phone with the google account and password that was on it before you started messing about with it.
If you don't know the google email and password you need to read up on how to bypass FRP lock and it's a nightmare.
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Thanks for your reply, just a question, will any btu update work? Should i download latest android version btu firmware?
(Also yes, it was stupid of me to try and do it quick but i had rooted 3 different samsung galaxy phones in the past without issues, either i did something wrong or it took something way too specific to do the job, perhaps the phone's unrootable, but thank you either way) :fingers-crossed:

Elef244 said:
Thanks for your reply, just a question, will any btu update work? Should i download latest android version btu firmware?
(Also yes, it was stupid of me to try and do it quick but i had rooted 3 different samsung galaxy phones in the past without issues, either i did something wrong or it took something way too specific to do the job, perhaps the phone's unrootable, but thank you either way) :fingers-crossed:
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You'll likely only find the last version of BTU think it was August 2019. It isn't updated officially anymore but it'll be fine to use.

cooltt said:
You'll likely only find the last version of BTU think it was August 2019. It isn't updated officially anymore but it'll be fine to use.
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I've found android 6 to android 8 with all the monthly updates, im just trying the latest of the latest though i dont remember my android version, ill try android 7 and 6 if that doesn't work, thanks again. I'll make sure to reply if this works or doesn't.

cooltt said:
Yep you've now learned the hard way not to mess about and read the proper guides.
Anyway "dbt" is just unbranded german firmware. Download UK "BTU" and flash with Odin, it's UK unbranded.
FRP lock means you'll need to unlock the phone with the google account and password that was on it before you started messing about with it.
If you don't know the google email and password you need to read up on how to bypass FRP lock and it's a nightmare.
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OK so i thought it worked but i can only enter recovery mode now and download mode, but cant actually boot the system, it just boots up the battery screen whenever i plug the charger, and never shows the actual battery info, just the thunder icon. Formatting from recovery mode doesn't help either (Note whenever i launch recovery mode it says installing update, then says no command and brings me to the recovery menu) Any ideas?
PS: It fixed itself. Sorry for the pointless edit.

SM-A205U (MetroPCS) OEM Unlock

Hello,
Just wanted to share this with the community as I found this just yesterday. If you goto your settings and click connections then "More connection settings" towards the bottom there is an option for "Network Unlock". I did this like I said yesterday and it permanent unlocked the phone. I don't have any other SIM cards to try and see if it will go on a different network but just wanted to point this out to the community!
~DJ

djdeath15 said:
Hello,
Just wanted to share this with the community as I found this just yesterday. If you goto your settings and click connections then "More connection settings" towards the bottom there is an option for "Network Unlock". I did this like I said yesterday and it permanent unlocked the phone. I don't have any other SIM cards to try and see if it will go on a different network but just wanted to point this out to the community!
~DJ
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That's not an OEM unlock, you've only unlocked the SIM card lock.

Into the sun you go

I wondered if this was either effecting, &or blocking or stopping oem unlock from showing or being visible? Just a thought.

ATGkompressor said:
I wondered if this was either effecting, &or blocking or stopping oem unlock from showing or being visible? Just a thought.
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It's our specific model.
There are no 205u units in public domain that exist with an oem toggle.
It's disabled by default in the 205u source.

The only way this might be possible is with combination firmware but in all my searching so far i have yet to find bootloader 5 combination firmware ...
If anyone can find me a bootloader 5 android 10 combination firmware for the 205U varient i would be willing to see if there would be a way to get this rooted and bootloader unlocked

https://www.full-repair-firmware.com/2019/08/Combination-a205u.html

physwizz said:
https://www.full-repair-firmware.com/2019/08/Combination-a205u.html
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Has everything except binary 5, probably gonna be waiting on that for a while

ninjasinabag said:
Has everything except binary 5, probably gonna be waiting on that for a while
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Bin 4 won't work?

physwizz said:
Bin 4 won't work?
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It would help for anyone still on pie if we could flash it.
Anyone who upgraded to Q would be in the cold for now.

i cant use bin 4 on my device because i upgragded to android 10 already on it so i couldnt even test to see if it was possible thats why im looking for combo firmware bootloader 5

ninjasinabag said:
It would help for anyone still on pie if we could flash it.
Anyone who upgraded to Q would be in the cold for now.
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Yo I got this phone and figured it's a paperweight until root aka on Android 9 installed magisk manager , zarchiver and combination file matching numbers. Here is where I'm at a lack of expertise cuz magisk won't install enough to feed it the boot.img. Please Help Anyone:silly:

ddougg said:
Yo I got this phone and figured it's a paperweight until root aka on Android 9 installed magisk manager , zarchiver and combination file matching numbers. Here is where I'm at a lack of expertise cuz magisk won't install enough to feed it the boot.img. Please Help Anyone:silly:
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The combination file is from an older bootloader, so it retains the most recent bootloader to maintain integrity of the Qfuse.
That's kinda why we want the combination file for 10, the bootloader hasn't changed which means the file would be universal for anyone who updates.

ninjasinabag said:
The combination file is from an older bootloader, so it retains the most recent bootloader to maintain integrity of the Qfuse.
That's kinda why we want the combination file for 10, the bootloader hasn't changed which means the file would be universal for anyone who updates.
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yo Ninja I found the latest firmware with the u5 bootloader . It won't let me upload , bummer. I'll try again tonight. help

ddougg said:
yo Ninja I found the latest firmware with the u5 bootloader . It won't let me upload , bummer. I'll try again tonight. help
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Do you have a link or anything to the source? I'll check it out and test when home

Ninja Do you have an email I could send the files to? Mega is being itchy bout an account from 3years ago and drive wants to copy my entire laptop,

I have the 205U as well I never could get antything to work I tried Odin and Magisk did not work I do have Android 10 as well I just look at the fix website I dont know what to do there or it would work with my latest vversion of my phone willl shoud I try to use it and would it be done it hasd 5 fixes that need to be installed ?

U is Unrootable

techmanc said:
I have the 205U as well I never could get antything to work I tried Odin and Magisk did not work I do have Android 10 as well I just look at the fix website I dont know what to do there or it would work with my latest vversion of my phone willl shoud I try to use it and would it be done it hasd 5 fixes that need to be installed ?
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At the moment, all U devices are unrootable.

Try this
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-a20/how-to/a205-bootloader-unlock-twrp-root-t4189197

Frp locked lg velvet android 12

Hi I have a lg velvet phone that's frp locked is there a way to bypass it with out a computer and can I use a sd card to bypass it or even to down grade it from android 12 to android 10

No one replied yet? That's my issue also. I do have a computer. I think to downgrade it you need to pay for the software. But haven't gotten any real solution yet

JoKingg said:
No one replied yet? That's my issue also. I do have a computer. I think to downgrade it you need to pay for the software. But haven't gotten any real solution yet
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You can downgrade it with an older dll from LGUP.Try this one!

It's crazy no one replied to doug for like 2 months. Have you tried downgrading and it worked?
Surgemanxx said:
You can downgrade it with an older dll from LGUP.Try this one!
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JoKingg said:
It's crazy no one replied to doug for like 2 months. Have you tried downgrading and it worked?
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I highly doubt downgrading will remove the FRP lock.There is 3 different versions of the Velvet.You have a 4g model which was never released in the states.The 5g devices have 2 different chipsets.AT&T/Verizon use the Snapdragon 765g which there isn't a firehose and the other is T-Mobile's MediaTek version.The MediaTek variant may be a little easier.I would personally try downgrading to A11 and see if it removes it.I don't think so,but worth a shot.I have seen some use Chimera Tool,and just reflash the firmware and it removes it for you.Most definitely you'll need a PC either way.You can search on Youtube and try some of those "so called" methods without a PC,but most I have seen are b.s. to begin with.Click bait!