Okay so I have a samsung galaxy a03s and I wanted to root it but it would appear that's not easy. So I then try to install lineage because that's rooted, but that's not very easy either so I try flash twrp because I think you need that first, and somewhere in between all that I seem to have broken the phone. I get the "error while updating system software" error, I try to fix it with smartswitch and it says this device is not compatible or something and won't fix it. I try Oden and I get the "sw rev check fail vbmeta fused 4 binary 2 rp check error vbmeta". Honestly idk what I did to it but I need help fixing it so if you could help me that would be awesome! Thanks.
Okay so update. I was able to flash the phone with Oden but now the phone just keeps boot looping, where it just turns on and the samsung logo flashes then turns back off, then it keeps doing it over and over.
Final update: I left it boot looping for a bit and then it said samsung.. then it said erasing. It restarted and booted. I think I finally fixed it almost a year later.
Wondering why you started this thread?
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Let me start by addressing I know this isn't the sprint thread but there's a lot more development here which equals more help. Plus this issue seems to be able to happen to any variant.
Second, this isn't my device I'm trying to see if it can be fixed for a friend. I'm not that familiar with Samsung devices but I have been able to get them working in the past via Odin or kies but this time I need some help.
So this is what's going on, my friend recently rooted his S6(SM-920P) not sure which method he used (don't think it matters at this stage) and was on stock rom (LP5.0.2) with xposed framework installed. He hadn't changed the kernel AFAIK oh but I did install TWRP for him and everything was working. Long story short he woke up a couple days ago to his phone being unable to turn back on. I told him how to get to download mode and I asked him what did it say on the top left corner it said something like "system binary not SEandroid locked" underneath that it said fac lock
So I had him give me the phone thinking somehow it did a OTA update while he was asleep or something either way I was confident using Odin to flash the firmware would solve the issue. Had the firmware finished flashing I'm confident it would have but halfway through Odin simply froze on installing system. I figured its just gonna take a while 45 mins later it was still stuck at the same spot.
Not really thinking about it I figured I will just reboot the phone back into download mode restart the process it should be fine. Not a good idea. Now all I get is a green screen saying to access the smart switch emergency recovery system. But it gets better.
My computer isn't recognizing the device now. I installed smart switch software and it's not recognizing it. I even installed Kies and it's not recognizing either.
Is his phone toast or what? I tried emergency system recovery but I need the S/N of his phone to possibly get this thing working again, but it boot into anything anymore except the screen that says Samsung switch...
PLEASE HELP ME if it's bricked it's bricked I get that but if there's a way to figure out what to do I'm all ears. Thanks in advance
So the phone worked fine when I bought it 2 days ago other than red text on top of the screen that said "binary is not seandroid enforcing". I looked into it and figured it meant the phone was rooted and custom. I picked up a nano sim today and the phone would not reboot. it started getting stuck saying "binary is not seandroid enforcing" and "custom binary blocked FRP locked". So i tried to flash back to stock rom with ODIN3 3.10.7. On the download mode screen it notes a custom binary and custom system as well as knox warranty void. So i try to flash N920TTMB1BOH6 first in the AP in ODIN3 and fails. Then i try to flash N920TTMB2COKC and it starts gets through some stuff and then fails; but it keeps my phone with a progress bar as if it is still installing but ODIN3 has failed out. So I exit ODIN3 and unplug the phone and now it will not turn off or start up into the boot loop. its stays on an error screen "an error has occurred while updating the device software use the emergency recovery function in smart switch". Smart switch did nothing. i put in the model and SN and it started to go to work and failed out after downloading info and gave me not emergency recover code. the only thing it can get into now is download/recover mode and when it is there is notes that the binary is now Samsung Official while the system is still custom. How do i get past this? I have attached a few screen shots of my issues.
Any help would be sooo awesome or I'm out way more cash than I'd like to be. :crying:
Josh
Message me ...I will help actually check your msgs I'll send u one
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did you get it working yet
joshd00 said:
So the phone worked fine when I bought it 2 days ago other than red text on top of the screen that said "binary is not seandroid enforcing". I looked into it and figured it meant the phone was rooted and custom. I picked up a nano sim today and the phone would not reboot. it started getting stuck saying "binary is not seandroid enforcing" and "custom binary blocked FRP locked". So i tried to flash back to stock rom with ODIN3 3.10.7. On the download mode screen it notes a custom binary and custom system as well as knox warranty void. So i try to flash N920TTMB1BOH6 first in the AP in ODIN3 and fails. Then i try to flash N920TTMB2COKC and it starts gets through some stuff and then fails; but it keeps my phone with a progress bar as if it is still installing but ODIN3 has failed out. So I exit ODIN3 and unplug the phone and now it will not turn off or start up into the boot loop. its stays on an error screen "an error has occurred while updating the device software use the emergency recovery function in smart switch". Smart switch did nothing. i put in the model and SN and it started to go to work and failed out after downloading info and gave me not emergency recover code. the only thing it can get into now is download/recover mode and when it is there is notes that the binary is now Samsung Official while the system is still custom. How do i get past this? I have attached a few screen shots of my issues.
Any help would be sooo awesome or I'm out way more cash than I'd like to be. :crying:
Josh
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did you get your phone working yet, i might be able to help you,,, i wont be avaibable till after the shabbat is over friday sundown to saturday sundown
I got it fixed. I just had to try it on a different computer. Ridiculous.
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I read in the thread guide that i should do this. just ignore it if i'm wrong.
Device: Samsung galaxy s6 edge SMG925f
Rom name: idk i can't even go to the home screen
Rom veersion: idk i can't evn go to the home screen
Build number: idk but i flashed an md5 file with the name G925FXXS5DQJ1_G925FOLB4DQJ1_G925FXXU5DPL6_HOME.tar
Rooted:????
no mods, i remember flashing twrp though
Okay to the problem,(sorry for my bad english) so my mom gave me a broken galaxy s6 edge if i fixed it then it's mine! but the problem is i can't ,it's been seven days since the first day i'm fixing this device.
at first it was stuck in a bootloop and 98% chance it will freeze during booting when it freezez it sometimes create lines of corrupted pixels i just press vol down + power to reboot.
I researched how to fix it and did a factory reset and wipe cache but still not working.
So i figured out i need to download a firmware to fix, so i downloaded one and it took two days because of the slow free download and frequent fails. i tried to flash it and i realised i downloaded the wrong one, so i downloaded one again and it took me a day. after that i tried to flash it using odin 3.12 and it fails during flashing 99% percent of the time because of the constant freezez and i need to press vol down + power for 1 minute for it to reboot now if i'm very lucky the flash will complete BUT during installation it froze at 24% so i flashed it again for the second time, that took 8 hours. and suddenly it to complete the flashing and installation BUT, upon completion it sudddenly says something like "No drk please install drk" i was completely infuriated and upon hours of research i found a tutorial where i need to flash auto chainfire so i did it, and it doesn't work it just cause bootloops
so after that i researcheed again and found this file kernel_G925f sforum i flashed it. and upon reboot it says 'Kernel is not seandroid enforcing' ,and it's not yet fixed it just cause bootloops and sometimes freeze on unfinished samsung logo animation.
I am now trying to flash firmware again to see if it could get fixed. every hour i am losing hope.
If theres any tips i could get that would be good.
If i fixed this s6 it'll be the biggest achievement of my life and own my first working smartphone.
japiestjapi said:
I read in the thread guide that i should do this. just ignore it if i'm wrong.
Device: Samsung galaxy s6 edge SMG925f
Rom name: idk i can't even go to the home screen
Rom veersion: idk i can't evn go to the home screen
Build number: idk but i flashed an md5 file with the name G925FXXS5DQJ1_G925FOLB4DQJ1_G925FXXU5DPL6_HOME.tar
Rooted:????
no mods, i remember flashing twrp though
Okay to the problem,(sorry for my bad english) so my mom gave me a broken galaxy s6 edge if i fixed it then it's mine! but the problem is i can't ,it's been seven days since the first day i'm fixing this device.
at first it was stuck in a bootloop and 98% chance it will freeze during booting when it freezez it sometimes create lines of corrupted pixels i just press vol down + power to reboot.
I researched how to fix it and did a factory reset and wipe cache but still not working.
So i figured out i need to download a firmware to fix, so i downloaded one and it took two days because of the slow free download and frequent fails. i tried to flash it and i realised i downloaded the wrong one, so i downloaded one again and it took me a day. after that i tried to flash it using odin 3.12 and it fails during flashing 99% percent of the time because of the constant freezez and i need to press vol down + power for 1 minute for it to reboot now if i'm very lucky the flash will complete BUT during installation it froze at 24% so i flashed it again for the second time, that took 8 hours. and suddenly it to complete the flashing and installation BUT, upon completion it sudddenly says something like "No drk please install drk" i was completely infuriated and upon hours of research i found a tutorial where i need to flash auto chainfire so i did it, and it doesn't work it just cause bootloops
so after that i researcheed again and found this file kernel_G925f sforum i flashed it. and upon reboot it says 'Kernel is not seandroid enforcing' ,and it's not yet fixed it just cause bootloops and sometimes freeze on unfinished samsung logo animation.
I am now trying to flash firmware again to see if it could get fixed. every hour i am losing hope.
If theres any tips i could get that would be good.
If i fixed this s6 it'll be the biggest achievement of my life and own my first working smartphone.
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Ahhhhh. forget it i finnaly fixed it the only problem is overheating. funny thing is i got rid of the freezing issue by hitting the phone against my leg.
I rooted my phone(sm-g955f) using odin nad magicks. i then decided to try and unroot it, uninstalling magicks, and turning oem lock back on (yeah im that stupid :crying: ). i still had some problems so i decided to reboot.
got stuck in i reboot loop, wich i can only stop by going into system update mode. It wont let me flash with the updates, as FRP lock got turned on.
Cant seem to let me flash stock rom either, or at least not the rom i found and any twrp i find is crashing during flash.
i cant boot the phone at all, at seemingly it wont let me flash anything.
only error i get is either:
sw rev. fail(.......) device: 3, Binary: 2
(also get FRP locked error message).
Please help!
Hi, were you able to resolve this and how please?
Greetings everyone,
I decided to post my problem with my phone after searching the entire internet for similar problem but with no luck. Anyway I used to play around with my Samsung j7 pro for 2 years, I managed to flash twrp and thus many other custom roms, until last week when I recklessly flashed a sboot.img.tar file through Odin in order to fix cellular network in a rom I flashed earlier, this alone bricked my phone refusing to get past the Samsung logo, so like I do always, I tried to restore my phone by flashing the stock firmware (9.0) which I always keep on my PC, but surprise, the phone refuses to go through the process and gives me this error:
sw rev check fail bootloader device -1 binary 6
(same with 8.0 and 7.0 firmware)
I searched the internet for same error but with no luck, because I understand it's a mismatch between device bootloader current version and the firmware bootloader's, that they should be the same or higher, meaning you can't downgrade, I get that! but I never seen device with negative figure (-1) what that's supposed to mean? my device bootloader used to be on 6, how did it managed to jump to minus one ?
then I tried to flash TWRP to see if I could flash a rom and get around it, so I did, but when booting into recovery the screen goes black, I thought first the phone turned off, but not really, because TWRP seems to work with screen completely black, I knew that because I accidentally touch the screen and I sense vibration, I managed to reboot the phone via twrp just by guessing the buttons location (screen always black) in order to prove that TWRP is working with screen off. I tried to flash multiple TWRP versions but the same problem, no screen just touch, by the way there is nothing wrong with display hardware because it shows Samsung logo at start and also can boot into download mode just fine.
I hope someone could help me overcome this big of an issue, because I tried everything.