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Tutorial: how to unbrick your phone

Bricked my phone after trying out CM7 and then flashing Stock ROM via KDZ_FW_UPD without wiping all data.
Found a way how to fix my problem. This should work for almost all bricked phones.
Remember, this will wipe ALL DATA from your phone. I'm not responsible if something happens with your P970. Do at your own risk.
You will need:
Drivers for P970;
KDZ_FW_UPD_EN
UpTestEX_mod2_marwin
WindowsEnablerv1.1
Download
Start from here if it's first time (no drivers installed, etc):
1) Install all drivers (from Drivers folder);
2) Disable LGE Virtual Modem (Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager);
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Start from here if drivers already installed:
3) Run msxml.msi (in KDZ_FW_UPD folder);
4) Delete mfc42.dll (from KDZ_FW_UPD folder);
5) Run WindowsEnabler.exe and set it to ON;
6) Run UpTestEX_mod2_marwin.exe;
7) Set your phone to S/W Upgrade mode (take out battery, while pressing Volume Up, plug USB cable).
1) Select KDZ file (download from here);
2) Click "CSE web upgrade test", then "Upgrade Start".
Chose your language and wait till phone reboots. It will take some time and could look like nothing is going on. If you see something similar to this (on your phone) for a moment, everything went OK.

maaaaaaaaaaaaan em trying it right now.....let u know as soon as i see some results
THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
---------- Post added at 01:38 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:07 PM ----------
"YES" it really works!!!
Thanks a billion times man! You saved my life
(for everyone else who is trying to follow this TUT...when i was updating it was stuck at 4% and showed a lot of errors in the log below...but i guess that didnt matter and now it works...that screen at the end is really must...and i had to force close the update tool after my phone was working)

I think this is solution for ALL BRICKED P970s that can enter into S/W Upgrade mode!!!
Very important is that this method do HARD RESET after flashing firmware so it could UNBRICK ALL of our phones.
Can anyone with bricked phone (not CM7 brick) can test it?

I a little bit edited tutorial and, yeah, it could help for all bricked phones. We just need someone who could test it out.

I linked it at RC's G+ and RootzWiki, in response to those bricking their OB's in regards with CM7. Hope they could give us feedbacks.
Sent from my Optimus Black using xda premium

cool, finally a method that can do "hard reset" without a running system or a recovery installed !!
LG would have implement the hard reset in his Recovery in the B2CAppSetup ! it would avoid lots of send back to LG customer service !!
Thanks

quyTam said:
LG would have implement the hard reset in his Recovery in the B2CAppSetup
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No, LG would have implement the recovery key combination... It would be remedy for almost all P970 bricks...
Does anybody knows another phone with Android without hardware key combination for recovery?
Is it even possible that hardware key combination (changing bootloader) will be possible to add-on by official LG firmware update? Maybe they should do this with official 2.3 upgrade, but it is probably only dream...
PS. I forgot to thanx, ziiljuks, you're the man!

yes, recovery combination key would be better ^^
ps: I think x8 doesn't have it either

quote from rootzwiki: "adb.exe reboot recovery saved my life!!!!"
i guess we can boot into recovery with this command. i didn't know that adb environment can run with bootloop or volume up screen... can anybody confirm this?

murrun said:
i didn't know that adb environment can run with bootloop or volume up screen
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No, it can't. You need to boot to OS and have enabled Debugging to get ADB working.
I was trying it many times when I bricked my phone. Look HERE.

It seems very good work! But i just bought my phone, i have not fllash my rom yet, since i am afraid that flashing will damage my warranty forever. Could shut body tell
Me whether there is ANY means to recover the warranty........
Sent from my LG-P970 using XDA App

yes, by reflasing stock rom !

CSE means CS_EMERGENCY
I think this does the same if you select the CS_EMERGENCY mode on KDZU.

Ilko said:
CSE means CS_EMERGENCY
I think this does the same if you select the CS_EMERGENCY mode on KDZU.
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Nope. Tried that when I bricked my phone couple of weeks ago.
EDIT:
Tested it 5 mins. ago with CS_EMERGENCY in KDZU, and no. No hard resetting.

hmm I should test this tool again. I previously gave up that because it has never worked, until I know those kdz files must keep their name

i dont get the "CSE web upgrade test" button in the UpTestEX_mod2_marwin window.
any ideas?
tried normal upgrade but dosnt make the factory reset and keep geting boot loop.
yes another victim of CM/ > Stock
ok found it. in the type has to be in CDMA not 3GQCT

Hello,man.
There's some problems in using this method.
A guy does the upgrade,and the phone is stuck at 4% too. But unlike the situation u've met, there's not even a error in the log. Then , he has to switch off the USB(means disconnect the phone and the PC. sorry, my English is... - -#). I wanna know how much time does the upgrading process takes. Thanks.
Meanwhile ,there's another guy. He did the same thing .And the phone reboots finally. But what confuses me is that he didn't get the picture on the screen. Could you explain , thanks in my heart!
And thanks ziiljuks very much!

maybe a corrupted kdz file, try to re-download another.

elBartoFlores said:
i dont get the "CSE web upgrade test" button in the UpTestEX_mod2_marwin window.
any ideas?
tried normal upgrade but dosnt make the factory reset and keep geting boot loop.
yes another victim of CM/ > Stock
ok found it. in the type has to be in CDMA not 3GQCT
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Download THIS package. It has all the files in one folder. Unpack it to C:\ You should get C:\P970_unbrick\*files here*
Install msxml.msi, then run Windows Enabler.exe and click on its icon in the taskbar. Icon will change and will show "ON". Then run UpTestEX_mod2_marwin.exe and do the rest of the job.

glenn_gm said:
Hello,man.
There's some problems in using this method.
A guy does the upgrade,and the phone is stuck at 4% too. But unlike the situation u've met, there's not even a error in the log. Then , he has to switch off the USB(means disconnect the phone and the PC. sorry, my English is... - -#). I wanna know how much time does the upgrading process takes. Thanks.
Meanwhile ,there's another guy. He did the same thing .And the phone reboots finally. But what confuses me is that he didn't get the picture on the screen. Could you explain , thanks in my heart!
And thanks ziiljuks very much!
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When i followed this tut my update process was stuck at 4% and actually it "didn't" flash the stock rom...(although it was already flash before my the KDZU tool) this tool simply after giving alot of errors in the log file did a hard reset (that last screen---which actually does the magic by formatting the data partition). After that screen my phone restarted and BINGO i was at the setup wizard! then i closed the tool bcz it was stuck but my phone was working

[Q] Bricked S1 Auto-booting

Hi Guys,
I'm having strange troubles with my galaxy S1 i9000
Problem: Phone wil auto reboot as soon as you put in the battery no buttons have to be pushed anymore to make it boot up !
When it boots up it only does that for a few seconds, just enough to see the samsung logo then it goes off again.
Download mode is to be accessed but only for a few seconds, no mather what it shuts down completely and starts over.
Recovery mode is not working at all !
Download mode: time too short for my pc to recognize the usb device.
How did this happen ? The phone was currently running on ICS_4.0.3_MR1-RC4.2_I9000 with no major problems !
I only had some problems with use of few apps and the camera but that was fixed with a fix permissons setting. (that was earlier that day)
The error occured during the charging of the battery that evening, it just started booting over and over
The only way to stop this is pulling out the battery, but when it is inserted again it starts rebooting again.
Also I opened up the phone to look inside for dirt or other problems also cleaned out the usb port and other holes with compressed air. the inside looks okay to me all buttons feel fine too.
I already searched this forum about this problem there were few who had 'similar' problems but they were lucky to have warranty my phone is beyond that I supose with 2 years of age
The ones with warranty send it back to repairs and got it working again after a software mod and an hardware replacement they do not know or said what the hardware replacement was...
Hopefully there is someone who know's this problem and can suggest how i can fix this ?
Thanks in advance !

Does the download more works? Try to push VolDown+Home+Power even if it is
in this bootloop. After some time I think it must show the yellow logo of download
mode... Did you try it?

twinsen.net said:
Does the download more works? Try to push VolDown+Home+Power even if it is
in this bootloop. After some time I think it must show the yellow logo of download
mode... Did you try it?
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Yes I tried this... As I said it will go into download mode (with the yellow logo) but only for a few seconds then it reboots !
I also tried it with a Jig but with same result

I had the same problem yesterday, running off FW 2.3.6 . Kies wanted to update the firmware, but it stopped after 15 %, and basically trashed the OS.
Phone kept booting by itself, and shut off by itself.
The trick here was to take out sim, and mem card, use VOL UP ( not down ) , select ( bottom ) and then power.
Then i could do a factory reset ( you get the screen with the options )and with Odin i could load a old 2.3.4 FW.
maybe this helps ?
GR r

Well i've made some progress in the rebooting problem !
The phone is not auto-booting anymore it just stopped doing that after continiously trying to get it in download or recovery mode.
However I got it in download mode and was able to flash the rom to stock via odin !
Now the device is working again but there still is one problem the on/off switch seems to be broken !
Once it rebooted via odin it could not be turned off the normal way, only by pulling out the battery.
So I opened up the phone again and found out that on the flatwire towards the on/off switch it has a tiny round scratchmark probably caused by the leverage witch holds the plastic button in place on the edgecasing of the phone.
I'l try to get a picture of this here:
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On the left side you have the button, al little to the right in the flatwire there is a dark spot ! that is where the wire is damaged !
So if anyone knows where I can buy a new powerbutton ? Feel free to contact me
Already ordered parts online ! so I think the phone will be fine next week !
Thanks for the help and suggestions !

[Q] N7000 bricked?

Hello, peeps!
So I was when starting an application, my phone doesn't respond. Tried the power button and it didn't work so I removed the battery and placed it back in.
Here's when my nightmare starts. My phone is stuck at the "GT-N7000" screen, and I cannot proceed further. I'm unable to start Recovery Mode (Vol Up + Power + Home), and only Download Mode works.
However, I tried flashing stock roms, Odin showed no progress even after almost 2 hours.
What seems to be the issue? Is it a hard brick?

Questions should be in the Q&A section.
Is odin able to detect the phone.. ( the port square in odin turns yellow/blue?).
check if there are any Kies processes running in the task manager.. kill them, restart odin and restart phone in download mode and try again.

nokiamodeln91 said:
Questions should be in the Q&A section.
Is odin able to detect the phone.. ( the port square in odin turns yellow/blue?).
check if there are any Kies processes running in the task manager.. kill them, restart odin and restart phone in download mode and try again.
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Hi, how do I move the topic?
Odin is able to detect it. Checked and no Kies processes running at all.

where is Odin getting stuck?

nokiamodeln91 said:
where is Odin getting stuck?
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stuck at the NAND Write part, and the progress bar shows no progress at all (the green bar thing). Could this mean hard brick?

do you have warranty? If yes, take it to Samsung and tell them to rectify it. If no warranty then, you will need to get into recovery may be by flashing a kernel using odin.

nokiamodeln91 said:
do you have warranty? If yes, take it to Samsung and tell them to rectify it. If no warranty then, you will need to get into recovery may be by flashing a kernel using odin.
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Wow...thank you for such quick replies!!
Nope, no longer in warranty..Can I have a link to the kernel file?
Thank you so much!

Before you go about this.. try a reboot PC, reboot download mode phone. try a original USB cable and main USB port of pc and flash again,
If above still stops at NAND
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1901191
look for a tar.md5 file which is odin flashable. If you remember the build number of you phone, then pick that else get any JB kernel and flash using odin. check if odin gives a pass.

nokiamodeln91 said:
Before you go about this.. try a reboot PC, reboot download mode phone. try a original USB cable and main USB port of pc and flash again,
If above still stops at NAND
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1901191
look for a tar.md5 file which is odin flashable. If you remember the build number of you phone, then pick that else get any JB kernel and flash using odin. check if odin gives a pass.
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I've flashed it, unfortunately it's stuck at NAND (kernel flash). Are there any alternatives?
Thanks!

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Sorry for double posting, here's the screenshot..

you dont need to select it everywhere... just the PDA ONLY.
1. download http://d-h.st/FVh.. this is a PIT file.. select it in the PIT partition. Check it and also repartition.
2. select the kernel file in the PDA..
3. press start... (you will need to reboot into download mode every time to start flashing. so remove the battery.. reboot into download mode.. (vol down+home+power)... after you get the screen volume up to continue.. once the screen shows DOWNLOADING, then connect to pc .. open odin

Thanks again!
How long does it normally take for the entire process to complete? The progress bar of "Set Partition" isn't moving at all

There seems to be some issue with the USB Port or Cable or PC.. you need to check ...a full flash of rom takes about 5-10 mins.

use only the back usb port, don't use the front or extension usb ports, they often throw up problems.. good luck

elprix and
I tried everything suggested, but the progress bar doesn't even move
What are the symptoms of hard brick btw?
EDIT : I tried with Odin3 V3.09, and it is stated Re-Partition failed.
EDIT2 : Tried multiple files, progress bar not moving at all.

It don't write to NAND. But it still is able to set partition. Have you tried a different pc? Uninstall Kies completely and then again install Samsung usb drivers.
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Hi everyone!
I experience a similar problem as the original poster! Yesterday my phone was fine, but then it rebooted and got stuck. Now I can only get in to "Download mode". There it says:
Odin Mode
Product Name: GT-N7000
Custom binary download: No
Current binary: Samsung Official
I've had it running Paranoid Android successfully for months and then this happened! So where do I go from here,,,? I have Odin downloaded, drivers installed, so what should I try to flash and in what order?
I would be thankful for any help - feel a bit handicapped without a phone!

316097 said:
Hi everyone!
I experience a similar problem as the original poster! Yesterday my phone was fine, but then it rebooted and got stuck. Now I can only get in to "Download mode". There it says:
Odin Mode
Product Name: GT-N7000
Custom binary download: No
Current binary: Samsung Official
I've had it running Paranoid Android successfully for months and then this happened! So where do I go from here,,,? I have Odin downloaded, drivers installed, so what should I try to flash and in what order?
I would be thankful for any help - feel a bit handicapped without a phone!
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Exactly what happened to me! Running on PA too! Any solutions?

[Q] Problem with bootloader Galaxy Tab P1000 internal memory corrupted

Hi,
Sorry for my english first.
I have Galaxy Tab GT-P1000... and problem.
My device have corruped internal memory. Problem with flash hidden.rfs and movinand.mst, and samsung logo loop.
At first I try to flash with Odin3 and stock firmware 2.3.3 and I see it's make no diffrent. Try second time this same and I see logo screen with mobile, PC and exclamation mark between.
I use OneClikLoader and I can go on Downloading Mode.
After that I read how to fix problem with internal memory and use only external sd card to make device work.
I download heimdall 3.09, Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread [XWJQ8], Overcome Kernell 4 and probably I do something wrong. Mayby i don't understand somthing. Now I can't explaint what I do wrong. I use Overcome Kernell zImage, mayby I swaaped RECOVERY with KERNEL in Heidmall.
I write what is the situation now.
My device looks like hard brick, almost. It won't turn on when flash is end, push power button and nothing. I connect to the computer and after 20min its show samung logo by long time and go another step, show short animation, but it stuck. I turned off and try turn on and nothing happend.
Somehow I managed turn on download mode on device. I thing I have corruped bootloader, kernell and evrything .
Could someone can help me and tell what should I do, what firmware, bootloader download and how to flash by heimdall only, becouse Odin don't see the device. We can accepted that device is hard bricked and we must flash everything.
Thank You
Whait for help
Damian

The first bit of advice is to let this thing charge up, preferably overnight. From the way your describing it, it sounds to me like your Battery has gone flat. And, although you can, and I have done some Flashing with ca~ 10% Battery Life. Its not something you should do regularly. Alas I didn't have a USB Charger back then. I have since corrected this oversight, and now I can fully charge my P1000 with-in 4~5 hours. Assuming that you can only charge though a PC this WILL take longer. A lot longer!
After which you should try to reflash again with the stock Gingerbread 2.3.3. Oden Package gt-p1000_mr.pit, GB_Stock_Safe_v5.tar and the XXJPZ Modem <- VERY IMPORTANT! In my experience if I had forgot to include this File in Oden, and then flashed anyway I'd land up in soft-brick land, which then required me to use the One-Click Recovery which is a PITA to have to keep setting up on each use. (on a Windows7 Netbook).
If you still get errors then you may have to also flash dbdata.tar (PDA Section) to your P1000, and then go back into recovery and rerun Wipe Data/Factory Reset & Wipe Cache Partition. Which should hopefully fix your problems.
These Files must be unzipped! THEY ARE NOT MEANT TO BE FLASHED VIA RECOVERY!! You have to use either Heimdall or Oden to flash this!

It is false to assume you need root to flash a custom Rom. You only need custom recovery.
Rooting allows you to gain super user privileges.
Just because the kernel that has cwm also has root doesn't make rooting necessary.
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Thank You very much for help.
I do what you wrote and now I have samsung loop logo and CMR.
Now I can get i recovery mode with CMR V3.0.0.5
Now I only must swap vold.fstab but I can't get SU in adb shell. When I go to the adb shell, then in new cmd windows I put SU and get: perrmision denied. It should be rootend is't?
I will read now how to get SU acces but if someone can tell me how is easy way to swap files, I will be lising
Thank You one more time

Triceq said:
Thank You very much for help.
I do what you wrote and now I have samsung loop logo and CMR.
Now I can get i recovery mode with CMR V3.0.0.5
Now I only must swap vold.fstab but I can't get SU in adb shell. When I go to the adb shell, then in new cmd windows I put SU and get: perrmision denied. It should be rootend is't?
I will read now how to get SU acces but if someone can tell me how is easy way to swap files, I will be lising
Thank You one more time
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I change vold.fstab from this solution: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1463756
My tab still looping I have logcat:
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I should instal another rom, recovery file, do something in CMR Mode?

[Q] can't get recovery mode to work to reset my s5 mini

I have a new s5 mini that suddenly just gave me a memory partition error that said the I had to restore the device to the factory settings. It had a button that gave the option to reset the phone but when I touched it the phone didn't do anything. So I decided to go to recovery mode and reset it from there.
I asked a friend to boot into recovery mode for me and i guess she used the wrong combination of buttons but she got into a screen that said something about updating the OS and something. So I checked the screen and for some reason I ended up clicking yes to install a different OS (it wasn't my intention to do this btw. it was a mistake). Anyway... I was not at home and the phone just said: "downloading... do not turn off target" but the phone took a long time to do anything so I ended up turning it off.
When I tried to boot back to recovery mode (and realized that the button combination was different from what my friend pressed) i got the android with the red exclamation mark and then it boots back to the problem with the memory partition error. And I just don't seem to be able to boot into recovery to reset the phone and make it usable again.
What can I do with this to hard reset the phone and recover it??
Thanks!!
UPDATE: I am trying to follow this guide to flash a stock firmware:
http://techbeasts.com/2014/10/06/how-restore-stock-firmware-unroot-samsung-galaxy-s5mini/
My device is SM-G800H from Mexico. It's a DUAL SIM device and it came unlocked for all carriers. So I picked this firmware (south america open line. Region: NBS) from this website:
http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SM-G800H
But when I tried to flash I got an error that I have attached in a pitcure.
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I bet there is something I am doing wrong here but I don't understand what. I have already tried to change USB ports and I am already using the original USB cable that came with the phone. (remember my phone is new. I've had it for one week so far, so I know the cable is good and the phone is too). Is it maybe the wrong firmware I am getting?? Which one should I get?
Thanks!

Sir,
Please wait until mods will move this thread to the device specific forum.
Stand by
Good luck

aerismel said:
I have a new s5 mini that suddenly just gave me a memory partition error that said the I had to restore the device to the factory settings. It had a button that gave the option to reset the phone but when I touched it the phone didn't do anything. So I decided to go to recovery mode and reset it from there.
I asked a friend to boot into recovery mode for me and i guess she used the wrong combination of buttons but she got into a screen that said something about updating the OS and something. So I checked the screen and for some reason I ended up clicking yes to install a different OS (it wasn't my intention to do this btw. it was a mistake). Anyway... I was not at home and the phone just said: "downloading... do not turn off target" but the phone took a long time to do anything so I ended up turning it off.
When I tried to boot back to recovery mode (and realized that the button combination was different from what my friend pressed) i got the android with the red exclamation mark and then it boots back to the problem with the memory partition error. And I just don't seem to be able to boot into recovery to reset the phone and make it usable again.
What can I do with this to hard reset the phone and recover it??
Thanks!!
UPDATE: I am trying to follow this guide to flash a stock firmware:
http://techbeasts.com/2014/10/06/how-restore-stock-firmware-unroot-samsung-galaxy-s5mini/
My device is SM-G800H from Mexico. It's a DUAL SIM device and it came unlocked for all carriers. So I picked this firmware (south america open line. Region: NBS) from this website:
http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SM-G800H
But when I tried to flash I got an error that I have attached in a pitcure.
I bet there is something I am doing wrong here but I don't understand what. I have already tried to change USB ports and I am already using the original USB cable that came with the phone. (remember my phone is new. I've had it for one week so far, so I know the cable is good and the phone is too). Is it maybe the wrong firmware I am getting?? Which one should I get?
Thanks!
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From my little experience, this is not the right firmware for your unlocked international device, the NBS region as stated here is for Nicaragua (movistar) carrier, you stated that it's for South America (Open Line), either way this one is for carrier specific, branded version not for the unlocked international version like yours, I'm not sure which firmware you should use but you can ask Admins here.

I own the same device as you, may be you can use one of this roms:
G800HXXU1ANH4
G800HXXU1ANGG
G800HXXU1ANGC
Good luck

I had similar issue
I am from Algeria but I bought the s5-mini (G800H/DS) from England
The cause of the problem : my phone went off while doing a factory reset because of the battery !
The problem : when I put the battery in the phone , the least boots directly into Odin mode & stucks in Downloader Mode (could not do normal boot)
-I couldn't turn off the phone .
-When I pull the battery and put it back the phone starts immediately without pressing any button .
-The combination of long press (Volume up+ Home Button + Power) restarts the phone to the same mode Downloader Mode (could not do normal boot)
-This method didn't work also :
1. Turn off your phone
2. Remove battery and SIM card (if you have SIM card in your phone)
3. Wait 5 minutes
4. Replace SIM card and battery but not SD card
5. Press and hold Power button for 20 seconds.
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-I couldn't know the build of my s5-mini or what firmware to pick .
-the pc did not recognize the phone (tried different computers & drivers & odins & usb...etc ).
What worked for me : Long press on (Volume up+ Home Button + Power) , when the phone vibrates before the samsung logo appears release all buttons and immediately press only Volume Down , the phone will boot in Odin Mode with details different from the previous one and without the error(could not do normal boot) , and the pc finally could recognize it .
I could see under Odin Mode build number which was G800HXXU1ANH4 , I kept looking for the firmware ,but couldn't find it .
I found only G800HXXU1ANGD and dicided to try it because i was so tired , and it worked till now
sorry if u cannot understand me , because i'm not that good in English
I hope this will help .