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[Q] How to Extract the VZW Tab files

I think I asked my question wrong on the first post.
Shortly I will have a factory fresh VZW tab. Given that from the posts a number of people are looking for pit files etc ... what tool can I use to extract the files for the VZW tab users ....
Any pointers or threads that I missed? Just hoping to help where I can because I won't leave it stock long LOL.
Thanks,
Tony

You can use roto backup to dump your firmware to odin flashable files. Look it up in the development section.

Thanks, just wanted to make sure I used the best method to grab the files. I will do some reading and make a good backup and share what I am able to pull off for the other VZW Taber's

Just a quick update .... I have the fresh Tab ... so I am going to follow Roto Hammers process for pulling the files and will try to get a heimdall and Odin fresh rom set for VZW Taber's ..... I will also see about hosting the files on my server so that they are available and will see if anyone else wants them as well.
If anyone needs something off a fresh tab ... please post or PM me and I will do what I can.... I'll leave it alone until Tuesday 8/2/11
Thanks again for the pointer!
Tony

Oh god, i hope you are serious about this. My verizon tab is stucked in the samsung logo for 3 weeks now.
You are probably my last chance .
If you can, please, please do it.. You will save a lot of people like me

pedrohfsd said:
Oh god, i hope you are serious about this. My verizon tab is stucked in the samsung logo for 3 weeks now.
You are probably my last chance .
If you can, please, please do it.. You will save a lot of people like me
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You do know that the stock sprint roms work too.. to at least get you back up and running (3g doesn't work, but everything else is reported working fine)
Always good to have complete stock to fall back on though.

I heard that the 2.3 sprint firmware works on verizon tab. But i've tried the rooted version of it, which i found here in the forum, but still couldn't boot into the OS, it hangs on galaxy tab screen. Since you mentioned this, can i use the sprint pit file too?
Also, i forgot to mention, my tablet is cdma. Don't know if it makes any difference for using sprint firmware version

[Q] Phone Stuck at Restore Screen/Odin Mode

I recently bought a new GS4 SCH-i545
Well i got it friday from Verizon, and had it rooted by Saturday. By Sunday I wanted my iphone back, so i wanted to reclaim warranty. Used Odin3 and the stock firmware for my device, and hit start and it failed. My phone is stuck at the Update with Kies, and I can get it into download mode. Thing is I've tried a a bunch of stock firmwares for my phone model and none of them work (Also I tried ODin 3 185 3.07 and 3.09). I'm at a stand still and any help will be greatly appreciated. Feel free to ask for anymore information that I may have left out.
Thanks

Drevangough said:
I recently bought a new GS4 SCH-i545
Well i got it friday from Verizon, and had it rooted by Saturday. By Sunday I wanted my iphone back, so i wanted to reclaim warranty. Used Odin3 and the stock firmware for my device, and hit start and it failed. My phone is stuck at the Update with Kies, and I can get it into download mode. Thing is I've tried a a bunch of stock firmwares for my phone model and none of them work (Also I tried ODin 3 185 3.07 and 3.09). I'm at a stand still and any help will be greatly appreciated. Feel free to ask for anymore information that I may have left out.
Thanks
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First I would say you are in the wrong forum, this is the S4 active. Then I would ask how you rooted? Custom Recovery?? And did you mean you CANT or can get into download mode?

lances1027 said:
First I would say you are in the wrong forum, this is the S4 active. Then I would ask how you rooted? Custom Recovery?? And did you mean you CANT or can get into download mode?
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Oops, I moved it over to the correct forum.
To answer your question:
I rooted with Safe Root, I cant really link to video i followed because I'm still new to the Forum
I can get it into Download mode no problem.

i'm stumped. s5 will not boot past samsung logo

after a FULL wipe bad flash to cm12 on my part, i restored with odin 3.09 with g900auc1ance firmware. it shows success on odin, but upon reboot, i still get the samsung "custom" with open padlock. then it attempts to boot and the samsung logo does it's thing and only completes about 80% of the logo, then goes dead/blank with blue led lightly pulsing. i took it to bestbuy to the samsung kiosk hoping the tech could help. he scolded me and showed me his at&t s5 running cm12. i'm stumped. any help would be appreciated.
i've rooted and rommed every android i've had and have always been able to fix it., all thanks to XDA.

Could it have been a bad download of ANCE. I've seen that happen before. Either a bad download or a bad transfer from comp/phone to sd card. I'd try re downloading

will do
will try that now. hoping it works.

nope. tried and same results.

Perhaps try Odin 3.10? Could it be that simple.
Also did you try a different source for the file you were trying to flash?

magnumglock said:
after a FULL wipe bad flash to cm12 on my part, i restored with odin 3.09 with g900auc1ance firmware. it shows success on odin, but upon reboot, i still get the samsung "custom" with open padlock. then it attempts to boot and the samsung logo does it's thing and only completes about 80% of the logo, then goes dead/blank with blue led lightly pulsing. i took it to bestbuy to the samsung kiosk hoping the tech could help. he scolded me and showed me his at&t s5 running cm12. i'm stumped. any help would be appreciated.
i've rooted and rommed every android i've had and have always been able to fix it., all thanks to XDA.
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Number one you CANNOT run CM 12 or ANY AOSP or custom kernel on the G900A due to the locked bootloader whoever told you that flat lied to you
I'm assuming you've taken the 444 update correct??
Go to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3021120read OP scroll down to the troubleshooting section and download the downgrade to NCE rar. Extract the downgrade to NCE tar md5 place phone in download plug it in and using Odin 3.09 place the tar in the ap slot then flash let it complete wait til phone boots then you'll be back to bone stock NCE phone.

I did the 4.4.4 and I'll give this a shot this evening. Again, thank you for the help.
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I have not tried Odin 3.10. I downloaded the files from the restore threads link to a google drive storage.

Odin 3.10 works fine. Don't forget to wipe cache and Davi. Sometimes that's all you need. And I agree, do some research first before you try flashing anything. Our locked bootloader makes us different.

Will do. I'll update what I find this evening.

magnumglock said:
I did the 4.4.4 and I'll give this a shot this evening. Again, thank you for the help.
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I have not tried Odin 3.10. I downloaded the files from the restore threads link to a google drive storage.
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OK I figured you took the 4.4. 4 update go to the link I provided and if you read OP it states that if one has trouble with the first downgrade rar to go to the troubleshooting section.
Download the Downgrade to NCE rar in the troubleshooting section and extract the Downgrade to NCE md5 tar.
Using Odin 3.09 put phone into download mode plug it in you'll see added in the box.
Place the Downgrade to NCE tar md5 file into ap slot and press start it will work. I've done it several times myself and helped quite a few people in your place as well
Let phone completely boot up and you'll have a bone stock device ready to start over.

OPOfreak said:
OK I figured you took the 4.4. 4 update go to the link I provided and if you read OP it states that if one has trouble with the first downgrade rar to go to the troubleshooting section.
Download the Downgrade to NCE rar in the troubleshooting section and extract the Downgrade to NCE md5 tar.
Using Odin 3.09 put phone into download mode plug it in you'll see added in the box.
Place the Downgrade to NCE tar md5 file into ap slot and press start it will work. I've done it several times myself and helped quite a few people in your place as well
Let phone completely boot up and you'll have a bone stock device ready to start over.
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this solved my problem. i cannot express how appreciative i am for your help.

magnumglock said:
this solved my problem. i cannot express how appreciative i am for your help.
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A simple thank you is sufficient I'm glad you're squared away now.
The good thing is now if you soft brick your device you know how to get back to stock.
Happy flashing :thumbup::thumbup:

The same exact thing has happened to me.
OK, I am panicking now. My ATT GS5 is doint the exact same thing.
I will try the NCE rar too and let ya'll know how it went.
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Dodged that bullet. Got rid of Custom status too. Very cool

I am having the same issue but with a "there is no PIT partiton" error
I have tried everything that I could to get my phone working again. I even downloaded a so called pit file that apparently didn't work because the error keeps coming up. Is there a legit PIT file that I can download and if so could someone please point me in that direction? Also if someone could please help me to get my phone working again I would also appreciate that. I just bought this phone off of ebay and I am trying to get it working as my regular phone. when I start the phone up there are two lines at the top of the screen 1 is a white line that says MMC read fail error or something to that effect, and there's another line in red that says movinand confirmation error. After about 3 to 4 minutes of waiting the phone will go into download mode by itself and give me a whole bunch of lines one of which will say: Knox 0x0.
is there a way I can either repair or repartition the phone? I spent 6 hours trying to figure this out. I am tired.
Thanks in advance for any helpful response.

Help me bring my SM-G870A back to life.

So I don't keep up with android news, and I Upgraded OTA to what I believe was 5.1.1 on my S5 Active. Then a few weeks later I accidentally deleted some pictures and saw the best way to recover them was to root the phone. So I thought no biggie I'm sure it's much easier nowadays to root and followed this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/att-galaxy-s5/general/g900and3tong3keeprootota-zip-t2862299
Odin gave me a pass result I was like cool that was easy, but when the phone rebooted it just got stuck at the Samsung Android screen.
I have probably searched every single forum on the internet with every possible keyword to fix my problem, and I just can't find a solution so I hope you guys can help.
The phone goes into download mode and recovery mode and my computer recognizes it., so that gives me a little bit of hope.
My brother has an S5 active as well if this would be of any help. I can't find the 5.1.1 G870A FW on sammobile so is there a way to extract that from another S5 Active on 5.1.1?
I hope someone can help, I did learn the lesson though never buy a phone with a locked bootloader since I'm prone to stupid mistakes like this.
Cheers

Do you know exactly what 5.1.1 version you were on? or what date you received the OTA? I can point you in the right direction for the OTA but I don't know if that will help. I have never repaired a soft brick but if I had the OTA I would load it to my SD card and try to load it in recovery mode. Maybe someone reading this can jump in and tell us if this would work.

Odin Back to s5 Active Stock. NE4
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2799754

Sgt.CM said:
Do you know exactly what 5.1.1 version you were on? or what date you received the OTA? I can point you in the right direction for the OTA but I don't know if that will help. I have never repaired a soft brick but if I had the OTA I would load it to my SD card and try to load it in recovery mode. Maybe someone reading this can jump in and tell us if this would work.
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It shows this update in the android recovery menu, not sure if that was my current version at the time i bricked my phone
LRX21T.G870AUCU1BOC5
This is apparently 5.0 but I'm sure I got an update from att in april or may.
more info
thanhvien89 said:
Odin Back to s5 Active Stock. NE4
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2799754
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i tried that already but i'll try it again
EDIT: just tried it getting [aboot] Fused 2 > Binary 1

thanhvien89 said:
Odin Back to s5 Active Stock. NE4
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2799754
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This only works if you are already rooted. Can't go back if you are 5.0 or above.

Need help fixing my bootloop stuck s3 mini

The model is SM-G730V
and it is a verizon galaxy s3 mini (if anymore info is needed i can provide)
I dont know precisely how my phone ended up stuck in bootloop or what i did to cause it, it just shut off one day and when i rebooted it was seemingly done for. Tried for weeks and gave up, ive got a laptop now that im able to flash with, and judging by the fact it won't boot correctly i take it i need to flash new stock firmware entirely. Theres many downloads available for both odin and for the firmware i will need for my device, im hoping someone can point me in the direction of a safe virus free version of both as im not skilled in any of this and am worried about getting viruses. Anything will be appriciated

BlueEyes1965 said:
The model is SM-G730V
and it is a verizon galaxy s3 mini (if anymore info is needed i can provide)
I dont know precisely how my phone ended up stuck in bootloop or what i did to cause it, it just shut off one day and when i rebooted it was seemingly done for. Tried for weeks and gave up, ive got a laptop now that im able to flash with, and judging by the fact it won't boot correctly i take it i need to flash new stock firmware entirely. Theres many downloads available for both odin and for the firmware i will need for my device, im hoping someone can point me in the direction of a safe virus free version of both as im not skilled in any of this and am worried about getting viruses. Anything will be appriciated
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If you want official firmware go to sammobile.com
Hit THX when it helped

Droehnemeier said:
If you want official firmware go to sammobile.com
Hit THX when it helped
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Any official safe odin download?

BlueEyes1965 said:
Any official safe odin download?
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https://www.androidstrike.com/download-odin/ I would choose this but it's always your own decision