edit: My phone is the SM-G800F
So I bought an S5 mini from ebay and verified it was all legit, legit packaging, tested via apps that check everything etc. Everything was saying all legitimate. It was defaulted to German region DBT. I thought everything was fine since during install I had set the phone up as UK English until it came to rebooting after encryption when the keyboard was not standard QWERTY, it was specifically German and since my password is more about pressing of certain on screen keys rather than the info being typed I could not get at my data. Well I downloaded the latest H3G firmware so that it should be in UK English on my own network most likely (My sim's network is 3)
This is what Odin shows:
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Now, the only difference this time, compared to flashing my S4 mini as I have done lots of times, is when I extracted the zip file for the firmware, 7zip complained about extra data after the payload... I updated to the latest 7zip and so I am not sure what's going on but Odin did not complain about any md5 hash breakage so that should have been fine. Also it came from a different site than I usually get. I got the firmware from two places and it seems the same, no hash breakage. I am downloading one now from sammobile which I think is where I got my S4 mini firmwares from.
Can you think of anything that would make this happen and what I could do to fix it? I tried Kies 3 but it just doesn't work, says something like no compatible devices and then when I try and do the emergency firmware recovery, the device does not show up in the list to even attempt anything.
I would appreciate some guidance on this.
Ok, I flashed the original German firmware and it is siccessful and wants me to set it up again as brand new BUT I need to flash the English firmware.
Is there any way I can flash my UK firmware (H3G) on this German S5 mini? Any extra options I need to select on Odin?
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hey guys today i got a vodafone locked samsung galaxay s . I wanted to unlock it so i read a guide on how to root it , i followed this guide using odin3 . I put the phone into download mode and ran odin3 , i followed everything the guide said and started odin3 but odin stops on zImage , I left it for an hour and nothing changed . Now the phone shows the symbol below when i try to turn it on . I can get the phone back into download mode im just wondering if anyone knows a way to get this phone rooted ?
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cheers
i suffered that alot when i was new to rooting and flashing, just try flashing a new stock firmware back to the phone from samfirmwares.com and see how you go,
actualy pre rooted firmware
firmware http://www.multiupload.com/YY0JBMUWBF
csc file http://www.multiupload.com/NRVCK6KYWD
512 pit file http://www.multiupload.com/I5WICSBFJ1
see how you go with that, although u may need to manually add youre providers apn settings in after though
Regarding the icon: flash the bootloaders(boot & Sbl) and a working kernel
Thanks for the posts ...fliptechnologies do i use odin to flash them files ? where does the firmware go ?(pda?). Does anyone know if anyone with the same problem has made a guide by any chance ?
thanks
there are apps which help you root your phone using adb
like SuperOneClick you might want to try it, or using a firmware with root as suggested
there is also an app which can be installed in your phone to root ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833953)
but first you need to get a firmware in order to install that app
get an stock ROM like 2.2 froyo or 2.1 eclair, then try with the app
Hello !
I have a problem, I used to root and use a non-original android's in my Note 9. I would like to restore the phone to its "original" state.
So that KNOX and S-Healt applications, Samsung Pass and others will work, how to do it?
I have already played the original android three times by ODIN, without success ...
Please help !!
The phone was bought in a subscription in Germany (exactly VODAFONE)
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once rooted you can't restore the phone to before the root state. as in getting all those apps to function as before the root.
nea1992 said:
Hello !
I have a problem, I used to root and use a non-original android's in my Note 9. I would like to restore the phone to its "original" state.
So that KNOX and S-Healt applications, Samsung Pass and others will work, how to do it?
I have already played the original android three times by ODIN, without success ...
Please help !!
The phone was bought in a subscription in Germany (exactly VODAFONE)
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use samfirm 0.3.6 to download N960F firmware enter DBT as region
then when it finishes dl and decryption, unzip the file and load all 4 specific peices(bl,ap,cp,csc be sure to use csc.md5 for csc and not the home) into odin v 3.13.1
I feel that I should elaborate on what rooting does to a Samsung phone.
If the bootloader detects that the installed kernel or recovery is not properly signed by Samsung, the Knox bit is tripped (as in, changed from 0x0 to 0x1). This is a physical change in the chip - think of it as a fuse that's now blown. The change is permanent, and there's no way to reverse it without replacing the entire motherboard.
All of the features you mentioned check the Knox bit, and refuse to work if it's 0x1. Now, there are ways to get S Health working if you re-root, but if you plan to stay unrooted, I'm afraid those apps are gone forever.
I guess this goes to say that you should have done your research beforehand. Sorry mate.
Hello friends, I am from Latin America, I have the SM-305G device, the phone is bought from a telephone company, I had problems with FRP, I used ODIN, downloading the combination software, but the error is always the same: please get the approval to use factory binaries (pit), I have downloaded the pit file from a server, it has not worked, also extracted through MIRACLE BOX, but the problem persists always, I also used the Z3x tool, but I did not get results, now I come here to that can give me a hand and thus be able to solve this.
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malocchi said:
Hello friends, I am from Latin America, I have the SM-305G device, the phone is bought from a telephone company, I had problems with FRP, I used ODIN, downloading the combination software, but the error is always the same: please get the approval to use factory binaries (pit), I have downloaded the pit file from a server, it has not worked, also extracted through MIRACLE BOX, but the problem persists always, I also used the Z3x tool, but I did not get results, now I come here to that can give me a hand and thus be able to solve this.
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Hi there, were you able to fix the " please get the approval to use factory binaries" problem? I am in the same predicament trying to do a combination firmware with odin. and same error pups up. Please let me know if you were able to figure it, Thanks
chalanero11 said:
Hi there, were you able to fix the " please get the approval to use factory binaries" problem? I am in the same predicament trying to do a combination firmware with odin. and same error pups up. Please let me know if you were able to figure it, Thanks
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I;m in the same boat
Hello XDA - Experts Team,
first of all, sorry for my bad English!
I have an older Samsung Galaxy S6 EDGE (SM-G925F) / original ROM - DBT (last OTA update) / no branding / without root, that until recently worked perfectly and never made any complaints ... at least until a few days ago while an APP installation (she probably destroyed something) and got stuck in the bootloop .....
First i deleted the cache in recovery mode (I didn't want WIPE, because of data loss) because I read here that I might be able to solve the problem this way, but it didn't work ... then I downloaded the file - G925FXXS6ETI6_G925FDBT6ETJ1_G925FXXU6ERF6_HOME. tar.md5 via SamFirm, and flashed it (according to XDA flashing Thread) with ODIN3 (3.14.4) in DownloadModus on Handy, the only stupid thing is that ODIN aborted / stopped in the Installation Process! Since then the phone only boots up to the Samsung logo, the recovery mode has disappeared and I only get into the download mode! : (((
When i trying to re-flash the firmware, now ODIN3 always stops at boot.img and aborts the process (see Figure 2) with FAIL (different ODIN versions tried, different USB cables / ports connected)!
I also read here in the forum that you could make a backup with TWRP (I took: twrp-3.3.1-0-zerolte.img.tar) to save/recovery my phone-data ... TWRP cannot be done with ODIN3 either play, the preview goes also until recovery.img and then breaks off, again and again with Fail!
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Please Help! What am I doing wrong!?
I've already tried everything and can't get any further, I'm really slowly desperate ... I am mainly concerned with the data / pictures etc. that are on the phone, and hmmm unfortunately I don't have a backup of the data! You are my last resort, people!
Any advice from you would be great!
Greeting from Macedonia
I've bought this phone second hand online a year ago and I thought since it's not declared as stolen on IMEI it would be fine.
From what a guy told me it's from france so it's probably connected to a carrier from there, but I haven't figured out how to check myself.
I'd like to know if there any way to get the update without breaking functionality of the phone, like google pay, bluetooth or other issues i've usually had with rooted phones in the past.
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It's worth mentioning I tried updating using smart switch and it didn't work.
you can download firmware suitable for your location and flash it with Odin all without triggering Knox, you can even keep your apps but with such a big jump your cache will need wiping afterward from recovery.
if you look in settings / about phone / software info / service provider software version. you should see 3 letters being listed there 3 times. that your (current) CSC code, googling that will tell which network or country the phone is from. you also need to find out the CSC version you want to download for your country. don't pick a CSC for your network, pick for your country.
Looks like your carrier tag is SFR, so if you search for firmware with model: SM-G781B and country: SFR, you will find firmware for it with Android version 13.
You can use:
sammobile (slow),
[TOOL] SamFirm - Samsung firmware downloader & checker
Note: This tool is deprecated. Please use fw.updato.com See also here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s7/how-to/updato-largest-online-firmware-archive-t3413785 Hello guys I have created a little tool to download and check latest Samsung...
forum.xda-developers.com
I usually use: https://github.com/ivanmeler/SamFirm_Reborn/releases/tag/0.3.6.3
After you get firmware downloaded use Odin to install it. You can use this Medium article.
It is very simple to use tool. (In CSC field use HOME_CSC file to keep your data)