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[Q] Help! Downgrading from JB 4.1.2 to stock ICS

Hi,
Please if somebody can help me sort this mess out.
I've flashed my note from stock ICS to JB (from telcel mexico) 2 days ago. it was pretty smooth and i liked it so much. but then i noticed that this rom had caused my network to be locked and i cant even connect to my network. i can just use wifi to stay online. so today i sent my phone to the store hoping that they can unlock it or make the 'lock' goes away. but unfortunately they cant. they asked me to downgrade it back to ICS.
so i've downloaded the stock ics from here;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1424997
and flashed it using pc odin. but it stucked at the samsung logo. so right now what should i do? i heard that i cant wipe the data or factory reset since i have flashed the stock ICS. i dont want my note to go brick :crying:
somebody please please please helpppp
thanks

Can you enter to download mode?
Did you tick any of these "Leave Re-partition, pit, CSC, Phone tab unticked" on Odin?
If you can enter to download mode, I would suggest you to download again the file in case the file is corrupted and try to flash it again.
Btw, I have a Note from Telcel and have never faced any problem with the network and any JB rom I've tried.

cokiaaaa said:
Hi,
Please if somebody can help me sort this mess out.
I've flashed my note from stock ICS to JB (from telcel mexico) 2 days ago. it was pretty smooth and i liked it so much. but then i noticed that this rom had caused my network to be locked and i cant even connect to my network. i can just use wifi to stay online. so today i sent my phone to the store hoping that they can unlock it or make the 'lock' goes away. but unfortunately they cant. they asked me to downgrade it back to ICS.
so i've downloaded the stock ics from here;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1424997
and flashed it using pc odin. but it stucked at the samsung logo. so right now what should i do? i heard that i cant wipe the data or factory reset since i have flashed the stock ICS. i dont want my note to go brick :crying:
somebody please please please helpppp
thanks
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downgrading from JB to ICS is never a good idea and boot-loop is not a surprise.
do not try to wipe on ICS
download a stock GB ROM for your region. flash it with PC Odin as normal.
most probably you will still enter boot-loop, but this time as you are on GB just enter recovery mode and wipe cache and dalvik cache and it'll boot normally.
cheers

Flash philz kernel for your ics rom and the do a factory reset.
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sujaishukla said:
downgrading from JB to ICS is never a good idea and boot-loop is not a surprise.
do not try to wipe on ICS
download a stock GB ROM for your region. flash it with PC Odin as normal.
most probably you will still enter boot-loop, but this time as you are on GB just enter recovery mode and wipe cache and dalvik cache and it'll boot normally.
cheers
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thank god! yup it's working. now my note is running on gb rom. have to start all over again since had to factory reset it :fingers-crossed:
cheers everyone :good:

cokiaaaa said:
thank god! yup it's working. now my note is running on gb rom. have to start all over again since had to factory reset it :fingers-crossed:
cheers everyone :good:
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glad it worked, BTW method mentioned by @nokiamodeln91 might also have worked but it never really worked for me :silly:

cokiaaaa said:
Hi,
Please if somebody can help me sort this mess out.
I've flashed my note from stock ICS to JB (from telcel mexico) 2 days ago. it was pretty smooth and i liked it so much. but then i noticed that this rom had caused my network to be locked and i cant even connect to my network. i can just use wifi to stay online. so today i sent my phone to the store hoping that they can unlock it or make the 'lock' goes away. but unfortunately they cant. they asked me to downgrade it back to ICS.
so i've downloaded the stock ics from here;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1424997
and flashed it using pc odin. but it stucked at the samsung logo. so right now what should i do? i heard that i cant wipe the data or factory reset since i have flashed the stock ICS. i dont want my note to go brick :crying:
somebody please please please helpppp
thanks
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Do you full wipe Cache Partition Dalvik Cache

Glad you fixed your problem! But next time you get network locked up you could try GalaxSim unlock I had the same problem with networks since ICS and don't know why. Once I ran GalaxSim and no more problems since then. my phone is factory unlocked btw.
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JB XXLSA to stock ICS
I downloaded the following stock N7000DDLRB_N7000ODDLR4_INU from Dr. Ketan's thread
Should I just load this into Odin as PDA and update? Do I need to do anything else?
Do I need root?
Thank you.

alkeshmehta said:
I downloaded the following stock N7000DDLRB_N7000ODDLR4_INU from Dr. Ketan's thread
Should I just load this into Odin as PDA and update? Do I need to do anything else?
Do I need root?
Thank you.
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it depends a little on what ROM you are on right now.
if you are on stock ROM you can just download it and do what you have mentioned, but remember not to wipe or factory reset your device before flashing Philz kernel for this ROM. If you do not intend to wipe or reset, you can continue with this ROM with its stock kernel, it wont make any difference.

I am currently on leaked ROM N7000XXLSA_N7000OXALSA_DBT - from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2018978&page=57
sujaishukla said:
it depends a little on what ROM you are on right now.
if you are on stock ROM you can just download it and do what you have mentioned, but remember not to wipe or factory reset your device before flashing Philz kernel for this ROM. If you do not intend to wipe or reset, you can continue with this ROM with its stock kernel, it wont make any difference.
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I have seen some post from users long time ago. Had problems reverting back to ICS from JB. Their IMEI got erased and phone was useless. So be careful. First research and do.
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using Xparent Red Tapatalk 2

I tried both ICS and GB ROM through ODIN but I am getting FAIL error - Complete(write) operation failed.
<ID:0/078> Odin v.3 engine (ID:78)..
<ID:0/078> File analysis..
<ID:0/078> SetupConnection..
<ID:0/078> Complete(Write) operation failed.
<ID:0/078> Added!!
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
jasminthoria said:
I have seen some post from users long time ago. Had problems reverting back to ICS from JB. Their IMEI got erased and phone was useless. So be careful. First research and do.
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using Xparent Red Tapatalk 2
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Is the phone connected in download mode?
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No, its not in download mode.
Do I need to put in download mode and then start from Odin?[
QUOTE=nokiamodeln91;36172774]Is the phone connected in download mode?
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alkeshmehta said:
No, its not in download mode.
Do I need to put in download mode and then start from Odin?[
QUOTE=nokiamodeln91;36172774]Is the phone connected in download mode?
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o god yes! you need to put it in download mode before using odin in any manner.
now when you do it next time what may happen is that your baseband will be unknown and there will be no signal, but nothing to worry (i learnt flashing ROM's and the first and only stupid thing i did was what you did)
if that happens dont worry just reflash the rom in Download mode in odin and it will work..
might have to go to GB ROM for your region and then upgrade to ICS, but as nokiamodeln91 has mentioned might work if you flash ICS then flash a safe kernel from Philz and wipe data, cache and dalvik from recovery.

I first flashed ICS but it got stuck at Samsung logo so then I flashed GB ROM but on GB ROM i keep getting different ANRs
I cannot get to stock recovery - I only get ODIN mode.
How do I wipe data, cache, dalvik?
o god yes! you need to put it in download mode before using odin in any manner.
now when you do it next time what may happen is that your baseband will be unknown and there will be no signal, but nothing to worry (i learnt flashing ROM's and the first and only stupid thing i did was what you did)
if that happens dont worry just reflash the rom in Download mode in odin and it will work..
might have to go to GB ROM for your region and then upgrade to ICS, but as nokiamodeln91 has mentioned might work if you flash ICS then flash a safe kernel from Philz and wipe data, cache and dalvik from recovery.[/QUOTE]

ok follow this
1) go to download mode, using odin flash stock GB ROM for your region (N7000DDLC1---------2.3.6---------2012 March---------N7000ODDLC1-----------India--------------------------------------Download)
2) if on booting you get stuck at the logo, press vol up + pwr + home key.
3) it should take you to stock recovery
4) there will be options to erase cache, dalvik, do that and do not erase anything else.
after this should let you boot up normally.
check and report.
(if this doesnt work, dont worry, let someone more experienced answer you here)

Well, I was able to successfully able to get ICS 4.0.4 and also flashed Philz kernel.
Under recovery I do not see dalvik option
I did wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache partition
Only above two options were available.
But after boot up, I keep getting Battery disconnected error.
sujaishukla said:
ok follow this
1) go to download mode, using odin flash stock GB ROM for your region (N7000DDLC1---------2.3.6---------2012 March---------N7000ODDLC1-----------India--------------------------------------Download)
2) if on booting you get stuck at the logo, press vol up + pwr + home key.
3) it should take you to stock recovery
4) there will be options to erase cache, dalvik, do that and do not erase anything else.
after this should let you boot up normally.
check and report.
(if this doesnt work, dont worry, let someone more experienced answer you here)
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It's under advanced menu.
What is a battery disconnected error?
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[Q] Stockifying a GT-I9305(N)

I have used Triangle Away on XXBMA2 and the sboot it came with and while the flash counter is successfully reset, my system status flag is not, it keeps saying "custom" whatever I do with Triangle Away. Has anyone successfully stockified their I9305, and if so, which ROM and sboot? Does it even depend on sboot?

You need to do a complete wipe too.

CalInTheZone said:
You need to do a complete wipe too.
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Yes I have done that. I started on XXBMA2, rooted and stuff, used Triangle Away and before booting I went into download mode and flashed completely stock. After that didn't work I rooted again, used Triangle Away again, and again, before booting I flashed stock. The only thing being reset is the flash counter.

I think you doing something wrong. Take it easy, root first or use pre-rooted rom. Use TA and let it finish job, boot normally. Once you've done it, reboot to DL mode, use Odin to flash Stock ROM. Restart your phone, go to Back up & Reset section in menu, select Factory Reset and voila. Should be clean as New
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Here is what I did on my Note 10.1:
Flashed ROM with correct CSC
Autorooted (Chainfire you know)
Ran TA
Before the device could boot entered recovery (on the phone you can pull the battery)
Did a full wipe
And all was virgin.

Just use this and all your problems will be solved...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1942150
Why use this Root Method? Well the main reasons are:
- You have a complete Odin Flashable ROM Package.
- No Insecure Kernels are used or required.
- You can flash these packages on Non-Rooted devices
- The Binary Flash Counter will NOT increase when flashing these ROM Packages.
- The Red Exclamation Mark will NOT appear at boot up.
- And finally, you only have to flash one file in Odin and you have a complete firmware including Root Permissions.

Raistlin1158 said:
Just use this and all your problems will be solved...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1942150
Why use this Root Method? Well the main reasons are:
- You have a complete Odin Flashable ROM Package.
- No Insecure Kernels are used or required.
- You can flash these packages on Non-Rooted devices
- The Binary Flash Counter will NOT increase when flashing these ROM Packages.
- The Red Exclamation Mark will NOT appear at boot up.
- And finally, you only have to flash one file in Odin and you have a complete firmware including Root Permissions.
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Yeah but he need to send his phone to Service Centre for repair so Pre-Rooted Rom is out of game I guess...
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Its shows as original with a zero count so all he has to do is remove any apps that need root and he will be fine.

Raistlin1158 said:
Its shows as original with a zero count so all he has to do is remove any apps that need root and he will be fine.
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I know all about it and you right but.... His phone is fully working (except Modem) and it's risky sending it rooted even if counter shows 0, imho....
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djembey said:
I know all about it and you right but.... His phone is fully working (except Modem) and it's risky sending it rooted even if counter shows 0, imho....
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As long as I can get the system status to appear original I don't care how I do it hehe.

Rekoil said:
As long as I can get the system status to appear original I don't care how I do it hehe.
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Did you try my "recipe"? Because I've done that three times with three different devices. All successful.

CalInTheZone said:
Did you try my "recipe"? Because I've done that three times with three different devices. All successful.
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I will give it a go this evening.

Good luck... If you don't succeed and you are in the area of Höör this weekend then contact me and I'll give it a try

Hi, i got a GT-I9305N too , you get system status flag as custom because your phone is still rooted, any modified changes in /system will make your system status as custom like su or busybox. In order to get system status flag to official, you need to reflash your phone with a stock rom with odin3 (Unroot the phone). Send me a private message and i'll link the right stock rom to you if you want, Comviq/tele2 rom if you bought the phone from them or nordic countries.

Use this to find the correct rom : http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=GT-I9305#sthash.YrJ0gDPY.dpuf
Good luck :good:

Sv: [Q] Stockifying a GT-I9305(N)
Raistlin1158 said:
Use this:
Galaxy S 3 LTE GT-I9305 TLA I9305XXBMA4 Android 4.1.2 - Released 10.01.2013, Change log 746327
See more at: http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=GT-I9305#sthash.YrJ0gDPY.dpuf
Good luck :good:
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With this release he needs luck... wrong baseband.
Swyped on my Galaxy S III LTE

CalInTheZone said:
With this release he needs luck... wrong baseband.
Swyped on my Galaxy S III LTE
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Baseband wouldn't work anyway, I need Perseus kernel for that to work, which is the whole reason why I am returning to stock (for service). The way I see it: as long as I can get the system status flag to say 'official' it doesn't matter how I do that because after I can flash any other official rom and the flag wont get touched, so I can return to my stock carrier rom anyway (which by the way is Tele2/Comviq as tico96 suggested).
Thanks for all the tips, I will give it another go tonight.

This is what I did just now:
While running XXBMA2 rooted and with Perseus kernel I applied Triangle Away
Rebooted straight into download mode (by holding home, vol down and power, should I be powering off normally first?)
Installed stock XXALIA
Cleared data
And the result?
Custom binary download: no
Current binary: Samsung official
System status: custom
Operating system status shows "modified"
Can someone honestly tell me they have been able to reset the system status flag on this hardware and also let me know exactly which ROM package they did it from and how they rooted etc. I don't care whether it is for I9305, I9305N or I9305T, radio working doesn't matter to me at all (because if radio has to work for it to revert to stock then I am ****ed either way).
I just want to return to system status: official or normal or whatever it is supposed to say.

Your non stock kernel is your problem. Just as soon as you boot with that you are "modified". Everything has to be stock kernel/recovery/CSC just with SU and you have to run TA and do a complete wipe before the system notice it's rooted. Then you are modified again.

CalInTheZone said:
Your non stock kernel is your problem. Just as soon as you boot with that you are "modified". Everything has to be stock kernel/recovery/CSC just with SU and you have to run TA and do a complete wipe before the system notice it's rooted. Then you are modified again.
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Ok, so before running TA I have to have a stock kernel? But don't I need to reboot into a special mode if I have a secure kernel... meaning I end up booting a secure kernel to do the TA from anyway?
Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever run TA on a system with stock kernel and recovery... I always assumed that I could replace those directly after, perhaps the check is done when I go into download mode? Will try that tonight!

[Q] How to UnBrick galaxy n7000

Hi,
other day I was playing game on my note 1 and then battery ran out and now my phone wont boot up and it is stuck at animated samsung logo.
It was running on stock rom and it was never rooted.
Now when i go in recovery mode it gives this error:
failed to mount /efs
I tried installing the stock rom but with no luck.
I am newbie into this all, so can you please guide how to fix this ..
Regards

ahmedmasu said:
Hi,
other day I was playing game on my note 1 and then battery ran out and now my phone wont boot up and it is stuck at animated samsung logo.
It was running on stock rom and it was never rooted.
Now when i go in recovery mode it gives this error:
failed to mount /efs
I tried installing the stock rom but with no luck.
I am newbie into this all, so can you please guide how to fix this ..
Regards
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You should try to put your Note in download mode and flash a stock rom with Odin.
You must flash the PIT file to repartition your phone's storage, chose the right one (16 or 32 Gb).
I am almost sure that your phone is soft bricked and it is recoverable.
If it don't work, thant mean that your have bad blocks in your phone's storage. Have you wiped your note while under ICS android ?

what rom were you on? if JB, try a factory reset.

nokiamodeln91 said:
what rom were you on? if JB, try a factory reset.
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I was on latest stock rom which is ICS.
Btw I tried to reset it to factory but with no luck

lionelia said:
You should try to put your Note in download mode and flash a stock rom with Odin.
You must flash the PIT file to repartition your phone's storage, chose the right one (16 or 32 Gb).
I am almost sure that your phone is soft bricked and it is recoverable.
If it don't work, thant mean that your have bad blocks in your phone's storage. Have you wiped your note while under ICS android ?
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Thank for your reply.
I tried flashing the stock rom with Odin but the error remained there
Can you please give me a link from where I can get PIT file?

ahmedmasu said:
I was on latest stock rom which is ICS.
Btw I tried to reset it to factory but with no luck
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You shouldn't be doing a reset on ICS stock at all.. Install Philz kernel for ICS and wipe data and cache.. When flashing a stock rom using odin, is it a success?

nokiamodeln91 said:
You shouldn't be doing a reset on ICS stock at all.. Install Philz kernel for ICS and wipe data and cache.. When flashing a stock rom using odin, is it a success?
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Is there any guide\link to do this ?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1901191

nokiamodeln91 said:
You shouldn't be doing a reset on ICS stock at all.. Install Philz kernel for ICS and wipe data and cache.. When flashing a stock rom using odin, is it a success?
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I have successfully flashed rom on my phone which is : N7000ZSLPF_N7000OZSLPF_OZS
My phone is now out of bootloop but now I face a different issue that I cant get my sim card work, it gives no signal and I noticed one more thing that IMEI of my phone is blank.
I went into recovery mode and it is still showing that efs error as it was showing before...
Any suggestion what should I try to fix this ?

So you never installed any rom or a custom kernel?
---------- Post added at 03:15 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:11 AM ----------
Look for a file on your storage named efs.autobackup.img. If nothing like that, check on this site http://www.cvxcvx.pl/en/podstrona-0/naprawa-efs-w-i9100-n7000/ for some instructions. Read carefully and proceed.

nokiamodeln91 said:
So you never installed any rom or a custom kernel?
---------- Post added at 03:15 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:11 AM ----------
Look for a file on your storage named efs.autobackup.img. If nothing like that, check on this site http://www.cvxcvx.pl/en/podstrona-0/naprawa-efs-w-i9100-n7000/ for some instructions. Read carefully and proceed.
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I followed the instructions provided by the manual ... after step 2 I get imei but after step 3 it get empty again.
Signals do come after step 2 but when I try to make some call it says "Not registered on network".
Looking forward to your reply.

i cannot help you in this case if there is no efs backup.. so.. you on your own..

nokiamodeln91 said:
i cannot help you in this case if there is no efs backup.. so.. you on your own..
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Thanks for your help so far...
I currently have an imei but it is some random number starting with "004999" and I do get signals but cant make a call .. Do you know if there is some hope for me or not .. and what else I can try.

This is the developer imei. You may be able to make calls of you try a GB rom. Or there is one rom by ThaiDai which had some work around built into it. I don't know which one.
Else the site I mentioned earlier has contact info of cvxcvx. He can fix your phone remotely but by charging about 10 euros.

Need help for a bricked N7000
Hi guys,Im a complete newbie to the whole custom rom scenario. Yet, after being fed up of touchwiz on my N7000 i decided i wanted to taste some KitKat on my phone. After seeing many videos with positive reviews I thought it would be a rather easy process. But somehow I seem to have made a mistake and now my phone is stuck on Samsung Galaxy Note N7000 logo. I cant get into recovery mode as suggested on most places. As of now I only have access to the download mode but dont know what to do with it.
Here's what I tried doing :
1) I was on stock OS, and these are my specifics : Galaxy Note N-7000 running JB 4.1.2
Baseband version : N7000DDLS6
Kernel version: 3.3.31-906407
BUild number:JZO54K.N7000DDLSC
2) As I was following the procedure from Omnirom's official website, I first rooted my phone using Framaroot's single click root app. This gave me SuperSU app.
3) Then I tried installing TWRP recovery (recommended by Omni) but they dont support the N7000. I read a few other tutorials where it was stated the CWM recovery and that too Philz CWM recovery is the best to go with. Apparently it is just stock kernel with CWM recovery. Since the latest one(philz_touch_6.07.9-n7000) was not being installed, I installed the one before that which worked (PhilZ-cwm6-DDLSC-ODD-5.11.2-signed).
4) I even installed the ROM Manager as per the tutorial. However, uptil now I could access recovery mode ( Vol UP+Home+Power) and i saw the touch enabled philz recovery mode once. Then i did system reboot.
5)After reboot, this is where I did a mistake in my opinion. I opened ROM Manger and clicked on "open in recovery mode" option. Since then the phone is stuck on the Galaxy Note N7000 logo. Please help me revive the phone. Thanks in advance. Again, Im doing this for the first time and most terms are new to me. So please explain the procedure as other tutorials are not very clear.

You missed on reading the most important instructions.
Rom manager will not work with note. Recovery is built into the kernel on note and not as a separate partition.
Try harder to get into recovery mode. If you still can't, get the ddlsc Philz kernel tar version. Flash it using Odin. Then power off the device and boot into recovery. Then flash raw kernel. Reboot recovery. Flash omni and other required zips.

nokiamodeln91 said:
You missed on reading the most important instructions.
Rom manager will not work with note. Recovery is built into the kernel on note and not as a separate partition.
Try harder to get into recovery mode. If you still can't, get the ddlsc Philz kernel tar version. Flash it using Odin. Then power off the device and boot into recovery. Then flash raw kernel. Reboot recovery. Flash omni and other required zips.
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How do I do i install the kernel using ODIN? I can only access download mode and nothing else. I cant access recovery mode. Please help.

PhilZ kernel has two versions, zip and tar. Use the tar version to flash via odin.
Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk 2

forest1971 said:
PhilZ kernel has two versions, zip and tar. Use the tar version to flash via odin.
Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk 2
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Bro can i ask for the link of philz kernel and raw kernel. I'm new here. Thanks in advance.

ANDROID-000 said:
Bro can i ask for the link of philz kernel and raw kernel. I'm new here. Thanks in advance.
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http://www.mediafire.com/?ep82ku4c6...o6dtlx8lbc3xz,ob3q9g36b9b3w22,d3v1gys7cbckiet

Help - Did I soft-brick my i9305???

Hello knowledgeable people!
I did a very stupid thing!... I took an official Samsung ROM package .tar.md5, remove the .md5 extension, extracted it, replaced boot.img with a custom kernel boot.img and re-compressed into a .tar package.
Then I took this .tar package and flashed it on the phone with Odin on my PC.
That didn't work, as expected.
The process blocked at one point.
I thought I will then just have to flash the Samsung official ROM to get everything back.
Well... not! I can flash the Samsung official ROM with Odin on my PC, but when the phone starts, it get stucked on bootloop on the glowing samsung logo.
I tried many things, including:
* wipe cache
* wipe data
but nothing worked...
At this point, I think I need to repartition/format everything and start from scratch but I don't know how to do this...
I tried to flash the Partition Identification Table kindly uploaded by @lyriquidperfection, but it didn't work (see here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1950591) and it gets stuck in Odin as @narcarsiss mentions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33145970&postcount=2
Anyone has an idea?
> How to re-partition/re-format properly?
> Any other method to solve the bootloop?
Thanks for your help!

Why not to flash stock Sammy rom through Odin? This time - not modified?

Flash stock Sammy latest ROM .
Wipe everything in recovery and it should work.
I always have to wipe **** when installing official Sammy ROM.
Else it will stay at Samsung screen with flashing letters
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Hbohd said:
Why not to flash stock Sammy rom through Odin? This time - not modified?
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This is what I tried... but it still get stuck at glowing samsung logo...

toeterbaas said:
Flash stock Sammy latest ROM .
Wipe everything in recovery and it should work.
I always have to wipe **** when installing official Sammy ROM.
Else it will stay at Samsung screen with flashing letters
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Thanks for the answer.
What do you mean "wipe ****"?
Could you detail the steps?
1. Flash official sammy ROM through odin
2... enter recovery? (please confirm)
3... wipe what?
Thanks!

Have you tried flashing another kernel?Boeffla Etc then use KIES or Odin to flash back to stock
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Yes enter recovery after flashing with Odin.
When u power on hold volume up home key and power all at the same time release them when u see Samsung gt i9305 then wipe cach and wipe the other one. There are 2 wipe options.
Your phone should boot now it takes some time the first time around a minute.
Let me know if it worked
- flash stock Samsung ROM for your country with Odin
- go to recovery wipe the 2 options When u power on hold volume up home key and power all at the same time release them when u see Samsung gt i9305
-phone should boot takes a minute before he goes trough the flashing Samsung screen.
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All you have to do is follow my steps.
It should work now
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Looki75 said:
Hello knowledgeable people!
I did a very stupid thing!... I took an official Samsung ROM package .tar.md5, remove the .md5 extension, extracted it, replaced boot.img with a custom kernel boot.img and re-compressed into a .tar package.
Then I took this .tar package and flashed it on the phone with Odin on my PC.
That didn't work, as expected.
The process blocked at one point.
I thought I will then just have to flash the Samsung official ROM to get everything back.
Well... not! I can flash the Samsung official ROM with Odin on my PC, but when the phone starts, it get stucked on bootloop on the glowing samsung logo.
I tried many things, including:
* wipe cache
* wipe data
but nothing worked...
At this point, I think I need to repartition/format everything and start from scratch but I don't know how to do this...
I tried to flash the Partition Identification Table kindly uploaded by @lyriquidperfection, but it didn't work (see here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1950591) and it gets stuck in Odin as @narcarsiss mentions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33145970&postcount=2
Anyone has an idea?
> How to re-partition/re-format properly?
> Any other method to solve the bootloop?
Thanks for your help!
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Tnx for the mention, but i heade bad news. I had to send my phone away to fix the issue.
This was a long time ago that this happened and better methods may of been discovered. Good luck:good:

narcarsiss said:
Tnx for the mention, but i heade bad news. I had to send my phone away to fix the issue.
This was a long time ago that this happened and better methods may of been discovered. Good luck:good:
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Thanks for your answer!
I fear sending S3 to Samsung for repair is the only way, unfortunately... This is what I will do tomorrow (in 10hrs from now) unless a white knight arrives on this thread and gives me the golden solution!

You havent mentioned what rom version you tried.
I guess you used 4.3 official?
I could only guess but ther is probably more then just boot.img containing Knox code.
Knox is hindering users from downgrading bootloader and that maight be your problem now.
You did not mention wich version you try to recover to either.
So if you try with the old 4.1.2 it may be impossible.
Perhaps you need the newest official rom to get it working.
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tissot said:
You havent mentioned what rom version you tried.
I guess you used 4.3 official?
I could only guess but ther is probably more then just boot.img containing Knox code.
Knox is hindering users from downgrading bootloader and that maight be your problem now.
You did not mention wich version you try to recover to either.
So if you try with the old 4.1.2 it may be impossible.
Perhaps you need the newest official rom to get it working.
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Thanks for your answer.
The home made package was on 4.3 base.
Then I tried to reflash official 4.3.
I will give a try with 4.1.2...

Well... didn't work either... since I already had knox bootloader...
It shows "unsupported version".
Oh well...

tissot said:
You havent mentioned what rom version you tried.
I guess you used 4.3 official?
I could only guess but ther is probably more then just boot.img containing Knox code.
Knox is hindering users from downgrading bootloader and that maight be your problem now.
You did not mention wich version you try to recover to either.
So if you try with the old 4.1.2 it may be impossible.
Perhaps you need the newest official rom to get it working.
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You can't flash the old version. Odin will revert it back while installing.
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Looki75 said:
Thanks for your answer.
The home made package was on 4.3 base.
Then I tried to reflash official 4.3.
I will give a try with 4.1.2...
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Okey
A bit far feched but is it possible your download is broken? Try DL again.
And either it is or not you could try installing 4.3 from different region as yours. Just to try every possability.
It shouldnt be impossible to fix this stupid phone
You dont have any nandroid backup some where.
Last option. Throw it on a brick wall to release som aggrevation and then you buy a Nexus 5. Problem solved.
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tissot said:
Okey
A bit far feched but is it possible your download is broken? Try DL again.
And either it is or not you could try installing 4.3 from different region as yours. Just to try every possability.
It shouldnt be impossible to fix this stupid phone
You dont have any nandroid backup some where.
Last option. Throw it on a brick wall to release som aggrevation and then you buy a Nexus 5. Problem solved.
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You made me laugh!
Seriously: DL is OK (I flashed this very official ROM many times in the past) and I do have a nandroid, but result is the same (stuck at glowing samsung logo).
The issue is way deeper.
Thanks for your help! Before trying the brick wall, I will try to make it repaired by Samsung!

Looki75 said:
You made me laugh!
Seriously: DL is OK (I flashed this very official ROM many times in the past) and I do have a nandroid, but result is the same (stuck at glowing samsung logo).
The issue is way deeper.
Thanks for your help! Before trying the brick wall, I will try to make it repaired by Samsung!
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I had a brick once, butthe situation was a bit different. I have knox bootloader and tried to downgrade to a 4.1.2 rom without the bootloader package. The flash went ok, but my phone was stucked on Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9305 screen. After that, i was quite desperate and tried to reflash stock 4.3 via odin, but it failed :S
Then i tried to flash official Germany's 4.3 again, this time with the ODIN version inside CF-Root package (http://download.chainfire.eu/232/CF-Root1/CF-Auto-Root-m3-m3zh-gti9305.zip?retrieve_file=1), put the cable in another USB port, killed every kies proccess and rebooted phone in dowwnload mode. This time the flash went ok, i rebooted the phone into recovery (got bootloop) and wipe cache and factory reset. After this the phone booted up normally. Hope you can fix your phone

shucrut said:
I had a brick once, butthe situation was a bit different. I have knox bootloader and tried to downgrade to a 4.1.2 rom without the bootloader package. The flash went ok, but my phone was stucked on Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9305 screen. After that, i was quite desperate and tried to reflash stock 4.3 via odin, but it failed :S
Then i tried to flash official Germany's 4.3 again, this time with the ODIN version inside CF-Root package (http://download.chainfire.eu/232/CF-Root1/CF-Auto-Root-m3-m3zh-gti9305.zip?retrieve_file=1), put the cable in another USB port, killed every kies proccess and rebooted phone in dowwnload mode. This time the flash went ok, i rebooted the phone into recovery (got bootloop) and wipe cache and factory reset. After this the phone booted up normally. Hope you can fix your phone
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Thanks! Any idea is valuable!
How did you create the ball pack of "4.1.2 rom without the bootloader" - in other words: how did you remove the bootloader from there?

Looki75 said:
Thanks! Any idea is valuable!
How did you create the ball pack of "4.1.2 rom without the bootloader" - in other words: how did you remove the bootloader from there?
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I'd used this tutotial (just the part of commands, added everything that the original ".md5" has, removing just the "sboot.img", i'm not 100% sure if this is the only file to be off the new package, as i said, didnt work for me ), the only difference is that i'm using cygwin instead of linux itself, it worked like a charm
Basically all u need to do is unpack a original .md5 firmware (use winrar or so) and move the files (except sboot.img) to your home directory of linux or, in my case, cygwin (originally C:\cygwin\home\user-name), start the console and type the command bellow, switching the ".imgs" to match yours, of course:
Code:
cd $HOME
tar -H ustar -c image_1 image_2 > your_odin_package.tar
After this you must have a 1Gb+ .tar file (considering you will make a stock samsung flashable), now you will add md5 checksum to that, just to avoid troubles:
Code:
md5sum -t your_odin_package.tar >> your_odin_package.tar
mv your_odin_package.tar your_odin_package.tar.md5
and voilà, you have your flashable odin package. Of course you can try making one with just the system.img, boot.img and modem.img. If the phone boots up, do a factory reset. I have no idea if this will work in any occasion having knox bootloader trying to flash official 4.1.x, but you can also try with a samsung 4.3 rom.
In the last scenario, try to CF auto-root your phone, then flash an official CWM recovery via odin using this method i told u, boot into recovery and flash a custom rom, do a factory reset and wiping cache and dalvik cache. I hope one of the options work for you.
I'd recommend trying to flash a custom recovery and then a custom rom. If phone boots up and is functional, try to flash samsung official 4.3 again (if your desire is having the stock of course), not forgeting to factory reset via cwm first to avoid troubles.

Been in maybe like pratically the same situation
1st flash philz touch recovery ( install latest version)
2nd backup ur efs in external sd and copy it to a pc just in case (important if u mess up imei )
3rd Copy and rom in the external sd
4th Wipe data,cache,dilvik
5th In mount and storage Format everything except external sd ( u can backup ur internal sd card with 3rd step)
6th Flash Rom and reboot
7th If no imei then try a newer modem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2572432
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2607279
Notice I only could get to run 4.3 to run after formating everything through philz touch recovery

Tried to Root N-920W8, Restarts during Phone Calls

Hi,
I tried to root my N-920W8 with Nobel Kernel and it keeps restarting during phone calls.
And I found a post in XDA about the SkyHigh Kernal (which has fixed the call reboot bug) for N-920W8 but it is in .zip format where I can not use ODIN.
Tried to convert the .zip into .tar and failed.
I tried to connect my phone to my PC and place the .zip file into my phone USB file as there is no external SD for Note 5.
(Not sure whether there is a particular location to place the .zip file.)
After place the .zip, tried to flash it in the download/recovery mode (volume down+power+home botton),
it said could not find sd card/failed to do so.
Tried to go to SAMMobile.com to find stock rom, can not download anything...seems like it's empty or the link is not working.
I tried to search stock rom from other sites and found nothing as well.
I saw someone posted similar threads and suggested to try arter97 root but it will have slight lag which I do not want.
Plus, the person with the problem did not confirm whether or not it fixs the problem.
I am really frustrated with a lot searching and browsing so I decide to open a new thread to ask.
Do I have to flash back to stock rom in order to root properly? Or can I just find a stable kernel and flash it with ODIN and everything will work fine?
Could you provide step-by-step instructions and links as well? I am a noob but I am not taking it for granted but it's just that I am afraid I might mess things up...
*Also, I am not sure whether the following problem relates to the one above...
When I am rebooting, it says "KERNAL IS NOT SEANDROID ENFORCING"
Is it the same issue? Or a different one?
Thank you for taking your time to read my thread.
I will be really thankful for the solution. Thank you!

search arter97 kernels for the Note5...

cortez.i said:
search arter97 kernels for the Note5...
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hi, I have the same problem with my N9208, someone told me to try installing arter 97 but in this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/note5/development/arter97-kernel-galaxy-note-5-t3189907 they said that this kernel is not compatible with the n9208 that is the model that I have, this is the list with the compatible models;
--- Galaxy Note 5 ---
SM-N920C
SM-N920I
SM-N920G
SM-N920S
SM-N920K
SM-N920L
SM-N920T
SM-N920W8
but I saw that you also have the n9208. I am going to flash the new stock rom that is on sammobile http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/60964/N9208ZTU2AOK2_N9208ZZT2AOK2_BRI/
did you know how can I get succesfully rooting with no reboot problem?

Try this works great no drop call it is the best
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3214659
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First I was with space x but I had reboots and drop calls but I root with auto root xiaolu and everything works fine in my N9208

I fully support N9208 with SkyHigh kernel. You just have to read Posts 1-3 including requirements and install instructions. ... you don't use Odin !!

US Cellular Samung Note 5 stuck in seandroid no kernal enforce
I flashed TWRP to my phone and now it is stuck in boot loop. I need firmware to fix this problem?

uncled74 said:
I flashed TWRP to my phone and now it is stuck in boot loop. I need firmware to fix this problem?
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I'm pretty sure your next step is to wipe all data , for your phone to boot. I had to do this when I first rooted my device (N-920w8 telus). I had followed this guide :
http://galaxynote5root.com/galaxy-n...alaxy-note-5-on-android-6-06-0-1-marshmallow/
On page 2 , steps 11 , 12 and 13.
Your phone will be stucked in a boot loop until you "format data" . Unfortunately , you will lose everything in your phone by doing this.
Once you've installed TWRP , so that you never have to "format data" again if you try other updates , i recommend "Flashfire" . This tool can install full firmware packages for updates , but without removing your recovery partition, leaving TWRP intact , which you can then use again to reflash SuperSU and the "no-verify-opt-encrypt.zip"
Good luck

stuck in FRP
got everything to work beautifully! Then I went to go to TWRP and forgot to take OEM lock off!! What can I do to get out of the FRP Lock? Kies wont except my serial number for some reason and I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO...