Hello,
I have been trying to fix a friends t-mobile phone (note 5), he got it from ebaya, dumb i know. It seems like it was rooted because it wouldn't make calls and had super user. I loaded the official latest software via odin and only made it worse, wont even load to OS now.
I have loaded several SWs to try and restore (using odin)
these are the SWs i tried
N920TUVU1AOGE_N920TTMB1AOGE_N920TUVU1AOGE_HOME.tar (.CM fail) original note 5 tmobile sw.
N920TUVU1BOH4_N920TTMB1BOH4_N920TUVU1BOH4_HOME.tar (.CM fail) revision, still official.
N920TUVU2DPD1_N920TTMB2DPD1_N920TUVU2DPD1_HOME.tar (pass) latest official
Odin gives me a consistent pass with official N920TUVU2DPD1_N920TTMB2DPD1_N920TUVU2DPD1_HOME software
It keeps rebooting into recovery mode,
Tried doing a wipe from recovery mode. Error - (Failed to mount /preload (no such file or directory)
Every time the device loads into recovery mode it shows error...
"dm-verity verification failed...
need to check drk first..."
I dont know what to do, knox shows 0x0
used different PCs
different cords
different odins
i must have installed it a dozen times, i even removed the cache file and re packaged the .tar any help would be fantastic.
westsidekino said:
Hello,
I have been trying to fix a friends t-mobile phone (note 5), he got it from ebaya, dumb i know. It seems like it was rooted because it wouldn't make calls and had super user. I loaded the official latest software via odin and only made it worse, wont even load to OS now.
I have loaded several SWs to try and restore (using odin)
these are the SWs i tried
N920TUVU1AOGE_N920TTMB1AOGE_N920TUVU1AOGE_HOME.tar (.CM fail) original note 5 tmobile sw.
N920TUVU1BOH4_N920TTMB1BOH4_N920TUVU1BOH4_HOME.tar (.CM fail) revision, still official.
N920TUVU2DPD1_N920TTMB2DPD1_N920TUVU2DPD1_HOME.tar (pass) latest official
Odin gives me a consistent pass with official N920TUVU2DPD1_N920TTMB2DPD1_N920TUVU2DPD1_HOME software
It keeps rebooting into recovery mode,
Tried doing a wipe from recovery mode. Error - (Failed to mount /preload (no such file or directory)
Every time the device loads into recovery mode it shows error...
"dm-verity verification failed...
need to check drk first..."
I dont know what to do, knox shows 0x0
used different PCs
different cords
different odins
i must have installed it a dozen times, i even removed the cache file and re packaged the .tar any help would be fantastic.
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Maybe try using the PIT file to do repartitioning of the partitions? Which recovery is on it?
MrMike2182 said:
Maybe try using the PIT file to do repartitioning of the partitions? Which recovery is on it?
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I can try that, can you recommend a tutorial on how to do it for the note 5?
westsidekino said:
I can try that, can you recommend a tutorial on how to do it for the note 5?
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Since you said it was already rooted, why don't you go to the T-Mobile thread download and flash one of the Roms and kernels they have instead of trying to flash stock?
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[Q] Odin stuck on "data.img" i can not flash a firmware and Note Semi Died (Help)
Hi Guys,
I hope someone can help me, I accidentally interrupted a factory resect and from this moment I can not flash with Odin .. in detail ....
I can do:
1a I can successfully flash a firmware with Odin with only one file
2a I can successfully flash a kernel with Odin
3a I can go to recovery, any, either Samsung or CWM 3E recovery if i flash to CF-Root Kernel
4a I recorey files from flash, cooked and kernels.
I can not do:
1b I can not flash with success with Odin firrmware with more file and Pit, Odin stuck on "data.img"
2b I can not restore a backup nandroid, because I get I get the following errors:
Error while restoring / date!
E: Can not open / chace / recovery / log
E: Can not open / chace / recovery / log
E: Can not open / chace / recovery / last _log
E: Can not open / chace / recovery / last _log
3b I can not load the system, i can not turn on the Notes, only sometimes into Boot loop and other time stuck on written "Notes Galaxy Samsung GT-N7000"
Other problems:
- If I make the point 1a after the phone sometimes goes directly into Boot loop, other time go to 3E Samsung recovery and I get the following errors:
"And: failed to mount / data (Unknown error: 0)"
"E: install_application_for_customer: Can not mount / data"
"Your storage not prepared yet. Please use UI menus for format and reboot actions."
"copy application failed"
Even doing a full wipe, restarting the Notes, remain on "Notes Samsung Galaxy GT-N7000"
- If I make the point 4a flashing cooked, the flash apparently successfully, but at reboot Note stuck on written "Notes Galaxy Samsung GT-N7000"
I'm desperate, I do not know what else to do to revive my Note...
I hope someone can help me...
Really Thanks
Ps. Sorry for my bad English
Try this,
download abyssnote 3.9 kernal and put it on external sdcard somehow (maybe by taking the sd card out and using a card reader.
boot into recovery, flash the abyss note kernal, go to advanced in recovery and reboot recovery,
now try restoring the nandroid backup u have.
See if this helps..
Edit: or you can download a stock firmware in .tar format, put it in PDA(in odin) see if it flashes successfully,
you can use the firmware in this post, download the three files from mirror 2 and read instruction to join them, and flash it in Odin PC
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18981227&postcount=4
Hi dead-angel
thanks for your answer and for your help..
i had flash abyss 3.9 (RedPill Recovery) and after i make restore of nandroid backup but nothing of good..
the restore was interrupted and i get this error:
Error while restoring / date!
E: Error in / chace / recovery / log
(read-Only file system)
i wanna also try your second suggestion, but some link are not available
anyway i have just tryed so many time to flash with odin I can successfully flash a firmware with Odin with only one file the phone sometimes goes directly into Boot loop, other time go to 3E Samsung recovery and I get the following errors:
"And: failed to mount / data (Unknown error: 0)"
"E: install_application_for_customer: Can not mount / data"
"Your storage not prepared yet. Please use UI menus for format and reboot actions."
"copy application failed"
Even doing a full wipe, restarting the Notes, remain on "Notes Samsung Galaxy
GT-N7000"
while I can not flash a firmware with success with Odin and more file and Pit, Odin stuck on "data.img"
frustrating situation
Your Welcome
Try the mediafire links from that second suggestion, Im sure they work, and that shows up as single file in Odin, It should flash if single file fashing works in your PC odin
If mediafire is blocked in your country or by your ISP, try any Proxy bypass site to access the mediafire.
Best of luck mate
Ok, thanks Again Angel
im downloading the file, but are so slow, over 2 hour to get it, i wait
i dont understood this step:
- Tool to join them, run the following file and locate the .001 file.
sorry but English sometime for me is difficult
can you explain me better what i must to do?
Thanks
I m pm you same file, u need not to join
Edit : sent you
Sent from my GT-N7000 using xda premium
Download Tool to join from that post and rest is explained in the attached image
This is xda
Believe how someone caring
Sent from my GT-N7000 using xda premium
Really really really thanks dead-angel & dr.ketan for yours help and your kindness
i make it , but nothing , the phone stuck on written "Notes Galaxy Samsung GT-N7000" and go in Loop on it, dont load boot animation and also do not load a system
As you said now u can enter recovery, so did u wipe cache n qipe off data?
Sent from my GT-N7000 using xda premium
now im in recovery and i making wipe data but is stuck strangely on "Formatting data" do not go ahead
i dont know now what i must to do
this problem was coming when i interrupted a data factory reset, i think cant interrupted another time it
Keep patience.
at least leave it for 15-20 min
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ok, i wait
but it so strange, never i get stuck on "formatting data"for all tihis time, have passed more than 20 minute.....
EDIT: ok, now is finished, i repeat another time and was more fast, but when i tryed to reboot the Note is stuck on written "Notes Galaxy Samsung GT-N7000" and go in Loop on it
but i see one good thing, maybe..
now i do not get error when i go in 3Erecovery Samsung, before I received this error:
"And: failed to mount / data (Unknown error: 0)"
"E: install_application_for_customer: Can not mount / data"
"Your storage not prepared yet. Please use UI menus for format and reboot actions."
"copy application failed"
but now i get any error, all seems good but do not load the boot animation and do not load the system
bro, i having the same problem with u, want to check with u. want to check with you is your problem fixed?
tanoxxx said:
ok, i wait
but it so strange, never i get stuck on "formatting data"for all tihis time, have passed more than 20 minute.....
EDIT: ok, now is finished, i repeat another time and was more fast, but when i tryed to reboot the Note is stuck on written "Notes Galaxy Samsung GT-N7000" and go in Loop on it
but i see one good thing, maybe..
now i do not get error when i go in 3Erecovery Samsung, before I received this error:
"And: failed to mount / data (Unknown error: 0)"
"E: install_application_for_customer: Can not mount / data"
"Your storage not prepared yet. Please use UI menus for format and reboot actions."
"copy application failed"
but now i get any error, all seems good but do not load the boot animation and do not load the system
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Hi chris85e
im sad to see you with my same problem
untill now no Fix
reflash the bootloader see my signature then flash rom in odin
hi antiguangenius
Thanks for your answer
i must put it in PDA like is write in your guide or i must to put it in bootloader section?
EDTI: Guys sorry but i finished my daily thanks i will make it
Really thanks Guys for your help and answers
Having same problem...
Don't know what to do...
tanoxxx said:
hi antiguangenius
i must put it in PDA like is write in your guide or i must to put it in bootloader section?
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Nothing
i had tryed put bootloader in PDA and after i flashed with odin a firwmare stock with one file, flash successfully, but after the Note stuck on written "Notes Galaxy Samsung GT-N7000" and go in Loop on it
while if i flash with Odin firrmware with more file and Pit, Odin stuck always on "data.img"
Hello everyone
I am having a similar problem: I wanted to downgrade my Note to stock GB because I lost root on an ICS leak. I have done this successfully before but today pc odin suddenly hangs in the middle of flashing the factoryfs.img of a stock kernel (I used this one but tried others as well: N7000XXKJ4_N7000VD2KJ1_N7000XXKJ4_HOME.tar.md5).
Because of this I can now only boot the phone into download mode. I have also tried to use a pit file (as you can see in the screenshot, where I used this file: Q1_20110914_16GB.pit), because I thought the partitions might have been corrupted or changed by the ICS ROM but this didn't help either.
Do you have experienced this before? What else could I try?
Thanks a lot for any help
suxi
Edit: I have tried this (quote below)from a different post and odin still hangs after the first 1mm of factoryfs.img flashing
http://hotfile.com/dl/141060546/b0c7...1_OXA.rar.html
download this firmware, it's gonna take awhile but worth a try..
try flashing this rom using PC odin.
pit: Q1_20110914_16GB.pit
pda: CODE_N7000XXLA1_CL868264_REV02_user_low_ship.tar.m d5
phone: MODEM_N7000XXLA1_REV_05_CL1093393.tar.md5
csc: GT-N7000-MULTI-CSC-OXALA1.tar.md5
check re-partition, auto reboot, F. reset time.
let me know if it works!
Han
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Okay. Some history to start with...
I got Chinese version of Galaxy Note which runs i9220 ROM and been trying to flash with HK/EU ROM last several days but out of luck so far. (And whenever failed, I re-loaded stock ROM found from Samsung-updates.com site for i9220. It then worked fine but still with original problem unsolved.
I then tried one last method that I saw someone succeed flashing Chinese ROM via use of PIT file came from one of the other downloads.. yeah, I didn't check the source PIT came from before try... which is my bad.
Without confirming it, I instantly located "u1_02_20110310_emmc_EXT4.pit" that's packaged with odin 1.85 and carelessly gave a try.
And now... my precious GalaxyNote became the most expense brick in my house and am looking for professional help from you guys.
Steps I did before bricking and tried:
1. Load GalaxyNote in Download mode (volume down + home + power)
2. Launch Odin 1.85 and no change to default setting. (Check mark on #Auto Reboot & #F.Reset Time, uncheck on #Re-Partition & #Flash Lock)
3. Set PIT to "u1_02_20110310_emmc_EXT4.pit"
4. Set PDA to "N7000XXKL7_N7000OXAKL7_N7000XXKL7_HOME"
5. Click #Start
Soon after around 5%, it failed.
I then attempted to restore factory ROM via usual way - doing same as above except no PIT this time and choosing original stock ROM for i9220.
It failed! OMG...
I then tried again (#1 ~ 5 above) but this time, check on #Re-partition for luck. Still no luck!
I then downloaded Heimdall1.3.1 and tried to extract PIT file but the tool fails as well and gives "ERROR: Failed to access device. libusb error: -12".
At all times, GalaxyNote screen shows android icon with 'Downloading... Do not turn off target!!'. And the device can also be seen from odin.
Soon as turn off galaxynote and disconnect from computer, it shows 'Software Update Fail' message.
How I can restore to original factory setting? And if possible, how I can restore to EU or Hong Kong ROM?
My Chinese friend has the same device as mine. In this case, will Heimdall tool help extracting PLT from it and help restoring my device via odin?
Your professional help is sincerely appreciated!!!!
Resolved
Using "Q1_20110914_16GB.pit" and re-partition check from odin while flashing to original stock rom has resolved an issue.
Referred from following thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1533214
Never use pit and do not tick repartion when flashing.
bootloader?
U are fine. It is a recovery issue and not a bootloader. Install custom recovery and flash stock firmware w odin. Oh yea, and profit.
Toolmighty said:
U are fine. It is a recovery issue and not a bootloader. Install custom recovery and flash stock firmware w odin. Oh yea, and profit.
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Why do you revive an old thread? The user has resolved it the day after his problem.
#1# I have a Samsung A6 Tab [SM-T580 Series] and unfortunately i installed a wrong custom recovery with Odin, because i forgot looking and the number.
Afterwards my Tab bricked. Download mode is still operational!
#2# The best advice i could find afterwards was to install a stock rom.
However i can't find either the correct stock rom or the correct twrp.tar.
#3# The problem arrived after i renamed twrp.tar to recovery.tar, because flashing or installing by first trying didn't work.
The XDA-Link to supported devices shows me only TWRP for A 10.1, A 9.7 and A8. That's why i am in a state of desperation.
My Questions so far are: Would replacing recovery.tar with the correct custom recovery or the original recovery by using Odin unbrick the Tab?
If not, where i may find the correct stock rom?
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#1# I have a Samsung A6 Tab [SM-T580 Series] and unfortunately i installed a wrong 10.1, A 9.7 and A8. That's why i am in a state of desperation.
My Questions so far are: Would replacing recovery.tar with the correct custom recovery or the original recovery by using Odin unbrick the Tab?
If not, where i may find the correct stock rom?
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flashing stock mostly solve problems. i don't know what you type during searching, but when i googling "SM-T580" there r so many sites provide your firmware (sammobile, samsung-firmware.org). From MM (6) until android 7 and 7.1 available and you unable to find it?
top brand like sams*ng it is not hard to find any firmware or whatever related to i think
Thanks for answering, you are right. Sammobile has the firmware i need. I found it. However, i still would like to know if an official TWRP exists for my device, just for the future, if i would need the possibility to backup or restore files.
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Thanks for answering, you are right. Sammobile has the firmware i need. I found it. However, i still would like to know if an official TWRP exists for my device, just for the future, if i would need the possibility to backup or restore files.
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go here and check if your device TWRP officially supported.
https://twrpbuilder.github.io/downloads/twrp/ and/or https://twrp.me/Devices/
Before flashing Stock Rom i extracted revocery.img from AP and converted it to recovery.tar without compressing and tried to solve the problem this way, re-flashing original recovery, but it failed.
So i tried it again and installed the newest version of Odin and in the second try i flashed AP, BL, and CSC.
Odin allows me to pass the full flashing process with no error.
But after the reset the tablet stucks in a loop of system updating and stops at 32%.
Notes in the download mode are "FRP-unlock: off" and "System: Custom" changed to "System: Offical. "
The red line "Recovery is not seandroid enforcing" vanished.
However it still says "Recovery: Custom" in the download mode and this shouldn't be possible after flashing Stock Rom.
At this moment the following errors appear.
No Support SINGLE_SKU
Supported API: 3
E: failed to mount/efs (invalid argument)
dm-verity error...
E: failed to mount /cache (invalid argument)
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_kernel_manual
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/last_kernel_manual
E: failed to mount /cache (invalid argument)
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_locale
Does this mean the partitions are damaged?
The only advices i found on google were, to flash with re-partitioning and to find the pit file. But i am afraid this would make it worse. Should i go to a repair service center or is it possible to still fix it?
If you download the stock firmware and flash the whole rom via odin and look in i believe is ap or csc.tar you should find the pit file extract it via 7zip or other alternative and load it with the pit selector in odin and reflash stock rom including the bl,ap,cp,csc and you should have a fully booting A6
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Ok, i found the pit-file in CSC, but a CP file doesn't exist for SMT-580 Wi-Fi as far as i know.
I assume that i need to flash with re-partitioning and that i need to get sure the pit-file is for a 16 GB device.
But will this really solve my "[invalid argument]-issue"???
dontdropme said:
Ok, i found the pit-file in CSC, but a CP file doesn't exist for SMT-580 Wi-Fi as far as i know.
I assume that i need to flash with re-partitioning and that i need to get sure the pit-file is for a 16 GB device.
But will this really solve my "[invalid argument]-issue"???
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yes theoretically it should solve all your issues and you should be able to reboot the device
allenjthomsen said:
yes theoretically it should solve all your issues and you should be able to reboot the device
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Ok, flashing with Odin works, showing me no error, but i am still stucked in a bootloop. If i try to get in to the recovery mode it tells me, that it installs the update.
It does that, until it reaches 32%. I have tried flashing the stockrom with re-partitioning and the pit-file. Didn't work. Next thing i tried was to start Odin as Admin and with a newer version of the firmware. Didn't work. What changed is that "Current Binary: Custom" to "Current Binary: Samsung Official".
System Status is still: "Custom".
It still refuses to mount the system or to get to 100%, so that i could see the recovery mode with all it's options.
Could it be, that the CPU or the Memory is damaged?
Try to flash twrp then wipe factory data eeset and format data then flash stock again and see if that helps you boot to stock
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I flashed Android Wear onto my watch (March 4th release on this page) and Google Services was super buggy and wouldn't stop crashing, so I tried to flash the vanilla OS back but it constantly fails.
I've tried flashing the Tizenmod Full Restore zip from the page, but it wouldn't flash. The first time it said "INVALID SIGNATURE: BOOT" on the screen so I tried to flash it again and this time it said nothing on the screen. I spent several more hours trying everything, the 'Extreme Recovery' with TizenModFull but I could not flash it either so I tried the stock firmware, 2 different versions of Odin, different USB ports, different firmware's and even tried re partitioning with a PIT file I got from Heimdall on my main computer but I still couldn't flash anything onto the watch (When flashing with re partition and a PIT file it said "INVALID SIGNATURE: PIT", but not consistently).
EDIT: The logs from Odin this guy got are pretty much exactly the same as mine.
Does anything know anyway I can get the stock firmware back onto my watch? Thank you.
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hi,
I am getting a similar issue with my samsung gear S2 I have tried flashing with odin but its stuck in download mode and whenever I try to flash it I get the error message Invalid Signature : PIT - I have tried using different versions of the firmware for the device but no fix - does anyone know how to fix this?
Hi, I need some help flashing my device. Somehow, my device got stuck in a boot loop last night, and I've been having trouble getting it to work again. I think my phone may have reset during an update while in my pocket as I was laying down on the couch last night.
I found my device firmware on sammobile according to the specs listed below. I've downloaded Odin 3.14.4 and have flashed my phone successfully 3 or 4 times at this point, but when it restarts post-flash, it keeps booting into download mode. I can't seem to get it to boot into recovery mode or just turn it off at all anymore. No matter what, it boots straight into download mode.
Does anyone know of a way that I can force it into recovery mode so that I can try restarting it normally? This is my first time flashing a phone, so I have little experience here though I am competent with technology and willing to try further tricks to get it working.
I'm just looking for recommendations and hoping that my phone isn't bricked. I've only owned it for 3 months at this point, so I'm very disappointed.
Thanks in advance for the help, and I'm happy to provide any more information if it helps you come up with any potential solutions.
Specs
Phone: Samsung 21 Ultra
Model: SM-G998U1
PDA: G998U1UES5CVCB
Carrier: XAA
Text on download mode screen:
<!>
partition recovery
Reason avb.slot_verify.c:276: ERROR: recovery: Hash of data does not match digest in descriptor. [2nd]
Calculated Hash of (recovery) : 9C3B9F195F, (VEMETA) : 1C38BF9F7A
Samsung recovery, G998U1UES5CVCB, 50338466R
VBMETA G998U1UES5CVCB, 50341365R
Do you have TWRP installed? Try flushing it. You can also follow Dr. Ketan ROM installation guide, it's very straightforward.
shaharofir said:
Do you have TWRP installed? Try flushing it. You can also follow Dr. Ketan ROM installation guide, it's very straightforward.
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I don't. I was looking at that post earlier and noticed that it mentioned the G998B/N model. Mine is the G998U1, so I was worried that it wouldn't work or cause more problems. I couldn't find any versions of TWRP that matched my specific model.
your bootloader version is above v1. cannot be unlocked. you need to flash a samsung rom. try redownloading it if you can't boot. and twrp probably won't work either.
you're saying that if you hold the vol up key and power button when the device is off that it won't reboot into recovery at all?
ffuser1 said:
your bootloader version is above v1. cannot be unlocked. you need to flash a samsung rom. try redownloading it if you can't boot. and twrp probably won't work either.
you're saying that if you hold the vol up key and power button when the device is off that it won't reboot into recovery at all?
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I was actually able to get it to boot into recovery mode this morning. The download mode timed out and the phone shut off which allowed me to finally get into it. I tried redownloading the same rom I got from sammbolie again a few mins ago but still no luck.
Try another firmware with the same BL revision, CVC9 for example
dipotis said:
Hi, I need some help flashing my device. Somehow, my device got stuck in a boot loop last night, and I've been having trouble getting it to work again. I think my phone may have reset during an update while in my pocket as I was laying down on the couch last night.
I found my device firmware on sammobile according to the specs listed below. I've downloaded Odin 3.14.4 and have flashed my phone successfully 3 or 4 times at this point, but when it restarts post-flash, it keeps booting into download mode. I can't seem to get it to boot into recovery mode or just turn it off at all anymore. No matter what, it boots straight into download mode.
Does anyone know of a way that I can force it into recovery mode so that I can try restarting it normally? This is my first time flashing a phone, so I have little experience here though I am competent with technology and willing to try further tricks to get it working.
I'm just looking for recommendations and hoping that my phone isn't bricked. I've only owned it for 3 months at this point, so I'm very disappointed.
Thanks in advance for the help, and I'm happy to provide any more information if it helps you come up with any potential solutions.
Specs
Phone: Samsung 21 Ultra
Model: SM-G998U1
PDA: G998U1UES5CVCB
Carrier: XAA
Text on download mode screen:
<!>
partition recovery
Reason avb.slot_verify.c:276: ERROR: recovery: Hash of data does not match digest in descriptor. [2nd]
Calculated Hash of (recovery) : 9C3B9F195F, (VEMETA) : 1C38BF9F7A
Samsung recovery, G998U1UES5CVCB, 50338466R
VBMETA G998U1UES5CVCB, 50341365R
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Was your phone carrier branded originally? And you're flashing the u1 firmware so you won't have bloat? Or is it originally an unlocked model? I ask because if it was originally carrier branded and you used the Odin version from the SamMobile site then that may be the reason. U need to use the modded version of Odin that's floating around somewhere. If you need it I can upload it to my drive and let you download that version. I literally just flashed VCB last night and everything worked just fine.
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Was your phone carrier branded originally? And you're flashing the u1 firmware so you won't have bloat? Or is it originally an unlocked model? I ask because if it was originally carrier branded and you used the Odin version from the SamMobile site then that may be the reason. U need to use the modded version of Odin that's floating around somewhere. If you need it I can upload it to my drive and let you download that version. I literally just flashed VCB last night and everything worked just fine.
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No, I bought my phone directly from Samsung, and I bought the unlocked model. I chose the rom from sammobile that looked to be exactly what my phone originally had on it based on the model and PDA/carrier info I found when looking through the recovery logs on the phone when the issue first occurred, before flashing anything onto it. If you think the modded Odin might work, I'd be willing to give it a shot.
I can't tell you the exact differences, but I would flash with the patched odin. it's on xda if you search for it.
No luck so far. I've downloaded the patched Odin software and have tried flashing my device numerous times with the same result. I also tried tried flashing firmware that I found on Frija instead of the firmware I originall downloaded from sammobile to see if anything would be different, and that didn't seem to make a difference.
My best guess (could be wrong) is that it doesn't like the bootloader tied to the firmware I've tried to flash onto the device. I've spent a good while searching firmware that uses the version of the bootloader it wants, but I can't find it anywhere. At this point, I'm all out of ideas, but I appreciate everyone's responses and advice.
So this is what you are saying: You're using patched odin (https://forum.xda-developers.com/attachments/odin3-v3-14-1_3b_patched-zip.5158507/) to flash an official U1 Samsung rom (https://samfw.com/firmware/SM-G998U1/XAA/G998U1UES5CVCB for example) in the AP slot, all other slots are empty, without any odin errors during flash, and are then unable to boot, with partition errors seen in download mode? This is very unusual... flashing in download mode overwrites partitions, including recovery. I would assume if there are no odin errors, then the rom file is not corrupt and the sd card is not damaged. I don't know much about flashing through odin with a locked bootloader, maybe unpatched odin with the above instructions is worth a shot. I'm out of ideas aside from the sd card being damaged or trying unpatched odin if the above instructions with patched odin are resulting in recovery partition errors. I don't think you can access adb in download mode either.
You can extract the CSC file using 7zip. In there you will find the PIT file and you can try flashing it with repartition selected and inserting the PIT file in developers section of Odin.
ffuser1 said:
So this is what you are saying: You're using patched odin (https://forum.xda-developers.com/attachments/odin3-v3-14-1_3b_patched-zip.5158507/) to flash an official U1 Samsung rom (https://samfw.com/firmware/SM-G998U1/XAA/G998U1UES5CVCB for example) in the AP slot, all other slots are empty, without any odin errors during flash, and are then unable to boot, with partition errors seen in download mode? This is very unusual... flashing in download mode overwrites partitions, including recovery. I would assume if there are no odin errors, then the rom file is not corrupt and the sd card is not damaged. I don't know much about flashing through odin with a locked bootloader, maybe unpatched odin with the above instructions is worth a shot. I'm out of ideas aside from the sd card being damaged or trying unpatched odin if the above instructions with patched odin are resulting in recovery partition errors. I don't think you can access adb in download mode either.
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Interesting. I did not try it with only the AP slot populated. I thought you needed to always flash with the BL, AP, CP, and CSC.
wait, i messed up. if it has all of those files, flash them. my bad. i was thinking about custom roms - sorry about that.
Hey everyone, just wanted to make a final update.
I ended up bringing my phone into ubreakifix after trying just about everything I could, and they were not able to fix it either. They suggested that it might be a hardware issue and recommended sending it to Samsung for repair. I then sent it over to Samsung, and they confirmed that it was an issue with my motherboard. Samsung replaced my motherboard, and the phone is back in action. Since I only had my phone for about 6 months, it was still under warranty.
I appreciate everyone who took their time to provide me with advice. I hope that this post may help someone experiencing a similar issue to mine in the future.