Hello XDA ,
I just bought a used Note 5 N920c which says the country of origin is UAE . And yesterday when I tried rooting the device after reading the article written by Dr.ketan it didn't really go well . I flashed the custom recovery as mentioned in the post but the device dose not get past the Samsung logo screen . I tried both auto restart / manual restart method . When I manually tried to get into recovery mode after flashing a black screen appeared which said the recovery is not official and it stayed like that for almost 15 minutes ( TWRP didn't open)
I restarted and tried going into recovery mode but i found the official recovery . Kinda surprised why this root method isn't working on my N920C .
Is there any chance that N920c is an AT&T variant ? I am not the first owner of the phone and I have no idea if it is an unlocked phone . I thought n920A is AT&T Variant if note 5 . Please correct me if I am wrong
Thanks and Regards
DW
Update : Got the issue resolved with the guidance of dr.Ketan who was kind enough to reply to my PM and help me out
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Hi guys , After a month of searching the whole internet , I was not able to find the solution to my problem , so this is my last hope.
I was gifted a Nokia Lumia 620 by a friend who used to work for Nokia( Now left and in very bad terms with the company ). The phone works like charm and has not given me any kind of trouble. Till a month back I found that I was not able to update the firmware of my phone. On checking the net , I found that the phone's firmware version was a pre-release one i.e. 1030.5603.1249.003 ( This phone was released with 1030.5603.1250.00x in my country India ). So i tried to manually update by downloading the updated firmware .To my surprise I could not find the firmware for my product code which is 059N7C6 . Instead I downloaded firmware of other product code but of same RM-846 . Tried to flash the phone using NCS but could not. I was not able to bring it to the flash mode. Tried every method out there ( Vol down & power , Vol down & power then vol up ) but could not. Actually even keeping the vol down and power button pressed for like 10 min I dont get the vibration( except when the phone is switched off and when i try it , then the phone just switches on.). But as soon as I release the buttons I get a vibration . Is this the vibration that all the methods talk about?? But even after this I get an error message during the recovery method of flashing. I have also tried the refurbish method by changing the product code. The phone goes to go the flash mode and the flash starts but again an error occurs . In both the cases the error i get is " Message not send " .so my questions are :
1. Is my phone a demo phone ? (i dont think so coz my phone works like charm and performs all the functions )
2. Is there any process to update this pre release firmware ?
3. Have i downloaded the firmware of wrong product code ? (FYI i had downloaded the firmware of product code 059R680 EURO1 GB DEVELOPER DEVICE by using NCS coz i could not find the firmware pertaining to my region )
4. Is there any other method to enable the flash mode on the phone ?
This forum is my last hope. Don't want to ditch this phone cause of no updates . Thanks in advance.
Hello ,
I hope that someone could help me !
My friend ask me to mod a galaxy s3 mini i8190n .
It was bought in UK (used from a shop) , but from the splash screen i saw that it was original from french (SFR carrier).
Before do everything i checked the IMEI displayed and it was the same of the sticker behind battery (it was ok) and i saved the original firmware code .
The phone was working properly with an uk sim , so i didn't think that it was sim locked .
I rooted the phone and made a backup with CWM.
After i saw the last release of cyanogenmod 12.1 , i flashed TWRP and CM12.1.
I didn't try with sim inserted at the beginning . After all wipes the system was unstable (reboot , black screen etc ) .
So i tried to flash the Resurrection Remix (last release) that worked better .
With the last rom i tried 2 sims (perfect working in other two phones) and both are not recognized (no sim icon).
No message for unlock the phone on starting was displayed!
I thought at that moment that probably the phone could have some problem with flashed roms.
I decided to reflash CWM and restore the original firmware from backup . The problem persisted (no sim ).
So i found the original rom on sammobile and flashed it . No sims recognized as well !
Imei was the same with all roms , so i think that the EFS folder is good !
I read a lot and discovered that the sim unlock is stored in a protected memory area , so i think i couldn't delete the unlock ... If it had been unlocked before being sold. Am i right ?? And i would like to exclude an hardware problem .. because the phone was working properly before the modding!
What could I do for resolve this problem? The phone is not mine and i'm so sorry to have made a mess!
Thanks in advance for any suggestion.
This is the orginal firmware version
Just wondering if you resolved this problem. I had the same problem - no SIM working on any custom ROM. I could only fix it by re-flashing stock Recovery in Odin, and then Re-flashing stock ROM also in Odin.
hi there . iam new to note 5 . i have a SM-N920P SPRINT NOTE 5 my device was working fine until I've flashed it with a wrong rom . now the phone is not working its showing on screen ( an error has occurred while updating the device software . use the emergency recovery function in the smart swich pc software ) so as shown on my screen I've downloaded smart switch and connected my phone but it is now showing on smart switch in order to recovery it's software . so moved on to sammobile and downloaded latest firmware ( N920PVPU2BPH9_N920PSPT2BPH9_SPR ) and flashed it via odin but it fails showing this error on phone screen [sw rev check fail binary: 3 device: 2] . I've tried 3 more roms from different sites and all failed with different errors showing . I've saw a video on youtube and the youtuber said that the baseband version is matching with the phone baseband . pleas help me to fix my phone . sorry for the bad english language because its not my nature language . thanks
kirkuk said:
hi there . iam new to note 5 . i have a SM-N920P SPRINT NOTE 5 my device was working fine until I've flashed it with a wrong rom . now the phone is not working its showing on screen ( an error has occurred while updating the device software . use the emergency recovery function in the smart swich pc software ) so as shown on my screen I've downloaded smart switch and connected my phone but it is now showing on smart switch in order to recovery it's software . so moved on to sammobile and downloaded latest firmware ( N920PVPU2BPH9_N920PSPT2BPH9_SPR ) and flashed it via odin but it fails showing this error on phone screen [sw rev check fail binary: 3 device: 2] . I've tried 3 more roms from different sites and all failed with different errors showing . I've saw a video on youtube and the youtuber said that the baseband version is matching with the phone baseband . pleas help me to fix my phone . sorry for the bad english language because its not my nature language . thanks
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Try with 4part rom or smart switch
SM-N920F cihazımdan Tapatalk kullanılarak gönderildi
Y4HY4 said:
Try with 4part rom or smart switch
SM-N920F cihazımdan Tapatalk kullanılarak gönderildi
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i've tried smart switch its not detecting my phone . i hope u provide me the 4part rom links if you have one . thanks
kirkuk said:
hi there . iam new to note 5 . i have a SM-N920P SPRINT NOTE 5 my device was working fine until I've flashed it with a wrong rom . now the phone is not working its showing on screen ( an error has occurred while updating the device software . use the emergency recovery function in the smart swich pc software ) so as shown on my screen I've downloaded smart switch and connected my phone but it is now showing on smart switch in order to recovery it's software . so moved on to sammobile and downloaded latest firmware ( N920PVPU2BPH9_N920PSPT2BPH9_SPR ) and flashed it via odin but it fails showing this error on phone screen [sw rev check fail binary: 3 device: 2] . I've tried 3 more roms from different sites and all failed with different errors showing . I've saw a video on youtube and the youtuber said that the baseband version is matching with the phone baseband . pleas help me to fix my phone . sorry for the bad english language because its not my nature language . thanks
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try download your firmware using this software.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3803841&d=1467715462
you need .net 3.5 to be install on your pc.
put your model as SM-N920P and region SPR. Tick the binary nature, check crc and decrypt automatically. it will download your firmware. then try flash with odin.
edan1979 said:
try download your firmware using this software.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3803841&d=1467715462
you need .net 3.5 to be install on your pc.
put your model as SM-N920P and region SPR. Tick the binary nature, check crc and decrypt automatically. it will download your firmware. then try flash with odin.
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thanks bro i've solved that error and my phone booted successfully by flashing this rom ( N920P_N920PVPS3BPJ2_SPRINT_USA_v6.0.1 ) from this link https://www.mediafire.com/folder/byye3kocz6nn4/Stock Roms Note 5 thanks to all of u .
probably FRP ON
I am on 9208 s7 port. I am having the same issue while downgrading to lollipop
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probably FRP ON
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FRP was off bro .
amit.deuskar said:
I am on 9208 s7 port. I am having the same issue while downgrading to lollipop
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u cannot downgrade to lollipop u should flash same version of installed android or newer version . thats probably because of locked bootloader .
Its not FRP issue. Actually Samsung has implemented security on new firmwares and now we cannot install old firmwares anymore. As I installed:
N920IDVU3BPL2 firmware from Sammobile, so now I am just able to install one previous firmware ie: N920IDVU3BPJ2 and other than this I cannot install any firmware of Marshmallow or Lollipop at all.
If I still try to install any firmware I get [sw rev check fail binary: 3 device: 2] error.
My problem is that the new firmware is not working good and I cannot use my phone on LTE and even 3G is not goos at times so I am helpless at this stage. I think if I try my old modem of "N920IDVU2BPG3" firmware then may be I get LTE because this was the last perfect firmware working on my phone.
ODIN is throwing error so I think may be flashing the modem and bootloader via twrp may work but do not know if it will cause damage and also do not know how to make flashable zip of twrp for modem and bootloader.
Samsung has really messed me up and I hate it. From last one week the phone is not good on data.
Hello,
I currently own a Note 5 that I have been using for almost a year now. I live in a Lebanon, a country where we only have two telecom providers, and Sprint is not even one of them.
In my Software Info screen, my model says SM-N920F, but using a boot loader, the model is: SM-N920P.
I tried installing custom ROMS for SM-N920C but they wont boot and get stuck on the Samsung logo screen.
Is there any way I can turn it into a SM-N920C so I can benefit from all the ROMS available for SM-N920C?
It's really hard to find any working ROM for SM-N920F/P ( I really don't know which version I am )
I bought my Note 5 second handed from a local store.
Thanks a lot guys!
I'm not exactly sure, but it sounds like someone flashed a secondary boot image (kernel) for the P model. The settings screen doesn't mean much because any dev can put any device model in the xml, most ports say SM-G955 or SM-N950 which are S8+ and Note 8 roms. If I were you I would try flashing back to stock with Odin, are you rooted by chance?
hello I have the same problem on the settings is the n920f but on the boot loader n920p please if you have found a solution thank you
i have no clue what went wrong,
i installed dr ketan's s8+ rom, when i wanted to go back to stock rom i was not able to due to odin error
"sw rev check fail device 5 binary 4".
i installed lineage os was working properly ...but as lineage os does not have volte support i started digging .... got modem of note 5 phone though about flashing that ...i successfully flashed that using odin ... but the problem started was no sim as there is not imei number now ...
im really in middle of sea with no where to go ..
if anyone knows the solution please revert back .
thankyou.
all i want to do is flash stock with working sim ]