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Confusing galaxy note 5!

I bought a second hand galaxy note 5, on the back cover of the phone the model is written SM-N920C but in download mode is written SM-N920d ! Nevertheless when I check the model at "setting/about the device" the model was SM-N920I
The problem started when my note 5 was flashed with venom rom then I accidentally formated all system files so the phone stuck in Android logo, I tried to flash the phone using Odin and SM-N920c but Odin said FAILED just when I click start. Now the phone is off for the battery is dead and it couldn't be charged , please help me to find the right flash and is there any way to flash it without download mood?

Use Kies and do an emergency recovery. It'll also be able to determine the actual model number. You probably didn't update the bootloader when usong Venom or something. Usually you want to update to the official marahmallow and then flash after that.

Turbine1991 said:
Use Kies and do an emergency recovery. It'll also be able to determine the actual model number. You probably didn't update the bootloader when usong Venom or something. Usually you want to update to the official marahmallow and then flash after that.
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Thanks for your comment, I did that already but kies does not support emergency recovery for Note 5 SM-N920c!

I've used it once on my 920c when I initially messed something up. You may need to invoke download mode. Turn the phone off and hold home, volume down and power.
Oh, and there's a modern version of kies which works for modern Samsung phones only.
Did you install a custom recovery immediately after rooting? Always do this first.

Mohannad 14 said:
I bought a second hand galaxy note 5, on the back cover of the phone the model is written SM-N920C but in download mode is written SM-N920d ! Nevertheless when I check the model at "setting/about the device" the model was SM-N920I
The problem started when my note 5 was flashed with venom rom then I accidentally formated all system files so the phone stuck in Android logo, I tried to flash the phone using Odin and SM-N920c but Odin said FAILED just when I click start. Now the phone is off for the battery is dead and it couldn't be charged , please help me to find the right flash and is there any way to flash it without download mood?
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N920d or N9200?
In your case, I would go with what is mentioned in the download mode since the back glass can be replaced with another model and ROM flashing can alter model # sometimes.
PS: you need to be sure that it was an original Note 5, not just a copy. I'd recommend taking it to the nearest service center to have it checked out.

Turbine1991 said:
I've used it once on my 920c when I initially messed something up. You may need to invoke download mode. Turn the phone off and hold home, volume down and power.
Oh, and there's a modern version of kies which works for modern Samsung phones only.
Did you install a custom recovery immediately after rooting? Always do this first.
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How to do a custom recovery? Thanks for your help my friend.

RazorMC said:
N920d or N9200?
In your case, I would go with what is mentioned in the download mode since the back glass can be replaced with another model and ROM flashing can alter model # sometimes.
PS: you need to be sure that it was an original Note 5, not just a copy. I'd recommend taking it to the nearest service center to have it checked out.
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I went with what is mentioned in the download mode which is N920d but I didn't find this firmware at any site?

Mohannad 14 said:
I went with what is mentioned in the download mode which is N920d but I didn't find this firmware at any site?
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Because that firmware does not exist.
It's either 920C or 920CD (for dual-sim) or 9200 for Chinese models.
The first two will have similar firmwares but the 9200 uses different one.
Have you verified exactly which model it is? What does Kies mention when you connect?

RazorMC said:
Because that firmware does not exist.
It's either 920C or 920CD (for dual-sim) or 9200 for Chinese models.
The first two will have similar firmwares but the 9200 uses different one.
Have you verified exactly which model it is? What does Kies mention when you connect?
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Thanks for your help, Yes, it is SM-N920D and it really confusing! do you think that this phone is fake?

Mohannad 14 said:
Thanks for your help, Yes, it is SM-N920D and it really confusing! do you think that this phone is fake?
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As per my search on google, the n920D is Docomo variant.
I haven't been able to find the stock firmware anywhere as of yet.
Flash a custom recovery for your variant (TWRP>others) and then flash a custome ROM that is compatible with 920D.
There must be some on XDA itself.

RazorMC said:
As per my search on google, the n920D is Docomo variant.
I haven't been able to find the stock firmware anywhere as of yet.
Flash a custom recovery for your variant (TWRP>others) and then flash a custome ROM that is compatible with 920D.
There must be some on XDA itself.
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Thanks a lot. I appreciate your great efforts my friend. The problem still the same, no stock firmware for N920D

I Need Help Updating My Note 8 to android 9

Please I need help with manual update to android 9.
OTA keeps saying processing failed
Below is my device info
Product Code SM-N950UZVAXAS
PDA N950USQU4CRF3
CSC N950UOYN3CRF2
Baseband N950USQS5CRKI
Bootloader N950USQS5CRKI

Messrben said:
Please I need help with manual update to android 9.
OTA keeps saying processing failed
Below is my device info
Product Code SM-N950UZVAXAS
PDA N950USQU4CRF3
CSC N950UOYN3CRF2
Baseband N950USQS5CRKI
Bootloader N950USQS5CRKI
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You cannot OTA update from Baseband N950USQS5CRKI. You need to manually flash the latest version using Odin.

MrMike2182 said:
You cannot OTA update from Baseband N950USQS5CRKI. You need to manually flash the latest version using Odin.
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Tell me how please. Never done it

Messrben said:
Tell me how please. Never done it
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It's quite simple.. You download the latest version of firmware for the device which is N950USQS6DSI3 after it's downloaded you need to unzip it one time and then boot the phone into download mode and connect it to the PC USB port and open Odin and put the files in their respective place and then flash.

MrMike good to see you bro
My SM-N950U Still Rooted Note 8

butchieboy said:
MrMike good to see you bro
My SM-N950U Still Rooted Note 8
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Thanks bro! Nice to see you too! How are you doing? Everything alright? I sent my Note 10 back because I just can't stand certain features or LACK of features namely the notification light being gone and the screen protectors breaking the fingerprint scanner so.. I don't know what phone to even get at this point now.

MrMike2182 said:
It's quite simple.. You download the latest version of firmware for the device which is N950USQS6DSI3 after it's downloaded you need to unzip it one time and then boot the phone into download mode and connect it to the PC USB port and open Odin and put the files in their respective place and then flash.
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I'm seeing different carriers (vzw, tmb, cct, usc,spr) except mine which ends in XAS. Which will work for me? Will any of these stop my device from supporting my sim??

Messrben said:
I'm seeing different carriers (vzw, tmb, cct, usc,spr) except mine which ends in XAS. Which will work for me? Will any of these stop my device from supporting my sim??
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Doesn't matter they're all the same just choose whichever and flash it the phone will choose the correct information on it's own!

Are there update limits? I usually get a new phone, root it, find a rom I like and stick with it a long time. I recently updated many apps and they are not working right. Only google maps will get the location from the GPS for example. Also trying to get it to work with my new car radio (kenwood) with wireless mirroring and android auto. Anyway, as much as I like root, I am thinking it may be time to just update. I am currently at N950USQS2BQK2. Yeah way back. Can I odin a current like N950UOYN7DSK3 or do I have to go in steps? Also how do I get an unlocked USA from sammobile? Just pick a USA that doesn't list a carrier? Any other gotcha's since 2017?
Thanks,
Bob

S10 got stuck at firmware update.

Hello there, I'm stuck with a situation and I can't fix the phone.
I live in Canada and I bought the phone here (Canadian software version and also unlocked) and gave it to a relative who lives in the USA to use. Recently, she has a firmware update notification from her phone, however, it always gets stuck at 28%, and the download fails. So she plugged the s10 device into her computer and used Smart Switch to download the new firmware. After she finished downloading it, she clicked to install the new firmware on her phone. That's when the problem starts... She got stuck on this screen forever and she even tried to soft reset/restart the phone but it just went back to that screen.
What I think happened was it's a Canadian version phone but the new firmware is the US version and it tried to install and crashed.
Could anyone give me some advice on fixing this problem?

jimyall said:
Hello there, I'm stuck with a situation and I can't fix the phone.
I live in Canada and I bought the phone here (Canadian software version and also unlocked) and gave it to a relative who lives in the USA to use. Recently, she has a firmware update notification from her phone, however, it always gets stuck at 28%, and the download fails. So she plugged the s10 device into her computer and used Smart Switch to download the new firmware. After she finished downloading it, she clicked to install the new firmware on her phone. That's when the problem starts... She got stuck on this screen forever and she even tried to soft reset/restart the phone but it just went back to that screen.
What I think happened was it's a Canadian version phone but the new firmware is the US version and it tried to install and crashed.
Could anyone give me some advice on fixing this problem?
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youre gonna want to flash the FW with Odin. I can give further details if the solution i provided doesnt make sense

Youdoofus said:
you're gonna want to flash the FW with Odin. I can give further details if the solution I provided doesn't make sense
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Could you please provide me more details? I'm not really a tech person >_>. Do I need to flash the FW with new Canadian version of FW? Also where can i download Odin from a trusted source?

jimyall said:
Could you please provide me more details? I'm not really a tech person >_>. Do I need to flash the FW with new Canadian version of FW? Also where can i download Odin from a trusted source?
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for sure man, i sometimes skip the long winded Odin stuff because ive typed out like 3 paragraphs of Odin instructions and the person i was replying to already knew 75% of what i just typed LOL
aaaaanyways, downloading Odin from a trusted source isnt an issue. Ive downloaded soooo many versions of Odin over the years and from so many different places, i cant imagine an infected Odin. Im sure they exist, but ive never seen one. ive got Odin from here before, and it was fine. Also, yes, youd definitely want to download the canadian version of it. You should be able to flash the U1 version (fully unlocked) so long as you have a snapdragon processor, but youd need whats called "Patched Odin" to do it. The U1 thing is kind of a tangent, but youll find out that there are a TON of rabbit holes you can find yourself in from time to time. The best thing to do is to just flash the FW for the model of phone you own unless you plan on tinkering. sammobile.com/firmwares is where you want to search for the FW and samfirm is an exe youre going to want to use to actually download the FW itself. Samfirm downloads it literally 5x faster.

Youdoofus said:
for sure man, i sometimes skip the long winded Odin stuff because ive typed out like 3 paragraphs of Odin instructions and the person i was replying to already knew 75% of what i just typed LOL
aaaaanyways, downloading Odin from a trusted source isnt an issue. Ive downloaded soooo many versions of Odin over the years and from so many different places, i cant imagine an infected Odin. Im sure they exist, but ive never seen one. ive got Odin from here before, and it was fine. Also, yes, youd definitely want to download the canadian version of it. You should be able to flash the U1 version (fully unlocked) so long as you have a snapdragon processor, but youd need whats called "Patched Odin" to do it. The U1 thing is kind of a tangent, but youll find out that there are a TON of rabbit holes you can find yourself in from time to time. The best thing to do is to just flash the FW for the model of phone you own unless you plan on tinkering. sammobile.com/firmwares is where you want to search for the FW and samfirm is an exe youre going to want to use to actually download the FW itself. Samfirm downloads it literally 5x faster.
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For the firmware, do I just download the latest one for Canada Version? There are so many links so do I just click on Canada (the one without Provider) and Do i download PDA or CSC or both? My phone is unlocked already btw. Also will i able to flash my phone even though it is currently stuck in the "BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH"?
I even tried to you the samfirm to download the firmware but it keeps saying authorization failed after I filled in the blank and clicked update.
Checking firmware for SM-G973W/XAC/G973WVLS4ETK1/G973WOYV4ETK1/SMG973WW12/G973WVLS4ETK1
Error: Could not send BinaryInform. Status code 200/401
Authorization failed

jimyall said:
For the firmware, do I just download the latest one for Canada Version? There are so many links so do I just click on Canada (the one without Provider) and Do i download PDA or CSC or both? My phone is unlocked already btw. Also will i able to flash my phone even though it is currently stuck in the "BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH"?
I even tried to you the samfirm to download the firmware but it keeps saying authorization failed after I filled in the blank and clicked update.
Checking firmware for SM-G973W/XAC/G973WVLS4ETK1/G973WOYV4ETK1/SMG973WW12/G973WVLS4ETK1
Error: Could not send BinaryInform. Status code 200/401
Authorization failed
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yep. sorry, i forgot to mention that part. Zero worry tho, its just a thing caused by the bootloader that your phone was most recently on being too new for the FW youre trying to flash. Thats whats causing the binary error, the binary currently installed is greater than the one youre trying to install so the phone wont physically allow it. Its not even a software thing, it gets hard coded. Anyways, get the most current one and reflash. It wont fail again with the same reason on the newest firmware, but if it does fail, try a different cable, download the file again. it might have corrupted during the download. If youre not using patched Odin, you literally cant screw it up so badly you cant recover it

Youdoofus said:
yep. sorry, i forgot to mention that part. Zero worry tho, its just a thing caused by the bootloader that your phone was most recently on being too new for the FW youre trying to flash. Thats whats causing the binary error, the binary currently installed is greater than the one youre trying to install so the phone wont physically allow it. Its not even a software thing, it gets hard coded. Anyways, get the most current one and reflash. It wont fail again with the same reason on the newest firmware, but if it does fail, try a different cable, download the file again. it might have corrupted during the download. If youre not using patched Odin, you literally cant screw it up so badly you cant recover it
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thanks you! I used Frija to download the latest Canadian version of the firmware. Next step do I just use the Odin to flash and follow the instruction on sammobile websites? Can I flash the new firmware without deleting data on my phone?

jimyall said:
thanks you! I used Frija to download the latest Canadian version of the firmware. Next step do I just use the Odin to flash and follow the instruction on sammobile websites? Can I flash the new firmware without deleting data on my phone?
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yep, when flashing the 4 parts of the FW, the home_csc will not wipe your userdata, csc will factory reset. let us know if you run into trouble, but you shouldnt have any issues. it sounds like you got this

Thank you so so much! I fixed the phone and it works now. For future firmware updates, I have to do this every time? Is there any option that i can change my firmware permanently to the US version so that I can get auto-update on the phone instead of using ODIN every time?

Note 9 official ROM installation problem

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Good evening, I bought a second hand Note 9 which rooted, I tried to unroot, it crashed, it did not turn on and remained BLOCKED on SAMSUNG. I downloaded firmware which are in android 8.1 -9 and 10. Nothing. Bad manipulation, a cable that comes loose and voila that nothing works. I tried the emergency RECOVERY with Smart Switch, nothing. I tried again through odin I got the error message on the attached capture (sw rev check fail bootloader device 3 binary). Help me please. thank you in advance

FERLIHAS said:
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Good evening, I bought a second hand Note 9 which rooted, I tried to unroot, it crashed, it did not turn on and remained BLOCKED on SAMSUNG. I downloaded firmware which are in android 8.1 -9 and 10. Nothing. Bad manipulation, a cable that comes loose and voila that nothing works. I tried the emergency RECOVERY with Smart Switch, nothing. I tried again through odin I got the error message on the attached capture (sw rev check fail bootloader device 3 binary). Help me please. thank you in advance
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Well, have you any knowledge about how to flash firmware and the right choice file decision on Odin mode, chose latest Android 10 by the way, if you know the device origin, then chose that firmware origins, try to find out what model phone is that, is it SM-N960F, SM-N960N or what, then chose that kind of firmware to flash.
The phone will not let you flash SM-N960N on device SM-N960F, and if you can't find out what model phone is, then chose several different firmware's one by one till it succeed.

Alboooz said:
Well, have you any knowledge about how to flash firmware and the right choice file decision on Odin mode, chose latest Android 10 by the way, if you know the device origin, then chose that firmware origins, try to find out what model phone is that, is it SM-N960F, SM-N960N or what, then chose that kind of firmware to flash.
The phone will not let you flash SM-N960N on device SM-N960F, and if you can't find out what model phone is, then chose several different firmware's one by one till it succeed.
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Thanks you very much. I will try.
I have more informations about a model (photos)

FERLIHAS said:
Thanks you very much. I will try.
I have more informations about a model (photos)
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I see now, it's Korean model SM-N960N, it is possible already rooted, I guess this firmware link is for your phone https://samfrew.com/download/Galaxy__Note9__/hkqz/KOO/N960NKSU3FTK1/N960NOKR3FTK1/

I cannot factory reset my phone

I've p9 lite 2017 l31. I tried to reset phone bcause it was stucking on huawei logo. Phone says reset failed. What can i do? I cannot open the phone. No root, twrp etc.

taha129 said:
I've p9 lite 2017 l31. I tried to reset phone bcause it was stucking on huawei logo. Phone says reset failed. What can i do? I cannot open the phone. No root, twrp etc.
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Hello,
you could try to unbrick using DLOAD method.
For files to grab it depend
on latest firmware (android 6/7, emui 4/5)
was your phone running before the brick.
A good guide can be found in
UNIFIED HELP THREAD, post #6.
Feel free to ask if you're not sure
which firmware to choose..
Cheers

Dadditz said:
Hello,
you could try to unbrick using DLOAD method.
For files to grab it depend
on latest firmware (android 6/7, emui 4/5)
was your phone running before the brick.
A good guide can be found in
UNIFIED HELP THREAD, post #6.
Feel free to ask if you're not sure
which firmware to choose..
Cheers
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Hello thanks for reply.
Exactly it is not my phone. this is my friend's phone. He gave me for fix. So idk which emui and android version was running before brick. I don't think he knows that too because he doesn't understand much of smartphones.
I just know is huawei vns-l31model(writes on cover). And i dont have the sim and sd card's gadget. (It may in my friend's home.)
Could you say which files i need?(And Can i do dload method without sd card? Maybe using flash disk with otg cable. And lastly, how do I know if the image/software file I downloaded is clean. Couldn't a keylogger be embedded in every file I haven't downloaded from Huawei's servers? Last question is a little paranoid, sorry.

taha129 said:
Hello thanks for reply.
Exactly it is not my phone. this is my friend's phone. He gave me for fix. So idk which emui and android version was running before brick. I don't think he knows that too because he doesn't understand much of smartphones.
I just know is huawei vns-l31model(writes on cover). And i dont have the sim and sd card's gadget. (It may in my friend's home.)
Could you say which files i need?(And Can i do dload method without sd card? Maybe using flash disk with otg cable. And lastly, how do I know if the image/software file I downloaded is clean. Couldn't a keylogger be embedded in every file I haven't downloaded from Huawei's servers? Last question is a little paranoid, sorry.
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Dude,
i cannot say which the correct firmware for you
and you need a PC (or at least another device)
and an SD card to do this.
You have a small possibility...
Reboot the device in fastboot mode
and connect it to your PC.
Open a command prompt and type :
fastboot oem get-build-number and
fastboot getvar vendorcountry.
If you have responses paste them here,
if you have not response i think you
have to bring it to a service point.
Good luck