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Good evening everyone -
I'm running into some issues with my LRA version of the M8. I am/was rooted and running TWRP fine until I decided to revert back to the stock recovery so I could install the latest OTA that was released to me. Like an idiot I never backed up my stock OTA before flashing TWRP so I extracted the firmware.zip from the OTA download, relocked my bootloader, then used fastboot to flash firmware.zip. All seemed to go well until I rebooted, I'm now stuck at the HTC splash screen and can get no further. Things I've done:
- tried booting into recovery, got red triangle w/red exclamation mark
- unlocked bootloader and installed TWRP, can get into recovery now at least
- tried factory reset
- wiped cache, no luck
Unfortunately the LRA M8 isn't very common it appears so I'm unable to find a stock ROM to try and reinstall. I'm hoping someone might be able to help me get started back up without the need for my stock RUU or nandroid backup. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated, please let me know what other info I could provide to help out. Thanks in advance.
promsos said:
Good evening everyone -
I'm running into some issues with my LRA version of the M8. I am/was rooted and running TWRP fine until I decided to revert back to the stock recovery so I could install the latest OTA that was released to me. Like an idiot I never backed up my stock OTA before flashing TWRP so I extracted the firmware.zip from the OTA download, relocked my bootloader, then used fastboot to flash firmware.zip. All seemed to go well until I rebooted, I'm now stuck at the HTC splash screen and can get no further. Things I've done:
- tried booting into recovery, got red triangle w/red exclamation mark
- unlocked bootloader and installed TWRP, can get into recovery now at least
- tried factory reset
- wiped cache, no luck
Unfortunately the LRA M8 isn't very common it appears so I'm unable to find a stock ROM to try and reinstall. I'm hoping someone might be able to help me get started back up without the need for my stock RUU or nandroid backup. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated, please let me know what other info I could provide to help out. Thanks in advance.
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Did your firmware.zip have a boot*.img in it? You probably need the old version of the boot.img to match the old software. You might want to find on of the old Verizon RUUs and extract the boot.img from there and try flashing that in fastboot. Message me if the Verizon boot doesn't work for you, I might have some other ideas. I'd say be careful, but you're already in trouble.
Edit: You could also do a nandroid backup and try a custom ROM to get it functional in the short term.
I did eventually grab a nandroid backup and loaded Viper Rom on it, although it's a bit quirky - probably because the LRA version of the phone is slightly different than the stock Verizon version. That being said, the firmware.zip that I loaded did have a boot.img file in it so I'm guessing that's the issue. Do you think the boot.img from a Verizon RUU would work considering my phone is not the same exact version as the Verizon one? Or another way to ask it I guess is if there's really any harm in me restoring my nandroid and loading a standard Verizon boot.img? I'd think it can't render my phone any more useless than it was previously, just wasn't sure how locked in the boot.img file was to the specific model\OS that's on the phone. The whole LRA phone thing is really a kick in the pants.
promsos said:
I did eventually grab a nandroid backup and loaded Viper Rom on it, although it's a bit quirky - probably because the LRA version of the phone is slightly different than the stock Verizon version. That being said, the firmware.zip that I loaded did have a boot.img file in it so I'm guessing that's the issue. Do you think the boot.img from a Verizon RUU would work considering my phone is not the same exact version as the Verizon one? Or another way to ask it I guess is if there's really any harm in me restoring my nandroid and loading a standard Verizon boot.img? I'd think it can't render my phone any more useless than it was previously, just wasn't sure how locked in the boot.img file was to the specific model\OS that's on the phone. The whole LRA phone thing is really a kick in the pants.
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The boot.img from an older Verizon RUU would probably work, but you might have to try a couple to get the right one. The boot.img is directly tied to the ROM version that is installed, and is often called the kernel and tells the system how to boot the ROM.
Make sure you do a backup of your working Viper before restoring the stock one and trying to flash a boot.img.
I don't understand why you re locked the boot loader and flashed a firmware zip just to revert to stock recovery? All you had to do was pull the stock recovery from the firmware.zip in the OTA then flash it via fast boot. Then go ahead and flash the OTA.
You need to now find and flash a compatible boot.img. Just keep trying different ones until it boots.
I'm making a little progress here, thanks for the help. I downloaded a 4.4.3 Verizon kernel, loaded that (after restoring the old nandroid backup) and I'm able to boot, whew... I'm having two issues now, 1) my wireless won't turn on for some reason and 2) I tried installing the 4.4.4 OTA update my carrier released (downloaded via 4G) and it won't apply - I was hoping successfully applying this OTA would fix the wireless issue. Looking at my software version it looks like I'm actually running 4.4.2, could that cause both of these issues? I'm trying to locate a 4.4.2 kernel to load but figured I'd toss out the question in the meantime.
Ashyx - I wish I had a better answer to why I temporarily relocked the boot loader and flashed firmware.zip other than desperation (trying to get that darn OTA). It was a while ago I flashed the firmware.zip file but I thought that when I initially extracted the recovery from the zip file and flashed it I could no longer boot into a recovery, maybe I'm making that up though - I can hardly remember last week lol. I'm an IT guy, so I'm not completely clueless, but I'm far from proficient with mobile technologies, as I'm sure you gathered already.
Anyways, I'd appreciate any insight, in the mean time I'm going to keep hunting for a 4.4.2 kernel to try on this thing. Thanks again to all.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2723159
Try the zips from here, they should have a boot.img for 4.4.2.
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Ok, I think I'm back up and running. I was able to find a 4.4.2 boot.img that allowed me to once again use my wireless. After getting the wireless working I had to find valid versions of flashlight.apk and calculator.apk to put in data/preload and the OTA finally took....success at last. I really appreciate the help durgis, I'll be grabbing a nandroid of my now working phone right away so I don't run into issues in the future. Again, thank you for the help, very much appreciated.
I suspect that we are on the same carrier, LRA__001. I've been fighting a similar problem to yours. The only custom rom I've been able to install is Cyanogenmod. It's good, but the battery life is horrible for me. Also, I can't get MMS or 4G to work. Everything other rom I've tried won't boot up for me. Any chance that you could provide a link to your nandroid backup? I'm looking to get back to a more stock rom that I can get OTA updates on. Thanks.
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I suspect that we are on the same carrier, LRA__001. I've been fighting a similar problem to yours. The only custom rom I've been able to install is Cyanogenmod. It's good, but the battery life is horrible for me. Also, I can't get MMS or 4G to work. Everything other rom I've tried won't boot up for me. Any chance that you could provide a link to your nandroid backup? I'm looking to get back to a more stock rom that I can get OTA updates on. Thanks.
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Hey rook, I do have the same CID, are you on Cellcom out of Wisconsin? I didn't grab a bare bones nandroid, but i can do a backup, uninstall my apps and do one, or rebuild mine from my unbootable one now that I have everything i need. If you want to try a different ROM you could try Viper, it worked decent for me, just a few quirks when i bounced from wireless to 3G for some reason.
I am with Cellcom. My problems started with the recent OTA update. The update wouldn't take, because of the flashlight.apk. I decided it was time to root this phone anyway and try some custom roms. I've done it with my other HTC phones in the past with no problems. Unlocked the bootloader, loaded TWRP and did a backup. Didn't check where the backup was being put and ended up saving it to internal. Put on a new ROM and wiped my backup. Cyanogenmod 11 is the only ROM that I've had success with. Every other rom that I have tried so far will not complete the initial boot. I suspect that I'm missing something stupid, or it has something to do with the OTA update not completing. Are you running Viper, or did you get the Cellcom OTA update to work?
I was running Viper for a while but now have my phone reverted to stock with the 4.4.4 OTA applied. If you want a nandroid of stock Cellcom 4.4.4 I can work on one for you, it may take a couple days to get it but I should be able to get one.
That would be awesome. I've been looking for a stock Rom for a while now. As you know those are nearly impossible to find. Not having a stock nandroid backup or the OTA update zip kind of put me in a SOL position. Thanks for your help.
Finally got around to this, try the download below, it's the stock 4.4.4 ROM and also the stock recovery (for future OTA updates). Let me know if it works out for you. I also have the 4.4.4 OTA updated if needed.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/thd0z8l2zlprt3r/One M8 LRA 4.4.4 Stock.zip?dl=0
That worked awesome. Thanks!!!
Hi Guys, (@rook79 , @promsos)
i have the same model and running into similar problem, i was also not able to flash any other rom than SkyDragon, wanted to be able to flash other roms but no luck, i thought its the firmware that wont let me install so i went for S-Off and flashed one of the firmware from verizon, since there was not much help for this specific model and everyone was referring it as a variant from verizon, i did flash one and my problem started, my phone had no signals after flashing the firmware and was still not able to flash any other ROM, i flashed couple of more firmwares and radios to get my network working but no luck, and i got a new problem that the phone keeps rebooting after a couple of minutes it loads into system.
then somebody helped me with the stock firmware 4.4.4 from here and nandroid from this thread, firmware was still verizon, i managed to restore it but still the same reboot issue and no signals, but i was able to download OTA which wont install, everytime i try to install it, it goes to stock recovery with a progress bar 1% filled and then stuck into boot loop and after n number of attempts it boots into system, where again it reboots after a couple of minutes.
extracted the firmware from OTA and manually flashed it and tried to install OTA but still same, i tried to reboot into stock recovery but every time i do that, it goes to black screen and then keep rebooting, i am not able to get to that red triangle screen.
help less clueless trying to find complete RUU for it (not sure if thats going to help)
my partition table has 2 vzw partitions as well because i flashed dottat's RUU for verizon.
can you guys help me with that?
my phone is m8_wlv CID: LRA_001 MID: 0P6B20000
s-off, and i am on a GSM network (not US).
promsos said:
Finally got around to this, try the download below, it's the stock 4.4.4 ROM and also the stock recovery (for future OTA updates). Let me know if it works out for you. I also have the 4.4.4 OTA updated if needed.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/thd0z8l2zlprt3r/One M8 LRA 4.4.4 Stock.zip?dl=0
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I'll appreciate if you share the 4.4.4 OTA, I really need it now.
hoang555 said:
I'll appreciate if you share the 4.4.4 OTA, I really need it now.
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is this what you are looking for? https://www.dropbox.com/s/2oozc291kwe5l9r/OTA_M8_WL_L50_SENSE60_MR_LRA_US_4.21.512.4-3.31.512.2_release_426215.zip?dl=0
hoang555 said:
I'll appreciate if you share the 4.4.4 OTA, I really need it now.
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Hi
Do you still have that LRA version?? I need some help
Hi, first of all I want to say that I am relatively new to android and therefore only have a basic understanding of everything. My desire EYE is currently on 4.4.4 rooted and have been having problems upgrading it to 5.0, I know I have to unroot and return to stock in order to be able to flash the stock recovery and be able to then flash lollipop on there. Problem is whenever I flash one of the stock 4.4.4's found on here superuser installer is still there (even when I tell to TWRP to not install it) and when I got to the bootloader is still says that the software is Modified so am still unable to flash the stock recovery and get lollipop.
Can anybody help shed some light on this problem and possibly help me fix it?
Hi there,
I have found I was able to update using the procedure written in this topic. Could you see if that helps you?
LaPaca said:
Hi there,
I have found I was able to update using the procedure written in this topic. Could you see if that helps you?
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Thanks for your reply but have already tried this and when I tried booting into the recovery menu it gave me the red triangle because I have modified system partition, and all my efforts so far to change it to official have so far been unsuccessful
In fact tried it again and it worked this time, however when I try and download the update on my phone a message pop's up saying my phone can't be updated because the software is modified and not official HTC firmware
Hi, some months ago I decided to return on stock rom and recovery to get the new ota update for 5.0.1, yes i know.. The real problem is that the ota update, i don't know why went wrong and i get stucked, i decided to flash a custom rom with 5.0.1 already on it but i didn't know that i can't flash a new rom without a new firmware, my brother decided to "help" me and now i'm without root but with a custom recovery installed, i don't know how to install su binary and I can't installe another time the stock recovery.. well, i'm just tired with this situation... if someone can help me, i'll appreciate, thanks everyone
You need to tell complete info of your device to get help.
Post fastboot getvar all result without serial & imei no.
Do getvar all, and post the output (being sure to delete IMEI and serial number, as these are personal data).
What is the current status of the phone (its not clear)? Stock 4.4.2 ROM? Custom recovery?
I tried to install leedroid oreo and after installing it went to the HTC logo then a black screen then the htc logo again on a loop . so i decided to install another 8.0 ROM i use (Purefusion os) and now my sim card is not being detected (ive tried it in another phone and it works) ive tried resetting and tried many different roms and also ive tired to restore to original os using the RUU exe tool but i keep getting the error 132 .. can somebody PLEASE help ?
BoganRabbit said:
I tried to install leedroid oreo and after installing it went to the HTC logo then a black screen then the htc logo again on a loop . so i decided to install another 8.0 ROM i use (Purefusion os) and now my sim card is not being detected (ive tried it in another phone and it works) ive tried resetting and tried many different roms and also ive tired to restore to original os using the RUU exe tool but i keep getting the error 132 .. can somebody PLEASE help ?
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Same Problem My HTC 10 (US Unlocked) seems to be no longer recognizing the cellular radio I was switching between ROMs and I received an error when Android booted saying that decryption was unsuccessful and I had to factory reset the device. After performing the factory reset I was unable to connect to the mobile network, when I looked into the settings the IMEI was listed as Unknown. I have advance wiped data in TWRP by formatting everything on the phone and trying to reinstall Viper 10 (with encryption disabled) Restored the matching firmware and reinstalled Viper 10 with encryption disabled and even flashed the most recent stock RUU. I have never tried switching between US and EU firmware, From other treads I've noticed people had problems with their HTC 10's service by trying to switch from Sprint to Unlocked US.
Three things
1. LeDroids 8.0 requires 8.0 firmware
2. Purefusion os not sure why but I have signal
3. You maybe able to flash the ruu for your phone to recover.
As above... HTC Oreo firmware is required to run a HTC based Oreo ROM.
As noted in my opinion, once you upgrade to Oreo you cannot go back to N, you will loose cell service.
So next steps... Flash Oreo firmware.. flash Oreo ROM & profit.
You may need to do a full /data format prior to flashing.
You may also have to go into the *#*#4636#*#* menu and change the preferred network type there depending on your carrier, I have Verizon and I have to do that when I restart the phone.
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You may also have to go into the *#*#4636#*#* menu and change the preferred network type there depending on your carrier, I have Verizon and I have to do that when I restart the phone.
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I would say that could possibly work but my phone doesn't even know what my IMEI number is won't read a SIM card
steezee said:
I would say that could possibly work but my phone doesn't even know what my IMEI number is won't read a SIM card
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If you installed the Oreo Firmware you have to stay on an Oreo ROM right now. Make sure you have the latest TWRP, wipe everything, format data (not wipe) then reinstall Lee's ROM.
LeeDroid said:
As above... HTC Oreo firmware is required to run a HTC based Oreo ROM.
As noted in my opinion, once you upgrade to Oreo you cannot go back to N, you will loose cell service.
So next steps... Flash Oreo firmware.. flash Oreo ROM & profit.
You may need to do a full /data format prior to flashing.
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Do you mean flashing the stock firmware RUU file ? ..because when i download the exe i use from HTC i recieve a 132 error
BoganRabbit said:
Do you mean flashing the stock firmware RUU file ? ..because when i download the exe i use from HTC i recieve a 132 error
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I assume they are mentioning 3.xx.xxx.xx firmware but I can't find any 3. firmware that will flash (I'm looking for [617] US Unlocked)
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If you installed the Oreo Firmware you have to stay on an Oreo ROM right now. Make sure you have the latest TWRP, wipe everything, format data (not wipe) then reinstall Lee's ROM.
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where can i download the oreo firmware ?
BoganRabbit said:
where can i download the oreo firmware ?
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what model of the HTC 10 do you have?
I found The following
WWE Oreo 3.16.401.2 firmware
US Unlocked Oreo 3.16.617.2 firmware
steezee said:
I would say that could possibly work but my phone doesn't even know what my IMEI number is won't read a SIM card
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sad thing is that that did't work for me on Tmobile with Pure Fusion Os 8.0 or any other non Sense based rom
Im having the same issue. Mistakenly updated with the latest Leedroid without flashing OREO first. It wasnt ovbious from the Leedroid.co.uk page. Now after reflashing several RUU my IMEI is showing as unknown. I have S-OFF now so hopefully there's some way of fixing my screw up.
acs111 said:
Im having the same issue. Mistakenly updated with the latest Leedroid without flashing OREO first. It wasnt ovbious from the Leedroid.co.uk page. Now after reflashing several RUU my IMEI is showing as unknown. I have S-OFF now so hopefully there's some way of fixing my screw up.
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Flash the Oreo RUU for your CID/MID and you should get it back
or
Flash the Oreo firmware (That matches your CID/MID) that I linked for your phone above (might as well just use the wipe one which is what I used to get my phone back)
Flash TWRP (if you used the fullwipe without TWRP, if not skip to the next step)
Install an Oreo based Rom (You can't go back to N or before)
Thanks, that worked
How do you flash the oreo firmware? with fastboot or through twrp? I did the same thing, now I'm stuck trying to fix my phone. I tried download mode through fastboot and through twrp, neither worked for me.
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Thanks, that worked
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What do you mean? Can you do phone calls?. Please tell us, what did you do? Step by step
Are you s-on or s-off? Please, be gentle with us.. Regards..
CarlosRDonXDA said:
What do you mean? Can you do phone calls?. Please tell us, what did you do? Step by step
Are you s-on or s-off? Please, be gentle with us.. Regards..
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He did as the post before his suggested. (and many other posts here on XDA regarding Oreo update)
You have to install Oreo RUU or Oreo firmware + Oreo rom.
It's as simple as that.
Since I have no clue what variant/model of HTC 10 you have from what little you posted, I can't/won't direct you to a specific RUU or firmware.
But the info needed to determine that, has been posted many times.
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He did as the post before his suggested. (and many other posts here on XDA regarding Oreo update)
You have to install Oreo RUU or Oreo firmware + Oreo rom.
It's as simple as that.
Since I have no clue what variant/model of HTC 10 you have from what little you posted, I can't/won't direct you to a specific RUU or firmware.
But the info needed to determine that, has been posted many times.
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Thanks santod040, the same happens to me with piranya ROM.
Hope your help... My device is htc 10, Cid htc__332 latín América, 2PS650000, pmewl. No sim detected, no imei, no base band. Need I to be s-off?. Thanks in advance...
Excuse me... I have been playing with ROMs trying solve my problem, actually have installed crdroid nougat 7.1.2, and time ago, my daughter erase original system twrp backup.
CarlosRDonXDA said:
Thanks santod040, the same happens to me with piranya ROM.
Hope your help... My device is htc 10, Cid htc__332 latín América, 2PS650000, pmewl. No sim detected, no imei, no base band. Need I to be s-off?. Thanks in advance...
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You need Oreo firmware to run an Oreo rom.
Paste the output of the following command from Download mode:
fastboot getvar all
Remove your serial and IMEI from the output before posting.
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I was trying to root my samsung galaxy a5 2017 with TWRP and I accidentally deleted system data. Then, I tried rebooting the phone and it got stuck in a bootloop. To fix this problem I tried flashing stock 8.0 firmware from sammobile via odin and I got this error:
Sw rev. Check fail. Device: 6, binary 5. I think that this means I have to flash the latest stock firmware but there isn't a newer one.
After that, I tried to use my phone by flashing a custom rom (Lineage 15.1) and I discovered that I have no imei,no baseband and no ip adress. I have installed many custom roms but the issue is still there. I am trying to get my phone to work with stock firmware and fix the IMEI issue but odin wont let me flash because of that error. I would appreciate if anyone could help. Thanks.
Flash a firmware version that contains S6 or U6 in the middle, it won't work with U5/S5! Not the Samsung phone S5 or S6, but rather, the firmware version.
For cellular, change the modem firmware, or backup and wipe /data/. /data/data/?.
Unless the efs was wiped (probably not if the baseband version isn't there, load a backup then, only if the efs was wiped don't restore it otherwise, and it must not be a backup created with an older twrp, view the recovery log in the backup folder)
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I was trying to root my samsung galaxy a5 2017 with TWRP and I accidentally deleted system data. Then, I tried rebooting the phone and it got stuck in a bootloop. To fix this problem I tried flashing stock 8.0 firmware from sammobile via odin and I got this error:
Sw rev. Check fail. Device: 6, binary 5. I think that this means I have to flash the latest stock firmware but there isn't a newer one.
After that, I tried to use my phone by flashing a custom rom (Lineage 15.1) and I discovered that I have no imei,no baseband and no ip adress. I have installed many custom roms but the issue is still there. I am trying to get my phone to work with stock firmware and fix the IMEI issue but odin wont let me flash because of that error. I would appreciate if anyone could help. Thanks.
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You aren't flashing the current version of software.
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iloveoreos said:
You aren't flashing the current version of software.
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I tried installing the latest version available and I had the same error.
julianmunozvaras said:
I tried installing the latest version available and I had the same error.
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Well, I don't know what else could be wrong.
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julianmunozvaras said:
I tried installing the latest version available and I had the same error.
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Listen to me, it happened to me 2 days ago, and I came to the conclusion that I was not flash the latest firmware. You need to flash the same firmware with the same bootloader or more recent, the error you receive is because you are flashing an older version of bootloader. Do one thing, type the code *#1234# on the phone keypad
mark the code that gives you on 'AP and look it on Sammobile at https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-a5/SM-A520F/ITV/ select your language and look for the firmware with your own code . You will see that odin flash it.
Samsung A520F Custom Binary Error
Hello please I have been trying to reload my Samsung A520F firmware for a couple of weeks
It all started with the phone trying to update (over WIFI) and somewhere along the line files must have gotten corrupted
This led to the phone constantly restart and shutting down applications
I decided to just download the firmware and use Odin to reload. This, unfortunately, didn't go so well as now the phone isn't starting up anymore but can still get to download mode.
PDA firmware is A520FXXUACSE6
Region is EUR
Network is OPEN
every time I use this firmware I get the error
" Custom binary (BOOT) Blocked by FRP Lock
Please note currently at the moment phone refuses to boot up I read about removing OEM lock and don't know if this is the problem.
Please could you help out
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Hello please I have been trying to reload my Samsung A520F firmware for a couple of weeks
It all started with the phone trying to update (over WIFI) and somewhere along the line files must have gotten corrupted
This led to the phone constantly restart and shutting down applications
I decided to just download the firmware and use Odin to reload. This, unfortunately, didn't go so well as now the phone isn't starting up anymore but can still get to download mode.
PDA firmware is A520FXXUACSE6
Region is EUR
Network is OPEN
every time I use this firmware I get the error
" Custom binary (BOOT) Blocked by FRP Lock
Please note currently at the moment phone refuses to boot up I read about removing OEM lock and don't know if this is the problem.
Please could you help out
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Obviously you are frp locked. But I didn't think that blocked from flashing official.