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T-MOBILE T999UVALEM firmware ready to play with :)

just want to let you know that T-Mobile firmware is ready for download
http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SGH-T999

Is this for odin
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Can this be used with the t mobile variant
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If this is for sprint, why does the title say T-Mobile..
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Edit: In that case, thanks PP
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Its for T Mobile.. if you click on the link it says its for the T999

I was wondering the same thing, but if it matters I went to the link and it says it's for T-Mobile T999UVALEM like the title
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Tweezydak1d said:
Is this for odin
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yes it is - same firmware as you would get updting with kies
anthonykash said:
Can this be used with the t mobile variant
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ye, it is tmobile version i am tired and made a typo - corrected thnks and gnite

my phone came with this firmware. is this just posted to revert to stock if on a custom rom or is there other significance?

Has anyone tried flashing yet?
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So this must mean we can flash fash back to stock with odin if we have problems.

yup! this is our fall back ROM. now we need a triangle away to reset the counter!

It Works
I decided to be the test monkey on this one.
I had a nandroid backup of when I screwed my system so badly it just boot looped repeatedly. Restored that with cwm, verified it was still hosed, unpacked this zip, used odin to burn the .tar.md5 to the phone as PDA, rebooted.
It does some gear chunking while booting the first time then reboots - don't panic yet! On second boot it does some more rebuilding, then 'WELCOME!'
Bonus: CWM now sees the actual external sdcard as /sdcard and can find things like roms and backups on it. Edit: This CWM finds .zips on the sdcard, but doesn't seem to know how to backup/restore.

So is this for un rooting our phones?
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sizer99 said:
I decided to be the test monkey on this one.
I had a nandroid backup of when I screwed my system so badly it just boot looped repeatedly. Restored that with cwm, verified it was still hosed, unpacked this zip, used odin to burn the .tar.md5 to the phone as PDA, rebooted.
It does some gear chunking while booting the first time then reboots - don't panic yet! On second boot it does some more rebuilding, then 'WELCOME!'
Bonus: CWM now sees the actual external sdcard as /sdcard and can find things like roms and backups on it. Edit: This CWM finds .zips on the sdcard, but doesn't seem to know how to backup/restore.
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What do you mean "This CWM" ? The tars we're talking about in this thread are completely stock from samsung, there is no CWM in these... please elaborate.

hiazn said:
What do you mean "This CWM" ? The tars we're talking about in this thread are completely stock from samsung, there is no CWM in these... please elaborate.
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After burning this with Odin I ended up with a CWM that I didn't expect - and I've never seen one that actually recognized the external card. However, with all the things I've been trying it's quite possible I ended up burning a boot image I forgot about. I need to try reburning this and see if anything changes, but can't do it right now.

sizer99 said:
After burning this with Odin I ended up with a CWM that I didn't expect - and I've never seen one that actually recognized the external card. However, with all the things I've been trying it's quite possible I ended up burning a boot image I forgot about. I need to try reburning this and see if anything changes, but can't do it right now.
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Sounds like a plan, let us know what you find.

is this actually
T999UVALEM
or
T999UVLEM

M9x3mos said:
is this actually
T999UVALEM
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T999UVLEM
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Mine stock is T999UVLEM, whats the difference between the two?

does this restore everything, including stock recovery, but resetting the counter?

Strange - I had kind of a weird experience with this. I flashed via Odin as usual (as I've done a 100x before) and when it rebooted, it still had remnants of the previous rom I had installed. I didn't get the "welcome" screen as if I was starting from a new factory rom. but at least it got me back to step 1 and I could flash the Lean 2.1 rom again to repair my screw ups.

[Q] HELP!!!! D2TMO encryption failure

Problem Solved !!!! i changed the port in which the cable was plugged in and it worked so i think my front USB ports are going to shizz brand new box though or maybe too much going on haha
Solution goes as follows;
1)make sure you try every port before freaking haha
2)make sure you use the original PDA from sam updates http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SGH-T999
3) dont be afraid to ask for help haha
tools that helped me were
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746682
and of course ODIN 3.07 found here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1728605
ok so last night I decided to try out the encryption option on my t mobile t999 and all went like it was supposed to. It rebooted a couple times like it said it would then when it rebooted to put in pin I entered the pin it started decrypting. I left it for 4 hours well it wouldn't work so I pulled battery and retried and left it go well it hung for hours. I proceeded to try a factory reset and it kept failing at the /data "cannot mount"... I tried wiping the internal SD it too failed. so now im trying to odin the "official stock" image it keeps getting hung at the "NOH-HLOS.bin" for HOURS anyone with anything please help me out

Can you boot into the system at all? If so can you install any apps?
Are you rooted?
If yes to all try Mobile Odin to flash, may be able to work around the problem....im not sure.
Otherwise try using goo or rom manager to install recovery and then flash another rom.
Not sure any of thatll work, just some suggestions.
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standby :-/
i have a few other guys responding elsewhere right now will come back to your suggestions no i cannot boot at all only to recovery if odin flashed and yes i was rooted on CM10
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Can you boot into the system at all? If so can you install any apps?
Are you rooted?
If yes to all try Mobile Odin to flash, may be able to work around the problem....im not sure.
Otherwise try using goo or rom manager to install recovery and then flash another rom.
Not sure any of thatll work, just some suggestions.
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Cool man. Good luck.
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THANKS
DocHoliday77 said:
Cool man. Good luck.
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and thanks DOC for jumping right in ready to help greatly appreciated

[Q] Soft brick

So I was trying to flash a rom today and ended up soft bricking because the file was bad. Didn't get the chance to flash the new rom and already wiped data. The backup I did was also not working and I didn't have another rom to flash.
Now I am stuck on Samsung boot logo but I could still access download mode and CWM.
What should I do to fix this? Should I just flash to stock firmware and that would fix the issue? Or is there an easier way?
Basically I just need to push the new downloaded rom into sdcard but how do I do that when my phone wont even boot?

gahlaygai said:
So I was trying to flash a rom today and ended up soft bricking because the file was bad. Didn't get the chance to flash the new rom and already wiped data. The backup I did was also not working and I didn't have another rom to flash.
Now I am stuck on Samsung boot logo but I could still access download mode and CWM.
What should I do to fix this? Should I just flash to stock firmware and that would fix the issue? Or is there an easier way?
Basically I just need to push the new downloaded rom into sdcard but how do I do that when my phone wont even boot?
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Odin back to stock or use an external SD card with the new ROM files.
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geoldr said:
Odin back to stock or use an external SD card with the new ROM files.
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If you're reasonably competent with adb, you could also boot into recovery and upload a different ROM file to your phone with it.

smelenchuk said:
If you're reasonably competent with adb, you could also boot into recovery and upload a different ROM file to your phone with it.
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Right, that's what I forgot to add.

geoldr said:
Odin back to stock or use an external SD card with the new ROM files.
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Thanks, that fixed the problem!
New question, sorry for being such a noob. I tried rooting using GS3 Snapdragon Toolkit to root but the problem now is that when after it reboots, the screen is black and there is only flashing blue LED. What am I doing wrong?

gahlaygai said:
Thanks, that fixed the problem!
New question, sorry for being such a noob. I tried rooting using GS3 Snapdragon Toolkit to root but the problem now is that when after it reboots, the screen is black and there is only flashing blue LED. What am I doing wrong?
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Did you try to use the toolkit with a Jelly Bean stock? It explicitly can't do that.
Since you're using Odin anyway, you might try one of the pre-rooted stock images from this thread.

smelenchuk said:
Did you try to use the toolkit with a Jelly Bean stock? It explicitly can't do that.
Since you're using Odin anyway, you might try one of the pre-rooted stock images from this thread.
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Yeah, that's exactly what happened. Will read entire instructions next time. Thanks for you help!

i really F***D up!!

i dont know how bricked my phone is but while i was tryin to update it to wicked v3 i was doing a full wipe but i accidently formatted the system storage and now the phone is missing a file the data file and it wont boot and it wont let me restore it with my nand back up.. im completly stuck in the recovery.. would going back to stock fix it??? i really need help!!!

lagunas11 said:
i dont know how bricked my phone is but while i was tryin to update it to wicked v3 i was doing a full wipe but i accidently formatted the system storage and now the phone is missing a file the data file and it wont boot and it wont let me restore it with my nand back up.. im completly stuck in the recovery.. would going back to stock fix it??? i really need help!!!
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Relax bro. What recovery are you on? I always format system and everythings runs good. If you can't backup, odin back to stock. If you can get into download mode then you are good. Or you can try reflashing the ROM.

whytechapel_x said:
Relax bro. What recovery are you on? I always format system and everythings runs good. If you can't backup, odin back to stock. If you can get into download mode then you are good. Or you can try reflashing the ROM.
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yea i tryed using the and back up i had in case something went wrong but i have it saved to my extsd card so i selected it and it fails because the
data folder is missing in the intstorage. i tryed reflashing the rom but when it flashes at the end it says UPDATING PARTISIONS E/: NO SUCH FOLDER/FILE FOUND so i cant do anything.... i want know if its safe for me to go back to stock before i make it even worse....

lagunas11 said:
yea i tryed using the and back up i had in case something went wrong but i have it saved to my extsd card so i selected it and it fails because the
data folder is missing in the intstorage. i tryed reflashing the rom but when it flashes at the end it says UPDATING PARTISIONS E/: NO SUCH FOLDER/FILE FOUND so i cant do anything.... i want know if its safe for me to go back to stock before i make it even worse....
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Yeah I think something happened with SD card. Try using odin. I'm pretty sure you're not bricked. I remember reading somewhere along time ago about something about formatting the system and causing problems idk though lol. Do you happen to have another sd card that you can use? Are you on CWM or TWRP. If on CWM, use odin to put TWRP and try again.

whytechapel_x said:
Yeah I think something happened with SD card. Try using odin. I'm pretty sure you're not bricked. I remember reading somewhere along time ago about something about formatting the system and causing problems idk though lol. Do you happen to have another sd card that you can use? Are you on CWM or TWRP. If on CWM, use odin to put TWRP and try again.
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yea i have twrp so i cant really use it right now im trying to go back to stock so far its going good...

Drama.
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Underground_XI said:
Drama.
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Okay, and I don't see any **** starting, etc so I don't quite understand what you mean...

Underground_XI said:
Drama.
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Pointless post? Seriously, can't contribute then don't comment!
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elesbb said:
Pointless post? Seriously, can't contribute then don't comment!
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sorry man but no i thought i fixed it but no my phone is still messed up..

lagunas11 said:
sorry man but no i thought i fixed it but no my phone is still messed up..
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Have you tried to do another format of the partitions?

Just use odin to install the whole system dump and all solved. So much noise for nothing.
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lagunas11 said:
sorry man but no i thought i fixed it but no my phone is still messed up..
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Ive been in this position a couple times myself unfortunately. I formated everything internal/external SD cards and system, which left me with no bootable rom and no backup to backup from. (awesome)! so what i did one of the times this happended was 1. downloaded a rom TWRP flashable of course. 2. Placed the rom on my USB thumbdrive. 3. i had a usb otg stick that i was able to mount with TWRP and flash. and was back in business!!
another time i did this i used another phone (you could use your computer too if you have an adapter) I downloaded the TWRP flashable rom on to the microsd card, Stuck the card back in my phone and flashed it that way. again back in business!
Then of course there is the above mentioned way to Odin back to the very beginning with stock. Hope this helps and you get it figured out. But it does sound like your phone is totally fine, just need to figure out how to wake her back up. LOL.

Returning everything back to stock via Odin is the answer to your woed. As long as you're able to get into download mode (do not confuse download mode with recovery), you're golden.

omegajester said:
Returning everything back to stock via Odin is the answer to your woed. As long as you're able to get into download mode (do not confuse download mode with recovery), you're golden.
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Amin! Finally somebody else that understands
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omegajester said:
Returning everything back to stock via Odin is the answer to your woed. As long as you're able to get into download mode (do not confuse download mode with recovery), you're golden.
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I know the difference and yes I went back to stock via Odin 6 times and that thing was there.. But I found a solution from the s3 threads thanxs anyways
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Soft Bricked? Stuck at boot screen.

Basically I do have common sense and and I'm pretty knowledgeable when it comes to working with phones but this problem I have is different.
I purchased this phone(I747) already bricked thinking I can fix since I have before. It goes to cwm 6.0.3.4 and boots to Odin. Last known os was cm but don't know what version. Not even clear what bootloader it's but when trying to boot up there's the blue cm Android guy.
So here's what I tried so far to fix my problem.
1. Tried to flash the mjb restore posted somewhere on here. Flashed with no errors but when I reboot still the blue Android.
2. Wipe and formatted the proper things and tried flashing a couple of roms but all gave me error 7.
3. Tried flashing a different recovery thru Odin, all passed but non stuck. Can't get rid of my current recovery.
4. Tried to Odin 4.3 firmware but that failed.
Kinda running out of ideas on what to try next, can someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong or what's the problem?
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donutkidd said:
Basically I do have common sense and and I'm pretty knowledgeable when it comes to working with phones but this problem I have is different.
I purchased this phone(I747) already bricked thinking I can fix since I have before. It goes to cwm 6.0.3.4 and boots to Odin. Last known os was cm but don't know what version. Not even clear what bootloader it's but when trying to boot up there's the blue cm Android guy.
So here's what I tried so far to fix my problem.
1. Tried to flash the mjb restore posted somewhere on here. Flashed with no errors but when I reboot still the blue Android.
2. Wipe and formatted the proper things and tried flashing a couple of roms but all gave me error 7.
3. Tried flashing a different recovery thru Odin, all passed but non stuck. Can't get rid of my current recovery.
4. Tried to Odin 4.3 firmware but that failed.
Kinda running out of ideas on what to try next, can someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong or what's the problem?
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What did you try to flash? Status 7 means you don't have the right device for what you were trying to flash or that your build.prop was modified by the previous owner to another device name.
I believe you'll need to flash a ROM matching the current device name and work from there.
Although, I find it odd that flashing with Odin doesn't work. Have you tried flashing stock?

BWolf56 said:
What did you try to flash? Status 7 means you don't have the right device for what you were trying to flash or that your build.prop was modified by the previous owner to another device name.
I believe you'll need to flash a ROM matching the current device name and work from there.
Although, I find it odd that flashing with Odin doesn't work. Have you tried flashing stock?
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Yep I tried stock 4.1.1 and 4.3 thru Odin and failed. I tried installing a new recovery thru the current recovery using a zip file and it went thru with no errors but reboot and nothing has changed. Something when flashing the restore and the bootloader.
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donutkidd said:
Yep I tried stock 4.1.1 and 4.3 thru Odin and failed. I tried installing a new recovery thru the current recovery using a zip file and it went thru with no errors but reboot and nothing has changed. Something when flashing the restore and the bootloader.
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You can try flashing another/updated recovery through Odin. But until you find out what device your build.prop is setup to, you won't be able to flash a ROM through recovery.

BWolf56 said:
You can try flashing another/updated recovery through Odin. But until you find out what device your build.prop is setup to, you won't be able to flash a ROM through recovery.
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I tried every recovery for this phone that's up to date so yeah I don't know what else to do. And how can I figure that out? The build.prop part?
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donutkidd said:
I tried every recovery for this phone that's up to date so yeah I don't know what else to do. And how can I figure that out? The build.prop part?
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It's in your System folder. Should be able to navigate to it using your recovery.

BWolf56 said:
It's in your System folder. Should be able to navigate to it using your recovery.
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Will it still be there even if I formatted the system? If so what are the adb commands so I can pull it and post it?

donutkidd said:
Will it still be there even if I formatted the system? If so what are the adb commands so I can pull it and post it?
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Hopefully it is. And I duno about the command, you'll have to look that one up (or perhaps someone here knows it).

If you formatted /system, its gone and shouldn't matter. But imo you should never format system manually. Otherwise you end up with nothing to boot or troubleshoot if things go wrong.
From your recovery, find where you can use the terminal emulator and enter
getprop ro.boot loader
This is what firmware you need to be flashing via odin.
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Ok I will try that when I get home.
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DocHoliday77 said:
If you formatted /system, its gone and shouldn't matter. But imo you should never format system manually. Otherwise you end up with nothing to boot or troubleshoot if things go wrong.
From your recovery, find where you can use the terminal emulator and enter
getprop ro.boot loader
This is what firmware you need to be flashing via odin.
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Ok I did the getprop ro.bootloader command and it's I747UCDLK3. I have already tried the lk3 Odin but let me try to re download a fresh copy of it.
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No dice, I even downloaded a 4.1.1 lk3 rom. It flashed and said successful so I rebooted and back to the blue Android. Is it possible NY partitions or whatever are corrupt and if so anyway to fix it?
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I'm kinda at a loss. Wondering if its a partition not flashed by Odin that's been corrupted...
No idea if this'll help or not, but download this.
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23060877489996938
(It is a 16gb model right?)
Now flash firmware in Odin in like usual, but check the repartition checkbox, then click the PIT button and browse to and select the file I just linked. Verify.
Click start and cross fingers.
Another thing you can try...flash twrp with Odin, but uncheck auto reboot. After it says PASS, pull the battery. Put it back in and boot recovery. Hopefully it'll stick now.
Now you can try flashing some roms again, and use the built in file manager to look for any issues/anomalies.
I'm not sure what version LK3 is, but it sounds kinda old, so you may want to look for a 4.1.1 rom to start with. That shouldn't give you any status 7 errors. Or if you want to flash newer roms you'll need to edit the asserts in the updater script.

DocHoliday77 said:
I'm kinda at a loss. Wondering if its a partition not flashed by Odin that's been corrupted...
No idea if this'll help or not, but download this.
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23060877489996938
(It is a 16gb model right?)
Now flash firmware in Odin in like usual, but check the repartition checkbox, then click the PIT button and browse to and select the file I just linked. Verify.
Click start and cross fingers.
Another thing you can try...flash twrp with Odin, but uncheck auto reboot. After it says PASS, pull the battery. Put it back in and boot recovery. Hopefully it'll stick now.
Now you can try flashing some roms again, and use the built in file manager to look for any issues/anomalies.
I'm not sure what version LK3 is, but it sounds kinda old, so you may want to look for a 4.1.1 rom to start with. That shouldn't give you any status 7 errors. Or if you want to flash newer roms you'll need to edit the asserts in the updater script.
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I honestly think I tried what you suggested already but just to triple check I will do so again in the morning and report back with hopefully good news.
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@BWolf56
Do you guys have a recovery flashable package for the 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 firmware? (I'm guessing that's what LK3 is.)
If so maybe flashing that would help?

DocHoliday77 said:
@BWolf56
Do you guys have a recovery flashable package for the 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 firmware? (I'm guessing that's what LK3 is.)
If so maybe flashing that would help?
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No, nothing for 4.1.1 (LK3).
I don't think that's his issue though. Last time I saw that issue was on the S1 (Captivate) and the solution was to use Heimdall.
If the repartition doesn't work though, I'm not exactly sure what will.

DocHoliday77 said:
@BWolf56
Do you guys have a recovery flashable package for the 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 firmware? (I'm guessing that's what LK3 is.)
If so maybe flashing that would help?
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I was just reading what you said in this post - > ([Q] Can't flash stock rom through Odin, phone only boots in download mode. Help!) and it does sound awfully like my situation being that nothing sticks after flashing.

donutkidd said:
I was just reading what you said in this post - > ([Q] Can't flash stock rom through Odin, phone only boots in download mode. Help!) and it does sound awfully like my situation being that nothing sticks after flashing.
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Do you have the actual link to that thread? Search is derping on me.

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Do you have the actual link to that thread? Search is derping on me.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2415409
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donutkidd said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2415409
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Ouff that's one bad issue, it can take a while to figure out which partition got messed up. And sadly, I can't be much help there :/