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[ROM] New I9000XWJS5 (Full) 3 Files

http://hotfile.com/dl/104757943/6d6d23b/I9000_XEN_I9000XWJS5.rar.html
SamFirmware : I9000XWJS5 FULL
3 files , flash with 803 pit
http://www.multiupload.com/6JX2LEUCTY / Pit FIle
arch pass : samfirmware.com
some guy below said there is risk so pleas noob pleas stay away from this rom it can kill your phone

Another new firmware!

I have a flashed JPY (Odin) firmware. Can I just flash this new firmware or do I have to flash back or anything...sorry I'm new to this.
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same topic like here!

I don't think that it's good to provide this firmware, this firmware does include a boot.bin and an Sbl.bin, if by any chance a user flashes the firmware and Odin hangs during flashing these files then the mobile phone is totally unusable(brick).
We all have seen this firmware since the morning and non have posted it because of what I mentioned above.
I can confirm that the boot.bin and Sbl.bin in this firmware do not disable download mode, but still, if anything goes wrong as bad USB connection or bad drivers then the phone is dead.

[Ramad] said:
I don't think that it's good to provide this firmware, this firmware does include a boot.bin and an Sbl.bin, if by any chance a user flashes the firmware and Odin hangs during flashing these files then the mobile phone is totally unusable(brick).
We all have seen this firmware since the morning and non have posted it because of what I mentioned above.
I can confirm that the boot.bin and Sbl.bin in this firmware do not disable download mode, but still, if anything goes wrong as bad USB connection or bad drivers then the phone is dead.
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+1 on this. I already posted the same warning on BogdanSNB's thread about this ROM. I think it would be of great benefit to the XDA community if people who start threads about new Samfirmware ROMs did some basic investigation before posting and posted some useful technical specs along with appropriate warnings about the possible dangers of flashing the ROM in question before encouraging others to flash / kill their phones. Helping people to make informed decisions about upgrades should be a priority, not an after thought.! (I'll get off my soap box and put on my fire proof suit now...)

802.pit? Never knew such existed, anyone know how it differs from 512/803 (ie data larger, system smaller)?
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Mothatt said:
802.pit? Never knew such existed, anyone know how it differs from 512/803 (ie data larger, system smaller)?
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i have the same question..

ermy sti said:
i have the same question..
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Must of been a typo, I just checked samfirmware and it says 803

Mothatt said:
Must of been a typo, I just checked samfirmware and it says 803
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yes but my question is: what is the difference between the pit's? (in this case 803 vs 512)
TNX

ermy sti said:
yes but my question is: what is the difference between the pit's? (in this case 803 vs 512)
TNX
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Information in the pit files are used by Odin for configuring partition sizes on the internal disks in Samsung Android phones. Different ROMs need different partition sizes depending on the amount of data needing to be written to each partition. Some XDA members tried looking into how pit files work a while ago but AFAIK weren't able to find out much because the Odin code is closed source so they couldnt work out what Odin does with regards to repartitioning (anyone got an update on this??). I've found that you can often flash ROMs that Samfirmware say should be 803 pit on a 512 pit phone with no problem. I'm running JS5 on my phone, having come from JS3 and JS2 but my last repartition was with the 512 .pit file when I flashed JPU.

Need pit file. Phone bricked.

So my phone just stopped working after two days of rooting. I decided to un root it and revert it back to stock with Odin. I downloaded the right file for my phone SGH-M919 but when I tried to flash it. I got there is no pit partition. I tried then using kies and that failed. So I googled s4 pit file and got to a thread that had it. But stupid me thinking that i9505 pit file is the same for my phone because Wikipedia said it was the quad core version which the tmobile is. So now i have a new error for flash.
Please help thank you

The stock tar or md5 file from Sammobile.com has the pit mappings in it.
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elesbb said:
The stock tar or md5 file from Sammobile.com has the pit mappings in it.
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So all I would need is that .tar and it would automatically fix the issue? Or do I have to extract the pit and use it another way? I've never had to deal with this myself but some one else is having the same problem and I'm trying to find the answer for the both of us really, I don't want to be blind if this were to happen to myself so I want to find what I need to correct it before it becomes a problem later.

Flash the stock .tar like the man said...
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Orical said:
So all I would need is that .tar and it would automatically fix the issue? Or do I have to extract the pit and use it another way? I've never had to deal with this myself but some one else is having the same problem and I'm trying to find the answer for the both of us really, I don't want to be blind if this were to happen to myself so I want to find what I need to correct it before it becomes a problem later.
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Just use tar file place it in pda not pit section of odin . Click start after reboot you are back to stock.
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richardlibeau said:
Just use tar file place it in pda not pit section of odin . Click start after reboot you are back to stock.
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Sounds simple, I've been helping some one from here out a little and either he doesn't understand what he's doing or there's something else wrong that he doesn't know he did in the mean time but that's pretty simple for a fix. He's been "from what I gather" doing that same thing but when it starts it just hangs at the check in Odin. I told him it takes a few minutes before it actually shows progress but he's waited over an hour so maybe he did something to the partitions that's all I can think of that would cause this to happen but it's hard trying to figure out the problem when you don't have the device in hand.
Thanks for responding I'll send him the link to the thread.

Orical said:
Sounds simple, I've been helping some one from here out a little and either he doesn't understand what he's doing or there's something else wrong that he doesn't know he did in the mean time but that's pretty simple for a fix. He's been "from what I gather" doing that same thing but when it starts it just hangs at the check in Odin. I told him it takes a few minutes before it actually shows progress but he's waited over an hour so maybe he did something to the partitions that's all I can think of that would cause this to happen but it's hard trying to figure out the problem when you don't have the device in hand.
Thanks for responding I'll send him the link to the thread.
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If it's hanging at the "check" in Odin, it's not even began to write things to the device. The "check" part is checking the tar file. So it may have just been an incomplete download of the tar file.
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elesbb said:
If it's hanging at the "check" in Odin, it's not even began to write things to the device. The "check" part is checking the tar file. So it may have just been an incomplete download of the tar file.
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That's what I thought too, it works for me so he must have flashed something he shouldn't have.
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Same problem as above but still getting pit error
I have the same problem as the guy above. I tried to unroot and soft bricked my phone. Kies hasnt worked neither has anything I've read. I've tried the stock tar and modified tar file from this post ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2258628) but still havent had much success. The tar check passes so I'm assuming the files are valid and I'm uploading the file in the PDA slot in Odin 3.07. But when the program runs it gets to (check pit mapping) then it says (device removed) then (device addded) then i get a failed message. Anyone have any ideas?
I'm using Galaxy S4 SGH-M919
Win 7 Home 64bit

So many variables, try original Odin 1.85, try a different USB cable and USB port on PC.
Pp.
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Same problem. Nothing is working. I am using the SGH-M919 pit file, but still, Odin throws errors. "Re-partition operation failed"... I tried everything nothing wants to work so far. Any ideas?

Try using an original Samsung USB cable.

Flashing t mobile stock rom on att note 2

I am going to switch my service from att to t mobile. Can I odin, a t mobile stock Rom on the att phone? I want to have wifi calling on it. I believe all the hardware is the same and it should work. I just want to make sure. Thanks in advance.
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I did the opposite. I put a T-Mobile note 2 onto the AT&T network. I asked if I could put an AT&T rom in the T-Mobile phone and I was told it "could" cause compatibility issues. I went ahead and put the matching T-Mobile software in the phone.
Of course you should see what the more experienced folks have to say. I have been curious myself. I've been thinking about trying an AT&T rom in the phone. They did say the hardware is pretty much the same, but that it could cause issues with the factory installed software that remains even after a rom install.
Hopefully we hear from someone soon.
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I found the post. It was for the SGS III I was playing with, my wife has it now. Hope this helps.
Check this post.

I know I can flash t mobile roms via cwm or twrp. But I want to use odin to change modem and everything. Basically make it a stock t mobile phone. It is for my wife, and stock is fine.
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I have an AT&T Note 2 running T-Mobile stock rom.
You can't flash the T-Mobile radio to the AT&T phone but, mine is working every well with this setup.

Did you flash via recovery? Or Odin?
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Micronads said:
Did you flash via recovery? Or Odin?
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ODIN. I had to take out parts of the original ROM that I knew would make it fail via ODIN upon install.
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tooter1 said:
ODIN. I had to take out parts of the original ROM that I knew would make it fail via ODIN upon install.
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I know this is an old thread, but how do you do this? I've got an AT&T phone that I would like to load the stock T-Mobile build on. I've got a .md5 file for ODIN. Is it as simple as untar-ing the file, deleting the modem image, then retar-ing it and generating the .md5 file?
An additional complication is that I've enabled all of the radios using a Qualcomm utility.

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I know this is an old thread, but how do you do this? I've got an AT&T phone that I would like to load the stock T-Mobile build on. I've got a .md5 file for ODIN. Is it as simple as untar-ing the file, deleting the modem image, then retar-ing it and generating the .md5 file?
An additional complication is that I've enabled all of the radios using a Qualcomm utility.
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I need to look and see if I can remember the files to remove. I know I did a trial and error thing and I can't seem to find my saved stock ROM. I'll keep looking for it though.

I assume it was the modem file, but I don't know for sure. The bigger question I have is how to re-create the ODIN file. I untar-ed a stock T-Mobile image from this thread. I deleted the modem.bin file, and tried to retar it according to the instructions here. I tried flashing it, but it's been "flashing" the boot image for over an hour. I'm about to reboot it, and try something else. Maybe tar-ing up each individual image, and flashing them one at a time? I don't understand why ODIN won't let me flash a .img or .bin file, but it'll allow a .tar that contains a .img or .bin? I'm hoping I haven't bricked it!

chris.arney said:
I know this is an old thread, but how do you do this? I've got an AT&T phone that I would like to load the stock T-Mobile build on. I've got a .md5 file for ODIN. Is it as simple as untar-ing the file, deleting the modem image, then retar-ing it and generating the .md5 file?
An additional complication is that I've enabled all of the radios using a Qualcomm utility.
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I assume it was the modem file, but I don't know for sure. The bigger question I have is how to re-create the ODIN file. I untar-ed a stock T-Mobile image from this thread. I deleted the modem.bin file, and tried to retar it according to the instructions here. I tried flashing it, but it's been "flashing" the boot image for over an hour. I'm about to reboot it, and try something else. Maybe tar-ing up each individual image, and flashing them one at a time? I don't understand why ODIN won't let me flash a .img or .bin file, but it'll allow a .tar that contains a .img or .bin? I'm hoping I haven't bricked it!
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What happened with the process? I can't seem to find my old file(s) that I flashed, must have deleted it since I haven't had that phone in quite some time.
What I did was, I started to delete files within the ROM like modem, tz, hidden etc. until it fully booted.
Sorry I couldn't be more useful about this. I should have put it in my response thread on how I did flashing process.

Pit Configuration

Long story short, directly after installing Swap Internal Sdcard to External Sdcard my phone rebooted into recovery mode saying that it could not mount /Data & /Cache. This was on Cyanogenmod 10.2 (latest nightly) and I was an idiot and tried to start over and failed at repartitioning my ROM. Does anyone have a ROM configuration directory tree for a PIT configuration so I can recovery my phone?
Model is: SPH-l900
Recovery: TWRP
This is my last resort D:
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I've done a lot of research, pretty much summed up my options. Since I do not have a PIT configuration for my SPH-l900 I can either buy a hardware / software combo to repair my phone, throw my phone away, or risk taking it to a sprint store.
Also what device would I use to repair my phone? JTAG / RIFFTag? or ???
And also no one can make a PIT file for the SPH-L900 (16GB) ?
I have

Just odin back to a stock rooted LJC rom and it will automagically repartition your phone back the way it needs to be.
Sent from my note 2 ya bish!

d12unk13astard said:
Just odin back to a stock rooted LJC rom and it will automagically repartition your phone back the way it needs to be.
Sent from my note 2 ya bish!
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Last I researched and tried you cannot just Odin back without a .PIT configuration file with a corrupted ROM (EMMC). Does anyone have a .PIT configuration file for the SPH-L900?

Can you get into odin download mode by holding volume down and power? If so im 99.9% sure its an easy fix. Or you can try your luck finding a .pit configuration...
Sent from my note 2 ya bish!

d12unk13astard said:
Can you get into odin download mode by holding volume down and power? If so im 99.9% sure its an easy fix. Or you can try your luck finding a .pit configuration...
Sent from my note 2 ya bish!
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I have the PIT file somewhere.... just need to find it.
*Edit* Attached. Use this and MC2 and you should be all set.

garwynn said:
I have the PIT file somewhere.... just need to find it.
*Edit* Attached. Use this and MC2 and you should be all set.
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Thank you so much, I was hesitant to PM you directly and thought someone else might have the proper .PIT file...
Did you just create it yourself using Pit Magic or how did you get that .PIT configuration? If you don't mind me asking.
d12unk13astard said:
Can you get into odin download mode by holding volume down and power? If so im 99.9% sure its an easy fix. Or you can try your luck finding a .pit configuration...
Sent from my note 2 ya bish!
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I was looking for a .PIT configuration file because my ROM (EMMC) was corrupted, from my experience Odin only works with regular Custom OS .tar installs if you only have a working ROM (EMMC). I had to repartition my phone first... And I did look lol, I couldn't find a working .PIT file for my phone sadly and on top of that I tried to create my own but failed it hard. I guess it was a great learning experience because sprint looked at my phone and just said that they would replace my old one, and since I've had it for about a year they just let me keep the old one

Guy_with_an_Axe said:
Thank you so much, I was hesitant to PM you directly and thought someone else might have the proper .PIT file...
Did you just create it yourself using Pit Magic or how did you get that .PIT configuration? If you don't mind me asking.
I was looking for a .PIT configuration file because my ROM (EMMC) was corrupted, from my experience Odin only works with regular Custom OS .tar installs if you only have a working ROM (EMMC). I had to repartition my phone first... And I did look lol, I couldn't find a working .PIT file for my phone sadly and on top of that I tried to create my own but failed it hard. I guess it was a great learning experience because sprint looked at my phone and just said that they would replace my old one, and since I've had it for about a year they just let me keep the old one
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This one I got from a Heimdall pull.
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garwynn said:
This one I got from a Heimdall pull.
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Thanks again, I think I'll do that from now on lol

garwynn said:
I have the PIT file somewhere.... just need to find it.
*Edit* Attached. Use this and MC2 and you should be all set.
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So if I have MC2 firmware and use your MC2 pit file this repartition the phone and restore firmware. so what do i click on in odin too run both files. Thanks

tommyjoesanders said:
So if I have MC2 firmware and use your MC2 pit file this repartition the phone and restore firmware. so what do i click on in odin too run both files. Thanks
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Pit goes in pit slot, tar in pda.
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garwynn said:
Pit goes in pit slot, tar in pda.
I have same problem and tried to do things as your guy have shown: get the t0lte.zip and MC2 but the pit re-partition is failed after all just seconds after hit the start. Tried to do with several USBs but no help.
What should I do next? I can get my phone into ODIN download mode but could not flash the any stock ROM. I got the message :There is no PIT partition and if I attach file t0tle.pit and check the re-partition box then I got the message second after hit the start button : Re-Partition operation failed.
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abbuyacc said:
garwynn said:
Pit goes in pit slot, tar in pda.
I have same problem and tried to do things as your guy have shown: get the t0lte.zip and MC2 but the pit re-partition is failed after all just seconds after hit the start. Tried to do with several USBs but no help.
What should I do next? I can get my phone into ODIN download mode but could not flash the any stock ROM. I got the message :There is no PIT partition and if I attach file t0tle.pit and check the re-partition box then I got the message second after hit the start button : Re-Partition operation failed.
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You should not need to repartition. I don't believe they changed to go to 4.3. What happens if you do just the tarball?
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garwynn said:
abbuyacc said:
You should not need to repartition. I don't believe they changed to go to 4.3. What happens if you do just the tarball?
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Could not do anything, and sorry what do you meant when saying "do just the tarball"?
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abbuyacc said:
Could not do anything, and sorry what do you meant when saying "do just the tarball"?
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My meaning is try flashing the tar file only. Don't add the pit file or check repartition.
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garwynn said:
My meaning is try flashing the tar file only. Don't add the pit file or check repartition.
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OH, OK... if so then I got the message something like there is no pit file. The phone if I don't do anything but just hit the power button it will come to a blank screen with nothing in it and you cannot control anything even power button and you will need to take the battery out in order to turn the phone off but I also mentioned that I can get into the Odin download mode and when you do the tarball (your term) you will get the message that said no pit file.

Did this end up working out for you? I've downloaded MC2 (4.1.2?) and another version (4.4 I think) and everything I try keeps telling me I need a PIT file. My phone is soft bricked where it'll go into download mode, but trying to go into recovery or booting it normally and it'll turn into a Poltergeist screeen and won't do anything - http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-2-sprint/help/odd-semi-brick-t3082102

garwynn said:
I have the PIT file somewhere.... just need to find it.
*Edit* Attached. Use this and MC2 and you should be all set.
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I've tried literally everything possible....Cannot get anything to flash in Odin or Philz Recovery....Is there any other way to try to reset internal memory?

New logic board and now the phone is good as new, thanks eBay

kchannel9 said:
New logic board and now the phone is good as new, thanks
I am in the same boat.
Woke up this morning and phone is on "Galaxy Note 2" screen. Does not even get past the Sprint and Samsung boot anims. Try to boot into TWRP to send some commands and disable Xposed, I did some playing with Xposed last night but when I went to sleep, I had done multiple restarts and tests w/ Xposed modules and all was sound. Put it on the charger and slept. Until this morning!
Not able to send and ADB commands to phone during boot.
I can get into dl mode with Odin but so far the recovery files I've tried to flashed have returned either FAILED or NO PIT PARTITION error.
Kchannel9.. so you got a new motherboard. Were you ever able to recover any of your data off your old motherboard?
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Nope.

[Q] P5210 Boot loop

my tab GT P5210 10.1 wifi
is rebooting showing only samsung galaxy tab 3
is there anyway to fix it?
i have tried 4 stock roms
and prerooted firmware too but no luck

does any one have this pit file???
GT-P5210_EUR_XX_20130523.pit

I'm trying to get you that file and I'll post a link if I get it.
Isn't the pit already set for stock roms? Of the four you say you used, were they official like from Samfirmware?
Also did odin say they were successful?
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Benzoman said:
I'm trying to get you that file and I'll post a link if I get it.
Isn't the pit already set for stock roms? Of the four you say you used, were they official like from Samfirmware?
Also did odin say they were successful?
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yes all stock roms were from samfirmware and flashing went smooth with odin
um pretty sure its not the rom problem
its partition problem
so thats why i was looking for pit file

or do you have this kernel file?
3.4.34-601491
[email protected] #1???
pit file is available here
http://www.dlgsm.com/index.php?dir=..._4.2.2/P5210ZHUAMH1_P5210ZZHAMH1_P5210ZHUAMH1
but unfortunatly um unable to download from this site

I'm not positive of the reliability of the source so use at your own risk!
Unzip the file to get the .pit had to zip it to upload it here.
Hope this helps. Took forever to find this file without having to pay for it.
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thx
but u sent for p5200
and um looking for p5210

The gt-p5210 pit seems to be impossible to find unless you speak farsi and want to pay a site in Iran for it.
But dont give up hope. I have a couple feelers of there and maybe I'll get a bite for you.
In the mean time you just might want to give the 5200 pit a shot. Cant hurt too much being you're in a bootloop already.
But of course I must say do it at you own risk.
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yes i have tried that pit too u sent
did'nt work
do u have kernel file ?
or seperated files
BOOTLOADER_P5210ZHUAMH1_1246052_REV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5
CSC_ZZH_P5210ZZHAMH1_1246052_REV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5
GT-P5210_EUR_XX_20130523.pit
PLATFORM_P5210ZHUAMH1_1246052_REV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5
like they have on their site

Found anything?????

Sheeda Talli said:
Found anything?????
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Sorry nothing yet.
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Any news on how you fixed your problem, and if you have pit file?

On PIT File
Sheeda Talli said:
does any one have this pit file???
GT-P5210_EUR_XX_20130523.pit
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Any news on how you fixed your problem, and if you have pit file?
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according to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2643970 post #3 by user @r2d23cpo
this should be the pit file. see attachment rename GT-P5210_EUR_XX_20130523.pit.txt to GT-P5210_EUR_XX_20130523.pit
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@mohali256
You have not mention why you need the pit. The pit mention before was grabed from P5210 using the following command in terminal or adb:
Code:
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/out.pit bs=8 count=481 skip=2176
once you execute, go to your Sdcard folder and look for out.pit.
This is a command many Samsung devices share. I am confidece that the output is correct. But no one has confirmed using it succefully.
In any case I sugest you use that command your self to get your own pit and compare with the one I posted in my original post.

r2d23cpo said:
@mohali256
You have not mention why you need the pit. The pit mention before was grabed from P5210 using the following command in terminal or adb:
Code:
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/out.pit bs=8 count=481 skip=2176
once you execute, go to your Sdcard folder and look for out.pit.
This is a command many Samsung devices share. I am confidece that the output is correct. But no one has confirmed using it succefully.
In any case I sugest you use that command your self to get your own pit and compare with the one I posted in my original post.
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R2,
yup, i pulled this file from my own tab gt-p5210. did that the day you posted the command :good:
i just avoid the pit file approach if i can help it.
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@moonbutt
4.4.2 Is a troubled game! You never can be sure what is going on if you change things in system!.
In a worst case a loop-boot can be as result of Lock boot failing dm-verify!
Google suggest Manufacturers to start enforcing on a limited population for testing!. Who knows maybe that is the root cause!
Just as some Galaxy S4, that got screw by Samsung!!!!. Bad weather is coming!
I been adding libraries.ko to mount my wireless hard drive. The libraries do not survive for long and they get purge of \system in short time. New Installed KO's never survive a reboot!
Even compiling the kernel act weird. I can not select all libraries. If I go and edit .config manually, when I execute make, a script revert back what I had change so that the lib.ko do not get build!!!
I have not double check but the wifi symbol at then top keep showing the something is downloading!
This make me think? Did you guys did not forgot to disable OTA updates?

Did you ever get this to work?
I have tried the pit file and different stock versions of the OS but I still keep getting a reset after the Galaxy Tab 3 screen and then it like acts like it's going into recovery and even if i have twrp it'll show it for a brief second and then reboot again.
I am about ready to throw this stupid thing in the recycling bin.

sorry to bother... i just tried to upgrade my Tab 3, and now it is stuck in an endless boot loop.
i've tried flashing my tablet with Odin 3.07 with the factory image, a pre-rooted image and also cyanogenmod 12.1 - all have appeared to be successful, but the result is the same - boot loop.
i've also gone through loading the 3 images on the MicroSD card and installing them via recovery mode. i was careful to wipe the data and cache partitions prior.
still, endless boot loop. i'd really rather not recycle this device... if anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated!
thanks!

just a heads up. i was able to fix my Tab today.
this video shows all the steps outlined. basically, install TWRP, clear all the partitions (on the internal storage), install your image.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lflnn850jRw