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I I have a N7100x which has a USB OTG problem. I believe Samsung may have added something into the system firmware to stop USB OTG devices mounting correctly (this is one of the demo phones that you see in store - so I'm guessing Samsung wanted to stop people loading up custom software from USB devices).
Absolutely everything on it works correctly - aside from the disabled mobile network connectivity and the USB OTG.
I have so far installed;
- New PIT file to give it the same 16GB partition system as a standard Galaxy Note 2
- Rooted and installed Revolution HD 8.0
Are there any other things that I can flash to my device that may help me overcome this USB OTG issue. The devices mount, then disconnect a second later. The devices do work - but only momentarily. Is there some other flash file (I hear /efs come up every once in a while - can I install a different one of these? Is it likely to help?).
I'm hoping to find a solution to this USB OTG problen...would help a great deal.
Thanks
lohsmith said:
I I have a N7100x which has a USB OTG problem. I believe Samsung may have added something into the system firmware to stop USB OTG devices mounting correctly (this is one of the demo phones that you see in store - so I'm guessing Samsung wanted to stop people loading up custom software from USB devices).
Absolutely everything on it works correctly - aside from the disabled mobile network connectivity and the USB OTG.
I have so far installed;
- New PIT file to give it the same 16GB partition system as a standard Galaxy Note 2
- Rooted and installed Revolution HD 8.0
Are there any other things that I can flash to my device that may help me overcome this USB OTG issue. The devices mount, then disconnect a second later. The devices do work - but only momentarily. Is there some other flash file (I hear /efs come up every once in a while - can I install a different one of these? Is it likely to help?).
I'm hoping to find a solution to this USB OTG problen...would help a great deal.
Thanks
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hi, i have same n7100 demo unit. Could you send me a tutorial how you increase ram to 16 gb. Now i have only 5,5 gb. what pit file you use? I was able to only flash stock rom using odin. Thank you
when you flash stock ROM just select pit
here is pit for 16GB
http://d-h.st/Dlv
Download and extract it, select for pit tab in odin (it will auto check for repartition)
rest of option is same as flashing stock ROM
smoula.dd said:
hi, i have same n7100 demo unit. Could you send me a tutorial how you increase ram to 16 gb. Now i have only 5,5 gb. what pit file you use? I was able to only flash stock rom using odin. Thank you
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Internal memory not ram
Sent from my GT-N7100
dr.ketan said:
when you flash stock ROM just select pit
here is pit for 16GB
http://d-h.st/Dlv
Download and extract it, select for pit tab in odin (it will auto check for repartition)
rest of option is same as flashing stock ROM
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thank for file, I flash it with odin, check repartiton, autoreboot and f.reset time and phone stuck on animation. Same result with doing the same + stock rom together. CWR show me, that it can not mount /data and /sdcard. So i thing that my note2 does not have 16 GB internal memory. Do you have stock pit file?
Ask someone with a demo unit to pull his partition table into .pit file.
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I took one 7100x live demo phone from our other showroom. Extract pit and flash it with odin. I was not successful again...f****.:banghead: My note2 was ready to be throwed through the Window..next time i flash only pit file without check repartition and i use older odin 1.85. Before i every time use 3.07. Then i format \data in stock recovery menu and then i flashed only rom. Woalla, android boot finally. My internal ram is 11 gb now.
This tutorial Maybe may help others with problem with formating \data partition and endless boot.
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is there any solution for OTG problem with demo unit?? im still looking around bu can't find the solution.
Btw Thanks for PIT File Trik.
just in my opinion, which is the solutions for PIT formating problem is not in the odin version, buat you need to wipe data, cache, and also need to flash new ROM.
about the OTG problems, i have tried turn back to Stock ROM, but still has the same problem. OTG USB still connected --> Disconnected --> Connected in 2 second x_x
Is there some one out there who doesn't have this OTG Problem with their demo unit?? Please share
Thanks
I also have the gt n7100x and everything works on it apart from sim related activities like calling, texting and mobile network (also fm radio but i dont know why). does this model have an antenna/radio inside ? if so would it be possible to activate it ?
Can I flash my N7100X with any ROM for 'normal' N7100? The latest official rom for this device is N7100XXUENA1 - Android 4.3. Can I delete a dialer after flashing so my battery lives a little longer?
Is there a new PIT file required for 4.3 ROMs or is it ok to use the old pit files even with 4.3 installed? Thank you so much if you can help!
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Is there a new PIT file required for 4.3 ROMs or is it ok to use the old pit files even with 4.3 installed? Thank you so much if you can help!
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Im very interested in this too!
Im going to try this but wondering the same
in OTG mode work better
BramiBam said:
just in my opinion, which is the solutions for PIT formating problem is not in the odin version, buat you need to wipe data, cache, and also need to flash new ROM.
about the OTG problems, i have tried turn back to Stock ROM, but still has the same problem. OTG USB still connected --> Disconnected --> Connected in 2 second x_x
Is there some one out there who doesn't have this OTG Problem with their demo unit?? Please share
Thanks
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I try two Unit demo live of note2,and I try a OTG cable with usb storage and work perfectly.
Try to change a OTG cable.
bye.
Fabio
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@krakatomia @xenoyosh
You don't need recharge a pit file for flashing v4.3.
You only put new file rom on odin,and all works fine.
Same situation for Flashing v4.4.2.
Bye.
Fabio
Help me please!!!
lohsmith said:
I I have a N7100x which has a USB OTG problem. I believe Samsung may have added something into the system firmware to stop USB OTG devices mounting correctly (this is one of the demo phones that you see in store - so I'm guessing Samsung wanted to stop people loading up custom software from USB devices).
Absolutely everything on it works correctly - aside from the disabled mobile network connectivity and the USB OTG.
I have so far installed;
- New PIT file to give it the same 16GB partition system as a standard Galaxy Note 2
- Rooted and installed Revolution HD 8.0
Are there any other things that I can flash to my device that may help me overcome this USB OTG issue. The devices mount, then disconnect a second later. The devices do work - but only momentarily. Is there some other flash file (I hear /efs come up every once in a while - can I install a different one of these? Is it likely to help?).
I'm hoping to find a solution to this USB OTG problen...would help a great deal.
Thanks
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HI. Do you still have the PIT file available? Do you know where i can get one for a 32Gb Galaxy note 2 gt-n7100?
Hello, I accidently left "nand erase all" checked while using odin to flash a rom and now internal memory is 0 and will not read sim card! please please please tell me there is a way to fix this???????? please no flame war or bashing, just answer the question. IMEI = Unknown T889 T-Mobile Galaxy Note 2
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Hello, I accidently left "nand erase all" checked while using odin to flash a rom and now internal memory is 0 and will not read sim card! please please please tell me there is a way to fix this???????? please no flame war or bashing, just answer the question. IMEI = Unknown T889 T-Mobile Galaxy Note 2
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If you had the box it's on the bottom sticker where it will tell you what your IMEI is if that will help your situation. Does your computer still recognize the phone?
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If you had the box it's on the bottom sticker where it will tell you what your IMEI is if that will help your situation. Does your computer still recognize the phone?
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Hello and thank you for the reply, yes I still have the box the phone came in and it does have the IMEI on it, and the phone boots up fine with no problems. The computer has no problem recognizing the phone in normal mode and download mode, not a problem. It seems that the phones internal memory are just not setup correctly ( Partition ) and from that for some reason does not want to read the Sim Card..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804117
Have a look at this thread, I used the tools there to fix my lost imei. Hope it helps.
http://d-h.st/vVV
This should be the imei reader/writer tool.
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Hello....I bricked my I927 when I accidently formatted my efs partition when using EFS professional .....my phone boots in download mode.....but only boots till samsung logo screen.....I tried various things like installing stock GB and ICS through odin and installing custom firmware but phone boots onle till samsung logo and then lights up with sone stange colored thin lines and screen goes off.....In TRWP I get a "unable to mount preload" error whenever I try to install somethiing.....I suspect that the EFS partiton is corrupted and needs to be repartioned....I had backupped the efs folder when my phone was working before.....its in a tar format.....I read somwhere that someone made a recovery.zip out of his backedup EFS.IMG and flashed it with CWM solved his problems which were exactly similar to mine.....can somebody on the forum make a recovery.zip for I927 with update binary and script so that I can add the backedup EFS image to it and flash it with CWM? Please.....this would also help many others who are facing similar issues.....and also what do I do regarding the "unable to mount preload" error? I need to repartition and tried to install hemdall.....but get the common .dll error even after following all the instructions and installing C++ 2010.....
Hi, k one thing after the other.
Do you have repartitioned anything?
Do you have adb in place and does adb works when in TWRP?
The easiest thing would be to connect by adb then mount /efs and then restore the efs backup. The good is that you will have a good chance to recover your device. Maybe you need to reformat /efs but that depends.
Which timezone do you live? Maybe a Teamviewer session would be helpful?
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Thank you for your reply sir...
THANKS FOR THE REPLY SIR....YES I WAS ABLE TO GO INTO CWM RECOVERY AND CONNECT THE PHONE WITH MINIMAL ADB FASTBOOT.....AND AFTER SPENDING ALMOST 2 DAYS CONTINUOUSLY TRYING TO FIND THE PROBLEM USING GOOGLE, I TRIED DIFFERENT COMMANDS ON ADB TO GET EFS BACK OJ THE PHONE....BUT WITH NO SUCCESS...... MY EFS BACKUP IS IN TAR FORMAT......IT WAS MADE USING GALAXYSIMUNLOCK BY SPOCKY.....I LATER TYPED IN 'ADB MESG'.....OR SOMETHING SIMILAR TO THAT COMMAND, AND FOUND OUT THAT ALL THE PARTITIONS ON mmcblk0 were mangled up with strange letters.....for eg, p1, p2, p3 and so on had strange characters written next to them.....SO I TRIED TO RE-PARTITION THE WHOLE THING WITH SDPARTED......AND IT RE-PARTIONED THE SYSTEM (AROUND 7000MB).....MMCBLK01 (AROUND 500MB).....AND ANOTHER THING I CANT REMEMBER NOW.....BUT WHEN IT FINISHED THE JOB, IT GAVE ME A mmcblk02 ERROR.....AND WHEN WHEN I CHECKED MY PHONE ON CWM SCREEN, IT GAVE ME A LIST OF CACHE ERRORS.....AND WHEN I SWITCHED OFF THE PHONE AFTER THAT IT REFUSED TO POWER ON.....IT WAS NOT EVEN GOING INTO DOWNLOAD OR RECOVERY MODE.....BATTERY HAD ENOUGH POWER....SO ITS NOT BATTERY FAULT......I SUPPOSE THAT SINCE THE PARTITIONS WERE FORMATTED THE PHONE BECAME COMPLETELY DEAD......CAN YOU TELL ME IF THERE IS ANY WAY WHERE I COULD GET THE COMPUTER TO RECOGNIZE MY PHONE USING A 'DEAD PHONE USB FLASH' OR SOMETHING.....AND THEN FLASH A BLANK BOOTLOADER AND THEN WRITE CWM?
I LIVE IN INDIA SIR.....+5.30 GMT.....I DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT TEAMVIEWER.....IS IT AN ANDROID APP? CAN YOU EXPLAIN MORE IN DETAIL SIR?
PLEASE LET ME KNOW HOW TO GET THE COMPUTER TO RECOGNIZE THE PHONE AGAIN......
Well.. that sounds not that good...
Teamviewer (www.teamviewer.com) is an easy to use and free remote control software for your PC (it runs on both Linux and Windows). We could do a remote control session if you like. I can try to help but cannot promise anything.
I live in Germany: GMT +1. Send me a PM if you want to give that a try. Next Monday. Tuesday or Thursday would be possible on my site. At least for getting a short overview.
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Thank you sir,
Thanks for the reply Sir.....I believe using teamviewer requires a internet connection with good amount of data.....I have an extremely slow 2G internet connection here in India.....I searched google to find some solution for the bricked I927......and came across many posts where people have used the 'unbrick.img' which was specifically made for their samsung phone models on their SD cards to resurrect their dead phones.....The method involves creating a 'unbrick.img' with emmc files extracted from another working I927 and then writing the image on an external SD card with some linux commands or win2image software and then inserting the SD card into the dead phone and switch it on by which it goes to download mode.....once in download mode I can flash CWM or TWRP and also flash stock firmware through odin and recover the phone.....Since your a developer who is well versed in things pertaining to this, can you make a unbrick.img file for the I927 and upload it here Sir? It will be very helpful for others also on the samsung glide subforum, as there is no proper 'hard unbrick' thread for the glide on xda......Ill be very grateful and thankful to you for all your help Sir.....
alvcross said:
Thanks for the reply Sir.....I believe using teamviewer requires a internet connection with good amount of data.....I have an extremely slow 2G internet connection here in India.....I searched google to find some solution for the bricked I927......and came across many posts where people have used the 'unbrick.img' which was specifically made for their samsung phone models on their SD cards to resurrect their dead phones.....The method involves creating a 'unbrick.img' with emmc files extracted from another working I927 and then writing the image on an external SD card with some linux commands or win2image software and then inserting the SD card into the dead phone and switch it on by which it goes to download mode.....once in download mode I can flash CWM or TWRP and also flash stock firmware through odin and recover the phone.....Since your a developer who is well versed in things pertaining to this, can you make a unbrick.img file for the I927 and upload it here Sir? It will be very helpful for others also on the samsung glide subforum, as there is no proper 'hard unbrick' thread for the glide on xda......Ill be very grateful and thankful to you for all your help Sir.....
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Ok I have made one. It want to say it was VERY hard to find the correct instructions to do so and therefore I'm absolutely not sure if that will work for you!
Test it if you like but again: I have no idea if that would damage anything more than it is now!
See --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/cap...od-unbrick-debrick-hard-bricked-i927-t3285505
If it worked for you (would be like a miracle) then please report back!
If it does NOT work for you please report back, too!
thanks
xdajog
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UPDATE:
Besides the link I posted --> Could you please also try the following:
1) Power on your device and directly after that:
2) Press and hold down Vol Up + Vol Down (both the same time)
3) You should see a warning message like the attached one which is the APX mode
4) you need to release the vol buttons immediately after you see the APX mode otherwise it will continue to the non working download mode.
Does teamviewer require internet connection with a lot of data?
Thanks for the reply Sir.....I believe using teamviewer requires a internet connection with good amount of data.....I have an extremely slow 2G internet connection here in India.....I searched google to find some solution for the bricked I927......and came across many posts where people have used the 'unbrick.img' which was specifically made for their samsung phone models on their SD cards to resurrect their dead phones.....The method involves creating a 'unbrick.img' with emmc files extracted from another working I927 and then writing the image on an external SD card with some linux commands or win2image software and then inserting the SD card into the dead phone and switch it on by which it goes to download mode.....once in download mode I can flash CWM or TWRP and also flash stock firmware through odin and recover the phone.....Since your a developer who is well versed in things pertaining to this, can you make a unbrick.img file for the I927 and upload it here Sir? It will be very helpful for others also on the samsung glide subforum, as there is no proper 'hard unbrick' thread for the glide on xda......Ill be very grateful and thankful to you for all your help Sir.....
alvcross said:
Thanks for the reply Sir.....I believe using teamviewer requires a internet connection with good amount of data.....I have an extremely slow 2G internet connection here in India.....I searched google to find some solution for the bricked I927......and came across many posts where people have used the 'unbrick.img' which was specifically made for their samsung phone models on their SD cards to resurrect their dead phones.....The method involves creating a 'unbrick.img' with emmc files extracted from another working I927 and then writing the image on an external SD card with some linux commands or win2image software and then inserting the SD card into the dead phone and switch it on by which it goes to download mode.....once in download mode I can flash CWM or TWRP and also flash stock firmware through odin and recover the phone.....Since your a developer who is well versed in things pertaining to this, can you make a unbrick.img file for the I927 and upload it here Sir? It will be very helpful for others also on the samsung glide subforum, as there is no proper 'hard unbrick' thread for the glide on xda......Ill be very grateful and thankful to you for all your help Sir.....
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Uhm do you have read my above post??
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1927 wouldn't boot.....Help.
Ohhhh Thank you.....thank you.....thank you for your kind reply Sir.....how good of you to take all your precious time to help me.....I greatly appreciate all your hard work Sir.....wonderful...*.I wanted to download your img file to try it out and when I read the reply of brother Bubor, that the I927 woudnt boot from the SD card when the bootloader is bricked, I was very disappointed. Like I said before, I have a very very slow internet connection with very less data left....and according to brother bubor's reply I doubt this will work....It looked like he was sure that it wont work....I tried to get into APX mode as the link that brother bubor posted had mentioned, but no luck, as the phone is not going into APX mode.....I remember that when I was trying to get to the APX mode the first time, the computer flashed a notification that the APX driver was not successfully installed.....but after that I tried the method more than a dozen times, but the computer was not recognizing the phone to go into APX mode.....Does the phone go into APX mode when the full internal phone system is formatted? I tried your second method on trying to get to APX mode, but nothing happens.....the computer is not recognizing the phone.....The battery had about 30% power in it when the phone got bricked 2 weeks ago.....Dont know if the battery drained all these days of not using the phone.....And even if I get to the APX mode, I have no idea how to proceed from there to repartition the internal phone system and get back download mode.....In the link that brother bubor posted the person who made the thread has made some files to be used when one gets into APX mode.....The PIT and emmc files which are necessary for repartitioning the system and getting the bootloader work are found in that zip file.....But that zip file is for the I9103 Galaxy R.....there isnt something like that available for the I927 yet.....And is brother bubor sure that the unbrick.img file wont work on the I927?
Give it a try with my unbrick image.
we all don't know.
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xdajog said:
Give it a try with my unbrick image.
we all don't know.
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Hi @alvcross: any update on this?
have you tried the SD card unbrick?
You said you cannot open the APX mode but what happens when you press the buttons for accessing the APX mode?
Try it even if you see a blank screen and then connect your Cappy with USB to your computer --> you should get a message about a missing driver or similar.
If that works I tell you how to proceed.
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hi @alvcross: Any update on this?
Have you tried the sd card unbrick?
You said you cannot open the apx mode but what happens when you press the buttons for accessing the apx mode?
Try it even if you see a blank screen and then connect your cappy with usb to your computer --> you should get a message about a missing driver or similar.
If that works i tell you how to proceed.
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im so sorry that i was missing in this thread for a long time now sir.....i have had some issues at home and they have been sorted out lately.....yes sir.....i tried the sd card unbrick image....but my nothing happens.....when i try to hold volume up+power+home buttons and insert usb cable into my computer it says installing drivers and then says drivers failed to install....and nothing happens further.....can you help sir?
alvcross said:
im so sorry that i was missing in this thread for a long time now sir.....i have had some issues at home and they have been sorted out lately.....yes sir.....i tried the sd card unbrick image....but my nothing happens.....when i try to hold volume up+power+home buttons and insert usb cable into my computer it says installing drivers and then says drivers failed to install....and nothing happens further.....can you help sir?
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Ok so you may try to install the special apx drivers now. Unfortunately I'm on vacation right now so I cannot upload them elsewhere. I come back to you next week.
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xdajog said:
Ok so you may try to install the special apx drivers now. Unfortunately I'm on vacation right now so I cannot upload them elsewhere. I come back to you next week.
Sent from my LG-H815 using XDA-Developers mobile app
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Oh yes Sir....Ill be waiting for the special apx driver package from you....Thank you so very much Sir.....God bless you.....
alvcross said:
Oh yes Sir....Ill be waiting for the special apx driver package from you....Thank you so very much Sir.....God bless you.....
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No guarantee ! [emoji121]
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No guarantee ! [emoji121]
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Yes Sir....I understand....
alvcross said:
Yes Sir....I understand....
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Ok could you please try these driver package here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-nexus/development/adb-fb-apx-driver-universal-naked-t1379875
Follow the instructions there for installing
The next step (if the driver would work for you) will be to flash a working PIT to your device to make sure you are using the correct partitions.
Afterwards we will flash the bootloader (may absolutely brick your device if not done correctly) and then --> if all goes fine --> you should be able to flash in download mode whatever you want to.
So it is still a long way to go and I need to check all the steps first before actually we can proceed.
That may take longer so do not expect that this will be something in the next days.. sorry.
Update:
If the above universal driver do NOT work for you: Test these one here View attachment apx_driver_samsung.zip
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Thanks for the speedy reply Sir......Ill do as you said and let you know Sir......thank you.....thank you.....thank you Sir....
wooowwww......windows installed the drivers for the phone and it shows up as "NVIDIA usb boot-recovery for mobile devices." But when I open minimal adb and fastboot and type 'adb devices' the phone doesn't show up in the 'list of devices attached'....the line after 'list of devices attached' is just empty.....Also the phone doesnt show up in odin....what should I do next Sir?
alvcross said:
wooowwww......windows installed the drivers for the phone and it shows up as "NVIDIA usb boot-recovery for mobile devices." But when I open minimal adb and fastboot and type 'adb devices' the phone doesn't show up in the 'list of devices attached'....the line after 'list of devices attached' is just empty.....Also the phone doesnt show up in odin....what should I do next Sir?
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nvidia apx isnt fastboot/adb device. You can found tool on nvidia site ( more info https://ac100.grandou.net/nvflash ), this tool can read and write whole flash.
Before you could use nvidia's tool, you must send an uniq blob to your phone. APX mode is useless without this blob.
This blob is uniq for every phone.
I have created boot recovery files based on Samsung's pdf titled "[14-96]_Boot_Recovery_Guide_Qualcomm_APQ8084_[includes_SM-N910F]__Rev_3.0"
These were done on a 32gb clas 10 microSD, they are imaged to a file via Norton Ghost portable (GHO file.
If your note doesn't boot, that might help. (No charging light, PC detects as QHUSB 9008 mode etc)
Download these GHO files and norton ghost portable.
Insert an empty microSD, Open norton ghost > Local>Image>to Disk the choose your microSD.
Your disk capacity might show up less, but don't worry, you can restore later on with Minitools (Check online on how to use).
I have also created an eMMC backup image of n910p running MM (PE2 build version)
It's a 2gb file, on unzipping with 7zip, around 4gb. (While creating, the output from adb shell is shown in the pick. Not sure if it's an error... is it supposed to be bigger? it was on a clean stock but rooted.. no user content)
Follow this guide http://www.droidsavvy.com/unbrick-qualcomm-mobiles/ to check it's in new 9008 mode.
Then my file might work for you.
All files are at https://mega.nz/#F!qRAGBZDY!_k24QWYaA0We2IQoAgE2Ng
Hi,
and Thanks
Well I have tried these Gho files but no joy. Ghost says file sizes are 19. After writing to the mirco SDCard there is no spaced used and 3 folders that are blank.
I am looking for these files below to recover to use QPST (QFIL) / MiFlash , maybe you can extract them from your device but I have no idea how to do it.
MPRG8084.hex
-8084_msimage.mbn
-rawprogram_32GB.xml
-patch0.xml
-Settings.xml
Thanks
dray_xclusive said:
Hi,
and Thanks
Well I have tried these Gho files but no joy. Ghost says file sizes are 19. After writing to the mirco SDCard there is no spaced used and 3 folders that are blank.
I am looking for these files below to recover to use QPST (QFIL) / MiFlash , maybe you can extract them from your device but I have no idea how to do it.
MPRG8084.hex
-8084_msimage.mbn
-rawprogram_32GB.xml
-patch0.xml
-Settings.xml
Thanks
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And my phone its same
I hope to find way to solve it
i have also same issue does any one solve ?
an interesting read... curious, under what circumstances would this be more convenient / more practical than a simple odin flash?
is this supposed to recover hard bricks / bad bootloaders?
Took N910P back to Sprint.
I experienced my problem when I was using my secondary (not activated, clean esn) Sprint N910P as an MP3/MP4 player. After the last update which i don't know... it would not boot into the OS after the Sprint splash screen, so it would continue to do this constantly after removing the battery and rebooting even after optimizing apps screen. I researched and found XDAs forums with a lot of How tos, troubleshooting and workarounds. Long story short the Reactivation Lock was not disabled and even using the techniques supplied here I did not have any success.
I took it to the Sprint store and they deactivated my Primary LGV20 and activated the Note 4 so they could service it and then flash it to the current OS. They couldn't flash it and were going to have to send if off to replace the motherboard or replace the phone. The tech told me that this has been happening to Sprint Note 4 phones after an update and since it was a update error there will be not charge to me. Now I had insurance on the Note 4 for six years prior to upgrading to the LGV20, so they had to activate it to be able to service it. I will update their findings when i receive my phone in 7 to 10 days.
I pray this helps someone in my situation, as for me it is bittersweet. I didn't fix my phone but I found a new forum and I can tell everyone here is as passionate about what they do as I am!
- Jacob
Hi everyone,
I am trying to revive a Samsung A5 2017. Few months ago I had a software problem with it and went to a local shop to fix it, but no luck. The repair man told me he doesn't know what's wrong with the phone. To be short, the phone was completely dead. On a second shop and opinion, the phone was erased, I mean no partitions at all .... nothing. The phone wasn't even recognized by the pc at the beginning of this story. Don't have any backups. I've succeeded to make phone visible to Odin by flashing the correct PIT file. Now any attempt with Odin ends the same way .... efs, preload failed to mount. I want to remake the partition table with Odin multi downloader, but for this I need the ops file for this type of phone or the partitions name and order (to create one) and EFS file (which I have). Maybe it's a waste of time but I like tinkering with this. Any suggestions are very welcome on how to solve this.
Thanks
Hey, I have the same problem phone doesnt respond at all and isnt recognized by my Pc. How did you get it to be regocnized at least on your Pc.