[Q] Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. PLZ HELP! - Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III

So I was trying to root my Galaxy S3 and for some reason it failed and my phone reboots to a screen that says "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies". But I tried Kies and it wont recognize my phone. My phone had android 4.3 on it. I also tried using a 4.1.2 stock rom on odin and I get an error saying "sw rev check fail" on my phone and the flash fails. Please help me im desperate at this point.

If you had 4.3 OTA and tried to flash 4.1.2 its a good possibility that you bricked your device. Can you get into download mode? If so try to flash the 4.3 tar file in Odin. Good luck
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2565972
http://i.imgur.com/qrByUGN.jpg

yes i can get in download mode

bigpappags3 said:
If you had 4.3 OTA and tried to flash 4.1.2 its a good possibility that you bricked your device. Can you get into download mode? If so try to flash the 4.3 tar file in Odin. Good luck
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2565972
http://i.imgur.com/qrByUGN.jpg
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if I can get into download mod is it fixeable..I did the same thing as the poster above

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4.3 to 4.1.1 fails, Firmware encountered an issue...

I was trying to flash my s3 back to 4.1.1. It failed when I was using odin. Now, I get the message Firmware encountered an issue..
I downloaded kies 3 but my phone will not connect to it.
Iv tried many different things and odin keeps failing after a couple lines.
What can I do?
b_rad_1983 said:
I was trying to flash my s3 back to 4.1.1. It failed when I was using odin. Now, I get the message Firmware encountered an issue..
I downloaded kies 3 but my phone will not connect to it.
Iv tried many different things and odin keeps failing after a couple lines.
What can I do?
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Does your phone still boot? or do you have a Brick?
If it still boots Leave it alone. you can flash any rom you want to as long as there is no bootloader in it.
If you already bricked it, is it a soft brick or hard brick?
theramsey3 said:
Does your phone still boot? or do you have a Brick?
If it still boots Leave it alone. you can flash any rom you want to as long as there is no bootloader in it.
If you already bricked it, is it a soft brick or hard brick?
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When I insert the battery and power on it has a message saying " firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again"
above that in the top left it says
odin mode
product name :sgh-1747m
custom binary download: yes (1count)
current binary: samsung official
system status: official
qualcomm secure boot: enable
warranty bit: 0
bootloader rp swrev: 1
This is all it does. I can get into download mode. But everytime I try to flash it says failed.
This is 4.3 touchwiz? or 4.3 custom rom?
If custom, I encountered a similar issue where going back to Odin failed. Trying to turn on the phone and going into recovery mode let "Firmware encountered and issue". I had also encountered the problem of Kies not connecting. It would say "connecting" but nothing would happen.
Can your phone boot in download mode?
If yes, you should be able to recover the firmware with Kies.
You may need to use the previous version of Kies and not Kies 3, as I think Kies 3 is only for 4.3 android touchwiz versions. If you had touchwiz 4.3 from the OTA, you may be stuck as I think people have had problems trying to go back to 4.1.
In Kies go in Firmware Upgrade and Initialisation. You will need to know your phone's model and serial number. They can be found behind the battery.
Follow the steps and you should be able to go back to 4.1.1.
chemicalseb said:
This is 4.3 touchwiz? or 4.3 custom rom?
If custom, I encountered a similar issue where going back to Odin failed. Trying to turn on the phone and going into recovery mode let "Firmware encountered and issue". I had also encountered the problem of Kies not connecting. It would say "connecting" but nothing would happen.
Can your phone boot in download mode?
If yes, you should be able to recover the firmware with Kies.
You may need to use the previous version of Kies and not Kies 3, as I think Kies 3 is only for 4.3 android touchwiz versions. If you had touchwiz 4.3 from the OTA, you may be stuck as I think people have had problems trying to go back to 4.1.
In Kies go in Firmware Upgrade and Initialisation. You will need to know your phone's model and serial number. They can be found behind the battery.
Follow the steps and you should be able to go back to 4.1.1.
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Its 4.3 touchwiz ota last week.
I will try kies instead of kies 3. With kies 3 it just says connecting, wont connect. When I do the Firmware Upgrade and Initialisation. I type in my model and it just closes.
Im downloading kies right now...
Oh also, I had encountered the closing problem when in Windows.
I was able to not have the random closing problem when using Kies on a Mac.
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b_rad_1983 said:
Its 4.3 touchwiz ota last week.
I will try kies instead of kies 3. With kies 3 it just says connecting, wont connect. When I do the Firmware Upgrade and Initialisation. I type in my model and it just closes.
Im downloading kies right now...
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Kies has be installed and when I click on tools- Firmware Upgrade...
I type in the model and it says "Please check the model name and enter it". I click ok and it goes back to the main screen, nothing happens.
when i open kies and plug in the phone it says "connecting".... 5mins has passed..same thing..
Hm, yeah it's odd.
I had the same issue with the main screen saying connecting forever, which didn't matter for upgrading the firmware.
Do you have the att version?
I'm assuming you put SGH-I747 for model?
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My fix
I'm not an expert but I had the same problem due to the 4.3 release. You can't go back to an earlier release because the new boot loader is
locked. Nothing worked until I googled and located the exact .pit file and flashed it in Odin. I was rather desperate by then as I had a two day old
phone, lol. Kies doesn't have the newer release so I don't think you can use it. I used cwm mod recovery and flashed to a rooted stock 4.3 rom.
Hope this helps or someone can help more.
chemicalseb said:
Hm, yeah it's odd.
I had the same issue with the main screen saying connecting forever, which didn't matter for upgrading the firmware.
Do you have the att version?
I'm assuming you put SGH-I747 for model?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using xda app-developers app
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Rogers
SGH-I747M
Im currently looking for the stock 4.3 rogers file
I cant find what I need as im not 100% sure what im looking for..
im currently downloading
SGH-I747M_RWC_I747MVLDMF1_I747MOYADMF1_Original.zip
b_rad_1983 said:
I cant find what I need as im not 100% sure what im looking for..
im currently downloading
SGH-I747M_RWC_I747MVLDMF1_I747MOYADMF1_Original.zip
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I reached the download limit..cant download it
Which Odin are you using? If you arent using it try Odin 3.09.
theramsey3 said:
Which Odin are you using? If you arent using it try Odin 3.09.
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3.07 is what i used.
b_rad_1983 said:
3.07 is what i used.
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I just thought about it you have to go back with the 4.3 because if you do succesfully flash anything older you will Hard brick your phone, right now you should be able to recover with the 4.3 odin file.
theramsey3 said:
I just thought about it you have to go back with the 4.3 because if you do succesfully flash anything older you will Hard brick your phone, right now you should be able to recover with the 4.3 odin file.
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Where can i get the 4.3 odin file?
Check sammobile.com
b_rad_1983 said:
Where can i get the 4.3 odin file?
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http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
You have to register for their site to be able to download. in the search bar about 1/3 page down on right type in SGH-I747M then find your carrier and download the appropriate file.
After that if you still dont like 4.3 you can flash whatever rom you want in CWM or TWRP or atleast thats whats been rumored. I have no clue I like 4.3 and havent had any issues with the rom I had a hard brick that I caused and recovered.

Help and fast!!!

I wanted to update to 4.3 on my ATT note 2, but while I was on 4.1.2 stock rooted, I took away the update server thing, so I Odin'd it back to stock 4.1.2 and updated to 4.3. I did the CF Auto root thing, but knox is screwing everything up, so I tried to re-flash in Odin the 4.1.2 and now I get a screen that says "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again" after the 4.1.2 odin update FAILS. Now, I can boot into download mode, but I cannot boot into recovery mode, and since the firmware update through Kies failed, I can't do a firmware emergency recovery BECAUSE I can't boot into recovery mode...Someone please...please help i'm freaking out..
ItachiLvrX said:
I wanted to update to 4.3 on my ATT note 2, but while I was on 4.1.2 stock rooted, I took away the update server thing, so I Odin'd it back to stock 4.1.2 and updated to 4.3. I did the CF Auto root thing, but knox is screwing everything up, so I tried to re-flash in Odin the 4.1.2 and now I get a screen that says "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again" after the 4.1.2 odin update FAILS. Now, I can boot into download mode, but I cannot boot into recovery mode, and since the firmware update through Kies failed, I can't do a firmware emergency recovery BECAUSE I can't boot into recovery mode...Someone please...please help i'm freaking out..
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Odin the 4.3 files and it should come back. 4.3 bootloader doesn't play terribly nice with downgrading.
Hastily spouted for your befuddlement

[Q] Samsung Galaxy S3 AT&T Possible Soft Brick?

So, i decide to root my s3 because i wanted to do some cool stuff. I got odin, got the tar file and tried flashing it. For some reason it didn't work :crying: On odin it gave me a fail. I was in download mode too. So, when i turn on my s3 it is in odin mode but it says "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again." i did this in kies and when it was at like 99% it gives me an error. :crying:
so i tried flashing again in odin still fail, but i get on my s3 SV REV CHECK FAIL: Fused 2 > Binary 0. I have no clue what that means, So, i just want my phone to get working again i dont care about rooting anymore. JUST HELP ME FIX IT!!!!:crying:
BTW: I di root my Kindle Fire a while back so i thought I would have experience with this (i kind of do) but i guess I thought wrong.
Was your phone running a stock 4.3 AT&T ROM? What method did you use to try and root the phone?
audit13 said:
Was your phone running a stock 4.3 AT&T ROM? What method did you use to try and root the phone?
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i think so and i tired using odin and i put the phone in download mode so i could flash the .tar file
Resistance225 said:
i think so and i tired using odin and i put the phone in download mode so i could flash the .tar file
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Since your phone was running a stock 4.3 ROM, you can't use Odin to install a stock AT&T 4.3 ROM because it doesn't exist. There are leaked ROMs around that you could try flashing.
Alternatively, you could install a custom recovery and install a custom 4.4.2 ROM.
audit13 said:
Since your phone was running a stock 4.3 ROM, you can't use Odin to install a stock AT&T 4.3 ROM because it doesn't exist. There are leaked ROMs around that you could try flashing.
Alternatively, you could install a custom recovery and install a custom 4.4.2 ROM.
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I will try to do this! Thanks for helping me though, i will keep you updated. :fingers-crossed:
audit13 said:
Since your phone was running a stock 4.3 ROM, you can't use Odin to install a stock AT&T 4.3 ROM because it doesn't exist. There are leaked ROMs around that you could try flashing.
Alternatively, you could install a custom recovery and install a custom 4.4.2 ROM.
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I installed a recovery and guess what, it started working again! All my data was still there too! Thanks i really appreciate you taking the time to help me! I also was able to succsessfully root it by using the CF auto root .tar file. Once again, thanks a ton!
Resistance225 said:
I installed a recovery and guess what, it started working again! All my data was still there too! Thanks i really appreciate you taking the time to help me! I also was able to succsessfully root it by using the CF auto root .tar file. Once again, thanks a ton!
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Glad you got it working. We're all here to help.

[Q] HELP Rooting (MK2)?? But On STOCK 4.2.2 DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO NEXT

In the begin I rooted my S4 On the MDL baseband (4.2.2) and had OUDHS recovery installed but i decided to to install Wicked_v10 (4.3) which required for to update to the 4.3 modem and i followed these steps http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2544612 i followed all the steps with Odin BUT it said that it fail to Update.And it well reboot its self say back to download mode saying "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies & try again" so basically my phone was Soft-bricked i manage resorting it back use this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2258628 And soon enough my s4 was back alive:fingers-crossed: But only one problem now i take a look in my setting and i was on the MK2 Baseband As you can see in the screenshot and on top of the i get the error my notification bar saying "The device has detected an application attempting unpermitted actions and has
stopped loading. To protect your device, it is recommended you reboot." So im stuck now and i dont know what to next :crying:
should i just revert back to the MDL baseband because im not sure what to
Skitts said:
In the begin I rooted my S4 On the MDL baseband (4.2.2) and had OUDHS recovery installed but i decided to to install Wicked_v10 (4.3) which required for to update to the 4.3 modem and i followed these steps http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2544612 i followed all the steps with Odin BUT it said that it fail to Update.And it well reboot its self say back to download mode saying "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies & try again" so basically my phone was Soft-bricked i manage resorting it back use this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2258628 And soon enough my s4 was back alive:fingers-crossed: But only one problem now i take a look in my setting and i was on the MK2 Baseband As you can see in the screenshot and on top of the i get the error my notification bar saying "The device has detected an application attempting unpermitted actions and has
stopped loading. To protect your device, it is recommended you reboot." So im stuck now and i dont know what to next :crying:
should i just revert back to the MDL baseband because im not sure what to
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According to the screenshots you uploaded, you are not on MDL firmware. In fact, you are on MDB firmware. MDB was released when the T-Mobile Galaxy S4 came out. Use Odin and flash the MDL firmware (use that same restore thread again, but do NOT download the link that says Stock Tar, instead download UVUAMDL Official TAR). Flashing this should restore the baseband version from MK2 to MDL.
Vigz said:
According to the screenshots you uploaded, you are not on MDL firmware. In fact, you are on MDB firmware. MDB was released when the T-Mobile Galaxy S4 came out. Use Odin and flash the MDL firmware (use that same restore thread again, but do NOT download the link that says Stock Tar, instead download UVUAMDL Official TAR). Flashing this should restore the baseband version from MK2 to MDL.
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Thanks i did not see that i was to busy worrying I think thats why my Wifi wasnt working , But other then that you got and suggestions why the modem MK2 gave me a error through odin ?
Skitts said:
Thanks i did not see that i was to busy worrying I think thats why my Wifi wasnt working , But other then that you got and suggestions why the modem MK2 gave me a error through odin ?
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I'm not sure. I actually used that tutorial to upgrade my baseband and it worked just fine. Another person also had this issue as well. I told them that it could have something to do with the custom binary counter. Apparently, the phone prevents you from flashing unsigned items if the counter is high. You can reset it with an app called TriangleAway.
Vigz said:
I'm not sure. I actually used that tutorial to upgrade my baseband and it worked just fine. Another person also had this issue as well. I told them that it could have something to do with the custom binary counter. Apparently, the phone prevents you from flashing unsigned items if the counter is high. You can reset it with an app called TriangleAway.
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Hmm could be Because I never did reset the counter when i flashed the recovery but ill give it a try.Ill tell you how it goes Thanks man for all your Help
One more thing ..... Do i have to put the "SS_DL.dll" under the odin folder like it say ?
Skitts said:
Hmm could be Because I never did reset the counter when i flashed the recovery but ill give it a try.Ill tell you how it goes Thanks man for all your Help
One more thing ..... Do i have to put the "SS_DL.dll" under the odin folder like it say ?
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IT WORK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Q] Crash after Downgrade

I upgraded my SM-P601 from 4.3 to 4.4.2 and root with cf-root. but the root didnt work and i downgraded to 4.3. but it didnt complete. now i have a message on boot "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue.please select recovery mode in kies & try again". i tried to upgrade and downgrade with diffetent stock rom with odin but all of them failed at first and didnt keep on. pls pls pls help me
maybe you should take a look here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55032962&postcount=4
flash stock recovery
lightman33 said:
maybe you should take a look here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55032962&postcount=4
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How can i flash stock recovery with odin? i tried flash new stock rom but it messaged failed. is it possible flash only the stock recovery? how? pls help me, i need my tablet seriosly :crying::crying::crying:

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