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soft bricked my phone

Merry Christmas everyone. I tried to resolve this issue my self but was unable to. I had stock 4.3 rooted and flashed MOAR. MD5 matched. Everything seemed ok but when I flashed, it was stuck on "updating apps" for over 20 min. I did a battery pull. My phone started and I was able to go to TWRP recovery. I did a cache wipe and factory reset with plans of reflashing but everything was gone, including my nandroid. I tried to flash stock firmware from http://samsung-updates.com/ it said "failed". I cannot get back into TWRP. Is there any way I can restore to 4.1.2? Or 4.3? I just want to get the phone working again. Ideally I would like to get root back but my main priority is obviously just to get the phone working. Thank you.

jeppuda said:
Merry Christmas everyone. I tried to resolve this issue my self but was unable to. I had stock 4.3 rooted and flashed MOAR. MD5 matched. Everything seemed ok but when I flashed, it was stuck on "updating apps" for over 20 min. I did a battery pull. My phone started and I was able to go to TWRP recovery. I did a cache wipe and factory reset with plans of reflashing but everything was gone, including my nandroid. I tried to flash stock firmwa.
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I had a similar bad expreience with updating my rooted S3,
to recover your phone try to get md5 recovery room and install it using odin, try to get the one that called recovery (runs stock 4.0.4) then you can update by Kies to 4.3.

If stock means the Samsung update you need to flash the 4.3 firmware. If stock means the de-Knoxed version from here, I would start by flashing a new recovery image then reinstalling the de-Knoxed one.
Can you not get into any recovery at all?

mjkubba said:
I had a similar bad expreience with updating my rooted S3,
to recover your phone try to get md5 recovery room and install it using odin, try to get the one that called recovery (runs stock 4.0.4) then you can update by Kies to 4.3.
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MD5 recovery room (or rom I googled both)? I could not find it. I'm sorry i have never done this before...could you post the link for it?

Kevets said:
If stock means the Samsung update you need to flash the 4.3 firmware. If stock means the de-Knoxed version from here, I would start by flashing a new recovery image then reinstalling the de-Knoxed one.
Can you not get into any recovery at all?
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When I press the volume up, home and power button it says "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in kies and try again."
I installed the de-knoxed version..I would like to go back to the de-knoxed version if possible. Is there a way to flash new recovery image through ODIN...again, I'm not very confident in my abilities right now and don't want to flash anything to make it worse. Would it be possible to send me a link with what to flash. Thank you

Sorry I meant rom not room, but youv still can get it from the dev "room" forums. I got it from there.
sorry I cant post links here yet, i dont have the enough posts, but google "unroot sprint galaxy s3" it's one of he first links and once you get the md5 file you can use it with Odin, it's a simple process.

fixed it
Fixed it, got to keep root also. Flashed a new recovery image through ODIN (link for recovery in case anyone else needs it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38079994). Then flashed ROM. Thanks for your help guys.

[Q] TWRP 2.6.3.1 Asks for password

I woke up this morning to my phone perpetually rebooting.
I was running a nightly of CM 11.
Now when I try to go into Recovery I get a screen that asks for a password. I have no idea what that password is as I did not set one. I tried wiping data to no avail. I tried flashing a new recovery via Odin this did not work (Odin said successful but the screen on the phone never showed the transfer of the file). No matter what wipe method I use in recovery it just says fail, doesn't work at all and hangs or will say it can't mount. I have searched and searched and tried and tried and I'm stuck. I even tried ADB that didn't work either. Please help!

Try flashing Philz Touch (based on CWM) over TWRP via Odin. I have always had good luck with CWM and Philz.
Download the tar version: http://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/d2att

audit13 said:
Try flashing Philz Touch (based on CWM) over TWRP via Odin. I have always had good luck with CWM and Philz.
Download the tar version: http://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/d2att
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I tried this already. I cannot flash ANYTHING via ODIN. Odin states that the process completed but the bar on the phone on the download screen never shows up to show that it has accepted a file.

therecker said:
I tried this already. I cannot flash ANYTHING via ODIN. Odin states that the process completed but the bar on the phone on the download screen never shows up to show that it has accepted a file.
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Did you unchecked F . reset and unchecked auto reboot when you flashed recovery in Odin? After you flash the file you have to pull the battery then replace it and boot to recovery do not allow the phone to boot to OS or you have to flash again as your recovery will only stick if you pull the battery and boot to recovery after flashing it. After you get into it the first time all will be well with the world again you can flash your heart out.
I had twrp ask me for a password once I hit the back arrow key and told it to mount my external SD card then flashed my rom, bootloader, kernel and modem then rebooted no problem.
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theramsey3 said:
Did you unchecked F . reset and unchecked auto reboot when you flashed recovery in Odin? After you flash the file you have to pull the battery then replace it and boot to recovery do not allow the phone to boot to OS or you have to flash again as your recovery will only stick if you pull the battery and boot to recovery after flashing it. After you get into it the first time all will be well with the world again you can flash your heart out.
I had twrp ask me for a password once I hit the back arrow key and told it to mount my external SD card then flashed my rom, bootloader, kernel and modem then rebooted no problem.
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This did not work. When I use ODIN all that is happening is that ODIN says it has succeeded but the little progress bar that usually shows up on the phone when you are in download mode never comes up. I did try this method though and it didn't work.
I restarted the phone in ODIN mode then opened ODIN then connected the USB cable then unchecked the two boxes you mentioned then flashed a new non TWRP recovery then waited for ODIN to say successful then the phone never showed the progress bar so I waited 2 mins until I pulled the battery then I restarted phone directly to recovery and still have the password prompt. Even after hitting cancel I cannot interact with recovery because every option I choose just says fail. I cannot even mount external sd card.

What phone do you have? What was the most recent stock ROM on your phone? Maybe you can flash a stock ROM.

There is a copy of the stock Samsung 3e recovery (which we can't use to flash zips with) I'm curious if maybe it can overwrite what you have going on? On the password screen I wasn't hitting cancel I was simply hitting the back arrow key. I will see if I have a copy of the stock recovery, just maybe you can flash it then flash another recovery after that so you can fix your phone.
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I have Samsung Galaxy S 3 At&T (d2att) SGH-I747 whichever one of those you want. The most recent stock rom on the phone was when I bought it brand new a few months after it came out. I tried installing a stock rom. I tried this using ODIN and it failed. The issue here is that TWRP somehow encrypted the entire file system so NOTHING at all in recovery works. When I use ODIN mode it never shows on my phone that it is accepting a transfer from the computer. When I tried the stock rom via ODIN method it actually failed in ODIN instead of telling me it succeeded and then just not work. It failed at the point when it says Firmware Update Start...aboot.mbn...NAND Write Start!...Complete(Write) operation failed. I am up for any suggestions but I need them to be detailed instructions because I have tried so many things I need to know what exact steps to follow.

I believe the aboot file is a bootloader. Did you ever have a stock 4.3 ROM on the phone? If you did, it probably has the stock 4.3 AT&T bootloader which cannot be downgraded without bricking the phone which means you cannot flash a ROM with an older bootloader via Odin.

audit13 said:
I believe the aboot file is a bootloader. Did you ever have a stock 4.3 ROM on the phone? If you did, it probably has the stock 4.3 AT&T bootloader which cannot be downgraded without bricking the phone which means you cannot flash a ROM with an older bootloader via Odin.
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To my knowledge I never had a stock 4.3 ROM on the phone. The only stock ROM to touch this phone was the one that came on it. So be specific what are you actually suggesting in this post that I do?

therecker said:
To my knowledge I never had a stock 4.3 ROM on the phone. The only stock ROM to touch this phone was the one that came on it. So be specific what are you actually suggesting in this post that I do?
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I am surprised that the aboot file was giving you a problem because the bootloader can be downgraded as long as it is not a 4.3 bootloader.
Do you recall exactly which ROM was on the phone when you got it? Where did you get the stock ROM?

audit13 said:
I am surprised that the aboot file was giving you a problem because the bootloader can be downgraded as long as it is not a 4.3 bootloader.
Do you recall exactly which ROM was on the phone when you got it? Where did you get the stock ROM?
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It was a CM11 Nightly ROM from the very beginning of February. And before that it was a CM10.2 Stable ROM.

Which stock ROM was on your phone before you loaded a custom ROM?

audit13 said:
Which stock ROM was on your phone before you loaded a custom ROM?
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I have no idea. It was when I first got the phone in November of 2012.

Sounds like your phone may be running a 4.3 bootloader which means your bootloader is locked and cannot be downgraded. This may explain why you are getting errors when trying to flash Odin. There is no stock AT&T 4.3 ROM that can be flashed via Odin.

[Q] Burning hours of my life away on a tab 3 SM-T210

Hi Guys, I have had a tab 3 passed to me to take a look at its an sm-t210 and I am really struggling to get it working.
I can boot to download mode and I can boot to stock recovery mode but it wont actually the OS load up.
I have tried flashing the stock rom from sams and my eyes actually sting from reading so many posts on this now.
The furthest I can get is rebooting after flashing the stock firmware then its stuck on the system recovery with E failed to verify whole-file signature, signature verification failed.
I have tried with the latest 4.4.2 to the 4.1.2 and it just gets stuck in to a boot loop as only half the installation is completing.
Tried pretty much everything and just at the end of my tether now
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thank you kindly in advance
Wez

wezthewizz said:
Hi Guys, I have had a tab 3 passed to me to take a look at its an sm-t210 and I am really struggling to get it working.
I can boot to download mode and I can boot to stock recovery mode but it wont actually the OS load up.
I have tried flashing the stock rom from sams and my eyes actually sting from reading so many posts on this now.
The furthest I can get is rebooting after flashing the stock firmware then its stuck on the system recovery with E failed to verify whole-file signature, signature verification failed.
I have tried with the latest 4.4.2 to the 4.1.2 and it just gets stuck in to a boot loop as only half the installation is completing.
Tried pretty much everything and just at the end of my tether now
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thank you kindly in advance
Wez
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What Customrecovery you have installed with Odin? Can you post a Screenshot of your Recovery and which Rom you want to install ( Name and Downloadlink )

Thank you kindly!
bierma32 said:
What Customrecovery you have installed with Odin? Can you post a Screenshot of your Recovery and which Rom you want to install ( Name and Downloadlink )
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Hi, Thank you for getting back to me..
I have not installed a custom recovery, it is the stock from samsung-updates.com 7.0_WiFi/SM-T210/BTU/T210XXBNI1 (4.4.2) I have been trying to get working but that just goes in to a hard repeating boot up loop once finished in oden that wont let me access recovery.
I have re flashed with samsung-updates.com 7.0_WiFi/S_M-T210/BTU/T210XXAMKF (4.1.2) which gets me a little further as it then spits up a signature verification error while trying to update in the stock recovery program.
I have tried numerous others from reading through posts on here and they all fail at the signature verification or get stuck in a repeating boot up loop.
I cant post links yet as I am a new member, I can take screen shots though i think if you need them for reference.
Thank you kindly in advance

Please tell me , you are The first owner, or is a second Hand one.?
Wy i ask , at Download you can See The Staus as Custom, so it was modified.
Try a factory reset, Wipe cache from The recovery and try to reboot.

bierma32 said:
Please tell me , you are The first owner, or is a second Hand one.?
Wy i ask , at Download you can See The Staus as Custom, so it was modified.
Try a factory reset, Wipe cache from The recovery and try to reboot.
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It belongs to my friend's son who had it new and I am unsure what exactly he has done to it. I was just given it to try repair as I am usually quite sharp at fixing things.
Yes I noticed that box says custom but was unsure as I have already tried doing factory reset and wipe cache I thought it would return it to stock but it seems to have no effect.

OK, my last idea,
1.Download a customrom for exp. Nolekat to a ext.Sdcard and put this to your Tab
2.Download a Custumrecovery lastet Version ( The one with KK extension ) to your PC i prefere CWM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2433853
3.go into Download mode and follow the Guide from the link.
4. Important , after flashing with Odin boot with the 3 Buttons to the Recovery and flash the Customrom.
Good luck and a happy New year 2015

lean
bierma32 said:
OK, my last idea,
1.Download a customrom for exp. Nolekat to a ext.Sdcard and put this to your Tab
2.Download a Custumrecovery lastet Version ( The one with KK extension ) to your PC i prefere CWM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2433853
3.go into Download mode and follow the Guide from the link.
4. Important , after flashing with Odin boot with the 3 Buttons to the Recovery and flash the Customrom.
Good luck and a happy New year 2015
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Thank you kindly, I will give it a go however I do not have an SD card. I think there is another way but I could get a card tomorrow anyway if that wont work without it.
Thank you once again for your help, I shall post again if successful or not
Happy new year and all the best to you too, I hope you have a good time

wezthewizz said:
Thank you kindly, I will give it a go however I do not have an SD card. I think there is another way but I could get a card tomorrow anyway if that wont work without it.
Thank you once again for your help, I shall post again if successful or not
Happy new year and all the best to you too, I hope you have a good time
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~update~ it is failing at the first hurdle sadly. just goes in to a boot loop and wont let me get in to the CWM recovery

wezthewizz said:
~update~ it is failing at the first hurdle sadly. just goes in to a boot loop and wont let me get in to the CWM recovery
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I wish you a Happy New year.
The Cwm is the Version 6.0.4.9 KK ? Important is KK.
Have you tried to flash the Nolekat with ext.Sdcard Form the Recovery and than try to reboot?
A other important question, repartion was unchecked by Odin !
Can you go to the Download mode?

bierma32 said:
I wish you a Happy New year.
The Cwm is the Version 6.0.4.9 KK ? Important is KK.
Have you tried to flash the Nolekat with ext.Sdcard Form the Recovery and than try to reboot?
A other important question, repartion was unchecked by Odin !
Can you go to the Download mode?
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I have not got an external SD card yet though I am about to go out and will pick one up.
yes, I can get in to download mode and I can also get in to the other mode when the stock rom is flashed.
I have not given up yet and I have not repartition or anything damaging in Odin
Will get stuck in to it and have another go soon, thank you kindly for all the advice and help so far too! )
Happy new year!

bierma32 said:
I wish you a Happy New year.
The Cwm is the Version 6.0.4.9 KK ? Important is KK.
Have you tried to flash the Nolekat with ext.Sdcard Form the Recovery and than try to reboot?
A other important question, repartion was unchecked by Odin !
Can you go to the Download mode?
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Ok here is where I am at. I was unable to get an external SD card today. Is there any other way to get this device working?
When I flash T210_CWM_6.0.4.9.KK.tar.md5 it does not let me access recovery mode, it just hangs on a black screen but I can still get to download mode.
I have to re flash Stock rom so it gives me back recovery mode but does not complete as shown before with screenshot.
I am just going around in circles now and about to tell my friend he needs to get a new one sadly.

Updated screen shot
This is its current state in recovery mode after flashing stock rom.

Try doing a factory reset there in the recovery and wipe the cache. Then see if it will reboot.

Tried everything pretty much..
k8108 said:
Try doing a factory reset there in the recovery and wipe the cache. Then see if it will reboot.
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Tried it a dozen times already before I even posted on here asking for help.
Thank you all the same.

wezthewizz said:
This is its current state in recovery mode after flashing stock rom.
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Okay, so you're in stock recovery. You need to reboot to download mode. Next you need to flash a custom recovery with Odin. I recommend TWRP. You also need to download the most recent supersu zip. Once you're in the custom recovery of your choice, flash the supersu zip and reboot. Congratulations, you are now on rooted stock!
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bmatney said:
Okay, so you're in stock recovery. You need to reboot to download mode. Next you need to flash a custom recovery with Odin. I recommend TWRP. You also need to download the most recent supersu zip. Once you're in the custom recovery of your choice, flash the supersu zip and reboot. Congratulations, you are now on rooted stock!
Sent from my LG-D850 using XDA Free mobile app
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Thank you but i have tried that already. Same result, i cannot get in to custom recovery after flashing it, i can then only get back in to download mode and this aching process repeats over and over.
I am throwing in the towel, this device is bust.
Thank you all for your efforts

[Q] Stuck at Samsung Galaxy Note II Logo

My phone turned off because of drained battery so I charge it. But when I turn it on, It's stuck at the logo.
So I'm using DN4 ROM for my device and the latest TWRP.
I tried wiping dalvik / cache and then factory reset (when I factory reset it, it will turn off and then stuck at the logo again)
I tried flashing a custom rom but I got an error
Can't install this package on top of incompatible data. Please try another package or run a factory reset
E:Error excuting updater binary in zip '[location of the zip file]'
Someone help please. Can I flash via odin?

anjeu67 said:
My phone turned off because of drained battery so I charge it. But when I turn it on, It's stuck at the logo.
So I'm using DN4 ROM for my device and the latest TWRP.
I tried wiping dalvik / cache and then factory reset (when I factory reset it, it will turn off and then stuck at the logo again)
I tried flashing a custom rom but I got an error
Can't install this package on top of incompatible data. Please try another package or run a factory reset
E:Error excuting updater binary in zip '[location of the zip file]'
Someone help please. Can I flash via odin?
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download rom again and try.
use on internal and if not working from sd card

yaro666 said:
download rom again and try.
use on internal and if not working from sd card
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Thanks for the reply. I flash stock rom via odin.

same error for me help me on this phonies.
alright. uh hum your attention please.. lol
Phone is GT-N105T
thing iv done with no result
- kies
-new power button/ribbon
-odin said successful with the with tar md5 file (no result still frozen)
-different battery.
Things i cant do.
-enter recovery mode only Odin/download mode.
any of you guys be able to push me in the right direction?
what can i do next.

Aydyn Glen said:
alright. uh hum your attention please.. lol
Phone is GT-N105T
thing iv done with no result
- kies
-new power button/ribbon
-odin said successful with the with tar md5 file (no result still frozen)
-different battery.
Things i cant do.
-enter recovery mode only Odin/download mode.
any of you guys be able to push me in the right direction?
what can i do next.
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Is it the same problem as mine?
You might want to download official firmware of your phone from sammobile (According to country and network be careful with that)
Flash TWRP first so you can Wipe Cache, Dalvik Cache, System, Data. Android will be gone if you do this. No OS.
Then flash the official or stock firmware then check if it's successful.
Then root. Then flash TWRP again just to be sure then flash your custom rom.

its not how hard hit its how how you get hit and still move forward!
Alright .
Check baby Check.
got the original firm ware from sammobile now i will flash the twrp file clear the catch and then catch yall back here when i get results.
wont give up on this mobile haha.
anjeu67 said:
Thanks for the reply. I flash stock rom via odin.
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anjeu67 said:
Is it the same problem as mine?
You might want to download official firmware of your phone from sammobile (According to country and network be careful with that)
Flash TWRP first so you can Wipe Cache, Dalvik Cache, System, Data. Android will be gone if you do this. No OS.
Then flash the official or stock firmware then check if it's successful.
Then root. Then flash TWRP again just to be sure then flash your custom rom.
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iv found that odin didnt recognize the divers after the twrp flash. so i reinstalled usb drivers.
then as suggested i did the sammobile stock os for my country in odin.
reset every thing and got it working when in download mode while connected to odin. dont do it b4 wont work .
the result is.....
samsung logo stuck on screen! ughhh.
Aydyn Glen said:
Alright .
Check baby Check.
got the original firm ware from sammobile. now i will flash the twrp file clear the catch and then catch yall back here when i get results.
wont give up on this mobile haha.
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have the same problem, everything stock! PLEASE HELP! I have a funny feeling Samsung is programming their phones to automatically self-destruct after 3 years to force you to buy a new phone. It's unbelievable, but this phone died on the exact day I bought it 3 years ago, coincidence?

use twrp?

Error RP SWREV A3 - Constant rebooting - Unable to reinstall rom

Hi there, yesterday I updated some play store apps and a while later the tablet rebooted, it does it constantly. That is all I did in the past few months, I haven't installed a newer rom for a few months.
In Download mode, I see an error I haven't seen before: RP SWREV A3. I was on Resurrection Remix 5.7.4 (android 6). I tried re-flashing the rom from TWRP but I think it reboots before it completes flashing. I tried flashing with ODIN Stock 4.4 and 5.1.1, it finishes installing but it keeps rebooting at the Samsung logo. I don't what to do since I didn't do anything except update my apps... Please help
Here is the recovery.log:http://pastebin.com/raw/Kt5SDECf

Hey mate
That isn't fun but when I have installed stock Rom's via Odin I too have been stuck in the logo. Usually if you then go into recovery and wipe cache and do a factory reset it usually solves the issue, I would assume you have done this, if not give it a go. Be patient sometimes it does stay on the logo for a few minutes whilst it provisions the ROM, best of luck.

kypreo said:
Hey mate
That isn't fun but when I have installed stock Rom's via Odin I too have been stuck in the logo. Usually if you then go into recovery and wipe cache and do a factory reset it usually solves the issue, I would assume you have done this, if not give it a go. Be patient sometimes it does stay on the logo for a few minutes whilst it provisions the ROM, best of luck.
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I have no idea what else to do, this my last_kmesg and my dmesg and the recovery.log if any one knows please help, the tablet switches off during install in TWRP and `adb`. I get the Error `RP SWREV A3` in Download mode.

malim20 said:
I have no idea what else to do, this my last_kmesg and my dmesg and the recovery.log if any one knows please help, the tablet switches off during install in TWRP and `adb`. I get the Error `RP SWREV A3` in Download mode.
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You haven't stated if you get the error flashing a stock ROM, irrespective I have found some info on other forums and Google, see below:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2671068
http://forums.androidcentral.com/t-...elp-please-odin-mode-bootloader-rp-swrev.html
https://www.sammobile.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14425
http://www.ultratechy.com/stuck-on-downloading-do-not-turn-off-target-problem/
https://www.tapatalk.com/topic/3392...hing-phone-that-boots-into-download-mode-only
I think you should try a stock firmware and I think it a bootloader issue which you can get past with your original stock ROM. What was the last factory ROM you had 4.4.2 or 5.1.1? Download a stock ROM and flash with an Odin version above 3, good luck.

kypreo said:
You haven't stated if you get the error flashing a stock ROM, irrespective I have found some info on other forums and Google, see below:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2671068
http://forums.androidcentral.com/t-...elp-please-odin-mode-bootloader-rp-swrev.html
https://www.sammobile.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14425
http://www.ultratechy.com/stuck-on-downloading-do-not-turn-off-target-problem/
https://www.tapatalk.com/topic/3392...hing-phone-that-boots-into-download-mode-only
I think you should try a stock firmware and I think it a bootloader issue which you can get past with your original stock ROM. What was the last factory ROM you had 4.4.2 or 5.1.1? Download a stock ROM and flash with an Odin version above 3, good luck.
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Thanks for your reply,
With a stock Rom, I am able to install completely with ODIN but it still keeps on rebooting, I installed 4.4 and 5.1.1 from my region and other regions, even the last stock one I installed (ODIN doesn't fail, in fact it shows that it installed correctly). Through Recovery, it switches off before the install is complete, and then it keeps rebooting just like when I try with a stock Rom

malim20 said:
Thanks for your reply,
With a stock Rom, I am able to install completely with ODIN but it still keeps on rebooting, I installed 4.4 and 5.1.1 from my region and other regions, even the last stock one I installed (ODIN doesn't fail, in fact it shows that it installed correctly). Through Recovery, it switches off before the install is complete, and then it keeps rebooting just like when I try with a stock Rom
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Mate on the stock ROM you say it keeps rebooting, can you bring up recovery? If so you can wipe cache and do a factory default, this may resolve the issue, Failing that if you can get TWRP on it you can try and wipe all files from the system internal storage. Then try and install the stock ROM and try and load it from there.
I think in ODIN too you can wipe the partitions, you can also try that as a last resort.
You can also wipe away the entire internal storage file system in the advanced system settings and start from new with a custom ROM and install these off the SD card.
Good luck