hi all
ive just bought a second hand note 2 (gt n7105) on the 3 network
ive already requested an unlock code which 3 sent but it doesn't work all I get is unlock unsuccessful when I enter the code even after a factory reset
so I went down the ebay route of buying the code (which turned out to be the same one 3 sent me) and a unfreeze code
entered both still no luck, im still getting the sim network unlock prompt after a reboot but still no mension of a freeze message so im guessing its not hardlocked yet? although ive tried numerous times now to no avail
when I bought the phone I couldn't update "OTA" it said phone is modified or something and when I checked the about phone it said custom
I did notice there was an app called super su on the phone but didn't work when I tried to open it, at thispoint I didn't know what it was as ive never bothered to try and root or mess with a phone. I downloaded Samsung kies and basicly restored the phone (was already on 4.3) now the about phone bit says official but the weird thing is when I factory reset the phone the language was in german? (phone bought from Birmingham England)
im not sure what else I can do to get it unlocked properly without having to hack the phone somehow
is this a common issue? or fixable?
appologies if this has been covered but im going around in circles with it and 3 and Samsung are bloody useless
Download this, boot to recovery (turn on with power, vol up and home pressed), factory reset, boot to download more ( as before but vol down), flash rom through odin (plenty of guides out there), then you will be on a uk three stock rom.
Unlock code may work then, but my guess is it won't.
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/3/?download=27566
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I have an unlocked and rooted e973 running stock 4.1.2 (E97320e). I have somehow managed to flash both TWRP and CWM as a custom recovery, and now cannot access recovery mode at all. I know this because ROM Manger shows both under the "Recovery Already Installed" section. I can boot normally and access download mode with no issues, but if I am trying to get into recovery mode I always get a black screen that shows the LG logo and says "secure booting error! cause : boot certification verify". If I use ROM Manager or GooManager to reboot to recovery I always get a warning pop-up "unfortunately com.lg.hiddenmenu has stopped" before it reboots to that secure booting error screen.
So I'm really not sure how to fix this, I just want to start trying some different ROMs, but need to get the custom recovery sorted out first. Should I just follow this guide for unbricking? How about doing a factory reset (booting with power and volume down)? Will being rooted/unlocked matter for doing a factory reset? Would it even clean up the mess I have made of the recovery? I guess I am just looking for a way to wipe everything completely clean and start fresh since I have all my important stuff backed up. I should note I got this phone unlocked and discovered a "NOT FOR SALE" engraved into the side after peeling all the stickers off.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
edit: I decided I might try fastboot erase recovery, only to discover I cannot access the bootloader or fastboot mode. adb reboot bootloader just reboots the phone like normal and starting in fastboot mode by holding volume down and power just takes me to the factory reset screen. Any ideas?
edit: Tried to use TeenyBin, but LGNPST doesn't detect my device ("no port connected") even when it is properly connected in download mode.
Not to be that guy, but its been stated several times to use FreeGee to install custom recovery. Mainly because even if you do install it correctly som other way, your bootloader would be locked and if you install something then, you get a soft brick (in a good scenario). Make sure you have root and grab FreeGee from the market and let it install.
Also, why would you keep a phone that says "NOT FOR SALE"? I wouldnt touch it with a stick and send it back wherever you got it from.
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Not to be that guy, but its been stated several times to use FreeGee to install custom recovery. Mainly because even if you do install it correctly som other way, your bootloader would be locked and if you install something then, you get a soft brick (in a good scenario). Make sure you have root and grab FreeGee from the market and let it install.
Also, why would you keep a phone that says "NOT FOR SALE"? I wouldnt touch it with a stick and send it back wherever you got it from.
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I bought it at cost from a guy on Kijiji (Canada's craigslist equivalent) brand new. He claimed he had a bunch of them because his company was going to use them but then last minute they decided to go with blackberry so he had to sell them. I didn't realize it had the not for sale until i was home and peeled all the stickers off, and since it worked fine with my existing SIM I just kept it.
Anyways, I will give freegee a shot and see if that can fix the problem. I have been looking through many different resources and threads and never saw it mentioned to use freegee to install a custom recovery, but I guess it's worth a shot. Thanks!
edit: It worked! I can now finally get into TWRP 2.5.0. Thanks again for the reply!
xerockz said:
I bought it at cost from a guy on Kijiji (Canada's craigslist equivalent) brand new. He claimed he had a bunch of them because his company was going to use them but then last minute they decided to go with blackberry so he had to sell them. I didn't realize it had the not for sale until i was home and peeled all the stickers off, and since it worked fine with my existing SIM I just kept it.
Anyways, I will give freegee a shot and see if that can fix the problem. I have been looking through many different resources and threads and never saw it mentioned to use freegee to install a custom recovery, but I guess it's worth a shot. Thanks!
edit: It worked! I can now finally get into TWRP 2.5.0. Thanks again for the reply!
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Good thing it worked. Hope you got it for a very good price or I would go nuts on the seller But as long as you are happy with it. We finally have a few roms to try so good luck finding one that fits you.
I've made a mistake after a successful week following installing and running a custom ROM.
After Rooting the GT-I8160 a year ago and having no updates from Samsung since new it took me
a few days setting the phone up jumping from GB to CM11 so I didn't spot that ROOT access had been lost until this morning.
Tinkering with the internals didn't have the fear it held when first buying the phone on the Orange network in the UK
so I deleted Titanium Backup & Supersu but re-installing still left things un-rooted.
So I went straight to the original guide I followed on Cnets and rooted it again .... as I'd easily gained access to the ROM holding
down the 3 buttons manys times now and could do it again if I had trouble. ODIN carried out its job but when the phone restarted
it would get no further than the Splash screen Samsung Galaxy etc. In this position I tried to get it into Recovery mode keeping my
fingers on the buttons until it would turn off and restart, the only difference is when I try the Download mode the following appears
on screen;
Applying Multi-csc ........
Installing Multi-csc
Can't access to '/System/csc/EVR/system
Successfully applied Multi csc.
At the top of the screen it gives the option to Re-boot but again goes as far as Splash Screen where it remains.
I hope I've not killed the phone and that you can suggest how I can re-set it with the aid of Odin - the only access point.
:crying: Have I 'Bricked' it ...... put me out of my misery
Problem Resolved
After more investigating I saw a link recommending downloading the Firmware for Russia Ace 2 as it was the only one that whilst using ODIN
it had the files for PDA, Phone and CSC. After running this it got my phone up & running then from the same site - SamMobile I got the FW for UK & Orange which after 'wiping data/factory resets' brought my phone back to the day I'd purchased it. :victory:
Hope this may help anyone else who fears the end of their phone
As I understand you wanted flash CM11 on GB. If you want flash any custom rom above GB your baseband must be JellyBean. Just remeber
Hello, I managed to soft brick my phone while overseas and am writing this message at 2:00am in the morning (at least in this time zone) after two days of trying to fix it. Some background info--I'm usually based in the U.S., have a Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ with service from T-mobile. Have never rooted or modified the phone in any way. I'm using a macbook pro laptop (running a windows virtual machine/vmware, on the mac) on this trip.
While on this current trip to Asia (currently in the Philippines) (much to my surprise it seems like the phone was getting 4G data here), I accidentally bumped the "yes" button on t-mobile's persistent OTA upgrade request box and the phone started a OTA upgrade, I assume to Android 6.0.1. I kept an eye on the phone as it went through various stages of progress in the upgrade. didn't see any error messages. It eventually restarted, got to the T-mobile screen, and got stuck there. That was two days ago. I've done quite a bit since that time to try to figure out what went wrong, searched all over online to find potential solutions. it goes without saying if there is any way possible i need to recover many important files on the device, so a reset is the option of last resort.
Long story short, seems like the farthest I can get on the phone is to Android Recovery mode, or the download screen. I installed the android tools and have "adb" working from the mac command line. Bad news is, it looks like I didn't have USB debugging mode activated on the phone, now I can't see any possible way to activate usb debug mode because the phone just won't boot past the t-mobile screen. I can get adb to detect the phone for a moment if I select "apply update from adb" on the recovery mode screen but that's about it, haven't been able to issue any other commands to the phone through adb other than detect and sideload.
tried to reload the android image...via command line adb sideload G928TUVU2DPD1 but get error messages about failure to verify (i think), anyways adb sideload wasn't happening. I installed Odin on my windows VM, attached the usb bridge from the mac to the windows vm and Odin was able to see the device. I was able to successfully push G928TUVU2DPD1 to the phone's download mode, both Odin and phone seemed happy about the file transfer, the phone went through a install process, restarted, with the exact same result as when the OTA update finished - phone stuck at the t-mobile screen after reboot.
I tried to load TWRP to the phone with hopes to run backups, and was actually able to transfer TWRP to the phone using Odin, yet TWRP wouldn't install -- the phone complained of the unauthorized binary. i guess the phone has to be rooted first or something else needs to be flashed to defeat the binary check, haven't tried that yet.
So I'm stuck with a soft bricked phone for now, yet instinct tells me with Odin working and talking to the phone, I should be able to install -something- that will get me back in business...that's why I'm posting this message, to ask for help as it seems like this group is the go to place for this type of specific info.
i am not at all familiar with custom android work yet have been active with tech stuff for the greater part of my life, plenty of coding and experience dating back years and have done dev work in most of the popular languages, very comfortable with command lines, log files and so forth...just never had a reason to mess around at a low level with my android phone until the past 48 hours, so i'm not really familiar. does anyone have any ideas? as a next step i'm thinking of trying to push a downgrade to the phone through Odin which I suppose would be Android 5.1.1 , although I haven't yet located binaries that feel exactly right for t-mobile and s6 edge+ ... sigh, this has been quite a time consuming way of learning the bricked phone recovery process..
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thanks in advance for any ideas or help on this...it's quite disturbing to be on a business trip with no phone, and the past 6+ months worth of not backed up (gulp) data still sitting on the device (hopefully)..
here's some data from the Android Recovery screen:
6.0.1/MMB29K.G928TUVU2DPD1
samsung/zenltetmo/zenltetmo
was flipping through the recovery logs and i notice quite a few log entries about "couldn't find any tzdata when looking for localtime!" , I notice entries like "Starting recovery on Fri Jan 2 03:55:29 2015" -- i'm wondering if the phone is having trouble setting internal time and date which might be preventing it from booting...just a theory.
sorry for the long message, wanted to completely describe this fun scenario, just in case anyone has any ideas..thanks again
keep trying to load TWRP from the download screen on my phone...but get the "custom binary blocked by FTP lock" message. There's no way to change any settings on the phone as it still won't boot past the t-mobile screen..
platinum5 said:
keep trying to load TWRP from the download screen on my phone...but get the "custom binary blocked by FTP lock" message. There's no way to change any settings on the phone as it still won't boot past the t-mobile screen..
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Can you download Odin?
Sent from my SM-N910T using Tapatalk
yes i have installed Odin and it's working fine...I can push files to the phone in download mode and it works fine, but the Android images i have loaded so far all seem to result in the phone getting stuck at the t-mobile screen...it won't go past there
Did you ever get this figured out? My guess is it has something to do with not being connected to t-mobile home network. The fact you can get to download mode & Odin sees your phone should mean all hope is not lost yet on recovering your files and getting it working again.
Twrp isn't going to work unless you had root installed with the USB debugging & oem unlock option turned on in developer mode.
Maybe try asking in some of the other s6 forums. There's a lot of knowledgeable people here & I'm sure someone knows how to fix this.
Goodluck, I hope you get it figured out, I know how frustrating it can be.
hello, i was hoping to get some help with my device not being rootable.
i followed these two guides word for word i cant post links because im new here but i followed the naldotech twrp + root s9 guide and the highonandroid s9 root guide.
tried both reinstalled OS with csc and home-csc twice for each one when my phone was stuck in a loop so i can make sure that its back to factory before i try another method. my phone it either gets stuck at samsung logo or just reboots to recovery never goes to samsung logo my oem unlock button always stays off even though i follow the steps and it says under it that bootloader already unlocked and it never goes blue and oem lock: off in download mode, i did not setup my samsung or google accounts in any of those resets that way no settings get synced.
i really need the help i have been trying this for the past month and a half and i have tried everything i could think off and nothing is working.
current software installed: G960FXXU2CRLI_G960FOXM2CRLI_XSG
Model: SM-G960F/DS
OS: 9.0.0
chriskay525 said:
hello, i was hoping to get some help with my device not being rootable.
i followed these two guides word for word i cant post links because im new here but i followed the naldotech twrp + root s9 guide and the highonandroid s9 root guide.
tried both reinstalled OS with csc and home-csc twice for each one when my phone was stuck in a loop so i can make sure that its back to factory before i try another method. my phone it either gets stuck at samsung logo or just reboots to recovery never goes to samsung logo my oem unlock button always stays off even though i follow the steps and it says under it that bootloader already unlocked and it never goes blue and oem lock: off in download mode, i did not setup my samsung or google accounts in any of those resets that way no settings get synced.
i really need the help i have been trying this for the past month and a half and i have tried everything i could think off and nothing is working.
current software installed: G960FXXU2CRLI_G960FOXM2CRLI_XSG
Model: SM-G960F/DS
OS: 9.0.0
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Did u fix it ? Cos I have similar issue but on my phone it says the bootloader is locked and the OEM unlock option never turns on , when I turn it on it does factory reset and reboot the device but the option stays off
Akhayev said:
Did u fix it ? Cos I have similar issue but on my phone it says the bootloader is locked and the OEM unlock option never turns on , when I turn it on it does factory reset and reboot the device but the option stays off
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no fix yet and same thing is happening to me the OEM options always stays off and that's even after a clean firmware install i really hope we can find a way to fix this
chriskay525 said:
no fix yet and same thing is happening to me the OEM options always stays off and that's even after a clean firmware install i really hope we can find a way to fix this
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Did u wait for 7 days ?
HELP PLEASE.Is there a way to flash or root AT&T Note 5,stuck in boot loop mode???
Hi to all
I'm member on XDA for a long time,but I really am a newbie considering rooting,flashing and messing with the phones.
Yesterday ,my At&t Samsung galaxy NOTE 5 restarted by itself and started doing that constantly.Maybe because the memory was almost full so the firmware didn't have enough space to run correctly ,I don't really know.
So I decided to do a FACTORY RESET in order to refresh the phone.I backed all up (it did restart few time while I did that but I managed to finish it).
After I did the factory reset and wiped the cache,I rebooted the phone and that is when the boot loop started.
Once or three times came back and started the phone up to the first settings (I managed to put in my google username e.t.c. but after a minute maybe it freezes and restarted by itself again)
I tried again another factory reset but the boot loop continues.I tried many time to turn it off,it restarted up to INSTALLING UPDATE......then tried to turn it off completely (Volume down+Power+Home button) and somehow I managed to turn it off.
I thought that I can come here and find the instructions on how to FLASH it with ODIN,but I couldn't find the stock firmware for AT&t Note 5.
Then I remembered (and read on internet) that the bootloader on AT&T phones is locked !!!!!
I searched some threads here for at least how to root it ,but I can't find anything clearly.
So I'm asking you for help: IS THERE ANY SAFE WAY THAT I CAN DO FLASH OR ROOT MY AT&T SAMSUNG NOTE 5 (EXPLAINED STEP BY STEP) IN ORDER TO MAKE MY PHONE WORK AGAIN????
I have never before messed with the phone.It has the original stock firmware Android 7.0 Nougat.
And the phone is bought in USA,but I live in EUROPE and have unlocked it ,by buying some code online, few years ago.It was working fine until yesterday.
Thank you in advance guys I hope that someone might help me.
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Guys I found here some older version (few months older) of Android 7 for my Note 5 and I managed to do a flash. The flashing went OK I went through settings and after few minutes the phone freezes again and restarts. And then again the same,it works fine for a few minutes,freezes and restarts (I can here the camera working inside sometimes too)...........CAN ANYONE HELP ME REPAIR MY PHONE ,PLEASE ???
Hi again
I don't know why no one is replying to me???
Today I managed to make the settings and power up the phone,restored the back up....the phone is working,BUT the PROBLEM is that it constantly freezes and reboots by itself.Sometimes it works for few minutes and reboots,sometimes it works for 30min and then it reboots,sometimes longer...
What might be the problem? Is it some hardware problem processor ,memory or maybe bad battery? It is older model and I have noticed with Accu Battery that most likely the battery haslowered it's capacity.It drains faster,sometimes when it comes to 15% it drains very fast...
Can anyone help me diagnose the problem?
Thank you in advance
Try booting into Download Mode & flash a new stock firmware if all else fails, assuming u tried a factory reset first with no satisfaction. Guides are everywhere. I HTH
PiMPSoFT said:
Try booting into Download Mode & flash a new stock firmware if all else fails, assuming u tried a factory reset first with no satisfaction. Guides are everywhere. I HTH
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Thank you for your reply
I managed to flash the firmware few times,but the phone keeps freezing after some time and restarts.Sometimes it is stuck in the bootloop,sometimes it starts up to some point,freezes and restarts.
Could it be BAD BATTERY or is it something else?
If it is the battery problem,I will replace it,but I'm afraid that it might be someting else wrong.
What is your opinion?