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[Q] Cant flash any roms with odin,all data deleted including rom,please help...

Was running stock knox free 4.3 rom and was trying to flash another rom ,because 4.3 stock was giving me horible battery life ,but by accident everything got deleted and didnt have no backup Odin says failed(auth).I can go to download mode and recovery mode also.

also I am running the tmobile s3

Firmware us flased in Odin.
Roms in recovery.
If you've fully updated to 4.3 fw, you can no longer odin flash any earlier builds.

So I can only flash same 4.3 now ? No older roms?

vladod said:
So I can only flash same 4.3 now ? No older roms?
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You got it. Do not try older Stock roms. There lies a Brick!

Thank you both.That sucks since the battery life is very bad.Other than that everything else works great.Hope someone will come up with a solution to flash the older roms again.

For improving Battery, follow the suggestions in this thread and do this mod.

Downgrade n7100 4.4.2 to 4.3

I upgrade my n7100 to 4.4.2 via KIES 3, but now the batery drains very fast,
i want to go back to 4.3, is there a way to make this downgrade?
thanks

install odin mobile on your device and put a stock rom on sd card then flash winth odin mobile

omar_alex01 said:
I upgrade my n7100 to 4.4.2 via KIES 3, but now the batery drains very fast,
i want to go back to 4.3, is there a way to make this downgrade?
thanks
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I'm not sure flashing a stock 4.3 rom would work since you will ow have a kitkat bootloader that doesn't allow down grading. Kitkat shouldn't cause battery drain maybe something else is causing it.
You could look for a stock rom that's had the bootloader removed and that should flash ok or flash a custom recovery (this will trigger knox bit) and flash any rom you wish - my favorite based on stock 4.3 roms are android revolution v23 and latest wanamlite and there are a number of releases from Cosmyndemeter you could use.

thanks a lot for your replies
i use the code *#0228# on phone dialer, for battery calibration, and now the battery lasts a lot more, i will trying this, and if I do not see any improvement in the battery usage, i will try to make the downgrade

[Q] Downgrade from Custom 4.4.2 to stock 4.3 possible?

Hi everyone I hope this is not a repetition of some old thread (I tried but couldn't find though).
I was using my note 2 (T889) on stock 4.3 which i previously flashed via odine. A couple of days ago i came by this good looking kitkat based rom ( eZKAT v2.0 ) and went on to try it. the rom flashed flawlessly and after flashing my modem i got the signals as well but the wifi was not working. tried using dr. ketans wifi patch but didnt get the wifi to working. Anyhow, I decided to go back to 4.3 via odine. The odine flashing completed successfully but i got stuck on T-mobiles boot screen for hours.
Is there anything called "you cant go back to 4.3 from 4.4.2"? If yes, then whats the way around? I really need to go back to the stock.
Thanks.

zetrixNoob said:
Hi everyone I hope this is not a repetition of some old thread (I tried but couldn't find though).
I was using my note 2 (T889) on stock 4.3 which i previously flashed via odine. A couple of days ago i came by this good looking kitkat based rom ( eZKAT v2.0 ) and went on to try it. the rom flashed flawlessly and after flashing my modem i got the signals as well but the wifi was not working. tried using dr. ketans wifi patch but didnt get the wifi to working. Anyhow, I decided to go back to 4.3 via odine. The odine flashing completed successfully but i got stuck on T-mobiles boot screen for hours.
Is there anything called "you cant go back to 4.3 from 4.4.2"? If yes, then whats the way around? I really need to go back to the stock.
Thanks.
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I had this problem on my Note also. Downgrading versions of Android requires a data wipe. You will need to reflash your 4.4 ROM then backup your data if you want. Save your backup to your computer then install the 4.3 image.
Sent from my Nexus 7

EverDawn4 said:
I had this problem on my Note also. Downgrading versions of Android requires a data wipe. You will need to reflash your 4.4 ROM then backup your data if you want. Save your backup to your computer then install the 4.3 image.
Sent from my Nexus 7
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I already tried that but still the booting stuck on the t-mobile logo. I read somewhere that locked bootloader don't let you downgrade to previous version. Is this true?

In that case. Try finding a 4.3 rom that's close to stock.
Sent from my Nexus 7

The locked bootloader is always in stock firmwares i.e 4.3 for the Note 2 but not in custom roms meaning u can even install Lollipop custom on it & downgrade smoothly, i have done that many times. The problem is 4.3 stock firmware has locked bootloader hence downgrading still keeps u in 4.3 bootloader even if u remove all the KNOX files.

Stuck trying to downgrade from custom 5.1.1 to stock 4.3
Hi, i have a problem like this, upgrade to a custom 5.1.1 and then sell the phone, the new owner wants to have it stock, i try to downgrade to 4.3 but i cant, in odin i set the phone to flash it but seems like it doesn`t recognize the phone and i dont know why, so, i decided to try in recovery mode installing from the sd card but the sistem abort, so, i don`t know what to do, i`ll appreciates any help, sorry for my english, i do my best. (i have root access before upgrated to 5.1.1).

[Q] About rooting 4.4.2

Hi, I had problems with my phone lately and I made them worse and the phone got stuck on boot animation. So I just flashed stock ROM via ODIN... Only now I know that if I flashed 4.4.2 my bl is now locked and I can't root and install other ROMS, is it true? Is there a way to fix it?
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Hangs on setup

hey can anyone help me? i've recently reverted my note 2 back to stock via odin and everything seemed fine. When the phone booted and i went through the setup process it always hangs. No matter what i do it always hangs. I've tried reflashing it and rebooting it over and over again but it always hangs. anyone know why this keeps happening?

Are you flashing the latest stock ROM? You're performing a factory reset before booting the ROM for the first time?

audit13 said:
Are you flashing the latest stock ROM? You're performing a factory reset before booting the ROM for the first time?
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Yup latest stock rom, and before i flashed via odin i deleted my previous rom via twrp and formatted internal storage so its 100% clean

I've downgraded a Note 2 sgh-i317m to 4.1.1 from 4.4.2 by flashing a stock 4.1.1 ROM from sammobile.com in order to network unlock the phone. Flashing the stock 4.1.1 ROM tripped knox and could be installed via Odin because the 4.1.1 ROM from sammobile.com did not contain a 4.1.1 bootloader so I wound up with a stock 4.1.1 ROM on a 4.4.2 bootloader. After unlocking, I flashed the stock 4.4.2 ROM again and the the phone worked as it should.
I'm not sure which phone you have and I'm not sure downgrading and upgrading will work in your case but it's something you may want to look into.

audit13 said:
I've downgraded a Note 2 sgh-i317m to 4.1.1 from 4.4.2 by flashing a stock 4.1.1 ROM from sammobile.com in order to network unlock the phone. Flashing the stock 4.1.1 ROM tripped knox and could be installed via Odin because the 4.1.1 ROM from sammobile.com did not contain a 4.1.1 bootloader so I wound up with a stock 4.1.1 ROM on a 4.4.2 bootloader. After unlocking, I flashed the stock 4.4.2 ROM again and the the phone worked as it should.
I'm not sure which phone you have and I'm not sure downgrading and upgrading will work in your case but it's something you may want to look into.
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I've managed to get the phone working (N7100) and it seems to run fine on Nougat. I did some testing and indeed it would always crash on setup with kitkat roms. I wonder why this is the case....

It is strange that kit kat causes a problem.
Have you tried using a different version of twrp to wipe the system before flashing with Odin? Can't think of anything else that may solve the problem.