Like many people out there with the S3, we've got problems flashing back to stock firmware. Over the past week I was not very impressed with the firmware that I flashed as it was having issues randomly restarting, the camera didn't work, rear LED didn't work, and the screen itself was very laggy. Back to stock, but rooted, to get rid of all the bloatware.
Anyway, the problem I was having, along with others, was Odin 3.07/3.09 was failing on Get PIT for Mapping. It would fail every single time. Didn't matter what I did; switch to another USB, another port, change firmware, nothing mattered. But, in my instance, I've so far solved it, but sheer luck it appears.
I downloaded the firmware from SamMobile, using a Samsung ST150F camera USB instead of the stock USB and the blue Dynex cable (which works much better than the stock cable.
Using an old Toshiba Satellite P205D-S7438's upper left USB port, laptop is running Windows 7 32bit.
All Samsung drivers were installed before starting Odin.
So, here's what I did exactly:
1: Download Samsung Switch from Play Store, connect phone while on and functioning.
2: Start Odin 3.07.
3: Load firmware from SamMobile onto PDA.
4: Wait until Odin says "Leave CS" then restart S3 into Download Mode/Odin Mode (Hold Power, Volume Up, and Home key. Release Power key after first vibration).
5: Odin will print "Removed" then "Added" after phone has restarted.
6: Click "Start" then wait.
So far it's working flawlessly as it's "optimizing" apps. We'll give a good test run to make sure that all is well.
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Hi, soume one could help me
I have a black screen on my galaxy notes after a bootloader via ODIN. The screen is black even at the Power + Home + sound !!!
But the galaxy note appears onto the peripheriques windows and Odin seems to work normally.
I'm going to install the LC1 official ROM with Odin but it changes nothing. I'll install the very first ROM N7000XXKKA_N7000OXXKK5_XEF just to see.
Thank's
I got the same problem too, did tried many methods to hard reset but not work, phone keep booting itself, anyone help?
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Must be installe the first ROM of your Galaxy Phone.
I found the solution on a French blog
http://galaxynotetests.blogspot.fr/2012/01/tuto-mettre-jour-son-galaxy-note.html
At the end of the update, restart your rating Galaxy .. If ever it does not start after a quarter of an hour, you can simply go to the page sammobile and start the flash ROM of the first Galaxy rating. This rom contains a. PIT that will be needed in ODIN in PIT. Then repeat with the latest ROM again. This recovery method can be effective if you ever have bugs. Problems of this kind occur mainly on mobile operators blocked.
If a referral ODIN [FAIL] for each test, make sure the USB cable is that of the Galaxy Rating, and unplug anything that could put him in conflict (USB gadgets, printers, USB 3G or wifi etc ...)
So I'm running 4.1.2 on my Rogers gs3 and am using the MrRobinson method to root (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426)
Since I am using a mac, I am running VMware to run Windows 7. I followed the steps in the thread/related video:
-shut down phone/run download mode
-Open Odin
-plug phone in using micro usb that came with phone
-under PDA, find xxx.tar.md5 file for Rogers 4.1.2
-let Odin do some verification (automatically happens once i select the md5 file)
-Click start
at this point nothing occurs - I get the 0/0 message that is seen in the video. However, nothing happens to the phone, it remains in download mode with no changes on screen.
I've tried restarting the phone and restarting Odin, but nothing seems to work.
Does anybody have any idea where I should go from here? I am hardly an expert with technology and am terrified of bricking my phone (the phone is working normally at the moment, it is not in download mode).
mikeclaws said:
So I'm running 4.1.2 on my Rogers gs3 and am using the MrRobinson method to root (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426)
Since I am using a mac, I am running VMware to run Windows 7. I followed the steps in the thread/related video:
-shut down phone/run download mode
-Open Odin
-plug phone in using micro usb that came with phone
-under PDA, find xxx.tar.md5 file for Rogers 4.1.2
-let Odin do some verification (automatically happens once i select the md5 file)
-Click start
at this point nothing occurs - I get the 0/0 message that is seen in the video. However, nothing happens to the phone, it remains in download mode with no changes on screen.
I've tried restarting the phone and restarting Odin, but nothing seems to work.
Does anybody have any idea where I should go from here? I am hardly an expert with technology and am terrified of bricking my phone (the phone is working normally at the moment, it is not in download mode).
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have you tried easy root, or researched and found other methods simpler to root or load up custom Roms because bricking is a bad thing but am sure you have to search how to put in download mode, idont know if its the same with the AT&T Galaxy S3 i747 but if it is then
hold volume up button + power button + home button at the same time until you get into download mode then load up some stock rom with ODIN and just about 5-10 later depending on your phone it will boot up but before all that ODIN has to verify on the top right box that its working and ready to go with the process
icant say alot since am too lazy just search how to do it on google, youtube, other forums or even here on XDA am pretty sure yu will learn and fix your problem in just about time to enjoy the goodness of rooting/customs
bear with me i was like that once i started rooting but months and i feel like i can do anything but not messing with files, scripts etc or the kernel am still learning the ways of rooting and customs roms
yu just need to take your fast step , man up and yu will conquer rooting, that is much do your thing remember dont brick it
Hi All,
Device = GT-N7100
Been flashing my note 2 with several roms for ages now. However today decided I might try abit of STOCK 4.3. So went to Sammobile and downloaded UK BTU.
Flashed the file fine using ODIN 3.9
Started setting everything up and noticed the phone went to sleep and wouldn't wake up, so decided to clear cache and full data reset using the stock recovery.
Anyway started setting up wifi again etc. Left the phone and it went to sleep again and wouldn't wake up.
Then decided I will download the UK Vodafone from sammobile and see if that is any better.
So rebooted the phone into odin mode. plugged in my usb cable, noticed there was no bleeps from the pc. started odin 3.9. Nothing. No device listed.
Any way to cut a long story short, I cant side load when the phone is running I cant ADB to the phone and the only thing listed in "device manager" on my WIN 8 machine is "Android SMS" as a driver which says it is not working. I have uninstalled Samsung USB drivers gone through all the processes listed on the net.
I cannot get the phone to communicate with the PC at all. So changed computer and it automatically installed Android SMS... on the new machine.
So at the moment im stuck with GLITCHY stock firmware and cannot root / cant side load via USB or anything... HELP!!
Also I cannot enable bluetooth, so I cant send a file like that.
Ok problem solved by sheer chance. When i let the phone boot normally I was getting 7 CDC drivers.
Looked these up and found this thread. Cured the problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1247547&page=3
Things have gone from BAD to WORSE
Well this morning downloaded a different STOCK UK N7100 ROM. Flashed this. Everything seemed to work correctly except it has got stuck in boot loop.
Now my main issue is it has locked me out again I need for the phone to boot so I can use the dialler to *#7284# to select USB and not MODEM.
When I boot into CWM it shows that SDCARD cannot be mounted and same with DATA.
When I am CWM or DOWNLOAD mode the laptop or PC does not recognise the device. Any ideads??? JTAG??:crying:
My phone was on stock rom, 5.1.1, and I tried to root it using zedomax's guide (found on youtube here: /watch?v=G5HDG6caoog) but I ended up bricking it.
When attempting to flash the root kernel provided in that guide, Odin gave me a FAIL result, and after that I've been stuck in a blue screen with a message that says: "An error has occurred while updating the device software. Use the Emergency recovery function in the Smart Switch PC software."
So I downloaded both Smart Switch and Kies 3.0 and both have unable to detect my device, and Odin as well.
Can anyone tell me how to proceed from here? I cannot even turn off my phone, with either holding the power button. Holding volume down, home, and power button resets the screen into the same error above
I tried 4 different cables on different USB ports on my laptop, the phone is still not getting recognized. The phone is still stuck on the same blue error screen.
Device manager looks like this:
imgur.com/XhsQf3B
update:
upon reinstalling Samsung USB drivers and rebooting the laptop, it's now recognized in the device manager and Odin, but not Smart Switch or Kies.
Try flashing the stock firmware from Samsung several times, you may get lucky and return to stock. If you do and need your phone in order to make/receive calls/messages, leave it stock, root is not safe for this phone anymore.
Pp.
I managed to flash it back to stock firmware, however it has triggered the knox count by 1. It's working fine now.
So is it not possible to root this phone at this point?
sssiriusly said:
I managed to flash it back to stock firmware, however it has triggered the knox count by 1. It's working fine now.
So is it not possible to root this phone at this point?
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This root method works just fine --> Here
Except I use the newest Unikernel --> Here
I bought my new Sprint GS6 (SM-G920P, 5.1.1) and decided to root it to enable tethering. I used Odin3 (3.10.6) and tried to flash it with a firmware I found in one of those “how to root SM-G920P”. I am not sure now if it was the correct tar file but it was G920PVPU1AOCF. So I did, Odin passed!, the phone rebooted, got the message “…seandroid enforcing…” which is normal I believe, and when it started up, the screen did not work! (I see my home screen but it’s not swiping and cant do anything). The Volume, power, home, menu and back buttons work, but the touch screen doesn’t. Also now it does not read the internet and phone signal. Tried to flash it with one of the latest stock firmware G920PVPU2BOF7, and Odin Fails! I tried factory reset, it didn’t work. I appreciate any help with this!
Hawaiian003 said:
I bought my new Sprint GS6 (SM-G920P, 5.1.1) and decided to root it to enable tethering. I used Odin3 (3.10.6) and tried to flash it with a firmware I found in one of those “how to root SM-G920P”. I am not sure now if it was the correct tar file but it was G920PVPU1AOCF. So I did, Odin passed!, the phone rebooted, got the message “…seandroid enforcing…” which is normal I believe, and when it started up, the screen did not work! (I see my home screen but it’s not swiping and cant do anything). The Volume, power, home, menu and back buttons work, but the touch screen doesn’t. Also now it does not read the internet and phone signal. Tried to flash it with one of the latest stock firmware G920PVPU2BOF7, and Odin Fails! I tried factory reset, it didn’t work. I appreciate any help with this!
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That firmware is older than what you had, Android 5.02. Flashing older firmware over newer causes issues.
Here are all the latest files that you will need and instructions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/spr...uide-links-files-update-root-restore-t3366862