My computer won't recognize my phone after update bricked it. Sprint update broke my phone. I was rooted with stock rom, I updated and know my phone is semi-bricked. I've been working on the phone for almost two weeks reading through forums trying everything possible. It goes in download mode but it wont install drivers and wont even recognize device. When I I put in in recovery my computer recognizes the device but drivers wont install. I have already done the terminal script laf.img, tried to install a rom gives me an error, I have backup but it doesn't installs either. Please Help Me.
Download mode, is it the small screen with a small bar or the big one at the bottom bar.
May need to remove all your drivers then reinstall.
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Small Screen It says I'm in fastboot, Cant install the drivers for the phone, I refresh my only pc an Asus laptop to be able to attempt to install drivers again, did the laf.img terminal command, tried adb sideload device not showing in adb
Computer doesn't recognize phone and download mode broken. I've read somewhere where Linux can sometimes read it when windows doesn't.
Recovery stock or custom? I think I might be able to find a flashable laf.zip
If it is such you, dam. If custom which version of it. If twrp, you may be able to upgrade to newest from cm12 forum. I'll find the link. It may give a better access. If stock might be able to adb side load update zip of laf by changing the name.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2898705
Latest and greatest twrp version.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582142
How to fix no recovery no download mode. This might help also.
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Recovery is TWRP V2.7.0.0 I only have access to my laptop. Before this problem I had no problem connecting to laptop. Let's not get excited but finally I was able to do something I installed the new TWRP zip you gave me now I'm in TRWP 2.8.1.1
That is good. Now they have an mtp button under I believe advance. You may be able to get a ROM transferred to it that way. In which we may be able to save the p phone.
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Thank You for your help, it sucks not having a functional device to use. I tried using the MTP button but it did not help, I even set up an VMware Ubuntu virtual machine but no luck yet. I appreciate any tips on using this two methods. What I think is that that Laf.Img fix, with the terminal command is the key to my problem. Maybe I haven't edited correctly, recently I tried doing it again but this time around I can't never find the file, even do I copied or moved the file to root of sd card with an otg mount several times, all I'm able to find in the internal storage are folders none of the files that I have in the root appears. Please Help.
What would happen if it toggle off from USB debugging?
Then adb would have a hard time finding the device.
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And my laptop too ; (
I haven't given up on you yet. Even if I can't, fix it for you. One great but if info. Never take ota, when you do anything to a phone.
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Hi I worked on the phone again and now I'm able to put it MTP and SDK recognizes the phone I get a string of numbers and it says recovery.
That is good news. I've been having some issues with that darn laf but if my wife and kids leave me alone. I might get it figure out right.
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Hello all,
My phone randomly turned off today and started hanging on the boot animation screen.
I can still access CWM and fastboot.
I've tried wiping and reinstalling a ROM, but the phone just reboots itself during the install . It also does the same thing during a nandroid restore.
Since I wasn't sure what else to do, I tried to use the GNEX Toolkit to flash to stock. I keep getting write errors when trying to flash. I think the problem is I can't install the ADB drivers on my computer. I've done some research, but it seems that you have to be in Android, with USB Debugging on to install them. I can get the fastboot USB drivers working, but can't do do the restore without the ADB drivers as well.
Also tried Samsung_USB_Driver_for_Moblie_Phones_v1_4_6_0
PDAnet needs me to be in Debugging mode.
Tried updating Android 1.0 Driver manually in Device Manager.
Any help would be appreciated. Will thank any helpful posts. Thank you!
This is also my issue and a link to my thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25386193#post25386193
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TwinkyOfHope said:
Hello all,
My phone randomly turned off today and started hanging on the boot animation screen.
I can still access CWM and fastboot.
I've tried wiping and reinstalling a ROM, but the phone just reboots itself during the install . It also does the same thing during a nandroid restore.
Since I wasn't sure what else to do, I tried to use the GNEX Toolkit to flash to stock. I keep getting write errors when trying to flash. I think the problem is I can't install the ADB drivers on my computer. I've done some research, but it seems that you have to be in Android, with USB Debugging on to install them. I can get the fastboot USB drivers working, but can't do do the restore without the ADB drivers as well.
Also tried Samsung_USB_Driver_for_Moblie_Phones_v1_4_6_0
PDAnet needs me to be in Debugging mode.
Tried updating Android 1.0 Driver manually in Device Manager.
Any help would be appreciated. Will thank any helpful posts. Thank you!
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I have also tried the same stuff the issue is i cant get into debugging mode because the screen doesnt turn on. i have 2 batterys so the battery isnt the issue. (besides the fact that the phone drains the battery but doesnt charge)
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Have you tried Odin?
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lucas.scott said:
Have you tried Odin?
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I got my phone detected by ODIN this morning after numerous driver installs.
However, I've been a little worried to flash a stock ROM through it since the Gnex toolkit had write errors. The guy in this thread seems to have possibly bricked his phone http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1621430&page=2
I had used "Galaxy Nexus Toolkit V7.7.0 to :
Unlock my BootLoader,
Root my phone
Rename Files Recovery
Flash Recovery (CWM Touch)
Install BusyBox on Phone
And now, i have install the rom JellyBean 4.1.1 with the Recovery Mode :
(I take the Rom here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1737849)
After HAVING done all of this, i try to boot my phone, but he remained stuck on the loading screen (animation) ... even after 1 hours of waiting....
I had go back in recovery mode and I "Wipe" all the DATA, now there is no more operating system on my phone and i'm not able to install a new ROM and i can't even go thru my phone data via USB cauz my computer not recognize my Samsung Galaxy Nexus anymore...
Someone can help me I think I'm in big trouble right now...
This is the problem with toolkits. Things can go wrong and you don't know where it went wrong. See my signature for my thoughts.
As far as getting your phone working again. Follow efrants guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1626895 it has all the info you need to get up and running.
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First of all, next time, do not use the toolkit or one-click-root methods. They have more chance of bricking your device than using fastboot commands.
Also, can I ask you which recovery you have right now? Is it clockworkmod or stock?
Ok thanks i try this right now... Hope it will work, i'm freaking out at the moment...
Ok, i'm in big big trouble.
The driver does't find my Device at all. I can't enter in my phone via USB from my PC, so i can't do anything....
They have no more OS on my device, i guess this is why Windows7 dont recognize my phone with any drivers i had try the one from SAMSUNG that have working well for me before i **** up my phone, and now the Universal Naked Driver (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20058157&postcount=1) , don't work
**** **** **** (sorry)
Epsilons said:
Ok, i'm in big big trouble.
The driver does't find my Device at all. I can't enter in my phone via USB from my PC, so i can't do anything....
They have no more OS on my device, i guess this is why Windows7 dont recognize my phone with any drivers i had try the one from SAMSUNG that have working well for me before i **** up my phone, and now the Universal Naked Driver (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20058157&postcount=1) , don't work
**** **** **** (sorry)
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Make sure you uninstall any unrelated drivers first. Then proceed with the driver installation.
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I have already done this...
I had uninstall the SAMSUNG driver correctly.
And then install the Universal Naked Driver.
Nothing work for me, it's like my phone had no more OS installed, and windows doesnt recognize it.
Epsilons said:
I have already done this...
I had uninstall the SAMSUNG driver correctly.
And then install the Universal Naked Driver.
Nothing work for me, it's like my phone had no more OS installed, and windows doesnt recognize it.
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Boot into the bootloader. Then install the driver.
Your phone should show up as Android 1.0 in your device manage on your PC. Update that.
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I've been seeing issues with the toolkits and rooted my phone hours ago using adb, worked flawlessly except the drivers lol.
But after I got that resolved it worked, no jb issues and no other issues. Recovery stuck as well.
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El Daddy said:
Boot into the bootloader. Then install the driver.
Your phone should show up as Android 1.0 in your device manage on your PC. Update that.
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Witch driver ? The SAMSUNG or the Universal Naked Driver
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Witch driver ? The SAMSUNG or the Universal Naked Driver
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They both should work fine (I got Samsung one installed and works flawlessly), but Naked Driver is better I believe
In my Device Manager on Windows 7 i got :
SAMSUNG Android Phone :
---> Samsung Galaxy Nexus BootLoader Interface
but when i go in "My Computer" , nothing is here, i cant go into my phone to flash a ROM... it's crap !!!!!!!!
And now i'm Unable to install SAMSUNG driver because it's says i need to put my phone into "USB Debbuging Mode" , when i had actually no OS installed on it so i cant do nothing.... what the .....................................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm running with the Universal Naked Driver, but cant even open my phone to copy file on... i think i had broke my phone ! :X
Epsilons said:
In my Device Manager on Windows 7 i got :
SAMSUNG Android Phone :
---> Samsung Galaxy Nexus BootLoader Interface
but when i go in "My Computer" , nothing is here, i cant go into my phone to flash a ROM... it's crap !!!!!!!!
And now i'm Unable to install SAMSUNG driver because it's says i need to put my phone into "USB Debbuging Mode" , when i had actually no OS installed on it so i cant do nothing.... what the .....................................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm running with the Universal Naked Driver, but cant even open my phone to copy file on... i think i had broke my phone ! :X
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OK so it looks like you have the driver installed.
What is telling you to enable USB debugging mode?
Read the link I posted and flash the stock image via fastboot.
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I cant flash anything...
I cant open my phone via My Computer
I cant copy a ROM to my phone
I cant do anything
...
I'm not able to copy files to my Phone, my computer not recognize it at all since my phone had no OS on it....
Epsilons said:
I cant flash anything...
I cant open my phone via My Computer
I cant copy a ROM to my phone
I cant do anything
...
I'm not able to copy files to my Phone, my computer not recognize it at all since my phone had no OS on it....
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Yes, I realize you can't do these things. I gave you the info to fix your problem in the second post.
You need to boot into the bootloader and flash the stock images with fastboot. I don't know how much clearer I can be.
Be patient with rooting, frustration will lead to mistakes.
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Epsilons said:
I cant flash anything...
I cant open my phone via My Computer
I cant copy a ROM to my phone
I cant do anything
...
I'm not able to copy files to my Phone, my computer not recognize it at all since my phone had no OS on it....
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Ordinarily, I don't recommend tool kits either, but in this case you quite frankly seem like the kind of fella that needs one. SO HERE IT IS. This is a different toolkit than you used before. Be sure to select the correct device first off(because this works with ALL Nexus devices not just one), then do the part entitled "Initial Setup". Do the FULL DRIVER INSTALLATION. It may be that you don't need to, but it will not hurt so do it anyway. After that, click on the "won't boot up" checkbox under "Flash Stock + Unroot" button, then click the button. At all times, read and follow directions. I used this toolkit once, now I do things manually. But you seem incapable. Not intended to be insulting, just a statement of your technical aptitude. Not everyone can do this stuff. So if you have tried EVERYTHING above and been unable to complete any of it correctly, then try this. It isn't one-click and requires some amount of effort on your part. My 11 year old nephew did it though. Good luck.
Epsilons said:
I cant flash anything...
I cant open my phone via My Computer
I cant copy a ROM to my phone
I cant do anything
...
I'm not able to copy files to my Phone, my computer not recognize it at all since my phone had no OS on it....
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As El Daddy said, you are not reading the instructions. Your fastboot driver IS installed properly if you see "Samsung Galaxy Nexus BootLoader Interface". Follow the instructions step-by-step. You do NOT need to see anything in "My Computer". It seems like you are panicking, and not reading...
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kyokeun1234 said:
First of all, next time, do not use the toolkit or one-click-root methods. They have more chance of bricking your device than using fastboot commands.
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And let's not scare the guy: you CANNOT "brick" your device using a toolkit. There is a big difference between not being able to boot because of a bad flash (not a brick), and a device that cannot boot at all (i.e., a brick).
It seems like people are using the term brick to mean a lot of things other than what it was meant to mean: "bricked" means that you cannot boot your device without JTAG, or sending it in for repair, i.e., it's as useful as a brick.
Ok thank you everyone, sorry about my patience tonight...
Now ma Samsung Galaxy Nexus is on Jelly Bean 4.1.1 with SuperUser and all the stuff and i'm happy
So thanks everyone.
I got it
Hello everyone!
Today I was working on my Gnex and to make a long story short, the entire phone is wiped clean. All I have is recovery and bootloader, everything else is gone. The major problem is that I lost the /sdcard partition so now i can't put a new rom on it to flash and get back up and running.
Problem: When I connect the phone to my PC i get 3 short usb connect error beeps from my PC meaning that I don't have a driver for the phone when it is in the recovery mode. Can you guys please help me fix this? I really need my baby working again :crying:
This luckily is easy to rectify.
Go to boot loader, and from adb push a factory image. Look around for instructions to do that or download a toolkit.
Both are found in our dev section.
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You need fast boot drivers and it wouldn't hurt to get adb drivers as well. They can be a female dog to install but I believe in you
Edit: fast boot flash a rom..preferably a stock image and u should be good to go
I now got the phone to work in ADB but when I push a rom to /data/media/0/ it says it cant find the folder (obviously because it is not there) but then I push it to /data or /sdcard it works, but it wont show up when I go to "install zip from sd card". I am interested in what you said, but could not find a thread pertaining to this problem. Can you help me out ?
I already have the pdanet drivers installed from a toolkit application, but I dont know anything about fastboot drivers... The more info and links you can supply me with, the better!
Thanks Guys
Efrants guide in general section. Its stickied.
Google and the search bar in xda should also be used whenever in a pickle because chances are that you're not the first to run into a problem
Thanks I will take a look at it. Sorry for rushing to post, its my first time and I was really worried about my baby
Ok so it seems to me that the easiest way to fix this is to flash a rom via fastboot, but the methods I have tried have failed. How would you go about doing this?
Use the nexus toolkit , I did and it works
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Link?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25477039
Read through carefully before doing anything and then make it happen. Countless others have done it and you can do.
Hi Folks,
I'm helping my sister's boyfriend to recover what's possible from his AT&T Galaxy S III that fell into a pool when they were on vacation.
When I first got the phone, it would not boot or charge the battery - the red notification light would flicker in a noticeable pattern when power was attached and the battery removed.
After I took it apart following these nice instructions, then soaked+scrubbed its circuit boards, contacts, etc. in rubbing alcohol and ensured everything was dry again, I put it all back together and it booted up but will not respond to touch input on the display. The side and bottom buttons still work fine.
When cleaning the phone, I did notice what appears to be damage on pins for the "display data cable" (according the dis-assembly pages), which might be the LCD and Digitizer connection. Is this also related to touchscreen input?
BTW, I tried a couple ways to get into the phone:
It appears that he never enabled USB Debugging, so I can't get ADB or other programs to access phone storage over USB
I have also tried a USB OTG cable and mouse, but his phone is not showing the mouse pointer or responding to its input - it does show recognition that something was connected, because the display will turn on if already off and I simply connect the OTG cable
So, I'm wondering if anyone has advice on how to get the data off this phone and/or enable the touchscreen input.
SOLVED:
Rooted the phone using CF-Autoroot method for AT&T Galaxy S III phones via Odin. Not sure if this was necessary.
Installed stock drivers from "SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones_v1.5.18.0.exe" package
Placed the phone into Stock Recovery
Used ADB in Windows to copy media files from the phone onto my PC: adb pull /data/media/DCIM C:/backup
Installed PhilZ Recovery via Odin and copied the phone's /data contents to an external SD card, which then enabled access to txt messages, application settings, etc. on my PC with a card reader
Thanks,
- ooofest
Use this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43332821
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mkfryan said:
Use this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43332821
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Thanks, it's a good idea but requires root - this is a stock, unrooted phone I'm dealing with.
Currently looking at the idea of finding a phone frame for sale with just LCD and digitizer, and possibly just replacing the circuit boards with those in this phone. That is, I'm assuming its built-in storage is somewhere on the motherboard.
- ooofest
Why not put the phone in download mode Odin cwm recovery reboot into recovery and adb pull what you need?
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mkfryan said:
Why not put the phone in download mode Odin cwm recovery reboot into recovery and adb pull what you need?
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Because I was unfamiliar with that method?
Honestly, I was searching everywhere and came up with that exact same process - the phone is now rooted with CWM (via Odin, as you suggested) and for some reason ADB isn't able to see it when I connect in Recovery mode. Hm.
More work to do.
- ooofest
Do you have another android device to test to see if adb is working on the computer? Otherwise maybe the recovery doesn't have adb enabled
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mkfryan said:
Do you have another android device to test to see if adb is working on the computer? Otherwise maybe the recovery doesn't have adb enabled
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To that point, I had adb working with its stock recovery and can communicate with my primary Galaxy S III, so it seems that this CWM is not supporting adb.
I installed CWM 5.5.0.4 from CF-SGS3-CWM-v5.5-v1.2.tar via ODIN, essentially. Perhaps another version would work better with adb?
- ooofest
Upgraded to latest CWM for this phone via Odin by creating a .tar from the latest .img file for AT&T Galaxy S IIIs, but it still doesn't allow adb access :/ .
Need to find a custom recovery that offers adb access, because I hope to pull the data via adb as mentioned above.
Any hints?
- ooofest
At that point of the stock recovery working on your other device possibly try to Odin back to stock and try adb again just tossing out a suggestion
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Installed the AT&T stock recovery back via Odin and ADB was not enabled on the phone - although it worked for my purely stock phone - until I installed the absolute latest Samsung USB drivers. Re-rooted just for the heck of it using the CF-Autoroot method and Odin.
Seeing what's available to pull now . . .
EDIT: Whoo Hoo! adb pull /data/media/DCIM C:/backup is copying all the pictures and videos from the phone!
Thanks for all helpful advice - I've been all over the boards, searching for ways into storage and this finally worked. Seems I didn't need a custom recovery, after all.
- ooofest
I have Samsung Galaxy Note 2 sgk-i317 16gb with a removable micro sd.
Yesterday I was trying to reset my phone and I did something wrong.
I somehow deleted my OS
The phone will boot in the "Downloading..." mode or doing the up volume to get to the TWRP page
I booted it in the downloading mode and now I dont know if I can turn it off again to get back to TWRP mode
I tried to install several roms before with twrp, some would say success, but do nothing, others wound simply fail.
Im in downloading mode, but it wont connect to my computer. I figured I could just get it back on Odin and start over and do a clean install.
My computer sees a device, but even after installing several versions of the samsung drivers it wont find it.
Kies wont find it either.
I dont know what else to do. Ive been messing with this for 12 hours now. All my stuff was backed up so I dont mind clearing the phone completely out, but idk where to go from here. Any help would really be appreciated.
Im new to smart phones so if you could dumb down your responses I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
Try this... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40966346
I know you said kies won't recognize the phone. When mine didn't boot. Nothing wasn't working. But when I used this method worked like a charm. And keep in mind when using this. When you plug up the phone to the pc. It's not going to do anything, but it will find it and load the stock firmware on there...
Good luck buddy...
Hopefully that resolves your issue
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Bajanman said:
Try this... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40966346
I know you said kies won't recognize the phone. When mine didn't boot. Nothing wasn't working. But when I used this method worked like a charm. And keep in mind when using this. When you plug up the phone to the pc. It's not going to do anything, but it will find it and load the stock firmware on there...
Good luck buddy...
Hopefully that resolves your issue
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Kies wont see it.
Ive tired over 20 times.
I even tried the firmware upgrade and install by manually putting in my phone info, but it still doesnt see it.
I rebooted and can still get into either this mode or the TWRP mode.
Any more ideas? I really appreciate the help I cant afford another phone and this one was a gift :/
Flash stock with Odin maybe?
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inconceeeivable said:
Flash stock with Odin maybe?
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Odin wont see it. Id like to flash it stock just to get it running again.
Ive reinstalled the drivers, as well as older versions I found online and none of them are working.
Windows xp computer (old and ****ty) doesnt even pop up that I plugged something in.
My pc Win8 Does see it, but doesnt recognize it. Reinstalling drivers doesnt help.
Odin wont see it.
I can get back to the TWRP mode, so I thought putting a rom on my micro would work, but I havent found a rom that wanted to work yet.
Anyone have one that is known to work with Samsung Galaxy Note 2 SGH-i317?
Could I use keys to download the orig. rom and then use TWRP to install the rom?
I installed:
senselesskingdom 1.2.3 TWRP. zip
using TWRP
It says "success"
But just boots back into TWRP
You are not using a version for the note 2. The version is 2.6.something.