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I9192 bricked, set warranty bit: recovery

This is my relative phone (S4 Mini Duos) so I am helping him, he flashed CM ROM then flashed the stock ROM again. After flashing is complete and successful the phone only shows
Recovery booting
Set warranty bit: recovery
If force reboot it will show the splash screen then vibrate and turn off, then vibrate and turn on and show the splash screen and so on in a continuous loop
No matter what stock ROM I flashed the result is the same I found a pit file but couldn't find a stock ROM in 4 parts (Bootloader, PDA, Phone, CSC) to debrick it, all I found is the one with one tar file.
I tried to flash TWRP or CWM recovery and it is the same result. All flash processes stock ROM or any recovery is successful but nothing help.
Can I have some suggestions, useful links to help get this phone working again because he can't afford buying a new one.

let me share some of my experience, although it may not help.
My first android device is samsung i9190. and my first time flashing stuff. I flashed twrp through odin and flashed cm12.1 through twrp.
i really liked the rom except i needed best camera which stock rom offer. so here what i did is just open odin and selected my firmware.tar.md5 and click started.
I had one problem arised that my phone would vibrate from time to time on samsung logo but would not start.
So i had to go in stock recover and formatted cache and system(sorry i do not remember it might be restore system option). and after i rebooted the phone worked. And i have done it many times that way it work.
You can also try and flash through kies.

As I said When I flash stock ROM, everything is successful but I have the same result, I can't go into recovery and can't boot normally

Hey there,
Try downloading Unified Android Tool by Skipsoft. It will download all the necessary files relating to your phone and there should be stock recovery files under your model. Then try and boot the necessary files through Odin and see from there. I have a similar problem but I found booting a custom rom helped. But first try and get into recovery. Hold power, home button and volume up to switch the phone on, let go of power when it comes to the logo and see if it reboots into recovery.
Good luck

GeezyTab88 said:
Hey there,
Try downloading Unified Android Tool by Skipsoft. It will download all the necessary files relating to your phone and there should be stock recovery files under your model. Then try and boot the necessary files through Odin and see from there. I have a similar problem but I found booting a custom rom helped. But first try and get into recovery. Hold power, home button and volume up to switch the phone on, let go of power when it comes to the logo and see if it reboots into recovery.
Good luck
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Thanks for this tip, I will try Skipsoft tool. Right now I can't go into recovery as you see in the attached photo, if I could get a working recovery then maybe I could revive the phone.

OK I tried Skipsoft Unified Android Tool and downloaded all the files, flashing any recovery is successful but I get the same result...
Recovery booting
Set warranty bit: recovery
Still have no clue how to solve this.
If someone have a link for a repair 4 files (Bootloader, PDA, Phone, CSC) to use it with a Pit file, please provide a link
Thanks

salahmed said:
OK I tried Skipsoft Unified Android Tool and downloaded all the files, flashing any recovery is successful but I get the same result...
Recovery booting
Set warranty bit: recovery
Still have no clue how to solve this.
If someone have a link for a repair 4 files (Bootloader, PDA, Phone, CSC) to use it with a Pit file, please provide a link
Thanks
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https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24459283995303957

S4 mini i9195 US with no recovery, cant flash it via odin!

hello guys, im having a problem with a s4 mini, i dont have a recovery, a friend gave it to me with this problem.
I can get download mode but when i try to flash TWRP or CWM i get the OK signs in odin but it doesnt get into recovery, well it gets to recovery but it says "no command" (sin comando, in spanish).
It used to have jellybean and updated itself to kitkat, it never had a custom rom.
This is what the screen in download mode shows:
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME : GT-I9195
CURRENT BINARY: samsung official
SYSTEM STATUS: Official
KNOX KERNEL LOCK : 0x0
KNOX WARRANTY VOID : 0x0
CSB-CONFIG-LSB: 0x30
BOOTLOADER RP SWREV: 2
WRITE PROTECTION ENABLE
I tried lot of things, but my last resort is to ask, if you have anything to help i appreciate!

maybe should try stock rom next with odin.

S3miniFin said:
maybe should try stock rom next with odin.
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Already tried many stock firmwares for i9195 , when odins flashes it, it reboots to recovery and it says "NO COMMAND" ( Sin comandos ) then reboots and starts again with that.

Did you get this fixed mate. I'm pulling my hair out with the same problem. My son messed up a perfectly good phone that I had used for 3 years, and the toerag won't tell me what he did. (apparently he was texting when it when down) Tried various version of stock ROM and I get get diddly squat. ODIN fails to write the firmware and I get aboot on the phone screen. Current problem is stuck on Bootloop. Might just throw the thing away and buy a new one. Would like to fix it though....I'd be eternally grateful for any advice....Thnx

Capokhatpin,
Your son didn't do anything to your phone ! It's just faulty hardware and common problem to Samsung S4 Mini ...
And until now there are dozens of phones that are broken and there is still no solution for that problem.
So, leave the kid alone ...
Cheers !

I have the similar problem at my i9195 - at booting directly to recovery after "successful" flash of cwm over odin or heimdall, the stock recovery appears again without any change...
So did I understand it correctly that there is no chance to fix it?

lupus92 said:
I have the similar problem at my i9195 - at booting directly to recovery after "successful" flash of cwm over odin or heimdall, the stock recovery appears again without any change...
So did I understand it correctly that there is no chance to fix it?
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No I think you have different problem, are you flashing cwm recovery 2x? You need to flash it once then boot immediately back into download & flash it a 2nd time. If you only do it once or you do a normal boot between flashes it will not work, start again.

2x? Hmh, i tried it (both odin and heimdall), but it doesn't work either (also 3x or 4x)... again just stock recovery.
The story behind it: An update from stock rom failed, and after it it stuck at boot logo. When starting recovery, error messages that mounting /system failed appear. So I decided to try to flash CM on it -> first custom recovery. I tried the CM recovery, CWM recovery, Twrp.... No success. In Odin mode it says "Current Binary: Samsung Official" and "System Status: Official".
Any ideas how to fix it?

lupus92 said:
2x? Hmh, i tried it (both odin and heimdall), but it doesn't work either (also 3x or 4x)... again just stock recovery.
The story behind it: An update from stock rom failed, and after it it stuck at boot logo. When starting recovery, error messages that mounting /system failed appear. So I decided to try to flash CM on it -> first custom recovery. I tried the CM recovery, CWM recovery, Twrp.... No success. In Odin mode it says "Current Binary: Samsung Official" and "System Status: Official".
Any ideas how to fix it?
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I couldn't do it, i threw it away, just give the kid a slap, don't keep trying, you deserve better.
God**** phone.

IronRoo said:
No I think you have different problem, are you flashing cwm recovery 2x? You need to flash it once then boot immediately back into download & flash it a 2nd time. If you only do it once or you do a normal boot between flashes it will not work, start again.
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So, I tried also to flash the stock ROM by booting it with „debrick“ image from SD card and flashing from „download mode“ went good, but after reboot it was same and I couldn't boot into „recovery“ with message „No command....“ or something like that. And You write that I have to flash only CWM or other TWRP recovery and then twice in the row. Is that correct ?
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Boombastical said:
So, I tried also to flash the stock ROM by booting it with â??debrickâ?? image from SD card and flashing from â??download modeâ?? went good, but after reboot it was same and I couldn't boot into â??recoveryâ?? with message â??No command....â?? or something like that. And You write that I have to flash only CWM or other TWRP recovery and then twice in the row. Is that correct ?
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No, sorry I misunderstood @lupus92 original situation.

Boombastical said:
So, I tried also to flash the stock ROM by booting it with �¢??debrick�¢?? image from SD card and flashing from �¢??download mode�¢?? went good, but after reboot it was same and I couldn't boot into �¢??recovery�¢?? with message �¢??No command....�¢?? or something like that. And You write that I have to flash only CWM or other TWRP recovery and then twice in the row. Is that correct ?
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jobs done so back to xda.
I have wondered if in situations like the above where nothing seems to work if a nand erase in Odin would help, but I've never seen it mentioned here on the S4 Mini forum. Is there a reason?
I've not researched it or tried it, but have seen it done on other forums (maybe the S4????). You have to use the full original stock firmware that originally came with your phone at the SAME TIME (else it will brick) I think and have a back up of your imei (though it should rebuild?). I'm not even sure if it deletes ALL partitions or leaves some ..... might be worth looking into it. @lupus92

IronRoo said:
jobs done so back to xda.
I have wondered if in situations like the above where nothing seems to work if a nand erase in Odin would help, but I've never seen it mentioned here on the S4 Mini forum. Is there a reason?
I've not researched it or tried it, but have seen it done on other forums (maybe the S4????). You have to use the full original stock firmware that originally came with your phone at the SAME TIME (else it will brick) I think and have a back up of your imei (though it should rebuild?). I'm not even sure if it deletes ALL partitions or leaves some ..... might be worth looking into it. @lupus92
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I have here an S4 Mini and when I boot it with SD Card and 'debrick' image on it, it always fail to write to nand but it allow me to go to 'download mode' and to flash original stock ROM but after succesful flashing and reboot it still have no acces to recovery...
Does flashing only any custom recovery would help ?
Any idea ?
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Boombastical said:
I have here an S4 Mini and when I boot it with SD Card and 'debrick' image on it, it always fail to write to nand but it allow me to go to 'download mode' and to flash original stock ROM but after succesful flashing and reboot it still have no acces to recovery...
Does flashing only any custom recovery would help ?
Any idea ?
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I don't think another recovery will help, but I'm no expert about this sort of thing. I would say it's worth a try through.
If that doesn't work and you are at the point of throwing your phone away, I wonder if it's worth giving the "nand erase all" command a try as it has been shown to fix write permissions (though I'm not sure if this is your problem) and other major issues software issues. But as it deletes the entire nand memory so you need to be very careful & know exactly what will hapen. You need a backup of your efs/imei (I'd use 2 methods just to be sure as have just read someone couldn't restore it from some app),( can you boot into system?) Also you must use a FULL stock ROM with pit file etc to rebuild partitions.
For example the guy below with a regular S4 seems to be in similar situation, though for different reason, he was able to recover using nand erase all. But our phone is different of course!
Also have read one case where guy had to flash stock with nand erase all ticked then had to immediately reflash stock again without erase ticked.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4/help/help-nand-erase-t2863345
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edit; Also another S4 thread they have flashed bootloaders to fix write access to partitions,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840030
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http://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-s3-i535-unbrick-soft-brick-125413/

IronRoo said:
I don't think another recovery will help, but I'm no expert about this sort of thing. I would say it's worth a try through.
If that doesn't work and you are at the point of throwing your phone away, I wonder if it's worth giving the "nand erase all" command a try as it has been shown to fix write permissions (though I'm not sure if this is your problem) and other major issues software issues. But as it deletes the entire nand memory so you need to be very careful & know exactly what will hapen. You need a backup of your efs/imei (I'd use 2 methods just to be sure as have just read someone couldn't restore it from some app),( can you boot into system?) Also you must use a FULL stock ROM with pit file etc to rebuild partitions.
For example the guy below with a regular S4 seems to be in similar situation, though for different reason, he was able to recover using nand erase all. But our phone is different of course!
Also have read one case where guy had to flash stock with nand erase all ticked then had to immediately reflash stock again without erase ticked.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4/help/help-nand-erase-t2863345
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edit; Also another S4 thread they have flashed bootloaders to fix write access to partitions,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840030
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http://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-s3-i535-unbrick-soft-brick-125413/
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Thanks for sharing your thoutghs, but unfortunately I can't boot anymore to 'Download mode'. [emoji45] It can be still booted by 'Debrick' image from SD card but nothing more then that. From there I can't go anywhere further. Without SD Card it doesn't give signs of life except if it is attached via USB it shows as QHSUSB_DLOAD...
I have no time now to play with the phone, but I will try in the weekend again to come to 'Download mode' and to flash again recovery or to erase flash nand cause I have already EFS back up somewhere on my external HD and then we will see what will happened. Thanks again and cheers !
Edit: I can't flash anything thru 'Debrick image' via Odin 3.09. It always give error: Faild to write mmc nand... It can't erase nand nor boot to 'Download mode' ... So I'm clueless at the moment... It looks as the nand is damaged and it can't be accessed anymore... Sadly, I think this S4 Mini will be ended as spare phone for parts only for my girlfriend phone... That's it... If someone have more ideas about it I can still try it... Cheers !
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S4 mini i9190 recovery errors odin make pass but no changes

Hello i'm new here , I own a Samsung S4 mini i9190, recently it starts boot-loop, i haven't installed any roms before that, and it is not rooted
Here's what i tried so far :
Enter recovery by pressing the recovery buttons: erase data / wipe cache : it gives me no commands + error
i used Odin 3 for flashing stock firmwares (i tried 4 so far), it says pass, but soon i enter the recovery for wiping cache and data it goes the same error, and the bootloop starts again without any changes
i tried to update recovery, and soon it finished i enter the recovery for wiping data/cache the error appears and the boot-loop persists
Hope you can help , please i'm running out of options
I ask moderators to remove my ex-duplicate thread, I just found this S4 Section, Sorry !
Please help !

I know that there is someone here who can help
PLZ Anyone ! HELP !!!!!!

Are you tried to install TWRP Recovery ?
Install this one and wipe / format all, included data and data media ( int. Sdcard ) than flash Stockrom.

Ah finally Thank you for reply !

bierma32 said:
Are you tried to install TWRP Recovery ?
Install this one and wipe / format all, included data and data media ( int. Sdcard ) than flash Stockrom.
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I tried to install custom-twrp-3.0.3-0-serrano3gxx-STABLE-signed and many different twrps with different odin versions, but as soon as odin 3 finish, and I press the phone's buttons when it vibrates to enter the recovery, I find myself with the same recovery and the same errors; but still I install the stock rom after that twrp, and odin says Pass when nothing passes ! the bootloop and the recovery still in place, nothing ever change ! and I didn't done anything before all of these errors, no root no custom firmware nothing.
Please ! help !

I think I have the same problem here https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-mini/help/boot-loop-samsung-gt-i9195-errors-t3596676
but still no solution. No matter what recovery I flash I get the same errors (can't mount, can't format...) and the same boot loop.
I can only flash original firmware and nothing else.
I don't know what to do...
Read somewhere that maybe a problem with the memory getting corrupted (hardware fault) but I don't know.

ciozvarda said:
I think I have the same problem here https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-mini/help/boot-loop-samsung-gt-i9195-errors-t3596676
but still no solution. No matter what recovery I flash I get the same errors (can't mount, can't format...) and the same boot loop.
I can only flash original firmware and nothing else.
I don't know what to do...
Read somewhere that maybe a problem with the memory getting corrupted (hardware fault) but I don't know.
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Hello Yes the recovery says : "no command" when starting it, and when doing erase data/wipe cache it says: "can't mount", "can't format" and finally it says "error" then it reboot in infinite boot-loop
I flashed 5 different firm-wares until now ! without change
Please Help ! tell us at least if it's a hardware failure or not

I don't get "no command" but I get "can't mount", "can't format"...the weird thing is that no matter what recovery i flash (cwm, stock or twrp) after restart I have the previous recovery, in my case CWM 6.05 or something....
Don't know what to do

Please Anyone Help !!
where are you all !

3 Days of waiting + 101 Views and No one Reply !

yes...nobody knows what to do...

I did this https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1284196 and this https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1272595 to check my if it's a hardware problem. For me it's not but you can check also.
I downloaded Odin 3.12.3 and from http://www.tsar3000.com/Joomla/ complete firmware recovery (with bootloader, firmware and all the other files).
I flashed with success but it didn't solved my problem. Still stucked in CWM and the phone still reboots.

Thanks man but still nothing..
FU*KK this Forum

i9190 said:
Thanks man but still nothing..
FU*KK this Forum
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Any solution my friend?

I have the same problem. I think the reason is the dead emmc. I tried to make backup immediately after odin flash and got a error while reading of the system partition. Sometimes I got system mount error. It is a strange case, becouse odin does not notice about some errors while firmware writing. Maybe odin writes the system partition without errors check from emmc? And TWRP restores /system from a backup without problems, but reads the partition not always.

GT-I9195 multiiple unsuccessfull recovery flashing even though ODIN success

Hi, I've digged through much of xda and not found a satisfying answer. My phone boots into download, is detected by odin (7,8,9,12 all ok), and whatever I do, odin says it was successfull. I tried flashing the stock ROM, the official ROM with 4.4.2, pit file, all in vain. Before crashing my s4 was running cm13 with twrp3.0.2-1. When turning phone on, it just displays "Samsung GalaxyS4 mini / GT-I9195 label on black screen, with "set warranty bit: kernel" in upper left corner. Download mode boots ok, but recovery - twrp 3.0.2-1 logo is displayed for about 8 seconds, and then phone reboots to "normal" mode - displaying the logo.
It would be great if some of you had an idea of what to do as I've been trying on my own for 3 weeks now and nothing changed for better.

As there are people looking at this thread, it would be great to hear from you! I still did not succeed in flashing anything, twrp screen shows for 8sec and then phone reboots to normal, which is samsung splash screen. I'm using samsung drivers, have tried different usb ports, used different computers, still nothing.

Did you try 4 files firmware?
http://firmware.smartphonewp.com/download-samsung-galaxy-s4-mini-gt-i9195-full-firmware-4-files/

Hi,
Unfortunately I can't help you here, but I have a similar problem and it might be related to yours. I have also have a Samsung S4 mini GT-i9195 LTE. Originally with Android 4.4.2 but lately with no OS at all. And I can't figure out how to get one back. What happened, chronologically and (very) detailed:
I rooted my phone with KingoRoot, which worked fine as far as I can tell. When I didn't like the KingoSuperUser-App I installed SuperSU. But it failed to work, apparently because of Knox or something like that. I later wanted to flash my phone with a LineageOS ROM (lineage-14.1-20170505-nightly-serranoltexx-signed.zip) and therefore I wanted to install TWRP as custom recovery. As the usual way with Odin seemed a bit complicated to me at the time, I decided to install the "TWRP Manager" App, which went well. But as soon as I tried to install my ROM with it, it asked if my bootloader was unlocked. So, after searching the internet about that and it said that Samsung phones usually have an unlocked bootloader and only have to be rooted, I went on with installing the LineageOS ROM using the TWRP Manager. Mind you, I am not talking about the custom recovery that you have to boot in to by pressing Vol-Up+Home+On/Off-Button, I am talking about the app that you can download and just needs root permissions to do the same stuff. I had downloaded the ROM-zip onto my SDcard before and wanted to flash it from there.. Now, when I let the app go on, the screen just went blank. And this might be the moment I overreacted. I panicked and tried to start my phone again. But it only went as far as the Samsung logo and didn't go further and I had to pull the battery to turn it off. I then tried to boot into recovery mode by pressing Vol-up+home+On with no result, I then tried with Vol-down+home+On and found Download mode with:
Code:
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: GT-I9195
CURRENT BINARY: Custom
SYSTEM STATUS: Custom
KNOX KERNEL LOCK: 0x0
KNOX WARRANTY VOID: 0x1 -> this one might have been 0x0 the first time
CSB-CONFIG-LSB: 0x30
BOOTLOADER RP SWREV: 2
WRITE PROTECTION: Enable
After some research I downloaded Odin3 (v3.12.5) and managed to flash TWRP (2.6.3.0) onto my phone. And I found the ROM-zip file, but it would not let me unpack and flash it and it didn't help to uncheck the "Zip file signature verification." When I tried to flash I always got the same error massage:
Code:
Updating partition details...
Running boot script...
Finished running boot script.
Installing '/external_sd/lineage-14.
Checking for MD5 file...
Skipping MD5 check: no MD5 file foun
Warning: No file_contexts
Target: 1493971678
detected filesystem ext4 for /dev/bl
Can't install this package on top of
E: Error executing updater binary in
Error flashing zip '/external_sd/lin
Updating partition details...
And it gives a "failed" response. Now, I tried moving the zip to internal_sd and flashing with no better result. I also tried to flash a stock ROM which I downloaded from Sammobile.com. This didn't work either. The adb push method and the sideload didn't work out either.
Interestingly, when I go to "Reboot" -> "Power Off" to turn the phone off I get a dialog:
No OS installed! Are you sure you wish to power off?
-> "Swipe to power off"
-> then comes the next dialog:
Install SuperSU?
Your device does not appear to be rooted.
Install SuperSU now?
This will root your device.
-> "Swipe to install."
Which had no effect at all but to inform me that my phone apparently isn't rooted after all. I therefore downloaded the S4Mini_RootKit_v2.zip and tried flashing it, which was successful. But I still got the same dialog when powering off and I couldn't install the zip files either.
That's where I am now and I really don't know what to try or do next. As I could flash TWRP onto my phone, shouldn't it also be possible to flash an OS?
I hope this was a precise enough description. If someone has any further question, please ask.

@albaCross @desolate_sorrow
Try an factory reset with the recovery.
Download a multiple Firmware from Sammy with PIT.file
Boot into Download mode.
Download Odin 3.07 or 3.09 not newer
Flash all Files with Pit.file
Reboot.

bierma32 said:
@albaCross @desolate_sorrow
Try an factory reset with the recovery.
Download a multiple Firmware from Sammy with PIT.file
Boot into Download mode.
Download Odin 3.07 or 3.09 not newer
Flash all Files with Pit.file
Reboot.
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I posted this thread precisely because my recovery DOES NOT work. No option for factory reset. It just reboots after ~8 secs of twrp 3.0.2-1 screen. Flashed with ODIN 3.09, official intern. ROM from sammobile into AP and drive. google. com /file/d /0Bx2R0nz6jh17bllKenctWnVsWkE/edit <-- this PIT file. Also tried this pit with different versions of twrp - 2.6, 3.0, 3.1 - still no change at all, no recovery booting

@desolate_sorrow
But you are not tried a multiple ROM with PIT.file.
You flashed only a Single File ROM under AP.
On the multiple ROM you can extract the CSC File and than you have the PIT.
Pit you can only flash with Odin and a ROM.

bierma32 said:
@albaCross @desolate_sorrow
Try an factory reset with the recovery.
Download a multiple Firmware from Sammy with PIT.file
Boot into Download mode.
Download Odin 3.07 or 3.09 not newer
Flash all Files with Pit.file
Reboot.
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Perfect! Worked like a charm for me! While factory reset itself did nothing to improve the phone, the other stuff worked. I flashed my phone with the .tar.md5 file I extracted from the .zip file (from sammobile.com) using Odin 3.09 and my phone works again, thank you soo much!
I then rooted it again and flashed LineageOS (lineage-14.1-20170505-nightly-serranoltexx-signed.zip) onto it. It worked but during the first startup I got the error massage "Setup wizard keeps stopping". I then tried the newest (20170519) version and got the same error again. Any Idea how I might repair this?
About the pit. file: what exactly is the difference between this multiple pit file, a "usual" pit file and the .tar.md5 file I used?

On a multiple ROM file is all separately, Bootloader, Phone , Modem and CSC file.
The PIT file is the partion File of the RAM. You can extract this seperat from the CSC file.
To the issue the the gapps. Try an older Version or flash first the LOS and setup WiFi.
Than flash Opengapps with wipe cache and dalvik than normally works the wizard.

bierma32 said:
@desolate_sorrow
But you are not tried a multiple ROM with PIT.file.
You flashed only a Single File ROM under AP.
On the multiple ROM you can extract the CSC File and than you have the PIT.
Pit you can only flash with Odin and a ROM.
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i got the same problem, that the recovery is not working, flashing a multiple rom with pit doesn't help (neither recovery nor rom is working).
but i guess the main problem is, that i got a REV02 phone and I only can find REV01 firmware (e.g. this one here: http://firmware.smartphonewp.com/download-samsung-galaxy-s4-mini-gt-i9195-full-firmware-4-files/)
are there any REV02 firmwares out there, which maybe can help? or does anyone (@bierma32, @albaCross or @desolate_sorrow) got any other ideas?

bierma32 said:
To the issue the the gapps. Try an older Version or flash first the LOS and setup WiFi.
Than flash Opengapps with wipe cache and dalvik than normally works the wizard.
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Thanks for replying. I tried flashing the LOS ROM and booting without gapps. According to TWRP it was successful. But when I booted for the first time I got similar error messages as before "[any app name] stopped running". Just with several names and all of them one after the other. Most of them appear to be named something like .android.com with different pre- and suffixes.
I then tried a more actual version of LOS with a similar result (same error message, similar names). After several times I decided to go back to my previously created TWRP backup (of the stock ROM with root access and several of the more annoying apps removed, also I had checked all partitions when backing up): I did a custom recovery and recovered my backup file and it seemed to work, TWRP said "success". On booting I again had the now so familiar error messages on the screen. Same happened when I flashed the stock ROM and recovered my backup after that, or at least tried. While TWRP still said it was a success it would not get past the screen where you choose your language.
After this I gave up and went back to the stock ROM and "rebuilt" my old phone. Maybe my phone just doesn't like anything but the stock ROM, so I should probably just stick to it.
But, just out of curiosity, what exactly is the problem with the phone if neither custom ROMs nor system backups work on it properly?

1of16 said:
i got a REV02 phone and I only can find REV01 firmware
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this was me just 2 days ago!
i was on lineage os 7.1.1 with TWRP and was stuck wanting to go back to stock.
i flashed many many roms and they all failed in ODIN.
Eventually i found a Netherlands ROM that did not fail on the REV02 check - might be worth a go!
my thread
good luck!

Hello,
I own s4 mini gt i 9192
i have rooted it with kingroot when it was in a stock firmware, then i have decided to install lolipop rom with twrp with superuser in it, everything gone smooth i have used my phone over 3 months, one morning i woke up, the battery level was 43 %, i have set it in the charger returned back after 30 minutes and have seen that it only got 3% energy, pulled out the battery and inserted back, charged the phone for a while in a turned off mode, and powered it one, strangely it started but showed some kind of upgrading panel on the main screen than immediately it turned off and started to restart again and again, i have booted it in recovery mode, wiped the cache restarted the phone, main screen turned on to enter my password but in a seconds it went black again, opened it up in twrp recovery mode, went into advanced settings and wiped something in there(i can not exactly remember the name of the thing i have wiped but there was an option to wipe it in twrp advanced settings, it warned me "that my phone would not start correctly but anyway i have done it") after it's wipe phone started with s4 mini logo, and restarted like this over and over again, in recovery mode it only shows twrp logo no options panel to access to internal or external sd card, neither wipe or factory just nothing but twrp logo. I have flashed the 4 files recovery pack, (pit, ap,csc and etc,) but same it is never helped, i have used multiple recoveries, and the original stock rom from sammobile, but it has nor cure, i am a newbie on tech and xda please if you could help me, i have tried to post it to xda forms but i did not find a button to post a thread, thanks.

S10+ (rooted) flashing update failed, now phone seems bricked

I wanted to update software of my rooted S10plus and flashing failed and my phone is stuck with this blue screen. I can reset it and it returns to this screen in a few secs. I cant enter recovery or anything. I tried flashing stock, separate parts of stock, previous rooted AP, all with and without PIT, with and without NAND erase ticked, I really tried everything I could think of any nothing works. Everything just fails. I hope there is someone smart enough here who can help me. This is correct stock that I was able to flash before. Tried different cables.
Example pic where I flashed stock with PIT and NAND ERASE ticked

The last screen you have is like download mode. Just leave it there and flash stock with odin.

butchieboy said:
The last screen you have is like download mode. Just leave it there and flash stock with odin.
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I listed all of the things I tried in the post, among there is trying to flash stock with odin. It failed.

Are you International or United States? What was your bootloader version? Did you use boot.img to root or flash in recovery?

S10+ is SM-G975F...and you perhaps try to flashed firmware for wrong device.
Try to Flash only PIT file few times because you rendered partition unreadable.
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Try open Recovery Mode and in Recovery Mode select factory/reset and restart phone. You will lose everything you installed.

ZmisiS said:
Try open Recovery Mode and in Recovery Mode select factory/reset and restart phone. You will lose everything you installed.
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i see he already say that he cant go in to recovery.

Vuska said:
i see he already say that he cant go in to recovery.
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Yes, but what else is left for him but to try to open Recovery mode.
I was in similar situations, but after many attempts, I still opened Recovery mode with various key combinations. For example, one of the solutions is to turn off the phone with various key combinations. After that, I would connect the phone to the computer and open Recovery mode the way you normally open Recovery mode.