I bricked my Galaxy Ace GT-5830 and I need help un-bricking it with a stock ROM or one of these shiny Cyanogen ROMs. I've got all the tools I need from what I understand and hopefully someone can help guide this noob through the process and perhaps help me upgrade to a new OS. The phone will boot to and hang on the Samsung logo and to recovery mode but there seems to be some issue putting it into download mode so I'm stuck at the point of connecting it to Oden for download mode.
What I have:
Bricked phone
Oden 3.07 and 3.09
SD Card
Stock Firmware S5830XWKPY_S5830CPWKP1_CPW
My issues:
Firstly the stock ROM for a UK Carphone Warehouse phone I need that I found on SamMobile and another hosting site isn't in a tar.md5 format but I'm trying another stock ROM which is in the proper format for another UK provider to see if it will work, I'm not aware of how this would effect the phone if at all.
Secondly booting the phone to download mode doesn't seem to work as no connection is made with Oden. The phone boots to an empty charging battery which will disappear after a minute or so before the phone switches itself off again. Oden does recognise the phone when it boots and hangs on the Samsung boot logo and also when it boots into recovery mode. Multiple installs/versions of the USB drivers and Oden running in admin have been unsuccessfully attempted with various Samsung USB cables. Should I try to start Oden when a connection is made it hangs on setupconnection but I guess that is because it needs to be in download mode?
When attempting to wipe data/factory reset and cache partition it returns with the errors rfs format failed on /dev/stl13 and /dev/stl14.
brianx87 said:
I bricked my Galaxy Ace GT-5830 and I need help un-bricking it with a stock ROM or one of these shiny Cyanogen ROMs. I've got all the tools I need from what I understand and hopefully someone can help guide this noob through the process and perhaps help me upgrade to a new OS. The phone will boot to and hang on the Samsung logo and to recovery mode but there seems to be some issue putting it into download mode so I'm stuck at the point of connecting it to Oden for download mode.
What I have:
Bricked phone
Oden 3.07 and 3.09
SD Card
Stock Firmware S5830XWKPY_S5830CPWKP1_CPW
My issues:
Firstly the stock ROM for a UK Carphone Warehouse phone I need that I found on SamMobile and another hosting site isn't in a tar.md5 format but I'm trying another stock ROM which is in the proper format for another UK provider to see if it will work, I'm not aware of how this would effect the phone if at all.
Secondly booting the phone to download mode doesn't seem to work as no connection is made with Oden. The phone boots to an empty charging battery which will disappear after a minute or so before the phone switches itself off again. Oden does recognise the phone when it boots and hangs on the Samsung boot logo and also when it boots into recovery mode. Multiple installs/versions of the USB drivers and Oden running in admin have been unsuccessfully attempted with various Samsung USB cables. Should I try to start Oden when a connection is made it hangs on setupconnection but I guess that is because it needs to be in download mode?
When attempting to wipe data/factory reset and cache partition it returns with the errors rfs format failed on /dev/stl13 and /dev/stl14.
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You forgot to tell us how you got it bricked in the first place. Was your device rooted and do you have stock recovery or CWM? Try taking out the battery and then put it back. Press and hold Vol Down+ Home+ Power button and see if you enter the Download Mode. Once you are in the Download Mode, there should be a yellow text saying "Downloading". Do post the result.
mahithm said:
You forgot to tell us how you got it bricked in the first place. Was your device rooted and do you have stock recovery or CWM? Try taking out the battery and then put it back. Press and hold Vol Down+ Home+ Power button and see if you enter the Download Mode. Once you are in the Download Mode, there should be a yellow text saying "Downloading". Do post the result.
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I rooted the device and tried installing a custom ROM through recovery mode from what I remember and it's using a stock recovery. I've tried removing the battery and replacing while holding Vol Down+ Home+ Power button and it goes straight to the yellow text saying "Downloading" at which point the usb connection becomes unrecognised by my PC. Tried several different ports with various cables using the USB drivers from Samsung Kies and standalone drivers and I have yet to get it to recognise the device. What about "Emergency Download Mode," the device is recognised then but of course Oden hangs on the "setupconnection."
brianx87 said:
I rooted the device and tried installing a custom ROM through recovery mode from what I remember and it's using a stock recovery. I've tried removing the battery and replacing while holding Vol Down+ Home+ Power button and it goes straight to the yellow text saying "Downloading" at which point the usb connection becomes unrecognised by my PC. Tried several different ports with various cables using the USB drivers from Samsung Kies and standalone drivers and I have yet to get it to recognise the device. What about "Emergency Download Mode," the device is recognised then but of course Oden hangs on the "setupconnection."
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It's just a soft-brick so nothing to very about The reason it was bricked was because you tried to install the custom rom from stock recovery mode. Always make sure to install custom rom from custom recovery mode like CWM. The reason your odin can't identify your device is because the odin is probably outdated and/ or maybe due to drivers. You can never use Emergency Download Mode to flash back stock rom from odin. When you use Emergency Download Mode, your connection will be recognized but you will end up getting set up connection error while flashing. Now to unbrick your device, just use the following thread,
[Share] All Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 Stock Firmwares (2.3.X) Ever Released
First download the required firmware for your region from the first post. Once you have done that, go to the link in the second post. Download all the files (usb drivers, odin and ops) except firmwares (which you have already downloaded from the first post) in the "Preparation" section. Now install the USB drivers and follow the "Single Firmware File Installation". Once you have finished flashing, go to stock recovery mod and do a wipe data/ factory reset & wipe cache (otherwise bootloop might occur). Then restart. Now you have successfully flashed the stock rom. Here is the link for rooting and installing CWM 5 on Samsung Galaxy Ace which you can install from stock recovery mode (always root first and then install CWM),
How To Root and Unroot Samsung Galaxy Ace?
CWM 5.0.2.6 fix for Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830
Once you have installed CWM, you can flash any custom rom. CM 11 (KitKat) roms usually need CWM 6 but there is one CM 11 rom name KitKat for All that works well with CWM 5. Do post the result. Hope I Helped
My GT5830 Galaxy Ace is stuck in bootloop. I was flashing some file using recovery mode. Now the PC can not recognise the phone when it is in downloading mode although the PC recognise it in Emergency Download mode. I have tried all the USB drivers suggested in this forum.
Please help me.
Hi,
Hi I was given an s3 sprint. It doesn't get past the sprint screen, but when plugged in it goes all the way until played with then it'll reboot. It does however go into download and recovery mode which leads me to believe its a software problem. The phone is not rooted/ fully stock. Could someone walk me through rooting, installing custom recovery and ROM via Odin? Also there seems to be no water damage. Per download mode:: binary-samsung official
System satus-official
Qualcomm secure boot enable
Warranty-0
Bootloader ap swaev-2
PS I already tried Odin but failed at aboot mbn. Now upon booting it reads ... firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again?
Pleas ask in here instead. Also first get the phone working by either flashing it using kies 2.6, or by using odin and flashing this image. Be sure to unzip it first.
I stupidly tried to "Unroot" my phone by factory restoring it then flashing a stock rom and original firmware through Odin. Flashing the stock rom worked however when I tried to flash the firmware through Odin I got an "ext4 image fail" error. I am now stuck with a phone that does not boot. It is just stuck on a "Connect to Kies for emergency recovery" screen - but my phone is never detected in Kies. I cannot boot into recovery mode: I tried and I get the Samsung logo with the blue "RECOVERY BOOTING" text at the top for a split second, but then the screen goes black and I get this message at the top of the screen:
"image size too large!! W:1000, H:1920
display image fail
SECURE FAIL: KERNEL"
Basically, I had 4.2.2 Jellybean installed but wanted Kitkat (this was much earlier this year) and so I found a method of installing KitKat which also gave root access. Can't remember what I did to install it.
I have now successfully flashed CWM recovery through Odin but I have absolutely no idea what to do next. All the guides I have read talk about installing something through an SD card via the recovery menu, which I obviously cannot do because I can't reach the recovery menu.
Can anybody help me please, I am a complete newb when it comes to this stuff and I really don't want a useless phone :crying:
Hi,
I was running LineageOS on my Galaxy Tab S tablet (SM-T800). I tried to update LineageOS. I went into the settings and downloaded the lastest version. However, the installation didn't go through. The download was successful, but an error message told me to try and manually install the update. I tried to go into TWRP mode to install manually the update. Instead of going in the recovery mode, I saw a TWRP app on the Google Play store. I tried and install that app. It went ok, however, I needed to reboot my tablet to finish. I did so, but after that, I got stuck in booting mode, between the TWRP logo and the Samsung logo. So the tablet was trying to boot in TWRP mode, but after about 5 seconds on the splash screen of TWRP, the spalsh screen disapear and then the tablet tries to boot in normal mode. It doesn't work, and the tablet reboots in TWRP mode, but, again, unsuccessful. It's a loop, alterning between the two splash screens.
I tryed to go into download mode and flashed the stock ROM (found on Updato) while using Odin on my computer. It worked. However, after the process, my tablet got stucked on the Samsung logo only. Now, it doesn't go in recovery mode (TWRP). I can only go in download mode or regular mode (but not working). Only the download mode works.
I don't really know waht to do. I tryed to redo the process with Odin and the custon ROM, but it didn't work better.
What can I do?
Thank you very much for your help!
Blaccko said:
Hi,
I was running LineageOS on my Galaxy Tab S tablet (SM-T800). I tried to update LineageOS. I went into the settings and downloaded the lastest version. However, the installation didn't go through. The download was successful, but an error message told me to try and manually install the update. I tried to go into TWRP mode to install manually the update. Instead of going in the recovery mode, I saw a TWRP app on the Google Play store. I tried and install that app. It went ok, however, I needed to reboot my tablet to finish. I did so, but after that, I got stuck in booting mode, between the TWRP logo and the Samsung logo. So the tablet was trying to boot in TWRP mode, but after about 5 seconds on the splash screen of TWRP, the spalsh screen disapear and then the tablet tries to boot in normal mode. It doesn't work, and the tablet reboots in TWRP mode, but, again, unsuccessful. It's a loop, alterning between the two splash screens.
I tryed to go into download mode and flashed the stock ROM (found on Updato) while using Odin on my computer. It worked. However, after the process, my tablet got stucked on the Samsung logo only. Now, it doesn't go in recovery mode (TWRP). I can only go in download mode or regular mode (but not working). Only the download mode works.
I don't really know waht to do. I tryed to redo the process with Odin and the custon ROM, but it didn't work better.
What can I do?
Thank you very much for your help!
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Have you tried to reflash twrp via odin ? If that works go into twrp reformat your partitions, then flash a custom rom.
Hi,
Thanks for your answer. I tried to reinstall TWRP with Odin on my computer. The process went well, but the reboot of my tablet that occurs at the end of the process got stuck again on the Samsung logo. It didn't get to TWRP mode. I tried to go manually into recovery mode by holding power+vol up+home, but it didn't work.
What else can I try? Thank you,
Blaccko said:
Hi,
Thanks for your answer. I tried to reinstall TWRP with Odin on my computer. The process went well, but the reboot of my tablet that occurs at the end of the process got stuck again on the Samsung logo. It didn't get to TWRP mode. I tried to go manually into recovery mode by holding power+vol up+home, but it didn't work.
What else can I try? Thank you,
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Are you trying to get to twrp from powered off state ? If not , get to power off state, then use key combo again to try to get into twrp.
Also when you flash twrp, in odi , there is a setting to prevent auto reboot, use that and try to get to twrp via key combo from download. Mode., finally tripple chech the key combo you are using is correct
Hi,
Thanks for the help. I tried to get to TWRP from power off state. The TWRP splash screen appears, and stays on for about 5-10 sec. After that, the splash screen disappear and the tablet reboot to get stuck on the Samsung logo again. It's like if the TWRP booting process doesn't go through...
Thanks again for your help,
Ouch !!
Looks like you got a real problem , and getting into territory I'm not expert in, Ashyx is the real authority with twrp for this device, you can try to pm him and hope he takes pity on you ( he has been helping guys on this qa thread tirelessly for over a year, and is prob taking a well deserved break ).
Otherwise a few more suggestions,
Maybe your PIT is messed up , ( but you prob would not make it to twrp splash screen in that case )
Twrp may still be trying to execute the script from the original linage update and not finding something bails ( total guess ).
Try flashing a stock ( downloaded from sammobile or somwhere you trust ) rom via odin, and see if you can get into the stock recovery. From there do a factory reset and see if you can get stock running.
Try getting into twrp with device connected to pc ( helped in some wierd cases, you never know lol ).
When TWRP splash screen comes up, try some key combos , maybe twrp checks for a script abbort key combo ?
Checkout the TWRP github issues page, see if your bug is there and a solution, create a bug report or mail a dev directly.
Have a look at the TWRP code, maybe some clues ??
Hi,
So not much development here...
I tried to download the stock ROM for my device from Sammobile and tried flashing it with Odin (JOdin actually, I'm on Mac), but it says it need a PIT file. I let Casual fin the PIT file and it finds it. Only, after that my device does not reconnect to Odin even though it's still plugged in my computer. I tried to unplug it then plug it back, but then Odin says the PIT file is corrupted. I tried to restart my device, but still not connecting to Odin...
I tried getting into TWRP with my device connected to my computer. Still the same problem of rebooting while TWRP is booting (while it's on splash page).
No combo key seems to work to keep TWRP open and loading...
Didn't find anything on TWRP github and I'm not saavy enough to look into TWRP code.
So, I'm still stuck with my initial problem. Do any of ou have some advices/suggestions or can help me with my problem please? At this point, I've been without my tablet for more than a month and it S**KS!!
Thanks in advance everyone,
Blaccko said:
Hi,
So not much development here...
I tried to download the stock ROM for my device from Sammobile and tried flashing it with Odin (JOdin actually, I'm on Mac), but it says it need a PIT file. I let Casual fin the PIT file and it finds it. Only, after that my device does not reconnect to Odin even though it's still plugged in my computer. I tried to unplug it then plug it back, but then Odin says the PIT file is corrupted. I tried to restart my device, but still not connecting to Odin...
I tried getting into TWRP with my device connected to my computer. Still the same problem of rebooting while TWRP is booting (while it's on splash page).
No combo key seems to work to keep TWRP open and loading...
Didn't find anything on TWRP github and I'm not saavy enough to look into TWRP code.
So, I'm still stuck with my initial problem. Do any of ou have some advices/suggestions or can help me with my problem please? At this point, I've been without my tablet for more than a month and it S**KS!!
Thanks in advance everyone,
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Use ODIN via Windows or a VM on your Mac.
Flash stock firmware then boot to recovery and factory reset.
Reboot and wait ten minutes.
Hi, thanks a lot for your time.
I will try that at work tomorrow as I don't have Windows at home. However, I did try to flash stock ROM with Windows initially (see first post for more info) and it didn't solve my problem. I wasn't able to access recovery mode after the stock ROM was flashed. Hope it's gonna work now and I'll be able to factory reset.
I'll let you know tomorrow afternoon.
Thanks,
ashyx said:
Use ODIN via Windows or a VM on your Mac.
Flash stock firmware then boot to recovery and factory reset.
Reboot and wait ten minutes.
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WOW!!! Thank you so much Ashyx. I can now finally use my Tab S. I'm so grateful!!! Thousand time thank you! I deeply appreciate your help for resolving my problem.
ashyx said:
Use ODIN via Windows or a VM on your Mac.
Flash stock firmware then boot to recovery and factory reset.
Reboot and wait ten minutes.
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I rooted my device, everything was fine until then but i wanted a custom rom so i tried to install twrp via odin, this didn´t work and the phone would not boot (recovery error validating footer) so i downloaded the stock firmware in the forum, when i tried to flash it odin got stuck at "setup connection" for like 30 minutes so i restarted the phone and instead of going to the download screen it displayed "an error has ocurred while updating the software, use the emergency recovery function in smart switch"
Smart switch didn't work so i came back to odin, now when i try to flash the stock firmware it tells me "sw rev check fail bootloader device* binary 1" i can´t tell what binary the phone has because the notch is hiding it but i can tell that the problem is that i cant downgrade the bootloader, where can i get a newer firmware? or can i just force the downgrade somehow?
now i´m stuck with a phone that won´t boot :crying:
Xplow said:
I rooted my device, ...
now i´m stuck with a phone that won´t boot :crying:
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"ReiBoot for Android" (free demo ) helped me to enable download mode
odin could then flash stock firmware A105FNXXU3ATA1,
i had no lock to enable root or magisk "Error verifying vbmeta image"
but i can use the phone...
stoessel said:
"ReiBoot for Android" (free demo ) helped me to enable download mode
odin could then flash stock firmware A105FNXXU3ATA1,
i had no lock to enable root or magisk "Error verifying vbmeta image"
but i can use the phone...
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not sure what reiboot android is but his problem has nothin to do with that.. he just needs to dl n flash latest rev firmware..
theres frija, firmware halabtech n many other sites u can dl firmware at.
i have the same problem!!!!!
when i connect to my laptop the phone connect and 1 sec letter disconnect
anyone can help?!?
:crying: