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CM13 - Installing Questions

Hi all, first time working with Samsung devices, so got noob question, please bear with me.
I'm currently on 4.2.2 stock.
How to:
1. Download ODIN 3.10.7 on a Windows OS
2. Choose your device package and flash it via ODIN :
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=54013
3. Flash TWRP 3.0 recovery from ODIN or older version of TWRP :
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=31895
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I read from some searching that both device baseband package (from [2]) and TWRP (from [3]) is to be flashed via the AP section of ODIN.
My question is, if I would like to perform a backup of my current stock, can I just flash [2] and [3], then boot into recovery to do nandroid backup?
Will flashing [2] and [3] prevent the stock backup from booting afterwards, if I restore it?

no dont worry .flashing recovery just changes your current recovery into twrp. the second package is needed to be flashed in order that cm13 recognizes sim and baseband wont be unknown any more.
after flashing thise two you'll be able to work with your phone like before and yes you can get a nandroid backup of your current rom until you haven't wiped.

@darknessd31 thank you so much. I managed to get it to work.
Now I got one more problem - files as small as 7mb will give this error when opened:
"The file is too big to be open inside this device."
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give some more information what format is it, what application do yo try to open the file with,is the file on sdcard?

Hi @vemoxy,
I'm facing the same error message ("The file is too big to be open inside this device") on an LG G3. Did you manage to find a solution to this?
Thanks!

danielmurphy said:
Hi @vemoxy,
I'm facing the same error message ("The file is too big to be open inside this device") on an LG G3. Did you manage to find a solution to this?
Thanks!
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My Note 8 bricked, but if I remember correctly, restarting did the trick for me.

Could somebody help me?downgrade emui5

:crying:Last night, I installed the Android 8 update package on the forum.
Halfway through, an error is displayed and then exit.
I tried eRecovery and Hisuite, but all failed.
I tried it and found that the original recovery partition became recovery_ramdisk. It looks like the partition has changed.
What can I do to be able to return to emui5?
I have imagined "fastboot flashall", but I do not know how? Forgive my lame English

zzkeier said:
:crying:Last night, I installed the Android 8 update package on the forum.
Halfway through, an error is displayed and then exit.
I tried eRecovery and Hisuite, but all failed.
I tried it and found that the original recovery partition became recovery_ramdisk. It looks like the partition has changed.
What can I do to be able to return to emui5?
I have imagined "fastboot flashall", but I do not know how? Forgive my lame English
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recovery_ramdisk. is the new name of recovery partition. EMUI8/Oreo flashing has started means the partitions etc have changed already so right now you can't go back to EMUI 5 as rollback images are not available yet. You can try to flash again properly with proper download for your specific model. I guess you are missing some echo commands.

thank you very much
SVR said:
recovery_ramdisk. is the new name of recovery partition. EMUI8/Oreo flashing has started means the partitions etc have changed already so right now you can't go back to EMUI 5 as rollback images are not available yet. You can try to flash again properly with proper download for your specific model. I guess you are missing some echo commands.
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I extract the update.app(oreo) file and then i flash the system.img. Now it works..Thank you

hey how did you did that?
zzkeier said:
I extract the update.app(oreo) file and then i flash the system.img. Now it works..Thank you
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I also have similar problem I installed different model rom using firmware finder and now I can only use my phone when I unlock bootloader when I lock it it will not open directly go into the erecovery and nothing is working I tried everything twrp,erecovery,force updating nothing worked all failed.please help

shrey2204 said:
I also have similar problem I installed different model rom using firmware finder and now I can only use my phone when I unlock bootloader when I lock it it will not open directly go into the erecovery and nothing is working I tried everything twrp,erecovery,force updating nothing worked all failed.please help
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well,I flash the system.img by fastboot,and then make a factory reset.Bootloader unlock needed.

i have the same problem
I tried to upgrade phone to Oreo after unlock, in update progress it got error and restart phone! Now it shows:
Code:
Error Mode
Attention!
Please update system again
Error!
Func No : 11 (recovery image)
Error No : 2 ( load failed )
I just have access to fastboot
i did flash system.img and tried install twrp on ramdisk recovery. but always same
:crying::crying::crying::crying:

Bricked my phone, please help

I upgraded my phone to android EMUI8 and tried to install the RR 8.1 ROM but my device wouldn't boot up. Then I tried to reflash the stock system.img but it won't let me. I don't have TWRP on my phone but I can acces fastboot. Does anyone know what to do? Thanks in advance :^l

jetzecazemier said:
I upgraded my phone to android EMUI8 and tried to install the RR 8.1 ROM but my device wouldn't boot up. Then I tried to reflash the stock system.img but it won't let me. I don't have TWRP on my phone but I can acces fastboot. Does anyone know what to do? Thanks in advance :^l
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What is it you mean , it won't let you. Does it give a message. Failed?
Are you at frp locked?

mrmazak said:
What is it you mean , it won't let you. Does it give a message. Failed?
Are you at frp locked?
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Well when I try to flash the stock 8.0 system.img it gives me a "Invalid sparse file format at header magi" and when I try to flash TWRP it gives me a "FAILED (remote: partition length get error) I am frp unlocked by the way.

jetzecazemier said:
Well when I try to flash the stock 8.0 system.img it gives me a "Invalid sparse file format at header magi" and when I try to flash TWRP it gives me a "FAILED (remote: partition length get error)
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Ok, that does not seem too bad, yet.
I suppose you are using system.img downloaded from web.
That image has given many that same error.
Best to use your system.img.
And the error flashing twrp, is common when using the nougat command or nougat recovery on Oreo.
Solutions.
Find your firmware on pro-teammt
http://pro-teammt.ru/firmware-database/?firmware_model=Bnd-&firmware_page=0
Then download update.zip
Extract files.
Get hauwei update extractor.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...FjAAegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw0xkKEyI85nY9x4Fjr1AWJl
Extract the system.img
Then fastboot flash it.
Recovery:
Oreo command== fastboot flash recovery_ramdisk twrp_ramdisk
Twrp name depends on version used. I use build 4 from here
https://forum.xda-developers.com/p10-lite/development/recovery-twrp-3-2-1-0-t3783447

mrmazak said:
Ok, that does not seem too bad, yet.
I suppose you are using system.img downloaded from web.
That image has given many that same error.
Best to use your system.img.
And the error flashing twrp, is common when using the nougat command or nougat recovery on Oreo.
Solutions.
Find your firmware on pro-teammt
http://pro-teammt.ru/firmware-database/?firmware_model=Bnd-&firmware_page=0
Then download update.zip
Extract files.
Get hauwei update extractor.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...FjAAegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw0xkKEyI85nY9x4Fjr1AWJl
Extract the system.img
Then fastboot flash it.
Recovery:
Oreo command== fastboot flash recovery_ramdisk twrp_ramdisk
Twrp name depends on version used. I use build 4 from here
https://forum.xda-developers.com/p10-lite/development/recovery-twrp-3-2-1-0-t3783447
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Okay so I've downloaded the latest firmware for my model but when I try to extract the update.app inside of the update.zip file the huawei zip extractor gives me "RECOVERY_RAMDIS.img: Invalid header crc - Expected: 15200 Got: 44917

jetzecazemier said:
Okay so I've downloaded the latest firmware for my model but when I try to extract the update.app inside of the update.zip file the huawei zip extractor gives me "RECOVERY_RAMDIS.img: Invalid header crc - Expected: 15200 Got: 44917
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yes there is a bug either in the extractor or the update files. they all do it. Go to the settings tab and take check mark off verify header.

mrmazak said:
yes there is a bug either in the extractor or the update files. they all do it. Go to the settings tab and take check mark off verify header.
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I flashed the system.img but now the phone bootloops. It could be possible I got the wrong system.img because I don't know exactly what firmware my phone was on before I messed up. I only know it was EMUI8. Is there a way to completely reflash everything?

jetzecazemier said:
I flashed the system.img but now the phone bootloops. It could be possible I got the wrong system.img because I don't know exactly what firmware my phone was on before I messed up. I only know it was EMUI8. Is there a way to completely reflash everything?
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Yes. I have guide thread here for that.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-7x/how-to/guide-honor-7x-flash-oreo-update-t3781649
But also wipe in factory reset from stock recovery may solve the bootloop.

mrmazak said:
Yes. I have guide thread here for that.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-7x/how-to/guide-honor-7x-flash-oreo-update-t3781649
But also wipe in factory reset from stock recovery may solve the bootloop.
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Alright, I'll try that before I have a look at that thread

mrmazak said:
Yes. I have guide thread here for that.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-7x/how-to/guide-honor-7x-flash-oreo-update-t3781649
But also wipe in factory reset from stock recovery may solve the bootloop.
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I tried rebooting to stock recovery in order to factory reset but it only shows me the update, power off and reboot options so no factory reset possibility. I read through the entire thread you linked here but I'm very confused as to what to do with the full OTA file. I'm on a broken EMUI8 that bootloops and I'd like to clean flash EMUI8 again so I can flash an AOSP Oreo rom after that. What do I do?

jetzecazemier said:
I tried rebooting to stock recovery in order to factory reset but it only shows me the update, power off and reboot options so no factory reset possibility. I read through the entire thread you linked here but I'm very confused as to what to do with the full OTA file. I'm on a broken EMUI8 that bootloops and I'd like to clean flash EMUI8 again so I can flash an AOSP Oreo rom after that. What do I do?
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Just made updates to guide last night. I think it is worded simple now.
Download my update "package" from step E
Extract it to a folder on your PC.
You are on emui8, so copy the HWOTA folder from the extracted zip to your sdcard
Also put hwota-update-7-8-auto.zip on sdcard.
Put the three (3) update files from pro-teammt.ru in the HWOTA8 folder on your sdcard
Put card into phone
Boot into twrp
Select install
Choose sdcard as source
Install hwota-update-7-8-auto.zip

mrmazak said:
Just made updates to guide last night. I think it is worded simple now.
Download my update "package" from step E
Extract it to a folder on your PC.
You are on emui8, so copy the HWOTA folder from the extracted zip to your sdcard
Also put hwota-update-7-8-auto.zip on sdcard.
Put the three (3) update files from pro-teammt.ru in the HWOTA8 folder on your sdcard
Put card into phone
Boot into twrp
Select install
Choose sdcard as source
Install hwota-update-7-8-auto.zip
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So far so good but the FULLOTA update file I got from that website only has one file (update.zip) Do I need to extract that? And if so, what 3 files do I put on my sdcard?

jetzecazemier said:
So far so good but the FULLOTA update file I got from that website only has one file (update.zip) Do I need to extract that? And if so, what 3 files do I put on my sdcard?
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No do not extract it.
On that site, next to link for update file, is "file list"
Click this. It gives links for all three files.
Put those three zip files into hwota folder

mrmazak said:
No do not extract it.
On that site, next to link for update file, is "file list"
Click this. It gives links for all three files.
Put those three zip files into hwota folder
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Alright, I got it! Now I need to flash TWRP but the executable to install TWRP says my adb drivers are outdated. I have the minimal fastboot and adb installation from XDA.

jetzecazemier said:
Alright, I got it! Now I need to flash TWRP but the executable to install TWRP says my adb drivers are outdated. I have the minimal fastboot and adb installation from XDA.
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That should be fine.
Usually means you have other adb also , probably from other tool.
If you have twrp , not need to use the terp recovery installer

mrmazak said:
That should be fine.
Usually means you have other adb also , probably from other tool.
If you have twrp , not need to use the terp recovery installer
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Well the problem is I don't have TWRP and none of the versions i've tried to install work. The installer doesn't work either, it says closing adb daemon and stays on that.

jetzecazemier said:
Well the problem is I don't have TWRP and none of the versions i've tried to install work. The installer doesn't work either, it says closing adb daemon and stays on that.
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Each step of the tool I put pause.
So it stopped on command and not closed.
Press spacebar

mrmazak said:
Each step of the tool I put pause.
So it stopped on command and not closed.
Press spacebar
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Dude, you're the man! I got my device up and running again. I'll probably stay on EMUI8 since it's more stable than the current AOSP rom. I wanna root it tho so can I just use the lazy recovery tool to install twrp and simply install magisk?

jetzecazemier said:
Dude, you're the man! I got my device up and running again. I'll probably stay on EMUI8 since it's more stable than the current AOSP rom. I wanna root it tho so can I just use the lazy recovery tool to install twrp and simply install magisk?
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Yes.
The lazy tool has recovery with encryption working

I got it working on EMUI8 but I decided to flash the aosp rom cuz i prefer stock android. Can't seem to get twrp to install tho. I keep getting "1 was unexpected at this time"

failed to mount /efs (Invalid argument)

I'm getting the error failed to mount /efs (Invalid argument)
after trying to flash one "EFS fix"
i have a TWRP, but nothing work, Handrom have a bootloop, pixelexperince too.
I flashed a stock rom, but i get the same error in recovery stock
Can someone help?

lucasvbr93 said:
I'm getting the error failed to mount /efs (Invalid argument)
after trying to flash one "EFS fix"
i have a TWRP, but nothing work, Handrom have a bootloop, pixelexperince too.
I flashed a stock rom, but i get the same error in recovery stock
Can someone help?
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Not sure about this, but you could try starting your phone up in safe mode to see if it’s capable of doing so.
Here’s how you boot your phone in safe mode:
Turn the device off.
Press and hold the Power key past the screen with the device name.
When ‘SAMSUNG’ appears on the screen, release the Power key.
Immediately after releasing the Power key, press and hold the Volume down key.
Continue to hold the Volume down key until the device finishes restarting.
Safe mode will display in the bottom left corner of the screen.
Release the Volume down key when you see ‘Safe Mode’.

I fixed with this: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theandroidsoul.com/fix-empty-imei-corrupted-efs-no-sim-unknown-baseband-wifibluetooth-issues-restoring-twrp-backup/amp/
But now i am with 0000 imei

lucasvbr93 said:
I fixed with this: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.th...fibluetooth-issues-restoring-twrp-backup/amp/
But now i am with 0000 imei
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That's too bad. Do you have a backup at least?

lucasvbr93 said:
I fixed with this: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.th...fibluetooth-issues-restoring-twrp-backup/amp/
But now i am with 0000 imei
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I will safely assume you have no backup otherwise you wouldn't be here!
Full reflash of full firmware is likely needed. Use Odin to do this

moozer said:
I will safely assume you have no backup otherwise you wouldn't be here!
Full reflash of full firmware is likely needed. Use Odin to do this
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Does an Odin flash fix the imei number?

SnowFuhrer said:
Does an Odin flash fix the imei number?
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I've had it before and reflashed entire firmware for it to be revealed again.

How to full flash with odin? All 4 archives?
How to i se what archives is compatible?

lucasvbr93 said:
How to full flash with odin? All 4 archives?
How to i se what archives is compatible?
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Backup everything you care about first because you will lose it all when flashing firmware.
Download firmware from Sammobile. Select your exact model and country.
Unzip the file to a foldeer on the PC/Laptop.
Ensure you have the correct drivers loaded.
Looking inside the folder there will be several files: AP, BL, CP, CSC, CSC_HOME
Connect your phone via USB cable to your PC.
CHECK IT HAS BEEN RECOGNISED BY ODIN - YOU SHOULD SEE IT CONNECTED AT THE TOP LEFT AND SHOULD HAVE THE WORD "COM"
In Odin, click on the appropriate button and navigate to your firmware folder to select file (AP is your system and recovery; BL is the bootloader; CP is the modem and CSC is the country specific code) CSC_HOME can be flashed if you want to keep data, but I would recommend a clean start and flash CSC to erase everything.

lucasvbr93 said:
I fixed with this: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.th...fibluetooth-issues-restoring-twrp-backup/amp/
But now i am with 0000 imei
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I fix this problem (imei = 00000) with this method
1. Flash full firmware or repair firmware with odin
1. Flash twrp
2. Open terminal on twrp
3. Type and enter "chmod 700 /efs/nv_data.bin"
4. Type and enter "chown radio:radio /efs/nv_data.bin"
5. Reboot system
6. Then i got my imei back.

jagoan_neon said:
I fix this problem (imei = 00000) with this method
1. Flash full firmware or repair firmware with odin
1. Flash twrp
2. Open terminal on twrp
3. Type and enter "chmod 700 /efs/nv_data.bin"
4. Type and enter "chown radio:radio /efs/nv_data.bin"
5. Reboot system
6. Then i got my imei back.
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thx, but not work

lucasvbr93 said:
thx, but not work
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Flash stock with Odin and start over.

Question Can I get A325N vender image?

I root my devices with magisk and make chmod 555 to NVD_IMEI. because of magisk bug. Then I use few week(maybe 2 week?) with no problem. but I trid mount ext4 sdcard(because I want easy to recover with TWRP(but I did not install yet) but AP file is to big so can't use fat32) and it's successful. At next morning(January 28th), I saw signal was dead.(but, wifi is alive. ; I can't remember about Bluetooth, IMEI and is only signal dead or can't attach sim card.) So I reboot my phone( because I just think something crash it) but can't boot and get stuck. so I flash stock rom but can't boot. but only recovery(Normal and TWRP all) work well. So I do re-partition but also not work. I do NAND Erase with magisk patched AP and it booted. but IMEI disappear(of course because I do NAND Erase) and wifi did not work. I flash stock rom again but boot fail... when flash magisk patched AP it boot. I don't know why only magisk patched AP only boot, but I will use patched AP so not important yet.(I don't know what will happen future.) I think wifi error because I NAND Erase so vender partition broke. So I will flash vender image first. but sadly I have IMEI backup but I don't have vender partition backup... So I search internet but couldn't find vender image. Where can I get image? Is because of other problem? Then what and how can I fix it?
vendor.zip is vender folder(partition) backup after I NAND Erase it. TWRP backups of Vender partitions are also fine. If there's anything that needs to be changed for each device, please let me know as well.(ex.S/N, IMEI)

Broken partition after NAND erase? Sounds unlikely if flashing went successful. You cannot break NAND memory itself using software, and flashing with the "re-partition" option using external PIT file will re-partition everything unconditionally, so no broken partition may remain after that. Sounds more like you flashed wrong or incompatible stock firmware. And did you do Factory Reset after flashing?
P.S.: And I still don't understand why so many people need Magisk so badly. Root is needed only for a few quite low-level apps.

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Broken partition after NAND erase? Sounds unlikely if flashing went successful. You cannot break NAND memory itself using software, and flashing with the "re-partition" option using external PIT file will re-partition everything unconditionally, so no broken partition may remain after that. Sounds more like you flashed wrong or incompatible stock firmware. And did you do Factory Reset after flashing?
P.S.: And I still don't understand why so many people need Magisk so badly. Root is needed only for a few quite low-level apps.
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NAND Erase is at odin option.
I do root for use "few quite low-level apps" and view and fix or backup app data.
I use "SM-A325N_2_20230113085551_pl06359zs5_fac.zip". It's compatible stock from samsung server. I use this stock to recover once, and I recover it.

Ok ) I have extracted vendor.img from your firmware: https://easyupload.io/vgzftz (if that's what you needed, I cannot understand your language clearly enough). Only I am not sure how you're going to flash it, because it's a dynamic partition inside the physical "super" partition and cannot be flashed directly besides (reportedly) using dd from the shell or using fastboot.

I still think you somehow mixed parts from different firmware versions. I never seen a situation when flashing a complete stock firmware with re-partition and NAND erase and then Factory Reset would not fix the booting. Try going into Recovery and do Factory Reset right after flashing, without allowing the system to try booting.

uluruman said:
Ok ) 귀하의 펌웨어에서 vendor.img를 추출했습니다: https://easyupload.io/vgzftz (필요한 경우 귀하의 언어를 충분히 이해할 수 없습니다). 물리적 "슈퍼" 파티션 내부의 동적 파티션이고 셸에서 dd를 사용하거나 fastboot를 사용하는 것 외에는 직접 플래시할 수 없기 때문에 어떻게 플래시할지 확신할 수 없습니다.
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삼성에는 패스트부트가 없습니다. 그러나 다운로드 모드가 있습니다. 다운로드 모드에서 odin을 사용하여 펌웨어를 업로드하십시오. 또한 TWRP에서 img를 플래시할 수 있습니다.

uluruman said:
Ok ) I have extracted vendor.img from your firmware: https://easyupload.io/vgzftz (if that's what you needed, I cannot understand your language clearly enough). Only I am not sure how you're going to flash it, because it's a dynamic partition inside the physical "super" partition and cannot be flashed directly besides (reportedly) using dd from the shell or using fastboot.
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At samsung, there is no fastboot. but, there is download mode. Use odin to flash at download mode. Also can flash img and zip at TWRP.

If you still need help please be a bit clearer what exactly is your problem, what you cannot achieve. I think a Korean-speaking person would be of much help here but it seems there is none