Monday, February 29, 2016

How to restore my G900W8 back to original factory software. Major issues inside....

I was running CM13 for a while with no issues but I decided today to go back to stock because I want flip cover/s-view functionality without using garbage 3rd party apps to halfway do this.

Anyway....I tried to flash the stock ROM using Odin but it just made me stuck at a boot loop where it would play the Samsung animation about half way, freeze then restart and do this over and over again..

I installed TWRP and did a full wipe of everything, and now tried to install stock firmware using Odin again, and it writes everything to the phone in download mode then gets to the point where the device resets but then when it turns back on it just sits at the boot screen saying "recovery booting...." and locks up from there. If I even plug the phone in to charge it will freeze on the battery with the lightning bolt image and not proceed to the charging animation as it normally would and I need to pop the battery out to hard reset it out of this..

When I try to flash the stock firmware (G900W8VLU1COI4_G900W8OYA1COI4_G900W8VLU1COI4_HOME .tar) Odin says this:

Quote:

<ID:0/003> Added!!
<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..
<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..
<OSM> Please wait..
<OSM> G900W8VLU1COI4_G900W8OYA1COI4_G900W8VLU1COI4_HOME. tar.md5 is valid.
<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..
<OSM> Leave CS..
<ID:0/003> Odin v.3 engine (ID:3)..
<ID:0/003> File analysis..
<ID:0/003> SetupConnection..
<ID:0/003> Initialzation..
<ID:0/003> Get PIT for mapping..
<ID:0/003> Firmware update start..
<ID:0/003> SingleDownload.
<ID:0/003> aboot.mbn
<ID:0/003> NAND Write Start!!
<ID:0/003> sbl1.mbn
<ID:0/003> rpm.mbn
<ID:0/003> tz.mbn
<ID:0/003> sdi.mbn
<ID:0/003> NON-HLOS.bin
<ID:0/003> boot.img
<ID:0/003> recovery.img
<ID:0/003> system.img.ext4
<ID:0/003> cache.img.ext4
<ID:0/003> modem.bin
<ID:0/003> RQT_CLOSE !!
<ID:0/003> RES OK !!
<ID:0/003> Removed!!
<ID:0/003> Remain Port .... 0
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 1 / failed 0)

Please help....I don't know what I am missing. Is there a step I have missed somewhere along the way? Everything I read simply tells me to install the stock firmware using Odin to fix this, but that is actually what caused this issue in the first place and I cannot find any other info anywhere.

EDIT: I just reinstalled CM13 and it is working fine....what have I done to make it so that my phone cannot run the stock firmware anymore???


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