yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] AntonovichNS:
I gotta say thanks for all the info so far. I got the "image file size too large" and could not get past it. At this point, I've installed the NA3 rom from [MENTION=2614663]shabbypenguin[/MENTION] and it will boot up almost to the main screen. I can see my wallpaper with the "system UID inconsistent" warning but above that it states,

Unfortunately, the process 'android.process.acore' has stopped

and i can't get past it.

Should i be installing the rom quoted above? when i try to go to recovery, It kicks me to Image size too large!! W:1080, H:1920. I tried flashing CWM as well as the stock recovery posted posted by [MENTION=4482939]starmaster10[/MENTION] but still can't get recovery.

UPDATE:

so i flashed the rom above and now have CWM recovery. I wiped cache and wiped data and rebooted and everything is working. thanks a ton guys...I was worried it couldn't be saved!

on a side note...any links to where i can install custom roms? I thought i was doing it right because i had no issues doing it with my Note II previously.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
The rom link in my post above is a rom by [MENTION=3499995]krazykipa[/MENTION] which he put together, but great you are back up and running again as that rom works great for that situation, and if you want custom roms for the i527m mega..check out this thread here and check out all custom rom downloads from [MENTION=4551757]Silesh.Nair[/MENTION] download server here and go into the rom folder and any one of those roms will work on the i527m mega and just put the rom you choose onto your internal or external sd card and flash them with your custom recovery you have on your phone now and enjoy the many roms..but make sure to make a backup of your current rom before flashing any custom roms in case something does not go right.. :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] AntonovichNS:
Thanks a lot :) I tried installing a rom but got Status 7 Installation aborted (that's what started my whole problem) I updated CWM to the latest TWRP and was able to flash roms no prob. got CM11 running now without issue! thanks again.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
You are welcome and yes you will need a recovery that supports kitkat to flash these custom roms otherwise you get that status 7 error..now enjoy the roms. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] AntonovichNS:
Just to confirm...is there a way to go back completely to stock at this point? The ROMs don't really seem to be doing it for me and there's stuff I miss from stock.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
You can but knox will still be in there..did you make a backup of your rom before flashing the custon rom to restore it...if not then just go into the recovery and clear the dalvik cache, cache, data and systen and go into odin mode (download mode) and reflash the root ron with odin from [MENTION=3499995]krazykipa[/MENTION] from my earlier post and you will be back to the NA3 rom with knox still in it...but this will be as close you will get to stock rom. :D
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] AntonovichNS:
I made a backup before i ever tried installing a rom at all. but after things went tits up, the restore would hang at the samsung logo. I didn't even think about the rom above lol...must be cause it's so late! thanks for all the help :)
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
No problem...:D
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] EyeBalos:
What is the difference between the NA3 and MH1 basebands?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Silesh.Nair:
[MENTION=4482939]starmaster10[/MENTION],

Can you provide me the build.prop from the latest stock rom for i527m. TIA...
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
Okay will put it up shortly. :)

Update: file is now uploaded. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Silesh.Nair:
I am getting old and blind!!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
File is up now..sorry for the delay. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Silesh.Nair:
Testers

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[Samsung Galaxy Mega] SaHiLzZ:
4.4.2 KitKat is available, but still no ODIN package.. Would you geniuses be building another package to restore incase someone screws up on KitKat?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
Well hopefully this can be done..but might be a while. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] AntonovichNS:
My phone was unlocked before I soft bricked it. I guess something I did to try and fix it must have relocked it...weird.

I'm running cyanogenmod 11 and looked around to see if there was a way to unlock the mega but can't find anything concrete. Is there a way to get it sim unlocked?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
I sent you a pm on that and if you want to reflash the NA3 rom which is rooted by [MENTION=3499995]krazykipa[/MENTION] to see if it will it put it back to the unlock state, i have a link to it in my earlier post to my google drive and the .tar is packed to make the download shorter in time...check my post here

This rom is for the i527m mega which i have a link to. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Xyphir:
help

I been reading this forum all night trying to fix my mega.please if anyone can help i greatly appreciate it

Story

updated the phone to stock bell I527MVLUCNE5, after it updated the touch screen stop working. all together. try to format/reset and also flash it again using kies still same thing , tryed to downgrade using front page bell firmware 4.2.2, didn't know about the knox security bs. ended up getting the image to large error in red text. read rest of forum ( should of did it first i suppose lesson learned! :( ) . anyways tried different firmwares ...did manage to get it to boot. after using ROOT_JDQ39.I527MVLUBNA3.tar firmware. everything works fine now except for wifi and cell reception . baseband always shows unknown. i don't know how to fix it. tried to flash the modem from earlier on in the thread but no go. anyone have any ideas please? thanks

sorry for rough layout/spelling been at this all night and now 5am -- going to bed now.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Patnad:
I feel you dude, the mega is a *****!

at this point try to reflash with the full NA3 rom, try this one in [MENTION=4482939]starmaster10[/MENTION] post http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=53303609&postcount=351

I think that is the one that got me back on my foots.

Good Luck!
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Xyphir:
Tried it also. That's the one that got me back to booting. But nothing with base band :(
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Xyphir:
i think i may of fu*k up the efs, just say if i accidentally formatted it. would that cause the issues with baseband and imei showing as unknown? if so is there anyway to fix it without a backup? and restore the imei ?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Patnad:
Did you tried the heimdal solution.. this worked for me in the past

Http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=50884260&postcount=273
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Xyphir:
Is there a difference between that and the modem.tar that starmaster10 made from the files?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
Yes there is as mine did not work on all the devices but the one from [MENTION=3499995]krazykipa[/MENTION] Post does as the padding was removed and would not fail during the flashing process, you could try those files but i will take a look to see how we can get the imei and baseband number back for you..as there is a away but sometimes finding the procedure is the problem...but i will take a snoop. :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Xyphir:
Thank you so much; the modem you made seems to flash fine; but tomorrow I will give it a shot, willing to try anything now
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Xyphir:
In Odin mode it says bootloader ap swrev : 3 I notice in previous posted images it was 2 would the be the reason for causing me more trouble?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
It could be giving more problems..try flashing these 2 files with the kernel first and then the modem, and if the kernel fails then just try flashing the modem with odin and see what happens..BUT BEFORE you flash though take out your sim card and once done flashing reboot the phone without the sim card in it and see if the no sim card icons appears and then power off phone and re-install your sim card and reboot and see if this will fix your problem. :cowboy:

Files below:

I527M-KERNEL.tar

I527M-NA3 Modem.tar
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Xyphir:
At work now but I do it as soon as I get off. Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
First i would try taking the battery completely out and if you have a micro sd card installed remove it also and leave the micro sd card out and re-install the battery and see it this wiil do anything. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Kherani:
I tried to remove the battery without any success, but I haven't tried removing the micro SD card. I'll try that when I get home, thanks for the tip.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
No problem. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
Did the links work for you Kherani.?

Okay try these links as i goofed on the privacy part..sorry about that. :)

Rogers full stock rom: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-IB0EhC5DIuOE44MUZCT3hwYlE/edit?usp=sharing

Kernel only: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-IB0EhC5DIuRzRiOXd1VFNCUEE/edit?usp=sharing
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Kherani:
They're working great, downloading them right now. I'll flash them when I get home and hopefully it'll work.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Kherani:
No luck, it still isn't working. I can get a good deal Loblaws so I guess I'll just have to buy that.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
Aww..sorry to hear that, maybe a hardware problem then i am guessing..unless a guy can get the pit file, did you try through samsung kies on the pc as it has emergency recovery etc and can also flash stock roms right through samsung kies itself.. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Kherani:
I tried KIES a couple of times but it refuses to work.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
Oh darn that is not good..I do not think there is a pit file for the mega yet that I know of..as that would be the last resort to try..as it re-does the partitions on the device..I will snoop around for a pit fike..but to find it is about as rare as hens teeth. :)

Sent from my SGH-I527M Mega 6.3
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Kherani:
Some how it charged to 10% and I managed to get it to boot through recovery. However, when I go to the battery stats, it shows that there isn't a charger connected. Anyone have any experience trying to do an RMA through Samsung?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] vizza:
Confused

I am not getting it ? o.O
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] nutpants:
I have had a number of Samsung chargers die, have your tried other chargers? (Not Apple as they don't work on Samsung)

written in your mud with my stick
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Kherani:
Yup, I've tried a Blackberry charger and it still wouldn't charge. I've used my Samsung charger to charge another device so I'm assuming that it's working correctly. I've been fiddling around in recovery and I think I've made some progress, I'll report back in the morning.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] d4ndr0id:
Hotfile is down

Hotfile is down. Please update the links.

Thank you.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
Yes i do know the site is down and i will try to fix the links as soon as possible, will have to link then to my google drive for now once i get them uploaded to the drive. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Dmoneyxxxx:
Starmaster, will this be the thread to keep an eye on for the new ROM of the new update for I527m, whenever it becomes available?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
All rom and kernel links have now been updated in the first post. :)

Yes it is as i will try to make sure they are put into this thread. :D
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Kherani:
So the fix I thought would work actually made it worse. I'll either have to try and RMA the phone or buy another one. Anyone try and RMA a rooted phone?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] nutpants:
Just don't tell them it's rooted

Let them tell you.

written in your mud with my stick
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] 4329Jomel:
sgh-1527m rooting

Hey Monkeywoman where did you get your TWRP into your phone to root it? I'm also with Rogers and have the SGH-I527M. Tried findinga site to figure it out but have not fund one yet.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] EyeBalos:
Bumping this up. Reason I'm asking is my Mega with CM11 reports the MH1 baseband. SM's CM11 screenshot shows NA3. I can't get LTE signal but SM can. Was wondering if switching to NA3 modem would give me back LTE signal (which I had on stock ROM before I rooted and installed CM).

Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
NA3 is the newer baseband besides NE5 the newest update..or rom update and has the knox security crap in it and MH1 is the stock one which the earlier mega's came out with, do you have knox on your phone already as if you do you cannot go back to MH1 you have to go with the NA3 one..and the NA3 modem should work then...but go to the download mode (odin mode) on your phone first and see if there is two line that have knox in them, and if there is you have to go with the NA3 one then..if not you can actually flash the MH1 whole rom to get everything back...and always make a backup before you try flashing anything at least this way you can go back to were you started from. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Xyphir:
In reference to my first post I had just recently updated to the new NE5 bell firmware was knox stop me from downgrading to NA3? Going home in a bit now going to try the kernel and modem you posted earlier.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
It could as it may not let you get back to NA3 unless there is some other way to it..I cannot get the update as my phone shows as custom and I cannot get official updates.

But I have heard the new kk update is not very good and from what I heard you will not be able to root the phone unless a way is found in a bit to do it.. but the files are worth to try . :)
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Xyphir:
Tried the heimdall method no change, tried the modem and kernel and still not showing anything for baseband and no sim notification. :( very disheartening. is there anyway i can try to make it "official" or at least look official to trick kies into repairing firmware using model S/N ? any other things i can try? thanks for the help so far tho :)
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] EyeBalos:
SM, I know that [Vol Down] + [Home] + [Power] followed by the [Vol Up] key invokes the Download mode. After getting into Download mode, how do I cancel/abort? If I recall when I flashed TWRP, the download mode screen says " do not turn off".
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
If you just go into download mode and you want to get out of it just hold the power button till the download screen disappears which will be around 5 secs or more and the phone will then reboot by itself into the O.S. again. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
Okay i did the same scenario as you have i am on NA3 now and i flashed the MH1 modem and when the phone rebooted i then had unknown baseband, imei number, no signal etc..i reflashed a NA3 modem and i did get back the carrier and showed the correct baseband, imei number except i just had no wifi, and on the download mode screen it still shows the

KNOX KERNEL LOCK: 0xfffffffc

KNOX WARRANTY VOID: 0xfffffffc

And when you go into recovery after the NA3 modem flash i still show the image to large thing, i even tried to copy the efs folder back to were it was located overwriting the one there already and no change with the wifi still as there is a wifi folder in the efs folder, so i have to flash the whole ROOT_JDQ39.I527MVLUBNA3.tar rom to get the wifi working and remove that above knox stuff back to this below.

KNOX KERNEL LOCK: 0x0

KNOX WARRANTY VOID: 0x1

So it seems like you will need the NE5 modem to begin with to get the carrier, imei number, baseband number back or have a whole NE5 rom to flash to get it all back..i will keep snooping around to see what i can find. :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Xyphir:
Thanks for all the info; that's what I was thinking that I may need the NE5 (stupid Samsung they were open to the community back when I had a galaxy s2) hopefully a Odin version pops up sooner then later. Sucks that I will need to stay on NE5 whenever it does happen. Because the reason I attempted to downgrade was that the touch screen stop working.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
Yea h that is a bummer forsure as you would think an officiak update would not make the touch screen not work..but something might pop up soon to at least get you back ob track again. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] EyeBalos:
Thanks, I followed the steps and did not see any 2 lines with Knox Kernel / Knox Warranty. So I guess I don't have Knox. What can I try next to get the LTE signal back while staying on CM11? As I mentioned, my baseband is the older MH1. I've done a full nandroid backup of the stock ROM after installing TWRP but before installing CM11.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] The French Tickl3r:
hi there! [MENTION=4482939]starmaster10[/MENTION]

any chance you can reup this file please?

i initially had the kernel error with the size too big message, then flashed an NA3 stock, still no dice, then the Stock root NA3 package..still was not booting so i put philz cwm, flahed resurrection remix, but now no baseband, no imei.. mild panic ensued

anyway.. is there any chance you could reup the above file..or if you have any other ideas i am open to suggestions.

the device is a sgh-i527m with Koodo that someone inadvertently tried to downgrade from kk to JB 4.2.2..

thank you!

edit:

i pulled a log from philz, sorry about the shaky shot..

i think it might have a clue as to what the issue is
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
Hi..okay here is that file again as i added the new link in that older post and the link for the I527M-MH1.tar also here..but i do not think that will help..was this kk update and official update or just a custom rom kk...as i assume it was a custom rom kk flashing as the new kk official update from samsung the phone cannot be rooted yet, did you try flashing this rom in my post here and see if that will get you back to have everything working again, but it is a rooted stock NA3 rom with knox in it, as that rom should work to get you back there again..also you could try flashing the I527M-NA3 Modem.tar from my post here while in the custom rom and see if that fixes the baseband and imei number etc..but i have never tried that yet myself as when i am in a custom rom my baseband always show the NA3 one like the pics i have of the custom roms in my post here...but they show the i9205 model of mega as they were made on that model but they all will work on the i527m mega also.

Try this stuff first and let me know what happens. :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] The French Tickl3r:
thank you for the links and the advice.

the kk rom from which the phone was downgraded was stock. right now i somehow managed to get it to boot with the MH1 rom from telus that was posted in the first page of this thread. its very odd, becuase as soon as odin passes, it goes into what seems to be a stock recovery. theres the little android robot that says updating but then all of a sudden it says erasing! then it just booted to the sammie logo, with the yellow kernel warning on top.. then miraculously booted into stock JB 4.2.2 on MH1.. but alass.. no baseband or imei :(

i wil try to flash the i527m MH1 tar file that you very kindly provided, form what i understand, this is only the modem correct?

on top of not having baseband or imei, i also have no sound or wifi, which is what i presume a kernel issue.. sigh..
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
What does the build number say aa I suspect that the phone might have the NA3 build as if I flash the MH1 modem it does the same no baseband or imei number, wifi and no sound and I am currently on the NA3 rom. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] The French Tickl3r:
hello again,

well it was on MH1, i tired to flash MH1 modem.. no dice.. now i flashed NA3, but still no damn imei..

i have a feeling that since this phone used to be stock kk, it also has the insidious knox bootloader..

i didnt find the stock kk on sammobile, any clue where i can find a copy?

thank you
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
Did you try flashing the ROOT_JDQ39.I527MVLUBNA3.tar rom from my post I gave a link to in my above post as that is a stock NA3 rom with root already in and this is the rom I use to bring my mega back fron the image to large screen..just unpack it first and then flash with odib...it brings my baseband, wifi, imei number and sound back. :D
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] The French Tickl3r:
thank you for the prompt reply:

well i flashed a file entitled ROOT_JDQ39.I527MVLUBNA3.tar but it was not from the link you gac eme earlier becuase the user accee for the google drive would not allow me to get the file..

i found a stock image in KK for the GT-i9205 from Portugal on Sammobile, im DL it now and im going to see what gives.. unless you think it might nuke my device..
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Xyphir:
It sounds like your in the same situation I'm in with my mega. No baseband or imei and wifi. After downgrade from kk. Let me know if that firmware works for u and maybe link to where u got it; if u go through and flash it that is.... Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
That one in the link above has been packed to make it smaller and should download alright now as the setting on google drive is set to public..the one I had up earlier was not packed and did not download for some people. .but the one just a few post up with the link to my other post for the rom should download..I will out a linj ti it in this post in a few minutes. ..or I will put it in a new post below. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
Here is a link ROOT_JDQ39.I527MVLUBNA3.tar :D
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
Do not use that rom for a i527m as you will most likely soft brick it...try the rom from my post above. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] The French Tickl3r:
hello again..

so i flashed the above file, still no baseband or imei.. also its very odd becuase philz survive the odin flash.. ive never seen that..

its getting very tempting to try the portugal one..

any more suggestions?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
Oh darn that is to bad and yes the custom recovery stays intact for me also..not sure what to do next at this time..but it might be risky flashing that other rom..will leave that up to your decresstion on that..but that is kinda odd that the above rom did not correct the problem..beginning to wonder if the person that had that phone did attempt to update to the new NE5 kk..I will keep looking for a solution..but run out of ides for the moment. :thumbup:
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] AntonovichNS:
I just noticed that kit kat is out for the Bell Mega...not sure about other carriers. Will there soon be a way to flash to stock kit kat?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
Do not update OTA official kitkat yet as it can make your touchscreen not work and rooting will not be possible till a way is found to root it and once you update there is no way of going back..and that is the stock update..so be very careful to not update at this time. :D
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] AntonovichNS:
I'm on the NA3 rom right now and when I select "check for updates" it states, "your device has been modified and cannot be updated" or something similar. I'm just waiting for a way to put everything back to stock at this point :(
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
You cannot go back or get the official update as the phone cannot be put back to official status in the download mode screen as the NA3 bootloader will not allow it and cannot be altered as I am on the NA3 rom and I cannot even get the NE5 update (kitkat) and I do not want to update as to all the problems that are happening with the kk update. .maybe down the road there will be a way to get the official status back and the OTA update can be done and when they correct the problems in the NE5 update and is safe to update..as rooting is not available also with this NE5 update.

So you are kinda luckly that you cannot update as at least this way you can still flash custom recoveries and roms. :cool:
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] verticleman76:
I am back guys. Been a while and surprised to see this post still up and running after all this time. Anyways quick question, will the cm11 be updated with the 4.4.4 android for the mega 6.3? Still sitting on the 4.4.2 version here. Any thoughts starmaster10?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
Post can be deleted.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] verticleman76:
Here's what I'm running right now.