yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] joshua.justice:
Damn. I'm sure there's some vulnerability someone hasn't thought of, I just wish I knew enough about how the bootloaders are coded so I could be of more help.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] LinxuSx:
Guide worked like a charm. Thanks for posting this!

I did start noticing that my phone now shows the unlocked symbol on startup after it was complete.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] :
If it's rooted that's normal. If you didn't root yet it should go away after a reboot or two. If not enter stock recovery and clear the cache.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] dianathaxton:
I would just like to say thank you, I tried and tried to flash back to stock. and finally read in the op to delete the md5 at the end of the file. worked great..no where else does it say to do that that I have seen.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] :
No problem. Some have to remove the md5 and some like me don't. I couldn't tell you why, maybe a different computer setup or something. I have a bunch of added programs for making the ROMs and what not.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] RockyCJC:
Custom Lock on Boot

Has anyone else continued to see the Custom Lock on the boot screen when they boot up after going back to stock using ODIN?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] :
Look four posts up, your answer is there.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] landshark68:
Wow, nobody bothers to do any reading of threads any more before posting questions. And don't expect anyone now to actually go searching for the answer when you direct them to it. You could tell someone their answer is in the OP of the first pinned thread in the Q & A section and they will respond with, "Link please." People have gotten so lazy, they can't even be bothered to follow those simple directions and instead want a direct link so they won't actually have to make the effort to go find the thread. SMDH.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] RockyCJC:
I would say the reverse of this....everybody is so quick to jump down other people's throats without any understanding of their situation. Is so easy to insult others on a message board post. I did read the thread and ran multiple searches across various sites but did not understand why after an ODIN restore and multiple reboots, the unlock symbol was still showing. Subsequently, after I posted the question, I had done another reboot the unlock symbol disappeared. What I was trying to ascertain was whether or not anyone had experienced persistent unlock symbol.

Also, not to pile on but something to consider before you electronically b-slap someone, searching on tapatalk is not always simple and its easy to tell someone to read a thread that is multiple pages and hundreds of posts long. I always have to laugh when people say, read the thread, and the thread is 300 + posts, half of which is full of people's brain farts. Not that this thread was that long, but I am just making a point.

There is an old saying to think before you speak and I think many XDA members need to translate that across to think before you type.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] :
Not to throw fuel on the fire but I have to agree. It's a royal pain using the phone with the XDA app to search. I have it installed on the phone for when I run out of thanks on the computer and that's about it. As for my post I didn't feel like typing the explanation again, it wasn't meant to insult anyone. Not saying anyone is accusing me either, just saying to clear things up. No big deal.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ezas:
Yeah but when the answer is 4 answers up? I'm not for the full blown B-slap but it did deserve a call out on it. I wouldn't think of typing one letter of a question without reading back two pages. If that takes more than two minutes you stopped to get a beer. (My rule is 5 pages)

And on the other hand etiquette would be to say I tried searching and if I missed it I apologize. . . But can you tell me. . . Tada misunderstanding avoided.

And it is XDA if you are bothered by a fairly polite reminder of the written and generally understood rules. There are other forums to get android help where they are more forgiving.

It's like going to Walmart and expecting to get good service and a short line at checkout.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] landshark68:
To reiterate what was just posted by ezas, your post didn't say anything about having read the thread and already tried rebooting several times. Had you done that to show you already put the effort in and were just looking for additional information or clarification, I would not have posted anything. But you didn't, so your post appeared to be asking a basic question that was just answered three posts before yours.

And please don't put words into my mouth. I did not say anything about searching as I know how ineffective the search function can be. I would never tell someone to read an entire 300+ post thread to find an answer but like you said, this thread is not that long. I have only ever suggested people should read at least the OP and the last few pages of a thread before posting a question.

I did think before I typed. Unfortunately, your post did not contain all the pertinent information to allow me to make a fully informed reply.

I am always helpful around the forums, but people need to make some kind of effort as I feel people learn the information much better that way rather than being constantly spoon fed information. And to clarify, the "link please" rant was not directed at you. I just sort of went off on a tangent while I was posting, so I hope you didn't take offense at that.

I have said my peace on this and will not comment further as I don't want to further clutter this thread with off topic discussion.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] DarkMidnight:
Odin & Windows 8.1 Professional

Good Evening everyone,

I have looked literally for hours to find some solution to my problem and it looks like flashing with Windows 8.1 Professional just isn't going to cut it.

Basically, I followed the instructions in the OP to the letter. When Odin gets to the "system.img.ext4" part, Odin crashes with a "stopped unexpectedly" message and then dies which has left my poor VZW Galaxy S5 in a distraught state.

The only solution I could come up with was using a machine with something other than Windows 8.X on it so I'm trying a Windows XP machine when I get home tonight.

I was just curious if anybody else has Windows 8 and if there is a trick I'm missing or if the majority of peeps in the thead have a different OS they are using.

Kies3 Is installed on my machine and is confirmed to not be running in any degree when attempting to flash.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] :
Sorry to hear that. I'm running it fine on Windows 8.1 Pro, I do everything on this machine for the phone. As far as I know there aren't any tricks to running Odin on Windows. I have ADB and Android-SDK installed if that matters any but I'm pretty sure there are people without those installed. I would say check the MD5 on the tar file and if it doesn't match re-download it.

Edit: I had a Note 3 before this phone and I used Odin at least 50 times with zero problems while running Windows 8 and 8.1.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] DarkMidnight:
Odd, I'll try checking the MD5 and see what happens. Thank you for getting back to me so quickly. I'll report back with results.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] DarkMidnight:
Back in business. I downloaded the file from the Mediafire link and flashed with no issues.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] :
Great at least Mediafire came through, AFH has been having issues with DDOS attacks lately.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Rippley05:
Just a quick question. This unroots and makes the phone legit according to Verizon right?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Savagerun:
Absolutely.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] 5ft24:
My phone came today with VRU1ANE9. can I Odin this tar without bricking the phone?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
NCG and NE9 have the same aboot qfuse counter of "1" so you should be able to downgrade to NCG but I have not seen anyone confirm. But worst case scenario the Odin flash will fail but will not brick your phone.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] BatCavedIn:
Huge Thanks!!!

I am so grateful for this thread. Thank you Misterxtc.

I thought I had made my phone unusable - not bricked - in the process of getting ready to flash my first ROM I wiped everything - including the OS - so I lost Safestrap, SuperSU, BusyBox - everything!

My last phone was an HTC and we had a "real" recovery - not something like SafeStrap - so I thought it would be OK to completely wipe everything. But I could not get anything to work until I found this thread.

Now I know how to use Odin I can get back to flashing ROM's.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] :
I don't think it's possible. From my understanding Verizon increments the bootloader making a flash back impossible.

Great, another happy camper. Glad it helped.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
They usually increase the aboot qfuse counter which prevents downgrading but they did not in this case which should allow for downgrading.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] :
My bad, I was wrong. Apparently you can revert from the OTA. Hopefully it's just a OTA on the new phones and not a full blown firmware update.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
No worries. I will be posting a method later tonight allowing you to upgrade while keeping root.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] James_Blonde:
ota?

Awesome post. I was bummed I had towelroot then lost it by accidentally accepting the ota

So im going to revert back today and redo towelroot, but then how do I handle the ota its going to prompt me for?

Been reading a ton of threads the last two days but didnt find the solution

Do I....

Block auto updates?

Manually install this ota update?

Thanks guys. Incredible forum that im going to be spending a lot of time on
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] James_Blonde:
Were you able to figure this out?

Thanks
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] landshark68:
Umm....

http://xdaforums.com/verizon-galaxy-s5/general/how-to-root-g900vvru1ane9-t2836201
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] James_Blonde:
Sorry. New to all of this. Have spent the last week reading for hours trying to wrap my mind around all of this.

I actually just came across that thread you mentioned and was trying to figure out if when he says, "Flash the G900V_NCG_Stock_Kernel"

Is "Flashing" is a different method than using Odin's AP method as described here?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2784880

?

Thanks a million. I don't want to brick this phone
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] :
Flash means in Odin.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] James_Blonde:
ok great. Thanks for the quick reply!

Do I still select the AP option in Odin?

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I know a newb... Ive been reading like crazy. but just don't want to f up the phone.

Is this right?

screencast.com/t/AOjFNaITf

Thanks!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] :
Looks good to me. If you add the pit file that will be checked as well. The pit file is for repartitioning. It's all good on the questions.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] landshark68:
Better to ask questions than to jump in blindly and turn your phone into a paperweight.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] James_Blonde:
Thanks guys. Really appreciate the help!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] RATTYK76:
Which Firmware Should I Use?

I recently upgraded my firmware to NE9 and decided to root my phone after the update. I followed the instructions posted by muniz_ri and everything is awesome so far. Here is my question: If I want to flash back to stock, would I have to use the old Build Version Firmware (April 2014) or the new Build Version NE9 Firmware (JULY 2014). Im a little confused with the back and forth between the new and old kernels during the root process. I want to make sure I dont make the mistake of downgrading to older software if my current root firmware is based on the updated NE9. I hope Im making sense, thanks for your time.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] :
Correct for back to stock you need to flash the old NCG build in this thread, it's the only firmware available at the moment. It's perfectly fine because the NE9 OTA update is allowing a flash back. I know it doesn't seem normal because normally a flashback in firmware was not allowed by VZW.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] RATTYK76:
Thank you so much for the quick response.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] Gigatopiloto:
hi, i tried to find my answer but could not. i am flashing the stock old firmware and pit to repartition but after finished at the loading screen still says custom. how can i get rid of that message, i want to sell the phone. thanks in advance
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] :
It should go away after a reboot, if not enter recovery mode and clear cache.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] :
I have posted the new NE9 tar file but USE CAUTION this file may make you loose root permanently as there is no known root for this firmware. I am posting this for those who do not care about root and for the devs to make a ROM from it. DO NOT complain to me if you loose root from flashing this. I may be wrong about loosing root so if anyone wants to test this please do so and let me know if you can flash back the NCG firmware and root.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] 1sicktsi:
stuck on download

Hi, im hoping someone can help me here, i had my phone rooted, i unrooted it and want to go back to the stock firmware, i am following the instructions but it gets stuck every time at the downloading screen on my phone, i even tried the new firmeware and same thing. here are a few pictures to show what i mean
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] 1sicktsi:
i also should mention the phone will still power up normal and can be used, just having this big issue of not being able to install the stock firmware or the updated firmware, just sits on that downloading screen and nothing happens, no messages pop up on odin either
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] muniz_ri:
Guys, it has already been confirmed that the NE9 aboot allows for downgrading back to NCG. And I have confirmed that the aboot in the NE9 full odin .tar and in the NE9 OTA.zip are the same.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] 1sicktsi:
can you tell me why i keep getting stuck with odin? i cannot upgrade firmware through the phone cuz it keeps failing, the little droid guy falls down and fails
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] :
Maybe the tar is a bad download. Try downloading it again. Also try adding the pit file and check the md5 as well.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] 1sicktsi:
i have downloaded the tar now 3 times, i will try adding the pit file and see what happens, if i cannot get this, could verizon at the store hook it up to there equipment and get it to work?

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still odin hangs up everytime at the aboot.mbn , just like in the picture i posted, ugh!!
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] :
I'm not sure what the problem is. I just flashed the new NE9 firmware, then the NCG to root and back to the NE9 kernel no problem. As long as you are not rooted and the custom lock is gone you can go to Verizon but don't mention anything about rooting or they will void your warranty. Give Kies a try first. Maybe you can upgrade the firmware from that.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] :
Yes, I can now confirm the new firmware can be flashed back to NCG to root. I just did it.:laugh:
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] 1sicktsi:
im am not rooted anymore, i unrooted yesterday to do the firmware update and thats when i noticed it would not update from the phone, keeps failing, and thats when i started to try odin, i will try KIES now and see what happens, if not work, i am gonna head over to verizon and see what they can do

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hmmm, very strange, i am running windows 8 and would not work, wife is running windows 8 on her pc and would not work, keeps getting stuck where i said, i decided to give my sons pc a try, he is running windows 7 and it is installing the firmware now on my phone. its working perfect on his pc as we speak
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] :
Good, but I'm on Win 8.1 with no problems. Anyway at least it's working now. Good deal.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] 1sicktsi:
yeah its very strange, we both on windows 8.1 , running super computers sort of lol, both running amd 8 core processors over clocked with 32 gigs ram , and his is just a little **** box running windows 7 and its working fine lol

thank you how ever for trying to help out :)
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] rhodiggah:
This might help... Make sure Samsung drivers are updated and try using a 2.0 usb cable (not the one that came with the phone 3.0 usb cable ) Hopefully that solves your problem...
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] 1sicktsi:
Hi, thanks for the info, but all is good now, yeah i was using a 2.0 usb cable, did my homework before i started this process lol. worked perfect on my sons pc and all is good again with the updated firmware, now to start all over again rooting lol

im still puzzled tho why odin was getting stuck at the aboot.mbn on my pc and my wife's running windows 8.1
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] RBEmerson:
FYI - The checksum for the file in the link doesn't match the checksum above. I consistently get this MD5 checksum:

DEC8692266D10C6E745725CC0D94769F
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] :
It looks like your download is bad. I just downloaded it and checked. All is well here.

View attachment 2894846
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] RBEmerson:
Sigh... I was checksumming the unzipped file. Sorry 'bout that.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] :
Ahh, no biggie. That thought did cross my mind.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] RBEmerson:
Oh but it gets weirder...

Very long story short, I managed to slice up my leg (mostly annoying and looks worse than it is) in a dumb shop accident. Trying to calm down after that, I put my leg up and, to keep me distracted from aches and pains, started the process to restore root to my phone. The good news is my phone is very much rooted (all sorts of root dependent apps agree on that) but... I jumped over the "first NCG and then NE9" bit and flashed NE9 without NCG first. I ran towelroot V3 and... the phone is rooted. The steps I took are:

1) Phone has the latest OTA, that killed rooting and won't allow towelroot V3 to restore root.

2) Remove towelroot.apk (to make room for V3)

3) Flash NE9 with Odin (no errors or gripes from Odin or the phone)

4) D/L and apply towelroot V3. It reports it ran successfully.

5) Test for root with Root Checker. Root Checker says not rooted.

6) Restart phone. Root Checker says the phone is rooted. Phone Info says knox=0x0

AFAIK, this shouldn't have worked, but it did.

Two interesting things have happened since then:

1) I had to reinstall passwords for the two AP's I run here. I have other secured sites in the WiFi list, but won't be able to check them for a couple of weeks. My bet is those passwords are lost, too.

2) The home screen has changed slightly, with two features I've never seen before. When I open a folder with app icons in it, there's a menu for changing the folder's background color. When the folder open, the stuff in the background, behind the folder, now become translucent (not dimmed). Maybe that happened before, not that I can recall.

Anyway, I'm rooted but it sure seems strange that I got there as I did.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] sk167:
Hey guys. I'm aware I am new here and Most probably could care less about me, but I have an issue.

My phone galaxy s5 on verizon was NEVER rooted. I updated when there was an update maybe a week ago...

i decided i wanted to root today and saw i had to go back before the update to the retail/stock file.

so i followed this guide and odin says failed after about 5 seconds and now my phone won't start but I can get into odin/download mode..is my phone bricked ?? how can i get it to work again

UPDATE* SO I was using the files on VMWare fusion on my mac, tried it on my ol' windows xp and it worked. its currently almost done with the NE9 file, but I can not root on this right ? Should I chance it and try the other one on XP and see if it works ?
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] RBEmerson:
AFAIK, using Odin, from a Mac, to do rooting is not the best choice. Since you've restored control of the phone using a WinXP box, I'd say that answers that question. Stick with the WinXP box.

To your question about can you root the NE9 kernel installed via Odin, see my note above (note

all

of the steps I took). Try using towelroot (use

Chrome

to access towelroot.com!). Towelroot doesn't seem to break things if it can't follow the exploit, towelroot simply says the phone isn't supported. YMMV of course.

If that doesn't work, go back to NCG, use towelroot, take NE9, and you should be rooted. Once again YMMV

Finally - the method I got away with is not, not, not an "official", "approved", or otherwise listed "works for me" procedure. I've asked, in this and another forum, about why it worked, and don't have an answer. It didn't hurt my phone, I seem to have lost some WiFi passwords (odd...) and picked up a minor home screen change, but otherwise the phone works as before, except it's rooted. But, one last time, Your Mileage May Vary.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] g_ding84:
Just want to say. This is an awesome guide. Thank you very much. I'm new to the Verizon side. I've been one the Samsung Galaxy since the S1 only on Sprint tho. Just picked up my S5 a few days ago.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] :
Thanks,I plan on adding firmware and modem files soon. I'm happy this is helping so many people.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] bullseye8877:
Sorry for nooby question but can i use mobile odin to flash this? I don't have a convenient access to a computer for the time being.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] KaM1KaZ3:
No.. I tryed it phone wouldn't boot
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] DJNads:
Our phone and the AT&T version don't really support Mobile Odin sadly. It would be really convenient but I think it's due to our locked bootloader.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 General] ghostlion:
Odin Failure (following this guide)

Hi all,

My first time posting in a while. I had my Verizon GS5 4.4.2 rooted with towel root which like many people, had problems with the latest OTA update.

I unrooted, and factory reset my phone to be able to attempt the latest firmware update via Kies3, but that also failed.

With that, i figured I'd give ol' Odin a try to flash to stock (since factory reset wasn't working) and this failed.

<ID:0/004> Added!!

<ID:0/004> Odin v.3 engine (ID:4)..

<ID:0/004> File analysis..

<ID:0/004> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/004> Initialzation..

<ID:0/004> Set PIT file..

<ID:0/004> DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!!

<ID:0/004> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/004> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/004> SingleDownload.

<ID:0/004> aboot.mbn

<ID:0/004> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/004> sbl1.mbn

<ID:0/004> rpm.mbn

<ID:0/004> tz.mbn

<ID:0/004> sdi.mbn

<ID:0/004> NON-HLOS.bin

<ID:0/004> boot.img

<ID:0/004> recovery.img

<ID:0/004> system.img.ext4

<ID:0/004> FAIL! (Auth)

<ID:0/004>

<ID:0/004> Complete(Write) operation failed.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

(i have an odin screenshot but i still have less than 10 posts)

and finally, here's the error screen message after the odin failure

ODIN MODE

Product name: SM-G900V

Current Binary: Samsung Official

System Status: Official

Activation Lock (kk): OFF

qualcomm Secureboot: Enable (CSB)

AP SWERV: S1, T1, R1, A1, P1

UDC Start

Secure check fail: System

Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please use software repair assistant and try again

** I have also tried software repair assistant which mysteriously crashes half way through.

*** Using the stock .tar posted here

Any help would be wonderful. If i wasn't thorough enough, please tell me what might assist in helping me diagnose this. This turned out to be one hell of a PITA for the sake of wanting that annoying "software update" notification to go away.

~ all the best

GL