[General Questions and Answers] erikman1983:
New horrid problem with avant

I'm gna post the problem as a reply to this as well, so you can skip reading the history if you want.​

Hey guys I'm a **** for not posting what I'd gone thru cuz I'm sure it would have helped ppl, so I'm gna put a quick rundown of what I've put this phone thru cuz of that, and it might help ppl understand the new problem better so I can get help on this.​

1. CF-auto-root, then a couple weeks later TWRP came out for this bad mofo. Both thru Oden. Didn't make backup cuz I was at work.

2. Less than a day later, my normally very solid phone randomly froze. Long-press power did nothing. Batt pull. Had no backup and didn't know where to get the firmware, my only option was Avant-slim "custom" ROM since my phone was stuck in boot-loop (all with NO provocation!!!)

3.I did the Avant slim ROM (DON'T DO THAT), lost my wifi (and obv. wifi calling) and bluetooth abilities.

4.So, I followed that awesome link from j03lpr86 (which I quoted above to help out the kid asking for it) to get the ANK firmware for my SM-386t1 (metroPCS). I flashed the newly downloaded (old) ANK firmware, then factory reset in recovery, re-rooted with CF-auto-root (chainfire, you rule), then reflashed the TWRP custom recovery. All using Oden (thank you rogue Samsung employee). The origional problem was solved, and the Avant-slim and all its problems were now gone from my phone and I was back to having a fresh factory install, rooted, and with a TWRP custom recovery. I deleted the bloatware that bothers me, and used the "freeze" option I rarely hear talked about on here (if you don't use it I strongly advise learning how/why now), etc, got my phone back and life was good.

Until that security update came out almost a week ago.

I saw this update ya right! no thanx last night, accidently hit the button. In record time, my battery was out of the phone. It barely started downloading. But, I booted up, and it finished the d/l. New problem My contacts vanished. Not only am I not logged into my Google account, it won't give me the option to. So, I repeated what I did to fix the Avant-slim problem. nothing.​

---------- Post added at 10:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:55 PM ----------

That's just the link to where Jovi uploaded the ANK firmware that's slow to d/l from SAMmobile and kinda a pain to navigate to. I have the CF-auto-root file on my google drive if it's needed too, but I've never had a problem with CF's site on this like ppl had said

---------- Post added at 10:24 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:00 PM ----------

Problem​

New "security" update accidently hit

erased my google account from phone

no contacts, play store, gmail, etc...

Won't LET me put in a google account

tripped KNOX

took away my TWRP

can't undo security update

SO, what I did so far...​

used Oden to flash ANK3 firmware again

factory reset

CF-auto-root

Did not even give me the option to put in a google account.

Now, I'm trying to just restore where I was before since that didn't help. Putting TWRP back on. I'm in the bootloader now, which is listing:

ODIN MODE

PRODUCT NAME:SM-G386T1

CURRENT BINARY: Custom

SYSTEM STATUS: Custom

KNOX WARRANTY: VOID 0x1 (4)

QUALCOMM SECUREBOOT: ENABLE (CSB)

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

UDC START

The 0x1 means knox is tripped. Here goes with that, but it just means I'm gna be in the same boat, just without the loss of all my stuff.

If anyone has ANY ideas on how to get my ability to have a Google account back, please lmk.