yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brava27:
You need to flash firmware from your provider.
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edwardob:
how to flash

" I reflashed the firmware and flashed the hidden.img separately in Odin"

do you remove hidden .img from firmware..

how did you do it please??
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brava27:
Why do you want to remove hidden.img? You only have to do this if you get an error message fail hidden.img
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edwardob:
thats right/........so how do you do it?
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edwardob:
heres mine

similiar problem different file

anyone any ideas?
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ekinz1219:
my mobile phone, same as you,how can i do? i am using note 5 n9200,what i need to download? 1,odin,and other?can you tell me the step,thank you very much
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TIAR2018:
same here SM-N920W8

Please theres a step by step guide to flash tru odin ,say solved but no how to thanks
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andixxqaz:
pls help us i have the same on my note 5 N9200 and i tryd evrythink so if its working to you you have me some hoop that i dont loose 800 dollar on my note 5
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danielweng:
did u solve the problem? i have the same device as you do, and i have the same situation.

After tried almost every Stock Rom, i still get stuck after boot.img.
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bissa:
This problem is because you forgot to unlock bootloader from developper options.

Reflash the official latest stock firmware with odin, then unlock the bootloader and reflash what ever you want after.
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Uzair40:
Download the latest stock firmware for your device model, and extract from it the file called hidden.img, rename that file as hidden.img.tar Now open Odin and try to install the firmware you downloaded, when you see the error in Odin, load the file hidden.img.tar on AP and flash it. Now turn on the phone and wait around 5 minutes, it should boot up.

Please note that this will only work if the error shown in Odin is:

hidden.img

FAIL!
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m7mdas3d:
Hi, I had the same issue I tried rooting my note 5 and it failed and now i'm stuck

i'm really freaking out I paid a lot of money for it,

odin says " NAND write failed"

can you please help me ?!
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brava27:
You need the correct firmware for your device from sammobile.com
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m7mdas3d:
I have the exact one, I have downloaded it before rooting in case something wrong happened, which did :crying: !!!

still fails at the NAND write :(
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brava27:
You need to use the odin Odin3 v3.10.7.1
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m7mdas3d:
OMG it worked like a charm !!!

THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psychokrod:
Can you explain how you did this please?
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brava27:
I simply downloaded the entire firmware from sammobile.com then flashed with Odin 10.0.7.1
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psychokrod:
FRP lock

I did that. Tried two different downloads from various site, and i just get the lock. I hear about taking out this hidden.img but i don't see it. Im just really trying to get my phone back. I am using the latest version of odin.

Also running out of solutions. Is there any way you can do a TeamView and see what i m doing wrong? I would really appreciate it.

Thank you again for the quick response.
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aukhan:
Just flash a stock firmware that will solve the problem. I was also in same situation and I just flashed the stock firmware just keep in mind that don't let the juice get to 0% or you won't be in a position to boot the device in download mode.
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liobeir:
I can't get it to work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! really I'm running out of options here!! it's with my galaxy s6 edge plus and tried to seperately flash the hidden image but it doesn't flash anymore after the failed flash. i flash the firmware until it fails with the hidden.img than I flash the hidden.img.tar file from my desktop and nothing happens... pls pls pls help me out!!
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liobeir:
you really have to tell me how you did this. what i did. opened the firmware zip file. there was a md5 file, opened it, copied the Hidden.img file to my desktop and renamed it to Hidden.img.tar. Do I have to delete the hidden.img file in the firmware folder? or just copy it to my desktop and leave it there? then I flashed the firmware which fails at hidden.img and then I directly selected the hidden.img.tar file in AP and tried to flash it but it doesn't flash it.... :( getting desperate here!!
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brava27:
The reason I flashed the hidden.img was because the firmware was incomplete. You have to download the correct and full firmware and it will work without issues.
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liobeir:
I tell you it's not working for me...... tried 2 firmwares from samfirmware, now downloading the last one available for my country...so maybe the last one will work. waht do you suggest after this last one (if it fails). can I flash other firmwares from other countries... if the phone boots I can flash the good one no?? :( :(
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brava27:
What version Odin are you using?
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liobeir:
3.10.7.1
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brava27:
https://youtu.be/wOcI7IhJsBQ

If you follow those instructions, you cannot fail.
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liobeir:
I'm sorry but I know what I'm doing...that's the problem. I'm not getting anything flashed on the phone I guess of the FRP lock! I flqshed 2 firmwares allready...I know how it's done but it just won't work
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brava27:
Try another computer with Samsung drivers.
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alwright1980:
So I am no expert, but it sounds like you are about as experienced as I am. Just to be clear are you trying to flash to an earlier firmware than is currently on your phonbe? If so then forget it. There is a bottloader lock released in conjuction with the root protection. Furthermore If I read the most clearly explained instructions that have been provided in this forum then it appears that yes you have to extract and thus remove the hidden.img file (THAT COULD BE WRONG ASK [MENTION=6100517]Uzair40[/MENTION]) and rename it and reflash it using the AP Button section of ODIN. others will not work.

Next advice if you happen to have fallowed any links in this thread it should be noted that this is for the nore 5 and not the S6 EDGE+ so any downloads would not be compatible obviously. That being said, I am very sure that you realize this and thus are just trying to apply the fix for a similar fail result duplicated on your S6+. SO if this ladder scenario is the case then I would also advise that although the resulting error may be the same in odin the fix could be VASTLY different and I would advise that you search out answers in the proper S6 EDGE+ forum.

If you still want to proceed along the course set forth in this thread then My last peice of advice is one you may hav very well already done since you said you flashed firmwares from various sites including samfirmware, and so I would just say search for your provider/model's firmware on this page (Damn it was hard to search the proper wone out on this sight but I got it)

http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/database/SM-G928W8/
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liobeir:
Yeah I know I have a different model than this tread but I thought maybe if I do the same with my edge it will work. And it did! ThanksThanks!
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azizkaka:
finally frp lock removed from J1 J120F 2016 1-flash oldest firmware (2015) stock rom from sammobile.com 2-install samsung bypass google verify apk ( i did it with easy method : pc sidesync ) 3-enable "allow OEM unlocking" from developer menu ( tap build nymber 7 times) , which will disable the FRP lock 4-factory reset 5-disable wifi & all is ok sorry for my bad english﻿
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IMEIRescue:
Download your current stock firmware or newer. Using 7-zip or winrar open the archive and extract the system.img and boot.img.

Download and unzip this program:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bsreazoonsw4gwv/tar-Tool_Odin3-v3.07_by_mkh.mourad.zip?dl=0

Copy and paste the system.img and boot.img into the director of the program and run the batch file. It will convert the image files into .tar.md5

Flash both files individually with Odin 3.10.6 as AP .

Other Odins will work i'm sure, but I have had much better luck than any other Odin I have tried using 3.10.6.
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] volkan072:
kies frp lock no problem :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWuH7Km6GSQ

note5 s6 s6edge j series
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bighit101:
I am having the same issue as well. :(
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brava27:
Flash Odin firmware

Sent from the Mars Rover
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waleedJA:
when ever i try to install the firmware using odin the download mod locks from frp and im not able to flash anything anymore unless i restart and when i do it would be like we're returned from scratch

any idea on how to solve that please?

https://postimg.org/image/82qrvy0fd/

this is what what it looks like
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] giopapy:
Same problem here.

I unrooted my phone easily with cf auto root, it worked for two days. Today morning after a reboot I got stucked at the

starting logo by the RED error message: CUSTOM BINARY LOCKED BY FRP.

There is no way to turn on the phone so I went into download mode and I first tried to solve the situation using SMART SWITCH but my N920C isn't supported by it, so I tried using KIES but it can't connect to phone even I did it in three different PC.

I connected the phone to ODIN that seems to work because I have the green light on COM3 working.

So I downloaded from Sammobile two different firmware compatible for my note (United Arab was the stock one) but when I try to flash I always get an error from ODIN: it stops at cm.bin
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
1)Uninstall or stop kies and smart switch from task manager before flashing stock firmware using odin

2)Kies and smartswitch causes problem while flashing

3)Also download latest 6.0.1 firmware for your model no and country

4)Install latest Samsung usb drivers on your pc, use original Samsung provided usb cable and connect phone into main-usb port instead of secondary usb-hubs

5)Report here if it helps or not (Provide your model no and country so that to suggest you proper latest 6.0.1 firmware or if you are wise enough then download it by urself but remember to download latest one)
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] giopapy:
Many thanks for your attention.

At the end I found the problem was on the firmware, there are three different versions of United Arab firmware, with the third it worked out. I thought they're all the same because they have the same code, the only thing that change is the regional code,

I spent a lot of time time to find the solution but it was behind me.

Now I have the Knox warranty void error due to the root but as far as I know there's no solution for that
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mustafa_thora:
just flash csc file

androidfilehost.com/?fid=24438995911977187

download this file & only flash csc file.

in single flash file hidden is user data.
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rohitsinghpu:
1. (If u have os on phone)Frp lock means u didnt open the oem unlocking option in developer setting....just open the oem unlocking option ur frp lock gone in download mode

2. Frp lock in download mode if u have no os on phone

Just download latest stock rom (or one step down rom)of ur phone & latest odin

& the pit file (which is very important)

Plz open the odin software.. there is a tab pit ...select the pit file of ur phone...then slect the re-partition option with default option already selected in odin

Select ur phone rom in AP option ...then press start...now u see that rom install
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gp3:
Case study

I had the same problem in my J7 2016 (more or less) and hoping it will help, my case is as follows (the thread is for note 5 but the procedure is the same for other devices as well):

A) History

- I disabled FRP Lock in the Dev. Options (status: ok)

- I installed TWRP. I kept the stock firmware (status: ok)

- I rooted my J7 2016 (J710FN) with Magisk (status: ok)

- I enabled FRP Lock for extra security (status: ok)

- I applied device encryption (status: not ok, device failed to start probably due to custom recovery)

B) Problems/obstacles

- Device was unable to start

- Recovery not reachable

- Only Download Mode available but with FRP Lock ON

- Smart Switch not applicable (device unsupported!!!)

- Exact ROM not available (only OTA), so I couldn't flash others I downloaded from the

- Samsung technical support told me that since warranty was void, the only solution was to replace the motherboard (!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

C) Solution

- hidden.img guide which was around the net helped a lot. Respect to our friend who introduced it

- I successfully flashed only the recovery.img separately by extracting it from another ROM. The device allowed me to enter the stock recovery, where I performed factory wipe. The device booted ok and I disabled the FRP Lock

- I found the exact ROM somewhere in the net (!) and managed at last to flash it with no problems

D) Advice for the young

- Before changing anything (recovery, ROM, etc) loose the FRP. Its presence will only be an extra burden

- When a .tar stock file fails to flash, it is necessary to find out which specific part of it fails to install

- Keep always at hand the exact stock ROM of the device from which you can extract parts of it in order to flash separately if needed (e.g. initially I couldn't flash cm.bin and sboot.bin)

- Flashing separately saved the day. If you still encounter problems, you may flash separately each part of the stock ROM

- Read a lot. Proper use of the net is the ultimate tool

- Don't trust this post. Trust your intuition

- XDA rocks

Please take into account that the purpose of this post was not to provide a step-by-step guide, but to help with the most crucial part of the troubleshooting: the way to handle a problem. Bringing a device back to life is very rewarding
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asadnow2k:
in case phone has frp and you flash be sure u are using the latest one firmware. not older
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mustafa Jafri:
I just got rid of this brick. Feels good.

Can someone guide me how to get rid of this issue permanently? I mean I don't want to get in this problem in future.

---------- Post added at 05:32 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:31 AM ----------

I just got rid of this brick. Feels good.

Can someone guide me how to get rid of this issue permanently? I mean I don't want to get in this problem in future.
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tensux:
Any help on this would be appreciated. I have bricked my sm-t713. I cant get anything to install via ODIN. I have tried a dozen stock firmware options. I have tried a extracting the firmware and deleted the hidden file, re zipping it and i get the same result

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<ID:0/006> Added!!

<ID:0/006> Odin engine v(ID:3.1207)..

<ID:0/006> File analysis..

<ID:0/006> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/006> Initialzation..

<ID:0/006> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/006> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/006> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/006> SingleDownload.

<ID:0/006> boot.img

<ID:0/006> recovery.img

<ID:0/006> system.img.ext4

<ID:0/006> cache.img.ext4

<ID:0/006> hidden.img.ext4

<ID:0/006> modem.bin

<ID:0/006> adspso.bin

<ID:0/006> aboot.mbn

<ID:0/006> sbl1.mbn

<ID:0/006> FAIL!

<ID:0/006>

<ID:0/006> Complete(Write) operation failed.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loppv:
[quote name="marcuskhoo" post=72725277]Guys what happened to my phone?my phone could not boot and there was a "custom binary locked by frp lock" at the top left hand corner.was it caused by this rom?[/QUOTE]<br />

1)This caused not because of rom but you mistakenly turned off OEM unlocking option before flashing rom<br />

2)Solution is to EITHER flash latest stock firmware for your device and country( I said latest means ofcourse though 6.0.1 or 7.0, firmware should be latest dated) using Odin OR Connect your device to Samsung Smartswitch while in download mode and select emergency software recovery..it will automatically detect and install latest firmware for your device (Note down Serial No, Model No And Imei No As it would be required by Smartswitch And you can find those no's printed on the back panel of device)<br />

3)You can find many noob friendly Odin Flashing Or How to use Smartswitch Related guides here within XDA Forum, Follow The instructions carefully and you will be successful in making your device alive again (From next time always remember not to turn off OEM unlocking ever)

Try this method
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kripto00:
Tutorial soon

Ill post a tutorial on how to bypass drk and frp lock on g930 and g935
[XDA Assist] Angad bal:
Hi, i had installed lollipop preview last year on nexus 5. Now i want to switch back to android lollipop final build. Can anyone please guide how to install it. So few important questions- which image file has to be downloaded? Which method to be used to install sideload or fastboot? I have already unlocked my oem so kindly guide me through all other steps. Thanks
[XDA Assist] Vivek_Neel:
Hi, thank you for using xda assist.

Please have a look at this thread http://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/general/tutorial-how-to-flash-factory-image-t2513701

Good luck flashing.
[XDA Assist] Angad bal:
not recognized internal or external command

1. whenever i try to flash the following message shows

"not recognized internal or external command"

2. i have download lollipop 5.1.1 image. will that flash on the preview edition or do i need to download lollipop 5.0 final build.
[XDA Assist] Vivek_Neel:
Hi again.

We are here to direct you to the right place to get the required help :)

Please try asking your queries over there .

Good luck again.
[XDA Assist] Angad bal:
there??? where???
[XDA Assist] Vivek_Neel:
Here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2513701
[XDA Assist] Vivek_Neel:
Thread closed, thank you
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krisk0:
Short version: I need to extract Asus ZenPad 7.0 firmware from a bundle I downloaded from Asus support site. I need a kernel to fast-boot and get root access as suggested at whiteboard.ping.se/Android/Rooting.

Long version: In the hope to get modifiable and bootable image, I am trying to extract .zip published at support.asus.com: UL-P01Z-WW-12.26.4.19-user.zip. The file contains fwu_image.bin and I hope the kernel is inside it.

unmkbootimg

found at pbatard's gitrefuses to unnpack it:

error: not an Android boot image

.zip contents:

-rw-r--r-- 1 me i 15948 Mar 22 2011 file_contexts
-rw-r--r-- 1 me i 28139520 Mar 22 2011 fwu_image.bin
drwx------ 3 me i 120 Sep 2 08:13 META-INF
-rw-r--r-- 1 me i 2255421440 Mar 22 2011 system.new.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 me i 0 Mar 22 2011 system.patch.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 me i 560 Mar 22 2011 system.transfer.list

Once I root my Asus ZenPad 7.0 p01z, I will publish instructions in my blog and/or here.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krisk0:
answering myself

Easily solved.

dd to pick tail of file

dd if=fwu_image.bin of=tail bs=VALUE skip=1

,

where value is offset of line

ANDROID!

Then extract tail with

unmkbootimg -i tail

(unmkbootimg found at pbatard's github, can't post link due to fotum rules).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikas86:
any progress here?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TiPunK:
Hi ! How do you identify the block size please ? Thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InvisiBot:
fwu-shredder ( shell script for Linux / Android ) for all SoFIA

fwu-shredder ( shell script for Linux / Android ) is suitable for all devices based on Intel Atom x3-C32xxRK SoFIA: https://github.com/InvisiBot/fwu-shredder

How to use:

Linux example:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/InvisiBot/fwu-shredder/master/fwu-shredder.sh
chmod 755 fwu-shredder.sh
./fwu-shredder.sh fwu_image.bin

Android example:

Download fwu-shredder.sh

adb push "C:\adb\fwu-shredder.sh" /sdcard/
adb push "C:\adb\fwu_image.bin" /sdcard/
adb shell
cd /sdcard/
sh fwu-shredder.sh fwu_image.bin
exit
adb pull /sdcard/extracted-fwu_image.bin "C:\adb\extracted-fwu_image.bin"

or

su
cd /sdcard/
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/InvisiBot/fwu-shredder/master/fwu-shredder.sh
sh fwu-shredder.sh /dev/block/platform/soc0/e0000000.noc/by-name/ImcPartID122

The script uses the command line utilities: basename, hexdump, cut, grep, dd. Therefore, Android should have a busybox installed that contains these applets (the script is verified with the installed BusyBox v1.23.1-Stericson).

Unlock the bootloader:

fastboot oem unlock
fastboot oem unlock confirm
# or
fastboot oem asus-go
fastboot oem asus-go confirm

Flash via fastboot (First you need to flash the vrl.bin file):
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] honza.chlan:
Hello guys, I am looking for the faces sorting in photo gallery. Need to say I **** on the Google photos - they have this option only on the cloud and I wanna sort photos in my phone not somewhere on the server. If I remeber right the old versions of android have this option, but now there is nothing like that....
[G 2014 Themes and Apps] vaisakmct:
new google search app

link is given

http://www.apkmirror.com/wp-content/themes/APKMirror/download.php?id=22983
[Onetouch Idol 3 Themes and Apps] famewolf:
Amazon has a new thing going called "Amazon Underground" and the banner ad says $10000 worth of apps available for free...many of the top fav apps appear to be free once again....you should check it out.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.h..._t=101&pf_rd_p=2179951842&pf_rd_i=11350978011
[Onetouch Idol 3 Themes and Apps] brian117:
Interesting...thanks famewolf. Some of the apps actually look useful.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S6] johnlicoski1204:
Hey guys,

So I have been rooted and ROMed for about a month now but I want to go back to stock for one reason only, Samsung Pay.

I was approved for the Samsung Pay Beta test(I assume they give those out like participation ribbons) and want to go back to stock so I can download the latest update with Samsung Pay.

I've been trying to do this with Odin and have been stuggling.

Can anyone break down the steps for me in tiny simple words that I can understand?

Thank you :)

-JD
[OnePlus 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] law16:
Thinking about getting this phone, but not sure what model to buy for T-Mobile usa. I read that there are a few models to choose from
[OnePlus 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thegrants82:
You want the one A2005. Works perfect on tmo.
[OnePlus 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] law16:
Lte works as well ?
[OnePlus 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thegrants82:
Yes that would be what I meant by perfect on T-Mobile.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] therealurge:
I cleared cache, factory reset and everything and the device won't get past optimizing apps. It's never a set number it stops at either, one time it could be 47, next time 123, and then 80. Any suggestions?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] doctafras:
i have the same problem, have you found a solution?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] motiam4:
any luck?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] byNote910A:
i have the same problem, please helpme :(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4] vooks:
same problem here with my N910A after using ODIN to update to 5.1.1