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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] :
New firmware pf4

Here is the greatest and latest... PF4 (still Marshmallow)

N920VVRS2BPF4_N920VVZW2BPF4_N920VVRS2BPF4_HOME

MD5: 42475a3121e9d64a22ffa45315dc6497
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] :
PL4 December Security update MM 6.0.1

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=673368273298923779
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] HypostaticOnion:
Does this have the boot? Wanting to flash the boot.tar.md5 after flashing that eng kernel
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] :
Yes, it's the stock update. I didn't have a problem flashing the eng kernel on the update but as far as I know full root isn't working so it isn't worth running it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] HypostaticOnion:
Yeah, I was grabbing some stuff for jcase but he said he couldn't see anything obvious standing out. I was gonna put mine back to stock kernel though so it'll stop wiping wifi passwords.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] :
Yup cool. I posted just the stock boot.img if you want to try that first. https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=70565386&postcount=16 It worked for me no problem.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] HypostaticOnion:
Ah cool. I misread what you had said. Thought it was a much older kernel img.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] :
No prob, either way you can get away with a dirty flash of the tar if you need to.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] HypostaticOnion:
Yep. I flashed the newer tar and then it had me reboot again to "undo changes" from something being "tampered with." I was kinda worried it'd reset my phone, but it didn't.

Although, it's still popping up
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] HypostaticOnion:
See here
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] :
It's probably just some su files that were pushed. If I remember right it's ok to do.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] HypostaticOnion:
My concern is it has done it twice. I'm waiting to see if it's gonna do it again.

Edit: yep. I'm probably gonna reflash the full firmware soon anyway. I might be giving this phone to my wife. Gonna fully wipe it and such. I hate to give it up, but I've been enjoying my rooted m8 and the screen is peeling on my note.

Edit2: Could it be from pulling and re-pushing that carrier file [MENTION=6221912]MrMike2182[/MENTION] was talking about?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] :
It's probably something from trying to root. I'd just do the full flash and reset then. I have a Note 4 all done up here and I've been using that and my 7Edge. Plus I'll have a S6 again if I don't fudge up a USB port and home button replacement...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] HypostaticOnion:
Yeah. If I could get just system I'd be in good shape, but here goes nothing. Does flashing this tar wipe everything?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] :
No, it's a Home tar. Only the Multi-Cert tars wipe.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] HypostaticOnion:
Cool.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
Pulling the /efs/carrier/HiddenMenu file won't cause that security notice. If you don't use the same exact kernel image that matches with your baseband version, say you flash PL4 but your baseband is PL1 then it's going to cause that security notice until you flash back to the PL1 kernel and then it will stop.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] HypostaticOnion:
I should have been on the updated baseband already but maybe not.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] HypostaticOnion:
I'm on the pl4 baseband guess I need to figure something out.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
I'm on PL1 and can no longer downgrade anymore and neither can you now being on 4... I tried using both Toolbox and toybox to try to mount the system as rw but toybox just gives me a segmentation fault and Toolbox just freezes the phone and from what I've read about android N /system can no longer be mounted as rw and I think whatever they implemented in N has been put in MM too.. I see some people can use busybox to get it to work but busybox requires root first lol.. I don't know at this point.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] HypostaticOnion:
Delete please. Wrong thread.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] Dealsme:
I was on 5.1.1 and tried to upgrade to Marshmallow and now I get a blue screen that says Use the Verizon Software Repair Assistant to complete the update.

I downloaded ODIN 3.10.7 and tried to flash the most recent Lollipop firmware (OJ3) linked to in the OP but it says there is a software version mismatch when I try to flash it using ODIN. I am guessing the bootloader and/or kernel got updated to Marshmallow and it is just the system firmware that screwed up.

Is there any where I can find Marshmallow firmware for the Verizon Note 5 that is flashable by ODIN?

Also, how do I get the blue screen to turn off?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
Can you get a picture of this blue screen you're talking about? If you were on 5.1.1 I would have stayed there because Marshmallow is a battery drainer pretty much.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] Dealsme:
I can get into ODIN mode but I can't get the screen off. There is a white triangle with an exclamation mark in the middle and it says:

Software Update Failed

Your device didn't update successfully. Use the Verizon Software Repair Assistant on a computer to repair your device and complete the upgrade.

When I go into ODIN mode, it says:

Current Binary: Samsung Official

System Status: Custom

FAP Lock: Off

Secure Download: Enabled

AP SWREV: B:3 K:0 S:1

That system status = custom made me think that there could be a mismatch b/t the bootloader/kernel and the system.

What does AP SWREV: B:3 K:0 S:1 mean? I assume SWREV is software revision.

I can take a picture if you think it would help.

Also I found PL4 in this thread and will try to flash that.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
You're using the incorrect firmware you have to use BPI1 at this point based on that information.. it thinks you're trying to downgrade and you can't no more.. Download BPI1 firmware. Actually you can use the PL4 too.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] Dealsme:
Where do I get that?

Is there a BPL3? It says B:3?

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Ok, thanks I think I will just use that. Unless there is some downside to using that?

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Do you know how I can get the thing to power down?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
Hold the volume down button and the power button at the same time until it goes off.. it'll come up with a screen to select some options with using the volume buttons and then tap the home key to select it.

I'm using BPI1 because people are saying that PL4 is killing their battery and some sensors aren't working correctly but I don't have no issues on BPI1
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] Dealsme:
Thanks, I wasn't able to find BPL1. I was able to get BPL4 to flash. Dang, that sucks about the battery and sensor issues. I couldn't find BPL1 easily so I flashed BPL4. I hope that they fix those issues before Nougat. I don't want to upgrade to Nougat since PDANet doesn't work on Nougat. I take it that I can't go back to BPL1?

To get BPL4 to flash, I switched from a Samsung USB cable for an S5 to the one that came with my Note 5 but also I uninstalled Kies. I read on another thread that you should uninstall Kies before using ODIN. Because I did both at the same time, I can't be sure which worked but I suspect uninstalling Kies is what worked since the USB cable from my S5 isn't damaged and works fine for charging and connecting to my computer.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
Unfortunately you have to stay on PL4 now because Verizon locked into the bootloader so that you can't go back but I don't get why? I believe if we pay 800 for a device we should be able to do as we please with it! Lesson learned though and it's bye to Verizon soon.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] Dealsme:
So after I successfully flashed PLB4, when it was booting it showed a picture of a padlock that was unlocked. Like I told you before, for System Status while soft bricked it said custom. Now it says official.

It seems like something strange happened that for a brief window of time, left the bootloader unsecured as evidence by the unlocked padlock. Is this typical? I took a picture of it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
Yeah it does that when your system is custom and not "official" per what Verizon thinks is official.. The bootloader remains locked!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] Dealsme:
But mine is official and not custom. I never even deleted the Verizon bloat.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
It is right now yes but whatever you were trying to do or whatever happened that caused your system to throw that triangle is what made the phone think there was a different customisation on it hence the "custom" but because you fixed it, it already cleared it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] Dealsme:
All I did was try to upgrade from Lollipop to Marshmallow. My system was entirely stock. I just kept deferring the updates. Then I decided to update and it soft bricked my phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] Mrocha85:
Assistance please

Sorry if this is the wrong section guys but I need some help. I have a 920v model and its stuck on a boot loop. I know its been rooted bc on startup it has an unlocked padlock with the words "custom" underneath. The phone gets to the Verizon logo and stays there and eventually boot loop. I have tried installing firmware PJ3. It takes it but when it gets to optimizing apps it hits 31 out of 31 it freezes and then boot loops.

When in download mode it has the following information.

ODIN MODE

DOWNLOAD SPEED: FAST

PRODUCT NAME: SM-920V

CURRENT BINARY: SAMSUNG OFFICIAL

SYSTEM STATUS: CUSTOM

FRP LOCK: ON

SECURE DOWNLOAD: ENABLED

RP SWREV B:3 K:0 S:1

any ideas?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
That kernel for root is not full root! It's just console root that's it.. Sounds like you need to hold the volume down button and the power button until the screen shuts off and when it comes back on select factory reset.. Don't try using the root kernel either flash the original boot.img
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] Mrocha85:
I did try the factory reset, wiped cache and reboot but it never reboots unless I force it too. When I do the factory reset that padlock with the word custom underneath is still there. It will still bootloop afterwards. Where can I find the original boot?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
You'll have to unzip it from the firmware you downloaded.. It needs to be extracted twice.. The first extraction takes it from a .zip to and .md5 and then you have to use a program like 7zip or similar and open the md5 and extract it a second time but just extract the boot.img, but you can't flash a .img with odin so you'll have to zip the boot.img into boot.zip that way you can flash it in odin and then it should work.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] Mrocha85:
Awesome, thank you.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] Mrocha85:
Doesn't seem to be working. I extracted the files as you said but had to change the boot.img to boot.tar due to Odin not seeing the zip extension. I ran the boot.tar on Odin, it rebooted the phone but still keeps looping.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
After flashing the boot.img you should have gone into recovery mode and cleared your cache and then factory reset again and if that doesn't work then you'll have to download the latest updated firmware and flash it. Which I think you have to do because your bootloader version said 3 on the download mode which means the phone was already updated to at least the BPI1 firmware.

Also uncheck auto reboot in odin so you can hold the volume down button and the power button at the same time in order to shut the phone down and then boot into recovery mode holding the correct 3 keys.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] Mrocha85:
Ok I think I have the BPI1 firmware download. So let me just make sure I have the steps right.

Put phone in download mode

Uncheck auto reboot and add the BPI1 firmware and start

Press down and power button then boot into recovery.

Clear cache and then factory reset.

Do I just reboot after that?

Sorry really new to all of this so I need it all broken down for me. I appreciate your help.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
I was just using the BPI1 firmware version as a reference I don't know if that's exactly what is on your phone but it would be easier to help if I knew exactly what's already on the phone so turn the phone off then press and hold the volume up button the home button AND the power button all at the same time until the phone vibrates then just let go and wait until it gets into the actual recovery mode and once it's in there right at the very top it should say which firmware version is on the phone... You can also use the volume buttons to highlight clear cache and then use the power button to pick it.. Then reboot and see what it does but I still need the firmware version.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] Mrocha85:
It is on BPJ3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
I need the entire number not just the last 4 sorry about that.

Is it MMB29K.N920VVRU3BPJ3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] Mrocha85:
Mmb29k/n920vvru3bpj3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
At this point you need to download this one from [MENTION=5601139]Misterxtc[/MENTION] on this website

PL4 Rom

And put the phone into odin again and uncheck auto reboot seriously don't let it reboot... After the flash is successful hold the volume down button and the power button to make the phone turn off and when it comes back on highlight factory reset using the volume keys and then tap the home button to select it and let it factory reset and then it should reboot on it's own and you'll have to wait for a little while for the first boot some times. But don't let phone auto reboot after flashing with odin seriously uncheck it because factory resetting before the first boot up is essential to get rid of certain things that you don't want interfering with the new setup.

Edit: Remove the wire from the phone too after it's done flashing.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] Mrocha85:
I'll give it a shot and let you know. I appreciate your help Mr. Mike.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] Mrocha85:
I did exactly as you said and it's stuck at installing system update. The 2 circular arrows that spin, are not spinning anymore.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] Mrocha85:
Got any ideas Mr. Mike?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
Reflash the PJ3 firmware again with odin but instead of selecting factory reset just reboot the phone after flashing in odin and then see if it goes but if it doesn't then I don't know why because flashing the stock firmware should have fixed that!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] Mrocha85:
No go. When it's going through the installing system update. It hits 32% and then says erasing then installing system update. No % is shown and it freezes.

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Does that "FRP lock: on" have anything to do with it?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
If you have an FRP Lock error it's because oem unlock is/wasn't enabled in developer options.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] Mrocha85:
No errors like that. Everything passes on Odin but doesn't seem like phone takes the update.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
Did you at least leave it sit long enough to install the software update fully? Can you go into recovery and read the logs to see what they say?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] Mrocha85:
I let it sit for 20-25 mins. It froze at installing system update.

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Ended up swapping the motherboard out with another phone that had a broken screen. Now dealing with a Google locked phone lol. Phone problems. Hopefully I can get this one working before Verizon turns my note 7 off.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
LOL Google locked phone? You mean the FRPLOCK when it wants a password to enable the phone? I'd say try this but use YouTube to see how to use it..

And Verizon really can't do anything to your note 7 just use package disabler like I do and disable updates and anything with Verizons name on the list.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] Mrocha85:
Well I was lucky that the seller is working with me. Problem is he recently reset his Google password so I have to wait 72 hrs to use the new password or some crap.

Yeah I did disable everything, I'm still running on a 100% battery charge. You didn't get a notice from Verizon? They gave me a date they would kill me phone. I figured they were flipping the switch.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
They won't be doing much to mine seeing as it doesn't have a Verizon sim card in it.. It has a T-Mobile sim card while my note 5 has the Verizon sim card.. And yes you have to wait the 72 hours unless you know how to use the FRPLOCK to bypass it lol.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] Mrocha85:
Nice, I absolutely love the note 7 phone. One small flaw that could easily be fixed. I figured mine hasn't caught fire yet so I should be in clear.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] :
QA1 Anyone......

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=745425885120704956
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] stinky180:
Does anyone have a link to QB1?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] alucardme87:
How about the lastest Nougat QB9? Anyone have it?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] oksagi:
available on smartswitch
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] ynag:
Newbie here. Can you flash new firmware with FRP LOCK ON? I'm locked on the login screen with no keyboard so can't get into the phone and disable OEM lock.

I have QB9 via OTA and I'm hoping to flash OB9 again via ODIN so I get into the phone. When I get to ODIN mode, it says FRP lock is ON. Will I be able to flash? Thank you.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
You'll be able to flash yes but if you don't remember the Google username and password you're liable to get locked out of your own phone which is why I tell people to seriously unlock it before a factory reset and then just turn it back off after you're done doing what you have to do, but yes you can flash and factory reset..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] cbs1507:
I believe my note 5 Verizon is rooted I'm not sure with what. But it won't boot past blue android screen then black recovery page. Will flashing this help?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] Dejavl1:
Hi, I have a note 5 with verizon. The phone automatically reset back to factory and i lost all my pictures. Apparently after a few incorrect password it automactically reset to factory. Ive download and tried drfone and few other programs to retrieve my pictures but it won't pass the root part. I also download kingroot and tried to figure my way around odin but i don't know what i'm doing. I don't know anything about rooting or flashing. I'm just googling and hopefully figure something out. I can't give up on these pictures. I would really appreciate some help. Its on android 7.0 N920VVRS3CQD1 let me know what other information is needed
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
Hate to tell you this but it's to late now, they're gone! There's no root for the Verizon Galaxy Note 5 yet so unless you had a Google account and had it set to back up your stuff automatically, then there's nothing you can do now it's far to late especially when you enter the password incorrectly 15 times causing the phone to think someone's trying to guess the password and you guessed wrong enough times that phone deleted everything because that's what it's set to do so if the phone were to be stolen no one would be able to get any of your stuff! Pretty much screwed at this point!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] bladez:
I'm pretty sure he could go to data recovery service that specializes in data recovery from flash/NAND and get them back that way. Not anywhere cheap though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
Lol that's why I don't say "go to a data recovery place" that's definitely not cheap and will cost more the phone did, lol.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] Dejavl1:
I appreciate the response guys. It doesnt seem like there's anything i can do about it, from what i've read. While googling and researching i did come to 1 or 2 youtube video and a site or 2 that claim to work for other n920 models. Im thinking about giving them a try. I got nothing to loose
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
What firmware are you running? Because I might have a boot.img that may help you look in other places.. It's for adb root only.

Never mind I see you are on N920VVRS3CQD1 nothing I can do with that version sorry.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] tiomasai:
Really no hope?

I am not sure of my exact version but I had same thing happen to me two days ago. Am trying to not use phone. If I could take to a data recovery service, wouldn't I be able to root it as well, as that is what they would do, no? Just trying to understand. I know the files must be there b/c despite factory reset, the GB space available is as before.

Any insight anyone can provide (or recommendation of fast, good data recovery service) is greatly appreciated, thank you!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
No a data recovery center will not root it... The reason it's so expensive is because they have to open the phone and take it all apart just to get to the motherboard in it and then they will use a super hot air dryer to blow on the memory chip so it causes the metal solder that's holding it to the board melt and then they remove the chip and put it into a special type of connector that allows their computer to read and pull everything from the chip but like I said this is not cheap AT ALL and it's going to cost more than the phone itself did so I don't bother to recommend that I just say try everything you possibly can first and if it doesn't work and you have money to burn then let the data recovery center do it but if you don't have the money for that then chalk it up to lesson learned and to always make back ups of everything you know is important as hell!! I went through this 1 time up in Massachusetts when my HTC broke and it had my new born daughters pictures on it and lots of other stuff but I didn't factory reset it, it just completely died and that phone was only 300 dollars and I paid a business in Boston to retrieve everything and the total bill was 878.95 more than twice the phone but I wanted those pictures back so I didn't care and since that day I've learned my lesson and make backups daily before bed since it's so quick.. Hopefully you can figure it out bro..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] gregcapps:
It seems with the pending release of the note 8, that not even security patches are even being given to the note 5, the last patch was May 24th. Typically they were monthly.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] cale vance:
flashing unlocked firmware?

So i have an note 5 with verizon can i flash the unlocked us firmware to it similar to how its done with the s8 ive done multiple s8s its pretty straight forward was wondering if it even possible to do with this phone because i cant seem to find a clear answer on google thanks in advance

ps if you can could you link the firmware thanks so much guys
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] MrMike2182:
It's not possible to do what you want to do to it because the S8 hardware is nothing like the Note 5 and there's no firmware available to do that either! Until there's a way to unlock the bootloader, it's never going to be possible.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note5] gregcapps:
There is no unlocked firmware for the Verizon note5