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[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veronica94:
haha I used Odin to fix mines yesterday and smart switch didn't work like they say and neither does kies work I don't think they'll work with galaxy grand prime sm-g530t1
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roketz23:
does this still work

Hi my phone is blocked by frp it says and has a yellow triangle what would I need to do in order to fix this and does this work for metroPcs
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaimemar12:
My computer doesn't recognize my phone pls help I can't put it on USB debugging because is bricked pls help
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veronica94:
OK u have to let ur computer install ur drivers but if u can't u can use Samsung drivers
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CloudofShadows:
I have the IMEI

Um well I have also Bricked my phone and lucky enough I have a twin sister who let me see her phone but um I need help making the firmware if you need the IMEI code and others stuff I will tell you just plz help me fix mind before it is to late.
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joma256:
SM-G530T1 [New]

Opportunity knocks! I am going to have access to a brand new MetroPCS branded SM-G530T1 today soon. I just need to know what tools to use, and how to backup the stock ROM for those of you in desperate need of it (yes I made the foolish mistake of flashing the T-Mobile SM-G530T firmware and it worked great! Until you try to use mobile data/texting or calling!). Please shoot me any links to how to use fastboot (or whatever, I don't care what tools I need to use) to rip all the parts I may need, and how to put them in a working/flashable .tar.md5.

I want to give back to the community, so this is my way, I just need a little guidance!

-Josh
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kate cody:
Found thread with instructions to disable FRP in xda forums. Works perfectly. Cant post link til U grow up!! Lol
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pblack5649:
SM-G530T1 firmware

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[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] klabit87:
You guys don't search very well. This has all been done before and the best way to do it is follow my thread that has been shared in post 2 of this thread.

We have already extracted the firmware and stripped it of root and still frp would not clear.

My Odin package has been downloaded over 8 thousand times and only issue people have has been caused by the user.

Just trying to save you guys some time as it's all been tried and done before.

But if you have another idea then by all means continue. At least somebody is trying.

When I was contacted nobody would/could do anything for it.

EDIT: One thing that can be done is create a flashable rom.zip with the Metro firmware dump.

The T-mobile odin package can be used to get out of the frp problem then one could flash the Metro rom created from the dump.

No problem at all. Unless you guys still dont have a working recovery.
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rilesanita:
Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime custom binary blocked, FIXED!!

Thank you for your suggestion, it worked. I had to try it more than once. It worked on the 4th try. The only thing I did differently is that I left my phone plugged into my computer overnight and then Kies finally recognized it and it went through the steps that posted. Now, it is registering as a T-mobile device, but that is o.k.
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WesleyMontenegro:
Okay, so, after bricking my phone trying to switch from Kingoroot to SuperSU using the app Supersu me. The process completed so I rebooted my phone just to make sure it worked. To my surprise my phone would just freeze at the MetroPCS boot logo. I was looking up what was wrong with my phone and have come to the conclusion that my phone was soft bricked. I'm very new to these type of things. I just found out the difference between soft bricks and hard bricks. So with knowing that I soft bricked my phone, I hit up this website. I found your post and bam! It worked perfectly. I was kind of hesitant because I tried several other ways and none of them worked for me. Thank you very much! I almost thought I had to get a new phone. I tried with another way with Odin and got a failed message twice. When I tried this way I got this log:

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> ALL_TMB_G530T1UVU1AOH9_G530T1TMB1AOH9_CL5647484_QB6125324_REV00_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<ID:0/011> Odin v.3 engine (ID:11)..

<ID:0/011> File analysis..

<ID:0/011> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/011> Initialzation..

<ID:0/011> Set PIT file..

<ID:0/011> DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!!

<ID:0/011> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/011> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/011> aboot.mbn

<ID:0/011> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/011> sbl1.mbn

<ID:0/011> rpm.mbn

<ID:0/011> tz.mbn

<ID:0/011> hyp.mbn

<ID:0/011> NON-HLOS.bin

<ID:0/011> sec.dat

<ID:0/011> boot.img

<ID:0/011> recovery.img

<ID:0/011> system.img.ext4

<ID:0/011> persist.img.ext4

<ID:0/011> modem.bin

<ID:0/011> cache.img.ext4

<ID:0/011> RQT_CLOSE !!

<ID:0/011> RES OK !!

<ID:0/011> Removed!!

Last time it didn't even get past the first system.img.ext4. My phone has finally booted and WiFi connected almost instantaneously. The Camera works fine as well. No problems as of now. I'm not sure if it was just me or not but, before I bricked my phone or rooted it, my WiFi would disconnect continuously but now since I reinstalled the Firmware through Odin, the problem seems to have went away. Thank you very much!
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WesleyMontenegro:
Is there a way to root this phone without using Kingoroot?
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PalmCentro:
http://xdaforums.com/grand-prime/general/odin-5-1-1-sm-g530t1-oh9-metropcs-t3280445/post64682760
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WesleyMontenegro:
Has this method been tested already? Thank you very much.
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PalmCentro:
I used a few months ago, don't have anymore this device, it should work fine. There's a official thread about this root method, but i was too lazy to search.
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WesleyMontenegro:
Worth a shot I guess.

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Okay, so, I used Odin to install the trap kernal. The process went fine (No Errors), once Odin said "Passed" I exited Odin and rebooted phone, whilst phone was rebooting it got stuck on the Metro Logo, I pulled the battery and tried again and it worked. I got SuperSU installed, updated the Binaries now everything is good. Thanks for the help and the link!
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PalmCentro:
Happy for you! Just make sure to never uncheck allow OEM unlocking...
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danny.f:
hey thank that link help me out a lot. my name id Danny .f
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alias_REBaker:
FRP bricked SM-g530T1

This worked for me. I rooted my SM-G530T1 using Trap-Kernel. I did forget to remove my GOOGLE account from the phone though. I successfully rooted and added Titanium Pro with ROM Toolkit. Everything was going fine until I decided on a custom boot animation using ROM Toolkit. Doing this caused the FRP lock. I wasn't worried about soft brick, because I had all the backup software, Stock ROM for SM-G530T1 (MetroPCS), but when I tried ODIN and Kies nothing worked, even Smart Switch. The Samsung software said my serial number was wrong, but it wasn't. So I searched for a solution and the serial number trick above worked. Now I can just re-intall the Stock ROM for Metro PCS. Thank you. Oh, I almost forgot, I did un-check OEM Unlocking just prior to this. Probably contributed...
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Caspurr:
Works great every other way wouldnt work and i had no serial number did you make that serial number or something, ITS AMAZING it worked on kies 3
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StarPerfect:
I used your SN and it worked, Kies is currently downloading the files to restore and unbrick my device. Thanks!
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tran nam hoang:
: Khóc:
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PalmCentro:
Check out the second post on this thread.
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rodolfoalv89:
G550T PL1 firmware

Removed. Wrong Thread
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hernando1986:
cual es la clave de mega?

gracias!!!
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Flames97:
How to find the serial number

The serial number is located in the settings. Go to settings ---> about ----> status ----> and under there is serial number
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr.big_gun:
HELP PLZZ

Hello, I rooted my grand prime (sm-g530t1) after updating to the latest software update. now i cannot turn on wifi or wifi hotspot, it simply does not work. The only way i have found to make it work is to use Smart Switch to reinstall the latest firmware update. I recently bought this specific phone because my other grand prime, same model exactly, got wet and the screen wouldnt work. On my former phone I was using the first firmware for it G530T1UVU1AOH9_TMB1AOH9_v5.1.1, rooted it, wifi and hotspot worked no problem. Apparently it will not allow me to “revert” back to that firmware in odin at all. Is there any way that you know of to get my original firmware back on it?? I had no problem with wifi or hotspot before at all.. after the new firmware, when i root, neither will enable for me.. it is a really big bummer not to have a rooted phone and an even bigger bummer to not be able to hotspot. any suggestions on how to revert????? if only i could get back to G530T1UVU1AOH9_TMB1AOH9_v5.1.1, my problems would be solved.
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Flames97:
Reinitialize phone in smart switch again which will return to stock (hit more and initialize which wipes everything) This will make wifi work. Set phone up again and go into developer options and turn on Oem unlocking.

Then use cf auto root to root.

Look up cf auto root and use find in page for the one for g530t. Download it (works with 530t1)

Unzip, open folder, run Odin, hit AP select auto root file, connect phone in download mode, and hit start. Phone will reboot into a red recovery, root, and reboot.
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr.big_gun:
gonna try that right now!!! ill let you know in a few, hopefully.. if there is no brick lmao xD
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Flames97:
Good luck. I had the same issue with the new update

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Tell me if it works
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr.big_gun:
dude, if you were here right now id kiss you! ive been trying to figure this out for about 7 hours now. you are a fkn savior. I love you.

stay awesome and thanks again!

Ive looked over every forum on the web and could not find what you just gave me in a 2mins. THANK YOU! Hotspot and wifi work with no problem at all! Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

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would you by chance know where i can get a zip of the current firmware just in case i brick this and can no longer run it on pdanet to use smart switch? worst case scenario, a back up plan. i only have internet due to tether, we poor round here.
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Flames97:
I'm working on attempting to extract from Smart Switch. I recommend you install Twrp custom recovery and make a backup of everything by using its backup option and selecting everything. Save a copy of it on your computer once your done.

To install Twrp

Go to play store and install the official Twrp app. (Look up Twrp in play store)

Don't install Twrp manager, install the official app.

Open app and hit flash or install. In its search box, type gprimeltetmo and hit the option that comes up. It will take you to the download page. Download the .img file.

Go back to app, hit flash, and select the file that you downloaded. After it's done flashing turn off device and boot into recovery by holding power + home + volume up. Once it displays Twrp logo release buttons. Backup everything and reboot by going into main menu, reboot, system. Just say no if it asks to install supersu, root, or the Twrp app.

Ps. Don't install updates unless you return to stock. Btw. This 8th grader saved your phone ?
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr.big_gun:
I used to be wayyy better with linux when I was your age, I am afraid time has gotten the best of me. Being that I cant get away from work and I have kids. I am starting to lose my grip on modern tech more and more everyday.

I must ask, how would I go about unrooting in my current situation or reinitializing with Smart Switch after being rooted the way you suggested, It appears that " 'Galaxy Grand Prime' does not support initializing" now? teach me young padawon lol
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Flames97:
I'm pretty sure it still does considering I initialized an s4 the other day. It might not want to because the device is rooted. For a full clean restore (complete wipe) I would make sure you right down your serial number (located under settings, about, status) and model number which is SM-G530T1. Then you would go into download mode, connect device, go to more, initialization and enter the model and serial numbers and will start downloading latest firmware. This removes custom recoveries, mods, root, supersu, etc. and returns to 100% stock

For a simple unroot go into the supersu app and scroll right into settings. Underneath it should be an unroot option. Select it and it should remove itself.

(I recommend having Twrp custom recovery for this just in case you wanna reroot)

Do you have Twrp?

Anyway to reroot download the latest supersu zip ( google it). Then go into Twrp by powering off device and then holding power, volume up, and home until you see the Twrp screen. Hit install, navigate to the downloaded file, select it, and swipe to install. Hit reboot, system. Your done after that.
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr.big_gun:
Cool beans dude, I believe you have provided me with enough information to do everything I need to do and more. I will take your advise on Twrp and I want to thank you again for your time and effort. Sincerely, Thanks a million.
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PalmCentro:
Just saying... Smart Switch (or Kids) won't work on the T1... Tried it back in the days that I need to go back to stock.

There's a link in the second post on this thread for a stock G530T which can be flashed on the T1
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr.big_gun:
I was able to get it to work just fine.. dunno why you couldn't before.

^ i found the reason it wouldn't initialize was because my internet was down for an few mins and i didnt know at the time. lol i had a dummy moment xD
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] norman68:
Could I get decrypt key for mega download please
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Binh430350:
I need key too pls :(
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ts_root78:
Backup

Ok, guys. Here's the promised backup. I removed A LOT of the bloatware. I also removed a lot of Google Apps. The original launcher was removed and replaced with apex launcher. And it should have titanium backup, root browser, and a few others. Until then, peace...

Backup - TS_root
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eker05:
Thank you bro ! I'll download & test it when i get home later & ill post my results ! :D
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ts_root78:
Hey, I do have a favor to ask someone. If you have a stock, non-debloated backup, will you please shoot it my way? I wish to test something. I removed the launcher that was stock and wish to see if I restored a stock backup would it bring the launcher back... Just something to test... Thanks
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yu-san:
I just noticed something when trying to flash TWRP using Odin. Once it fails to flash, on the phone a red message pops up saying, "Custom Binary(recovery) Blocked By FRP Lock" (It always looks like it says FAP instead of FRP lol). I wish there was some way I could disable the FRP Lock without having to get into the phone :(
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ts_root78:
Not certain if this is what you seek... But here is a youtube video that popped up when I first searched google for your problem.
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PalmCentro:
Thanks, i tried restoring this backup via twrp but by 55 percent it reboots....
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ts_root78:
I am unsure of whether the recovery is actually making backups.. I say that because it will say it gets to 100 percent when "compressing" but it restarts shortly after that. THe second counter does not get that far.
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PalmCentro:
Btw which recovery did you use?

And maybe it's because of my low battery
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eker05:
Low battery shouldn't be a problem.. but I'll try fully charging my prime & ill give it a try hopefully it works..
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yu-san:
I came across that when searching for a solution earlier. I went to their site and checked out what I had to do. Unfortunately it required me to have to be an OTG cable and I don't really have the money for that at the moment. I'm not even 100% sure it's going to solve my problem. It does seem to be the only solution at the moment. But again, I don't really have the money to try it out.
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ts_root78:
Good question. I did see that also. I wondered the same; Could it be permissions?
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] supaboii92:
I'm not sure but I read that TWRP tends to have this issue and CWM is a better solution. Can we find a working CWM recovery for G530T1?
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ts_root78:
If we can find it for the 530h, we may have one.
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eker05:
Cwm for metro grand prime works

Im here to confirm that this cwm http://xdaforums.com/grand-prime/development/cwm-clockworkmod-v6-0-5-1-t3199360 works on pur phone :D
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ts_root78:
http://xdaforums.com/grand-prime/development/share-galaxy-grand-prime-sm-g530h-f0-t3057571/page2 This article has a file for the smg530h. Which is what the twrp was for.
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheMDCN:
http://xdaforums.com/grand-prime/development/share-galaxy-grand-prime-sm-g530h-f0-t3057571

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I didn't brick or anything, just wanted to read about who did and some fixes before I tried anything.
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ts_root78:
I have not tried it or any other yet. I plan to when I get home.
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eker05:
How did you get the backup to show up once you clicked on Restore on Twrp ? Whenever i click on restore, i choose the external sdcard & nothing pops up , even though i put the backup in my external sdcard
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ts_root78:
Actually, nothing shows; It is as though it was never reading the fs. My apologies guys because I was the one whom suggested flashing this twrp recovery.
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eker05:
Maybe you can try backing up with the cwm recovery i posted or the one you posted..?
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] supaboii92:
you need to convert the file to a zip. TWRP only sees the zip version. The file uploaded is a rar
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eker05:
Either way i believe the backup wont work because the when you extract the tar file it only comes with the system file , when you back up your phone there's supposed to be a bunch of other files as well...
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ts_root78:
The file was rar'ed as opposed to zipped due to my lack of knowledge. I believe the recovery to be error in then due to the absence of the other files. Creating them causes the reset maybe?
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eker05:
Probably. . . But whenever you have the time or chance if you could please try to back with cwm & check if all files backed up...? still thanks for trying with the first back up you uploaded , I appreciate it & thanks in advance !!! :D
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheMDCN:
Eker05 did the backup ts_root78 provide work for your device?
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ts_root78:
Good News, Eker.. It worked. I am currently uploading a backup taken with the one you suggested to my G! drive.. Once it is finished uploading I will be posting it.. Or not.. Wait.. Let me do a factory reset then restore... Either way.. It did work Eker.
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eker05:
That's great news bro ! Hopefully it works for me and many others ! Thanks again , I & everyone else really appreciates you helping us !!
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silentgumm:
i get an unable to mount message in twrp recovery. flashing the backup results in errors. still willing to give anything a shot.
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ts_root78:
Well, this has been a double edged sword for me... While the backup does work, my phone conked out on me in that it erased my android system. It bricked it completely for a few minutes, but I got the custom recovery back on it... So.. Now.. I need a rom. Anyone know how to make one? Good news, though, is that I got a backup off before it formatted the system... Bad news is the t-mobile rom is the "incorrect size", although that'sthrough odin. I wonder if I can flash it through the sd card? If not, I've a softbricked system...

**Edit** I do have that backup.
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eker05:
So wait a minute you have the backup of stock right ? & your system got formatted in the progress of resetting it ?

Sorry im not really understanding what you're saying...
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ts_root78:
Not a backup of stock. The recovery worked. Once I knew this I created a recovery. After creating the recovery I thought, wait, I'm signed in... So I went to do a factory reset and wasn't paying attention, so I've no os. But the backup of my last running state is intact.
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eker05:
But the cwm recovery did work though right? Like it let you fully back up your phone ?
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ts_root78:
From the files I have extracted from the phone, I'd say yes... Definitely. Do not factory reset through it though. It will soft brick the phone. Other functions work. Since the recovery does... It does ask about rooting. My question is does it trip knox?

*Edit* A friend shot me this link. It shows the way to create odin mages. I believe this is a way to make custom roms. The good news is samsung said mine was warrantied, so I can take it to a service center and have it reflashed. So I plan to do that and see if the recovery will root it since it will be a new phone flash...
[Galaxy Grand Prime Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yu-san:
Upon further looking, it looks like their method will not work for me. You have to install an apk on the phone, and I can't even get past the FRP Lock screen to install an apk :( So that method will not work for me, unfortunately.