[Galaxy S6 Edge Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icecoolpsyco:
Hi Guys, have spent last 6 days on the forums, endless hours of reading and downloading hours of different firmwares day and night and trying everything i possibly could before finally resorting to posting a thread as i have now completely given up. I am a bit of noob to the forums but have been using this place for many years and with quite a lot of success with many samsung phones over last few years upto my very own note4 recently, but this galaxy s6 edge seems to have defeated me.

plz plz plz help, any help and info much appreciated.

i am trying to fix this phone for my 16 year old cousin who gave it to me in a bricked state and not quite sure exactly what he had done to it, as hes not too sure what he was trying to do whilst trying to root or install a new rom/firmware.

have tried many stock firmwares from sam-mobi site but odin just fails to flash them, then having read many threads have realised that it must be something to do with bootloader or boot locked and maybe im trying the wrong firmware, problem is i dont know what firmware is on there before it was given to me in this bricked state.

then tried the twrp flash which seemed to do something as now the screen shows

RECOVERY IS NOT SEANDROID ENFORCING

so did more reading on this issue and tried various things from different threads and post fixes but still stuck. and kept getting the red sw rv binary or something message in the fone after each failed flash

then read somewhere to get the Indian stock firmware version and delete the MD5 part of the file and then extract and delete the img file named hidden and then repack using the toolkit from here which creates new tar file. then re flashed again odin. but still no success as now getting get pit file error from odin

:crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:

i now have the blue screen that says

"an error has occurred while updating the device software. Use the emergency recovery function in the smart switch pc software"

I have tried smart switch too but cant get fone to recognise or connect to software.

I can get into download and odin mode no problem but the information showing on there seems to be different to what i remember first seeing when the fone was given to me, as few days back the knox warranty void was showing as 0 but now showing as 1 (0x304) i remember current binary being : SAMSUNG i think but now showing as : Custom

I Just tried flashing the following stock rom as it came from sam-mobi : G925FXXU2COH2_G925FBTU2COH3_BTU

and now getting this from odin

<ID:0/004> Added!!

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

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

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<ID:0/004> Odin engine v(ID:3.1100)..

<ID:0/004> File analysis..

<ID:0/004> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/004> Initialzation..

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

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

<ID:0/004> SingleDownload.

<ID:0/004> boot.img

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

<ID:0/004>

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

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

<ID:0/004> Removed!!

so do i need the pit file now too? or a firmware download that has all the BL AP CP CSC files seperately? im sure i tried this a few days ago too with all the seperate files in odin but no joy

what do i need to do just to get this phone back to stock and up an running??

I am not bothered about rooting or what version of firmware it is, just as long as we can get the fone working again.

is it something to do with knox being triggered ?

is it something to do with wrong bootloader or something ?

or am i just flashing the wrong files ?

sorry about the long essay, just letting you guys know as much info as possible as to what i have done so far and maybe help in diagnosing where i have made mistakes or gone wrong.

all help much appreciated and many thanks in advance, please guys let me know what im doing wrong or what i need to do right?