[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note5] bloewen4:
Hey everyone, so I have from what I researched here is a "soft" bricked phone as my recovery mode (TWRP) and download mode works fine but no boot.

First let me say this is the Canadian version of the Note 5 SM-N920W8. I posted here because there is no forum for that version everything seems to be the same and posted under 920T version.

HISTORY OF THE PHONE:

It was a while ago that I rooted but let me describe to the best of my memory how my note 5 ended up in the state that it is in. So stock was lollipop 5.1.1. I flashed the skyhigh kernel which gave root access but had random reeboot issues which led me to flashing TWRP recovery so I could flash boot.img as an image file which did take away the random reeboot problem and removed that red error on startup "kernel is not SEANDROID enforcing". Life was good at this point! Everything worked great woth no issues. I greenified everything and underclocked the cpu with system tuner and used system app removed to manually all the bloatware as I didnt want to start using custom roms I stuck with the stock firmware. Part of the reason that I didnt want to use custom roms is because I started reading up on xposed framework, so I decided to flash it and give it a try. I read the xposed framework thread followed the download link to my version downloaded it and flashed with TWRP. Immediately after this was a bootloop.

TROUBLESHOOTING:

Unfortunately I had no backup in TWRP.. In a panic before researching I started flashing other kernels like arters kernel and I think space x whcih can be used on some note 5s.. which brought back that SEANDROID error message in the bootloop. I flashed the skyhigh kernel but flashing the boot.img didn't get rid of that error message again.

A friend of mine at work recommended that I just wipe everything and flash the stock firmware from sammobile.com with odin since I still have recovery mode then just re root. So I went into TWRP and wiped EVERYTHING. I think there was 4 or 5 boxes in twrp data wipe but I selected all the boxes. Now the phone doesn't even get the Samsung logo on boot or anything but download mode works so I flashed twrp again which loads up. I downloaded my version of the Samsung firmware which was about 1.6gb from sammobile.com. I open odin load the file that I extracted. A tar.md5 file which took longer than normal to load into the AP but I didn't change any settings or anything. Should I have? Because after I hit start it failed. I retried at least 3 times. Does this firmware contain all the AP CP and all the other boxes or do I need to find those separately? Should I just try a custom rom?

Im not sure what to do here I have a completely blank phone but twrp and download mode works so it recoverable right?

I read up on adb sideloader but didn't get too far.. is that worth trying for recovery in this case?

I also read a few threads on here for other samsung versions where they say to flash a PIT file with odin but they all say that it only works specifically for that phone and I couldn't find one for this version of the note 5.

I know the #1 rule here is to research before posting and Ive really made my best attempt to research on here and Google over the last few days but I really need my phone back. Any help is greatly appreciated.