[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cynflux:
I was able to flash the one of the Note 5 Nougat firmwares (N920PVPU3DQC5	?) via ODIN.

Note 5 was able to boot, but none of the Google apps would work.

One each google app, I would get the following message:

Google Play services, which some of your applications rely on, is not supported by your device.

So essentially the stock ROM is unusable. I believe I had the N920PVPU1AOGD N920PSPT1AOGD firmware, before my flashing problems. I rooted the Note 5 several years ago, but was experiencing random reboots due to the unstabler Noble Kernel. I had also installed Wanam Xposed module when I rooted the Note 5. I installed Arter's kernel and TWRP with great success. However, once I attempted to installed Xposed again, the Note 5 went into a bootloop. I booted into TWRP, wiped the cache, etc, but Note 5 would still bootloop. I think I've gone through about 5 firmware files, beforeI came across the Nougat firmware. Ideally, I would like to go back to 5.11 N920PVPU1AOGD N920PSPT1AOGD, but I think I read that once you installed firmware past N920PVPU2AOI6, you can't go back to OGD stock.

Here is a list of firmwares I have found at sammobile.

2017-11-05	Spint (cdma)	7.0	N920PVPS3DQJ1	N920PSPT3DQJ1

2017-08-28	Spint (cdma)	7.0	N920PVPS3DQH1	N920PSPT3DQH1

2017-08-08	Spint (cdma)	7.0	N920PVPU3DQG2	N920PSPT3DQG2

2017-06-26	Spint (cdma)	7.0	N920PVPS3DQF1	N920PSPT3DQF1

2017-06-13	Spint (cdma)	7.0	N920PVPS3DQE1	N920PSPT3DQE1

2017-04-21	Spint (cdma)	7.0	N920PVPU3DQC5	N920PSPT3DQC5

2017-03-13	Spint (cdma)	6.0.1	N920PVPS3BQB1	N920PSPT3BQB1

2017-02-16	Spint (cdma)	6.0.1	N920PVPS3BQA1	N920PSPT3BQA1

2017-01-25	Spint (cdma)	6.0.1	N920PVPS3BPL1	N920PSPT3BPL1

2016-12-14	Spint (cdma)	6.0.1	N920PVPS3BPK1	N920PSPT3BPK1

2016-11-08	Spint (cdma)	6.0.1	N920PVPS3BPJ2	N920PSPT3BPJ2

2016-10-27	Spint (cdma)	6.0.1	N920PVPU2BPH9	N920PSPT2BPH9

2016-08-02	Spint (cdma)	6.0.1	N920PVPU2BPG1	N920PSPT2BPG1

2016-05-22	Spint (cdma)	6.0.1	N920PVPU2BPD2	N920PSPT2BPD2

2016-04-18	Spint (cdma)	6.0.1	N920PVPS2BPD1	N920PSPT2BPD1

2016-03-23	Spint (cdma)	6.0.1	N920PVPU2BPC3	N920PSPT2BPC3

2015-12-14	Spint (cdma)	5.1.1	N920PVPS2AOK3	N920PSPT2AOK3

2015-09-25	Spint (cdma)	5.1.1	N920PVPU2AOI6	N920PSPT2AOI6

2015-08-19	Spint (cdma)	5.1.1	N920PVPU1AOGD	N920PSPT1AOGD

If anyone can direct me to a working stock ROM that can be rooted, I would be very grateful.

My Note 5 can still be put in Download mode, so I know there is a way to get the Note 5 back to a working state. If I could be rooted and have Xposed, that would be ideal. But at this point, I'd be happy with rooted stock and stable kernel. Thank you in advance for any constructive that anyone can provide.

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The sammobile links for the Sprint Note 5 firmwares:

https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-note5/SM-N920P/SPR/

---------- Post added at 04:43 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:42 AM ----------

Which version of ODIN are you using?

Thanks in advance for your reply.

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I also noticed that the firmware that my phone would accept was broken into 4 parts:

BL

AP

CP

CSC

Most of the ones I am finding are just 1 big tar file and they never seem to work.