yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Goddly:
Use the modded Odin

I assume your right clicking, and running Odin as admin right?

After you extract the image (if you have to) remove the .md5 from the end.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] rudimenta:
Make sure your firmware starts with G950 and not G955 in that case!

If thats correct try the modded odin like above post, if that doesn't work try this firmware G950USQU2BQK5 (unknown version) from sammobile firmware section and use the regular odin, just unpack and don't change any thing just load.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Insomaniac10:
WOOOOOOOOO!!!!! IT......IS.............ALIIIIIIIIIVE! Was not running as admin, and not removing .MD5 (like I said, been out of the rooting game for a while running Blackberry)

Not in the clear yet though...it will boot to the welcome/start screen and then immediately power down on its own to display the battery charging display with no percentage or animation. This is great progress though!! I can reboot into recovery, and did perform a factory reset, however that did not help.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Goddly:
Lol. Well... You just screwed yourself into a new boot loader... [emoji23]

ALWAYS ALWAYS RUN AS ADMIN!

I'll bet you anything you could have flashed the Rom had you ran Odin in admin.... smh...

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Try reflashing using regular Odin...

RUN AS ADMIN!

Man, I wish we would have waited to flash a U2 BL.

That should have been the ABSOLUTE LAST RESORT.

I would have pointed out Admin rights at some point. Lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Insomaniac10:
Understood. I've used Odin in the past on older Galaxys and never had to run as admin before, was not aware it was a requirement these days. Well I'm obviously in decompress mode now that I learned my phone is salvagable, so the fact that I've limited my ability to root (for now, hopefully) can be considered collateral damage. Definitely won't forget this experience though, and I can't thank you, and everyone who helped, enough.

How should I approach OTAs going forward?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Goddly:
Lol. Well you can relax a bit for sure!

Your not done yet, I want to make sure you're phone is up and running before I leave... so try as I've stated above. Let me know.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] partcyborg:
Hi.

God damned Sammy and their boot revs!

I read through stuff here and in the PCR thread and I have some thoughts.

I agree and am 99% positive he got pushed a U2 boot. Especially if he had a 955U1, for them the November update was U2BQXX.

Technically it's failing on abl.elf (the primary bootloader and highest on the secboot chain in the flashable firmware). That is a very small rom file, the odds of him even being able to download a sufficiently corrupted copy are essentially 0. Plus if he's flashing stock the md5 sum would make Odin yell at you and refuse to flash unless you remove md5 from the end.

The only other even physically possible scenarios are things like that he either has a note8 or downloaded a note8 rom and no one noticed, or he's flashing a Moto or a pixel 2 with samsung firmware, or an iPhone, or that we all got slipped peyote with dinner and are really on some kind of luny Samsung vision quest to teach us the "dangers of rooting". Idk about you but I'm going with U2 image flashed

Something to check - you've tried different cables and ports on your computer right? I've seen ports crap out and do wacky ****. One person had a bad USB port that somehow magically stripped only supersu from his roms, time and time again.

I'm leaving work. Ill think on this a bit in case more brick walls happen.

Most important tho try not to stress it! We will get your phone up that's a fact.

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This is probably covered but flash the U2 rom from updato. Any of them is fine the U devices aren't carrier locked.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Goddly:
Lol. First thing I asked was cable and port swap. ;)

But either way. At this point, he's just happy to have a (semi) booting phone.

But..

A. I don't know what phone he has (100% for sure) there is actually 950U AND 950U1 versions.

B. I don't know what was flashed OTA.

C. In his desperation, I don't know what he flashed to attempt to return to stock.

D. There's not enough thanks buttons to press for this type of help... Lol

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We've gone over basically everything... lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Insomaniac10:
Phone seems to be good after a couple of reboots, setting everything up now. I'm going to tinker with it for the night, and I will report back tomorrow to let everyone know how things are running. Thanks again!!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Goddly:
Lol. Enjoy brother! Remember that thanks button! Like every day.... for a year.... ?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Insomaniac10:
I used them all up for today a while ago lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Goddly:
[emoji106]
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] thejackalsmark:
I got your back. just used last of mine to thank for you. ?

Congrats on recovering phone, btw.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Goddly:
Lol thanks! [emoji38][emoji41]
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Goddly:
Should change the title of the thread to [SOLVED]
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] thejackalsmark:
Should change the title of the thread to [MIRACLED].

?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Insomaniac10:
Good day, everyone. All systems are go! I have been using since last night, with no issues whatsoever. I have updated the thread title to "SOLVED" and updated OP with the embarrassing solution. Thank you all (especially Goddly) for holding my hand through this. I swear to god(dly), there was a time some years ago where I was very good with all of this, I have just been out of the game for a while - long enough to revert to noob apparently. Live and learn - and most lessons are in fact learned the hard way.

i asked this last night but was probably buried in all the comments. How should I handle OTAs now that I am running a firmware that is not native to my particular device? Am I able to update freely if I choose (obviously checking to make sure it will not prevent me from any updated root methods, if I am eventually able to go down that road)? Is there anythign else I should be wary of?

It still says I've used all my "thanks" for the day, but I will hit you all up eventually.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Insomaniac10:
I still have the goddam "Donate to me" button active back from when I used to make metamorph themes LOLOLOL. Think it's time to remove that.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Goddly:
You are no noob. Everyone needs help at some point! If my device had no rom. With no working recovery , and Odin was failing every flash. I'd ask for help too! It's not a bad thing!

A bad thing would be having a 900 dollar paper weight. Because no one offered you help someone in dire need of help!

I would hate to be in that situation, and no one to help.

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I still have a donate button too! From my ROMS, themes from my S2, note 3. Lol everyone needs help bro! Things change so fast. To cook a ROM, android kitchen. Etc. If you get busy and lose time to learn and keep up . It happens.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] thejackalsmark:
First of all congratulations again on rescuing that phone. I know from ugly experience just how terrifying a moment that can be.

Secondly, don't beat yourself up over the thing. It happens to us all at one time or another at least once.

If you develop software or ROMs or anything else in the world of Android it can happen more often than one cares to admit. :)

I have been out of the rooting and flashing game for nearly six years myself. The last phone I rooted was my LG Optimus F7 a little over 5 years ago. That was also the last custom ROM I flashed.

Before that I had an HTC Titan AKA Sprint mogul with Windows mobile 6.1 out of the box. I flashed many many many a custom ROM on that phone in experimentation. So I assure you I am in no way a noob to cell phones or rooting or flashing ROMs.

With that said I've made my mistakes too. Some of them really really obvious ones that I kicked myself for later. I have been reading cyborgs PCR thread since its Inception and his Samfail root thread before that. And the SamPWND thread before that.

I've seen a lot of people's mistakes a lot of people's bad software, Hardware, cables, ports, Etc. I've seen tons of things go wrong with people trying to root or flash a custom ROM on this device. Things that made absolutely no freaking sense and nobody could seem to pin down and yet still managed to recover it.

For all the situations that I have seen all the mistakes and all the solutions I should probably be an expert by the time I get around to actually rooting and flashing this custom ROM. However like many others of us... Murphy hates me.

I absolutely expect that no matter how implicitly I follow the directions something is almost inevitably going to go wrong. And I will, guaranteed, ask for help from [MENTION=8360749]partcyborg[/MENTION] [MENTION=5052218]Goddly[/MENTION] or [MENTION=4657791]crixley[/MENTION], when it does. ?

(Thanks ahead of time, by the way guys. LOL)

A noob would have given up after the second or third attempt and thrown the damn thing against the wall. Claiming the whole time he did nothing wrong he did nothing wrong. You didn't do that. So trust me, you're no noob.

Ask [MENTION=8360749]partcyborg[/MENTION] [MENTION=5052218]Goddly[/MENTION] or [MENTION=4657791]crixley[/MENTION] how many extremely seasoned veterans they have seen completely brick a phone...

Again, it happens to us all.

At least the issue was something like not right clicking and running as administrator, and not a matter of you refused to read and Follow directions or something.

Oh, and you didn't ask about fixing the 80% battery issue. LOL

That puts you 10 times higher on the respectable scale than any Noob out there!

Enjoy your phone. Rooted/Custom ROM or STOCK, it's a damn good phone, and imho was one of the best phones for the money that you could have chosen!

Merry Christmas, early! ??
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Goddly:
Sure jackal, I'll help you out,

You Can't flash a U1 rom, when you've already taken the U2 OTA. ... you're welcome... [emoji23]

I helped a guy last night who did this same thing. Was looking for help with failed Odin flash... (sound familiar?) Couldn't figure it out. Asked if he updated, says "yea two days ago" I asked U2 build by chance? "Yea! U2BL#$%" he felt dumb, said "hey everyone, don't be like me, don't be number 2" to which I had to reply that not 3 posts above his, 3... was the first guy who did this. Just 3 posts above his was the answer to his problem. Verbatim. Lmfao
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] thejackalsmark:
So you guys DID confirm for sure that his ota was the U2 update.

I hadn't noticed, just thought it was suspected. Thx for clarifying. ?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Insomaniac10:
How can I confirm which bootloader I am now on? My device now says G950U1, but my gut tells me that does not tell the whole story...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Goddly:
Settings, about phone, build #
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Insomaniac10:
So I'm still on the U1 bootloader. Which means there is still hope for root?? ..... :cowboy:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Goddly:
Install. phone info *Samsung*

This will tell you your exact BL. And will also allow you to change csc, just like shortcut master. But this will tell you all about your device.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Insomaniac10:
g950u1u2aqk2 is that U1 or U2 bootloader lol they are both in there. I assume U2...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Goddly:
U2 brother.... :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Insomaniac10:
Damn it all. Oh well, I'll just have to be patient. Thanks again!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Insomaniac10:
And before we drop this completely and I still have you, would you mind explaining to me the significance of the new U2 bootloader? What about it prevents SamFail, and what are the odds we are able to root in the future? What would happen if I tried SamFail on this?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Goddly:
It's just a new bootloader they've decided to push out. It's a newer BL. As Sam fail is made for the original U1. Downgrading back to U1 after the update to U2 is currently IMPOSSIBLE.

There's a new ROM for V2 bl out now.

I'm guessing the new BL is to prep for the new Oreo beta. I'm fairly certain with the U2 BL you can flash the Oreo build. (No root, fully stock of course) I'm unsure if they pulled the system.Img for it, to be flashed yet, or if you have to wait for OTA. I'm sure you can look around.

Anything you attempt to flash that's not U2 BL will fail, horribly, as we've seen in increasing regularity the passed couple days.

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I've written cyborg, asking he add at the top of the OP, to AVOID THE LATEST NOV OTA IF YOU WANT TO RUN THIS ROM! ONCE THE OTA IS TAKEN, THERE'S NO RECOURSE.

Edited

But there is a new ROM for the bootloader now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] Insomaniac10:
Best to sit tight then!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] crixley:
You guys are some fine folks :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions & Answers] thejackalsmark:
Lol. You're ONE of those fine folks.

????

(He's sooo modest. ?)
[HTC Startrek] ton_109:
I wanna change system font on my S300

How do i change it .

thanks.
[Razer Phone Questions & Answers] Riguy:
I have a smart watch with calling capabilities (Samsung gear newest S2 model).

When ever I receive a call it automatically will forward the call to my watch.

I've scavenged the bluetooth settings, dolby atmos sound settings and call settings as well as my gear settings...

I cant seem to find an option to change default call audio out. Any ideas or work-arounds help.
[Razer Phone Questions & Answers] nexy33:
you don't have Bluetooth headset paired to the watch by any chance?
[Razer Phone Questions & Answers] Dirrtydog:
Usually, with every Bluetooth device that is paired with the phone can access phone audio, media audio and contact sharing. Just uncheck the "phone audio" and when you receive a voice call, the call shouldn't be rerouted through your watch and you should be able to answer it from your phone. I've done this wai with Sony Ericsson MW600 with a bunch of different phones. Always worked.

Hope it helps.
[Moto G5 Questions & Answers] ap4ss3rby:
I know what Motorola promised, but did anyone receive Oreo as of yet, because if I'm not mistaken Oreo will arrive this month
[Moto G5 Questions & Answers] TheFixItMan:
Please don't ask about updates - there's so many threads about them already you could use

Check the Motorola website & forum - if they haven't announced it officially the answer is no
[Moto G5 Questions & Answers] oliver7:
G5 plus is currently receiving Nov. security patch, so I bet that's what we'll get soon before Oreo as well.
[Moto G5 Questions & Answers] ap4ss3rby:
Sorry if what I asked is a frquently asked question , and thanks for clarifying
[General Questions and Answers] advhound:
Hello all,

The phone was previously rooted, I just wanted to retry to get rid of the optimizing app problem. With that said, the phone is rooted, and I previously had USB debugging enabled. I reset to factory using the Android Recovery, so does this mean USB debugging was not enabled after resetting?

These were my steps:

Install and run KingRoot

Purchase Super-Sume Pro ($4) to replace KingRoot with SuperSu

On reboot it got stuck in boot loop. I have tried Android System Recovery (lmy47v) but my options are only

>reboot system now
>wipe data/factory reset
>wipe cache partition
>reboot to bootloader
>power down
>view recovery logs

I have tried all of these options several times.

I have installed ADB on windows as well as the Kyocera drivers here: kyoceramobile.com/support/drivers

I have not been successful in getting access to the phone with ADB.

I have tried to get the phone into fastboot mode by combinations of key presses, but I have not been successful. Does this phone have fastboot? Here are the recovery logs: imgur.com/a/Sn9zD

What is left? I really like this phone and use it as a waterproof GPS and would have to have made a paperweight out of it. Please help!
[General Questions and Answers] advhound:
Hey all, looking for some general Android wisdom on how to get my phone to a state where the computer can detect it as a USB device so that I can use ADB or some other method. What are my options?
[General Questions and Answers] nugiedha:
Hi..my XD bootloop too..BTW how to get in Android System Recovery?
[General Questions and Answers] jayram1408:
Did you ever fix your phone?

I saw that the post just stops with you needing help
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Flonne:
Device:

Lenovo A916. (I don't think that matters for this isue though)

Issue:

Since the one and only firmware lenovo released was kitkat 4.4.1, i wanted to update to 5.1.

Rooted phone, managed to install TWRP, flashed to lollipop 5.1, so far so good. But had some problems with the custom ROM (no SIM detected), so i decided to download a stock ROM recovery and installed it.

When rebooted device i was stuck on CWM and custom rom installations give me errors and can't access USB storage on PC.

When i try to install a custom rom i get a no file_contexts warning and it fails.

Is there a way to fix this (maybe enter again to TWRP so i can flash a rom again? i don't know) or is my phone ruined forever? It was on USB debug mode, if that helps.

For some weird reason, it turns on by itself when connected via USB cable.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
[Xiaomi Redmi 4X Questions & Answers] SenatorPC:
hello

i delete mi account from this link :

https://account.xiaomi.com/pass/del

but i forget first sighn out in device !!!!!

now in device , say sign in account !

but account is deleted and dont accept password !

plz help ! how to remove mi account in device ?!

i can't flash device !
[Xiaomi Redmi 4X Questions & Answers] shootomanUK:
my sister done the same thing, she had to contact xiaomi and explain what she had done....but they did unlock it for her after a few days :)
[Xiaomi Redmi 4X Questions & Answers] SenatorPC:
tnx

try this
[Honor 8 Pro  Themes, Apps, and Mods] Tindel1:
The project ist closed. Sorry and thanks for the support.
[Honor 8 Pro  Themes, Apps, and Mods] K.khiladi:
The link ain't opening up
[Honor 8 Pro  Themes, Apps, and Mods] K.khiladi:
The theme looks amazing. Well done.
[Honor 8 Pro  Themes, Apps, and Mods] K.khiladi:
The "Emergency services" icon isn't themed even after restarting the phone.
[Honor 8 Pro  Themes, Apps, and Mods] K.khiladi:
It doesn't support emui 8, does it??
[Moto G4 Plus Questions & Answers] omar_yasser:
I have a moto g4 plus on nougat 7.0 september update and suddenly it gave me the system UI stopped working and the screen went black (The ambient display is working and when I use the gesture of the flashlight it works) despite the nothing works and the screen remains black. I tried to reset the phone from the bootloader but every time the phone starts normally to this problem.

Thank you in advance.
[Moto G4 Plus Questions & Answers] DgnrtnX:
Flash the following rom(it is stock of September security) via bootloader.

Read the disclaimer properly and all the steps too, flash lock bootloader only(if you haven't yet unlocked it).

Link : goo.gl/3BQwd4
[Moto G4 Plus Questions & Answers] omar_yasser:
Thank you and sorry because I didn't thank yoi sooner.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] Kenneth196:
Hey all. I messed up somewhere along the line of upgrading from 8.0 to 8.1 and I'm now getting the dreaded "Can't load android system. Your data may be corrput. If you continue to get this message, you may need to perform a factory data reset and erase all user data stored on this device." Options to select are "Try again" and "Factory Data reset". If I select Try again, it'll boot like normal to the regular OS, but a prompt that says "com.android.phone has stopped" will keep popping up and won't allow me to do anything.

Sooooo... I want to facotry reset as I believe that'll resolve it. I'm able to do adb commands (reflashing the 8.1 factory image with the -w parameter didn't fix it) so I'd like to copy my data from my phone first before factory resetting. However, when I try....

adb pull /storage/emulated/0

adb: error: failed to copy '/storage/emulated/0/KRaRPXNa5ecSnT4Jeku2PA' to '.\0\KRaRPXNa5ecSnT4Jeku2PA': remote open failed: Required key not available

Any suggestions?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] v12xke:
Yeah, hey Tex.... wipe ur sh!t and get on with it, FFS. The data is encrypted. :cowboy:
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djamiirr:
Hello guys.

I have the HTC one M8. in forums, i found that the htc_wlv references to verizon version, but my htc is not a verizon phone.

I tried to flash with verizon firmware, so that, i get some issues like getting verizon bootscreen (in my original firmware only htc one boot screen shown with a ring), getting warning message which says that "The SIM card is from an unknown source" and the main issue that only Edge network working, i have no 3G/4G.

Here is the

fastboot getvar all

output:

(bootloader) version: 0.5
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 3.19.0.0000
(bootloader) version-baseband: 1.12.20.1211
(bootloader) version-cpld: None
(bootloader) version-microp: None
(bootloader) version-main:
(bootloader) version-misc: PVT SHIP S-OFF
(bootloader) serialno: HT43ESF01224
(bootloader) imei: 352090060253192
(bootloader) imei2: Not Support
(bootloader) meid: 99000499842424
(bootloader) product: m8_wlv
(bootloader) platform: hTCBmsm8974
(bootloader) modelid: 0P6B20000
(bootloader) cidnum: 11111111
(bootloader) battery-status: good
(bootloader) battery-voltage: 0mV
(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic
(bootloader) security: off
(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP
(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT
(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: f2489bd1
(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11
(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0
all: Done!

I hope that you can help me to find the correct firmware.

and thanks
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lucyr03:
Your device seems to be Verizon.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
May also be the LRA version, which is a variant of Verizon, and uses different RUUs and firmware. Might explain why some things are broken after flashing Verizon firmware.

But can't really say for sure if it's "normal flavor" Verizon or LRA, since the version main is wiped out in the getvar output. This is usually due to using an outdated version TWRP, or some custom ROMs.

---------- Post added at 09:27 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:24 AM ----------

But what was the condition

before

you flashed Verizon firmware? Any issues with 3G/4G or anything else wrong?

What exactly did you flash (version number, actual/exact file name) when you say "Verizon firmware"? As that term can mean half a dozen things or more. And did it install correctly (aside from the problems you stated), or did you get any error messages?

The firmware either didn't install correctly, or you did something else afterwards. Since version-main being blank in getvar is not a normal result after flashing firmware.