[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] QSquared:
Need help - is this EDL Mode? I can;t boot normally anymore

I installed the V5 Combination flash as the original post described as my BL showed a U5 in the 6th and 5th to last digits and had Android 8.0 on it.

However I missed the part about using the reboot.bat even after re-reading several times and then used the recovery.bat instead, The phone still went into what I believe to be "EDL Mode" but I can't say for sure it just showed "FACTORY BINARY >>>>>>>>" with the arrows moving.

I wasn't running the script from the directory, and the CMD script itself was not written to run the files locally to it, using the environmental path the script was started with instead, so it failed; However I didn't look into the script first thinking it was due to the not running the Reboot to EDL Bat file.

So I went ahead and ran reboot.bat but it wouldn't auth to my phone anymore so I rebooted the computer.

My Phone now only boots to one of two screens, a black screen with some technical info on it that is info only and then a screen with "FACTORY BINARY >>>>>>>>" with the arrows scrolling across it

on it, which I believe to be the EDL mode.

I have been searching for a way to resolve the same behavior and found this post: https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-note-8/how-to/note-8-n950u-qdl9008-edl-mode-unbrick-t3851345

I noticed this Guide here did not have me install any Qualcomm anything, and does expect the phone to come up as a Qualcomm phone once the BL v5 is flashed and the BAT files are run.

I am HOPING to be able to resolve this by installing the ones provided in the thread above.

I am HOPING that the FACTORY BINARY >>>>>> screen I get to in my phone is "EDL" it's unclear to me from the info on these sites, rooting guides have continued to become less clear over the years it feels like there is a tendency not to link to other guides and sum them up as if others may already know there are more steps, if I was supposed to do something more it was totally unclear, I am hoping these drivers were an expected step, not sure.

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OKAY, this if helpful! .. and was Not at all CLear in the original guide tbh.

I flashed the V5 firmware since I was already on V5 and you mentioned else-where no need to use V6 if already on V5.

However my phone has never rebooted into a normal state since flashing that firmware, and I can get the phone to get into what I assume is EDL, it just says "FACTORY BINARY >>>>>>>"

I am trying to figure out how to recover from this.

Your guide is nice, but I didn't also know I needed some sort of Qualcomm drivers (I thought that it was just the device would show differently after a BL Flash ) or what to expect from the actual process of loading EDL or as above that I was supposed to reboot into the normal phone after the ODIN got a "PASS" status.

Some formatting and links to other guides could be very helpful in this process, the way the formatting and order occurs in the most important section I missed the run Rebott_EDL SCript portion but from what I read here that was not the root cause of the issue I am facing (pardon the pun, unintended)

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Oh weird! I posted the second part here as a reply to another post in this thread I just found and the forum merged it here, that's kinda cool.