[Galaxy S6 Edge Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andri0dUs3r:
Hi There,

My Main Issue:

I have a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge SM-G925F, with a cracked screen, at 15% battery life the display is not usable, although anything after 25% it becomes usable and brightness levels from 60%~100% the device and screen is usable.

BIG issues:

Recovery Mode [Display Dead - But Active in Recovery Mode]

Download Mode [Display Dead - But Active]

Boot Screen and logo [Nothing but one flash on cracked side] - indicates OS boot

Work a rounds:

Watched YT videos of people in recovery and basically counted my way to wiping cache and dalvic etc [which worked once]

FIRMWARE Issues:

Samsung_SM-G925F_(G925FXXU6ESA1_G925FOJV6ESB1_South_Africa_v7.0)_by_(FirmwareOS.com) - Size: 1.9GB | Works But unable to boot

SM-G925F_1_20180530094301_nsue7o1m55_fac - Size: 4.9GB | Works but when installed only 16Gb assigned feels like the wrong firmware or dual sim or possible double os with backdoor

XFV-G925FXXU5EQL2-20180111184000 - Does not work without alterations.

Odin Version Used: 3.10, 3.10.6, 3.10.7, 13.14

1. When installing Samsung_SM-G925F_(G925FXXU6ESA1_G925FOJV6ESB1_South_Africa_v7.0)_by_(FirmwareOS.com) using odin, it completes with success although its unable to boot into the startup screen. (Most likely stuck on boot logo but unable to see).

2. When installing SM-G925F_1_20180530094301_nsue7o1m55_fac using odin, it completes and is able to boot and setup the device. My main issue is that this OS is double the size weird in app apps and the OS Storage is at 16GB and not 32GB.

Work Around:

I installed SM-G925F_1_20180530094301_nsue7o1m55_fac then at bootscreen entered download mode again and installed Samsung_SM-G925F_(G925FXXU6ESA1_G925FOJV6ESB1_South_Africa_v7.0)_by_(FirmwareOS.com), That installs with success and boots it sorts out the weird apps and works smoothly, only problem is now that storage is at 16GB and not 32GB still.

I have got XFV-G925FXXU5EQL2-20180111184000 working and installable although it is not worth the effort as the OS itself is missing major .com files.

I messed around to the point where i got it to 32GB although i flashed it to get to the working non sketchy size firmware Samsung_SM-G925F_(G925FXXU6ESA1_G925FOJV6ESB1_South_Africa_v7.0)_by_(FirmwareOS.com).

My Final Points:

Started googling how to build my own android rom, turns out that route is going to including a steep learning curve and a fast data connection.

Remembered XDA back when i used android 5 years ago and i must say this is a darn cool upgrade to XDA :), tried to find a firmware failed :(

Found Linage OS, realized i cannot install that due to no sd card and no screen visibility in recovery mode.

Is there anyone with free time and the available tools required to create a proper bootable image for the SM-G925F perhaps stock 7.1 rom, or help me piece together a working one using multiple other firmwares.

Been mixing around with the images, then simply recreating the md5 files and the final combined.md5 would be used as the trial and error img.

Mission:

Trying to get this baby back up and running so that i could actually utlise it by installing linux etc as i do not need a screen to VNC or SSH :)

Thanks in advance :)