[Samsung Galaxy Tab A series Questions & Answers] mikerotch95:
Hello,

I am a newbie but I have tried reading and researching. Got past a few of my questions but got stuck so looking for some suggestions.

I have a samsung galaxy tab a sm-t510 (2019??) i believe. Its about 2 to 3 years old so the 2019 version would match. Physically looking at the device its smt-510 and it says this on the oden download mode page as well. All i have access to, to verify this. OS is dead. Here is my issue. I got this tab for my nephew and it died. It was low on battery and he just left it for like a month. Since then he said it just stopped working and kept on restarting. Reading online it seems like the battery died to the point where the charging module cant load so it cant change and boot into the os. It just keeps restarting with the error "could not do normal boot invalid Kernel length". I cannot get into the recovery mode and can only get it into the download mode. Reading online says i should just reload the firmware which should fix the issue. So this is what i am trying to do. The region for this device is in canada. Next in the download mode it says secure boot enabled and oem lock on. I cant get into the os to turn these off. I cant find a way to disable these without getting into the OS. My goal is to get it working, custom rom or oem, dont really care. I know if i load an oem firmware these settings should not matter. I've downloaded a few different versions of the oem image (sammobile and using frija).

I keep getting Re-Partition operation failed. when trying to load the image. I have tried v9 which came with the tab and tried latest v11 using frija.

I can see it connect fine and all is good but it seems like i have the wrong image and this is why i keep getting the re-partition failed? I have tried this with Oden 3.09 which has a few check boxes and one is re-partition. its unchecked. Defaults (auto reboot and f. reset time) are only on. I have also tried it with Oden 3.13.3 with same options. Again my goal is to load anything on it to get it working. Any thoughts on options and what i can do to recover this? My theory is i have the wrong image and thats why the oem and secure download is giving me an error but not sure. Any help would be nice.

just to add. if i select the home csc file i get the there is no pit partition error.

<ID:0/008> Added!!

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> BL_T510XXU2ASK5_CL17420370_QB27658722_REV02_user_low_ship.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> CSC_OMC_OXM_T510OXM2ASK5_CL17420370_QB27658722_REV02_user_low_ship.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> AP_T510XXU2ASK5_CL17420370_QB27658722_REV02_user_low_ship_meta_OS9.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<ID:0/008> Odin v.3 engine (ID:8)..

<ID:0/008> File analysis..

<ID:0/008> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/008> Initialzation..

<ID:0/008> Set PIT file..

<ID:0/008> DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!!

<ID:0/008> FAIL!

<ID:0/008>

<ID:0/008> Re-Partition operation failed.

Thanks,

Mike