Recent content by Jeffrey Newman

I checked the samsgung website, and it says the phone will take a few days to sync, and that seems insane as I came back into the US from a trip back on 01/31/20 for which I had been using a foreign sim card. I do trust you and believe you, though I don't feel ready to give up just yet. I...

That is the thing, I don't want to erase the app data or factory reset, unless there is no other option. I could have done that previously, though I am still holding out that there may be other options. Yes, in regards to twrp, that is what I read after the fact. Is there really nothing else...

I never touched the phone when it has been sitting at the white verizon logo, after a bit, it reboots all itself. After it does it five times, I get the message that things may not be good with the phone, and that it gives me a few options: Try Again, Erase App Data, View Recovery Logs, and I...

Previous to this, I had never even heard of Odin. The zips all come with 6 files. The CSC file I used the HOME version as everything i read said that would not overwrite the data. Every time I did the loading, I always populated the five sections, and left the flags F Reset and Reboot active...

Yes, that is correct. I am in the US, and it is on the Verizon network.

Sorry about the cross-posting, and thank you merging the posts and your response. I posted in a Q&A area having not signed in, and realized afterwards to post in the Samsung 9+ forum having logged in. My goal is just to get a fully functioning phone using whatever version of android 10 I can...

Last week on Thursday, I allowed Verizon to install their Software Update 21 (April 2020.) It made it as far as the going through the optimizing apps and then was stuck in a boot loop. The phone would be usable for about a minute, then would freeze, and then reboot. If I clicked on the System...