error validating footer(6)

[Android Central Question]

i was updating my s10plus software when a screen came saying downloading do not turn off target odin mode avb fail . i tried to flash it but odin was stuck at vendor.img for several hours. Then i quit odin and then a screen came saying that to recover from smart switch. Then i used a tool to fix the soft brick and now i am in the same downloading screen but this time saying error validating footer. i tried to flash again but am still stuck at vendor.img. i tried a different csc version and that stucks at system.img
PLEASE CAN SOMEONE HELP!!!!!!

 

[mustang7757]

Ok cool , let's see what odin says be patient we find out .

 

[Ali Malik1]

It is still stuck after 40 minutes

 

[mustang7757]

Thats strange , but leave it , we need to find out if odin will give a fail, pass or error to know what to do next , but it's very long .

 

[Ali Malik1]

Okay in the vendor.img case i kept it for some hours but odin didnt give sign of fail or pass and was just stuck

 

[mustang7757]

Stop the process, you have good cable ? Also try another USB port on computer and what computer your using?

 

[Ali Malik1]

Hp laptop 15-da1xxx 8gb ram 64bit
Ok i will change the cable and try again

 

[mustang7757]

Ok and different port , should be ok the computer

 

[Ali Malik1]

It is stuck again
I used the original cable that came with the box and a different port
Should i use another laptop if it is the laptop problem?

 

[mustang7757]

It is stuck again
I used the original cable that came with the box and a different port
Should i use another laptop if it is the laptop problem?

That would be my next suggestion, try another computer

 

[Ali Malik1]

Okay

 

[mustang7757]

Ok let me tomorrow

 

[Ali Malik1]

I tried a different laptop and that got stuck too

 

[mustang7757]

Very strange, let see what I can come up with tomorrow .

 

[mustang7757]

Have you been using home csc or regular csc ?

 

[Ali Malik1]

Home csc

 

[mustang7757]

Ok flash it with just csc

 

[Ali Malik1]

It also gets stuck at system.img

 

[mustang7757]

Ok you'll need to try PIT file
See if that works , I'm going get a article on how to extract the PIT file from the firmware and hopefully get you going .

 

[mustang7757]

Try this read it very closely.

https://technastic.com/samsung-pit-file-download/

 

[Ali Malik1]

Ok thanx gonna try