How to unbrick SM-T580 with locked bootloader (Odin doesn’t work)

[Android Central Question]

People, I have a real challenge on my hands and barely have any experience with Android so I must ask for some help. I’ll try to describe as short as possible.
- Girlfriend’s Tab A6 was working fine and suddenly was bricked. Don’t ask me how..
- USB Debugging is disabled and OEM Locked
- Simple methods to unbrick failed so I wanted to flash to stock with Odin. But Odin doesn’t play nice with my Surface Pro 7. (keeps failing at writing system.img) All I can do is flash stock recovery. Heimdall is not working properly either. Yes I use the correct stock firmware, tried different Odin versions etcetera..
- Samsung Smart Switch (and Kies) software does not recognize the tablet so can’t do emergency recovery there.

Now I only have access to download mode and stock recovery. Locked bootloader and no way to unlock it (?). If I could flash CWM I could install stock firmware via SD card but it seems like I am stuck.
Yes use a different PC ofcourse probably would work but this is not so easy for me to arrange.
Is there any other way? Been reading and trying things for 2 days but maybe I am missing something?

 

[Mr Bojangles1]

Never used that computer or have flashed a samsung, but make sure you have the latest adb platform tools version

 

[mustang7757]

Does odin recognize your phone ?

Edit: just seen surface pro was trying flash , where did u get the files and odin from? You try different ports and cables ?

I'll leave a Link to register so you can communicate here as a guest account you can only post questions but can't reply

https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=409154

 

[Benny_12]

Thanks

I made the situation even worse. I managed to flash a combination file, I think with an older kernel version. (4, device had 5). I put it in download mode and I see the special assist menu or whatever it’s called. I thought this was my way out but it rebooted and now all it does is bootloop with the FRP lock message in the upper left corner.

I can’t access recovery and download mode. Believe me I tried everything but it won’t go to download mode. So I can’t flash anything and probably only JTAG can help but that’s not worth it for me. Or replace motherboard ofcourse but I think it’s time to give up

 

[mustang7757]

Thanks

I made the situation even worse. I managed to flash a combination file, I think with an older kernel version. (4, device had 5). I put it in download mode and I see the special assist menu or whatever it’s called. I thought this was my way out but it rebooted and now all it does is bootloop with the FRP lock message in the upper left corner.

I can’t access recovery and download mode. Believe me I tried everything but it won’t go to download mode. So I can’t flash anything and probably only JTAG can help but that’s not worth it for me. Or replace motherboard ofcourse but I think it’s time to give up

Hi Benny , welcome to AC!

Yeah it sounds like it that should move on , something is damaged and can be the motherboard