odin bootloader failed...now what?

[miskitty]

I was using this tutorial: DOWNGRADE AND UNLOCK SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 2 S3 VERSION 4.1.2 AT&T TMOBILE FREE STEPS BY STEPS - YouTube

I've been trying to downgrade my Note 2 to 4.1.1 so that I can unlock it, but it's taken me a few days to track down the right firmware. It's a Korean phone from Olleh KT model number SHV-E250K. I think that the firmware I downloaded wasn't correct because when Odin was running the bootloader I got a fail message and it froze. I tried running it with firmware for this model but 4.1.2, but it is also failing. Now when I try to turn on the phone it looks like this.



Sorry it's sideways. Even though the text is in Korean, the icon warning would be for the same thing in English.

I didn't backup the firmware or anything because the tutorial didn't tell me I needed to do that. Well it's all pretty dumb on my part but I'm extremely uneducated for this kind of thing. If you can direct me to what I should do to fix this and suggest what steps to take to unlock it correctly that would be appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[Golfdriver97]

I was using this tutorial:

I've been trying to downgrade my Note 2 to 4.1.1 so that I can unlock it, but it's taken me a few days to track down the right firmware. It's a Korean phone from Olleh KT model number SHV-E250K. I think that the firmware I downloaded wasn't correct because when Odin was running the bootloader I got a fail message and it froze. I tried running it with firmware for this model but 4.1.2, but it is also failing. Now when I try to turn on the phone it looks like this.



Sorry it's sideways. Even though the text is in Korean, the icon warning would be for the same thing in English.

I didn't backup the firmware or anything because the tutorial didn't tell me I needed to do that. Well it's all pretty dumb on my part but I'm extremely uneducated for this kind of thing. If you can direct me to what I should do to fix this and suggest what steps to take to unlock it correctly that would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Can you get back into download mode?

 

[miskitty]

Yes, that is the only thing I can make it do.

 

[Golfdriver97]

Yes, that is the only thing I can make it do.

Flashing a stock ROM would be the only thing I can think of to do. However, since it is a phone from a different country, it may be difficult to flash a stock ROM to it. Different regions have different file set ups, which is what I think happened to your device.

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[miskitty]

Is there a way to extract the stock ROM off another device that is the same model?

 

[Golfdriver97]

Is there a way to extract the stock ROM off another device that is the same model?

I don't think so.
If you know the region code of your ROM you might be able to flash it in Odin.

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[miskitty]

Where do I go about finding the region code?

 

[Golfdriver97]

Where do I go about finding the region code?

Under normal circumstances, Kies. In this case, I am unsure.

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[miskitty]

When I try to connect it to Kies now it comes up with a connection error. I wonder if it's borked.

 

[Golfdriver97]

I honestly think it is.

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[bad24h101]

I have the same problem but I have an sa version and I got my stock firmware from sammobile but it won't load in Odin
Wat do I do

 

[Golfdriver97]

I have the same problem but I have an sa version and I got my stock firmware from sammobile but it won't load in Odin
Wat do I do

May be a bad download. You can try samsung updates.com.

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[bad24h101]

Does ordin take awhile to load any fone cus that's wat happen with my fone

 

[Golfdriver97]

Does ordin take awhile to load any fone cus that's wat happen with my fone

It can take several minutes to complete the process.

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