soft-bricked s3 help

[Sal1982]

i had my s3 i747m on cm13. i was having a lot of problems with bluetooth. so i tried going back to stock firmware and i bricked my phone. i can still access download mode.

with odin running as admin or not, this is what it says when i try to install stock rom in download mode:

ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: SGH-I747M
CURRENT BINARY: Custom
SYSTEM STATUS: Custom
QUALCOMM SECUREBOOT: ENABLE
Warranty Bit: 1
BOOTLOADER RP SWREV: 2
SW REV CHECK FAIL : Fused 2 > Binary 0

i've tried looking for solutions, but all say the same thing...which is to use odin and install the stock rom file.

i had twrp recovery installed if that helps.

 

[mehigh101]

Try to download a NANDroid save on a micro Sd card from the internet (from another phone) and then flash it with TWRP.

 

[Sal1982]

Do you have the correct boot stack flashed? If your stock rom is like kitkat and your going back from 6.0/cm 13 then you need to find the correct boot stack. Flash it before rom. I had this problem awhile back.

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where would i find this boot file? can't seem to find it anywhere. there are links, but they're all dead.

 

[Sal1982]

Try to download a NANDroid save on a micro Sd card from the internet (from another phone) and then flash it with TWRP.

how do i boot into twrp?

 

[mehigh101]

how do i boot into twrp?

https://youtu.be/ANH-oatE6bk

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge SM-G935F

 

[Sal1982]

https://youtu.be/ANH-oatE6bk

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge SM-G935F

but i use the same button sequence to boot into download mode.

 

[Sal1982]

XDA-Developers Android Forums search around for your boot stack here.

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before i waste my time searching for the boot file, did you load it into your phone with odin or a sd card? i have a 4gb card, so mine won't work.

 

[mehigh101]

before i waste my time searching for the boot file, did you load it into your phone with odin or a sd card? i have a 4gb card, so mine won't work.

If your device doesn't have a password simply connect it to a pc using the USB cable and put the boot image file to your internal card and then flash it via twrp. Or simply flash it with odin.

 

[Sal1982]

i reflashed twrp recovery and it worked to work again with cm13. thanks for the help, guys.

i guess the recovery files were damaged? not sure.