[Q] SM-N9005 Soft Brick

Noxious123 said:

Hey I had a rooted Galaxy Note III - SM-N9005.

I just tried to upgrade it from 4.2 to 4.4.2 using a guide online and it's bricked itself it gives me the error message:

SW REV CHECK FAIL : [ABOOT]FUSED 3 > BINARY 2

I've searched everywhere for an answer and none of the unbrick methods currently out there seem to work.

Any attempt to unbrick causes the same error message to appear:

SW REV CHECK FAIL: [ABOOT]FUSED 3 > BINARY 2

Please help?

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Noxious123 said:

Not trying to downgrade the phone is bricked is there a firmware that can unlock the phone so I can use it again?

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Noxious123 said:

Not that simple I've tried that several times with different region firmwares and everything. All of them 4.4.2 Nothing seems to work because of the stupid KNOX **** that Samsung puts on their phone now. With my old phone flashing firmwares was easy but now they make you wait for the next firmware update in order to fix your phone if you accidently softbrick it.

If you want to read what happened last time this happened and what fixed it, click here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=48271795#post48271795 - This no longer works because my phone thinks its on Kitkat but it's not so I cant reflash the Taiwan firmware.

I'm currently downloading the latest Taiwan firmware before you suggest it as an option. I'm going to see if that works again.

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