I'm kind of at a loss here. Right now I'm staring at a bright blue screen on my Samsung SM-A520W saying "An error has occurred while updating the device software. Use the Emergency recovery function in the Smart Switch PC software."
So, my initial goal was to get Magisk on my old A5... Obviously things went wrong somewhere.
Right now the only thing I have access to is Odin mode... but that honestly gets me no where no matter what I try. I have tried downloading the Stock Firmware from a few different sources (Firmware.mobi, sammobile, and some other place I can't remember anymore). I'm sure I've always selected A520"W" and haven't confused it with any other letter like F, L, K, or w.e. The files have always given me the BL, AP, CP and 2 CSC files. I always try both the CSC files but it constantly failed at hidden.img. Then it was randomly failing at param something... maybe boot.img, unsure. Now it's failing at cm.bin
I tried doing what the error message told me to do but that literally does nothing. I've tried googling and looking for answers, but I've come up with nothing. I may honestly be the first one to **** up this bad lol. As a last ditch effort before posting here, I went to Samsung support. They just told me to go to a Service center. Which, to be fair, is fairly close by and I was planning on heading out in that direction tomorrow anyways.
But I honestly don't know if they will fix my old sort of cracked phone since I'm almost positive I ****ed every kind of warranty or good will I had with this phone, haha. Hoping you guys can help me out or even point me in the right direction, thanks!
PS. I'm using Odin3 v3.13
So, my initial goal was to get Magisk on my old A5... Obviously things went wrong somewhere.
Right now the only thing I have access to is Odin mode... but that honestly gets me no where no matter what I try. I have tried downloading the Stock Firmware from a few different sources (Firmware.mobi, sammobile, and some other place I can't remember anymore). I'm sure I've always selected A520"W" and haven't confused it with any other letter like F, L, K, or w.e. The files have always given me the BL, AP, CP and 2 CSC files. I always try both the CSC files but it constantly failed at hidden.img. Then it was randomly failing at param something... maybe boot.img, unsure. Now it's failing at cm.bin
I tried doing what the error message told me to do but that literally does nothing. I've tried googling and looking for answers, but I've come up with nothing. I may honestly be the first one to **** up this bad lol. As a last ditch effort before posting here, I went to Samsung support. They just told me to go to a Service center. Which, to be fair, is fairly close by and I was planning on heading out in that direction tomorrow anyways.
But I honestly don't know if they will fix my old sort of cracked phone since I'm almost positive I ****ed every kind of warranty or good will I had with this phone, haha. Hoping you guys can help me out or even point me in the right direction, thanks!
PS. I'm using Odin3 v3.13
