[ROM] [OFFICIAL] LineageOS 16.x ALL VARIANTS

[frone0]

There is a .tar.md5 in the second link you provided, but the first appears to be only source code from GitHub. Should I populate the AP in Odin with the .tar.md5 from the first link? What should I do with the source code from GitHub to move forward?

Thanks again for all the help!

 

[bmwdroid]

There is a .tar.md5 in the second link you provided, but the first appears to be only source code from GitHub. Should I populate the AP in Odin with the .tar.md5 from the first link? What should I do with the source code from GitHub to move forward?

Thanks again for all the help!

These files you get when unzipping the downloaded latest stock ROM file for G900F for DBT.

 

[bmwdroid]

There is a .tar.md5 in the second link you provided, but the first appears to be only source code from GitHub. Should I populate the AP in Odin with the .tar.md5 from the first link? What should I do with the source code from GitHub to move forward?

Thanks again for all the help!

That's where you put your files.
Name matches its box.

 

[bmwdroid]

@frone0 I probably mislead you by writing "unzip them" instead of "unzip it and flash them".

 

[bmwdroid]

....How can I check if IMEI is present so I can report back?....

Should be shown in the info about your device.

 

[frone0]

Should be shown in the info about your device.

I was able to check for my IMEI and it showed that both IMEI and MEID are populated with what looks like very similar numbers - just a couple off of each other.

I think I'm screwing up with the SanFirm Reborn-master GitHub portion. I downloaded the files, but do not know what to do with them. The .tar.md5 I pulled down from the samfrew.com site was done by searching the site for my phone model number. I figure there might be something I need to be doing with the GitHub files to do this properly and be able to unzip and find the AP, BL, CSC, and CP files. I would be able to use Odin to flash, but I cannot find these files.

Should I be compiling the source code that I downloaded from GitHub for the Sanfirm Reborn-master portion?

Sorry I am taking so long to figure this out. I really appreciate the help!

 

[bmwdroid]

I was able to check for my IMEI and it showed that both IMEI and MEID are populated with what looks like very similar numbers - just a couple off of each other.

I think I'm screwing up with the SanFirm Reborn-master GitHub portion. I downloaded the files, but do not know what to do with them. The .tar.md5 I pulled down from the samfrew.com site was done by searching the site for my phone model number. I figure there might be something I need to be doing with the GitHub files to do this properly and be able to unzip and find the AP, BL, CSC, and CP files. I would be able to use Odin to flash, but I cannot find these files.

Should I be compiling the source code that I downloaded from GitHub for the Sanfirm Reborn-master portion?

Sorry I am taking so long to figure this out. I really appreciate the help!

You probably see the site like attached pic.
Click on the right hand side where is says "Releases" on green "Latest" do get the zipped files.
Unpack and start the .exe

 

[frone0]

You probably see the site like attached pic.
Click on the right hand side where is says "Releases" on green "Latest" do get the zipped files.
Unpack and start the .exe

***Edited - see below***

Ahhh - that got me a step closer!

I am now running the utility and attempting to download the ZIP file. Ran into another issue. I checked the samfrew.com site to gather my phone model and region of "SM-G900V" and "VZW - United States". I entered the model and tried both 'VZW' and 'VZW - UNITED STATES' but these two attempts returned the following:

Could not fetch info for SM-G900V/VZW. Please verify the input or use manual info
Could not fetch info for SM-G900V/VZW - UNITED STATES. Please verify the input or use manual info

Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong here? I did check on 'Binary nature' and 'Decrypt automatically'. I get the error when clicking 'Check Update'

Thanks again!

*Edit1
I located the PDA and CSC numbers by opening the samfrew page for the latest update. I chose 'manual' info and copy/pasted the PDA and CSC numbers. I put in 'SM-G900V' for the 'Phone' field (and tried a few other iterations). Here's what I got when hitting 'Check Update':

Checking firmware for SM-G900V/VZW/G900VVRU2DQL1/G900VVZW2DQL1/SM-G900V/G900VVRU2DQL1
Error: Could not send BinaryInform. Status code 200/400
Request was invalid. Are you sure the input data is correct?

Getting closer maybe?

**Edit2
I had tried 'G900VVRU2DQL1' for the 'Phone' section in the download utility, and it failed. I just retried and found that I had a trailing space after the entry. Removed the space and am now downloading.

Thanks again!

***Edit3

When the download completed, I unzipped the file "SM-G900V_1_20171219155127_sptischw1b_fac.zip" which gave me a folder with this file only in it "ALL_VZW_G900VVRU2DQL1_G900VVZW2DQL1_CL8025411_QB16020535_REV00_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT.tar". I uncompressed this file to find files such as system.img.ext4, userdata.img.ext4, cache.img.ext4, modem.bin, etc. I must be downloading it wrong to not get it split into AP, BL, CSC, and CP files.

Any ideas? thanks!

 

[bmwdroid]

......

When the download completed, I unzipped the file "SM-G900V_1_20171219155127_sptischw1b_fac.zip" which gave me a folder with this file only in it "ALL_VZW_G900VVRU2DQL1_G900VVZW2DQL1_CL8025411_QB16020535_REV00_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT.tar". I uncompressed this file to find files such as system.img.ext4, userdata.img.ext4, cache.img.ext4, modem.bin, etc. I must be downloading it wrong to not get it split into AP, BL, CSC, and CP files.

Any ideas? thanks!

There is of course the possibility that for branded phones the stock ROM file is different to the free one.
But perhaps you can still use these separate files to flash with Heimdall. I'm not familiar with this just knowing that it needs a lot more separate files than Odin.
I think there's a how-to in English for that but idk where and mine is only in German and for Linux.

 

[frone0]

There is of course the possibility that for branded phones the stock ROM file is different to the free one.
But perhaps you can still use these separate files to flash with Heimdall. I'm not familiar with this just knowing that it needs a lot more separate files than Odin.
I think there's a how-to in English for that but idk where and mine is only in German and for Linux.

My daily driver is a Linux box. I'd be glad to give it a run. I'm just wondering if I am doing something wrong to get the .ZIP instead of the Odin files.

 

[frone0]

No. 4G data is working fine on my S5 G900M running LineageOS 18.1.



It's very possible that Verizon is blocking data on your S5 running LineageOS because it's not supporting VoLTE.

See this & their other support pages: https://www.verizon.com/support/prepaid-3g-to-4g-lte-upgrade-faqs/

Try with a SIM from an other provider.



Try this app to work around Verizon's APN editing restriction: AddAPN - Access the Add APN settings page directly.

If you are running LineageOS 18.1. then please post in that thread so everybody could benefit & contribute: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...geos-18-1-for-samsung-galaxy-s5-klte.4267517/
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As long as I have not bricked this phone, should there be a path to getting it back to Stock ROM completely? Is there another part of the phone software that you think I might need to flash to remove any trace of the LineageOS software?

Thanks!

 

[bmwdroid]

My daily driver is a Linux box. I'd be glad to give it a run. I'm just wondering if I am doing something wrong to get the .ZIP instead of the Odin files.

This is the German how-to site.

For my N910F for instance I get a .zip file containing several files for Odin, but as I wrote...
Hope you didn't forget to check the 'binary nature' box in SamFirm_Reborn_0.3.6.3 when starting the download.
If you didn't forget it there seems to be only that one file existing for your model.

 

[bmwdroid]

As long as I have not bricked this phone, should there be a path to getting it back to Stock ROM completely? Is there another part of the phone software that you think I might need to flash to remove any trace of the LineageOS software?

Thanks!

Even when flashing only one part stock file afaik no traces will be left except the triggered Knox counter.

 

[frone0]

This is the German how-to site.

For my N910F for instance I get a .zip file containing several files for Odin, but as I wrote...
Hope you didn't forget to check the 'binary nature' box in SamFirm_Reborn_0.3.6.3 when starting the download.
If you didn't forget it there seems to be only that one file existing for your model.

I just tried downloading the file again - thought I could have easily forgot to choose 'binary'. I made sure to verify that I chose 'Binary nature' this time, but looks like it downloaded the same file. I extracted the .ZIP, which contained a single .TAR.MD5 file. This TAR then extracted into 15 files. I've attached a screen shot of the files which were extracted.

Is there another route to get the files needed for Odin?

 

[frone0]

Even when flashing only one part stock file afaik no traces will be left except the triggered Knox counter.

So flashing it with LineageOs and then back to stock, wouldn't require a modem re-flash or anything? I've seen people mention the EFS partition, but don't know if upgrading to LineageOS affects that at all.

Thanks again!

 

[bmwdroid]

So flashing it with LineageOs and then back to stock, wouldn't require a modem re-flash or anything? I've seen people mention the EFS partition, but don't know if upgrading to LineageOS affects that at all.

Thanks again!

Not necessary at all.
EFS partition contains the devices IMEI.
Only if it's lost you have to touch this partition.

 

[bmwdroid]

I just tried downloading the file again - thought I could have easily forgot to choose 'binary'. I made sure to verify that I chose 'Binary nature' this time, but looks like it downloaded the same file. I extracted the .ZIP, which contained a single .TAR.MD5 file. This TAR then extracted into 15 files. I've attached a screen shot of the files which were extracted.

So there's only a one-part stock file for G900V but you can flash these extracted files seperatly using Heimdall.

Is there another route to get the files needed for Odin?

Probably not as it's a Verizon branded phone.
Don't know what will happen if you try another firmware, but, as I saw in your pic, your device seems to have a special Verizon pit file so it is possible, that these phones get partitioned differently to the non branded ones.
Just had a look for my G900F open EU pit file but can't examine it further.

Btw. on one of my devices I once had to flash the firmware at least twice to be successful.
Perhaps you try that as well.
Shouldn't do any (more) harm than flashing once.

 

[bmwdroid]

@frone0 I've downloaded your file, extracted the pit and opened it in Pitmagic.
Same with the pit for EUR-open.
The results are attached as txt files, but comparison has to be done by you as I'm to lazy right now.

 

[frone0]

@frone0 I've downloaded your file, extracted the pit and opened it in Pitmagic.
Same with the pit for EUR-open.
The results are attached as txt files, but comparison has to be done by you as I'm to lazy right now.

Wow - thanks for this!

I ran an FC command on these two to find some differences in the "Block Size" and "Block Count" fields. Also looks like a difference in both the 'Partition Name' and the 'Flash FileName'. I've attached the FC output in a text file here.

This is getting a bit over my head, but I'm assuming that them being different means that I cannot use the second option you were thinking of.

Please let me know if you can think of any other options.

Thanks again!!

 

[frone0]

So there's only a one-part stock file for G900V but you can flash these extracted files seperatly using Heimdall.

Probably not as it's a Verizon branded phone.
Don't know what will happen if you try another firmware, but, as I saw in your pic, your device seems to have a special Verizon pit file so it is possible, that these phones get partitioned differently to the non branded ones.
Just had a look for my G900F open EU pit file but can't examine it further.

Btw. on one of my devices I once had to flash the firmware at least twice to be successful.
Perhaps you try that as well.
Shouldn't do any (more) harm than flashing once.

I'm glad to try flashing it again to clear things up. Which method should I use for this?

Thanks!