Galaxy Note 5 suddenly stopped booting up and in recovery mode has dm-verity and failed to mount errors?
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All of sudden when I was trying to use my note 5 (unroot), I noticed that it was powered off and I couldn't power it on with power button. Can you please tell me if there is a way I can recover data on my phone without losing them? I also have Google Authenticator which is connected to many accounts online, If I lose data I will lose everything! Here is what I tried so far:
First thing I did was a soft reset ( power button + volume down) and the mobile turned on but unfortunately it kept looping on the Samsung logo screen. Then, I tried to go to recovery mode (power button + home button + volume up) and from there I tried "reboot system now", "wiping cache partition (which I hope it doesn't remove any data?)" and "Run graphics test: which failed with error no command and then wiping cached data" all of them without success. One thing I noticed in the bottom section of recovery mode there are these errors:
ODIN MODE DOWNLOAD SPEED: FAST PRODUCT NAME: SM-N920C CA_ TYPE: CA_2 CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official SYSTEM STATUS: Official FRP LOCK: ON Secure Download : Enabled KNOX WARRANTY VOID: 0 (0x0000) RP SWREV: B:5 K:0 S:1
Android Recovery
samsung/nobleltejv/noblelte
7.0/NRD90M/N920CXXS5CRH1
user/release-keysNo Support SINGLE-SKU
Supported API: 3
dm-verity error...
E: failed to mount /system (Invalid argument)
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You could try to flash all partition images (except
userdata.img
) via heimdall command lineheimdall flash --BOOTLOADER sboot.bin --CM cm.bin --PARAM param.bin --BOOT boot.img --RECOVERY recovery.img --RADIO modem.bin --SYSTEM system.img --CACHE cache.img --HIDDEN hidden.img
The above example command is created from partition list. This is how you get pit file
install https://www.glassechidna.com.au/heimdall , https://www.python.org and https://www.xda-developers.com/samloader-download-updates-samsung-galaxy
download and decrypt stock ROM for your region code
C:\Android\samloader>samloader -m SM-N920C -r AFR checkupdate N920CXXS5CRH1/N920COJV4CRB3/N920CXXU5CRH1/N920CXXS5CRH1
C:\Android\samloader>samloader -m SM-N920C -r AFR download -v N920CXXS5CRH1/N920COJV4CRB3/N920CXXU5CRH1/N920CXXS5CRH1 -O .
downloading SM-N920C_1_20180820163853_vvggswhd8u_fac.zip.enc4
[################################] 38453/38453 - 00:06:20C:\Android\samloader>samloader -m SM-N920C -r AFR decrypt -v N920CXXS5CRH1/N920COJV4CRB3/N920CXXU5CRH1/N920CXXS5CRH1 -V 4 -i SM-N920C_1_20180820163853_vvggswhd8u_fac.zip.enc4 -o SM-N920C_1_20180820163853_vvggswhd8u_fac.zip
[################################] 615247/615247 - 00:01:21
unpack files from zip
C:\Android\samloader>7z l SM-N920C_1_20180820163853_vvggswhd8u_fac.zip
7-Zip 18.01 (x64) : Copyright (c) 1999-2018 Igor Pavlov : 2018-01-28
Scanning the drive for archives:
1 file, 2520047837 bytes (2404 MiB)Listing archive: SM-N920C_1_20180820163853_vvggswhd8u_fac.zip
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Path = SM-N920C_1_20180820163853_vvggswhd8u_fac.zip
Type = zip
Physical Size = 2520047837
64-bit = +
Characteristics = Zip64Date Time Attr Size Compressed Name
2018-08-20 16:39:50 ..... 5058737 1491256 BL_N920CXXS5CRH1_CL11762721_QB19211222_REV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5
2018-08-20 16:39:50 ..... 4797583545 2248597336 AP_N920CXXS5CRH1_CL11762721_QB19211222_REV00_user_low_ship_meta.tar.md5
2018-08-20 16:44:16 ..... 38092989 38093065 CP_N920CXXU5CRH1_CP10334463_CL11762721_QB19211222_REV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5
2018-08-20 16:44:18 ..... 273756344 231865000 CSC_OJV_N920COJV4CRB3_CL11762721_QB16863364_REV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5
2018-08-20 16:44:18 5114491615 2520046657 4 files
extract pit from CSC file
CSC_OJV_N920COJV4CRB3_CL11762721_QB16863364_REV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5
inspect
NOBLELTE_EUR_OPEN_HIDDEN150M.pit
pit file with https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1916936 or https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2953072