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Flashing Galaxy S7 Active with Firmware on Odin

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Aron Tesfay

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I have a phone that basically won't boot. I have tried flashing it with Odin using a firmware that I downloaded from:
https://firmwarefile.com/samsung-sm-g891a

Every attempt at flashing on Odin fails despite the fact that I've installed the right USB driver for the phone and made sure to follow all instructions from several videos and articles. I am really desperate at this point. What else can I do? Is there any other way to install the firmware other than using Odin?
 
I don't think there's any firmware downloads in that site, just gives a load of pop-up scareware ads.

Try sammobile that's usually the best place to find original Samsung files drivers and instructions.
 
Jfalls63 said:
Hopefully it will work for you. Have a look at this thread also. Seems that their was a update that changed the Bootloader that makes downgrade impossible.
Did you ever activate phone on AT&T network? If not, may be you didn't receive any OTA updates.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/s7-active/help/s7-active-att-oreo-t3781809
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So the firmware you provided me in the link seems to be installing but I get an error message that says Odin has stopped working in the middle of the installation. I'm trying to troubleshoot that but I have a good feeling about this firmware. I'll let you know if I'm able to finish the installation. Thanks!
I bought the phone off of ebay and was not aware it was AT&T's version of Galaxy S7. I use Lycamobile which was working just fine until the phone froze one day and it refused to boot up when I tried to restart it.
 
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