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Help Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime bricked without usb debugging.

The SN is in the battery compartment. The problem is that Kies doesn't recognize the 530T1 but will the 530T. Finding firmware for the T1 that works is a challenge. Hardware is the same but if you use Odin to flash T firmware on the T1, it will fail.
If you fool Kies by using the T model number and the SN in the link, it will flash the T firmware on the T1 device.
 
That's the reason I've been avoiding Samsung phones of late. Too many friggin' variants of the same phone with just enough differences in firmware to make them incompatible.
 
Bg260 said:
I feel compelled to re-phrase my post. The word "Hack" can have mutiple meanings. I think of it as the repossession of that which is already ours. Some may think of it as the repossession of that which we think should be ours. The former is hacking the latter is piracy which I in no way endorse. Just wanted to clear that up.
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Haha nice save there. There's a fine line between taking hat is our, what should be ours, and doing it for a certain reason. Whether that reason is personal gain, exploit, or expirimentation. Oh since this phone has t mobile firmware now, I don't have to take it to metro to get it converter right. And should I wait till after I get it activated to root?
 
lunatic59 said:
That's the reason I've been avoiding Samsung phones of late. Too many friggin' variants of the same phone with just enough differences in firmware to make them incompatible.
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While I was looking online for firmware, I searched up galaxy grand prime, and there were like 12 different kinds of the phone. It's insane. Makes it almost impossible to find firmware that would work.
 
Rayz Mond said:
Haha nice save there. There's a fine line between taking hat is our, what should be ours, and doing it for a certain reason. Whether that reason is personal gain, exploit, or expirimentation. Oh since this phone has t mobile firmware now, I don't have to take it to metro to get it converter right. And should I wait till after I get it activated to root?
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That is a great question.....
 
Samsung's got nothing to do with it. It's the carrier who activates devices on their network. I don't think T-Mobile really cares one way or another if your rooted. If the phone is of questionable origin, it might be blacklisted, in which case nobody will allow it on their network.
 
I checked the imei.. it doesn't appear to be blacklisted. But I overwrote metros firmware with tmobile. Do u think that will be a problem
 
MetroPCS is a MVNO of T-Mobile so either sim should work. If it's still linked to a contract and terms of contract have not been met( phone paid off), you might have some difficulty
 
I'm not sure how to tell how much longer the contract lasts. When I called them yesterday the guy there said there's an active account linked to the phone. But I don't have a sim
 
The Op never stated if this fixed the initial USB debugging issue. I have the 530T that is not recognized most of the time , will not charge when connected to usb unless it is powercycled. Have tried different cables and computers. Odin works fine.
 
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