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Root TWRP 3.0.2.0 [SM-S920L ONLY]

Hi,

I managed to brick my sm-s920l with the boot loop in twrp. I followed instructions flashing twrp. When I rebooted, it went into twrp and won't exit. I did download of stock recovery but have never used odin. So what do I do now. I am looking at how to install samsung USB drivers and oden for installing stock rom at androidmtk .com/ flash-samsung-stock-rom-using-odin. I figure I need to install drivers and odin and then just flash the stock recovery. Am I right so far and then what would I do next.

Thanks
 
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How much do u know about modding as if no one else shows interest im gonna scrap my dev work with this device
I appreciate your work on this device! I'm in between this device and my Verizon S7 edge.

If i had more free time i would gladly help. Working 65 +hours a week and running my website in my spare time leaves me very little time for much.
 
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  1. Rebooting to recovery by anything but key combo will cause a recovery boot loop this is fixed by flashing ur backup stock recovery image and selecting reboot system... I am looking into this issue
I believe the key is in the persistent partition. The following strings can be read from stock recovery:

zefie@androdev:~/Desktop/recovery/initrd/sbin$ strings recovery | grep persist
/persistent
E :failed to stat size of /persistent
E:failed to stat size of /persistent
E :error wiping /persistent: %s
E:error wiping /persistent: %s

I recall working on older Samsung models that stored the boot mode in a small persistent partition.
 
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I believe the key is in the persistent partition. The following strings can be read from stock recovery:

zefie@androdev:~/Desktop/recovery/initrd/sbin$ strings recovery | grep persist
/persistent
E :failed to stat size of /persistent
E:failed to stat size of /persistent
E :error wiping /persistent: %s
E:error wiping /persistent: %s

I recall working on older Samsung models that stored the boot mode in a small persistent partition.
I will look into this thanks for the tip :)
 
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