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I tried to flash stock rom for Samsung Galaxy j3 2016(320FN) with Jodin3 Casual under Linux Mint and i get this error:

  Initialising protocol...
  Failed to send data!Releasing device interface...

What should i do?I don't have a windows machine to use Odin.

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  • you can flash with heimdall android.stackexchange.com/q/44106 Commented Dec 25, 2020 at 9:51
  • The thing is that i wanted to do this when the display was working,now i just want to cast it to pc. Commented Dec 25, 2020 at 10:02
  • I tried again to flash the phone,it doesn't gave me that errror but now when i press start it doesn't start .The led from unity is red for a couple of seconds,it says "running" but it doesn't do anything.I tried to change the firmware from tar.md5 to tar but nothing.Any suggestions? The thing is that i've flashed a twrp recovery for this phone with Jodin3 but why it dosen't work with the stock firmware? Commented Jul 8, 2021 at 10:21
  • I will flash the stock recovery and then flash the stock rom but i think it will not work because i tried with another Samsung and it didn't work.This phone(SG J3)has the display broken.Sorry i'm not that good at this.Anyway...thank you. Commented Jul 8, 2021 at 14:56
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    Hey! I've managed to flash it with heimdall-frontend.What it did was to pull out the battery and reboot into download mode without the Usb cable plugged in and then i plugged in the usb cable and pressed start and the flash was succesfull Commented Jul 12, 2021 at 14:53

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To flash the latest Firmware via Jodin3 download stock ROM according to your CSC region/carrier.

unpack four (4x) tar.md5 files, for example

BL_J320FNXXU0ARH1_CL13891268_QB19182728_REV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5
AP_J320FNXXU0ARH1_CL13891268_QB19182728_REV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5
CP_J320FNXXU0ASF2_CL491657_QB13009723_REV00.tar.md5
CSC_BTU_J320FNBTU0ARH1_CL13891268_QB19182728_REV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5

open JOdin3 and untick all checkboxes like auto-reboot, re-partition etc.

assign the files according to it's prefixes

BL   Bootloader   BL_J320FNXXU0ARH1_CL13891268_QB19182728_REV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5
AP   PDA          AP_J320FNXXU0ARH1_CL13891268_QB19182728_REV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5
CP   PHONE        CP_J320FNXXU0ASF2_CL491657_QB13009723_REV00.tar.md5
CSC  HOME_CSC     CSC_BTU_J320FNBTU0ARH1_CL13891268_QB19182728_REV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5

connect device in download mode (Volume Down + Power)

click Start to begin the flashing process. wait up to 7-10 minutes until you see PASS! message. Don’t unplug the device.

Be aware flashing will factory reset your device!

Another approach is flash partitions with heimdall command line manually. this way you ensure userdata partition is not wiped during flash (no factory reset)

use p7zip to extract all tar.md5 files

7z x <file>

in CSC_*.tar.md5 find the J3XNLTE_*.pit file which contains all file names and partition names.

open the .pit file with hex editor. check the extracted file names and use the previous word as partition name

0x00000C00   14 00 00 00 05 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 70 02 00   .............p..
0x00000C10   00 A0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 4B 45 52 4E   . ..........KERN
0x00000C20   45 4C 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   EL..............
0x00000C30   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 62 6F 6F 74   ............boot
0x00000C40   2E 69 6D 67 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   .img............
0x00000C50   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
0x00000C60   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
0x00000C70   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
0x00000C80   02 00 00 00 15 00 00 00 05 00 00 00 01 00 00 00   ................
0x00000C90   00 10 03 00 00 A0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ..... ..........
0x00000CA0   52 45 43 4F 56 45 52 59 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   RECOVERY........
0x00000CB0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................
0x00000CC0   72 65 63 6F 76 65 72 79 2E 69 6D 67 00 00 00 00   recovery.img....
0x00000CD0   00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ................

flash all partition images (except userdata.img) via heimdall command line, for example

heimdall flash --BOOT spl.img --BOOT2 spl2.img --MD5HDR md5.img --SBOOT sboot.bin --SBOOT2 sboot2.bin --l_fixnv1 nvitem1.bin --l_fixnv2 nvitem.bin --pm_sys PM_sharkl_arm7.bin --l_ldsp SPRDLTEDSP.img --l_modem SPRDCP.img --l_gdsp SPRDGDSP.img --l_warm SPRDWDSP.img --PARAM param.lfs --efs efs.img --prodnv prodnv.img --KERNEL boot.img --RECOVERY recovery.img --PERSDATA persdata.img --CACHE cache.img --SYSTEM system.img --HIDDEN hidden.img
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  • With Jodin3 i get an error saying i have i corrupted file from those 4 firmware files and with haimdall i use heimdall-frontend saying after i press start "protocol initialization failed".Those 4 firmware files i make them from stock rom with Samsung Firmware Maker and maybe that's why i get corrupted file.Heimdall i can't use it manually because i'm not that good at this and i'm afarid to brick the device. Commented Jul 12, 2021 at 8:48

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