[Donald Castle]

I encountered an error which was not listed here (forum.hovatek.com/thread-439-page-34)
ERROR : S_DL_WRITE_PT_FAIL (5072)
The phone is formatted but will not write.
I get the above error when all items are selected.
preloader downloads successfully but nothing else

I also get a "Failed to get PMT info" error when trying firmware upgrade. 
I may be using the wrong roms but I can't get the one on NeedRom (needrom.com/download/11-galaxy-s8-sm-g950/) because you need to pay for it

I really hope someone can help

[X3non]

I encountered an error which was not listed here (forum.hovatek.com/thread-439-page-34)
ERROR : S_DL_WRITE_PT_FAIL (5072)
The phone is formatted but will not write.
I get the above error when all items are selected.
preloader downloads successfully but nothing else

I also get a "Failed to get PMT info" error when trying firmware upgrade. 
I may be using the wrong roms but I can't get the one on NeedRom (needrom.com/download/11-galaxy-s8-sm-g950/) because you need to pay for it

I really hope someone can help

what was wrong with the phone before you decided to flash?
whats the current state of the phone? [totally dead or stuck at boot]
did you by any chance take a firmware backup before trying to flash?

[Donald Castle]

I encountered an error which was not listed here (forum.hovatek.com/thread-439-page-34)
ERROR : S_DL_WRITE_PT_FAIL (5072)
The phone is formatted but will not write.
I get the above error when all items are selected.
preloader downloads successfully but nothing else

I also get a "Failed to get PMT info" error when trying firmware upgrade. 
I may be using the wrong roms but I can't get the one on NeedRom (needrom.com/download/11-galaxy-s8-sm-g950/) because you need to pay for it

I really hope someone can help

what was wrong with the phone before you decided to flash?
whats the current state of the phone? [totally dead or stuck at boot]
did you by any chance take a firmware backup before trying to flash?

I wanted to fix the phone for a friend.
The phone booted up to the picture I am attaching and no further. 
At this point I was still under the impression it was a real Samsung S8+.
I made a backup in a userdata_xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx.backup file but not a backup of the firmware.


The phone does not boot up at all now but it responds to SP Flash Tools so it's still alive

[hovatek]

The phone does not boot up at all now but it responds to SP Flash Tools so it's still alive

Try dumping the firmware in scatter format using Miracle Box @ https://forum.hovatek.com/thread-13347.html