Bricked S9 when rolling back to stock ROM

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Hello everybody,
Not sure if this the right place to post. I bought a S9 and installed /e/ OS through easy-installer without any problem. I finally decided to roll back to stock ROM. Never done that, total newbie. I followed this tuto : Revert Samsung Device to stock ROM on Windows PC
As it was impossible to download anything with free account on Sammobile, I downloaded firmware on samfw.com. I apparently did not get good firmware, as I now have a message telling me “An error has occured while updating the device software. Use the emergency recovery function in the smart switch PC software”. My phone is SM-G960F bought refurbished in France. So I downloaded last French firmware (2 avalaible, both failed).
How can I be sure to dowload the right firmware ? What can I do to revert to stock Android ? If not possible, can I simply revert to /e/ OS ?
I won’t be caught doing this again… In the meantime I would appreciate if I could save my S9. Thanks for your help.

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Hi,
First of all, you can’t install just any stock Android version on the SM-G960F.

Without knowing which stock Android was originally installed on Galaxy S9 and which stock Android version could not be reinstalled, it is extremely difficult to provide concrete assistance.

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Hi Gianna, thanks for your feedback.
If I give what’s written on the back of my phone with IMEI among others, the firmware versions I tried to install and a photo of my blocked screen, would that be helpful ?

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Finally I succeeded!
Instead of using Home_CSC file on Odin like suggested in the tuto mentioned in my first post, I used directly CSC file (I had nothing important on this phone yet).
As for the right firmware, I used the IMEI number to find it.

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Congratulation for restoring control on your device,

It is very improbable to definitively brick a Samsung device during a system replacement process !..

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You know you can download Windows4Droid firmware and that rescued my Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite (SM-T220) 32GB 3GB RAM android 13 tablet

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