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Hi guys, I flashed a jamal's 4.3 rom coming from omega's google edition rom and i did the usual stuff like I always have factory reset etc.. and i reboot the system and fix permissions as usual and my phone is now stuck on the omega's spinning boot up animation with the phone vibrating.
HELP!!!
Re-download the rom, could be a bad download. Did you check the md5sum?
jd1639 said:
Re-download the rom, could be a bad download. Did you check the md5sum?
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what's a md5sum? :L i can't since my phone doesn't show up on my computer
sbouzyk said:
what's a md5sum? :L i can't since my phone doesn't show up on my computer
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It's a long alpha-numeric number that is associated with the file. Next time you download a rom look for it on the download page. When you down load a file the md5sum should match the original indicating a good download. There are apps that check the md5 and most file managers will show it in properties
ok, but how do i get out of the bootloop
sbouzyk said:
ok, but how do i get out of the bootloop
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If you've done the factory reset and that doesn't get you out I'm guessing the rom you flashed was a bad download. You made a nandroid backup before you flashed the rom, right. Boot back into recovery and restore it. Then re download the rom and try it again
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If you've done the factory reset and that doesn't get you out I'm guessing the rom you flashed was a bad download. You made a nandroid backup before you flashed the rom, right. Boot back into recovery and restore it. Then re download the rom and try it again
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i didn't make a nandroid backup...
sbouzyk said:
i didn't make a nandroid backup...
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Live and learn, I was afraid of that. You're probably going to have to use Odin then which will return you back to stock. And then start everything over again. Have you let the boot loop go for like 5 minutes. Sometimes it can take that long on first boot, but the vibration isn't normal.
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Live and learn, I was afraid of that. You're probably going to have to use Odin then which will return you back to stock. And then start everything over again. Have you let the boot loop go for like 5 minutes. Sometimes it can take that long on first boot, but the vibration isn't normal.
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the thing is though, i have flash this download of the rom before, and it was fine. i just got bored of it and downloaded another rom. i then decided to go back to the rom again.
sbouzyk said:
the thing is though, i have flash this download of the rom before, and it was fine. i just got bored of it and downloaded another rom. i then decided to go back to the rom again.
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Try flashing it again then. Do all the wipes first then flash it and then flash gapps. Did you flash the gapps package? I'm not sure what rom you're trying to flash but it probably requires gapps too.
jd1639 said:
Try flashing it again then. Do all the wipes first then flash it and then flash gapps. Did you flash the gapps package? I'm not sure what rom you're trying to flash but it probably requires gapps too.
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gapps isn't on my phone so i cant flash it. i've flash it about ten times now and it won't work. it must be a bad download even though i flashed it before. after i flash the rom, it shows the boot animation of the rom i had been using before. werid huh? the only option i have now is to buy a micro sd card and put the rom on that and flash it that way. i really don't want to use odin.
sbouzyk said:
gapps isn't on my phone so i cant flash it. i've flash it about ten times now and it won't work. it must be a bad download even though i flashed it before. after i flash the rom, it shows the boot animation of the rom i had been using before. werid huh? the only option i have now is to buy a micro sd card and put the rom on that and flash it that way. i really don't want to use odin.
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The sd card is a good idea. You're going to want one anyway.
jd1639 said:
The sd card is a good idea. You're going to want one anyway.
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thanks for all your help mate. guess I'm going to be a LOT more careful in the future. now im phoneless anyway cheers for the help
sbouzyk said:
thanks for all your help mate. guess I'm going to be a LOT more careful in the future. now im phoneless anyway cheers for the help
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Np
sbouzyk said:
thanks for all your help mate. guess I'm going to be a LOT more careful in the future. now im phoneless anyway cheers for the help
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You're just going to give up? Seriously? It's really easy to flash stock fw with Odin. And also easy to root afterwards, to each their own.
norml said:
You're just going to give up? Seriously? It's really easy to flash stock fw with Odin. And also easy to root afterwards, to each their own.
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What do you mean giving up? I'm going to wait until my microSD card comes and then I will transfer the zip file that way. I don't have time to fiddle with odin. Besides I don't even have a pc, i have bootcamp, which takes a year to boot.
I have a Canadian S4 and rooted using the twrp method and then installed the vigin google play edition rom. Everything worked fine at first when I installed it but i was fiddling around after in twrp and thought i should format the internal storage and start completely fresh and now if I install any rom including my original backup the device will boot up into the system fine for the first time but if the device resets after that it just hangs on the galaxy S4 logo and i have to reboot into recovery and flash again. Any ideas on how i could fix this? Thanks!!!
Try this, in twrp go into advanced wipe and wipe dalvik cache, cache, system, data and android secure. Then flash your nandroid.
I don't have a nandroid I have a twrp backup
Jaygrippa said:
I don't have a nandroid I have a twrp backup
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That is a nandroid.
Dont use TWRP for the S4
From what I have experience and I believe others have as well, if you used TWRP to format where you had to type yes, you are pretty much screwed trying to get things working properly again. Maybe it is certain phones, sd cards, roms, who knows, but after I typed yes in TWRP to format everything, I could flash a rom but couldnt restart and things were buggy. I had to use odin to flash back to stock, re-root and flash the rom again. Now everything is 190% considering my battery life went from 6 hours to 28 with medium usage.
I have always loved TWRP on my other phones, but for the S4, its more frustration and using with caution than its worth.
Another word of caution, use windows to fix your phone. Im on linux and its too much of a pain in the ass to use odin/heimdall to go back to stock for newbs. On windows I went to stock and rooted again in no time.
Good luck!
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After doing that stuff in twrp should I flash right back to my backup of stock touch wiz or straight into the ROM of my choosing? Whenever I would have to reflash I would have to format he internal memory or it wouldn't work
Ya I did the thing where I typed yes... Crap ya its my first time doing all this stuff so you suggest I Re do all of the rooting stuff and then flash my backup I made?
Jaygrippa said:
Ya I did the thing where I typed yes... Crap ya its my first time doing all this stuff so you suggest I Re do all of the rooting stuff and then flash my backup I made?
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You might have to. I had the same problem today where if the phone rebooted I would just get a black screen. I ended up using Odin with the stock rom, reinstalling twrp and then restoring my backup. I'm pretty sure it was a rom I flashed that caused the initial problem and only Odin would clear things up.
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Jaygrippa said:
Ya I did the thing where I typed yes... Crap ya its my first time doing all this stuff so you suggest I Re do all of the rooting stuff and then flash my backup I made?
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Actually its going back to stock, then rerooting. All I did was follow androidrootz guide here:
http://www.androidrootz.com/2013/06/how-to-unroot-unbrick-galaxy-s4.html
After that, motochopper back to get root and followed this guide to install OUDHS recovery:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2291956
This worked for me, at least for now. Hope it can help you out.
ericchaffey said:
Actually its going back to stock, then rerooting. All I did was follow androidrootz guide here:
http://www.androidrootz.com/2013/06/how-to-unroot-unbrick-galaxy-s4.html
After that, motochopper back to get root and followed this guide to install OUDHS recovery:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2291956
This worked for me, at least for now. Hope it can help you out.
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Hey thanks a bunch ill try that out later. I am at work right now and i can still use my phone on the rom i have just as long as i dont reset it. Ill try all of this out when i get home and see if that works. Thanks for everyones help
Now the only problem is i have to find a Fido ROM
Jaygrippa said:
Hey thanks a bunch ill try that out later. I am at work right now and i can still use my phone on the rom i have just as long as i dont reset it. Ill try all of this out when i get home and see if that works. Thanks for everyones help
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A couple other notes, to avoid other possible problems, use the original samsung cord when connecting to your computer. Switching USB ports can help if there are transfer or other issues. Its pretty easy and straight forward if everything works out well, but there are so many gawt dayum variables that minor issues can cause problems, though may never manifest.
Hopefully this works and please post some results to help the same in need.
ericchaffey said:
A couple other notes, to avoid other possible problems, use the original samsung cord when connecting to your computer. Switching USB ports can help if there are transfer or other issues. Its pretty easy and straight forward if everything works out well, but there are so many gawt dayum variables that minor issues can cause problems, though may never manifest.
Hopefully this works and please post some results to help the same in need.
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Ya thinks i will, now im just in the process of finding a rom for Fido, they are owned by rogers so im not sure if the rogers rom will work, This android stuff is so stressful its my first android phone so i hope all goes well!
Jaygrippa said:
Ya thinks i will, now im just in the process of finding a rom for Fido, they are owned by rogers so im not sure if the rogers rom will work, This android stuff is so stressful its my first android phone so i hope all goes well!
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I get firmware from sammobile.com. You have to register but it's free. You'll download a zip. Use 7-zip to extract the .tar.md5 file from it. Use that in Odin, PDA.
jd1639 said:
I get firmware from sammobile.com. You have to register but it's free. You'll download a zip. Use 7-zip to extract the .tar.md5 file from it. Use that in Odin, PDA.
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ya even they dont have a specific "Fido" firmware...
Anyone know if I can just use the Rogers ROM its pretty much the same company
Jaygrippa said:
Anyone know if I can just use the Rogers ROM its pretty much the same company
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It'll work. It'll just put their bloatware on and the boot animation will be theirs
Reflashed
Ok so i reflashed to the stock rom using odin and bam it works again, im just wondering what is a good way now too root, and install the same rom i had
This will have everything you need http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42320391
Thanks everyone for your help, I got my phone back up and running stock, then i rooted using CF- Autoroot and installed twrp again. I then reinstalled the rom i wanted to use and everything is in tip top order
Jaygrippa said:
Thanks everyone for your help, I got my phone back up and running stock, then i rooted using CF- Autoroot and installed twrp again. I then reinstalled the rom i wanted to use and everything is in tip top order
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Glad to here it. Have fun.
Hi,
I've a big problem with my note 3 (SM-9005).
Root and under Foxhound Diamonds ROM 1.2
All worked perfectly during one month and I don't do any modifcation last month.
Just i flashed Faux's recovery 2 days ago.
After that, Note3 works perfectly. But I had needed to do a reboot. But after reboot I had many problems. PIN code was not query after reboot, I have no signal and after several seconds it's show me "system process doesn't respond" wait or close?. Then the phone reboot and reboot until I removed the battery.
I tried to reflash the rom but I had still the same problem. I also tried to reflash a Samsung firmware with ODIN. Flash was OK, but problem is still there. No signal, and reboot after system process crash...
Any idea? My Knox counter is at 0x1...
Sorry for my poor English.
pystolero said:
Hi,
I've a big problem with my note 3 (SM-9005).
Root and under Foxhound Diamonds ROM 1.2
All worked perfectly during one month and I don't do any modifcation last month.
Just i flashed Faux's recovery 2 days ago.
After that, Note3 works perfectly. But I had needed to do a reboot. But after reboot I had many problems. PIN code was not query after reboot, I have no signal and after several seconds it's show me "system process doesn't respond" wait or close?. Then the phone reboot and reboot until I removed the battery.
I tried to reflash the rom but I had still the same problem. I also tried to reflash a Samsung firmware with ODIN. Flash was OK, but problem is still there. No signal, and reboot after system process crash...
Any idea? My Knox counter is at 0x1...
Sorry for my poor English.
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Hi, from the sounds of it you had the same problem I had, I followed what this guy said in this thread and it worked perfectly again: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2540822 Hope it works for you too
danielsf said:
Hi, from the sounds of it you had the same problem I had, I followed what this guy said in this thread and it worked perfectly again: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2540822 Hope it works for you too
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Thank you for your answer. But Root was done Two month ago by myself. So...
And I had flashed a stock Rom with ODIN. But when we flash a stock ROM with ODIN, we lost the root. Why I Still had the same problems after flashing a stock rom?
pystolero said:
Thank you for your answer. But Root was done Two month ago by myself. So...
And I had flashed a stock Rom with ODIN. But when we flash a stock ROM with ODIN, we lost the root. Why I Still had the same problems after flashing a stock rom?
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Because you corrupted your EFS partition flashing either a kernel that didn't like the phone or a ROM that had issues, (Samsung Note 3 is prone to EFS issues currently). And it needed rebuilt. Re-Flashing stock in most cases won't rebuild it but sometimes it does, then you have you use this to fix. No need to go back to stock or wipe or anything, just flash it and voila! fixed
radicalisto said:
Because you corrupted your EFS partition flashing either a kernel that didn't like the phone or a ROM that had issues, (Samsung Note 3 is prone to EFS issues currently). And it needed rebuilt. Re-Flashing stock in most cases won't rebuild it but sometimes it does, then you have you use this to fix. No need to go back to stock or wipe or anything, just flash it and voila! fixed
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Really thanks. I'll try this soon! And thanks for the explication. I hope it will work!
Ok, I've not my note 3 with me. I tried to return it to after-sales services. But Samsung said that I had flashed the device and that warranty is broken...
I'm waiting the estimate but I think it will be too expensive. I want try to repair it by myself but they have not brought back the phone yet.
But the last solution :
radicalisto said:
Because you corrupted your EFS partition flashing either a kernel that didn't like the phone or a ROM that had issues, (Samsung Note 3 is prone to EFS issues currently). And it needed rebuilt. Re-Flashing stock in most cases won't rebuild it but sometimes it does, then you have you use this to fix. No need to go back to stock or wipe or anything, just flash it and voila! fixed
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needs to have a custom recovery. But it seems to me that after i had flashed the stock firmware, I didn't have the custom recovery but only the stock... How I can flash the file? Is it possible with the stock recovery?
Grab TWRP or CWM recoveries and ODIN, boot the phone into download mode - when it is off. Load up one of your custom recoveries in to PDA - hit start and let it install. Once it's done your phone will still bootloop, so take the battery out. Put back in - hold volume up, power button and home button - it'll boot into recovery, then just flash your efs fix zip via the install button
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Great! I'll try as soon as they brought me back the phone.
I didn't knew how to flash custom recovery with ODIN.
THX!
radicalisto said:
Because you corrupted your EFS partition flashing either a kernel that didn't like the phone or a ROM that had issues, (Samsung Note 3 is prone to EFS issues currently). And it needed rebuilt. Re-Flashing stock in most cases won't rebuild it but sometimes it does, then you have you use this to fix. No need to go back to stock or wipe or anything, just flash it and voila! fixed
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+1. This is because EFS partition is corrupted
Just flash that script radicalisto linked to, it will fix your phone
Ratata82 said:
+1. This is because EFS partition is corrupted
Just flash that script radicalisto linked to, it will fix your phone
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I'm hopeful! I'll test it as soon as i've recover my phone from the after-service.
pystolero said:
I'm hopeful! I'll test it as soon as i've recover my phone from the after-service.
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Did you manage to get your phone back up and running again?
Best regards
Ratata82 said:
Did you manage to get your phone back up and running again?
Best regards
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I'm still waiting for the after-service.
Samsung refuse my device. Warranty is broken because I flashed it. They saw Knox's counter of course...
They asked 250€ ~ 340$ to repair it. I refused I prefer to try your solution and i'm waiting. The phone will be back in average the 15th january.
Ratata82 said:
Did you manage to get your phone back up and running again?
Best regards
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radicalisto said:
Because you corrupted your EFS partition flashing either a kernel that didn't like the phone or a ROM that had issues, (Samsung Note 3 is prone to EFS issues currently). And it needed rebuilt. Re-Flashing stock in most cases won't rebuild it but sometimes it does, then you have you use this to fix. No need to go back to stock or wipe or anything, just flash it and voila! fixed
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Some news!
I just recover my phone!
I have immediately flashed the recovery, and flash the file you got me. And.... it's running!!!! :laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
I'm so happy!!! What a shame for Samsung! They said in the estimate 340$ to repair it with a change of motherboard while just a little flash was enough.
If you have a paypal adress, radicalisto, I buy you a beer!
Glad you got sorted - I cannot take credit for that script I'm afraid.. If you head over to the thread it was posted in you can thank the guy who made it
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radicalisto said:
Glad you got sorted - I cannot take credit for that script I'm afraid.. If you head over to the thread it was posted in you can thank the guy who made it
Sent from my SM-N9005 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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It makes me happy, but you're right, i will thank the man who made the script!
Hi guys, i've broken my Galaxy s4 lcd some day ago, and yesterday i've decided to sell it on ebay.
But now i have to wipe it. The problem is that i am running a custom Touchwiz rom and Philz touch recovery. So i don't think i can use Kies to make a factory reset.
I can use Odin to flash a stock image etc... But i don't know how to solve completely my problems.
Can someone help me? Thx
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41392134
Take help from this
"If someone helps, never forget to hit thanks ? "
DeepankarS said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41392134
Take help from this
"If someone helps, never forget to hit thanks ? "
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Thank you for the replay.
However, the Galaxy S4 doesn't have fastboot mode, but only download mode and recovery mode, so I don't know how to use the commands...
OmniSlyfer said:
Thank you for the replay.
However, the Galaxy S4 doesn't have fastboot mode, but only download mode and recovery mode, so I don't know how to use the commands...
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Odin will fix it.
Flash the stock ronin Odin. All your user data will be (sort of) removed.
A skilled user could still recover your user data' but most people won't even know its there.
You will not need the phone's screen to work at any point in the Odin process.
Skipjacks said:
Odin will fix it.
Flash the stock ronin Odin. All your user data will be (sort of) removed.
A skilled user could still recover your user data' but most people won't even know its there.
You will not need the phone's screen to work at any point in the Odin process.
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Oh ok perfect
I've just finished to flash the stock rom, I hope evrything worked fine. I'll try to install Kies3 to see if I can maybe do another wipe or something else to delete definately all my data inside (including photos etc...). Any suggestions?
OmniSlyfer said:
Oh ok perfect
I've just finished to flash the stock rom, I hope evrything worked fine. I'll try to install Kies3 to see if I can maybe do another wipe or something else to delete definately all my data inside (including photos etc...). Any suggestions?
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Odin will wipe the data as well as Kies will.
But neither really removes the data. Both just remove the directory structure which makes it easy to sort the data.
To really remove the data you need to overwrite it with new data. That is much more difficult to do without access to the screen on the phone.
You could do it in recovery with the device mounted via usb to a computer. But you generally need to select that in recovery using the touch screen.
You can also push data to the device to overwrite using adb, but its more difficult.
All in all though...unless you have evidence of your participation in a crime on the phone, don't be so worried about it. It will be okay.
Skipjacks said:
All in all though...unless you have evidence of your participation in a crime on the phone, don't be so worried about it. It will be okay.
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Hahahahahahah
Skipjacks said:
Odin will wipe the data as well as Kies will.
But neither really removes the data. Both just remove the directory structure which makes it easy to sort the data.
To really remove the data you need to overwrite it with new data. That is much more difficult to do without access to the screen on the phone.
You could do it in recovery with the device mounted via usb to a computer. But you generally need to select that in recovery using the touch screen.
You can also push data to the device to overwrite using adb, but its more difficult.
All in all though...unless you have evidence of your participation in a crime on the phone, don't be so worried about it. It will be okay.
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Ahahah. Thank you so much for the explanation
I think the buyer will find some photos of me in the phone, i hope he will not die coz of my ugly face
I think this thread can be closed.
Skipjacks said:
Odin will wipe the data as well as Kies will.
But neither really removes the data. Both just remove the directory structure which makes it easy to sort the data.
To really remove the data you need to overwrite it with new data. That is much more difficult to do without access to the screen on the phone.
You could do it in recovery with the device mounted via usb to a computer. But you generally need to select that in recovery using the touch screen.
You can also push data to the device to overwrite using adb, but its more difficult.
All in all though...unless you have evidence of your participation in a crime on the phone, don't be so worried about it. It will be okay.
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Since Google implemented Trim in Android 4.3, it's impossible (as of yet) to recover deleted data. I tried several guides here on XDA on data recovery and none of them work anymore.
See for example this article.
http://forensic.belkasoft.com/en/why-ssd-destroy-court-evidence
So basically if you delete a file or format your system, the data is really gone.
Lennyz1988 said:
Since Google implemented Trim in Android 4.3, it's impossible (as of yet) to recover deleted data. I tried several guides here on XDA on data recovery and none of them work anymore.
See for example this article.
http://forensic.belkasoft.com/en/why-ssd-destroy-court-evidence
So basically if you delete a file or format your system, the data is really gone.
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That article was one of the most awesome nerdy things I ever read. I had no idea about the garbage collectors on solid state memory.
Skipjacks said:
That article was one of the most awesome nerdy things I ever read. I had no idea about the garbage collectors on solid state memory.
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From my experience, flashing stock firmware with Kies DOES NOT wipe the user data/files from phones SD card. I have to always do factory reset from stock recovery to wipe it.
tomtro74 said:
From my experience, flashing stock firmware with Kies DOES NOT wipe the user data/files from phones SD card. I have to always do factory reset from stock recovery to wipe it.
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It wont ever wipe the external sd card
The internal sd card should depend on the tar file and if it formats that partition or not.
I never really paid attention to it myself because I have never had to flash a full stock restore on my S4 so I have no idea what the standard for S4 firmwares is.
The internal data partition though should be wiped with a full stock firmware in odin every single time.
Skipjacks said:
It wont ever wipe the external sd card
The internal sd card should depend on the tar file and if it formats that partition or not.
I never really paid attention to it myself because I have never had to flash a full stock restore on my S4 so I have no idea what the standard for S4 firmwares is.
The internal data partition though should be wiped with a full stock firmware in odin every single time.
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Well, it's not. Believe me. I used to flash stock rom on S4 number of times and I can confirm that flashing stock rom with Odin DOES NOT WIPE any user data. Your photos and other files stays intact as well as the apss ( you may loose some apps internal data ) until factory reset is performed either from stock recovery or from rom itself.
tomtro74 said:
Well, it's not. Believe me. I used to flash stock rom on S4 number of times and I can confirm that flashing stock rom with Odin DOES NOT WIPE any user data. Your photos and other files stays intact as well as the apss ( you may loose some apps internal data ) until factory reset is performed either from stock recovery or from rom itself.
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Well how about that.....you learn something new every day!
OmniSlyfer said:
Hi guys, i've broken my Galaxy s4 lcd some day ago, and yesterday i've decided to sell it on ebay.
But now i have to wipe it. The problem is that i am running a custom Touchwiz rom and Philz touch recovery. So i don't think i can use Kies to make a factory reset.
I can use Odin to flash a stock image etc... But i don't know how to solve completely my problems.
Can someone help me? Thx
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if your S4 opens, just connect it to the PC and then the internal memory will appear
delete whatever you wants
Hi guys,
Yesterday I washed my galaxy s8 ( china SM-G9500) with water to clean the dust, and it prompted the usb port is wet must dry it before using. Today it's not wet any more, and I tried to connect a usb drive with the type-c to type-a OTG adapter to the phone, but it doesn't work. Then I tried to plug in something else like mouse, keyboard and card reader for multiple times, still no any prompt on my phone at all. However, when I try to connect it to my computer with usb cable, everything are working properly. So could the usb port be damaged by the water, or the OTG adapter was broken? Also, are the usb type-c host mode and guest mode using the same pins?
I really need some help. Thank you so much!
I'm having the same issue except I wasn't in water or near it. No one has an answer for my delimua but hopefully someone will answer with a fix.
this.guy.lol said:
I'm having the same issue except I wasn't in water or near it. No one has an answer for my delimua but hopefully someone will answer with a fix.
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i found the reason just now. i rooted my galaxy s8 with a modified kernel and magisk, and this results this issue. after restoring firmware to stock with smart switch, everything worked normally. now my problem is solved. if you rooted your phone too, maybe you can backup your data and try to restore.
xdauser'17 said:
i found the reason just now. i rooted my galaxy s8 with a modified kernel and magisk, and this results this issue. after restoring firmware to stock with smart switch, everything worked normally. now my problem is solved. if you rooted your phone too, maybe you can backup your data and try to restore.
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Thanks is the restore same as flashing with Odin? I never used a smart switch to restore or whatever the non-odin method is.
this.guy.lol said:
Thanks is the restore same as flashing with Odin? I never used a smart switch to restore or whatever the non-odin method is.
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if you have the stock firmware, you should be able to use odin to flash it too, but i'm not sure how, you can google it. the much easier way is smart switch, you can download it from samsung's official website. and after install it, use the 'more' menu and the first option the do a complete restore by following the instruction.
Okay thanks. I've used Odin before and done several phones over the years. Done it with Odin but still it doesn't work.
this.guy.lol said:
Okay thanks. I've used Odin before and done several phones over the years. Done it with Odin but still it doesn't work.
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then you should do some check about the usb port, for example try to connect your phone to pc. also, if you rooted your phone, too, you should make sure you restored the kernel with odin.
Everything has been restored. USB works with everything else. Just not with the otg.
this.guy.lol said:
Everything has been restored. USB works with everything else. Just not with the otg.
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well, that's weird. maybe you should open another thread to talk about this issue, or just report it to samsung.
xdauser'17 said:
well, that's weird. maybe you should open another thread to talk about this issue, or just report it to samsung.
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I've made a thread like 2 months ago and no one commented except for a guy who doesn't know English at all or how to read. Samsung won't do much since I got my from Europe aka G955F and I live in the states.
this.guy.lol said:
I've made a thread like 2 months ago and no one commented except for a guy who doesn't know English at all or how to read. Samsung won't do much since I got my from Europe aka G955F and I live in the states.
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ok. These days i'm trying to compile a kernel to fix the issue on my phone. if i can find out the reason, i'll compile one for you too. although i'm not confident enough. so your phone is G955F, right?
and if possible, you could do some check on your otg adapter to make sure it's not a hardware issue.
xdauser'17 said:
ok. These days i'm trying to compile a kernel to fix the issue on my phone. if i can find out the reason, i'll compile one for you too. although i'm not confident enough. so your phone is G955F, right?
and if possible, you could do some check on your otg adapter to make sure it's not a hardware issue.
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Yes a G955F. I can do some tests ya. Tell me what to check for. When I plug on the adapter it said " charging connected device" when I go to switch the setting to something else, it'll act like it does then it goes right back to it instantly. I stripped the adapter to fit over an otterbox and it worked for 4 days till I flashed a rom so idk. I've literally done everything except try a different OTG. If I had another device to test this on I'd do it but I don't.
this.guy.lol said:
Yes a G955F. I can do some tests ya. Tell me what to check for. When I plug on the adapter it said " charging connected device" when I go to switch the setting to something else, it'll act like it does then it goes right back to it instantly. I stripped the adapter to fit over an otterbox and it worked for 4 days till I flashed a rom so idk. I've literally done everything except try a different OTG. If I had another device to test this on I'd do it but I don't.
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alright, I'm still in trouble for now, because the self-compiled kernel can't boot up, and my phone give a message like 'kernel is not seandroid enforcing'. i have asked in some other threads, and waiting for answers...
xdauser'17 said:
alright, I'm still in trouble for now, because the self-compiled kernel can't boot up, and my phone give a message like 'kernel is not seandroid enforcing'. i have asked in some other threads, and waiting for answers...
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That's an easy one. After you flash the kernel wipe cache and dalvik then reboot. If it still persists, wipe dalvik and cache then flash super user in twrp and reboot.
this.guy.lol said:
That's an easy one. After you flash the kernel wipe cache and dalvik then reboot. If it still persists, wipe dalvik and cache then flash super user in twrp and reboot.
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really? are you sure?
xdauser'17 said:
really? are you sure?
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I'm 80% sure yes. On my s7 active that is what I had to do when I flashed a kernel or rooted for the first time. You may also try the zip that disables the protection in recovery. I forgot the actual name. To the point, I've had a few devices and that was my remody to fix em. Worth a try at least
this.guy.lol said:
I'm 80% sure yes. On my s7 active that is what I had to do when I flashed a kernel or rooted for the first time. You may also try the zip that disables the protection in recovery. I forgot the actual name. To the point, I've had a few devices and that was my remody to fix em. Worth a try at least
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okay, i'll give it a try, although i have taken some time to restore my phone from previous fault just now. and maybe i'll need to do that once again soon...
I tried it just now, erasing dalvik cache, /cache or /data... anything possible, but sadly, it's no effect in my case.
I believe this is a compile-time problem, and maybe the solution is edit makefile to change some kernel options, or apply some kind of patch to the kernel source. that will fool the SeAndroid security check to make the kernel bootable. It's possible only a simple modification, but i have no idea how.
right now, i'm going to do a complete restore again to make my phone work. i'm really not sure if i can do this, or if i can help. the only thing i could do for now is waiting for someone's hints. so let's hope everything will go well.
anyway, thanks for your advice.
xdauser'17 said:
I tried it just now, erasing dalvik cache, /cache or /data... anything possible, but sadly, it's no effect in my case.
I believe this is a compile-time problem, and maybe the solution is edit makefile to change some kernel options, or apply some kind of patch to the kernel source. that will fool the SeAndroid security check to make the kernel bootable. It's possible only a simple modification, but i have no idea how.
right now, i'm going to do a complete restore again to make my phone work. i'm really not sure if i can do this, or if i can help. the only thing i could do for now is waiting for someone's hints. so let's hope everything will go well.
anyway, thanks for your advice.
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You weren't suppose to wipe data as u would a full wipe. Only dalvik and cache. Install a rom like batman rom and then flash your kernel. It should take. If your on stock its tricky.
this.guy.lol said:
You weren't suppose to wipe data as u would a full wipe. Only dalvik and cache. Install a rom like batman rom and then flash your kernel. It should take. If your on stock its tricky.
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first time, i only wiped dalvik cache and /cache partition, but it still doesn't work, then i tried to wipe /data completely, still no luck...