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[Q] GT-i9500 has no OS installed.

Hi everyone I just recently purchased a used S4 the GT-i9500. Everything seemed fine until I got home. It detected my T-Mobile Sim fine but I could only access 2G data and could not connect to any WiFi network I came across. The rom was stock 4.2.2 and the phone was rooted pre purchase. So after fiddling around for a few minutes I discovered the previous owner had flashed TWRP v2.4.1.0 as his choice for a Custom Recovery. Now at this point I had decided to flash on a Custom Rom and of course I first made a backup before flashing on WanamLite. Now after attempting to flash it I immediately received a failure. I tried turning off the signature verification and it did not flash. Now in my frustration i attempted to wipe everything and tried flashing Omega Rom v14. Now i was able to go through with the installation and choose what I wished to install and when I pressed Install things went along smoothly until I hit the app SecSafetyAssurance.apk where it freezes. This is a bump that I've run into at least 5 times already. I changed certain options I wanted to install and eventually made it past this and I am prompted to reboot. Now when I do this to my dismay I just receive a black screen. Upon pulling out the battery and attempting to reboot I still receive a black screen. when I boot back into the Recovery and attempt to reboot the system from within TWRP it warns me saying No OS Installed Are you sure you want to reboot. Im at a loss of what to do. I have read about other members suggesting to use ODIN but I am very confused about how to access Download Mode in order to flash a stock rom from SamMobile.com. I could use a few tips or maybe a few options that I'm left with in order to obtain the operation of my phone again. I would like to get my phone back and Im sure some users can relate to how Im feeling so any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much in advanced!

JmastahJay56 said:
Hi everyone I just recently purchased a used S4 the GT-i9500. Everything seemed fine until I got home. It detected my T-Mobile Sim fine but I could only access 2G data and could not connect to any WiFi network I came across. The rom was stock 4.2.2 and the phone was rooted pre purchase. So after fiddling around for a few minutes I discovered the previous owner had flashed TWRP v2.4.1.0 as his choice for a Custom Recovery. Now at this point I had decided to flash on a Custom Rom and of course I first made a backup before flashing on WanamLite. Now after attempting to flash it I immediately received a failure. I tried turning off the signature verification and it did not flash. Now in my frustration i attempted to wipe everything and tried flashing Omega Rom v14. Now i was able to go through with the installation and choose what I wished to install and when I pressed Install things went along smoothly until I hit the app SecSafetyAssurance.apk where it freezes. This is a bump that I've run into at least 5 times already. I changed certain options I wanted to install and eventually made it past this and I am prompted to reboot. Now when I do this to my dismay I just receive a black screen. Upon pulling out the battery and attempting to reboot I still receive a black screen. when I boot back into the Recovery and attempt to reboot the system from within TWRP it warns me saying No OS Installed Are you sure you want to reboot. Im at a loss of what to do. I have read about other members suggesting to use ODIN but I am very confused about how to access Download Mode in order to flash a stock rom from SamMobile.com. I could use a few tips or maybe a few options that I'm left with in order to obtain the operation of my phone again. I would like to get my phone back and Im sure some users can relate to how Im feeling so any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much in advanced!
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Well first thing is get the latest stock firmware for your variant from my sign and get odin 3.07
For download mode power off phone unplug,, press volume down home and power all together till something pops up and release then press volume up and connect to pc
Open odin click pda and select that firmware u downloaded start the process
For more info check my sign help thread link it has more options on the same
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JmastahJay56 said:
Hi everyone I just recently purchased a used S4 the GT-i9500. Everything seemed fine until I got home. It detected my T-Mobile Sim fine but I could only access 2G data and could not connect to any WiFi network I came across. The rom was stock 4.2.2 and the phone was rooted pre purchase. So after fiddling around for a few minutes I discovered the previous owner had flashed TWRP v2.4.1.0 as his choice for a Custom Recovery. Now at this point I had decided to flash on a Custom Rom and of course I first made a backup before flashing on WanamLite. Now after attempting to flash it I immediately received a failure. I tried turning off the signature verification and it did not flash. Now in my frustration i attempted to wipe everything and tried flashing Omega Rom v14. Now i was able to go through with the installation and choose what I wished to install and when I pressed Install things went along smoothly until I hit the app SecSafetyAssurance.apk where it freezes. This is a bump that I've run into at least 5 times already. I changed certain options I wanted to install and eventually made it past this and I am prompted to reboot. Now when I do this to my dismay I just receive a black screen. Upon pulling out the battery and attempting to reboot I still receive a black screen. when I boot back into the Recovery and attempt to reboot the system from within TWRP it warns me saying No OS Installed Are you sure you want to reboot. Im at a loss of what to do. I have read about other members suggesting to use ODIN but I am very confused about how to access Download Mode in order to flash a stock rom from SamMobile.com. I could use a few tips or maybe a few options that I'm left with in order to obtain the operation of my phone again. I would like to get my phone back and Im sure some users can relate to how Im feeling so any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much in advanced!
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Flashing through odin is one option.... some users have reported that there were some hiccups when installing omega 14 because of the aroma script.....try a different rom...there are many others to choose from....or you could flash stock via odin as said on the earlier comment good luck

Feedback
Today I attempted to use ODIN to flash now I am still currently attempting this. When I press the volume down key, power, and home button it takes me to the custom recovery TWRP instead of download mode. The phone did this when I first purchased it. When I still had what appeared to be the stock rom it would always take me to the recovery. When I would use the volume up instead of down it would take me to the factory test mode now mind you this happened when the OS was still installed. When i try that combination now i just receive a blank black screen. Are there any other ways to boot into download mode?

[Q] Seems like I've got corruption of some kind...

ATT Galaxy S4 currently running Goldeneye 6.0 and TWRP 2.6.0.0 (never installed MF3 base, but have tried both MF3 and MDL modems)
First odd thing...
[About->Status->Device Status] is listed as "Sd card" instead of the more common "Official" or "Custom".
Anybody know what that means or is telling me?
This is the latest thing I've noticed with my phone, which has been having all sorts of issues lately that I cannot seem to figure out. My main problem is, I can reinstall a new ROM, boot into the ROM, change settings around, reboot just fine, but, as soon as I install anything from the Play Store, the next reboot will hang on the initial Samsung splash screen. Wiping is the only fix I've found, and fixing permissions in TWRP errors out with an error that it cannot chown one of the new/updated .apk files.
Both Goldeneye 5 and 6 are doing this now (5.0 was installed and rock solid for several weeks before this all showed up...it started sometime after I decided to try out a couple of the aroma roms and then came back to GE).
Used ODIN to go back to factory rom, re-rooted/installed TWRP, then reinstalled GE6.0, but the same thing happened. Everything looked good until I ran updates from the store, then I was stuck again (note: used Root Explorer to check to permissions on the updated apks before rebooting and they were all correct (755)).
Other things I've noticed are:
1. Sometimes, on any reboot, the startup locks at the initial Samsung screen and I have to long press the power button to get it to reboot. It usually boots the second time around (this is before I install any additional apps and am completely unable to reboot).
2. Sometimes when wiping cache, davlik, and/or data, TWRP will seem to hang for up to a minute when trying to initialize the partition. A couple of times it even hard reboot my phone when I did a cache+davlik wipe.
3. I rolled back to a recovery image just fine; however, it was a couple months old. Everything started off looking great, but once I updated to a new ROM, my issues returned.
Trying Heimdall to go back to factory; however, I'm having issue with my laptop and getting the Zadig drivers installed. While I'm working that out, figured I'd see if anyone else has any suggestions on what else I should be trying or looking out.
thx

I would flash your phone back to MDL stock with odin using the mdl tar. This should format your paritions correctly. You could also reinstall MDL using kies since they still don't support MF3.
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[HELP] Can't Get Wifi To Work.

Right guys, I'm really stuck and about to smash my phone in half.
For some reason this morning my phone decided that it no longer wanted the Wifi to work, so it switched off and I haven't been able to get it to turn back on for more than 5 minutes. I've completely wiped the phone and started again, I've restored old working backups and I've updated to the latest versions of ROMs.
The weird thing that I find is that when I restore from an old backup the Wifi works until I go into settings, as soon as I do that the phone freezes before loading the settings and it breaks the Wifi, can't find anything on this and all previous efforts to revive it and solutions posted all over the internet are not working at all.
Really am about to break this phone, so please help!
Any solution would be helpful and I can quickly rule out the ones I have done.

Pulse654321 said:
Right guys, I'm really stuck and about to smash my phone in half.
For some reason this morning my phone decided that it no longer wanted the Wifi to work, so it switched off and I haven't been able to get it to turn back on for more than 5 minutes. I've completely wiped the phone and started again, I've restored old working backups and I've updated to the latest versions of ROMs.
The weird thing that I find is that when I restore from an old backup the Wifi works until I go into settings, as soon as I do that the phone freezes before loading the settings and it breaks the Wifi, can't find anything on this and all previous efforts to revive it and solutions posted all over the internet are not working at all.
Really am about to break this phone, so please help!
Any solution would be helpful and I can quickly rule out the ones I have done.
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If I had that problem here is the first thing I would try.
First restore the backup you said you had. (the one which has the working wifi).
After doing that go into settings>accounts> Backup and reset and select "Factory data reset".
Then reboot the phone, but don't setup your google(gmail) account yet, skip that step.
When you finally get to the launcher screen go into setting turn on wifi and see
if it's working properly.......
If it is, it means that there was something corrupted in your
data or settings which google/gmail backed up for you.
If that's the case then do a full SYNC with your google Gmail
account so google will no longer restore some corrupt settings
which causes your wifi not to work properly.
Good luck!

Sorry should have stated that I'm still running custom ROMs, I've got PACMAN on there at the minute, but I did as you said and the did the equivalent reset and then couldn't finish the setup because the setup wizard kept crashing. Either way it does ask you to enter your wifi password before entering your Gmail account and I couldn't do that because it was stuck on "Turning on wifi".
About to do a full reset back to a stock rom without root. Did some more testing last night and it seems that I keep losing root somehow, after a little while I'll go into titanium and it'll say root access lost, and then when I go into CWM when I got to restart it will say "Root access is missing, root device?" and neither option helps as if I click yes after a while it just 'goes' again.
I've also had some boot hangs which I've discovered other people have had when they've been faced with the same root missing message.

Pulse654321 said:
Right guys, I'm really stuck and about to smash my phone in half.
For some reason this morning my phone decided that it no longer wanted the Wifi to work, so it switched off and I haven't been able to get it to turn back on for more than 5 minutes. I've completely wiped the phone and started again, I've restored old working backups and I've updated to the latest versions of ROMs.
The weird thing that I find is that when I restore from an old backup the Wifi works until I go into settings, as soon as I do that the phone freezes before loading the settings and it breaks the Wifi, can't find anything on this and all previous efforts to revive it and solutions posted all over the internet are not working at all.
Really am about to break this phone, so please help!
Any solution would be helpful and I can quickly rule out the ones I have done.
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wifi didn't work?
if the office stock firmware can't get it work , maybe your phone need fix....

I haven't tried stock just yet, about to though, just updated CWM and SuperSU, did SuperSU before but not CWM. I'll see if this works if not then I'll do a full stock install, getting quite miffed off with this now.
Edit: New problem, I can't seem to flash stock as it keeps coming up Odin: write failure. Never had this before :/

For those that are still searching for the answer here is what I did. Links provided for ease.
This method will delete all user data.
This basically is a last resort type scenario so please follow it with caution.
Backup what you can, while you can. Plenty of tutorials online for that.
Download the ROM I9505XXUEMJ7, can be found at SamMobile but slow download. I alternatively used a pre-rooted one just for testing as I had no intention of keeping the Samsung ROM. You can find a copy here.
Download Odin 3.07 and 1.85 (I had problems using some files with them so had to keep swapping)
Make sure you have Samsung USB Drivers installed. (Download here)
Download I9505XXUEMJ7 WiFi FIX, here.
Optional Downloads:
Download CF AutoRoot 1.65, here.
Download CWM 6.0.4.4 .TAR files, see this post.
Now, If you're coming from a Stock ROM do this:
Go into Settings > Developer Options, and enable "USB Debugging". If you don't have that, you need to go Settings > About, scroll down to "Builder Number" and tap it 5-10 until it says "You are now a developer" and the Options should now be visible.
Put your phone into Download mode. (Power off/Remove battery. Then hold Vol Down, Power and Home button until it vibrates. Then continue if asked.)
Connect your phone to your computer via USB cable (if you've only just installed the USB drivers you may need to wait a while for it to recognise the device, you may also have to disconnect/re-connect the USB cable after it's finished loading the drivers.)
Open Odin 1.85 and load the downloaded ROM under the PDA Section (You don't need to change anything else)
Once Odin has added this device, should show "<ID:0/003> Added!!" or similar, click start.
When it's completed it should say "PASS" in green at the top. If it doesn't repeat steps 3 & 4 but with Odin 3.07.
Let it boot up normally, if it gets stuck on Samsung logo (Mine did), you'll just need to clear the user data & cache.
To do that you need to enter Recovery (Same procedure as download mode but Vol Up, not Down.)
Scroll down to "Wipe data/factory reset" and then scroll down to "Yes".
Then select "Reboot system now", it will restart straight away
Once it has finally loaded up select your language and then the next screen should be Wifi setup, if your wifi is working then you're done.
If you Wifi isn't working and won't turn on and is stuck, then continue the setup for the phone as you wish, I skipped everything and didn't enter any accounts as I didn't wish to keep it.
Once you're at the Homescreen, turn the phone off and put it in download mode again.
Open Odin 1.85 and select the Wifi Fix file under PDA. This time untick Auto-Reboot and then click Start once Odin sees the phone.
When it's completed it should say "PASS" in green at the top. If it doesn't repeat step 9 but with Odin 3.07.
Note: Most tutorials do state to add this under Phone, but I found that it kept failing and didn't work.
Turn your phone off and go back into download mode. (Again, I just pulled the battery out)
Close Odin and follow step 9 again. But you don't need to untick Auto-Reboot. This is to ensure that the Modem has been flash correctly.
When the phone has loaded again, try the Wifi out, hopefully this time it should be working. That's all I did after days and days of testing, and now it's working flawlessly.
If you then wish to install a custom ROM again, you are more than welcome to, quick guide:
Enable "USB Debugging", as above (Step 1).
Put your phone into download mode.
Open Odin 1.85, under PDA select the CF AutoRoot 1.65 file found at the top of this post.
Click start, let it restart and install SuperUser.
Once it's booted up, turn it off and put it back into Download mode.
Open Odin 1.85 and select the CWM 6.0.4.4 file and click Start.
When the phone has booted back up, you should now have working Wifi, a Rooted phone ready for exploitation and have Custom Recovery menu ready for you to install your new choice of ROMs.
Took me a long time to write this up, but if it helps just one person, then it will have been worth it. Enjoy!
Edit: I should also say a massive Thank You to all the developers out there that helped me get to this point by providing me with the Utilities, ROMs, Fixed Modems, Root and CWM.

Trouble In Paradise

First time poster here.....in DESPERATE need of help!
So here's the rundown: After many attempts, I was finally able to update to KitKat 4.4.2 on my G2 with root intact. I wanted this for flashing the camera for 4k and 120fps modes. I attempted to install it today via TWRP but now I've basically bricked my phone.
Here's what I did:
- Installed FreeGee
- From inside FreeGee, I installed TWRP
- Installed TWRP Manager
- Copied .zip file to sdcard
- Booted into recovery mode
- Installed camera update
- Restarted and got a neverending LG Logo screen
I have since attempted every which way to recover from this. At this point, I don't even care about my data, I just want a working phone back! I am receiving no errors other than a frozen logo screen.
Here's what I've tried thus far with no success:
- ADB sideload (said phone was connected, got the dreaded "cannot read file" error no matter what I did).
- Factory reset
- Custom wipe of all but sdcard data
- LGFlashTools attempt to restore back down to 4.2.2 "o".....phone will not connect (read more below)
- Attempted fastboot flash from CMD prompt, just said "waiting for phone" forever
Some information......I CANNOT get the phone to be recognized on my PC when in "Download Mode". It never moves past the small Download Mode label into the "Firmware Update" with the big circular arrows circle. If I am in TWRP Recovery (which I get to by holding the Power and Volume Down button [original factory reset]), the PC does recognize the phone, but only under a new label called Android Phone, not Ports. I cannot change the COM ports at all as there is no option given under Properties.
I am at my wits end here. Any idea what I can do? It still appears to function normally under TWRP interface, but outside of that it's a brick. Please please PRETTY Please, anyone been in this situation and know what to do?
Thanks for any guidance.

Just wanted to give everybody an update here in case someone else is in the same situation.
So Sideload REFUSED to work even with the correct names typed. So I scratched that approach.
I anded up using the adb "push" method to send the zip file to the phone. I was having so much trouble with it at first, but I realized that was because I was going into sideload mode on the phone! You DO NOT turn on the sideload mode in TWRP if trying to push a file to the phone. You simply need the device recognized in the command prompt "adb devices" to say "23908hjf982j0e8jdf2 RECOVERY", or something to that effect. If you have sideload mode turned on, you will get the error, "error: closed". Well duh, it's closed for a sideload function! I should have caught this earlier.
ANYWAY, once I pushed a CyanogenMod 11 rom to the phone, it installed and booted right up! I didn't like it, however and wanted to go back to stock 4.2.2. So I downloaded the stock LG Jellybean rom and attempted to install it but it failed. Not sure why. I then downloaded KitKat 4.4.2 and installed it but that also failed, and this time it REALLY bricked it. I was getting loading errors on the LG Logo screen and it would shut off and act like it was turned off. At this point, I tried to restore to CyanogenMod from TWRP recovery, but it didn't work. Go figure.
I had a bricked phone. It wouldn't even boot into TWRP anymore due to the stock rom being partially installed (but failed).
Just when I thought all was lost, I attempted the old LGFlashTool reboot. I figured that maybe, just MAYBE....the Download Mode was fixed due to the partially installed stock ROM. I was right! I cleared all my old testing/configuration drivers on my PC and reinstalled the stock LGUnitedMobile 3.10.1 drivers, set the phone to download mode and VOILA! It FINALLY popped under a newly showing PORTS (COM & LPT) in my device manager. I configured it to COM41 as needed, configured LGFlashTool to load up the stock 4.2.2. jeallybean ROM, put the phone into Download Mode once again and LGFlashTool FINALLY recognized it and loaded up the stock ROM as it did the other day I tried it.
I am now on 4.2.2. rooted "q" (updated from "o" to "q" after installing SuperSU Pro and checked the Survival Mode option). I am moving up to KitKat 4.4.2. with Survival Mode on, which will keep my Root ability (Yes, it DOES work and have already verified it worked before all hell broke lose due to the xdabbeb's update on 4.4.2. (I probably did something wrong....not saying it's his fault!).
Anyway, just thought I would post this so that it may help someone else out.
Peace out gents.

goodlookin1 said:
I am now on 4.2.2. rooted "q" (updated from "o" to "q" after installing SuperSU Pro and checked the Survival Mode option). I am moving up to KitKat 4.4.2. with Survival Mode on, which will keep my Root ability (Yes, it DOES work and have already verified it worked before all hell broke lose due to the xdabbeb's update on 4.4.2. (I probably did something wrong....not saying it's his fault!).
Anyway, just thought I would post this so that it may help someone else out.
Peace out gents.
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If you eventually want to have recovery as well you'll need to go back to 10d as later versions (o,q) break loki and are not compatible with the custom kernel needed to load stock based KK roms. But if you just want root until the next ota you're set.

I tried to flash xdabbebs mod on KK using flash gordon flasher and it worked fine for me.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2250555
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[i9505] Cannot enter Recovery after Format Data

My i9505 was running stock KitKat from Samsung and I tried to install CM13 ROM.
So I used Odin to root the phone and installed TWRP 2.8.6.0. After that I flashed the CM13 ROM and the Gapps Nano.
I got as far as rebooting into CM13. But then the "Google Play Store has stopped working" message keeps popping up starting from the initial setup phase. I ignored the message and went on to setup the wifi but couldn't progress any further. The wifi was detected and connected but then it was stuck on the Checking Connection/Software Update step.
I tried to reflash the rom and gapps again to no avail. The third time to Format Data from TWRP before reflashing - still didn't make a difference.
What's worst is now I cannot even get into TWRP! Whenever I press Vol Up + Power + Home, it will show the small 'entering recovery' message momentarily on the top left corner but then it phone simply restarted again.
I tried re-flashing TWRP using Odin, but still didn't work.
I'm stuck now, cannot get into the OS nor the recovery. Any suggestion as to what to do?
Thank you.

vizavalk said:
My i9505 was running stock KitKat from Samsung and I tried to install CM13 ROM.
So I used Odin to root the phone and installed TWRP 2.8.6.0. After that I flashed the CM13 ROM and the Gapps Nano.
I got as far as rebooting into CM13. But then the "Google Play Store has stopped working" message keeps popping up starting from the initial setup phase. I ignored the message and went on to setup the wifi but couldn't progress any further. The wifi was detected and connected but then it was stuck on the Checking Connection/Software Update step.
I tried to reflash the rom and gapps again to no avail. The third time to Format Data from TWRP before reflashing - still didn't make a difference.
What's worst is now I cannot even get into TWRP! Whenever I press Vol Up + Power + Home, it will show the small 'entering recovery' message momentarily on the top left corner but then it phone simply restarted again.
I tried re-flashing TWRP using Odin, but still didn't work.
I'm stuck now, cannot get into the OS nor the recovery. Any suggestion as to what to do?
Thank you.
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Format Data from twrp sometime corrupts the file system and brick the phone. (It's happened to me once)
The best way is to flash official firmware via odin and start from there.

I see - I'll try re-flashing the official rom. Btw, would you recommend CWM recovery instead then? Honestly, I'm not very proficient with this whole thing. The reason why I formatted was because I still could see all of my old folders in the phone memory. So I thought Factory Reset didn't really clean up my old rom data.
What do I have to do if I want to start with a really clean slate with CM13 (after reflashing the official one first)?
Also, I still have the issue of CM13 setup being stuck at the Software Update step (right after Wifi setup). Any clue why that happened?
Thanks for taking the time to reply.

vizavalk said:
I see - I'll try re-flashing the official rom. Btw, would you recommend CWM recovery instead then? Honestly, I'm not very proficient with this whole thing. The reason why I formatted was because I still could see all of my old folders in the phone memory. So I thought Factory Reset didn't really clean up my old rom data.
What do I have to do if I want to start with a really clean slate with CM13 (after reflashing the official one first)?
Also, I still have the issue of CM13 setup being stuck at the Software Update step (right after Wifi setup). Any clue why that happened?
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
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CWM is outdated. Your best bet is TWRP. Try version 3.0.0.
Factory reset doesn't wipe your internal memory, if that's what you mean, you will have to do it manually.
Also, I recommend wiping data, cache, dalvik and system partitions manually from the advanced wipe menu. Factory reset only wipes data and caches, not system.
Oh, and about that stuck at setup issue, just skip that step if possible, you can still change that crap later

If you are unable to set up the ROM, you could flash back to a completely stock ROM and start over.

OK, I'm back on stock Android now.
Before I try flashing CM13 again, I just need suggestions about these two issues I had from previous try:
Unfortunately, Google Play Store has stopped
I have searched for similar issues but can't quite pinpoint the cause. I used the correct GApps for my device and I also removed my SD card prior to installing.
Stuck on Check Connection/Software Update step
Last time I was stuck at this point and, responding to GDReaper, this step couldn't be skipped. The option was grayed out.

vizavalk said:
OK, I'm back on stock Android now.
Before I try flashing CM13 again, I just need suggestions about these two issues I had from previous try:
Unfortunately, Google Play Store has stopped
I have searched for similar issues but can't quite pinpoint the cause. I used the correct GApps for my device and I also removed my SD card prior to installing.
Stuck on Check Connection/Software Update step
Last time I was stuck at this point and, responding to GDReaper, this step couldn't be skipped. The option was grayed out.
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The sd card has nothing to do with it.
Sometimes gapps don't work on certain roms.
Just try another package.
If you use A-Gapps, the whole first time setup step will be skipped altogether. So that means that you won't run into the risk of getting stuck at that step again.
Or, after flashing the rom, you could use the recovery file manager to delete the setupwizard.apk after you flashed gapps. That should also prevent the initial setup process from initializing at first boot.

vizavalk said:
OK, I'm back on stock Android now.
Before I try flashing CM13 again, I just need suggestions about these two issues I had from previous try:
Unfortunately, Google Play Store has stopped
I have searched for similar issues but can't quite pinpoint the cause. I used the correct GApps for my device and I also removed my SD card prior to installing.
Stuck on Check Connection/Software Update step
Last time I was stuck at this point and, responding to GDReaper, this step couldn't be skipped. The option was grayed out.
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You probably used Opengapps. That also gives me a lot of errors.
Use Bankgs Gapps instead. They always work for me.
http://download.dirtyunicorns.com/files/gapps/banks_gapps/

GDReaper said:
The sd card has nothing to do with it.
Sometimes gapps don't work on certain roms.
Just try another package.
If you use A-Gapps, the whole first time setup step will be skipped altogether. So that means that you won't run into the risk of getting stuck at that step again.
Or, after flashing the rom, you could use the recovery file manager to delete the setupwizard.apk after you flashed gapps. That should also prevent the initial setup process from initializing at first boot.
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I used Open GApps, as was recommended in the CM13 post. So are you saying that my two issues were caused solely by the GApps? Because I thought me being stuck at Software Update was due to something else.
Lennyz1988 said:
You probably used Opengapps. That also gives me a lot of errors.
Use Bankgs Gapps instead. They always work for me.
http://download.dirtyunicorns.com/files/gapps/banks_gapps/
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There are two files - one says Dynamic. But the file sizes are exactly the same. Is there any difference?

vizavalk said:
I used Open GApps, as was recommended in the CM13 post. So are you saying that my two issues were caused solely by the GApps? Because I thought me being stuck at Software Update was due to something else.
There are two files - one says Dynamic. But the file sizes are exactly the same. Is there any difference?
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Not that I know. Just pick the one without Dynamic.

vizavalk said:
I used Open GApps, as was recommended in the CM13 post. So are you saying that my two issues were caused solely by the GApps? Because I thought me being stuck at Software Update was due to something else.
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The initial setup process is related to gapps. And I don't recall there being any software update requests during the initial setup. It tells me to wait while it scans for network and WiFis, but I always skip those steps.
Open gapps sometimes work and sometimes they don't. It varies from day to day, since they are updated daily.
Just find a gapps package that works and stick to it until another version of android.

I just want to report back that my CM13 works perfectly with Banks GApps. Thanks to everyone who has helped!