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Ok I'm having a lot of problem with my new samsung sg4. It came with the MDL firmware. I followed qbking direction on how to root with cf auto root. I have done the root and I installed TWRP for my recovery. I tried flashing sacs and also triforce and I get the sg4 splash screen nothing else. Though when I flash sacs of triforce inside TWRP it come up and says that supersu is not installed and I need to install it to have root but superuser is installed. The only the one to fix it is to use odin and go back to stock.MDL firmware. Any suggestions. Thanks

kronik420 said:
Ok I'm having a lot of problem with my new samsung sg4. It came with the MDL firmware. I followed qbking direction on how to root with cf auto root. I have done the root and I installed TWRP for my recovery. I tried flashing sacs and also triforce and I get the sg4 splash screen nothing else. Though when I flash sacs of triforce inside TWRP it come up and says that supersu is not installed and I need to install it to have root but superuser is installed. The only the one to fix it is to use odin and go back to stock.MDL firmware. Any suggestions. Thanks
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Sounds like you were bricked at one point, if you were stuck at the S4 boot. Play it safe. Do a full factory reset & use odin. Also, use the new stock image (MF9: http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SPH-L720 or http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/1/?model=SPH-L720&pcode=0#firmware). When you do, make sure it's set to PDA. Always clear cache & wipe calvik (Advanced > Wipe Dalvik) before installing a new rom

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I would flash the selected rom again, flash a verizon kernel, wipe dalvik and cache, it will boot.
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TheAxman said:
I would flash the selected rom again, flash a verizon kernel, wipe dalvik and cache, it will boot.
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Dont flash a verizon kernel, it will totally brick your phone, flash a sprint kernel.
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P1NK13P13 said:
Sounds like you were bricked at one point, if you were stuck at the S4 boot. Play it safe. Do a full factory reset & use odin. Also, use the new stock image (MF9: http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SPH-L720 or http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/1/?model=SPH-L720&pcode=0#firmware). When you do, make sure it's set to PDA. Always clear cache & wipe calvik (Advanced > Wipe Dalvik) before installing a new rom
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used odin, but still stuck at splash screen. what can i do now?

s.lee1993 said:
used odin, but still stuck at splash screen. what can i do now?
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Go to recovery, format data, wipe dalvik cache and cache reboot
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ROMANTiC KiD said:
Dont flash a verizon kernel, it will totally brick your phone, flash a sprint kernel.
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From what i know a Verizon kernel would not brick. Back on gs2 and gs3 sprint users would flash Verizon kernels.
One thing that would be funky was screen rotation was inverted.
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daniel4653 said:
From what i know a Verizon kernel would not brick. Back on gs2 and gs3 sprint users would flash Verizon kernels.
One thing that would be funky was screen rotation was inverted.
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No, I'm pretty sure they only flashed Verizon PRL's so they could force roam. I've never seen any talk of flashing Verizon kernels in gs2 forum.
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Wipe delvik cache

I'd like to wipe the Delvik cache... Is there any way to do this in ODIN? I DO NOT HAVE RECOVERY.
I've been doing some research and if I can wipe the cache, the boot load would have to rebuild. Killing the apk that is freezing my S4.
Can someone confirm this? Or did I just confused myself even more...

you've given us almost nothing.
are you i337 or i337m? what firmware build? why arent you able to access recovery? are you rooted? what apk did you install?

sincity said:
I'd like to wipe the Delvik cache... Is there any way to do this in ODIN? I DO NOT HAVE RECOVERY.
I've been doing some research and if I can wipe the cache, the boot load would have to rebuild. Killing the apk that is freezing my S4.
Can someone confirm this? Or did I just confused myself even more...
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You might be able to use ADB to wipe it, but you will have to do some research to find if it is possible or what the commands would be. And, as always, there is a chance of making things worse. ODIN is a tool for flashing, it is not a recovery substitute. I've never read about anyone ever using ODIN to wipe memory without replacing it with something else (ROM, Kernel, etc...). Maybe someone knows more about it though. So, good luck with your searching and reading. If you decide to check out ADB, you can search for tutorials here at XDA and on Google.

xBeerdroiDx said:
you've given us almost nothing.
are you i337 or i337m? what firmware build? why arent you able to access recovery? are you rooted? what apk did you install?
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I337 Rooted MF3 --- Chainfire3D

scott14719 said:
You might be able to use ADB to wipe it, but you will have to do some research to find if it is possible or what the commands would be. And, as always, there is a chance of making things worse. ODIN is a tool for flashing, it is not a recovery substitute. I've never read about anyone ever using ODIN to wipe memory without replacing it with something else (ROM, Kernel, etc...). Maybe someone knows more about it though. So, good luck with your searching and reading. If you decide to check out ADB, you can search for tutorials here at XDA and on Google.
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No luck with ADB because it doesn't full boot. I have trouble with the MTP driver loading... and I don't know if that is the problem either.

At this point maybe flashing anything to clear the cache... LOL!

Impossible to flash anything on MF3. C'mon people, we know this.
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The phone does not boot. Terminal emulator is a no go.
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08j3ct1v3 C said:
Ah, misread, my mistake.
Does it boot into "download mode"?
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Yessir...

Terminal emulator is a no go.

When you say you don't have access to recovery....did you try to flash a custom recovery on the MF3 version and lose it that way?
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08j3ct1v3 C said:
Ok well the solution there is pretty simple then. Odin flash a recovery tar file that is compatible with your device. Then yank the battery after it completes and tries to reboot (unsuccessfully)...
Don't pull the battery until it tries to boot tho.
Hold the volume up, home, then power button to boot into recovery.
Not sure why you are dead set in wiping dalvik cache, to be honest. But that is how you could probably do it successfully.
I would just push an entire image back to the device and start from scratch, but that's just me.
Good luck
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How do you suggest pushing an image back to the device on the MF3?

Please Help! -TWRP issues

I have had several custom roms using TWRP with no problems. Today I decided to try pacman rom and nandroid backed up my negalite wonderom. downloaded pacman to external card, rebooted to TWRP. I formatted internal storage and did full wipes on everything but external sd. I tried installing pacman zip and get FAILED unzipping and updating partition. so I then try flashing my old rom and get same error. I then nandroid back to previous rom and boots as expected. If i reboot again, I get stuck on samsung galaxy s4 boot screen. I've tried repeating all these steps but now I am without a phone until one of you nice people help me. What can I do? Please help.

csrredcoat said:
I have had several custom roms using TWRP with no problems. Today I decided to try pacman rom and nandroid backed up my negalite wonderom. downloaded pacman to external card, rebooted to TWRP. I formatted internal storage and did full wipes on everything but external sd. I tried installing pacman zip and get FAILED unzipping and updating partition. so I then try flashing my old rom and get same error. I then nandroid back to previous rom and boots as expected. If i reboot again, I get stuck on samsung galaxy s4 boot screen. I've tried repeating all these steps but now I am without a phone until one of you nice people help me. What can I do? Please help.
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Odin back to stock.
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ROMANTiC KiD said:
Odin back to stock.
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I did odin back to stock, ut i am stuck on galaxy s4 boot screen. What can I do to fix? Thanks

During this whole ordeal, I was trying to install CWM over TWRP and accidentally checked repartition in ODIN, it didn't seem to do anything ..just hanged and I pulled battery. I am now wondering if this screwed anything up and if so, what can I do?

csrredcoat said:
I did odin back to stock, ut i am stuck on galaxy s4 boot screen. What can I do to fix? Thanks
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Take out battery. Put in back in. Go to stock recovery (by pressing volume up and power button and letting go when you see tiny blue letters) from there just do a factory reset then reboot. Dont worry if you a dead android its ok. Then you should be ok.
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csrredcoat said:
During this whole ordeal, I was trying to install CWM over TWRP and accidentally checked repartition in ODIN, it didn't seem to do anything ..just hanged and I pulled battery. I am now wondering if this screwed anything up and if so, what can I do?
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Well from my understanding we should not have repartition checked. Dont know the outcomes tho but im pretty sure now you need pit files for gs4 sprint to remap the partitions for your phone back the way it was. Should be here in xda but if you cant find them then just odin again a stock tar and do a factory reset in stock recovery. See if that works.

Back to Stock but have a question
So I was able to successfully odin back to stock. I am confused about format data vs wipes. I had some issues on a ROM and someone in a forum advised to format to truly erase any junk left behind by other roms. I did this in TWRP and installed a rom and it fixed the former issues I had on that rom. So I thought I had a new strategy, to format not just wipe.
So now I have CWM and don't even see the option to format data. If I want to make sure I erase everything, how do I ? Just doing factory reset, wipe data, cache and dalvik seems to leave files behind including personal files on internal storage. Just want to learn the best practices to avoid issues. I am kinda glad this happened, been a learning lesson. Thanks to all!

Software/Baseband Version MDC to MF9
After ODIN back to stock I am on MDC and want to get back to MF9. This is the procedure I used a few months ago HERE Is this the best way? Thanks.

csrredcoat said:
So I was able to successfully odin back to stock. I am confused about format data vs wipes. I had some issues on a ROM and someone in a forum advised to format to truly erase any junk left behind by other roms. I did this in TWRP and installed a rom and it fixed the former issues I had on that rom. So I thought I had a new strategy, to format not just wipe.
So now I have CWM and don't even see the option to format data. If I want to make sure I erase everything, how do I ? Just doing factory reset, wipe data, cache and dalvik seems to leave files behind including personal files on internal storage. Just want to learn the best practices to avoid issues. I am kinda glad this happened, been a learning lesson. Thanks to all!
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Im not so sure on CWM since ive been using twrp so I can help you there.
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After ODIN back to stock I am on MDC and want to get back to MF9. This is the procedure I used a few months ago HERE Is this the best way? Thanks.
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Its better if you just accept ota (*optional* do a factory reset when already at mf9.) Or just get the mf9 stock tar and just odin that when you have problems
You can download the mf9 tar here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2375523

ROMANTiC KiD said:
Im not so sure on CWM since ive been using twrp so I can help you there.
Its better if you just accept ota (*optional* do a factory reset when already at mf9.) Or just get the mf9 stock tar and just odin that when you have problems
You can download the mf9 tar here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2375523
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OK, I am confused but eager to learn. I just did a ODIN back to stock, I am now unrooted. I did a factory reset in stock recovery. Now I think I should be able to click update firmware to get to MF9 but it says no updates found or I am up to date. I don't get this. Why is it not finding any updates?

Even More Confused!
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Ok, it is downloading MF9 in background now. Not sure why it initially said no updates found. I should be good now. Thanks!

Where can I get touchwiz stock 4.4?

My friend wants to get rid of root and all that and just get the stock gs4 rom so he can get OTA updates and stuff. I cannot seem to find 4.4 of the touchwiz rom anywhere.
Anyone know where I can find it?
Thanks!

Grab this and flash using Odin. Its a tar file. Be sure to backup anything important as it wont wipe data but there are times where after successfully flashing and rebooting it will hang on the sprint yellow splash screen which will require a factory reset on stock recovery which means it will wipe the entire internal memory.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2663619
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daniel4653 said:
Grab this and flash using Odin. Its a tar file. Be sure to backup anything important as it wont wipe data but there are times where after successfully flashing and rebooting it will hang on the sprint yellow splash screen which will require a factory reset on stock recovery which means it will wipe the entire internal memory.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2663619
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Thanks! It worked.

[Q] HELP phone soft bricked

Hello Everyone,
This is my situation.... I want Unrooting my Sprint S4 using Mobile Odin .... and now my phone only boots up to the Samsung Logo. On that screen it also says Recovery Booting however it turns off after 10 Secs. I can get my phone into download/odin mode but that is about it. I can not boot into recovery.
I would imagine someone either has experience or expertise on this matter.
PLEASE HELP
Thank you in advance,
V.E.

If possible what bootloader, modem and ROM were/are you on, also do you care about tripping knox (or is it already).

You have to wipe data to get it to boot. This will wipe EVERYTHING on internal memory. Or you could reroot and install install recovery over Odin and boot into recovery and wipe data which will be like wiping to do a clean Install for custom ROM install. Which wknr wipe everything. Once it boots up apply the stock unrooted tar via Odin with a COMPUTER.
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I HAD Twrp recover... Had CWM recovery... phones acting like it doesn't have custom recovery (pain in my ass.)..... thought i used rom manger to put cwm back on it.
IDK the modem
I was on a Slim ROM (which was giving me problem as well; Great Rom but it just recently kept crashing.)
I already tripped knox forsure ..... and dont care..... i wanted to get it on a stock kernel by unrooting (Wasnt as brillant as I thought)
Don't even know if thats it possible (If it is show me the promise land! :angel: I wanted root again so I could get triangle away working on root.
However that is how I got here. So getting my phone operational would be a win, start; challenge accepted! :good:

s4 problems unite
daniel4653 said:
You have to wipe data to get it to boot. This will wipe EVERYTHING on internal memory. Or you could reroot and install install recovery over Odin and boot into recovery and wipe data which will be like wiping to do a clean Install for custom ROM install. Which wknr wipe everything. Once it boots up apply the stock unrooted tar via Odin with a COMPUTER.
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Oh and I dont mind if it deletes the internal memory..... I live on my external brah. :cyclops:

Then if your phone is still stuck right now, boot into stock recovery and perform a factory reset and it should boot up. drink up!
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ruh roh.
daniel4653 said:
Then if your phone is still stuck right now, boot into stock recovery and perform a factory reset and it should boot up. drink up!
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How would i go about that ? How do i get into stock recovery? (Magical Recovery Combo GIVE ME THE SECRET! )
I cant boot into customer recovery mode(Volume UP+ Power +Home.. Combo...phone shuts off when i do that)
I can only get download mode.

Its only volume down and power when the phone is shut off.
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