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Just got the phone but by accident I hit the update. When I flash it with the odin and tried goto CWM, it shows the a different cwm menu which I can't do anything.

benzso63 said:
Just got the phone but by accident I hit the update. When I flash it with the odin and tried goto CWM, it shows the a different cwm menu which I can't do anything.
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Can u pls tell u want root or cwm and which device u have 9500- 9505
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how to flashl custom ROM?

just go s4 and it is stock still. I want to go for custom ROM like S4. I looked around the forum but couldn't find a way to flash the custom ROM lik mega..
Can someone point me a thread on this?
Should I just use ODIN to flash the recovery like twr and then boot into recovery to flash the custom ROM?
will then the rom be root as for custom ROM.
henrik.dk said:
just go s4 and it is stock still. I want to go for custom ROM like S4. I looked around the forum but couldn't find a way to flash the custom ROM lik mega..
Can someone point me a thread on this?
Should I just use ODIN to flash the recovery like twr and then boot into recovery to flash the custom ROM?
will then the rom be root as for custom ROM.
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First Root using Odin
Then install philz recovery odin
Go to recovery wipe factory data, cache, dalvik
Then install ROM from internal or sd card
Reboot all done :thumbup:
Above method I m saying for i9500/ 9505 other device
And I suggest u atleast give your mobile variants so we can post links also along with it
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thank you very much.
I am looking around.
could you provide the odin link to download and
the instruction to root?
could I use twrp recovery? I used twrp for my sensation previously.
Any instruction to flash twrp. I guess it should also be done from odin.
Thanks.
btw: The model is 9505 in dk 3.
123hiten said:
First Root using Odin
Then install philz recovery odin
Go to recovery wipe factory data, cache, dalvik
Then install ROM from internal or sd card
Reboot all done :thumbup:
Above method I m saying for i9500/ 9505 other device
And I suggest u atleast give your mobile variants so we can post links also along with it
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henrik.dk said:
thank you very much.
I am looking around.
could you provide the odin link to download and
the instruction to root?
could I use twrp recovery? I used twrp for my sensation previously.
Any instruction to flash twrp. I guess it should also be done from odin.
Thanks.
btw: The model is 9505 in dk 3.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2219803
[GT-I9505] CF-Auto-Root
Use above link for rooting it also have details about how to
Below link is for recovery
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2281367
Use the above link to Cwm recovery for ur i9505 it is better as per me
Its for i9505
I believe I flashed CF-auto-root properly as I got root permit.
But for the 2nd step of the cwm flash,
there is only the stock flash. it reboot to the system as usual.
I tried the odin come with cf-auto-root and 3.07 from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1728605
I am currently stuck here. Thanks.
123hiten said:
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2219803
[GT-I9505] CF-Auto-Root
Use above link for rooting it also have details about how to
Below link is for recovery
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2281367
Use the above link to Cwm recovery for ur i9505 it is better as per me
Its for i9505
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henrik.dk said:
I believe I flashed CF-auto-root properly as I got root permit.
But for the 2nd step of the cwm flash,
there is only the stock flash. it reboot to the system as usual.
I tried the odin come with cf-auto-root and 3.07 from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1728605
I am currently stuck here. Thanks.
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So u saying u not able to get cwm recovery and have only root access
How are u trying to go for recovery
After flashing the same using odin
to go to recovery u have power off the device
Press volume up + home + power button all together till samsung appear and then leave and see u should have recovery
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you are right. I could get to the recovery after odin.
my mistake when holding the button to start recovery.
But I just need to use volume up + power button.
for download mode, I just need volume down + power button.
just another question, is it required to root the phone to odin cwm
recovery? Thanks.
123hiten said:
So u saying u not able to get cwm recovery and have only root access
How are u trying to go for recovery
After flashing the same using odin
to go to recovery u have power off the device
Press volume up + home + power button all together till samsung appear and then leave and see u should have recovery
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henrik.dk said:
you are right. I could get to the recovery after odin.
my mistake when holding the button to start recovery.
But I just need to use volume up + power button.
for download mode, I just need volume down + power button.
just another question, is it required to root the phone to odin cwm
recovery? Thanks.
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Yes u should have root
U should do like ROOT / RECOVERY / Then flash Roms
and remember always have nandroid backup after flashing recovery
jusy incase any issues

Attempting Root on MF9, recovery won't stick

I've tried everything. TWRP, CWM. They won't stick when I try to flash them with ODIN. It just goes boots to the stock recovery. WTF is up??? Please help
(Running ODIN as admin, as well as without. Tried 1.85 and 3)
The only recovery I've ever tried is oudhs. It has a check, when you first install and run it. The check lets you know that if you reboot and do nothing, the phone will revert back to stock recovery, then it will ask if you want to fix that. Choose yes and it fixes that safeguard. Simple. Also with Odin, use the version that is suggested in the tar.md5 posts for the original firmware. Older versions might not work right or mess things up because it's a newer phone.
wbreslin951 said:
I've tried everything. TWRP, CWM. They won't stick when I try to flash them with ODIN. It just goes boots to the stock recovery. WTF is up??? Please help
(Running ODIN as admin, as well as without. Tried 1.85 and 3)
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I used CF-autoroot to root my phone then I installed goomanger. In goomanger click menu > install openrecoveryscript. It will install twrp 2.6.0. Once complete click reboot recovery and it should boot into recovery. Let me know if this give you any issues.
Yes the trick to installing recovery that nobody really talks about is to uncheck "auto reboot". Let it pass. Pull the battery. Hold volume up and power and go into recovery. The goomanager. Methed also works.
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Thanks for the replies everybody! I'll put these suggestions into action as soon as I get home from work tonight!
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[Q] HELP! Stuck in soft brick!

Can someone please help me get out of this soft brick because I am really stuck. Currently I am getting the error message that "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again." but I have done that and it has failed on both mac and windows 7. I have also tried flashing stock build UCUAMDL 4.2.2 firmware via odin 1.7, 1.85 and 3.07 and I have also used the PIT files along with re-partitioning and F. Reset Time. Every single time in odin it has gotten to system.img.ext4 and then failed immediately following. A couple of times I have been able to get into stock recovery mode and it stated an error that the /system partition could not be accessed and I wiped cache/system/data and then tried rebooting and it stayed in the big white galaxy s4 letters and didn't even go to the boot logo. Based on this can anyone help me please???? If there's an existing thread can you please let me know? Thanks!
Which model do you have? What firmware are you on?
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sounds like you wiped your phone when you wiped system/data, why did you do that
you have nothing to boot
kies don't work with iMac
yeah give all the phone info you have, model, build, etc. build may be on your box
i think you can now only flash stock firmware thru Odin to recover, but if you were mf3, you may need to go to bestbuy and see samsung reps to flash phone. don't have any experience at that or using odin
stay on windows pc to do this
may be tomorrow till you get some help from others
good luck
RAID Xero said:
Which model do you have? What firmware are you on?
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Sorry I forgot to mention that it's a SGH-I337 as well and I was running the jamal 4.3 AOSP ROM
well then you are with what custom recovery?
and you are not mf3
sounds like the mf3 update was trying to flash. did you not delete the update files with Titanium so the Update would not run
can you boot into recovery and restore a nandroid
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i gotta call it a nite. maybe some west coasters can help since they are 3 hours behind us
but, please don't say you don't have a nandroid--
i think this is fixable--:good:
restoring a nandroid backup could solve your problem, did you try flashing with fastboot instead? When you installed AOSP ROM were you using a toolkit? If so did you flash a temp recovery?
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Kelevra_96 said:
restoring a nandroid backup could solve your problem, did you try flashing with fastboot instead? When you installed AOSP ROM were you using a toolkit? If so did you flash a temp recovery?
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Do you have an i337. We don't have fastboot. Our bootloader is locked.
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What custom recovery are you using?
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Br4nd3n said:
What custom recovery are you using?
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I don't have one, although do you think that I can flash a custom recovery with a PIT file because that seems to be the only thing that works. Also I do not have a nandroid backup. Is there somewhere that I can download someone's already made?
adambombz said:
I don't have one, although do you think that I can flash a custom recovery with a PIT file because that seems to be the only thing that works. Also I do not have a nandroid backup. Is there somewhere that I can download someone's already made?
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It's been asked a couple of times, but do you know what firmware your phone was on? It's important to know to be able to help you.
jd1639 said:
It's been asked a couple of times, but do you know what firmware your phone was on? It's important to know to be able to help you.
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I was running a custom ROM AOSP 4.3 that's all I know sorry
adambombz said:
I was running a custom ROM AOSP 4.3 that's all I know sorry
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That's close enough. That means you aren't on mf3.
Edit, have you tried to odin the stock firmware? Never mind I see you have
I would download the stock firmware from sammobile.com and try Odin again on a pc. Either version of odin is ok, 1.85 or 3.07.
When you use Odin only have auto-reboot checked, Don't check re-partition.
also, if you are running a custom rom you have a custom recovery
cwm or twrp?
jd1639 said:
That's close enough. That means you aren't on mf3.
Edit, have you tried to odin the stock firmware? Never mind I see you have
I would download the stock firmware from sammobile.com and try Odin again on a pc. Either version of odin is ok, 1.85 or 3.07.
When you use Odin only have auto-reboot checked, Don't check re-partition.
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I have tried doing this many, many times and each time it gets to the system.img.ext14 and then fails.
rugmankc said:
also, if you are running a custom rom you have a custom recovery
cwm or twrp?
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They key word here is that I WAS running a custom recovery when all of this started. It was actually the recovery that started all of this. What happened specifically was I tried to update TWRP via goo manager and whenever I tried to go into recovery it gave me the error that at&t has detected unauthorized software on my phone which I thought was weird because I believe that goo manager auto-lokis. Anyway I tried using other apps to add a custom recovery like ROM manager by clockworkmodz and nothing worked. I then tried to flash TWRP 2.6.3.0 via odin and that's what sent my phone into the state that it's in now. Something that confuses me even more is is that whenever I plug in my phone a battery logo comes up that I don't recognize and then freezes.
adambombz said:
I have tried doing this many, many times and each time it gets to the system.img.ext14 and then fails.
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Have you re-downloaded the firmware? It could be a bad download. Are you using the .tar.md5 file
When you get it sorted use twrp 2.5.0.2. I think I posted a zip for you.
jd1639 said:
Have you re-downloaded the firmware? It could be a bad download. Are you using the .tar.md5 file
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Yes I have tried multiple files and builds and I am using .tar.md5
adambombz said:
Yes I have tried multiple files and builds and I am using .tar.md5
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When you flashed twrp with odin are you sure it was for your device? I think you might have borked your partitions.
jd1639 said:
When you flashed twrp with odin are you sure it was for your device? I think you might have borked your partitions.
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That is possible, I know what is causing this has something to do with the partitions being messed up since I can't access /system in the stock recovery mode

[Q] I9505 Bootloader

hello i ran into some problems when installing cyanogen mod 11 on my s4 using ODIN. i putted the cm11 file into the BT field in odin, now my phone is not booting, is my bootloader broken? i can not find the BT file anywhere. is there any other solution. also it sometimes goes to the cmw recovery and sometimes it does not. i don't know if this info can help. thanks
BT file ?
Cm11 through odin?
Are you kidding me?
Can you enter download mode again?
Flash recovery in odin, and then flash CM11 in recovery
qtwrk said:
BT file ?
Cm11 through odin?
Are you kidding me?
Can you enter download mode again?
Flash recovery in odin, and then flash CM11 in recovery
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i did not have an sd card at the time and i could not install it over CMW. i can enter to download mode, but when i install a custom rom over CMW (i wiped the cache and everything) it just keep on a boot loop. i think i messed the boot loader, but i do not really know.
josecarlosc said:
i did not have an sd card at the time and i could not install it over CMW. i can enter to download mode, but when i install a custom rom over CMW (i wiped the cache and everything) it just keep on a boot loop. i think i messed the boot loader, but i do not really know.
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Install a stock rom first instead of custom via odin .........
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aayushkhajuria2842 said:
Install a stock rom first instead of custom via odin .........
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the problem is i do not have the stock any more and the carrier is digitel venezuela and i haven't had any luck finding the stock. also i don't know if i can since CM11 is kit kat. while the stock is jelly bean.
josecarlosc said:
the problem is i do not have the stock any more and the carrier is digitel venezuela and i haven't had any luck finding the stock. also i don't know if i can since CM11 is kit kat. while the stock is jelly bean.
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So u cant flash any other network firmware
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aayushkhajuria2842 said:
So u cant flash any other network firmware
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i don't really know. i would need another kit kat stock rom for the i9505
is there anyway to solve this problem? i'm really desperate.
josecarlosc said:
is there anyway to solve this problem? i'm really desperate.
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Download an unbranded KK rom. The last is for Uk but it doesnt matter the country. Look at s4 general forum there there is an topic with all the firmwares availables.
If you dont have sdcard it doesnt matter to. You can flash via cwm from internal storage any custom rom. If you fix that root your phone, install philz recovery and then try to flash cm11 via CWM
josecarlosc said:
hello i ran into some problems when installing cyanogen mod 11 on my s4 using ODIN. i putted the cm11 file into the BT field in odin, now my phone is not booting, is my bootloader broken? i can not find the BT file anywhere. is there any other solution. also it sometimes goes to the cmw recovery and sometimes it does not. i don't know if this info can help. thanks
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read well and learn before messing with your phone!
use search button on how to back to stock

Error or Installing TWRF recovery

I have just rooted my GN2, I had a problem while rooting it as it was getting stuck on odin written as stuck? tried other methods also but still the same, somehow i rooted my device.
Now i want to instal TWRF recovery on my device, but when i try it through odin after the recovery finishes , the section where pass should come its written as RESET. So please help me to install TWRF As The DN3 Rom need twrf recovery
. Thanks in advance
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TWRP* Recovery
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Guyz done, of anyone else facing this problem then uncheck the auto-reboot option
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amit.dhatrak95 said:
Guyz done, of anyone else facing this problem then uncheck the auto-reboot option
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I didn't understand if you are facing issue with rooting your phone or installing custom recovery?And which android version is installed on your phone and which method did you follow to root your phone?
I was running 4.4, and while doing both root and recovery i was facing issue in odin, it used to get stuck at reset. But now i uncheckd the auto-reboot option and now its working
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But i didnt understand 1 thng, that when I unchecked auto-reboot option although it installed the TWRP recovery, but still PASS didnt come there, it was still stuck on reset.. What is the problem here, as i may also face it in future when updating TWRP
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amit.dhatrak95 said:
But i didnt understand 1 thng, that when I unchecked auto-reboot option although it installed the TWRP recovery, but still PASS didnt come there, it was still stuck on reset.. What is the problem here, as i may also face it in future when updating TWRP
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If you have sucessfully flash twrp you don't need to use odin again to flash another recovery you can do it by flashing it from the same recovery.You'd only need ODIN when you cant access your recovery and need to enter download mode to flash recovery.I hope you are using img.tar file to flash twrp via odin and not .zip
amit.dhatrak95 said:
I have just rooted my GN2, I had a problem while rooting it as it was getting stuck on odin written as stuck? tried other methods also but still the same, somehow i rooted my device.
Now i want to instal TWRF recovery on my device, but when i try it through odin after the recovery finishes , the section where pass should come its written as RESET. So please help me to install TWRF As The DN3 Rom need twrf recovery
. Thanks in advance
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In odin ... Make sure Repartition is NOT checked
- Click the Start button
- Wait for Android to boot
And which android version u r using?

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