I have recently gotten a Samsung S4 (i9500). I have done all the rooting and the omega rom installation. The only issue I am having is that all the important apps don't seem to support the phone currently. For example, I tried to download Clockwork Rom (and Manager) from the Play store only to be told that my device is not supported at present. I got the same message when trying Mobile Odin, Triangle Away and a few other applications. Is this because the device is still relatively new or is it something I am doing wrong?
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Hello folks,
I'm a developer who is writing system-near software for rooted Android-devices.
My program works on nearly every device, but the AT&T SGH-I377 S4 is different from all other devices and there my software is not working.
I've got a european S4 I9505 and just tried to flash the whole "I337UCUAMDB_I337ATTAMDB_ATT.zip" via Odin on my device (after nandroid & full wipe).
But sadly Odin told me "FAIL (auth)" and nothing more happened, so it seems I can not "just flash" the I337-rom on my I9505.
Has anyone any tip how I can do this? I don't need the phone for talking and so on - WIFI & ROOT is fully enough to debug my application.
After I got my application then working, I would just reflash my old ROM.
Glad for any advices & with kind regards,
Martin
Ok, so first off I rooted my previous phone (a Verizon Motorola Droid X2) without any problems ever. I dropped Verizon as my carrier and switched to Straight Talk and I bought the Samsung Galaxy S4, after a few months of having it I decided to look for a way to root it. After a few days of browsing and reading about I found and root option that worked. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2565758) This saferoot worked and i had superuser and was able to do everything i wanted to.
I then went on the Google play store and installed apps that I previously had on my old device for rooted phones. Well I installed chainfire3D and opened it up and clicked install the drives (which then requires a reboot) after a sort time I noticed my phone was stuck on the loading screen and I can't get past it.
I then start looking for a unroot/unbrick option in order to restore my phone to default firmware and factory settings to get it to work again.
Now here is the dilemma...
Like it says in the title, the phone model is SGH-S970G and for the life of me I can't find this model's firmware anywhere.
plz help me asap!!!!
Thank you in advance for any useful information to help point me in the right direction or give me a solution!
Chuggalo said:
Ok, so first off I rooted my previous phone (a Verizon Motorola Droid X2) without any problems ever. I dropped Verizon as my carrier and switched to Straight Talk and I bought the Samsung Galaxy S4, after a few months of having it I decided to look for a way to root it. After a few days of browsing and reading about I found and root option that worked. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2565758) This saferoot worked and i had superuser and was able to do everything i wanted to.
I then went on the Google play store and installed apps that I previously had on my old device for rooted phones. Well I installed chainfire3D and opened it up and clicked install the drives (which then requires a reboot) after a sort time I noticed my phone was stuck on the loading screen and I can't get past it.
I then start looking for a unroot/unbrick option in order to restore my phone to default firmware and factory settings to get it to work again.
Now here is the dilemma...
Like it says in the title, the phone model is SGH-S970G and for the life of me I can't find this model's firmware anywhere.
plz help me asap!!!!
Thank you in advance for any useful information to help point me in the right direction or give me a solution!
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If you get your phone fixed, I suggest you skip reinstalling Chainfire 3D. It specifically says it's not for Jelly Bean devices.
2 years ago I buy my galaxy s4 unlocked version from amazon.com. When I came back to Turkey I registered the Cellphones imei. After that I rooted my galaxy s4. I watch lots of tutorials and most of it did not work out. At the last try I was able to root my device. After a year my uncle bought me a gear 2 neo which needed a higher version of android. So i plug my galaxy s4 and updated trough kiosk. The result was my galaxy s4 was mys galaxy s4 lost its root acsess was gone and system was updated. Also most of the apps first run and then give a error. For example i downloaded can knockdown 3. First it worked fine then it stopped working. One of my friend suggested I need to downlad a rom and suggested cyanogenmod. I tried one button installer but it said the device is not supperted for this installer. But my phone is listed in the supported devices(GTI9500). Please help me. My cellphone is slowly dying. Also last thing. They say making a change on the phone sometimes deletes the imei registiration.
Just perform a factory reset and your issues will probably be resolved. If you want root again just flash cf auto-root.
I have done it and it hasn't changed. Still the same issues.
aebatirel said:
2 years ago I buy my galaxy s4 unlocked version from amazon.com. When I came back to Turkey I registered the Cellphones imei. After that I rooted my galaxy s4. I watch lots of tutorials and most of it did not work out. At the last try I was able to root my device. After a year my uncle bought me a gear 2 neo which needed a higher version of android. So i plug my galaxy s4 and updated trough kiosk. The result was my galaxy s4 was mys galaxy s4 lost its root acsess was gone and system was updated. Also most of the apps first run and then give a error. For example i downloaded can knockdown 3. First it worked fine then it stopped working. One of my friend suggested I need to downlad a rom and suggested cyanogenmod. I tried one button installer but it said the device is not supperted for this installer. But my phone is listed in the supported devices(GTI9500). Please help me. My cellphone is slowly dying. Also last thing. They say making a change on the phone sometimes deletes the imei registiration.
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Sounds like your phone may have been corrupted when installing official firmware on top of the root. I would recommend re-flashing your phone with official stock firmware. You can use this website to obtain a stock firmware for your device model
http://galaxys4root.com/galaxy-s4-stock-firmware/
Your imei should not be affected if you re-flash your phone, however just to be on the safe side you can flash a recovery mod such as TWRP Recovery and back up everything such as your efs which contains your imei baseband in case a re-flash causes your phone to not work on cell networks in Turkey (which I'm guessing is not the country your phone was purchased in.) After you have backed up everything in TWRP to your sdcard you can safely reflash stock firmware.
ME: I am a phone idiot, my first cellphone at all was last fall and I don't know anything, so apologies in advance if I say dumb things because everything is new to me including smartphones themself.
THE PHONE: AT&T unlocked Samsung Galaxy S1 i897 Captivate, not currently activated/no SIM if that matters. Trying to insure it works rooted on kit kat without bricking BEFORE getting the phone back into service.
THE ROM: pac_captivatemtd-nightly-20150124
FWIW i tried kingo-root and it didnt work despite supposing to, used something called Odin v1.85 instead. Flashed I897UCKF1-AutoRoot-DesignGears.tar for Odin, and something called CornKernel UCKK4v705.tar for custom recovery.. Then the Pac-man ROM. I'll note with interest it refused to see the SD card on reboots, had to use internal storage. Didn't quite understand what to do with the gapps [which it wont let me link here i see] fwiw other than copying it onto the phone somewhere. All reboots seem to get back to a working install - but then I can't do anymore more with it.
It accepts wifi login stuff for local connection but I cant get it to log into the Google Play store stuff. I get "unable to connect to google servers", the button to connect to the google account doesn't work/you can hit it a hundred times and it does nothing until you skip past it, and comments about google services framework crashing, google play services crashing, google account manager crashing...
How do I start narrowing down where the problem is, is this about Pac Man rom or the GAPPS or something for a samsung captivate-specific subforum?
Hello all,
I recently discovered that my S5 was only running KitKat despite Marshmallow having been released for it. I checked for OTA updates and it found nothing, so I decided to flash a custom 6.0 ROM onto it (and for some reason I ended up deciding not to make a backup of the phone beforehand, the ultimate mistake).
The problem became that it didn't recognize Tracfone for my service provider and wouldn't connect to the mobile network. I then downgraded it to a 5.0 ROM, and it no longer even recognized the SIM card, saying there was none.
So I tried to flash the original stock ROM a few times, but every time either got errors from ODIN, the phone itself, or the TWRP bootloader.
Long story short, I seem to have screwed up multiple times trying to install a ROM to get around KitKat and now my phone appears to be softbricked. I can get into the TWRP menu and the "download" mode, but when trying to start the phone, it sits on the "Samsung Galaxy S5" screen with the "Set Warrenty Bit : kernel" text at the top left.
I'm just wondering if there's a way to fix it at this point, or if I've completely trashed the phone.
If anybody has suggestions or experience with this, all help is welcome!
Thanks!
MevNav said:
Hello all,
I recently discovered that my S5 was only running KitKat despite Marshmallow having been released for it. I checked for OTA updates and it found nothing, so I decided to flash a custom 6.0 ROM onto it (and for some reason I ended up deciding not to make a backup of the phone beforehand, the ultimate mistake).
The problem became that it didn't recognize Tracfone for my service provider and wouldn't connect to the mobile network. I then downgraded it to a 5.0 ROM, and it no longer even recognized the SIM card, saying there was none.
So I tried to flash the original stock ROM a few times, but every time either got errors from ODIN, the phone itself, or the TWRP bootloader.
Long story short, I seem to have screwed up multiple times trying to install a ROM to get around KitKat and now my phone appears to be softbricked. I can get into the TWRP menu and the "download" mode, but when trying to start the phone, it sits on the "Samsung Galaxy S5" screen with the "Set Warrenty Bit : kernel" text at the top left.
I'm just wondering if there's a way to fix it at this point, or if I've completely trashed the phone.
If anybody has suggestions or experience with this, all help is welcome!
Thanks!
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Are you sure you have the stock firmware for the 902l and not the 903vl? The reason you didn't get the update for 6.0 is you have the 902l model. If you had the 903vl model you'd have 6.0. Straight talk never released it for the 902l model. No idea why being both models are very similar. Im not sure but if you make it back to stock on kitkat. I think you can use safestrap from the Verizon s5 to use some custom roms that run kitkat. If your bootloader is in fact unlocked and you can install a custom recovery other then safestrap. I believe you can install pretty much anything but I'm pretty sure straight talk ships the phones with the Toshiba chip so the bootloader isn't unlockable