Hello all,
I have had my S4 for awhile now and need some help. When I first received it, I did some reading, rooted, did something that removed a triangle or a padlock, can't remember which one and made sure the AT&T software update was unable to run. At the time, custom recovery wasn't possible so I stopped there. So here I am now, rooted with MDL and I have no idea where to go from here to get the latest 4.3, although apparently I have the holy grail of firmware.
I've read as much as I possibly can, subscribed to the forums, GOOGLED, SEARCHED, RTFM and waited for someone else to come along and ask the very same question. Some did but those threads never really gave me the info I need to SAFELY flash my phone up to 4.3. So what do I do? All I need is some guidance, I follow directions well. Teach me! Please and Thank You
Doug
DO NOT UPDATE YOUR FIRMWARE IF YOU STILL HAVE MDL. ....U JUST NEED INSTALL CWM RECOVERY OR TWRP RECOVERY. .... AND THEN INSTALL CUSTOM 4.3 ROM. .... EVEN 4.4 KITKAT ROM. ..... BUT IF U DO UPDATE TO NEWEST MK2 FIRMWARE THEN U WOULD LOSE THE PRIVILEGE OF MDL..... WHICH IS RARE. ..... GOODLUCK
Swyped from MK2 Deadly Venom SS
Right! One of the things I have learned is that I want to keep the MDL baseband. What I really want are all the improvements that 4.3 or 4.4 offer. Also, I'm hoping my Pebble and my S4 play better together than they do now.
Do I just pick a recovery? Are they the same? Guess I need to read some more.
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DRRies said:
Right! One of the things I have learned is that I want to keep the MDL baseband. What I really want are all the improvements that 4.3 or 4.4 offer. Also, I'm hoping my Pebble and my S4 play better together than they do now.
Do I just pick a recovery? Are they the same? Guess I need to read some more.
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This one click tool is pretty awesome. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2297033... .. Super easy as 1.2.3.... and have everything u need. ......root....CWM or TWRP recovery and even flash to stock via Odin. ... Hope this work for u and hit THANK button If someone helped you. ...
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DRRies said:
Hello all,
I have had my S4 for awhile now and need some help. When I first received it, I did some reading, rooted, did something that removed a triangle or a padlock, can't remember which one and made sure the AT&T software update was unable to run. At the time, custom recovery wasn't possible so I stopped there. So here I am now, rooted with MDL and I have no idea where to go from here to get the latest 4.3, although apparently I have the holy grail of firmware.
I've read as much as I possibly can, subscribed to the forums, GOOGLED, SEARCHED, RTFM and waited for someone else to come along and ask the very same question. Some did but those threads never really gave me the info I need to SAFELY flash my phone up to 4.3. So what do I do? All I need is some guidance, I follow directions well. Teach me! Please and Thank You
Doug
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As ted said, upgrading is bad. You can change modems and such to the MK2 baseband, it's the bootloader that's the issue. As long as you don't try to take any OTA's and don't ODIN any newer version you'll be fine. If you want to run the official AT&T 4.3, your closest bet is StockUp MK2 and the rebloat addon. Otherwise, you can choose either CWM or TWRP and flash away as long as you remember to use the loki patch for things that aren't patched already.
I've read the info at the link you provided before and wondered if I'm already rooted, what would happen? Is that safe to use if currently rooted?
Also, since I'm currently on MDL, would a factory reset return me to a fresh MDL or would it force me to update to current software?
Start here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42320391
Ok so I strated with the thread posted. I now have TWRP installed, nandroid backed up and all sorts of zips on my ext card. Also made Kies backups. My first ROM flash, Stockup_MK2 went fine until reboot and I had no mobile data or cell signal. What did i do wrong? I immediately did a restore from the nandroid backup to return to where was before.
DRRies said:
Ok so I strated with the thread posted. I now have TWRP installed, nandroid backed up and all sorts of zips on my ext card. Also made Kies backups. My first ROM flash, Stockup_MK2 went fine until reboot and I had no mobile data or cell signal. What did i do wrong? I immediately did a restore from the nandroid backup to return to where was before.
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Did you wipe before installing the rom? Just use the slider toggle in wipe. If so, check that the apn is setup correctly.
DRRies said:
Ok so I strated with the thread posted. I now have TWRP installed, nandroid backed up and all sorts of zips on my ext card. Also made Kies backups. My first ROM flash, Stockup_MK2 went fine until reboot and I had no mobile data or cell signal. What did i do wrong? I immediately did a restore from the nandroid backup to return to where was before.
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In stead of a stcok MK2 rom might I suggest a fairly stock but cleaned up rom like MDOB or any other close to stock rom's
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2280556
Not advocating any one person but he does good stuff and it based on the actual AT&T update to 4.3.. Make sure you do as the guy above me stated and do the simple swipe to wipe in TWRP
Yesterday morning I came on and saw kitkat had finally rolled around. I read through Beans notes watched the tube, and got to where I wanted to be. But I came from a time of old flashing addicted never satisfied HTC thunderbolt so much easier than this Note 3.
So after I was on 4.4.2 kitkat by beans thread I decided to try a rom. I figured lets lighten the load and deleted all my other slots and tried to flash over with biggins rom. I thought I followed the steps correctly installed busybox X , new safestrap and rebooted. well now I cannot get anywhere in any recovery it shows the blue writing but then just reboots and bam back to hanging. I can only get into ODIN so I am assuming this is still a salvageable situation.
Really F#$#[email protected]%@%# frustrated as I try to figure things out on my own reading through other threads but I cant. And I can not have my phone off any longer. Odin recognizes port. Everything I try to put on pit to tar to image are all failures. Kingo not any help 1.2.2
I need someone to reach out and kick my face back in place
grengoblinalway said:
Yesterday morning I came on and saw kitkat had finally rolled around. I read through Beans notes watched the tube, and got to where I wanted to be. But I came from a time of old flashing addicted never satisfied HTC thunderbolt so much easier than this Note 3.
So after I was on 4.4.2 kitkat by beans thread I decided to try a rom. I figured lets lighten the load and deleted all my other slots and tried to flash over with biggins rom. I thought I followed the steps correctly installed busybox X , new safestrap and rebooted. well now I cannot get anywhere in any recovery it shows the blue writing but then just reboots and bam back to hanging. I can only get into ODIN so I am assuming this is still a salvageable situation.
Really F#$#[email protected]%@%# frustrated as I try to figure things out on my own reading through other threads but I cant. And I can not have my phone off any longer. Odin recognizes port. Everything I try to put on pit to tar to image are all failures. Kingo not any help 1.2.2
I need someone to reach out and kick my face back in place
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Are you sure your selecting the .md5 file and not the unzipped file?
Ok I know this is gonna suck, but you are probably gonna have to find a tar.md5 file for mje baseband and Odin back to 4.3, then reroot and follow beans instruction to go back to 4.4.2 to a T at which point you just need to install the new safe strap 3.72 (I believe beans 4.4.2 leak rom already has busybox, but I might be wrong) to be able to flash a new rom. P.s. make sure when you flash a rom it is 4.4.2 based and that it is done in the stock rom slot and make sure you do a factory reset wipe from within safe strap before flashing the new rom.
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Hey guys, apparently I didn't know what I was doing and somehow managed to brick my phone. It is stuck at the Samsung Custom screen. :/
I was installing safestrap, and went to wipe the system after rebooting, but I think it hung and I rebooted it, now it goes no further. Anyhow is there a way to get back into recovery mode? I want to keep Android 4.3 installed on it. It was on rooted stock 4.3
Oh, and it was on the MK2 build. I'm looking for advise to somehow revive it via download mode, as thats the only thing that works.
Any help would be good.
Again it's an AT&T SGS4 MK2 Build. i337
Wrong forum. This is for the galaxy s5
Please disregard this post. I managed to claw my way out of a problem created by me. I fixed the error of my n00b ways and learned many a good lesson in the process.
Hey all, in my haste to install the latest Alliance Rom, I managed to wipe everything and then restart my phone... without installing the rom. Don't ask... I dropped my phone and the battery fell out... lame. Either way, I'm assuming I need to now odin a stock tar, root, safestrap and then try again? I was on NC2... do I need to odin that back over... probably not, right? I'll figure it out by the end of the night, I'm sure, but any help would be appreciated. Send links and I'll love you even more. Thanks
ALSO, if I install the NC4 tar, does that update my kernel to NC4 as well?
So, what happened is I let a friend borrow my Note 3 running on NC2 with Safestrap and Hyperdrive rom. This guy decided to do a factory reset in Hyperdrive instead of wiping the data from safestrap recovery. Now the phone is stuck in a bootloop with the first splashscreen and the blue "recovery booting" message at the top left corner. Then it re-boots and on and on.
Looks like Safestrap was wiped, unless there's another way to get in I can't think of?
I assume that what I need to do is revert back to the stock image with Odin. The problem I have now is that I no longer have access to the stock NC2 rom images/firmware and everywhere I have looked has taken the files down. If anyone has those files and could either send them to me or point me in the right direction I would be eternally grateful! Without them I'm screwed other than installing the OEM rom and I'll lose my precious root forever I fear, if I've been reading the forums correctly.
Thank you for any help you could provide!
dustoleum said:
So, what happened is I let a friend borrow my Note 3 running on NC2 with Safestrap and Hyperdrive rom. This guy decided to do a factory reset in Hyperdrive instead of wiping the data from safestrap recovery. Now the phone is stuck in a bootloop with the first splashscreen and the blue "recovery booting" message at the top left corner. Then it re-boots and on and on.
Looks like Safestrap was wiped, unless there's another way to get in I can't think of?
I assume that what I need to do is revert back to the stock image with Odin. The problem I have now is that I no longer have access to the stock NC2 rom images/firmware and everywhere I have looked has taken the files down. If anyone has those files and could either send them to me or point me in the right direction I would be eternally grateful! Without them I'm screwed other than installing the OEM rom and I'll lose my precious root forever I fear, if I've been reading the forums correctly.
Thank you for any help you could provide!
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Alright, so I booted into Download Mode and then pressed down to restart, and that took me back to Safestrap and into the rom again. So, if anyone else has this problem, I hope this helps!
Something to be aware of though is that pretty much all the links to the stock rom files for the Verizon Note 3 are dead for anything older than Lollipop. If you still have the files lurking around on your phone or PC you may want to hold on to them for dear life.