I'm rooted and I updated to MF9 recently. I've tried several times to install SACS Rom and TriForce but I either end up getting stuck at the black boot screen with the Samsung text and logo or looping back into recovery. I've tried reading through all these threads to find a solution but no luck. It seems I can flash any CM10 or AOKP/AOSP ROM but not this or any other TW ROM anymore. Even tried restoring a backup and then flashing but it just either hangs at the black screen or loops back into recovery. Also tried several different kernels to see if that may have been the issue. Has anyone else experienced this?
Try applying the full MF9 tar with Odin. Then install recovery and root. Now see if you can flash the rom.
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crawrj said:
Try applying the full MF9 tar with Odin. Then install recovery and root. Now see if you can flash the rom.
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Thanks! I'll Google that tonight and try to DL the full version and see what happens.
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Try applying the full MF9 tar with Odin. Then install recovery and root. Now see if you can flash the rom.
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Well I tried several different ways to do this and still cannot get any custom TW rom to boot. I Odin'd the full MF9, no luck ... Tried going all the way back to MDC and accepting the OTS upgrades, no dice! I'm currently on CM10.2 and got both PA and AOKP ROMs to boot. I'm at a loss at this point. I can Odin a stock rom and root it but after that, no custom TW ROMs. It just hangs at the black Samsung startup screen forever. Any ideas? Maybe I have to use Triangle Away to truly get back to unrooted stock and start from scratch? As a confirmed flash-a-holic, this is killing me!
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RESOLVED:
- Flashed a stock firmwire image from Sammobile using Odin. (AMDL)
- Did a factory reset in the stock recovery TWICE to get it to finally boot.
- Rooted with motochopper
- Installed TWRP
- Back to Task650.
Okay, so I'm a bit stuck. I was running the newest Task650 rom and KT's 9/17 kernel.
I updated to the 10/20 kernel as soon as it was released and it bugged my phone. Blew up everything, glitched my DPI and colors. It was unusable, however the weirdest part is that my custom recovery was removed so I can't seem to flash the old kernel to get my device back to normal.
I tried using odin but it just keeps failing, so I really am unsure what to do now. If I could get the previous kernel back onto it, it would be fine.
Any help? I can't seem to find a .tar.md5 file for TWRP or clockworkmod to flash a new recovery in Odin. I tried Philz .tar.md5 files but it fails as well.
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As long as your not MF3
try goo manager for TWRP
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Try ROM manager just to flash CWM
Note: do not use ROM manager for nothing else if you didn't already know.
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jball said:
As long as your not MF3
try goo manager for TWRP
or
Try ROM manager just to flash CWM
Note: do not use ROM manager for nothing else if you didn't already know.
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I cannot use the Google Playstore.. my entire screen is over scaled and impossible to navigate.
So no use of DPI settings.can you use ADB or terminal emulator
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when you say you tried odin, are you saying you tried flashing the stock rom (MDL), tried flashing a custom recovery tar, or both? what error is it giving?
unfortunately i think kt accidentally uploaded a 4.2.2 kernel and thats what you downloaded. check out his thread and see what anyone else in your situation may have done already to remedy this. good luck
Can you reroot by flashing an autorooter through download mode? Doing so might enable you to flash kernels again.
Is factory reset an option?
xBeerdroiDx said:
when you say you tried odin, are you saying you tried flashing the stock rom (MDL), tried flashing a custom recovery tar, or both? what error is it giving?
unfortunately i think kt accidentally uploaded a 4.2.2 kernel and thats what you downloaded. check out his thread and see what anyone else in your situation may have done already to remedy this. good luck
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I managed to get the latest stock firmwire (AMDL 4.2.2) off of Sammobile. I did successfully flash the stock .tar.md5 image through Odin, using the PDA slot. Phone seemed to restart and boot right up, but now gets stuck at the AT&T logo. It makes the boot sound and than BAM; frozen.
Now I am truly stuck. Seems flashing the stock image didn't work.. unless I did it wrong through Odin but I doubt it. These are the steps I took,
- Start Odin
- Connect phone in downloaded mode
- Click PDA (select the I337UCUAMDL_I337ATTAMDL_ATT.tar.md5 file)
- Wait for it to confirm the firm, than hit start.
- After waiting about 5 minutes it's successful.
Am I doing ANYTHING wrong?
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Can you reroot by flashing an autorooter through download mode? Doing so might enable you to flash kernels again.
Is factory reset an option?
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Do a factory reset in the stock recovery after you flash with Odin. It'll get you past the boot loop.
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Do a factory reset in the stock recovery after you flash with Odin. It'll get you past the boot loop.
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Did a Factory reset in the stock recovery, wiped all data etc. Still gets stuck at the AT&T logo.
EDIT: Did it twice and it worked!
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Did a Factory reset in the stock recovery, wiped all data etc. Still gets stuck at the AT&T logo.
EDIT: Did it twice and it worked!
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How long have you given the boot? The first boot can take a long time. 5 minutes or more isn't unheard of.
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How long have you given the boot? The first boot can take a long time. 5 minutes or more isn't unheard of.
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Gave it about 2 hours the first time.. knew it was stuck. However I did the factory reset twice in a row, and it finally booted. Just did a quick root through Motochopper, installed TWRP and now I'm back and running on Task650 :good:
Good deal
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Br4nd3n said:
Gave it about 2 hours the first time.. knew it was stuck. However I did the factory reset twice in a row, and it finally booted. Just did a quick root through Motochopper, installed TWRP and now I'm back and running on Task650 :good:
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I updated my GS4 to rooted (without knox) 4.3 and now i want to flash Sacs Custom rom but i can't i've tried every recovery I could find none work for me even Philz, everyone is saying use that one and I did but when I flash it through odin nothing happens when I try to boot it to recovery the phone simply skips through and reboots( yes it does try to get into recover, the blue text) but if i keep trying it, it'll boot to stock recovery after 2-3 tries (assuming that's a fail safe?) I don't know what i'm doing wrong can anyone help?
Yes i have the drivers (Odin can do anything but get a recovery to stick)
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I updated my GS4 to rooted (without knox) 4.3 and now i want to flash Sacs Custom rom but i can't i've tried every recovery I could find none work for me even Philz, everyone is saying use that one and I did but when I flash it through odin nothing happens when I try to boot it to recovery the phone simply skips through and reboots( yes it does try to get into recover, the blue text) but if i keep trying it, it'll boot to stock recovery after 2-3 tries (assuming that's a fail safe?) I don't know what i'm doing wrong can anyone help?
Yes i have the drivers (Odin can do anything but get a recovery to stick)
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Run Odin 'as administrator' and make sure you're flashing the right .tar - philz_touch_5.18.2-jfltespr.tar.md5
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Run Odin 'as administrator' and make sure you're flashing the right .tar - philz_touch_5.18.2-jfltespr.tar.md5
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Yes i did those and is it possible to downgrade to mf9 and directly flash sacs custom v4 4.3?
bounddyy said:
Yes i did those and is it possible to downgrade to mf9 and directly flash sacs custom v4 4.3?
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If you can get into recovery now (philz). You can certainly flash Sac's 4.3. If you want the mf9 modem that is in the dev section too. Check out Unknownforce's post
But I suspect you've taken the mja "firmware" and tripped that Knox counter, and if that's the case I dint believe you can Odin back to mf9.
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Well my rom was pre rooted and wasn't supposed to have Knox I'll try it and see but is it okay to flash to 4.3 v4 from mf9?
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Well my rom was pre rooted and wasn't supposed to have Knox I'll try it and see but is it okay to flash to 4.3 v4 from mf9?
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well that didn't workout so i figured out that i shouldnt let my phone reboot after flashing Philz recovery and instead directly force into recovery and it worked but now i need to just flash it thourgh there lol
So I needed to restore my S4 back to stock firmware and was running CM 10.2 for many months with no issues. I wiped all data from CM 10.2 and then tried to use ODEN to flash stock firmware to the S4. ( i used the 4.3 firmware not 4.2.2)
It passed with success but then it stuck in a bootloop. I cant reboot into stock recovery, but can get back to download mode. This was flashing the updated stock 4.3 firmware....
I tried removing battery and doing a stock recovery to restore to factory with no luck.
Any ideas?
Is there a way to use odin to reflash CM 10.2 since I no longer have TWRP
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So I needed to restore my S4 back to stock firmware and was running CM 10.2 for many months with no issues. I wiped all data from CM 10.2 and then tried to use ODEN to flash stock firmware to the S4. ( i used the 4.3 firmware not 4.2.2)
It passed with success but then it stuck in a bootloop. I cant reboot into stock recovery, but can get back to download mode. This was flashing the updated stock 4.3 firmware....
I tried removing battery and doing a stock recovery to restore to factory with no luck.
Any ideas?
Is there a way to use odin to reflash CM 10.2 since I no longer have TWRP
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If it were me I would reflash firmware with Odin.. If you are successful, you should have stock recovery even you are stuck in bl.. Power down phone go to recovery and do a factory reset.. What does it do when you try to get into recovery? Sometimes it can take quit a few attempts to get into recovery.. Its taken me upwards of 5 times to get into stock recovery after a firmware flash.. Also were you on 4.2.2 or 4.3 when you Odin'd 4.3?
Also check this thread out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48871865
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ParkerParker said:
If it were me I would reflash firmware with Odin.. If you are successful, you should have stock recovery even you are stuck in bl.. Power down phone go to recovery and do a factory reset.. What does it do when you try to get into recovery? Sometimes it can take quit a few attempts to get into recovery.. Its taken me upwards of 5 times to get into stock recovery after a firmware flash.. Also were you on 4.2.2 or 4.3 when you Odin'd 4.3?
Also check this thread out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48871865
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I was on 4.3.1 when I flashed 4.3
If i power down and try to get into stock recovery, it doesnt work and reboots. If i go into download mode and hit "cancel" and then try to get into stock recovery, the blue text shows up as if it is working , but then resets before it can enter stock recovery.
I am redownloading a MDL stock firmware to try and reflash using odin again from here
https://www.copy.com/s/XBuW3TpgjSi3/Android/Galaxy S4/MDL/Firmware
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I was on 4.3.1 when I flashed 4.3
If i power down and try to get into stock recovery, it doesnt work and reboots. If i go into download mode and hit "cancel" and then try to get into stock recovery, the blue text shows up as if it is working , but then resets before it can enter stock recovery.
I am redownloading a MDL stock firmware to try and reflash using odin again from here
https://www.copy.com/s/XBuW3TpgjSi3/Android/Galaxy S4/MDL/Firmware
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If you are on 4.3 you can not go back.. Look at link in previous post, you may have had a bad DL, I would try MJA again
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If you are on 4.3 you can not go back.. Look at link in previous post, you may have had a bad DL, I would try MJA again
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Ok I was able to get the system booted and into stock recovery where I did a factory reset.
The phone boots all the way until the yellow "sprint" screen and stops....
It can take awhile
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Excalabor said:
Ok I was able to get the system booted and into stock recovery where I did a factory reset.
The phone boots all the way until the yellow "sprint" screen and stops....
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If it still dosent work DL this and start over unzip and use tar.md5..
http://www.rwilco12.com/downloads.p...axy S4 (SPH-L720)/Stock ROMs/MJA/Original TAR
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It can take awhile
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haha, all you need is patience..it works.... thank you for your help! :good:
Your welcome.. I know the feeling been there before
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I'm a total moron, I'll just start there. Was running KOT49H【4.4.2】Google Edition and wanted to go back to vision x since your latest update. Full wipe in twrp, installed vision x, icy theme, went to install ktoonsez kernel and it failed. Somehow between people distracting me, I decided it didn't fail. Reboot, and now bricked. Flashed stock firmware 4.2.2 mdl in odin, but no dice on the reboot. It's because I'm still on a 4.4.2 kernel, isn't it...
Now what do I do? Let kies fix me? Can kies even fix me with 4.4.2 not even being released yet? Kicking myself for being so dumb!!!
First, you're not on 4.4.2. Sounds like you're on 4.3. See if this helps you http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48557730
This is for the i337
jd1639 said:
First, you're not on 4.4.2. Sounds like you're on 4.3. See if this helps you http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48557730
This is for the i337
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ok, I'm just saying, it wasn't booting after I put vision x 4.3 rom on without flashing the loki'd ktoonsez 4.3 kernel. Will updating flash the 4.3 kernel too?
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ok, I'm just saying, it wasn't booting after I put vision x 4.3 rom on without flashing the loki'd ktoonsez 4.3 kernel. Will updating flash the 4.3 kernel too?
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What bootloader are you one ? It seems to me you are on MDL and I can't see why you would need to flash the MK2. You are just stuck in recovery correct ? If you can get in recovery just flash the vision x rom again.
You didn't state if you can get into recovery or not. Everytime to flash a rom you flash a kernel so even KT's kernel failed you still have a kernel. You might need to explain some more
EDIT: your other post said you cant get into recovery. When you say no dice on the reboot does that mean it's in a bootloop and all you get is the sammy slash screen ? Can you try ODIN again and flash the MDL firmware. I'm not sure but back in the S3 days if you flashed older firmware you had a bootloop after but then had to just do a factory reset in stock 3e recovery and it would boot
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What bootloader are you one ? It seems to me you are on MDL and I can't see why you would need to flash the MK2. You are just stuck in recovery correct ? If you can get in recovery just flash the vision x rom again.
You didn't state if you can get into recovery or not. Everytime to flash a rom you flash a kernel so even KT's kernel failed you still have a kernel. You might need to explain some more
EDIT: your other post said you cant get into recovery. When you say no dice on the reboot does that mean it's in a bootloop and all you get is the sammy slash screen ? Can you try ODIN again and flash the MDL firmware. I'm not sure but back in the S3 days if you flashed older firmware you had a bootloop after but then had to just do a factory reset in stock 3e recovery and it would boot
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I did an emergency formware recovery via kies. It reset everything stock on 4.2.2 mdl! I thought for sure it would've bumped me to 4.3 that way. Thank you for taking the time to respond and try to help. I will be much more careful moving forward and am considering this luck for my crazy mistakes. Yay!!
Hello.First post here.
I currently have been using CM11 for a few months now but miss some features on stock. (multiwindow, air view) so I installed Sacs ROM.
Everything was working great today except a known problem is wifi will not work due to radio opbstructions (i believe). So i attempted to change the baseband to MF9.
At first, Odin started then immidately it failed. The error read 'Fused 4 Binary 1'
So i assumed it was a connection error. I loaded back into download mode and tried again. Failed.
At this point i thought screw it, and took the battery out. tried to reboot and stuck at the soft brick "Firmware upgrade encountered and issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again"
I installed Kies. Plugged in my phone. Drivers installed but Kies will not connect. Try to do 'Firmware Upgrade and Initialization'
However Kies will NOT accpet my S/N number. i tried everything. writing it all out or with a space every 3 numbers or with 'DEC' at the front. nothing worked.
I even called sprint to double check S/N (ESN/DEC)
so basically I'm soft bricked and Kies is screwing me over. Any ideas?
Have you tried to odin back to stock?
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ROMANTiC KiD said:
Have you tried to odin back to stock?
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thats the one thing i want to avoid.
by reverting to stock wont i lose root access? i have a backup of my old CM ROM from before i flashed sacs. should i revert to stock then restore to CM then reinstall Sacs?
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thats the one thing i want to avoid.
by reverting to stock wont i lose root access? i have a backup of my old CM ROM from before i flashed sacs. should i revert to stock then restore to CM then reinstall Sacs?
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Yes but it takes all but about 30 seconds to root again
You could go straight to sacs after rooting.
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Yes but it takes all but about 30 seconds to root again
You could go straight to sacs after rooting.
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ok that might leave me with a cleaner install also.
wheres the stock file i can flash on Odin?
also how should i update the radio if it didnt work the first time?
Thank you for the help
whatthe_fuzz said:
ok that might leave me with a cleaner install also.
wheres the stock file i can flash on Odin?
also how should i update the radio if it didnt work the first time?
Thank you for the help
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If you flash a full stock tar you won't have to flash radio.
Do a search please for the tar.
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leaderbuilder said:
If you flash a full stock tar you won't have to flash radio.
Do a search please for the tar.
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i searched around and eventually found a working .md5 file. its apparently is stock. got my phone to start booting but it got stuck at the yellow sprint screen. im going to try to boot into safe mode. any ideas how to access my recovery file? i have one form CWM and one from Ti Backup
which tar did you flash through Odin? MF9, MK2 or NAE?
IF you were on MF9 and flashed the full MF9 tar you can try and flash again. Just power off phone completely, go to download mode, attach and run Odin. (same for MK2 or NAE) BUT if you tried flashing MJA/MK2 or NAE you cannot go back to MF9. Things you should have read about already.
If it hangs on boot after flashing, power off completely, boot to stock recovery and do a factory reset and then let it restart first reboot can take 5 to 10 earth minutes.
You can then root via CF-Autoroot or Saferoot, install goomanager to grab a custom recovery (CWM or TWRP) OR Odin said recoveries (Philz, TWRP etc.)
leaderbuilder said:
which tar did you flash through Odin? MF9, MK2 or NAE?
IF you were on MF9 and flashed the full MF9 tar you can try and flash again. Just power off phone completely, go to download mode, attach and run Odin. (same for MK2 or NAE) BUT if you tried flashing MJA/MK2 or NAE you cannot go back to MF9. Things you should have read about already.
If it hangs on boot after flashing, power off completely, boot to stock recovery and do a factory reset and then let it restart first reboot can take 5 to 10 earth minutes.
You can then root via CF-Autoroot or Saferoot, install goomanager to grab a custom recovery (CWM or TWRP) OR Odin said recoveries (Philz, TWRP etc.)
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I think i fixed it.
Problems resolved.
The issue was i had Sacs v4 which didnt support wifi and i read that it needed MF9 firmware.
i had a lapse in judgement and without thinking tried to go back from MJA. didnt catch it until now.
I eventually found the correct stock file. eventually got into the phone. rerooted and in the process of install the proper sacs ROM (v5.6)
this was a simple error that i shouldve caught thanks guys!
hopefully this ROM will work with wifi...
BTW, all my backups were wiped
Your backups weren't on your external sd? Ooo, that sucks. Glad you got it.
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