Posted this on another forum as well, but this site appears to have more traffic:
Has anyone else tried to modify the framework-res.apk of their stock rooted rom? I've been able to do it with customs, but I appear to be stuck in the boot animation after flashing to a stock rom. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong(or if it's even possible).
I'm using framework flasher, which I know works because I've tested it with two other custom roms. I've tried both twrp and cwm for flashing, but no difference. I've wiped both cache and dalvik. I even deodexed the rom(at least, I think I did). Result is always initially booting to the animation, followed by android updating all the apps(with a black background where there usually is my wallpaper). When it gets to "starting apps" it restarts the boot animation and sticks with that indefinitely. I then have to restore and try something else. Any thoughts would be appreciated. I may have to stick with a custom, even though I was hoping to fiddle around with the stock instead.
I've also tried pushing the file via ADB and deodexing the rom again - still no luck.
So I recently purchased my AT&T Galaxy S4 with MDL baseband. I rooted and installed TWRP via motochopper. I then loaded Kangabean 4.2.2 and everything was great. Got notification for OTA update to 4.3 and decided might as well load Kangabean 4.3 as opposed to dealing with the OTA notification. I did so (after formatting internal SD and performing factory reset) and now my phone won't boot beyond the Galaxy S4 splash screen. I restored a nandroid backup of the original software and was able to boot the phone once, but couldn't load the custom rom again, nor can i load into the stock rom anymore either. Does it sound like my phone may have a hardware failure? Would attempting to restore through odin be the next logical step? I'm by no means an expert with these sort of things but my S2 has never given me any sort of grief when flashing various roms in the past. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Try a different kernel, also, pull the battery for 5 min, it will boot.
TheAxman said:
Try a different kernel, also, pull the battery for 5 min, it will boot.
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Yeah I left the phone off with the battery removed all night - didn't want to boot this morning. I'm also noticing an oddity with TWRP - it's for some reason asking for a password on startup even though I've never set one. It also gives an error when attempting to wipe the phone or re-flash
id try odin
Don't Odin yet. If you can get into recovery see if you can flash a new recovery onto the phone. Try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41746967
jd1639 said:
Don't Odin yet. If you can get into recovery see if you can flash a new recovery onto the phone. Try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41746967
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It will not let you past the password, been there, it will only do simulated flashes.
Odin is his only option.
So I managed to flash back to stock with odin. I was then able to re-root and re-install recovery. Something is still wrong here though. I was able to load kangabean 4.3, but when i installed the SIM card (kept it out to prevent OTA updates) the phone would no longer boot. I then re-flashed with odin, re-rooted, installed sim, THEN loaded the rom and it worked.... For a while. I had the phone plugged in to my laptop as i had recently transferred some ringtones to the internal SD. I powered down the phone. It seemed to shut the OS down but it then displayed a battery symbol with a rotating circular animation, as if it was trying to show that it was charging the battery. The phone froze in this state.
Another thing that I've noticed is that when this phone freezes, it gets warm. It also tends not to respond well until i've let it cool down. I'm now having difficulty booting the phone after re-flashing with odin. It loads to the white screen with AT&T logo and hangs (and gets warm). I plan to leave the phone alone with battery removed for the day and attempt to reboot or re-flash with odin later.
I find it odd that the rom that i flashed would stop working if i've flashed the rom with the sim removed from the phone, then introduced the sim to the phone after the flash is complete. Is this normal? I'm also unsure if my phone has faulty hardware, or maybe there's some sort of software glitch that's causing it to hang and overhead (like an infinite loop caused by faulty software).
I think if / when I can get it working with the stock rom again, I'll root it and run it for a while and see what it does. I never intended to run this phone with the stock rom as I prefer vanilla android.
I'm wondering if there's something wrong with the kernel. Perhaps I should re-download the ROM and re-install it. I'm not sure but I think the kernel is responsible for charging issues. Perhaps a bad kernel WOULD explain why the phone sometimes freezes at the "battery charging" logo? I'm somewhat at a loss as to what to do. I could try exchanging it through AT&T. If so, I hope they nave another one in their stock that has the MDL baseband as I know I'd be screwed with the current one...
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So I managed to flash back to stock with odin. I was then able to re-root and re-install recovery. Something is still wrong here though. I was able to load kangabean 4.3, but when i installed the SIM card (kept it out to prevent OTA updates) the phone would no longer boot. I then re-flashed with odin, re-rooted, installed sim, THEN loaded the rom and it worked.... For a while. I had the phone plugged in to my laptop as i had recently transferred some ringtones to the internal SD. I powered down the phone. It seemed to shut the OS down but it then displayed a battery symbol with a rotating circular animation, as if it was trying to show that it was charging the battery. The phone froze in this state.
Another thing that I've noticed is that when this phone freezes, it gets warm. It also tends not to respond well until i've let it cool down. I'm now having difficulty booting the phone after re-flashing with odin. It loads to the white screen with AT&T logo and hangs (and gets warm). I plan to leave the phone alone with battery removed for the day and attempt to reboot or re-flash with odin later.
I find it odd that the rom that i flashed would stop working if i've flashed the rom with the sim removed from the phone, then introduced the sim to the phone after the flash is complete. Is this normal? I'm also unsure if my phone has faulty hardware, or maybe there's some sort of software glitch that's causing it to hang and overhead (like an infinite loop caused by faulty software).
I think if / when I can get it working with the stock rom again, I'll root it and run it for a while and see what it does. I never intended to run this phone with the stock rom as I prefer vanilla android.
I'm wondering if there's something wrong with the kernel. Perhaps I should re-download the ROM and re-install it. I'm not sure but I think the kernel is responsible for charging issues. Perhaps a bad kernel WOULD explain why the phone sometimes freezes at the "battery charging" logo? I'm somewhat at a loss as to what to do. I could try exchanging it through AT&T. If so, I hope they nave another one in their stock that has the MDL baseband as I know I'd be screwed with the current one...
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Squidbert said:
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Another thing that I've noticed is that when this phone freezes, it gets warm. It also tends not to respond well until i've let it cool down. I'm now having difficulty booting the phone after re-flashing with odin. It loads to the white screen with AT&T logo and hangs (and gets warm). I plan to leave the phone alone with battery removed for the day and attempt to reboot or re-flash with odin later.
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If you're on the stock AT&T rom and you're getting stuck on the AT&T boot logo try the following:
Power off your phone and hold down Volume Up, Center Home, and Power buttons together.
Once you see the Galaxy S4 splash - Keep holding down Volume Up and Center Home buttons but let go of Power button.
Choose the wipe datafactory reset. This will wipe your phone completely but it should boot after.
Hope that helps.
Well I've been toying around with this thing and much to my surprise, I have CM10 running stable w/o any issues booting! I think I would prefer to run Kangabean 2.05 (android 4.3) though. Assuming that the kernel could be a likely cause of the OS not booting, could someone recommend a suitable kernel for that rom? It appears to come packaged with the "KT" kernel...
Another thought i had was perhaps TWRP wasn't adding the loki feature to the roms that i was trying. I upgraded from 2.5x to 2.6. Hasn't seemed to have made a noticeable difference though.
Would the fact that CM10 runs absolutely flawlessly with no issues booting at all possibly help narrow down why the other roms that I'm flashing only load up the first time but fail at the "Galaxy S4" splash screen on subsequent reboots? Admittedly I'm a relative noob to roms and such but up until now i've been able to muddle my way through things and eventually figure them out. I'm not having the greatest luck with this one!
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Well I've been toying around with this thing and much to my surprise, I have CM10 running stable w/o any issues booting! I think I would prefer to run Kangabean 2.05 (android 4.3) though. Assuming that the kernel could be a likely cause of the OS not booting, could someone recommend a suitable kernel for that rom? It appears to come packaged with the "KT" kernel...
Another thought i had was perhaps TWRP wasn't adding the loki feature to the roms that i was trying. I upgraded from 2.5x to 2.6. Hasn't seemed to have made a noticeable difference though.
Would the fact that CM10 runs absolutely flawlessly with no issues booting at all possibly help narrow down why the other roms that I'm flashing only load up the first time but fail at the "Galaxy S4" splash screen on subsequent reboots? Admittedly I'm a relative noob to roms and such but up until now i've been able to muddle my way through things and eventually figure them out. I'm not having the greatest luck with this one!
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TWRP does not now and has never added LOKI to any ROM or Kernel. Only OUDHS CWM auto-LOKIs. You have to use A pre-LOKIed Kernel or flash the LOKI DokI script to LOKI anything with TWRP. You can do a search to find the LOKI DOKI script and how to use it.
fatah
hi my phone is galaxy s4 at&t i337 rooted but not installed recovery the phone was working good suddenly i deleted at&t software updater after that the phone rebooted it's self and then stuck in at&t boot logo won't bootup please help
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galaxy s4 i337 stuck on at&t bootAnimation
i tried everything but still same please help my phone is not booting up
fatahmusse said:
i tried everything but still same please help my phone is not booting up
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Flash the stock firmware.
samsung galaxy s4 i337
thank you i flashed to mf3 everything is ok
fatahmusse said:
thank you i flashed to mf3 everything is ok
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Glad to hear
Last night I got a Galaxy S5 as an anniversary gift and successfully rooted and installed TWRP and Alliance Rom 4.4.2 and everything is going smooth for the most part except for fingerprint scanning.
When going to define a new fingerprint or access fingerprint options it gives an error: "An error has occurred with the fingerprint sensor...".
The process I took to mod it was use Odin to downgrade the kernel back to a towelroot friendly one, use towelroot to gain root, install busybox, flash previous kernel back using Odin, installed Safestrap (nandroid backed up), installed Alliance Rom via Safestrap recovery, installed SuperSU (disabled KNOX) and here I am. Does disabling KNOX cause the issue?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks XDA
Yes I have searched forums and google before posting. Yes I wiped prior to installing the rom.
Unrelated problem: the phone also does not shut down. When going to shut down the samsung shut down animation plays then the screen goes black and just hangs there. The LED shows a blue light and the bottom soft keys are lit up and it will stay that way until I pull the battery. Any advice?
So, I'm using a Samsung SM-N900V running Jasmine. Rooted it recently with the Yemen team method. I began playing with some Xposed modules and added the Device Fake Agent module to make the phone appear as a different device for an app.
Anyhow, it got stuck into a boot loop, and faced with no other options, I erased and reset through recovery. Now, for the past two hours it's been stuck in the setup wizard, no response from the home screen button, and I'm starting to get really frustrated and cannot find a solution.
I'm currently downloading stock Verizon rom from sammobile. What do I do? Re-flash it with stock, re-root and reinstall Jasmine?
EDIT: I can get to the options menu (only) using the LMT
Yes you have to reflash,reroot and install jasmine Rom again because I
****ed with xposed to and it screwed up my system
I rooted and put GoldenEye on my S4 a while back.
I havent flashed any other ROMs since and dont currently have any plans to do so.
However my start up times are very slow right now - I think in part because of Safestrap (theres that whole startup screen).
Is it safe to uninstall Safestrap for the time being? Do I need to keep it on the phone as long as I am running the Custom ROM?
Can I just put it back in the future if I need it?
Thank you.
Need to uninstall Safestrap
I am also trying to uninstall safestrap v3.75.
Cricket Wireless S4
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Device is jflteaio (not jfltecri)
The SafeStrap flash screen still appears at boot. Pressing the menu key to enter Safestrap results in a black screen and the phone must be powered down by pressing the power button for 8 seconds.
I have followed every procedure I can find multiple times to the letter to uninstall SafeStrap. Have tried factory reset on the phone.
Does anyone know how to uninstall SafeStrap ?
On my I337, I just installed the Safestrap app again and pressed uninstall recovery and everything still works fine.
After not being able to uninstall it, I left it on the phone, as it is allowing me to boot TWRP and install custom ROMS. I never see the splash screen anymore, but know it is there doing its job, as my bootloader is locked, and if it wasnt there the locked bootloader wouldnt allow me to install recoverys and custom ROMS like I am now able to do.