New i337 user here.
Had it rooted yesterday, using the ./pwn method.
I realize now - I was on AMF3.
Once rooted - I was trying to get TWRP installed via goomanager.
Now I'm stuck in download mode. When ever I try to flash via odin to MDL or MDB, I get a FAIL! (Auth) error.
Is there anyway to fix this? Is there an AMF3 tar out there that's flashable via Odin?
Or am I completely screwed?
Sorry to say, you're screwed. There is no mf3 Odin file. And you can't put a custom recovery on mf3. That's what bricked you. You could try jtag. Talk to mobiletechvideos.com.
Fail.
Other alternative is to wait for an Odin flashable file, I assume?
str8shot said:
Fail.
Other alternative is to wait for an Odin flashable file, I assume?
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Yes, but it could be a real long wait. I'm not even sure jtag would work. From what I've seen on xda it seems the mf3 is really causing problems. If you go that route talk to mobiltech and explain what happened as see if they have a fix before you send your phone in. Warranty might also work.
has anyone tried kies emergency recovery yet with this issue? i'm curious.
xBeerdroiDx said:
has anyone tried kies emergency recovery yet with this issue? i'm curious.
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I tried that, but Kies doesn't even register the phone as connected.
I'm really bumming.
Even if there was a stock MF3 boot/recovery flashable via odin, that would probably work. All the other partitions should be fine...
Huh
str8shot said:
Even if there was a stock MF3 boot/recovery flashable via odin, that would probably work. All the other partitions should be fine...
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Man, I'm feeling your pain. I was thinking along the same lines. Some how you borked the recovery and if you could get that back on you might be ok. You might want to check with Aou or AdamOutler. They're wizzes at this type of stuff.
Edit, Just found this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44431964
New i337 user here.
Had it rooted yesterday, using the ./pwn method.
I realize now - I was on AMF3.
Once rooted - I was trying to get TWRP installed via goomanager.
Now I'm stuck in download mode. When ever I try to flash via odin to MDL or MDB, I get a FAIL! (Auth) error.
Is there anyway to fix this? Is there an AMF3 tar out there that's flashable via Odin?
Or am I completely screwed?
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Call Samsung tell them your phone not working it is not turning on and send for repair [ PS free warranty for yr ] best they can do is tell you no after looking phone. Shipping is free as well.
I have bricked my s3 by flashing different Rom and they fixed it for me.
Also bricked my s4 AT&T same way as u did they fixed it for me lol
Most of time they be nice and fix it for you.
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Even if there was a stock MF3 boot/recovery flashable via odin, that would probably work. All the other partitions should be fine...
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jd1639 said:
Man, I'm feeling your pain. I was thinking along the same lines. Some how you borked the recovery and if you could get that back on you might be ok. You might want to check with Aou or AdamOutler. They're wizzes at this type of stuff.
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The closest we got was this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2374221 (see end of post #6 for tarball)
We managed to build an odin-flashable tarball with the MF3 recovery. If it worked, it would save your device.
Problem is, the only copies of recovery.img that we can get right now are refused by the phone because they are not signed. If we got a signed version, we'd be golden. Unfortunately we probably won't see this until Kies has MF3.
Aou said:
The closest we got was this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2374221 (see end of post #6 for tarball)
We managed to build an odin-flashable tarball with the MF3 recovery. If it worked, it would save your device.
Problem is, the only copies of recovery.img that we can get right now are refused by the phone because they are not signed. If we got a signed version, we'd be golden. Unfortunately we probably won't see this until Kies has MF3.
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It's a miracle!
I read through your thread; and for giggle - instead of letting it fail to boot and fall back to dl mode, I manually entered dl mode, then hit vol down to cancel and reboot.
It booted normally and all appears well...guess I have to delete goo for now. I'm missing CM10.1, though.
Thanks! And PHWEW! Thought I was screwed!
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It's a miracle!
I read through your thread; and for giggle - instead of letting it fail to boot and fall back to dl mode, I manually entered dl mode, then hit vol down to cancel and reboot.
It booted normally and all appears well...guess I have to delete goo for now. I'm missing CM10.1, though.
Thanks! And PHWEW! Thought I was screwed!
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Congrats! Yes, you'll be without custom ROMs until we find a new exploit similar to Loki, or fully unlocked bootloaders.
I'm assuming you don't have a recovery at all now, right? Might want to check that out while you have everyone's attention here.
If it's borked, you might be able to manually use "dd" to flash the stock MF3 recovery back onto your device... You would use something like:
Code:
su
dd if=/sdcard/mf3-recovery.bin of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p21
For the love of God, don't get that partition number wrong (p21) - check your spelling before pressing Enter. There is some risk in this method, so check out any available options you might have in goo manager to restore a backup or something first.
Aou said:
Congrats! Yes, you'll be without custom ROMs until we find a new exploit similar to Loki, or fully unlocked bootloaders.
I'm assuming you don't have a recovery at all now, right? Might want to check that out while you have everyone's attention here.
If it's borked, you might be able to manually use "dd" to flash the stock MF3 recovery back onto your device... You would use something like:
Code:
su
dd if=/sdcard/mf3-recovery.bin of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p21
For the love of God, don't get that partition number wrong (p21) - check your spelling before pressing Enter. There is some risk in this method, so check out any available options you might have in goo manager to restore a backup or something first.
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Using the unsigned recovery from the other post?
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Using the unsigned recovery from the other post?
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As a last resort, yes. It came from @joeybear23 who dumped it using my instructions in post #2 of that same thread, or you could extract it out of the tarball if you wish. The image itself can be downloaded in the first part of post #6. Might need to rename it or otherwise change the filename referenced in the "dd" command.
Again, this is only if your recovery is currently borked and unusable.
I fixed mine using a dif file.
I found a file called MF3_BTL_FIX.tar.md5. Flashed it in odin and it fixed my bootloader issues. Everything back to normal. Found it used for a dif issue elsewhere on XDA. I thought I was screwed for the foreseeable future.
str8shot said:
It's a miracle!
I read through your thread; and for giggle - instead of letting it fail to boot and fall back to dl mode, I manually entered dl mode, then hit vol down to cancel and reboot.
It booted normally and all appears well...guess I have to delete goo for now. I'm missing CM10.1, though.
Thanks! And PHWEW! Thought I was screwed!
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Just wanted to give this a second thumbs up. Seems soooo stupid but it works, lol. Thanks!
lol
after hours of trying every thing else thanx. it worked
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I bricked it. I had TWRP installed, and running a debloated Odexed version of Stock. I attempted to flash Slim Bean 6.5 Weekly with Aroma addons. The Aroma ended up borking my recovery. It bootloops pre-recovery mode. I can get into Download mode and Odin'd back to Stock, but it's still won't go into recovery and vibrate loops with a black screen.
Anyone know how to fix this? Damn locked bootloader!!!
Did you try and reflash recovery ? Does the phone boot up once you restore via Odin ?
Have you tried flashing twrp via Odin?
I have not tried flashing TWRP with Odin... is there a Odin version of TWRP?
It did not boot after flashing stock. I'd like to Odin TWRP if it's available.
I found an Odin TWRP.tar for SGS3, but nothing for S4, yet. Need a little more help.
Did you try rooting and flashing twrp via goomanager? I had something similar happen to me on my skyrocket and that's how I fixed it.
Aroma does not work on the GS4 yet. At least that is what I have been reading.
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Aroma does not work on the GS4 yet. At least that is what I have been reading.
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This version of CWM claims to work with Aroma on the S4...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2322682
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This version of CWM claims to work with Aroma on the S4...
well lets take a look see...shall we. thanks
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came across this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2281287
it converts an img to an odin-flashable tar.
i went ahead and converted the latest twrp img for the at&t S4 and have attached it. i have not tested it as i am not near my device at the moment. if you decide to try it, unzip the tar.md5 and flash at your own risk as i have not tested this method by @cabloomi.
False aroma works fine with twrp on a gs4.
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This happened to me. Use odin to put TWRP back on. You'll be fine.
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Yeah I had this a couple different times trying to get rid of the custom/lock icon boot up. Flash fresh stock rom, root it and install recovery with "Root and Recovery for ATT-TMO GS4-CASUAL-R527b" --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2297900 then flash the recovery you want etc, and restore Nandroid of backed up rom. Worked for me!
Everyone keeps saying to Odin TWRP like it's a common thing. I have yet to find a Odin version of TWRP that's loki'd for the S4. If you have done this, and it worked, please supply a link to the correct file. In this case an Odin version of TWRP. Thank you
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I bricked it. I had TWRP installed, and running a debloated Odexed version of Stock. I attempted to flash Slim Bean 6.5 Weekly with Aroma addons. The Aroma ended up borking my recovery. It bootloops pre-recovery mode. I can get into Download mode and Odin'd back to Stock, but it's still won't go into recovery and vibrate loops with a black screen.
Anyone know how to fix this? Damn locked bootloader!!!
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I had a similar issue. When you hold the key combination to boot into recovery, do it for more than one cycle. Sometime for some reason it doesn't take the first time so keep holding the buttons. After getting into android recovery, clear cache and reset the phone.
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Everyone keeps saying to Odin TWRP like it's a common thing. I have yet to find a Odin version of TWRP that's loki'd for the S4. If you have done this, and it worked, please supply a link to the correct file. In this case an Odin version of TWRP. Thank you
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When I had the problem is sounds like your having I Odined the Stock image back to the phone and then cleared the dalvik and cache with the stock recovery menu, then I was able to boot, I then rooted and used the debloater program found here on the forums and then just downloaded goomanager and installed TWRP, the one it pushes is LOKIed for you.
This is also the only .img file I can find for the our version of TWRP. IIRC you can use Odin to flash it
EDIT: Like trublu said, you may have to do it several times (clearing the caches in the stock recovery after ODIN)
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Everyone keeps saying to Odin TWRP like it's a common thing.
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you are correct in that twrp has not posted tars on their website yet for download. they have, however, posted imgs. find a way or find someone to convert that img to an odin-flashable tar and you'll be all set.
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I have yet to find a Odin version of TWRP that's loki'd for the S4.
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i believe that all s4 recoveries are "loki'd", if you will.
xBeerdroiDx said:
you are correct in that twrp has not posted tars on their website yet for download. they have, however, posted imgs. find a way or find someone to convert that img to an odin-flashable tar and you'll be all set.
i believe that all s4 recoveries are "loki'd", if you will.
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The Tmo and Sprint variants do not require Loki'd recoveries, as their bootloaders are not locked.
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After trying many options available to me such as, Flashing Stock with Odin and trying to access recovery via the three finger method, and trying to convert a TWRP.img file to a .tar file... which I managed to successfully flash, but to no avail. I'm stuck at the vibrating boot loop dead screen, soft brick scenario.
I found these guys in a similar thread http://mobiletechvideos.com/
I called them and they were really nice and professional. I shipped out my phone for Brick Repair today. I believe I'll be happy with the results from these guys from they way they conduct themselves in their videos.
I'll report back when I have my fixed, unbricked S4 back in my hands
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After trying many options available to me such as, Flashing Stock with Odin and trying to access recovery via the three finger method, and trying to convert a TWRP.img file to a .tar file... which I managed to successfully flash, but to no avail. I'm stuck at the vibrating boot loop dead screen, soft brick scenario.
I found these guys in a similar thread http://mobiletechvideos.com/
I called them and they were really nice and professional. I shipped out my phone for Brick Repair today. I believe I'll be happy with the results from these guys from they way they conduct themselves in their videos.
I'll report back when I have my fixed, unbricked S4 back in my hands
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They do great work..used them 2 years ago. With a mytouch..ouch..
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JJ5150 said:
After trying many options available to me such as, Flashing Stock with Odin and trying to access recovery via the three finger method, and trying to convert a TWRP.img file to a .tar file... which I managed to successfully flash, but to no avail. I'm stuck at the vibrating boot loop dead screen, soft brick scenario.
I found these guys in a similar thread http://mobiletechvideos.com/
I called them and they were really nice and professional. I shipped out my phone for Brick Repair today. I believe I'll be happy with the results from these guys from they way they conduct themselves in their videos.
I'll report back when I have my fixed, unbricked S4 back in my hands
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It's called Jtag repair. And the guys you mentioned have saved many a ass with it. I've seen several good results. Unless something else is found, it is the only way I know of to fix a truly bricked phone. Some people (those who flash a lot and Dev a lot) have their own Jtag boxes.
BTW, which tool / method did you use to convert the .img to a TAR? I've seen a couple of methods and a tool or two but I was wondering if you used something I don't know about? TIA.
TWRP is saying my password is incorrect. I set up a boot lock password, which is correct every time i reboot the phone, but when i reboot to recovery and enter in the password, it says it is incorrect. What can i do?
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TWRP is saying my password is incorrect. I set up a boot lock password, which is correct every time i reboot the phone, but when i reboot to recovery and enter in the password, it says it is incorrect. What can i do?
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this is not good, you will have to odin back to stock , or better yet, find a odin twrp file, and flash that....you can keep waiting for other answers, but do not waste time and start the process now...
been there, done that...
good luck..
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this is not good, you will have to odin back to stock , or better yet, find a odin twrp file, and flash that....you can keep waiting for other answers, but do not waste time and start the process now...
been there, done that...
good luck..
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Well, I can still use the phone, I just can't boot to recovery.
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Well, I can still use the phone, I just can't boot to recovery.
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If you have a nandroid of close to where you are now do what the ax says. Sooner or later you're going to need recovery. If you can't find an odin twrp, Odin stock, root and get goo manager and put twrp on, and then use your nandroid.
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If you have a nandroid of close to where you are now do what the ax says. Sooner or later you're going to need recovery. If you can't find an odin twrp, Odin stock, root and get goo manager and put twrp on, and then use your nandroid.
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If I can't get to recovery, how do I odin stock?
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If I can't get to recovery, how do I odin stock?
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Odin is a program that will flash the stock firmware on your phone.
Edit, not sure if I have the energy for this tonight but read this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4. It's not for the i337 but might give you some in-site. Don't flash any downloads in the guide, they're not for the i337.
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Odin is a program that will flash the stock firmware on your phone.
Edit, not sure if I have the energy for this tonight but read this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4. It's not for the i337 but might give you some in-site. Don't flash any downloads in the guide, they're not for the i337.
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I odin'd to stock and it still is reading samsung custom on boot and NOW the first thing it asks for is a password which is not the one i set. So now I cant even get into my phone.
I truly need the community's help on this one. Trying to fix a rom that I was using, I decided to wipe everything to reflash it. However, some how I read the thread wrong. Using TWRP, I formatted the "internal storage" thinking that was going to fix my Rom problems.
Now, I can't boot into the Rom or any rom, unless I wipe everything and restore one of my back ups. I restored a back up and it booted, but my data is jacked and phone service is not operable. I thought maybe a reboot will fix it, and now my phone is stuck at "Samsung Galaxy S 4". It doesn't move from there.
What should I do? How do I get it it continue the boot into the rom after a regular reboot? How do I get my radio back?
It's funny to me because I usually never get this careless with my phone. So I can laugh about it but damn I have to figure this one out!
Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am by know means an expert but I think you may have to start here with the firmware files then try and flash your backup http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2338919
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Thanks Chief, let me try that!
Thanks Chief. Unfortunately, that didn't work. I used Odin to flash the Firmware files and let it reboot. I'm still stuck at the Samsung Gal...boot screen. Let me try manually going into recovery and restoring.
Any other ideas? Anyone?
Kenjari said:
Thanks Chief. Unfortunately, that didn't work. I used Odin to flash the Firmware files and let it reboot. I'm still stuck at the Samsung Gal...boot screen. Let me try manually going into recovery and restoring.
Any other ideas? Anyone?
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Have you tried flashing the complete odin ROM? You can find the all in one somewhere on the dev thread, it has rom, kernel, firmware and the rom all in one as it came from samsung. That should take care of your problem. It will wipe everything, or I think there was also a thread somewhere with odin flashables that didn't wipe data or internal sd but I can't seem to find it right now.
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Have you tried flashing the complete odin ROM? You can find the all in one somewhere on the dev thread, it has rom, kernel, firmware and the rom all in one as it came from samsung. That should take care of your problem. It will wipe everything, or I think there was also a thread somewhere with odin flashables that didn't wipe data or internal sd but I can't seem to find it right now.
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Exactly. I'm on the target. I'm currently waiting for this tar that will unroot the phone. It is MDL but I will update and reroot. I hope this does the ticket. I'm going to use Odin to flash it or unroot.
Well strike two. That didn't work either. I downloaded a unrooted MDL tar and connected to Odin. When through the entire process and it rebooted. It still is stuck at "Samsung Galaxy S4".
I read on the Nexus 7 that I might have to reflash a system.img and boot.img? Someone else had a similar experience on the N7 and had to download it via flashdrive and then install via recovery. I'm not saying that's the case but I wonder if I need to reflash a boot.img or something.
Please help. Not sure where to go at this point. Unrooting didn't help.
Try downloading this file extract the tar and flash that in PC Odin. (don't check repartion!).
That is the full stock MF9 firmware, boot, recovery, kernel and ROM.
Then maybe use CF Autoroot, then goomanger to get twrp and flash one of your nand's
Progress made.
leaderbuilder said:
Try downloading this file extract the tar and flash that in PC Odin. (don't check repartion!).
That is the full stock MF9 firmware, boot, recovery, kernel and ROM.
Then maybe use CF Autoroot, then goomanger to get twrp and flash one of your nand's
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leader, chief, ifly4,...I'm making progress.
leader, actually I flashed a previous version, the MDL via Odin. At first it didn't boot as stated in my previous post. I decided to wipe and factory reset. """"Bingo"""" it booted. Now I'm on MDL and unrooted. However, I transferred my phone over to a previous device so I can't update profile and prl. I'm going to activate the phone and see if it works. For some reason I can't can't seem to get a radio signal on it. It shows the be O with the slash in the middle. This is what it looked like before I deactivated it and lost everything before.
I post back with results. Not quite solved yet.
Thanks leader and everyone else.
Sound like your on the wrong firmware/baseband. what does your modem/baseband say?
Yeeessssss
leaderbuilder said:
Sound like your on the wrong firmware/baseband. what does your modem/baseband say?
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It says L720VPUAMDL. I actually got it going. I had to change it from WCDMA to CDMA and reset. Now I'm unrooted. and going. However, leader, is there away to update the modem/baseband before I root? Or should I root then flash the MF9 Modem?
if you got MDL to activate you can jst take the OTA update to MF9. It will update it all.
Then use CF-Autoroot to gain root. After that same - install goomanager from Playstore and use it to install TWRP.
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if you got MDL to activate you can jst take the OTA update to MF9. It will update it all.
Then use CF-Autoroot to gain root. After that same - install goomanager from Playstore and use it to install TWRP.
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Awesome. Hey thanks again leader for helping me out. I'm usually never careless with these things. I use SACS rom but decided to try Miui. From some reason every time I flash Miui, I get the "Roaming Indicator Off" thing along with two signals. Reading the thread it suggest to format the internal. Why oh Why did I try that step. The rest is history....
Thanks again. Learned a lot with this process.
Glad you got it working.
There is a 'thanks' button too.
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Glad you got it working.
There is a 'thanks' button too.
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No doubt. I got to remember that!
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Glad to hear you got it going.
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leaderbuilder said:
Try downloading this file extract the tar and flash that in PC Odin. (don't check repartion!).
That is the full stock MF9 firmware, boot, recovery, kernel and ROM.
Then maybe use CF Autoroot, then goomanger to get twrp and flash one of your nand's
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Thank you!
Was testing kn0x0ut on our device when I ended up flashing an empty system image. I was on MK2 and attempted to use the MJ6-MJ9 method of flashing just enough files to pass the OTA checks. They didn't flash, and now it says my PIT is broken. I have recovery, and the data partition is in place as on a normal boot it loads to black screen with a blue LED. I can use adb, but there is no root so I can't restore my system. Any suggestions? I'm busy today so I won't be able to reply much, but I can gladly give more information.
EDIT: The system apparently isn't empty. The partition got flashed at some point and appears to have MF3 files.
However, there is still no root and it boots up to nothing but a black screen with blue LED still. I can't get the small update from cache that the MJ6-MJ9 thread mentions. Also, attempting a recovery boot results in the Secure Fail: Kernel screen. Recovery is fixed with the MJ6 recovery file.
FIXED: I was able to get it working following the instructions again. Not sure what the exact issue was with the first time i tried, but flashing the MJ6 recovery makes recovery boot again. I had to flash the two emergency tars, flash the recovery tar again, and then boot into recovery. It then applied the update from cache and on next reboot i went back in and used the sideload.
Have you tried ADB sideloading the update through the recovery?
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Supreme Dynamite said:
Have you tried ADB sideloading the update through the recovery?
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It doesn't go through since it fails the file check.
Possible help
Hey there, I Gorked my i337 at&t version on Thanksgiving day! I was able to go to this thread and just used Odin to flash the two .tar files and then was able to sideload the mk2 update. Boom phone was back to 4.3
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2526964&page=19
joshzdad2013 said:
Hey there, I Gorked my i337 at&t version on Thanksgiving day! I was able to go to this thread and just used Odin to flash the two .tar files and then was able to sideload the mk2 update. Boom phone was back to 4.3
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2526964&page=19
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That's what i've been trying to no avail. The first small update from cache never happened and now it's broken even more.
EDIT: Recovery is booting after flashing the MJ6 recovery, surprisingly. Will attempt instructions one more time and report back.
I beleive i just said screw it since I knew I was boned! I then just flashed recovery-mj6.tar.md5 not even sure if it worked. Then flashed the mf3-emergency-part-1.tar.md5 then the mf3-emergency-part-2.tar.md5 and finally I beleive I tried the side load of my mk2 full update file and it worked.
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I beleive i just said screw it since I knew I was boned! I then just flashed recovery-mj6.tar.md5 not even sure if it worked. Then flashed the mf3-emergency-part-1.tar.md5 then the mf3-emergency-part-2.tar.md5 and finally I beleive I tried the side load of my mk2 full update file and it worked.
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Good job man you had me on the seat of my pants reading this.
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Hey all,
I searched a lot for an answer to this and haven't found one yet. I tried to install TWRP through GooManager, went through the motions, and it said it installed successfully. However, when I try to boot into recovery it always boots into download mode. It doesn't matter if I tell the phone to reboot into recovery, or if I do it manually. Here's what it says:
Coild not do normal boot.
ODIN MODE
<Device Details>
and then the standard download mode
Downloading...
Do not turn off target!!
Basically I now have no recovery mode?
The OS still works fine... I've also tried using Recovery Manager to flash CWM. No joy there either.
What firmware are you on?
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Well I've been doing a lot of research since I posted this thread, and I did find some things. First of all, I clearly didn't do enough research ahead of time because I'm using i337 MF3 and someone can correct me if I am wrong, but the loki method no longer works... which is what GooManager uses. So I haven't resigned myself to doing this yet, but I found this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2504311
with the stock MF3 files... so I may just use odin to flash them back on the device.
coltonfisher said:
Well I've been doing a lot of research since I posted this thread, and I did find some things. First of all, I clearly didn't do enough research ahead of time because I'm using i337 MF3 and someone can correct me if I am wrong, but the loki method no longer works... which is what GooManager uses. So I haven't resigned myself to doing this yet, but I found this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2504311
with the stock MF3 files... so I may just use odin to flash them back on the device.
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Yes, Odin is your option at this point
i can help
jd1639 said:
Yes, Odin is your option at this point
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go to my page and download all of the files in my googledrive and then use odin to flash the files
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2576727