Hello,
After successfully rooting my S4 and installing 4.3.3 I wound up screwing things up and now have the yellow triangle of death when I try to get back into recovery or boot the rom.
The only thing I seem to be able to do successfully now is get back to download mode.
Trying to flash a new recovery via odin results in a nand write failure. I've tried philz, clockwork and twrp, all do the same thing.
Since I can't boot the rom there's no way to use an adb based utility like casual, which is what I had used to originally root.
From what I can find it doesn't appear there are any odin flashable versions of the loki utility.
Any help with ideas on what to try next appreciated.
Thanks for any help
Update: I've been spending my time in the samsung galaxy s4 forum, just now realized there was an att specific sub forum which explains why I ended up using non loki'fied roms. Still stuck, still need help. Thanks in advance.
If you can get into download, then just flash the stock ROM via Odin and start over again.
CZ Eddie said:
If you can get into download, then just flash the stock ROM via Odin and start over again.
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Flashed stock rom successfully via odin however now it doesn't boot
Stuck on the AT&T logo
Any other ideas?
tr2ride said:
Flashed stock rom successfully via odin however now it doesn't boot
Stuck on the AT&T logo
Any other ideas?
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If you can't get into recovery at all, and you can't use Odin or Kies to restore with, I would say you are looking at needing Jtag.
I would try every known key combination and methods to get into recovery first though several times. It can be tricky.
tr2ride said:
Flashed stock rom successfully via odin however now it doesn't boot
Stuck on the AT&T logo
Any other ideas?
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Need to boot into stock android recovery and wipe cache and it will boot up.
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ripper4209 said:
Need to boot into stock android recovery and wipe cache and it will boot up.
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ended up having to wipe data and cache in stock recovery ... but then it did boot up .... thanks!
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Hey guys, I am not new to this scene and have been running, flashing, roms since the S2. Today I ran into a major problem I cant seem to fix. I am running TWRP 2.5.0.2, always have for about 4 months with no issues. Today I did a complete Titanium Backup + recovery backup of my rom. After that I wiped for a fresh new rom install and noticed the rom I placed onto my internal storage is not there (it was def there in its own folder but through TWRP its not there). No biggie right? Just mount USB storage and put it somewhere else that TWRP can get to, but then USB wont mount on Windows now. No biggie right? Ill just restore the rom, put it in another directory, then wipe and reflash. However none of my backups are showing up when I hit restore, I had like 3 backups and everything is gone.
At this point what do I do? I tried everything to mount usb from recovery but windows wont take it (win 7). Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
doesntmatterx said:
Hey guys, I am not new to this scene and have been running, flashing, roms since the S2. Today I ran into a major problem I cant seem to fix. I am running TWRP 2.5.0.2, always have for about 4 months with no issues. Today I did a complete Titanium Backup + recovery backup of my rom. After that I wiped for a fresh new rom install and noticed the rom I placed onto my internal storage is not there (it was def there in its own folder but through TWRP its not there). No biggie right? Just mount USB storage and put it somewhere else that TWRP can get to, but then USB wont mount on Windows now. No biggie right? Ill just restore the rom, put it in another directory, then wipe and reflash. However none of my backups are showing up when I hit restore, I had like 3 backups and everything is gone.
At this point what do I do? I tried everything to mount usb from recovery but windows wont take it (win 7). Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
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Nevermind guys I was able to get around it by putting the SD card from my S4 into the S2 and putting the rom files into another location. Once that was done placed it back into the S4, booted into recovery and flashed it. (phew!)
doesntmatterx said:
Nevermind guys I was able to get around it by putting the SD card from my S4 into the S2 and putting the rom files into another location. Once that was done placed it back into the S4, booted into recovery and flashed it. (phew!)
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I take it back, stuck in a boot loop even after 2 fresh ODIN unroot tasks. Nothing I do gets me out of this, been a long day getting longer now
Can anyone help? Been at it for hours, I have tried everything, phone still reboots at the Samsung logo (the bluish one )
Unrooted 3 times
Launched stock recovery, wiped factory reset
wiped partition cache
removed battery
Cannot connect to Kies for Emergency restore.
Did you do an internal 'sd card'/media data wipe?
Best bet would be to Odin back to stock and start from scratch:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261573
Then from there just use casual to root and install TWRP in one easy step and you're back:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2297900
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Did you do an internal 'sd card'/media data wipe?
Best bet would be to Odin back to stock and start from scratch:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261573
Then from there just use casual to root and install TWRP in one easy step and you're back:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2297900
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I know what I did, I was using Touchwiz and instead of doing a regular wipe I did a format and input "YES". I heard TW has major issues with this and thus screwed me up completely.
To add to my list above I tried this method and also did not work. http://androidfannetwork.com/2013/05/02/fix-your-soft-bricked-att-samsung-galaxy-s4/
Sean, I flashed from Odin like 3 times, how can I install TWRP if I cant get the phone to load up (boot loop)- Ill read up on casual. Thanks.
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I know what I did, I was using Touchwiz and instead of doing a regular wipe I did a format and input "YES". I heard TW has major issues with this and thus screwed me up completely.
To add to my list above I tried this method and also did not work. http://androidfannetwork.com/2013/05/02/fix-your-soft-bricked-att-samsung-galaxy-s4/
Sean, I flashed from Odin like 3 times, how can I install TWRP if I cant get the phone to load up (boot loop)- Ill read up on casual. Thanks.
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Did you do a factory reset in the stock recovery after Odin? That'll usually get you past the boot loop.
Should I ODIN with the RE-Partition Option?
Just Odined again and no dice. I booted into stock recovery and noticed after wiping factory I get "Can't open /efs/log/boot_cause" which pointed me to this fix someone on the Galaxy note forum said they did and it worked but I dont understand the steps, need some elaboration.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=39523753&postcount=4
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Did you do a factory reset in the stock recovery after Odin? That'll usually get you past the boot loop.
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Yep did that mulitple times, also did wipe cache partition in the same stock recovery. I get to the Samsung logo where the blue halo spins around the name, then it freezes there and reboots.
Hmm, never had to mess with EFS stuff on our phones before.
Did you make a backup ever in TWRP by chance?
Sorry if you tried the stock recovery options there's not much more I'm familiar with.
The good news is since you were able to Odin and get 3e back, you are technically warrantied again and could work with AT&T to get a new phone since your phone just stopped working out of the blue one day
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Hmm, never had to mess with EFS stuff on our phones before.
Did you make a backup ever in TWRP by chance?
Sorry if you tried the stock recovery options there's not much more I'm familiar with.
The good news is since you were able to Odin and get 3e back, you are technically warrantied again and could work with AT&T to get a new phone since your phone just stopped working out of the blue one day
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LOL thanks, yes I may have to do that. I had a backup and it was wiped.
Anyone have any suggestions at all? I can't be the only one who has had this boot-loop / partition problem without a fix... or maybe I am lol.
doesntmatterx said:
Anyone have any suggestions at all? I can't be the only one who has had this boot-loop / partition problem without a fix... or maybe I am lol.
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Try flashing using cwm. It'll probably work fine. Then you can go back to twrp. That's worked on other devices. Seems one you flash it once with cwm then twrp works from that point forward. Idk why
doesntmatterx said:
Anyone have any suggestions at all? I can't be the only one who has had this boot-loop / partition problem without a fix... or maybe I am lol.
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Did your odin flashes include the pit files ? Have you tried flashing twrp or cwm with odin?
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Did your odin flashes include the pit files ? Have you tried flashing twrp or cwm with odin?
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I tried flashing with a PIT file I found online but it fails through ODIN everytime. I tried on multiple versions of ODIN as well. I also cant seem to find readily available PIT files to test as well, (perhaps the one I used does not work). Also I did try to flash a CWM through ODIN but failed, but again there isnt anything that I have read that says "hey you can do this that way and it will work".
From what I understand I need to be rooted to install CWM or TWRP, and since I unrooted to try and fix the problem I cannot root myself through conventional methods. Everything I found online requires the phone to completely start up. (to the menu screen etc)
What stock firmware are you flashing with odin? I get firmware from sammobile.com. since you had a custom recovery I'm guessing you where on mdl firmware to start with.
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What stock firmware are you flashing with odin? I get firmware from sammobile.com. since you had a custom recovery I'm guessing you where on mdl firmware to start with.
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I never flashed a custom recovery through Odin < I can try that though, where can I get one? Im assuming this firmware will have root with CWM or TWRP?
Ive only flashed using official Samsung firmware from sammobile.com I tried both that are available for SGH-I337 with the PIT file as well and no dice.
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I never flashed a custom recovery through Odin < I can try that though, where can I get one? Im assuming this firmware will have root with CWM or TWRP?
Ive only flashed using official Samsung firmware from sammobile.com I tried both that are available for SGH-I337 with the PIT file as well and no dice.
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Do you know what firmware you were on? Was it mdl or mf3?
phone: galaxy s4 i9505
country: australia
its on the Optus network.
i installed i9505-cwm-recovery-6.0.3.2-4 using ODIN 3.06
then tried to install pac_jfltexx-nightly-20131014
i installed CWM, all good, i tried to install PAC MAN ROM and i got an error, it didnt finish the install and now it wont go past the splash screen.
i was planning on reinstalling the original firmware but my phone doesnt recognize my sd card (i can boot in recovery mode)
i did the wipe data/cache, still nothing.
what can i do??
Please don't panic, you're phone isn't bricked. Do you have a backup of your stock Samsung rom? Odin the CWM recovery again and restore back the rom.
Take a look at the other thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2483148
windozeanti said:
Please don't panic, you're phone isn't bricked. Do you have a backup of your stock Samsung rom? Odin the CWM recovery again and restore back the rom.
Take a look at the other thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2483148
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thanks so much! this android thing is too complicated -.-
jdumont19 said:
thanks so much! this android thing is too complicated -.-
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That's the fun part
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Hi,
I'm having a problem with my boys Galaxy Y S5360, it's stuck in a boot loop i can still get into both revovery and upload modes and still have access to the sd card.
I tried reinstalling factory software but that just removed CWM 5 and i'm still stuck with the boot loop help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :crying:
When you post things like this in the development section don't expect any help.
Post in the right section.
Thread reported.
Get stock rom and reflash your phone with odin.
Edit: You can get the info on how to do it in the correct section.
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jammychap said:
Hi,
I'm having a problem with my boys Galaxy Y S5360, it's stuck in a boot loop i can still get into both revovery and upload modes and still have access to the sd card.
I tried reinstalling factory software but that just removed CWM 5 and i'm still stuck with the boot loop help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :crying:
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you can either format data in cwm or in stock recovery format data/reset
or if that doesnt sort the boot loop quickest way to solve it is just to flash stock rom via odin
Remember next time before you do anything like flashing a mod or trying out something different to always make a nandroid backup in cwm - this way if you get into a boot loop or want to revert what you have done you just have to restore your nandroid backup
anyway stock rom firmware is found on my thread below
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2568853
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When you post things like this in the development section don't expect any help.
Post in the right section.
Thread reported.
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Yep sorry, my mistake consider me told off
marcussmith2626 said:
you can either format data in cwm or in stock recovery format data/reset
or if that doesnt sort the boot loop quickest way to solve it is just to flash stock rom via odin
Remember next time before you do anything like flashing a mod or trying out something different to always make a nandroid backup in cwm - this way if you get into a boot loop or want to revert what you have done you just have to restore your nandroid backup
anyway stock rom firmware is found on my thread below
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2568853
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Hi ya mate,
I'm following your instructions but it's hanging on setup connection, i am using odin 3.07 in admin mode, not sure whats going on here, by the way there is no CWM installed at the mo it's reset to factory boot menu after trying someone elses method
jammychap said:
Hi ya mate,
I'm following your instructions but it's hanging on setup connection, i am using odin 3.07 in admin mode, not sure whats going on here, by the way there is no CWM installed at the mo it's reset to factory boot menu after trying someone elses method
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follow the instructions fully on my thread
you need to install the usb drivers
you need to put your phone into download mode (vol down home button power button)
cwm is not required and not used to flash stock rom via odin - you must be in download mode NOT recovery mode
marcussmith2626 said:
follow the instructions fully on my thread
you need to install the usb drivers
you need to put your phone into download mode (vol down home button power button)
cwm is not required and not used to flash stock rom via odin - you must be in download mode NOT recovery mode
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ok we got there in the end, i had 2 versions of odin in the same folder and it was locking it up some how, separated, rebooted windows and it worked thanks.
now back to the start, ive just rooted it again now need to add some recovery, what one would you guys recommend?
jammychap said:
ok we got there in the end, i had 2 versions of odin in the same folder and it was locking it up some how, separated, rebooted windows and it worked thanks.
now back to the start, ive just rooted it again now need to add some recovery, what one would you guys recommend?
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if on stock kernel use a tempory cwm zip in stock recovery to get to cwm (need to do it each time you want to enter cwm
http://d-h.st/u2m
or flash any kernel that has a perminant cwm - your choice dont ask me to suggest
Ok thanks, I've got a kernel installed and a rom, got a couple of issues but I'll take that to the correct thread now
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All sorted now, installed Hyperion 9 rom, got one happy lad
I tried booting into recovery via quickboot and now I"m in a boot loop. Battery pull just starts the process again -- phone trying to go into recovery but does so unsuccessfully.
I guess i have to odin back to stock and start over. argh just restored everything perfectly, xposed and everything.
samklee said:
I tried booting into recovery via quickboot and now I"m in a boot loop. Battery pull just starts the process again -- phone trying to go into recovery but does so unsuccessfully.
I guess i have to odin back to stock and start over. argh just restored everything perfectly, xposed and everything.
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Same happened to me, but flashing stock firmware using odin kept everything intact. Didn't have to start over again. But I did have to flash root again.
Yeah I just downloaded the new Firmware to Odin and tried to boot into recovery using the button method to wipe data before Odining - didn't work. Booted back did a factory reset via the menu options and the phone tried to reboot into recovery, the phone restarted and just flashed the android icon but wouldn't boot into recovery to wipe data.
Just now I flashed the new Firmware via Odin and it of course dirty flashed. Once the phone was completely booted up. I shut it down properly. Then booted into recovery using the button method and that worked. Wiped all and starting fresh.
What were you all doing when this happen? all rooted i presume? so are you saying if you are rooted you can't go into recovery without going through bootloops? someone please clarify
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Yeah I just downloaded the new Firmware to Odin and tried to boot into recovery using the button method to wipe data before Odining - didn't work. Booted back did a factory reset via the menu options and the phone tried to reboot into recovery, the phone restarted and just flashed the android icon but wouldn't boot into recovery to wipe data.
Just now I flashed the new Firmware via Odin and it of course dirty flashed. Once the phone was completely booted up. I shut it down properly. Then booted into recovery using the button method and that worked. Wiped all and starting fresh.
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I don't know what to say, my phone was rooted so I had to I odin flash cf-autoroot
again to regain root after odin flashing the new firmware from Sammobile.com
but I had no issues or problems going into recovery, bootlooping or getting stuck
when trying to reboot or boot into recovery.
For me it was the same old same old, odin flash new firmware, odin flash cf-autoroot
to gain root access, check everything out including reboot to recovery & reboot into
download mode... No different than what I always did using the Note 3 phone.
Good luck!
This is what happens after I rooted (mind you I forgot to check prior to root if booting to recovery works. and tried to boot into stock recovery - watch video:
Pulled batter, reinstalled and phone starts up just fine though, no bootloop
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yy149do5f0b5ggc/Note 4 Recovery Issue.mp4?dl=0
mgbotoe said:
What were you all doing when this happen? all rooted i presume? so are you saying if you are rooted you can't go into recovery without going through bootloops? someone please clarify
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They trying to find a magical recovery when none exist.
NOTE 4
BACARDILIMON said:
They trying to find a magical recovery when none exist.
NOTE 4
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Well there is stock recovery
mgbotoe said:
Well there is stock recovery
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Yeah but they looking for cwm or twrp features
NOTE 4
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BACARDILIMON said:
Yeah but they looking for cwm or twrp features
NOTE 4
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There has been a lot of chat going on today in the twrp irc channel
about custom recovery for the Note 4 N910T and they are getting
closer to finding a solution..
In fact it looks like bigbiff, koush and philz are having a race to see
who develops a N910T custom recovery first. LOL
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There has been a lot of chat going on today in the twrp irc channel
about custom recovery for the Note 4 N910T and they are getting
closer to finding a solution..
In fact it looks like bigbiff, koush and philz are having a race to see
who develops a N910T custom recovery first. LOL
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Last I read philz gave up on doing cwm. I hope he had a change of heart. I dunno koush.
NOTE 4
Yep don't go onto recovery or u will bootloop
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raw2000j said:
Yep don't go onto recovery or u will bootloop
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What's all this about not going into recovery because of bootloops?
I never seen any such thing, the original firmware with or without
root the phone never bootlooped when I went into recovery.
The same holds true for the new updated firmware, it never goes
into bootloops either when I go into recovery rooted or not.
In fact I never yet seen my note 4 going into any bootloops for any reason.
Hmmm.. I must be doing something wrong! LOL
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What were you all doing when this happen? all rooted i presume? so are you saying if you are rooted you can't go into recovery without going through bootloops? someone please clarify
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In my case, I was just being experimental and wanted to see what happens if I delete every file that had to do with Knox. It ended up boot looping. I guess cause it couldn't find Knox when booting
Are you guys that are getting bootloops when going into recovery using the 4 way mod in wanam. If so, then i recommend not trying to access it thru 4 way reboot. Do it the old fashion way till wanam fixes the files need to do that. I know that if you try thru 4 way you get bootloop so you will have to odin back and start over. This time dont use 4 way reboot. Iam sure someone will come out with a fix.
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What's all this about not going into recovery because of bootloops?
I never seen any such thing, the original firmware with or without
root the phone never bootlooped when I went into recovery.
The same holds true for the new updated firmware, it never goes
into bootloops either when I go into recovery rooted or not.
In fact I never yet seen my note 4 going into any bootloops for any reason.
Hmmm.. I must be doing something wrong! LOL
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Must be cause I wanted to go to stock recovery and hit recovery on quick boot I didnt shut it down to press buttons guess trying to go to recovery that way messed it up
Power down phone. Volume up + Home + Power will get you into stock recovery on a rooted Note 4. Just did it no problem.
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They trying to find a magical recovery when none exist.
NOTE 4
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Lmao...
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i really need help as ive searched around and have had no luck. my phone wont hold stock tar flash and i cant boot into android or recovery, i believe i need to wipe data but without recovery i dont know what else to do. have tried flashing several custom recoveries. no luck. stuck with a blue "booting into recovery" message and hangs up. any help would be appreciated. thanks
Download the new TWRP and flash
fearthemarchx said:
i really need help as ive searched around and have had no luck. my phone wont hold stock tar flash and i cant boot into android or recovery, i believe i need to wipe data but without recovery i dont know what else to do. have tried flashing several custom recoveries. no luck. stuck with a blue "booting into recovery" message and hangs up. any help would be appreciated. thanks
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Download the new TWRP recovery and flash using Odin 3.x in the PDA tab.
You can google new TWRP rec links
M星空 said:
Download the new TWRP recovery and flash using Odin 3.x in the PDA tab.
You can google new TWRP rec links
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i tried that no luck. only recovery to stick and boot its philz. so at this point, ive tried odin mja,mk2, and nae. and recovery flash them as well. no luck. maybe bad downloads?
sorry
fearthemarchx said:
i tried that no luck. only recovery to stick and boot its philz. so at this point, ive tried odin mja,mk2, and nae. and recovery flash them as well. no luck. maybe bad downloads?
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Sorry,I don`t have better idear.