Problems installing twrp - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin

Goo manager was giving me an invalid md5 sum. It finally installed okay but when I reboot into recovery I get a failed boot and it goes to Odin mode. How can I fix this? I am rooted and I think I have an updated gs4
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douggiephresh said:
Goo manager was giving me an invalid md5 sum. It finally installed okay but when I reboot into recovery I get a failed boot and it goes to Odin mode. How can I fix this? I am rooted and I think I have an updated gs4
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I am guessing there is still no hack for MF3? Do you know if you were on MF3? If you were on MF3 then you are putting yourself in disaster. When you go to download mode and cancel it will it reboot into the ROM?
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douggiephresh said:
Goo manager was giving me an invalid md5 sum. It finally installed okay but when I reboot into recovery I get a failed boot and it goes to Odin mode. How can I fix this? I am rooted and I think I have an updated gs4
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This thread is filled with people with your issues and were able to resolve it by going to Best Buy to get it flashed to stock mf3. Read this thread to get some better idea:
Solution. ATT Galaxy S4 I-337 MF3 Recovery Solution.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2435043

It's not really a disaster. When I try to go to recovery, it puts me in Odin. I turn off the phone and boot to download mode, hit cancel then the phone reboots normally.
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douggiephresh said:
It's not really a disaster. When I try to go to recovery, it puts me in Odin. I turn off the phone and boot to download mode, hit cancel then the phone reboots normally.
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Are you on MF3? You need to search for other situations to see if anyone found a flashable recovery. I don't hang around too often and from what I have saw is your recovery remains broken. If you are on AMDL you should be able to flash it back but if not then you are stuck how the phone is ATM unless you can find an Odin flashable recovery for MF3.
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Is my phone bricked?

Earlier today I was trying to install the 4.3 Slim Bean Build.1. I was coming from the latest 4.2 Slim Bean ROM. So I did the usual process of wiping everything then installing the ROM and then the GApps. When I rebooted the system from recovery, my phone was just stuck on the Samsung Galaxy S4 loading screen. Now I cannot even boot into recovery, as every time I try to, it will show that the phone is attempting to boot into recovery and then it will just reset. I had TWRP touch recovery installed and everything was working fine until I tried installing this ROM. Are there any suggestions of what I can do/should do? Thanks in advance for any help.
Can you get in download mode(power+vol. Down) if so use odin to flash back to stock.
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Yes I can. Is there a guide on how to Odin back to stock? Also, will I lose my root if I do that? Thank you
klgd said:
Can you get in download mode(power+vol. Down) if so use odin to flash back to stock.
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Yes I can. Is there a guide on how to Odin back to stock? Also, will I lose my root if I do that? Thank you
On my way to work so cant spend any time helping, but there are sevral guides and you will lose root.
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Might just b able to Odin recovery...
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Download Odin and the latest firmware for your device,extract firmware zip file,it will extract in tar.md5 file.now extract Odin and run the Odin application and connect the device while it is in download mode. click on PDA and load the firmware extracted file. Don't touch anything other than that click on start and leave for some time to complete.
Samsung lies should be installed before the process start.
Download firmware file from sammobile.com.
Your device will be automatically unrooted.
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youngnick09 said:
Yes I can. Is there a guide on how to Odin back to stock? Also, will I lose my root if I do that? Thank you
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yes you will have to start all over. here is a video on how to use odin on the s4. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CDMQtw IwAQ&url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZTTTk7vbVM&ei=3t05UtijLdTc4APV-YDQBw&u sg=AFQjCNGIjlBz9Xgj57ytF2NCGYchd7V1Xg&sig2=hhLZZzmRyDFyxETPrzCmfw&bvm=bv.522881 39,d.dmg make sure you get a stock .tar file found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2338919. make sure you watch the video before you do anything. also this thread belongs in Q&A.
thank you guys
I have run into a similar issue and was able to get into recovery by pulling the battery for about 5 minutes then using the hardware keys to boot into recovery.
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S4 won't start, can get into download mode

Okay, this phone has been running Goldenyeye for a few weeks now. No hiccups at all. I gave it to me girlfriend and she has it for about 2 weeks and now it won't boot and I cannot get into recovery. She says it gave her an error message saying "unfortunately (unknown) .com has stopped working" and the phone shut off.
I can get into download mode but no recovery. I'm not sure what firmware it is on. It was on MDL before I flashed Goldeneye though.
Any push in the right direction will receive thanks.
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You're probably still on mdl. Odin the stock firmware
If I am somehow mistaken and it is not on MDL can I make it worse by using the MDL firmware in Odin? Or will I just end up where I am now?
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XjMaxim said:
If I am somehow mistaken and it is not on MDL can I make it worse by using the MDL firmware in Odin? Or will I just end up where I am now?
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It won't make it worse, it'll just not work.
Do you have twrp or cwm? If you do you're on mdl
jd1639 said:
It won't make it worse, it'll just not work.
Do you have twrp or cwm? If you do you're on mdl
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I have CWM. Every time I try to get into recovery it shuts off after reaching the first splash screen.
XjMaxim said:
I have CWM. Every time I try to get into recovery it shuts off after reaching the first splash screen.
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Can you get into download mode?
jd1639 said:
Can you get into download mode?
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Yes I can get into download mode just not recovery for some reason.
XjMaxim said:
Yes I can get into download mode just not recovery for some reason.
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Then download the stock firmware from sammobile.com. You'll have to register but it's free. You'll download a zip. Use 7-zip to extract the .tar.md5 file. Also download Odin 1.85. You'll use the .tar.md5 file in Odin, PDA slot.

Error or Installing TWRF recovery

I have just rooted my GN2, I had a problem while rooting it as it was getting stuck on odin written as stuck? tried other methods also but still the same, somehow i rooted my device.
Now i want to instal TWRF recovery on my device, but when i try it through odin after the recovery finishes , the section where pass should come its written as RESET. So please help me to install TWRF As The DN3 Rom need twrf recovery
. Thanks in advance
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TWRP* Recovery
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Guyz done, of anyone else facing this problem then uncheck the auto-reboot option
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amit.dhatrak95 said:
Guyz done, of anyone else facing this problem then uncheck the auto-reboot option
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I didn't understand if you are facing issue with rooting your phone or installing custom recovery?And which android version is installed on your phone and which method did you follow to root your phone?
I was running 4.4, and while doing both root and recovery i was facing issue in odin, it used to get stuck at reset. But now i uncheckd the auto-reboot option and now its working
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But i didnt understand 1 thng, that when I unchecked auto-reboot option although it installed the TWRP recovery, but still PASS didnt come there, it was still stuck on reset.. What is the problem here, as i may also face it in future when updating TWRP
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amit.dhatrak95 said:
But i didnt understand 1 thng, that when I unchecked auto-reboot option although it installed the TWRP recovery, but still PASS didnt come there, it was still stuck on reset.. What is the problem here, as i may also face it in future when updating TWRP
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If you have sucessfully flash twrp you don't need to use odin again to flash another recovery you can do it by flashing it from the same recovery.You'd only need ODIN when you cant access your recovery and need to enter download mode to flash recovery.I hope you are using img.tar file to flash twrp via odin and not .zip
amit.dhatrak95 said:
I have just rooted my GN2, I had a problem while rooting it as it was getting stuck on odin written as stuck? tried other methods also but still the same, somehow i rooted my device.
Now i want to instal TWRF recovery on my device, but when i try it through odin after the recovery finishes , the section where pass should come its written as RESET. So please help me to install TWRF As The DN3 Rom need twrf recovery
. Thanks in advance
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In odin ... Make sure Repartition is NOT checked
- Click the Start button
- Wait for Android to boot
And which android version u r using?

recovery problem dead android & red triangle

i think i have a problem in my recovery
android laying down with a red triangle
the suspected cause was a failed update to kit kat.
currently the phone boots and runs fine. i still have access to dl-mode and recovery, however while in recovery i cannot wipe cache, it fails.
i want to re-flash my recovery.
currently i have stock rooted mf9 rom and recovery. i checked rwilco repsository and downloaded the stock nodata rom and the mdb and mdc recoveries. i didnt see a recovery listed as mf9
the mf9 rom seems to be an odin one click. but before i use it i was just trying to get the recovery alone and flash it with heimdall ( using linux mint 13) i have a vista box but it got a virus so no go either.
got windows 8.1 but meh...
I think the stock recovery is supposed to be like that. Im completely stock unrooted on NAE and my recovery does the same thing. Idk about the wiping cache part tho.. lol Also if your rooted why dont you just install philz recovery?
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Didnt want any yellow triangles so I stuck with the stock recovery and rom
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LegionCmndr said:
Didnt want any yellow triangles so I stuck with the stock recovery and rom
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There haven't been yellow triangles since the epic touch. There are warnings on upper left screen on boot but only pop up on when running non-stock kernel.
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Lol my last phone was an epic touch
I skipped the gs3
Got, phillz thanks, all is well now
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stuck at dowloading

I rooted samsung s4 at&t all went well, installed Rashr( read somewhere using rashr to install twrp) so I using rashr to install twrp.. now the phone stuck at downloading do not turn off target, I try to boot into recovery get same result, removed battery reboot same problem.... any help?
tonynguyenn said:
I rooted samsung s4 at&t all went well, installed Rashr( read somewhere using rashr to install twrp) so I using rashr to install twrp.. now the phone stuck at downloading do not turn off target, I try to boot into recovery get same result, removed battery reboot same problem.... any help?
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What firmware / bootloader are you on?. I'm guessing it's not mdb or mdl. Twrp is not going to work on your device. Can you get into download mode? You're most likely going to have to flash the firmware in Odin, but I don't know what version you're currently on.
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jd1639 said:
What firmware / bootloader are you on?. I'm guessing it's not mdb or mdl. Twrp is not going to work on your device. Can you get into download mode? You're most likely going to have to flash the firmware in Odin, but I don't know what version you're currently on.
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Phone version 4.4.4, security version MDF v1.0 if that what you were asking not sure what mdb or mdl mean sorry... I got the phone to boot normal by boot in download mode and hit cancel...
tonynguyenn said:
Phone version 4.4.4, security version MDF v1.0 if that what you were asking not sure what mdb or mdl mean sorry... I got the phone to boot normal by boot in download mode and hit cancel...
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4.4.4 is the nj4 bootloader. Twrp will not work on your device. The bootloader is locked. Safestrap is the only custom recovery you can use and you can only flash touch wiz based roms. See this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=56453100
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jd1639 said:
4.4.4 is the nj4 bootloader. Twrp will not work on your device. The bootloader is locked. Safestrap is the only custom recovery you can use and you can only flash touch wiz based roms. See this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=56453100
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Thanks for your help
If u get stuck at the. downloading screen and can't boot just remove battery then put back in and boot back I to download mode. Volume down power home... Then push down for cancel and you'll be back to normal
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