I don't even know where I should begin.
Ever since my first android (s3) i wanted to install CM on it, tried a few times but failed.
Now I'm a gt i9505 owner ( i sure do think that is my model, it says so in phone info atleast ).
Been rooting in numberous of times, been flashing cwm numberous of times, been trying to install different versions of CM to it.
No sucess at all, just failing all the time and I have to factory reset my phone.
So this is more like a two part question.
How in the hell do i get my phone to run CM?
And next thing. I had to stock install it via odin many times too. got everything back the first few times but the two last time I install stockrom, i get no google apps at all.
Tried to download a google play apk, two different version , still no sucess..
Is there anyone here that can help me ?
Much appreciated.
Download XXUBMH1 and follow this guide to install official stock ROM, after that install PhilZ Touch recovery and then follow this guide to install CM 10.2
Thank you very much, I should try that then
Sent from my GT-I9505 using xda app-developers app
Crauze said:
Download XXUBMH1 and follow this guide to install official stock ROM, after that install PhilZ Touch recovery and then follow this guide to install CM 10.2
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Thank you mate, worked nice except when i booted phone it wouldnt start again and couldn't mount sim card, so no data,sms or calls , rest worked really nice
Had to go stock for now since im off to work soon and can't fix that from there, do you know how I can fix so i can use data and my sim card ?
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This is my first TouchWiz device, a GS4 on Sprint. I've tried to install several custom ROMs and I keep getting errors that seem like GApps won't launch or isn't launching correctly. I've tried the FreeGS4 ROM and the ForceROM with the same effect. I am not allowed yet to post in either ROM's thread and neither seem to mention a specific GApps download. I have been using the Gapps that GooManager downloaded automatically as I have not found another.
Any tips would be appreciated. More information available upon request as I'm not sure exactly what is necessary.
:: Tyler
SalomonCascade said:
This is my first TouchWiz device, a GS4 on Sprint. I've tried to install several custom ROMs and I keep getting errors that seem like GApps won't launch or isn't launching correctly. I've tried the FreeGS4 ROM and the ForceROM with the same effect. I am not allowed yet to post in either ROM's thread and neither seem to mention a specific GApps download. I have been using the Gapps that GooManager downloaded automatically as I have not found another.
Any tips would be appreciated. More information available upon request as I'm not sure exactly what is necessary.
:: Tyler
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Make sure and back up your current rom through recovery first then do a wipe of system and data partitions. Install new rom wipe cache and dalvik cache, fix permissions then reboot
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stigrip and
Okay, I'm really new to TWRP. It's completely different from CWM or the process is. I'm having a lot of trouble. Please give me as straight forward of steps as possible.
All I need is to install a ROM and GApps. Mostly, I want to know if GApps is included in the ROMs I specified: FreeGS4 or ForceRom2.1.
If anyone would rather suggest a ROM that they prefer and the GApps to go with it, I would try that too.
If I can't get this to work soon I will try the UnRoot method to see if I can get this phone working.
:: Tyler
SalomonCascade said:
Okay, I'm really new to TWRP. It's completely different from CWM or the process is. I'm having a lot of trouble. Please give me as straight forward of steps as possible.
All I need is to install a ROM and GApps. Mostly, I want to know if GApps is included in the ROMs I specified: FreeGS4 or ForceRom2.1.
If anyone would rather suggest a ROM that they prefer and the GApps to go with it, I would try that too.
If I can't get this to work soon I will try the UnRoot method to see if I can get this phone working.
:: Tyler
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You don't flash Gapps with any touchwiz rom. So any rom you find in the Android Development forum be sure to NOT flash Gapps.
And other than a few minor differences TWRP and CWM accomplish the same basic thing, instructions from what to do in recovery will be same in either recovery unless specified.
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Alright. That could have been my issue. Somehow my bootloader was corrupted too, so could only get into Download mode. Trying to format back to MDC right now, then will see if I can root and install TWRP again.
This is a lesson for everyone: Don't drink and mod.
One last question: Using ODIN to flash back to MDC, can anyone estimate the time it might take to reboot? I believe I waited around 20 minutes last night and the boot never finished. Not sure what to do at this point.
yea thats deff your problem bro.. u cant flash gapps on a touch wiz rom.. gapps is only for an aosp rom
SalomonCascade said:
Okay, I'm really new to TWRP. It's completely different from CWM or the process is. I'm having a lot of trouble. Please give me as straight forward of steps as possible.
All I need is to install a ROM and GApps. Mostly, I want to know if GApps is included in the ROMs I specified: FreeGS4 or ForceRom2.1.
If anyone would rather suggest a ROM that they prefer and the GApps to go with it, I would try that too.
If I can't get this to work soon I will try the UnRoot method to see if I can get this phone working.
:: Tyler
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You need to flash forcerom 2.0 then the update 2.1 btw
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Hi all =)
Since I got my GT-i9505 I've been experimenting with different Roms. Of course, this can't be done without a good recovery.
When I started, I used i9505 TWRP 2.6.0.0 and was really happy with it. But after flashing a few Roms, I had more and more errors/bugs and decided to try another recovery.
I'm now using CWM based recovery 6.0.3.2 for i9505 and it works nicely. But when I tried to flash CM 10.2 i had a "Status 7" error and my device suddenly rebooted and now I am concerned that it might happen again.
So now I'm wondering, which is the most reliable recovery for our GT-i9505? And what is the difference between the CWM based Recovery and the one from http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager ? The "original" recovery seems to be more up to date, but can I use my backups with it, too?
Chelonee said:
Hi all =)
Since I got my GT-i9505 I've been experimenting with different Roms. Of course, this can't be done without a good recovery.
When I started, I used i9505 TWRP 2.6.0.0 and was really happy with it. But after flashing a few Roms, I had more and more errors/bugs and decided to try another recovery.
I'm now using CWM based recovery 6.0.3.2 for i9505 and it works nicely. But when I tried to flash CM 10.2 i had a "Status 7" error and my device suddenly rebooted and now I am concerned that it might happen again.
So now I'm wondering, which is the most reliable recovery for our GT-i9505? And what is the difference between the CWM based Recovery and the one from http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager ? The "original" recovery seems to be more up to date, but can I use my backups with it, too?
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Hi,
None of the recoveries are 100% yet.
Look HERE
I use PhilZ.
Most of the time it works.
Some ROMS will give me error status 7.
Just wipe clean and flash again.
Sometimes , it has taken 3 goes to get a ROM to load.
malybru said:
Hi,
None of the recoveries are 100% yet.
Look HERE
I use PhilZ.
Most of the time it works.
Some ROMS will give me error status 7.
Just wipe clean and flash again.
Sometimes , it has taken 3 goes to get a ROM to load.
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Hi there =)
Okay, good to know. I was just wondering if there is something like the best recovery since all seem to have their little bugs and errors.
And since I soft bricked my device last week, I just want to be super careful now.
Chelonee said:
Hi there =)
Okay, good to know. I was just wondering if there is something like the best recovery since all seem to have their little bugs and errors.
And since I soft bricked my device last week, I just want to be super careful now.
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Hi,
There is no "Best".
Otherwise everyone would be using it.
You will not brick your phone installing any of these recoveries.
Normally I take for granted that the answer is out there in a forum or some tech blog. I've looked everywhere and unfortunately every guide I followed or Google combination I've tried didn't help.
Just can't get any custom rom to install and boot up, they all hang at the Samsung logo with text in the upper right corner telling me the kernel isn't senforcing.
I have a sgh i337m, it's an mk6 build number if that helps. Currently on stock 4.3 and rooted using saferoot. My carrier is telus and the phone is Sim locked still (is that the issue?)
I have twrp 2.6.1 installed and have flashed multiple roms for the jfltecan which I trust is the right model I need based on goo.manager
I've tried cm11, cm10, gummyrom for 4.4.2, omnirom also for 4.4.2 and they all hang at the splash screen. My method for flash is based on the ultimate guide that is stickied which is to wipe system, data and both the caches. Then flash the zip and the gaaps. I even tried the lokidoki zip in other combinations
Then I tried using cwmod recovery thinking perhaps it is twrp's fault and got the same hanging at the splash screen
I'm now just back to rooted stock 4.3 after restoring my nandroid
Any insights out there that can be deciphered from my rambling would be very much appreciated!!! Frustrated as hell. My nexus 7 was such a breeze and did not expect this to happen on my s4.
wondakson said:
Normally I take for granted that the answer is out there in a forum or some tech blog. I've looked everywhere and unfortunately every guide I followed or Google combination I've tried didn't help.
Just can't get any custom rom to install and boot up, they all hang at the Samsung logo with text in the upper right corner telling me the kernel isn't senforcing.
I have a sgh i337m, it's an mk6 build number if that helps. Currently on stock 4.3 and rooted using saferoot. My carrier is telus and the phone is Sim locked still (is that the issue?)
I have twrp 2.6.1 installed and have flashed multiple roms for the jfltecan which I trust is the right model I need based on goo.manager
I've tried cm11, cm10, gummyrom for 4.4.2, omnirom also for 4.4.2 and they all hang at the splash screen. My method for flash is based on the ultimate guide that is stickied which is to wipe system, data and both the caches. Then flash the zip and the gaaps. I even tried the lokidoki zip in other combinations
Then I tried using cwmod recovery thinking perhaps it is twrp's fault and got the same hanging at the splash screen
I'm now just back to rooted stock 4.3 after restoring my nandroid
Any insights out there that can be deciphered from my rambling would be very much appreciated!!! Frustrated as hell. My nexus 7 was such a breeze and did not expect this to happen on my s4.
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I too have been plagued by this same issue,
but only on a blue moon so to speak, I kept rebooting
and eventually my phone booted through that silly splash screen!
wondakson said:
Normally I take for granted that the answer is out there in a forum or some tech blog. I've looked everywhere and unfortunately every guide I followed or Google combination I've tried didn't help.
Just can't get any custom rom to install and boot up, they all hang at the Samsung logo with text in the upper right corner telling me the kernel isn't senforcing.
I have a sgh i337m, it's an mk6 build number if that helps. Currently on stock 4.3 and rooted using saferoot. My carrier is telus and the phone is Sim locked still (is that the issue?)
I have twrp 2.6.1 installed and have flashed multiple roms for the jfltecan which I trust is the right model I need based on goo.manager
I've tried cm11, cm10, gummyrom for 4.4.2, omnirom also for 4.4.2 and they all hang at the splash screen. My method for flash is based on the ultimate guide that is stickied which is to wipe system, data and both the caches. Then flash the zip and the gaaps. I even tried the lokidoki zip in other combinations
Then I tried using cwmod recovery thinking perhaps it is twrp's fault and got the same hanging at the splash screen
I'm now just back to rooted stock 4.3 after restoring my nandroid
Any insights out there that can be deciphered from my rambling would be very much appreciated!!! Frustrated as hell. My nexus 7 was such a breeze and did not expect this to happen on my s4.
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First off I am hoping you are flashing from recovery and not trying something through goo manager. Second, it sounds as though you are skipping the wiping step before installing a new rom, you absolutly have to wipe cache/dalvik/ and factory reset all before flashing any rom.... also I wipe the system too to make it a clean install, make sure you put the rom of choice on the external sd and make sure you have a nanroid backup with your installed recovery twrp or cwm.....
PS lokidokie and saftey starp only apply to US versions (I337) not the Canadian I337M use only the roms build of this model.... I haven't had very good luck with cm based roms in the past so I tend not to flash those... I flashed one rom and the phone got super hot ... not sure what the issue was ... nand back to stock starter over with a differnet rom
Adizzzle said:
I too have been plagued by this same issue,
but only on a blue moon so to speak, I kept rebooting
and eventually my phone booted through that silly splash screen!
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How long did you wait at the splash screen before booting again and again? After a new installation does the phone take extra time at the splash screen or is it at a different screen?
wondakson said:
How long did you wait at the splash screen before booting again and again? After a new installation does the phone take extra time at the splash screen or is it at a different screen?
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Please... you need to provide some more info for people to help you..... rom you tried to install and the steps.. not tryin to be mean just hard to help without details....
Ahh I know the problem if your flashing all of them from the att section. It could be that all of those roms you tried have loki built into the kernel and is stopping you from booting. Are u choosing ones that say they are specifically for the Canadian model or the ones for att?
I would also suggest booting once first before flashing gapps. I am using this Carbon rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2568699 and it's universal, for US or CA models. I highly recommend it.
Hi guys!
Yesterday, i used towelroot to root my phone, and installed Safestrap with TWRP as my recovery.
I booted my phone after everything was done, and it worked fine. This is where i screw up... I installed Softkeyz (I thought it might work for the Note 3, but...)
After i installed Softkeyz, and rebooted the phone, my status bar was gone, the background was blue and my task manager didnt work. I went back into the softkeyz app and clicked the "backup" button, wich is said to revert everything back to normal. It didnt.
When i booted my phone after the backup, I still had the same problem.
I then did a Titanium Backup, and went into recovery to factory-reset. it seemed to work, but when my phone boots, I get to the languane selection screen, and then this pops up: "KeyguardTestActivity has stopped". If I click 'OK', the same message pops up and im unable to click "next" or select a language.
I went back into recovey, wiped dalvik, wiped cache, I event formated /data in case there was any virus or anything I had downloaded, did a factory reset, and it stil doesnt work....
I had a ROM on my phone, but it used AROMA so that doesnt work with Safetrap... Now my memory is clean, my phone wont boot, and I cant move any files to the SD-card through regular MTP. I guess I have to use ADB (safetrap can sideload ADB) but I have no idea how to use that, and I have no idea what ROM to use, to get my phone up and running.
I use my phone for work and for studies, and the only reason I wanted to root was for AD-blocker and better batterylife...Now I've messed up..
I've tried searching google and the forums, but cant seem to find any fix. Can anyone out there help me? Please?
EDIT: If i boot the phone WITHOUT the simcard, the error message is gone, but if the screen locks, then in wont unlock. Taskmanager still doesnt work. I managed to get to phone running though, but without taskamanager and a working lock-button.... any help?
EDIT2: after rebooting without the simcard, the same error shows...
ipwngeek said:
Hi guys!
Yesterday, i used towelroot to root my phone, and installed Safestrap with TWRP as my recovery.
I booted my phone after everything was done, and it worked fine. This is where i screw up... I installed Softkeyz (I thought it might work for the Note 3, but...)
After i installed Softkeyz, and rebooted the phone, my status bar was gone, the background was blue and my task manager didnt work. I went back into the softkeyz app and clicked the "backup" button, wich is said to revert everything back to normal. It didnt.
When i booted my phone after the backup, I still had the same problem.
I then did a Titanium Backup, and went into recovery to factory-reset. it seemed to work, but when my phone boots, I get to the languane selection screen, and then this pops up: "KeyguardTestActivity has stopped". If I click 'OK', the same message pops up and im unable to click "next" or select a language.
I went back into recovey, wiped dalvik, wiped cache, I event formated /data in case there was any virus or anything I had downloaded, did a factory reset, and it stil doesnt work....
I had a ROM on my phone, but it used AROMA so that doesnt work with Safetrap... Now my memory is clean, my phone wont boot, and I cant move any files to the SD-card through regular MTP. I guess I have to use ADB (safetrap can sideload ADB) but I have no idea how to use that, and I have no idea what ROM to use, to get my phone up and running.
I use my phone for work and for studies, and the only reason I wanted to root was for AD-blocker and better batterylife...Now I've messed up..
I've tried searching google and the forums, but cant seem to find any fix. Can anyone out there help me? Please?
EDIT: If i boot the phone WITHOUT the simcard, the error message is gone, but if the screen locks, then in wont unlock. Taskmanager still doesnt work. I managed to get to phone running though, but without taskamanager and a working lock-button.... any help?
EDIT2: after rebooting without the simcard, the same error shows...
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Hello again ok so I don't know a great deal about the note 3 or safestrap. But you have a few options here.
if I'm not mistaken the note 3 takes an external SDcard? can you not copy a compatible Rom using a card reader and install from recovery?
I also believe Fastboot works with note3 but not sure how. you could use this to flash a recovery that will work with the Rom on the phone.
or as drastic measure you could adb pull your data and flash it with Odin. flashing with Odin will wipe everything and return you note3 to out of the box condition.
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Danny201281 said:
Hello again ok so I don't know a great deal about the note 3 or safestrap. But you have a few options here.
if I'm not mistaken the note 3 takes an external SDcard? can you not copy a compatible Rom using a card reader and install from recovery?
I also believe Fastboot works with note3 but not sure how. you could use this to flash a recovery that will work with the Rom on the phone.
or as drastic measure you could adb pull your data and flash it with Odin. flashing with Odin will wipe everything and return you note3 to out of the box condition.
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Hey man!
I'm so embarassed I didn't think of the SD card... Now my only problem is that I cant seem to find a ROM that will work... I tried the heisenberg one, but it says "failed" when trying to flash it...
EDIT2: It seems as its my lockscreen that is broken. would that be assosiated with the Kernal? I got a ROM, and it worked, but the same error still occurs..I'm thinking that the Softkeyz-app messed with my kernel, and now killed the phoes lockscreen/kernal. Need a new kernel I guess... but thats messing with something I've never done... any stock kernel?
Danny201281 said:
Hello again ok so I don't know a great deal about the note 3 or safestrap. But you have a few options here.
if I'm not mistaken the note 3 takes an external SDcard? can you not copy a compatible Rom using a card reader and install from recovery?
I also believe Fastboot works with note3 but not sure how. you could use this to flash a recovery that will work with the Rom on the phone.
or as drastic measure you could adb pull your data and flash it with Odin. flashing with Odin will wipe everything and return you note3 to out of the box condition.
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Greeeat... I tried flashing the Pacman rom, everything seemed ok, but now i can only boot into the safestrap recovery, and when trying to boot into the system, both with pacman and after trying to wipe everything, it just goes into a black screen...
ipwngeek said:
Greeeat... I tried flashing the Pacman rom, everything seemed ok, but now i can only boot into the safestrap recovery, and when trying to boot into the system, both with pacman and after trying to wipe everything, it just goes into a black screen...
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sorry dude don't know what to suggest, I don't know safestrap, is it necessary to use or can you use a normal recovery? Safestrap seems very different compared with a normal recovery as it bypasses locked bootloaders and allows for multibooting roms. Are you sure you set it up correctly? Did you make a recovery backup before you started flashing anything?
personally best answer I can give you right now is flash an ruu with Odin to get your phone working, then try rooting again after you've researched it a bit.
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The link below has a list of stock firmware. Find the correct one for your phone model and download it. At the bottom of the page there is also a link to download Odin and the phone drivers if you need them. As long as you can boot to download mode you can unbrick from pritty much anything with this.
http://www.androidrootz.com/p/galaxy-note-3-stock-firmwares.html?m=1
You can also use Odin to root and install CWM recovery. There's a guide in the link below for this
http://wccftech.com/how-to-root-and-install-cwm-on-galaxy-note-3-sm-900/
Good luck man
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Danny201281 said:
sorry dude don't know what to suggest, I don't know safestrap, is it necessary to use or can you use a normal recovery? Safestrap seems very different compared with a normal recovery as it bypasses locked bootloaders and allows for multibooting roms. Are you sure you set it up correctly? Did you make a recovery backup before you started flashing anything?
personally best answer I can give you right now is flash an ruu with Odin to get your phone working, then try rooting again after you've researched it a bit.
Sent from my HTC One M7 ARHD 71.1 using TapaTalk
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The link below has a list of stock firmware. Find the correct one for your phone model and download it. At the bottom of the page there is also a link to download Odin and the phone drivers if you need them. As long as you can boot to download mode you can unbrick from pritty much anything with this.
http://www.androidrootz.com/p/galaxy-note-3-stock-firmwares.html?m=1
You can also use Odin to root and install CWM recovery. There's a guide in the link below for this
http://wccftech.com/how-to-root-and-install-cwm-on-galaxy-note-3-sm-900/
Good luck man
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I'm working on a Odin now... lets hope it works... ghaa...
ipwngeek said:
I'm working on a Odin now... lets hope it works... ghaa...
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As long as you have correct firmware should be fine, wrong firmware won't flash though so don't panick about that
also make sure you run Odin as administrator and use default options don't tick any boxes manually
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I'm working on a Odin now... lets hope it works... ghaa...
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and the verdict?
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Danny201281 said:
and the verdict?
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I'm the worst guy ever,... totally forgot to answer (to be honest, I thought I replied, but my phone didnt actually send the message!)
It worked well! I now just got a LG G3 though, so yaay!
So I'm pretty desperate and I apologize if similar info was posted somewhere else. I've been researching several hours but couldn't find anything.
I originally installed CM11 and decided to experiment with a different rom TriForce ROM [TouchWiz]. I put the zip file on my SD card and booted into clockworkmod it gave an error of bad zip. I tried different usb port to transfer the zip, downloaded it multiple times with no result. So I decided to try a different rom Stock_Rooted_Deodexed_MF9_Rom.zip. The installation finished but the phone would not boot.
Recently I flashed the stock rom from odin, it finished successfully but still not boot, Galaxy sreen lights up quickly and that's it.
rmngorelov said:
So I'm pretty desperate and I apologize if similar info was posted somewhere else. I've been researching several hours but couldn't find anything.
I originally installed CM11 and decided to experiment with a different rom TriForce ROM [TouchWiz]. I put the zip file on my SD card and booted into clockworkmod it gave an error of bad zip. I tried different usb port to transfer the zip, downloaded it multiple times with no result. So I decided to try a different rom Stock_Rooted_Deodexed_MF9_Rom.zip. The installation finished but the phone would not boot.
Recently I flashed the stock rom from odin, it finished successfully but still not boot, Galaxy sreen lights up quickly and that's it.
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Restore from nandroid backup. I hope you made one. Try going into recovery do a factory reset and wipe all cache and data and what not and then install a ROM from Odin.
rmngorelov said:
So I'm pretty desperate and I apologize if similar info was posted somewhere else. I've been researching several hours but couldn't find anything.
I originally installed CM11 and decided to experiment with a different rom TriForce ROM [TouchWiz]. I put the zip file on my SD card and booted into clockworkmod it gave an error of bad zip. I tried different usb port to transfer the zip, downloaded it multiple times with no result. So I decided to try a different rom Stock_Rooted_Deodexed_MF9_Rom.zip. The installation finished but the phone would not boot.
Recently I flashed the stock rom from odin, it finished successfully but still not boot, Galaxy sreen lights up quickly and that's it.
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Make sure you're using roms for your version of your phone. the MF9 bootloader is really old and probably wont install anymore. My phone did this before and I thought I bricked it, but I kid you not I took the battery out and removed the SIM card and rebooted and it booted up just fine. May not work for you, but I suggest you go back to update stock firmware then try again. If you're using the triband model, there's a post around here somewhere with confirmed roms that wont brick your device. I'm currently using the Google Play Edition Stock ROM and it's working GREAT.
Link for new firmware (NG5 Firmware): https://mega.co.nz/#F!0JdRkIZR!AqqKdbvba_Hpg5VrCmrbPw
i7vSa7vi7y said:
Restore from nandroid backup. I hope you made one. Try going into recovery do a factory reset and wipe all cache and data and what not and then install a ROM from Odin.
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I restored to this stock ROM before and everything worked well. Currently I can't boot into recovery, Samsung flashes once and that's it, that's why I'm desperate the only thing I can do is boot in to download mode for odin.
silentdeath631 said:
Make sure you're using roms for your version of your phone. the MF9 bootloader is really old and probably wont install anymore. My phone did this before and I thought I bricked it, but I kid you not I took the battery out and removed the SIM card and rebooted and it booted up just fine. May not work for you, but I suggest you go back to update stock firmware then try again. If you're using the triband model, there's a post around here somewhere with confirmed roms that wont brick your device. I'm currently using the Google Play Edition Stock ROM and it's working GREAT.
Link for new firmware (NG5 Firmware):
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Does it matter that I can't get into recovery to clear the cache first before trying new roms?
silentdeath631 said:
Make sure you're using roms for your version of your phone. the MF9 bootloader is really old and probably wont install anymore. My phone did this before and I thought I bricked it, but I kid you not I took the battery out and removed the SIM card and rebooted and it booted up just fine. May not work for you, but I suggest you go back to update stock firmware then try again. If you're using the triband model, there's a post around here somewhere with confirmed roms that wont brick your device. I'm currently using the Google Play Edition Stock ROM and it's working GREAT.
Link for new firmware (NG5 Firmware):
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Maybe I'm doing something foolish but every time I try to download files from the link you gave I get a decryption error so I can't download them zip or original.
rmngorelov said:
I restored to this stock ROM before and everything worked well. Currently I can't boot into recovery, Samsung flashes once and that's it, that's why I'm desperate the only thing I can do is boot in to download mode for odin.
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Just hold home power and volume up. Right when you see text at the top left let go. You have to have the right timing
i7vSa7vi7y said:
Just hold home power and volume up. Right when you see text at the top left let go. You have to have the right timing
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After almost eight hours of troubleshooting I finally got it to work.
I've tried flashing clockworkmod several times to see if I could get into recovery with no result so I gave up on that and I flashed the newest stock rom I could find L720VPUFNG2_L720SPTFNG2_SPR and it was still not booting. Than I thought maybe twerp would make a difference and god almighty it finally booted! I felt as if I gave birth to a child after eight hours of labor!
Now I'm extremely paranoid about touching anything because it took me forever to do this. Does anyone know why flashing twerp would make such a difference? I know this sort of stuff can get extremely complicated but I'd like to try to understand.
I hope my foolish agony contributed to this community if not in any other way except by the comedic relief caused by my ignorance.
rmngorelov said:
After almost eight hours of troubleshooting I finally got it to work.
I've tried flashing clockworkmod several times to see if I could get into recovery with no result so I gave up on that and I flashed the newest stock rom I could find L720VPUFNG2_L720SPTFNG2_SPR and it was still not booting. Than I thought maybe twerp would make a difference and god almighty it finally booted! I felt as if I gave birth to a child after eight hours of labor!
Now I'm extremely paranoid about touching anything because it took me forever to do this. Does anyone know why flashing twerp would make such a difference? I know this sort of stuff can get extremely complicated but I'd like to try to understand.
I hope my foolish agony contributed to this community if not in any other way except by the comedic relief caused by my ignorance.
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Depends what recovery you had and what version. I personally like Philz touch recovery but TWRP is good. Now wipe and flash a ROM my friend or restore a backup
rmngorelov said:
After almost eight hours of troubleshooting I finally got it to work.
I've tried flashing clockworkmod several times to see if I could get into recovery with no result so I gave up on that and I flashed the newest stock rom I could find L720VPUFNG2_L720SPTFNG2_SPR and it was still not booting. Than I thought maybe twerp would make a difference and god almighty it finally booted! I felt as if I gave birth to a child after eight hours of labor!
Now I'm extremely paranoid about touching anything because it took me forever to do this. Does anyone know why flashing twerp would make such a difference? I know this sort of stuff can get extremely complicated but I'd like to try to understand.
I hope my foolish agony contributed to this community if not in any other way except by the comedic relief caused by my ignorance.
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im having similar issues. which version of TWRP worked for you?
thank you
fearthemarchx said:
im having similar issues. which version of TWRP worked for you?
thank you
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I recommend flashing the newest one here using odin
http://teamw.in/project/twrp2
Then once you are able to boot into recovery go to wipe and perform both factory reset and format data. Then install whatever rom you like, I used Sprint Galaxy S4 SPH-L720 VPUFNAE (Androdi 4.4.2) found here
http://galaxys4root.com/galaxy-s4-stock-firmware/ (or maybe find a newer stock rom if this one gives you errors)
Just copy the zip file to the phone, boot into twrp, do wipe factory reset again, select install then select the zip in whatever directory and you should be good to go. Make sure you do a back up in twrp once you get the phone to boot so you can always revert to stock.
I hope I was thorough enough that some of the information was useful. Let me know if you need any more help.
only certain recoveries will stick. ive tried the most recent twrp, with no luck. only a few versions of philztouch work.
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fearthemarchx said:
only certain recoveries will stick. ive tried the most recent twrp, with no luck. only a few versions of philztouch work.
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Format with philztouch that works then try flashing a new stock rom with odin. That should bring everything back to stock including the recovery.
ive tried. when i flash rom via odin i only get a blue "recovery booting" at the top of boot screen. even when i only power on, not into recovery. im going to attempt to flash rom provided in previous post via philz.
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fearthemarchx said:
ive tried. when i flash rom via odin i only get a blue "recovery booting" at the top of boot screen. even when i only power on, not into recovery. im going to attempt to flash rom provided in previous post via philz.
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You're in download mode when you flash from odin right? If you your getting an error flashing, try a different stock rom after reformating/resetting to factory (it's crucial to clear the cache before trying a different rom). I had to try a few roms before I found one that worked.