Im wondering if someone can help me. I recently rooted my phone with odin and was adding a rom. I guess it didn't download completely or correctly when I tried to install it and said it fail. I accidentally rebooted my phone. I don't have a backup on my phone to restore it. I do have a backup on my computer but cant get it onto my phone. Now my phone gets stuck on the Samsung galaxy s4 screen, and will not boot the rest of the way. I can get to the download screen. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Easiest way is to download the full rom .tar file and flash with odin. pretty sure they are posted in the dev section.
lafester said:
Easiest way is to download the full rom .tar file and flash with odin. pretty sure they are posted in the dev section.
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I have tried that and it still wont boot past that Samsung screen. I got TWRP back now im just trying to figure out how to get this system restored to where it will load.
Tiger429 said:
I have tried that and it still wont boot past that Samsung screen. I got TWRP back now im just trying to figure out how to get this system restored to where it will load.
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One you odin, you have to do a factory reset on stock recovery and whoola you booted up.
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ROMANTiC KiD said:
One you odin, you have to do a factory reset on stock recovery and whoola you booted up.
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i will try that i am downloading a stock rom now. i will install on odin. then i boot it into recovery and there is a factory reset option on there?
Tiger429 said:
i will try that i am downloading a stock rom now. i will install on odin. then i boot it into recovery and there is a factory reset option on there?
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Yeah there is once you odin. Just boot up to stock recovery and do a factory reset.
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ROMANTiC KiD said:
Yeah there is once you odin. Just boot up to stock recovery and do a factory reset.
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Cool thank you i will let you know what happens. :fingers-crossed:
Tiger429 said:
Cool thank you i will let you know what happens. :fingers-crossed:
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So any news? Lol o.o
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PLease help, after having some issues with Omega Rom I decided to factory reset and wipe data plus format, I just finished flashing the latest DBT-I9505XXUBMEA-20130601103235 stock firmware but I cannot the get hone to boot up, its constantly stuck on the Samsung logo, please HELP
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PLease help, after having some issues with Omega Rom I decided to factory reset and wipe data plus format, I just finished flashing the latest DBT-I9505XXUBMEA-20130601103235 stock firmware but I cannot the get hone to boot up, its constantly stuck on the Samsung logo, please HELP
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So u have flashed stock firmware using odin and it's not booting now
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I am able to access to the stock recovery, and download mode,
after flashing stock rom I cannot get past the Samsung boot logo...
please help
123hiten said:
So u have flashed stock firmware using odin and it's not booting now
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yes I flashed stock firmware via odin 1.87, trying again via 3.07
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yes I flashed stock firmware via odin 1.87, trying again via 3.07
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Ya try woth the 3.07 and see what's the result and ya at the first time did it get thru flashing completely
Coz it takes a little time for the first boot up
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Ya try woth the 3.07 and see what's the result and ya at the first time did it get thru flashing completely
Coz it takes a little time for the first boot up
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just finished flashing with odin 3.07 and still the same, 5min and counting cannot get past the boot logo
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just finished flashing with odin 3.07 and still the same, 5min and counting cannot get past the boot logo
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Can u try going to stock recovery and try to wipe data cache etc
Note u ll loose all data u had
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123hiten said:
Can u try going to stock recovery and try to wipe data cache etc
Note u ll loose all data u had
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While driving to drop the phone with Samsung service I tried to perform factory reset and wipe using the stock recovery and it worked, phone is working once more
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While driving to drop the phone with Samsung service I tried to perform factory reset and wipe using the stock recovery and it worked, phone is working once more
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Wow thats great happy to hear that bro let me know incase anything else u wanna know
There must be something holding the device boot B4 must be some bad app etc
hello, I need help understanding how to uninstall twrp custom recovery and going back to stock custom recovery. i want to unroot and factory restore so I can update my s4. I really never took a lot of advantage of root with roms and stuff. I guess I really don't need it. but I don't want to brick my phone. exactly what do I do?
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hello, I need help understanding how to uninstall twrp custom recovery and going back to stock custom recovery. i want to unroot and factory restore so I can update my s4. I really never took a lot of advantage of root with roms and stuff. I guess I really don't need it. but I don't want to brick my phone. exactly what do I do?
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Just odin and install stock rom
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polish_pat said:
Just odin and install stock rom
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Yes, use Odin. I assume you have an i337 and you don't have mf3 installed. Get the mdl stock firmware from sammobile.com. You'll have to register but its free. You'll download a zip file. Use 7-zip to extract the .tar.md5 file. Use that file in Odin, PDA. Only have auto-reboot and f.reset checked in Odin. That will install the stock firmware and recovery on your phone.
Edit, a word of caution. As of now, there is no way to reverse your decision of wanting the mf3 update. Once you update you will not be able to put a custom Rom or recovery on your phone. There is limited benefit, my opinion no benefit, to the up grade. Yes you can put apps on your ad card, but only the apps and not the data do you don't save much space. It also take about a gig of additional space just for the update.
so it will be as if you just took it out of the box brand new, right? I don't want any files from twrp or anything to stay on the phone. I accidentally factory restored one time when rooted.... then after starting up the "new" device, the setup worked until one step which didn't allow me to surpass it... i used Odin and followed a youtube vídeo to unroot. also, will it restore my SD card...? if I take out the SD, will it be readable after I put it back in after the startup of the "new" device? thanks. and lastly, does it matter if ive freezes any apps via titanium backup? I've freezed the att updater so the update wouldn't remove root. thanks for your help guys. (yes I'm using the att i337 model.)
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so it will be as if you just took it out of the box brand new, right? I don't want any files from twrp or anything to stay on the phone. I accidentally factory restored one time when rooted.... then after starting up the "new" device, the setup worked until one step which didn't allow me to surpass it... i used Odin and followed a youtube vídeo to unroot. also, will it restore my SD card...? if I take out the SD, will it be readable after I put it back in after the startup of the "new" device? thanks. and lastly, does it matter if ive freezes any apps via titanium backup? I've freezed the att updater so the update wouldn't remove root. thanks for your help guys. (yes I'm using the att i337 model.)
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It will not factory reset your phone, it will simply reinstall stock firmware, stock recovery and rom. You'll have to factory reset once youre done to wipe everything
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so it will be as if you just took it out of the box brand new, right? I don't want any files from twrp or anything to stay on the phone. I accidentally factory restored one time when rooted.... then after starting up the "new" device, the setup worked until one step which didn't allow me to surpass it... i used Odin and followed a youtube vídeo to unroot. also, will it restore my SD card...? if I take out the SD, will it be readable after I put it back in after the startup of the "new" device? thanks. and lastly, does it matter if ive freezes any apps via titanium backup? I've freezed the att updater so the update wouldn't remove root. thanks for your help guys. (yes I'm using the att i337 model.)
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Odin will over write any of your frozen files you froze to avoid the upgrade. Factory reset will also delete your apps. Any pics, music, etc will not be deleted.
And yes to your sd card, it should still be readable. Odin shouldn't touch the external card.
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Odin will over write any of your frozen files you froze to avoid the upgrade. Factory reset will also delete your apps. Any pics, music, etc will not be deleted.
And yes to your sd card, it should still be readable. Odin shouldn't touch the external card.
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and to unroot? another question, once I factory restore, and it starts up brand new, can I root, delete all bloatware, and unroot to use phone e normally? and isn't there a thing you're supposed to do to clear how many times you've rooted or not? I remember doing something with a tutorial I used that reset the count.
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and isn't there a thing you're supposed to do to clear how many times you've rooted or not? I remember doing something with a tutorial I used that reset the count.
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I believe you're referring to Triangle Away?
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I believe you're referring to Triangle Away?
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yes thank you
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Yes, use Odin. I assume you have an i337 and you don't have mf3 installed. Get the mdl stock firmware from sammobile.com. You'll have to register but its free. You'll download a zip file. Use 7-zip to extract the .tar.md5 file. Use that file in Odin, PDA. Only have auto-reboot and f.reset checked in Odin. That will install the stock firmware and recovery on your phone.
Edit, a word of caution. As of now, there is no way to reverse your decision of wanting the mf3 update. Once you update you will not be able to put a custom Rom or recovery on your phone. There is limited benefit, my opinion no benefit, to the up grade. Yes you can put apps on your ad card, but only the apps and not the data do you don't save much space. It also take about a gig of additional space just for the update.
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Correct file?
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Correct file?
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If you're trying to Odin back to stock, the .tar.md5 file is correct.
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If you're trying to Odin back to stock, the .tar.md5 file is correct.
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this will delete twrp files right? I have a folder named twrp with a backup... should i delete it? and is there any chance of bricking my phone by flashing stock rom?
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this will delete twrp files right? I have a folder named twrp with a backup... should i delete it? and is there any chance of bricking my phone by flashing stock rom?
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It will delete twrp and put the stock recovery on. There is always a chance of a brick when you flash. If you do flash it it'll probably take 10 to 20 minutes so let it do it's thing. Don't panic and unplug anything. Time goes by real show while you're waiting. I just flashed Odin today on my device and it seemed to take forever.
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It will delete twrp and put the stock recovery on. There is always a chance of a brick when you flash. If you do flash it it'll probably take 10 to 20 minutes so let it do it's thing. Don't panic and unplug anything. Time goes by real show while you're waiting. I just flashed Odin today on my device and it seemed to take forever.
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is there an easier way to unroot my device and go back to stock everything... i DO want all data deleted off of my phone. it doesn't matter to me... all I need are my photos. I don't care about apps or data
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is there an easier way to unroot my device and go back to stock everything... i DO want all data deleted off of my phone. it doesn't matter to me... all I need are my photos. I don't care about apps or data
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This is the only way to put the stock firmware and recovery on and return it to stock. Your pictures should still be there, but I'd back them up to some where else.
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This is the only way to put the stock firmware and recovery on and return it to stock. Your pictures should still be there, but I'd back them up to some where else.
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so anything to specifically do... step by step instructions? do I put the phone on download mode or something? I'm sorry. I'm watching tutorials and trying to put piece by piece together
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anybody? please help. I know I'm being a pest and impatient but I just want my phone fixed.
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anybody? please help. I know I'm being a pest and impatient but I just want my phone fixed.
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Here's a guide it's not specifically for the i337 but hopefully helps http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26056924
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anybody? please help. I know I'm being a pest and impatient but I just want my phone fixed.
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Here's a guide it's not specifically for the i337 but hopefully helps http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26056924
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understand that you will likely have to boot into stock recovery and factory reset after the odin flash in order to boot past the samsung splash screen.
I would like to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart. I'm back on stock everything, unrooted. I want to remove bloatware first though. If I root, and delete all the bliarware I dont want through tibu, and later unroot, will the ota for i337 bring back the bloatware? Once again thanks everybody
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I put the tri rom on it today and everything was fine. Part of the way thru the day it suddenly rebooted and went to the animation screen. I try to go to recovery and It doesn't do anything. I have been flashing for years now and this has never happened to me before. . can somebody please try to help. I looked for the answer for hours.
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I put the tri rom on it today and everything was fine. Part of the way thru the day it suddenly rebooted and went to the animation screen. I try to go to recovery and It doesn't do anything. I have been flashing for years now and this has never happened to me before. . can somebody please try to help. I looked for the answer for hours.
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If your able to still put the phone into download mode you will be fine just odin back stock mf9.
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DELETE
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UNDO
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when I go to the download mode it just sits there forever and does nothing.
coateshaaf1 said:
when I go to the download mode it just sits there forever and does nothing.
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Does it connect to the computer? Specifically Odin?
Hit the "Thanks" button if I helped!
coateshaaf1 said:
when I go to the download mode it just sits there forever and does nothing.
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Download mode by itself wont do anything. You need to plug it in to the computer and use odin to odin back to stock.
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Can somebody be specific about the odin download cause I'm clearly missing something.
ok I saw the Odin download. Is the verizon and sprint one the same thing?
For Odin, yes.
For the actual ROM, no.
Do NOT use a Verizon ROM on a Sprint phone.
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ok I saw the Odin download. Is the verizon and sprint one the same thing?
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Have you tried to even Reflash the recovery? Like thru goo manager?
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The odin worked. Thank you so much.
:crying:I am rooted using cf auto, i had twrp 2.6, but just now i put 2.5.0.2 zip on my sd card to flash, bc i was having problems with 2.6, i was about to flash my first custom rom, but i wanted to revert back to 2.5.0.2 first, so when i went to flash 2.5.0.2, i went into goomanager to boot into recovery, which was fine, then i went into my sd card to install 2.5.0.2, i swiped to install, then is said install successful, so i hit reboot, NOW i am STUCK IN DOWNLOAD MODE...i cant get out! please help...i took battery out, i dont know what else to do...:crying: :crying:
So when you put the battery back in the phone it automatically boots into download mode?
If not then hold power+home+volume down to boot into recovery.
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daniel4653 said:
So when you put the battery back in the phone it automatically boots into download mode?
If not then hold power+home+volume down to boot into recovery.
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nope, boots into download mode that way too....WTF??
TrickyD76 said:
nope, boots into download mode that way too....WTF??
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Sh%t I'm stupid. Its volume up not volume down to get into recovery mode. Try volume up+home+power.
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daniel4653 said:
Sh%t I'm stupid. Its volume up not volume down to get into recovery mode. Try volume up+home+power.
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That does not work either....ive tried volume up down sideways, home button, no home button...every which way takes me to download mode...there has to be another way...
If all it does is go into download mode. Then you are lucky in a way because you can Odin back to stock which fixes almost all issues. This will delete you data, more than likely. Which is only apps, messages, calls, not your pictures on internal storage.
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daniel4653 said:
If all it does is go into download mode. Then you are lucky in a way because you can Odin back to stock which fixes almost all issues. This will delete you data, more than likely. Which is only apps, messages, calls, not your pictures on internal storage.
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this is bulls*^%t...there has to be a better way....and can anyone tell me why this happened in the first place...what would have caused this to happen? what did i do wrong in trying to flash 2.5.0.2???
TrickyD76 said:
this is bulls*^%t...there has to be a better way....and can anyone tell me why this happened in the first place...what would have caused this to happen? what did i do wrong in trying to flash 2.5.0.2???
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It sucks. But stuff like this happens. And being rooted you have to know the risks of flashing and modding your phone. And its not that bad. Its exactly the same as wiping your phone to install a new ROM. You delete all the same stuff. Not hard to get back up and running.
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It sucks. But stuff like this happens. And being rooted you have to know the risks of flashing and modding your phone. And its not that bad. Its exactly the same as wiping your phone to install a new ROM. You delete all the same stuff. Not hard to get back up and running.
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okay...now what? what do i do? connect to odin and what? thank you Daniel
TrickyD76 said:
okay...now what? what do i do? connect to odin and what? thank you Daniel
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Follow this video by QBKing77. Dow load the appropriate files.
http://qbking77.com/development/how-to-unroot-and-unbrick-the-samsung-galaxy-s4/
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Follow this video by QBKing77. Dow load the appropriate files.
http://qbking77.com/development/how-to-unroot-and-unbrick-the-samsung-galaxy-s4/
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No do not do this! Just go to tarp site and get the twrp tar file for the version you want. Then use Odin to load twrp recovery. This way you won't lose everything. Also to boot to recovery you can just use power and volume up. More than likely twrp didn't flash correctly so you have no recovery. Flashing it with Odin may solve the problem.
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No do not do this! Just go to tarp site and get the twrp tar file for the version you want. Then use Odin to load twrp recovery. This way you won't lose everything. Also to boot to recovery you can just use power and volume up. More than likely twrp didn't flash correctly so you have no recovery. Flashing it with Odin may solve the problem.
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phewwww....thank you, i did not want to do this...how do i flash from odin??? thanks!
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phewwww....thank you, i did not want to do this...how do i flash from odin??? thanks!
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download odin
download twrp 2.5.0.2 tar
click on the odin file
then click pda and select the twrp tar
boot phone into download mode
then connect phone
click start in odin
Get twrp here.
Get Odin hereOdin
I use odin 1.85, just make sure you have the drivers installed for odin to work also. That thread should give you all the info you need.
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download odin
download twrp 2.5.0.2 tar
click on the odin file
then click pda and select the twrp tar
boot phone into download mode
then connect phone
click start in odin
Get twrp here.
Get Odin hereOdin
I use odin 1.85, just make sure you have the drivers installed for odin to work also. That thread should give you all the info you need.
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can you help me find a twrrp 2.5.0.2 .tar file NOT from Techerrata...my computer is blocking that website (im at work ....OF COURSE
Try here
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Try here
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thank you all!! especially YOU leaderbuilder....that link did the trick, and im am BACK!! thanks everyone!
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No do not do this! Just go to tarp site and get the twrp tar file for the version you want. Then use Odin to load twrp recovery. This way you won't lose everything. Also to boot to recovery you can just use power and volume up. More than likely twrp didn't flash correctly so you have no recovery. Flashing it with Odin may solve the problem.
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Calm down sparky. Dudes going to wipe his phone no matter what to flash the rom.
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Calm down sparky. Dudes going to wipe his phone no matter what to flash the rom.
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He specifically stated he didn't want to wipe. Plus why return completely to stock if there is no need. You SPARKY need to settle down and try to give useful information for a persons particular problem. Running around like a chicken with its head cut off for a simple recovery missflash. Then to try and bash me because I actually helped him not to have to set everything up again. What if he didn't have a proper nandroid or hadn't ran a recent TB backup. Then he would have lost all data. Now all is well. Check post 7 if you missed the part where he is asking for a better way.
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He specifically stated he didn't want to wipe. Plus why return completely to stock if there is no need. You SPARKY need to settle down and try to give useful information for a persons particular problem. Running around like a chicken with its head cut off for a simple recovery missflash. Then to try and bash me because I actually helped him not to have to set everything up again. What if he didn't have a proper nandroid or hadn't ran a recent TB backup. Then he would have lost all data. Now all is well. Check post 7 if you missed the part where he is asking for a better way.
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He didn't say he didn't want to wipe until after. He didn't say that when I told him to Odin back to stock. I am settled. Lol. At the time that was the only way I knew we to resolve this so I gave him that option. It was good that you guys knew about the tar version of the recovery.
Now I learned something new.
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I Dont know what happened. Im running negalite, and i reflashed over my current setuo because it wasnt running well. Now im stuck in download mode and it says "could not do normal boot" please please help
shloho said:
I Dont know what happened. Im running negalite, and i reflashed over my current setuo because it wasnt running well. Now im stuck in download mode and it says "could not do normal boot" please please help
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You have soft bricked your phone. Now you have to odin back to stock.
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ROMANTiC KiD said:
You have soft bricked your phone. Now you have to odin back to stock.
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How do i do that? Can you just point me in that direction?
Nm I guess search is my best friend
shloho said:
Nm I guess search is my best friend
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try to find the MDC stock restore, or MF9 stocl restore if you havent done the Mj4 update you should be fine, just boot back into download mode and odin the above tars and you should be good