So I sold my Galaxy S4 on amazon today, and the buyer is aware that I won't be shipping my S4 until October 3rd or 4th when my Note 3 arrives. So I'm downloading Factory Stock Firmware Odin package to put the phone in it's out of the box condition. But I'm pretty sure this will not put stock recovery back on, which is what I want in case the new owner is not a flasher, and might want over the air updates. If the factory image don't put stock recovery back on, what do I need to do? I didn't see any threads about stock recovery unless I skimmed over it by accident.
Before you do anything, what firmware is your phone on?
Edit, the stock firmware will put the stock recovery on your phone. But I want to make sure Your're not on mf3 firmware
jd1639 said:
Before you do anything, what firmware is your phone on?
Edit, the stock firmware will put the stock recovery on your phone. But I want to make sure Your're not on mf3 firmware
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Right now i'm on a custom t-mobile Rom "Wicked" which is MDL. However right before I ship the phone to the seller, I am putting stock AT&T on which will be MDB is the one I downloaded. I switched to T-Mobile after buying the AT&T S4 and unlocked the 1700 MHz band. My note 3 will actually be a T-Mobile phone.
budco2000 said:
Right now i'm on a custom t-mobile Rom "Wicked" which is MDL. However right before I ship the phone to the seller, I am putting stock AT&T on which will be MDB is the one I downloaded.
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If you flash that in Odin it will return you phone to like it came out of the box with the stock recovery. My experience with odin is that files I put on the internal card are still there after Odin so if you have anything personal on your phone you might want to double check that there gone. You'll most likely have to do a factory reset in the stock recovery after Odin to get it to boot. That's normal do dint panic if it didn't boot right away. The first boot also takes a long time. Give it 5 minutes.
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If you flash that in Odin it will return you phone to like it came out of the box with the stock recovery. My experience with odin is that files I put on the internal card are still there after Odin so if you have anything personal on your phone you might want to double check that there gone. You'll most likely have to do a factory reset in the stock recovery after Odin to get it to boot. That's normal do dint panic if it didn't boot right away. The first boot also takes a long time. Give it 5 minutes.
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ok thanks. I been flashing phones for years, so I never panic lol. I thing Samsung's are impossible to brick. I've had the captivate, the Galaxy S, S2, Original Note, S3, Note 2, S4, now the Note 3 is coming, ALl my phones have been flashed dozens of times with ROM, kernels, and radios. I've had soft bricks but always able to get out of them. I've never had a samsung phone die on me ever. So I keep buying them. Most of their components and screens are made in house by samsung, and so far have been totally reliable.
A stock odin image will most definitely restore stock everything, including your recovery! Good luck with your Note 3!
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So, I deleted system when I changed ROM for the first time (always had HTCs so that's how it worked). That went well(!) Then my phone repeatedly refused to boot into recovery, just restarted, but I got lucky one time and it did, so I flashed the ROM I had on there as soon as I could. I knew that was buggy but it worked. Completely forgot about the backup I previously made. So after a few days of trying to get into recovery it finally happened today, then I tried to go back to that restore, but it failed. Then I forgot to backup what I had now, so I'm back to nothing, because CM11 won't flash. Then when I tried to restore the update for a second time, the screen got brighter and brighter and became corrupt, so I just unplugged it. There seems to be no damage, and I'm in TWRP again, but upon mounting to my computer it isn't recognised. So, is there a 4.3 100% STOCK ROM for the i9505 that I could flash in Odin (or any ROM that I could flash in Odin) that could get this phone working again? Unless there's a way to downgrade to 4.2, then I'll take that too.
Edit: I'm in the UK (BTU) and found this tar file: I9505XXUEMK8_I9505BTUEMK5_I9505XXUEMK8_HOME.tar. I believe this should work, as I have the i9505 and I'm in the BTU region, so should I just flash that in Odin?
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So, I deleted system when I changed ROM for the first time (always had HTCs so that's how it worked). That went well(!) Then my phone repeatedly refused to boot into recovery, just restarted, but I got lucky one time and it did, so I flashed the ROM I had on there as soon as I could. I knew that was buggy but it worked. Completely forgot about the backup I previously made. So after a few days of trying to get into recovery it finally happened today, then I tried to go back to that restore, but it failed. Then I forgot to backup what I had now, so I'm back to nothing, because CM11 won't flash. Then when I tried to restore the update for a second time, the screen got brighter and brighter and became corrupt, so I just unplugged it. There seems to be no damage, and I'm in TWRP again, but upon mounting to my computer it isn't recognised. So, is there a 4.3 100% STOCK ROM for the i9505 that I could flash in Odin (or any ROM that I could flash in Odin) that could get this phone working again? Unless there's a way to downgrade to 4.2, then I'll take that too.
Edit: I'm in the UK (BTU) and found this tar file: I9505XXUEMK8_I9505BTUEMK5_I9505XXUEMK8_HOME.tar. I believe this should work, as I have the i9505 and I'm in the BTU region, so should I just flash that in Odin?
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I'd rather suggest putting a new, clean rom on the phone by copying the rom onto your sdcard (via cardreader if it doesnt mount via usb) and installing it through TWRP on the phone itself instead of through odin.
Or is there some point I am missing why you specifically want to go back to a stock rom? Since a restore is out of the question why not go forward?
Can't answer you on that specific file, sorry.
kajing said:
I'd rather suggest putting a new, clean rom on the phone by copying the rom onto your sdcard (via cardreader if it doesnt mount via usb) and installing it through TWRP on the phone itself instead of through odin.
Or is there some point I am missing why you specifically want to go back to a stock rom? Since a restore is out of the question why not go forward?
Can't answer you on that specific file, sorry.
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The main reason why I wanted to go back to stock was because virtually nothing worked. Scrolling on recovery was broken, getting into recovery itself was a rarity, the charging screen while the phone was switched off but plugged in didn't work, to name but a few problems. I'm just going to stock to fix all of that, by going back to stock, then I'm going to move forward. Go one step backwards to end up two steps forwards.
Anyway, I just did a #YOLO (help pls), flashed it and the phone appears to work perfectly again, to my relief. *breathes heavily*
Solved I see. U flashed the correct one for ur region
Hi all,
After a looong night flashing and downloading again and again trying different methods, I'm out of ideas.
I have a uk n9005 (btu) that was happily running out of the box 4.3 stock until yesterday night. No root, no flash attempts before.
I started by flashing german 4.4 (dbt) without wiping before (big mistake, maybe) and without pit file and no repartition nor bootloader update checked. The error came out and I flashed again with the pit file. I let the phone reboot, but it didn't go further than the boot animation. I take out the battery and boot in the recovery. That is when I saw the can't mount \data error for the first time.
I tried to wipe, although it was impossible since the data was not mounted. However I could (and still can) wipe cache. I restarted the phone, and again the same situation, stuck in boot animation. From this moment I've tried many things:
- Flashing the bootloader separately and then the rom. no results (data not mounted and stuck in boot animation)
- Flashing custom recovery and after, official cm11 nightly and another cm11 based rom. no results (data not mounted and stuck in boot animation)
- Downgrading to 4.3. Not possible. Thank you Samsung!
- Firmware recovery with kies 3.0. no results since 4.4 has not been released for my region (maybe waiting for if to come out would be a solution)
- Flashing Polish and german (againg) 4.4 with and without pit file. no results (data not mounted and stuck in boot animation)
The only thing I can think of that I haven't tried yet is flashing a custom kernel, but I can't see any advantage in doing that. Next approach is taking it to the technical service to see if they can solve this situation. I'm afraid they're going to ask for almost as much money as a new note 3 costs...
P.D: I know I haven't taken part a lot in this forum, but I've been reading it for years, since I started playing with my SGS back in 2011. This is the first time I'm really lost after spending the night searching the forum (not only the note 3 section). This really pisses me off, with my previous phones I could always find a way to bring them back to life, but with SGS4 and SGN3 things are totally different thanks to samsung. (sorry for this looong post)
Thank you in advance
have you checked repartitioning when using the pit file?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=50614669&postcount=77
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have you checked repartitioning when using the pit file?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=50614669&postcount=77
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Yes, in fact I think it is checked automatically after you select the pit file.
Thank you anyway.
Any other ideas?
Contruk27 said:
Yes, in fact I think it is checked automatically after you select the pit file.
Thank you anyway.
Any other ideas?
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Did you try it with different Odin versions?
Pierre118 said:
Did you try it with different Odin versions?
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Nope... I used last version, I read somewhere that it was safer...
I will try with an older one when I get home
Thank you for the idea!
Contruk27 said:
Nope... I used last version, I read somewhere that it was safer...
I will try with an older one when I get home
Thank you for the idea!
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No problem. Let us know the result.
I'd try Odin 3.04, with the original stock polish rom.
I had no trouble using the Polish KK rom that came in 4 pieces, AP, BL, CP and CSC. I flashed 2 Note 3's using this with no problems whatsoever.
I can't say for sure you won't but it's worth a try...
Also, check to see if your Knox warranty has been tripped as this can happen when fooling around with roms.
You will have no love with Kies even when your region receives KK rom as Kies doesn't recognise bootloaders since MJ3... Good going Samsung, have had a few months to fix and have done NOTHING...
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I'd try Odin 3.04, with the original stock polish rom.
I had no trouble using the Polish KK rom that came in 4 pieces, AP, BL, CP and CSC. I flashed 2 Note 3's using this with no problems whatsoever.
I can't say for sure you won't but it's worth a try...
Also, check to see if your Knox warranty has been tripped as this can happen when fooling around with roms.
You will have no love with Kies even when your region receives KK rom as Kies doesn't recognise bootloaders since MJ3... Good going Samsung, have had a few months to fix and have done NOTHING...
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I've been searching for a rom in 4 pieces but I haven't find it. I downloaded 2 polish roms and neither of them was in 4 pieces. Can you tell me where can I find it? Because at the moment it's impossible to download anything from sammobile... Thank you!
My knox warranty was tripped just after the fail size error in odin, the first time I attempted to flash. However that's not my main concern now... haha
"Nice" to know that about kies. At this moment, the only reason to buy another samsung phone is the big community behind it :victory:. I thought they were going to do something about the bloatware, but it's getting even worse every time a new phone is announced...
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I've been searching for a rom in 4 pieces but I haven't find it. I downloaded 2 polish roms and neither of them was in 4 pieces. Can you tell me where can I find it? Because at the moment it's impossible to download anything from sammobile... Thank you!
My knox warranty was tripped just after the fail size error in odin, the first time I attempted to flash. However that's not my main concern now... haha
"Nice" to know that about kies. At this moment, the only reason to buy another samsung phone is the big community behind it :victory:. I thought they were going to do something about the bloatware, but it's getting even worse every time a new phone is announced...
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Not sure anymore, I no longer have the rom... And it was through Sammobile I got it.
Possibly someone might have it and share it with you....
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Not sure anymore, I no longer have the rom... And it was through Sammobile I got it.
Possibly someone might have it and share it with you....
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It's going to be difficult that someone has it, since most people prefer 1 file roms. I will pray to sammobile haha
I'm not an expert, so I don't know if it's something critical for the phone (data mounted) to boot, but whenever I had this problem before with my previous phones, I was able to fix it by flashing a sock rom with odin or going back to the previous rom. So, my main concern now is that after all the flashing I've made, I still can't mount \data.
Can I get a little help here? I have a rooted, otherwise stock i337 that I just used the TWRP root app. I wanted to make a backup of my phone before I flashed a new rom. It downloaded jflteatt and I verified and installed it to /dev/block/mmcblk0p21. then i tried to make a backup, and i'm stuck at "Downloading.... do not turn off target!!!" In the upper left corner there's a "Could not do normal boot. ODIN Mode.
I found the post "[GUIDE] How to Unbrick your AT&T S4 I337 OTA UCUAMF3" but am hesitant to use it, as I am not sure that is what I need to do. I also found some other similar posts, but for different devices so I am again hesitant to rely on those.
I tried pressing home, power and volume down, but it just resets back to this screen. Also, I originally posted this request on the TWRP page, but I think it should be here. If so, I will delete it there.
Please help?
@kamikazees
If you could give more detail that would also help other to help u....such as what firmware that u are running before bricked...... well seem to me that u are either MF3 or MK2 firmware and u installed TWRP ...... u can only install safestrap recovery if u are on MF3 or MK2 firmware. ....Follow my thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2621279 it should get u back to MK2 firmware. .....goodluck
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Thank you for the quick response. I have a small update since my first post. I found a poster in another section who got his phone rebooted by trying to send it to download mode, then cancelling out. I did that (pressing power, home and vol down), then when the phone "buzzed" I let off those keys and pressed them again. The phone rebooted, apparently normally.
So now I can check my firmware. Checking firmware is on the "baseband version" right? If so, then that info on my phone is I337UCUEMK2," which I guess is the MK2 firmware.
I deleted the TWRP app, but I'm not sure now if I've even got a recovery (if TWRP failed to install, maybe I'm still on stock?). Do I need to go ahead do the full ODIN tar file unbrick from where I am now? The phone appears to be operating normally.
If not, should I just go ahead and install safestrap recovery? I am trying to eventually get rid of all the bloated samsung junk and get to CM or another ROM. The S4 seems a bit more touchy than some of my previous phones.
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Thank you for the quick response. I have a small update since my first post. I found a poster in another section who got his phone rebooted by trying to send it to download mode, then cancelling out. I did that (pressing power, home and vol down), then when the phone "buzzed" I let off those keys and pressed them again. The phone rebooted, apparently normally.
So now I can check my firmware. Checking firmware is on the "baseband version" right? If so, then that info on my phone is I337UCUEMK2," which I guess is the MK2 firmware.
I deleted the TWRP app, but I'm not sure now if I've even got a recovery (if TWRP failed to install, maybe I'm still on stock?). Do I need to go ahead do the full ODIN tar file unbrick from where I am now? The phone appears to be operating normally.
If not, should I just go ahead and install safestrap recovery? I am trying to eventually get rid of all the bloated samsung junk and get to CM or another ROM. The S4 seems a bit more touchy than some of my previous phones.
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Your stock recovery is probably broken, and so it would be best to at least reflash the stock recovery. However, you should be just fine if you want to only install Safestrap and leave recovery broken. I just wouldn't recommend that.
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Your stock recovery is probably broken, and so it would be best to at least reflash the stock recovery. However, you should be just fine if you want to only install Safestrap and leave recovery broken. I just wouldn't recommend that.
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Ok, I want to fix the recovery. Can I use ODIN for that? One post I found said I cannot: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2576291. It was several months ago, however, so I am not sure if it still holds true.
If I can use ODIN, I see that the stock recovery file is in ted77usa's post #3: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2621279. After putting my phone in download mode and connecting it to ODIN, in which slot would I put that file? Some older posts say to put it in the PDA slot, which appears to be the AP slot.
Thanks for your patience. I really don't want to mess this up again.
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Ok, I want to fix the recovery. Can I use ODIN for that? One post I found said I cannot: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2576291. It was several months ago, however, so I am not sure if it still holds true.
If I can use ODIN, I see that the stock recovery file is in ted77usa's post #3: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2621279. After putting my phone in download mode and connecting it to ODIN, in which slot would I put that file? Some older posts say to put it in the PDA slot, which appears to be the AP slot.
Thanks for your patience. I really don't want to mess this up again.
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The first one is in img format and won't work through ODIN, but you can use those commands from terminal emulator to flash it if you download it. Otherwise, the TAR files do work just fine.
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Ok, I want to fix the recovery. Can I use ODIN for that? One post I found said I cannot: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2576291. It was several months ago, however, so I am not sure if it still holds true.
If I can use ODIN, I see that the stock recovery file is in ted77usa's post #3: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2621279. After putting my phone in download mode and connecting it to ODIN, in which slot would I put that file? Some older posts say to put it in the PDA slot, which appears to be the AP slot.
Thanks for your patience. I really don't want to mess this up again.
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If you are rooted and can actually boot the phone then I would install Safestrap for MK2 and install TWRP 3.71 to use as the recovery. I've been using Safestrap and TWRP since I was on MF3. I have also successfully flashed the tar files through Odin to get to MK2 with no problems. If you are rooted then its a really good idea to use Safestrap with TWRP for a recovery. Afterward you can find a list of compatible roms that are specific for Touchwiz on MK2 that for the most part are pretty stable. The stock recovery on this phone is pretty much useless.
megamanDJ said:
...I would install Safestrap for MK2 and install TWRP 3.71 to use as the recovery... Afterward you can find a list of compatible roms that are specific for Touchwiz on MK2 that for the most part are pretty stable.
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This is exactly what I did. I flashed the stock recovery in Odin (yes, it goes in the AP slot), which fixed my first problem. Then I installed Safestrap, then made a ROM slot and installed Goldeneye v. 21 (the 4.3 version for MK2). That removed all of the AT&T bloat (yay), and I did not have to flash the MK2 kernel (which I think would also have gone in the AP slot) because it has it already.
Then I flashed the GE add-on that removed a bunch of Samsung bloat (yay #2). Rebooted and turned off the rest of the Samsung stuff I didn't want. Got the phone up and running beautifully.
What a picky phone! The locked bootloader really causes a lot of trouble to inexperienced flashers like me. I unfortunately have about 5gb of "wasted" space because I understand I cannot flash over the "stock" rom, but I am at least running another ROM that I chose. My phone, my choice. Shame on Samsung!
Thank you very much!
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This is exactly what I did. I flashed the stock recovery in Odin (yes, it goes in the AP slot), which fixed my first problem. Then I installed Safestrap, then made a ROM slot and installed Goldeneye v. 21 (the 4.3 version for MK2). That removed all of the AT&T bloat (yay), and I did not have to flash the MK2 kernel (which I think would also have gone in the AP slot) because it has it already.
Then I flashed the GE add-on that removed a bunch of Samsung bloat (yay #2). Rebooted and turned off the rest of the Samsung stuff I didn't want. Got the phone up and running beautifully.
What a picky phone! The locked bootloader really causes a lot of trouble to inexperienced flashers like me. I unfortunately have about 5gb of "wasted" space because I understand I cannot flash over the "stock" rom, but I am at least running another ROM that I chose. My phone, my choice. Shame on Samsung!
Thank you very much!
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There is actually a way to flash a rom to the stock slot, but I haven't done it. Somewhere in the Safestrap threads explains how to do it. I think you can even get it back to normal if you change your mind.
My s4 was rooted about a year ago with the logo SAMSUNG and Unlocked with an open lock below it when it boots up. I gave this phone to my girlfriends daughter and forgot to tell her not to try and update it. I don't remember the way i rooted it or what software it had on it at the time.
So when I go to recovery after it loads into an AT&T logo and tries to install it and it gets to 24%. After this it bootloops. Any help would be appreciated. My phone model is SGH-I337 , also not sure of what the original firmware is.
StephenTiz said:
My s4 was rooted about a year ago with the logo SAMSUNG and Unlocked with an open lock below it when it boots up. I gave this phone to my girlfriends daughter and forgot to tell her not to try and update it. I don't remember the way i rooted it or what software it had on it at the time.
So when I go to recovery after it loads into an AT&T logo and tries to install it and it gets to 24%. After this it bootloops. Any help would be appreciated. My phone model is SGH-I337 , also not sure of what the original firmware is.
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Open lock symbol means your phone is rooted not unlocked.
If you could go to the recovery mode (voloume-up+home+power) it would tell you your firmware version. You could try clear cache, factory reset in recovery mode. If it still gives you the bootloop, you might need to flash the firmware via odin.
You can find instructions and necessary files in here and here.
No recovery options
Sorry I left that part out. When it goes to recovery i get the blue text that say recovery then it goes straight to the AT&T installing. So no recovery options. I can still get to the Odin dowloading screen though and it says im running Samsung Original software
No recovery options
sway8966 said:
Open lock symbol means your phone is rooted not unlocked.
If you could go to the recovery mode (voloume-up+home+power) it would tell you your firmware version. You could try clear cache, factory reset in recovery mode. If it still gives you the bootloop, you might need to flash the firmware via odin.
You can find instructions and necessary files in here and here.
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Sorry I left that part out. When it goes to recovery i get the blue text that say recovery then it goes straight to the AT&T installing. So no recovery options. I can still get to the Odin dowloading screen though and it says im running Samsung Original software
StephenTiz said:
Sorry I left that part out. When it goes to recovery i get the blue text that say recovery then it goes straight to the AT&T installing. So no recovery options. I can still get to the Odin dowloading screen though and it says im running Samsung Original software
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One reason I asked you to go to the recovery option was to know what version of firmware you were on before .
Do you remember you were on jelly bean or kick-kat or lollipop? If you do you can find the firmware for jelly bean and kit-kat on the links I mentioned in the previous message.
If you could not recall your firmware, the latest odin flashable firmware we have is kit-kat NB1.
You can flash that one to revive your phone. Then use twoel root to root the phone. After that you can go to lollipop if you want. All the instructions are there.
Woop Woop!
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One reason I asked you to go to the recovery option was to know what version of firmware you were on before .
Do you remember you were on jelly bean or kick-kat or lollipop? If you do you can find the firmware for jelly bean and kit-kat on the links I mentioned in the previous message.
If you could not recall your firmware, the latest odin flashable firmware we have is kit-kat NB1.
You can flash that one to revive your phone. Then use twoel root to root the phone. After that you can go to lollipop if you want. All the instructions are there.
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It worked. I have tried so many different firmware and kit-kat NB1 worked perfectly. Thank you so much, my girlfriends daughter will be so happy. I think i will leave it unrooted for now. I hope this post helps someone else in the future.
StephenTiz said:
It worked. I have tried so many different firmware and kit-kat NB1 worked perfectly. Thank you so much, my girlfriends daughter will be so happy. I think i will leave it unrooted for now. I hope this post helps someone else in the future.
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I am glad that it works out for you.
Rooting is so easy from that point. Just get towel root and root it. The link also included in my previous post. After the root you might need to disable the AT&T OTA update too. The instructions are also in that post too.
Hi Everyone I'm not even sure if anyone is going to reply to this but heres the deal. yesterday i flashed a custom rom to my phone s4 (sgh-i337m unlocked carrier) i have twrp3 installed for custom restore and i did make a restore file when my phone was still on lollipop, and i think that the backup worked because the boot screen is back to stock but now heres my issue, i power up my phone i get past the "galaxy s4" screen but get stuck on the samsung animation, i gave up on it after it sitting there for 2 hours then i removed the battery and then flash installed 7.x nougut onto it, but cant get playstore but thats just minor but what i do want is to go back to full stock no root, i feel that ive made a mistake and im just not comfortable with it anymore even if i loose all my stuff thats fine ive had the phone for a week, i do have odin on my computer but dont know how to use it because theres icons like bl, ap, cp and csc i dont know what those are well i know ap for installing twrp. I'm needing help like yesterday
You will have to download the stock ROM and flash it with Odin. Stock ROMs can be downloaded from sammobile.com, but download speeds are slow for non-premium users.
Flash guides can be found with everywhere.
Confirm that the model # is sgh-i337m in download mode. If it is, do this:
download Odin 3.07: https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=...168421&usg=AFQjCNHMbaSWjgVwWQGtMVr1TvJSsXWUcA
download the latest 5.01 firmware from here: https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-s4/SGH-I337M/BMC/download/I337MVLSGQB1/125370/ (This is for Bell but it doesn't matter because Rogers, Bell, Telus, Koodo, and Fido use the same ROM with some minor carrier customization). Unzip the file once to create a tar.md5 file;
put the phone into download mode;
open Odin and click on PDA, select the tar.md5 file;
connect the phone to the computer using the original Samsung USB cable;
uncheck everything except f reset time and flash the phone;
when you see the word RESET in the status window, remove the USB cable from the phone, remove the battery, replace the battery; boot the phone into recovery mode, factory reset, and reboot.
How to get into download mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nC2vX492wI
How to get into recovery mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkrUVSxGW9g
The correct forum for the sgh-i337m is here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-att
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Confirm that the model # is sgh-i337m in download mode. If it is, do this:
download Odin 3.07: https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=...168421&usg=AFQjCNHMbaSWjgVwWQGtMVr1TvJSsXWUcA
download the latest 5.01 firmware from here: https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-s4/SGH-I337M/BMC/download/I337MVLSGQB1/125370/ (This is for Bell but it doesn't matter because Rogers, Bell, Telus, Koodo, and Fido use the same ROM with some minor carrier customization). Unzip the file once to create a tar.md5 file;
put the phone into download mode;
open Odin and click on PDA, select the tar.md5 file;
connect the phone to the computer using the original Samsung USB cable;
uncheck everything except f reset time and flash the phone;
when you see the word RESET in the status window, remove the USB cable from the phone, remove the battery, replace the battery; boot the phone into recovery mode, factory reset, and reboot.
How to get into download mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nC2vX492wI
How to get into recovery mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkrUVSxGW9g
The correct forum for the sgh-i337m is here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-att
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Thankyou i did fully verify everything before hand and yes it is sgh-i337m i actually got a different rom fully working and i do thank all users that did view and help me out. I did find a way to get gapps installed wothout issues. I still cant restore the device back to stock but i actually bought a replacement stock phone and use this one that were communicating on now. So now i have two phones completely identical minus the fact that one is unlocked from at&t and the other was never locked to anything.
Pwnycorn said:
You will have to download the stock ROM and flash it with Odin. Stock ROMs can be downloaded from sammobile.com, but download speeds are slow for non-premium users.
Flash guides can be found with everywhere.
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Took a while but finally acquired 2 stock roms one telus and one sasktel. I will probably do a rom swap one day
The non-aws version of the s4 sold in Canada is the sgh-i337m. You can cross flash roms from any carrier as they are all the same except for a bit of customisation by adding their own apps.
A quick download source is updato.com.
Btw, the Canadian s4 forum is here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-att
I'm stuck also on the samsung animation screen, and flashing a stock rom does nothing for me it's stuck. I can't even go into stock recovery. everytime i do try it just say recovery booting and loops back into samsung screen. is there any way to fix this?
Thanks I'm new to the site and didn't know there was a Canadian s4 forum, I thought it was a specific device forum because my phone isn't att because att is not active on my area, we have telus, koodo, rogers, sasktel and bell
SPheDaGhost said:
I'm stuck also on the samsung animation screen, and flashing a stock rom does nothing for me it's stuck. I can't even go into stock recovery. everytime i do try it just say recovery booting and loops back into samsung screen. is there any way to fix this?
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One thing I did because I was in the same boat and it sounds like your stuck in a soft boot is download lots of roms to a SD card and trial and error, use the latest version of twrp and flash the first version of twrp to the phone with Odin there's lots of YouTube videos to assist you, also when using a custom rom (in my experience) is that you also have to download gapps to gain the full google/android experience and it's safer to download apps with Google playstore compared to using a browser. Also when flashing remember to wipe catche and delvic before rebooting. Hope this helps and if your using the same kinda device as me I'd recommend the 7.1.2 rom by JDC it works pretty good and it feels like the s8