I bought a prototype SGS4 SCH-R970 USCellular on ebay a couple weeks ago, flashed a rooted rom, messed up, nandroid wouldnt work, bricked phone :crying:
My phone had been stuck in the samsung logo when starting up the boot sequence, after weeks of reading and searching all the forums I could find, I was able to get it to work. Many phone shops and fellow android developers I know said it was bricked and to give up on it but here's how I got it out of brickmode
I found this epic thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2295557
First: I cleared the cache and dalvik as usual.
Second: I Flashed a stock cricket system and kernel "CricketME4_Unrooted_System-Kernel" google it.
Third: Flashed that loki zip found on the thread above.
Fourth: Cleared caches again and rebooted.
Edit: I was able to fix wifi loading CM http://get.cm/?device=jflteusc still working on which one has every single feature working, or at least as many as possible xD
Camera does not seem to focus at the moment, I think it might be due to the rom, which is meant to be used with SCH-R970C
Thats it! Took a couple mins to boot up completely but it got it out of brickmode, if anyone knows or has a stock metropcs rom let me know!
I'll check this thread every now and then so if you have questions be patient unless someone else answers, hope this helps anyone else out there :cyclops:
camera
did u fix camera focus?
reason for camera not focusing
reapbooster said:
I bought a prototype SGS4 SCH-R970 USCellular on ebay a couple weeks ago, flashed a rooted rom, messed up, nandroid wouldnt work, bricked phone :crying:
My phone had been stuck in the samsung logo when starting up the boot sequence, after weeks of reading and searching all the forums I could find, I was able to get it to work. Many phone shops and fellow android developers I know said it was bricked and to give up on it but here's how I got it out of brickmode
I found this epic thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2295557
First: I cleared the cache and dalvik as usual.
Second: I Flashed a stock cricket system and kernel "CricketME4_Unrooted_System-Kernel" google it.
Third: Flashed that loki zip found on the thread above.
Fourth: Cleared caches again and rebooted.
Edit: I was able to fix wifi loading CM http://get.cm/?device=jflteusc still working on which one has every single feature working, or at least as many as possible xD
Camera does not seem to focus at the moment, I think it might be due to the rom, which is meant to be used with SCH-R970C
Thats it! Took a couple mins to boot up completely but it got it out of brickmode, if anyone knows or has a stock metropcs rom let me know!
I'll check this thread every now and then so if you have questions be patient unless someone else answers, hope this helps anyone else out there :cyclops:
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Hi all I also have this box. Earlier when it is stock 4.2.1 i5s camera was working fine. But when I flash cm11 on it its camera firmware is updated and after that momemt camera is not focusing so. Now camera only work either we have to downgrade the camera firmware to match with phone firmware or somehow have to update the phone firmware.
So
Camera firmware should be <= phone firmware
But our camera firmware is greater that phone firmware
See the attachment
finally after 2 months of research i fixed my camera issue.....if anyone still wants,,tell me...i will upload the solution(nandroid)
reapbooster said:
I bought a prototype SGS4 SCH-R970 USCellular on ebay a couple weeks ago, flashed a rooted rom, messed up, nandroid wouldnt work, bricked phone :crying:
My phone had been stuck in the samsung logo when starting up the boot sequence, after weeks of reading and searching all the forums I could find, I was able to get it to work. Many phone shops and fellow android developers I know said it was bricked and to give up on it but here's how I got it out of brickmode
I found this epic thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2295557
First: I cleared the cache and dalvik as usual.
Second: I Flashed a stock cricket system and kernel "CricketME4_Unrooted_System-Kernel" google it.
Third: Flashed that loki zip found on the thread above.
Fourth: Cleared caches again and rebooted.
Edit: I was able to fix wifi loading CM http://get.cm/?device=jflteusc still working on which one has every single feature working, or at least as many as possible xD
Camera does not seem to focus at the moment, I think it might be due to the rom, which is meant to be used with SCH-R970C
Thats it! Took a couple mins to boot up completely but it got it out of brickmode, if anyone knows or has a stock metropcs rom let me know!
I'll check this thread every now and then so if you have questions be patient unless someone else answers, hope this helps anyone else out there :cyclops:
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Which one of the Loki zips did you flash my friend? Thanks a TON for this! EXACT same issue!!!
mayur9890 said:
finally after 2 months of research i fixed my camera issue.....if anyone still wants,,tell me...i will upload the solution(nandroid)
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I have a prototype of r970,too!
I flashed it with chinese i9505 firmware and it updated my camera firmware. The camera does not focus now.
please help me fix the camera! thanks a lot!
p.s. I can not flash any bootloader and modem in this prototype. Anybody knows is it locked?
p.s.s Is anyone know how to use gsm on this phone? (normal r970 works. prototype can not work may because of the lock of modem?)
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mayur9890 said:
finally after 2 months of research i fixed my camera issue.....if anyone still wants,,tell me...i will upload the solution(nandroid)
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Friend i suck up with the same camera issue after updating to CM rom,
please could you give your nandroid backup, so that it will be more helpfull for me.
Thanks in Advance
JAIKRISH said:
Friend i suck up with the same camera issue after updating to CM rom,
please could you give your nandroid backup, so that it will be more helpfull for me.
Thanks in Advance
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hi friends. plz help me. i hve same camera problem now.its not auto focus now. i tryed to install firmware not working bro.. plz what can i do>?
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sharp(o_-)EyE said:
did u fix camera focus?
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hye. sir plz help me. i hve same auto focus problm. how can i fix ths??
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Hey guys, I am having trouble flashing a new rom onto my phone. I used to flash my Galaxy S3 almost every day, and for some reason, I am having trouble with the S4. I have rooted it, and installed Team Win Recovery Project v2.5.0.2 and sometimes the Rom will flash and work, like PA worked first time, so did MIUI Rom, but trying Most of the others they either say failed, or... they go through the whole installation process through the Recovery for Android Revolution HD, and then it boot loops, take battery out, put back in and wipe everything and it just stays on the first Samsung Logo and that's it.
Is there something I am missing?
I am wiping eveyrthing as well before I do it.
Any help will be really appretiated
Thanks
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Hey guys, I am having trouble flashing a new rom onto my phone. I used to flash my Galaxy S3 almost every day, and for some reason, I am having trouble with the S4. I have rooted it, and installed Team Win Recovery Project v2.5.0.2 and sometimes the Rom will flash and work, like PA worked first time, so did MIUI Rom, but trying Most of the others they either say failed, or... they go through the whole installation process through the Recovery for Android Revolution HD, and then it boot loops, take battery out, put back in and wipe everything and it just stays on the first Samsung Logo and that's it.
Is there something I am missing?
I am wiping eveyrthing as well before I do it.
Any help will be really appretiated
Thanks
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Can you please elaborate this situation without any hassle.? Didn't get your properly. Come again.?:cyclops:
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Can you please elaborate this situation without any hassle.? Didn't get your properly. Come again.?:cyclops:
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My bad lol, in work and was typing fast.
Basically, when I flashed ParanoidAndroid on my phone, and it worked great, then I changed it to MIUI which worked great,
then I decided to Flash Omega Rom, which was fine, but the WIFI doesn't work for me.
So I tried to Flash Android Revolution and it goes through the Installation Process with no problems and goes into Boot Loop, even though I have done a full wipe of the device.
I am in the middle of Flashing Android Revolution now, for the 3rd time, and it has been on 10% installation for 10 minutes. This is all it says at the moment...
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Android Revolution HD by mike1986
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>>>Formatting partitions
(system is unmounted already)
(preload is unmounted already)
-- that's it --
Sorted, thanks anyway.
Just incase someone else is in the same situation,
All I did was take the battery out for 30 minutes or around that time, and just flash the rom, I didn't wipe or anything else, just flashed and done.
For people having Wifi issues, flash a different Kernel like Adam Kernel, that seems to work for me.
skrapi said:
Sorted, thanks anyway.
Just incase someone else is in the same situation,
All I did was take the battery out for 30 minutes or around that time, and just flash the rom, I didn't wipe or anything else, just flashed and done.
For people having Wifi issues, flash a different Kernel like Adam Kernel, that seems to work for me.
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Good to see that. BTW Can u prefix solved in ur subject?
Sent from my Disturbed™ Galaxy S4
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Good to see that. BTW Can u prefix solved in ur subject?
Sent from my Disturbed™ Galaxy S4
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Yea sure no problem. How do you do it though? I have had a look but have no idea lol.
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Yea sure no problem. How do you do it though? I have had a look but have no idea lol.
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Just edit ur first post and select advance edit. Then u can change it.
Or just double click over subject line for this thread in subforum.
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Disturbed™ said:
Just edit ur first post and select advance edit. Then u can change it.
Or just double click over subject line for this thread in subforum.
Sent from my Disturbed™ Galaxy S4
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Sweet, cheers mate = )
Hey,
I just got my galaxy. Rooted it yesterday to delete bloatware.
I tried being really careful with what I delete but I must have delete something essential, my phone won't go past the samsung logo.
I'm actually really freaked out. I rooted using Odin but didn't quite get to anything else.
I tried battery pull, didn't work. Same as for wiping data in recovery mode. Don't know if it means something but when I tried wiping cache, it gave me a little dead android pic and restarted.
Right now I'm waiting for a stock firmware to download (BTW, I9505 isn't officially sold in my country, so I downloaded a UK version. I hope that's alright).
After it downloads I'll try to flash it using a guide from XDA.
Can anyone point me in the right direction please?
I could really use your help...
Thank you!
Edit:
Flashed it. Turns out I downloaded a German version (What my phone originally came with).
I just want to ask - Is there anything wrong or worse with being with this firmware? What are the differences between UK and German firmwares for an unlocked device?
Thank you
NetaA said:
Hey,
I just got my galaxy. Rooted it yesterday to delete bloatware.
I tried being really careful with what I delete but I must have delete something essential, my phone won't go past the samsung logo.
I'm actually really freaked out. I rooted using Odin but didn't quite get to anything else.
I tried battery pull, didn't work. Same as for wiping data in recovery mode. Don't know if it means something but when I tried wiping cache, it gave me a little dead android pic and restarted.
Right now I'm waiting for a stock firmware to download (BTW, I9505 isn't officially sold in my country, so I downloaded a UK version. I hope that's alright).
After it downloads I'll try to flash it using a guide from XDA.
Can anyone point me in the right direction please?
I could really use your help...
Thank you!
Edit:
Flashed it. Turns out I downloaded a German version (What my phone originally came with).
I just want to ask - Is there anything wrong or worse with being with this firmware? What are the differences between UK and German firmwares for an unlocked device?
Thank you
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Hi,
It is like choosing between a Green or a Blue BMW.
Same car.
Edit: Accidentally wrote two posts... How do I delete this?
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Hi,
It is like choosing between a Green or a Blue BMW.
Same car.
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Okay thank you very much!
Is there anything different I should do next time? (Besides let the bloatware live)
I read about rooting with recovery (CWM?). Can someone please explain a bit about it (How to do it and why isn't it the regular root)?
Btw, I saw that there are a few other rooting tools besides Odin. How are they different?
And what's BusyBox? I'm really sorry about all the noob questions. Every guide I find keeps referring to other terms that I don't understand
Thank you!
So... I did the stupid thing. I attempted to go back to my old MF9 backup through TWRP after upgrading to MJA, and now my wifi won't even turn on. I've been trying to figure this out for a few hours now, trying various fixes. I've tried to use ODIN to flash back to complete stock, but that just destroys my phone until I flash a recovery through ODIN. Everything I've seen on the forums so far has made it seem as though there is no hope since Samsung added in Knox.
I'm sorry if this has been resolved elsewhere, but I've literally been searching the General. Q&A, Android Development, Original Android Development, and Developer forums for several hours today with no luck. Can someone please help me with this? I just want my phone to be fully functional again...
EDIT:
Here's the deal; my main problem was with Wifi not working. The Stock MF9 Kernel was not working, but the 4.2.2 TW Kernel found here finally did.
did you try this?
leaderbuilder said:
did you try this?
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Yes. Nothing changed when I did that. I suppose that I should call out that I am currently on MF9.
dante042 said:
So... I did the stupid thing. I attempted to go back to my old MF9 backup through TWRP after upgrading to MJA, and now my wifi won't even turn on. I've been trying to figure this out for a few hours now, trying various fixes. I've tried to use ODIN to flash back to complete stock, but that just destroys my phone until I flash a recovery through ODIN. Everything I've seen on the forums so far has made it seem as though there is no hope since Samsung added in Knox.
I'm sorry if this has been resolved elsewhere, but I've literally been searching the General. Q&A, Android Development, Original Android Development, and Developer forums for several hours today with no luck. Can someone please help me with this? I just want my phone to be fully functional again...
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i just gave up on trying to do a restore. I actually used Titanium to get as much information from my old backup as possible then just rolled with it. I know that probably isn't what you wanted to hear but that what worked for me.. hope that helps
I have read that the WiFi issue may be a Kernel issue.. Did you try a different TouchWiz kernel and see if it worked out?
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lmayes69 said:
i just gave up on trying to do a restore. I actually used Titanium to get as much information from my old backup as possible then just rolled with it. I know that probably isn't what you wanted to hear but that what worked for me.. hope that helps
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This is actually what I was trying to do, sadly. Titanium was backing up my info to the phone storage rather than the SD card, and I had to do a data wipe to get to MJA, so I lost them. I figured I could restore to my MF9 backup to redo them, and that's when the trouble started.
I finally got it working. I had to try several different kernels until one finally worked. Now about flashing a new ROM...
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dante042 said:
I finally got it working. I had to try several different kernels until one finally worked. Now about flashing a new ROM...
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What kernel did you use and how did you install it? I'm having a similar issue and can't find a fix.
Scott02 said:
What kernel did you use and how did you install it? I'm having a similar issue and can't find a fix.
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Scott, check my first post. I edited it with a link to the page with the kernel I used. Make sure that you choose the correct kernel for your Android version. The MF9 and MJA designators have nothing to do with which kernel you need, so make sure to check in your "aboout phone" section to find out what android version you're running. Using the 4.3 kernel on 4.2.2 will cause a bootloop, which is easily fixed by flashing the correct kernel.
I am confident this problem has been answered before, and I sincerely apologize in advance for the inconvenience, I have spent 3 hours searching the forums for an answer.
I just today got an N900T, and am trying to flash X-NOTE build18.0 NF4-N9005 onto it. I have read the guide on how to: How to get N9005 roms to work on N900T(Tmo) here, and am stuck in a frozen boot amimation.
I dont know if this is the most updated way of fixing the WiFi/BT/NFC issues, and was wondering if I can get some help.
I am having a really hard time deleting the lines of code in the updater-script file, and was wondering if there was an alternative way to fix the Wifi/BT issues only?
I will continue to try to update this file and re-flash with the N900T_Compulsion_Kernal_6.0_ULTIMATE, and the N900W8 KK WIFI-NFC Fix zips, but was wondering if i can get some advice?
If nothing a link to a thread or post somewhere would be EXTREMELY helpful.
Thanks in advance!
-cortlillard
Solution found
cortlillard said:
N900T_Compulsion_Kernal_6.0_ULTIMATE
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This was the problem. I could not get this kernal to work in any way. I flashed the lk_hltetmo-kk-v3.7 kernal, and it worked like a charm.
Hello!
Ever since trying out the first OO3 Beta (3.0.0) I have gotten a weird bug, flashing the ROM works fine and everything works all the way until I reboot my phone. It loads through the bootanimation and then it just has a black screen and you can see the notification bar flash every 5 seconds or so. This issue also come up on the newest 3.0.1 beta.
I've tried different ways of flashing using the modified recovery and the modified supersu (also without the supersu) but I still get the same issue. I've tried different OO3 ROMs as well like Skydragon and CyanOxy but I get the same bug.
I haven't seen anyone post something about the same issue so I figured I'd ask, sorry if this already has been answered and I missed it.
Thanks in advance.
Same happend to me, always get that black screen, try to reboot once you are in it, works for me.
I've tried rebooting a few times and still got the same result, unfortunately.
Thanks for the advice anyways!
Hi,
I'm facing exactly same issue since new OTA update...
Did you manage to fix it?
Hey Endoloris.
I haven't been able to fix it yet unfortunately. I've really tried almost everything at this point which makes me think there's something odd with the hardware, but I don't really know.
I'll update this thread if I fix it.
Have you uninstalled the Google Search app?? Every time I trie to uninstall the Google app I get the same problem. Now I just let it on my phone.
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Have you flashed the right firmware for OxygenOS 3??
LordHelmchen89 said:
Have you uninstalled the Google Search app?? Every time I trie to uninstall the Google app I get the same problem. Now I just let it on my phone.
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Have you flashed the right firmware for OxygenOS 3??
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Yes, I've tried both those options. I've tried pretty much everything. I even tried restoring the phone to stock 2.2.1 and then updating via OTA and I still got the same issue.
So the weird thing is that I get the same issue on the new Paranoid Android ROM released today.
Adhas said:
So the weird thing is that I get the same issue on the new Paranoid Android ROM released today.
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Really strange...sorry,but Ican't help you then. Maybe you ask one of the devs with pm.
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Are you realy sure, that you flashed the right TWRP and firmware?? Or do you use a custom kernel.
Sorry, my last ideas...
I did try different firmwares, it didn't work at all with the old ones for obvious reasons. I tried the twrp 3.0.2 Hybrid, a custom recovery when the first Oxygen 3 beta came out (was orange), and I tried the recovery made by Grarak recently. I also tried using stock recovery and flashing.
No custom kernel, I've tried flashing with the modified Supersu but I was thinking that it might be causing the issue so I tried without root and I still got the same result.
In the same boat here, was running official CM, then this happened.