[Q] Rooting/TWRP/goomanager/gapps problem... Help! - Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot

Hi, posted this in the wrong sub forum at first. Guess I was just flustered a bit by my panic.
But yeah... So... basically I rooted my sprint S4, and I put Goomanager, TWRP, and Cyanogenmod 10.1 on it. I downloaded all the files and installed all of it what I thought was the correct place. So I cleared all my data in TWRP and flashed Cyanogenmod and what I thought was the correct and most recent gapps, then I rebooted it. Seemed fine but I have no Google accessibility no contacts/apps/play store nothing. Ok fine just go back and reflash gapps and I'm gold... Turns out I did not have goomanager/twrp on my sd card so they are gone. So i have no custom recovery to load my backup of my factory settings, no way to download goomanager on my phone (I even tried the akp file and it just say "unfortunately google play has stopped") and can't find files to flash them on in ODIN mode even... HELP!!!
Any answers or help would be greatly appreciated!

reikatty said:
Hi, posted this in the wrong sub forum at first. Guess I was just flustered a bit by my panic.
But yeah... So... basically I rooted my sprint S4, and I put Goomanager, TWRP, and Cyanogenmod 10.1 on it. I downloaded all the files and installed all of it what I thought was the correct place. So I cleared all my data in TWRP and flashed Cyanogenmod and what I thought was the correct and most recent gapps, then I rebooted it. Seemed fine but I have no Google accessibility no contacts/apps/play store nothing. Ok fine just go back and reflash gapps and I'm gold... Turns out I did not have goomanager/twrp on my sd card so they are gone. So i have no custom recovery to load my backup of my factory settings, no way to download goomanager on my phone (I even tried the akp file and it just say "unfortunately google play has stopped") and can't find files to flash them on in ODIN mode even... HELP!!!
Any answers or help would be greatly appreciated!
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I'm confused. How did you clear all your data in TWRP and flash CM/gapps if you don't have TWRP installed?
Anyways, you can get the TWRP tar file here to flash in ODIN: http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/178

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[Q] [HELP] Stuck at Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-19505 (BootLooping) ---

Hello Everyone. I flashed the 4.3 Google Edition Rom and after about a day of use it crashed. I booted into TWRP and attempted to boot into the system to find that It would say the typical 'Samsung Galaxy S4 i9505 bla bla.' I then went back to TWRP and attempted to flash the backups of Stock TouchWiz via my 32gb SD Card (note my s4 is 16gb) and it would come up with failed and prompted me to wipe dalvic cache ect. Stressing out I went on to odin and flashed an Optus Carrier Stock Touchwiz Firmware. This did not work either making me still boot loop. I was however unrooted and did not have a custom recovery. And here we are now, I re-flashed root and TWRP attempting again to flash my backups and once again they fail on me.
Please. Any help would be highly appreciated. I currently have a phone with stock touchwiz (which doesnt boot), TWRP and Root flashed aswell. Thats It. Once again please. Ive checked plenty of other threads however they were all fixed some way or another.
Thanks for your Help Everyone..!:laugh:
Sanjaka9911 said:
Hello Everyone. I flashed the 4.3 Google Edition Rom and after about a day of use it crashed. I booted into TWRP and attempted to boot into the system to find that It would say the typical 'Samsung Galaxy S4 i9505 bla bla.' I then went back to TWRP and attempted to flash the backups of Stock TouchWiz via my 32gb SD Card (note my s4 is 16gb) and it would come up with failed and prompted me to wipe dalvic cache ect. Stressing out I went on to odin and flashed an Optus Carrier Stock Touchwiz Firmware. This did not work either making me still boot loop. I was however unrooted and did not have a custom recovery. And here we are now, I re-flashed root and TWRP attempting again to flash my backups and once again they fail on me.
Please. Any help would be highly appreciated. I currently have a phone with stock touchwiz (which doesnt boot), TWRP and Root flashed aswell. Thats It. Once again please. Ive checked plenty of other threads however they were all fixed some way or another.
Thanks for your Help Everyone..!:laugh:
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just flash any original firmware via odin!
for example I9505XXUBMF8_I9505OXABMF8_I9505XXUBMF8
after that boot into stock recovery and wipe/delete data.
this should help.
also i wouldn't use any ge firmware until it's official released.
there are some bugs like you can't enter sim code or very heavy battery usage
good luck
if you've already tried standard ROM for i9505 and it did not helped - your bootloader was changed during the flash of Google ROM.
What do you need now: full ROM which would include bootloader, pit etc., and flash it with repartition.
P.S. ask any mod to move this thread to Q&A section, where it shall be...
DONE!
Guys, thanks for all your replies! I found a solution. I used an older version of odin and did a factory reset with the stock recovery. thx for all ur help again. I was just really stressed at the time so..! haha
Have the same problem with my Galaxy S4 Google Edition
I just bought a Google Ediion Galaxy S4 from the play store, and I followed the instructions in this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2341162). And my phone is screwed, it is stuck with the black screen and the Google Logo in the background. I can get into download and recovery mode, but only when I take the battery out first then reboot it in either mode. Can anyone help me please?
Rekhter said:
I just bought a Google Ediion Galaxy S4 from the play store, and I followed the instructions in this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2341162). And my phone is screwed, it is stuck with the black screen and the Google Logo in the background. I can get into download and recovery mode, but only when I take the battery out first then reboot it in either mode. Can anyone help me please?
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Go in recovery mode and clear the caches and optionaly do a data factory reset.
Please search the forums first for a solution to your problem ,there is plenty of bootloop threads.
gee2012 said:
Go in recovery mode and clear the caches and optionaly do a data factory reset.
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I already did that, and it did not work, also I did search through the boot loop sections in the forum and I could not find good solutions, if any of you can direct me to a certain thread I would highly appreciate it.

What did I do wrong? Trying to Install CM11

I rooted my phone installed twrp via autorec--> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2715496 . Then I backed up my phone through twrp and then I rebooted and put the newest cm11 stable build --> http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?type=snapshot&device=vs980 on my phone. (I put it in the download file of my phone if that makes any difference), then I went to twrp and wiped everything but internal storage and proceeded to flash cm11 which i found in my download file where I put it (it was a zipped file) and I flashed it, then it went into a boot loop! Currently installing the recovery in twrp that I just made. I do not know what I did wrong could someone please enlighten me? This is the first time doing this sorry if its a noob question.
Thanks.
FYI the recovery worked my phone booted up fine. Also it is a VS980. I do have the verizon variant.
UPDATE:
Tried flashing again, this time with gapps as well (forgot to the first time) same results, flashing the recovery again rn. I AM CLUELESS!!!!
bobberserker said:
FYI the recovery worked my phone booted up fine. Also it is a VS980. I do have the verizon variant.
UPDATE:
Tried flashing again, this time with gapps as well (forgot to the first time) same results, flashing the recovery again rn. I AM CLUELESS!!!!
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Would uninstalling autorec do anything?
flash the latest recovery from here. Then afterwards check if you have the right version for your variant and check the md5
Krenol said:
flash the latest recovery from here. Then afterwards check if you have the right version for your variant and check the md5
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Again this is my first time getting this far so here are some noob questions: Would I just flash the zipped folder in twrp? Would I need to wipe anything? Would I need to create another recovery? Would it delete my old recovery?
Thanks.
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Also why would updating twrp make such a big difference?
Just Flash the zip File for your variant then Reboot the recovery and go to settings and hit restore default. Don't wipe anything for changing the recovery. And this will just update the rec nothing else

[Q] Overwrite Cyanogen Recovery

Hi all,
Had been rocking Fusion's Lollipop ROM since inception but decided to try another flavor and installed Cyanogenmod along with their new own recovery which overwrote TWRP. Didn't think much of it until I decided this ROM wasn't for me. Flashing of TWRP fails through Cyanogen Recovery though I have been able to flash ROM's. Also attempted flashing a .tar via ODIN which claims it was successful, alas Cyanogen Recovery persists.
As there seem to be other limitations with this recovery I'm determined to remove it but having a heck of a time. Any suggestions??
Thank in advance
stevedavies76 said:
Hi all,
Had been rocking Fusion's Lollipop ROM since inception but decided to try another flavor and installed Cyanogenmod along with their new own recovery which overwrote TWRP. Didn't think much of it until I decided this ROM wasn't for me. Flashing of TWRP fails through Cyanogen Recovery though I have been able to flash ROM's. Also attempted flashing a .tar via ODIN which claims it was successful, alas Cyanogen Recovery persists.
As there seem to be other limitations with this recovery I'm determined to remove it but having a heck of a time. Any suggestions??
Thank in advance
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I had the same problem, here is how i solved it:
go in to play store and download TWRP MANAGER install the app and then go to install twrp, select your device and the right recovery for your phone and start flashing...
jonpah said:
I had the same problem, here is how i solved it:
go in to play store and download TWRP MANAGER install the app and then go to install twrp, select your device and the right recovery for your phone and start flashing...
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Had an issue with my account for a bit and subsequently forgot to reply, if anyone has the same issue - fixed! Such a simple solution. Hate to admit how long I spent messing around with this... Thanks to Jonpah!

[Q] Can't flash ROM or restore backup

Hello there.. I normally don't have a problem figuring out what to do but I'm totally stuck here. I have a Sprint Galaxy S4 SPHL720T. I was rooted and running a custom ROM. I was having issues with the wifi so I decided to flash back to GPE 5.0.1 here from the xda forums. I am running twrp v2.8.4.0. I made a backup and wiped system/data/cache and dalvik. I went to install JFLTE-GPE-20150303 (LRX22C) from ultimarom.com via here at XDA. It said zip is corrupt. So i redownloaded on my PC and transferred it to my sd card. Still said corrupt. So I downloaded a different ROM on my PC and moved to SD. Still said corrupt. I tried to flash a GAPPS package and it worked but no ROMS I tried would. I tried to install my latest backup through recovery. It said MD5 doesn't match. If I hit reboot in twrp it prompts to install superuser because the phone doesn't appear to be rooted. If I hit that it runs the script for about 2 seconds then reboots. It won't boot into the OS as there is no OS and if I reboot into recovery it still gives me the "install su" prompt at the reboot screen. So then I hooked up into ODIN and download mode and flashed "CF-Auto-Root-jflterefreshspr-jflterefreshspr-sphl720t.tar.md5" and "openrecovery-twrp-2.8.4.0-jfltespr.tar". Still having the same issues. I have no idea what to do at this point. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated as I need my phone for work and play .
Thanks,
Aaron

Help Needed: Recovery Issue SM-t230nu

The first issue I started to notice after rooting via Odin & TWRP was when trying to flash the iOS and WP ROMs from this thread, http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software/3oss-project-samsung-galaxy-tab-4-7inch-t3081478 , it would fail. I was able to successfully flash the Google ROM from same post. I believe it was with one of the other ones that it even said successful yet when i went to reboot said no OS installed. So, I figured update my TWRP to newest version, maybe that was the problem. Well after updating, now when i go to wipe/factory reset it either says unable to mount or it doesnt even make it that far and reboots system. I tried flashing PIT file with Odin and issue persists. Everything still works smoothly but any help fixing this issue would be much appreciated as I do not want to dirty flash anything. Thanks in advance.
So now...after flashing stock firmware, it boots all the way to nook screen (right after samsung logo) and stops. I can boot into TWRP but it still says unable to mount data. Also, in TWRP when i click mount, the only one already checked is cache. I can manually select all others except data. When i go to install, the internal sd has absolutely nothing on it...really hope i didn's completely mess it up, sometimes my eagerness to learn gets the better of me. Thanks again for any help!
I have the same issue, im stuck

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