I used safestrap recovery to install the google play edition of the 4.3 on my GS4 with the MF3 firmware. It wont boot now, even if i go back to stock in the option. Any ideas, I am totaly new to this.
You can only boot 4.2.2 Roms two based.
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You can only boot 4.2.2 Roms two based.
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I have wiped every rom from the phone other than stock and it still wont boot. I can get access to Odin is there a way to wipe it from there and return it to factory?
Psdwizard said:
I used safestrap recovery to install the google play edition of the 4.3 on my GS4 with the MF3 firmware. It wont boot now, even if i go back to stock in the option. Any ideas, I am totaly new to this.
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besides safestrap not supporting 4.3 roms, are you postitive you didn't flash anything on your stock rom? if you did and you can't boot the only option to returning your phone back to stock is taking it to best buy to samsung experience and having them reflash your phone
I am off to there tonight.
Psdwizard said:
I am off to there tonight.
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good luck :good:
seassol july
deadenz said:
good luck :good:
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what rom do you use, and did safestrap work for you?
Psdwizard said:
what rom do you use, and did safestrap work for you?
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I'm using VirginROM now. safestrap works great but you really have to read the directions carefully.
ya it was probably not smart do it with a screaming 4 year old in the room.
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ya it was probably not smart do it with a screaming 4 year old in the room.
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lol definitely not
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Is there one ROM that is simple to install without it doing random reboots....seems like after MDL it all went to Sh*t. The more I update my phone the worse the phone gets....
kinextions said:
Is there one ROM that is simple to install without it doing random reboots....seems like after MDL it all went to Sh*t. The more I update my phone the worse the phone gets....
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Stick w/ MDL and use Blu Kuban made for MDL. Don't really think there are any stable ROMs w/ MF9 w/o random reboots right now...
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Stick w/ MDL and use Blu Kuban made for MDL. Don't really think there are any stable ROMs w/ MF9 w/o random reboots right now...
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ok..thanks for the reply. Any suggestions on how to get back to MDL or just find a link and download it?
kinextions said:
ok..thanks for the reply. Any suggestions on how to get back to MDL or just find a link and download it?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2375523
There's an official MDL tar you can odin back to full MDL stock.
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Stick w/ MDL and use Blu Kuban made for MDL. Don't really think there are any stable ROMs w/ MF9 w/o random reboots right now...
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I've never had a single reboot with this phone on ANY rom, TW or AOSP, MDL or MF9. MF9 has given me zero issues and in fact runs much better than MDL for me.
Just my 2 cents.
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maxpower7 said:
I've never had a single reboot with this phone on ANY rom, TW or AOSP, MDL or MF9. MF9 has given me zero issues and in fact runs much better than MDL for me.
Just my 2 cents.
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What version ROM, TW, AOSP, KERNEL are you using?
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What version ROM, TW, AOSP, KERNEL are you using?
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I've tried almost all of them. Take your pick. I've had other issues here and there, but never random reboots.
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I'm on Sacs rom with stock kernel, and I have never ever had one random reboot, hell I've not had any reboots on any of the roms I've tried before settling on Sacs rom. you must have some other issues at play here, have you tweaked w/e kernel your on? sometimes kernel tweaks are more harm than good if you change setting you're not familiar with, have you tried the stock kernel?
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I'm on stock MF9 deodexed rooted never had a reboot. Only time I had reboots was when I set my voltages too low lol.
maxpower7 said:
I've never had a single reboot with this phone on ANY rom, TW or AOSP, MDL or MF9. MF9 has given me zero issues and in fact runs much better than MDL for me.
Just my 2 cents.
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did you do anything special when you flashed???
any suggestions I should know/try???
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did you do anything special when you flashed???
any suggestions I should know/try???
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Nothing out of the ordinary. Just the default factory reset in TWRP (a lot of people will tell you to wipe system as well, but I've never found that to be necessary).
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Hello XDA-
I have an i337 Galaxy S4 with MK2 firmware. I got Safestrap 3.71 for recovery bypassing and I have a really strange issue. It seems no ROMs that I flash a successful. Ever. I've tried AOSP ROMs, Cyanogen, etc. When I just tried installing Cyanogen I went to ROM slot 1, wiped it of everything except the external SD card, went to install, selected the .zip for MY device off of the external SD, flashed it, and when I reboot I get a teal screen with pulsing pink/brown lines on it. The same applies when I do any other ROM, except sometimes I just get a black screen that endlessly loop reboots.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
You can't flash aosp or cm roms in safe strap. They have to be touch wiz based.
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You can't flash aosp or cm roms in safe strap. They have to be touch wiz based.
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Ahh, are you serious? Safestrap is the only working recovery bypass on my MK2 firmware, ugh. Hopefully Samsung eventually unlocks the bootloader. Well, I'm off to looking for a TouchWiz based ROM then.
Thanks!
nhannon9 said:
Ahh, are you serious? Safestrap is the only working recovery bypass on my MK2 firmware, ugh. Hopefully Samsung eventually unlocks the bootloader. Well, I'm off to looking for a TouchWiz based ROM then.
Thanks!
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You can, however, install Google Edition ROMs, I believe. Search through the Safestrap thread to make sure, but that should allow you a relatively AOSP-like experience.
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You can, however, install Google Edition ROMs, I believe. Search through the Safestrap thread to make sure, but that should allow you a relatively AOSP-like experience.
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That's all I wanted, a clean Google ROM. I can't find any that actually work though. :/
Let me know if you find any. Thanks.
nhannon9 said:
That's all I wanted, a clean Google ROM. I can't find any that actually work though. :/
Let me know if you find any. Thanks.
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@nhannon9 Check this thread by @guut13 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2616221 and look for Blackbox v2.2.1 and pretty clean AOSP rom ...... Read that MK2 INDEX thread ..... anything u should know about MK2...... Goodluck. ....:thumbup:
EDIT : @mattdm I believed that we can't install any 4.3 GPE yet on MK2 + SSV3.71. The closest AOSP experience are Blackbox v2.2.1 from International S4 I9505 .....:thumbup::thumbup:
Swyped From MK2 Dark Venom SS Edition
nhannon9 said:
That's all I wanted, a clean Google ROM. I can't find any that actually work though. :/
Let me know if you find any. Thanks.
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Have you tried this one? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47718525
It's not Kitkat, but it's still nice and clean.
Also, make sure you're using the correct version of Safestrap. One version 3.65 is for MF3 users, and version 3.71 is for MK2 users.
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mattdm said:
Have you tried this one? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47718525
It's not Kitkat, but it's still nice and clean.
Also, make sure you're using the correct version of Safestrap. One version 3.65 is for MF3 users, and version 3.71 is for MK2 users.
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As @ted77usa said, no GPE ROMs work. All he'll get from that is bootloops and disappointment.
DeadlySin9 said:
As @ted77usa said, no GPE ROMs work. All he'll get from that is bootloops and disappointment.
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I've seen many people in the past months reporting that they're running GPE ROMs on Safestrap with no problems. Has something changed recently that I don't know about?
EDIT: Ah, I didn't see his edit up there. Sorry for giving false hope! I don't keep up with the Safestrap scene much since I have a Loki'd S4.
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I've seen many people in the past months reporting that they're running GPE ROMs on Safestrap with no problems. Has something changed recently that I don't know about?
EDIT: Ah, I didn't see his edit up there. Sorry for giving false hope! I don't keep up with the Safestrap scene much since I have a Loki'd S4.
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Yeah. If you have an MF3 S4 then you can run a 4.2.2 GE ROM, but us on MK2 are out of luck for a full AOSP experience unless an exploit is implemented.
Can we get some links for 4.2.2 GE roms for mf3
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gtrijoe said:
Can we get some links for 4.2.2 GE roms for mf3
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Try Google 4.2.2 gpe rom i337 xda
gtrijoe said:
Can we get some links for 4.2.2 GE roms for mf3
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Or, you could go search for them? That's why there's a search function. It's not there for looks and it works. We don't need all these threads posting and asking for other members to look for something for you. It's not hard to find them.
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Ever since I got the KitKat 4.4.4 update my battery has been draining, and I'm not going to get a new battery because I've only had this phone for a short time[emoji27]
Give it a few days, it should improve. If not, you may want to root and install the Greenify app from the Play Store.
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Give it a few days, it should improve. If not, you may want to root and installed the Greenify app from the Play Store.
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I'll try it, and I'm also going to get cm 12 on it since it's taking Samsung a long time to update it
itzdajosh said:
I'll try it, and I'm also going to get cm 12 on it since it's taking Samsung a long time to update it
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If you have the at&t sgh-i337 and it's on Android 4.4.4, then you won't be able to install cm 12 due to the locked bootloader. You're only able to boot TW based roms from Safe Strap.
No your right and wrong because twrp recovery already has Loki built into it..
itzdajosh said:
No your right and wrong because twrp recovery already has Loki built into it..
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no, he's right. no twrp for you
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no, he's right. no twrp for you
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Go to twrps website and click recovery for jflteatt and look at device specific issues and it clearly states that "our images are already modified with Loki"
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Go to twrps website and click recovery for jflteatt and look at device specific issues and it clearly states that "our images are already modified with Loki"
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If you have mdl firmware, yes. But you don't. Safestrap is the only recovery that's going to work and no, cm. Trust me
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itzdajosh said:
No your right and wrong because twrp recovery already has Loki built into it..
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Go to twrps website and click recovery for jflteatt and look at device specific issues and it clearly states that "our images are already modified with Loki"
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LOKI will only work on the MDL firmware running Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean. You're on 4.4.4 so LOKI won't work. Go ahead and try, it will fail.
Oh well I'll just be stuck like this but I'll try to find a way how to make it work
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Oh well I'll just be stuck like this but I'll try to find a way how to make it work
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Good luck and remember Odin, you'll need it.
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So your saying that Odin will be able to flash cm12 without Loki? And dose Loki work on 4.4.4??
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So your saying that Odin will be able to flash cm12 without Loki? And dose Loki work on 4.4.4??
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no, I'm saying trying to flash twrp and/or cm and you'll probably need Odin
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Why?? If wwjoshdew made a video on how to root and install a custom recovery on all Qualcomm variants for example jflteatt he didn't say anything about KitKat wouldn't work with Loki...
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Why?? If wwjoshdew made a video on how to root and install a custom recovery on all Qualcomm variants for example jflteatt he didn't say anything about KitKat wouldn't work with Loki...
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Trust us dude, LOKI won't work on Android 4.4.4 on the sgh-i337. It was a bootloader bypass that was patched when the mk2 firmware OTA update came out. If you try flashing a custom recovery you risk bricking your phone since the bootloader is locked. The only recovery you can use is Safe Strap.
If you want CyanogenMOD or any other roms of the alike such as AOSP based roms, you will need a at&t Galaxy S3 or an international S4 or if I remember right a sprint or t-mobile S4, (don't quote me on though) they have unlocked bootloaders as far as I know.
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Trust us dude, LOKI won't work on Android 4.4.4 on the sgh-i337. It was a bootloader bypass that was patched when the mk2 firmware OTA update came out. If you try flashing a custom recovery you risk bricking your phone since the bootloader is locked. The only recovery you can use is Safe Strap.
If you want CyanogenMOD or any other roms of the alike such as AOSP based roms, you will need a Galaxy S3. It has an unlocked bootloader.
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Well alright I did a bit of research myself and you guys are right.. Thanks for the help so I wouldn't brick my galaxy s4![emoji2] I think I'm going to get the lg g2 for custom roms and stuff...
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No problemo, glad to help when I can. Thanks for the PM by the way lol.
Know if can & where to get above for i337 running 4.4.2 NB1 rooted to take place of the Samsung boot animation?? Thanks
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Know if can & where to get above for i337 running 4.4.2 NB1 rooted to take place of the Samsung boot animation?? Thanks
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4/themes-apps/android-l-bootanimation-t2800821 It's compatible with SafeStrap. Confirmed by me since I've flashed it myself. Enjoy
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4/themes-apps/android-l-bootanimation-t2800821 It's compatible with SafeStrap. Confirmed by me since I've flashed it myself. Enjoy
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Do I need to do Cache & Dalvik Wipe before Flash.
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Do I need to do Cache & Dalvik Wipe before Flash.
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Not that I know of. I just flashed it without doing anything. I flashed it yesterday (or day before, idk), and it worked without error in SafeStrap. Didn't wipe one thing. I wouldn't worry about screwing anything up. Unless the you're on 100% stock with the AT&T boot logo that pops up. I don't know how it'll work since I'm running Pure Nexus right now.
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Not that I know of. I just flashed it without doing anything. I flashed it yesterday (or day before, idk), and it worked without error in SafeStrap. Didn't wipe one thing. I wouldn't worry about screwing anything up. Unless the you're on 100% stock with the AT&T boot logo that pops up. I don't know how it'll work since I'm running Pure Nexus right now.
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I am stock 4.4.2 NB1 rooted and Safestrap with AT&T S4 so it has the ATT boot image and sound.
tailgunner9 said:
I am stock 4.4.2 NB1 rooted and Safestrap with AT&T S4 so it has the ATT boot image and sound.
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I would suggest being on a rom like GoldenEye instead of stock. It's a fast rom without the bloat that AT&T and Samsung adds. You can flash the .zip but I don't know how it'll look or boot up. Nothing really bad can happen. Just make a nandroid of system and data before attempting. If you don't like the result just restore the nandroid backup.
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alright, everyone willing to help me out im kinda new to this in a "Way " but not a noob. now im running 4.4.4 i have Root, Safe-strap but im trying to go back to stock because i can not get CWM or TWAP now im trying to do that and im running into this problem odin keeps failing and on my phone say " Fused 5: binary : 1 " ive Googled for an hour and nothing so if anyone on here has a way to help me or did i update to a point of no return ill upload pix
if there is a way of fixing please make a step by step or break it down Thanks everyone
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alright, everyone willing to help me out im kinda new to this in a "Way " but not a noob. now im running 4.4.4 i have Root, Safe-strap but im trying to go back to stock because i can not get CWM or TWAP now im trying to do that and im running into this problem odin keeps failing and on my phone say " Fused 5: binary : 1 " ive Googled for an hour and nothing so if anyone on here has a way to help me or did i update to a point of no return ill upload pix
if there is a way of fixing please make a step by step or break it down Thanks everyone
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you go the at&t s4 the bootloader is locked that's why you can not flash cwm or twrp you cant flash anything except what is signed by Samsung.
wolf45801 said:
you go the at&t s4 the bootloader is locked that's why you can not flash cwm or twrp you cant flash anything except what is signed by Samsung.
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thanks for the reply
so is there anyway i could get a custom rom on my phone i had an AT&T infuse n i romed that everything was easier back then
or am i sh*t outta luck ?
more or less i just want a rom on my phone ...
and when i google it i get 50 different things back and fourth
Billbogz9x8 said:
more or less i just want a rom on my phone ...
and when i google it i get 50 different things back and fourth
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only roms you can run are ones with a Samsung kernel so no custom rom with custom kernel im in the same boat I have the s4 active and mine is locked also so.
wolf45801 said:
only roms you can run are ones with a Samsung kernel so no custom rom with custom kernel im in the same boat I have the s4 active and mine is locked also so.
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Crap :/ well worth the try someday maybe
Billbogz9x8 said:
Crap :/ well worth the try someday maybe
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If you want to go back to stock flash the nb1 tar file with Odin. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=56453100
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If you want to go back to stock flash the nb1 tar file with Odin. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=56453100
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Thanks but i wanted to get to try out the lolliepop rom out and from what I'm told im **** up the creek with no paddle
Billbogz9x8 said:
Thanks but i wanted to get to try out the lolliepop rom out and from what I'm told im **** up the creek with no paddle
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If you're talking about the lollipop gpe rom by ib4stid it'll only work on devices with a mdb or mdl bootloader. It won't work with safestrap.
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If you're talking about the lollipop gpe rom by ib4stid it'll only work on devices with a mdb or mdl bootloader. It won't work with safestrap.
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Ya thats what im told thanks anyway
What about the loki method ? Or can i still not