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[Q] Evo started rebooting randomly

Over the past couple of weeks, my Evo has started to reboot at random times. Sometimes it will go for a few days, other times, it will reboot several times a day. I've had it happen in the middle of using the phone, and in the middle of the night. Nothing has changed on the phone from an app standpoint besides updating the ones I have installed already.
I do have my phone rooted, running a stock ROM from XDA that has apps2sd enabled on it, however, I have been running in this manner for almost a year with no hiccup. I've tried looking at the log files, but they seem to be stored in volatile memory and blanked out/overwritten when the device reboots, so finding an exception or problem on the device after a reboot doesn't seem possible (or is it, and if so, how?).
Anyone with any thoughts/suggestions, please chime in. I have had my Evo for over 2 years, and am loving it still now as much as the day I got it (yes, I do have GS3 envy from my wife's phone, but the Evo does what I need it to do, and does it well)...
Thanks in advance for any tips/suggestions.

Not sure which recovery you have, but if it's Amon Ra or Smelkus, go to recovery, and do Fix Permissions (Under Others) and Repair EXT (Under Partition)
If it were me,and that didn't work, I'd do a backup of all my apps, data, messages, etc and the a complete wipe and reflash the ROM.Basically start over.
I've run a lot of ROMS that seemed to deteriorate over time and a fresh flash fixes it every time.

Are you still running it on stock battery that came with the phone? Could be that its nearly dead and you need a replacement.
Also you're rooted, apart from a2sd you use any other tweaks/mods?

HipKat said:
Not sure which recovery you have, but if it's Amon Ra or Smelkus, go to recovery, and do Fix Permissions (Under Others) and Repair EXT (Under Partition)
If it were me,and that didn't work, I'd do a backup of all my apps, data, messages, etc and the a complete wipe and reflash the ROM.Basically start over.
I've run a lot of ROMS that seemed to deteriorate over time and a fresh flash fixes it every time.
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I'm using Amon Ra, will i lose anything from doing fix perms and repair ext? (I will do a full nandroid first, of course).

Robobob1221 said:
Are you still running it on stock battery that came with the phone? Could be that its nearly dead and you need a replacement.
Also you're rooted, apart from a2sd you use any other tweaks/mods?
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Yes, still on the original stock battery. The most recent reboot happened in the middle of the night last night, while it was charging, though...No other tweaks/mods have been made in the time before this started occurring...the phone had been unchanged (minus app updates) for months.

dmolavi said:
Yes, still on the original stock battery. The most recent reboot happened in the middle of the night last night, while it was charging, though...No other tweaks/mods have been made in the time before this started occurring...the phone had been unchanged (minus app updates) for months.
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Could be an idea to get a new battery, you can get decent cheap ones on amazon or ebay I think, and see if that stops the reboots.
As for fixing permissions and reparing ext you wont lose any data
Out of curiosity what ROM were/are you running when it started?

Robobob1221 said:
Could be an idea to get a new battery, you can get decent cheap ones on amazon or ebay I think, and see if that stops the reboots.
As for fixing permissions and reparing ext you wont lose any data
Out of curiosity what ROM were/are you running when it started?
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Hmm...I'm using Amon-RA 2.3 (from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705026) and there is no "fix permissions" or "repair ext" under "other"...Is there a newer/better version available?
I am using the stock rooted a2sd ROM from Captain Throwback, have been for ages...

Yes, SmelkusMOD 4.3.
It's based of of RA Recovery, but includes some major improvements to the original. If you don't find it yourself I'll get you a link
Edit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1661543
Here's link to the thread.
All the different types are just themes all have the same function
An enviousOG

dmolavi said:
I'm using Amon Ra, will i lose anything from doing fix perms and repair ext? (I will do a full nandroid first, of course).
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No, EXT Repair and Permissions do not delete anything from your SD Card. It's kind've like running a disk check on your computer
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dmolavi said:
Hmm...I'm using Amon-RA 2.3 (from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705026) and there is no "fix permissions" or "repair ext" under "other"...Is there a newer/better version available?
I am using the stock rooted a2sd ROM from Captain Throwback, have been for ages...
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EXT Repair is under Partition SD Card.
Fix Permissions should be under Others or something similar and yeah, Smelkus is the way to go

[Q] Noob question about unlocking bootloader. Seeking Clarification

Hey guys,
Decided i want to flash the franco kernel on my N4 which is currently completely unrooted and stock. So i need to unlock the bootloader, root and install a custom recovery before i can do anything. Just a couple quick questions first.
- When i unlock the bootloader, will i lose absolutely everything? Including photos, videos etc?
If so, does this also mean that my titanium backup file will be deleted too? - Im guessing ill have to move this file onto my PC first to avoid losing my backup.
I did have another question too... hmm maybe ill remember in a bit. But yeah, any clarification with the above would be awesome.
Cheers guys! Im not new to this, ive rooted my N1 and SGS2 in the past but they both had SD's!
Cheers, Jim.

jimbob_me said:
Hey guys,
Decided i want to flash the franco kernel on my N4 which is currently completely unrooted and stock. So i need to unlock the bootloader, root and install a custom recovery before i can do anything. Just a couple quick questions first.
- When i unlock the bootloader, will i lose absolutely everything? Including photos, videos etc?
If so, does this also mean that my titanium backup file will be deleted too? - Im guessing ill have to move this file onto my PC first to avoid losing my backup.
I did have another question too... hmm maybe ill remember in a bit. But yeah, any clarification with the above would be awesome.
Cheers guys! Im not new to this, ive rooted my N1 and SGS2 in the past but they both had SD's!
Cheers, Jim.
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i believe franco kernel is only flashable via fastboot or adb

When you unlock your boot loader it will wipe everything including pictures and videos.As for titanium backup it should restore with your Google account when you set your phone back up again.
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simms22 said:
i believe franco kernel is only flashable via fastboot or adb
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He also provides a zip file to flash in recovery.

heat361 said:
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He also provides a zip file to flash in recovery.
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sweet

Ill worry about flashing franco kernel when i get to it. For now i just want to unlock the bootloader and get root.
When it comes to flashing the franco kernel ill probably just download the franco app from the app store. You can flash using that i believe?

jimbob_me said:
Ill worry about flashing franco kernel when i get to it. For now i just want to unlock the bootloader and get root.
When it comes to flashing the franco kernel ill probably just download the franco app from the app store. You can flash using that i believe?
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Yes you can flash using the Franco app providing you have a custom recovery

everything in your storage will be deleted. just move everything to your computer before unlocking the bootloader, then move it back after.

Yes everything is wiped.. but you can also back up all your important things anyway onto your pc and just copy them back onto your phone when you have finished.

Awesome. Cheers guys.
Plan on using clockworkmod recovery as ive used this before on all my other devices.
If i have any more problems ill let you know on here.

jimbob_me said:
Hey guys,
Decided i want to flash the franco kernel on my N4 which is currently completely unrooted and stock. So i need to unlock the bootloader, root and install a custom recovery before i can do anything. Just a couple quick questions first.
- When i unlock the bootloader, will i lose absolutely everything? Including photos, videos etc?
If so, does this also mean that my titanium backup file will be deleted too? - Im guessing ill have to move this file onto my PC first to avoid losing my backup.
I did have another question too... hmm maybe ill remember in a bit. But yeah, any clarification with the above would be awesome.
Cheers guys! Im not new to this, ive rooted my N1 and SGS2 in the past but they both had SD's!
Cheers, Jim.
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Yes, everything will be wiped from the device. Including the internal SD Card. And I also recommend using TWRP, installable via Goo Manager app.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium

All done. No problems at all. Just restoring everything now.
Now to resist the urge to flash a custom ROM. What do people tend to run these days? I want something that looks as close to stock as possible but improves speed and performance? Cyanogenmod still a good shout?
Cheers!

jimbob_me said:
All done. No problems at all. Just restoring everything now.
Now to resist the urge to flash a custom ROM. What do people tend to run these days? I want something that looks as close to stock as possible but improves speed and performance? Cyanogenmod still a good shout?
Cheers!
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All of the Roms are pretty good and plenty fast. All of the Roms are fast , but if you like to change your app DPI and also get full screen mode with PIE controls then I suggest paranoid android.
Edit:You don't have to use a custom ROM if you don't want the those features, your kernel will decide how fast your device is. If you want you can stay on stock with Franco kernel and get great battery life and speed.

Hmm ill stick with stock on franco kernel for a while and see how it goes. No doubt ill give in eventually and try something new.
Currently having issues using Clockworkmod Carbon backup/restore app. I used this to backup all my apps/data before iunlocked my bootloader (I would normally use Titanium but that required root).
So i backed everything up. Took the backup file called 'Carbon' from my phone and placed it onto my PC desktop.
Unlocked bootloader, rooted, flashed CWM recovery, rebooted. All good!
Redownloaded the carbon app. Placed the backup folder from my PC onto the phone into the new 'Carbon' folder created when the app launches for the first time. I go to restore my apps and it says 'No backups were found on your internal storage'. Even though i just put them there! Its like the app is no longer looking in the same place to find the backup folder.
Its not my apps im annoyed about so much, but mostly my user data and sms messages and stuff.
Anyone have a fix for this?
Cheers

jimbob_me said:
Hmm ill stick with stock on franco kernel for a while and see how it goes. No doubt ill give in eventually and try something new.
Currently having issues using Clockworkmod Carbon backup/restore app. I used this to backup all my apps/data before iunlocked my bootloader (I would normally use Titanium but that required root).
So i backed everything up. Took the backup file called 'Carbon' from my phone and placed it onto my PC desktop.
Unlocked bootloader, rooted, flashed CWM recovery, rebooted. All good!
Redownloaded the carbon app. Placed the backup folder from my PC onto the phone into the new 'Carbon' folder created when the app launches for the first time. I go to restore my apps and it says 'No backups were found on your internal storage'. Even though i just put them there! Its like the app is no longer looking in the same place to find the backup folder.
Its not my apps im annoyed about so much, but mostly my user data and sms messages and stuff.
Anyone have a fix for this?
Cheers
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Don't you have to sign in to your carbon account to see anything? Sorry I can't help you because I'm not familiar with carbon. You could always contact support [email protected]

Hmm still no luck.
Yeah ive sent them an email. Guess ill just wait to hear back from them.
Cheers for the help guys

Any luck with the backups, I'm having the fame problem.

On my N4, this went OK with Carbon!
On my N7, it was not OK, I got the same message. Just emailed that address. Did you not get any reply?
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Konstigt said:
On my N4, this went OK with Carbon!
On my N7, it was not OK, I got the same message. Just emailed that address. Did you not get any reply?
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I have one idea of my own.. the device id has probably changed. TitaniumBackup usually fixes this on my N4 if I reinstall but i didn't have this on my N7 as it was not rooted.
Could that be it? If so, how can it be changed .. (and how do you know what it was)?

[Q] Galaxy s4 Rooted and Custom Rom Problems

I have a Canadian S4 and rooted using the twrp method and then installed the vigin google play edition rom. Everything worked fine at first when I installed it but i was fiddling around after in twrp and thought i should format the internal storage and start completely fresh and now if I install any rom including my original backup the device will boot up into the system fine for the first time but if the device resets after that it just hangs on the galaxy S4 logo and i have to reboot into recovery and flash again. Any ideas on how i could fix this? Thanks!!!

Try this, in twrp go into advanced wipe and wipe dalvik cache, cache, system, data and android secure. Then flash your nandroid.

I don't have a nandroid I have a twrp backup

Jaygrippa said:
I don't have a nandroid I have a twrp backup
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That is a nandroid.

Dont use TWRP for the S4
From what I have experience and I believe others have as well, if you used TWRP to format where you had to type yes, you are pretty much screwed trying to get things working properly again. Maybe it is certain phones, sd cards, roms, who knows, but after I typed yes in TWRP to format everything, I could flash a rom but couldnt restart and things were buggy. I had to use odin to flash back to stock, re-root and flash the rom again. Now everything is 190% considering my battery life went from 6 hours to 28 with medium usage.
I have always loved TWRP on my other phones, but for the S4, its more frustration and using with caution than its worth.
Another word of caution, use windows to fix your phone. Im on linux and its too much of a pain in the ass to use odin/heimdall to go back to stock for newbs. On windows I went to stock and rooted again in no time.
Good luck!

jd1639 said:
That is a nandroid.
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After doing that stuff in twrp should I flash right back to my backup of stock touch wiz or straight into the ROM of my choosing? Whenever I would have to reflash I would have to format he internal memory or it wouldn't work

Ya I did the thing where I typed yes... Crap ya its my first time doing all this stuff so you suggest I Re do all of the rooting stuff and then flash my backup I made?

Jaygrippa said:
Ya I did the thing where I typed yes... Crap ya its my first time doing all this stuff so you suggest I Re do all of the rooting stuff and then flash my backup I made?
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You might have to. I had the same problem today where if the phone rebooted I would just get a black screen. I ended up using Odin with the stock rom, reinstalling twrp and then restoring my backup. I'm pretty sure it was a rom I flashed that caused the initial problem and only Odin would clear things up.

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Jaygrippa said:
Ya I did the thing where I typed yes... Crap ya its my first time doing all this stuff so you suggest I Re do all of the rooting stuff and then flash my backup I made?
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Actually its going back to stock, then rerooting. All I did was follow androidrootz guide here:
http://www.androidrootz.com/2013/06/how-to-unroot-unbrick-galaxy-s4.html
After that, motochopper back to get root and followed this guide to install OUDHS recovery:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2291956
This worked for me, at least for now. Hope it can help you out.

ericchaffey said:
Actually its going back to stock, then rerooting. All I did was follow androidrootz guide here:
http://www.androidrootz.com/2013/06/how-to-unroot-unbrick-galaxy-s4.html
After that, motochopper back to get root and followed this guide to install OUDHS recovery:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2291956
This worked for me, at least for now. Hope it can help you out.
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Hey thanks a bunch ill try that out later. I am at work right now and i can still use my phone on the rom i have just as long as i dont reset it. Ill try all of this out when i get home and see if that works. Thanks for everyones help
Now the only problem is i have to find a Fido ROM

Jaygrippa said:
Hey thanks a bunch ill try that out later. I am at work right now and i can still use my phone on the rom i have just as long as i dont reset it. Ill try all of this out when i get home and see if that works. Thanks for everyones help
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A couple other notes, to avoid other possible problems, use the original samsung cord when connecting to your computer. Switching USB ports can help if there are transfer or other issues. Its pretty easy and straight forward if everything works out well, but there are so many gawt dayum variables that minor issues can cause problems, though may never manifest.
Hopefully this works and please post some results to help the same in need.

ericchaffey said:
A couple other notes, to avoid other possible problems, use the original samsung cord when connecting to your computer. Switching USB ports can help if there are transfer or other issues. Its pretty easy and straight forward if everything works out well, but there are so many gawt dayum variables that minor issues can cause problems, though may never manifest.
Hopefully this works and please post some results to help the same in need.
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Ya thinks i will, now im just in the process of finding a rom for Fido, they are owned by rogers so im not sure if the rogers rom will work, This android stuff is so stressful its my first android phone so i hope all goes well!

Jaygrippa said:
Ya thinks i will, now im just in the process of finding a rom for Fido, they are owned by rogers so im not sure if the rogers rom will work, This android stuff is so stressful its my first android phone so i hope all goes well!
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I get firmware from sammobile.com. You have to register but it's free. You'll download a zip. Use 7-zip to extract the .tar.md5 file from it. Use that in Odin, PDA.

jd1639 said:
I get firmware from sammobile.com. You have to register but it's free. You'll download a zip. Use 7-zip to extract the .tar.md5 file from it. Use that in Odin, PDA.
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ya even they dont have a specific "Fido" firmware...

Anyone know if I can just use the Rogers ROM its pretty much the same company

Jaygrippa said:
Anyone know if I can just use the Rogers ROM its pretty much the same company
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It'll work. It'll just put their bloatware on and the boot animation will be theirs

Reflashed
Ok so i reflashed to the stock rom using odin and bam it works again, im just wondering what is a good way now too root, and install the same rom i had

This will have everything you need http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42320391

Thanks everyone for your help, I got my phone back up and running stock, then i rooted using CF- Autoroot and installed twrp again. I then reinstalled the rom i wanted to use and everything is in tip top order

Jaygrippa said:
Thanks everyone for your help, I got my phone back up and running stock, then i rooted using CF- Autoroot and installed twrp again. I then reinstalled the rom i wanted to use and everything is in tip top order
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Glad to here it. Have fun.

[Q] Few questions on roms / widgets / etc

Hey, so I'm fairly new to the whole rooting and customizing Android, so please forgive me if I come accross "ignorant" or generally childish. I bought a galaxy note 3 the other day and researched what rooting did. After getting convince that rooting was "awesome," I actually managed to root. I also played with some Xposed modules because they were fairly simple and cool. After more research, I found out that Verizon had a locked bootloader which prevented me from using any other roms? I also read that verizon/att users can use safestrap but i couldn't exactly find some specifics for it. So whats the disadvantages of safestrap? Do specific roms have to be used?
Another concern, I'd like to get a faster rom than stock touchwiz, but i'd also like to find a rom that can use ART runtime as well as maintaining a nice multi window feature. I tried XHaloFloatingWindow and another xposed module, and I can't say I was pleased with them compared to the touchwiz one. I'd also like to maintain S-pen features? Does anybody know of any roms that may come close to fitting most of these topics?
Final, completely random question, The lg g3 has this lockscreen widget where when it rains out, drops of water will cover/slide down the entire lock screen on top of your notifications. I thought this was awesome, but wasn't sure if it was possible to get on a note 3.
Anyways, Hope to get some simple answers

ATalkingRock said:
Hey, so I'm fairly new to the whole rooting and customizing Android, so please forgive me if I come accross "ignorant" or generally childish. I bought a galaxy note 3 the other day and researched what rooting did. After getting convince that rooting was "awesome," I actually managed to root. I also played with some Xposed modules because they were fairly simple and cool. After more research, I found out that Verizon had a locked bootloader which prevented me from using any other roms? I also read that verizon/att users can use safestrap but i couldn't exactly find some specifics for it. So whats the disadvantages of safestrap? Do specific roms have to be used?
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Safestrap is as close to a custom recovery as we'll get, right now. Due to our bootloader, stock based rom are all we can use. However, we are not stuck with one rom. Check in the dev threads for roms compatible with your device. Also check the dev and general threads for more info on rooting, safestrap, and how to flash roms.
Another concern, I'd like to get a faster rom than stock touchwiz, but i'd also like to find a rom that can use ART runtime as well as maintaining a nice multi window feature. I tried XHaloFloatingWindow and another xposed module, and I can't say I was pleased with them compared to the touchwiz one. I'd also like to maintain S-pen features? Does anybody know of any roms that may come close to fitting most of these topics?
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Art not available for us. Only stock based. See my recommendation above for other roms. There are a few with some pretty cool features and add-ons!
Final, completely random question, The lg g3 has this lockscreen widget where when it rains out, drops of water will cover/slide down the entire lock screen on top of your notifications. I thought this was awesome, but wasn't sure if it was possible to get on a note 3.
Anyways, Hope to get some simple answers
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Not sure about this one...

Not sure about your specific questions, as I don't use multiwindow or the other features you listed. But I thought I would point out, what method of root did you use? Make sure of what system your running at this point. beans or kitkat? You will have to select a rom based on that. Or vice versa, re-root if you find a rom that you prefer thats running different android version. Either one will run safestrap obviously, since there are roms for each. You will find pros and cons to each. The con that I'm currently experiencing on kitkat that has me thinking about going back is I can't seem to find a modem that will get me decent reception so I'm assuming at this point that its kitkat thats causing it. Just something more for you to research. Being new to it, you've got ALOT of material to read about. But if you've already rooted, sounds like you've got a decent idea of the process. For me, tutorial videos were a life saver

LeftyGR said:
Safestrap is as close to a custom recovery as we'll get, right now. Due to our bootloader, stock based rom are all we can use. However, we are not stuck with one rom. Check in the dev threads for roms compatible with your device. Also check the dev and general threads for more info on rooting, safestrap, and how to flash roms.
Art not available for us. Only stock based. See my recommendation above for other roms. There are a few with some pretty cool features and add-ons!
Not sure about this one...
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Alright so perhaps you can help me with just a few more concerns. I researched roms and such. I successfully downloaded safestrap, made a backup of my stock rom and put it on mycomputer. I also made a backup with titanium backup before that and it is also on the computer. I am looking at hyperdrive or jasminerom for the note 3. On there, it explains normal directions to install, but then it says to flash with odin, but when I read something about a tutorial how to install cutom roms on a website "Galaxynote3root" (I can't post the URL yet, says i'll be spamming) , it explained nothing of odin. What is odin? is it mandatory? Does my phone have it by default? hm.... Also i have a build number of NC4, does that build not work with NC2? sorry for inconvenience or annoying noobish questions. Thanks if you respond

So being on Kitkat, did you use the beans method that installed a rom with root basically built in already? And by saying you downloaded safestrap, is it successfully installed? When you boot the phone, do you get the safestrap bootup screen allowing to go into recovery?
If you've already gotten that far, your pretty well set to install either of those roms.

LeftyGR said:
Safestrap is as close to a custom recovery as we'll get, right now. Due to our bootloader, stock based rom are all we can use. However, we are not stuck with one rom. Check in the dev threads for roms compatible with your device. Also check the dev and general threads for more info on rooting, safestrap, and how to flash roms.
Art not available for us. Only stock based. See my recommendation above for other roms. There are a few with some pretty cool features and add-ons!
Not sure about this one...
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scott_65 said:
So being on Kitkat, did you use the beans method that installed a rom with root basically built in already? And by saying you downloaded safestrap, is it successfully installed? When you boot the phone, do you get the safestrap bootup screen allowing to go into recovery?
If you've already gotten that far, your pretty well set to install either of those roms.
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Well i rooted my phone via towelroot. I got safestrap hooked up and installed, so in other words when i reboot, yes it does have the splash screen. I am on kitkat as well. but do i need to install some sort of odin or something? sorry

I think as long as the rom's op says it's based on nc2 or nc4, you should be good. You should not need to worry about odin, since you're already on kk.
Since you're new, I'd suggest not touching the stock slot. It gives you a fall back if something goes wrong. Make sure you understand using safestrap, and start trying some stuff out.
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scott_65 said:
So being on Kitkat, did you use the beans method that installed a rom with root basically built in already? And by saying you downloaded safestrap, is it successfully installed? When you boot the phone, do you get the safestrap bootup screen allowing to go into recovery?
If you've already gotten that far, your pretty well set to install either of those roms.
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Sounds like he rooted the nc4 with towelroot, cuz he started on nc4. And sounds like ss is working for him, if he's made a backup.

LeftyGR said:
I think as long as the rom's op says it's based on nc2 or nc4, you should be good. You should not need to worry about odin, since you're already on kk.
Since you're new, I'd suggest not touching the stock slot. It gives you a fall back if something goes wrong. Make sure you understand using safestrap, and start trying some stuff out.
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Okay thanks, that boosts my confidence a bit! I'm just afraid of bricking my phone, as any noobie should be.

ATalkingRock said:
Okay thanks, that boosts my confidence a bit! I'm just afraid of bricking my phone, as any noobie should be.
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Good man.
If you find something that you don't know or understand, search that thread for an answer. Then ask if you don't find an answer. And always try to give any other details you think might help.
As long as you remember search is your friend first...then ask...you will almost always find people to help you out!

LeftyGR said:
Good man.
If you find something that you don't know or understand, search that thread for an answer. Then ask if you don't find an answer. And always try to give any other details you think might help.
As long as you remember search is your friend first...then ask...you will almost always find people to help you out!
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alright alright I'm very sorry for this final question as I actually have tried to search for this but only got comparisons between titanium backup and safestrap. So, if I were to make a titanium backup right now, after the fact that i made a safestrap backup or installation, will that effect anything? I'm really really sorry if these questions are beyond beginner, I just like to play it safe.

ATalkingRock said:
alright alright I'm very sorry for this final question as I actually have tried to search for this but only got comparisons between titanium backup and safestrap. So, if I were to make a titanium backup right now, after the fact that i made a safestrap backup or installation, will that effect anything? I'm really really sorry if these questions are beyond beginner, I just like to play it safe.
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Nope. Tibu backs up specific apps and it's associated data and stores it on sd. When you open tibu, it gets it's info from files it stores on sd. Recovery backs up your entire rom environment, but doesn't actually touch sd card user space.
This is why tibu is so helpful. Everything pops up that you had backed up, even on a new rom.

I'm not familiar with the towelroot method. Only the old Kingo for jb, or the beans method for kk. Sounds like your good to go for any KK roms, and Lefty seems familiar, good deal. Not sure how old you are or how far back your computer knowledge goes, so this may do you no good. Odin doesn't go on your phone, it goes on your computer. I always think of it as the old school DOS, or like now when you boot to command prompt if windows isn't working. Its like a back door when your phone operating system isn't working, or if you need to make changes to part of the system that would otherwise need to be running to make those changes FROM the phone. Its flashes the changes TO the phone from your computer instead.
I'm rambling. Its too early. Anyhow, glad your getting things moving along. You can try roms in various rom slots, but you may have issues. I had some roms work well, others not well at all. The ones that have problems, they seem to work better in the stock slot. So you have to wipe the stock slot and flash it there. No big deal, just don't goof up, flash it all at once. If you pause, take a potty break and the battery dies, whatever, don't forget, you have no operating system at that point. Thats when Odin would come into play

LeftyGR said:
Nope. Tibu backs up specific apps and it's associated data and stores it on sd. When you open tibu, it gets it's info from files it stores on sd. Recovery backs up your entire rom environment, but doesn't actually touch sd card user space.
This is why tibu is so helpful. Everything pops up that you had backed up, even on a new rom.
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Alright so quick update. I successfully installed both roms into slots 1 and 2 respectively. Everything went okay, I rebooted system, but the screen just stayed black. They aren't loading, i still can go back to stock rom. But uhm any idea as to why this is occuring? Could it be the NC4/NC2 build things?
In the hyperdrive rom for the note 3, it says it will work with verizon and also states that after the initial reboot after flashing the rom, there will be a 10 minute wait until it actually boots up. I'd say i've waited 15 minutes and nothing has shown up. So I'm assuming something went wrong. Perhaps i should try to reflash it?
EDIT: I read the directions further ahead and managed to flash a file via odin for the first time, now im getting a rom's boot animation which is good. I hope this'll work !
Edit 2: I successfully installed it and booted it up, everything went okay, I restored my titanium backup and then titanium prompted me to restart. I restarted, and now its bootlooping android.process.acore or something like that is crashing everything =/

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Alright so quick update. I successfully installed both roms into slots 1 and 2 respectively. Everything went okay, I rebooted system, but the screen just stayed black. They aren't loading, i still can go back to stock rom. But uhm any idea as to why this is occuring? Could it be the NC4/NC2 build things?
In the hyperdrive rom for the note 3, it says it will work with verizon and also states that after the initial reboot after flashing the rom, there will be a 10 minute wait until it actually boots up. I'd say i've waited 15 minutes and nothing has shown up. So I'm assuming something went wrong. Perhaps i should try to reflash it?
EDIT: I read the directions further ahead and managed to flash a file via odin for the first time, now im getting a rom's boot animation which is good. I hope this'll work !
Edit 2: I successfully installed it and booted it up, everything went okay, I restored my titanium backup and then titanium prompted me to restart. I restarted, and now its bootlooping android.process.acore or something like that is crashing everything =/
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uh oh now my stock rom is bootlooping as well. i in trouble

ATalkingRock said:
uh oh now my stock rom is bootlooping as well. i in trouble
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What did you flash in odin?

LeftyGR said:
What did you flash in odin?
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In JasmineRom's instructions it says to flash a file called unified_KK_Firmware_RE.tar.md5. After flashing it, it booted up to the new rom.But seemingly once i restarted after titanium backup restored everything it crashed. I then cleared all the cache and data through a factory reset in the safestrap settings and it started up normally. Am I not going to be able to restore my things through titanium? I would send you a link to the odin flash file, but I can't until I have a certain number of posts

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In JasmineRom's instructions it says to flash a file called unified_KK_Firmware_RE.tar.md5. After flashing it, it booted up to the new rom.But seemingly once i restarted after titanium backup restored everything it crashed. I then cleared all the cache and data through a factory reset in the safestrap settings and it started up normally. Am I not going to be able to restore my things through titanium? I would send you a link to the odin flash file, but I can't until I have a certain number of posts
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No need. I know what you're saying. So flashing that file shouldn't have been really necessary, given you're already on nc4. But it doesn't hurt and should not have caused what you described. So you have roms in stock, slot 1, and slot 2? Which ones bootloop?
For tibu, I would uninstall, reboot, reinstall. Somehow it didn't like you doing that.

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No need. I know what you're saying. So flashing that file shouldn't have been really necessary, given you're already on nc4. But it doesn't hurt and should not have caused what you described. So you have roms in stock, slot 1, and slot 2? Which ones bootloop?
For tibu, I would uninstall, reboot, reinstall. Somehow it didn't like you doing that.
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Alright so as we speak right now, I have slot 1 with jasminerom and stock which should be the untouched stock rom of course. I have a backup through safestrap of that. I will uninstall titaniumbackup and reinstall and see if that works?
edit: sorry I feel as though I'm being unclear as I can hardly comprehend my own messages. Before, both slot 1 and stock were bootlooping. This bootloop came after titanium backup promted me to restart. But when i cleared the cache through the factory reset, the slot1 rom started to work agin (jasminerom), I haven't tried stock rom to see if it works yet. I'm currently on jasminerom about to re-restore my apps through titanium backup like you said.

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No need. I know what you're saying. So flashing that file shouldn't have been really necessary, given you're already on nc4. But it doesn't hurt and should not have caused what you described. So you have roms in stock, slot 1, and slot 2? Which ones bootloop?
For tibu, I would uninstall, reboot, reinstall. Somehow it didn't like you doing that.
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alright i finished re-restoring through titanium backup. Once it finished it provided a notification saying "batch complete, 66 elements failed" Right now all my apps are here and everything is seeming to work. Should I restart to see if it bootloops again?

ATalkingRock said:
alright i finished re-restoring through titanium backup. Once it finished it provided a notification saying "batch complete, 66 elements failed" Right now all my apps are here and everything is seeming to work. Should I restart to see if it bootloops again?
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You should be ok. How many apps did you try to restore, if 66 failed?

[Q] Sanity Check. About to Flash first ROM to my S5.

Quick Sanity Check here. I mainly just want to confirm that I have all my ducks in a row before I pull the trigger on installing my first ROM on my 3 mo old S5. I have flashed ROMS in the past on other devices, but it has been 3 years or so, and then it was on the first day I got said device. I have been using my S5 for a few months now, and I don't want to lose any of my accumulated data. So here goes.
Running Stock 4.4.4 on G900V
I am Rooted via Towelroot, and I have installed Safestrap recovery. I also completed a Nandroid backup.
I completed a Titanium backup of all my apps and system settings just now.
I plan to flash the MOAR Rom to stock slot via Safestrap, and upon completion, do a restore from Titanium.
My hope is that by doing that, I will wind up with a custom ROM, but with all my contacts, sms messages, Apps and app settings, which is actually the entire point of this post.
Am I right in assuming that if I follow those steps, I should be good?
Your advice/confirmation/response will be appreciated!! Thanks!

Wow.. 40 views and no one knows the answer to my query? I just need a quick yes if my hunch is true, or if I'm off, just a no and a few small words or correction. Thanks will be given!

musiclover7 said:
Wow.. 40 views and no one knows the answer to my query? I just need a quick yes if my hunch is true, or if I'm off, just a no and a few small words or correction. Thanks will be given!
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Make sure to backup call log, and the sms in titanium as well. The easiest way to keep everything the same app and data wise is to wipe all partitions besides micro sd and data, and then flash do a slightly dirty flash. Thats what I did, and it worked just fine. Just make sure to back up, and after you flash, make sure to odin the oa8 kernel as well. Also make sure to flash the kernel before first boot. Btw my phone took a while to boot up, so dont be too worried if it takes longer than 5 minutes. Mine took like 10-15 minutes, and has been rock solid since. Hope this helps!

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Make sure to backup call log, and the sms in titanium as well. The easiest way to keep everything the same app and data wise is to wipe all partitions besides micro sd and data, and then flash do a slightly dirty flash. Thats what I did, and it worked just fine. Just make sure to back up, and after you flash, make sure to odin the oa8 kernel as well. Also make sure to flash the kernel before first boot. Btw my phone took a while to boot up, so dont be too worried if it takes longer than 5 minutes. Mine took like 10-15 minutes, and has been rock solid since. Hope this helps!
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Thanks Thorkle! Are you sure I only need to flash OA8 Kernel? When I look at JKRuse's instructions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-galaxy-s5/development/vzwstock-based-tw-rom-t3024731
It mentions that it is important to flash the entire firmware, not just the kernel...
"6. flash VZW_BOA8_RETAIL_FIRMWARE_ONLY.tar.md5 Make sure it is the retail firmware and not just the kernel"
Of course, the link that is provided to said firmware does not work, and I have not been able to find a working one on the net so far. Anyone who has a link to that firmware, please share...

I got it installed and working. I am loving this new ROM!

musiclover7 said:
I got it installed and working. I am loving this new ROM!
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Several people that have restored data, even in TIBU have run into problems. The suggested method is a full wipe and clean install. With that being said I resorted some data with TIBU and never had any issues.

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Several people that have restored data, even in TIBU have run into problems. The suggested method is a full wipe and clean install. With that being said I resorted some data with TIBU and never had any issues.
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So far it seems to be working very well for me. I only restored data from about 10-15 apps, none of which were red in TIBU. Messages, Contacts, email, etc.
So far, my phone feels much smoother than it did on 4.4.4. Battery life is good as well. I fell asleep with 55% last night, and about an hour after waking up this morning, I noticed I was at 51%. That is a marked improvement. Here is hoping that sentiment holds.

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Of course, the link that is provided to said firmware does not work, and I have not been able to find a working one on the net so far. Anyone who has a link to that firmware, please share...
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if you look at the URL for the firmware, then look at the other URLs to download files in that post it will give you the clue to fix the firmware link to make it work. TIP: add a t to the end.