I recently flashed the 4.3 update and immediately rooted and flashed twrp. I then decided to go full stock. I thought I could just Odin back to mf9 and flash the update again. This is not the case. I got back to 4.2.2. But it was not mf9. The software version stayed at mja. The update zip would not install anymore. Odin was failing with errors. My nandroid of 4.3 would not take. Just bootlooped. I thought I was screwed until someone pointed me to a nandroid of boot and system that could be flashed with philz recovery. So I'm back to 4.3. What I'm looking to do is get this to pure stock 4.3. Stock recovery and all. I'll wory about the Knox flags later. Is there anyway this can be done yet?
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I recently flashed the 4.3 update and immediately rooted and flashed twrp. I then decided to go full stock. I thought I could just Odin back to mf9 and flash the update again. This is not the case. I got back to 4.2.2. But it was not mf9. The software version stayed at mja. The update zip would not install anymore. Odin was failing with errors. My nandroid of 4.3 would not take. Just bootlooped. I thought I was screwed until someone pointed me to a nandroid of boot and system that could be flashed with philz recovery. So I'm back to 4.3. What I'm looking to do is get this to pure stock 4.3. Stock recovery and all. I'll wory about the Knox flags later. Is there anyway this can be done yet?
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Read through this thread and follow the directions. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2506562 It will do what you need.
I did use this thread and got back to 4.3 with philz recovery. What I'd really like to do is get completely stock, recovery and all. Gonna have to wait for a 4.3 .tar for an Odin flash. Or maybe someone can figure a way to flash stock recovery back and I can factory restore. This Knox security stuff is for the birds!
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I used the MF9 stock recovery after going to MJA in order to do a factory restore. Then I used it again to manually force the update with the cce8d8a155a0602c83356e00311a1695e9a9383f.USER_L720_SPT_MF9_CSB_user_RP_to_MJA_CSB_user_RP_Update_FWD.zip file.
Have you tried just doing an RTN via the phone dialer? Enter ##786# on phone keyboard, Select "reset", Enter MSL.
Both of those methods will wipe everything, of course, so backup using Helium, etc.
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I am trying to update from MDC to MDL. Android System Update says "downloaded and verified - 23.8 MB." I hit restart and install and it counts down to "Rebooting now - 23.8 MB." It never reboots, just sits there.
I rooted using CF and installed TWRP. I backed up MDC and then flashed stock recovery. Went to system update and that is where I am. Is the fact I am rooted causing my problems?
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I am trying to update from MDC to MDL. Android System Update says "downloaded and verified - 23.8 MB." I hit restart and install and it counts down to "Rebooting now - 23.8 MB." It never reboots, just sits there.
I rooted using CF and installed TWRP. I backed up MDC and then flashed stock recovery. Went to system update and that is where I am. Is the fact I am rooted causing my problems?
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Try this. Worked flawlessly for me and others
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=ONzx...top_uri=/watch?v=ONzxfyTnWIY&feature=youtu.be
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Reflash stock Recovery in Odin and Unroot then root by using the cf auto root http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2291827 and get twrp back with the goo manager app in the play store.
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E The Magnificent said:
Try this. Worked flawlessly for me and others
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=ONzx...top_uri=/watch?v=ONzxfyTnWIY&feature=youtu.be
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Thanks, but rooting is not the problem. I am trying to apply MDC -> MDL after rooting.
You have to Unroot first then flash stock Recovery them root using cf auto root http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2291827
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Thanks, but rooting is not the problem. I am trying to apply MDC -> MDL after rooting.
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**Edit** dammit didn't read post above mine. doh, facepalm
I was stock rooted w/ twrp recovery when I wanted to go from MDC to MDL. I did a nand, then unrooted and flashed a completely stock MSC ROM with stock recovery. Allowed MDL update to download then installed, then flashed CFs Auto Root after MDL was applied.
Everything went without a hitch. Probably took longer than should have cause of the nand then flashing complete unrooted stock.
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**Edit** dammit didn't read post above mine. doh, facepalm
I was stock rooted w/ twrp recovery when I wanted to go from MDC to MDL. I did a nand, then unrooted and flashed a completely stock MSC ROM with stock recovery. Allowed MDL update to download then installed, then flashed CFs Auto Root after MDL was applied.
Everything went without a hitch. Probably took longer than should have cause of the nand then flashing complete unrooted stock.
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Hello Folks... I'm currently unrooting to try this method from above link > after can i flash a ROM (example ForceROM)?
Thanks
I was unable to get the MDC -> MDL upgrade to work (stock MDC, rooted, stock recovery), so I flashed stock MDC per http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2277480. Took upgrade to MDL and rerooted. I read where people were able to upgrade while rooted (some losing root), but did not work for me.
FanOfSkynyrd said:
**Edit** dammit didn't read post above mine. doh, facepalm
I was stock rooted w/ twrp recovery when I wanted to go from MDC to MDL. I did a nand, then unrooted and flashed a completely stock MSC ROM with stock recovery. Allowed MDL update to download then installed, then flashed CFs Auto Root after MDL was applied.
Everything went without a hitch. Probably took longer than should have cause of the nand then flashing complete unrooted stock.
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How did you unroot?
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How did you unroot?
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I just installed the stock ROM/firmware/recovery in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40889088#post40889088
I used the SPR one.
Once I flashed this gave everything a few minutes and MDL update was downloaded and ready to install.
Installed, then rooted via CF-Auto Root.
Just make sure you make a nand before doing any of this.
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If I allow the update to install, will it return the phone to stock? Will it remove CWM? Or is it best to flash the stock rom via Odin and then do update? I just want the phone back to full stock.
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You want your phone 100% stock unrooted? If so Odin back to MDL and run a Factory Reset, then you should be able to OTA.
Fair warning, once you update, there is no going back. I mean really, there is NO GOING BACK!
Ok. After 24hours of no sleep i finally recovered my phone from the soft brick state it was after i flashed the wrong kernel when i was in stock 4.3.Now am back to sacs 8 though no wifi works and phone is rebooting and fc everything. I want to flash back to stock 4.2.2 but odin refuses. If you need any logs to be generated so you might help please tell me exactly what you need and ill provide
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Ok. After 24hours of no sleep i finally recovered my phone from the soft brick state it was after i flashed the wrong kernel when i was in stock 4.3.Now am back to sacs 8 though no wifi works and phone is rebooting and fc everything. I want to flash back to stock 4.2.2 but odin refuses. If you need any logs to be generated so you might help please tell me exactly what you need and ill provide
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2508411
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what did you do? im trying to use KIES but i dont have the serial.. can you msg me your serial so i can atleast get KIES to download the software? msg me
Kies won't work if u updated to 4.3. Kies 3 won't work either. If u soft bricked ur phone flash the cf auto root tar. It will fix ur error. We're just stuck with 4.3 for now.
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kies wont do anything. After 4.3 update we can not downgrade. My issue is i cant boot into stock 4.3. I can only flash octos or other roms but with phone not working and problems as such.
ok somehow i fixed this. I followed the instructions using twrp recover. Only difference is that after i recovered modem and radio through custom twrp method, i used cf autoroot to get stock recovery back then used the update.zip posted in another forum, to update through sideload and it worked. Back in stock 4.3.
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ok somehow i fixed this. I followed the instructions using twrp recover. Only difference is that after i recovered modem and radio through custom twrp method, i used cf autoroot to get stock recovery back then used the update.zip posted in another forum, to update through sideload and it worked. Back in stock 4.3.
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which update.zip?
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which update.zip?
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the 4.3 update.zip that got pulled out of someones phone before he fully updated from 4.2.2 to 4.3. You can find the zip file in the General section i think.
I was on stock 4.2.2 got the update and went to 4.3. Then i flashed a 4.3 tw kernel and everything got screwed. After that i went followed the instructions found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47113608#post47113608. First i recovered boot , then system , then modem then radio through twrp using the files found there. After that i booted used the cf auto root to go back to stock recovery. Phone was still doing the boot loop up to this point. Then i figured out that the backup was probably a 4.2.2 backup so i used adb sideload to install update.zip. After that i wipe data/factory reset and it booted just fine. Ok lost everything but phone works now like new.
Hello.First post here.
I currently have been using CM11 for a few months now but miss some features on stock. (multiwindow, air view) so I installed Sacs ROM.
Everything was working great today except a known problem is wifi will not work due to radio opbstructions (i believe). So i attempted to change the baseband to MF9.
At first, Odin started then immidately it failed. The error read 'Fused 4 Binary 1'
So i assumed it was a connection error. I loaded back into download mode and tried again. Failed.
At this point i thought screw it, and took the battery out. tried to reboot and stuck at the soft brick "Firmware upgrade encountered and issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again"
I installed Kies. Plugged in my phone. Drivers installed but Kies will not connect. Try to do 'Firmware Upgrade and Initialization'
However Kies will NOT accpet my S/N number. i tried everything. writing it all out or with a space every 3 numbers or with 'DEC' at the front. nothing worked.
I even called sprint to double check S/N (ESN/DEC)
so basically I'm soft bricked and Kies is screwing me over. Any ideas?
Have you tried to odin back to stock?
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ROMANTiC KiD said:
Have you tried to odin back to stock?
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thats the one thing i want to avoid.
by reverting to stock wont i lose root access? i have a backup of my old CM ROM from before i flashed sacs. should i revert to stock then restore to CM then reinstall Sacs?
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thats the one thing i want to avoid.
by reverting to stock wont i lose root access? i have a backup of my old CM ROM from before i flashed sacs. should i revert to stock then restore to CM then reinstall Sacs?
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Yes but it takes all but about 30 seconds to root again
You could go straight to sacs after rooting.
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daniel4653 said:
Yes but it takes all but about 30 seconds to root again
You could go straight to sacs after rooting.
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ok that might leave me with a cleaner install also.
wheres the stock file i can flash on Odin?
also how should i update the radio if it didnt work the first time?
Thank you for the help
whatthe_fuzz said:
ok that might leave me with a cleaner install also.
wheres the stock file i can flash on Odin?
also how should i update the radio if it didnt work the first time?
Thank you for the help
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If you flash a full stock tar you won't have to flash radio.
Do a search please for the tar.
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leaderbuilder said:
If you flash a full stock tar you won't have to flash radio.
Do a search please for the tar.
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i searched around and eventually found a working .md5 file. its apparently is stock. got my phone to start booting but it got stuck at the yellow sprint screen. im going to try to boot into safe mode. any ideas how to access my recovery file? i have one form CWM and one from Ti Backup
which tar did you flash through Odin? MF9, MK2 or NAE?
IF you were on MF9 and flashed the full MF9 tar you can try and flash again. Just power off phone completely, go to download mode, attach and run Odin. (same for MK2 or NAE) BUT if you tried flashing MJA/MK2 or NAE you cannot go back to MF9. Things you should have read about already.
If it hangs on boot after flashing, power off completely, boot to stock recovery and do a factory reset and then let it restart first reboot can take 5 to 10 earth minutes.
You can then root via CF-Autoroot or Saferoot, install goomanager to grab a custom recovery (CWM or TWRP) OR Odin said recoveries (Philz, TWRP etc.)
leaderbuilder said:
which tar did you flash through Odin? MF9, MK2 or NAE?
IF you were on MF9 and flashed the full MF9 tar you can try and flash again. Just power off phone completely, go to download mode, attach and run Odin. (same for MK2 or NAE) BUT if you tried flashing MJA/MK2 or NAE you cannot go back to MF9. Things you should have read about already.
If it hangs on boot after flashing, power off completely, boot to stock recovery and do a factory reset and then let it restart first reboot can take 5 to 10 earth minutes.
You can then root via CF-Autoroot or Saferoot, install goomanager to grab a custom recovery (CWM or TWRP) OR Odin said recoveries (Philz, TWRP etc.)
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I think i fixed it.
Problems resolved.
The issue was i had Sacs v4 which didnt support wifi and i read that it needed MF9 firmware.
i had a lapse in judgement and without thinking tried to go back from MJA. didnt catch it until now.
I eventually found the correct stock file. eventually got into the phone. rerooted and in the process of install the proper sacs ROM (v5.6)
this was a simple error that i shouldve caught thanks guys!
hopefully this ROM will work with wifi...
BTW, all my backups were wiped
Your backups weren't on your external sd? Ooo, that sucks. Glad you got it.
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Im a little confused and don't want to screw this up. I want to unlock my phone to try Tmobile. I'm currently using Skyfall rom, but I believe I need to be stock to unlock. I use loki doki and not safestrap, but I'm nervous about what to flash to get back to stock so I don't need safestrap. I think my original version mas MDL but I am also unsure about downgrading back to 4.2.2. If anyone can advise or ease my anxiety it is much appreciated.
You can Find the stock mdl Odin file at sammobile.com. once you flash that it'll want to ota update so be careful of that
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You can Find the stock mdl Odin file at sammobile.com. once you flash that it'll want to ota update so be careful of that
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I actually was still searching and found that advice and was about to edit my post. Thank you. I've been rooting since my archos 5 and but this is nerve racking stuff!
For all those who might stumble across this for help, it did work. I download stock mdl, flashed via odin, shut off wifi and data so no updates, unlocked the phone , rerooted, then restored my backup. The only issue I had was a bootloop after initial odin flash. I solved this by going to stock recovery and wiping data, so make a back up of your internal sd card.