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[Q] Corrupt Bootloader??

Hi i had a stock rooted 4.2.2 mf9, then i saw the ota update that came out popped up on my notification bar so i deecided to find out how to update.
Ended up flashing that 4.4 gummy rom decided i didnt like it and tried to flash a stock rom onto it through clockwork again. the flash finished but it stopped after the boot where it says "Samsung Galaxy S4" and rebooted a few times...i couldnt get it to go to recovery so i decided i should flash it again this time through odin. got my stock rooted rom again but it keeps saying failed on odin and it always stops at the bootloader. plz help
not sure if there is a way to get a bootloader that will work or even a rom that will do the trick but im stuck without a phone atm

dmindlessflawd said:
Hi i had a stock rooted 4.2.2 mf9, then i saw the ota update that came out popped up on my notification bar so i deecided to find out how to update.
Ended up flashing that 4.4 gummy rom decided i didnt like it and tried to flash a stock rom onto it through clockwork again. the flash finished but it stopped after the boot where it says "Samsung Galaxy S4" and rebooted a few times...i couldnt get it to go to recovery so i decided i should flash it again this time through odin. got my stock rooted rom again but it keeps saying failed on odin and it always stops at the bootloader. plz help
not sure if there is a way to get a bootloader that will work or even a rom that will do the trick but im stuck without a phone atm
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It sounds like you had the 4.3 update, because it sounds you like you are trying to install an older bootloader over the the locked MJA bootloader. So the update went through, now you cannot go back to MF9. The bootloader isn't corrupt, its locked and only the MJA bootloader can be flashed through Odin. You'll have to go to http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/ and search for the 4.3 MJA file to flash to your fone, the cf-auto root, then flash a custom recovery...

[Q] Can't go into recovery. May have softbricked.

Hi there. I think I soft-bricked my phone. I am running mf3 firmware on my i337 galaxy s4 and i tried to flash Graviton. I was using safestrap and I, like an idiot, didn't use a romslot and did it over my stock. Seemed to work fine until I actually booted the phone. It can't access wifi and therefore wont go past the find wifi screen. I try to enter recovery but it just keeps going to the download screen. After trying every way I could find I still cant either wipe my phone or flash the stock firmware. I have tried kies and odin but nothing works. Can anyone help me out or am I royally screwed?

LCubed22 said:
Hi there. I think I soft-bricked my phone. I am running mf3 firmware on my i337 galaxy s4 and i tried to flash Graviton. I was using safestrap and I, like an idiot, didn't use a romslot and did it over my stock. Seemed to work fine until I actually booted the phone. It can't access wifi and therefore wont go past the find wifi screen. I try to enter recovery but it just keeps going to the download screen. After trying every way I could find I still cant either wipe my phone or flash the stock firmware. I have tried kies and odin but nothing works. Can anyone help me out or am I royally screwed?
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as long as the phone can go into download mode, you can use odin to reflash the stock firmware (and factory recovery). Check samsungupdates for your model/region and stock/official firmware. You'd have to re-root after. I did the same thing a while back, lost my recovery and this is the method I used to bring my phone back to life, was just sitting at the samsung logo and had no recovery (but had download mode).

LCubed22 said:
Hi there. I think I soft-bricked my phone. I am running mf3 firmware on my i337 galaxy s4 and i tried to flash Graviton. I was using safestrap and I, like an idiot, didn't use a romslot and did it over my stock. Seemed to work fine until I actually booted the phone. It can't access wifi and therefore wont go past the find wifi screen. I try to enter recovery but it just keeps going to the download screen. After trying every way I could find I still cant either wipe my phone or flash the stock firmware. I have tried kies and odin but nothing works. Can anyone help me out or am I royally screwed?
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Does Odin recognize the phone? Also, when you say it won't go past the "find wifi" screen, does that mean it booted to the "Welcome" screen?

nerdyblonde said:
Does Odin recognize the phone? Also, when you say it won't go past the "find wifi" screen, does that mean it booted to the "Welcome" screen?
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Sorry should have edited the first post. I actually fixed my original problem and am now having a different one. I got all the way through nd did a restore of my stock rom. I then tried to flash the graviton one to a different rom-slot in safestrap. So now there is a completely different partition in the storage and the flash didnt work so I'm now completely stuck in download mode. I have tried to flash the tar files in odin and it fails every time. I should have all of the necessary files for mf3.

LCubed22 said:
Sorry should have edited the first post. I actually fixed my original problem and am now having a different one. I got all the way through nd did a restore of my stock rom. I then tried to flash the graviton one to a different rom-slot in safestrap. So now there is a completely different partition in the storage and the flash didnt work so I'm now completely stuck in download mode. I have tried to flash the tar files in odin and it fails every time. I should have all of the necessary files for mf3.
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If you have the 16GB Galaxy, try flashing this file in the PIT slot in Odin.. Don't put any other files in the PDA slot, etc. It's worked many times when phone would only boot to download..
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fptxnxsqevjhnt9/SGS-I337_16GB.pit

Hey Nerdyblonde, what does this pit file do?
I softbricked my phone when trying to flip from CWM to TWRP. (Thought I could just wipe phone and odin flash on top of CWM... VERY WRONG). Now I can't get into recovery and my phone is telling me to use kies recovery *shudder*. So I tried kies when I couldn't Odin flash to stock rom and still nothing.
nerdyblonde said:
If you have the 16GB Galaxy, try flashing this file in the PIT slot in Odin.. Don't put any other files in the PDA slot, etc. It's worked many times when phone would only boot to download..
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fptxnxsqevjhnt9/SGS-I337_16GB.pit
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snoops609 said:
Hey Nerdyblonde, what does this pit file do?
I softbricked my phone when trying to flip from CWM to TWRP. (Thought I could just wipe phone and odin flash on top of CWM... VERY WRONG). Now I can't get into recovery and my phone is telling me to use kies recovery *shudder*. So I tried kies when I couldn't Odin flash to stock rom and still nothing.
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Sorry it took a few days to answer.. The Kies screen was the same thing that happened to me... I have the MF3 version, so I can't install custom recovery, but I couldn't boot into recovery period. I flashed that pit file in the pit box on Odin, it restored my recovery.
Do you have MDL or MF3? If you have MDL, I would be really careful not to flash MF3 unless you want to stick with basically stock until one of the geniuses here figures out how to unlock the bootloader.

[Q] Bricked while rooting. Download but no recovery mode, stuck in bootloop.

I was rooting an S4 and bricked the phone. It sticks in the Samsung logo bootloop. I had TWRP recovery on there and now phone won't boot into recovery mode. I can only boot into download mode. Kies says the device times out while trying to connect and won't recognize anything connected for firmware recoveries. My computer installs drivers for it when I connect in bootloop but doesn't charge the phone. I have tried using Odin to flash recovery and a custom rom (which is where all the trouble started), factory recovery and factory rom to reset everything and Odin fails during the writing portion of the procedure. ADB and fastboot don't even detect a device and all attempts to push, install, recover etc have all been failures. I haven't yet began to Google about JTAG but I've heard that's what you have to do for seriously F'd devices. Any suggestions?

cyberratt said:
I was rooting an S4 and bricked the phone. It sticks in the Samsung logo bootloop. I had TWRP recovery on there and now phone won't boot into recovery mode. I can only boot into download mode. Kies says the device times out while trying to connect and won't recognize anything connected for firmware recoveries. My computer installs drivers for it when I connect in bootloop but doesn't charge the phone. I have tried using Odin to flash recovery and a custom rom (which is where all the trouble started), factory recovery and factory rom to reset everything and Odin fails during the writing portion of the procedure. ADB and fastboot don't even detect a device and all attempts to push, install, recover etc have all been failures. I haven't yet began to Google about JTAG but I've heard that's what you have to do for seriously F'd devices. Any suggestions?
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Can you get into stock recovery or download mode? Which build were you on?
GS4 Stock Rooted MJA 4.3,Philz Touch CWM,HotSpot Mod,Transparent Weather Widget...

bad cable?

Dougrun said:
bad cable?
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It worked fine when I rooted. I can get into download mode, but recovery mode starts to run and then it reboots to the Samsung screen. Odin fails on write operations. I was on the stock 4.3 before. I never managed to get another flash to take so now i'm not running anything haha.

cyberratt said:
It worked fine when I rooted. I can get into download mode, but recovery mode starts to run and then it reboots to the Samsung screen. Odin fails on write operations. I was on the stock 4.3 before. I never managed to get another flash to take so now i'm not running anything haha.
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Try re flashing a stock 4.3 again
GS4 Stock Rooted MJA 4.3,Philz Touch CWM,HotSpot Mod,Transparent Weather Widget...

BIGSAMDA1ST said:
Try re flashing a stock 4.3 again
GS4 Stock Rooted MJA 4.3,Philz Touch CWM,HotSpot Mod,Transparent Weather Widget...
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I have tried. It's impossible to write anything to the phone. I can't load past the Samsung screen. I can't boot into recovery. I can boot into download and my computer recognizes the phone is plugged, but no data can be read or written from the phone and i'm unsure whether it charges or not (the icon when the phone is powered off but plugged in is a gray battery with the arrow circle in the middle but it doesn't spin). I can't flash anything onto it from Odin. ADB doesn't recognize it. Fastboot doesn't recognize it.

cyberratt said:
I have tried. It's impossible to write anything to the phone. I can't load past the Samsung screen. I can't boot into recovery. I can boot into download and my computer recognizes the phone is plugged, but no data can be read or written from the phone and i'm unsure whether it charges or not (the icon when the phone is powered off but plugged in is a gray battery with the arrow circle in the middle but it doesn't spin). I can't flash anything onto it from Odin. ADB doesn't recognize it. Fastboot doesn't recognize it.
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Check your PM..
GS4 Stock Rooted MJA 4.3,Philz Touch CWM,HotSpot Mod,Transparent Weather Widget...

I had the same problem. I had to install Phils recovery through Odin. Luckily, I had a stock rooted 4.3 rom downloaded to my ad card. Flashed it using the new recovery. If you don't have a 4.3 stock rooted rom, there are odex/deodex rims in the development section.
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cjn14 said:
I had the same problem. I had to install Phils recovery through Odin. Luckily, I had a stock rooted 4.3 rom downloaded to my ad card. Flashed it using the new recovery. If you don't have a 4.3 stock rooted rom, there are odex/deodex rims in the development section.
Sent from my SPH-L720 using xda app-developers app
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Yea that is what I was going to suggest. Odin just the latest Philz recovery. If that takes you have opened up a lot more options to go from there.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2322679 download link in OP.

Phone only boots with root and TWRP...Cant install stock!

Hi everyone,
I hope someone can help me with this problem. Basically I was updating my phone to mk2 BTU via kies and it failed. Kies stopped recognising the phone and it kept going in to stock recovery.
I tried manually flashing stock mk2 via odin but I kept getting the same result.
Then I got fed up and I rooted (cf auto root) and installed TWRP and my phone booted in to a rooted mk2. My knox is now triggered which is a bit annoying but at least it works now.
The problem is if I try to flash stock rom via odin it still does the same thing boots in to stock recovery and then I have to root and install twrp again. I blame all this on KIES!
Does anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks

Any ideas anyone?

evo6 said:
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The problem is if I try to flash stock rom via odin it still does the same thing boots in to stock recovery and then I have to root and install twrp again. I blame all this on KIES!
Does anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks
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Not clear here - by stock rom do you mean stock MK2 ROM (unrooted, same CSC as the rooted one that works)?
Have you also tried in Kies the special "emergency recovery mode" (under tools)?

xclub_101 said:
Not clear here - by stock rom do you mean stock MK2 ROM (unrooted, same CSC as the rooted one that works)?
Have you also tried in Kies the special "emergency recovery mode" (under tools)?
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Hi,
Yes thats right MK2 stock unrooted and same CSC. I tried KIES the first time with emergency recovery but it kept saying device unsupported, that's when i rooted it and installed TWRP and it worked. I don't understand it.

HELP! I think I bricked my phone! Tried CWM Recovery and stuck in Odin mode!

Ok so I updated to the 5.0.1 update on my S4 yesterday and kept my root using that method with the chainfire app. Today I wanted to try flashing CWM on my S4. Upon trying on Odin 3.09, it said failed and now my S4 boots into Odin Mode and says "Firmware upgrade encountrered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & Ttry again."
WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST DO?
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Fixed it, http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-att/general/guide-odin-to-stock-updating-rooting-t2926642

CrossBones3129 said:
Ok so I updated to the 5.0.1 update on my S4 yesterday and kept my root using that method with the chainfire app. Today I wanted to try flashing CWM on my S4. Upon trying on Odin 3.09, it said failed and now my S4 boots into Odin Mode and says "Firmware upgrade encountrered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & Ttry again."
WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST DO?
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Fixed it, http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-att/general/guide-odin-to-stock-updating-rooting-t2926642
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From the sounds of it you need to stick with safestrap only mdl and under can use a custom recovery on ATT
Glad you got it fixed.

BehrendsTech said:
From the sounds of it you need to stick with safestrap only mdl and under can use a custom recovery on ATT
Glad you got it fixed.
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Thanks for the info. I was able to do every step and am back on 5.0.1 and rooted. My issue now is that I can't boot into recovery mode. Can you help me?

CrossBones3129 said:
Thanks for the info. I was able to do every step and am back on 5.0.1 and rooted. My issue now is that I can't boot into recovery mode. Can you help me?
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Safestrap doesn't allow recovery boot for lollipop. This is because safestrap hasn't been updated for lollipop yet. Everyone's moving to lollipop someone will update it or come up with a alternative soon I'm sure.

CrossBones3129 said:
Thanks for the info. I was able to do every step and am back on 5.0.1 and rooted. My issue now is that I can't boot into recovery mode. Can you help me?
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If you want to fix the stock recovery. find the OC3 Stock Partitions file and ODIN it to your phone. If you find the one that's a zip file, you'll have to ODIN a kitkat kernel to flash that in Safestrap.

DeadlySin9 said:
If you want to fix the stock recovery. find the OC3 Stock Partitions file and ODIN it to your phone. If you find the one that's a zip file, you'll have to ODIN a kitkat kernel to flash that in Safestrap.
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I don't understand. I've never used safestrap. I was able to flash back using odin to the nc4. Than flashed to NJ1, rooted that, then upgraded to 5.0.1 while keeping root using that flashfire method.
Now if I use flashfire, do a cache wipe that way I can access flashfire's reboot options, select boot to recovery, it will boot to recovery fine. I just can't get it to boot recovery using the volume up, power, and home buttons. It says recovery boot in blue at the top but then restarts and boots normally