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I truly need the community's help on this one. Trying to fix a rom that I was using, I decided to wipe everything to reflash it. However, some how I read the thread wrong. Using TWRP, I formatted the "internal storage" thinking that was going to fix my Rom problems.
Now, I can't boot into the Rom or any rom, unless I wipe everything and restore one of my back ups. I restored a back up and it booted, but my data is jacked and phone service is not operable. I thought maybe a reboot will fix it, and now my phone is stuck at "Samsung Galaxy S 4". It doesn't move from there.
What should I do? How do I get it it continue the boot into the rom after a regular reboot? How do I get my radio back?
It's funny to me because I usually never get this careless with my phone. So I can laugh about it but damn I have to figure this one out!
Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am by know means an expert but I think you may have to start here with the firmware files then try and flash your backup http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2338919
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Thanks Chief, let me try that!
Thanks Chief. Unfortunately, that didn't work. I used Odin to flash the Firmware files and let it reboot. I'm still stuck at the Samsung Gal...boot screen. Let me try manually going into recovery and restoring.
Any other ideas? Anyone?
Kenjari said:
Thanks Chief. Unfortunately, that didn't work. I used Odin to flash the Firmware files and let it reboot. I'm still stuck at the Samsung Gal...boot screen. Let me try manually going into recovery and restoring.
Any other ideas? Anyone?
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Have you tried flashing the complete odin ROM? You can find the all in one somewhere on the dev thread, it has rom, kernel, firmware and the rom all in one as it came from samsung. That should take care of your problem. It will wipe everything, or I think there was also a thread somewhere with odin flashables that didn't wipe data or internal sd but I can't seem to find it right now.
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Have you tried flashing the complete odin ROM? You can find the all in one somewhere on the dev thread, it has rom, kernel, firmware and the rom all in one as it came from samsung. That should take care of your problem. It will wipe everything, or I think there was also a thread somewhere with odin flashables that didn't wipe data or internal sd but I can't seem to find it right now.
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Exactly. I'm on the target. I'm currently waiting for this tar that will unroot the phone. It is MDL but I will update and reroot. I hope this does the ticket. I'm going to use Odin to flash it or unroot.
Well strike two. That didn't work either. I downloaded a unrooted MDL tar and connected to Odin. When through the entire process and it rebooted. It still is stuck at "Samsung Galaxy S4".
I read on the Nexus 7 that I might have to reflash a system.img and boot.img? Someone else had a similar experience on the N7 and had to download it via flashdrive and then install via recovery. I'm not saying that's the case but I wonder if I need to reflash a boot.img or something.
Please help. Not sure where to go at this point. Unrooting didn't help.
Try downloading this file extract the tar and flash that in PC Odin. (don't check repartion!).
That is the full stock MF9 firmware, boot, recovery, kernel and ROM.
Then maybe use CF Autoroot, then goomanger to get twrp and flash one of your nand's
Progress made.
leaderbuilder said:
Try downloading this file extract the tar and flash that in PC Odin. (don't check repartion!).
That is the full stock MF9 firmware, boot, recovery, kernel and ROM.
Then maybe use CF Autoroot, then goomanger to get twrp and flash one of your nand's
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leader, chief, ifly4,...I'm making progress.
leader, actually I flashed a previous version, the MDL via Odin. At first it didn't boot as stated in my previous post. I decided to wipe and factory reset. """"Bingo"""" it booted. Now I'm on MDL and unrooted. However, I transferred my phone over to a previous device so I can't update profile and prl. I'm going to activate the phone and see if it works. For some reason I can't can't seem to get a radio signal on it. It shows the be O with the slash in the middle. This is what it looked like before I deactivated it and lost everything before.
I post back with results. Not quite solved yet.
Thanks leader and everyone else.
Sound like your on the wrong firmware/baseband. what does your modem/baseband say?
Yeeessssss
leaderbuilder said:
Sound like your on the wrong firmware/baseband. what does your modem/baseband say?
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It says L720VPUAMDL. I actually got it going. I had to change it from WCDMA to CDMA and reset. Now I'm unrooted. and going. However, leader, is there away to update the modem/baseband before I root? Or should I root then flash the MF9 Modem?
if you got MDL to activate you can jst take the OTA update to MF9. It will update it all.
Then use CF-Autoroot to gain root. After that same - install goomanager from Playstore and use it to install TWRP.
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if you got MDL to activate you can jst take the OTA update to MF9. It will update it all.
Then use CF-Autoroot to gain root. After that same - install goomanager from Playstore and use it to install TWRP.
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Awesome. Hey thanks again leader for helping me out. I'm usually never careless with these things. I use SACS rom but decided to try Miui. From some reason every time I flash Miui, I get the "Roaming Indicator Off" thing along with two signals. Reading the thread it suggest to format the internal. Why oh Why did I try that step. The rest is history....
Thanks again. Learned a lot with this process.
Glad you got it working.
There is a 'thanks' button too.
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Glad you got it working.
There is a 'thanks' button too.
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No doubt. I got to remember that!
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Glad to hear you got it going.
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leaderbuilder said:
Try downloading this file extract the tar and flash that in PC Odin. (don't check repartion!).
That is the full stock MF9 firmware, boot, recovery, kernel and ROM.
Then maybe use CF Autoroot, then goomanger to get twrp and flash one of your nand's
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Thank you!
Hi I'm wondering if you can help me- I tried to follow az_biker's instructions about rooting installing recovery and flashing ROMs. I'm on NC4, rooted with towelroot, installed busybox, safestrap 3.75, root checker and Chainfire's SuperSu. I was unable to flash or install baja rom. Then in step 8- and in Odin, downloading to target- getting the phone recognized in the hilighted 'ID-COM' and one line in the messages 'ADDED!'. When hitting 'AD' to find the MJE tar file, it was nowhere to be founnd. I even put the file on my desktop but for some reason Odin just dosent see it. I did finally install the Baja 4th of July version since this was a prior step and downloaded it which could only be found in the downloads. In Safestrap I found the zip file and did another wipe, hit back, advanced, wiped all but sd card then installed it. In the process it did say 'can't find MD5 file and continued and did finish- 'installed successfully'. When trying to reboot system, the phone goes dead. The only thing I can do at this point is remove the battery and boot into recovery but system will not boot. I'd gladly send a donation to anyone that could shed some light this and tell me what to do, I'd greatly appreciate it!
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Hi I'm wondering if you can help me- I tried to follow az_biker's instructions about rooting installing recovery and flashing ROMs. I'm on NC4, rooted with towelroot, installed busybox, safestrap 3.75, root checker and Chainfire's SuperSu. I was unable to flash or install baja rom. Then in step 8- and in Odin, downloading to target- getting the phone recognized in the hilighted 'ID-COM' and one line in the messages 'ADDED!'. When hitting 'AD' to find the MJE tar file, it was nowhere to be founnd. I even put the file on my desktop but for some reason Odin just dosent see it. I did finally install the Baja 4th of July version since this was a prior step and downloaded it which could only be found in the downloads. In Safestrap I found the zip file and did another wipe, hit back, advanced, wiped all but sd card then installed it. In the process it did say 'can't find MD5 file and continued and did finish- 'installed successfully'. When trying to reboot system, the phone goes dead. The only thing I can do at this point is remove the battery and boot into recovery but system will not boot. I'd gladly send a donation to anyone that could shed some light this and tell me what to do, I'd greatly appreciate it!
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Were you on NC4 initially and rooted it or were you on MJE and upgraded to NC4? Are you unzipping the file before you try looking for it with Odin and are you using the AP section in Odin? Have you tried booting into the stock recovery and doing a factory reset?
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Were you on NC4 initially and rooted it or were you on MJE and upgraded to NC4? Are you unzipping the file before you try looking for it with Odin and are you using the AP section in Odin? Have you tried booting into the stock recovery and doing a factory reset?
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Hi thanks for posting- I bought the phone and within 2 weeks the OTA for kitkat came out so I took it. The baseband is NC4 now and I dont know what it was before kk upgrade. Yes using the AP button in Odin. The title of the MJE tar file is this:
ALL_N900VVRUBMJE_N900VVZWMJE_2106277_REV03_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT.tar.md5
This file does not seem to be zipped up and it has a blank piece of paper for an icon. .
I now see where the md5 came from. I cannot do anything but remove battery and put back in then it only boots into safestrap. Another mistake I made was not making a backup of the stock rom. Any suggestions?
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Hi thanks for posting- I bought the phone and within 2 weeks the OTA for kitkat came out so I took it. The baseband is NC4 now and I dont know what it was before kk upgrade. Yes using the AP button in Odin. The title of the MJE tar file is this:
ALL_N900VVRUBMJE_N900VVZWMJE_2106277_REV03_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT.tar.md5
This file does not seem to be zipped up and it has a blank piece of paper for an icon. .
I now see where the md5 came from. I cannot do anything but remove battery and put back in then it only boots into safestrap. Another mistake I made was not making a backup of the stock rom. Any suggestions?
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You can't use the MJE tar file since you took the OTA, you would need the NC4 full tar file. You should be able to boot into download mode from SS or by turning the device off and holding down Home, then Volume down, then Power. You can try doing a factory reset in the stock recovery by holding down Home, Volume up and Power.
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You can't use the MJE tar file since you took the OTA, you would need the NC4 full tar file. You should be able to boot into download mode from SS or by turning the device off and holding down Home, then Volume down, then Power. You can try doing a factory reset in the stock recovery by holding down Home, Volume up and Power.
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Ok, I downloaded 7zip and am extracting that file. it finished and I had hit vol dwn, power and menu button and when the first screen came up, I hit vol up and am currently in download mode 'Downloading... Do not turn off target'. After the file was extracted into the same name with a manilla file folder icon which was now then recognized by Odin in the AP an advanced on its own and is currently at this state- (screenshot) I attached- let me know if you can see it?
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Ok, I downloaded 7zip and am extracting that file. it finished and I had hit vol dwn, power and menu button and when the first screen came up, I hit vol up and am currently in download mode 'Downloading... Do not turn off target'. After the file was extracted into the same name with a manilla file folder icon which was now then recognized by Odin in the AP an advanced on its own and is currently at this state- (screenshot) I attached- let me know if you can see it?
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Hi again I am just reading what you your reply was after I already inserted on downloaded the MJE. So at this point I should boot into stock recovery. How would I remove the MJE tar file?. I can find the NC4 tar then run Odin again with this file?
tjmethod said:
Hi again I am just reading what you your reply was after I already inserted on downloaded the MJE. So at this point I should boot into stock recovery. How would I remove the MJE tar file?. I can find the NC4 tar then run Odin again with this file?
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If you haven't installed theh MJE file, or actually even if you have, just boot back into download mode and flash the NC4 file in Odin.
airmaxx23 said:
If you haven't installed theh MJE file, or actually even if you have, just boot back into download mode and flash the NC4 file in Odin.
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Thank you I am downloading it as we speak. Will I be able to boot up in baja rom or only stock?. Notorious 3 had told me originally "yes you can install the NC2 tar as these instruction are specifically for users who are on NC4 OTA". Doe he mean to install custom roms or can I install or flash custom roms with the full NC4 tar?. Ireally appreciate your help-
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Thank you I am downloading it as we speak. Will I be able to boot up in baja rom or only stock?. Notorious 3 had told me originally "yes you can install the NC2 tar as these instruction are specifically for users who are on NC4 OTA". Doe he mean to install custom roms or can I install or flash custom roms with the full NC4 tar?. Ireally appreciate your help-
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Once you boot into the stock NC4 ROM root it with TowelRoot, install SU, BusyBox and SS 3.75. Boot into SS and install BAJA ROM then before rebooting go into download mode through SS and flash the file in the link below.
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23501681358551261
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Once you boot into the stock NC4 ROM root it with TowelRoot, install SU, BusyBox and SS 3.75. Boot into SS and install BAJA ROM then before rebooting go into download mode through SS and flash the file in the link below.
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23501681358551261
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Thanks once again, my only other question is how to find baja rom at that point?- go to xda and download it to the phone?
tjmethod said:
Thanks once again, my only other question is how to find baja rom at that point?- go to xda and download it to the phone?
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Yeah, just download it and when you boot into SS browse to the download folder and it will be there.
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Yeah, just download it and when you boot into SS browse to the download folder and it will be there.
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Thanks alot! the phone booting up
tjmethod said:
Thanks alot! the phone booting up
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Great, I'm glad we got it working. Have fun!! Don't worry about the donation, just hit the thanks button a few times. :laugh:
airmaxx23 said:
Great, I'm glad we got it working. Have fun!! Don't worry about the donation, just hit the thanks button a few times. :laugh:
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I really do appreciate it, I ended up flashing the firmware file through Odin and installing that way then pulling the battery and it booted into baja but weather, email, google etc. all stopped working errors constantly. Any idea how to fix?. I take it you're a developer? Anyway, I'm TJ
tjmethod said:
I really do appreciate it, I ended up flashing the firmware file through Odin and installing that way then pulling the battery and it booted into baja but weather, email, google etc. all stopped working errors constantly. Any idea how to fix?. I take it you're a developer? Anyway, I'm TJ
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Did you wipe data, cache and dalvik before installing Baja? I'm not a developer, I just enjoy messing around with my devices and I like helping people out when I can.
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I'm not a developer, I just enjoy messing around with my devices and I like helping people out when I can.
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It is so nice to see the decent and patient people that are willing to help those that ask for it.
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Did you wipe data, cache and dalvik before installing Baja? I'm not a developer, I just enjoy messing around with my devices and I like helping people out when I can.
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Hi no hadn't wiped all that since doing a factory reset days ago but I will try that- should I redownload the rom to install? So what's you name and what devices do you have? Everything I have is Samsung
kinstre11 said:
It is so nice to see the decent and patient people that are willing to help those that ask for it.
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Right on!
tjmethod said:
Hi no hadn't wiped all that since doing a factory reset days ago but I will try that- should I redownload the rom to install? So what's you name and what devices do you have? Everything I have is Samsung
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You don't need to redownload it. You should wipe everything but the Micro SDcard whenever you install a new ROM. You won't have the errors once you wipe everything and install the ROM again.
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You don't need to redownload it. You should wipe everything but the Micro SDcard whenever you install a new ROM. You won't have the errors once you wipe everything and install the ROM again.
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Hi again all is worki g fine except lost alot of apps & widgets- voicemail, samsung hub etc., just trying to figure getting it all back on. I notice baja is faster also can't find how to increase battery but I will have to play with it. So what rom do you use?
I'm unable to encrypt my Samsung Galaxy S4 SGH-i337. I need to encrypt for work access. I'm currently running stock NC1 rooted using the steps here.
When I try to encrypt, I get through the confirmation steps, enter my password and select "Encrypt device." It immediately goes to a black screen with the Android encryption logo (attached), and then a few seconds later the phone reboots to my home/login screen. No encryption.
I've read through quite a few threads from people having similar problems. I'm aware of the problem with trying to install Safestrap on encrypted devices so I tried uninstalling Safestrap but that didn't help. I've also tried the following: retry right after boot, use Airplane mode, stop running apps, unfreeze bloatware, factory reset (tried both from within Android and from the stock recovery menu, both retains root). The only thing I haven't tried is unroot, but I've read that encryption should work with root.
Any other ideas? Thanks.
I am wondering if you already installed SafeStrap it left any remnants on phone after uninstalling. You could Odin the NB1 tar and return to stock. Then do your encryption and then go to NC1 and retry towel root--
That worked! I installed NB1 through Odin and tried encryption again and this time it worked. I then applied the NC1 update in stock recovery, I lost encryption which I kind of expected, but I was able to encrypt again and then root with towelroot just fine. I'm all set. I guess the problem was with that NC1 rom I had installed before, it was supposed to be stock, but ran on top of MK2 and had root built in.
Thanks for your help.
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That worked! I installed NB1 through Odin and tried encryption again and this time it worked. I then applied the NC1 update in stock recovery, I lost encryption which I kind of expected, but I was able to encrypt again and then root with towelroot just fine. I'm all set. I guess the problem was with that NC1 rom I had installed before, it was supposed to be stock, but ran on top of MK2 and had root built in.
Thanks for your help.
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Glad you got it--:good:
Safestrap !
dwestall said:
That worked! I installed NB1 through Odin and tried encryption again and this time it worked. I then applied the NC1 update in stock recovery, I lost encryption which I kind of expected, but I was able to encrypt again and then root with towelroot just fine. I'm all set. I guess the problem was with that NC1 rom I had installed before, it was supposed to be stock, but ran on top of MK2 and had root built in.
Thanks for your help.
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One question, Could you install Safestarp after encryption? (Rom back up and retsore is what I mainly want the safestrap for).
Thanks,
joseph230 said:
One question, Could you install Safestarp after encryption? (Rom back up and retsore is what I mainly want the safestrap for).
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I don't know, I never tried installing Safestrap after encrypting and rooting. I didn't want to risk it, though I agree it would be nice to have ROM backup and restore capability.
Hi,
I rooted my phone the other day everything went well, but since I rooted I have not been able to connect to my WI-FI. The other thing is too I am unable to connect to Samsung Kies 3 now. Driver are all installed right. The one thing I did do is I reset it and that didn’t help.
Hope I have enough info I’m new to all this.
My Phone Info:
Samsung Galaxy S4 SGH-I337
Version 4.4.4
Baseband: I337UCFNJ4
Thanks,
RS
Whard42 said:
Hi,
I rooted my phone the other day everything went well, but since I rooted I have not been able to connect to my WI-FI. The other thing is too I am unable to connect to Samsung Kies 3 now. Driver are all installed right. The one thing I did do is I reset it and that didn’t help.
Hope I have enough info I’m new to all this.
My Phone Info:
Samsung Galaxy S4 SGH-I337
Version 4.4.4
Baseband: I337UCFNJ4
Thanks,
RS
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Before rooting your phone, you had to Odin the NC1 kernel. Did you Odin the NJ4 kernel after you rooted?
You may want to Odin it again, just to be safe.
You can grab it from here.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...to-root-i337ucufnj4-4-4-4-11-13-2014-t2939553
guut13 said:
Before rooting your phone, you had to Odin the NC1 kernel. Did you Odin the NJ4 kernel after you rooted?
You may want to Odin it again, just to be safe.
You can grab it from here.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...to-root-i337ucufnj4-4-4-4-11-13-2014-t2939553
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Hi-and thank you for responding.
Are you saying to re-root my phone? Because my phone is rooted. The information provided in the link, is the procedure I followed. I did have a problem when I first tried flashing the NC1, but I download the file again and it worked, other than that, everting is worked fine except for the Wi-Fi and Samsung Kies. I did read where it was posted, to re-flash the NC4 kernel again, which I didn’t try, didn’t make much sense seeing that it is rooted. I also have FX, Root Checker and SuperSU installed.
Should I try re-flashing the NJ4 again?
Or try rooting again? If so do I have to un-root my phone?
Thank you for your quick response.
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Hi-and thank you for responding.
Are you saying to re-root my phone? Because my phone is rooted. The information provided in the link, is the procedure I followed. I did have a problem when I first tried flashing the NC1, but I download the file again and it worked, other than that, everting is worked fine except for the Wi-Fi and Samsung Kies. I did read where it was posted, to re-flash the NC4 kernel again, which I didn’t try, didn’t make much sense seeing that it is rooted. I also have FX, Root Checker and SuperSU installed.
Should I try re-flashing the NJ4 again?
Or try rooting again? If so do I have to un-root my phone?
Thank you for your quick response.
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The directions to root NJ4 are
1. Odin the NC1 kernel
2. Root with towelroot
3. Odin the NJ4 kernel.
My suggestion is to complete the root process by doing step 3. Once you do that, wifi will work again.
guut13 said:
The directions to root NJ4 are
1. Odin the NC1 kernel
2. Root with towelroot
3. Odin the NJ4 kernel.
My suggestion is to complete the root process by doing step 3. Once you do that, wifi will work again.
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Thank you, thank you, that worked. Only had Odin the NC1 and NJ4.
Got myself into a little situation here if anyone can help.
First I updated to 5.0 with root, first method that came out with NI2.
Next I followed the flashfire directions to take the OC4 update
Everything was great until I decide to delete some apps to debloat (idiot)
Now I have a bootloop .
Should I odin back to NI2? any advice?
Thanks
If you have Safestrap installed, you should just be able to flash an OC4 stock rom, or a debloated one. Or maybe try to boot into recovery and do factory reset. That might help.
Sdc5364 said:
Got myself into a little situation here if anyone can help.
First I updated to 5.0 with root, first method that came out with NI2.
Next I followed the flashfire directions to take the OC4 update
Everything was great until I decide to delete some apps to debloat (idiot)
Now I have a bootloop .
Should I odin back to NI2? any advice?
Thanks
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zimgir124 said:
If you have Safestrap installed, you should just be able to flash an OC4 stock rom, or a debloated one. Or maybe try to boot into recovery and do factory reset. That might help.
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Or you could restore the backup you made prior to updating??
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Or you could restore the backup you made prior to updating??
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I guess that's true. using a backup totally slipped my mind.