I have recently updated my retail Verizon Note 3 to MJE via an OTA update. I rooted my phone using Kingo and installed Safestrap recovery.
I have downloaded Bean's rom and put it on my SD card. But whenever I boot into recovery to flash the .ZIP ROM file, it is not found. When I boot back into my stock rom and go into the file manager, I discover the file has been deleted, along with the Safestrap APK!!!
This happens no matter where I put the files on my SD card, it doesn't matter which folder. Has Verizon put some block that automatically detects and deletes these files or what? I keep recopying the ROM to my SDCard and it keeps getting deleted whenever I boot into recovery.
Please help, thanks! :crying:
Have u switched to ur sd card after getting into reovery? Might want to reodin use kingo again, but update supersu before booting into recovery.
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Are you sure your putting it on the external sd card ? With safestrap installed sd card in file manager is the internal storage
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Thanks everyone, what I did instead was put the .ZIP ROM file into my internal phone storage and it shows up in Safestrap recovery and I'm able to flash it and enjoy custom rom goodness!
For some reason, I can't put the .ZIP ROM files into my SD card to flash as they disappear and are automatically deleted from the SD card when I check my SD card under Windows Explorer.
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Ok so I rooted and installed CMW on like the 23rd of June and it installed CMW onto my phones internal SD (I guess it didn't recognize the external SD). Apparently now there is a fix to flash CMW onto the SD card but I can't find any instructions on how to uninstall CMW from the internal SD... Do I just delete the folder and then flash CMW onto the external?
The second problem is that now that I have updated my rom manager and CMW to the latest version I can't get into recovery. It just boot loops and I have to boot into download mode and reboot from there.
Help is greatly appreciated! I want to be able to try CM10 so bad lol.
Jake101 said:
Ok so I rooted and installed CMW on like the 23rd of June and it installed CMW onto my phones internal SD (I guess it didn't recognize the external SD). Apparently now there is a fix to flash CMW onto the SD card but I can't find any instructions on how to uninstall CMW from the internal SD... Do I just delete the folder and then flash CMW onto the external?
The second problem is that now that I have updated my rom manager and CMW to the latest version I can't get into recovery. It just boot loops and I have to boot into download mode and reboot from there.
Help is greatly appreciated! I want to be able to try CM10 so bad lol.
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You seem a bit confused on the CWM works -- Your first problem, really isn't a problem at all.When you flash a different version of CWM, there isn't any need to delete any folder. With that said, some back-ups from one version(s) of CWM may not work with others.
If you are on T-Mo as your info says, download Terminal Emulator from the Play Store, and follow the instructions from this thread very carefully - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766552
This should fix both your problems and also install the version of CWM that is compatible with both internal and external storage.
Dear all,
I need your help on solving a problem I am having on my GT-i9505.
Yesterday I have tried to root the device with CF-Auto-Root-jflte-jfltexx-gti9505, and it worked fine until I noticed that it was somehow very slow on phone start.
This slowdown problem was not caused by the root process because I have noticed it even before the root process.
In order to try to solve it, I have installed the CWF i9505-cwm-recovery-6.0.3.2-4, and made a backup of the system before make a full system restore (wipe data/factory reset) via CWF.
After that, the system did not started and stays on a boot loop.
Accessed the CWF again and restored the backup, but the problem remains.
After all this process, I get totally lost and tried several solutions and none of them worked.
At this moment I can only access "download mode" and CWM based recovery.
Since I am already lost, and really do not know where to go next, I ask you help on how can I solve this problem and have the phone working again.
The only data I have about the phone:
MODEL: GT-I9505
I9505XXUEMJ5 / I9505ZWAXST
I know this is an international model.
I think on downloading the stock firmware from samsung (4.2.2 or 4.3) no not know which one is advisable, but before that I really need to know if there any additional solution because I don´t even know if this will solve the problem.
Another problem is the hotfile hosting, since I connection is very unstable and will take some time to download the file.
Anyone can help me please?
Thank you in advance
Best regards
Paulo Matos
Since you already have CWM installed you may aswell download a new rom and copy it an SD card. install from recovery.
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Since you already have CWM installed you may aswell download a new rom and copy it an SD card. install from recovery.
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Thank you simondo12.
Do you mean, download a stock firmware from samsung for this especific model and install it from sd card?
If not, what file do you advise for my model?
Since I am unable to access the phone via android, I have tried to access the sd card from CWF. What I noticed:
- I can access the external sd card from the pc, but I cannot access the internal sd card from the pc.
- I cannot access the external sd card directly from CWF (perhaps because of it's size since it´s a 64GB), but I have access to internal sd card
Even if I copy the file to the external sd card, I will be unable to install it from CWF because I have no access to the external sd card (error on mounting external sd card). Is it the size of it?
I am trying to download the new firmware (4.3) from samsung for my model and will try to install via odin. Will I require to install the attachment that says "kernel file"? This process will take lots of time because I have an unstable internet connection for downloading via hotfile and uploaded file servers.
The problem is that I do not know if it will work because the phone is rooted and have cwf installed.
Thank you very much
Paulo
since its a 64GB have formatted it in exfat? if so then CWM may not recognize it. I would try installing Philz recovery if you are using standard CWM see if it will recognise the card. Do you have another SD card you could try?
There's not really much point in flashing a new firmware in odin if you have cwm installed. Just copy custom rom over to an SD card.
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since its a 64GB have formatted it in exfat? if so then CWM may not recognize it. I would try installing Philz recovery if you are using standard CWM see if it will recognise the card. Do you have another SD card you could try?
There's not really much point in flashing a new firmware in odin if you have cwm installed. Just copy custom rom over to an SD card.
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Hi symondo12,
Thank you once again.
I have alredy found the Philz thread and found a gt-i9505 version and instructions to install both from sd and from odin.
I will try and see what happens.
Regardless the custom rom, since my galaxy s4 was on 4.3, will I be abble to downgrade? Ask you that because I do not know if there is a custom rom for gt-i9505 on android 4.3.
If not, just need to copy the stock rom to sdcard and install it the same way as a custom rom?
Thank you very much for your time
Regards
Paulo
symondo12 said:
since its a 64GB have formatted it in exfat? if so then CWM may not recognize it. I would try installing Philz recovery if you are using standard CWM see if it will recognise the card. Do you have another SD card you could try?
There's not really much point in flashing a new firmware in odin if you have cwm installed. Just copy custom rom over to an SD card.
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Dear symondo12,
I have changed the sd card to a 2GB sd card and CWF now recognizes it.
I will see if I can download the stock firmware from samsung and see if I can install it and solve my problem.
Additionally I found a "Pure-Google-pre-rooted-4.3-v2.3"... hope it works.
Thank you once again
Paulo
So I bricked my phone by trying to flash the new 4.3 stock rooted to make the gear work with it. In a constant reboot. I need to get the photos before I Odin back to stock. Or maybe add a custom rom to flash. I'm using TWRP and tried to mount to usb, but my pc won't recognize it.
I would use TWRP to make a full backup on an external SD card. You could then move the SD card to your PC and pull whatever you need from the backup.
Have you tried to factory reset within recovery and see if that makes your phone boot up?
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Hey Fellas,
I have tried now to install 2 roms on my s5 with no luck :/ I am rooted and have safe strap installed and a nandroid of stock rom backed up on the stock rom slot. I also activated Rom slot 1. But when I go to install the zip file from my sd card or internal storage it says can not open zip??
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Hey Fellas,
I have tried now to install 2 roms on my s5 with no luck :/ I am rooted and have safe strap installed and a nandroid of stock rom backed up on the stock rom slot. I also activated Rom slot 1. But when I go to install the zip file from my sd card or internal storage it says can not open zip??
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92 views and no answer yet????
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92 views and no answer yet????
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It sounds like you have a bad download. Retry it and check the md5 with this. Download the ROM, check the md5, copy it to your extSD, reboot to SS and try again. If the ROM slot gives you problems try the stock slot. I always flash to the stock slot. The worst that will happen is you will have to Odin back to stock but most likely not if you have a backup on the extSD.
I've seen that. What version of Safestrap?
I flashed Renovate custom ROM with a clean install. Everything was working fine and all of a sudden I am not able access the SD card in the ROM. Settings shows that SD card is ready, and I can access the SD card in Recovery. But not while booted into the ROM. The only thing I can remember doing between the installation and when I noticed the SD wasn't working was update TWRP to 3.0.1-0 via the TWRP app and install XPOSED and some modules which I have since disabled. I can just reflash the ROM again but I would like to know what caused it and if there's a more simpler solution.
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