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[SOLVED] Stuck at boot logo on reboot

Ever since CM10.2 came out I've not been able to get it to work. Everytime I flashed the rom it would work on the first boot, then after a reboot it would hang at the boot logo. CM11 did exactly the same thing. No amount of wiping this or flashing that fixed the problem. I've seen many other people with the same symptoms posting on this forum and others and most of them use the same solution I did: revert to CM10.1 or similar.
Today I solved my problem. The solution that worked for me was to use the TWRP 2.6.3.0 from Dhacker29 (twrp263_xt907.img), flash that to recovery then install the zips from there. I can't post a link because of forum restrictions but put androidhosting.org/Devs/Dhacker29/msm8960/ infront of that file name and you'll be there.
It sounds really simple and I've seen people say "just use TWRP 2.6.3.0 and it will work", but not all TWRP 2.6.3.0 images are the same apparently. I was using TWRP 2.6.3.0 before and it never worked. I tried downloading it from multiple sources and it still didn't work. Dhacker29's version is slightly different and worked perfectly. I don't know why my phone was picky about it and most other people don't have a problem, but I know I'm not the only one and I just wanted to share the solution.

Here is Dhackers flashable. I did not know there was a difference but the md5 is different from my regular one : e33eac18b87c826155f383169b3a17a4
For the recovery.img inside. twrp263_xt907.img.
My other twrp 263, not sure of the source, but I think mattlgroff :
Md5 : 791c142be27a541ea36b9fc97c684a50
The 791' is the one I suspect of bad behaviour.

I am not rooted or anything
So my problem is when I turn on the device it will just hang up on the animated boot of the red eye. I can enter the stock recovery without any problems and can get to fastboot. The fastboot screen says its locked. So I have tried rsdlite and VRZ_XT907_9.8.1Q-94-1_CFC.img to flash the stock rom on it. rsdlite says that it finished but the phone just remains on the red eye boot animation. can anyone give me some help.
thanks in advance.
again not rooted or custom mod, can fully boot, fastboot locked.

cokekid76 said:
So my problem is when I turn on the device it will just hang up on the animated boot of the red eye. I can enter the stock recovery without any problems and can get to fastboot. The fastboot screen says its locked. So I have tried rsdlite and VRZ_XT907_9.8.1Q-94-1_CFC.img to flash the stock rom on it. rsdlite says that it finished but the phone just remains on the red eye boot animation. can anyone give me some help.
thanks in advance.
again not rooted or custom mod, can fully boot, fastboot locked.
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You should wipe data before you restore.
For now boot recovery, push both vol keys for 3 sec @ the dead robot, wipe data.

Ok just did this and it is still stuck at the red eye. The screen isnt frozen it is sparking and stuff but it won't leave this and finish booting. Help!
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cokekid76 said:
Ok just did this and it is still stuck at the red eye. The screen isnt frozen it is sparking and stuff but it won't leave this and finish booting. Help!
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Wipe data again, go direct to fastboot & rsd....
Be sure to verify the md5.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=48380933&postcount=2

1st why is there 2 files and what order did they need to be done.
aviwdoowks said:
Wipe data again, go direct to fastboot & rsd....
Be sure to verify the md5.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=48380933&postcount=2
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2nd they both passed md5. then I put the vrz_xt907_9.8.1q-94_cfc.xml.zip through rsd and it failed. So I ran the other one, vrz_xt907_9.8.1q-78-1_1ff.orig.xml.zip, and rsd completed. But it still gets hung up on reboot and wont go pass the red eye. even after waiting 5min for it to boot. rsd is now telling me to manually reboot the device. So I did and waited another 5mins and still stuck at red eye. what is the other file that rsd failed on for. And what am I doing wrong here.

cokekid76 said:
2nd they both passed md5. then I put the vrz_xt907_9.8.1q-94_cfc.xml.zip through rsd and it failed. So I ran the other one, vrz_xt907_9.8.1q-78-1_1ff.orig.xml.zip, and rsd completed. But it still gets hung up on reboot and wont go pass the red eye. even after waiting 5min for it to boot. rsd is now telling me to manually reboot the device. So I did and waited another 5mins and still stuck at red eye. what is the other file that rsd failed on for. And what am I doing wrong here.
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the xml must selected from the unzipped folder & use rsd 615
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Did rsd count out all it's partition writes? 1 to 23 or so?

Rsd did 1-17.
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cokekid76 said:
Rsd did 1-17.
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So what does 17 say? It must have failed cause it goes to 20 something
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22 for stock w/ getvar & erase user data, I think.

15 was system 16 is wipe cashe 17 is wipe data or reverse the last 2
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cokekid76 said:
15 was system 16 is wipe cashe 17 is wipe data or reverse the last 2
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So no errors?
I am stumped. Post a SS of your rsd screen. Make sure you try a boot with the usb plug removed.
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You are missing some steps zip up the xml & up it right here. Just the xml ~ 1kb.
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Just as well to paste the text of the xml to a post.
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Where did you get the xml?

I'll try to get the info for you guys tomorrow
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The same problem!!
My phone is stucked on the red ball and I don't urderstand anything u guys are saying. Could please in human language?
Thanks in advance!

matitor said:
My phone is stucked on the red ball and I don't urderstand anything u guys are saying. Could please in human language?
Thanks in advance!
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Xml is the fxz, restore .zip.
That zip needs to be extracted to a "work" folder. Install the latest moto drivers from the moto site. On a mac use parallels desktop.
Run rsd lite 615 & choose the .xml file from the rsd ... button.
Use the latest fxz/xml.zip - ...94 which will lock your boot if you come from ...66 or earlier if you are not unlocked beforehand!
If on ...78 or earlier remove the getvar line from the xml commands.

aviwdoowks said:
Xml is the fxz, restore .zip.
That zip needs to be extracted to a "work" folder. Install the latest moto drivers from the moto site. On a mac use parallels desktop.
Run rsd lite 615 & choose the .xml file from the rsd ... button.
Use the latest fxz/xml.zip - ...94 which will lock your boot if you come from ...66 or earlier if you are not unlocked beforehand!
If on ...78 or earlier remove the getvar line from the xml commands.
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I got this message...phone returned fail.. see the image attach

matitor said:
I got this message...phone returned fail.. see the image attach
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Please do not even post with out phone sw build & boot lock status

Meow meow ...bark bark bark ... What does the fox say..... Sorry couldn't help it
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ezknives said:
Meow meow ...bark bark bark ... What does the fox say..... Sorry couldn't help it
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What do you mean?

Human language
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Stock Recovery

Is it possible to boot into the stock recovery on the T-Mobile G2? When I try the little green Android appears for a second and then the phone boots normally.

chazglenn3 said:
Is it possible to boot into the stock recovery on the T-Mobile G2? When I try the little green Android appears for a second and then the phone boots normally.
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Didn't try before rooted and custom....but should show fastboot...but not 100%

What does fastboot look like?

chazglenn3 said:
What does fastboot look like?
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It will have some options and you move up and down with vol - and +. I had on original g.....what are you trying to do.....I don't know if you can....
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Some ppl have gotten to it...but I don't have stock recovery to even check

RubbleTea said:
It will have some options and you move up and down with vol - and +. I had on original g.....what are you trying to do.....I don't know if you can....
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Some ppl have gotten to it...but I don't have stock recovery to even check
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I rooted a friends phone and installed TWRP recovery for him. He decided that he wanted to take the OTA so I removed TWRP and installed the stock recovery image. After doing this the phone hasn't been able to find the OTA update. I was just wondering if I might not have gotten the stock recovery to install correctly.

chazglenn3 said:
I rooted a friends phone and installed TWRP recovery for him. He decided that he wanted to take the OTA so I removed TWRP and installed the stock recovery image. After doing this the phone hasn't been able to find the OTA update. I was just wondering if I might not have gotten the stock recovery to install correctly.
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If you could try goomanger and press boot to recovery or when phones off press volume down+ power and let go when lg logo appears to see
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I don't think you can restore stock recovery....would have better luck flashing a ROM with the ota already or restore to stock then accept ota .....
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Here's a stock ROM with ota, read the thread though for any problems or check out other Roms
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2595586

RubbleTea said:
If you could try goomanger and press boot to recovery or when phones off press volume down+ power and let go when lg logo appears to see
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I don't think you can restore stock recovery....would have better luck flashing a ROM with the ota already or restore to stock then accept ota .....
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That's a bummer. Thanks. I did try to press volume down and power, that is when the little green Android appeared for a second then the phone rebooted normally. Tried with ROM Toolbox Pro also.

chazglenn3 said:
That's a bummer. Thanks. I did try to press volume down and power, that is when the little green Android appeared for a second then the phone rebooted normally. Tried with ROM Toolbox Pro also.
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Stock ROM with ota would be a good bet, just check thread for bugs or any problems if any

RubbleTea said:
Stock ROM with ota would be a good bet, just check thread for bugs or any problems if any
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Thanks for your help! :good:

chazglenn3 said:
Thanks for your help! :good:
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NP hope everything goes good

I think I will restore to stock and then root again for him.

[Q] Galaxy S5 Stuck in Infinite Recovery Boot Cycle

I have had my S5 for two days now. I haven't done any modifications to it and have kept it completing stock. I was browsing the internet in Chrome when I got a notification saying there was a security breach and that the phone needed to restart in order to undue any changes made. So I pressed the restart button and it started to restart normally until I saw in tiny blue text "RECOVERY BOOTING....", I didn't think much of it until nothing started to happen after a minute. I let it go for another 5 minutes and then 15 minutes. I came back and still it was at the same screen. I decided to turn the device off and on to see if that would do anything, nothing happened. I took the battery out and waited a few minutes to put it back in, again nothing new. I was looking into other threads about this happening to other phones because the S5 is so new there is nothing on it doing this. But I found no useful information. So my question is, how can I fix this? I don't mind having to reset it, there's only a few apps installed. I'm tech savvy, so I'll now what you mean if you give me any tips. Thank you!

If doesn't matter if you lost the installed apps, then boot to recovery and choose wipe data reset factory and then wipe data cache.then restart your mobile it should solve your problem.
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ra_eng said:
If doesn't matter if you lost the installed apps, then boot to recovery and choose wipe data reset factory and then wipe data cache.then restart your mobile it should solve your problem.
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I should have mentioned this in the post but I have tried that, nothing happens. It's already trying to boot into recovery, I wonder if I can get it out of trying to do that.

Try to boot into download mode then restart normally, maybe it gets you out of the recovery booting loop.
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And if this didn't work.
I think you should download the stock rom from sammobile or samsung-updates.com sites and reinstall it again.
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ra_eng said:
Try to boot into download mode then restart normally, maybe it gets you out of the recovery booting loop.
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And if this didn't work.
I think you should download the stock rom from sammobile or samsung-updates.com sites and reinstall it again.
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Alright so I tried putting it into download mode and restarting it from there. I got into download mode and then restarted but nothing happened. I am going to trying reinstalling the stock rom right now. Thanks for the help!

ra_eng said:
Try to boot into download mode then restart normally, maybe it gets you out of the recovery booting loop.
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And if this didn't work.
I think you should download the stock rom from sammobile or samsung-updates.com sites and reinstall it again.
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So I reinstalled the stock rom and now the recovery boot text is gone, but it still doesn't actually boot up into Android. Looks like I will have to take the phone back to the store and hope I can get a replacement. Thanks for your help!

Why don't u just take it for warranty.Why use a phone which has problems
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TechxCentral said:
So I reinstalled the stock rom and now the recovery boot text is gone, but it still doesn't actually boot up into Android. Looks like I will have to take the phone back to the store and hope I can get a replacement. Thanks for your help!
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Does you got a replacement? I'm having the exact same problem right now

flash the firmware
Flash the firmware and bootloader and pit for partition with odin look in xda for the pit for ur device modell
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First install the drivers for Samsung

Did you get an answer? Am having the same issue

[Q] Been a while, at a complete loss

I gave my X to my son last year and it became extremely slow since then. It was running a version of Liquid Smooth. I was attempting to install CM11 on it following the instructions to the T, and then it became stuck, I'm stuck. I thought it already had CWM installed on it, but when it rebooted to recovery, the factory recovery came up. I formatted the system and the cache and then tried to install TWRP, it failed. I tried 2 different date factory roms and both gave me a sideload error. I even tried to flash 2.3.4.4.5.621.no.radio.sbf.zip but it also gave me a sideload error. I guess my question is where do I go from here? There's nothing on the phone at all, all I can do is boot to recovery. The usb port is dead, we use a wall charger to charge the battery.

Strizay said:
I even tried to flash 2.3.4.4.5.621.no.radio.sbf.zip but it also gave me a sideload error. .
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Must use RSD lite with sbf files
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Strizay said:
I gave my X to my son last year and it became extremely slow since then. It was running a version of Liquid Smooth. I was attempting to install CM11 on it following the instructions to the T, and then it became stuck, I'm stuck. I thought it already had CWM installed on it, but when it rebooted to recovery, the factory recovery came up.
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It did have cwm installed, you needed to select recovery when in rom, by long pressing power button>reboot>recovery
I formatted the system and the cache and then tried to install TWRP, it failed.
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doesn't matter if it was stock recovery, nothing will work
I tried 2 different date factory roms and both gave me a sideload error. I even tried to flash 2.3.4.4.5.621.no.radio.sbf.zip but it also gave me a sideload error. I guess my question is where do I go from here? There's nothing on the phone at all, all I can do is boot to recovery. The usb port is dead, we use a wall charger to charge the battery.
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if usb port is dead, phone is toast, there are no more options
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of course, if you haven't install moto drivers correctly, you may have misdiagnosed usb port
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or a bad usb cable...

so there's no way to install a recovery from inside the factory recovery?

No, there is not
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and I can't even install a stock rom either? This is so stupid.

No u
You must use RSD lite to flash stock firmware, because of locked bootloader
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If installing a custom anything was possible with stock recovery, that would be the preferred way
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OK, I managed to get it connected by USB and RSD Lite sees the phone, what do I do next? LOL, sorry

Using RSD Lite to flash a .SBF to restore (Stock Rom)
on Droid X (Shadow-MB810)
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is it an sbf or a stock rom I'm trying to flash with rsd lite? How do I know which sbf is the right one? I tried to flash 3 so far 1 passed but it still said blank, the next one failed and the 3rd one says file path too long.

Strizay said:
is it an sbf or a stock rom I'm trying to flash with rsd lite?
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an ..sbf is stock firmware
How do I know which sbf is the right one? I tried to flash 3 so far 1 passed but it still said blank,
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if you see mem blank error try
2.3.4.4.5.621.no.radio.sbf.zip or FF-p3a_shadow_cdma_shadow-user-2.3.4-4.5.1_57_DX8-51-120111-test-keys-signed-Verizon-US.sbf.zip
the next one failed and the 3rd one says file path too long.
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usually that means rsd lite and/sbf is buried in too many folders, try placing sbf on desktop
if it ends in .sbf.zip or .sbf it's ok if any thing else needs to be uncompressed manually
and verify md5 checksums

I flashed the 605 sbf and it went through all of it and then at the end it said passed. the screen was blank but the led in the top left corner was green. I unplugged the phone and it went back to bootloader with the blank message. I'm flashing the one you mentioned above right now.
sweet, that one worked. Now to see if I can get the OTA update.

Strizay said:
I flashed the 605 sbf and it went through all of it and then at the end it said passed. the screen was blank but the led in the top left corner was green. I unplugged the phone and it went back to bootloader with the blank message. I'm flashing the one you mentioned above right now.
sweet, that one worked. Now to see if I can get the OTA update.
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Why would you want the update?
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Though you wanted a custom rom?
You are just adding extra steps

you're right, I just wanted to install a custom rom. I've managed to get it rooted and cwm installed now, it's just that once I'm in cwm, there's no way to select the command I want. the volume buttons move the selection, but none of the buttons make it respond. it just takes away the text and shows the back ground image.

Strizay said:
you're right, I just wanted to install a custom rom. I've managed to get it rooted and cwm installed now, it's just that once I'm in cwm, there's no way to select the command I want. the volume buttons move the selection, but none of the buttons make it respond. it just takes away the text and shows the back ground image.
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[HOW TO] Install/Use Droid 2/X/3 Bootstrap
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in CWM scroll with volume buttons, select with camera button
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I'm sure I covered this in my
[Video] Installing CM11 on the Motorola Droid X (MB810)

thank you so much man, I totally forgot that it was the camera button. Everything is running great now, and I now have Kit Kat on my X. Your help is Extremely appreciated, thank you for all your help and time.

Weird ultra power saving mode bootloop

So I have an att s5 active (SM-G870A) on android 4.something (I don't remember the firmware). It's been rooted for the past 2 years, and I've never had problems with it. About last week I put it into ultra power saving mode to try and save some juice when I didn't have my charger. Once I tried to exit the ultra power saving mode it opened a box saying it was exiting when the wheel froze. I gave it a couple of minutes before I held the down the power button to force a restart. When I turned it back on it was still in ultra power saving so I went to turn it back off again, only this time it told me that touchwiz home had crashed, which made sense as I had it disabled via titanium backup. The same box as before came up to tell me upsm was turning off but then it froze and shut off. This is where it left me. Ever since then whenever I try to boot it up it comes on, I unlock it with my passcode, then (without my prompting) tells me it's exiting upsm, then restarts itself back in upsm. I have a couple of seconds between reboots to try and mess with settings and it says it's still in upsm so I can't try and turn it back on to prevent the loop.
I have a lot of personal stuff on the internal sd card, so I don't want to system wipe. Are there any ways to change settings remotely? For example, can I somehow toggle the "turn off ultra power saving mode" remotely?
Also, I have read conflicting info about what data is removed on a factory reset. I expect it to remove things like apps, but will it remove my photos and music for example?
Another option I've considered is reflashing stock firmaware but the only downloads I've found are for the non-active s5 or from sites with 50kb/s download speeds. Should I bother downloading one of these and trying that?
TL;DR - Phone tries to exit ultra power saving mode, but just shuts off and reboots, over and over. Will doing a factory reset delete my photos and music? Are there other ways to fix this?
Thanks :fingers-crossed:

Boot to recovery mode that will tell you exactly what firmware you are on
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Then download it and flash only the system Img in Odin onto your phone to extract the system Img from the firmware use 7 zip file manager and extract the tar file if the file ends in md5 edit the name of the file so it is g901a(whateverisinthemiddle).tar
Then extract this tar file and click add and choose the system Img and make it a tar file flash this tar in Odin
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[email protected] said:
Boot to recovery mode that will tell you exactly what firmware you are on
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great, where does it say the firmware number?
The top line says android system recovery, the next is a long line of random letters: KOT49H.GB70AUCU1ANE4
is that the firmware?

Yeah ne4 is the firmware
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It's probably a bad idea to disable touchwiz home
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That is the stock launcher /ui
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[email protected] said:
Yeah ne4 is the firmware
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It's probably a bad idea to disable touchwiz home
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That is the stock launcher /ui
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yeah not really sure why I did, but since I use nova launcher I never figured it would be a problem
Oh, and I should point out, I have a new phone in the mail, at this point I just want to get my files and (if I can get it running) sell my s5

Live and learn is the best answer here
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You can pull all the data off your external sd card just by popping it out and plugging it into your laptop or pc using an SD card reader
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[email protected] said:
Live and learn is the best answer here
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You can pull all the data off your external sd card just by popping it out and plugging it into your laptop or pc using an SD card reader
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no, all my photos are on the internal storage