[Q] Phone stuck at Sprint splash screen - Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot

Phone was upgraded to 4.3. I rooted it, then tried to enable the hotspot, after following a tutorial (One I am now guessing was outdated) it will no longer load past that screen. I've tried wiping the data and cache and also flashing a new mk2 to no avail. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Sounds like it was an outdated hotspot mod.. restore a nanoid if possible.. If not flash the stock rom that's floating around it someone's repository and start over..
Sorry i cant dig it up for you I'm on my mobile
Side note: if you have a root browser in recovery you could see if the mod backed up the originals and just reinstate them.
System》framework. There should be the 2 files there services.jar. and another I can't remember atm. If the mod backed them up you should see .bak or .old added to them
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dewrust said:
Sounds like it was an outdated hotspot mod.. restore a nanoid if possible.. If not flash the stock rom that's floating around it someone's repository and start over..
Sorry i cant dig it up for you I'm on my mobile
Side note: if you have a root browser in recovery you could see if the mod backed up the originals and just reinstate them.
System》framework. There should be the 2 files there services.jar. and another I can't remember atm. If the mod backed them up you should see .bak or .old added to them
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How would I go about attempting to restore a nanoid? Yeah I am guessing it was oudated. I changed the services and the other one, but I dont have a root browser in recovery. I am taking a look for the stock rom right now.
Found it. Downloading it, will post back with how it goes after flashing it. Thanks for the help so far. School internet is slow so it may be an hour or more to download.

Inphinity00 said:
How would I go about attempting to restore a nanoid? Yeah I am guessing it was oudated. I changed the services and the other one, but I dont have a root browser in recovery. I am taking a look for the stock rom right now.
Found it. Downloading it, will post back with how it goes after flashing it. Thanks for the help so far. School internet is slow so it may be an hour or more to download.
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Try using xposed wanam to disable the tethering provision..
Wanam can be found in the play store and xposed framework is found in the forums
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dewrust said:
Try using xposed wanam to disable the tethering provision..
Wanam can be found in the play store and xposed framework is found in the forums
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Can I do that even though the phone won't boot past the Sprint splash screen?

Inphinity00 said:
Can I do that even though the phone won't boot past the Sprint splash screen?
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I was referring to after you re flash a working stock rom.. The other option is to flash a near stock rom that has tethering already unlocked
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dewrust said:
I was referring to after you re flash a working stock rom.. The other option is to flash a near stock rom that has tethering already unlocked
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Oh, I will give that a try, thanks again. This stock rom is taking a while to download though.

It booted up, just set everything back up. Now to root it again and try what you said for the tethering. Thanks again!

Make a backup in recovery first before you go mucking around.

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Rooted Incredible flashed to Straight Talk Stuck on 2.2

Hey guys. I've read that this is a common issue. I am rooted and stuck on 3.26 and I'm wondering if there's anything I can do to get it to update. It starts to download 4.08 but it doesn't reboot after I hit install. I read about loading stock roms but I'm not sure if I can do that being flashed to Straight talk. Anything will be appreciated! Thanks.
Christiie said:
Hey guys. I've read that this is a common issue. I am rooted and stuck on 3.26 and I'm wondering if there's anything I can do to get it to update. It starts to download 4.08 but it doesn't reboot after I hit install. I read about loading stock roms but I'm not sure if I can do that being flashed to Straight talk. Anything will be appreciated! Thanks.
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Well you should be able to flash any rom you want. Service and data settings are stored deeper than roms reach. The only way those settings will get wiped out is if you do a factory reset from hboot, or from the storage and sd menu within the os. If something at the os level is required, you can just backup before hand, and then restore if somethimg dosent work. You should just be able to flash the stock 4.08.605.15 rom in the dev section right over 2.2 without wiping anything if you want to stay stock.
The ota will not install because you are rooted. For it to imstall you must be unrooted and complete stock.
That being said i do not have straight talk, so i dont know all the details. You could use QPST http://dinc.does-it.net/QPST/ to backup all those settings to a file on your pc, and then restore them if something ever goes wrong.
Thanks so much! If I have any other questions when I do this can I PM you?
Christiie said:
Thanks so much! If I have any other questions when I do this can I PM you?
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Sure no problem. I would definitley setup qpst and backup your service and data settings, and do a nandroid before doing anything.
How hard was it to get data working when you flashed it to straight talk, i heard that was the trickiest part? I am thinking of doing this my self. Verizons new plan just sucks for a 1 phone plan.
I didn't do it myself. I get all my phones from a guy that flashes them to ST and the data works perfectly . If you can figure it out or find someone who can its definitely worth it.
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Christiie said:
I didn't do it myself. I get all my phones from a guy that flashes them to ST and the data works perfectly . If you can figure it out or find someone who can its definitely worth it.
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Just hook it up to qpst or cdma and you can get all the settings you need easy as 1 2 3

failed to root, now bricked, lost in the sauce

Rooting my Galaxy S4 has been one of the biggest pains in my rear ever and now I'm bricked and need a bit of help.
Normally, when I want to root a phone, I come here, to XDA, and follow a nice well written up-to-date thread on how to do it and it works. For the S4 however, I can't find any such threads that are not either old, out-of-date, or they use so many abbreviations for things I have no clue what they are talking about.
I started out with a totally stock Samsung Galaxy S4, was a VPUAMDL.
I used ODIN to push TWRP tarball. I then used TWRP to install the CWM SuperSU zip file.
I noticed when it started up that I had no root, I had the SuperSU program however, it nor another program I got on the marketplace, could confirm root.
Bit of looking I found this: galaxys4root (DOT) com/galaxy-s4-root/sprint-vpuamdl-firmware-update-root-fix/
(sorry, can't post full links yet)
Which basically informed me that VPUAMDL needs a new kernel to remove the SetUID restrictions.
I downloaded that file, and put it on my SD card. Booted into TWRP and installed. now my phone is bricked. gets to the "Samsung Galaxy S4" startup splash screen on black background
I am looking for a kernel that will work, either the stock kernel or not.
I am also looking for a good tut on rooting the S4, as all the tuts I have used have been utter wasted time.
I have ODIN, and can boot TWRP, ODIN mode, etc on my phone.
have no clue where to go from here and Im afraid to start trying to download random files and get everything mixed and confused.
Thanks for any help at all.
CF Auto Root
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2291827
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FanOfSkynyrd said:
CF Auto Root
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2291827
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I followed that page, pushed it, installed fine, 100% no errors.
still bricked at GS4 startup splashscreen.
It did finish successfully and I saw the screen with the red android.
It removed TWRP and replaced it with the stock recovery as it should have.
I am actually surprised myself that it is still bricked at the GS4 splash.
Odin stock everything. See if it boots. Then try to root after that.
Stealyourface said:
Odin stock everything. See if it boots. Then try to root after that.
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I am failing to find stock everything to push.
I think I stated that, not sure... hmm
none the less. I do not have a stock kernel or recovery on hand. I can not find one either as there seem to be a plethora of kernels and threads and pages all for different files and downloads. Sifting through trying to find something is becoming harsh. Thus this thread.
You are not bricked if your phone can turn on and go to download mode or recovery.
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GiantJay said:
You are not bricked if your phone can turn on and go to download mode or recovery.
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Well then its whatever you want to call it when it wont boot the operating system and is totally un-usable as a phone or mobile device.
I would go HERE
That is the thread for stock MDL stuff.
Download and flash the kernel and full wipe rom for MDL.
Then upgrade to MF9.
+2 ^^^^ to what he said :edit:
Nice tut on rooting the s4 thanks to mudavo here http://forum.xda-developers.com/sho...to Full Stock [MF9] w/ Root & Custom Recovery
There is also a video tutorial stickied in android devolpment
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Thanks guys, going to try some of the stuff from there. Hope i get it going. Need mah phone back! lol
Wooo, those links where just what I needed. Thanks a lot.
Got my phone back on and now I have a stock file in case I muck things up again.
Just make a nand back up and restore when something bad happens ive mucked up alot and it has always saved me
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[Q] How to update with root?????

i have a sprint Samsung gs4 on mk2 that i have just rooted and the hotspot mod on. the update symbol is in the notification bar and says tap to install. my question is can i install it being rooted or what do i do ? sorry for the noob questions.
13jkilgo said:
i have a sprint Samsung gs4 on mk2 that i have just rooted and the hotspot mod on. the update symbol is in the notification bar and says tap to install. my question is can i install it being rooted or what do i do ? sorry for the noob questions.
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You have to unroot. Follow this guide to get the ball rolling: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2509605
13jkilgo said:
i have a sprint Samsung gs4 on mk2 that i have just rooted and the hotspot mod on. the update symbol is in the notification bar and says tap to install. my question is can i install it being rooted or what do i do ? sorry for the noob questions.
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Or go download a NAE rom and install it, or there is a thread that people have posted their Nandroid backups of the full rom to keep your root.
Darnell0216 said:
You have to unroot. Follow this guide to get the ball rolling: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2509605
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Not quite true. You CAN install an OTA if you are rooted, though you WILL lose root and so have to re-root afterwards. Yes, the OTA MAY fail, that's true, but that's usually only the case if you're running an older version of SuperSU that had an issue that's since been fixed.
The trick that messes people up and will cause a failure (though almost definitely not a bricked phone) is you can't have actually made any changes to system files in any way. That obviously means you can't have edited any system files, used any tweaks or mods, etc. It ALSO means you can't have disabled apps using something like Titantium... if you can't disable an app via the standard system app manager but you do through Titantium then that will cause the OTA to fail.
I know this all because I've installed the last three OTAs with root with no issues, but I'm very careful about all of the above because I was burned a few times in the past until I learned
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Not quite true. You CAN install an OTA if you are rooted, though you WILL lose root and so have to re-root afterwards. Yes, the OTA MAY fail, that's true, but that's usually only the case if you're running an older version of SuperSU that had an issue that's since been fixed.
The trick that messes people up and will cause a failure (though almost definitely not a bricked phone) is you can't have actually made any changes to system files in any way. That obviously means you can't have edited any system files, used any tweaks or mods, etc. It ALSO means you can't have disabled apps using something like Titantium... if you can't disable an app via the standard system app manager but you do through Titantium then that will cause the OTA to fail.
I know this all because I've installed the last three OTAs with root with no issues, but I'm very careful about all of the above because I was burned a few times in the past until I learned
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so saying that i could update just by hitting install because i left the original files i the framework and just made them a bak file which i can go back and remove the mod files and delete the .bak and i should be able to hit install correct? and is there already root and hotspot mod avaliable for kitkat?
Well I unrooted through supersu n then updated n I put the nae hotspot mod into the framework n backed up the old file by .bak n restarted n the wifi nor the hotshot work ?? N I undid the mod n put the stock back n they still don't work so I unrooted again n they both still don't work
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Yes it is go to the development section and look.
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Anyone having problems with the NAE hotspot mod??

I rooted my nae phone n then pushed the files n now when I update apps they crash like Twitter in order for then to work I have to go back to stock hotspot then re push the modded files
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Anyone ? Like when a app updates it stops working with the hotspot mod
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13jkilgo said:
Anyone ? Like when a app updates it stops working with the hotspot mod
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Same problem here, I flashed 4.4 to my phone via ODEN, then did an autoroot. Installing / updating apps works fine. After doing the hotspot mod, any apps that are updated or downloaded will crash when you try to open them.
Hope there is a fix soon
Yeah I know I still haven't figured it out other than I just have to pull the files out n repush the stock files to update apps
Hopefully soon
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I had this same issue with NAE hotspot files. CFautoroot worked fine... phone is cool until I installed the hotspot mod files. Every app that updated would become inop with the unfortunately this POS app has crashed and now I going to give you the middle finger etc..etc.... All the apps had the same details in the error report. Had to Reflash NAE because it got so bad I couldn't get to file explore to replace the modded service files. I was applying the hot spot mod by replacing the files using a file explore app.
I installed TWRP to try the recommended method of installing by flashing the .zip through recovery and havn't had a single issue since
Stock 4.4.2 (NAE)
rooted with CFautoroot
TWRP installed through goomanager
rpm429 said:
I had this same issue with NAE hotspot files. CFautoroot worked fine... phone is cool until I installed the hotspot mod files. Every app that updated would become inop with the unfortunately this POS app has crashed and now I going to give you the middle finger etc..etc.... All the apps had the same details in the error report. Had to Reflash NAE because it got so bad I couldn't get to file explore to replace the modded service files. I was applying the hot spot mod by replacing the files using a file explore app.
I installed TWRP to try the recommended method of installing by flashing the .zip through recovery and havn't had a single issue since
Stock 4.4.2 (NAE)
rooted with CFautoroot
TWRP installed through goomanager
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Do you have to be unlocked to use TWRP or can i just install it straight from the play store??
thanks!
13jkilgo said:
Do you have to be unlocked to use TWRP or can i just install it straight from the play store??
thanks!
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I figured it out thanks for the help! disregard the comment above
Figured out how?
13jkilgo said:
I figured it out thanks for the help! disregard the comment above
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you wanna share how you figured it out? can you install straight from the play store?
SteveAnthonyL20 said:
you wanna share how you figured it out? can you install straight from the play store?
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you have to download goomanager in the play store first and watch this video how to install TWRP
video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBQTx8FmTtk
Hotspot mod files - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2653666
and then get the zip file for the hotspot mod and put it onto your external sd and go to recovery mode and hit install and then find
your file on your sdcard and swip to install.
Remember to always create a nandriod backup first before flashing the mod!
Hope that helps!
13jkilgo said:
you have to download goomanager in the play store first and watch this video how to install TWRP
video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBQTx8FmTtk
Hotspot mod files - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2653666
and then get the zip file for the hotspot mod and put it onto your external sd and go to recovery mode and hit install and then find
your file on your sdcard and swip to install.
Remember to always create a nandriod backup first before flashing the mod!
Hope that helps!
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Will I be able to install this recovery successfully on 4.4.2, I have successfully rooted but I am on Baseband: L720VPUFNAE...I am guess the NAE hotspot hack but I am not totally sure which hotspot file to get.
SteveAnthonyL20 said:
Will I be able to install this recovery successfully on 4.4.2, I have successfully rooted but I am on Baseband: L720VPUFNAE...I am guess the NAE hotspot hack but I am not totally sure which hotspot file to get.
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yeah you can install the recovery successfully and and your phone is odexed if its a stock rooted rom unless its a custom rom then it would be deodexed
13jkilgo said:
yeah you can install the recovery successfully and and your phone is odexed if its a stock rooted rom unless its a custom rom then it would be deodexed
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Ok, my apologies, but were the past couple posts directed to the main issue? I got a lil thrown off, but assuming liek everyone else, I am no longer able to open newly installed apps. I can get as far as installing them. But when i try to open them, it force closes " Unfortunately, BlahBlah has stopped ". This be resolved or still a wondering issue?
Resolved by flashing the mod thru twrp recovery basically use Odin and put the twrp tar in pda n flash that and after that is done put the hot spot zip file on your sdcard Then go into recovery n hit install find the zip file and let it install
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HotSpot won't activate
I have used root explorer to copy hotspot hack file to framework, then I was getting app crash so flashed stock firmware L720VPUFNAE. Now I am rooted again when I try to turn on hotspot it turns on without notification that "hotspot is activated" and nothing can connect to hotspot. Any suggestion?
Hi s4 users.
I would like to add support for sph-l720 to my app. I can enable hotspot if a user with root can give me file from
/data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/telephony.db
Please be from stock rom fresh after a profile update.
Also indicate exact model from getprop or a look in build.prop
pm me link or come post it here http://forum.xda-developers.com/not.../app-one-click-hotspot-enabler-menus-t2816159
Thanks in advance for anyone who takes a moment of their time for me.
pate201 said:
I have used root explorer to copy hotspot hack file to framework, then I was getting app crash so flashed stock firmware L720VPUFNAE. Now I am rooted again when I try to turn on hotspot it turns on without notification that "hotspot is activated" and nothing can connect to hotspot. Any suggestion?
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The NAE hotspot has problems if you try to copy the hack in with a file explorer. If you want it to work with no problems you need to flash it with a custom recovery.

[Q] hyperdrive stuck at splash screen

I've tried asking this in the q&a section on the main thread but I think I'm being ignored because I'm asking a question about the at&t version inside a Verizon thread. Idk. But I've tried installing hyperdrive rls15 and I follow the instructions on the main page for at&t and I get to where I need to reboot and wait 10 mins. Well it just stays on the splash screen. I've tried repeating the install 4 time's now amd the same results. I found a tooic saying fix permissions but it fails. I'm sorry if this has been asked already. I have looked through several different threads but I may have overlooked it. My phone baseband is I337UCUAMDL im on 4.2.2 and have twrp v2.5.0.2 as my recovery. I've also verified the md5. any suggestions?
I hate to double post but if anyone has any ideas as to why this is happening I'm going to try and redownload and try loki patch I don't know if it's needed but I will try.
motel6man said:
I hate to double post but if anyone has any ideas as to why this is happening I'm going to try and redownload and try loki patch I don't know if it's needed but I will try.
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Same problem here,
I'm going to try and install a kernel through TWRP. I've tried a fresh root / loki install, same issue.
For me, I remember having to install an AT&T compatibility pack.zip file on previous Hyperdrive releases, like RLS 10.
I tried to install RLS15 and at the very end of install, it says this:
Flashing Kernel
file_getprop: failed to stat"/tmp/aroma/kernel.prop": No such file or
directory
However, for some reason, after trying to install this new release, I was not able to restore data in TWRP from a backup of RLS 10. I was able to restore to a non-rooted backup (i don't know how), and it appears that I am not rooted anymore, and I don't think I have superuser anymore. So, I'm not exactly sure where to start.
Glad to see I'm not the only one this is happening to. Please let me know if you figure it out. I noticed the same thing but thought I seen someone else say that it was nothing.
so i redownloaded all files and nothing. tried loki patch and nothing. tried kt kernel because i seen another post with someone saying it was the only one that worked for them and nothing. im still stuck on splash screen. please if anyone knows how to fix this please let me know im desperate now. i really want to try this rom so any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks
Same here =/
Flashing a kernel before ROM didn't do anything.
I'm starting to think that we don't have Super User installed anymore, I tried re-installing some BackUps (rooted backups)
and TWRP said something like, you don't have SuperUser instyalled, want to install it? *Slide to Install* Phone quickly reboots (not showing any proof of Super User being installed in TWRP emulator) and still no effect.
When I get some time ill look into how to install SuperUser, which I thought was already put on when we root.
Have you tried installing any other ROMS with success?
Are you still on MDL? I am, and im starting to think i need to just go ahead and do the update from AT&T, and then switching over to Safestrap recovery, but i hope i can find another solution before doing all that.
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Same here =/
Flashing a kernel before ROM didn't do anything.
I'm starting to think that we don't have Super User installed anymore, I tried re-installing some BackUps (rooted backups)
and TWRP said something like, you don't have SuperUser instyalled, want to install it? *Slide to Install* Phone quickly reboots (not showing any proof of Super User being installed in TWRP emulator) and still no effect.
When I get some time ill look into how to install SuperUser, which I thought was already put on when we root.
Have you tried installing any other ROMS with success?
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I haven't tried any other roms yet. I haven't really seen any that I liked.
d9vabder said:
Are you still on MDL? I am, and im starting to think i need to just go ahead and do the update from AT&T, and then switching over to Safestrap recovery, but i hope i can find another solution before doing all that.
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I'm still on mdl. I'm going to keep looking around for a solution. Please let us know if you found a way to fix it.
Also heres a screen shot of my info
motel6man said:
I've tried asking this in the q&a section on the main thread but I think I'm being ignored because I'm asking a question about the at&t version inside a Verizon thread. Idk. But I've tried installing hyperdrive rls15 and I follow the instructions on the main page for at&t and I get to where I need to reboot and wait 10 mins. Well it just stays on the splash screen. I've tried repeating the install 4 time's now amd the same results. I found a tooic saying fix permissions but it fails. I'm sorry if this has been asked already. I have looked through several different threads but I may have overlooked it. My phone baseband is I337UCUAMDL im on 4.2.2 and have twrp v2.5.0.2 as my recovery. I've also verified the md5. any suggestions?
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Are you using Safe strap?
I was having the same problem after like 4 tries i figured out that every time I would download this it would go into the internal memory when it should have gone into the xd. I had to move folders manually. After that everything has been working correctly.
Do you know what folders have to be moved and where?
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d9vabder said:
Do you know what folders have to be moved and where?
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I created a new one on the xd card named it roms so I won't forget.
All I did was go to Mounts in TWRP recovery and mounted my microSD card and this fixed the problem.
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d9vabder said:
All I did was go to Mounts in TWRP recovery and mounted my microSD card and this fixed the problem.
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cool im going to go try it in a few mins thanks
i tried mounting both internal and external and still nothing can you go through the steps you did from start to finish maybe im missing something
Okay, so the first thing i did was mount my microSD(external sd) then a full wipe. Even though i was mounted to my sd card, i still had to navigate to my internal memory to select the zips i wanted to flash. I first installed an older release of Hyperdrive Rom, and during installation, i selected Full Wipe option again. i also added my AT&T compatibility pack.zip to be flashed right after the ROM. Also, i dont know if this affected anything, but i tried installing the T-Mobile compatibility pack on a previous attempt. I read somewhere where some1 did this and it worked for them, but it didnt work for me until i did another install of RLS15 and the ATT pack.
Hope this can help you
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