I successfully rooted my device but after upgrading to 4.3 I lost my root. I tried the same process again but in recovery mode I have searched and searched but cannot find the zip files. I am using my internal drive my sd card keeps giving the error not formatted . I am unable to format using either phone or pc. why can I not see my zip files in recovery mode? I see them clear as day when I browse the folders using the PC. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. a phone without root to me is like a Dixie cup.
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Hello all,
My brother has been having problems with his Google Play store (force closing, etc) as well as some other Google services. He wasn't even able to actually load Play Store and browse, so to fix his problem I decided the best route would be to start clean and do a factory reset. This worked well, for about 2-3 hours until he told me he wanted me to put the Google Edition 4.3 JB ROM on his phone. (He's a hipster, trololol)
So I looked up the thread of the AOSP Google Edition 4.3 JB for his GT-I9505. Having flashed my Galaxy S3 many times with UltimaROM and various other ROMs, I figured his S4 wouldn't be much different to any of the other Galaxy devices we've had in the past. So I download TWRP, and also rooted his phone via Motochopper. Once I installed TWRP I hit wipe and wiped the data and dalvik cache. Then I installed the ROM. Few moments later and we reboot the phone.
Phone decides to go into a boot loop, so I go back into TWRP and wipe again like I would with my Galaxy S3, but still getting a boot loop.
I really should have made a back-up of his original stock ROM (I made a boo-boo, I know ) but I figured he had nothing to lose. The problem now is that I can't flash any other ROMs because normally I would just transfer the .zip's onto the phone and then install from there. He doesn't have an SD card either, and mines doesn't work anymore (water damage...).
So my question is, what other ways can I transfer .zip's onto his phone so we can flash another ROM and not let his phone be a huge expensive paper weight.
I know about ADB and I downloaded the ADT Bundle from Google's site, but I have no idea how to execute adb or fastboot. They open cmd but then immediately shutdown again after a flash of a wall of text.
I'm able to access recovery & download modes fine. I've tried "mount" but when it mounts the S4, Windows doesn't pick up on it like it would if I were to do MTP otherwise I'd be able to transfer files no problem.
Can anyone help please?
man...use PhilzRecovery and use adb to flash the rom!
Put the flashable zip in the same folder wich contains adb.
Select from PhilzRecovery "install zip from sideload"
Connect the phone to pc and in the adb window type "adb sideload ..........." (wehere "............." is the name of the flashable zip.
I restored my phone once in this way
otherwise...buy a cheam 2gb micro sd card and put the flashable zip on it.
Select install zip from sdcard and that`s it.
Or you can use adb file explorer to copy the flashable zip on internal memory
there are many solutions for your problem.
The easyest would be the one using "adb sideload"
I hope i helped you!
Have a nice day!!!
PS: to open adb window do this way "press and hold shift while click-ing right click on the folder that contains adb files"
you will get a menu containg "open command window here" and click on it!
In the windows that appears type "adb devices" just to see if the phone is correctly recognised by windows.
Remember that using Philz Recovery is the most secure way.
Twrp has some weird problems formatting data(i don`t know why)
to put the phone just boot into recovery mode and adb should recognize your phone!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2265477 Just follow this. I guess it's a soft brick and you'll just need to flash the stock firmware.
EDIT: Seems I was wrong, but the ADB tip will come in handy though. Thanks!
Ok I think I may have bricked / soft-bricked the phone. I've tried flashing the stock ROM (different firmwares) with and without a PIT file and they all keep failing. Yet if I flash a ROM like Cyanogen Mod it'll get to the Cyanogen Mod boot screen, but then crash there?
The phone is definitely a i9505, so I can't see what the hell I'm doing wrong. :/ It was an Orange UK model, but it was factory unlocked when bought new and he's been using o2 sim's ever since.
All I do is flash .tar.md5's with Odin 3 v1.85, and then install .zip's in the recovery (Philz Recovery)
For the stock ROM I'm just flashing with Odin.
I've never had so much drama with a phone before. -__-
EDIT: Solved this on my own. Had to flash MH8 since I'm on a secured bootloader.
Thanks anyway.
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.
symondo12 said:
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
FIXED used this link however my phone doesn't recognise my sim phone was unlocked [fixed] just reboot phone xD]
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451696
THANKS! hope you all fix your problems !
Hi there guys,
I unknowingly installed an official small security update for the browser in RGUI custom rom and the phone refused to open.
I don't have a backup sadly and the mount option in TWRP doesn't show up. When i click the mount option it just shows me what partitions i want to mount then below it says "Storage: Internal Storage (10742 MB). I wiped the phone using the TWRP option and no luck. I tried to push the custom rom in adb to my phone but to be honest I don't have a clue what I'm doing.
I downloaded the android SDK then I put the rom into z:/dev/adt-bundlewindows/sdk/tools and tried to push it using adb but when i performed a check it didn't list my device
any help is appreciated thanks.
So I flashed a custom recovery today and accidentally wiped everything, including the ROM file I had copied over while I still had my previous ROM. Problem is, I have no idea how to get the ROM file onto the phone now. Usually I use my microSD card but for some reason no recovery will recognize my card (tried mulitple recoveries, and cards, probably a problem with the slot) and now I have no way to get a file onto my phone. I tried using the USB mount but when I click it nothing happens on my computer. So how do I get my GAPPS and ROM onto my phone so I can flash them? Thanks!
Ryan_407 said:
So I flashed a custom recovery today and accidentally wiped everything, including the ROM file I had copied over while I still had my previous ROM. Problem is, I have no idea how to get the ROM file onto the phone now. Usually I use my microSD card but for some reason no recovery will recognize my card (tried mulitple recoveries, and cards, probably a problem with the slot) and now I have no way to get a file onto my phone. I tried using the USB mount but when I click it nothing happens on my computer. So how do I get my GAPPS and ROM onto my phone so I can flash them? Thanks!
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Which recovery did you flash? With TWRP I get a popup on my computer when I connect via USB and can copy files over. You will need to DL the samsung USB drivers and install them on your PC.
You can also use ADB sideload to transfer a your necessary files to your phone
Hello all,
I decided to install a recovery mode called Philz touch v6.07.6, which completed successfully and I can access to both download mode and this recovery menu. Then used Kingroot to root the phone. I then tried to use the ADB system to install a ROM due to not having an SD card at the time. I had chosen the option to clean install which deleted cache and formatted certain folders. The installation process then failed and I can only access download mode and recovery and my phone does not connect to my laptop anymore, or any other. I cannot seem to connect my phone to any computer, either with different cables or USB port.
I've uninstalled KIES, smart switch. uninstalled and reinstalled all drivers but my phone still does not connect to Odin or ADB server. I cannot install a new recovery menu as I cannot see my phone on Odin.
Thinking an SD card with a ROM would resolve the issue I purchased a card, added a ROM to it but I cannot find anything I put on the sd card. Choosing install from zip then SD card it shows clockworkmod/ but nothing else. Using free browse mode i've looked into every folder and cannot find anything that is on my SD card. I see no option under mounts and storage to mount the SD card
Thank you for your time and if you can advise me on what I am doing wrong.
Edit: I forgot to mention - When powering the phone on normally without trying to get into recovery or download mode, the top left of the screen says:
"Kernel is not seanandroid enforcing"
Set Warranty Bit : kernel
You do realize the S4 has an internal storage, right? It's a built-in microSD card.
So you absolutely don't need one to use and/or flash custom ROMs on it.
Your second mistake was flashing PhilZ recovery. It's a mistake because that recovery is outdated.
Your third mistake was trying to flash the ROM via ADB when you can simply flash it with the recovery.
The reason why the ROM zip doesn't show up in your recovery id because, most probably, the internal storage is selected by default. So, either navigate to the microSD card folder or move the ROM zip to your internal storage.
I also recommend switching to TWRP recovery.
@Aysta, if it's not too late for you, just flash the latest twrp Recovery ". Tar. File" in Odin (>AP) by switching off the device in download mode. After that just copy your desired custom rom and gapps to your sd-card by an sd-card reader in Windows and the rest you know, which as i assume, will follow... [emoji6]
P. S I just experienced the same yesterday evening when i bricked one of my Sammy's while using an experimental kernel (. Img) file.
Anyhow, this just solved everything for me [emoji4]
Aysta said:
Hello all,
I decided to install a recovery mode called Philz touch v6.07.6, which completed successfully and I can access to both download mode and this recovery menu. Then used Kingroot to root the phone. I then tried to use the ADB system to install a ROM due to not having an SD card at the time. I had chosen the option to clean install which deleted cache and formatted certain folders. The installation process then failed and I can only access download mode and recovery and my phone does not connect to my laptop anymore, or any other. I cannot seem to connect my phone to any computer, either with different cables or USB port.
I've uninstalled KIES, smart switch. uninstalled and reinstalled all drivers but my phone still does not connect to Odin or ADB server. I cannot install a new recovery menu as I cannot see my phone on Odin.
Thinking an SD card with a ROM would resolve the issue I purchased a card, added a ROM to it but I cannot find anything I put on the sd card. Choosing install from zip then SD card it shows clockworkmod/ but nothing else. Using free browse mode i've looked into every folder and cannot find anything that is on my SD card. I see no option under mounts and storage to mount the SD card
Thank you for your time and if you can advise me on what I am doing wrong.
Edit: I forgot to mention - When powering the phone on normally without trying to get into recovery or download mode, the top left of the screen says:
"Kernel is not seanandroid enforcing"
Set Warranty Bit : kernel
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You have to get your phone working with Odin, it's your only way out.
lekiaM said:
@Aysta, if it's not too late for you, just flash the latest twrp Recovery ". Tar. File" in Odin (>AP) by switching off the device in download mode. After that just copy your desired custom rom and gapps to your sd-card by an sd-card reader in Windows and the rest you know, which as i assume, will follow... [emoji6]
P. S I just experienced the same yesterday evening when i bricked one of my Sammy's while using an experimental kernel (. Img) file.
Anyhow, this just solved everything for me [emoji4]
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Odin doesn't detect his device, read his full post.
MigoMujahid said:
You have to get your phone working with Odin, it's your only way out.
Odin doesn't detect his device, read his full post.
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"this doesnt make sense than, either"
And i overlooked it. Can happen mate.
Thank you for your assistance guys, i've still not been able to flash a new recovery as my phone just will not connect. I read installing older drivers helps but it didn't. Older odin didn't work. I need to access an operating system which isn't Windows 10 according to another website. So will create a virtual machine and let you all know how it goes.
Ubuntu has worked! i installed jodin3 and my phone shows up on there while in download mode
lekiaM said:
"this doesnt make sense than, either"
And i overlooked it. Can happen mate.
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Aysta said:
Ubuntu has worked! i installed jodin3 and my phone shows up on there while in download mode
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That's why i told you it's the Only way, Odin must detect your phone, otherwise you're screwed.