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[Q] Canadian Variant [SM-N900W8] Stuck In Boot Loop!

I've been reading through other threads here on XDA about a common boot loop issue that N900T users are experiencing, but nowhere was it mentioned that the Canadian variant users had a similar problem, but I do.
I was wondering if there were any other SM-N90028 users out there that were stuck in a boot loop?
Here is my situation:
I have a Canadian SM-N900W8 (it is, also a Qualcomm LTE version) and I'm in a boot loop... it all started when I tried to restore a Stock-Rooted Rom with TWRP.
I can't, however get it out, and I've tried all of the versions of TWRP, I've also used odin like 30 times... nothing.
I successfully restored a Rooted stock ROM through TWRP, but it wasn't until I re-installed a factory un-rooted one that things got ugly..
So I was thinking about this and perhaps the cause of this is KNOX... since the first thing I did when I rooted my phone initially was uninstall KNOX and all of its files. I know these didn't carry over when I did a TWRP backup, which is perhaps why my restore of that backup worked the first time. The second time, I just went and downloaded everything stock and used Odin, and that's when the bootloop occurred.
if anyone knows of a way to solve this, I'd be forever grateful!
I really hope I will be able to fix this...

Not to sound.to xdaish...but dude seriously this topic.is all.over the n3 forums. Have a.look and you will find tons of info.
Also...good idea to.read prior to flashing..if you had you would have know not to restore with twrp since it causes bootloops.
Just trying to you some friendly advice.
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force70 said:
Not to sound.to xdaish...but dude seriously this topic.is all.over the n3 forums. Have a.look and you will find tons of info.
Also...good idea to.read prior to flashing..if you had you would have know not to restore with twrp since it causes bootloops.
Just trying to you some friendly advice.
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Thank you, but I've read them all and most are regarding the n900t, I felt it appropriate to ask about the n900w8 variant.
Also, I know that would have been better, but it's too late for that now. I just thought I'd share my experiences here with this issue so that others will know better.

So I tried a different stock ROM, and with the latest version of Odin, but it still is in a boot loop.
However there is one difference; this time it will boot past the Samsung logo and into android, but then a window will pop up saying "Process system isn't responding" and ask me to wait for it to respond or close it. Regardless of what I select, it will end up rebooting seconds later.
In the very short time that everything stays booted for, I can access the two pull-down menus from the top, but selecting anything will yield me no results.
Perhaps this can tell us more about this issue?

Did you have a read.through this....a few.guys have revived their n900w8s here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46450690
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force70 said:
Did you have a read.through this....a few.guys have revived their n900w8s here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46450690
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Thanks! I checked it out and my phone is already set to those settings, so it didn't work, but I'm still trying!

c_est_la_vie said:
Thanks! I checked it out and my phone is already set to those settings, so it didn't work, but I'm still trying!
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Check post #350 in this thread and read forward. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2467001&page=46

this worked!
Hey guys, I'm not sure if anyone's checked this out yet, but I managed to get myself out of the boot loop!
here is the solution:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2471421

Glad your back up and running!
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Thanks!
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Help please

So I was trying to help a friend flash stock using Odin because his phone app was being a piece of crap, he was on a CM 11 nightly and, well, long story short I almost bricked his phone not knowing there is a limit on how many times you can flash a Samsung device using Odin because of the yellow triangle. I can't use triangle away because it's the CM ROM on a CM kernel, I was able to get rid of the softbrick by using a older CM ROM on his SD card, this wouldn't be a problem if his phone app was still working, his WiFi was working and if his sound was working, but it's not. So to recap and for the question, Samsung is stupid, and can anyone help?
Thanks in advanced
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lonlyhornet said:
So I was trying to help a friend flash stock using Odin because his phone app was being a piece of crap, he was on a CM 11 nightly and, well, long story short I almost bricked his phone not knowing there is a limit on how many times you can flash a Samsung device using Odin because of the yellow triangle. I can't use triangle away because it's the CM ROM on a CM kernel, I was able to get rid of the softbrick by using a older CM ROM on his SD card, this wouldn't be a problem if his phone app was still working, his WiFi was working and if his sound was working, but it's not. So to recap and for the question, Samsung is stupid, and can anyone help?
Thanks in advanced
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First thing you have to do for anyone to help you is,provide which build you were on and which stock rom you were trying to flash. There are tons of people here with great knowledge if you can be real specific.
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So you wanna go to complete stock on a sprint s4?
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Fairly sure there is no limit to the amount of times you can flash using Odin. There is a counter but no limit
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Sorry, Samsung isn't stupid or they wouldn't just magically be a $250+billion dollar company that has been around for 76 years.
Because you jumped in and were unsuccessful with what you were doing doesn't constitute failure on their part.
How about taking that phone - S4 back to bone stock. ALL the answers on how to do that are here. In fact in the last couple days I've personally given instructions on how to do that for a number of people here in the help section. Do some searching and reading and you'll find your answers.
It always helps to come to a manufacture's section and say how sh**y they are. Makes those of us who choose to use and support them feel ever so helpful.

Ok sorry should've been more specific, I'm not new to these forums I was just in a hurry, also seriously guys I'm just frustrated I know Samsung is not stupid you don't have to post their history, they're awesome it's just dumb that they have a limit, and yes if you install the latest stock Sprint update (the one I did before I rooted and rom'd his phone) there wouldn't be a thing such as triangle away. Anyway on Odin it says it passed when flashing stock (the firmware that comes with the phone) but it does it in 4 seconds, and when his phone boots up and it just restores CM, so far everything we've tried either softbricks it or restores CM. Is there anything that completely and I mean completely restores this phone
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lonlyhornet said:
Ok sorry should've been more specific, I'm not new to these forums I was just in a hurry, also seriously guys I'm just frustrated I know Samsung is not stupid you don't have to post their history, they're awesome it's just dumb that they have a limit, and yes if you install the latest stock Sprint update (the one I did before I rooted and rom'd his phone) there wouldn't be a thing such as triangle away. Anyway on Odin it says it passed when flashing stock (the firmware that comes with the phone) but it does it in 4 seconds, and when his phone boots up and it just restores CM, so far everything we've tried either softbricks it or restores CM. Is there anything that completely and I mean completely restores this phone
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Where are you getting this idea there is a limit on Odin flashes?
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There is no limit, as mentioned already, with Odin.
I've used it probably a hundred times since I got my S4. I know others have used it more.
Take some time, look through the Q&A/help forum and you'll see some posts I've helped others with, in the last 24hours alone, on how to get back to stock.
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Okay read this post. It'll get you to stock. Just read the instuctions on how to do it.

Ok I'll try it thanks for tolerating me I can be hard to understand when panicking
Sent from my awsome LG-E980

leaderbuilder said:
There is no limit, as mentioned already, with Odin.
I've used it probably a hundred times since I got my S4. I know others have used it more.
Take some time, look through the Q&A/help forum and you'll see some posts I've helped others with, in the last 24hours alone, on how to get back to stock.
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Okay read this post. It'll get you to stock. Just read the instuctions on how to do it.
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Did it and it worked thanks man! sorry for being rude I was just worried that I may have ruined my friends phone.

lonlyhornet said:
Did it and it worked thanks man! sorry for being rude I was just worried that I may have ruined my friends phone.
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Glad you got it working and THANK YOU for posting back - that is what helps the community.
I understand the panic too. Especially when things are f'd up.
But if there is one valuable lesson I've learned in my half century of life; if you can just pause, relax and step back, many problems are easily resolved. And better yet more avoided by haste.
Good luck with the new phone setup.

OK one more quick thing, we flashed it successfully but now it won't boot its been over an hour after we flashed and its stuck on the Sprint logo

lonlyhornet said:
OK one more quick thing, we flashed it successfully but now it won't boot its been over an hour after we flashed and its stuck on the Sprint logo
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You can first boot to stock recovery (power on + volume up) and choose a 'factory reset'. That often clears stuff up pretty well
Or
Try and PC Oding a stock MK2 kernel. Then battery pull and restart after. Saw this on a few phones
I'll have to search to find it but it's here somewhere.

leaderbuilder said:
You can first boot to stock recovery (power on + volume up) and choose a 'factory reset'. That often clears stuff up pretty well
Or
Try and PC Oding a stock MK2 kernel. Then battery pull and restart after. Saw this on a few phones
I'll have to search to find it but it's here somewhere.
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Thanks! Factory resetting worked his phone is back on stock and ready for 4.4.2 thanks for the help LeaderBuilder!

lonlyhornet said:
Thanks! Factory resetting worked his phone is back on stock and ready for 4.4.2 thanks for the help LeaderBuilder!
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Great!
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Note 3 Failure: Problems with Kernel and Recovery

Hey guys, I don't post here often, but I'm not new to this. It was through this forum that I first started rooting with mfy s3.
I just got a note 3 through Sprint. I've gotten used to getting off the grid, so I immediately jumped to root it. I decided on Jellybomb after reading some reviews. Then I downloaded everything necessary to make the jump: Odin, 1.85 and 3.09, jellybomb, cwm 6.0, twrp 7, auto-root, and the original roms in case I had to hop back.
First I went with Chainfires auto-root. I didn't seem to have any problem flashing that. The problem came with flashing twrp and the new rom. I can't remember which one was giving me trouble (I've been fighting it almost a week now). Somehow some way the phone has been stuck in an autoboot that says "seandroid not enforcing" and either "warranty bit: recovery" or "warranty bit: kernel". I tried new kernels. I tried things in different order. I can get into recovery but only after going immediately after autoroot. Even there you have a broken android.
Please help. I've been without a phone for a week.

KoolCharisma said:
Hey guys, I don't post here often, but I'm not new to this. It was through this forum that I first started rooting with mfy s3.
I just got a note 3 through Sprint. I've gotten used to getting off the grid, so I immediately jumped to root it. I decided on Jellybomb after reading some reviews. Then I downloaded everything necessary to make the jump: Odin, 1.85 and 3.09, jellybomb, cwm 6.0, twrp 7, auto-root, and the original roms in case I had to hop back.
First I went with Chainfires auto-root. I didn't seem to have any problem flashing that. The problem came with flashing twrp and the new rom. I can't remember which one was giving me trouble (I've been fighting it almost a week now). Somehow some way the phone has been stuck in an autoboot that says "seandroid not enforcing" and either "warranty bit: recovery" or "warranty bit: kernel". I tried new kernels. I tried things in different order. I can get into recovery but only after going immediately after autoroot. Even there you have a broken android.
Please help. I've been without a phone for a week.
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This one is the International Note 3 forum.
You should ask for actual details in the specific Sprint Note 3 forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-3-sprint
You should also pay more attention to the fact that the questions should be posted in the Q&A subforum.

Thanks
xclub_101 said:
This one is the International Note 3 forum.
You should ask for actual details in the specific Sprint Note 3 forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-3-sprint
You should also pay more attention to the fact that the questions should be posted in the Q&A subforum.
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Cheers! It looks from your sig though that you have found a work around on your international version. Are they really that different, that need entirely separate instructions. Obviously I downloaded all of the suggested software for Sprint and followed Sprint suggested, but I'm frustrated because I simply don't understand how I could do something the same way everyone else did and yet have it fail on me like this.

I am having the exact same problem...at first i was able to flash 'openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.0-hltetmo.img.tar and it would boot my phone back to normal. I have now run into this problem again and my first original fix isn't working anymore. If I can figure out a way I will definitely let you know!

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Anonymous777 said:
I am having the exact same problem...at first i was able to flash 'openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.0-hltetmo.img.tar and it would boot my phone back to normal. I have now run into this problem again and my first original fix isn't working anymore. If I can figure out a way I will definitely let you know!
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Hey man, thanks for reaching out. I realized I should probably have been in the Sprint form so I created a new thread there and I've been getting some help!
If you want: shoot over there and see if the tips can help you: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51096673

Anonymous777 said:
I am having the exact same problem...at first i was able to flash 'openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.0-hltetmo.img.tar and it would boot my phone back to normal. I have now run into this problem again and my first original fix isn't working anymore. If I can figure out a way I will definitely let you know!
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Hey man we've made a lot of headway at the above thread Thanks to Macmars. You should check it out and see if we can help each other.
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KoolCharisma said:
Hey man we've made a lot of headway at the above thread Thanks to Macmars. You should check it out and see if we can help each other.
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I figured out what to do, use odin 3.9 and flash this, it took about 15 minutes to go through the whole process. Once my phone boot up it froze at the T-Moble logo or whatever, so I waited like 20 minutes and then powered it off, went into recovery and did a factory reset which then solved all my problems. I lost root, but no big deal to me. Better than buying a new phone!!! Btw the only place I could find this file is off sammobile.com. You have to sign up for a free membership thing but at least they give you the stock firmware.
TMB-N900TUVUCNB4-20140305155920/N900TUVUCNB4_N900TTMBCNB4_N900TUVUCNB4_HOME.tar.md5

KoolCharisma said:
Hey man we've made a lot of headway at the above thread Thanks to Macmars. You should check it out and see if we can help each other.
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Right on man!
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[Q] please help really stuck here!!!!

Please Help Guys, any help would be appreciated. Please if you could reply ASAP it would be great.
Ok so i have a Galaxy S4 At&t and I rooted my phone with safestrap installed. It has a locked bootloader, running android 4.4.2.
I decided to put the Hyperdrive RLS19 on my phone and I have an NC1 phone. I tried putting it in my stock rom, therefore I wiped the data and everything and installed the rom, I completed with the installation, but after I installed the rom i realized that my wifi, 4g Lte data, did not work. Also, i realized that my root disappeared and not only that, I also lost my safestrap recovery. So I thought that the first thing I should do is to root it, just like last time I used Towelroot by geohot and when i clicked make it rain, it said that i needed to ensure my internet connection. Which means that i needed wifi to get root and to get wifi i needed root. I even checked the build.prop file where i should put the line equals to false, but it already was false. I even restarted the phone several times but no luck.
<PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED! IDK IF IM THE ONLY ONE WITH THIS PROBLEM OR NOT PLEASE REPLY>

If you have lost safestrap recovery, it is better to start all over again by flashing stock.
To get WiFi, you will need to flash the modules based on the kernel you have.
To get data, you need to configure the correct APN

jmjoyas said:
If you have lost safestrap recovery, it is better to start all over again by flashing stock.
To get WiFi, you will need to flash the modules based on the kernel you have.
To get data, you need to configure the correct APN
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Please can you tell me how to configure the correct APN? Please

kevin6shah said:
Please can you tell me how to configure the correct APN? Please
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Google what ever carrier you're on apn
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Ok Thanks guys so much, i got the data to work at lease, which led me to get root and basically get a recovery. However, i still can't connect to the wifi!!! Please is there anyone that can help me find something that i can flash to an NC1 Galaxy S4 At&t running hyperdrive rls19, so that it could fix my wifi, Thanks!!
Oh and btw, its running 4.4.2

kevin6shah said:
Ok Thanks guys so much, i got the data to work at lease, which led me to get root and basically get a recovery. However, i still can't connect to the wifi!!! Please is there anyone that can help me find something that i can flash to an NC1 Galaxy S4 At&t running hyperdrive rls19, so that it could fix my wifi, Thanks!!
Oh and btw, its running 4.4.2
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Did you flash the nc1 modules?
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No, but i am about to do it, will reply when i get the results

Unfortunately the modems i flashed didn't work either

kevin6shah said:
Unfortunately the modems i flashed didn't work either
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Flash the nc1 modules from here, not the modem. https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=17227
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jd1639 said:
Flash the nc1 modules from here, not the modem. https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=17227
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I tried doing what you said and i tried doing it through Safestrap, however it just said that it failed and didn't install the NC1 modules, was i supposed to flash them with odin?

kevin6shah said:
I tried doing what you said and i tried doing it through Safestrap, however it just said that it failed and didn't install the NC1 modules, was i supposed to flash them with odin?
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No, you should flash then in safestrap like you did.
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jd1639 said:
No, you should flash then in safestrap like you did.
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But then why did it say failed?

Please reply i really need the wifi back, i flashed the module for NC1 from the website u gave me, but it said that it failed, not success please help

kevin6shah said:
Please reply i really need the wifi back, i flashed the module for NC1 from the website u gave me, but it said that it failed, not success please help
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Sorry man, don't know why it's not working. maybe you'll have to Odin back and start over.
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I dont wanna do that man, i just wanna fix the wifi, something like that should just work, wait maybe i am supposed to clear the data before flashing the module.

DUDE THANK YOU GUYS SOOO MUCH, XDA YOU GUYS ARE THE REAL THING, I WAS STUCK IN A PLACE WITHOUT A ROOT, RECOVERY, WIFI, AND DATA. YOU GUYS HELPED ME SOO MUCH. I FINALLY GOT MY WIFI BACK, I realized that i had the safestrap 3.71, I just needed to update it by removing the 3.71 safestrap and install the 3.72 and tried installing the NC1 module again, and it said success this time and finally I have wifi, data with LTE and Connection, and recovery and root. Thank you soo much jd1369, you helped me way to much you really deserve it man. XDA thanks you a lot.
Finally happy again, and now i also have a really good rom too!!!

kevin6shah said:
DUDE THANK YOU GUYS SOOO MUCH, XDA YOU GUYS ARE THE REAL THING, I WAS STUCK IN A PLACE WITHOUT A ROOT, RECOVERY, WIFI, AND DATA. YOU GUYS HELPED ME SOO MUCH. I FINALLY GOT MY WIFI BACK, I realized that i had the safestrap 3.71, I just needed to update it by removing the 3.71 safestrap and install the 3.72 and tried installing the NC1 module again, and it said success this time and finally I have wifi, data with LTE and Connection, and recovery and root. Thank you soo much jd1369, you helped me way to much you really deserve it man. XDA thanks you a lot.
Finally happy again, and now i also have a really good rom too!!!
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Glad you finally got it working
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Xposed for galaxy grand prime g530p

Hi i need help trying to install xposed. Im running a 5.1.1 with the trap kernel. I installed the team win recovery, tried to install exposed it gave me an error saying the preload is not mounted. Then i change to a clockwork recovery and it also gave me a error code of 322.
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Im also with sprint company
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DrewHanks said:
Hi i need help trying to install xposed. Im running a 5.1.1 with the trap kernel. I installed the team win recovery, tried to install exposed it gave me an error saying the preload is not mounted. Then i change to a clockwork recovery and it also gave me a error code of 322.
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How did you get a custom recovery on your SM-G530P? I have had my phone unrooted for over a year because I eventually gave up on my search for a custom recovery
I really like TWRP and would appreciate any advice on installation for this model

warrenscott said:
How did you get a custom recovery on your SM-G530P? I have had my phone unrooted for over a year because I eventually gave up on my search for a custom recovery
I really like TWRP and would appreciate any advice on installation for this model
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I found some files on google and xda i think i still have them in my computer some where

DrewHanks said:
I found some files on google and xda i think i still have them in my computer some where
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If you ever locate those on your computer please put a link on here or something. Let me know if you need my email because you can't upload here. Likewise If I find anything about Xposed on the model I'll let u know on here.
Anyway, glad to know I'm not the only person on the planet who owns sprint's Grand Prime. Sorry to post about the wrong subject and give you false hope LOL.

hi sorry for such a late response i have been busy with work but these are the files i have found throughout xda and google, not sure if there up-to-date
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/wz7d43i7tcayo

do you konw Qx?