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SBF fails, factory restore fails, flashing new ROM fails, rooting fails.. WTF!?!?!

I literally cant do a damn thing with my Droid 2. This all started when I started noticing an increasing number of Force Close popups. I hadn't installed anything new recently so I just rebooted and dealt with it. At this point, it was a completely stock Droid 2 with only market-approved apps installed.
So, I decided to do a factory restore and... it didnt work. It sat at the recovery screen and did nothing. I pressed search and selected wipe data\cache and it said something to the effect of "Cant open E:\recovery\something" but the Wipe data\cache completed successfully. Needless to say, my issue remained.
So I found the stock recovery SBF and went to flash it... it got to 98% on the final step and then said FAIL. Error message: Failed flashing process. Error verifying Code Group 31 checksums. File 0x4BAF (0x4007031); phone connected. The phone still show SW Update when this occurs, and then eventually "completes", reboots, and boots back up as if nothing ever happened.
So then I tried the root process so I could install rom manager and try EUnleashed or something. The rooting steps all took, and I tried to open the Superuser app it just stuck on a blank screen. So I rebooted, and wtf.. it disappeared.
So then I went to Applications and uninstalled every single application except for Maps, rebooted, and WTF THEY ALL CAME BACK AGAIN. I did this 3 times and each time every single app was reinstalled and working after a reboot. Only now I cant complete the root process again, and Rom Manager doesnt work.
So, to recap... I cant do a factory restore. I cant flash the stock SBF. I cant root. I cant do f*$&#*$ ANYTHING!
If I cant fix this today I will be giving this junk phone to my 2 year old because that's about the only thing this POS is good for. I never had any of these issues on my Droid, Droid X, or Samsung Captivate. How Motorola could fail so hard while simultaneously succeeding so well with other devices is mind-boggling.
HELP!

lwright84 said:
I literally cant do a damn thing with my Droid 2. This all started when I started noticing an increasing number of Force Close popups. I hadn't installed anything new recently so I just rebooted and dealt with it. At this point, it was a completely stock Droid 2 with only market-approved apps installed.
So, I decided to do a factory restore and... it didnt work. It sat at the recovery screen and did nothing. I pressed search and selected wipe data\cache and it said something to the effect of "Cant open E:\recovery\something" but the Wipe data\cache completed successfully. Needless to say, my issue remained.
So I found the stock recovery SBF and went to flash it... it got to 98% on the final step and then said FAIL. Error message: Failed flashing process. Error verifying Code Group 31 checksums. File 0x4BAF (0x4007031); phone connected. The phone still show SW Update when this occurs, and then eventually "completes", reboots, and boots back up as if nothing ever happened.
So then I tried the root process so I could install rom manager and try EUnleashed or something. The rooting steps all took, and I tried to open the Superuser app it just stuck on a blank screen. So I rebooted, and wtf.. it disappeared.
So then I went to Applications and uninstalled every single application except for Maps, rebooted, and WTF THEY ALL CAME BACK AGAIN. I did this 3 times and each time every single app was reinstalled and working after a reboot. Only now I cant complete the root process again, and Rom Manager doesnt work.
So, to recap... I cant do a factory restore. I cant flash the stock SBF. I cant root. I cant do f*$&#*$ ANYTHING!
If I cant fix this today I will be giving this junk phone to my 2 year old because that's about the only thing this POS is good for. I never had any of these issues on my Droid, Droid X, or Samsung Captivate. How Motorola could fail so hard while simultaneously succeeding so well with other devices is mind-boggling.
HELP!
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I think you might be overreacting here.
First, I haven't flashed the SBF yet but I do remember seeing the fail screen on original Droid SBF flashes and it was something you could ignore. You booted back into Android, right? That means it worked.
Second, the Superuser app is supposed to show a blank screen because the purpose of it to manage apps to which you have granted to superuser permissions. If you just installed it, there would be nothing listed.
Third, Froyo restores apps if you have "back up my data" checked under Privacy settings.
Fourth, you never mentioned the Droid 2 bootstrapper. I wouldn't expect ROM Manager to work properly without it.

First, no that doesnt mean it worked. I boot back into my exact same Android install as before. Same settings, same notifications, same alarm, same problems, same everything. If it was successful, it would be like a factory restore (Which I cant even do).
Second, ok that makes sense. But after rebooting it disappeared and RomManager wouldn't recognize that it was rooted. Now the rooting process wont work at all when I try and redo it.
Third, I dont think this is the same thing. It's not restoring apps... the apps are there as if they were never removed. Same customizations, settings, etc.
Its like my D2 is stuck with a certain "image" on it, and it wont let me edit, delete, format, reinstall, or reimage. It's infuriating.
Also, ROM Manager works without bootstrapper as long as you have Superuser. Ive used it fine on my Captivate.

lwright84 said:
First, no that doesnt mean it worked. I boot back into my exact same Android install as before. Same settings, same notifications, same alarm, same problems, same everything. If it was successful, it would be like a factory restore (Which I cant even do).
Second, ok that makes sense. But after rebooting it disappeared and RomManager wouldn't recognize that it was rooted. Now the rooting process wont work at all when I try and redo it.
Third, I dont think this is the same thing. It's not restoring apps... the apps are there as if they were never removed. Same customizations, settings, etc.
Its like my D2 is stuck with a certain "image" on it, and it wont let me edit, delete, format, reinstall, or reimage. It's infuriating.
Also, ROM Manager works without bootstrapper as long as you have Superuser. Ive used it fine on my Captivate.
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Captivate is not a Droid 2. I'd be surprised if it works without the bootstrapper, since that's the only way to flash anything on a Droid 2.
My suggestion is to keep trying the SBF. Once you get it to work, get the SW update and then root. From there, I wouldn't go messing with anything in ROM Manager until you confirm the files are 100% legit for the Droid 2. As far as I know, only a few themes are working without issue on the Droid 2 - the ROMs all have bugs.

The same thing happened to me. I am assuming we were using the same instructions to flash the .sbf. Here is a link to instructions I followed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=8245826#post8245826
I did not heed the red flag I got when I unzipped the .jpg file. I saw some error message and ignored it, and went ahead with the procedure to end up as many others with "fail".
Long story short, I deleated the .jpg file and downloaded it again.
When I used 7 Zip to extract the files, this time I had no error msg and everything went smoothly.

[Q] "Unfortunately, settings has stopped working" after factory reset

Hello folks,
The SGH-i337 is my first android device and I've had it only for a few days now. I rooted the phone using the "1 click root and debloat" files in the development section of this forum. Everything worked great after that. Today I installed an unofficial apk on my phone but I wasn't comfortable with it at all. So I did a factory reset (are you not supposed to do that?)
After the factory reset, the phone boots up and gives me the usual settings menu. At the end of the settings however, it lags for a few seconds before it says "Unfortunately, settings has stopped working". This brings me back to the "choose a device name" menu in settings. If I fill it out again and go through settings, it crashes again. I can't get into anything else on the phone since it keeps going through the initial setup.
I've tried booting into recovery mode and deleting the cache. I doubt that this clears it since the phone gives me an error and reboots. I tried selecting factory reset through the recovery mode but that also gave me the same issue (said error and rebooted).
After some searching I've found that flashing a stock rom with odin might be the best way to go. Is that correct or is there a better way? On the odin download page, it only lists the 9505 version for Galaxy S4. Could I use that for my SGH-i337?
I think the phone is still rooted because it says Samsung Custom before booting up. Thanks for the help!

Had same exact issue as well.
I booted in to download mode and flashed it with factory rom, then installed CWM.
This is what i used. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2297033

KGB7 said:
Had same exact issue as well.
I booted in to download mode and flashed it with factory rom, then installed CWM.
This is what i used. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2297033
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Oh man, you're a life saver. I'm downloading the file and I'll give it a shot. So just to confirm, I put the phone into download mode and run Run_Me.bat and that should fix the issue?
Also for future reference, are you not supposed to do a factory reset after rooting your phone? Thanks!

Fixed it
The issue arose because the settings program was supposed to follow up with at&t locker setup. But since I had deleted the at&t files with the debloat tool, it kept crashing. So the solution was to reset the phone to stock firmware. I used Odin 3.07 to flash the factory ROM onto the phone and now everything is back to normal.
I guess this also answers my previous question, if I'd probably have the same problem again if I do a factory reset.

aleatoric said:
The issue arose because the settings program was supposed to follow up with at&t locker setup. But since I had deleted the at&t files with the debloat tool, it kept crashing. So the solution was to reset the phone to stock firmware. I used Odin 3.07 to flash the factory ROM onto the phone and now everything is back to normal.
I guess this also answers my previous question, if I'd probably have the same problem again if I do a factory reset.
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Just dont use all in one tool as you did before. Just use the chooper rooting process in the link I provided.
Then manually remove the apps you dont with titanium backup.
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[Q] Newbie help- storage space-stuck

Hey there!
This is my first post and I am new to android rooting.
I have gotten my s4 into a jam in which I am stuck in Liquidsmooth with no access to the app store, no space, and perhaps most all of my contacts and everything wiped.
The problem started when I decided to take my phone which was rooted but had no ROMs yet and to back it up. I went into CWM recovery to backup and it failed because I did not have enough space. (probably from having a number of other backups). Anyways, I tried rebooting the phone and it failed due to the fact it probably tried to reboot the failed backup I had just performed? So then I tried to tackle the dilemma by installing TWRP instead because I figured it would get rid of CWM files that were taking up the space. I also flashed Liquidsmooth through Goomanager as well. When I tried to install LiquidSmooth and GApps in TWRP it failed again because I still did not have enough space or something. It just kept saying setupwizard and GApps were failing to initalize. However, when I install LiquidSmooth by itself it boots fine but with none of my contacts or previous apps (TI backup, Goo, TWRP, anything, etc...). Somewhere along the line I did a factory reset and format data in TWRP thinking it would free up space. It did not.
So now I am stuck with Liquidsmooth with no apps and no way to access apps w/o the Play Store as far as I know, with no contacts or anything. I have no idea what to do. Should I unroot or reroot my phone? If so, how?
Please Help
Thanks!

UPDATE
UPDATE: I really just want to unroot and reroot my sg4. Ive tried downloading the stock firmware for my phone (SCH-i545 4.2.2 verizon) so that I can use ODIN to reinstall the stock firmware, but whenever I try and go to unzip it I get an error saying the file is corrupt or invalid. Ive tried it multiple times and each time it takes around an hour to download. Any suggestions or other places I can get this file?
This is very frustrating. Any help is greatly appreciated.

crgarne said:
UPDATE: I really just want to unroot and reroot my sg4. Ive tried downloading the stock firmware for my phone (SCH-i545 4.2.2 verizon) so that I can use ODIN to reinstall the stock firmware, but whenever I try and go to unzip it I get an error saying the file is corrupt or invalid. Ive tried it multiple times and each time it takes around an hour to download. Any suggestions or other places I can get this file?
This is very frustrating. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Hi, you may get better help on the Galaxy S4 forum. This is for the S4 Active.

Many S4s...avoid an expensive paperweight
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[Q] May have bricked my Tab

So my wife and I got a 7" Tab 3 from some hour long seminar thing. She setup her account and then I did mine. On mine I get a popup about every 20 seconds about my Knox account not being activate. I've never heard of Knox so I did some googling. In the security administrators menu it won't let me uncheck the Knox box. There is no Knox app. When I go into all apps there are 2 apps with Knox in the name and I can't open, kill, stop, or anything else to either. So from what I could tell I was stuck with the popup. I decided to try and root it and see if I could delete it that way. I have probably rooted about 15 phones, tabs, iCraps, etc. in the past with no problems. During the Odin root it failed. Now it's stuck at a screen saying "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again". I'm downloading Kies now. Any suggestions? Thanks

How did you root it? This is tab 4 forum not 3.... Can you still get into Odin mode?
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twstdtstcles said:
So my wife and I got a 7" Tab 3 from some hour long seminar thing. She setup her account and then I did mine. On mine I get a popup about every 20 seconds about my Knox account not being activate. I've never heard of Knox so I did some googling. In the security administrators menu it won't let me uncheck the Knox box. There is no Knox app. When I go into all apps there are 2 apps with Knox in the name and I can't open, kill, stop, or anything else to either. So from what I could tell I was stuck with the popup. I decided to try and root it and see if I could delete it that way. I have probably rooted about 15 phones, tabs, iCraps, etc. in the past with no problems. During the Odin root it failed. Now it's stuck at a screen saying "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again". I'm downloading Kies now. Any suggestions? Thanks
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search odin reboot, odin reboot tar, odin reboot dummy, odin force reboot
it's one of those, when you find the thread you'll know it.
flash that dummy file to force odin to reboot and hopefully clear/dump cache,
make sure you have the appropriate custom recovery odin image for your tab,
if odin reboot works, force reboot your tab again to odin, start a fresh session of
odin on your pc [not reset, a new session] flash your custom recovery,
i strongly advise AGAINST twrp for this operation, after you get your tab
re-established then switch to twrp if that's your preference.
if recovery flash goes well, force reboot to recovery and connect via adb.
download chainfire's latest supersu update zip and a custom rom for your
tab, if needed. Push file to tab via adb push, then flash supersu if your
stock rom is still intact, otherwise flash custom rom.
stock rom intact - open app drawer and launch supersu, it should ask you
if you want to disable the knox nag. if successful, reboot to recovery
and make a backup, then perform a factory reset, reboot and re-launch
supersu and go from there.
by the way... WRONG FORUM !!!
just kidding ... :silly:
seriously though...
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First, thanks for the reply. I got it fixed this morning.
Sorry, it's a Tab 4. I guess I was in a hurry and tried flashing the firmware for the 10". I let it sit overnight so the battery would die. I downloaded the correct stock firmware which took hours. In the morning I let it charge for a few hours then plugged it into the computer. I got the same screen but Odin recognized it. I flashed the stock firmware without any problems. Its working fine now with no traces of Knox.
I guess the next step will be rooting it...

Tab 4 ...no google play store, etc. after unrooting??
Anyways I had the great idea of rooting my newly purchased TAB 4. I too used Odin 3. I loved the fact that I was successful at gaining root without data or app loss,. though slowly I began to see pop-ups pertaining to apps on my sd card. After awhile, I was seeing more pop ups on my screen for apps that began to stop working. Most importantly Google Play store. I panicked and decided to unroot without backing up. After that, I tried to factory restart. Being that I was no longer rooted, I figured it was safe to restart from scratch. What was I thinking? It all started over again, only this time with the out of the box look. Honestly I have only done the whole root process a couple of times and from what I understood it seemed to be fairly easy according to the process explained to me. All was well until I couldn't gain access to my apps. or for that matter download new ones. Is my Tablet dead or is there a possible answer? Does anyone have any suggestions on what I could do?
Thanks
twitch23

I think you're leaving a step out here... Did you use some app like apps 2 SD? Why did you root? What root software did you use?
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hi,
after unroot , factory reset, cache and dalvik wipe don't account for the
garbage left in /data/data and settings left in place.
apps 2 sd is janky on stock roms, that's been my experience anyway.
you should only be using an odin root method for devices that do not
have a custom recovery available. Use chainfire's supersu update zip.
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Play services not supported by my device

Hey y'all. This is a mess.
I was playing a game when i started to get all these 'cant connect to server' messages. I flick down the panel ans where my signal bars should be, i see one of these: ?
Ok. I restart. No love. Same problem.
So i factory reset. This is where is gets interesting. Not only do i still not have a data connection, but after the reset i no longer have Play Store, and i see this message wgen i try to open gmail, or in my notifications that says such and such requires play services to work which is not supported by your device.
I attempted to flash the firmware i used in a previously botched rom flash attempt. Successfully flashed before, now Odin says device dismatch. Not sure if thats typographical or it means something im unaware of.
ATT SM-G930A. Rooted, attemped flash with the PrinceC Odin version. Ran as regular and as admin with no change.
I would just try another firmware, but Im gunshy after all this nonsense.