I feel like I am either about to really break my phone or fix it with this next flash, some guidance would be amazing!
Started off months ago with Sprint L720 MF9 out of the box and rooted it. Eventually I got around to loading Sacs 4.3 back in January and had no troubles. After getting the OTA update notifications again, I decided it was time to flash a 4.4 ROM and I followed this thread.
Got the NAE modem loaded, flashed philz 6.08.9, and loaded the stock MK2 ROM listed in the instructions. The phone booted and I went through the initial setup without any issues. Baseband and software both say NAE, but then I noticed I have no sound at all. The phone powers off automatically after a while as well. Loading anything from the Play store takes forever, however, the stock web browser runs just fine.
Should I be concerned about no audio or will this be resolved with going to the 4.4 ROM listed in the guide (no data wipe)? I kind of want to flash a rooted stock MF9 ROM and start over...
Any help would be appreciated.
Edit: Flashed to 4.4.2 and SSDD. I finally got sound back though by flashing the MK2 modem, just need wifi working now.
Reckoned said:
I feel like I am either about to really break my phone or fix it with this next flash, some guidance would be amazing!
Started off months ago with Sprint L720 MF9 out of the box and rooted it. Eventually I got around to loading Sacs 4.3 back in January and had no troubles. After getting the OTA update notifications again, I decided it was time to flash a 4.4 ROM and I followed this thread.
Got the NAE modem loaded, flashed philz 6.08.9, and loaded the stock MK2 ROM listed in the instructions. The phone booted and I went through the initial setup without any issues. Baseband and software both say NAE, but then I noticed I have no sound at all. The phone powers off automatically after a while as well. Loading anything from the Play store takes forever, however, the stock web browser runs just fine.
Should I be concerned about no audio or will this be resolved with going to the 4.4 ROM listed in the guide (no data wipe)? I kind of want to flash a rooted stock MF9 ROM and start over...
Any help would be appreciated.
Edit: Flashed to 4.4.2 and SSDD. I finally got sound back though by flashing the MK2 modem, just need wifi working now.
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Usually your sound issue can be resolved by flashing another ROM.
As far as WiFi goes I just had this problem myself. If your bootloaders NAE and your modem is MK2 , try flashing the NAE modem back. That's what fixed it for me.
I'll not up to speed on all the quirks of the sprint s4 since I'm usually using a Verizon s4 . but it seems to me that if you have a NAE bootloader, it isn't cooperating with downgrading the modem either. Never was a problem for me when my phone was on MK2 build , but with each OTA the security gets upgraded too. Almost doesn't make sense to me though as Sprints bootloaders are unlocked.
Maybe someone else can shed some light on this.
Try NAE modem and see what happens,... bet your WiFi will be back like mine was.
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Mistertac said:
Usually your sound issue can be resolved by flashing another ROM.
As far as WiFi goes I just had this problem myself. If your bootloaders NAE and your modem is MK2 , try flashing the NAE modem back. That's what fixed it for me.
I'll not up to speed on all the quirks of the sprint s4 since I'm usually using a Verizon s4 . but it seems to me that if you have a NAE bootloader, it isn't cooperating with downgrading the modem either. Never was a problem for me when my phone was on MK2 build , but with each OTA the security gets upgraded too. Almost doesn't make sense to me though as Sprints bootloaders are unlocked.
Maybe someone else can shed some light on this.
Try NAE modem and see what happens,... bet your WiFi will be back like mine was.
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Yeah, I'm actually still on MF9 bootloader. I did end up flashing back NAE modem last night and battery pulled after. All is working now! Thanks.
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This is my 1st post ever because every question I've ever needed answered I've been able to find.Unfortunately I cannot find the answer to this problem. Since my Post count is below 10 I cant post the question in Kangabeans thread.
This is the ROM I am using
I rooted and flashed my phone 4 days ago and ever since then my wifi or mobile connection never go above 2 bars. Everything works except data cuts in and out fairly often which never happened before while i was using stock. I can sometimes get LTE but it mostly just says H and is really slow. I live right in the middle of downtown Edmonton and always had an LTE connection before so I'm pretty sure it is an issue with my phone and the ROM. I can also be standing right next to my wireless router and i only have 2 bars showing up for wifi.
I know some people had mentioned similar problems in the Kangabean thread with poor LTE connections but almost all say it is working good which leads me to believe its something I've done. My initial thought to fix the issue was to flash a new modem, specifically this one modem_CWM_I337MVLUAMDJ.zip{4/22/2013}(Canada) from this thread because everyone that was saying their LTE and WIFI were working appeared to be on an MDJ baseband. I tried flashing the modem and nonhlos through Odin but it failed with odin saying: Failed, Receive response from LOKE. I figured my best course of action was to try and reflash the MG1 Baseband but again i recived the Failed, Receive response from LOKE. Thinking i screwed something up i decided to try and boot up my phone and sure enough i was stuck in a bootloop. Luckily all I had to do was load up recover and wipe the cache partion.
Everything is back as it was before i tried flashing the modems, even the poor connection to WIFI and Data.
Does anyone have any idea as to how I can fix this or what I did wrong that caused Odin to fail flashing??
Pretty sure I just found my answer for why I cant flash the modem. Im pretty sure MG1 is newer than MF3 (correct??) and if your on MF3 Odin wont work
I was doing some thinking..... I have mobile odin pro Can I try flashing the MDJ or MF3 Modem and nonhlos files with it or will it too end up failing??
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I was doing some thinking..... I have mobile odin pro Can I try flashing the MDJ or MF3 Modem and nonhlos files with it or will it too end up failing??
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Wow hold on! Do you have telus sgh-i337m s4? If so then you don't need anything to do with mf3. Only att and sprint have lockedbootloader. If your baseband is MDB or MDJ then you don't need Loki and mf3 kernel, in fact you'll brick your phone if flash mf3 kernel on any s4 brought in Canada.
You shouldn't be going anywhere near MF3 on your i337m. MG1 or MDJ only for us Canadians
Thanks guys I wasnt sure If I could flash those without any problems so I was waiting for someone to reply to this thread before i tried going that route to fix my connectivity issue again.
Sorry guys,
I am a Canadian with a 1337m MDJ S4 running CM 10.2
I just wanted to double check that I am bound to ROMS made for MDJ. Cannot I not update to MDL?
There are a number of TW Roms that I would like to try to get my camera and multiwindow options back Like :
FoxHound GearEngine 1.3 AROMA OR Eclipse.
Your feedback would be amazing.
Thank you
Thank God im not the only one. Look at my thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2455955
maybe we can find a solution together. Im using CM 10.2 but i live in Mexico son i had to flash my carrier's modem and it seems its coming back to normal but im not totally shure... still testing this modem (all info is on my thread)
Let me know if you find a fix... thanks
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so i rooted my phone last night and after trying a few roms that didnt end up working (and yes i was using the right ones from the sprint s4 spot on this site) i wanted to just restore my backup. after doing that i have had nothing but issues. now i have no sound and my phone is having issues connecting to the sprint network. i would really appreciate if someone could tell me how to get my phone back to stock and unrooted so i can take it in to get looked at
We really need some more info to help you, but I am going to assume that you were on 4.3 and restored a 4.2 backup. That would explain the sound issues.
Try going here and Odining the 4.3 tar to see if that fixes things http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47359331
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Ok so my phone has been rooted for a few months now and ive used custom roms with no problems, I was recently going to update my Negalite rom but I wound up downloading the wrong rom it was negalite for a different phone. Anyway that is now the only rom on my phone I have already cleaned everything and realized after that it was the wrong rom. Now my phone doesn't boot up I can get to download mode no problem anything else doesn't really work, ive tried flashing the stock tar with odin but keep getting a failed message.
Anything I can do or did my stupid mistake screw me completely?
Edit: Cant even get into recovery mode
When I got my Sprint S4, I thought I was cool since this was my second Android phone and I had experience with custom ROMs and rooting on my old phone. So, I got cocky and in a hurry and managed to flash a T-Mobile ROM on the phone. I had a small heart attack when the T-Mobile logo appeared during boot. Anyway, using ODIN, I was able to quickly get the stock Sprint setup back on the phone and start over. You should be able to do the same thing. If you don't care about Knox and want the latest, just try this thread, and you should be all fixed up pretty quickly:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2663619
If you're worried about keeping an older bootloader things will be more complicated.
nobody291 said:
When I got my Sprint S4, I thought I was cool since this was my second Android phone and I had experience with custom ROMs and rooting on my old phone. So, I got cocky and in a hurry and managed to flash a T-Mobile ROM on the phone. I had a small heart attack when the T-Mobile logo appeared during boot. Anyway, using ODIN, I was able to quickly get the stock Sprint setup back on the phone and start over. You should be able to do the same thing. If you don't care about Knox and want the latest, just try this thread, and you should be all fixed up pretty quickly:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2663619
If you're worried about keeping an older bootloader things will be more complicated.
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At this point I just want my phone back lol, im almost done downloading that file from that thread im praying it works but if its the same tar file I already tried it prolly wont. If I get fixed I wont mess with custom roms cause ill prolly be updating my phone soon.
Sounds like you odined an old tar from either 4.3 or 4.2.2. Do you know what stock ROM or boot loader you were on before flashing the wrong rom?
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Sounds like you odined an old tar from either 4.3 or 4.2.2. Do you know what stock ROM or boot loader you were on before flashing the wrong rom?
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Im sorry im kinda of a noob with this, before I flashed the rom I was using Negalite before that I was on 4.4.2 and boot loader is the recovery right? I was using phillz
EDIT: ya know what the one from that link seems to be working so far, I think ive got it...will update in a few if it works
Second Edit: OK it successfully booted up, im good. im assuming its different flashing roms now right? If so im staying away from it
My AT&T S4's wifi connection has become basically useless. Both at home and at work it frequently drops out and says the connection is unstable. At home, this happens when I'm in the same room as the router. These symptoms started happening after the OTA updates, but seem to have gotten continually worse. I've tried the usual settings changes to no avail.
Is there any reason to believe that putting a custom rom on my S4 will solve the wifi stability issue? If so, I'd happily give it a shot before I completely give up and get a new phone. And, I've had the hardest time trying to figure which guide to use to install a custom rom. I have a US AT&T SGH i337 that is running 4.4.2, and the Baseband version is I337UCUFNC1, Kernal version 3.4.0-1125940. I rooted my s4 using towelroot.
Thanks for the help, hoping I can fix my S4 and keep it...
If it were me I'd flash the nb1 tar file and see if I had the same Wi-Fi issue. You might have a hardware issue. If everything worked then I'd take the ota to nc1. If you have a problem now it's probably the modem image.
Use the rootable nb1 tar file, it's rootable with towelroot.
Flashing the tar in Odin will wipe your device so make sure you backup first.
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Thanks for the help. I'll see if I can figure out how to do that
Do you track your Cayman? I'm down in Texas and track a miata...
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Thanks for the help. I'll see if I can figure out how to do that
Do you track your Cayman? I'm down in Texas and track a miata...
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You noticed. Yes I do the pic is at road America
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So I have been running an OLD version of SACS Custom Rom on my Sprint S4 (Think MF9 / MDL time frame).
I was working great for me, so I never updated past this to anything newer.
Fast forward and I just got myself a Note 4. So now I want to return my S4 back to stock and let it update and possibly give it to my daughter.
Anyway, after talking to a few people, it was decided since I never had a newer modem / software on my S4, it would work if I just flashed a Stock MF9 TAR to my phone (via Oden). Once it came back, I could search for new updates / software and let it auto update to the latest software.
I flashed MF9 Stock last night and now my phone is stuck at the Yellow Sprint Screen.
Any ideas how to get this back to stock? What do I need to flash? Like I said, it never went past the old version of SACS, never got Knox, none of that.
Thanks!
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So I have been running an OLD version of SACS Custom Rom on my Sprint S4 (Think MF9 / MDL time frame).
I was working great for me, so I never updated past this to anything newer.
Fast forward and I just got myself a Note 4. So now I want to return my S4 back to stock and let it update and possibly give it to my daughter.
Anyway, after talking to a few people, it was decided since I never had a newer modem / software on my S4, it would work if I just flashed a Stock MF9 TAR to my phone (via Oden). Once it came back, I could search for new updates / software and let it auto update to the latest software.
I flashed MF9 Stock last night and now my phone is stuck at the Yellow Sprint Screen.
Any ideas how to get this back to stock? What do I need to flash? Like I said, it never went past the old version of SACS, never got Knox, none of that.
Thanks!
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Did you try a factory reset from stock recovery after you Odin back mf9?
AzWizzard said:
So I have been running an OLD version of SACS Custom Rom on my Sprint S4 (Think MF9 / MDL time frame).
I was working great for me, so I never updated past this to anything newer.
Fast forward and I just got myself a Note 4. So now I want to return my S4 back to stock and let it update and possibly give it to my daughter.
Anyway, after talking to a few people, it was decided since I never had a newer modem / software on my S4, it would work if I just flashed a Stock MF9 TAR to my phone (via Oden). Once it came back, I could search for new updates / software and let it auto update to the latest software.
I flashed MF9 Stock last night and now my phone is stuck at the Yellow Sprint Screen.
Any ideas how to get this back to stock? What do I need to flash? Like I said, it never went past the old version of SACS, never got Knox, none of that.
Thanks!
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when i soft-bricked my galaxy s4 (sprint) I just re-rooted the phone using Odin & cf-autoroot...if you wanna update to the latest version for the s4 download the NG5 tar file & flash it through Odin & you should be ok...as far as getting back unrooted factory condition I'm not sure if there's a factory image available yet...not saying there isn't but I haven't seen one
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Did you try a factory reset from stock recovery after you Odin back mf9?
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Thanks! That worked and got it to boot. It's updating now too!