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[Q] Help!!! System software not authorized by ATT has been found on your phone

Please help!
I have ATT SGH - i337.
While I was on original ATT ROM I rooted the phone and with GooManager got TWRP running after I flashed it with this ROM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2283194).
My phone was NOT auti-lokied, just rooted with motochopper method.
Now I got this error message:
"System software not authorized by ATT has been found on your phone" on the bottom and on the top with little red letters I got:
SECURE FAIL: KERNEL.
The most I can do with my phone now is go to ODIN mode (both odins 1.83 and 3.07 detects it)
As per my understanding I was trying to flash my non lokied phone with non ATT kernel inside that ROM. I tried to use Kies, but my phone is not being detected by it.
Please help!!!

Use Odin
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261573
Download both that Odin.version as well.as the firmware package
Unzip the package
Check that file under the pda section
Flash
Wait
Enjoy
Then...read, read, and read again before flashing any roms...make sure you know what your doing, and how to get out of situations like this
Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

mg2195 Thanks lot!!!
I'm going to try this now and will post the outcome.

mg2195 is right; ODIN to stock, make sure you flash UCUAMDL (should be one MD5 file) and NOT UCUAMDB as you will have problems with UCUAMDB!

stask1 said:
Please help!
I have ATT SGH - i337.
While I was on original ATT ROM I rooted the phone and with GooManager got TWRP running after I flashed it with this ROM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2283194).
My phone was NOT auti-lokied, just rooted with motochopper method.
Now I got this error message:
"System software not authorized by ATT has been found on your phone" on the bottom and on the top with little red letters I got:
SECURE FAIL: KERNEL.
The most I can do with my phone now is go to ODIN mode (both odins 1.83 and 3.07 detects it)
As per my understanding I was trying to flash my non lokied phone with non ATT kernel inside that ROM. I tried to use Kies, but my phone is not being detected by it.
Please help!!!
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Just so you understand, your phone can't be auto lokied. You can install a recovery that will auto loki the roms/kernels that you flash. Or flash roms /kernels that have been lokied but the developer.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using xda premium

Got it!
Thanks a lot for friendly advise!
It worked and I'm back to stock ROM now.

auto lokied.
dxwilliams40 said:
Just so you understand, your phone can't be auto lokied. You can install a recovery that will auto loki the roms/kernels that you flash. Or flash roms /kernels that have been lokied but the developer.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using xda premium
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I know this might not be the right place to ask this question but what is auto lokied. or just lokied?
thanks for taking the time to answer the question. Don't want to brick my new S4.

sw1173 said:
I know this might not be the right place to ask this question but what is auto lokied. or just lokied?
thanks for taking the time to answer the question. Don't want to brick my new S4.
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Lokied = The ROM has Loki applied to it by the developer
Auto-Loki = The Recovery applies Loki to the ROM

King Ding-a-ling said:
Lokied = The ROM has Loki applied to it by the developer
Auto-Loki = The Recovery applies Loki to the ROM
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But what does the term mean?
Thanks

sw1173 said:
But what does the term mean?
Thanks
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Loki is the locked bootloader workaround

King Ding-a-ling said:
Loki is the locked bootloader workaround
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Thanks...I'm looking at a rom for my Note and its "not-lokied" Hope I don't brick the mother, really like both my devices.:

sw1173 said:
But what does the term mean?
Thanks
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Read
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41751943
Sent from my GT-I9505 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

King Ding-a-ling said:
Loki is the locked bootloader workaround
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I prefer using a loki kernel. Eaiser.

TheAxman said:
I prefer using a loki kernel. Eaiser.
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I've been working on an experimental flashing method lately... I just stare really hard at the phone and visualize the ROM... Sometimes it boots, other times I get a Status 0... I'll get it down one of these days...

You mean the jedi rom trick. These are not the roms your looking for.

I have the same problem
(System software not authorized by ATT has been found on your phone" on the bottom and on the top with little red letters I got:
SECURE FAIL: KERNEL) Yellow triangle.
but I cant get Odin to work for me. I followed the instructions from before downloaded odin and the tar file but I can't get my phone passed the triangle and warning.
Before the error I flashed shostock rom everything worked great I went to update the jeeboo kernel today but accidently flashed the philz_touch_5.07.5-jfltexx that I had on my ext sd card. Now it wont boot up.
Is there anything I can do?

Mr Strange said:
I have the same problem
(System software not authorized by ATT has been found on your phone" on the bottom and on the top with little red letters I got:
SECURE FAIL: KERNEL) Yellow triangle.
but I cant get Odin to work for me. I followed the instructions from before downloaded odin and the tar file but I can't get my phone passed the triangle and warning.
Before the error I flashed shostock rom everything worked great I went to update the jeeboo kernel today but accidently flashed the philz_touch_5.07.5-jfltexx that I had on my ext sd card. Now it wont boot up.
Is there anything I can do?
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get into recovery, and yes, it will go into recovery. And:
FLASH YOUR CARRIERS KERNEL!!!
This has been seen and talked about in numerous threads.
The Ax says Good luck and good day!

TheAxman said:
get into recovery, and yes, it will go into recovery. And:
FLASH YOUR CARRIERS KERNEL!!!
This has been seen and talked about in numerous threads.
The Ax says Good luck and good day!
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I got it to work now. I kept trying to boot into recovery by volume up, home and power but recovery was screwed up on my phone. I finally tried to hold volume down, home and power and got it to boot up after pressing volume up. Then I ran Rom Manager and reinstalled CWM Recovery. All good now I can breath again. Thanks for your help!

Mr Strange said:
I got it to work now. I kept trying to boot into recovery by volume up, home and power but recovery was screwed up on my phone. I finally tried to hold volume down, home and power and got it to boot up after pressing volume up. Then I ran Rom Manager and reinstalled CWM Recovery. All good now I can breath again. Thanks for your help!
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Great, just remember the solution, because chances are you will see the message again. Good luck sir.

Lol that same thing happened to me. The button combo for twrp I mean. I was so scared I bricked. Then finally I ran across a few of these helpful forums and realized home and volume up are the way to go. Goo manager had me spoiled learning the recov mode on s4.
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[Q] Reset Samsung Galaxy S4 I9505

Hey,
I have following problem:
Few days ago I bought a Samsung Galaxy S4 Lte (I9505 jfltexx). I wanted to root it and then flash CM onto it.
Rooting went fine but when I flashed CM it aborted with Error 7. After that it was soft bricked but i managed to flash the Stock Rom back and everything was fine again.
But today I tried it again but got following problem. CWM was gone and i had to reflash it. But then everytime I tried to get into recovery mode the phone freezed at the "Samsung Galaxy S4 I9505" Logo with the little blue "recovery booting" in the left upper corner. I tried to flash CWM and also twr but it did not help.
SO my final thought was flashing the stock rom again to at least have a working phone. But when I tried to flash the Stock Rom ODIN failed and my phone gave this error "SW REV. CHECK FAIL : fused:2, Binary: 1".
Then every time it started it booted into download mode and said "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies & try again". I googled how I can solve this and someone said that it has something to do with root. So again I flashed the CF auto root and thank god it booted up normally.
But now my problem: I have no root on my phone(superSu says that there are no SU-binarys), I can't update my stock-firmware because the software update says that my phone has been changed. What can I do to 1. gain root access again 2. flash a custom rom(best would be SlimBean)?
Hope you can help me

lup3x said:
Hey,
I have following problem:
Few days ago I bought a Samsung Galaxy S4 Lte (I9505 jfltexx). I wanted to root it and then flash CM onto it.
Rooting went fine but when I flashed CM it aborted with Error 7. After that it was soft bricked but i managed to flash the Stock Rom back and everything was fine again.
But today I tried it again but got following problem. CWM was gone and i had to reflash it. But then everytime I tried to get into recovery mode the phone freezed at the "Samsung Galaxy S4 I9505" Logo with the little blue "recovery booting" in the left upper corner. I tried to flash CWM and also twr but it did not help.
SO my final thought was flashing the stock rom again to at least have a working phone. But when I tried to flash the Stock Rom ODIN failed and my phone gave this error "SW REV. CHECK FAIL : fused:2, Binary: 1".
Then every time it started it booted into download mode and said "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies & try again". I googled how I can solve this and someone said that it has something to do with root. So again I flashed the CF auto root and thank god it booted up normally.
But now my problem: I have no root on my phone(superSu says that there are no SU-binarys), I can't update my stock-firmware because the software update says that my phone has been changed. What can I do to 1. gain root access again 2. flash a custom rom(best would be SlimBean)?
Hope you can help me
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mate mine says the same as yours. so might just be because it failed not sure tho we will just have to wait and see if someone can come up with a answer. regards

joecool666 said:
mate mine says the same as yours. so might just be because it failed not sure tho we will just have to wait and see if someone can come up with a answer. regards
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thank god somebody with the same problem! Is your device rooted? because whenever i try to root it odin says pass and SuperSu is installed but the phone is not rooted

lup3x said:
thank god somebody with the same problem! Is your device rooted? because whenever i try to root it odin says pass and SuperSu is installed but the phone is not rooted
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not now its not. going to wait for c-f for fix until then i am staying where i am stock unrooted lol just to be safe.

joecool666 said:
not now its not. going to wait for c-f for fix until then i am staying where i am stock unrooted lol just to be safe.
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GOTCHA! I used the auto root from here https://plus.google.com/+Chainfire/posts/5ggu7naWtaW and it finally worked! I don't know if it will work for u but i tried it out and i finally got it. Now to the ROM Part

What is this great advantage that rooting and installing cf brings, that makes you run the risk of destroying your brand new, very expensive phone?

YIKES1412 said:
What is this great advantage that rooting and installing cf brings, that makes you run the risk of destroying your brand new, very expensive phone?
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The fact that i really don't like this mess which samsung calls a firmware. When i buy a pc i want to do anything i want with it. Same goes for smartphones.

lup3x said:
The fact that i really don't like this mess which samsung calls a firmware. When i buy a pc i want to do anything i want with it. Same goes for smartphones.
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Ok, I'm just wandering what big difference it makes. What extra does it enable your phone to do? I mean it must be really good to run this risk.
Sent from my GT-I9505 using xda app-developers app

YIKES1412 said:
Ok, I'm just wandering what big difference it makes. What extra does it enable your phone to do? I mean it must be really good to run this risk.
Sent from my GT-I9505 using xda app-developers app
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First of all it's the principle that I don't want to have a phone where Samsung tells me what to do and what not. Then there are things like root which are necessary for me because I'm also using it to test my apps which require root access. And also of course apps from the play store which need it. I'm currently using Slimbean because there's no AOKP build for the I9505. It requires less space on the phone, it's heavily customizable and it has the look of vanilla android. And a huge portion of why I am doing this is just me being curious about such things.
In the end it worked and I learned very much new stuff.
Sry 4 bad english

Hey your English is very good mate. And I was just curious as to why you run the risk, thanks for explaining it to me. I rooted and put a new rom onto an orange san francisco (zte blade) once. But that was not an expensive phone. My wife would kill me if I messed up this s4 with almost 2 years of contract to go lol

[Q] I goofed big time!

Hey all,
I really messed up, and I know it, so please don't lecture me, I'll never do it again, I swear. I'm a complete N00B, and I should most definitely know better....
My phone was rooted, and I got that "intermediary" OTA update between 4.4.4 and 5.0 today, and lost my root, as well as not being able to update to 5.0. So, I downloaded Odin, and attempted to follow these instructions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2784880 It didn't go well, as I was stuck at the Verizon screen. So I attempted to flash back to the NK2, again using Odin, and got stuck at the Android boot screen. Now, after messing around with it some more, that's where I'm at.
Please help! Thank you!
Tony

Toekneetwo said:
Hey all,
I really messed up, and I know it, so please don't lecture me, I'll never do it again, I swear. I'm a complete N00B, and I should most definitely know better....
My phone was rooted, and I got that "intermediary" OTA update between 4.4.4 and 5.0 today, and lost my root, as well as not being able to update to 5.0. So, I downloaded Odin, and attempted to follow these instructions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2784880 It didn't go well, as I was stuck at the Verizon screen. So I attempted to flash back to the NK2, again using Odin, and got stuck at the Android boot screen. Now, after messing around with it some more, that's where I'm at.
Please help! Thank you!
Tony
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Have you tried flashing the retail NK2, since you're already starting over?

Rapunzl said:
Have you tried flashing the retail NK2, since you're already starting over?
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I believe I did try that already, but I'm trying it again right now.... aaaand.... still stuck on the Samsung Galaxy s5 start screen after reboot. After about a minute, it goes to the Android system recovery menu.
Tony

Toekneetwo said:
I believe I did try that already, but I'm trying it again right now.... aaaand.... still stuck on the Samsung Galaxy s5 start screen after reboot. After about a minute, it goes to the Android system recovery menu.
Tony
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You have to boot into download mode to flash the retail NK2 from Odin. (Volume Down+Power+Home)

Rapunzl said:
You have to boot into download mode to flash the retail NK2 from Odin. (Volume Down+Power+Home)
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Yes, I tried that... I know just enough to get myself into trouble, but not enough to get myself out of it.
Tony

Oh, I see why you said that... Yes, after booting into download mode, and running Odin and flashing the NK2 kernel, the phone reboots and THEN I'm stuck on the start screen. Thanks!
Tony

Toekneetwo said:
Oh, I see why you said that... Yes, after booting into download mode, and running Odin and flashing the NK2 kernel, the phone reboots and THEN I'm stuck on the start screen. Thanks!
Tony
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Not just the kernel. You want the NK2 retail tar. That's the full package.

Rapunzl said:
Not just the kernel. You want the NK2 retail tar. That's the full package.
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Yes, that did it... I was on that page earlier, and didn't scroll down far enough to see the .tar files. Thank you so much for your help!!

Actually, it does still get stuck at the red Verizon screen.
Tony
*Scratch that, I figured it out....thanks again!

Stock Recovery for 900A

I cannot do any more looking to night. Is there a stock recovery for the 900A somewhere? I keep finding only firmwares.
I used dd to write a recovery to the sd card and now I get a message that says "System software not authorized by AT&T has been found on your phone. Please turn off your phone and go to the nearest AT&T store for help." After the boot screen, this is all I get when I start the phone after doing a factory reset. I can get into download mode though.
This is the worst phone I've ever dealt with when it comes to flashing. WTF AT&T?!

x000111 said:
I cannot do any more looking to night. Is there a stock recovery for the 900A somewhere? I keep finding only firmwares.
I used dd to write a recovery to the sd card and now I get a message that says "System software not authorized by AT&T has been found on your phone. Please turn off your phone and go to the nearest AT&T store for help." After the boot screen, this is all I get when I start the phone after doing a factory reset. I can get into download mode though.
This is the worst phone I've ever dealt with when it comes to flashing. WTF AT&T?!
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Att s5 has locked bootloader, no custom recovery or anything. What Android version was it on before you softbricked it?
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It was on Lollipop, 5.0. If I remember right it was the OF2 or OF3 build. It was rooted. It also has a padlock on the first boots screen that says "custom" under it.

x000111 said:
It was on Lollipop, 5.0. If I remember right it was the OF2 or OF3 build. It was rooted. It also has a padlock on the first boots screen that says "custom" under it.
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Should be good to flash the NCE firmware then, includes recovery so just flash that and you can go back up to rooted L.
Sent from my Galaxy S5 using XDA Labs

After spending way too much time on this, I found a rooted ROM that had a recovery with it for the OF2 build. I downloaded that and made an Odin flashable image and flashed the recovery... so basically what you're suggesing, I think. Just a different version.
Instructions can be found here in case anyone happens to do this. https://www.reddit.com/r/galaxys5/comments/4umm9z/where_can_i_find_stock_recovery/

x000111 said:
After spending way too much time on this, I found a rooted ROM that had a recovery with it for the OF2 build. I downloaded that and made an Odin flashable image and flashed the recovery... so basically what you're suggesing, I think. Just a different version.
Instructions can be found here in case anyone happens to do this. https://www.reddit.com/r/galaxys5/comments/4umm9z/where_can_i_find_stock_recovery/
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Ah, yes I didn't think of that.
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AT&T Galaxy S4 Recovery fails at 24%

My s4 was rooted about a year ago with the logo SAMSUNG and Unlocked with an open lock below it when it boots up. I gave this phone to my girlfriends daughter and forgot to tell her not to try and update it. I don't remember the way i rooted it or what software it had on it at the time.
So when I go to recovery after it loads into an AT&T logo and tries to install it and it gets to 24%. After this it bootloops. Any help would be appreciated. My phone model is SGH-I337 , also not sure of what the original firmware is.

StephenTiz said:
My s4 was rooted about a year ago with the logo SAMSUNG and Unlocked with an open lock below it when it boots up. I gave this phone to my girlfriends daughter and forgot to tell her not to try and update it. I don't remember the way i rooted it or what software it had on it at the time.
So when I go to recovery after it loads into an AT&T logo and tries to install it and it gets to 24%. After this it bootloops. Any help would be appreciated. My phone model is SGH-I337 , also not sure of what the original firmware is.
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Open lock symbol means your phone is rooted not unlocked.
If you could go to the recovery mode (voloume-up+home+power) it would tell you your firmware version. You could try clear cache, factory reset in recovery mode. If it still gives you the bootloop, you might need to flash the firmware via odin.
You can find instructions and necessary files in here and here.

No recovery options
Sorry I left that part out. When it goes to recovery i get the blue text that say recovery then it goes straight to the AT&T installing. So no recovery options. I can still get to the Odin dowloading screen though and it says im running Samsung Original software

No recovery options
sway8966 said:
Open lock symbol means your phone is rooted not unlocked.
If you could go to the recovery mode (voloume-up+home+power) it would tell you your firmware version. You could try clear cache, factory reset in recovery mode. If it still gives you the bootloop, you might need to flash the firmware via odin.
You can find instructions and necessary files in here and here.
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Sorry I left that part out. When it goes to recovery i get the blue text that say recovery then it goes straight to the AT&T installing. So no recovery options. I can still get to the Odin dowloading screen though and it says im running Samsung Original software

StephenTiz said:
Sorry I left that part out. When it goes to recovery i get the blue text that say recovery then it goes straight to the AT&T installing. So no recovery options. I can still get to the Odin dowloading screen though and it says im running Samsung Original software
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One reason I asked you to go to the recovery option was to know what version of firmware you were on before .
Do you remember you were on jelly bean or kick-kat or lollipop? If you do you can find the firmware for jelly bean and kit-kat on the links I mentioned in the previous message.
If you could not recall your firmware, the latest odin flashable firmware we have is kit-kat NB1.
You can flash that one to revive your phone. Then use twoel root to root the phone. After that you can go to lollipop if you want. All the instructions are there.

Woop Woop!
sway8966 said:
One reason I asked you to go to the recovery option was to know what version of firmware you were on before .
Do you remember you were on jelly bean or kick-kat or lollipop? If you do you can find the firmware for jelly bean and kit-kat on the links I mentioned in the previous message.
If you could not recall your firmware, the latest odin flashable firmware we have is kit-kat NB1.
You can flash that one to revive your phone. Then use twoel root to root the phone. After that you can go to lollipop if you want. All the instructions are there.
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It worked. I have tried so many different firmware and kit-kat NB1 worked perfectly. Thank you so much, my girlfriends daughter will be so happy. I think i will leave it unrooted for now. I hope this post helps someone else in the future.

StephenTiz said:
It worked. I have tried so many different firmware and kit-kat NB1 worked perfectly. Thank you so much, my girlfriends daughter will be so happy. I think i will leave it unrooted for now. I hope this post helps someone else in the future.
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I am glad that it works out for you.
Rooting is so easy from that point. Just get towel root and root it. The link also included in my previous post. After the root you might need to disable the AT&T OTA update too. The instructions are also in that post too.