I've rooted/flashed before but never such a complicated phone... and need help im totally lost.
I installed safestrap and tried the eclipse rom and it hung on the wifi options, next I tried shostock same problem, installed insanity on rom slot 1 sucess!
Then I got geedy, installed shostock on the stock slot and it worked, so I tried eclipse on stock slot it installed but safestrap disappeared and eclipse still wont pass wifi settings. So I have eclipse installed, no safestrap hung on wifi settings. (Yes I have my twrp back up)
So I need to get safestrap or stock back but im stuck on the setup up screen any ideas?
Edit.
Found the mk2 brick guide using odin, hoping this is safest route flashing when I get home so if its not I hope someone stops me.
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I just flashed this rom successfully yesterday. The rom was stable and working, however I wanted to get the hotspot to work. I used a hotspot mod on a previous 4.3 rom, so I tried it again on this rom. I flashed the MDC Hotspot Mod while in Philz Touch 5.18 recovery. After flashing the hotspot mod, I reboot the system and it is stuck at the "Kit Kat" splash screen. I went back to recovery, wiped everything (data reset, cache, davlik cache) and reinstalled the rom and it seemed to work fine. However, I wanted to get the hostpot working so later in the night I reinstalled a 4.3 rom, and now I can not get any rom to work. When I boot up I am not faced with the Galaxy S4 screen saying:
KERNEL IS NOT SEANDROID ENFORCING
Set Warranty Bit: kernel
It will not go to the Kit Kat splash screen, I can get to download mode and recovery mode. I tried completely re-rooting the device, Installing different roms and even a different kernel, but I can't seem to get anything to work. At this point, I just need my phone to work and will use any rom. I don't think this is a fully bricked device because I can get into recovery and download mode. I can live without hotspot for now, just need a working phone. If anyone can advise here or help please reply here or email me at [email protected]. This is my daily driver phone and I need it to work, hopefully it is an easy fix like getting a stock 4.4 kernel? BTW this was a brand new galaxy s4 which came with stock 4.4, so I am not sure if installing 4.3 had an issue with it. Maybe using ODIN to fix the problem, I am not sure. I have successfully rooted many phones including HTC EVO 4G, HTC EVO 3D and Galaxy S4( until now) and have never ran into this issue. Please advice anyone!! Thanks!
RE: S4 Sac Rom Issue Please Help
I ran into a similar problem and my device would not boot. I simply just reflashed clockwork 6.0.4 recovery from Odin and was able to get back into recovery to wipe and reflash a new rom. Hope this helps. Note: I selected PDA in Odin. Here is a tutorial to get recovery back.
http://jellybean-news.blogspot.com/2013/02/complete-guide-to-install-clockworkmod.html
Good luck.
Got hyperdrive installed fine on a locked boot loader (nc2) using ss. I made my backup first just in case btw.
Ended up with the wifi issue so I tired flashing various modules to no avail. So I googled around a bit and found the att compatibility pack and flashed that. Ended up getting stuck on the boot loop after flash. Did a factory reset to get past that one and finally got hyperdrive booting. But upon boot I immediately get a ton of force closes from com.Android.phone to the point that I can barely access menus quick enough to restart before another fc appears.
Did another factory reset, no help there, and the install of hyperdrive wiped safe strap so I have no way to restore the backup. Tired using kies but it says this version can't be updated when I try to restore firmware. I'm assuming my last hope is an odin flash but i'm having a hard time finding the correct file to flash.
It's a 16gb sgh-I337, on att. And it was originally the nc2 build however now the 'about' menu shows unknown as build number. Have to assume that's part of my problem but i'm not entirely sure at this point.
I did search around but I didn't find anything that seemed to describe this exact issue. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!
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Odin to stock did it. re flashed everything and i'm running hyperdrive fine now
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Hi I need desperate help
two days ago I went from CM11 to S4I9505 Google Play Edition ROM 5.0.1 and everything was running perfectly. Today I used an app known as "ROM Installer" to flash TWRP easily which it did but I couldnt go back to normal menus and it kept on booting back to Recovery. So I wiped everything and installed the same ROM as it is in my External SD. It was successful but it still would boot to recovery and nothing would work. So I thought my option was to unroot the phone. I used the XDA Unroot/Unbrick guide and used an Android 5.0. Lollipop firmware to flash the stock firmware (second time every using Odin, the first was disastrous and I hated it). I flashed the official stock and it is running but cannot activate WiFi what so ever. It just refuses to toggle. So I reflashed the stock firmware again and it still doesn't work. I was thinking of somehow downgrading to KitKat, use CM Installer which is how I initially rooted the phone and revert to a CWM backup that I made before I flashed the S4 GPE ROM and start over. However I tried using that CM Installer and since im on Lollipop it would refuse to work and I really wanna get back to how everything was before :'( I really dont know what to do (No warranty or anything on this S4) All I can do is make calls and texts. Please help!
fixed!
I've fixed it! Its all back on stock with the all that bloatware and useless features only problem now is whether there is a way to deleted this thread
I have now tried to install Hyperdrive ROM three times. The first time I had found an old thread written well before much of the S4 debauchery got as thick as it is now and it was definitely the wrong version. I`m on NI1 4.4.2 and downloaded the latest HD rom file (21?) as well as the UI. Followed the instructions to a T and wound up with it stuck on the orange HD/Kit Kat animation for eleven minutes. Finally got it to shut off, wouldn`t reboot. Tried a few times hoping to get it to at least get me in a position to restore a backup. Nope. It would get to the setup procedure but every action on the screen resulted in a "Samsung key lock has stopped working" message. Ended up just installing an older Odin stock rom (4.3), rooting and reinstalling Safestrap and finally getting to load my backup. I~m really interested in the HD rom, so can I ask for (a) what I might be doing wrong and (b) how do I do it correctly? I`m on NI1 again, rooted, using safestrap.
Ill start from the beginning att s4 running oc4 bad power switch i downgraded to nb1 flashed nc1 kernel and rooted towelroot installed safestrap flashed stock rooted nj4 then hyperdrive was running flawless except the power switch new one came in i soldered it in works great now home button dowsnt work so i figured it was software seeing as my menu and back works fine so i reflashed nb1 via odin and proceeded with my above root method but towelroot wont install says app not installed tried changing security level to normal was set to high but just goes back to high and home button still not working ive tried several stock flashes with and without pit file and stock updated via stock recovery just to try to get the app to install but still nogo any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated
Not quite sure how or why but after 2 more stock nb1 flashes let me install rooted and safestrapped home button still not working though