Recovery help. (S4 Noob) - Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Basically ive already rooted my phone using Chainfires Auto Root, im just wondering if i flash CWM or else TWRP will this cause any damage to my phone? Brick it or anything? Sorry if theres already an answer, just moved from the N7000 to S4?
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I'ts almost impossible to brick your phone. So go ahead and flash

Lennyz1988 said:
I'ts almost impossible to brick your phone. So go ahead and flash
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I tried flashing the both of them there and both times the phone rebooted itself with stock recovery (wasnt able to see CWM or TWRP. What would i need to do to get them to work? Sorry about the questions. Or else would it be safe to flash a 4.4.2 rom through odin? My phone is locked to uk carrier EE btw
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You flashed the recovery with Odin?

Lennyz1988 said:
You flashed the recovery with Odin?
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I did indeed. Both TWRP + CWM
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Mc_CuLLa said:
I did indeed. Both TWRP + CWM
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Once you have rooted your phone, you have to delete a file in system, wich overwrites the custom recovery with the original. But i don't remember wich file it is. I think Google know it.:cyclops:
EDIT: I found it: you need a root Explorer. Go to system/etc and delete "install-recovery.sh"
After that, flash a custom recovery. Now it should work.

What also helps sometimes is to uncheck "auto-reboot" in Odin.
When the flashing is finished, you just hold the power button for 10 sec (until it reboots).

Lennyz1988 said:
What also helps sometimes is to uncheck "auto-reboot" in Odin.
When the flashing is finished, you just hold the power button for 10 sec (until it reboots).
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Good shout, i'll give that a go.
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Lennyz1988 said:
What also helps sometimes is to uncheck "auto-reboot" in Odin.
When the flashing is finished, you just hold the power button for 10 sec (until it reboots).
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No luck mate. Any other ideas?
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stuck in odin mode I337 At&T

Hello there. i have samsung I337 with stuck in odin mode menu. when you power it in normal mode it has "could not do normal boot. odim mode"
trying to flash it with ODIN,but always has FAIL and error. I need some help, what can i do with that?
Sorry for posting with no answer but I have the same issue with my tmobile sgs4 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2441509). It looks like I tried everything and nothing is working :/
kviaff said:
Hello there. i have samsung I337 with stuck in odin mode menu. when you power it in normal mode it has "could not do normal boot. odim mode"
trying to flash it with ODIN,but always has FAIL and error. I need some help, what can i do with that?
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What happened in the first place? What firmware were you on?
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HiTideBlastoise said:
What happened in the first place? What firmware were you on?
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1st i rooted it, then make recovery. 3. i unzip firmware to phone main folder.and when i reboot it i had this problem.
phone has MF3
No offense to anyone......but can nobody read that comes to this site?
kviaff said:
1st i rooted it, then make recovery. 3. i unzip firmware to phone main folder.and when i reboot it i had this problem.
phone has MF3
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You cannot flash a recovery to MF3. Your options see J-tag on mobiletechvideos.com or go to best buy with Samsung experience to reflash MF3
Edit: glad that is solved
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OMG it was so easy....you just take Power+home+Vol down, and then you see message Vol up and Vol down...choose Vol down!!!!
kviaff said:
OMG it was so easy....you just take Power+home+Vol down, and then you see message Vol up and Vol down...choose Vol down!!!!
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You still do not have a recovery, by flashing a custom recovery and it failing, you lost stock recovery.
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HiTideBlastoise said:
You still do not have a recovery, by flashing a custom recovery and it failing, you lost stock recovery.
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and what about Goomanager method?
kviaff said:
and what about Goomanager method?
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That will not work! There is no custom recovery for mf3. You still have no recovery, you will need to find a best buy with Samsung experience to reflash MF3 if you want stock recovery. Once again, you cannot install a custom recovery. Your phone booted fine but you will not be able to go into recovery since you don't have one. I believe you will go into Odin downloadable mode.
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HiTideBlastoise said:
That will not work! There is no custom recovery for mf3. You still have no recovery, you will need to find a best buy with Samsung experience to reflash MF3 if you want stock recovery. Once again, you cannot install a custom recovery. Your phone booted fine but you will not be able to go into recovery since you don't have one. I believe you will go into Odin downloadable mode.
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so i havent any chance to make my phone Russian language?
kviaff said:
so i havent any chance to make my phone Russian language?
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That I can answer, if the only is through a custom recovery, then no.
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[Q] Noob bricks his S4...and recovers; but needs help fixing

I successfully installed something like MF9HotspotMod last month and everything was cool until I did the Android 4.3 update. Then I attempted to root the phone again and bricked it for a day with in stuck on the yellow sprint screen until I did my next trick.
I went into recovery and installed jlftespr_mja_text2.zip after trying many attempts I read off of forums. This was the only rom that actually got my phone to work.
Everything looks good except for a had some issues with the phone not working in LTE areas. Sprint said to turn LTE off and set the phone to CDMA only (that really didn't solve the issue but got them off the phone.)
How can I get this back to as close to as possible stock rom, something that will run the Multiwindow App that uses Xpose Installater (the best thing to happen to phones since the G1 came out!), and get free wifi hotspot?
Android 4.3
L720VPUEMJA
Kernal: 3.4.0-1927016
se [email protected]#1
Build Number
JSS15J.L720VPUEMJA
If you want to get back to stock you have a couple of options, download the full MJA tar from sammobile or a mirror site and install via odin, then root it with cf autoroot and install the MJA hot-spot mod. Or download the rooted stock MJA rom from the development section and install then install the hot-spot mod. Simon center you are having problems with your radio, I would recommend starting crash with the full tar.
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Isn't that the rom I already have installed?
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cfclay said:
Isn't that the rom I already have installed?
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Nope its this one. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2522810
You need to download that tar file and odin and just flash it. This will delete your internal memory and then try to perform ##27286# in the dial pad and try it and see if it works.
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ROMANTiC KiD said:
Nope its this one. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2522810
You need to download that tar file and odin and just flash it. This will delete your internal memory and then try to perform ##27286# in the dial pad and try it and see if it works.
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When you say "the tar file"- are you talking about the third one on the of the link you sent, the kernel?
cfclay said:
When you say "the tar file"- are you talking about the third one on the of the link you sent, the kernel?
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Nope not the kernel just the one of the other two zips. The kernel is built in the the tar file. Just download which ever one. Extract it, you just get a .tar.md5 file. Start odin and put it in the pda slot. Set the phone in download mode. Connect to the phone. Flash it. BTW THIS WILL DELETE YOUR INTERNAL MEMORY SO MAKE A SAFE! BEFORE ANYTHING! Once that is done. Boot into recovery. Should be stock recovery now. Just do a factory reset and reboot. And presto you should be stock mja. Just go to the dial pad and enter ##27286# and it should reboot a couple of times. And see if that helps you.
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ROMANTiC KiD said:
Nope not the kernel just the one of the other two zips. The kernel is built in the the tar file. Just download which ever one. Extract it, you just get a .tar.md5 file. Start odin and put it in the pda slot. Set the phone in download mode. Connect to the phone. Flash it. BTW THIS WILL DELETE YOUR INTERNAL MEMORY SO MAKE A SAFE! BEFORE ANYTHING! Once that is done. Boot into recovery. Should be stock recovery now. Just do a factory reset and reboot. And presto you should be stock mja. Just go to the dial pad and enter ##27286# and it should reboot a couple of times. And see if that helps you.
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You the man, thanks! This code of ##27286# doesnt work though. It tries to make a call
cfclay said:
You the man, thanks! This code of ##27286# doesnt work though. It tries to make a call
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You meant ##72786# maybe?
cfclay said:
You meant ##72786# maybe?
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Yeah that sorry i was a bit tired writing that lol
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Thank you!
Now can you tell me what's the best method to root for purposes of getting multi window support and Wi Fi hotspot?
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Recovery

Finally got my G2 to TO root with su binaries installed. Now can someone point me in the direction of a recovery install That will work after latest update. I have tried flashing and a couple other methods to no avail.
Thanks in advance
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fountain79 said:
Finally got my G2 to TO root with su binaries installed. Now can someone point me in the direction of a recovery install That will work after latest update. I have tried flashing and a couple other methods to no avail.
Thanks in advance
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Update guessing is the ota? You can use flashify app from play store to flash either TWRP recovery 2.6.3.2 that is a IMG. Or 2.6.3.3. That's a zip file .....
Okay will try
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RubbleTea said:
Update guessing is the ota? You can use flashify app from play store to flash either TWRP recovery 2.6.3.2 that is a IMG. Or 2.6.3.3. That's a zip file .....
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fountain79 said:
Okay will try
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I just read in another thread that custom recoveries cannot yet be flashed on the latest OTA. You have to revert back in order to have a custom recovery. According to this thread.
jellybear456 said:
I just read in another thread that custom recoveries cannot yet be flashed on the latest OTA. You have to revert back in order to have a custom recovery. According to this thread.
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If you DONT have the ota and update with a custom recovery it will bootloop, need stock recovery but if you have the ota flashing a custom recovery is fine...could always see if theirs a stock ROM with ota included too
I have the ota and twrp recovery rooted...
RubbleTea said:
If you DONT have the ota and update with a custom recovery it will bootloop, need stock recovery but if you have the ota flashing a custom recovery is fine...could always see if theirs a stock ROM with ota included too
I have the ota and twrp recovery rooted...
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I got the phone this past Friday. Took the ota update before even attempting to root the device. I used the newest ioroot12 and achieved root yesterday. I have tried to use the Loki method to flash recovery also tried using flashify neither one has worked. What method did you use. Also thanks for your help...??
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fountain79 said:
I got the phone this past Friday. Took the ota update before even attempting to root the device. I used the newest ioroot12 and achieved root yesterday. I have tried to use the Loki method to flash recovery also tried using flashify neither one has worked. What method did you use. Also thanks for your help...??
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Do you have twrp 2.6.3.2 IMG? Or 2.6.3.3 zip first
Got both
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fountain79 said:
Got both
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Really and flashify wont work? You can use fastboot and adb to push a recovery only IMG though not the zip
Hmm if not you might need to revert as jellybear said...I'm at work....and can't help as much....use general forums andand rrthreada for your carrier I'll try to help
Okay gonna try again
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fountain79 said:
Okay gonna try again
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I'll try to help though
Just flashed recovery img with flashify again. It says complete and gives option to flash more stuff or reboot. I choose reboot and it powers off. So I tried power button and vol down and that way also just powers off...
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fountain79 said:
Just flashed recovery img with flashify again. It says complete and gives option to flash more stuff or reboot. I choose reboot and it powers off. So I tried power button and vol down and that way also just powers off...
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Can you start ROM and use goomanger to boot into recovery
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Can you start ROM and use goomanger to boot into recovery
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I have tried with rom toolbox and quick boot. Downloading goo manager now
That didn't work either gonna try and use adb to push it through. It seems like it's not installing maybe a bad download of the recovery img. gonna re do

[Q] seandriod enforcing

hello..
i got note 3 sm n9005 (uk model),i tried to root my phone odin says pass,but it wont go to recovery mode it restarts and stuck on screen saying recovery is not seandroid enforcing" in red and another in yellow saying" set warranty bit.it wont let me root my phone,,,pls help me with this
thanks
That means you have succesfully put a custom recovery on your phone via odin. Stock wont show anything, but anything other than stock, that will show. I can only assume your on JB(4.3) still and have flashed a recovery for KK(4.4)
Im from the uk too, using chenglus 11/21 recovery on my jb rom.
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Make sure you are using the right cf auto root file. One is for 4.4 and the other is for 4.3.
edit: didn't read it completely, what did you use to root your phone?
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I've never used cf auto root. To root my first rom ( stock rom) i just flashed a custom recovery, and then flashed a superuser zip inside cwm
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celderic said:
I've never used cf auto root. To root my first rom ( stock rom) i just flashed a custom recovery, and then flashed a superuser zip inside cwm
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Did that worked? As far as I know to flash a custom recovery you have to be rooted first.
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Yes works fine. Have done it a few times on the n9005, and many times on other devices. You don't even need a rom to flash a custom recovery, or stock recovery for that matter.
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celderic said:
Yes works fine. Have done it a few times on the n9005, and many times on other devices. You don't even need a rom to flash a custom recovery, or stock recovery for that matter.
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When I first got mine it will not flash cwm without rooting it first but mine was N900W8 so might be different situation.
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hey_joe said:
When I first got mine it will not flash cwm without rooting it first but mine was N900W8 so might be different situation.
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Really? Im suprised, never heard of that before. Although i only read information related to my device, the n9005.
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[q] [bootloop]

Okay, I've messed up real bad. I tried to root my Samsung Galaxy Note 4 by using this method.
I followed it through, Used the correct download (SM-N910F (International, Qualcomm)) andeverything.
Odin reboots my device, but all it says is
RECOVERY BOOTING...
RECOVERY IS NOT SEANDROID ENFORCING
Set Warranty Bit : Recovery
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What am I supposed to do? I've tried to pull the battery out, reflashing it, manually put it in recovery mode and everything.
Still, I Get the annoying bootloop.
I know there is ways of fixing this without wiping it.
Thanks - Mackedack
EDIT: I don't actually care about not wiping it now. (If I have to wipe it, I will)
Flash twrp for your device through odin
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RISHI RAJ said:
Flash twrp for your device through odin
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Where do I find this twrp?
Do you perhaps have a link?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2923509
Here you go & one more tip do some research before messing up with your device
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Mackedack said:
Where do I find this twrp?
Do you perhaps have a link?
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Hey buddy!! same issue here is that fixed????

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