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Attempting Root on MF9, recovery won't stick

I've tried everything. TWRP, CWM. They won't stick when I try to flash them with ODIN. It just goes boots to the stock recovery. WTF is up??? Please help
(Running ODIN as admin, as well as without. Tried 1.85 and 3)

The only recovery I've ever tried is oudhs. It has a check, when you first install and run it. The check lets you know that if you reboot and do nothing, the phone will revert back to stock recovery, then it will ask if you want to fix that. Choose yes and it fixes that safeguard. Simple. Also with Odin, use the version that is suggested in the tar.md5 posts for the original firmware. Older versions might not work right or mess things up because it's a newer phone.

wbreslin951 said:
I've tried everything. TWRP, CWM. They won't stick when I try to flash them with ODIN. It just goes boots to the stock recovery. WTF is up??? Please help
(Running ODIN as admin, as well as without. Tried 1.85 and 3)
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I used CF-autoroot to root my phone then I installed goomanger. In goomanger click menu > install openrecoveryscript. It will install twrp 2.6.0. Once complete click reboot recovery and it should boot into recovery. Let me know if this give you any issues.

Yes the trick to installing recovery that nobody really talks about is to uncheck "auto reboot". Let it pass. Pull the battery. Hold volume up and power and go into recovery. The goomanager. Methed also works.
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Thanks for the replies everybody! I'll put these suggestions into action as soon as I get home from work tonight!
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Is my phone bricked?

Earlier today I was trying to install the 4.3 Slim Bean Build.1. I was coming from the latest 4.2 Slim Bean ROM. So I did the usual process of wiping everything then installing the ROM and then the GApps. When I rebooted the system from recovery, my phone was just stuck on the Samsung Galaxy S4 loading screen. Now I cannot even boot into recovery, as every time I try to, it will show that the phone is attempting to boot into recovery and then it will just reset. I had TWRP touch recovery installed and everything was working fine until I tried installing this ROM. Are there any suggestions of what I can do/should do? Thanks in advance for any help.

Can you get in download mode(power+vol. Down) if so use odin to flash back to stock.
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Yes I can. Is there a guide on how to Odin back to stock? Also, will I lose my root if I do that? Thank you

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Can you get in download mode(power+vol. Down) if so use odin to flash back to stock.
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Yes I can. Is there a guide on how to Odin back to stock? Also, will I lose my root if I do that? Thank you

On my way to work so cant spend any time helping, but there are sevral guides and you will lose root.
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Might just b able to Odin recovery...
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Download Odin and the latest firmware for your device,extract firmware zip file,it will extract in tar.md5 file.now extract Odin and run the Odin application and connect the device while it is in download mode. click on PDA and load the firmware extracted file. Don't touch anything other than that click on start and leave for some time to complete.
Samsung lies should be installed before the process start.
Download firmware file from sammobile.com.
Your device will be automatically unrooted.
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youngnick09 said:
Yes I can. Is there a guide on how to Odin back to stock? Also, will I lose my root if I do that? Thank you
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yes you will have to start all over. here is a video on how to use odin on the s4. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CDMQtw IwAQ&url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZTTTk7vbVM&ei=3t05UtijLdTc4APV-YDQBw&u sg=AFQjCNGIjlBz9Xgj57ytF2NCGYchd7V1Xg&sig2=hhLZZzmRyDFyxETPrzCmfw&bvm=bv.522881 39,d.dmg make sure you get a stock .tar file found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2338919. make sure you watch the video before you do anything. also this thread belongs in Q&A.

thank you guys

I have run into a similar issue and was able to get into recovery by pulling the battery for about 5 minutes then using the hardware keys to boot into recovery.
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[Q] HELP! Stuck in soft brick!

Can someone please help me get out of this soft brick because I am really stuck. Currently I am getting the error message that "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again." but I have done that and it has failed on both mac and windows 7. I have also tried flashing stock build UCUAMDL 4.2.2 firmware via odin 1.7, 1.85 and 3.07 and I have also used the PIT files along with re-partitioning and F. Reset Time. Every single time in odin it has gotten to system.img.ext4 and then failed immediately following. A couple of times I have been able to get into stock recovery mode and it stated an error that the /system partition could not be accessed and I wiped cache/system/data and then tried rebooting and it stayed in the big white galaxy s4 letters and didn't even go to the boot logo. Based on this can anyone help me please???? If there's an existing thread can you please let me know? Thanks!

Which model do you have? What firmware are you on?
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sounds like you wiped your phone when you wiped system/data, why did you do that
you have nothing to boot
kies don't work with iMac
yeah give all the phone info you have, model, build, etc. build may be on your box
i think you can now only flash stock firmware thru Odin to recover, but if you were mf3, you may need to go to bestbuy and see samsung reps to flash phone. don't have any experience at that or using odin
stay on windows pc to do this
may be tomorrow till you get some help from others
good luck

RAID Xero said:
Which model do you have? What firmware are you on?
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Sorry I forgot to mention that it's a SGH-I337 as well and I was running the jamal 4.3 AOSP ROM

well then you are with what custom recovery?
and you are not mf3
sounds like the mf3 update was trying to flash. did you not delete the update files with Titanium so the Update would not run
can you boot into recovery and restore a nandroid
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i gotta call it a nite. maybe some west coasters can help since they are 3 hours behind us
but, please don't say you don't have a nandroid--
i think this is fixable--:good:

restoring a nandroid backup could solve your problem, did you try flashing with fastboot instead? When you installed AOSP ROM were you using a toolkit? If so did you flash a temp recovery?
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Kelevra_96 said:
restoring a nandroid backup could solve your problem, did you try flashing with fastboot instead? When you installed AOSP ROM were you using a toolkit? If so did you flash a temp recovery?
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Do you have an i337. We don't have fastboot. Our bootloader is locked.
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What custom recovery are you using?
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What custom recovery are you using?
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I don't have one, although do you think that I can flash a custom recovery with a PIT file because that seems to be the only thing that works. Also I do not have a nandroid backup. Is there somewhere that I can download someone's already made?

adambombz said:
I don't have one, although do you think that I can flash a custom recovery with a PIT file because that seems to be the only thing that works. Also I do not have a nandroid backup. Is there somewhere that I can download someone's already made?
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It's been asked a couple of times, but do you know what firmware your phone was on? It's important to know to be able to help you.

jd1639 said:
It's been asked a couple of times, but do you know what firmware your phone was on? It's important to know to be able to help you.
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I was running a custom ROM AOSP 4.3 that's all I know sorry

adambombz said:
I was running a custom ROM AOSP 4.3 that's all I know sorry
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That's close enough. That means you aren't on mf3.
Edit, have you tried to odin the stock firmware? Never mind I see you have
I would download the stock firmware from sammobile.com and try Odin again on a pc. Either version of odin is ok, 1.85 or 3.07.
When you use Odin only have auto-reboot checked, Don't check re-partition.

also, if you are running a custom rom you have a custom recovery
cwm or twrp?

jd1639 said:
That's close enough. That means you aren't on mf3.
Edit, have you tried to odin the stock firmware? Never mind I see you have
I would download the stock firmware from sammobile.com and try Odin again on a pc. Either version of odin is ok, 1.85 or 3.07.
When you use Odin only have auto-reboot checked, Don't check re-partition.
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I have tried doing this many, many times and each time it gets to the system.img.ext14 and then fails.

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also, if you are running a custom rom you have a custom recovery
cwm or twrp?
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They key word here is that I WAS running a custom recovery when all of this started. It was actually the recovery that started all of this. What happened specifically was I tried to update TWRP via goo manager and whenever I tried to go into recovery it gave me the error that at&t has detected unauthorized software on my phone which I thought was weird because I believe that goo manager auto-lokis. Anyway I tried using other apps to add a custom recovery like ROM manager by clockworkmodz and nothing worked. I then tried to flash TWRP 2.6.3.0 via odin and that's what sent my phone into the state that it's in now. Something that confuses me even more is is that whenever I plug in my phone a battery logo comes up that I don't recognize and then freezes.

adambombz said:
I have tried doing this many, many times and each time it gets to the system.img.ext14 and then fails.
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Have you re-downloaded the firmware? It could be a bad download. Are you using the .tar.md5 file

When you get it sorted use twrp 2.5.0.2. I think I posted a zip for you.

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Have you re-downloaded the firmware? It could be a bad download. Are you using the .tar.md5 file
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Yes I have tried multiple files and builds and I am using .tar.md5

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Yes I have tried multiple files and builds and I am using .tar.md5
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When you flashed twrp with odin are you sure it was for your device? I think you might have borked your partitions.

jd1639 said:
When you flashed twrp with odin are you sure it was for your device? I think you might have borked your partitions.
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That is possible, I know what is causing this has something to do with the partitions being messed up since I can't access /system in the stock recovery mode

Rooting and installing cwm/ twrp HELP

I am having a problem flashing cwm/twrp via odin. It gets thru passed. But when i reboot to recovery it wont show the right recovery. And it shows the dead android logo with an open stomach. I wanted to flashed a custom recovery via odin and flash super su to gain root. Problem is i cant flash a custom recovery via odin. Can someone help me? Tia. Im currently in version mj1 . N7005.
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PierreTech said:
I am having a problem flashing cwm/twrp via odin. It gets thru passed. But when i reboot to recovery it wont show the right recovery. And it shows the dead android logo with an open stomach. I wanted to flashed a custom recovery via odin and flash super su to gain root. Problem is i cant flash a custom recovery via odin. Can someone help me? Tia. Im currently in version mj1 . N7005.
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http://galaxynote3root.com/galaxy-note-3-root/how-to-root-galaxy-note-3/
have a look here

Same problem here.
PierreTech said:
I am having a problem flashing cwm/twrp via odin. It gets thru passed. But when i reboot to recovery it wont show the right recovery. And it shows the dead android logo with an open stomach. I wanted to flashed a custom recovery via odin and flash super su to gain root. Problem is i cant flash a custom recovery via odin. Can someone help me? Tia. Im currently in version mj1 . N7005.
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Hey there. I'm having the same problem. Followed Max's guide on galaxynote3root.com. I receive the successful and passed message in Odin each time but it appears to go into stock recovery I've used cwm and twrp before and know what it looks like, however, no joy. I messaged Max to get his thoughts my Note is the Sprint version. So close I know it.

Deleted OS Smn900v, please help

Please help. Some how I managed to delete my OS. I can still access my phone recovery as well I can still access safe strap. I have tried reinstalling my backup with no luck. I tried put Rom on ad card and flashing that with no luck. I tried using Odin and have had no luck. I have spent last three days searching with no luck. I find a lot of people with same issues but no one responded with resolution. If someone could please help me I would greatly appreciate it.
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I think my issue is I am unable to mount system. How can I mount it?
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Any ideas. I can't do anything due to system not being mounted.
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Which version of safe strap are you on ? What is preventing Odin flash? Only option is Odin so just make sure your flashing the correct tar for your firmware...ie if you are on the nc2 leak that tar

mjh68 said:
Which version of safe strap are you on ? What is preventing Odin flash? Only option is Odin so just make sure your flashing the correct tar for your firmware...ie if you are on the nc2 leak that tar
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Thanks for reply. I'm on safestrap 3.72
I rooted phone and got safestrap and was getting ready to download a Rom and then all this happened. So I am currently on stock as far as I can tell. I have tried to install anything and everything but nothing will work. Phone says not mounted and Odin says it can't write it. What would u suggest?
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Try to manually mount card in safe strap . I am not real familiar with Odin being my first Samsung phone , but otherwise maybe try mounting card in Abd if you have it setup on computer. You have the tar in the AP slot and using Odin 3.09 ?