[Q] Recovery Won't Boot - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin

Somehow I've messed up my recovery and it won't boot anymore. The phone boots up just fine, but not into recovery mode. When I try and go into recovery mode, the blue text "Recovery Booting" shows, sits for about 5-10 seconds, then boots up the regular system (currently the latest cyanogenmod M6 release).
I've tried flashing different recoveries using Odin 3.09 and 1.85, but both of them fail with "Odin Fail (auth)". On the screen it says "odin secure check recovery failed". I've also tried flashing different recoveries through ROM Manager and GooManager, both of which claim they flashed successfully, but still won't boot into recovery. The phone is still rooted, is there any way I can get a working recovery back??

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Hy Guys,
I've got a curious problem.
My GS4 have currently CM 11-20140125-NIGHTLY and i just want to flash the newest nightly.
But if I 'Reboot to Recovery'
It Reboots and shows the "Starting Recovery" logo on the top left ... stuck for 10 sec. or so
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[EDIT]
Could be marked as Solved
I Just reflashed PhilZ Recovery via Odin ... Two Reboots later ... I'm in the Recovery Mode
Flash recovery again via Odin or mobile odin see how that goes

[Q] help! i9500 soft brick?

hi,
my S4 i9500 won't boot.
i have tried loading several versions of stock roms, recoveries and non-stock roms.
all stock roms fail in odin, and i get "unsupported dev_type" error on the device.
other non-stock roms install with no error, but the device won't boot after reboot.
finally, out of frustration and recklessness, i guess i used an S4 boot loader fix wihch loaded successfully from odin.
unfoutunatly, after rebooting the device, boot message sais GT-I9505 instead of GT-I9500. turns out it was a 9505 boot loader fix.
is there anything i can do to bring my device back to life??
currently, device won't boot to recovery (blue "recovery booting" on top left corner of screen), won't boot to system, but can enter download mode, and be identified by odin.
update: i also tried flashing stock rom with pit file. in this case i get "secure check fail : pit" error message on the device
thanks!!
bontuser said:
hi,
my S4 i9500 won't boot.
i have tried loading several versions of stock roms, recoveries and non-stock roms.
all stock roms fail in odin, and i get "unsupported dev_type" error on the device.
other non-stock roms install with no error, but the device won't boot after reboot.
finally, out of frustration and recklessness, i guess i used an S4 boot loader fix wihch loaded successfully from odin.
unfoutunatly, after rebooting the device, boot message sais GT-I9505 instead of GT-I9500. turns out it was a 9505 boot loader fix.
is there anything i can do to bring my device back to life??
currently, device won't boot to recovery (blue "recovery booting" on top left corner of screen), won't boot to system, but can enter download mode, and be identified by odin.
update: i also tried flashing stock rom with pit file. in this case i get "secure check fail : pit" error message on the device
thanks!!
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if you dont want to be on stock rom then try flashing a custom recovery by odin eg philz touch link here and then just flash it via recovery and you will be able to boot into recovery and then you can just flash a custom rom.
if you dont want to install custom rom do a clean wipe and try flashing the stock rom again
hope it hepled .
Hit thanks if it helped.
Kushan02 said:
if you dont want to be on stock rom then try flashing a custom recovery by odin eg philz touch and then just flash it via recovery and you will be able to boot into recovery and then you can just flash a custom rom.
if you dont want to install custom rom do a clean wipe and try flashing the stock rom again
hope it hepled .
Hit thanks if it helped.
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hi, thanks for your help.
as mentioned in my original post,i tried loading custom recovery - both twrp and wcm, but can't enter recovery mode in bothe cases
bontuser said:
hi,
my S4 i9500 won't boot.
i have tried loading several versions of stock roms, recoveries and non-stock roms.
all stock roms fail in odin, and i get "unsupported dev_type" error on the device.
other non-stock roms install with no error, but the device won't boot after reboot.
finally, out of frustration and recklessness, i guess i used an S4 boot loader fix wihch loaded successfully from odin.
unfoutunatly, after rebooting the device, boot message sais GT-I9505 instead of GT-I9500. turns out it was a 9505 boot loader fix.
is there anything i can do to bring my device back to life??
currently, device won't boot to recovery (blue "recovery booting" on top left corner of screen), won't boot to system, but can enter download mode, and be identified by odin.
update: i also tried flashing stock rom with pit file. in this case i get "secure check fail : pit" error message on the device
thanks!!
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Hi mate,
Flash a stock rom with odin , who knows what happen when you flashed the boot fix plus all the custom rom
Easiest way out is flash stock start from beginning
follow this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2265477
bontuser said:
hi, thanks for your help.
as mentioned in my original post,i tried loading custom recovery - both twrp and wcm, but can't enter recovery mode in bothe cases
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okay so try flashing the philz touch recovery via odin in download mode and see if it works it will probably work
link here - https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95864024717069687
and bro please hit thanks button.

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