I just put my AT&T s4 back to stock with ODIN. I am on the MDL version. I now can't get any custom recoveries to load. Have tried goomanager and rom manager with no luck. Can't seem to find the right .tar files for ODIN - they all fail. Any help would greatly be appreciated! I am afraid to do the OTA from AT&T as I don't want the MK2.
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I just put my AT&T s4 back to stock with ODIN. I am on the MDL version. I now can't get any custom recoveries to load. Have tried goomanager and rom manager with no luck. Can't seem to find the right .tar files for ODIN - they all fail. Any help would greatly be appreciated! I am afraid to do the OTA from AT&T as I don't want the MK2.
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Root using CASUAL. It will automatically flash a working TWRP and then you can use flashable zips to update to the latest.
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Hi everyone.
I apologize for my ignorance here, I own the S3, i am helping a buddy with an s4.
he attempted to root and is now getting an error message in his notifications. His wifi won't turn on and his SD card appears to me non-accessible.
Ultimately, we are trying to get a custom recovery installed to flash a custom rom. I have flashed CFroot via odin, but its not working, we do not seem to have root.
There are a few things i am looking for, and am having a tough time finding:
A full md9 stock odin tar
a odin flashable recovery (so we could just odin a recovery and flash a custom rom)
Remember we dont have root right now so we cant install recoveries via rom manager or goo manager.
I am really familiar with Galaxy devices, i think i just need some help from s4 regulars to find the files i need.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Here is the link for the Stock MF9 firmware. Its in a zip when you download. Just unzip and you will see the tar file. Place it in the PDA section of odin.
http://hotfile.com/dl/235555943/ff47da6/SPR-L720VPUAMF9-20130626162512.zip.html
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NOTE: AT&T variant. Phone is running 4.2.2 with MF3 baseband
So I'm helping a friend root his phone and run a custom ROM. The root went successfully (motochopper) and we installed SafeStrap and then we did a backup and wipe and then installed a 4.3 Google Play edition ROM (first mistake as we meant to download the 4.2 version)
I have the stock firmware zip for the phone and figured that that was the way to fix it, but I can't figure out how to get it to install. Through ADB it gives me an error after starting DAEMON. I converted the zip to a .tar and tried to use ODIN but ODIN stops working as soon as I tell it to run. I made sure I had the most current, correct drivers and am running ODIN3 v1.85. I thought maybe if I put it on the SD card I could install it though that method via the stock recovery but it says there is an invalid arguement.
What am I doing wrong?
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h_smith said:
NOTE: AT&T variant. Phone is running 4.2.2 with MF3 baseband
So I'm helping a friend root his phone and run a custom ROM. The root went successfully (motochopper) and we installed SafeStrap and then we did a backup and wipe and then installed a 4.3 Google Play edition ROM (first mistake as we meant to download the 4.2 version)
I have the stock firmware zip for the phone and figured that that was the way to fix it, but I can't figure out how to get it to install. Through ADB it gives me an error after starting DAEMON. I converted the zip to a .tar and tried to use ODIN but ODIN stops working as soon as I tell it to run. I made sure I had the most current, correct drivers and am running ODIN3 v1.85. I thought maybe if I put it on the SD card I could install it though that method via the stock recovery but it says there is an invalid arguement.
What am I doing wrong?
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What stock firmware zip do you have? You have to have the mf3 .tar.md5 file if you're trying to use odin
How does he have mf3 and motochopper works? It shouldn't. Also you have to have a custom recovery to flash the gpe rom and we don't. The closest thing we have is safestrap.
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How does he have mf3 and motochopper works? It shouldn't. Also you have to have a custom recovery to flash the gpe rom and we don't. The closest thing we have is safestrap.
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I'm not sure. I just used the first method I found and it worked. Then when it came to the recovery part that's when I found out about his baseband
jd1639 said:
What stock firmware zip do you have? You have to have the mf3 .tar.md5 file if you're trying to use odin
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I'm on the SamMobile site trying to find the firmware and it says that they don't have it. I find that weird that such a popular model doesn't have the firmware needed to do this. I put in the correct model and country
EDIT: nevermind.
Someone, for the love of god, help me.
I rooted my gs4 on att (i337) (Ucuamf3) using the sd card/terminal emulator exploit. It worked just fine, and have full root access. I then proceeded to install safestrap to get some custom roms going. Safestrap installed and I booted to recovery just fine. Then I flashed a few safestrap-compatible roms, none of which worked. they all booted to a consistent black screen. Thrn, I looked for a more up-to-date safestrap version, which I did. So I installed it, and now I cant boot into safestrap at all. Like literally, it just skips over it. And it says its installed...please, please help.
The newer ss is for mk2 firmware. You need to flash the mf3 tar files in odin and start over
Could you post a download link and a tut for flashing via odin? Im relatively new to this
And couldnt I just flash the custom through odin? Or does that not work with this firmware version (or whatever)
shiner9er said:
And couldnt I just flash the custom through odin? Or does that not work with this firmware version (or whatever)
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46888516
jd1639 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46888516
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So just flash that via odin?
shiner9er said:
So just flash that via odin?
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Read the thread.
Basically I attemped to flash my phone to a custom rom. Now the phone only boots into safestrap and will not accept any roms I am trying to flash at all.
I downloaded ODIN but I am having a heck of a time trying to find the proper files for flashing back to stock firmware. If anyone could provide some insight it would be greatly appreciated
Need a working link to N900AUCUCNC2_N900AATTCNC2_N900AUCUCNC2_HOME.tar.md
B.rick said:
Basically I attemped to flash my phone to a custom rom. Now the phone only boots into safestrap and will not accept any roms I am trying to flash at all.
I downloaded ODIN but I am having a heck of a time trying to find the proper files for flashing back to stock firmware. If anyone could provide some insight it would be greatly appreciated
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I came to the conclusion that i need to flash N900AUCUCNC2_N900AATTCNC2_N900AUCUCNC2_HOME.tar.md via AP in odin, but I cant find a working download link anywhere
I was on MK2 rooted, wanting to upgrade to NC1 via Safestrap method. Something went wrong after I wiped everything except EXSD in Safestrap recovery. The SGS4 rebooted and is now stuck in a softbrick. I can get into download mode and stock recovery, however, I cannot bring my phone back to life. I've tried flashing stock firmware with ODIN, sammobile only has MDL and MDB -- neither of these work for me. I have spent the past few hours reading posts and have not found a solution.
any help is greatly appreciated!
Since you're on a newer version you aren't able to downgrade it to MDL or MDB, if you download the MK2 tar file from here you may be able to get it back.
Code:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2621279
maDIEmG said:
Since you're on a newer version you aren't able to downgrade it to MDL or MDB, if you download the MK2 tar file from here you may be able to get it back.
Code:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2621279
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Thanks, I was able to get my phone back with odin and the files located on that thread!