Hello folks,
I have a S4 that I rooted back when it first came out. I'm on 4.2.2, I337UCUAMDL and want to update to hopefully stock 4.4 but with root and the ability to change to a custom rom later on. What's my best course of action?
Is there a stock rom that's basically pre-rooted and without Knox, or should I OTA to 4.4.2 and use Towelroot and Safestrap? I'll preface this a tad by saying that I currently can't seem to load CWM Recovery via ROM Manager. SU keeps force closing and I think regular recovery boots instead. I would assume there's a way to load it manually, like ODIN or something, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.
Thanks for your time and sorry if someone has asked this before! I couldn't find anything with some quick searches.
EDIT - I actually got CASUAL to fully process (kept hanging before) and got TWRP installed. So I guess my only question now is what ROM to load?
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I had done the CF-Autoroot for my wifes (already second) S4 when it was still on the 4.2.2 back in late September, simply for AdAway, Titanium Backup, and the HotSpot mod. Well, after much time had passed she didn't know it was pertinent, and decided to uninstall Superuser because she didn't know what it was and it was causing her to have "a whole extra page in her app drawer". Needless to say, Superuser was broken, and she no longer has root. I tried just installing the original SU to no avail. I haven't messed with it any further. It's been so long since I rooted it, and it has been a crazy 6 months. I'm a bit fuzzy on the do's and don't's, so I did nothing more in fear of doing something that will trip KNOX or similar.
I've been reading, but can't seem to find a definitive answer.
First Issue - I would like to get her phone back to being 100% stock, non-rooted, no flags tripped or anything. This is the second incident she's had, and I've decided that the few advantages root gives her isn't worth bricking a phone or ruining the warranty and not being able to get a replacement. She drops them frequently, and complains about the Otterbox, so she frequently takes it off...
Second Issue - I have an identical setup - SPH-L720 handset running the stock recovery and stock 4.2.2 ROM, but it is still rooted. Is there a way to bypass KNOX completely to get a custom recovery on there? It seems like every thread I come across is rather unresolved. Ideally I would like to remove KNOX completely, flash to a custom recovery, and install a de-bloated ROM of some sort (Play Edition Clone/SlimBean, etc). What is the easiest and safest way to go about this, with an option to flash back to full stock still being available?
If both phones are on 4.2.2 which is MDC,MDL,or MF9 then you do NOT have Knox bootlaoder so you are fine to Odin MF9 tar or what ever version of those three that you have. And bmake sure to back up anything important.
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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
Hey guys,
So I've got a problem. When I had originally rooted my phone in the beginning, I hadn't installed safestrap; I installed everything else: busybox, superuser, etc. So I kept on regularly using my phone and what not, updating and making sure I kept root. I was able to follow muniz_ri's tutorials to stay up to date and keep root. So eventually I was on OE1 stock rooted rom and had stopped there (accidentally accepted an OTA update after OE1 so I quickly froze the update thing [forget what it's called] through TiBU, hence not being on the most current firmware).
I wanted Snapprefs but needed Xposed. And to get Xposed, you need safestrap (from my understanding). I followed this to get safestrap (I think that's what the overall goal of the tutorial was for) and got safestrap working. Then, tried to install xposed using this and this. Successfully got the app, but then it said something along the lines of "you have not installed the framework" or something like that (that would be the zip file that I had to download right? The file that came from following the flow chart?). Used safestrap to install the framework (aforementioned zip file), then rebooted. However, after the Samsung Galaxy S5 menu and the safestrap menu, the screen just stays black. There is nothing. When I have my phone connected to the computer, the computer makes its jingle like it recognizes it (however, nothing comes up on the computer), the phone stays black for 2-3 minutes maybe, then boots into recovery mode (not safestrap recovery but stock recovery, where you use the volume buttons). I did a wipe data/factory reset (or whatever the option is called) in the stock recovery menu hoping it would fix something but it didn't. Just trying to include as much info as possible. Would flashing with this in Odin help? Read somewhere that it would put me back at square one so I could do everything over again, which I am not opposed to. However, I thought you couldn't downgrade from OE1 or anything higher?
I'm at a loss as to what to do next. Searched everywhere but couldn't find anyone with the same problem as me. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks guys!
P.S. Sorry for going parentheses crazy
Found out what to do right after posting. Had to flash the BOE1 factory tar image in ODIN so back to stock, unrooted with all this bloat
Will be checking back periodically in hopes of a root method for latest firmware.
First post, So hey everyone
So I rooted my phone around 6 months ago with CF Auto Root, everything went fine but i was still on stock ROM. So then i found the Alliance ROM and decided to flash that because it looked cool. I flashed it using FlashFire to ensure I keep root. Everything worked and booted just fine, really smooth and of course it looked awesome. One small problem though, I could not send messages but I could receive them. Probably a SMSC (that was around 3 hours of head ache attempting to fix that) issue or because Straight Talk didn't like my phone using Android 5.0. So then I tried downgrading to Alliance 4.4.2, NOPE. That was the end of my phone :'(
Im now stuck on the Galaxy S5 screen with "Set Warranty Bit: Kernel" in the top right. No idea how to fix it and obviously knox was tripped but that isnt a huge deal to me.
I have tried the following.
1. Tried to reroot (seemed to fix a lot of issues actually)
2. Tried to reflash Alliance ROM android 5.0
3. Multiple cache and system wipes.
4. Installed TWRP through Odin but thats useless because I was dumb and deleted my back up in the system wipe
Im currently downloading stock ROM but my hope for that is fading judging that TWRP even stalls out and the phone reboots right when it attempts to flash. - well this was a bust, there are 4 freaking md5 files. when i go to flash with odin it says it a modem and then fails
What i have access to:
1. Recovery
2. Download
Is my phone already 6ft under or is it hanging on for dear life?
Edit: Should also mention that my galaxy is a SM-G902L (Straight Talks' model???). CF Auto Root for Galaxy SM-900F was used to root. So that is what i based my choice for model when installing Alliance
Ok so recent update, When I go into reboot and do system or whatever, it says there's no OS installed. I guess that would make sense why it doesn't want to boot, because there's nothing to boot into... but why cant i install any OS through odin???
Another Update: So I have no OS, I know how to flash a new OS, such as a custom ROM, but my phone refuses to accept the flash whether through odin or through TWRP.... W.T.F. Did i really look my phone down? And I guess that means that I will need to get the Straight Talk variant of Android 4.4.2 Great If anyone has the a backup and they are on straight talk, please help me out
Thanks for the help!
FIXED!!!
So after around 14-16 total hours of headaches, I have managed to bring my phone out of the grave. I read over the Straight Talk Variant Galaxy S5 thread multiple times and saw people saying that most Verizon ROMs work decently if not perfectly fine with the SM-G902L. So I downloaded M.O.A.R ROM and flashed through TWRP.
Worked like a freaking charm!! She booted right up, into the waterspout boot animation, and after a very long 5 minutes, I got to the welcome and setup screens!! I guess it was just a matter of finding the right ROM. I just find it kind of weird that it would flash Alliance just fine and then not allow it the second time...
Anyway, the very helpful thread that saved my phone
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/help/galaxy-s5-straight-talk-variant-sm-s902l-t3162340
Hello,
I want to know if it is possible to root the stock rom, and keep OTA.
Actually, my objective is to use screen mirroring (miracast), and I heard rooted devices can achieve that by changing build.prop. I didn't want to switch from stock rom, since I like it and like updating OTA.
Maybe if I adb boot twrp and install supersu, but keep regular revovery, I can still get OTA?
If there's another solution to screen mirroring, I'd be glad to know, too.
Thanks in advance!
I've tried to root stock rom and keep the system unmodified through Magisk. For whatever reason OTA always fails even though I have stock recovery, supposedly unmodified system, and rolling back to stock boot image prior to trying the OTA.
The only thing that works is to flash the stock firmware and then taking OTA. The only problem is that the stock firmware is tough to come by, but I read that someone got their hands on the latest 93-10 firmware image. So that's good.
I've since moved onto Pixel Experience 8.1 rom without any regrets. The camera works really well and battery is nearly up to par with stock Nougat.
No, unfortunately these things still modify the the system and boot partition and the upgrade script knows it and causes the update to fail. We don't know exactly everything the OTA update scripts check (it's not just a simple text file) but it is obviously something that it knows you are rooted even when nothing else does. :/
You must be completely stock to take an OTA update... the only exception is your bootloader lock state doesn't matter at this time, we do know that it is capable of detecting that as well.
I have done that and I got Bootloop! So don't Try!
else
https://forum.xda-developers.com/g5-plus/how-to/guide-complex-ota-update-magisk-rooted-t3688175