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[Q] Corrupt Bootloader??

Hi i had a stock rooted 4.2.2 mf9, then i saw the ota update that came out popped up on my notification bar so i deecided to find out how to update.
Ended up flashing that 4.4 gummy rom decided i didnt like it and tried to flash a stock rom onto it through clockwork again. the flash finished but it stopped after the boot where it says "Samsung Galaxy S4" and rebooted a few times...i couldnt get it to go to recovery so i decided i should flash it again this time through odin. got my stock rooted rom again but it keeps saying failed on odin and it always stops at the bootloader. plz help
not sure if there is a way to get a bootloader that will work or even a rom that will do the trick but im stuck without a phone atm

dmindlessflawd said:
Hi i had a stock rooted 4.2.2 mf9, then i saw the ota update that came out popped up on my notification bar so i deecided to find out how to update.
Ended up flashing that 4.4 gummy rom decided i didnt like it and tried to flash a stock rom onto it through clockwork again. the flash finished but it stopped after the boot where it says "Samsung Galaxy S4" and rebooted a few times...i couldnt get it to go to recovery so i decided i should flash it again this time through odin. got my stock rooted rom again but it keeps saying failed on odin and it always stops at the bootloader. plz help
not sure if there is a way to get a bootloader that will work or even a rom that will do the trick but im stuck without a phone atm
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It sounds like you had the 4.3 update, because it sounds you like you are trying to install an older bootloader over the the locked MJA bootloader. So the update went through, now you cannot go back to MF9. The bootloader isn't corrupt, its locked and only the MJA bootloader can be flashed through Odin. You'll have to go to http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/ and search for the 4.3 MJA file to flash to your fone, the cf-auto root, then flash a custom recovery...

[Q] N900W8 (Rogers) Back to Stock Issue [RESOLVED]

I had an interesting issue I thought I'd share with folks in case they run into it. I have an N900W8 on the Rogers network. I used CF Auto-root to root, installed Philz recovery through Odin (3.07). I backed up the stock OS using Philz, then installed CM11 M5. I played for a couple of days, and then decided I wanted to head back to stock. I'm probably going to sell the phone soon so I wanted to make sure everything was clean. I restored the stock ROM, and when Philz warned that the stock ROM would likely overwrite recovery, I let it. I booted into my previous stock ROM and all was good. I checked software update and it said "your system has been modified". Shoot. I boot back out into download mode and see System and Firmware are set to Custom. All stock 0s everywhere else though, Knox hadn't been tripped. I was about to flash a stock firmware through Odin and I thought.. I wonder if I could use Kies? Sure enough, I fired up Kies 3 and did a Firmware Upgrade and Installation and 10 minutes later I had a stock phone. System and Firmware back to Official Samsung! All I did was boot the phone up in my restored stock ROM, plugged it in, ran Kies 3 and said "Firmware Upgrade and Installation" done.
Hope that might be helpful to someone!

[Q] Flashing ROMs on I9500

Hi everyone.
Recently I rooted my Galaxy S4 I9500 (running Android 4.4) in preparation to flash a ROM I found on another forum. Everything was succesful, as confirmed by means of Root Checker.
I then flashed the most recent version of TWRP using the most recent version of ODIN. This was also successful and I could boot into the recovery fine.
I made a backup and then proceeded to try and flash the ROM. I got the error "could not find MD5 file. could not mount '/system'". I tried another ROM - a popular one from this forum, and the same thing happened.
Then I decided maybe it was a fault with TWRP, so I installed Clockworkmod instead, also successfully. Booted into that and tried the same two ROMs again. This time, CWM said they "installed successfully", but when I tried to reboot after flashing each of them, after the "Samsung Galaxy S4 I9500" screen, my screen went black, and remained that way. I waited over half an hour to make sure, each time.
No ROMs seem to be flashing properly, regardless of which recovery program I use.
What could be the problem here?
Thanks in advance for any assistance provided.

[Q] Att S4 Flashing Issue

I was able to downgrade the phone to NB1 and root it with Towelroot, and used Safestrap in order to get recovery on the device.
After that, I booted into recovery and installed the GPE 5.0.1 ROM.: http://galaxys4root.com/t-mobile-galaxy-s4-roms/gpe-android-5-0-1-lollipop-rom-for-galaxy-s4/
Now the phone will not go past the S4 splash page, reboots and then goes into the stock recovery. Ive tried factory reset, clearing cache and removing the battery.
Any help is appreciated. I bought this phone for my fiance and am wanting to give it to her soon as a present.
Thank you so much in advance.

I think the problem is that you downgraded.

GDReaper said:
I think the problem is that you downgraded.
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I couldnt install towelroot on the 4.4.4 version it came with since it said device wasnt supported.
I was following these instructions: http://www.droidviews.com/root-att-galaxy-s4-sgh-i337-android-4-4-4-kitkat-firmware-i337ucufnj4/
It states to downgrade, then root, then go back to the 4.4.4. I thought after the steps I took, I could go straight to a custom ROM.
Thanks

I used CF-Auto-Root to root my device. Since towelroot didn't work for me either.
Maybe the rom did not flash right. Try flashing again.

problem in installing lollipop rom india to samsung i9500
I have installed the newly released lollipop rom to my samsung i9500 through odin. it was successfully flashed but the phone cant restart, it stuck with samsung written on the screen and blue light on...what i should do???

Soft Bricked/Software not authorized by Verizon

I'm not a complete noob but somehow while trying to wipe my phone and re-install Jasmine ROM 5.X (I was already on Alliance ROM with NC4 before, installed Jasmine but somehow didn't actually wipe everything) the recovery got erased and nwt I get the wonderful Yellow Alert warning while booting saying the software is unauthorized and turn your phone off and go to Verizon.
I have tried using Odin 3.09 to install TWRP and then realized I used Safestrap a long time ago. At that point it was too late and everything I've tried flashing with Odin now Fails almost immediately after starting.
I last tried the stock N900VVRUCNC4_N900VVZWCNC4_N900VVRUCNC4_HOME.tar.md5 file and it failed as well.
I did read other threads but most just flashed the NC4 firmware and were fine.
Can anyone direct me to the actual files I need to get it running again? I really appreciate it.

No one? I still haven't found any working solutions.

All I can tell you is that when I got that "go to Verizon" message, I rebooted to download mode and then canceled out of it to reboot my phone to a working system.
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