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[Solved]Need help after formatting internal storage! Soft Brick

I truly need the community's help on this one. Trying to fix a rom that I was using, I decided to wipe everything to reflash it. However, some how I read the thread wrong. Using TWRP, I formatted the "internal storage" thinking that was going to fix my Rom problems.
Now, I can't boot into the Rom or any rom, unless I wipe everything and restore one of my back ups. I restored a back up and it booted, but my data is jacked and phone service is not operable. I thought maybe a reboot will fix it, and now my phone is stuck at "Samsung Galaxy S 4". It doesn't move from there.
What should I do? How do I get it it continue the boot into the rom after a regular reboot? How do I get my radio back?
It's funny to me because I usually never get this careless with my phone. So I can laugh about it but damn I have to figure this one out!
Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am by know means an expert but I think you may have to start here with the firmware files then try and flash your backup http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2338919
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Thanks Chief, let me try that!

Thanks Chief. Unfortunately, that didn't work. I used Odin to flash the Firmware files and let it reboot. I'm still stuck at the Samsung Gal...boot screen. Let me try manually going into recovery and restoring.
Any other ideas? Anyone?

Kenjari said:
Thanks Chief. Unfortunately, that didn't work. I used Odin to flash the Firmware files and let it reboot. I'm still stuck at the Samsung Gal...boot screen. Let me try manually going into recovery and restoring.
Any other ideas? Anyone?
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Have you tried flashing the complete odin ROM? You can find the all in one somewhere on the dev thread, it has rom, kernel, firmware and the rom all in one as it came from samsung. That should take care of your problem. It will wipe everything, or I think there was also a thread somewhere with odin flashables that didn't wipe data or internal sd but I can't seem to find it right now.

ifly4vamerica said:
Have you tried flashing the complete odin ROM? You can find the all in one somewhere on the dev thread, it has rom, kernel, firmware and the rom all in one as it came from samsung. That should take care of your problem. It will wipe everything, or I think there was also a thread somewhere with odin flashables that didn't wipe data or internal sd but I can't seem to find it right now.
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Exactly. I'm on the target. I'm currently waiting for this tar that will unroot the phone. It is MDL but I will update and reroot. I hope this does the ticket. I'm going to use Odin to flash it or unroot.

Well strike two. That didn't work either. I downloaded a unrooted MDL tar and connected to Odin. When through the entire process and it rebooted. It still is stuck at "Samsung Galaxy S4".
I read on the Nexus 7 that I might have to reflash a system.img and boot.img? Someone else had a similar experience on the N7 and had to download it via flashdrive and then install via recovery. I'm not saying that's the case but I wonder if I need to reflash a boot.img or something.
Please help. Not sure where to go at this point. Unrooting didn't help.

Try downloading this file extract the tar and flash that in PC Odin. (don't check repartion!).
That is the full stock MF9 firmware, boot, recovery, kernel and ROM.
Then maybe use CF Autoroot, then goomanger to get twrp and flash one of your nand's

Progress made.
leaderbuilder said:
Try downloading this file extract the tar and flash that in PC Odin. (don't check repartion!).
That is the full stock MF9 firmware, boot, recovery, kernel and ROM.
Then maybe use CF Autoroot, then goomanger to get twrp and flash one of your nand's
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leader, chief, ifly4,...I'm making progress.
leader, actually I flashed a previous version, the MDL via Odin. At first it didn't boot as stated in my previous post. I decided to wipe and factory reset. """"Bingo"""" it booted. Now I'm on MDL and unrooted. However, I transferred my phone over to a previous device so I can't update profile and prl. I'm going to activate the phone and see if it works. For some reason I can't can't seem to get a radio signal on it. It shows the be O with the slash in the middle. This is what it looked like before I deactivated it and lost everything before.
I post back with results. Not quite solved yet.
Thanks leader and everyone else.

Sound like your on the wrong firmware/baseband. what does your modem/baseband say?

Yeeessssss
leaderbuilder said:
Sound like your on the wrong firmware/baseband. what does your modem/baseband say?
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It says L720VPUAMDL. I actually got it going. I had to change it from WCDMA to CDMA and reset. Now I'm unrooted. and going. However, leader, is there away to update the modem/baseband before I root? Or should I root then flash the MF9 Modem?

if you got MDL to activate you can jst take the OTA update to MF9. It will update it all.
Then use CF-Autoroot to gain root. After that same - install goomanager from Playstore and use it to install TWRP.

leaderbuilder said:
if you got MDL to activate you can jst take the OTA update to MF9. It will update it all.
Then use CF-Autoroot to gain root. After that same - install goomanager from Playstore and use it to install TWRP.
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Awesome. Hey thanks again leader for helping me out. I'm usually never careless with these things. I use SACS rom but decided to try Miui. From some reason every time I flash Miui, I get the "Roaming Indicator Off" thing along with two signals. Reading the thread it suggest to format the internal. Why oh Why did I try that step. The rest is history....
Thanks again. Learned a lot with this process.

Glad you got it working.
There is a 'thanks' button too.

leaderbuilder said:
Glad you got it working.
There is a 'thanks' button too.
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No doubt. I got to remember that!
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Glad to hear you got it going.
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leaderbuilder said:
Try downloading this file extract the tar and flash that in PC Odin. (don't check repartion!).
That is the full stock MF9 firmware, boot, recovery, kernel and ROM.
Then maybe use CF Autoroot, then goomanger to get twrp and flash one of your nand's
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Thank you!

Stock recovery and warranty bit

Is there a way to get the stock recovery back onto the SM-N900V? I tried putting CWM and TWRP custom recoveries on there before I knew it the phone had a locked bootloader. Where can I find the correctly signed stock recovery?
Also, how can I unset the "warranty bit"?

I think you just have to Odin the stock tar . If you were on the leak NC2 you can Odin that or the latest NC4. If your were on NC4 you have to Odin the NC4 tar. They are both found in the android dev section under Bean's firmware thread.

mjh68 said:
I think you just have to Odin the stock tar . If you were on the leak NC2 you can Odin that or the latest NC4. If your were on NC4 you have to Odin the NC4 tar. They are both found in the android dev section under Bean's firmware thread.
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Thanks, I was hoping the stock tar was all I needed to do. I was afraid that I'd end up flashing a ROM that I could not boot because I had cache that I could not clear. You are sure that will reset the recovery?

danthingo said:
Thanks, I was hoping the stock tar was all I needed to do. I was afraid that I'd end up flashing a ROM that I could not boot because I had cache that I could not clear. You are sure that will reset the recovery?
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Yes , if it's the full stock tar it will replace the recovery as well.

danthingo said:
Thanks, I was hoping the stock tar was all I needed to do. I was afraid that I'd end up flashing a ROM that I could not boot because I had cache that I could not clear. You are sure that will reset the recovery?
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But nothing will reset the knox warranty bit. It is literally an electronic fuse...once blown. ..only replacing the whole motherboard will reset it.
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[Q] Need some assistance!

Sup you guys,
I may be in a new predicament for myself, so I would like to ask a few questions before I tackle this task. It seems that I've flashed a JB rom on the stock slot of SS, and I thought that I had the NC2 kernel intact to do so. However, all I get is a black screen and then a botched up system partition, a soft brick if you will, on the stock slot. Couldn't mount the system, so wiping anything is out the window. In order to make my phone usable for now, I had to install a rom on Slot 1. All is fine, but the battery drain is a killer, so I would like recover the system partition of the stock slot. Now, I've read a few threads that kind of pertains to my situation and I learned that a pit file flash can recover it back to normal. Can I just flash only the pit through Odin, or are there other steps that I have to do to get this back on track? Any help and guidance would be greatly appreciated.

I need help too
krazyg said:
Sup you guys,
I may be in a new predicament for myself, so I would like to ask a few questions before I tackle this task. It seems that I've flashed a JB rom on the stock slot of SS, and I thought that I had the NC2 kernel intact to do so. However, all I get is a black screen and then a botched up system partition, a soft brick if you will, on the stock slot. Couldn't mount the system, so wiping anything is out the window. In order to make my phone usable for now, I had to install a rom on Slot 1. All is fine, but the battery drain is a killer, so I would like recover the system partition of the stock slot. Now, I've read a few threads that kind of pertains to my situation and I learned that a pit file flash can recover it back to normal. Can I just flash only the pit through Odin, or are there other steps that I have to do to get this back on track? Any help and guidance would be greatly appreciated.
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I just got into ROMs and safeatrap and such. I started by trying to load them to the stock slot, which failed every time. I then made slots and had 3 ROMs, but the battery life was not good.
So I wanted to put a ROM on the stock slot. This is with nc2 on kitkat. When I went to load a ROM in stock slot, safestrap failed saying it couldn't mount /system. I tried wiping, but there too it said fail to mount /system.
I did "Fix Permissions" and rebooted. I was greeted by the Samsung boot screen, but it froze there. No safestrap, nothing. I recovery booted and the stock recovery says "E:failed to mount /system (Invalid argument)"
So now it seems that no part of my phone can get to /system. I will look into a .pit file and would appreciate guidance as well.

Seems like you have the problem that I had a week ago. I fixed it by flashing a stock tar and the pit file through Odin. Though I wasn't too sure if just flashing pit would repair the system partition (though, I think it would've been fine; I should've just done it with no questions asked), but in my situation, I got a bit more desperate as my problem got sort of worse. Yea, running any rom on any slot other than the stock slot will kill your battery quick. So a reminder, if you have a messed up system partition, do not let the battery die because your phone will be soft bricked and you won't be able to boot up to anything other than Download mode. At that point, I just flashed the stock tar and the pit file just to be on the safe side and start over. After I rooted and installed SS, I went and checked if it was working properly. It did for the most part, but I remember that I was still on slot 1 before my battery died and SS was highlighted that I was still on that slot. I think because of that, it gave me certain errors on some of things I was testing out, but you will be able to install normally on the stock slot again. There are some other issues I have because of that ordeal, but it's not game breaking, so make sure that you're on the stock slot before flashing the files through Odin.

krazyg said:
Seems like you have the problem that I had a week ago. I fixed it by flashing a stock tar and the pit file through Odin. Though I wasn't too sure if just flashing pit would repair the system partition (though, I think it would've been fine; I should've just done it with no questions asked), but in my situation, I got a bit more desperate as my problem got sort of worse. Yea, running any rom on any slot other than the stock slot will kill your battery quick. So a reminder, if you have a messed up system partition, do not let the battery die because your phone will be soft bricked and you won't be able to boot up to anything other than Download mode. At that point, I just flashed the stock tar and the pit file just to be on the safe side and start over. After I rooted and installed SS, I went and checked if it was working properly. It did for the most part, but I remember that I was still on slot 1 before my battery died and SS was highlighted that I was still on that slot. I think because of that, it gave me certain errors on some of things I was testing out, but you will be able to install normally on the stock slot again. There are some other issues I have because of that ordeal, but it's not game breaking, so make sure that you're on the stock slot before flashing the files through Odin.
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Thanks for the reply. I flashed a stock tar last night since the stock bootloader couldn't mount /system. Not sure which slot was selected in safestrap, I couldn't get back in because it would freeze before safestrap.
I did not use a .pit file (FYI), and am now back on stock ROM.
What I woluld like isto flash a custom ROM, say a debloated, rooted ROM with ODIN. I see they are all zips with folders, not .tar. Maybe I could take out the recovery.img and put it into a ROM's zip and save the zip as a tar and flash it? Would this possibly break my device if it tried to flash a wrong recovery? I don't know.
If anyone has some knowledge of these things, I would appreciate tips.

Why wouldn't you towel root, install SS, and install a ROM?

xdadevnube said:
Why wouldn't you towel root, install SS, and install a ROM?
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Because I have only been able to get ROMs working on slots 1-4 of SS and not stock slot, so the battery life is terrible. Also, it would be faster and easier just to flash a ROM with ODIN and not have to worry if my version of android has a working root method (thankfully towelroot v3 worked).

[Q] Re-partition System

Hi Guys
After trying out ART I realized that my System Partition went up from 5.5gb (Approx) to 7.2gb(Approx). At the time, I thought that as soon as I returned to Dalvik the System Partition would restore itself to normal but it has not.
I have done a lot of research but have not been able to work out how I can get my 1.5gb back now that i have returned to Dalvik full time.
I was wondering if there is a way to restore the system partition back to its stock size via re-partitioning or some other method. Is this what the Re-partition check box is for in Odin? If so, does this mean I need to flash a fresh stock rom and go from there?
Thanks in advance for any help!
Ed

Try re-flashing the stock firmware for your device via Odin with the PIT file.
You can obtain a PIT file from another device in its original state.

vndnguyen said:
Try re-flashing the stock firmware for your device via Odin with the PIT file.
You can obtain a PIT file from another device in its original state.
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Thanks mate.
Will give it a try tonight.

Never use a pit file unless a firmware requires it.
The safest way is to use kies and do software restore from settings. It will flash the latest file for your S/N.

Just remember to add the pit file before you check the repartition box in Odin lol
I've heard of a few people being told to repartition, so they've just ticked the repartition box, but not added a pit file. If you do that, your phone is hard bricked, and only a JTAG box will fix it..
But it's a safe procedure if you do it properly, I've done it many times.

[Q] Need help flashing a S4 bricks every time!

I have acquired an SHV-E330L and It was flashed in the wrong order. The newest rom was flashed without making sure it was done in the correct order. It will not flash with out destroying the partition on the phone. No matter if you try to flash Clockworks or a different rom it bricks and requires a PIT flash to recover. I need to re flash it because the current rom has glitches and the phone is not working well. Thanks in advance for any help. I just want it to flash correctly again. THANKS!!!!

Have you tried to flash any of Official firmwares?
What rom you had before and whitch one you tried to flash?

If you want to flash correctly then start from 0. Meaning do a factory reset from recovery, which will wipe the internal storage and everything.
Or flash that pit file.

CorbinVw said:
I have acquired an SHV-E330L and It was flashed in the wrong order. The newest rom was flashed without making sure it was done in the correct order. It will not flash with out destroying the partition on the phone. No matter if you try to flash Clockworks or a different rom it bricks and requires a PIT flash to recover. I need to re flash it because the current rom has glitches and the phone is not working well. Thanks in advance for any help. I just want it to flash correctly again. THANKS!!!!
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Just go to the link above and start flashing all files including .Pit and Re-Partition!
Your device needs to be formated this time for that issue!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4/general/i9505xxuhoa7-odin-files-100-t3043983

Thanks for the super quick response! I have the shv-e330l Korean TV phone same as the gt i9506 but this phone has aTV antenna on the top right. I just want to make sure the posted 9505 files will work with this chip set. Thanks!!!
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Just go to the link above and start flashing all files including .Pit and Re-Partition!
Your device needs to be formated this time for that issue!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4/general/i9505xxuhoa7-odin-files-100-t3043983
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Not sure I just acquired it from a buddy that messed it up. I got the rom from a link on this site. Here is the link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2587037 I had the newest file on the list in .zip but I did not have the steps so that rom on top was flashed to revive the device. Now I dont know how to fix it. I need the files and steps to flash it. Im still kinda learning this phone stuff I paint cars for a living lol...

I have done that and I just fails durring flash and simi-briks untill I flash the Pit file. Even if I try to flash Clockworks to the phone it fails and requires the .pit file once again to be usable. Im still learning this phone stuff so maybe I need a step by step for the dumb lol.....
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If you want to flash correctly then start from 0. Meaning do a factory reset from recovery, which will wipe the internal storage and everything.
Or flash that pit file.
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Sloved!
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