well as the title suggests, i have tried TWRP and CWM through Odin 3 but somehow the device always goes to stock recovery when ever i try to go in to the custom recovery. have tried unified toolkit as well but it is showing some different problem (see screenshot).
The toolkit had an option to rename stock recovery files that worked like a charm on my s3 but on my s4, its not working....dont know why.... Also when i tried to flash permanent_recovery.zip through ADB sideload from stock recovery, following errors appeared;
e:footer is wrong
e: signature verification failed
I have searched the forums but nothing matched the i9505....
the phone specs are attached on screenshots...
Please help... after updating to 4.4.2 my phone's battery has gone worse.....need to install custom ROM...
I never ran into any problems regarding the custom ROMs. Have you followed exactly how to install them? I used Odin 3 to flash TWRP on my device, and I did not run into the problem you are experiencing.
Just flash TWRP recovery true Odin.
I don't think you can flash the custom recovery with toolkit when you don't already have a custom recovery.
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Hello,
I am facing weird problem, I am not able to install custom recovery, I have tried almost everything.. nothing helped.
I am still getting stock recovery..I have tried to flash it via Odin, via some apps, unfortunatelly nothing worked.
My Samsung Galaxy S4 i9505 is running KK 4.4.2.
Any idea?
Thank you.
I had this problem too. keep flashing cwm recovery through the app (needs root I think). and reboot into recovery, once you get cwm you can flash a custom rom or another recovery like twpr or philz.
s4 i9505 stock KK
I have that problem too. I have stock KK 4.4.2 XXUGNG8 updatet ota. When i try to flash flashable zip file cwm of philz or twpr i get some error like:
E:footer bad
Mds check
Something like that and cant flash it. I tryed with odin but no luck. Does anyone have same problem?
I had this problem to
I fixed it by checking te root options.
If u use a root app, make sure it gives always root acces.
After this, install a custom recovery rom
After that you'll have no problem installing a custom ROM
Good luck.
Xehk said:
I had this problem to
I fixed it by checking te root options.
If u use a root app, make sure it gives always root acces.
After this, install a custom recovery rom
After that you'll have no problem installing a custom ROM
Good luck.
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But my phone is not rooted, its new, with stock recovery, knox 0x0 still....
Have any idea?
Ok, but what if my phone is not rooted, how am I supposed to root it? When I tried CF-Auto-Root my phone started to reboot randomly during the phone call.
I have found one solution, but I am not sure if it works, it says that if you are flashing custom recovery via odin, you have to take out the battery after the flash is done so you won't allow your phone to restart and rewrite the recovery back to stock. Have anyone heard about it?
No, no idea.
Thats crappy.
Only know how I fixed it
icefun said:
I have found one solution, but I am not sure if it works, it says that if you are flashing custom recovery via odin, you have to take out the battery after the flash is done so you won't allow your phone to restart and rewrite the recovery back to stock. Have anyone heard about it?
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Just uncheck auto-reboot before you flash the recovery. That will fix your problem.
I have tried it, but it didn't help still looking for solution, is there any way how to RENAME RECOVERY RESTORE FILES so I can finally flash custom recovery? (non-rooted phone)
OK, so the solution that worked was simple and I have already mentioned it, you have to take out you battery on samsung galaxy s4 logo, before it reboots.
My solution
Hi I had the same problem too,
I solved it this way: (My phone was rooted)
Download the .zip file from the recovery you want (I used CWM 6.0.4.7)
Next download 'SGS4 flasher' from the playstore.
SGS4 flasher needs root (I think) andyou can flash your recovery through that app.
Next boot into the recovery and you should probably end up in your custom revovery every time now.
If you don't end up in your custom recovery, download ROM manager and then choose the option boot into recovery.
This worked for me at least :laugh:
Hi, Having installed a few Custom ROMs in the past without TOO much hassle, I'm scratching my head over the problems I'm having with a recently acquired SM-9005 (running Unbranded Stock ROM - N9005XXUGNG1).
I've rooted it fine using the CF-Root download for 4.4 bootloaders (4.3 version definitely no good - get the "Recovery is not SEANDROID enforcing" issue) but the best I can get off the recovery boot, is the Stock Recovery menu (which you cannot install custom rom's with).
Every time I try and install the relevant CWM or TWRP from ODIN and try and boot into recovery, I get the error about not being able to boot into that mode and it loads the "Download mode".
The phone still works fine but trying to get it to boot into a CWM or TWRP menu is not happening.
I was thinking of re-flashing the stock KitKat ROM but trying to download one of those from the various options is painful (either the link is broken, or the download refuses to start or the resulting download is corrupt)
baseliner said:
Hi, Having installed a few Custom ROMs in the past without TOO much hassle, I'm scratching my head over the problems I'm having with a recently acquired SM-9005 (running Unbranded Stock ROM - N9005XXUGNG1).
I've rooted it fine using the CF-Root download for 4.4 bootloaders (4.3 version definitely no good - get the "Recovery is not SEANDROID enforcing" issue) but the best I can get off the recovery boot, is the Stock Recovery menu (which you cannot install custom rom's with).
Every time I try and install the relevant CWM or TWRP from ODIN and try and boot into recovery, I get the error about not being able to boot into that mode and it loads the "Download mode".
The phone still works fine but trying to get it to boot into a CWM or TWRP menu is not happening.
I was thinking of re-flashing the stock KitKat ROM but trying to download one of those from the various options is painful (either the link is broken, or the download refuses to start or the resulting download is corrupt)
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http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SM-N9005
Thanks Lambik,
Downloading BTU-N9005XXUENB7 now (but extremely slow) - so is the theory that the stock N9005XXUGNG1 ROM has a protected bootloader ?
Will another stock KitKat ROM resolve this ?
So, if I had bought this phone with JellyBean still on, I wouldn't have had all these problems?
All Fixed,
Found the answer on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2485607 .
Basically I just needed to Flash the KitKat BL+CWM
Note 4 Can't Install TWRP
Hello,
I'm in the process of installing a recovery mod rooting my root 4.
When I try to install TWRP using Odin, I don't get any error messages, it says PASS, everything looks okay.
When I try to boot into recovery, it shows the android bot with the message (installing system updates) under it, and then it loads the default samsung recovery instead of TWRP.
I made sure that I have the correct version of TWRP downloaded (N910H Exynos version, named twrp-2.8.7.0-treltexx.img.tar). I aslo ran Odin as administrator, but it's still not working, the knox counter was tripped however.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, because I can't proceed with the rooting process without TWRP.
Did you root your phone before flashing the recovery?
EDIT: By the way, when you have flashed the recovery, you MUST immediately boot into recovery, or else the stock rom will overwrite it with the default recovery.
Hi Guys,
trying to flash a custom Rom on my Note 3. It is a UK model supplied by EE but is unbranded.
Flashed several phones before, just running into some issues this time round.
Got my Rom, Autoroot, CWM and Odin downloaded.
Flash Autoroot with Odin - no problem.
Flash CWM with Odin - no problem - until i try to boot into recovery anyway.
No error message etc on Odin but when i try to boot into recovery it keeps saying "cannot do normal boot" and puts me into download mode.
I can get to download mode to reflash and have tried TWRP with the same results.
It is saying "custom binary" when in download mode, and my Knox counter has tripped to 1 (phone out of warranty so not fussed).
Ive searched online and cannot find a thread where they actually manage to sort the problem.
Presumably what I want to do (install a custom Rom) is not impossible as there are so many Roms etc available for the Note 3, I am just a bit stuck as to my next step.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks
Use TWRP or Philz Recovery .
Thanks for the reply JJEgan, I tried Twrp also to the same effect. I did try Cwm first though, is this a common thing when using Cwm or have I done something wrong?
Im going to flash a stock 4.4.2 from SamUK and try again from scratch to see if it made a difference coming from 4.4.2 instead of 5.0 and then TWRP
Hi,
I have searched these forums and i am surprised to see that i am possibly the only one with this issue. I have previously rooted and flashed custom roms on my note 3 (SM-N9005) without issue.
The last flash was back to stock 5.0. Now when i try to flash recovery with Odin it does pass then i reboot manually into recovery and i either get boot error odin mode or it just reboots. When i flash a stock firmware the phone does not wipe even if wipe partition in odin is ticked.
There are a few roms i'd love to try out but i'm stuck on the current stock as i cannot flash recovery on my device. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
It looks like you flashed something wrong which mada all these problems
Try to use kingroot or any other app for rooting other than the traditional method
Root it and use rashr flash tool from play store to install recovery