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So, I flashed my stock ROM, but not my S4 refuses to go back to stock. The recovery is stock and the OS is stock, in my downloads both tabs say stock, but when I boot and check system status, it says custom. Also, my recovery has a red exclamationmark in the recovery. How can I fix this?
What phone model?
If you include your phone model and base like say MF3 or MDL in your profile it would help to better assist you.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
There are numerous threads on both of these issues. With what little info to go with I would say download "triangle away" from the play store for the 2nd issue and although it was not my goal when I installed SuperSU as a system app and rebooted the phone the device status changed back to "official" from "custom." There are other ways of doing it or so I read but that was what did it for me and I was evening trying.
MRaaJR said:
There are numerous threads on both of these issues. With what little info to go with I would say download "triangle away" from the play store for the 2nd issue and although it was not my goal when I installed SuperSU as a system app and rebooted the phone the device status changed back to "official" from "custom." There are other ways of doing it or so I read but that was what did it for me and I was evening trying.
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My phone is a Rogers Galaxy S4. I337MVLUAMDJ. Triangle away doesnt solve my problems with the red triangle in the recovery. I have removed superuser and both my Download titles say Samsung official and Official. Not sure what else to do.
EDIT: My Binairy Status keeps going back to Custom. I have no idea why this is happening.
So yesterday I was attempting to play with some ROMs on my phone, and tried a couple of the Google Edition KitKat ROMs. The install process went normally, but after bootup, both ROMs I tried were giving an error repeatedly for com.android.phone after the phone booted up. So I OK'd through the error messages whenever it would pop up, and eventually force closed through app manager, and put the phone into airplane mode so it would stop popping up so I could check out the ROM. Volume was working at the time because I remember notification sounds while I was messing around. Once I had my fun, I went back into CWM, wiped, and restored to my normal ROM which is PAC Man 4.2.2. Restore process seemed to go fine.
Now this morning I attempted to turn on Pandora as I was getting ready for work, and it kept auto forwarding through each song and was acting weird. So I tried Google Play Music, and it force closed and gave a DSP Manager not responding error. So I tried Apollo, and same thing happened. Rebooted a few times, tried to reinstall DSP, Music, and Apollo, and the same thing was happening. I also noticed I had no notification sounds and if I try to change my sounds, I cant hear the preview. Finally, if I try to make a call by clicking on the Phone icon, I can see my call history, contacts, etc, but if I try to call out, the screen goes black. The call does go through though, but there is nothing on the screen and I cant hear anything.
So I went back to an even older restore I had saved, and even a STOCK GS4 rooted restore I had, and the problems persisted. So for the hell of it, I tried to restore back to stock unrooted image but then I remembered I couldnt because of Knox, and the phone got stuck in download mode while trying to ODIN. Eventually I was able to get back to my latest restore of PAC Man but the problems persist.
What could the issue be? Its happening no matter what ROM Im using. But I do not think its a hardware problem or I likely wouldnt have all the quirky things happening on the phone apps (I dont think?). Is there something in the firmware or bootloader that would make the volume/phone functions not work? When it got stuck in ODIN download mode could that have screwed something up? Any help is apprecated.
I dunno if u void ur warranty but i think yes, but this isnt important now (take a look in your download mode knox 0x0 (ok) or knox 0x1(void). I think the best u can do:
- Download one ROM (flashable in RECOVERY) that no **** ur warranty if ur KNOX still 0x0 (in the case KNOX is 0x1, download any good rom for your device)
- Copy it to your External SD card
- Go to CUSTOM RECOVERY
- Wipe all
- Install the .zip file
- Enjoy!
I already know the warranty is voided and I'm not concerned with the Knox stuff, I've already been through all that. I accidentally upgraded to 4.3 bootloader in the past but thankfully had a custom recovery already installed so I'm OK with that. I'm just trying to figure out what may have caused the volume and app issues and how to resolve.
Any other ideas? I'd really like to avoid getting a new phone that might have Knox installed out of the box and be stuck with a stock phone.
Just realized it will not play youtube app and Chrome browser videos either, just crashes, and the handsfree camera feature screws up taking pictures so I have to disable that feature. Something isnt right.
I upgraded my phone from 4.3 MJE to 4.4.2 today with the instructions here http://youtu.be/tickH7zTEXQ and everything seemed to be working fine until i realised i have no play store app. So i went to the internet and downloaded an apk. When trying to sign in i get a message saying there is a problem communicating with the Google servers. I tried a few different apks but all were giving me the same message. Ive been searching for a fix for the past few hours to my own chagrin. The guy at the top of this page http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2553357&page=802 seems to be having the same issue but i can not understand how to fix it like he did. If somebody could help that would be awesome.
I also realise i am not getting the safestrap splash screen on boot where i can choose to go into recovery. When i try to boot into recovery from the safestrap app itself or my power menu neither work. All the options on my power menu just turn the screen black and leave the sensor lights on which i find weird. Maybe if i can get into recovery and flash the de-odex rom first i can fix my problems? sorry i am not very experienced with this so i do not know much about it.
Fixed it by reverting back to stock MJE. I used odin to flash the Pit file and stock md5 for MJE. followed instructions by rob here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2790728& . It will unroot your device.
I'm bit stuck with my unrooting. I have i9505, getting sim card removed hardware bug, wanted to remove root so I can hand the phone to warranty repair.
However I cannot seem to get rid of gray text that comes up when booting phone, its the first thing that comes up, even before "i9505 S4" logo on top left of screen. I guess after playing with cm11 or something I enabled this, but I have no idea what it is and how to get rid of it so it looks stock. I reflashed stock rom via odin thinking it will be enough but apparently not. Any ideas?
edit: I played around with other stock roms, after flashing one the text disappeared.
I have an At&t (though no at&t mobile service currently) Samsung tab 4 8inch. In the last few days it has started freezing SEVERAL times a day. it doesnot matter what app, its likely to freeze on any of them. I would say it probably happens most when Im backing out/exiting an app. When it freezes I can stilll shut screen off but when I turn it back on I am just where it froze -not lock screen, it wont acknowledge plugging charger in, and cant click restart. Touchwiz has stopped message may or may not come up, but I cannot click on it even if it does. The ONLY way I can shut it down then is down vol +power for about 15seconds. Then it restarts and may do it 5 minutes later or 5hours later.
It just started this suddenly. I also had not just installed anything.
If a custom ROM or something would fix it, I wouldnt mind doing that if someone could possibly give me the link(s) to 1 that works for this model and links to how to do so/what I need.
I dont know if it is related or not, but about 3 or 4 days before this started, by battery life & battery charging went suddenly TOTALLY to hell.
Please help me fix this irritating &aggravating problem. Thank you very much for your time &assistance!
There are no custom ROMs for the SM-T337A unfortunately. Is your tablet on KitKat or Lollipop and are you rooted?
You should back up your internal storage and then factory reset and wipe cache in stock recovery. If you are rooted, you should remove system apps that you don't need with titanium backup or something similar. If you are on KitKat you might want to consider either updating to lollipop or factory resetting and reflashing the stock KitKat firmware with Odin.
No im not rooted. However i would like to, but didnt know there was a method of rooting the t337a.
I cant seem to fins out how to find whether its lollipop or kitkat or what?
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I cant seem to fins out how to find whether its lollipop or kitkat or what?
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Settings > About device > Android version. If it says 4.4.2 it's kitkat, if it says 5.1.1 it's lollipop
Thanks for the help.
Yes its kitkat then because it says 4.4.2 . I think 1st I'll go ahead and search how to update it to Lollipop then go from there... Does that sound like a wise decision to you??
STOOPID Question: I went to the posts at bottom of your posts (granted, I didnt go thru all 59 pages, lol) but I have a brain-fart question... would I try to root and then update to lollipop or vice-versa??
I have found temp root for lollipop. Just look in the general section. As you wouldn't be able to ota lollipop while rooted anyways.