Hi everyone.
I apologize for my ignorance here, I own the S3, i am helping a buddy with an s4.
he attempted to root and is now getting an error message in his notifications. His wifi won't turn on and his SD card appears to me non-accessible.
Ultimately, we are trying to get a custom recovery installed to flash a custom rom. I have flashed CFroot via odin, but its not working, we do not seem to have root.
There are a few things i am looking for, and am having a tough time finding:
A full md9 stock odin tar
a odin flashable recovery (so we could just odin a recovery and flash a custom rom)
Remember we dont have root right now so we cant install recoveries via rom manager or goo manager.
I am really familiar with Galaxy devices, i think i just need some help from s4 regulars to find the files i need.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Here is the link for the Stock MF9 firmware. Its in a zip when you download. Just unzip and you will see the tar file. Place it in the PDA section of odin.
http://hotfile.com/dl/235555943/ff47da6/SPR-L720VPUAMF9-20130626162512.zip.html
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Ok so I have the Verizon Samsung Galaxy s 3 with 4.3 (out of warranty). I used saferoot then safestrap. After a failed attempt to install a custom Rom. I can not restore to the backup I made in safestrap. I did get the phone to reboot though download mode, but no I have no wifi terrible battery life and phone get hot no matter what I'm doing and don't think I'm rooted anymore.
My question is what should I do now? I would like to just go back to the junk stock version if possible. Or if there is another solution I'm all ears!
You are in the Verizon NOTE 3 forum.. if u want to return to stock u have to download the stock tar file and flash it in odin.. maybe u messed up with the phone, but because you put sch i535 I'm guessing that u do have an s3..you will have to go to that forum. If not here is the op with the stock files..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2524572
i am having a problem with my att galaxy s5 I can get into safestrap recovery but on start up if I choose continue it will freeze on the att logo screen and I fear it has possibily wiped my internal sd , im not sure ihave rooted it with towelroot and thought safestrap was the recovery to use ..how do I get back to stock firmware I cant find where my backup stock firmware is ,guess its been deleted too ? can I still put a stock recovery on with my ss recovery or possibily flash another rom on it ? plz help:crying:
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i am having a problem with my att galaxy s5 I can get into safestrap recovery but on start up if I choose continue it will freeze on the att logo screen and I fear it has possibily wiped my internal sd , im not sure ihave rooted it with towelroot and thought safestrap was the recovery to use ..how do I get back to stock firmware I cant find where my backup stock firmware is ,guess its been deleted too ?
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I have to wonder why you are posting here, rather than in the Safestrap support thread where you would undoubtly get the benefit of more experience. You also haven't provided enough detail to make it clear what has happened.
Where is your backup stock firmware? Where ever you put it. It sounds like you didn't make one though, in which case the answer is that there isn't one. You can download the stock firmware from numerous sources.
Guides to return to stock ATT, if that is what you want to do -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2785185
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53459006
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Dear all,
first of all thanks again to this great community! there's so much here on xda...
and here my situation. I admit I am a bit rusty with flashing roms for samsung devices. I did root and flash roms for the galaxy S1, the S2 (the phone I loved the most so far) and the S3. But then I jumped to LG G2, then Sony with the Z2 and the Z3.
But my wife has an ATT Samsung Galaxy S4 and I need to catch up with Samsung modding.
I did root her phone 6 months ago. But now I would like to update to KitKat and I am a little lost.
Is there any way to upgrade from rooted 4.2.2 MF3 to 4.4.4 NJ4?
I found this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2717175
but it's for non-rooted MF3.
I do understand that, since I already have root, I need to install the Safestrap Recovery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2448925
First issue: in the introduction @Hashcode mentions the risk for bootloop if ENCRYPTION is ENABLED. how do I know if that applies to me?
Then, if I succeed and install Safestrap 3.65 and I can access recovery, how do I proceed to install 4.4.4?
In the Safestrap post it is written "IF YOU'RE ON MF3 ONLY USE ROMS BASED ON MF3" so... how do I move forward?
Thanks a lot for the help!!!
MrYous said:
Dear all,
first of all thanks again to this great community! there's so much here on xda...
and here my situation. I admit I am a bit rusty with flashing roms for samsung devices. I did root and flash roms for the galaxy S1, the S2 (the phone I loved the most so far) and the S3. But then I jumped to LG G2, then Sony with the Z2 and the Z3.
But my wife has an ATT Samsung Galaxy S4 and I need to catch up with Samsung modding.
I did root her phone 6 months ago. But now I would like to update to KitKat and I am a little lost.
Is there any way to upgrade from rooted 4.2.2 MF3 to 4.4.4 NJ4?
I found this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2717175
but it's for non-rooted MF3.
I do understand that, since I already have root, I need to install the Safestrap Recovery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2448925
First issue: in the introduction @Hashcode mentions the risk for bootloop if ENCRYPTION is ENABLED. how do I know if that applies to me?
Then, if I succeed and install Safestrap 3.65 and I can access recovery, how do I proceed to install 4.4.4?
In the Safestrap post it is written "IF YOU'RE ON MF3 ONLY USE ROMS BASED ON MF3" so... how do I move forward?
Thanks a lot for the help!!!
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If you don't know about encryption, you probably haven't enabled it. The easiest way is to ODIN to NB1 and then root from there. You'll lose your data so make sure to back up anything you want, including backing up your internal storage to another SD card or your computer. You might be able to jump to NB1 with the ROM here but I don't know if it flashes all the bootloader parts you'd need nor do I know if that would keep your data.
Thanks DeadlySin9!
I'm ok with flashing to NB1 with ODIN as I don't need to keep data.
Still few questions:
1. can I just flash with ODIN directly from MF3 to NB1?
2. OK if I flash the second file in this topic (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2674223) and then root?
3. this brings me to NB1 4.4.2. with root. How do I jump to NJ4 4.4.4 from there?
Thanks again!!
Ok. I did some further reading. This is what I found out to update from MF3 to NJ4.
1. Flash with Odin NB1 stock
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-att/general/guide-odin-to-stock-updating-rooting-t2926642
2. Take the NJ4 OTA update
3. Flash with Odin NC1 kernel
4. Root using Towelroot
5. Flash with Odin NJ4 kernel
This should leave me with rooted NJ4.
Can anybody confirm I got the steps right?
Thanks again!
correct
Thats correct all the steps are right but if you are interested in having the safestrap recocery you will have to install that first before flashing the NJ4 kernel
Thanks @brownie9987!
I'm not sure I need Safestrap. My goal is to have a clean de-bloated stock 4.4.4 rom. So I plan to root and then uninstall all the samsung bloatware. Do you recommend otherwise?
thanks!
My opinion
Well the only problem I see if you take that route is that once you use towelroot to root youre device and just install flash the nj4 kernel youre still going to have samsung knox on youre device and once you reboot it will remove youre root I personally done all the steps you took but I installed safestrap and installed Goldeneye rom or Goldfinger great roms updated constantly and the best parts its completely stock no added anything no knox and you can choose to uninstall each app (bloatware) under the application manager im running Goldfinger right now and its based off of the samsung galaxy s5 and Goldeneye looks like the S4 it all just depends on what you like but with either one you cant go wrong as long as you follow the install instructions for safestrap users its very detailed
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Well the only problem I see if you take that route is that once you use towelroot to root youre device and just install flash the nj4 kernel youre still going to have samsung knox on youre device and once you reboot it will remove youre root I personally done all the steps you took but I installed safestrap and installed Goldeneye rom or Goldfinger great roms updated constantly and the best parts its completely stock no added anything no knox and you can choose to uninstall each app (bloatware) under the application manager im running Goldfinger right now and its based off of the samsung galaxy s5 and Goldeneye looks like the S4 it all just depends on what you like but with either one you cant go wrong as long as you follow the install instructions for safestrap users its very detailed
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Thanks @brownie9987!
I'm going to read and see which one of the 2 to go with.
And thanks mentioning the Safestrap step. I wasn't considering knox.
Anytime
Not a problem anytime I've been there before the best of luck on you're choice!
Upgrading from MF3 rooted to NJ4 - tested
MrYous said:
Dear all,
first of all thanks again to this great community! there's so much here on xda...
and here my situation. I admit I am a bit rusty with flashing roms for samsung devices. I did root and flash roms for the galaxy S1, the S2 (the phone I loved the most so far) and the S3. But then I jumped to LG G2, then Sony with the Z2 and the Z3.
But my wife has an ATT Samsung Galaxy S4 and I need to catch up with Samsung modding.
I did root her phone 6 months ago. But now I would like to update to KitKat and I am a little lost.
Is there any way to upgrade from rooted 4.2.2 MF3 to 4.4.4 NJ4?
I found this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2717175
but it's for non-rooted MF3.
I do understand that, since I already have root, I need to install the Safestrap Recovery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2448925
First issue: in the introduction @Hashcode mentions the risk for bootloop if ENCRYPTION is ENABLED. how do I know if that applies to me?
Then, if I succeed and install Safestrap 3.65 and I can access recovery, how do I proceed to install 4.4.4?
In the Safestrap post it is written "IF YOU'RE ON MF3 ONLY USE ROMS BASED ON MF3" so... how do I move forward?
Thanks a lot for the help!!!
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DISCLAIMER: Follow these steps as your own risk - read two or three times if you are new and read other threads as well. I will not be responsible if you brick your phone
There was a similar situation for upgrading an i337 on MF3 rooted with saferoot and safestrapped 3.72. Basically following these steps helped get it to NJ4 without ODIN
You'll need:
1. I337UCUFNJ4_100%_Stock_Rooted_ROM.zip thanks @muniz_ri
2. NJ4 Native Tether Addon I337UCUFNJ4_Safestrap_TetherAddOn.zip from here post number 8 thanks @rodin95
1. Download and copy these files to your external SD Card
2. Reboot S4 i337 to recovery after the SD Card with the two files copied to it inserted on to SD Slot of the phone
3. Once on SafeStrap recovery, tap Backup to backup your data/cache to external SD card (make sure that you backup to external storage by tapping on that Storage option)
4. Go back to Home button and do an advanced wipe of system, cache and data and DO NOT Wipe external SD Card
5. Go back to Home Menu, tap on Install, locate and select the file on external SD card tap on I337UCUFNJ4_100%_Stock_Rooted_ROM.zip, swipe the button to confirm install DO NOT REBOOT once install is completed
6. Go back to Home Menu, tap Install again and locate and select the file on external SD card, I337UCUFNJ4_Safestrap_TetherAddOn.zip swipe the button to confirm install
7. Go back to Home Menu, tap Restore and choose the backup you made before from the external SD card
8. Reboot phone. It will take about 2 minutes for initial reboot with AT&T logo - be patient - now you have your phone on NJ4 retaining root and SafeStrap.
9. Optionally install the latest SafeStrap one more time and update SuperSU normally.
Hope it helps someone!
Can anyone confirm these steps?
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Your procedure is very easy... Is it possible to go to NJ4 from NB1 through the same procedure?
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So, I'm a noob when it comes to flashing custom ROMs. I've had my S4 rooted for a while and have had no issues. Decided recently to try a custom ROM.
I tried installing UltimaROM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2537495) and everything seemed to work fine during install, but once the final reboot happened I am stuck in a Download Mode loop. Reading more, I am now not so sure this ROM will work on my phone (duh.) I am assuming that I am going to have to use Odin to flash a stock ROM back to my phone.. is this true? And, if so, how can I tell which ROM to install? I looked at the SamMobile site and there are two f/w downloads that appear to apply to my phone, but they are labeled I337UCUAMDL and I337UCUAMDB. Neither one of these seem to match what I was at, so I'm not sure if I should use either.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
P.S. I did use Safestrap/TWRP to take a full backup of my phone before trying to install the ROM. Is there any way to flash just a new recovery and do a restore, instead of flashing a full stock ROM back?
You're right that the rom won't work with safestrap. You'll have to Odin the nb1 tar file. Look in the general forum for it
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Thanks. I'm trying that now.