I bought a att s4 that has been rooted and is running 4.3. Using it with Straight Talk. The previous owner that did the root said it still was on stock rom. I'm new to the rooting and custom roms and find a lot of the info on here confusing so please pardon the ignorance.
So my main issue is the random reboot (about 6 or 7 times a day) problem that I have learned is very common with the s4. It only happens when I wake the phone and swipe to open home screen. I have read that rooting would help but that doesn't appear to be the case for me. I also read that I should update to 4.4kk but I can't do that ota because of the root. At this point I could care less if it rooted and I'm open to all suggestions to fix the reboot issues.
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You should not be having reboot issues. I would recommend you flash the nb1 tar file in Odin. Then let it ota to nc1 and root with towel root. You can find the nb1 tar on the general forum, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=50912149
Then read this,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53758227
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is Odin an app or software use with a pc
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is Odin an app or software use with a pc
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Software on the pc. Google Odin 1.85 xda
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OK thanks. Do I download the files u suggested to the pc or phone
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OK thanks. Do I download the files u suggested to the pc or phone
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You're going to download then to your pc. The nb1 file is a zip, extract that and you'll have a .tar.md5 file. Use that in Odin in the PDA slot
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Any advice on getting Odin to open. I have tried multiple download sources and have ran as administrator using win7 64bit professional. When i click on the .exe It will bring me to the pop up screen that says OK and the program opens for split second and then shuts down.
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ok now i have F'd things up, got odin to open, download and unziped the odin 4.4 stock rar. selected the .tar file in pda and it failed. It hung up for 20 minutes. I unplugged the phone and rebooted, now i get the message Firmware upgrade encountered an issue, please select recovery mode in Kies and try again.
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Any advice on getting Odin to open. I have tried multiple download sources and have ran as administrator using win7 64bit professional. When i click on the .exe It will bring me to the pop up screen that says OK and the program opens for split second and then shuts down.
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tried again and had success, updating OTA and will try rooting after i study some more on towelroot and want to make sure the random reboot doesnt come back
thanks for the replies
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My computer recognizes my phone and can transfer files and everything but odin will not. Using original cable too. Neitger of my gs4 will work with odin. Tried installing the correct drivers also. They literally tried installing for about 5 hours and still wouldn't work. Any ideas?
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Make sure you're on odin 3.x and get your file and everything loaded and ready, then plug in the phone while in download mode. That's the way it works for me.
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Yep that's what I've tried. No luck
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Try different USB ports/cables. Or another laptop.
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Try odin v1.85. It works for me everytime
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ROMANTiC KiD said:
Try odin v1.85. It works for me everytime
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1.85 here too. Give that a shot
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1.85 here too. Give that a shot
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So im still not having luck getting odin to recognize my phone in download mode. I am using 1.85. This is the longest ive gone without a rooted phone. I hate it.
greeneperson said:
So im still not having luck getting odin to recognize my phone in download mode. I am using 1.85. This is the longest ive gone without a rooted phone. I hate it.
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Try different usb ports, different usb cables, re installing drivers and rebooting the computer to see if it helps
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after many tests
after many many tests, difference original cables, differente PCs, differente ODINs,
the probleme was the download mode, iused to use the UP VOLUME ,
but when when i just used the down volume AND VOILA !!!!! oding detected my phone.....
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after many many tests, difference original cables, differente PCs, differente ODINs,
the probleme was the download mode, iused to use the UP VOLUME ,
but when when i just used the down volume AND VOILA !!!!! oding detected my phone.....
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:silly: lol
anyway, I had the same problem but WITH the down menu.so not a solution for me.
Just write here for any future needs -- I uninstalled the drivers from the device manager, as it was showing one "Samsung blabla device"
after reinstalling the drivers (google SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones_v1.5.9.0.exe)
it detected 2 devices in Odin mode (down+up+power) "Samsung modem" and "Samsung blabla2..."
so now it detected all OK
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Hi, I can have found the solution for this, when i conected the galaxy S4 to the computer (already on Download Mode) it pops out a message saying that the driver could not be installed, I went to the advenced and clicked on the option "Yes" and then after a while a looked to Odin 3.09 and it was with the BLUE rectangle.
Hope you understand!! Thank you all!
Lucas
So I've had this problem for a while and I think at one point I knew what the issue was, but things came up and I guess I lost my place. I have a GS4 running 4.3 on AT&T, but if I recall correctly it took a long time (longer than it was supposed to in US) for even that update to become available to me. I'm not sure if this phone is set as a different country or something, but I seem to think that had something to do with it when I checked last time. Now when I check for updates, it does say I have an available update (KitKat?) but fails when attempting to update. Download is successful, but install is not. Baseband is I337ucuemk2 if that helps anything. Any help here would be appreciated, thanks.
Install is failing as some of the files it is trying to update has been modified. You would have to be on stock for the update to work.
Remember that there is no direct root method for KitKat yet.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2616221 for more info
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jmjoyas said:
Install is failing as some of the files it is trying to update has been modified. You would have to be on stock for the update to work.
Remember that there is no direct root method for KitKat yet.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2616221 for more info
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I'm actually not rooted, already stock and still having errors still...any idea why that would be?
Anyone have any advice?
Anyone have any advice?
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Have you changed any system files and do you have xposed running? They'll break the ota.
Edit, I should have read closer. I think there is an update.zip file you could flash in the general forum. I'll look and see if I can find it.
See post 2 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=50667360
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jd1639 said:
Have you changed any system files and do you have xposed running? They'll break the ota.
Edit, I should have read closer. I think there is an update.zip file you could flash in the general forum. I'll look and see if I can find it.
See post 2 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=50667360
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Thanks for the link, so I should just flash the md5 with Odin? Appreciate the help.
Imnice777 said:
Thanks for the link, so I should just flash the md5 with Odin? Appreciate the help.
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No, flash the update.zip in the stock recovery
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No, flash the update.zip in the stock recovery
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Ok cool, thanks again...however now another issue. I've tried several times, I can not boot into recovery. Any time I try to the phone just goes black until I let go and then reboots. Even if I get the blue print in the top left, the phone does not boot into recovery. Any idea why this would be?
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Ok cool, thanks again...however now another issue. I've tried several times, I can not boot into recovery. Any time I try to the phone just goes black until I let go and then reboots. Even if I get the blue print in the top left, the phone does not boot into recovery. Any idea why this would be?
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If you can get into download mode you may be better off flashing the md5 and Odin. Don't know why you can't get into recovery
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jd1639 said:
If you can get into download mode you may be better off flashing the md5 and Odin. Don't know why you can't get into recovery
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Me either, guess I'd just flash normally like I would a rom? Or would an update be different. I haven't done this in a while.
Imnice777 said:
Me either, guess I'd just flash normally like I would a rom? Or would an update be different. I haven't done this in a while.
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If you flash the tar in Odin it's going to wipe your device so backup what you can. You'll need to download the tar file to your pc and download Odin to it too if you don't already have it. You run Odin from the pc
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If you flash the tar in Odin it's going to wipe your device so backup what you can. You'll need to download the tar file to your pc and download Odin to it too if you don't already have it. You run Odin from the pc
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Ok so I finally got into recovery, but am I supposed to rename the file or anything? It keeps telling me:
"-- Verify the file type of MD5, Before Install /sdcard ...
-- Install /sdcard"
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Ok so I finally got into recovery, but am I supposed to rename the file or anything? It keeps telling me:
"-- Verify the file type of MD5, Before Install /sdcard ...
-- Install /sdcard"
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Anyone ever see that error before?
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Anyone ever see that error before?
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Are you trying to flash the update.zip? I'd re-download it. It could be a bad download
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Are you trying to flash the update.zip? I'd re-download it. It could be a bad download
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So... pretty unhappy. Downloaded the update.zip and flashed in stock recovery, it wiped my whole phone and still didn't update. I saw a couple error messages appear as it was "updating" so now I'm still on old firmware and lost everything on my phone. Luckily I did a Kies backup but still pretty ridiculous. I still lose all save data from apps and all convenience that there was from using my phone for as long as I did. Just wanted to update, shouldn't be this big of a mess. Not sure what to do next.
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So... pretty unhappy. Downloaded the update.zip and flashed in stock recovery, it wiped my whole phone and still didn't update. I saw a couple error messages appear as it was "updating" so now I'm still on old firmware and lost everything on my phone. Luckily I did a Kies backup but still pretty ridiculous. I still lose all save data from apps and all convenience that there was from using my phone for as long as I did. Just wanted to update, shouldn't be this big of a mess. Not sure what to do next.
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Well that sucks. No idea how it works wipe you're device. It shouldn't touch the userdata. If it's truly wiped I'd Odin the nb1 tar at this point. Get it updated and start over
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Well that sucks. No idea how it works wipe you're device. It shouldn't touch the userdata. If it's truly wiped I'd Odin the nb1 tar at this point. Get it updated and start over
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That's what I did and I'm finally updated, but pretty disappointed that it took all that just for an update. Hopefully things like that don't continue in future updates...
I need Major help with my phone. So here's the run down.
Starting on a Tuesday my phone started acting funny, it would get to the AT&T logo and stop, but then if I removed the battery and hold down the power button for roughly 20 seconds and start it up it would come on without any problems that I could see. Through the week it got worse, and by that I mean that it would restart on it's own, randomly. By that Sunday pulling the battery and holding the power button no longer did anything and from what I understand it is stuck in a boot loop.
I should have started by asking all of you, but unfortunately for me I tried fixing it myself by searching for the answers.
This is where my phone sits. It was rooted, but there is no back up. I can get to the Android system recovery. I foolishly did a reset and cleared my phone (I have all of my info and pics backed up so I'm not worried about that). My computer does not recognize my phone unless I go into the ADB setting in recovery mode and as far as I can tell the computer just knows that something is connected through USB but can't quite tell what it is. Kies has been installed on said computer recently so I have the newest Samsung drivers. I have a 32 gb sd card for my phone if that helps any. I forgot to mention that my phone is running Version 4.3 of the S4 software.
I am a total noob when it comes to these types of problems so please help me.
Do you know what firmware version you're on? Did you do a factory reset in recovery? Kies is junk you're probably going to have to use Odin. But even that may not work based on your description of the problems.
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Do you know what firmware version you're on? Did you do a factory reset in recovery? Kies is junk you're probably going to have to use Odin. But even that may not work based on your description of the problems.
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I am running Version 4.3. I only installed Kies to make sure I had the right driver, but you're right, Odin doesn't see my phone. I did do a factory reset in recovery, hopefully I didn't completely screw myself.
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I am running Version 4.3. I only installed Kies to make sure I had the right driver, but you're right, Odin doesn't see my phone. I did do a factory reset in recovery, hopefully I didn't completely screw myself.
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If Odin the mk2 tar file, see the all in one from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=49687770
What Windows os version are you using? Google 15 second adb install xda and try those drivers.
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If Odin the mk2 tar file, see the all in one from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=49687770
What Windows os version are you using? Google 15 second adb install xda and try those drivers.
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I'm running Windows 7. I'll try that when I get home. I'll let you know what happens.
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If Odin the mk2 tar file, see the all in one from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=49687770
What Windows os version are you using? Google 15 second adb install xda and try those drivers.
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Sorry I haven't logged in for a while. This worked very well, thank you.:good:
Need help. Not sure what jtag is or how to use it but I think thats the only way to fix my phone I have tried everything else...
Not sure what you tried but if you think jtag is your only option Google mobiltechvidoes. But if you haven't already flash the nb1 tar in odin, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=50912149
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thanks
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Not sure what you tried but if you think jtag is your only option Google mobiltechvidoes. But if you haven't already flash the nb1 tar in odin, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=50912149
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it is stuck on rpm. it has done nothing on odin. when i turn the phone on it says firmware has encountered a problem. i can boot into download mode but not recovery mode.
thanks for all your help
Just wondering since I got a new computer that is a Windows 10 platform if there is a new Odin version I should use or if 3.09 is still good to use. I still have my old pc that is fully functional but I don't what to have to use it if I don't need to.
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Why not try and let us know?
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Well I did try it but I think I had a bad file download and got a fail that then gave me a update error and directed me to use a recovery tool to get my phone back up and running ( stuck in download mode) couldn't get the phone booted up. Tried different files in Odin and all failed. Not 100 percent sure it is windows 10 and Odin 3.09 compatibility issues. Fired up the old pc and got my phone back.
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