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how to flashl custom ROM?

just go s4 and it is stock still. I want to go for custom ROM like S4. I looked around the forum but couldn't find a way to flash the custom ROM lik mega..
Can someone point me a thread on this?
Should I just use ODIN to flash the recovery like twr and then boot into recovery to flash the custom ROM?
will then the rom be root as for custom ROM.

henrik.dk said:
just go s4 and it is stock still. I want to go for custom ROM like S4. I looked around the forum but couldn't find a way to flash the custom ROM lik mega..
Can someone point me a thread on this?
Should I just use ODIN to flash the recovery like twr and then boot into recovery to flash the custom ROM?
will then the rom be root as for custom ROM.
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First Root using Odin
Then install philz recovery odin
Go to recovery wipe factory data, cache, dalvik
Then install ROM from internal or sd card
Reboot all done :thumbup:
Above method I m saying for i9500/ 9505 other device
And I suggest u atleast give your mobile variants so we can post links also along with it
Sent from my GT-I9500 using xda premium

thank you very much.
I am looking around.
could you provide the odin link to download and
the instruction to root?
could I use twrp recovery? I used twrp for my sensation previously.
Any instruction to flash twrp. I guess it should also be done from odin.
Thanks.
btw: The model is 9505 in dk 3.
123hiten said:
First Root using Odin
Then install philz recovery odin
Go to recovery wipe factory data, cache, dalvik
Then install ROM from internal or sd card
Reboot all done :thumbup:
Above method I m saying for i9500/ 9505 other device
And I suggest u atleast give your mobile variants so we can post links also along with it
Sent from my GT-I9500 using xda premium
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henrik.dk said:
thank you very much.
I am looking around.
could you provide the odin link to download and
the instruction to root?
could I use twrp recovery? I used twrp for my sensation previously.
Any instruction to flash twrp. I guess it should also be done from odin.
Thanks.
btw: The model is 9505 in dk 3.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2219803
[GT-I9505] CF-Auto-Root
Use above link for rooting it also have details about how to
Below link is for recovery
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2281367
Use the above link to Cwm recovery for ur i9505 it is better as per me
Its for i9505

I believe I flashed CF-auto-root properly as I got root permit.
But for the 2nd step of the cwm flash,
there is only the stock flash. it reboot to the system as usual.
I tried the odin come with cf-auto-root and 3.07 from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1728605
I am currently stuck here. Thanks.
123hiten said:
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2219803
[GT-I9505] CF-Auto-Root
Use above link for rooting it also have details about how to
Below link is for recovery
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2281367
Use the above link to Cwm recovery for ur i9505 it is better as per me
Its for i9505
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henrik.dk said:
I believe I flashed CF-auto-root properly as I got root permit.
But for the 2nd step of the cwm flash,
there is only the stock flash. it reboot to the system as usual.
I tried the odin come with cf-auto-root and 3.07 from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1728605
I am currently stuck here. Thanks.
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So u saying u not able to get cwm recovery and have only root access
How are u trying to go for recovery
After flashing the same using odin
to go to recovery u have power off the device
Press volume up + home + power button all together till samsung appear and then leave and see u should have recovery
Sent from my GT-I9500 using xda premium

you are right. I could get to the recovery after odin.
my mistake when holding the button to start recovery.
But I just need to use volume up + power button.
for download mode, I just need volume down + power button.
just another question, is it required to root the phone to odin cwm
recovery? Thanks.
123hiten said:
So u saying u not able to get cwm recovery and have only root access
How are u trying to go for recovery
After flashing the same using odin
to go to recovery u have power off the device
Press volume up + home + power button all together till samsung appear and then leave and see u should have recovery
Sent from my GT-I9500 using xda premium
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henrik.dk said:
you are right. I could get to the recovery after odin.
my mistake when holding the button to start recovery.
But I just need to use volume up + power button.
for download mode, I just need volume down + power button.
just another question, is it required to root the phone to odin cwm
recovery? Thanks.
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Yes u should have root
U should do like ROOT / RECOVERY / Then flash Roms
and remember always have nandroid backup after flashing recovery
jusy incase any issues

[Q] ***HELP i337 MK2 WON'T BOOT***

Hello all!
First off I would just like to say thank you, thank you, thank you. I have been a long time lurker on these forums (since the evo) and have gotten a lot of useful information from here. Now to my issue. I have had no phone for two weeks now, and have been doing search after search. I upgraded my phone to 4.3 (it was mk2) and rooted it via motochopper. So my dumbass tried to flash a custom rom with kn0x0ut and it failed. The phone rebooted and now will boot up to the samsung custom screen. You can hear the att boot up sound but no image. I can get into odin mode and stock recovery. When I am in odin it says:
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: SGH-I337
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Official
KNOX KERNEL LOCK: 0x0
KNOX WARRANTY VOID: 0x1
CSB-CONFIG-LSB: 0x30
WRITE PROTECTION: Enable
eMC BURST MODE enabled
I have tried sideloading the stock MJ9 and MK2 files to no avail. I really hope somebody can help me, I don't know how much longer i can go without a phone. Thanks guys and Merry Christmas!!!

yea sounds like bricked you cant flash roms on 4.3 yet take it to best buy that has a samsung center and just tell them samsung sent you here because my phone all of a sudden was acting up and they will flash it back to factory for you thats what i had to do

gtj0 said:
OK, If you're stuck with an incomplete flash, here are some steps you can try to get to MJ9...
These instructions assume you started with MJ6.
First, make sure you can boot into recovery. If not, download and apply the MJ6 recovery.
recovery-mj6.tar.md5
It should apply without error. If not, report the failure.
Download and extract the following files...
mf3-emergency-part-1.tar.md5.7z
mf3-emergency-part-2.tar.md5.7z
If you don't already have it, download the mf3-mj9 update file...
update-mf3-mj9.zip
Start Odin, connect your phone and boot into Download mode.
Flash mf3-emergency-part-1.tar.md5 which contains modem.bin, NON-HLOS.bin and system.img.ext4.
The flash of system.img.ext4 WILL FAIL at the end. That's OK.
Reboot the phone back into Download mode and restart Odin.
Flash mf3-emergency-part-2.tar.md5 which contains cache.img.ext4.
The flash WILL FAIL at the end. That's OK.
The phone should now reboot to recovery by itself and apply a small update. If it fails, stop and report.
The phone should now reboot to a black screen with the pulsing notification LED.
Reboot into recovery mode and flash update-mf3-mj9.zip. I recommend sideloading instead of flashing from sdcard because the sdcard method reboots the phone whether the update was successful or not and you lose the error messages.
Reboot the phone and let it initialize.
You should now have MJ9.
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download the above files except update-mf3-mj9.zip and replace with MF3>MK2 from this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2573080
Hashcode has a Beta safesatrap for MK2 Safestrap-JFLTEATT-3.70-B01 if you want to flash anything to a rom slot or stock slot and make a backup (does not work with EXFAT formatted sd yet)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2448925

dolph8886 said:
download the above files except update-mf3-mj9.zip and replace with MF3>MK2 from this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2573080
Hashcode has a Beta safesatrap for MK2 Safestrap-JFLTEATT-3.70-B01 if you want to flash anything to a rom slot or stock slot and make a backup (does not work with EXFAT formatted sd yet)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2448925
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I was on MK2 using the 3.7 beta of SS when I couldn't get it to boot anymore. Tried the modified method outlined above, everything worked except after step 7, it never rebooted to recovery on it's own and installed a small update. Decided to try Kies, says it can do emergency firmware recovery but it hasn't worked yet. Any help would be appreciated as I'm not sure I can get the handset replaced since I got it at Walmart.

It may not automatically reboot into recovery, just make it.
if you do not already know this (i am not saying you don't)
holding the power button for 10? seconds will reboot phone or using the file in post below
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=48621760&postcount=18
hold volume up and power the phone on to boot into stock recovery
have android sdk and files above ready
choose option to sideload update from adb
open terminal on computer and
adb sideload "update.zip"
without quotes
here are basically the same instructions just a bit different
sl1200md3 said:
Back on AT&T STOCK MK2 from a bricked TWRP'd install. I had to do the following:
1) Phone into download mode
2) Flash mf3-emergency-part-1.tar.md5 via Odin v1.85
3) Force Reboot
4) Flash mf3-emergency-part-2.tar.md5
5) Unplug phone / Reset Odin / plug phone back in
6) Flash recovery-mj6.tar.md5
7) Force Reboot in Odin using this file http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766399 Thanks kevinpc :good:
8) Manually enter recovery
9) ADB Sideload the file: update-mf3-mj9.zip found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47604388&postcount=152
10) ADB Sideload the file: update-MJ9-MK2.zip found here: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2iXrnZBB-MVYkYwNkYzU2FJaFk/edit
11) Reboot
Won't be flashing TWRP via Goo Manager again any time soon.
:good::good::good:
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dolph8886 said:
It may not automatically reboot into recovery, just make it.
if you do not already know this (i am not saying you don't)
holding the power button for 10? seconds will reboot phone or using the file in post below
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=48621760&postcount=18
hold volume up and power the phone on to boot into stock recovery
have android sdk and files above ready
choose option to sideload update from adb
open terminal on computer and
adb sideload "update.zip"
without quotes
here are basically the same instructions just a bit different
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You sir, are amazing. What you posted was just different enough from what I had previously tried to work. I'm now booting and on MK2, thanks a million man!

FINALLY
dolph8886 said:
download the above files except update-mf3-mj9.zip and replace with MF3>MK2 from this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2573080
Hashcode has a Beta safesatrap for MK2 Safestrap-JFLTEATT-3.70-B01 if you want to flash anything to a rom slot or stock slot and make a backup (does not work with EXFAT formatted sd yet)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2448925
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FINALLY LONG SEARCH OVER FOR THIS FIX JUST ONE QUESTION WILL THE RECOVERY FAIL AS WELL?

tonyc0642 said:
You sir, are amazing. What you posted was just different enough from what I had previously tried to work. I'm now booting and on MK2, thanks a million man!
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hi i have the exact same problem....i dont know how to start adb on windows 7...arrgh...

Thanks to the everyone for this
It saved my ass..I put the zips on a sd and installed.Back on mk2 and rooted.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

I tried the above mentioned but after I flash the second file and reboot, it goes into kies , no recovery mode. Odin is still available. Also thanks for all the quick responses fellas yall are the best.
***UPDATE*** flashed the recovery but the sideload failed. Tried to turn it on and the Samsung lolgo came on, then went black. After a a few minutes the phone pops up on the computer and I can access the internal phone memory and the sd card.

I am really not sure, I believe that it will work if you do this process again.
No Idea if this makes any difference but, pay close attention to the process at least until the sideloading of the update.
Do not let the device attempt to boot with this firmware mismatch as this may cause issues. (This is the only conclusion I can come to as this process does work)
If the device automatically reboots then press and hold volume up to enter recovery or volume down to enter download mode.
If manual reboot or powering on then press and hold volume up or down respectively then press power until the device starts and release power button to avoid a reset.

SOLVED!!!
Thank you so much @dolph8886!!!1 You are the BEST!!! :good: :victory: :highfive:

This helped me, fixed my softbrick, hope this helps! Remember to thank the author if it works
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2621279

ok here it goes i tried to flash twrp using goo but now i have no stock recovery can someone help me please im on mk2 running 4.3 and rooted

Need Help ! Big problem csc others.xml lost !

Hi
After a bad file overwrite with Rootexplorer (tried to remove camera sound), the file in /System/CSC/Others.xml is empty of region settings.
At 1st reboot, i was stuck at 1st Samsung logo. Nothing else.
So i decided to restart from beginning, clean reinstall, i reflashed a clean MK2 rom using Odin.
Phone is booting now, and after setting up usual parameters, i have force closes, no network signal, no WiFi, and phone is freezing/rebooting.
So, how can i push Others.xml to System/CSC/ ?
I tried Quick ADB Pusher, it says file sent successfully but when i restart my phone, same errors.
For the moment :
Only a MK2 rom installed
No root
No busybox
Please help, instead tomorrow morning = Direct to repair service (but my Knox = 0x1)

Install Stock firmware via Odin, then re-run auto-root
Install a custom recovery via ODIN - then follow this method
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47014662
Or this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2471421
reflash stock again and voila, fixed

Yes, Big Thanks !
It solved my problem.
What i did, using Odin :
CF Auto Root
Then CWM 6.0.4.5
Flashed your script, with .zip on external SD because my phone wasn't recognized on my computer, and now my network bars are back, my baseband also (unknown before), everything is fine !
You're Da King ! :good:

Glad to have helped now be careful in future haha :good:

Did u make clean flash from odin? Because I'm wandering if we able to flash same stock rom using odin without wiping the data.
Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk

You won't/don't need to wipe for that script.
Sent from my SM-N9005 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

[Q] How to root my Note 3

Guys, i need help. I am new to samsung phone and have no idea how to root my note 3. Which method should I use to root my note 3 safely. Thanks in advance! CHEERS!

Download this file ( http://download.chainfire.eu/352/CF-Root/CF-Auto-Root/CF-Auto-Root-hlte-hltexx-smn9005.zip ), then follow this instructions:
" BASIC INSTRUCTIONS
All downloads contain .tar.md5 files flashable in ODIN as PDA.
Make sure your device is in ODIN download mode (usually you can get there by holding VolDown+Home+Power when the device is turned off), then start the included Odin3-v1.85.exe file, press the PDA button, select the .tar.md5 file, and click Start. You can find more detailed instructions and assistance at XDA.
A modified recovery and cache partition will be flashed, which will install (only) SuperSU, thenclean-up the cache partition and re-flash the stock recovery.
For the root to work, the device must reboot into recovery. Most devices will do this automatically after flashing these files, but in case that does not happen, please boot into recovery manually."
Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk

I would just towelroot it.
First go to download mode and flash KERNEL_N9005XXUEND3.tar.md5
Now download towelroot.apk
Root it
Now flash latest kernel for your handset. Voila, rooted and Knox 0X0.
I am online from my phone, so you must google for links
Best regards

The chainfire way is the one I used to root my n9005 so I'm suggesting it. I have heared much about the towelroot method but I have never tried it myself, that's why I didn't mention it...
. @identifyaw, the fact that towelroot does not void your knox warranty is very important because you can retrive your warranty if needed, but as i said, I have never tried this method and i cant ensure you that it works. The decision is yours...
Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk

thank you guys alot mannn

[SOLVED] How do I wipe data/cache in download mode?

Hello!
I've flashed a stock ROM on my Samsung Galaxy S5 (SM-G900F) using ODIN 3.07 and now the phone is bootlooping. I guess It's because I need to wipe data and cache partitions and here's the problem.
My home button is not working, so I can't boot in recovery mode. Adb does NOT recognize my device. I'm only able to access download mode using a JIG.
So, is there any way to wipe those partitions or to be able to access recovery using ODIN?
Thanks in advance for your help!

That is a challenging situation! I'd try flashing the stock ROM once more, just on top of the one you already did using Odin and see if it boots this time.
If it didn't, see if Samsung kies would recognize your phone on download mode and get kies to flash the proper stock rom because I know kies does a full wipe before flashing automatically every time.

Yea, you shouldn't need to wipe anything if you use the correct tar in Odin, it should do it automatically. I would try again as stated above. Are you sure you have the correct tar file?

Thank you so much!!
The problem is that I was trying to flash an older firmware to use Towelroot. I've flashed the same firmware and now it's working again!
Now, I really need to root because I need virtual keys (hardware ones don't work) and i have to edit build.prop file.
What's the easiest way to root on a Lollipop firmware? I don't care about Knox and warranty void.
Also, I already tried CF-Auto Root but when the phone rebooted It gave me this message: "RECOVERY IS NOT SEANDROID ENFORCING" and it didn't start anymore, that's why I needed to flash the stock firmware again.
EDIT: Nevermind. I flashed TWRP using Odin and then I flashed SuperSU in the recovery. I've booted in the recovery using "adb reboot recovery". Thanks again!

Glad you got it working!