How do we remove the safe strap partition once created?
I updated to 5.0 and I noticed that I have one 1 gig of space free and I think its because I created a partition for Rom Slot 1 in safe strap.
I don't have a S5 but did have a Razr Maxx with safestrap installed. Assuming it's the same, you boot to safestrap, select boot options, select rom slot 1 and then press the delete button.
I can no longer access safe strap because of 5.0, any other suggestions?
taygutta said:
I can no longer access safe strap because of 5.0, any other suggestions?
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You can odin a nk2 kernel, boot to safestrap, delete the partition, boot to download mode and flash the oa8 kernel in safestrap.
taygutta said:
I can no longer access safe strap because of 5.0, any other suggestions?
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You should be able to delete it by using a file manager. Look on your internal sd for a folder named safestrap. You should find one named rom slot 1 inside it. Delete and it should be gone.
You could also just delete the whole safestrap folder if you're not using it anymore.
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I have recently updated my retail Verizon Note 3 to MJE via an OTA update. I rooted my phone using Kingo and installed Safestrap recovery.
I have downloaded Bean's rom and put it on my SD card. But whenever I boot into recovery to flash the .ZIP ROM file, it is not found. When I boot back into my stock rom and go into the file manager, I discover the file has been deleted, along with the Safestrap APK!!!
This happens no matter where I put the files on my SD card, it doesn't matter which folder. Has Verizon put some block that automatically detects and deletes these files or what? I keep recopying the ROM to my SDCard and it keeps getting deleted whenever I boot into recovery.
Please help, thanks! :crying:
Have u switched to ur sd card after getting into reovery? Might want to reodin use kingo again, but update supersu before booting into recovery.
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Are you sure your putting it on the external sd card ? With safestrap installed sd card in file manager is the internal storage
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Thanks everyone, what I did instead was put the .ZIP ROM file into my internal phone storage and it shows up in Safestrap recovery and I'm able to flash it and enjoy custom rom goodness!
For some reason, I can't put the .ZIP ROM files into my SD card to flash as they disappear and are automatically deleted from the SD card when I check my SD card under Windows Explorer.
I have two slots. One for stock ROM and the other for Beans. Beans is active. On each reboot I'm prompted to enter recovery or continue, with a 10 second time out.
Any way to bypass this and boot straight into Beans? When I uninstall the recovery (from beans) my phone will boot into stock, so that doesn't work.
Would like to get a reboot that effectively skips safestrap/TWRP prompt until I really need it, which isn't most of the time.
Let me know, thanks.
AR501 said:
I have two slots. One for stock ROM and the other for Beans. Beans is active. On each reboot I'm prompted to enter recovery or continue, with a 10 second time out.
Any way to bypass this and boot straight into Beans? When I uninstall the recovery (from beans) my phone will boot into stock, so that doesn't work.
Would like to get a reboot that effectively skips safestrap/TWRP prompt until I really need it, which isn't most of the time.
Let me know, thanks.
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You can make a back up of Beans and restore it to your stock slot then uninstall safestrap. The down side is if something goes wrong you will have to Odin back to stock if you can't boot back into Beans and reinstall safestrap. I ran it without safestrap but if you want to flash anything from recovery you will have to reinstall ss again. I myself found it more beneficial to leave it installed. You will still have your ss backups if you decide to uninstall because they are stored on the ext sd card in the TWRP folder.
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You can make a back up of Beans and restore it to your stock slot then uninstall safestrap. The down side is if something goes wrong you will have to Odin back to stock if you can't boot back into Beans and reinstall safestrap. I ran it without safestrap but if you want to flash anything from recovery you will have to reinstall ss again. I myself found it more beneficial to leave it installed. You will still have your ss backups if you decide to uninstall because they are stored on the ext sd card in the TWRP folder.[/QUOTE
Yeah that's what I did, was hoping to have stock available and leave the recovery dormant until i need it.
thanks.
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Your Welcome. I'm glad to help if I can.
AR501 said:
On each reboot I'm prompted to enter recovery or continue, with a 10 second time out.
Any way to bypass this and boot straight into Beans?
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A future version of SafeStrap, if there is one, may allow us to change the time-out value; but it will probably have a minimum of 1, 2, or 3 seconds. There must remain some way to enter Recovery.
Frank
SGH-I717(AoCP6.4), SM-N900V/MI9(dlV), XDA Premium
I have ATT i337
It was originally on NB1, when I rooted, safestrap and installed phoenix rom. It worked great until I decided to flash Omega. So i did a nandroid backup. According to Omega, I had to flash:
Bootloader -> BL_I9505XXUFNAD_481100_REV06_user_low_ship_MULTI_C ERT.tar.md5
Modems XXUFNC9 -> I9505XXUFNC9_GSM_LTE_Modems.tar
Those failed for me, but I was still able to use my phone normally. I was told I just needed to flash the zip. I created a rom slot and tried to flash it on that. Well after a full wipe in SS 3.72 (everything except sD), I tried to flash zip, but it failed. Saying editing partitions failed. I deleted partitions and tried to flash zip on stock and still failed.
I had to ODIN to stock because phone would not boot. Rooted NB1 with towelroot, safestrap, then back into recovery to restore backup. After a 6 second restore, I rebooted, and the phone would not boot.
Odin back to NB1, upgraded to NC1, re rooted and tried to flash a new zip (phoenix rom), I am getting error editing partitions failed.
What can I do now?
fiody said:
I have ATT i337
It was originally on NB1, when I rooted, safestrap and installed phoenix rom. It worked great until I decided to flash Omega. So i did a nandroid backup. According to Omega, I had to flash:
Bootloader -> BL_I9505XXUFNAD_481100_REV06_user_low_ship_MULTI_C ERT.tar.md5
Modems XXUFNC9 -> I9505XXUFNC9_GSM_LTE_Modems.tar
Those failed for me, but I was still able to use my phone normally. I was told I just needed to flash the zip. I created a rom slot and tried to flash it on that. Well after a full wipe in SS 3.72 (everything except sD), I tried to flash zip, but it failed. Saying editing partitions failed. I deleted partitions and tried to flash zip on stock and still failed.
I had to ODIN to stock because phone would not boot. Rooted NB1 with towelroot, safestrap, then back into recovery to restore backup. After a 6 second restore, I rebooted, and the phone would not boot.
Odin back to NB1, upgraded to NC1, re rooted and tried to flash a new zip (phoenix rom), I am getting error editing partitions failed.
What can I do now?
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1. Odin back to stock is exactly what I do when I have any issues. Good call on that one.
2. Since you are using safestrap, ignore the rom install instructions that say to flash a new modem or bootloader.
3. ROM slots do not work on safestrap v3.72. You can only flash in the stock slot.
4. If you are trying to restore your backup to the stock slot, your backup may be corrupt.
5. On your last attempt to flash the ROM, was it on stock slot or rom slot?
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1. Odin back to stock is exactly what I do when I have any issues. Good call on that one.
2. Since you are using safestrap, ignore the rom install instructions that say to flash a new modem or bootloader.
3. ROM slots do not work on safestrap v3.72. You can only flash in the stock slot.
4. If you are trying to restore your backup to the stock slot, your backup may be corrupt.
5. On your last attempt to flash the ROM, was it on stock slot or rom slot?
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It was on stock slot, I did a full wipe, and still fails
Actually it was saying Updating partition details and then fails. Now it says Updating partition details...
E:Unable to mount '/data'
E:Unable to mount '/ss'
Failed
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It was on stock slot, I did a full wipe, and still fails
Actually it was saying Updating partition details and then fails. Now it says Updating partition details...
E:Unable to mount '/data'
E:Unable to mount '/ss'
Failed
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I've seen the unable to mount system message when there is an incompatibility with safestrap and your bootloader. Never seen the unable to mount data or ss.
Not really sure why it's doing that, but we can rule out a couple things. Try this...
1. Odin back to NB1 stock and take the NC1 update. Verify the bootloader is right... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=51067793&postcount=4
2. If that's good, then try a different ROM, just to test. I'd recommend one from the ATT dev forum for this test to eliminate other possible issues.
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I've seen the unable to mount system message when there is an incompatibility with safestrap and your bootloader. Never seen the unable to mount data or ss.
Not really sure why it's doing that, but we can rule out a couple things. Try this...
1. Odin back to NB1 stock and take the NC1 update. Verify the bootloader is right... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=51067793&postcount=4
2. If that's good, then try a different ROM, just to test. I'd recommend one from the ATT dev forum for this test to eliminate other possible issues.
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Do I need to have SUPERSU before I install SS?
fiody said:
Do I need to have SUPERSU before I install SS?
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I flashed Slim Rom and the flash worked, but the screen would remain black. Would not but it would start off with option to enter SS. I hit continue, and get black screen. I go into recovery, and get a black screen.
fiody said:
Do I need to have SUPERSU before I install SS?
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You need to be rooted. So if you have just odined and used towelroot to root your phone, you should be all set.
fiody said:
I flashed Slim Rom and the flash worked, but the screen would remain black. Would not but it would start off with option to enter SS. I hit continue, and get black screen. I go into recovery, and get a black screen.
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Are you sure it's compatible with our phone? What is the link to the slim rom thread, please?
Post 2 here has all the known working ROMs for safestrap users...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2616221
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You need to be rooted. So if you have just odined and used towelroot to root your phone, you should be all set.
Are you sure it's compatible with our phone? What is the link to the slim rom thread, please?
Post 2 here has all the known working ROMs for safestrap users...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2616221
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I was going to use one of those roms but you said original android dev so I went to that forum http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-att/orig-development
and use this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2561125
I am formatting my sd card, moving my files over again and restarting the process but instead I will try flashing phoenix.
On a side note- funny thing happened. I copied my whatsapp folder to the sdcard, verified everything was fine and it moved over. I also did an sms backup with the app, and moved that folder over as well. For whatever reason, the contents of just those two folders disappeared. So weird. Like a cruel joke.
fiody said:
I was going to use one of those roms but you said original android dev so I went to that forum http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-att/orig-development
and use this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2561125
I am formatting my sd card, moving my files over again and restarting the process but instead I will try flashing phoenix.
On a side note- funny thing happened. I copied my whatsapp folder to the sdcard, verified everything was fine and it moved over. I also did an sms backup with the app, and moved that folder over as well. For whatever reason, the contents of just those two folders disappeared. So weird. Like a cruel joke.
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Thanks for the link. Sorry, for the confusion. I just meant flash an ATT based ROM as opposed to a i9505 ROM that is compatible. Slim ROM is a nice looking ROM, but it's not going to work. Only touchwiz based ROMs work since we can't change the kernel.
guut13 said:
Thanks for the link. Sorry, for the confusion. I just meant flash an ATT based ROM as opposed to a i9505 ROM that is compatible. Slim ROM is a nice looking ROM, but it's not going to work. Only touchwiz based ROMs work since we can't change the kernel.
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I was able to flash my Rom. Everything seems to be fine now. Weird how my whatsapp folder on my SDcard had its contents erased. I will probably start a new thread about that, but I doubt anything can be done.
Many thanks guut!
Hey Fellas,
I have tried now to install 2 roms on my s5 with no luck :/ I am rooted and have safe strap installed and a nandroid of stock rom backed up on the stock rom slot. I also activated Rom slot 1. But when I go to install the zip file from my sd card or internal storage it says can not open zip??
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Hey Fellas,
I have tried now to install 2 roms on my s5 with no luck :/ I am rooted and have safe strap installed and a nandroid of stock rom backed up on the stock rom slot. I also activated Rom slot 1. But when I go to install the zip file from my sd card or internal storage it says can not open zip??
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92 views and no answer yet????
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92 views and no answer yet????
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It sounds like you have a bad download. Retry it and check the md5 with this. Download the ROM, check the md5, copy it to your extSD, reboot to SS and try again. If the ROM slot gives you problems try the stock slot. I always flash to the stock slot. The worst that will happen is you will have to Odin back to stock but most likely not if you have a backup on the extSD.
I've seen that. What version of Safestrap?
So I have a Samsung Galaxy J5 SM-J500F which suddenly refused to boot in any way (normal, recovery, download). I booted TWRP from external SD card but it shows Internal Storage (0 MB). Can't mount or do anything. Is there something to do or is it a hardware issue?
In Odin try to flash different versions of the stock firmware its the only way to restore it.
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In Odin try to flash different versions of the stock firmware its the only way to restore it.
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I can't. Everything that I am flashing through Odin goes into the external SD card. For the example, tried to flash TWRP and it flashed onto the external SD card. And I cannot go into download mode without the external SD card. Trying to remove it before pressing volume up to confirm makes Odin say no PIT file found and when I flash the PIT it gives error.
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I can't. Everything that I am flashing through Odin goes into the external SD card. For the example, tried to flash TWRP and it flashed onto the external SD card. And I cannot go into download mode without the external SD card. Trying to remove it before pressing volume up to confirm makes Odin say no PIT file found and when I flash the PIT it gives error.
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The only way to restore the phone is by flashing stock firmware in odin.
Twrp and everything else will go to the SD card only the stock firmware will flash to the phone.
Enter download mode WITH the SD card in and go through the steps on Odin to flash stock firmware and absolutely nothing else, no twrp, no custom firmware it has to be 100% pure stock rom or it will flash to the SD card and not internal storage.
Stock firmware contains the necessary PIT files and everything so don't try flashing different PIT files.
This is the only method to restore the device
garylawwd said:
The only way to restore the phone is by flashing stock firmware in odin.
Twrp and everything else will go to the SD card only the stock firmware will flash to the phone.
Enter download mode WITH the SD card in and go through the steps on Odin to flash stock firmware and absolutely nothing else, no twrp, no custom firmware it has to be 100% pure stock rom or it will flash to the SD card and not internal storage.
Stock firmware contains the necessary PIT files and everything so don't try flashing different PIT files.
This is the only method to restore the device
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I understand, but for example if I have TWRP on SD card then I flash via Odin, it hangs at system.img.ext4 (left it over 15 hours). Before system it flashes recovery so I disconnected after 15 hours just to find out the SD card had the stock recovery.
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tomadimitrie3 said:
I understand, but for example if I have TWRP on SD card then I flash via Odin, it hangs at system.img.ext4 (left it over 15 hours). Before system it flashes recovery so I disconnected after 15 hours just to find out the SD card had the stock recovery.
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Dont put twrp on the SD card.
Boot into download and just flash stock.
Once the device is restored do what you want and install twrp and whatever you want but don't do it at the start.
You wont be able to restore unless everything is stock
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Dont put twrp on the SD card.
Boot into download and just flash stock.
Once the device is restored do what you want and install twrp and whatever you want but don't do it at the start.
You wont be able to restore unless everything is stock
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If I already have TWRP on the SD card should I reflash the unbrick.img?
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garylawwd said:
Dont put twrp on the SD card.
Boot into download and just flash stock.
Once the device is restored do what you want and install twrp and whatever you want but don't do it at the start.
You wont be able to restore unless everything is stock
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Still doesn't work... It hangs at system.img.ext4
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Still doesn't work... It hangs at system.img.ext4
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What version you trying to flash?
Marshmallow or lollipop.
Try flashing the other one if it fails on one
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What version you trying to flash?
Marshmallow or lollipop.
Try flashing the other one if it fails on one
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Tried with both versions
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Tried with both versions
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Thats strange.
You're sure its not hardware related?
The only thing I can think of now is to try with different versions of the stock rom (different country firmware)
Like you came this far we must be able to fix it.
Im going to do a bit of reading about the issue now and see if there is anything you can try
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Thats strange.
You're sure its not hardware related?
The only thing I can think of now is to try with different versions of the stock rom (different country firmware)
Like you came this far we must be able to fix it.
Im going to do a bit of reading about the issue now and see if there is anything you can try
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I don't know. This is the story of how it got bricked:
Powered it on some days ago and it showed the Samsung logo with the "odin mode" text in the top-left corner. I thought I accidentally entered download mode so I held down volume down+power until the screen turned black. And after that it didn't boot at all until I managed to make this bootable SD card.
What I find strange is that Odin keeps flashing on my SD card instead of the internal storage. If I enter download mode then remove the SD card and try to flash via Odin it complains that no PIT partition was found. If I have TWRP installed on the SD card, download mode says "CURRENT BINARY: Custom" but as soon as I try to flash via Odin the official recovery.img (it flashes before it hangs at system.img.ext4) and restart the phone it says "CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official". Also if I power it on from the SD card normally or in recovery it shows the blue screen that wants me to connect to Smart Switch but the app does not recognize the phone.
Another thing is that if I reboot into download mode with the SD card but only press power up to confirm after I remove the SD card the first thing to show in the top-left corner is "ddi: mmc_read_failed" and if I try to flash with Odin, Odin says no PIT partition found and the phone shows in the top-left corner the last line as "ODIN : flash read failure".
If I power it on without the SD card it doesn't do anything, not even vibrate.
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From TWRP recovery wipe everything until it shows no OS installed... Then flash any stock rom... Marshmallow will be nice as it is latest update
Rjt KD said:
From TWRP recovery wipe everything until it shows no OS installed... Then flash any stock rom... Marshmallow will be nice as it is latest update
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I can't wipe because I can't mount the internal storage.
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Rjt KD said:
From TWRP recovery wipe everything until it shows no OS installed... Then flash any stock rom... Marshmallow will be nice as it is latest update
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Wipe a bricked device? What? He already said his internal storage is showing 0MB so how is he supposed to wipe nothing?
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Wipe a bricked device? What? He already said his internal storage is showing 0MB so how is he supposed to wipe nothing?
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If he wipes boot img it will show no os installed... Then he can install another rom
Oh sorry first I didn't notice... I'm checking if i get something...can you please send us screenshots?!
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If he wipes boot img it will show no os installed... Then he can install another rom
Oh sorry first I didn't notice... I'm checking if i get something...can you please send us screenshots?!
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The only screenshot I can send is TWRP (booted from SD card) showing Internal Storage (0 MB)
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The only screenshot I can send is TWRP (booted from SD card) showing Internal Storage (0 MB)
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Can you wipe or reset again using Samsung Smart Switch or Kies? Or maybe you can try to install new os from there... Meanwhile We will check something else to solve this
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Can you wipe or reset again using Samsung Smart Switch or Kies? Or maybe you can try to install new os from there... Meanwhile We will check something else to solve this
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Tried that but it won't recognize the phone and the drivers are good
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tomadimitrie3 said:
Tried that but it won't recognize the phone and the drivers are good
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Navigate to Wipe > Advance Wipe > Data, and choose Repair or Change File System.Press Repair File System to see if this fixes the issue. If not, continue.Press Change File System, choose Ext2, and swipe to confirm.Now switch back to Ext4 and swipe to confirm.Go back to TWRP main menu, then the Mount menu, and check if your partitions can be mounted now.
These actions r possible?