Alright, I have a Virgin Mobile S4. I rooted it a year ago with towelroot and installed clockwork mod on it to install cyanogenmod. I tried it, didn't like it so I restored my backup of the stock rom using CWM.
Fast forward to now. I tried to update my S4 OTA for Lollipop, but it would give me an error. I figured it was because I had changed the recovery software. So I went and downloaded the virgin mobile lollipop stock rom from sammobile. ( I337MVLUGOC4_I337MOYAGOC4_VMC ).
I tried to flash it onto my S4 using Odin 3.09. To no avail, it always failed at the system4.img.ext or something. From there I tried to make it work by using 3.10. Still failed. I googled for a fix or workaround and found something about reinstalling clockwork mod. I also tried reinstalling the PIT file for I337M. It was still not working. So I tried to flash back to my stock backup.
1st time I flashed, I kept having program that didn't want to start errors. I wiped dalvik, I wiped cache, I factory reset. Still bugged. So as a last resort I restored the backup again after having done all this. It worked! But...
Well, I'm at a lost now, I can't update using OTA, I can't update with Odin, I can't update with Kies. Now what? Is there a way to go back to the stock recovery and let the OTA or Kies update go through unhindered?
BTW, I had a problem when trying to use EFS professional to backup my EFS before the procedure. No matter which port I used ( front port or back motherboard port ), I could never make the backup, it said something about the phone currently being offline or something.
Anyway, I'd prefer to be able to switch back to the stock recovery and let the OTA or Kies do its thing. Any clues?
EDIT UPDATE: After fiddling some more around, I changed usb port again and reflashed using a more up to date version of Odin and I finally have Lollipop on my device, only problem is that I have no 3g or 4g connectivity even tho the IMEI, baseband and SMS as well as calls work just fine, what's wrong?
See first post edit^^
Diabo|ik said:
EDIT UPDATE: After fiddling some more around, I changed usb port again and reflashed using a more up to date version of Odin and I finally have Lollipop on my device, only problem is that I have no 3g or 4g connectivity even tho the IMEI, baseband and SMS as well as calls work just fine, what's wrong?
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Did you check the APN settings? Make sure you have the right one for your carrier.
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Hi Guys,
I have used Jamals AOSP 4.3 v2.0 since it was available. Last week I have made a backup with Philz Touch of my 4.3 and tried to install Jamals AOSP 4.4 v4.0. I had to update the modem with Odin to make mobile connection work.
Now, I tried several times to get back to my backup of 4.3. Restoring the ROM is running perfectly, but the modem/mobile connection is just not working. After the start it doesn't ask for my SIM PIN, I get no mobile connection and Baseband-Version is not available.
I tried to flash several modems via Odin but simply none worked.
Today I made a full wipe and installed clean ROM of Jamals AOSP 4.3 V2.0 and it all went perfect and modem works. SIM PIN is requested and I get mobile connection.
I horrayed and immediately restored via Philz the proper Backup of my 4.3 from one week ago and again NO modem.
No matter what I do I can't get the freaking modem running when restoring my 4.3 backup.:crying::crying::crying:
I have no idea what to do and hoping for help here.
Thanks
Felix
DesireHDScreenorgasm said:
Hi Guys,
I have used Jamals AOSP 4.3 v2.0 since it was available. Last week I have made a backup with Philz Touch of my 4.3 and tried to install Jamals AOSP 4.4 v4.0. I had to update the modem with Odin to make mobile connection work.
Now, I tried several times to get back to my backup of 4.3. Restoring the ROM is running perfectly, but the modem/mobile connection is just not working. After the start it doesn't ask for my SIM PIN, I get no mobile connection and Baseband-Version is not available.
I tried to flash several modems via Odin but simply none worked.
Today I made a full wipe and installed clean ROM of Jamals AOSP 4.3 V2.0 and it all went perfect and modem works. SIM PIN is requested and I get mobile connection.
I horrayed and immediately restored via Philz the proper Backup of my 4.3 from one week ago and again NO modem.
No matter what I do I can't get the freaking modem running when restoring my 4.3 backup.:crying::crying::crying:
I have no idea what to do and hoping for help here.
Thanks
Felix
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You dont have a efs backup?
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this should not be in the development section.the questions section is you know...........for questions
It appears for what ever reason that the modem isn't part of the backup. This happened to me today. I restored a backup using philz. No baseband etc. All I did was reflash my rom with without factory reset over the top of my restored rom. No data lost, baseband restored.
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HANDSY said:
It appears for what ever reason that the modem isn't part of the backup. This happened to me today. I restored a backup using philz. No baseband etc. All I did was reflash my rom with without factory reset over the top of my restored rom. No data lost, baseband restored.
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Holy cow! That absolutely worked! You helped me to escape the KitKat hell and return to safe 4.3 haven
Thanks a lot and sorry for posting in the wrong section
DesireHDScreenorgasm said:
Hi Guys,
I have used Jamals AOSP 4.3 v2.0 since it was available. Last week I have made a backup with Philz Touch of my 4.3 and tried to install Jamals AOSP 4.4 v4.0. I had to update the modem with Odin to make mobile connection work.
Now, I tried several times to get back to my backup of 4.3. Restoring the ROM is running perfectly, but the modem/mobile connection is just not working. After the start it doesn't ask for my SIM PIN, I get no mobile connection and Baseband-Version is not available.
I tried to flash several modems via Odin but simply none worked.
Today I made a full wipe and installed clean ROM of Jamals AOSP 4.3 V2.0 and it all went perfect and modem works. SIM PIN is requested and I get mobile connection.
I horrayed and immediately restored via Philz the proper Backup of my 4.3 from one week ago and again NO modem.
No matter what I do I can't get the freaking modem running when restoring my 4.3 backup.:crying::crying::crying:
I have no idea what to do and hoping for help here.
Thanks
Felix
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Same here, lost basebans and imei "null". Just odin and back stock is ok. From that time, I not restore 4.3 after try 4.4 anymore. Have to re-install for sercure.
happened to me too with both jamal 4.3 4.4
did the backup for nothing, i had to format the phone and start from nothing again with 4.3 and reinstall all stuff
Everything works fine, but when booting into recovery I get this tiny message in the upper left corner when the Samsungs Galaxy S4 Start-Up Logo appears:
Recovery Booting... (normal)
Recovery is not SEANDROID enforcing(red font)
Set Warranty Bit: Recovery (yellow font)
I think I get this since I tried to flash the latest Samsung factory image with Odin 3.09. Does anyone know what that means and how I can remove it
Thanks
Felix
Kernel-Version is 3.4.0
Build JWR66Y.S003.130805
Am I running the right Kernel for Jamals AOSP 4.3 v2.0 ROM?
This all started when I ran out of data on my device and decided to root it so that I could use the SD card. I had previously rooted a droid 2 and a galaxy nexus so I wasn't a complete noob but I'm not in any way a programmer and I had never used Odin. So not wanting to mess with things without having a back up I followed some tutorials and downloaded the android sdk and used adb to back up. I thought I was doing a full system backup but whether I made a mistake or this simply doesn't back up everything I don't know. The file size should have been a clue but I missed it. I did get my apps
I then proceeded to follow the tutorials on this site for rooting the device. They are all for the GT-S7710 but I was hoping the letter (L) was a program only type thing and wouldn't make a difference. I used this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=40232503&postcount=45 and downloaded the DEODEXED Version. I then rebooted the phone and everything appeared to be working fine and I was rooted. I could have sworn I had data. I then realized that I didn't have CWM as a recovery so I downloaded and installed CWM recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43294839 It was after rebooting (and maybe a reset I can't remember at this point) that I noticed I had no data.
So I flashed a few other ROMs including VANIR (and the recovery he suggests) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2689519 I and CM 11 plus a stock rom (S7710LUBAMC1_S7710LUUBAMC1_CHO Samsung kies tells me CHO is the region for my device) but didn't have mobile data in any of them.
Still hoping to get mobile data working again I flashed a stock Recovery and A stock Boot.img from here...(Well I can't seem to find the thread now). It was a link to the stock boot.img and stock recovery.img (GT-S7710) from someone wanting a CWM recovery built. I then reflashed the stock ROM from above still no mobile data. My flash count in download mode is up to 26 lol and nothing I have tried restores the mobile data although as long as the phone boots, I do have wifi.
Is there ANYthing else I can try? I would really like to have my mobile data back even if it means I don't get to root.
No data connection
It turned out my no data was caused by not having any APN settings after flashing the custom ROM. I copied the settings from hubbies phone and now data works fine. I can't believe I spent so much time working on this and trying different things when it was something so simple.
Hi I need desperate help
two days ago I went from CM11 to S4I9505 Google Play Edition ROM 5.0.1 and everything was running perfectly. Today I used an app known as "ROM Installer" to flash TWRP easily which it did but I couldnt go back to normal menus and it kept on booting back to Recovery. So I wiped everything and installed the same ROM as it is in my External SD. It was successful but it still would boot to recovery and nothing would work. So I thought my option was to unroot the phone. I used the XDA Unroot/Unbrick guide and used an Android 5.0. Lollipop firmware to flash the stock firmware (second time every using Odin, the first was disastrous and I hated it). I flashed the official stock and it is running but cannot activate WiFi what so ever. It just refuses to toggle. So I reflashed the stock firmware again and it still doesn't work. I was thinking of somehow downgrading to KitKat, use CM Installer which is how I initially rooted the phone and revert to a CWM backup that I made before I flashed the S4 GPE ROM and start over. However I tried using that CM Installer and since im on Lollipop it would refuse to work and I really wanna get back to how everything was before :'( I really dont know what to do (No warranty or anything on this S4) All I can do is make calls and texts. Please help!
fixed!
I've fixed it! Its all back on stock with the all that bloatware and useless features only problem now is whether there is a way to deleted this thread
Hi to everyone,
I have some problems with my SM-N9005 I will explain everything from beginning what I did so you can have a clear picture. I had stock 4.4.2 rom when I bought my phone but I am a app freak so I had to do root actually my friend did it using odin because I am not so good with android knowledge. That was almost 2 years ago and with 4.4.2 I had no problems. Using camera, recording, wifi everything worked great. I have fastest class San Disk 64 GB memory card and I set camera video to save directly on it and it worked without any problems. This past month my phone started to be slow because of 2 years junk and using so I decided to put latest custom rom (I think 5.1.x something) but my friend was afraid if we dont put good rom that we will brick my phone so he told me to do a reset factory defaults and the phone will be unrooted and then go to software update option and update it to 5.0. I couldn't do that because it reported error phone changed or something like it was rooted but it was not. Lucky for me before root we did cwm backup of my phone so my friend restored backup and then we tried again software update again but still same error phone is changed (I was hundred precent sure that phone is unrooted but still no luck). Then we decided to install Kies and do firmware upgrade from options tab and it worked. It was 1.3 Gb update and kies showed that it is 5.0 and last firmware version for note 3. So I am using phone for few days now but I noticed few problems. Everytime I restart phone it forgets all wifi passwords and also when I come home I meen when I change ruter same story. Today I wanted to talk a picture and when I took a picture and go to gallery to see it (from camera up left corner see last image) phone restarted and when I wanted to record a video it said recording failed and then it restarts every time.Everything else is working great, phone is fast,maybe battery drains faster than on 4.4.2 but it is not a big problem for me. Sorry for my english if I have some mistakes. Can you help me please with these 2 issues?
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Anyone please?
Did you try with a factory reset ?https://www.androidpit.com/factory-reset-note-3
You could possibly try flashing the stock android 5.0 with odin, that should be the best way of making sure everything is installed properly unless anyone thinks that would be a bad idea.
Chris
I tried factory reset and same story, ok I will try with odin I will go to see my friend in few days and then I will post results
So I solved it by:
Using Odin 3.11.1
I have already tried Factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik, flashed the latest stock Lolipop or older lollipop with ODin and nothing solved the problem.
So I tried to flash the latest stock lolipop with Odin and marking checked (Auto Reboot , F. Reset Time , Phone EFS clear, Phone Bootloader update).
I suspect that the Phone EFS clear did the trick. It's function is related to the modem and radio of the phone. And clearly the modem has a problem here.
I hope this will help anybody out there having this issue.
This problem happened after trying to flash lollipop using FlashFire app to reserve the root that I had in my previos Android KK 4.4.2.
Phone: Galaxy Note3 N9005 Malaysian
I have a Samsung s8 snapdragon 950U, T-mobile, running android 7.0, baseband - G950USQU2BQK5, build - nrd90m.G950USQS2BQL1. A couple weeks ago the mic stopped working so that I could not use speech-to-text which I rely on heavily. Nothing fixed it until I reflashed the phone with the same firmware. Before that I performed a ROM backup using clockworkmod and moved the backup files to my computer. I also used Titanium to backup system data like sms messages. After that, just as I was going to restore data, I get TMobile message that I’ve never seen before about a firmware update. I figured if it’s Oreo the update would fail because I have a custom ROM. Stupidly I chose to update and the next thing I know I have Android 8 – NOT rooted. That prevented me from using Titanium to restore settings.
Stupidly again, I decided to go back to the android 7 firmware and proceeded to root and flash the phone as I did before. This time it failed. I tried the SAMPWN and SAMFAIL methods repeatedly without success. Now I have bricked phone that just loops through a screen that says “Installing system update” followed immediately by another blue screen with a defunct android that says “no command.” I can get to download mode which Odin sees, but not to recovery, or anything that Smart Switch(which isn’t so smart) sees.
I have been downloading the Oreo firmware G950USQU4CRE9_G950UOYN4CRE9 for the past 4 hours hoping that I can maybe flash that. HELP! Can I somehow restore the nandroid backup using my computer? What should I do. I just need a working phone or I’m in big trouble.
frankygoes said:
I have a Samsung s8 snapdragon 950U, T-mobile, running android 7.0, baseband - G950USQU2BQK5, build - nrd90m.G950USQS2BQL1. A couple weeks ago the mic stopped working so that I could not use speech-to-text which I rely on heavily. Nothing fixed it until I reflashed the phone with the same firmware. Before that I performed a ROM backup using clockworkmod and moved the backup files to my computer. I also used Titanium to backup system data like sms messages. After that, just as I was going to restore data, I get TMobile message that I’ve never seen before about a firmware update. I figured if it’s Oreo the update would fail because I have a custom ROM. Stupidly I chose to update and the next thing I know I have Android 8 – NOT rooted. That prevented me from using Titanium to restore settings.
Stupidly again, I decided to go back to the android 7 firmware and proceeded to root and flash the phone as I did before. This time it failed. I tried the SAMPWN and SAMFAIL methods repeatedly without success. Now I have bricked phone that just loops through a screen that says “Installing system update” followed immediately by another blue screen with a defunct android that says “no command.” I can get to download mode which Odin sees, but not to recovery, or anything that Smart Switch(which isn’t so smart) sees.
I have been downloading the Oreo firmware G950USQU4CRE9_G950UOYN4CRE9 for the past 4 hours hoping that I can maybe flash that. HELP! Can I somehow restore the nandroid backup using my computer? What should I do. I just need a working phone or I’m in big trouble.
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update: i was able to flash the oreo firmware basically puts me back at step 2. becasue i backed up when rooted my backups now cannot be restored, or can they, at least in part? Is there any way i can restore some of the data in either the nandroid or titanium backups to my nonrooted oreo s8?