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[Q] Failed Custom Recovery Update w/ Dandroid 4.4

Phone: Samsung Galaxy S4 ATT I337UCUAMDL
Model Number in settings on 4.4 ROM = GT-I9505G
As the title says, I installed dandroid's newest 4.4 ROM from WICKED v5 4.2.2 and lost root. So I attempted to update my CWM Recovery from Odus 1x to the newest using Odin which failed do to write protected I suppose all though others says that doesnt effect their installs.
Where I'm at:
Cannot boot into recovery, says booting recovery the just reboots and enters Dandroid's ROM w/o root.
I'm now lost and have been reading the forums for hours. Currently downloading STOCK Samsung firmware for my device I337UCUAMDL_I337ATTAMDL_ATT.zip
CASUAL failed.
What do I need to do to get back to WORKING custom recovery w/ rooted dandriod 4.4 kitkat rom. Should I use Odin and flash stock rom then motochopper to root and try to reinstall working CWM recovery?
Please advise best course of action. My phone had been working properly with every ROM I tried before update to 4.4 ROM and attempted CWM recovery update (thinking that would fix my root issue). Thanks all!

If you have a nandroid, and I hope you do, just restore that in your custom recovery. If you don't, then you're going to have to return to stock with odin

Tried motochopper on the phone as it sits and it fails as well.
I have a stock backup but the problem is I no longer have access to any recovery. Guess I'm just gonna have to flash the stock firmware with Odin when its finished downloading and start over.

Just finished Odin flash back to samsung factory firmware. Phone stuck at att world logo on bootup, still can't access recovery. Any ideas?

GSXRspike said:
Just finished Odin flash back to samsung factory firmware. Phone stuck at att world logo on bootup, still can't access recovery. Any ideas?
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If you flashed Odin successfully you can get into recovery.

Finally got into recovery it rebooted 3 times but just holding the req. buttons finally got me in.
Back on factory firmware and rooted w/ cwm recovery all back in place properly worrking.
I would like to use the Dandroid 4.4 ROM with this device. When I install am I going to lose root again and if so, how I do I get it back on this device since the model in the settings is going to change from I337 to I9505G after installing this ROM?

Figured it all out last night, re-flashed Dandroid's latest ROM which still caused me to loose root, then flashed SuperSU 1.51 instead of 1.80 and regained root. All is right in the world now.

GSXRspike said:
Figured it all out last night, re-flashed Dandroid's latest ROM which still caused me to loose root, then flashed SuperSU 1.51 instead of 1.80 and regained root. All is right in the world now.
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Hey, if you dont mind me asking where did you get the 1.51 zip to flash? I'm having a similar issues with same ROM where i lost root but have recovery access.
Thanks
Update: Found the file. Flashed it. Root is back. Have you let market update it automatically? If so did you lose root afterwords?

I know, I know, I'm stupid before you even read. Please help me with THIS brick...

I'm a total moron, I'll just start there. Was running KOT49H【4.4.2】Google Edition and wanted to go back to vision x since your latest update. Full wipe in twrp, installed vision x, icy theme, went to install ktoonsez kernel and it failed. Somehow between people distracting me, I decided it didn't fail. Reboot, and now bricked. Flashed stock firmware 4.2.2 mdl in odin, but no dice on the reboot. It's because I'm still on a 4.4.2 kernel, isn't it...
Now what do I do? Let kies fix me? Can kies even fix me with 4.4.2 not even being released yet? Kicking myself for being so dumb!!!

First, you're not on 4.4.2. Sounds like you're on 4.3. See if this helps you http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48557730
This is for the i337

jd1639 said:
First, you're not on 4.4.2. Sounds like you're on 4.3. See if this helps you http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48557730
This is for the i337
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ok, I'm just saying, it wasn't booting after I put vision x 4.3 rom on without flashing the loki'd ktoonsez 4.3 kernel. Will updating flash the 4.3 kernel too?

xjimmy said:
ok, I'm just saying, it wasn't booting after I put vision x 4.3 rom on without flashing the loki'd ktoonsez 4.3 kernel. Will updating flash the 4.3 kernel too?
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What bootloader are you one ? It seems to me you are on MDL and I can't see why you would need to flash the MK2. You are just stuck in recovery correct ? If you can get in recovery just flash the vision x rom again.
You didn't state if you can get into recovery or not. Everytime to flash a rom you flash a kernel so even KT's kernel failed you still have a kernel. You might need to explain some more
EDIT: your other post said you cant get into recovery. When you say no dice on the reboot does that mean it's in a bootloop and all you get is the sammy slash screen ? Can you try ODIN again and flash the MDL firmware. I'm not sure but back in the S3 days if you flashed older firmware you had a bootloop after but then had to just do a factory reset in stock 3e recovery and it would boot

hednik said:
What bootloader are you one ? It seems to me you are on MDL and I can't see why you would need to flash the MK2. You are just stuck in recovery correct ? If you can get in recovery just flash the vision x rom again.
You didn't state if you can get into recovery or not. Everytime to flash a rom you flash a kernel so even KT's kernel failed you still have a kernel. You might need to explain some more
EDIT: your other post said you cant get into recovery. When you say no dice on the reboot does that mean it's in a bootloop and all you get is the sammy slash screen ? Can you try ODIN again and flash the MDL firmware. I'm not sure but back in the S3 days if you flashed older firmware you had a bootloop after but then had to just do a factory reset in stock 3e recovery and it would boot
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I did an emergency formware recovery via kies. It reset everything stock on 4.2.2 mdl! I thought for sure it would've bumped me to 4.3 that way. Thank you for taking the time to respond and try to help. I will be much more careful moving forward and am considering this luck for my crazy mistakes. Yay!!

[Q] Flashing BootLoader SM 90005

Hey im having trouble install TWRP/CWM
The situation i upgraded to 4.4 on my note 3
Then i tried to install one of the recovery with Flashify/Goomanger/Odin
But everytime i boot to recovery it just boots to android or it just gets stuck in a bootloop
Till i take the battery out and power it on
My guess is the I need to flash the boot loader
But i dont know how to nor to i have the files
Update: hey guys i have followed your steps and it work i got CWM on my device
But when i flash a rom it doesnt actually flash the rom and stay with stock

You need to re flash 4.4.2 kit kat with od in tick update bootloader
Then root with chain fires auto cf then flash custom recovery
Hit Thanks if helps
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GeneralAdidish said:
Hey im having trouble install TWRP/CWM
The situation i upgraded to 4.4 on my note 3
Then i tried to install one of the recovery with Flashify/Goomanger/Odin
But everytime i boot to recovery it just boots to android or it just gets stuck in a bootloop
Till i take the battery out and power it on
My guess is the I need to flash the boot loader
But i dont know how to nor to i have the files
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2614787

[Q] unable to install Gapps after installing latest 4.4.2 firmware

Hi there,
Long time lurker on the forums here, and have been browsing around the whole day to find a solution to my problems without luck .
Yeasterday I received my Galaxy Note 3 (N900T), but I had very poor reception, I thought this was because the N900T was appearantly a US model which I wasn't aware of, but since hardware was the same I decided a custom rom might fix things up.
I installed the latest CM 11 nightly and appropriate google apps but without any luck (reception still bad)
Then I decided to install the origional 4.4.2 firmware for T-mobile N900T, now the reception and everything works just fine, but I get a bunch of errors that google app x (youtube, playstore etc) have stopped working, so I get alot of these pop-ups and can't use the playstore.
I thought: Ok I just need to install the latest Gapps for the 4.4.2 version, there's where the problem comes in. When I booted into recovery it would boot into the standard android recovery and not CWM recovery. I couldn't do anything in the normal recovery mode to install gapps. So I managed to download the rom manager through my browser and just installed that without the playstore, after this i installed the recovery, found out my root was undone after the patch.
I then downloaded the chainfire thingy and flashed it with odin, which all worked fine and I managed to root my phone again. When opening SuperSU it says there was some 'KNOX thingies remaining which I said ok take away. After this I installed the CWM recovery, and said: Launch ClockworkMod recovery so I could install the new version of Gapps there. However: This is where it gets stuck in a loop trying to launch the bootloader, and I was unable to get into the bootloader. The only way to stop the bootloader loop was to take out the battery, boot into download mode and cancel the download mode after which my phone would continue to boot normally.
After this I tried to flash the 4.3 version of android with odin, and even reflashing the current 4.4.2 version, but I can't flash any roms with odin anymore as it gives me the Fail! Auth. error everytime in odin.
If anybody could help me that would be greatly appreciated!

Just to clarify:
I am still working on this, I downloaded Goomanager and installed TWRP recovery, but no luck, my phone will simply get stuck in a loop when i try to boot it into recovery. I can still startup my phone normally, but it's quite useless without gapps.
Thanks in advance for any assistance, I really feel lost on this one :/

Maybe its too late but I wonder if it would have helped if you install another kernel when you had CM11. Maybe that would have had solve the problems with the reception? I'm a total noob at this, so I don't know, its just something that I thought of.

grafgever said:
Just to clarify:
I am still working on this, I downloaded Goomanager and installed TWRP recovery, but no luck, my phone will simply get stuck in a loop when i try to boot it into recovery. I can still startup my phone normally, but it's quite useless without gapps.
Thanks in advance for any assistance, I really feel lost on this one :/
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Not sure but when i upgraded my N9006 to KitKat and tried to root it using cf-auto-root for my phone it went into a boot loop. I ended up using the one designed for N9005 as it specifically stated it was made for the 4.4 boot loader. I'm guessing the other ones are for 4.3?

locn said:
Not sure but when i upgraded my N9006 to KitKat and tried to root it using cf-auto-root for my phone it went into a boot loop. I ended up using the one designed for N9005 as it specifically stated it was made for the 4.4 boot loader. I'm guessing the other ones are for 4.3?
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I managed to flash the philz recovery with odin, I got the phone working now, except when I make a call I'll loose all mobile network signal afterwards. Unsure how to solve this. Could I flash a European stock firmware to my n900t?

Stuck in Boot loop after Rooting

Guys i have 910F...Running ANK4 KITKAT. I tried to root it with CF-Auto-Root-trlte-trltexx-smn910f. The rooting tutorial said i had to disable auto reboot and should perform a battery pullout after rooting....everything went fine untill i pulled out the battery and put it back in after root...the phone turns on and says "RECOVERY IS NOT SEANDROID ENFORCING" And just restarts...i am stuck in a bootloop whenver i try to root it.....i was able to get the phone back online after flashing stock 4.4.4 in ODIN, but what am i doing wrong here....why cant i root this phone?

This happened to me yesterday - you cannot root a stock rom v5.1.1 with CF Auto Root, if you try it will end up in a bootloop. There is a way around this if you search the Note 4 CF Auto Root thread - pages 121 and 124 if i remember rightly.

But i am not on 5.1 i am on stock 4.4.4....anyone else might wana help?

dork997 said:
But i am not on 5.1 i am on stock 4.4.4....anyone else might wana help?
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4.4.4 what the hell is that?
If you try gingerbread, you will never update a rom. The best android on earth. (just after the eclair, froyo was a major disappointment)

dork997 said:
Guys i have 910F...Running ANK4 KITKAT. I tried to root it with CF-Auto-Root-trlte-trltexx-smn910f. The rooting tutorial said i had to disable auto reboot and should perform a battery pullout after rooting....everything went fine untill i pulled out the battery and put it back in after root...the phone turns on and says "RECOVERY IS NOT SEANDROID ENFORCING" And just restarts...i am stuck in a bootloop whenver i try to root it.....i was able to get the phone back online after flashing stock 4.4.4 in ODIN, but what am i doing wrong here....why cant i root this phone?
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Are you trying to keep a stock ROM and root it?
I would upgrade to lolipop. I run AICP on my n910f and I love it, best ROM for our phone at the moment in my opinion. To go to a custom lolipop from kitkat you'll need to first flash a lolipop stock ROM, here Then you can flash your custom recovery via odin. Then you can flash any custom ROM via zip file from your recovery software as usual. Custom ROMs are usually rooted by default already so once you've flashed it you're already rooted. If you search the forum you can find a rooted stock ROM if that is your preference.

guts100 said:
Are you trying to keep a stock ROM and root it?
I would upgrade to lolipop. I run AICP on my n910f and I love it, best ROM for our phone at the moment in my opinion. To go to a custom lolipop from kitkat you'll need to first flash a lolipop stock ROM, here Then you can flash your custom recovery via odin. Then you can flash any custom ROM via zip file from your recovery software as usual. Custom ROMs are usually rooted by default already so once you've flashed it you're already rooted. If you search the forum you can find a rooted stock ROM if that is your preference.
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stock 4.4.4 rom

dork997 said:
stock 4.4.4 rom
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Did you try a factory data reset after using autoroot? Go into the stock recovery and do a factory data reset after auto root and it may boot after that. If you want to keep 4.4.4 stock ROM then just flash an already rooted stock ROM. They're in the ROM section for your device. That's what I would do if you're having issues with cf auto root.