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[Q] please help recovery locked

i installed safe strap and got gold finger rom working now im locked out when i try to boot in recovery it says firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies and try again i have download mode no recovery what can i do to fix stock recovery for samsung galaxy s4 can it be fixed i tried flashing with odin the stock recovery that fixed it last time it fails when it get to the last boot check

There is no real use for the stock recovery. What are you really trying to achieve?

jmjoyas said:
There is no real use for the stock recovery. What are you really trying to achieve?
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i installed safe strap and sucessfully installed gold finger but installed *root* recovery tools app in playstore and flashed over twrp well that locked my original recovery and has messed everything up where i cant load anything but download mode rom is not working just download mode =,(
update i reflash the sgh-i337 .pit file and gain access to stock recovery but when i try to flash another stock rom fails and i have to reflash the .pit file when it loads up it shows a att logo that goes to a weird image and freezes is it hard bricked
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fixed the phone slot was clicked and not pda thanks for the help i figured it out and im glad i did omg i was almost in tears =)) awsome work xda

You needed the pit file because of the re-partition option ticked in Odin.

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Today i am update my phone to official lolipop from samsung and...
My wifi button don't work he is always grey
I know what to do but.....i don't have root permisions
For root i need to instal cwm but all computers don't recognize my phone
Now i need update.zip to flash in this stock cwm to get new cwm with install zip from sd
Or any other way to install cwm or twrp
Can anyone help me?

Download the modem files from the appropriate thread in S4 General, download a copy of Odin, and flash the modem through Odin. That should solve your problem. Then worry about rooting.

I know
Haa i know that but cant connect phone on pc

Use a PC with the correct drivers installed

problem is in my phone
ahh friends connecting problem is inside my phone no drivers and pc.Regulator of voltage Is die in my phone and he can only charge cant use USB
i need update.zip to flash recovery who have optin to install zip from sd card after this my problem is solved

Then you're going to have to get your S4 fixed before you can do anything. In order to root Android 5.x on the S4 you have to use Odin, which requires you to be connected to a PC.

[Q] Need Help!!!!!! Phone Stuck at Samsung Logo

I am currently new to all this stuff so i dont have an exact idea what i was doing
First of all i rooted my Device I9500 Which had 5.0.1 Android
then i installed TWRP Recovery and then i was not able to backup any stuff to External SD Card so i installed some Boot.img which i exactly dont remember which i installed from watching any youtube video then later some problem occured It showed some error like "firmware upgrade encountered an issue" then i flashed Philz touch recovery which then worked and i was able to backup my data but i was not able to Boot into my Original ROM or couldnt see an option for that. Then i downloaded The Ozcan V6.3 ROM and tried installing it it succesfully installed but after that its not able to boot uo and stuck at SAMSUNG Logo Screen.
Please Help me What to DO !!!.
Thanks In Advance

If your device can still get into download mode, download the stock Android 5.x image for your device and flash it using Odin. That will get you back to square one so you can start over with rooting and installing the custom ROM.

I had the same problem on my gs4. It would only go to galaxy logo so I flashed the lollipop firmware via odin and all is well.
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Just have to flash the default one with Odin ?
i also backed up my old data with philz to my sd card that also and i also downloaded a new Default 5.0.1 ROM ?
Which one should i flash ?
and whats the critera for finding ROMs leaving the model number ? (noob question)

Is the S4 unlocked? If not, what country are you in and what carrier do you have?

My Country is India and its the International Version I9500 and i am not pretty sure that it was unlocked or not .but it was rooted and recovery was installed
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I just installed recovery back and then tried to install ROM the ROM was also stuck on the Boot Loop I think my boot loader isnt unlocked and ima stuck there because of that

I9500 isnt bootloader locked. And u must be flashing the boot.img on other partition that not in the odin package. So u must search how to repartition ur device. But. U MUST VERY CAREFULL WITH REPARTITION OPTION! U MIGHT BRICK UR DEVICE IF U DONT UNDERSTAND WHAT U DOING!. And if u wanna flash recovery and boot.img or bootloader thing. U must ONLY flash for I9500 version!. And if u successfully repartition ur device. U will lose all internal storage too. Ok good luck

Utkarsh_Chaudhary said:
My Country is India and its the International Version I9500 and i am not pretty sure that it was unlocked or not .but it was rooted and recovery was installed.
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You would know if you were carrier unlocked as you'd be able to put a SIM from a different carrier into the S4 and have the device work. To get you the correct ROM we still need to know your carrier.

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Hi my galaxy s4 gt i9500 is stuck in a bootloop. When is boot I get "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in kies and try again"... when I boot into download mode I see "secure download : enabled" which wasn't usually there. Am trying to flash the pit file with twrp but Odin is failing.... is it because of the secure download enabled?? Please help me

You can't flash the PIT file with TWRP.
Do you have Odin? Do you have a copy of your stock ROM, downloaded either from Sammobile or samsung updates? If not, you'll need to get them. You then flash the firmware through Odin WITHOUT the PIT file. This should restore your device to operating condition. Afterward, you will of course need to root the S4 and flash a copy of TWRP to be able to install a custom ROM.

Carrier is Airtel

Galaxy a3 300fu bootloop error

I have rooted my galaxy a3 300fu with kingroot and everything was perfect also I had twrp recovery
I tried to switch from kinguser to supersu with supersume app and everything was perfect I started supersu than it asked me to update binary and I could choose from normal or whatever and cwm/twrp I pressed on cwm/twrp and continued afterfew moments of using the app it asked me to update binary again now i pressed on normal and messege came out that update failed and asked me to reboot i pressed reboot than I was stuck in bootloop but I managed to enter twrp recoveryand tried most of tutorials but nothing works and also when I try to reboot my phone it says supersu not installed do youwant to install it and it says every single time please help me I'm new in this and sorry if I posted this on wrong place and my grammar

Easier way to recover phone is enter in download (vol-,power,menu) and flash stock rom using odin.
After that , you can root your phone and install TWRP again

cbolumar said:
Easier way to recover phone is enter in download (vol-,power,menu) and flash stock rom using odin.
After that , you can root your phone and install TWRP again
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thank you for your help I will try to do that

cbolumar said:
Easier way to recover phone is enter in download (vol-,power,menu) and flash stock rom using odin.
After that , you can root your phone and install TWRP again
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I need help where can I find stock rom i have tried dowload it from sammobile but it takes ages please help

I got the stock rom but I read somewhere that usb debugging must be on for download mode but I cant enable it because i cant power on my phone
nevermind I did everything now works fine

help, bootloop on s4 i9515

Hi, i tried to install a framework for xposed installer with FlashFire. It was all gone successfully but when the phone try to restart it remain on the "SAMSUNG" logo.. what did I do? it is soft bricked? how can i solve the problem? my phone is rooted but i have the default recovery mode.. please help me

slash00_ said:
Hi, i tried to install a framework for xposed installer with FlashFire. It was all gone successfully but when the phone try to restart it remain on the "SAMSUNG" logo.. what did I do? it is soft bricked? how can i solve the problem? my phone is rooted but i have the default recovery mode.. please help me
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You have to flash the uninstaller. But for that you need a custom recovery.

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and can I install a custom recovery through the default Android recovery?

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GDReaper said:
You have to flash the uninstaller. But for that you need a custom recovery.
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And can I install a custom recovery through the default Android recovery?

slash00_ said:
And can I install a custom recovery through the default Android recovery?
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No. You need to put your phone into download mode and use Odin to flash it. You can either flash a custom recovery with Odin and use said recovery to flash the xposed uninstaller zip or you can flash a new ROM altogether.
There's no other way to recover from this since your phone doesn't boot.

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GDReaper said:
No. You need to put your phone into download mode and use Odin to flash it. You can either flash a custom recovery with Odin and use said recovery to flash the xposed uninstaller zip or you can flash a new ROM altogether.
There's no other way to recover from this since your phone doesn't boot.
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sorry man, I tried all yesterday but I didn't have success, can you please link a YouTube video that explains how to do it? or do you know how to do it?
please man, I want that phone back.. thanks..

I suggest starting over by flashing the stock rom with Odin, then use Odin to flash twrp, and then use twrp to flash the zip files.