So I'm no stranger to rooting and flashing roms but I messed up big this time. I have a sch-r970 with stock rom and twrp recovery. I attempted to flash a rom. Can't remember the name but the end goal was to get xposed on it. I made a back up then did what I thought was a factory reset. It went downhill from there. I ended up completely wiping the phone. I didn't realize until I couldn't find the rom and rebooted thinking I'll be fine. Well I got the warning that "no OS is installed continue?". I did and now it won't even load twrp. Only download and emergency mode. How screwed am I?
Not very. As long as you can get into download mode you can restore your phone to operating condition. Download the stock ROM for your device from Sammobile and install it using Odin.
Sorry. I should've elaborated more. I downloaded a stock rom and attempted the odin method. It recognized the device but when I started the process it failed. I attempted it via kies as well and it wouldn't connect to my phone. The only thing I haven't tried it an adb push. Unless I'm using the software wrong... Toss me a life jacket plz
Nvm. Just tried a couple different roms. Apparently odin didn't want to flash a couple and it got me worried. Thx for the help.
Glad you were able to resolve things.
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Alright, so i soft bricked my phone is what the internet is telling me. the phone turns on but stops at the opening samsung screen with the unlock symbol on it. i can get into odin mode, and recovery, but i have a locked recovery. I went to flash a rom to my stock slot which is what the forum said to do so i did it. looking back it was pretty stupid, and now when i tried to recover my back up it came back with an error and then said there was no os system in my stock slot. i tried doing a recovery in rom slot 1 which it recovered but when i restarted my phone everytime it went into a boot loop. so now i have a very expensive paperweight. so my questions are one is there anyway that i could salvage my phone. two is there a way i could get it back to where i was with any of my recoveries that i have. i herd the odin method works but will it work for my phone? i tried the odin before but never could get it to work. also kies is out of the question because neither programs will recognize my phone.
oh yeah my phone. so the last thing i had running on it was the 4.4.2 update I337 NC1 would i have to flash the NC1 os or could i flash an earlier one because all i could find were the 4.2.2's and the NB1 flash.
tshaulis said:
Alright, so i soft bricked my phone is what the internet is telling me. the phone turns on but stops at the opening samsung screen with the unlock symbol on it. i can get into odin mode, and recovery, but i have a locked recovery. I went to flash a rom to my stock slot which is what the forum said to do so i did it. looking back it was pretty stupid, and now when i tried to recover my back up it came back with an error and then said there was no os system in my stock slot. i tried doing a recovery in rom slot 1 which it recovered but when i restarted my phone everytime it went into a boot loop. so now i have a very expensive paperweight. so my questions are one is there anyway that i could salvage my phone. two is there a way i could get it back to where i was with any of my recoveries that i have. i herd the odin method works but will it work for my phone? i tried the odin before but never could get it to work. also kies is out of the question because neither programs will recognize my phone.
oh yeah my phone. so the last thing i had running on it was the 4.4.2 update I337 NC1 would i have to flash the NC1 os or could i flash an earlier one because all i could find were the 4.2.2's and the NB1 flash.
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1. As long as you can get into Odin mode, you're ok.
2. if you are on NB1 or NC1 base running safestrap 3.72, stock slot is the ONLY slot you can use. ROM slots do not work.
3. it's not really clear what you did to cause the boot loop, but lets get you back to stock...
Check out post 5 in my thread. If you follow these steps, you should be back to stock (and rooted with recovery, if you want) in no time.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2616221
BTW - Post 2 has a list of ROMs that are safe to flash for safetrap users. Read the install notes first then follow the install instructions to install one of the ROMS.
guut13 said:
1. As long as you can get into Odin mode, you're ok.
2. if you are on NB1 or NC1 base running safestrap 3.72, stock slot is the ONLY slot you can use. ROM slots do not work.
3. it's not really clear what you did to cause the boot loop, but lets get you back to stock...
Check out post 5 in my thread. If you follow these steps, you should be back to stock (and rooted with recovery, if you want) in no time.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2616221
BTW - Post 2 has a list of ROMs that are safe to flash for safetrap users. Read the install notes first then follow the install instructions to install one of the ROMS.
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sir i will tell you that your a genius. its pretty cool to see the creator of the link you posted (which is you) being used on other sites. goes to show you really know what you are doing. for me well i thought i did, and wish i did. it might be awhile before i change roms again or at least until i get more knowledge.
ok so from my understanding safestrap is having difficulties being you and only flash in the stock slot. ok well what i did was flashed the hyperdrive rom (from your link) to the stock slot because in the hyperdrive forum it said only can flash on stock. so i did a full wipe on stock then flashed the hyperdrive and gapps. well my guess is when i did the full wipe it wiped the os. also i didn't grab the supporting modules for the rom so i didnt have wifi or service which made me try to restore from my nandroid and couldnt because it said error loading /system. then tried other things i thought would work and softbricked it so to that.
i think for newbies like myself its a lot of reading and well we could miss some things and screw things up. and plus samsung had to make different freakin models like the i337 or i9505 or the i9000 or something and everything has to be the exact same and perfect. but oh well. i am happy to tell you that my phone is fully restored and working from the day before all this happened. thanks again and sorry for the long message.
Hey there, is there a kind soul out there who can help me out with the whole process of rooting and installing a custom rom?
I've been searching and trying out things for a lot of hours now, and I've reached a dead end. I have no clue what I'm doing.
I have skype/teamspeak/teamviewer
- Flash TWRP recovery with Odin.
- Wipe in the recovery.
- Flash the rom you want.
Lennyz1988 said:
- Flash TWRP recovery with Odin.
- Wipe in the recovery.
- Flash the rom you want.
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I've been trying to flash TWRP for some time now, just keeps failing and then rebooting. I will try a bit more and report back. Thanks for your help.
Any idea how I install a kernel?
Even though I've done this stuff before on my SGS1, I'm totally blank.
Update: Found the .tar file after some digging, let's see if it works
Update1: Nothing happened. I am lost tbh. I've got 20+ things downloaded and NONE are working the intended way.
Update2: I think I've succesfully rooted the phone now (even though it should've been already) It says that I have no binaries installed?
Update3: Sorry for venting, but I'm really annoyed at this point. Nothing is working, even though I'm following every thread I see step by step.
Update4: Tried flashing with odinv3.09 instead of v3.04, and now I can't access my recovery anymore. -.-
Update5: I'm giving up, I'm not touching ANYTHING until I can get some help. If I do more and fail, I think I'm going to throw the phone at the wall out of frustration. /vent
PhilGizzle said:
I've been trying to flash TWRP for some time now, just keeps failing and then rebooting. I will try a bit more and report back. Thanks for your help.
Any idea how I install a kernel?
Even though I've done this stuff before on my SGS1, I'm totally blank.
Update: Found the .tar file after some digging, let's see if it works
Update1: Nothing happened. I am lost tbh. I've got 20+ things downloaded and NONE are working the intended way.
Update2: I think I've succesfully rooted the phone now (even though it should've been already) It says that I have no binaries installed?
Update3: Sorry for venting, but I'm really annoyed at this point. Nothing is working, even though I'm following every thread I see step by step.
Update4: Tried flashing with odinv3.09 instead of v3.04, and now I can't access my recovery anymore. -.-
Update5: I'm giving up, I'm not touching ANYTHING until I can get some help. If I do more and fail, I think I'm going to throw the phone at the wall out of frustration. /vent
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What's your phone model? It is described in the download mode.
Uncheck auto-reboot before flashing the recovery in Odin.
Almost all Odin errors can be resolved by a different usb port and/or different usb cable.
Lennyz1988 said:
What's your phone model? It is described in the download mode.
Uncheck auto-reboot before flashing the recovery in Odin.
Almost all Odin errors can be resolved by a different usb port and/or different usb cable.
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It's a GTI9505
I tried doing that, I did get Philz recovery installed, now I accidentally deleted the stock rom on my phone.
I did find a good usb port, and should be working (I've got drivers installed)
Philz recovery wants me to root my phone, but I guess I can't do that when I have no ROM installed.
Update: I have succesfully installed a 4.4 kitkat rom. Now, my intention is to upgrade to lollipop, and I'm afraid to break my phone at this point, so if I can get some help it would be much appreciated.
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It's a GTI9505
I tried doing that, I did get Philz recovery installed, now I accidentally deleted the stock rom on my phone.
I did find a good usb port, and should be working (I've got drivers installed)
Philz recovery wants me to root my phone, but I guess I can't do that when I have no ROM installed.
Update: I have succesfully installed a 4.4 kitkat rom. Now, my intention is to upgrade to lollipop, and I'm afraid to break my phone at this point, so if I can get some help it would be much appreciated.
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You won't break it, just keep doing what you are doing.
First want to say hi and that this site is full of knowledge so any help with my subject will be great.
Got a att s4 sgh-i337 phone. I rooted it before the lollipop ota update was out and everything went fine. Then the lollipop update came out and I followed one of the methods on keeping root and updating to 5.0.1 lollipop on the phone. Everything went fine with that. Still showed root status and never did the phone brick or have any issues in the updating.
At some point though, I did run triangle away because I would have the custom logo and opened padlock when the phone would boot up. I knew it wasn't a huge deal but the counter showed correct and never could just figure out how to get it to go away. Either way, I did run it and I think rebooting twice, the factory loading image came back to it. Now it shows my current status as 0 for the counter and the binary is Official.
I have not tried to load any roms or nothing like this to the phone, just followed the instructions to give it root access so I could run a few different apps and adaway for when I listen to Spotify.
One day, I was trying to install a new version of Words with Friends and it failed because I think wwf was open, but I did go back and install it. For some reason now, my phone never notifies my with a wwf notification when somebody plays me. Every now and then, it might pop up when I restart the phone but that is it. I don't think facebook notifies me everytime also but was more worried about words with friends.
Searching google, it says to go into recovery mode and flash the cache of the phone there. I have done the cache memory in the phone but that has not fixed my problem. When trying to go to recovery, it never works, it would always show, recovery booting and then load the phone up as normal.
I have download quick boot and rom manager since they all have an option to boot into recovery rather than pressing the buttons but it always does the same thing. Reading the web though, it seemed like I needed to install a different recovery than the factory I guess, so using rom manager, I tried twrp and that didn't work so I installed ClockworldMod 6.0.4.7. Rom manager shows that as the current recovery method.
When I try to boot into recovery, it still shows that recovery is booting and then goes straight to loading the phone as it should normally.
Now though, every time I restart my phone, it says recovery is trying to boot but never does.
How do I fix my phone to be able to boot into recovery and it not try to boot every time it powers on. I have tried searching google but I just just can find an answer to my direct problem. I know how to hold the buttons and go to recovery but does not work, and I also know how to get to it from the different app programs(rom manager and quick boot) but they do not work either. It would be nice to get the wwf notifications to work properly again also.
If you need any information from my phone, please ask. Thanks for any help on my matter,
Charlie
Odin stock and start over.
Apparently, you are not aware that the boot loader is locked, preventing the installation of a custom kernel. You can not use twrp, or rom manager. Rom manager itself may cause issues.
I agree you should flash back to stock and start over to get a clean install. Hopefully, this will solve the issues with notifications as well. You can use the "[GUIDE]Odin to Stock, Updating, Rooting, and Installing Safestrap" by guut13 in the general forum for files and instructions.
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Apparently, you are not aware that the boot loader is locked, preventing the installation of a custom kernel. You can not use twrp, or rom manager. Rom manager itself may cause issues.
I agree you should flash back to stock and start over to get a clean install. Hopefully, this will solve the issues with notifications as well. You can use the "[GUIDE]Odin to Stock, Updating, Rooting, and Installing Safestrap" by guut13 in the general forum for files and instructions.
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Thanks for the replies guys, I really don't know a whole lot about rooting other than following instructions about it. I was unaware you could not use the twrp or cwr as a recovery. My recovery did not work before so that is why I was trying to install those. I knew you could not install custom roms but I did not know that you could not use rom manager to install custom recoveries.
I appreciate the help so far and I will look into that thread you mentioned. I haven't read it but will this take me back to stock lollipop 5.0.1 and I just reinstall apps or will I have to re-root the phone.
Charlie
please delete, sorry
Charlie
You have to go back to 4.4.4, to the nb1 base, root with towelroot, and then use the keeproot method to get back to 5.0.1 rooted. The instructions are in the guide, and also a link to the keeproot thread is there.
By the way, for future reference, questions, help and troubleshooting issues should go in the Q&A forum, not the general forum.
not having any luck
Ok guys,
I am trying to follow the guide but not having much luck.
I downloaded the I337UCUFNB1_4.4_Stock_Odin_tar and put it in the AP Odin file. I'm not sure if I should be using it or the other file named I337UCUFNB1_4.4_Rootable_Stock_Odin_tar to begin with. The instructions said to use the first one so that is the one I was trying to use.
After putting the first file in the AP slot of Odin and hitting start, it begins to try to do it's thing and then says it fails!
What do I do now? Am I doing something wrong or what because I'm trying to follow instructions but not having much luck.
Please help. Sorry for posting in the wrong area also in the beginning.
Charlie
I'm screwed
Now when I turn my phone on, it says Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again?
doing better now
Pretty sure I got it going finally. I changed cords and then changed ports on my computer and it finally did go back to stock without an error. I'm currently back on Lollipop and rooted so now is the fun of reinstalling contact info and anything else. So far I have not rebooted but it was not showing the recovery booting option when it did reboot. Hoping my notifications work properly now also!
Thanks!!!
Charlie
Hi, I have screwed my phone, and I need some help. It had been a long time since I did this sort of thing and didn't go well.
I dowloaded and flashed TWRP without a problem. Then I tried to root via supersu, as I thought everything would be ok, didn't worry about backup, I know, I shouldn't hav, my bad. But now it is too late. After installing supersu with TWRP the phone wouln´t start.
Trying to do a factory reset with TWRP I messed up and deleted everything on the phone. So now I only have TWRP and nothing else.
I am trying to flash a ROM from sammobile with Odin, but it fails at the very beginning and I don´t know what else to do.
- Could I copy a backup from other phone? will that work? I have another identical phone and I could do that, I guess, and restore with TWRP.
- Or maybe flash another ROM, maybe a custom one?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jose
Hi all again,
I have solved my problem and now my phone is working fine. I will try rooting it later and installing the extended memory fix to be able to use the sd card as internal memory. This is what I did.
I copied the TWRP back up from my second phone into my "not working" phone, I followed some tips that I found elsewhere in XDA for assuring that the serial number was correct.
This did not fix the phone, it still wouldn't start. It would go into a loop and the start screen, but allowed me to flash a new ROM.
At first it seemed to work, but wouldn't start. It moved pass the start screen but got stuck on the Samsung logo. I turned it off by removing the battery and eventually it has started OK and seems to be working fine. Now it is downloading some updates.
Just as it may help someone along the line.
jlguillot said:
Hi, I have screwed my phone, and I need some help. It had been a long time since I did this sort of thing and didn't go well.
I dowloaded and flashed TWRP without a problem. Then I tried to root via supersu, as I thought everything would be ok, didn't worry about backup, I know, I shouldn't hav, my bad. But now it is too late. After installing supersu with TWRP the phone wouln´t start.
Trying to do a factory reset with TWRP I messed up and deleted everything on the phone. So now I only have TWRP and nothing else.
I am trying to flash a ROM from sammobile with Odin, but it fails at the very beginning and I don´t know what else to do.
- Could I copy a backup from other phone? will that work? I have another identical phone and I could do that, I guess, and restore with TWRP.
- Or maybe flash another ROM, maybe a custom one?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jose
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U need install MM Bothloder I mean MM rom your phone
So earlier I spent hours trying to fix this with no luck. I downloaded probably over 12 different roms, same thing. I've posted on the questions forum for help and we still couldn't figure it out.
It would go right back to recovery, so I was curious and flashed AOSIP custom rom and it booted right up!
From there I downloaded the stock recovery.img, flashed that. went to wipe, tried wiping regular, didnt work. So I clicked format data, it finished then installed the stock rom and everything is working.
This may not work for everyone, nor am I saying its a guaranteed fix, it's something that worked for me.
Let me know if this works for you if you want the stock recovery img, I can upload it too!
Huge shoutout to @Sergiocubano1 who spent hours trying to help me fix the issue. Happy flashing everyone, also if you go back to a custom recovery orangefox/twrp I would suggest creating a backup of your rom and putting the backup on your computer.
I wonder why it is not possible to restore this phone by putting it in EDL DOWNLOAD mode.
I would like to return stock with the RMX1931EX_11_A.08, because now with this system I suffer from random restarts but I am stopped for fear of brick.
On youtube there are guides for unbrick, but there are passwords to the software for flashing in EDL DOWNLOAD that they release for a fee of $ 20.
I honestly didn't believe this phone was so limited on a mod level.
Such a pity.
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I wonder why it is not possible to restore this phone by putting it in EDL DOWNLOAD mode.
I would like to return stock with the RMX1931EX_11_A.08, because now with this system I suffer from random restarts but I am stopped for fear of brick.
On youtube there are guides for unbrick, but there are passwords to the software for flashing in EDL DOWNLOAD that they release for a fee of $ 20.
I honestly didn't believe this phone was so limited on a mod level.
Such a pity.
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I wouldn't trust them. Did you try this method?
I don't trust them either. For this reason I have not tried.
however other devices like oneplus have the possibility.
to perform a total reset of the device through this EDL DOWNLOAD method.
in this device it is all very strange.
this device has very interesting specifications but is very limited.
I am looking for a system to do a total reset of the device with a stock version.
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So earlier I spent hours trying to fix this with no luck. I downloaded probably over 12 different roms, same thing. I've posted on the questions forum for help and we still couldn't figure it out.
It would go right back to recovery, so I was curious and flashed AOSIP custom rom and it booted right up!
From there I downloaded the stock recovery.img, flashed that. went to wipe, tried wiping regular, didnt work. So I clicked format data, it finished then installed the stock rom and everything is working.
This may not work for everyone, nor am I saying its a guaranteed fix, it's something that worked for me.
Let me know if this works for you if you want the stock recovery img, I can upload it too!
Huge shoutout to @Sergiocubano1 who spent hours trying to help me fix the issue. Happy flashing everyone, also if you go back to a custom recovery orangefox/twrp I would suggest creating a backup of your rom and putting the backup on your computer.
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can you give me the link of the recovery stock?
thank you very much
@xHvlios Please how did you get the stock rom ozip into the stock recovery? I tried putting it in the device storage but when I go into stock recovery -> choose language -> install from storage device -> From phone storage; nothing happens. I also tried putting it in a flash drive but I can't see this device in the recovery.