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[Q] Reset Samsung Galaxy S4 I9505

Hey,
I have following problem:
Few days ago I bought a Samsung Galaxy S4 Lte (I9505 jfltexx). I wanted to root it and then flash CM onto it.
Rooting went fine but when I flashed CM it aborted with Error 7. After that it was soft bricked but i managed to flash the Stock Rom back and everything was fine again.
But today I tried it again but got following problem. CWM was gone and i had to reflash it. But then everytime I tried to get into recovery mode the phone freezed at the "Samsung Galaxy S4 I9505" Logo with the little blue "recovery booting" in the left upper corner. I tried to flash CWM and also twr but it did not help.
SO my final thought was flashing the stock rom again to at least have a working phone. But when I tried to flash the Stock Rom ODIN failed and my phone gave this error "SW REV. CHECK FAIL : fused:2, Binary: 1".
Then every time it started it booted into download mode and said "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies & try again". I googled how I can solve this and someone said that it has something to do with root. So again I flashed the CF auto root and thank god it booted up normally.
But now my problem: I have no root on my phone(superSu says that there are no SU-binarys), I can't update my stock-firmware because the software update says that my phone has been changed. What can I do to 1. gain root access again 2. flash a custom rom(best would be SlimBean)?
Hope you can help me

lup3x said:
Hey,
I have following problem:
Few days ago I bought a Samsung Galaxy S4 Lte (I9505 jfltexx). I wanted to root it and then flash CM onto it.
Rooting went fine but when I flashed CM it aborted with Error 7. After that it was soft bricked but i managed to flash the Stock Rom back and everything was fine again.
But today I tried it again but got following problem. CWM was gone and i had to reflash it. But then everytime I tried to get into recovery mode the phone freezed at the "Samsung Galaxy S4 I9505" Logo with the little blue "recovery booting" in the left upper corner. I tried to flash CWM and also twr but it did not help.
SO my final thought was flashing the stock rom again to at least have a working phone. But when I tried to flash the Stock Rom ODIN failed and my phone gave this error "SW REV. CHECK FAIL : fused:2, Binary: 1".
Then every time it started it booted into download mode and said "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies & try again". I googled how I can solve this and someone said that it has something to do with root. So again I flashed the CF auto root and thank god it booted up normally.
But now my problem: I have no root on my phone(superSu says that there are no SU-binarys), I can't update my stock-firmware because the software update says that my phone has been changed. What can I do to 1. gain root access again 2. flash a custom rom(best would be SlimBean)?
Hope you can help me
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mate mine says the same as yours. so might just be because it failed not sure tho we will just have to wait and see if someone can come up with a answer. regards

joecool666 said:
mate mine says the same as yours. so might just be because it failed not sure tho we will just have to wait and see if someone can come up with a answer. regards
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thank god somebody with the same problem! Is your device rooted? because whenever i try to root it odin says pass and SuperSu is installed but the phone is not rooted

lup3x said:
thank god somebody with the same problem! Is your device rooted? because whenever i try to root it odin says pass and SuperSu is installed but the phone is not rooted
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not now its not. going to wait for c-f for fix until then i am staying where i am stock unrooted lol just to be safe.

joecool666 said:
not now its not. going to wait for c-f for fix until then i am staying where i am stock unrooted lol just to be safe.
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GOTCHA! I used the auto root from here https://plus.google.com/+Chainfire/posts/5ggu7naWtaW and it finally worked! I don't know if it will work for u but i tried it out and i finally got it. Now to the ROM Part

What is this great advantage that rooting and installing cf brings, that makes you run the risk of destroying your brand new, very expensive phone?

YIKES1412 said:
What is this great advantage that rooting and installing cf brings, that makes you run the risk of destroying your brand new, very expensive phone?
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The fact that i really don't like this mess which samsung calls a firmware. When i buy a pc i want to do anything i want with it. Same goes for smartphones.

lup3x said:
The fact that i really don't like this mess which samsung calls a firmware. When i buy a pc i want to do anything i want with it. Same goes for smartphones.
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Ok, I'm just wandering what big difference it makes. What extra does it enable your phone to do? I mean it must be really good to run this risk.
Sent from my GT-I9505 using xda app-developers app

YIKES1412 said:
Ok, I'm just wandering what big difference it makes. What extra does it enable your phone to do? I mean it must be really good to run this risk.
Sent from my GT-I9505 using xda app-developers app
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First of all it's the principle that I don't want to have a phone where Samsung tells me what to do and what not. Then there are things like root which are necessary for me because I'm also using it to test my apps which require root access. And also of course apps from the play store which need it. I'm currently using Slimbean because there's no AOKP build for the I9505. It requires less space on the phone, it's heavily customizable and it has the look of vanilla android. And a huge portion of why I am doing this is just me being curious about such things.
In the end it worked and I learned very much new stuff.
Sry 4 bad english

Hey your English is very good mate. And I was just curious as to why you run the risk, thanks for explaining it to me. I rooted and put a new rom onto an orange san francisco (zte blade) once. But that was not an expensive phone. My wife would kill me if I messed up this s4 with almost 2 years of contract to go lol

[Q] Stuck in the middle!

I am currently trying to get the 4.4.4 update to either go through or stop asking. At the moment it fails every time I try to install it. I assume this is because I was rooted but when trying to use safe strap (tried 3.72 and 3.75) to install jelly beans build 6 I kept getting a black screen on boot. I also tried to flash cynogen with the same issue. All I want to do at this point Is go back to stock so the update will go through or get jellybeans to install properly. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

factory reset and odin a fresh copy of 4.4.2. Reroot then install your rom. Why would you ever go to 4.4.4 where you will not have root.

Root really wasn't that important to me. I was interested in custom roms but when I couldn't get one to load decided it was the only way to get rid of those annoying update requests.
Sent from my SM-N900V using XDA Free mobile app

Also I have no PC
Sent from my SM-N900V using XDA Free mobile app

timothyjon86 said:
Also I have no PC
Sent from my SM-N900V using XDA Free mobile app
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You are on NC4 yes? If so you need a pc and you need to odin the unified firmware that is why you got the black screen. Also no jellybeans for you your stuck on all of the current NC4 based roms.
to take the NK1 update will also require a pc and is also non root able or reversible.
To get rid of the update notices freeze sdm.apk using titanium backup pro.

Brick
Hey guy's I'm sorry to not just post my own but I'm new to the forum and it wont let me. A few days ago I unrooted my note 3 for the new 4.4.4 update and updated it. Midway through the update it said error and when it rebooted it just stuck at the note 3 custom logo. I've tried resetting it, flashing it, and even just putting on some custom rom. But nothing works and when I download the 4.4.2 firmware from sammobile it's literally nothing, I open it and it is a 0 byte file. A 0 byte file that too all day to download. When I attempt to flash anything I get the error sw rev check fail : [aboot]fused 3 > binary 1. I don't know why or how to get it back up and running. Sammobile seems to be the only place I can even find the right files and it doesn't have the 4.4.2 that I originally had on my note. Can I flash to the new 4.4.4? What do I do? Please help, sorry for not making my own post.

Kevkas12 said:
Hey guy's I'm sorry to not just post my own but I'm new to the forum and it wont let me. A few days ago I unrooted my note 3 for the new 4.4.4 update and updated it. Midway through the update it said error and when it rebooted it just stuck at the note 3 custom logo. I've tried resetting it, flashing it, and even just putting on some custom rom. But nothing works and when I download the 4.4.2 firmware from sammobile it's literally nothing, I open it and it is a 0 byte file. A 0 byte file that too all day to download. When I attempt to flash anything I get the error sw rev check fail : [aboot]fused 3 > binary 1. I don't know why or how to get it back up and running. Sammobile seems to be the only place I can even find the right files and it doesn't have the 4.4.2 that I originally had on my note. Can I flash to the new 4.4.4? What do I do? Please help, sorry for not making my own post.
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Nobody should want to be touching 4.4.4 with a 10 ft pole it does nothing substantial unless you own a smart watch or want to lose root. That said I think your at the point of no return. Your going to have to odin NK1 to your phone not NC4 the partial update seems to have hit your bootloader with the NK1 locked bl. I would try going into download mode first and checking if it is updated if it is you will then need to odin NK1 if it is not NK1 and it is still nc2 or nc4 look for a mirror to that odin file. But I'm sure your bootloader got updated and that is why it is now rejecting the 4.4.2 you're attempting to load.

[Q] Note 3 error message while trying to flash stock firmware.

This was the first time ever trying to flash a rom onto a note 3. I downloaded safestrap and installed it, made a back up of my current stock rooted firmware and tried to flash cynogenmod 11 with gapps 4.3. It sent me into a bootloop. i panicked.... I booted back up into recovery and quickly wipe/factory reset. Now my safestrap was gone. So i downloaded what i believe was the stock firmware for my phone and tried to flash through odin but i kept getting an error message that said fused 3 binary 1. I have spent more then 24 hours checking the depths of the internet trying to find the solution to the problem. i will never try to flash anything ever again. This is my last ditch effort. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Please forgive me if this is not in the right place, I RARELY post on here. Thanks everyone.

fused 3: you have kitkat installed
binary 1: Bootloader failed Software Revision Check
usually this error comes when you're trying to downgrade or the flash is corrupt. check your android version and make sure root is good.

Dravekx said:
fused 3: you have kitkat installed
binary 1: Bootloader failed Software Revision Check
usually this error comes when you're trying to downgrade or the flash is corrupt. check your android version and make sure root is good.
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i cant check the android version my phone doesnt boot up past the Samsung screen.

dylancam90 said:
i cant check the android version my phone doesnt boot up past the Samsung screen.
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You're going to have to get the latest then, at least 4.4.4 and flash via Odin. You can NOT flash full ROMs except Verizon ROMs on the verizon note 3. Its bootloader is locked and can't be unlocked so only official kernels can be loaded.
Sent from my Note 3 via Tapatalk

donc113 said:
You're going to have to get the latest then, at least 4.4.4 and flash via Odin. You can NOT flash full ROMs except Verizon ROMs on the verizon note 3. Its bootloader is locked and can't be unlocked so only official kernels can be loaded.
Sent from my Note 3 via Tapatalk
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ok i will flash 4.4.4 and report back

dylancam90 said:
ok i will flash 4.4.4 and report back
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Don't get 4.4.4 if you go there there is no root and no way back you can check the bootloader and android version by going into download mode if you are very lucky you will have nc4. If your on nc4 or earlier you can root. If your on new your at the mercy of some dev finding root on a 2 year old device I'm not saying development is dead on the note 3 but it certainly does not have the life it had.

mirrin said:
Don't get 4.4.4 if you go there there is no root and no way back you can check the bootloader and android version by going into download mode if you are very lucky you will have nc4. If your on nc4 or earlier you can root. If your on new your at the mercy of some dev finding root on a 2 year old device I'm not saying development is dead on the note 3 but it certainly does not have the life it had.
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I just want to update this so if anyone else stumbles upon it they can have some closure. I flashed 4.4.2 but I payed attention to the build number and was almost positive it was NC4 build. Odin took it and it tooke about 10 minutes to download and install, then it booted me to the Verizon screen and it just froze there. So I flahed the NC4 kernel thinking I might have made the mistake of flashing the NC2 kernel and it finally booted up completely and I was able to use my phone again. Also I took your advice by not flashing 4.4.4. I wanted to though because I was sick of getting update reminders every hour, so I figured out if you freeze SDM 1.0 the reminders stop. So thank you for all the help.
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Unusual Firmware

Hi. from Maypo1.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 SM-900V
Kit Kat 4.4.4
BBG900VVRU1ANK7 That's with a 7 not a 2
I am a newbie,and want to root back to 4.4.2 NGC. I have downloaded Odin 3.10,the NGC Firmware from SamMobile,and backed up my phone to my laptop all folders. I didn't see the ANK7 FIRMWARE on SamMobile only ANK2.
My question is can I still backflash my firmware to NGC with my ANK7 and then root and go back to my ANK7 with root. ANK7 is a fat thumb causing the first of 2 downloads towards 5.0 but I refuse to go the 2nd update to 5.0 and keep ig
noring the notifications from verizon. Any Help Appreciated,Maypo1

I have been searching all day, and I can't find any info on this problem. Can anyone help us poor lost souls?

Dude keep come and relax, just flash the ncg kernel and install towelroot and flash the nk2 kernel trust me you dont need to worry

I just followed the instructions for NK2 and below found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2784880
It worked. I just get nervous when it doesn't explicitly state that it will work for me.

Yes. NK7 was the last kitkat version. You're fine.
Few people run it; it's just a prerequisite to upgrade to OA8.

Good news from Maypo1
Thank you Blair I'M ON FIRST firmware and got root with towelroot, and did a full backup withTitanium.Now soon I will upgrade to NK2 and hope to keep root
Thank'a again, Maypo1

No problem. You can take any update until BOD5 and not worry about being able to downgrade.
Do not take the upgrade to BOE1--that's what'll do you in. Specifically, it's the RPM, SBL1, DBI, SDI, and TZ partitions that you have to worry about. The extension .mbn indicates "multiboot", just in case you care, heh.

Abother quick question Blair
What if I choose to stay on ANCG instead of upgrading to ANK2 because last time I had to
Do a reset because I got stuck on verizon logo so I had to reload all my settings but the
OS ANCG took. Do you know what the difference between the 2 OS' S are ANCG seems
STABLE ?. and I am afraid of a BRICK.
THANK'S. Maypo1

Maypo1 said:
What if I choose to stay on ANCG instead of upgrading to ANK2 because last time I had to
Do a reset because I got stuck on verizon logo so I had to reload all my settings but the
OS ANCG took. Do you know what the difference between the 2 OS' S are ANCG seems
STABLE ?. and I am afraid of a BRICK.
THANK'S. Maypo1
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It's really difficult to truly brick this phone.. You could write garbage all over the most sensitive partitions and recover it. If the phone can't load the first-stage bootloader, it falls back to a "duh, the light is on but nobody's home" mode and sits there. It will appear dead, but if you give it power and hook it up to your computer, you'll see an unusual device identifying itself as something like "qdloader 9008" There are low-level tools from qualcomm you can use to fix it, but there's an easier way. Search for "unbrick image" or something like that. You just write the image to the sdcard, and if the phone has no idea what to do, it looks there when you press the download mode key combination and you can get it into download mode.

Thank's
Maybe I will try it.I have my Titanium Backup of whole ANCG system, and ANK2 has to have some improvements over ANCG. I just don'the want Lolly pop right now. I hope I can hold root with the upgrade.
Thank'a again Maypo1

galaxy S5 sm-g900v firmware problem
hey man mine do the same , SM-G900V its a samsung from verizon, i just bought it because i thought it was a software problem,
it keeps rebooting and on the startup screen appears a padlock and it say "COSTUM"
sometimes it keeps a few minutes on, somtimes its frozen and restart,
This is crazy, right now i live in the dominican republik, and i dont know if i must send it to verizon

Hey temd
temd said:
hey man mine do the same , SM-G900V its a samsung from verizon, i just bought it because i thought it was a software problem,
it keeps rebooting and on the startup screen appears a padlock and it say "COSTUM"
sometimes it keeps a few minutes on, somtimes its frozen and restart,
This is crazy, right now i live in the dominican republik, and i dont know if i must send it to verizon
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I don't understand,did you try to flash up to ANK2 and then get this problem?
Maypo1

Big Boo Boo
After reading my own Newdee thread .I realized that I flashed the whole sysrem firmware forNCG and not just the Kernal.So now I am rooted on NCG but if I try to just flash the Kernal for my original firmware which was ANK7,or use Kernal for ANK2. what happens? will I keep root and go back to ANK7/2 or fail.Sorry for being such a dummy,that's why I'm a newbee. I would like to help others but it seems I can't help myself. bI do have the full firmware for ANK2 from SamMobile downloaded in odin folder even though ANK7 is my origional.
Any help appreciated.

Soft Bricked phone and now ODIN flash failing help!

So I upgraded from 4.4.2 kitkat to 5.0 lollipop. However, I soft bricked my phone by installing the wrong xposed SDK. Now I'm trying to flash 4.4.2 kitkat back onto my bricked phone and then update back to lollipop. Problem is ODIN is not wanting to flash the g900a stock rom back. It gives me an error saying 'SW REV CHECK FAIL : [ABOOT]FUSED 2 > BINARY 1' does anyone know how to fix this as I'd like to fix my phone soon!

900A? That's the AT&T model isn't it? That being the case, the locked bootloader on your device is only ever going to let you flash 5.0 if you had 5.0 on your device before you bricked....
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keithross39 said:
900A? That's the AT&T model isn't it? That being the case, the locked bootloader on your device is only ever going to let you flash 5.0 if you had 5.0 on your device before you bricked....
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That's good an all but where can I find a 5.0 in a tar format! My phone is literally bricked so I can't access it to flash the .zip files to it. I can't find a .tar of lollipop 5.0 anywhere no matter where I look all the links for ones have been taken down! You wouldn't happen to have one would you?

Not sure fella.....checked every hosting/firmware website I can think of, and all I'm seeing are KitKat firmwares.....
Have you tried Kies to see if it'll perform an 'emergency recovery/restore'?
http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg

keithross39 said:
Not sure fella.....checked every hosting/firmware website I can think of, and all I'm seeing are KitKat firmwares.....
Have you tried Kies to see if it'll perform an 'emergency recovery/restore'?
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Kies won't recognize my device! It just says it's not supported! ;-; this is really unfortunate I've been looking everywhere with what little time I have (I work and I'm in college and it's around finals season for the semester so that doesn't help with time to fix this). I've been scouring everywhere but can't find anything. This is really unfortunate and I don't have the money to afford to have my phone fixed ;-; I'm really hoping I can find a solution soon! Everytime I try to install a kitkat 4.4.2 rom it just says FUSED 2 > BINARY 1 or something along those lines. From what I've heard that means I can't downgrade. Like I said what happened was I installed the wrong xposed sdk and it soft bricked. Every lollipop 5.0 rom I've found is in zip format. Now this wouldn't be a problem if I had a custom recovery that could flash zips and the means to put the zip on the phone. The problem is I don't (yes I've tried using ADB it refuses to put the zip on the phone it only lets me put .tar.md5's on there with the sideload and everything else just returns an error). If you find a solution or anyone else does please let me know! I'm In very dire need of help!! Also, my phone it makes it to the samsung galaxy s5 powered by android screen and then after that I just hear the AT&T noise but the screen doesn't change it just hangs there. I've also tried a full cache wipe and system restore in the recovery menu!

First of all.....The obvious....lol
These zips you mention, have you extracted them to see what's inside them.....
I know that sammobile and Samsung-updates provide their firmware .tars inside zips.....
Secondly, until someone makes an AT&T Lollipop firmware available, it looks like you're going to have to play the waiting game......at this point, I believe that with the correct firmware package, you WILL be able to recover your device....that may not be true further down the line if you continue to try 'potential' fixes.....
My advice is to leave it 'as-is' (unsatisfactory...I know) and wait for the firmware to become available......
Do you have an older device you can use in the mean time?
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keithross39 said:
First of all.....The obvious....lol
These zips you mention, have you extracted them to see what's inside them.....
I know that sammobile and Samsung-updates provide their firmware .tars inside zips.....
Secondly, until someone makes an AT&T Lollipop firmware available, it looks like you're going to have to play the waiting game......at this point, I believe that with the correct firmware package, you WILL be able to recover your device....that may not be true further down the line if you continue to try 'potential' fixes.....
My advice is to leave it 'as-is' (unsatisfactory...I know) and wait for the firmware to become available......
Do you have an older device you can use in the mean time?
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Yes I unzipped the zip. It was just files inside. I might just take it by an AT&T I'm pretty sure with all I've done to it the warranty is void but it's a worth a shot maybe they will take it in. I don't have an older device right now and I need to have some my phone soon as I have important usage of it with work. It seems I guess I don't have a choice left ;-; thank you though for all your help I'm very thankful for it