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Hello xda community.
i just purchased a galaxy s4 from a friend he he updated it to kitkat 4.4.2. i rooted itbut im having an issue installing a custom recovery. i tried the cmd method, the twrp apps on the market but although it says succesfull when i try to reboot into recovery it goes onto download mode. Someone please help me. i know samsung has a security system for the boatloader and i dont care tripping the securty system because im not with at&t nor on contract.
please help me i want to flash cm11 so bad.

androidfine16 said:
Hello xda community.
i just purchased a galaxy s4 from a friend he he updated it to kitkat 4.4.2. i rooted itbut im having an issue installing a custom recovery. i tried the cmd method, the twrp apps on the market but although it says succesfull when i try to reboot into recovery it goes onto download mode. Someone please help me. i know samsung has a security system for the boatloader and i dont care tripping the securty system because im not with at&t nor on contract.
please help me i want to flash cm11 so bad.
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Try this one. It's what I use.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2427125

Apoplectic1 said:
Try this one. It's what I use.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2427125
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I've seen that but I heard/read if you mess up that's it for your phone. Plus toy never truly have a Susie stable recovery. Seems like a lot of risk
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androidfine16 said:
I've seen that but I heard/read if you mess up that's it for your phone. Plus toy never truly have a Susie stable recovery. Seems like a lot of risk
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I can't say I have ever heard of anyone messing up the installation process before. It's load the apk to your SD card, install it to your phone and then tapping the install button once you open it. That's it.
As long as your root method installs busybox and your SU app disables Knox, you should be fine.

androidfine16 said:
Hello xda community.
i just purchased a galaxy s4 from a friend he he updated it to kitkat 4.4.2. i rooted itbut im having an issue installing a custom recovery. i tried the cmd method, the twrp apps on the market but although it says succesfull when i try to reboot into recovery it goes onto download mode. Someone please help me. i know samsung has a security system for the boatloader and i dont care tripping the securty system because im not with at&t nor on contract.
please help me i want to flash cm11 so bad.
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Trying to load a custom recovery on a locked bootloader could mess up your phone. Safestrap was made for our phones. Read up a bit you'll see we can't do normal custom recoveries and we can't flash normal roms cause we're locked. Only thing we can do is root and safe strap. I'll suggest odin nb1 update to nc1 root. The reason I say odin to nb1 is because right now you don't have a recovery at all due to you trying to install cwm or twrp.
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Apoplectic1 said:
I can't say I have ever heard of anyone messing up the installation process before. It's load the apk to your SD card, install it to your phone and then tapping the install button once you open it. That's it.
As long as your root method installs busybox and your SU app disables Knox, you should be fine.
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So I'll be able to install cm 11. Without any complications?
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I don't have a current recovery. Your right about that . How do I fix it
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androidfine16 said:
So I'll be able to install cm 11. Without any complications?
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Do you have an AT&T S4? If so then no. It will not load if you try. Until someone figures how to crack the locked bootloader, we are stuck with ROMs that use stock Samsung (you'll also hear them referred to as TouchWiz or TW) kernels. I believe CM uses their own custom one.
I am able to use the Google Edition one because a user modified it to work on aTouchWiz kernel, and even then things like USB file transfer does not work.
I do not believe anyone has done the same for CM.

androidfine16 said:
I don't have a current recovery. Your right about that . How do I fix it
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You need to odin nb1 (flash back to stock) this will put your recovery back.
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Apoplectic1 said:
Do you have an AT&T S4? If so then no. It will not load if you try. Until someone figures how to crack the locked bootloader, we are stuck with ROMs that use stock Samsung (you'll also hear them referred to as TouchWiz or TW) kernels. I believe CM uses their own custom one.
I am able to use the Google Edition one because a user modified it to work on aTouchWiz kernel, and even then things like USB file transfer does not work.
I do not believe anyone has done the same for CM.
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Yes I have the at& t s4. And that sucks I was really looking forward to flashing cm 11s. I don't care for the knox being ticked off being that I'm on no contract. Do you think I can use Odin or something to revert back to 4.2 safely without bricking the device. I hate touch wiz. And the battery drains quickly plus the phone gets hot when used for a while
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drock212 said:
You need to odin nb1 (flash back to stock) this will put your recovery back.
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Won't this look the bootloader cause I read downgrades are practically unsafe on this device. If not than I'd much rather go back to 4.2 so I can load a custom recovery being that u don't mind tripping knox. So long that it doesn't Brick or render the phone use less
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androidfine16 said:
Won't this lock the bootloader cause I read downgrades are practically unsafe on this device. If not than I'd much rather go back to 4.2 so I can load a custom recovery being that u don't mind tripping knox. So long that it doesn't Brick or render the phone use less
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androidfine16 said:
Won't this look the bootloader cause I read downgrades are practically unsafe on this device. If not than I'd much rather go back to 4.2 so I can load a custom recovery being that u don't mind tripping knox. So long that it doesn't Brick or render the phone use less
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Odining back to NB1 will not trip Knox. Also, I believe downgrading to 4.2 will not touch your bootloader, if it were that easy we'd all be rocking CM.
You could run this ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2767026
Its technically not a TW ROM, but it has its quirks. It was never intended to work on locked bootloader phones, but it has been retrofitted on to them.
Wrote this if you would like a guide on how I got 4.4.4 version up and running, it's kind of tricky.

androidfine16 said:
Won't this look the bootloader cause I read downgrades are practically unsafe on this device. If not than I'd much rather go back to 4.2 so I can load a custom recovery being that u don't mind tripping knox. So long that it doesn't Brick or render the phone use less
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Nb1 and nc1 are the same. Nb1 is just a small update over nb1, there isn't even a tar file for nc1 because it's such a small update. You won't be able to odin back to anything prior to nb1 unfortunately without bricking. Now I do understand the hatred of touchwiz but once you're rooted you're able to delete a lot of the garbage bloatware put on by Samsung and AT&T. This makes the phone so much better along with super long battery life. I've been able to get 4.5 hours of on screen time and about 16 - 17 hours of off the plug time like this.
When deleting bloat you can easily Google and find lists of what people have deleted off their phones using titanium backup (amazing app, let's your freeze or delete what you don't want). Also one thing I found out which is dumb. Deleting Samsung hub breaks auto rotation (what one has to do with the other I'll never know) but you can download the file needed to fix that here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=51260826
I've had my touchwized sgs4 for about 3 weeks now and can say I'm not as upset with it as I thought I would be. Let me know if you have any questions about certain things. I've found a lot of workarounds and little edits here and there to get my phone a lot closer to how I want it.
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Are there people working in unlocking our bootloader because this thing is really annoying .
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Ps: No one answered my question. If I don't care for tripping the bootloader being that I'm on no contract. Is their a way to trip the flash counter and get on a recovery? I don't care for Samsung security knox or their bootloader security.
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androidfine16 said:
Ps: No one answered my question. If I don't care for tripping the bootloader being that I'm on no contract. Is their a way to trip the flash counter and get on a recovery? I don't care for Samsung security knox or their bootloader security.
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Nope. Bootloader and knox are completely different. Knox will just give annoying messages once tripped. Bootloader without unlock we're pretty much dead in the water. There has been some talk about ways to possibly unlock the bootloader so it's definitely being worked on. I've also read that the black hat even (hackers convention) might have something promising. Also anything that is done on the s5 could very well apply to the s4. It's all just a matter of time
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drock212 said:
Nope. Bootloader and knox are completely different. Knox will just give annoying messages once tripped. Bootloader without unlock we're pretty much dead in the water. There has been some talk about ways to possibly unlock the bootloader so it's definitely being worked on. I've also read that the black hat even (hackers convention) might have something promising. Also anything that is done on the s5 could very well apply to the s4. It's all just a matter of time
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Sounds great that the s5 and s4 integrate . Also there's a bunch of stuff online which shows how to disable certain aspects of the bootloader using linux (Ubuntu) . Do you think that'll work. It's a huge risk.
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androidfine16 said:
Sounds great that the s5 and s4 integrate . Also there's a bunch of stuff online which shows how to disable certain aspects of the bootloader using linux (Ubuntu) . Do you think that'll work. It's a huge risk.
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If it hasn't been done to give us anything I wouldn't do it. Only thing we have right now is safestrap. Which is similar to a dual boot
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drock212 said:
If it hasn't been done to give us anything I wouldn't do it. Only thing we have right now is safestrap. Which is similar to a dual boot
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Similar to dual boot but can't load any rom you want on it
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System Software Not authorized i337?

This is probably the worst thing that has happened but i rooted my gs4 and was trying to install a custom recovery but knowing my smart self i forgot to safestrap and like bricked my gs4. I am dealing with SECURE FAIL: KERNEL any suggestions??

R800x_user said:
This is probably the worst thing that has happened but i rooted my gs4 and was trying to install a custom recovery but knowing my smart self i forgot to safestrap and like bricked my gs4. I am dealing with SECURE FAIL: KERNEL any suggestions??
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If you see this while booting into stock recovery, that can be ignored as we don't use the stock recovery for anything other than ota.
If you see this during normal boot, you would have to Odin back to stock and start over.

Well I can't boot into recovery I get this all the time
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No, not recovery, ODIN mode. Volume down and power.

Even after Odin restoring I still get this screen
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Thanks for helping out, I have found a solution.
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R800x_user said:
Thanks for helping out, I have found a solution.
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What was it, in case others have similar problem--

July security update

July security update is out. Should I download it? Will it affect root?
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Try it. Find out. Not hard to reroot.

I will wait maybe there's no come back from that version then you wouldn't downgrade
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elgringoloco77 said:
I will wait maybe there's no come back from that version then you wouldn't downgrade
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Great point.
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I just did the update, and I had no problems re-rooting it.

Do you still can downgrade to lollipop?
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elgringoloco77 said:
Do you still can downgrade to lollipop?
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I haven't tried, so I don't know. The update said something about not being able to downgrade, but I don't know if it actually locks it or not.

cant flash TWRP after july security update
can anyone help ??

ankitkumarnag said:
cant flash TWRP after july security update
can anyone help ??
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Try to flash it in odin, then as soon as your phone reboots hold vol +, home, and power. See if that will let you boot into TWRP

Already did that
Boots into stcok recovery0

ankitkumarnag said:
Already did that
Boots into stcok recovery0
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Uh oh?
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ankitkumarnag said:
Already did that
Boots into stcok recovery0
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Did you figured it out? You could flash tarp?
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Damn I almost did the update, thanx for heads up, I disabled the update service.

ankitkumarnag said:
Already did that
Boots into stcok recovery0
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That's weird this didn't happen to me. What model do you have? N910T?

ninjanick999 said:
That's weird this didn't happen to me. What model do you have? N910T?
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Yes its N910T

ankitkumarnag said:
cant flash TWRP after july security update
can anyone help ??
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Ive been having the same problem. Ive been sitting on stock since the update

Bootloader on this might have been changed in this update!
It might be not possible to downgrade to Lollipop and or PE3

Unroot- go back to factory stock

Want to sell the phone. What are the steps to unroot and go back to factory. I tried this before, and kept getting the "custom" info at boot

Jep56 said:
Want to sell the phone. What are the steps to unroot and go back to factory. I tried this before, and kept getting the "custom" info at boot
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Odin back to official AT&T firmware. Just make sure you are logout from all Google and Samsung account.
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norbarb said:
Odin back to official AT&T firmware. Just make sure you are logout from all Google and Samsung account.
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Dumb question. Where do I find the official ATT firmware?

Jep56 said:
Dumb question. Where do I find the official ATT firmware?
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Here APK1: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=70845676
And here API2: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=69052920
Clicking from Edge of Galaxy.

Is there a way to unroot the S7 Edge when stuck in a boot loop and recovery is also stuck in a boot loop?

nomad247 said:
Is there a way to unroot the S7 Edge when stuck in a boot loop and recovery is also stuck in a boot loop?
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I simply powered up into Download mode, then flashed (odin) the stock ROM - 4 files I believe. That fixed the bootloop problem.
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S10+ stuck in Bootloop after rooting. Odin not detecting S10+ either.

After ****ing up the button sequence after using Odin to install the rom, my phone is stuck at the "This phone is not running Samsung's official software'' and it just loops. Now it won't show the blue bar in Odin either, so I can't unbrick my device. Can someone help me?

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After ****ing up the button sequence after using Odin to install the rom, my phone is stuck at the "This phone is not running Samsung's official software'' and it just loops. Now it won't show the blue bar in Odin either, so I can't unbrick my device. Can someone help me?
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Stick in a bag of rice and put it in the fridge for two days.
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krico said:
Stick in a bag of rice and put it in the fridge for two days.
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oh no, its retarded, im so sorry