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[Q] GT-i9500 has no OS installed.

Hi everyone I just recently purchased a used S4 the GT-i9500. Everything seemed fine until I got home. It detected my T-Mobile Sim fine but I could only access 2G data and could not connect to any WiFi network I came across. The rom was stock 4.2.2 and the phone was rooted pre purchase. So after fiddling around for a few minutes I discovered the previous owner had flashed TWRP v2.4.1.0 as his choice for a Custom Recovery. Now at this point I had decided to flash on a Custom Rom and of course I first made a backup before flashing on WanamLite. Now after attempting to flash it I immediately received a failure. I tried turning off the signature verification and it did not flash. Now in my frustration i attempted to wipe everything and tried flashing Omega Rom v14. Now i was able to go through with the installation and choose what I wished to install and when I pressed Install things went along smoothly until I hit the app SecSafetyAssurance.apk where it freezes. This is a bump that I've run into at least 5 times already. I changed certain options I wanted to install and eventually made it past this and I am prompted to reboot. Now when I do this to my dismay I just receive a black screen. Upon pulling out the battery and attempting to reboot I still receive a black screen. when I boot back into the Recovery and attempt to reboot the system from within TWRP it warns me saying No OS Installed Are you sure you want to reboot. Im at a loss of what to do. I have read about other members suggesting to use ODIN but I am very confused about how to access Download Mode in order to flash a stock rom from SamMobile.com. I could use a few tips or maybe a few options that I'm left with in order to obtain the operation of my phone again. I would like to get my phone back and Im sure some users can relate to how Im feeling so any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much in advanced!

JmastahJay56 said:
Hi everyone I just recently purchased a used S4 the GT-i9500. Everything seemed fine until I got home. It detected my T-Mobile Sim fine but I could only access 2G data and could not connect to any WiFi network I came across. The rom was stock 4.2.2 and the phone was rooted pre purchase. So after fiddling around for a few minutes I discovered the previous owner had flashed TWRP v2.4.1.0 as his choice for a Custom Recovery. Now at this point I had decided to flash on a Custom Rom and of course I first made a backup before flashing on WanamLite. Now after attempting to flash it I immediately received a failure. I tried turning off the signature verification and it did not flash. Now in my frustration i attempted to wipe everything and tried flashing Omega Rom v14. Now i was able to go through with the installation and choose what I wished to install and when I pressed Install things went along smoothly until I hit the app SecSafetyAssurance.apk where it freezes. This is a bump that I've run into at least 5 times already. I changed certain options I wanted to install and eventually made it past this and I am prompted to reboot. Now when I do this to my dismay I just receive a black screen. Upon pulling out the battery and attempting to reboot I still receive a black screen. when I boot back into the Recovery and attempt to reboot the system from within TWRP it warns me saying No OS Installed Are you sure you want to reboot. Im at a loss of what to do. I have read about other members suggesting to use ODIN but I am very confused about how to access Download Mode in order to flash a stock rom from SamMobile.com. I could use a few tips or maybe a few options that I'm left with in order to obtain the operation of my phone again. I would like to get my phone back and Im sure some users can relate to how Im feeling so any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much in advanced!
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Well first thing is get the latest stock firmware for your variant from my sign and get odin 3.07
For download mode power off phone unplug,, press volume down home and power all together till something pops up and release then press volume up and connect to pc
Open odin click pda and select that firmware u downloaded start the process
For more info check my sign help thread link it has more options on the same
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JmastahJay56 said:
Hi everyone I just recently purchased a used S4 the GT-i9500. Everything seemed fine until I got home. It detected my T-Mobile Sim fine but I could only access 2G data and could not connect to any WiFi network I came across. The rom was stock 4.2.2 and the phone was rooted pre purchase. So after fiddling around for a few minutes I discovered the previous owner had flashed TWRP v2.4.1.0 as his choice for a Custom Recovery. Now at this point I had decided to flash on a Custom Rom and of course I first made a backup before flashing on WanamLite. Now after attempting to flash it I immediately received a failure. I tried turning off the signature verification and it did not flash. Now in my frustration i attempted to wipe everything and tried flashing Omega Rom v14. Now i was able to go through with the installation and choose what I wished to install and when I pressed Install things went along smoothly until I hit the app SecSafetyAssurance.apk where it freezes. This is a bump that I've run into at least 5 times already. I changed certain options I wanted to install and eventually made it past this and I am prompted to reboot. Now when I do this to my dismay I just receive a black screen. Upon pulling out the battery and attempting to reboot I still receive a black screen. when I boot back into the Recovery and attempt to reboot the system from within TWRP it warns me saying No OS Installed Are you sure you want to reboot. Im at a loss of what to do. I have read about other members suggesting to use ODIN but I am very confused about how to access Download Mode in order to flash a stock rom from SamMobile.com. I could use a few tips or maybe a few options that I'm left with in order to obtain the operation of my phone again. I would like to get my phone back and Im sure some users can relate to how Im feeling so any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much in advanced!
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Flashing through odin is one option.... some users have reported that there were some hiccups when installing omega 14 because of the aroma script.....try a different rom...there are many others to choose from....or you could flash stock via odin as said on the earlier comment good luck

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Today I attempted to use ODIN to flash now I am still currently attempting this. When I press the volume down key, power, and home button it takes me to the custom recovery TWRP instead of download mode. The phone did this when I first purchased it. When I still had what appeared to be the stock rom it would always take me to the recovery. When I would use the volume up instead of down it would take me to the factory test mode now mind you this happened when the OS was still installed. When i try that combination now i just receive a blank black screen. Are there any other ways to boot into download mode?

[HELP] Can't Get Wifi To Work.

Right guys, I'm really stuck and about to smash my phone in half.
For some reason this morning my phone decided that it no longer wanted the Wifi to work, so it switched off and I haven't been able to get it to turn back on for more than 5 minutes. I've completely wiped the phone and started again, I've restored old working backups and I've updated to the latest versions of ROMs.
The weird thing that I find is that when I restore from an old backup the Wifi works until I go into settings, as soon as I do that the phone freezes before loading the settings and it breaks the Wifi, can't find anything on this and all previous efforts to revive it and solutions posted all over the internet are not working at all.
Really am about to break this phone, so please help!
Any solution would be helpful and I can quickly rule out the ones I have done.

Pulse654321 said:
Right guys, I'm really stuck and about to smash my phone in half.
For some reason this morning my phone decided that it no longer wanted the Wifi to work, so it switched off and I haven't been able to get it to turn back on for more than 5 minutes. I've completely wiped the phone and started again, I've restored old working backups and I've updated to the latest versions of ROMs.
The weird thing that I find is that when I restore from an old backup the Wifi works until I go into settings, as soon as I do that the phone freezes before loading the settings and it breaks the Wifi, can't find anything on this and all previous efforts to revive it and solutions posted all over the internet are not working at all.
Really am about to break this phone, so please help!
Any solution would be helpful and I can quickly rule out the ones I have done.
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If I had that problem here is the first thing I would try.
First restore the backup you said you had. (the one which has the working wifi).
After doing that go into settings>accounts> Backup and reset and select "Factory data reset".
Then reboot the phone, but don't setup your google(gmail) account yet, skip that step.
When you finally get to the launcher screen go into setting turn on wifi and see
if it's working properly.......
If it is, it means that there was something corrupted in your
data or settings which google/gmail backed up for you.
If that's the case then do a full SYNC with your google Gmail
account so google will no longer restore some corrupt settings
which causes your wifi not to work properly.
Good luck!

Sorry should have stated that I'm still running custom ROMs, I've got PACMAN on there at the minute, but I did as you said and the did the equivalent reset and then couldn't finish the setup because the setup wizard kept crashing. Either way it does ask you to enter your wifi password before entering your Gmail account and I couldn't do that because it was stuck on "Turning on wifi".
About to do a full reset back to a stock rom without root. Did some more testing last night and it seems that I keep losing root somehow, after a little while I'll go into titanium and it'll say root access lost, and then when I go into CWM when I got to restart it will say "Root access is missing, root device?" and neither option helps as if I click yes after a while it just 'goes' again.
I've also had some boot hangs which I've discovered other people have had when they've been faced with the same root missing message.

Pulse654321 said:
Right guys, I'm really stuck and about to smash my phone in half.
For some reason this morning my phone decided that it no longer wanted the Wifi to work, so it switched off and I haven't been able to get it to turn back on for more than 5 minutes. I've completely wiped the phone and started again, I've restored old working backups and I've updated to the latest versions of ROMs.
The weird thing that I find is that when I restore from an old backup the Wifi works until I go into settings, as soon as I do that the phone freezes before loading the settings and it breaks the Wifi, can't find anything on this and all previous efforts to revive it and solutions posted all over the internet are not working at all.
Really am about to break this phone, so please help!
Any solution would be helpful and I can quickly rule out the ones I have done.
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wifi didn't work?
if the office stock firmware can't get it work , maybe your phone need fix....

I haven't tried stock just yet, about to though, just updated CWM and SuperSU, did SuperSU before but not CWM. I'll see if this works if not then I'll do a full stock install, getting quite miffed off with this now.
Edit: New problem, I can't seem to flash stock as it keeps coming up Odin: write failure. Never had this before :/

For those that are still searching for the answer here is what I did. Links provided for ease.
This method will delete all user data.
This basically is a last resort type scenario so please follow it with caution.
Backup what you can, while you can. Plenty of tutorials online for that.
Download the ROM I9505XXUEMJ7, can be found at SamMobile but slow download. I alternatively used a pre-rooted one just for testing as I had no intention of keeping the Samsung ROM. You can find a copy here.
Download Odin 3.07 and 1.85 (I had problems using some files with them so had to keep swapping)
Make sure you have Samsung USB Drivers installed. (Download here)
Download I9505XXUEMJ7 WiFi FIX, here.
Optional Downloads:
Download CF AutoRoot 1.65, here.
Download CWM 6.0.4.4 .TAR files, see this post.
Now, If you're coming from a Stock ROM do this:
Go into Settings > Developer Options, and enable "USB Debugging". If you don't have that, you need to go Settings > About, scroll down to "Builder Number" and tap it 5-10 until it says "You are now a developer" and the Options should now be visible.
Put your phone into Download mode. (Power off/Remove battery. Then hold Vol Down, Power and Home button until it vibrates. Then continue if asked.)
Connect your phone to your computer via USB cable (if you've only just installed the USB drivers you may need to wait a while for it to recognise the device, you may also have to disconnect/re-connect the USB cable after it's finished loading the drivers.)
Open Odin 1.85 and load the downloaded ROM under the PDA Section (You don't need to change anything else)
Once Odin has added this device, should show "<ID:0/003> Added!!" or similar, click start.
When it's completed it should say "PASS" in green at the top. If it doesn't repeat steps 3 & 4 but with Odin 3.07.
Let it boot up normally, if it gets stuck on Samsung logo (Mine did), you'll just need to clear the user data & cache.
To do that you need to enter Recovery (Same procedure as download mode but Vol Up, not Down.)
Scroll down to "Wipe data/factory reset" and then scroll down to "Yes".
Then select "Reboot system now", it will restart straight away
Once it has finally loaded up select your language and then the next screen should be Wifi setup, if your wifi is working then you're done.
If you Wifi isn't working and won't turn on and is stuck, then continue the setup for the phone as you wish, I skipped everything and didn't enter any accounts as I didn't wish to keep it.
Once you're at the Homescreen, turn the phone off and put it in download mode again.
Open Odin 1.85 and select the Wifi Fix file under PDA. This time untick Auto-Reboot and then click Start once Odin sees the phone.
When it's completed it should say "PASS" in green at the top. If it doesn't repeat step 9 but with Odin 3.07.
Note: Most tutorials do state to add this under Phone, but I found that it kept failing and didn't work.
Turn your phone off and go back into download mode. (Again, I just pulled the battery out)
Close Odin and follow step 9 again. But you don't need to untick Auto-Reboot. This is to ensure that the Modem has been flash correctly.
When the phone has loaded again, try the Wifi out, hopefully this time it should be working. That's all I did after days and days of testing, and now it's working flawlessly.
If you then wish to install a custom ROM again, you are more than welcome to, quick guide:
Enable "USB Debugging", as above (Step 1).
Put your phone into download mode.
Open Odin 1.85, under PDA select the CF AutoRoot 1.65 file found at the top of this post.
Click start, let it restart and install SuperUser.
Once it's booted up, turn it off and put it back into Download mode.
Open Odin 1.85 and select the CWM 6.0.4.4 file and click Start.
When the phone has booted back up, you should now have working Wifi, a Rooted phone ready for exploitation and have Custom Recovery menu ready for you to install your new choice of ROMs.
Took me a long time to write this up, but if it helps just one person, then it will have been worth it. Enjoy!
Edit: I should also say a massive Thank You to all the developers out there that helped me get to this point by providing me with the Utilities, ROMs, Fixed Modems, Root and CWM.

I9505 No Brand, Loose sound, reboots and get stuck

Hi,
I have a no brand Galaxy S4. I was on ARHD Firmware, a stock 4.2.2 optimized. From the end of december, i started to get randomly nosound.
With "no sound" I mean no notification, no media and no audio during call. After this issue phone became irresponsive, using volume regulation keys and ususally after phone calls phone, touckwiz or phone process crash.
I selective de-ativate all application that can cause this (Tasker, Audio Setting, Titanium Backup etc..) but issue persist.
I do a Wipe and reinstalled all apps, but since few minutes after reinstallation, i have same issue again.
So i decided to upgrade to 4.3, with phoenix rom 7.3, but problem still persist, and in addition sometime, phone start to use a lot of battery with process "Android System" ans Kernel.
Only way to fix for a limited time, is to reboot. Sometime rebbot does not fix the audio issue, so i have to enter in recover and wipe dalvilk and cache.
I suspect an hardware issue, but before start the replacement procedure i would like to be pretty sure that it's hardware. Some others have this kind of issue? How do you fix?
Thanks
Marco

marcolino7 said:
Hi,
I have a no brand Galaxy S4. I was on ARHD Firmware, a stock 4.2.2 optimized. From the end of december, i started to get randomly nosound.
With "no sound" I mean no notification, no media and no audio during call. After this issue phone became irresponsive, using volume regulation keys and ususally after phone calls phone, touckwiz or phone process crash.
I selective de-ativate all application that can cause this (Tasker, Audio Setting, Titanium Backup etc..) but issue persist.
I do a Wipe and reinstalled all apps, but since few minutes after reinstallation, i have same issue again.
So i decided to upgrade to 4.3, with phoenix rom 7.3, but problem still persist, and in addition sometime, phone start to use a lot of battery with process "Android System" ans Kernel.
Only way to fix for a limited time, is to reboot. Sometime rebbot does not fix the audio issue, so i have to enter in recover and wipe dalvilk and cache.
I suspect an hardware issue, but before start the replacement procedure i would like to be pretty sure that it's hardware. Some others have this kind of issue? How do you fix?
Thanks
Marco
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Boot into download mode and tell me if you have an Entry of Knox Warranty Void , Might we can fix this issue

Repulsa said:
Boot into download mode and tell me if you have an Entry of Knox Warranty Void , Might we can fix this issue
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Hi Repulsa,
entering in download mode, pushing Volume Down and power, then volume Up. from this screen I can Read
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: GT-I9505
CURRENT BINARY: Custom
SYSTEM STATUS: Custom
CSB-CONFIG-LSB: 0X30
WRITE PROTECTION: Enable
Then I have a green drod with bottom wrote "Downloading...." and "Do not turn off target!!""
No Knox at all.

marcolino7 said:
Hi Repulsa,
entering in download mode, pushing Volume Down and power, then volume Up. from this screen I can Read
No Knox at all.
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Alright try to download and extract this file And Flash the .tar Via odin by Selecting Phone/CP. Remember to turn off your Phone manually. then wait atleast 5 to 10 sec and boot into download mode and Flash away. If the problem did not fix then Something is goin on ..

Hi Repulsa,
Do this flash wipe my phone? Autoreboot should be selected on Odin? For my curiosity, what exactly do this file? Tomorrow i'll try to flash and I'll let you know.
Thanks
Marcolino
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marcolino7 said:
Hi Repulsa,
Do this flash wipe my phone? Autoreboot should be selected on Odin? For my curiosity, what exactly do this file? Tomorrow i'll try to flash and I'll let you know.
Thanks
Marcolino
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No it wont wipe anything it just a modem+ old LTE for oldbootloader and this is how you fix when someone looses their sound. Make sure to turn off your phone manually. And yes auto reboot and f reset are ticked and flash the file by selecting Phone/CP in odin . If you still having an Issue then Feel free to Download/Flash the Stock 4.2.2 Rom from Here and check if the problem gonna get fix. Goodluck
Sent from Hell ��

Repulsa said:
No it wont wipe anything it just a modem+ old LTE for oldbootloader and this is how you fix when someone looses their sound. Make sure to turn off your phone manually. And yes auto reboot and f reset are ticked and flash the file by selecting Phone/CP in odin . If you still having an Issue then Feel free to Download/Flash the Stock 4.2.2 Rom from Here and check if the problem gonna get fix. Goodluck
Sent from Hell ��
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Hi Repulsa,
just flashed. My baseband now is I9505XXUEML1.
I'll let you know how it's going.
Thanks
Marco

Hi @Repulsa,
today i got only one sound loose, instead 10 or 12. After sound loose, i rebooted, but phone stuck on reboot confirmation. After few second phone crashed and rebooted.
I would like to rever to stock, with file you link me in early post. Do you have instruction hot to revert to stock, and after how to root?
I would like to try original 4.2.2 but I need root.
Another question, reverting to stock 4.2.2 I'll got Knox? And at least, is there a way to block Samsung Update message on stock rom?
Many thanks in advance.
Marcolino

marcolino7 said:
Hi @Repulsa,
today i got only one sound loose, instead 10 or 12. After sound loose, i rebooted, but phone stuck on reboot confirmation. After few second phone crashed and rebooted.
I would like to rever to stock, with file you link me in early post. Do you have instruction hot to revert to stock, and after how to root?
I would like to try original 4.2.2 but I need root.
Another question, reverting to stock 4.2.2 I'll got Knox? And at least, is there a way to block Samsung Update message on stock rom?
Many thanks in advance.
Marcolino
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You can download a prerooted 4.2.2 rom from here http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23050663588004454. Flash the file via odin by selecting pda. No need to root. Then flash recovery such as philz,TWRP then you can flash any custom rom you like. And If you flash 4.2.2 you wont get knox . Just dont flash a 4.3 stock roms. Goodluck
Instructions For Flashing Stock rom
- Extract the file
- Open Odin3 v3.09
- Restart phone in download mode (Press and hold Power + Volume down buttons)
- Connect phone and wait until you get a blue sign in Odin
- Add - Add the file you download .tar.md 5 to AP
- Make sure re-partition is NOT ticked
- Click start button,
-Done
If you get problem do this.
- If you encounter any issues with the firmware (Any FC, Bootloop etc)
- Boot into recovery mode (power+vol up)
- Choose to wipe/factory reset. (THIS WILL ERASE ALL OF YOUR DATA INCLUDING YOUR INTERNAL SD CARD!)
- Then choose reboot
Sent from Hell ��

Hi @Repulsa,
Thank you for your answer. Tomorrow I'll try. Flashing stock, it will downgrade also Modem to 4.2.2 or i need to flash something other?
Regards
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All apps crash on boot - update fails - cant use anything - pls help

I have galaxy s4 gt i9500 and I m from india. I recently updated to lollipop and rooted by phone and installed philz recovery but later decided to unroot it using supersu unroot option. The strange thing is that i never got philz recovery but my phone was always rooted. All root apps worked fine. Anyways i decided to unroot it.
Now, after unrooting using supersu complete unroot option, i checked for updates and downloaded and ran the 326mb update available in india but the update always fails at 25% and when my phone boots normally , all apps force stop - yes all apps, i see only a black screen and errors of all apps that have forced stoped and only thing i can do is click on ok and power off or reboot my phone.
I cant boot into recovery as if i do that it goes to system update and throws an error at 25%
Please help, i have some imp data which i did not back up - phone is not detected in the pc / kies etc.
Extra info: I once did wipe cache partition and got the exact same issue when of all apps force stoppin on boot but then i went into recovery mode and did factory reset and all was fine.
Thanks - all replies appreciated.

you can't install official updates using a custom recovery
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Just download the firmware from sammobile or another source!
Download Odin v3.09
Extract (unzip) the firmware file and the odin
Turn off the phone and go into download mode by pres and hold the (Volume down key+Home key+Power key)
Run the Odin and add the firmware file in AP/PDA section
Connect the phone when you get the blue icon in com-id (Before connecting please make sure you installed the proper drivers of your phone. Recommended to install samsung kies3 it will automatically installs all the drivers)
Tick only auto reboot and F. Reset time boxes
Make sure re-partition is NOT ticked
Click the start button, sit back and wait few minutes.
This will install the stock firmware and all the errors will be gone after installing.

^^ Thanks!!
Will this process wipe all data of my phone or all the data will be intact ??
Sammobile has the version 5.0.1 and I am already on 5.0.1 - will it cause any issue ??

techspark said:
^^ Thanks!!
Will this process wipe all data of my phone or all the data will be intact ??
Sammobile has the version 5.0.1 and I am already on 5.0.1 - will it cause any issue ??
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Its better to make a backup of your data. But this process will not wipe ur data. Better you do factory reset after installing the firmware because u r experiencing errors. No issue u can still install 5.0.1

Hi I was wondering if you were able to fix your problem. I have the exactly same symptoms with my phone however I got there in a different way.
I got myself in a big problem when trying to change the SuperUS app that go installed with [GT-I9500] CF-Auto-Root method.
I was able to root my S4 i9500 following the "[GT-I9500] CF-Auto-Root" threat a few days ago and everything was good.
Then for some reason (I still want to remember what was the reason) I decided to change the superUS app with Superuser clockworkmod app (I am a noob and I deserve this I know). anyway I downloaded the other app from google play and when I opened it say it has to instal the binaries, I said ok and the phone reset and went directly to download mode I believe.
It was doing something but whatever it did it failed. So I said ok not big deal I will reset the phone and end of story. However now when I boot up the phone when it passes the samsung logo and start to load up the OS every single app fails to load, "unfortunaly xxxxx has stopped" I press ok and then it goes to the next "unfortunaly yyyyyy has stopped" and the next and the next and the OS never loads. The screen just remain black until I press power and gave me the option to power off, reset, airplane mode, etc.
IS there a way to fix o revert this. I am able to get to download mode but ODIN does not detect the phone (odin detects the phone when the phone is in normal mode tho???)
I am able to get to the stock recovery too. Can i fix this from sd card?
any guidance would be appreciated.

Rooted for a few weeks -- rebooted and stuck on T-Mobile Screen + Random Vibration

Hello all! This is the second time this has happened to me, I've rooted my phone for about a week, and then for some reason when I decide to restart my phone -- it no longer boots up. It is stuck at the t-mobile screen and vibrates for a bit then stops, I have booted in to recovery mode and tried wiping that cache, but to no avail.
Any help would be appreciated -- or even how I can backup my data would be great too.

Wah gwan! My T-Mobile S7 Edge running TekHD v2. To have your phone running very nicely, you need to download the APD8 fireware. Make sure everything on your phone running APD8. download the files from max on highonandroid, flash the tar file twice using modified Odin from max. Once boot up screen say custom, next step download and extract TekHD.rar file .there's a part in the file that operates like cmd, right click and let it do its thing. Make sure your phone is on and a low USB debugging.
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Also this TekHD Rom is best for unlimited hotspot for Windows, Android and Mac. I have download about 20 more GB of files to make sure its good. The tutorial from max is good, the easiest way I see so far is to click on the root.dat in max files to add superSU. For TekHD click tekhd.bat. That was the easiest way after flashing the tar file. The hold process take 2 minutes once done right. I'm not a developer but a big Samsung Android fan. I have a Note 3,4,5 S6 Edge+ and S7Edge, I tried and tested many Roms at my own risk. Never had any problems. Make sure you always have the stock rom tar file for your device before any flashing any roms, is case something goes wrong you can start over.

first of all this is an eng boot root, so expect some hiccups and proble.. before u root make sure u back up everything then odin back to stock then root or else u will run into problems

You're going to have to ODIN back to stock. This seems to be happening to a lot of people (myself included) and a stock flash is the only way anyone has been able to recover. Flash all 4 files in ODIN simultaneously, but if you don't have a backup, try flashing the Home_CSC and see if it'll boot. I've heard reports that the Home-CSC file doesn't wipe your phone. If that doesn't work, then unfortunately you're going to have to re-flash, but this time use the standard CSC file, which will wipe your phone. Good luck.

I just had this happen for my second time and was stuck phoneless out of the house :/ I wish we could figure out the cause... Not sure if related, but my recovery has red text on the bottom "dm-verity verification failed"

ph00ky said:
Not sure if related, but my recovery has red text on the bottom "dm-verity verification failed"
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No, that is not related, dm-verity verification fails because recovery still checks dm-verity even though the kernel does not.

Damn same thing just happened to me at work. Had to do factory reset...
When at that tmobile screen, hold down volume down + home button + power. It will reboot,and as soon as it does, switch volume down to vol up until it loads recovery to reset

This happened to me also. Go to lockscreen and security options and disable automatic security updates.

I think it could be new firmware update from Google. I tried to install TekHD Rom after update to the newest APG1. And it hapened to me also. Stuck on Samsung screen with random weird vibrations.

I can almost certainly say that the vibrate crash has something to do with the phone installing something behind the scenes. After getting the Amazon/Google/Samsung services multiple crash followed by the reset to the vibrating T-mobile screen I did a non-wipe ODIN, which works and works perfectly. What seems to not work though is re-installing root, it just leads back to the same screen, so I think Samsung is pushing something sneaky onto our phones probably through the security thing as mentioned.
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pawel30w said:
I think it could be new firmware update from Google. I tried to install TekHD Rom after update to the newest APG1. And it hapened to me also. Stuck on Samsung screen with random weird vibrations.
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TekHD Only works on PD8, it's mentioned in the thread.

pawel30w said:
I think it could be new firmware update from Google. I tried to install TekHD Rom after update to the newest APG1. And it hapened to me also. Stuck on Samsung screen with random weird vibrations.
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Can't run that ROM on APG1. If you want to try it, you will have to ODIN PD8. There is a post in a thread in this section that shows how.

I just had this same thing happen on PG1. Using ODIN with all of the various parts and Home_CSC got me back in without having to wipe and everything survived. Going to try and re-root with the engineering boot image now that I made a decent backup. Would be great if someone smarter than me figures out what is updating/changing and causing this problem.

I said it on page 1: In settings, go to lockscreen, then security options and disable automatic security updates.

rp3 said:
I said it on page 1: In settings, go to lockscreen, then security options and disable automatic security updates.
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That might work to prevent this problem -- but what needs to be reverted once this problem starts? I can flash stock PG1 and if I use the (home_csc) it will fix the problem and not wipe my data.... but if I reflash the engineering bootloader it goes back to hanging at the tmobile screen.

im stuck on tmobile screen, and it keeps vibrating, idk what to do

swaggyyd said:
im stuck on tmobile screen, and it keeps vibrating, idk what to do
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I haven't rooted but if your stuck just Odin back to stock.

I came to post that I'm having these issues as well, this is the second time it's happened to me.
The first time I had TEKHD on my Phone, and so with it constantly nagging to do a system update.
I figured when it did this the first time, it was because the update ran over my TEKHD side load "ROM" and corrupted. Ok , whatever, reloaded.
But now I'm just rooted, and stock ROM otherwise. Just happened to me again
Each time it's happened, I start getting "playstore has crashed" errors - dismiss and it comes right back. So I reboot, and then it boot loops and gets CRAZY hot. Man I've never been able to fry an egg on a phone quite like my S7 Edge...
Is there any light shed on what could be doing this? I may have to remain stock which makes me want to :crying: but I can't keep bothering my Work Admin's to unlock my Token account so I can re-register my same phone -
I shall try that home_CSC Flash when I get home though, hopefully I can recover it at least in a way to transfer token to my tablet or something.

posted that at work, I'm at home now. I tried to flash just the home CSC and that did not work, just booted into recovery with an error and wouldn't resurrect at all.
I shall try that disable auto updates thing though and see if it helps in the long run...

wotan2525 said:
I just had this same thing happen on PG1. Using ODIN with all of the various parts and Home_CSC got me back in without having to wipe and everything survived. Going to try and re-root with the engineering boot image now that I made a decent backup. Would be great if someone smarter than me figures out what is updating/changing and causing this problem.
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you got a link for the home csc file you can send me I was good for about a month and a half and it finally happened to me as well and can confirm I was getting the play store/ google services errors right before the reboot and tmobile screen

Was having this issue as well, forgot that I needed to turn off Security policy updates.