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let me start by saying I've read almost all your threads only reason im actually bothering is because I'm really feeling like smashing my phone to bits .... that's how frustrating this has been. my phone was rooted and custom ROM till about 4 weeks ago, when Tmobile told me the IMEI on my phone was reported as stolen ... i grabbed my box as my phone i have since it was new and compared the IMEI ... to my surprise IMEI on box and on Phone chasis was not same as the one inside phone .... my phone was unblocked by a local unblocking service here in PR so i went to them and surely they took my phone and lent me another one while it was getting fixed ... "IMEI" was being changed again and it wasn't the one on the box either ... the gave me lame excuse about my IMEI .... they kept my note 3 for a week almost 2 after i got it back my note 3 said it was rooted but i couldn't use any apps for rooted phones as it would say i didn't have root access ... as i no longer trust these people i went on and tried fixing the issue myself ... and here's the thing i have tried absolutely everything cf auto root tar from download mode and even thru odin all versions of odin and using the sm-n900w8 cf auto root and the right roms "different one's to see if it was the rom's or the phone" i am about to give up i simply cannot root my phone so that i can install a modified rom ... thought of contacting you guys ... as my last resort ... i am so sorry to bother i know you guys are very busy ... but if you guys cant help i will have to settle for just a regular note 3 and that sucks... i have picture of absolutely everything i have tried and the outcome and the errors i have gotten and all in pics if needed...
Please pardon me for asking for a little help i really thought i could done this i guess i am not as savvy as i have thought...
Thanx in advanced Emilio Pinella
Does the IMEI on the box match the IMEI on the label attached to the battery compartment?
Have you tried using Odin to get back to a completely stock ROM, flash TWRP, and flash supersu from TWRP?
Ok here we go ...
Yes IMEI on box and phone chasis are same ... the different one is when you press *#06# ...
Secondly i have tried usin odin but absolutely all the files i downloaded are in .zip and odin does not recognize any of them i tried to convert from zip to .tar but it crashes odin thats why i have tried it from recovery mode ... even CF auto flash for sm-n900w8 doesnt work odin does recognize phone so it isnt a driver issue ... maybe if i had apropiate files in right format i could try flashing from odin ... but i dont and i cant find the files in .tar which is what odin recognizes ... as i said i have really tried almost everything ... i have been wondering can it be possible these people lock my phone in a way i could not do anything? ... will wait for your replay ... my phone sucks @The Moment i havent downloaded anything as i am factory resseting everytime i try a new method ... just fyi i do activate devops and usb debug after each wipe ...
Use 7zip or WinRAR to extract the zip from sammobile.com. Once unzipped, it should give you a tar. md5 file.
hello again...
well i was certain of my answer but before i started writing i had doubts so i went and open all the files i have for flashing with odin ... and yes none of my .zip files have any .tar files in them , i have no clue why they are zip files if they are intended for use with odin ... so i went to sammobile.com and yes i had downloaded the 3 files pertaining to my cel phone and tried flashing the stock rom but none of them worked ... some just werent recognized and some gave me whole file signature error or signature failed error ...
i have Tesla-hlte-5.1.1.High_Voltage.2.1-Release-20150824 and its a zip and has no .tar, inside also have cm-12.1-20150423-UNOFFICIAL-temasek-hlte-V10.4 and also no .tar inside and its in .zip format, also have X-Note_Build_15_ND5_Public and yes its a zip and no tar inside...
SM-N900W8-4.4.2-(KOT49H.N900W8UBUCNI1) is my original ROM and it does not have .tar inside ....
something they all do have in common is they have an img file inside that cannot be open ...
and i downloaded files for twrp but jajaja also in zip and no tar inside , just an image file wich is not recognized by odin and not recognized by recovery mode either as i have tried putting all these files in my sd card and have tried doing from recovery ending with results of .... whole file signature failed and signature failed error and also wrong footer error i have pic of all this ... would you want me to send them to you i wouldnt mind... btw thx for your time i really apreciate it.
If the files came from sammobile.com, they are defnintely tar. md5 files.
How many times are you unzipping the file from sammobile.com? The original file from sammobile.com should only be unzipped once.
Well after last replay i went and downloaded all 4 available files for my note 3 from the one dating at 2013 to the one with 5.0 lolli i will do this again tonight and will post the results ... i am certain they will be the same as last time but can you please remind me of steps to take using odin and which odin should i use as i have a few versions .
Once again thx for your time .
I like Odin 3.07 which is what I always use.
If you use Odin 3.07, put the phone into download mode, open Odin 3.07, place the tar.md5 file in the PDA box, uncheck everything except f.reset time, connect phone to computer, flash, when you see the word "RESET" in the status window, remove USB cable, remove battery, replace battery, use button to boot into recovery, perform a factory reset, wipe cache, reboot.
Ok
I will do this from home as soon as i get there and i will post results any specific one you would want me to start with?
Start with a rom that matches the bootloader currently on the phone.
Ok
Hmmm is bootloader the number after model example UBUCNC1?
Yeah just checked and bootloader would be for my current 4.4.2 N900W8UBUCNC1 .... Also says that latest firmware is one of the firmware i downloaded the one containing lolli 5.0
So you downloaded the cnc1 from sammobile.com and there is no tar.md5 file after unzipping?
Just got home
I got home im unzipping and i will let you know in about 2 minytes if there are tar.md5 inside what i downloaded ...
Ok so far so good
All have .tar.md5 in them so i will try flashing with same rom version i have 4.4.2 to see if then i can root and flash a cutom rom ... tell you in a few minutes how it went... wish me luck.
ok finished
i finally got to flaSH WITH odin and now my phone is 5.0 lolli ... can you guide me on how to flash root with odin as cf auto root does not work i took picture of what it did when i tried to auto root tell me where to send it .... or can you tell me where or who might have tesla 5.1.1 high voltage rom or X-note in .tar.md5 format ...
once again thanks for your time and understanding all i need now is to be able to root it so that i may install custom rom after i actually find them in .tar.md5 format.
Find twrp here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2494245
Get the latest 2.8.7 or any 2.x.x 4.4 .tar.
Then get SuperSu flashable. You can google that.
Flash twrp with odin.
Flash SuperSU.zip with twrp.
It's rooted.
If you want to flash a custom rom just flash the rom of your choice in twrp. No need to root first.
Sent from my SM-G925F
Root is not required if you want to install a custom ROM, just install a custom recovery. I recommend flashing TWRP.
Find TWRP for your device from here (make sure you download the tar version of TWRP): http://teamw.in/Devices/
Supersu 2.46 is here: https://download.chainfire.eu/696/SuperSU Download and save Supersu to either the internal or external memory. If you put supersu on an external memory card, power off the phone and put the card into the phone.
Boot the phone into download mode.
Open Odin and uncheck everything except f.reset time.
Click on PDA/AP button and put TWRP into the box.
Connect the phone and flash TWRP in Odin.
When you see the word "RESET" in the status window, remove the USB cable, remove battery, replace battery, boot into recovery, flash Supersu, and reboot.
Ok will do now and tell you if anything ... but i read somewhere this version of android is unflashable ... but i will try what you are saying .
Which version of Android is not flashable?
Ok i gotta say if it wasnt for you i would still be stuck ... fortunetly i am riding 5.0 lolli and my phone is now officially rooted all i need to do is get tesla's 5.1.1 high voltage on it and i will be good ... so basically just need tesla in .tar.md5 to be good ... all thx to you .
Where can i download it or now that i have twrp as my recovery can you guide me thru on that? ... thx again.
Hello, want to download this ROM, but I'm a bit confused because I always flash the new roms manually using a cwm recovery only. I'm not an expert in these tar md5 files.. Anyways im running a stock lollipop N9005XXUENC2 and my question is can I flash AryaMod using the cwm only and without downloading the 2 tar files the developer mentioned in the main thread? If not, can you tell me exactly what I should do using Odin? Thanks..
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MohamedBmb said:
Hello, want to download this ROM, but I'm a bit confused because I always flash the new roms manually using a cwm recovery only. I'm not an expert in these tar md5 files.. Anyways im running a stock lollipop N9005XXUENC2 and my question is can I flash AryaMod using the cwm only and without downloading the 2 tar files the developer mentioned in the main thread? If not, can you tell me exactly what I should do using Odin? Thanks..
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the thing is,
1. Make all necessary backups, install ODIN and Samsung drivers in PC, also download the necessary files (BL, CP and ROM).
2. remove battery and insert after 10 secs.
3. Directly boot into Download Mode via key combo (after getting into Download Mode, Open ODIN and also connect phone to PC).
[download both files, select "BL tar file" in BL and "CP tar file" in CP in ODIN]
4. Flash the BL and CP from OP via ODIN (after selecting two files, click Start, it will automatically restart and it will show Success)
5. Now after the phone is ON (Success message), disconnect from PC and enter Recovery Mode and flash ROM.zip
6. Select your Options in Aroma and enjoy.
The Dev recommended to use TWRP and also I had TWRP from start. You can check in the ROM thread whether anyone is doing this via CWM.
Good luck.
Super simple...as a confident and tech savvy guy yet I have zero mobile modding experiance could I install stock andriod onto my note 4?
I already know about the hardswitch that cant be revsered the KNOX Counter, thats fine with me.
Is it something I could do or would it be hard to do...whats the basic process?
I can build and repair PCs and install OSes and trouble shoot common problems and all that marlarky...know my way around a BIOS ect.
As far as phones I have hard reset then vis there BIOS equivlent and cleared the cach but never more than that.
AnthonyM2016 said:
Super simple...as a confident and tech savvy guy yet I have zero mobile modding experiance could I install stock andriod onto my note 4?
I already know about the hardswitch that cant be revsered the KNOX Counter, thats fine with me.
Is it something I could do or would it be hard to do...whats the basic process?
I can build and repair PCs and install OSes and trouble shoot common problems and all that marlarky...know my way around a BIOS ect.
As far as phones I have hard reset then vis there BIOS equivlent and cleared the cach but never more than that.
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Rom has 5 parts, 1) main android os 2)Modem: it controls radios of your phone 3)bootloader: it supports booting up the phone, flashing *official* firmware , it will decide if a upgrade/downgrade is compatible basically works like BIOS but note that it will let you install only official versions of android signed by samsung, samsung official firmwares can be downloaded from website called sammobile, after you have downloaded a firmware in your pc it will be in the form of zip file, when you extract that file you will get a file in the form of .tar.md5 format if this file is extracted again then it will split up in parts like bootloader, recovery etc but you don't need to extract it again just flash the .tar.md5 file to Flash samsungs official firmware in order to do this you will have to enter bootloader's download mode on your phone this is done by turning off the phone then pressing volume down+power button+homekey on your phone the phone will boot into download mode will ask you to confirm firmware installation by pressing volume up key, *BUT* remember the downloaded firmware file is still in your pc so now to transfer and install it in your phone you will need a Pc software called "odin" just google "odin xda" and you will find download links, after installing and opening odin you will see it has 4 options BL, AP, CP,CSC (these are the rom parts i told you about you click BL and it will ask you to locate the bootloader you want to flash on your phone, click CSC it will ask you to locate the csc file you want to flash) but since we did not further extract our downloaded firmware we don't need to locate and flash these different parts manually if we just click "AP" and locate the downloaded .tar.md5 file it will automatically flash the whole firmware along with its bl,csc,cp and ap NOTE: First you have to put your phone in download mode then you have to connect it to your pc via cable and open Odin it will intimate you with a green box saying "connected " then you can go ahead and flash ur firmware 4)csc: this is country specific code, it enables/disables functions in the phone for eg the Samsung android firmware released in uk will hve its own csc and minor functions...and a firmware released in france will have its own csc and minor differences. 5) Recovery, this lets you clear cache, do factory reset etc in most samsung phones recovery can be accessed by shutting down phone and then pressing volume up+power button+home button at the same time and phone will boot into recovery mode. There is just an overview on how to flash different versions of "official samsung" firmwares on your phone before learning how to flash custom firmwares i suggest you learn how to flash stock firmwares first ( incase the custom os messes something up in your phone you will be able to get back to official software) There are many videos on youtube demonstrating how to flash official firmware via odin first watch a few videos on youtube before performing this.
NEXT: CUSTOM OS
Custom Roms like (stock android rom which is known as "cm" ) can not be flashed via Download mode which i talked about earlier in order to flash a custom rom you will need a custom recovery the official samsung recovery was limited to clearing caches, doing factory reset etc but these custom recoveries like TWRP, CWM have additional functionality which lets you flash custom roms (without entering and going through download mode) so in order to flash a custom rom you will have to download the custom recovery (i recommend twrp) for your phone's model from twrp.me (be careful install the one which is specific to your model or you could brick your phone) just download the recovery file in your pc, when you go to downloads section of twrp it will ask you to choose the format in which u want to download the recovery just download the one ending with .tar . Now to install this custom recovery in your phone, put your phone in download mode and connect with your pc and open odin, select "AP" option and locate the downloaded .tar recovery file and flash it. Now when you have flashed this recovery if you go to recovery mode (VOLUME UP + POWER + MENU while phone is off) you will see a different recovery than samsung's stock recovery.....this one will have many additional functions and options . At this point don't do anything just reboot your phone. Now that we have a custom recovery we can go ahead with downloading and flashing a custom rom to install a custom ROM follow the below instructions
> download the custom os u want to install (CM in your case) and place it in your phone's sd card, boot into recovery mode choose the option "install" it will ask you to locate the file, select the downloaded rom file and it will flash it. TADA...you will now have the custom rom running on your phone NOTE : again this is just an overview i suggest you watch videos on youtube and do alot more reading before doing this.
Very nice. I am in the same boat.
Coming from a Nexus 5 where we had android M and Flemental X which allowed for under volting and over clocking of both the CPU and GPU.
I want to root my 9100c which is on 5.1.1 but have some doubts about this complete Knox issue.
Still looking for good info on Knox. I dont care about my warranty. But what if Samsung releases an update say android M and it says you cant update because your knox is triped. ?
What are the best kernels for over clocking and under volting on the 9100c for the Nexus you could go with Franko or Elemental X on the stock Rom and you got everything you need.
Anything like that for the Note 4 ?.
Id like to keep the stock ROM, Root it and be able to under volt and over clock. Pls advise.
Huh this threads be merged or moved so not sure what happened to my reply but massive thanks for that explanation it helps a lot, I finally delved in today, its simpler than I thought but its also easy to make mistakes, I got a bit in over my head and almost bricked my note , and have learned it the hard way how to do some things, I thought there was only rom and root ^ and thats why I borked it mucking up kernels, and all sorts to the point I could only get into download menu, however now have a better understanding off it, and with a fellow member help I have restored my phone to stock, and will be installing CM13 from there.
Thanks again.
There are a few reasons why can't some people out there just go and install a custom ROM, here are a few:
1. You are not rooted
This should be clear, you have to have root, I can't even see a way of installing a custom ROM without root. You can search for a guide on XDA Devs to help you.
2. You flashed your ROM the wrong way
Even though there are a few ways of flashing a ROM, only some of them are correct. You can't use Flashify for a ROM, trust me you'll only get into trouble. You can't and you should not try to flash a ROM through Odin, remember, Odin is only used to flash Stock ROMS, yes, you can maybe flash a ROM trought Odin if you knew how to convert your ROM to system images and then pack it up to a .tar.md5 file.
3. Your ROM zip may be corrupted
Double check if your ROM zip is the right size and check if you can open it via WinRAR or 7Zip.
4. You flashed a ROM for a wrong model
With Samsung devices, there will be the F, the I, the A and all the others. If you have an F and flash a ROM for an A, your device will not work. Also, some people don't see the 5 in SM-G925 although they have a G920, so their ROM will work fine, but the touch sides will be inverted.
5. Your proccessor isn't compatibile
I don't know if this is true, but my friend now lives in America, so he has a Galaxy S6 Snapdragon model and I have a Exynos model. This could be a potential problem, but I don't really think.
It's been a while since I've flashed anything; at least a year, though more likely two. Whatever I have now I'm guessing is a rom called stock(ish)v06, since that's what is listed in my bootloader. I guess the modem (baseband?) is NAE, and I'm still using a very old version of TWRP (2.6.3 according to my signature, haven't checked).
Obviously, the development that still exists for this device has moved well past me. But given how temperamental my device has been lately, I want to give flashing something newer a shot before buying a new device.
Trouble is, I'm not sure how to go about flashing roms and finding the right modem/firmware when everything I have is so out of date.
Suggestions?
beerindex said:
It's been a while since I've flashed anything; at least a year, though more likely two. Whatever I have now I'm guessing is a rom called stock(ish)v06, since that's what is listed in my bootloader. I guess the modem (baseband?) is NAE, and I'm still using a very old version of TWRP (2.6.3 according to my signature, haven't checked).
Obviously, the development that still exists for this device has moved well past me. But given how temperamental my device has been lately, I want to give flashing something newer a shot before buying a new device.
Trouble is, I'm not sure how to go about flashing roms and finding the right modem/firmware when everything I have is so out of date.
Suggestions?
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Download latest fully stock firmware so you will have latest bootloader and modem from http://www.sammobile.com
which is Lollipop, then flash latest TWRP. If you like stock, there is a stock deodex ROM, there is the awesome Wicked X (heavily modified Lollipop stock), or if stock is not your thing you can get CM12(Lollipop) or CM13 official(Marshmallow)
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mattzeller said:
Download latest fully stock firmware so you will have latest bootloader and modem from http://www.sammobile.com
which is Lollipop, then flash latest TWRP. If you like stock, there is a stock deodex ROM, there is the awesome Wicked X (heavily modified Lollipop stock), or if stock is not your thing you can get CM12(Lollipop) or CM13 official(Marshmallow)
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I want to make sure I understand what you're telling me to do, so a few clarifying questions:
1) I am meant to be updating TWRP first, then using it to flash stock firmware to update the bootloader and modem, and then flashing a rom of my choosing?
2) Why is that method preferable to using Odin to update the modem?
3) If I flash this newer official firmware, am I going to lose root?
4) In flashing the newer firmware, won't my bootloader lock, making it not possible to flash a new rom?
beerindex said:
I want to make sure I understand what you're telling me to do, so a few clarifying questions:
1) I am meant to be updating TWRP first, then using it to flash stock firmware to update the bootloader and modem, and then flashing a rom of my choosing?
2) Why is that method preferable to using Odin to update the modem?
3) If I flash this newer official firmware, am I going to lose root?
4) In flashing the newer firmware, won't my bootloader lock, making it not possible to flash a new rom?
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1) No, use Odin to flash full stock that you downloaded from sammobile.com, you cannot flash full stock from recovery.
2) Because some if not most newer ROMs require you to be on Lollipop bootloader.
3) Yes you will lose root, but this flashing of stock firmware is to update your bootloader and modem so you can flash the newest ROMs. The lack of root doesn't matter since you will be flashing latest TWRP via Odin and modified ROMs soon after.
4) if you have Sprint L720 the bootloader isn't locked. Check I'm 'about phone' to make sure you have an L720 and not another variant of S4
Make sure Samsung drivers are installed on your computer.
So your flashing steps go as follows:
1) Download everything you need first:
a) Full stock from http://www.sammobile.com to your computer
b) Latest TWRP tar file to your computer
c) The custom ROM of your choice (and correct gapps if AOSP or CM based) saved on external SD card on your phone since it will be flashed via recovery.
2) Turn phone off completely. I pull the battery then put it back in then boot directly to download mode: power + volume down. (Rebooting to download mode doesn't always allow a proper flashing)
3) Start Odin (uncheck reboot and reset time) and then plug phone into computer.
4) If COM lights up green in Odin click AP and select the file you downloaded from sammobile (it will be PDA instead of AP if you are using an older version of Odin) and click OK or start (I don't remember which it has)
5) If it flashes successfully pull the battery and then put it back in and turn the phone on normally. It will take a while to boot, like 15-20 minutes possibly. Flashing stock myself I have seen it say it was successful and it wasn't and the fix for me was to leave reset checked and let it do it's thing.
6) Once you have booted into your newly flashed stock OK3, do step 2 and 3 again, so you can flash TWRP.
7) When you go to flash TWRP in Odin uncheck reset time and DEFINITELY have reset unchecked (if Odin reboots your phone TWRP doesn't stick). Do step 4 again except this time select the TWRP tar file. Once it flashes successfully pull battery put it back in and boot directly to recovery (power + volume up) from there do a backup if you want, if not you can flash the custom ROM and gapps if necessary that you downloaded earlier.
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1) No, use Odin to flash full stock that you downloaded from sammobile.com, you cannot flash full stock from recovery.
2) Because some if not most newer ROMs require you to be on Lollipop bootloader.
3) Yes you will lose root, but this flashing of stock firmware is to update your bootloader and modem so you can flash the newest ROMs. The lack of root doesn't matter since you will be flashing latest TWRP via Odin and modified ROMs soon after.
4) if you have Sprint L720 the bootloader isn't locked. Check I'm 'about phone' to make sure you have an L720 and not another variant of S4
Make sure Samsung drivers are installed on your computer.
So your flashing steps go as follows:
1) Download everything you need first:
a) Full stock from http://www.sammobile.com to your computer
b) Latest TWRP tar file to your computer
c) The custom ROM of your choice (and correct gapps if AOSP or CM based) saved on external SD card on your phone since it will be flashed via recovery.
2) Turn phone off completely. I pull the battery then put it back in then boot directly to download mode: power + volume down. (Rebooting to download mode doesn't always allow a proper flashing)
3) Start Odin (uncheck reboot and reset time) and then plug phone into computer.
4) If COM lights up green in Odin click AP and select the file you downloaded from sammobile (it will be PDA instead of AP if you are using an older version of Odin) and click OK or start (I don't remember which it has)
5) If it flashes successfully pull the battery and then put it back in and turn the phone on normally. It will take a while to boot, like 15-20 minutes possibly. Flashing stock myself I have seen it say it was successful and it wasn't and the fix for me was to leave reset checked and let it do it's thing.
6) Once you have booted into your newly flashed stock OK3, do step 2 and 3 again, so you can flash TWRP.
7) When you go to flash TWRP in Odin uncheck reset time and DEFINITELY have reset unchecked (if Odin reboots your phone TWRP doesn't stick). Do step 4 again except this time select the TWRP tar file. Once it flashes successfully pull battery put it back in and boot directly to recovery (power + volume up) from there do a backup if you want, if not you can flash the custom ROM and gapps if necessary that you downloaded earlier.
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Thanks for the very detailed response. This totally clears up my questions. I'll charge my phone this evening and give it a shot in the morning when my battery is at 100%. :good:
beerindex said:
Thanks for the very detailed response. This totally clears up my questions. I'll charge my phone this evening and give it a shot in the morning when my battery is at 100%. :good:
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Feel free to post back here or PM me if you have any more questions or problems, it wouldn't be the first time walking someone through the process via pm here or other methods
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