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Alright... where to begin? Lets start at what happened around yesterday. Prior to the whole weekend, I had CyanogenMod 10.1 installed on my rooted S4. Come Friday, I start to miss some of the stock Samsung features such as Air Gestures, Smart Stay, the stock Samsung camera, and all that. So, I install WanamLite (a custom rom) on my phone. It's good and all but for some reason, the Smart Stay isn't working. To fix this, I go online and start digging; I find people saying "yo, revert back to the original firmware and re-install the Rom, that should fix your LTE problem." I think to myself, "maybe this could help me too." And that's exactly what I do. I go online to SamMobile and download this ROM (http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/?page=1&model=SGH-M919V&pcode=0#firmware). It installs with Odin and I was able to get back to the Stock Samsung firmware. I then proceed with my plan and install WanamLite; that also worked. So I'm all happy and stuff 'cause Smart Stay finally works but, shortly after fiddling with the re-stocked device, I get bored again. So, I start searching the forums for another rom to replace WanamLite (it was a good rom, but I wanted to try something else before settling down on it).
I find this ROM in the XDA-Developers S4 forum: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2303239. I try installing it; it works fine. But then, I notice that half my SD card is used up. So, I go into TWRP and click on Format Data (I'm not too sure about the name, I had CWM prior to the re-installation of Samsung stock firmware). After resetting the Data, I boot back into the phone and notice that the default layout is Easy Mode. (On the bright side, I freed 4 GB from my SD card). Easy Mode's incredibly annoying, so I wrestle with the phone for a while to change the launcher to Nova launcher, but to no avail. In the end, I decide to reflash the FoxHound ROM. I place the rom on my phone and boot into TWRP. That's where the problem comes. I selected: wipe cache, wipe delvic cache, wipe data. Then I wiped the cache and data, flashed the rom and, after that is when the phone started refusing boot up. From then on, it just displayed Samsung Galaxy S4 logo on the screen whenever I tried to start it.
What I tried to fix the issue: Re-installing the stock samsung firmware. (I think I ended up screwing up the phone even more with this. Before, I had TWRP installed but I couldn't boot into it, now I don't have any custom recovery installed and I still can't boot into the phone).
I can access the Download Mode and use Odin. I cannot boot into the recovery. When I hold Volume Up + Power + Home, it just says recovery in blue above the logo, and then, the phone reboots.
So, any ideas on how to fix it?
TL;DR: Tried installing FoxHound Rom. I wiped Delvic Cache, Cache, and Data, and after flashing the rom, the phone refused to boot up; it gets stuck on the Samsung logo. Before flashing, I did Format Data. After being unable to boot into the phone, I tried to flash the Stock Samsung Firmware on my S4. Nothing worked. Any ideas on how I should proceed?
splitinferno said:
So, any ideas on how to fix it?
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Try using Odin mode to install Stock Samsung Firmware...
If it doesn't work,
Install Samsung Kies, put Phone into Odin mode, connect the USB and let KIES reinstall the whole firmware... Go to "Tools" -> "Emergency Firmware Recovery"
psycovirus said:
Try using Odin mode to install Stock Samsung Firmware...
If it doesn't work,
Install Samsung Kies, put Phone into Odin mode, connect the USB and let KIES reinstall the whole firmware... Go to "Tools" -> "Emergency Firmware Recovery"
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I've already tried flashing the Stock Samsung Firmware using Odin, it didn't work. Also, I'm having no luck with Kies; it won't connect. Any other suggestions? :/
EDIT 1: Okay, so here's the deal right now: I was able to flash TWRP using ODIN. This granted me access to my recovery, somehow. So right now, I have the FoxHound_GearEngine0.2 ROM installation files on my SD card and I am booted into the recovery. What should I do? Should I try flashing again? For now, I'll just wait for a response.
EDIT 2: Out of curiosity and impatience, I tried flashing FoxHound but got an error:
Updating Partition Details
E: unable to mount data
E: unable to mount internal storage
TWRP v. 2.5.0.3
Go into the advanced menu in TWRP and try to mount data / internal storage. If you can't, then you're back to odin unless someone can find out something else
maazali said:
Go into the advanced menu in TWRP and try to mount data / internal storage. If you can't, then you're back to odin unless someone can find out something else
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I tried to; it didn't work. I also tried clockworkmod recovery. That recovery said it said that the data was already mounted. For some reason, now the phone is stuck in a bootloop. On the bright side, I can freely access my recovery (although I can't do much in it). Should I try flashing other stock roms?
EDIT: Flashing the stock rom brought it back to the state it was in earlier. So now, it just hangs on the Samsung Galaxy S4 screen and no longer reboots continuously. I'm thinking of downloading other stock roms and flashing those.
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splitinferno said:
I tried to; it didn't work. I also tried clockworkmod recovery. That recovery said it said that the data was already mounted. For some reason, now the phone is stuck in a bootloop. On the bright side, I can freely access my recovery (although I can't do much in it). Should I try flashing other stock roms?
EDIT: Flashing the stock rom brought it back to the state it was in earlier. So now, it just hangs on the Samsung Galaxy S4 screen and no longer reboots continuously. I'm thinking of downloading other stock roms and flashing those.
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Alright, after struggling around with the device, I was able to unbrick it. I downloaded the stock ROM from samfirmware and flashed it using odin. After flashing it, it would stay on the Samsung Galaxy S4 logo and that's it and I wasn't able to boot into the recovery either. So, I flashed TWRP using odin and download mode, and found I was able to boot into recovery again. Screwing around with the recovery, I couldn't manage to do much so I decided to re-flash the stock firmware. After re-flashing, I had the same problem. This time, I tried accessing the stock recovery. I got access, which was something I couldn't get before. After getting access, I did Factory Reset/Data (it was something along those lines) and did a wipe cache. After wiping cache, the phone rebooted and, much to my delight, it was unbricked. After going through this, I think I might just like chill for like a month, or a year now with stock... .__.
Hahah nice job
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splitinferno said:
Alright, after struggling around with the device, I was able to unbrick it. I downloaded the stock ROM from samfirmware and flashed it using odin. After flashing it, it would stay on the Samsung Galaxy S4 logo and that's it and I wasn't able to boot into the recovery either. So, I flashed TWRP using odin and download mode, and found I was able to boot into recovery again. Screwing around with the recovery, I couldn't manage to do much so I decided to re-flash the stock firmware. After re-flashing, I had the same problem. This time, I tried accessing the stock recovery. I got access, which was something I couldn't get before. After getting access, I did Factory Reset/Data (it was something along those lines) and did a wipe cache. After wiping cache, the phone rebooted and, much to my delight, it was unbricked. After going through this, I think I might just like chill for like a month, or a year now with stock... .__.
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Next time don't wipe data in custom recovery because it will corrupt your data which would most probably end with not booting past the Samsung logo, if you want to wipe in a custom recovery for now you have to manually wipe system, cache and dalvik cache located in mounts in cwm recovery (not sure where to find it in twrp).
You should read a little before messing with things in recovery.
Ahahah that's funny because something similar happened to me. And I was going to suggest doing a factory reset via recovery because that's how I resolved my problem, then I see you did just that! (Y)
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Okay to start off I'm on the latest NAE firmware running stock tw rooted. Last night I dirty flashed a stock tw rom over the one I was running & after the installation process it got stuck on the sprint logo so I tried wiping data , system , cache & dalvic cache but the Twrp recovery I'm running just restarts as soon as I confirm the whip so I headed over to my PC to flash the stock tar file via odin. I put the phone in download mode but when I connected the phone to the PC via USB , Odin cannot detect my phone. I tried connecting it to Kies and I got the same result . I uninstalled the drivers & reinstalled them & still nothing has worked . it charges when I have the phone off but that's about it. Anyone have any suggestions. I would highly appreciate it
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Okay to start off I'm on the latest NAE firmware running stock tw rooted. Last night I dirty flashed a stock tw rom over the one I was running & after the installation process it got stuck on the sprint logo so I tried wiping data , system , cache & dalvic cache but the Twrp recovery I'm running just restarts as soon as I confirm the whip so I headed over to my PC to flash the stock tar file via odin. I put the phone in download mode but when I connected the phone to the PC via USB , Odin cannot detect my phone. I tried connecting it to Kies and I got the same result . I uninstalled the drivers & reinstalled them & still nothing has worked . it charges when I have the phone off but that's about it. Anyone have any suggestions. I would highly appreciate it
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Try making sure your drivers were completely uninstalled by going to device manager on your PC with your phone plugged into USB. I think this happened to me once as well. I could charge my phone but I could not see it to move a file. If the drivers are not completely removed you will see an error. If that doesn't work, use a different cable. Reboot your computer. and try all of the above again.
Another thought, if you can get back into recovery, can you mount your sd card and connect to your pc? I know you can connect like this with Philz but not sure about TWRP. Good luck!
I have made a mistake which was was to use TWRP Manager (ROOT) to update my recovery, it found latest update then
1. i followed on screen instructions to install it, phone rebooted and got stuck in downloading mode
2. i had to hook it up to my PC to run odin and flash my original hltespr-recovery-4.4.img
3. phone then rebooted and booted successfully, i then tried to reboot into recovery (to make sure it works ok now) and phone gone into downloading mode
4. i had to repeat step 2
My phone is working fine as long as i dont try and access my recovery, i really dont want to wipe my phone and start again.
Any suggestions on how to fix this?
X-Note 21 with leankernel
vadimo said:
I have made a mistake which was was to use TWRP Manager (ROOT) to update my recovery, it found latest update then
1. i followed on screen instructions to install it, phone rebooted and got stuck in downloading mode
2. i had to hook it up to my PC to run odin and flash my original hltespr-recovery-4.4.img
3. phone then rebooted and booted successfully, i then tried to reboot into recovery (to make sure it works ok now) and phone gone into downloading mode
4. i had to repeat step 2
My phone is working fine as long as i dont try and access my recovery, i really dont want to wipe my phone and start again.
Any suggestions on how to fix this?
X-Note 21 with leankernel
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Why don't you just reflash the twrp for your variant with Odin?
Don't use any apps to do the dirty work for you. The safest way is always best which is PC Odin.
kenny1991 said:
Why don't you just reflash the twrp for your variant with Odin?
Don't use any apps to do the dirty work for you. The safest way is always best which is PC Odin.
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thats what i did in step 2
Retry to flash twrp but in odin, untick auto reboot. After flashed, force reboot from download mode to recovery mode yourself
If roslis idea works then good. In case you need more do a rom reflash with odin and reset to ? state. Then try twrp again. Maybe some files left that mess with it.
So I've installed TWRP onto my S8 and have wiped it completely, though I did have to change and then change back the file formats so that TWRP would register them correctly
I downloaded renovate ice 1.1, copied it onto my sd card and then flashed it everything installed well
When I then reboot it doesnt get past the first screen as in showing (not sure if it freezes at this point but have left it for 2 hours so Im guessing so)
Samsung Galaxy S8 POWERED BY android
Then the only thing I can do is get the phone back into recovery mode (then when I go to reboot it says there is no OS)
Before I installed the custom ROM I had an error message stating that the integrity verification had failed, I pressed on believing that this would be fixed once I had installed renovate
I know that my phone is a exynos variant, is there any way to check exactly what variant withing TWRP
The download mode is still working
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and also when I go into TWRP it asks me about if it should be only system read each time it starts up
it also prompts for me to install the app when I try to reboot through TWRP though I believe that is normal
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So I've installed TWRP onto my S8 and have wiped it completely, though I did have to change and then change back the file formats so that TWRP would register them correctly
I downloaded renovate ice 1.1, copied it onto my sd card and then flashed it everything installed well
When I then reboot it doesnt get past the first screen as in showing (not sure if it freezes at this point but have left it for 2 hours so Im guessing so)
Samsung Galaxy S8 POWERED BY android
Then the only thing I can do is get the phone back into recovery mode (then when I go to reboot it says there is no OS)
Before I installed the custom ROM I had an error message stating that the integrity verification had failed, I pressed on believing that this would be fixed once I had installed renovate
I know that my phone is a exynos variant, is there any way to check exactly what variant withing TWRP
The download mode is still working
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should I try to reinstall TWRP and see what happens
thegasovi said:
should I try to reinstall TWRP and see what happens
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I've tried to install the Batman ROM but to the same avail,
still prompting me to install the TWRP official app (but not always)
am going to try reinstalling twrp using odin
could it have anything to do with knox values changing (need to research)
installed batman rom after using Odin to BL some new firmware(think that's what its called) onto the device
now am stuck on the next boot loading screen
will wait for some time to see if its my phone
-so 1 problem was due to the previous stuff on the device hopefully this means that the integrity verification thing is fixed (not sure how to check
-still havent re-'downloaded' a new twrp via odin, may try next
-could also try reinstalling batman as it was installed before the firmware, may be worth it
-could try to use default rom (need to find download page)
not sure about next step
reinstalled renovate and booted up and got back to the verification failed screen, may have something to do with me selecting knox when I installed it
-niw will try to solve integrity verification problem as when I try to reset it wont work w/ twrp
Maybe too many little things that are causing issues, maybe rather just use Samsung Switch and do a recovery and it will reinstall as per stock, then try the rooting, custom ROM thing from scratch. I know I battled with mine, got TWRP installed but coult get passed samsung boot screen. So i did used Samsung Switch recovery function and got phone back to stock, now I just use package disablers to kill stuff and all is well.
at first, why did you choose renovate 1.1 when 2.2 is availiable?
i would start from scratch again...
flash stock rom via odin. boot and test device. there should be no problem, after this, flash twrp again and put latest renovate rom on memory or external usb device.
with aroma installation you can choose to full wipe your phone. this should make no problems.
Tim Niklas said:
at first, why did you choose renovate 1.1 when 2.2 is availiable?
i would start from scratch again...
flash stock rom via odin. boot and test device. there should be no problem, after this, flash twrp again and put latest renovate rom on memory or external usb device.
with aroma installation you can choose to full wipe your phone. this should make no problems.
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looking back on it I guess I just didnt realise that that version was available
could you give me a link to where I can download the stock rom from, that would be great
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Maybe too many little things that are causing issues, maybe rather just use Samsung Switch and do a recovery and it will reinstall as per stock, then try the rooting, custom ROM thing from scratch. I know I battled with mine, got TWRP installed but coult get passed samsung boot screen. So i did used Samsung Switch recovery function and got phone back to stock, now I just use package disablers to kill stuff and all is well.
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I tried to open samsung switch earlier but it believed that my phone was no longer supported and I guessed that this was due to the rooting, what mode where you in to be able to connect to samsung switch
not sure now but atm I cant get into TWRP anymore
Put phone into download mode, then use recovery option on switch.
thegasovi said:
looking back on it I guess I just didnt realise that that version was available
could you give me a link to where I can download the stock rom from, that would be great
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8/how-to/official-stock-firmware-update-odin-t3598172
take a look here,
there is described, how you can download stock rom with the tool samfirm.
keep this rom safe you may need it once or twice again.
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thegasovi said:
not sure now but atm I cant get into TWRP anymore
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and again...
as long as you are abel to go into download mode, everything is fine.
flash stock again -> twrp -> custom rom with full wipe in aroma installer
reverted back to stock os using odin
checked that all is well and there was no lasting damage (knox was still working fine)
reinstalled twrp, same problem happened again with twrp not recognising the internal storage so had to reset the file format
flashed the batman rom, now am back at the second boot screen and cannot get past
thegasovi said:
reverted back to stock os using odin
checked that all is well and there was no lasting damage (knox was still working fine)
reinstalled twrp, same problem happened again with twrp not recognising the internal storage so had to reset the file format
flashed the batman rom, now am back at the second boot screen and cannot get past
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with internal storage you mean data partition?
sorry, i forgot. thats a common known issue with twrp , wipe data partition in twrp menu, after that you are able to install custom roms
Hi everyone,
I hope that you all had/are having a lovely christmas. Unfortunately for my S4 christmas has been terrible. The phone has had low storage for a week now and was crashing as a result and I didn't have time to fix it. Yesterday the phone was running horribly and wasn't doing anything that I touched. So I rebooted which took way too long and when I did it again the phone now does not pass the galaxy s4 screen and also TWRP recovery will not pass its boot screen either.
I have attempted flashing stock recovery which said error mounting all partitions, afterwards a reboot allowed me to wipe cache thinking it would allow the phone to boot, but no change.
I am thinking to flash stock samsung rom through download mode since it is still functional so I can recover my data before moving to my new phone. Will this be a good idea considering that the Lineage OS rom is significantly smaller than the stock samsung rom or will it not worsen the situation?
Thanks for your help!
Flashing a stock ROM may not allow you to recover the data.
Did you try re-flashing the same version of TWRP or a different version to see if that helps to mount the data partition?
audit13 said:
Flashing a stock ROM may not allow you to recover the data.
Did you try re-flashing the same version of TWRP or a different version to see if that helps to mount the data partition?
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Thank you for your response! I have tried flashing flashing both the same TWRP and different version which was in fact smaller. This saw no improvement in the condition and I still can not pass the TWRP boot screen.
What else do you suggest I try?
Thanks for your time!
Tried re-flashing the same ROM that was on the phone before the issue started?
Flashing a stock ROM may allow the phone to boot to its desktop without a factory reset. You may want to use this method as a last resort to get the phone into working condition.
It's also possible that the internal memory has failed which means there is no economical way to recover the data.
audit13 said:
Tried re-flashing the same ROM that was on the phone before the issue started?
Flashing a stock ROM may allow the phone to boot to its desktop without a factory reset. You may want to use this method as a last resort to get the phone into working condition.
It's also possible that the internal memory has failed which means there is no economical way to recover the data.
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I am actually unable to flash anything without odin because I can't boot into my recovery which hangs on its twrp screen. Also if I have set my partitions to f2fs will this interfere with flashing the stock rom?
I am not sure if the file system will interfere with Odin flashing the ROM. Sounds like you may have to try flashing with Odin which will probably result in data loss.
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I am not sure if the file system will interfere with Odin flashing the ROM. Sounds like you may have to try flashing with Odin which will probably result in data loss.
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Do you think it could possibly be a bootloader or kernel issue? Perhaps I could try flashing those first before a full factory firmware?
I don't think it is a bootloader issue as the phone will boot. The bootloader is similar to a computer bios. The computer bios checks to make sure the basic hardware is present and functioning. If the basics are met, the bios hands control of the device to the OS. In this case, the bootloader is handing control of the device to the OS but the OS can't boot.
I doubt that it is a kernel problem because the phone worked before so the kernel is compatible with the phone.
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I don't think it is a bootloader issue as the phone will boot. The bootloader is similar to a computer bios. The computer bios checks to make sure the basic hardware is present and functioning. If the basics are met, the bios hands control of the device to the OS. In this case, the bootloader is handing control of the device to the OS but the OS can't boot.
I doubt that it is a kernel problem because the phone worked before so the kernel is compatible with the phone.
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So I took the plunge and installed the stock firmware now the phone boots and I'm greeted with a message asking to factory reset because encryption failed. I reinstalled TWRP and for some reason that still can't fully boot. I want to get it working so I can access the storage to remove the important files through either mtp or adb. There is some form of adb working whilst TWRP is booting but it can't access or see anything in the partitions or mount them even running as root.
Any ideas to get TWRP or any other recovery working on the phone? (The stock recovery booted just fine before I flashed TWRP)
Any help is much appreciated!
Kind Regards,
Crapping_Bricks
I think the stock Rom doesn't recognise the file system and thinks the encryption failed.
I'm not sure what else to suggest other than a factory reset since twrp doesn't allow pulling the data via adb or mounting the data partition.