I got a phone given to me because they havent used it in a long time, so i figured a free phone to mess up. Anyway they told me that they did a factory reset on it and now they dont remember the email and what not for the phone, I guess now i know why it was free. Anyway it is a Samsung prime model sm-g530r4 and it is for Us cellular. I have read and read a lot and have messed with this thing for the past 3 days and cant anywhere with it. I was thinking okay they say an otg cable to bypass this, I bought one and it didnt work for me. I read that reflashing stock firmware with Odin, nope that didnt work. I could go on and on. Im here all the time reading and what not but I just dont ask for help that often, most of the time I am work at it into I get it but this one is hitting a nerve with me, maybe it is old age not sure tho. Anyway i also have tried to use adb to see if i can get anywhere with that but again a dead end. The phone is not rooted, or anything. As I was going to give it to my 75 year old mother, first smartphone, lol.
Ive thought about downgrading it but I cant find anything below 5.1.1 and some say that wont work. Ive got different os on computers and most of the time use Linux but it seems like the tools are made for windows, so im using a windows 10 right now, but i have a windows 7 and a couple xp., also a few different linux systems. Just incase some work better than others. Right now i have been messing with aabox that a member posted here to see if i can get it to work and no go again. Please any help would be great, if not i might take it out side and practice with my new glock.
Anyway thanks for your time and have a good one. thanks
If you have a full stock firmware, did you try to go into recovery and wipe data ?
If you can flash a twrp recovery, boot into it and wipe data + cache + dalvik cache, and wipe PERSISTENT partition.
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This is the first time I tried to root my phone. My phone is a Galaxy s4 GT-i9505
I followed this guide to the letter and it was supposed to be easy peasy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlVCjtRUrgs
Well when I was doing all that I got to the last step where I had to update my binaries but that didn't work and superSU kept closing itself down.
Someone recommended I do an factory reset and repeat all the steps, but then when I got back into my system I kept getting errors saying SuperSU has stopped and Youtube has stopped.
Those were really annoying and I tried another factory reset but I couldn't get rid of them, somehow they kept inserting themselves in my app list eventhough the apps did not work.
So I used TWRP to do an advance wipe and that's when things went horribly wrong since I had no clue what I am doing :S
I ticked the boxes Dalvik cache - Internal storage - Data and something else I can't remember.
After that was completed I could not boot up my phone anymore and now I'm freaking out trying to follow guides to fix this.
like this one : http://trendblog.net/fix-soft-bricked-android-device-first-aid-guide/
I installed this toolkit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2226263
But the problem is that my computer is not opening the device anymore through the USB port, and when I try to install these drivers : http://androiddrivers.net/samsung-android-drivers/galaxy-s4-windows-drivers-3264bit/
there's an error when installing it fails on mobile device MTP or something probably since my computer does not reckognize the mobile device anymore.
I don't have a SD card atm I never owned one. I might need to get one in order to fix this?
I'm totally new to this and totally regretting ever trying this and being so stupid and impatient as to try an advanced wipe before informing myself well enough.
I'm freaking out like mad here and now I have to go to sleep which I won't be able to catch ofc I'm so afraid I need to toss my phone and when I think about the $$$ .. well you know what I mean.
I've tried looking through these forums and guides but I just don't understand most of it and I can't get it figured out it's driving me insane.
Just chill, there is nothing wrong with your phone. You cannot kill your phone doing the things you did.
Just flash a stock firmware true Odin and everything will be working again. Pick a 4.4.2 rom though.
The reason why you are messing up is because you tried to use a year old rooting method.
So the steps you want to take:
- Flash a stock firmware
- Flash cf-auto root http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2219803
- Flash TWRP
- Flash this script in TWRP http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4/general/scriptknoxout-complete-brutal-knox-t2807172
done.
ive had my note 3 for awhile and have avoided rooting or modding it in any way for quite sometime, but i rooted the stock firmware i believe it was 4.4.2???? im not 100% with towelroot and i was able to install safestrap thats where my success ended I didnt make any backups for whatever dumb reason and also it has been quite sometime since modding any phones, now my phone wont boot into any rom ive tried i have tried two so far and i cant get the factory one back, half the time i cant install roms and the rest of the time they work but they wont boot ive tried creating rom slots but those dont work, read somewhere they arent supported in 4.4.2 ???? and when i tried overwriting the factory it still didnt work, now my phone wont boot into anything anymore and im not quite sure what i did wrong and if there is any way to fix it, i would have like to install knoxraid on this phone since it supposedely fixes the gps issues lots of people have when i try to install that particular rom i get a successful message but then when i wipe cache/dalvik it work and then i hit reboot nothing happens, all i get is a black screen oh and its says that safestrap is disabled
can anyone help i could really use some help here
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ive had my note 3 for awhile and have avoided rooting or modding it in any way for quite sometime, but i rooted the stock firmware i believe it was 4.4.2???? im not 100% with towelroot and i was able to install safestrap thats where my success ended I didnt make any backups for whatever dumb reason and also it has been quite sometime since modding any phones, now my phone wont boot into any rom ive tried i have tried two so far and i cant get the factory one back, half the time i cant install roms and the rest of the time they work but they wont boot ive tried creating rom slots but those dont work, read somewhere they arent supported in 4.4.2 ???? and when i tried overwriting the factory it still didnt work, now my phone wont boot into anything anymore and im not quite sure what i did wrong and if there is any way to fix it, i would have like to install knoxraid on this phone since it supposedely fixes the gps issues lots of people have when i try to install that particular rom i get a successful message but then when i wipe cache/dalvik it work and then i hit reboot nothing happens, all i get is a black screen oh and its says that safestrap is disabled
can anyone help i could really use some help here
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May I know which variant on Note3 you are using.
and what's the OS version? 4.3? or 4.4.2 or 4.4.4
what's your region (CSC).??
I would suggest you to go into download mode and download appropriate stock firmware from SamMobile or from Samsung Updates (Link for N9005) and flash Stock ROM using ODIN.
Thanks.
Hi y'all, i recently within the last month 2 months taken up a very unsual craving for delving deeper into my technology, with that being said. my tab 4 7.0 sm-t230 i Downloaded an app called "lucky patcher" was messing with it, been reading about deoxe(ing) my tablet,it gave me the option to do it for me (usually i enjoy the challange of using a emulated terminal and what not) but every file etc would take too long, and it worked, my daughter ot well over 150 million score on subway surfers etc. i notice my phone sluggish even bein over clocked, I/Os that i did myself, running max cpu and performance i could blabber forever since my 3 kids arnt interested in my newly found hobbie and my husbands a truck driver, i'm getting it out here (i'm sorry but i do need help) so anywyas i decided to kick her into recovery and begin to just manually delete all the dex copied files through TWRP went good till i wetn to reboot after staring at my screen for 3 hours and got threw up on twice from sick babies and i was boot looped. i decide to restore a previous freshly flashed rom/root backup. well they were deleted too. and all i could do was a master re format i think is what i read it was called, and excited to get back and re download everything i notice i now have no OS and no recoveries and TWRP fulll of emptiness. i can play through TWRP i've changed file permissions i've tried everything ive read and tried everything i learned and experianced to fix this issue, and yet stillno idea how to fix this issue..
Now the fun part is my set up. the only pc i have means and access too is my samsung Chromebook, and my tablet, that's it, no phone because my tablet handles everything my little heart can desire.
needless to say, i need some kinda recovery tool kit i can use via my chromebook, that'll allow me to use ADB for chrome (which another question i have is how do i enable my tablets USB debugging if i can't get into the phone?) so toolkit for chromebook for a ADB side load if possible. or some way to do it through my emulated terminal in TWRP,. my minds rushing, i'm confused and my over emotionally stressed female head is killing me without my tablet. (drive to any town where i could use anything but my chrome book. 3.5 hours.
sorry i pray this post doesnt get deleted. I need help because my tablet is my main source of income being in real estate when i'm back in town once a month. never made a page or a forum or anything like this usally google magic does it. but 3 days and countless mind numbing forums i've given in.. please help me! i'll donate pay something idc at this point. -a pissed off irish southen woman on the verge of pms and a meltdown thanks in advance i'll try to reply as fast as humanly possible, ill be up for awhile tonight going through more posts.
0well with a little more tinking around, i think i have found the issue as too why no matter what i do i'm unable to boot a rom/os. mt EXT3 wil not mount my system i'm clueless as to how to fix that at all threw TWRP, anyone have an idea of any kind please? i'm for anything, even if after more attempts and countless hours, i'll record me skipping it across my lake, and we'll all take guesses as too how many skips it'll do. hopefully my dog will fetch it if i throw at the wrong angle. (completely dumb jokes are the only thing keeping me from returning Sain.) we all cant be too serious. please very interested on how to fix this issue tho.
s,
you need to get a custom rom zip onto an sdcard, check development section.
in twrp, flash the rom,
if the rom still doesn't boot, then reboot to twrp again and use the format data option, then reflash rom and try again.
twrp terminal sucks, you can try flashing aromafm https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934547314
this is for the marvell variant, it may work for the msm/qcom variant.
stop using lucky patcher.
m
moonbutt74 said:
s,
you need to get a custom rom zip onto an sdcard, check development section.
in twrp, flash the rom,
if the rom still doesn't boot, then reboot to twrp again and use the format data option, then reflash rom and try again.
twrp terminal sucks, you can try flashing aromafm https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934547314
this is for the marvell variant, it may work for the msm/qcom variant.
stop using lucky patcher.
m
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Hi, that's where another problem lies within, I have no way of communicating with the phone or being able to do much, considering the only pc/laptop i have access too is my chromebook, and this thing is a ssteaming pile of regurgitated dog bile. if theres one regret in life.. buying this thing.. even dual booted i still can't process the zips or compile them properly, maybe i need to find out how to build a zip file from scratch and comepile the corresponding stuff myself in small hopes it'll work on this chromebook
and yes, never again will I use that. it worked don't get me wrong. but then it decided to deodex my system to oblivion.
s,
hey that rhymed !
your alternative is to use a usb thumbdrive and an otg cable , else nada.
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moonbutt74 said:
s,
hey that rhymed !
your alternative is to use a usb thumbdrive and an otg cable , else nada.
m
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I'm gla you have a sense of humor, thank you hun. looks like i'm tabletless until i go back into town in two weeks ): i suppose till then i will tinker with it some more and unlock the universe, or find a way to convert zips that are made for windows or mac and be able to convert it to be able to be used and transfered unto the phone. Chromium os or chrome now has ADB for chrome as an extension but very iffy, has 3 options to screen record/screenshot and terminal. i was able to use vitural box for about 2 hours and force odin to pretend i was on a widnows enough to orignally root, then it crashed my chromebook. Maybe i've gotta achieve 88 mph first to get this thing to work? lol my chromebook "overclocked" 810 mghz.... maxx.... frequency says it can go to 2100... i think if i even try that i'd recreate the "hydrogen bomb"
I'm having issues with a Samsung Galaxy Core Prime (G360T1UVU1AOFA). Long story short a customers device had some form of virus labeled with "the FBI" lol so I took the phone figuring I could fix it and return it to him. I flashed the stock rom to the phone via ODIN. it passed and was a success. The reason I didn't try a master reset first was the customer did not know his Gmail PW required to set up the phone after reset. After the flash the device booted like a brand new phone, apps got optimized all that good stuff. Made it through the initial setup WITHOUT requiring the Gmail. About 30 seconds after getting to home screen the virus pop up came back asking for exactly (no tax) 500$ to unlock. Ok awesome... So I then master reset the phone thinking the stock rom that was flashed would have reset the device. Nope. It required me to input the original Gmail used to setup the device. I'm willing to bet an unlocked Samsung bootloader that the virus is still there even after the master reset. What can I do to RESET this phone? I thought a flash was a complete reinstall.
ok well im not an expert by any means in fact still reletively new to all this so take this with a grain of salt or however that expression goes but my first reactionary answer would b: flash does not always = complete reinstall especially using odin unless u know wut ur doin (im not yet even close to thinkin i even know wut im doin with odin)
anywho id suggest just searchin the forums (probly actually find more for this model posted under the "samsung galaxy core" section since the prime wasnt given its own seperate one) for an odin-friendly version of twrp (or cwm tho ive never tried it on this particular phone) flash ur preferred custom recovery but keep in mind rule #1 above anything else with this phone for the love of roms DO NOT EVER BOOT INTO RECOVERY IN ANY OTHER WAY BESIDES THE 3 BUTTON COMBO (power+menu+volume up)
anywho then id return to the forums n search for a good stock sm-g360t1 flashable zip n use twrp (or cwm depending on personal preference) to wipe everything that can be wiped and then go ahead n flash the stock rom locally that way n see if that makes any sorta difference?
again im still pretty new to all this n even more so to samsungs soo ideally id suggest gettin a second opinion butt since nobody has yet answered u i figured id throw my opinion out there in case it happens to help u out
but, anybody who knows more than i pls pls pls by all means if u find any flaws with my suggestion feel free to correct me or add ur 2 cents im totally fine with constructive criticism, and i realize that theres countless things i know little to nothing about but im always willing to listen n learn from anyone more experienced than i
Here is the current status. Unrooted N7 2012 Wifi that has seen daily use for around 4 years. Never unlocked, newest firmware. Started to act loopy, kid never told me until it completely stopped booting (of course). It boots to the Google screen, goes no further. I go into recovery and try to clear /cache, it will not complete.
Now there is 4 years of stuff on here, never backed up (again, of course) that I would like to get off it. That is all I care about. Spent about 5 hours reading everything to no avail, even got desperate enough the knock on the thing like I read a few people doing. So in short are there any hacks, any "full ota" for the 2012 model like the 2013 one, leaked diagnostic apps, anything? Hell I'm to the point of pulling out the soldering iron if it would help.
Just to stop the usual replies, no, I will not "oem unlock", the goal is to get the stuff off it, I will worry about fixing it after.
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Here is the current status. Unrooted N7 2012 Wifi that has seen daily use for around 4 years. Never unlocked, newest firmware. Started to act loopy, kid never told me until it completely stopped booting (of course). It boots to the Google screen, goes no further. I go into recovery and try to clear /cache, it will not complete.
Now there is 4 years of stuff on here, never backed up (again, of course) that I would like to get off it. That is all I care about. Spent about 5 hours reading everything to no avail, even got desperate enough the knock on the thing like I read a few people doing. So in short are there any hacks, any "full ota" for the 2012 model like the 2013 one, leaked diagnostic apps, anything? Hell I'm to the point of pulling out the soldering iron if it would help.
Just to stop the usual replies, no, I will not "oem unlock", the goal is to get the stuff off it, I will worry about fixing it after.
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Bootloader unlock will wipe data. Did you try to connect tablet to pc? If drivers are installed data in internal storage should be accessible. Another option is to look for adb minimal distribution and install it on PC in a single directory. Then if adb is working (adb devices return something) then copy data using adb pull / command.
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No, ADB is not working.
Finally the damn thing threw me a bone. Every time I would press power+up it would have no log but this time was different. So I let it format cache for 12hrs+ and it did not finish or probably not even try.
Any tricks for this? Have no luck finding any.
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Finally the damn thing threw me a bone. Every time I would press power+up it would have no log but this time was different. So I let it format cache for 12hrs+ and it did not finish or probably not even try.
Any tricks for this? Have no luck finding any.
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Can try looking at this https://youtu.be/VJRKuQf0puE assuming that you can boot into TWRP
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Hjicons said:
Can try looking at this https://youtu.be/VJRKuQf0puE assuming that you can boot into TWRP
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Locked.