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[Q] Need help for my Vibrant

Here is the story. I've got my Vibrant as a replacement for my older one two weeks ago. The old one had a problem with Home button responsiveness and at the end I decided to go with replacement. After some testing with identical firmware (freshly flashed) on both phones I found that the the new one boots much faster - around 12 sec difference (the time my audio widget is fully loaded) and overall I was very happy, until today when my phone screen turn of during some work on the browser. The buttons light was on and the screen became black.
1. I did battery pool. First boot was very slow. Force close for some koush process ( probably clockworkmod) came out .
2. I did 'wipe cache' - multiple force close after that
3. Factory reset - it was somewhat booting very slow and I decided to go with Odin.
I was able to put the phone in downloading mode and flash JFD with repartitioning. Everything looked ok during the process, but after reboot it plays Tmobile animation, startup sound, shows the letter S and stucks there.
I am able to get in stock 2e recovery. If I choose reinstall packages it goes to clockworkmod recovery (I thought clockworkrecovery should disappear after flashing with odin, but it is there) I tried flashing different usb ports - no difference.
The phone was with stock JI6 firmware, rooted with OCLF, ROM Manager with clockworkmod installed. Was working fine till today. I didn't experience any lag issues and neither of the lag fixes were installed or tested.
I played with clockworkmod recovery options format: system, data, sdcard.
I was not able to format boot - some error.
I am not a very good writer... sorry if somebody gets upset.
I will appreciate any help or idea.
Thanks

Fix for your problem
Sounds like some of the rom is either corrupted or the factory reset did not have J i-6 in it.......not enough info. Personal message me and i ll help you fix this problem.

[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?

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
Sent from my GT-I9505 using XDA Free mobile app

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.

Flashing issues after rooting

I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 8” SM-T330NU running 5.1.1. The box tells me the ‘real’ model is SM-T330NYKAXAR. I decided to root the phone, because I want to get to Marshmallow and to get rid of this extra bloat where. (I will mention I have a good amount of experience rooting, including just rooting my Droid Turbo).
Anyway, after a lot of looking around the forums, I decided to use the CF-AutoRoot method (CF-Auto-Root-milletwifiue-milletwifiue-smt330nu) to root. I got Odin and installed it (along with the Samsung drivers) onto my Windows 10 PC; set debugging, on; and ran Odin. I followed the directions and it appeared to root properly; and I got to CWM recovery. Woo hoo! (Or so I thought)
So then after making sure I can get into recovery, I rebooted back into my stock ROM. Unfortunately, I got stuck at the Samsung logo; tried rebooting multiple times; even did a factory reset/wipe (as per instructions I saw on the forum) but to no avail. (Even let it set for over an hour but it never got past the Samsung logo).
After some more reading, I figured I might as well go ahead and flash a new ROM; so I think (if I remember correctly) I tried the JazzROM. It got up to about 69% and then it just quit - screen went black, and then it rebooted back to Odin mode. Obviously it didn’t work; then when I tried to get back into recovery to wipe and try the flash again, I got the message ‘Cannot mount \system - invalid argument’.
Again, after much reading and trying, I was able to get TWRP recovery installed and then wiped/formatted the system partition, which I had read would help get rid of that error. And it did seem to fix it.
So I can re-root with Odin without any issues; I can get to Recovery (either CWM or TWRP depending on which I flash), but no matter what I do, it either gets about 2/3 the way thru the flash process and then reboots back to Odin mode; or (using TWRP) I can get it certain ROMS to flash successfully, but after rebooting it goes right to Odin mode (saying it could not do normal boot). I even tried loading a stock, with the same result.
Which leads me to my first question: Exactly which ‘stock’ file should I be loading? I am having a hard time finding one - either it leads me to a dead end, or the download doesn’t work.
- When in CWM recovery, it shows the following:
At the top:
LMY47X.T330NUUEU1BOI1
Bottom:
#Manual Mode#
— Applying Multi-CSC...
Applied the CSC-code : XAR
Successfully applied multi-CSC.
Are these correct?
- When TWRP is installed (3.0.0-3) it starts by asking me about the ‘Unmodified System Partition’ and whether it should be kept read-only or allow modifications. I assume allow mods? Otherwise I don’t see how you could apply a new ROM? (I haven’t seen this in a while, not in my install of TWRP to the Droid Turbo). So just want to make sure I am selecting the right option.
- I am also concerned about whether I am using the right packages for this tablet. Based upon what I see on the box and sticker (which I still have) this should use the stock ROM LMY47K.T330NUUEU1BOI1 model; but I’ve also seen things referring to a BOG1 model? Mine is the T330NU English and (I assume) US model since I am in the US.
Any ideas as to what is going on? If I can at least get back to stock I could then start from scratch with the appropriate info; or just install one of the new ROMS (I’ve tried Jazz, Dirty Unicorns, UltraStock). I don’t think I am ‘bricked’ because if so I wouldn’t be able to get to Odin or recovery. Any help appreciated here. Thanks!
-Tom (Chimp)

NM, finally got it working, running DU and running fantastically, if I may say so. Getting TWRP to install finally fixed everything.
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problems after encrypting the date on custom rom

I have a samsung s8 950f. I put havoc-3.9 on it and everything was great. But then I decided to encrypt the date section. I already carried out such an operation on another samsung (9505) and then everything ended in an hour quite well. Now, after the start of encryption, the screen turned off, the phone did not react in any way,despite the connected charging, the indicator did not light up, and so on. I waited like this for more than three hours and then decided to restart my phone. After rebooting, the phone demanded a pattern for decryption (what was needed), but then the interface constantly crashed (problems). It doesn't matter, I thought and did a full reset.After that, the phone refused to start at all, showing the inscription "custom binary blocked by oem lock". Google suggested that a complete flashing with the original firmware is needed. Since I'm using ubuntu, I flashed it using heimdall. Everything went well and I again saw the original samsung firmware. But I need havoc so I installed TWRP again. But now this recovery does not see the date section. I can install havoc, but it does not start because it requires formatting the date, it turns out a vicious circle. What should I do, I don't like the official samsung software.

The problem was solved this way: installing twrp, flashing havoc, installing recovery from samsung, clearing the date, and again installing twrp. After these manipulations, I got what it was before encryption.