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I just did a nandroid backup on Legendary Rom. I installed MIUI Rom which booted up and worked just fine.
I then wanted to go back to Legendary Rom, so I shut down, then did the three button press to restore my backup. It went through the whole cycle and gave the option to reboot.
At the reboot, I'm stuck on the Samsung boot screen. I can also no longer get into CWM via the three button method now.
Any ideas?
I didn't do anything unusual besides run a different Rom and then try to restore the original.
Am I dead here?
You can't go from mtd ROM back to bml nand....you have to Odin now
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ahhh, well then i'm an a$$ for not reading enough....
alrighty then, thanks
assuming this is the best route to take now?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
antmon said:
assuming this is the best route to take now?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
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Yes ... if you can get into download mode by holding 1 and power youll be good to go . you can restore your nand after you odin and root
yep, that worked....and i'm in EC05...which was like ten thousand years ago
is this the best way to get root/cwm on the current EC05 setup?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1076967
then i can nandroid back to my Legendary Rom? (that's Gingerbread based, of course)
it's been a looooong while since i do this....and i think i remember doing an update of the cwm so that it can flash a gingerbread rom or am i wrong?
ive only rooted once and that was the method you linked. The other is upgrade to ota gb and root by flashing cwr and su through odin. I believe either will work fine. Dont forget to flash a modem too as your now probably on ec05 modem.
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Yes as soon as your rooted by either method you can use your bml nandroid. just use the latest cwr (5.0?) and youre fine
all good.... restored my Legendary Rom image from CWM.
thanks.
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all good.... restored my Legendary Rom image from CWM.
thanks.
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Good you recovered, hopefully you will read a little more carefully about MTD ROMs before flashing again. Also as long as your phone powers it is not bricked, just sponged. But at least you are back up and running.
I am running v6.0.1.4 and it won't do anything.
It wont backup, restore, or install, it just freezes.
If I try to run a factory reset or a dalvic cache wipe it freezes too.
Nothing is working and I can't even start my phone because I tried to restore it and again, it froze.
Can anyone help me out here at all? I have no clue what to do, and I really would appreciate the help.
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I am running v6.0.1.4 and it won't do anything.
It wont backup, restore, or install, it just freezes.
If I try to run a factory reset or a dalvic cache wipe it freezes too.
Nothing is working and I can't even start my phone because I tried to restore it and again, it froze.
Can anyone help me out here at all? I have no clue what to do, and I really would appreciate the help.
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Odin back to stock, or flash twrp and try that. Also this should not be in this section bud. Prepare to be flamed by the community
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I had the same thing happen to me when I updated to the latest one, it would freeze at either restoring, or wiping cache. Luckily I was able to just reboot, and everything was fine on the phone, I then downgraded to 5.XXX
I've been having the same issue on stock recovery, where it sometimes it freezes at wiping, then flash the one from rom manager and its all good. by the way mods please move the thread to Q/A
Wrong section bro. Please see the noob video.
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You don't have to Odin stock or any of that stuff, just fastboot flash the 6.0.0.5 version (or that last one that worked for you) and you should be fine.
spuzwuzzel said:
I am running v6.0.1.4 and it won't do anything.
It wont backup, restore, or install, it just freezes.
If I try to run a factory reset or a dalvic cache wipe it freezes too.
Nothing is working and I can't even start my phone because I tried to restore it and again, it froze.
Can anyone help me out here at all? I have no clue what to do, and I really would appreciate the help.
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Ok, don't panic. I've been having this twice a day every day for the past little while. I first started having this problem when I flashed MIUI JB, but very soon after every JB ROM out there started hanging on me, or killing my recovery in this fashion. It's fixable, though for the life of me I can't tell you what causes it.
Don't ODIN back to stock. Not yet anyway.
ODIN your very first recovery, just as if you are about to root your phone for the first time. ODIN CWM 5.0.2.7, not 6.0.1.4. Yes, it's ancient, I know. Catch your phone as it's rebooting after the flash, and get it to enter recovery. Don't let it boot into whichever ROM you have installed. Then go to MOUNT > MOUNT USB and attach your phone to the computer. Copy Darkside Superwipe over. Unmount from the computer and unmount from the phone. Then get CWM to run the script. You must superwipe your phone, so if you have something important, hope you have a backup. This time around it won't hang on you.
Your phone is recovered, you can now flash anything you want and it will work. You can restore your nondroid backup as well and this will also work. If your nandroid back is in the new CWM format, you will want to flash CWM v6 first. Feel free to flash whichever recovery works for you, but CWM 5.0.2.7 is your fallback recovery in case you need to recover your phone again. It is the only one that does not seem to get corrupted in this way.
You can ODIN back to stock now if you want to make absolutely sure everything is wiped clean, but in my experience this does not contribute much to the overall cleanliness of things: it's not called Superwipe for nothing. It doesn't hurt, though: as long as you do it AFTER you have superwiped, or not even ODIN will recover your phone. It really scared me once when I skipped the superwipe step and was left with a 100% stock phone which wouldn't boot.
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Careful with ODIN: Make sure you have NO PIT file selected, or you will kill your phone! Been there, done that, and I don't recommend it. Do it by the book!
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Ok, don't panic. I've been having this twice a day every day for the past little while. I first started having this problem when I flashed MIUI JB, but very soon after every JB ROM out there started hanging on me, or killing my recovery in this fashion. It's fixable, though for the life of me I can't tell you what causes it.
Don't ODIN back to stock. Not yet anyway.
ODIN your very first recovery, just as if you are about to root your phone for the first time. ODIN CWM 5.0.2.7, not 6.0.1.4. Yes, it's ancient, I know. Catch your phone as it's rebooting after the flash, and get it to enter recovery. Don't let it boot into whichever ROM you have installed. Then go to MOUNT > MOUNT USB and attach your phone to the computer. Copy Darkside Superwipe over. Unmount from the computer and unmount from the phone. Then get CWM to run the script. You must superwipe your phone, so if you have something important, hope you have a backup. This time around it won't hang on you.
Your phone is recovered, you can now flash anything you want and it will work. You can restore your nondroid backup as well and this will also work. If your nandroid back is in the new CWM format, you will want to flash CWM v6 first. Feel free to flash whichever recovery works for you, but CWM 5.0.2.7 is your fallback recovery in case you need to recover your phone again. It is the only one that does not seem to get corrupted in this way.
You can ODIN back to stock now if you want to make absolutely sure everything is wiped clean, but in my experience this does not contribute much to the overall cleanliness of things: it's not called Superwipe for nothing. It doesn't hurt, though: as long as you do it AFTER you have superwiped, or not even ODIN will recover your phone. It really scared me once when I skipped the superwipe step and was left with a 100% stock phone which wouldn't boot.
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Careful with ODIN: Make sure you have NO PIT file selected, or you will kill your phone! Been there, done that, and I don't recommend it. Do it by the book!
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what do you mean my very first recovery? Also, I'm not familiar with Odin, I just install it on my pc right?
Miui JB is what I did too. Love me some Miui, but too many bugs. I can't even find the ICS Miui anymore...
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what do you mean my very first recovery? Also, I'm not familiar with Odin, I just install it on my pc right?
Miui JB is what I did too. Love me some Miui, but too many bugs. I can't even find the ICS Miui anymore...
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Look, I'm sorry for your troubles but there is a good reason why we have four different sections. This thread being in DEVELOPMENT is only causing clutter. You will get much better help if its moved to its proper place, Q&A or general. Please PM a Mod to move this.
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spuzwuzzel said:
what do you mean my very first recovery? Also, I'm not familiar with Odin, I just install it on my pc right?
Miui JB is what I did too. Love me some Miui, but too many bugs. I can't even find the ICS Miui anymore...
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I am referring to the process you followed to install CWM on a stock phone. It didn't come with CWM already loaded, so you must have loaded it somehow. If not with ODIN, then what did you use?
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I am referring to the process you followed to install CWM on a stock phone. It didn't come with CWM already loaded, so you must have loaded it somehow. If not with ODIN, then what did you use?
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I dont really know where to find 5.0.2.7. the website doesnt seem to have it. I used revolutionary
Thank you for your contribution to the development of the gs2.
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Download the clock work mod app from playstore. Then your first choice after opening the apk, your first possible choice is flash cwm, do that. Pm me after that if you need help. he should be good now thanks
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Rushing said:
Download the clock work mod app from playstore. Then your first choice after opening the apk, your first possible choice is flash cwm, do that. Pm me after that if you need help. he should be good now thanks
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There is no clockworkmod app, unless you mean rom manager. At least, I can't find any. Also, I can't even get my rom to load at all
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There is no clockworkmod app, unless you mean rom manager. At least, I can't find any. Also, I can't even get my rom to load at all
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Now that you are in the right place, I will help you. It looks like you flashed a corrupted recovery. What you need to is Odin flash CWM. Go here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27290471
Download Odin and recovery.tar, and Odin flash it. Will boot up just fine after. Don't fear Odin. Its safe as long as you are careful and READ!!
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Now that you are in the right place, I will help you. It looks like you flashed a corrupted recovery. What you need to is Odin flash CWM. Go here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27290471
Download Odin and recovery.tar, and Odin flash it. Will boot up just fine after. Don't fear Odin. Its safe as long as you are careful and READ!!
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Ya Odin flash the recovery tar is probably the easiest way to go
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Odin is a tool used internally by Samsung. As such, you can't expect Samsung to write you a manual. Be very careful, you can cause a lot of damage with it. It is powerful, though: it can bring your phone back from the brink of death. Or it can take a healthy phone and send it over the edge. What you are doing now is something every rooter does on day 1, and only after days and days of research. I am uncomfortable with what you are going to do now given that you have never done this before, but you have no choice: it's this or a useless phone.
Here's the rundown:
A PIT file is something like the Master Boot Record of your harddisk. Problem is, the first partition is something like your computer's BIOS: it tells your phone how to bootstrap. It can bootstrap into the normal mode, which runs Android, or it can initiate Download mode. Download mode is what ODIN needs to replace parts or all of your phone's software. If something goes wrong with that bootloader, your phone is something called a hard brick: it won't power on, it won't even run Download mode so that you can recover it back to stock. It is dead. If that ever happens, you need something called a JTAG flash: you send your phone out somewhere, and someone takes it apart, hopefully carefully, plugs a programmer into an engineering port on your phone's logic board, and reprograms the bootloader back again). Now with PIT file having the major potential to trash things completely, you really have to pay attention you don't load the wrong one. Problem is, the ODIN you just downloaded DOES come with a PIT file, and that PIT file is WRONG for your device. Follow the instructions! Follow the instructions really really carefully. Don't check off extra things! Don't uncheck things that should be checked! Don't add PIT files! Make sure you load the right file to the right place in ODIN. Your phone depends on it.
ODIN will program your phone from scratch, but you wouldn't want to use it too often. It's a dangerous tool, as you can imagine, and it is meant to replace your phone's software, not maintain it! That's why we have Recovery. Recovery is what you use to do basic maintenance to Android, such as factory reset and clean cache and stuff. With those custom recoveries out there, you gain the added ability to flash custom ROMs and a few other things as well, which is what this forum is all about. So, step one in anyone seeking to root their phone is, flash a custom recovery using ODIN, since you need Download mode for that. In an ideal world, you will never need to use ODIN again after you flash your custom recovery. Well, in the real world, you should needed it only very infrequently.
Your phone first got its custom recovery from a tool designed to automate things for you, and sent you flashing without ever giving you an idea how your phone works. Now you don't know how to recover your phone from a flash gone wrong: in the long run that tool did not do any favours to you. The steps I gave you will bring your phone back to life, it brought mine several times already. Something about those new JB ROMs corrupts every recovery I have tried. I don't know why, I don't know how, but it does it. To make matters worse, ODIN without a proper PIT file cannot repartition your phone and fix whatever mess caused the problem to begin with, so restoring stock directly won't do the trick, you need to flash custom recovery, to fix recovery, and then Superwipe to recreate and realign your system, data and cache partitions: that's a good chunk of your phone. So, after you do this, you should be back in business. From beginning to end, if you know what you are doing, the entire process should not take more than 30 minutes, but don't rush. Take your time: take hours, take days. Take all the time you need.
Read before you do anything, and ask if you don't understand.
I have this issue every now and then when I use the stock recovery (the one i use to root) with ODIN, where it get stuck on everytime i try to wipe or flash, What I used to do is factory stock with Odin, then realize the even though it froze on wiping factory data, the rom wiped!! so what i do know is install rom manager and flash their recovery and problem solve,
this thread is very useful thanks guys.
by the way i dont flash JB roms yet until I they completely fix the call issues so. do you think its not only JB roms?
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I have this issue every now and then when I use the stock recovery (the one i use to root) with ODIN, where it get stuck on everytime i try to wipe or flash, What I used to do is factory stock with Odin, then realize the even though it froze on wiping factory data, the rom wiped!! so what i do know is install rom manager and flash their recovery and problem solve,
this thread is very useful thanks guys.
by the way i dont flash JB roms yet until I they completely fix the call issues so. do you think its not only JB roms?
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I have had the problem you describe as well. Some ROMs like certain recoveries better than others and if you end up with the wrong combo, they don't boot. Flashing the right recovery after that fixes it instantly, without even a need to reflash the ROM. No, this is a different problem.
We are talking about a problem where flashing a ROM corrupts your recovery so it will stop working on you completely: it just hangs, it won't restore, it won't flash anything. Also, one or more of the ROM partitions on your phone get corrupted somehow so that even ODIN back to stock doesn't get your phone working again (you end up with a fully stock phone that doesn't boot). Maybe the two are related, but I will let those who know more speak. I am just a regular guy who fiddles with his phone a lot more than he should.
As for the problem being on JB only: I've only had it when flashing JB ROMs. I first noticed it with MIUI, but then AOKP started acting up, and when I finally dared to flash a CM10 unofficial nightly for the first time, it happened too... And then I noticed it doesn't happen always, only sometimes, and other times it just leaves me with a JB ROM that doesn't boot, and in some rare occasions: it works without a hitch. Go figure.
Hi all, hope you are doing well (I also hope that you can help me ).
I just recently got a replacement phone because my other one had a faulty speaker (crackling, etc.). The other one was rooted (via CF-AutoRoot) and had TWRP on it, and I made a complete nandroid backup of it onto my MicroSD card.
I rooted the new phone using CF-AutoRoot via Odin and installed TWRP on it as well (also via Odin). Then I swapped the SD card and SIM card and restored the complete backup to the new phone.
It took a while, but the phone booted up and I had two working clones, the only way to tell which was which was by changing the volume and hearing the crackling on the old one.
So the new phone worked all day (was able to make calls and everything, and the GUI that was customized with Wanam Xposed even looked good), however when I restarted it to put in my backup battery, I didn't have root for some reason. I tried and tried to get it back (reinstalled SuperSU, tried the TWRP method) to no avail.
I re-flashed CF-AutoRoot just to see, and the phone booted up but and for some reason SuperSU was gone (and I didn't have root). When I restarted, I got a boot loop and could not even get back into a recovery.
I got tired of this and wanted a fresh start, so I just flashed the stock ROM via ODIN and did a factory reset. However now if I try to boot, the Samsung logo will flash and just shut down, and I won't be able to get into the recovery no matter what. If I flash a recovery (CWM, TWRP or even stock), the recovery will work until I try to actually try to boot the phone. I've tried taking the battery out for a good 5 minutes and retrying (also tried swapping batteries), I've tried doing complete resets galore from all three recoveries mentioned with no success. Obviously Download mode still works so I know it's not completely bricked, but I am getting a little scared.
Any and all help is extremely appreciated as I would prefer not to have such an expensive paper-weight.
Thanks a bunch!
I would suggest going all the way back stock on stock firmware via Odin. Then re-root, TWRP, and re-download the rom of your choice. Dont restore the backup. Just start fresh.
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alloycowboy said:
I would suggest going all the way back stock on stock firmware via Odin
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Thanks for the reply.
And okay, I tried that.
I flashed stock using the T-Mobile ROM I found here: galaxys4root_(dot)_com/galaxy-s4-stock-firmware/
This is the same ROM file I used to completely restore the phone I had to return, and that worked fine.
But it still won't boot up or go into recovery mode (just shows the Samsung logo for a split second before shutting down).
One thing I did do on the other phone was flash a kernel which had set-MUID to off so I could WiFi tether, but I thought flashing the stock ROM would revert that back as well. Do you think that's the reason it messed up so badly? I restored the backup from the other phone with a different kernel? Right after I restored the backup to the new phone and everything was working, I remember checking the kernel info in the About Phone section of the settings, and it was in fact the kernel I'd installed on the other phone.
TLDR: Tried flashing stock ROM to no avail. Download mode still works but can't enter recovery mode or boot.
Are you doing a factory reset after flashing stock firmware?
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I'd flash a stock rooted ROM. Get that root and recovery back. The konane tar file from the stickies, perhaps.
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Are you doing a factory reset after flashing stock firmware?
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Yeah, as soon as it finished installing I went into stock recovery and did a factory reset.
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I'd flash a stock rooted ROM. Get that root and recovery back. The konane tar file from the stickies, perhaps.
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Alright, I'll try that.
Is the konane tar an actual ROM? And what do you mean in the stickies?
Sorry, not very familiar with XDA forums.
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BallisticallySimilar said:
Hi all, hope you are doing well (I also hope that you can help me ).
I just recently got a replacement phone because my other one had a faulty speaker (crackling, etc.). The other one was rooted (via CF-AutoRoot) and had TWRP on it, and I made a complete nandroid backup of it onto my MicroSD card.
I rooted the new phone using CF-AutoRoot via Odin and installed TWRP on it as well (also via Odin). Then I swapped the SD card and SIM card and restored the complete backup to the new phone.
It took a while, but the phone booted up and I had two working clones, the only way to tell which was which was by changing the volume and hearing the crackling on the old one.
So the new phone worked all day (was able to make calls and everything, and the GUI that was customized with Wanam Xposed even looked good), however when I restarted it to put in my backup battery, I didn't have root for some reason. I tried and tried to get it back (reinstalled SuperSU, tried the TWRP method) to no avail.
I re-flashed CF-AutoRoot just to see, and the phone booted up but and for some reason SuperSU was gone (and I didn't have root). When I restarted, I got a boot loop and could not even get back into a recovery.
I got tired of this and wanted a fresh start, so I just flashed the stock ROM via ODIN and did a factory reset. However now if I try to boot, the Samsung logo will flash and just shut down, and I won't be able to get into the recovery no matter what. If I flash a recovery (CWM, TWRP or even stock), the recovery will work until I try to actually try to boot the phone. I've tried taking the battery out for a good 5 minutes and retrying (also tried swapping batteries), I've tried doing complete resets galore from all three recoveries mentioned with no success. Obviously Download mode still works so I know it's not completely bricked, but I am getting a little scared.
Any and all help is extremely appreciated as I would prefer not to have such an expensive paper-weight.
Thanks a bunch!
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The same thing has happened to me! Did you find any solustion for this?? Please help!! This was my first attempt and i have no idea wats going on!
Here are the stickies for our forum: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2419828
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killerwolf2121 said:
The same thing has happened to me!
Did you find any solutions for this? Please help if you can; this was my first attempt and I have to idea what's going on.
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Well, for the first problem, flashing the stock ROM did it for me. I followed this tutorial.
For the second issue of not booting up after displaying the Samsung logo; my battery just simply was too dead and didn't have enough juice to start. You have no idea how stupid I felt.
Let your phone charge from the wall cable for a good while before trying all this again; then see if that works. It did it for me. If it doesn't, I'm not sure what else to try.
After that (if it works), if you still want root, just flash CF-Auto-Root and then a custom recovery if you want (like ClockworkMod Recovery (click the little version link, not the "Download ROMs" button) or TWRP via GooManager) (I use TWRP)
All the best and let me know how it went!
Keep in mind that I did this on an SGH-M919 (T-Mobile S4) running Android 4.2.2, so if you don't have that, I have no idea if any of the above will work for you. Also I'm pretty sure if you do have 4.3, you will ruin your warranty forever due to the Knox restriction they added (if you haven't already).
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Here are the stickies for our forum: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2419828
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BallisticallySimilar said:
Well, for the first problem, flashing the stock ROM did it for me. I followed this tutorial.
For the second issue of not booting up after displaying the Samsung logo; my battery just simply was too dead and didn't have enough juice to start. You have no idea how stupid I felt.
Let your phone charge from the wall cable for a good while before trying all this again; then see if that works. It did it for me. If it doesn't, I'm not sure what else to try.
After that (if it works), if you still want root, just flash CF-Auto-Root and then a custom recovery if you want (like ClockworkMod Recovery (click the little version link, not the "Download ROMs" button) or TWRP via GooManager) (I use TWRP)
All the best and let me know how it went!
Keep in mind that I did this on an SGH-M919 (T-Mobile S4) running Android 4.2.2, so if you don't have that, I have no idea if any of the above will work for you. Also I'm pretty sure if you do have 4.3, you will ruin your warranty forever due to the Knox restriction they added (if you haven't already).
Thanks
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I am on 4.3 and yes, flashing the stock rom worked for me too! relief thanks a ton!
Having trouble unbricking M919 T-Mobile
Hi, I'm trying to unbrick my M919 through Odin. I have all the updated software, but I keep getting a fail message. Any help would be appreciated.
I have flashed the boot stock recovery tar file for my Sprint sph-l900 and it says pass in odin. Then the samsung emblem comes up like its going to boot and then goes black. It wont show its charging while plugged in to charger. But if I take the battery out and hold on, home, and up buttons it will go into stock recovery. So I know that it loaded that at least. Because obviously my TWRP recovery is gone. But I don't understand why its not loading I have done this before and no the steps to take but it is not rebooting properly! I don't know if my only option left is to use ADB side load but if that is the case I do not have the faintest idea on how that is accomplished and done correctly. I woke up this morning and my phone was stuck on the boot screen of the parinoid android rom I had installed that has been working for a good while now. I installed an app to help optimize the system yesterday for better performance and it was an app for rooted phones and it had good reviews so I wasn't worried. I made sure that in the options in the app that the system files and other files that I new could not be touched by the app actions I made sure they were white listed so they would not be effected. That is the only thing that I think could have done this to my phone. And when I realized I could not recover to any nandroid backups I had, that's when I decided to just reinstall the boot recovery stock rar file but not before I wiped the correct files to get a clean install (Flash) Any way that is where I'm at and I do not know what to do...... So could any body please help PLEASE!!!!!!
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Basically your problem is the rom is incompatible with your current boot loader. You'll need to ODIN back to stock rooted MC2 then ODIN a custom recovery then modem. From there flash the rom you want. I'm not sure why you went back to stock recovery with the custom rom but it's not compatible. Or else you need to make sure the md5 is correct for the rom & other files you flashed. I'd just do what I first suggested and make sureyou have a good md5 for ythe rom you want before flashing it. Good luck.
Thanks for the reply!
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Basically your problem is the rom is incompatible with your current boot loader. You'll need to ODIN back to stock rooted MC2 then ODIN a custom recovery then modem. From there flash the rom you want. I'm not sure why you went back to stock recovery with the custom rom but it's not compatible. Or else you need to make sure the md5 is correct for the rom & other files you flashed. I'd just do what I first suggested and make sureyou have a good md5 for ythe rom you want before flashing it. Good luck.
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I don't know about that because it was already mk4 before I ever rooted it and putt the rom on and I have already had to use the same recovery stock rar file two other times to get it back to original stock. And I haven't changed the mk4 since stock not even with the root or the rom Ive installed so it doesn't make sense especially when I have done this twice with the same rar file flashed with odin and always had good result never got stuck from not booting all the way. But so far your the only person all day i have had any advice from and you are a senior member who im sure knows what they are talking about so i guess I will have to find out how to revert from mk4 that Ive never changed to a MC2 and hope that that will do something for me im just baffled that the same thing that Ive done 2 other times wont work again....
Thanks again for the reply any other advice along the way or what ever you feel like adding is more than welcome i really appreciate you now im gonna be on the hunt for this MC2 install and what is the best steps to follow and go on....
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I have flashed the boot stock recovery tar file for my Sprint sph-l900 and it says pass in odin. Then the samsung emblem comes up like its going to boot and then goes black. It wont show its charging while plugged in to charger. But if I take the battery out and hold on, home, and up buttons it will go into stock recovery. So I know that it loaded that at least. Because obviously my TWRP recovery is gone. But I don't understand why its not loading I have done this before and no the steps to take but it is not rebooting properly! I don't know if my only option left is to use ADB side load but if that is the case I do not have the faintest idea on how that is accomplished and done correctly. I woke up this morning and my phone was stuck on the boot screen of the parinoid android rom I had installed that has been working for a good while now. I installed an app to help optimize the system yesterday for better performance and it was an app for rooted phones and it had good reviews so I wasn't worried. I made sure that in the options in the app that the system files and other files that I new could not be touched by the app actions I made sure they were white listed so they would not be effected. That is the only thing that I think could have done this to my phone. And when I realized I could not recover to any nandroid backups I had, that's when I decided to just reinstall the boot recovery stock rar file but not before I wiped the correct files to get a clean install (Flash) Any way that is where I'm at and I do not know what to do...... So could any body please help PLEASE!!!!!!
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What recovery did you use? Philz 6.12. X?
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No TWRP 2.6.3
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What recovery did you use? Philz 6.12. X?
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No I had TWRP recovery but when i realized there was no getting to flash the rom nandroid BU I went ahead and did a factory wipe and all the files your suppossed to wipe and then I used odin like I have many times before and flashed the same recovery stock rar I have used before to go back to stock and start fresh any way this time odin said pass as usu-wall and then it acted as though it were going to boot and then it lit up the silver samsung emblem for a hot sec and then went black and stayed black after that even when i plugged the charger in the led light would not even show it was charging. But if I take the battery out and back in while its plugged in to charger the screen comes on with the little green battery icon and shows it charging. if i push pwr it show samsung icon then goes dead. Now if I push all the button for recovery it will boot back to stock android recovery. and i can upload one of the backups which was my last rom but it of course act as if it will load and then fails which i know is because i dont have the custom recovery any more but it didnt work either when I did and i don't know man im baffled...
The only suggestion Ive been given so far was from the senior member above and said i need to flash a earlier firmware than mk4 but that is weird to me since I have never had any thing installed on anything other than an mk4 but it make sense that it could work I just have not found the info that makes me feel confident about choices yet...
Thanks for replying any other thought please share!
Well sounds like the odin flash had some kind of issue even though it did not state one. Try going back into download mode and flash a custom recovery (twrp) then flash billards back to stock MC2. This will restore everything back even if you have the knox bootloader. Link is below for easy access. Two things twrp is recommended and do a factory reset before installing. After install reboot (apply su when asked if you want it) the phone will reboot display a messed up screen then reboot once again (normal dont worry). After that you can flash your custom recovery via odin and you should not have any more issues.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2086769
Let me know if that works for you.
So I found the write far file for mk4 and it flashed beautifully I tried a flash of the Mc2 in the reply from earleier post but it did not pass in Odin but I really expected that because I was pausitive that there was another mk4 rar that would work. And now I'm back to a fresh stock rom and I have all the flash file I need to get it rooted and custom romed in no time. I really do appreciate the help and suggestions it is nice to know there is help when needed! So thanks again and I got the file from TA TRUE ANDROID vpubmk4 firmware android 4.3 for the sprint sph-l900 I just had to do some hunting in order to find it. And it didn't help that my renters from the other side of the duplex were having their Internet fixed and the Tech accidently disconnected my lines out side so I was with out Internet for a long time and then when it was finally fixed I found this and flashed it no problems. Thanks again. If you don't mind I'm gonna send a friend request to you I don't have any friends or contacts in this forum and it would be nice to have another person to occasionally check in with? Ya know any way take my brother and stay cool......
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So I found the write far file for mk4 and it flashed beautifully I tried a flash of the Mc2 in the reply from earleier post but it did not pass in Odin but I really expected that because I was pausitive that there was another mk4 rar that would work. And now I'm back to a fresh stock rom and I have all the flash file I need to get it rooted and custom romed in no time. I really do appreciate the help and suggestions it is nice to know there is help when needed! So thanks again and I got the file from TA TRUE ANDROID vpubmk4 firmware android 4.3 for the sprint sph-l900 I just had to do some hunting in order to find it. And it didn't help that my renters from the other side of the duplex were having their Internet fixed and the Tech accidently disconnected my lines out side so I was with out Internet for a long time and then when it was finally fixed I found this and flashed it no problems. Thanks again. If you don't mind I'm gonna send a friend request to you I don't have any friends or contacts in this forum and it would be nice to have another person to occasionally check in with? Ya know any way take my brother and stay cool......
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For the record (since people seem to still be having issues) you CANNOT DOWNGRADE THROUGH ODIN WITH THE NEW BOOTLOADER!!! You can however downgrade through (custom?) RECOVERY using the previously mentioned method.
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Of all the things I have screwed up, I can't believe my first post asking for help is this one. I have been rooting and installing custom ROM's since the EVO. Always found the help I needed in someone else' thread. But this has me stumped.
I am a ROM jumper. Do it all the time. Yesterday, I was having some performance issues with my Note2 so I thought I would do a full wipe and try out another ROM. I also wiped my internal storage. My recover at that time was philz_touch_6.19.3-t0ltetmo. Somehow, I ended up wiping everything and I couldn't boot into anything other than Download mode.
Still no biggie. Wait until I got home and I would flash some with via Odin on my Windows netbook. It never worked. It would maybe get to 25% complete and hang. I left it running for about an hours with no results. Then I moved to my Linux desktop and installed Heimdall. Used that to put philz_touch_6.19.3-t0ltetmo back on the device. Then I installed cm-10.2-20140309-NIGHTLY-t0ltetmo.zip via sideload.
Stuck on smiling robot with a circle.
So I sideloaded CARBON-KK-NIGHTLY-20140302-0859-t0ltetmo.zip. Stuck on the logo there too. aokp_t0ltetmo_kitkat_nightly_2014-02-25.zip same thing. I try pushing the ROM's instead of sideloading. No luck.
So I am thinking that maybe I got a bad philz recovery. Redownload that, and go through the same list of roms. Nothing. OK... so maybe philz has become a POS for some reason on my phone. I try openrecovery-twrp-2.7.0.0-t0ltetmo.zip and repeat all the steps above. Wiping and sideloading, then wiping and pushing... stuck on logo.
I have to say I am stumped. I am losing nerd cred by asking for help, but dammit I am stumped. Any help appreciated.
Most phones have been recovered by flashing stock image, you can give it a shot.
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ciphercodes said:
Most phones have been recovered by flashing stock image, you can give it a shot.
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Eww. Does that have to be flashed via Odin/Heimdall or can I use my established recovery? Also, I looked at some of those earlier and they are all in ZIP format. Odin wants TAR.MD5. Is it as simple as unziping and then tar-ing? I don't see an option to TAR.MD5.
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Eww. Does that have to be flashed via Odin/Heimdall or can I use my established recovery? Also, I looked at some of those earlier and they are all in ZIP format. Odin wants TAR.MD5. Is it as simple as unziping and then tar-ing? I don't see an option to TAR.MD5.
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The easiest option would be to flash the tar.md5 file using ODIN.
If you are 4.3 bootloader you can flash this MrRobinson's ROM
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23252070760975435
If you are 4.1.2 bootloader you can flash this ROM, download link on post#1
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2636552
If you plan to flash it using Heimdall you will have to first extract the tar.md5 file and then flash all ROM components.
Your command should be something like this, please note I have not tried flashing using Heimdall so I am not 100% it will work.
sudo heimdall flash --BOOT boot.img --RECOVERY recovery.img --SYSTEM system.img --CACHE cache.img --HIDDEN hidden.img --RADIO modem.bin
ciphercodes said:
The easiest option would be to flash the tar.md5 file using ODIN.
If you are 4.3 bootloader you can flash this MrRobinson's ROM
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23252070760975435
If you are 4.1.2 bootloader you can flash this ROM, download link on post#1
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2636552
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Good stuff, thank you cipher.
Perhaps I am missing something here though. I went to check which version bootloader I have. I just assumed I would have 4.3 since I have been running JB & KK rom's for the past month or so; but I wanted to double check. When I boot into recovery, it doesn't show it there. When I boot into download mode, it doesn't show it there either. Where should I be seeing the version number?
When you boot into download mode do you see KNOX Warranty Void below system status ?
If not then your phone is not on 4.3 bootloader.
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Yes, it shows KNOX WARRANTY VOID: 1
So then I have 4.3. Thanks for the info. When I get home tonight, I will try and flash MrRobinson's ROM then report back. Thank you for the help & I will post my results then.
Well, that took care of it. I was able to use MrRobinson's ROM & Heimdall. I did have to download a PIT file, but that was easily found here on xda. Within minutes I had the gawd awful Samsung TW blooping and making stupid noises. Went ahead and flashed TWRP and I am downloading CarbonRom now.
Thanks for the help cipher. It was driving me nuts.
um... mark as solved?
I tried to edit my original post to mark it as solved, but there isn't an option. How do I change my title?
Well, I spoke too soon. I just discovered that I have no cell service. Went to look and found I have no IMEI # anymore. WTF?
Looks like you flashed a modem for a different device.
No worries, just flash the modem from Mr Robinsons ROM and that should take care of it.
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I wish it were that simple. I just reflashed MrRobinsons and it is back to Samsung recovery and rom. Still no IMEI. I am going to go full retard and flash the one from SamMobile. I'll erport back later.
Mrrobinsons ROM is the stock rom, it's just root injected and Knox-free.
Try KIES emergency recovery method.
You can find link for procedure in this forum in one of the posts.
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Just saw this and I am on my way to work. With no Admin priviledge there, I will have to try this when I get home.
I appreciate the time you have taken to help me cipher.
OKay, I downloaded Kies and it saw my phone. However, it says my phone is fine and will not do an emeregency recovery. After searching on here some more, I found this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261153
It's possible that Emergency Recovery is no more. I am just about done with this phone. It's been three days and I need a working phone again.
marriedman said:
Of all the things I have screwed up, I can't believe my first post asking for help is this one. I have been rooting and installing custom ROM's since the EVO. Always found the help I needed in someone else' thread. But this has me stumped.
I am a ROM jumper. Do it all the time. Yesterday, I was having some performance issues with my Note2 so I thought I would do a full wipe and try out another ROM. I also wiped my internal storage. My recover at that time was philz_touch_6.19.3-t0ltetmo. Somehow, I ended up wiping everything and I couldn't boot into anything other than Download mode.
Still no biggie. Wait until I got home and I would flash some with via Odin on my Windows netbook. It never worked. It would maybe get to 25% complete and hang. I left it running for about an hours with no results. Then I moved to my Linux desktop and installed Heimdall. Used that to put philz_touch_6.19.3-t0ltetmo back on the device. Then I installed cm-10.2-20140309-NIGHTLY-t0ltetmo.zip via sideload.
Stuck on smiling robot with a circle.
So I sideloaded CARBON-KK-NIGHTLY-20140302-0859-t0ltetmo.zip. Stuck on the logo there too. aokp_t0ltetmo_kitkat_nightly_2014-02-25.zip same thing. I try pushing the ROM's instead of sideloading. No luck.
So I am thinking that maybe I got a bad philz recovery. Redownload that, and go through the same list of roms. Nothing. OK... so maybe philz has become a POS for some reason on my phone. I try openrecovery-twrp-2.7.0.0-t0ltetmo.zip and repeat all the steps above. Wiping and sideloading, then wiping and pushing... stuck on logo.
I have to say I am stumped. I am losing nerd cred by asking for help, but dammit I am stumped. Any help appreciated.
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Ok first off, dont have tmobile, but i do have a note (verizon)
What do you mean when you say you are "sideloading" "pushing" a ROM.. Bc normally in recovery you "flash" a rom.
So let's make sure you are doing just that..?
If you are "flashing" a rom in recovery and it installs and you reboot and you are stuck.. thats a different issue..
I would recommend getting your stock Odin tar and flashing it..Make sure it contains a boot.img and if you guys use a pit file.. use that as well..
Post here with some answers and results..Lets see if we can get you back in buisness..
I have HARD bricked my phone, fired eMMC, softed bricked..pretty much been through everything so hopefully we can figure it out!:good:
The main thing is DON'T get frustrated.. I know it's hard but that when you make mistakes and PANIC
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What do you mean when you say you are "sideloading" "pushing" a ROM.. Bc normally in recovery you "flash" a rom.
So let's make sure you are doing just that..?
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Originally, I could not boot into any rom. I could get into recovery. In order to get a rom onto the phone, I could download the zip file to my computer and inside the recovery turn on sideload to move the file to the phone and flash. And Even then I never got any of the roms to get past the boot logo. Cyanogenmod, Carbon-rom, AOKP... none of them.
I would recommend getting your stock Odin tar and flashing it..Make sure it contains a boot.img and if you guys use a pit file.. use that as well..
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Yup, I did that. I tried doing it through Heimdall since I am a Linux guy. I can install a stock or stock based rom, but there is never a IMEI number. From what I can tell, the EFS partition is just gone & I never backed it up. I lost the IMEI and it is not coming back.
The main thing is DON'T get frustrated.. I know it's hard but that when you make mistakes and PANIC
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Oh, I agree. I stepped away from it for about 8 hours a day while at work. Thats when I did most of my reading though. I am pretty sure this is going up for sale on ebay this week. I already bought a new phone. Thank you for taking the time to reply though.
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Originally, I could not boot into any rom. I could get into recovery. In order to get a rom onto the phone, I could download the zip file to my computer and inside the recovery turn on sideload to move the file to the phone and flash. And Even then I never got any of the roms to get past the boot logo. Cyanogenmod, Carbon-rom, AOKP... none of them.
Yup, I did that. I tried doing it through Heimdall since I am a Linux guy. I can install a stock or stock based rom, but there is never a IMEI number. From what I can tell, the EFS partition is just gone & I never backed it up. I lost the IMEI and it is not coming back.
Oh, I agree. I stepped away from it for about 8 hours a day while at work. Thats when I did most of my reading though. I am pretty sure this is going up for sale on ebay this week. I already bought a new phone. Thank you for taking the time to reply though.
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Have you tried flashing the latest firmware, and if yes is this where you got it?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2102380
Also did you read post #2 about going back into recovery, do a factory reset and reboot?
And were you getting these roms that would loop you in this forum, just making sure i know it may sound stupid..
Also, what was the estimated time you were waiting for them to boot..5mins, 10mins, 20mins.. Some take longer than others..
The only other thing i could suggest is JTAG services, by MobileTechVideos, the owner's name is Josh, stand up guy, and I belive it much cheaper than buying a new device =)
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Have you tried flashing the latest firmware, and if yes is this where you got it?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2102380
Also did you read post #2 about going back into recovery, do a factory reset and reboot?"
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Yep & yep. I also tried MrRobinsons root injected rom before going this route.
And were you getting these roms that would loop you in this forum, just making sure i know it may sound stupid..
Also, what was the estimated time you were waiting for them to boot..5mins, 10mins, 20mins.. Some take longer than others..
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I have had some take as long as 20 minutes before, but that was rare. This time, I actually fell asleep and when I woke up in the morning, it was still on the animated boot logo and hot as hell. Still going though. So it was at least 6 hours thst timr.
The only other thing i could suggest is JTAG services, by MobileTechVideos, the owner's name is Josh, stand up guy, and I belive it much cheaper than buying a new device =)
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I've not heard of this, I'll look them up. Thanks!