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I was trying to flash my phone to a different room and I do not know what I did wrong. I was in Starbust, then I wanted to try Viper. Do I did a factory wipe, wipe cache, dalvik and system format. Then I did an update of viper and I did wipe cache, dalvik and system format, that's when problems started. I try to recover thought clock work, but it came to mind to just used Odinv1.85 but for reason I downloaded the wrong one. I downloaded the old epic Odin and when I realize I did that I unplugged it. So now I can even start clockwork or Odindownload mode..when you hold volume down and power. The only thing I get is a blue light on the top...Help???

drsteven2 said:
I was trying to flash my phone to a different room and I do not know what I did wrong. I was in Starbust, then I wanted to try Viper. Do I did a factory wipe, wipe cache, dalvik and system format. Then I did an update of viper and I did wipe cache, dalvik and system format, that's when problems started. I try to recover thought clock work, but it came to mind to just used Odinv1.85 but for reason I downloaded the wrong one. I downloaded the old epic Odin and when I realize I did that I unplugged it. So now I can even start clockwork or Odindownload mode..when you hold volume down and power. The only thing I get is a blue light on the top...Help???
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I have no clue what u did all you have said makes very little sense explain better please
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Odin is odin there is no odin for epic and different for epic touch if you were using odin and just pulled cable while flashing you were stupid and bricked your phone for no reason congratulations that is why you read and make sure what your doing is right before you hit the go button
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If all you get is the blue light, then it's hard bricked. You'll need to call sprint and play dumb or file a claim. Sorry for your luck but the idea bricked my first touch as well.
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Brick
Okay..Im just going to the store and pretend I dont know what happend..I have insurance..
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ptfdmedic said:
If all you get is the blue light, then it's hard bricked. You'll need to call sprint and play dumb or file a claim. Sorry for your luck but the idea bricked my first touch as well.
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And Odin is completely Gone!!!

Enjoy paying the $100 fee to get a new phone instead of taking 30 minutes to read the Odin Guide and figure **** out. Seriously, its not hard.
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I just got my phone replace by Sprint for Free..I took my time this time and I did it right..
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sirslipzalot said:
Enjoy paying the $100 fee to get a new phone instead of taking 30 minutes to read the Odin Guide and figure **** out. Seriously, its not hard.
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Unfortunately, the TEP covers this sort of crap.
Respectfully, if you don't know what you're doing/can't read don't root.

I do know how to root I just simply was not paying attention. But now I am fully rooted using Viper Rom....I was only asking for opinions not people reprimand me..The first and last time I brick a phone..
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Unfortunately, the TEP covers this sort of crap.
Respectfully, if you don't know what you're doing/can't read don't root.
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no mobile network

Ok so I am freaking out. After I flashed Darkside mode on my GS2 i wasn't able to sends texts but i could surf the web. then i changed to mod to juggernaut and now i have the circle with a line indicating that i dont have mobile network. what the hell can i do!!?

Odin stock.
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Dude thanks so much for replying!
I tried this: http://www.droid-tech.net/galaxy-s-...evelopment/256-{how-}-back-stock-2-3-6-a.html
but i still get no signal. what else do i have to do to get back to stock? Right now i'm in the process of flashing the stock rom.
is there anything else to it?

This is why i never flash roms .... Blahhhhhhhhh
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mrufokid said:
This is why i never flash roms .... Blahhhhhhhhh
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That's a dumb reason. Stuff like this rarely happens.
To the OP, you have to ODIN it, not just flash a stock ROM.
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Factory reset/data wipe in recovery. Reflash. Worked for me yesterday
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Check see if you have apns andmaybe tmo is down at ur are. It was like that for me on saturday night for 6 hours.
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mrufokid said:
This is why i never flash roms .... Blahhhhhhhhh
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I love flashing ROMS.
It's been a very poor experience with samsung devices though.
Only reason I switched ROM was because it was shutting off when I took pictures with the DarkSide rom.
Then only my DATA worked and then no network whatsoever
I already tried swapping my SIM into another phone and my sim is fine
I even tried someone else's sim to my phone and it still doesnt read it.
Right now i am about to try going back to factory settings using this method
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/16727-howto-restore-stock-rom-recover-bad-flashes/

so it sounds like it is a common problem . however now it reads the sim but i get the error "your sim does not allow connection to this network." keep in mind it was working earlier today. any other suggestions before i pull this turd on ebay?

Just saying that I had no data Connection switching to Tuesday. Ended up wipeing cache,dalvik,and fixing permissions once more solved the issue.
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Sounds like u need to reflash your radio and flash your rom again...
But b4 that, do a factory reset

Your phone is STOCK now. The ROM, KERNEL, MODEM and BOOT LOADER are all replaced with this method and ROOT access is removed. Your personal data and apps are still on the phone though. You will probably want to clean this up before returning the phone.
The ODIN restore i did says i should be completely back to stock. still not working.
such a damn shame, i kinda liked this phone. im porbably out $80 on this garbage.

1. did you wipe all your ****? and fix permissions?
2. is this a CL or ebay phone?

Did I Brick? Stuck at Android Recovery Screen

Rooted...no issue there.
Installed ROM Manger.
Installed Clockwork Recovery from Rom Manager as I wanted to install a new rom.
Now when I boot, no matter what combination I hold down, it goes to the Android System Recovery screen and in the background is the white triangle, yellow exclamation point and little android guy.
I can move between the three ofered choices but pressing the power button (I assume this is the OK button) does nothing.
Thoughts / help?

Does your computer recognize it? If it does you should try adb download and see if you can get into download mode
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Have you even tried pressing any of the soft keys, home button?
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Just realized I posted the question in the wrong forum as well.
Computer makes a noise as though it knows it's connected, yet it doesn't show up and odin and kies don't find it either.

I think home button is select and power button is back, but I haven't used stock in a long time, so might be remembering incorrectly.
I suggest you don't use Rom Manager to install recovery. It doesn't work properly for this phone and could lead to non-recoverable problems.
Read this thread and you'll have references to everything you need to undo and start from scratch:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342728

THANKS!
What a doof........hit the home button and all is fixed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jfenton57 said:
What a doof........hit the home button and all is fixed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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And leave stupid ROM manager alone it's crap on Samsung
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I don't know for the life of me why people still use Rom manager to install roms.

I think they are probably HTC converts because nothing here is asking them to use ROM manager.

jordan2333 said:
I don't know for the life of me why people still use Rom manager to install roms.
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Lazy lazy and most don't know how to do it correctly....
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sfhub said:
I think they are probably HTC converts because nothing here is asking them to use ROM manager.
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I came over from an Evo and believe me everything pointed to not use Rom Manager when I had my phone as well. I agree that if people took the time to read properly they would see that Rom Manager and a few other crazy things they do are not suggested. But they make sure to have time to post and read their threads when they screw up. Honestly with all the brick laying and blue light specials up in herrre. Do you really need to post your problem and how do you fix it...
His problem is one of 100 exactly the same in here and instead of searching and helping himself he did the same lazy thing that got him stuck in the first place. Then too lazy to find out how to work CWM. Quite sure he will be back again if he keeps up this route... @OP not trying to be an ass but just hate to see people who don't want to help themselves.

Sorry to hear that you've bricked OP. Hope you can get a replacement and get back into owning your phone.
Here's what I've done to avoid bricking since I am also somewhat new to the E4GT...
Read the forums on XDA.
Observed what others are doing that worked.
Didn't flash anything you are unsure of.
Became familiar with ODIN.
Stayed away from ROM manager.
Flashed using el29 rogue recovery only. (I've been successful with this so far, others say to use el26.)
Wipd cache/dalvik-cache/data/system.
Purchased mobile ODIN, $5 is better than the deductible to get a replacement.
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I bricked but it was a bad recovery well not bad just messy team trolls recovery bricked me 2 weeks ago wiping Cache . But as always when u post questions like this here ur gonna hear it lol but searching helps.
Now if its hard bricked ud not even get to recovery at all just a blue light and a black screen that if is ur case unplug it cause it runs the battery super hot .
If not in that position than try power and volume down if it does not bring u to download mode to Odin another recovery if that don't work idk
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sfhub said:
I think they are probably HTC converts because nothing here is asking them to use ROM manager.
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The OG Epic uses ROM Manager just fine.
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azyouthinkeyeiz said:
The OG Epic uses ROM Manager just fine.
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That took a long time and a ton of porting. Pretty recent. Went through Eclair and Froyo without support.

The Root said:
That took a long time and a ton of porting. Pretty recent. Went through Eclair and Froyo without support.
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Porting was needed for CWM recovery. Not ROM Manager. Support for ROM Manager comes from device devs, not koush. In the form of uploading vetted software, that doesn't corrupt. It is a universal starting point, not a fully functional product.
But regardless, I wasn't even talking about it's support. I was saying people other than ones with HTC devices can get into the habit of using ROM Manager.
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azyouthinkeyeiz said:
Porting was needed for CWM recovery. Not ROM Manager. Support for ROM Manager comes from device devs, not koush. In the form of uploading vetted software, that doesn't corrupt. It is a universal starting point, not a fully functional product.
But regardless, I wasn't even talking about it's support. I was saying people other than ones with HTC devices can get into the habit of using ROM Manager.
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I never used it even when there was support. Lol
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Doesn't matter the recovery is in the kernel and rom manager will not work on this phone ....there is no separate recovery partition and ROM manager won't flash the recovery right on here since it's part of the kernel partition.koush doesn't really care he made it to temporarily flash a recovery like touch that might work if not for ics kernels... The thing is it doesn't work people should not rely on it like a crutch
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Rookie mistake... any help?

So I was rooting my friends phone, and accidently forgot to remove the check mark next to repartition when installing cwm, now the phone will not install any roms, and will not return to stock through Odin. Gets stuck at factoryfs.rfs, and will not process any further. Any advice?

Get the victory.pit and odin again with rfepartition checked... I spent 3 days TRYING to brick this phone and couldn't... just keep trying... different cables, ports, etc....
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I tried that... have been using the PIT the whole time.. even repartitioned by itself which went through fine. Still hangs at factory, when I power on the phone it is a blank screen... tried two computers, and every port... set odin as admin, and running it in compatibility mode...

It sounds insane but really just keep trying because eventually it should work. It took me a whole day once but eventually I rebooted a lot and got the cord port combo, and the grace of a religious deity correct. As long as nothing blows up while doing the repartition nothing really bad should happen since you can always flash recoveries and kernels through Odin anyway. Good luck and happy flashing!
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I believe its your cord.. Had the same problem
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stevie13.xo said:
I believe its your cord.. Had the same problem
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Used this cable before to get mine going... I don't think it is that...

Use heimdall load the package remove the factoryfs and then flash and then if that works then flash factoryfs by itself i got it to work by doing this
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saramon said:
Used this cable before to get mine going... I don't think it is that...
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If its already repartitioned try it without the pit and without checking repartition this time... I did the same thing yesterday and it worked for me...
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Well, I guess Satan was in the phone, and decided to leave, working fine now... nothing different lol

saramon said:
Well, I guess Satan was in the phone, and decided to leave, working fine now... nothing different lol
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Awesome!
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Problem after update

After I updated my phone to 4.4.2 I lose service and have to restart my phone multiple times a day to get service back. I called T-Mobile and after resetting the phone they said they would replace it. Then I called Samsung and they said to bring it to best buy to have it reflashed. I can go there but I could also flash it via Odin at home. Now my question is, if I flash the stock rom via Odin will it trip the Knox counter? I read that it won't and I read that it can. I just want to make sure it won't before I flash it incase I have to have it repaired or replaced.
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Mr. bird said:
After I updated my phone to 4.4.2 I lose service and have to restart my phone multiple times a day to get service back. I called T-Mobile and after resetting the phone they said they would replace it. Then I called Samsung and they said to bring it to best buy to have it reflashed. I can go there but I could also flash it via Odin at home. Now my question is, if I flash the stock rom via Odin will it trip the Knox counter? I read that it won't and I read that it can. I just want to make sure it won't before I flash it incase I have to have it repaired or replaced.
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Did you update it officially or via a ROM flashed in a custom recovery?
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elesbb said:
Did you update it officially or via a ROM flashed in a custom recovery?
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I updated ota. I haven't rooted this phone yet.
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Mr. bird said:
I updated ota. I haven't rooted this phone yet.
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I would try flashing the stock official update through Odin. That's pretty much what best buy is going to do.
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elesbb said:
I would try flashing the stock official update through Odin. That's pretty much what best buy is going to do.
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That's what I was thinking. I just wanted to make sure that wouldn't trip the Knox counter going through odin. I wouldn't think so but I read somewhere when I did a Google search that someone said it did.
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Mr. bird said:
That's what I was thinking. I just wanted to make sure that wouldn't trip the Knox counter going through odin. I wouldn't think so but I read somewhere when I did a Google search that someone said it did.
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So long as it's a 100 percent stock ROM it shouldn't. It only trips if system partition or a custom recovery are detected.
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elesbb said:
So long as it's a 100 percent stock ROM it shouldn't. It only trips if system partition or a custom recovery are detected.
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Well I flashed the stock rom from sammobile yesterday morning and so far so good. I haven't had a problem since. Tmobile said there is no way I could flash the firmware again even though I knew I could through odin, just wasn't sure if I used odin if it would trip the Knox counter. I didn't want to replace my phone that is in mint condition through tmobile and get who knows what in return so I called Samsung and they said to go to best buy to have it reflashed. I saved myself a trip by doing it myself. thank you elesbb for your help.
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Mr. bird said:
Well I flashed the stock rom from sammobile yesterday morning and so far so good. I haven't had a problem since. Tmobile said there is no way I could flash the firmware again even though I knew I could through odin, just wasn't sure if I used odin if it would trip the Knox counter. I didn't want to replace my phone that is in mint condition through tmobile and get who knows what in return so I called Samsung and they said to go to best buy to have it reflashed. I saved myself a trip by doing it myself. thank you elesbb for your help.
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Yeah, i hate getting replacements from them. I no longer have insurance as any repairs (aside from shattered screen, this denotes an upgrade ) i will just do myself. I have gotten replacements for my S3 through them and they ALL were horrible. I ended up having to take apart both phones when they sent me the new one and made a good working one out of it and reassembled the bad pieces into a bad phone and sent that one back. Ha. It was pathetic. lol.
Always come here before swapping out your phone or anything. There is so much information available and helpful people anyone can really solve their own problems.

elesbb said:
Yeah, i hate getting replacements from them. I no longer have insurance as any repairs (aside from shattered screen, this denotes an upgrade ) i will just do myself. I have gotten replacements for my S3 through them and they ALL were horrible. I ended up having to take apart both phones when they sent me the new one and made a good working one out of it and reassembled the bad pieces into a bad phone and sent that one back. Ha. It was pathetic. lol.
Always come here before swapping out your phone or anything. There is so much information available and helpful people anyone can really solve their own problems.
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Well I spoke too soon. I had to restart my phone again to get service back. The problem is still there. I had data but no cell service. Even if I turn airplane mode on then back off to reset it it still doesn't work. I have to restart my phone. Do you think it could possibly be a simple card issue? It started the day after I updated my phone when 4.4.2 came out.
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Mr. bird said:
Well I spoke too soon. I had to restart my phone again to get service back. The problem is still there. I had data but no cell service. Even if I turn airplane mode on then back off to reset it it still doesn't work. I have to restart my phone. Do you think it could possibly be a simple card issue? It started the day after I updated my phone when 4.4.2 came out.
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It could be a SIM card issue. Do you have another phone you could test the SIM card with?

elesbb said:
It could be a SIM card issue. Do you have another phone you could test the SIM card with?
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I'm going to go to the tmobile store today to get a new one and hopefully that's it. I tried to get a replacement for my girlfriend's phone and got 3 that I sent back because they were worse and just kept hers so I don't want a replacement from them
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After replacing my SIM card on Friday, it's been good. I figured I'd give it a few days before I said something this time. It's weird that it happened right after I updated to kit kat
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Mr. bird said:
After replacing my SIM card on Friday, it's been good. I figured I'd give it a few days before I said something this time. It's weird that it happened right after I updated to kit kat
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I've had SIM related issues before. Sometimes an older SIM card won't work correctly with a system update. With a new card problems disappear. Let's hope this is the case for you.
Steve

in the same boat
Ever since I got the OTA Kit Kat my phone is in nightmare mode. Wifi wont stay on or ever even come on. Wake screen freezes and numerous other issues. I got same responses from TMO and Sammy and have spent 100 hours on here searching for HOW to fix. Ive used Odin 307 and 309 with various files CWM OUDHS, etc and never get anywhere. Just fails with "no PIT" errors every time.
Ive rooted phones before with NO problems , G2, and other HTCs, but Sammy driving me nuts.Im assuming its because I have 4.4.2
So your saying using Odin with a stock ROM will work? or errors again? samobile the site you need to pay to join right?
Ive seen THOUSANDS of people with SAME issues, various carriers as well as S4s and Nexus
Im so stinking frazzled from this

madhitsblog said:
Ever since I got the OTA Kit Kat my phone is in nightmare mode. Wifi wont stay on or ever even come on. Wake screen freezes and numerous other issues. I got same responses from TMO and Sammy and have spent 100 hours on here searching for HOW to fix. Ive used Odin 307 and 309 with various files CWM OUDHS, etc and never get anywhere. Just fails with "no PIT" errors every time.
Ive rooted phones before with NO problems , G2, and other HTCs, but Sammy driving me nuts.Im assuming its because I have 4.4.2
So your saying using Odin with a stock ROM will work? or errors again? samobile the site you need to pay to join right?
Ive seen THOUSANDS of people with SAME issues, various carriers as well as S4s and Nexus
Im so stinking frazzled from this
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Go here, this will help you figure it out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2336392
Pp.
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PanchoPlanet said:
Go here, this will help you figure it out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2336392
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Thanks, but Ive done all that already. Odin never gets through its process..ALWAYS fails no matter what TAR I use. "no PIT" error every time

madhitsblog said:
Thanks, but Ive done all that already. Odin never gets through its process..ALWAYS fails no matter what TAR I use. "no PIT" error every time
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What do you have checked in Odin? And are you flashing 4.4.2 firmware?
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PanchoPlanet said:
Go here, this will help you figure it out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2336392
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serio22 said:
What do you have checked in Odin? And are you flashing 4.4.2 firmware?
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depends on files directions, but usually have nothing checked according to k0nane directions. i have tried everything BUT 4.4.2 firmware, but never gets but few seconds in before that error right away

madhitsblog said:
depends on files directions, but usually have nothing checked according to k0nane directions. i have tried everything BUT 4.4.2 firmware, but never gets but few seconds in before that error right away
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Well either way you'll never get anywhere without 4.4.2 because you said that's what you have.. It won't flash anything below that so try 4.4.2
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serio22 said:
Well either way you'll never get anywhere without 4.4.2 because you said that's what you have.. It won't flash anything below that so try 4.4.2
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no error now for 4.4.2, NB4 TAR, just says "get PIT" see pic attached