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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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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!
kangelov said:
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...
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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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
spuzwuzzel said:
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?
gypsy214 said:
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.
Hey guys hopefully you can help me. I was rooted for like 3 or 4 months now and have had not many problems or not anything I couldn't fix my self. My phone gets stuck on the Samsung Galaxy s4 screen anytime I reboot. I have tried different roms, different kernels, I even odin back to stock. I was using TWRP 6.0 then reverted back to TWRP 5.2 to see if that was causing the problem. Still have problems. I am going to re download the stock tar to see if it was a bad download but Odin checks the md5 and says it was good. Odin says passed every time also. Odin version is 3.07.
I get a error before and when trying to wipe dalvic cashe. I can wipe reg cash no problem. I think my phone is not mounting the internal storage when it reboots. I could be way off but need help asap. If I format super wipe with twrp then restart twrp and then factory reset I can install or restore a rom some times but still cant restart the phone. Any hope would be greatly appreciated.
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I wanted to edit my previous commet. LiquidSmooth seems to be running fine. So TW roms and GE roms **** up on my phone when I restart. so is it the internal systems when I have TW roms. I think it has something to do with partictions messing around maybe.
I like TW roms and want to continue to use them... Thank you
Get into recovery and do a factory reset, it is a must after you odin back to stock. Make sure you are also using a tmo kernel.
Thanks you
I got this problem a few days ago and found some topic including this one. You should check it out.
Well, what worked for me was Odin to stock firmware, root again, install recovery then custom rom. Now it's working fine. Try to downloading it again to see if it works. I downloaded mine from here, rooted and recovery it using this one.
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Get into recovery and do a factory reset, it is a must after you odin back to stock. Make sure you are also using a tmo kernel.
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+1 to what he said. I bet if you go into the stock recovery after odin flashing it will say something like cannot mount /data partition. Factory reset there, and it should fix that and make it mountable. (Its important to use the stock recovery factory reset after the odin, don't flash a custom recovery right after flashing)
This was incredibly helpful. I had the same issue. Thank you.
This is also applicable to the Verizon Wireless model.
So I have a ~week old Tab which I havn't used, I played around with it last night and flashed CWM using Odin and that worked fine. I went and flashed the rooted stock firmware, and it seemed to have flashed fine, except now the tablet is in a reboot loop, it restarts about 3 times and then automatically boots into recovery. I've flashed all the ROMs I can find for the 10.1" and it happens with all of them, last resort is flashing stock recovery then taking it back to the place I bought it from and to play dumb, but I'd rather not. Anyone got any suggestions?
TL;DR Tablet stuck in reboot loop, won't boot ROM, recovery & download mode work fine.
You might have done it, but have you tried flashing back the stock firmware ?
try it and post back please
Agree, I had the same issues with a few of the custom roms. I went back to stock rom and have had no issues. My issue was flashing from a SD card. For some reason it would not work. I put the rom on the device in the download folder and flashed from there. Most roms did flash correctly but I found them to be of little use. Did you by chance do a backup before you started playing around with other roms? Hope so. Then at least you can recover back to factory condition.
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You might have done it, but have you tried flashing back the stock firmware ?
try it and post back please
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I have, I tried reinstalling my backup, as well as both of the stock roms here, although both times I didn't have a microsd card available, so I sideloaded both of the ROMs (which apparently worked fine, verified etc). I've just gone and bought one, so when I get home tonight I'm going to have another play around and see if I can get something working.
Brian D said:
Agree, I had the same issues with a few of the custom roms. I went back to stock rom and have had no issues. My issue was flashing from a SD card. For some reason it would not work. I put the rom on the device in the download folder and flashed from there. Most roms did flash correctly but I found them to be of little use. Did you by chance do a backup before you started playing around with other roms? Hope so. Then at least you can recover back to factory condition.
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Interesting, I haven't tried that, I shall, thanks
I might also try flashing the ROM through Odin instead of a recovery.
I do believe that stock roms MUST be uploaded via ODIN. They cannot reside on the device. The stock rom is around 1.9gb (XAR-P5210UEUAMK1). So you will use that file (or whatever stock rom you wish to use). If you are loading one of the other roms developed here then you can put it on the device and load from there (via the recovery app CWM or TWRP)
Brian D said:
I do believe that stock roms MUST be uploaded via ODIN. They cannot reside on the device. The stock rom is around 1.9gb (XAR-P5210UEUAMK1). So you will use that file (or whatever stock rom you wish to use). If you are loading one of the other roms developed here then you can put it on the device and load from there (via the recovery app CWM or TWRP)
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Oh, damn, really? That would explain quite a lot then, thanks, hopefully I'll be home in a couple hours and can report back
My bad I didn't make myself clear. Yes I meant flashing back a stock ROM via ODIN as that is the best way to restore it to stock. Thanks to @Brian D for pointing that out
Nitro_123 said:
My bad I didn't make myself clear. Yes I meant flashing back a stock ROM via ODIN as that is the best way to restore it to stock. Thanks to @Brian D for pointing that out
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Haha thanks, I'm downloading a stock rom now, hopefully I'll be able to report back in about 30
Holy ****, thanks guys! Managed to get the stock ROM flashed with Odin, silly me for the not realising. Anyone know what would have caused the boot loop? I really don't want to run the stock rom with all the samsung crap (I guess I can root and remove everything)
I think what you did was called a dirty flash. You had bits and pieces of the original rom on the device when you tried to load another rom. The two mixed like vinegar and oil. You have to wipe your system clean before you can load a new flash. Before proceeding please do a backup of what you have right now. Load either CWM or TWRP and do the backup. My preference is TWRP. I like the look and feel of how it works.
I found the best instruction set to be http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=49715684&postcount=172. I had the same boot loop as you but when I followed these instructions I finally loaded the rom. But like I said, to me I gained nothing by using it. But this is me. After much reading I found that if I just delete bloatware then I should be ok. I used an app called bloatfree from the play store. Worked just great but one has to be careful about what one removes. That is why I always backup before doing anything. I must have had 20 backup files at one time. LOL
Good luck!
Please Anyone...
My phone was in Good status before i went to bed last night... I remembered i was playing music on it before i slept off. I woke up lightly in the middle of the night i heard the music still playing. Tiredly, i pushed the Power button and Switched off the device and continued my sleep.
I woke up this morning to switch on my phone and it started this annoying reboot. It boots up to the homescreen and the next 2 seconds, it freezes , trips off and restart. If allowed to Restart, it would follow the same cycle on and on. I was rooted and running Sickness Insane Hybrid V6. I decided to boot into recovery but could not get into Recovery, it hangs on the TWRP Splashscreen. I have restored the Firmware via Odin, the problem persists... I flashed Philz Recovery via Odin and was able to get into Recovery but when i try to perform Factory & Data Reset, the Phone goes off and restarts....
I have gone back to stock via Odin, Rooted and flashed Philz Recovery via Odin, and tried to flash the Insane Hybrid.... The flashing completes but after booting the phone it kept restarting... I also noticed all my apps are still installed even after Going Back to stock and flashing a new ROM.
Any help on what i can do please?
SOLUTION!!!
Thanks! Thanks!! Thanks!!!
In respect to my previous Device Problem, I found a solution to it and here it is should anyone fall in the same shoe!!!
Since i was Flashing Stock in Odin and Custom ROMs, I noticed all my previously installed apps were still present which i dont expect it to be. Then i though one of those apps would have gone Haywire and causing that problem. So i had to get rid of all the installed apps. I cant do that because the Phone would not settle for me to uninstall them, i can not get into TWRP to wipe all Internal Device... Great i can get into Philz Recovery but can not do a Factory Reset... So i flashed the AROMA File Manager in Philz Recovery which enabled me to access my Device files. I navigated to "data/app" and deleted all the Apps. I exited the recovery, Flashed stock in Odin and Voila!!!!
PROBLEM SOLVED!!! No more restarts!!! But the TWRP i used to flash before still would not load up... Still hangs on the "TEAMWIN" splashscreen. Should solve that too soon....
Thanks...
Incase, this solution worked for you... Give me a Thumb!!! CatchYah!!!
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Hello please, can you point out to any Flashable Wipe Script to wipe my Device?
Using Aroma FM in Recovery, i noticed tonnes of some error files, if i decide to mark and delete them, it hangs up... My device can no longer boot to Homescreen. How can i wipe my Device please.... System,Data, Cache.... If possible all the folders in the Device.
Sounds like you need to flash stock firmware using odin.
Start fresh with full wipes, don't know anything about this aroma fm in recovery stuff (probably cause of your problem ), keep it simple.
Flash stock run phone for several hours, see if everything works properly.
If you can't live without a custom recovery use CWM, I see a lot issues concerning twrp in posts all the time.
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Sounds like you need to flash stock firmware using odin.
Start fresh with full wipes, don't know anything about this aroma fm in recovery stuff (probably cause of your problem ), keep it simple.
Flash stock run phone for several hours, see if everything works properly.
If you can't live without a custom recovery use CWM, I see a lot issues concerning twrp in posts all the time.
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Thanks, But i have being getting the problem even before trying to use AROMA File Manager.... I only use AROMA FM to see if i could manually delete every folder in the phone. I have FLASHED STOCK over a Hundred times.... Its still the same!!!
Now, after some more researches... i was asked to use the Re-Partion option on Odin with a PIT File... Please can you point out to where i can get SGH-M919 Pit File?
Have never used a pit file but have seen requests for it in development, ShinySide has a semi stock ROM and may have it for you. Flashing a pit file can be tricky so proceed with caution and follow instructions to the letter. Maybe putting a request for it with instructions in ShinySide's thread can get you fixed up.
Here .…..... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2873695
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Following want to now how this turns out so I can fully fix my buggered device.
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Following want to now how this turns out so I can fully fix my buggered device.
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Sorry i'm replying late. Already fixed my Device... Can yo explain the current Bug State of your Device and the present behaviour...
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Hello everyone,
After a long fight to try and get this phone back to normal, everything seemed good,
except not really
I started on a buggy CM11 version. Sick of it, I downloaded a 4.4.4 stock rom. I had to disable firewall and defender, but I got Odin to flash my md5. I got through everything and it booted successfully. After signing in and all that jazz, I find out that my WiFi isn't working. After a few reboots, My 4G finally works and everything seems to be steady.
Then, after exploring the rest of the phone I find out that all my apps from last ROM are still there. I know that you are supposed to wipe before flashing, but I was told that Odin will take care of that. It obviously didn't.
After THAT, I try to boot into Recovery as the next sensible step is to try to wipe my data and cache. I turn the phone off and press (Vol up + Home + Pwr) and the first boot screen shows for a moment. It says in blue "RECOVERY BOOTING" in the corner. Right after, it disappears and in another second it does the same screen without the "RECOVERY BOOTING". And as presumed, it does a regular boot.
What did I miss? How can I wipe my phone from recovery? How can I fix my problem with Wifi?
Reflash in Odin.
Make sure you have the correct stock rom. If you flash the "md5" you may have flashed the wrong thing. The md5 is not tge firmware, that is just the code that verifies your firmware file is not corrupted.
If your old apps were still there, you flashed the wrong thing. There is no way to flash stock firmware in odin and not wipe the data partition.
You are correct then
Yeah, I flashed a tar.md5 in Odin. It gave me a new ROM but all my apps are there. After all that, I still can't go to recovery. I tried using the terminal and ROM Toolbox to go there, both didn't work. Can I just leave it as it is and find a way to recovery or is the only way to go to bootloader and flash a correct file to get to recovery?
Flash twrp and see if it will reboot into recovery, then factory reset and flash latest firmware with Odin right after. Odin will NOT wipe data. It has to be done manually
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Flash twrp and see if it will reboot into recovery, then factory reset and flash latest firmware with Odin right after. Odin will NOT wipe data. It has to be done manually
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It depends on what you ate flashing.
If you are flashing a full stock factory image it will wipe user data. If you are just flashing a system partition it won't.
Essem G said:
Hello everyone,
After a long fight to try and get this phone back to normal, everything seemed good,
except not really
I started on a buggy CM11 version. Sick of it, I downloaded a 4.4.4 stock rom. I had to disable firewall and defender, but I got Odin to flash my md5. I got through everything and it booted successfully. After signing in and all that jazz, I find out that my WiFi isn't working. After a few reboots, My 4G finally works and everything seems to be steady.
Then, after exploring the rest of the phone I find out that all my apps from last ROM are still there. I know that you are supposed to wipe before flashing, but I was told that Odin will take care of that. It obviously didn't.
After THAT, I try to boot into Recovery as the next sensible step is to try to wipe my data and cache. I turn the phone off and press (Vol up + Home + Pwr) and the first boot screen shows for a moment. It says in blue "RECOVERY BOOTING" in the corner. Right after, it disappears and in another second it does the same screen without the "RECOVERY BOOTING". And as presumed, it does a regular boot.
What did I miss? How can I wipe my phone from recovery? How can I fix my problem with Wifi?
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Fkash twrp and format system, data, cache and preload and install a deodexed stock os
g7755725 said:
Fkash twrp and format system, data, cache and preload and install a deodexed stock os
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Also this. This gives you more control over the whole process
Skipjacks said:
Also this. This gives you more control over the whole process
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How do I know whatever I download is deodexed? And I went to a page of ROMs someone gave me and I downloaded the NK2 version, which also gave me a tar.md5. If I want the correct thing to flash, what should I flash?
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How do I know whatever I download is deodexed? And I went to a page of ROMs someone gave me and I downloaded the NK2 version, which also gave me a tar.md5. If I want the correct thing to flash, what should I flash?
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The first post of any customized stock rom will tell you if its deodexed. If it doesn't say it...its not.
@Essem G:
Any updates for us? I'm following this thread because I have similar problems with my WiFi not working after upgrading from 4.2.2.
Any luck getting TWRP flashed?
Also I believe that the stock firmwares do come as tar.md5's, as in the file: M919UVUFNK2_M919TMBFNK2_M919UVUFNK2_HOME.tar.md5 from ShinySide's stock firmware thread.
As for the WiFi issue, from the hours of reading I've done it looks like this problem occurs when you upgrade your firmware, but it no longer matches the bootloader. Such as bootloader (Baseband) showing MDL, but Build Number showing NH7, NK2, etc. What does your show?
This thread may be of use to you when you get back to a working ROM. Good luck!
@RavenMind1
Everyone has been saying different answers and i've put off fixing my device for a while. I'm just afraid i'll brick it forever and have another nightmare after this current one. So no, there has been no progress. I think i'm gonna try to flash Philz and format my system, then flash a deodexed rom. @g7755725 said that you can flash TWRP, but I usually use Philz. It appears to be that I have lost root access because no root features work and SuperSU won't recognize it. Will everything work or am I setting my self up for disaster?
Edit: Where can I find a deodexed rom? I desperately need one, thanks
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@RavenMind1
Everyone has been saying different answers and i've put off fixing my device for a while. I'm just afraid i'll brick it forever and have another nightmare after this current one. So no, there has been no progress. I think i'm gonna try to flash Philz and format my system, then flash a deodexed rom. @g7755725 said that you can flash TWRP, but I usually use Philz. It appears to be that I have lost root access because no root features work and SuperSU won't recognize it. Will everything work or am I setting my self up for disaster?
Edit: Where can I find a deodexed rom? I desperately need one, thanks
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Look in the forums for deodexed rom theirs a bunch and untouched as well i had philz but it eoukdnt boot my s4 so i had to switch to twrp because it does better then any recovery
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Look in the forums for deodexed rom theirs a bunch and untouched as well i had philz but it eoukdnt boot my s4 so i had to switch to twrp because it does better then any recovery
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Thanks for the support so far, but has this problem occured before? do you think the steps i've listed will solve this? Im just trying to make sure that I know exactly what to do before I go in. Thanks
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Thanks for the support so far, but has this problem occured before? do you think the steps i've listed will solve this? Im just trying to make sure that I know exactly what to do before I go in. Thanks[/Q] it should
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@g7755725 I downloaded a deodexed rom from the SkipJacks guy (different page than what you sent me) and it's a little under 9MB... how could this possibly be a ROM?
Essem G said:
@g7755725 I downloaded a deodexed rom from the SkipJacks guy (different page than what you sent me) and it's a little under 9MB... how could this possibly be a ROM?
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Have you tried my gamerrom Ultimate 1 its basically stock touchwiz of if Official NK2 M919UVUFNK2 with stweaks and no bloatware here is the thread gru 1 is in.the botyom of the thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-tmobile/development/stock-os-gamerrom-ultimate-2-touchwiz-t3078467
Sounds cool but i would have been interested a few months ago. I'm trying to sell the phone so I need to get it back to stock. Appreciate all the help and I think it's cool that you make ROMs
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Sounds cool but i would have been interested a few months ago. I'm trying to sell the phone so I need to get it back to stock. Appreciate all the help and I think it's cool that you make ROMs
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If you're trying to go back to complete stock then just Odin NK2 firmware. http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-tmobile/general/firmwares-official-mdl-mk2-nb4-t2816508 I used the NK2 from here about 2 days ago to go back to stock.