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Phone stuck in bootloop, drivers won't install

So I can't flash any rom because my phone is stuck in bootloop. I accidentally removed mediaprovider.apk and now the phone is stuck in bootloop. the drivers won't install and it says "device failed to install drivers in windows" Please help.

Capt said:
So I can't flash any rom because my phone is stuck in bootloop. I accidentally removed mediaprovider.apk and now the phone is stuck in bootloop. the drivers won't install and it says "device failed to install drivers in windows" Please help.
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Go get the drivers on the samsung website.

I used the ToolKit for the S3 to install the drivers and you don't need to have your phone plugged in to install them. Here is the link to the ToolKit http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746665.
Are you able to get your phone in download mode at all?

Belive me, I tried all kinds of methods to install the drivers and it's failing to install them. The drivers just don't want to be installed so I can't transfer the rom into the sd card and since I deleted the mediaprovider.apk, I can't download stuff either.

have you tried a factory restore through KIES?

jeeper11 said:
have you tried a factory restore through KIES?
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No, can you please help me?

Download the appropriate Odin to flash it back to stock then re root. Volume down + home + power to put it into download mode. Search s3 android development for the stock .tar file for odin
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1984717
This should help...I hope lol

mar5hal said:
Download the appropriate Odin to flash it back to stock then re root. Volume down + home + power to put it into download mode. Search s3 android development for the stock .tar file for odin
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If I use odin to flash back, will it delete my custom recovery cwm?

You will lose CWM,

Capt said:
If I use odin to flash back, will it delete my custom recovery cwm?
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Yes. But their are several options to re root and install cwm. I personally use twrp but the toolbox is the easiest method in my opinion to do it all for you.
Toolkit- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746665
TWRP- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1793224
Edit: if you have a backup saved onto your SD card then you should be able to restore it once you get cwm on. Your backups from cwm will not work in twrp however unless you move them to the correct folder. Sdcard\twrp\BACKUPS.
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Thanks guys. I managed to get my phone back from the dead.

Thats good news

Capt said:
Thanks guys. I managed to get my phone back from the dead.
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Glad to hear it. Welcome back
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Emergency HELP PLEASE

I cant do anything with my phone please help.. i tried to do a full wipe several times and to reinstall a rom and i keep getting
Installing update / Some symlinks failed / Error in zip (Status 7) / abort
i was using ohmiui it kept freezing and just restarting. i have no backups and i cant re flash any rom.. what do i do ?

Biggie Da Dansa said:
I cant do anything with my phone please help.. i tried to do a full wipe several times and to reinstall a rom and i keep getting
Installing update / Some symlinks failed / Error in zip (Status 7) / abort
i was using ohmiui it kept freezing and just restarting. i have no backups and i cant re flash any rom.. what do i do ?
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If you still have access to your custom recovery then go to freeza's thread and download one of his Stock ROMs.

Ferenczy68 said:
If you still have access to your custom recovery then go to freeza's thread and download one of his Stock ROMs.
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how would i put that on my sd card tho?

Take your sd card out and put it in a micro SD to SD adapter if your computer has a SD slot. B. Use another phone and put your SD card in that. C. Rule of thumb always make backup and if you did just go to restore and restore your saved ROM. D. Use Odin and restore that way YouTube a Qbking video about flashing threw Odin.
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bonebeatz1234 said:
Take your sd card out and put it in a micro SD to SD adapter if your computer has a SD slot. B. Use another phone and put your SD card in that. C. Rule of thumb always make backup and if you did just go to restore and restore your saved ROM. D. Use Odin and restore that way YouTube a Qbking video about flashing threw Odin.
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going to try now. ,thanks both of you for your help

its still saying installation aborted

Biggie Da Dansa said:
its still saying installation aborted
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What's your device info? What recovery are you using? Help us help you

bonebeatz1234 said:
Take your sd card out and put it in a micro SD to SD adapter if your computer has a SD slot. B. Use another phone and put your SD card in that. C. Rule of thumb always make backup and if you did just go to restore and restore your saved ROM. D. Use Odin and restore that way YouTube a Qbking video about flashing threw Odin.
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Ferenczy68 said:
What's your device info? What recovery are you using? Help us help you
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clockwork Mod

This is getting me soo frustrated i dont know what to do

Biggie Da Dansa said:
This is getting me soo frustrated i dont know what to do
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What is the version of CWM you are using?
Have you tried flashing a new or different recovery, like TWRP maybe?
What is the exact process you are using when the installation fails?
Go here and download TWRP 2.4.4.0 & CWM Touch 6.0.2.8 - place them on your external sd card via the above described method/s then try flashing the CWM recovery and then rebooting to recovery. Now try flashing a Stock ROM (make sure you're checking the MD5 to verify a good download) if that doesn't work then try the TWRP recovery, etc...

Ferenczy68 said:
What is the version of CWM you are using?
Have you tried flashing a new or different recovery, like TWRP maybe?
What is the exact process you are using when the installation fails?
Go here and download TWRP 2.4.4.0 & CWM Touch 6.0.2.8 - place them on your external sd card via the above described method/s then try flashing the CWM recovery and then rebooting to recovery. Now try flashing a Stock ROM (make sure you're checking the MD5 to verify a good download) if that doesn't work then try the TWRP recovery, etc...
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trying now

nope still getting a fail.. now its not even going int recovery mode.. OMG WTF did i do! this is so frustrating havent been able to use my phone since yesterday

Biggie Da Dansa said:
nope still getting a fail.. now its not even going int recovery mode.. OMG WTF did i do! this is so frustrating havent been able to use my phone since yesterday
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You've got to give us info if you expect us to help you.
What type of phone and what carrier, what recovery, what ROM, what method of flashing are you using, how did you root it? Be specific! Step by step tell us what you have done/are doing. Again, help us help you. Right now we have the equivalent of driving with a blindfold on...

Biggie Da Dansa said:
trying now
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You've got to give us info if you expect us to help you.
What type of phone and what carrier, what recovery, what ROM, what method of flashing are you using, how did you root it? Be specific! Step by step tell us what you have done/are doing. Again, help us help you. Right now we have the equivalent of driving with a blindfold on...
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oh sorry i figured you would of known. since i posted under it. But its a Sprint Samsung Galaxy s3.. Im flashing by holding power button and volume to get into recovery. Full wipe then i flash

Which ROM were you trying to flash?
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Post a link to the ROM you were trying to flash... cuz if it's an international... prepare to shell out $60

sevenpioverthree said:
Which ROM were you trying to flash?
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i was on the stable miui. then out of no where my phone was stuck in bootload....now i was trying the stock Freezas rom....but i cant get into recovery now.. it shows the samsung logo then the phone turns black

Biggie Da Dansa said:
i was on the stable miui. then out of no where my phone was stuck in bootload....now i was trying the stock Freezas rom....but i cant get into recovery now.. it shows the samsung logo then the phone turns black
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You are holding Volume UP+Power+Home right??

Joe0113 said:
You are holding Volume UP+Power+Home right??
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yes it was working fine before now it just shows the logo then the screen goes black

Biggie Da Dansa said:
yes it was working fine before now it just shows the logo then the screen goes black
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Try holding Volume Down, home, and the Power buttons. This will get you into download mode. Then Odin a stock TAR file using a method displayed in QBKing77's videos. Search around, you'll find something. If you're still unable to find anything after a while, give me about an hour and I'll help. Good luck!

[Q] cant get into download mode

tried rooting my tmobils SIII, followed the guide. Odin said it was successful in rooting, rebooted, then when i tried to run SU or ES file explorer to look in root permission needing folders, it says not rooted. i try to get into download mode to try again and after the samsung logo comes up and i let go of the keys it reebots after a few seconds into normal mode. any help?

Hold home and volume down until you see the download mode come up.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Hold home and volume down until you see the download mode come up.
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i do that but after i let go of the buttons it reboots in normal boot

Does it keep rebooting over and over?
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DocHoliday77 said:
Does it keep rebooting over and over?
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It does not. it will reboot once after it tries to boot in download mode, the goes into normal boot. Does cwm have a download mode? i can get into CWM recovery, so if CWM doesent have a download mode i think that would explain it. how would i finish the root if it didnt fully root?

If you can get CWM recovery, just flash the SuperSU package. You can find the thread with a quick search, but the files are available through my Sig. Or you could flash any of our roms as they already have root.
That is odd though...
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nhyrum said:
It does not. it will reboot once after it tries to boot in download mode, the goes into normal boot. Does cwm have a download mode? i can get into CWM recovery, so if CWM doesent have a download mode i think that would explain it. how would i finish the root if it didnt fully root?
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Try Quick Boot from Play. It will boot to Download without having to hold the button combo.

DocHoliday77 said:
If you can get CWM recovery, just flash the SuperSU package. You can find the thread with a quick search, but the files are available through my Sig. Or you could flash any of our roms as they already have root.
That is odd though...
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that fixed it, THANKS!!

[Q] PLS help! Bricked my phone very weird.

Hello everybody im not to sure what happened. Ill say everything from the beginning. I have a gt n7100 and i was rooted. I had twrp 2.5. I was on 4.1.2 and flashed via recovery DN3 rom. I was happy that it worked but there was a problem with wifi. So i tried to flash the wifi fix via odin. And heres what i did. The phone was normally turned on and plugged in the computer (odin 3.09) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2531965&highlight=wifi+fix . i DOWNLOADED THIS FIX EXTRACTED IT AND VIA pda i tried to flash patch.tar.md5 .
nothing happened i think it didnt even find the phone. It said succed/failed 0. So i downloaded odin 3.04. Put phone in download mode and tried to do the same thing. It said leave cs. So what i did is i unplugged the phone from the computer, holded volume up and power up tryin to get out of download mode. I did a battery was shown and it tried to boot after that but it was stuck on thhe samsung galaxy note II display. Now what happens is the recovery cant turn on. The phone cant turn on but i can get in download mode. What should i do to save my phone. Pls help

Oh i forgot to say that I have backups form the phone. On my PC

Download just the MJ5 bootloader and TWRP recovery in tar format. Flash one after the other.
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If u are not able to go in recovery then try to reflash it via odin. It should work.. try this way or wait for an expert. .

ph03n!x said:
Download just the MJ5 bootloader and TWRP recovery in tar format. Flash one after the other.
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Can you pls give me a more specific instruction? How to flash it? I can get in to recovery mode. It doesnt work It just says galaxy note II
Its stuck on that screen i can only get in download mode

ph03n!x said:
Download just the MJ5 bootloader and TWRP recovery in tar format. Flash one after the other.
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How ? Can you pls give me more specific instruction? I cant boot into recovery i think ( holding volume up and power).It just keeps rebooting the screen samsung galaxy note II. I can only get in download mode.

Mikyno said:
If u are not able to go in recovery then try to reflash it via odin. It should work.. try this way or wait for an expert. .
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WHy arent you guys more specific? What should i try to reflash via odin? Odin doesnt find my phone i think

Dont worry u can still fix it download latest CWM boot into download mode flash it in pda now u can access the recovery next thing to do is to flash mj5 bootloader in odin in pda then u will have a working dn3 rom with working wifi and recovery dont forget to hit the thanks button
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salata1500 said:
WHy arent you guys more specific? What should i try to reflash via odin? Odin doesnt find my phone i think
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I am spending my time to help a rude man. Ask for help kindly, not like that. Good luck

The_Flashaholic said:
Dont worry u can still fix it download latest CWM boot into download mode flash it in pda now u can access the recovery next thing to do is to flash mj5 bootloader in odin in pda then u will have a working dn3 rom with working wifi and recovery dont forget to hit the thanks button
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Thx bro.Should i install drivers first? Odin doesnt find my phone. I think

Mikyno said:
I am spending my time to help a rude man. Ask for help kindly, not like that. Good luck
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I am so sorry if i sounded rude. Never meant to my english isnt too good. I am ver happy that someone is trying to help me. Sorry if you understanded me the wrong way.

We are not specific and are not spoon feeding you because this not done that way. You HAVE to spend time and learn what is what. The answers you need and the help you need are already here. If you're expecting download links and screenshots you shouldn't be modifying your phone. The whole point of this community is to learn and share the knowledge - not spoon feed.
Go to the TWRP thread, read up and download the tar that you need to flash through odin. Look for the MJ5 bootloader (hint: look up Wanam's ROM thread, that's one of the many places). After you got these two, boot to TWRP and flash the ROM.
Finally, as long as your phone gets into download mode, it's not bricked. And you got to do something incredibly foolish to make it not boot into bootloader. That said, it would be prudent to learn and act rather than blindly execute what you read - I said the same thing in not so many words in my reply to you in the DN3 ROM thread.
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salata1500 said:
Thx bro.Should i install drivers first? Odin doesnt find my phone. I think
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If you have used ODIN before to flash anything using this computer you are trying with now, you don't need to reinstall the drivers.
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ph03n!x said:
We are not specific and are not spoon feeding you because this not done that way. You HAVE to spend time and learn what is what. The answers you need and the help you need are already here. If you're expecting download links and screenshots you shouldn't be modifying your phone. The whole point of this community is to learn and share the knowledge - not spoon feed.
Go to the TWRP thread, read up and download the tar that you need to flash through odin. Look for the MJ5 bootloader (hint: look up Wanam's ROM thread, that's one of the many places). After you got these two, boot to TWRP and flash the ROM.
Finally, as long as your phone gets into download mode, it's not bricked. And you got to do something incredibly foolish to make it not boot into bootloader. That said, it would be prudent to learn and act rather than blindly execute what you read - I said the same thing in not so many words in my reply to you in the DN3 ROM thread.
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If you have used ODIN before to flash anything using this computer you are trying with now, you don't need to reinstall the drivers.
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Ok. Thank you very much . There is one problem. I think you guys didnt understand that the computer finds the phone but Odin doesnt i think i must install the drivers for odin to find it. Can someone tell me if ican install the drivers while i am in download mode and how am i supposed to do it ? maybe theres a tutorial somewhere. I am really sorry for not being good with this. But its because i bought the phone already rooted. I know i already took lots of your time but i know how to do everything accept odin doesnt find my phone and thats the biggest problem. Thanks once again

salata1500 said:
Ok. Thank you very much . There is one problem. I think you guys didnt understand that the computer finds the phone but Odin doesnt i think i must install the drivers for odin to find it. Can someone tell me if ican install the drivers while i am in download mode and how am i supposed to do it ? maybe theres a tutorial somewhere. I am really sorry for not being good with this. But its because i bought the phone already rooted. I know i already took lots of your time but i know how to do everything accept odin doesnt find my phone and thats the biggest problem. Thanks once again
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Hello my dear,
First you need to put your phone in download mode(V Down+Power+Menu) when you see the screen press the V up. Now your phone in download mode.
Now run odin on your PC, connect your phone to the PC, odin automatically recognize your divce, now in odin click pda, select philz recovery.tar and press start tab. after finish the process remove your phone from pc.
Now go for recovery mode(V up+power+Menu)
Enjoy

zoya4u said:
Hello my dear,
First you need to put your phone in download mode(V Down+Power+Menu) when you see the screen press the V up. Now your phone in download mode.
Now run odin on your PC, connect your phone to the PC, odin automatically recognize your divce, now in odin click pda, select philz recovery.tar and press start tab. after finish the process remove your phone from pc.
Now go for recovery mode(V up+power+Menu)
Enjoy
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Thx dude but big problem. I installed the recovery with succes. But still the phone cannot boot into recovery ( i tried philz recovery,twrp). Phone has problem booting in. Its stuck on the samsung note II screen.Do you know what do do now? thx

salata1500 said:
Thx dude but big problem. I installed the recovery with succes. But still the phone cannot boot into recovery ( i tried philz recovery,twrp). Phone has problem booting in. Its stuck on the samsung note II screen.Do you know what do do now? thx
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Just do the same process with MJ5 bootloader.tar

salata1500 said:
Thx dude but big problem. I installed the recovery with succes. But still the phone cannot boot into recovery ( i tried philz recovery,twrp). Phone has problem booting in. Its stuck on the samsung note II screen.Do you know what do do now? thx
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So you successfully flashed the recovery via odin but you are not able to boot into it?
When u are in samsung note 2 boot screen keep pressed volume up, home and power buttons. When phone reboots and shows u samsung note 2 bootscreen then release the power button but keep pressed the others two until the phone boot in recovery. Try this and tell me what happen.
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Mikyno said:
So you successfully flashed the recovery via odin but you are not able to boot into it?
When u are in samsung note 2 boot screen keep pressed volume up, home and power buttons. When phone reboots and shows u samsung note 2 bootscreen then release the power button but keep pressed the others two until the phone boot in recovery. Try this and tell me what happen.
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Thx . New problem im in recovery i click install zip: i coose sd card it says cant mount sdcard. Neither the phone storage works neither sd card.Pls help

salata1500 said:
Thx . New problem im in recovery i click install zip: i coose sd card it says cant mount sdcard. Neither the phone storage works neither sd card.Pls help
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Which recovery you are using?

zoya4u said:
Which recovery you are using?
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In Philz recovery neither sd card worked neither data of phone. In twrp only sd card works. BTW weird problem. The recovery after flashing it from odin works only once ( after i turn off the device) the recovery doesnt work after....i dont know whats going on

[Q] How to root and install a recovery

I cant seem to find an updated guide with files to root and install a custome recovery on the sprint note 2 with 4.3 can someone help me find a link or get me the files etc?
Thanks

Recovery
I went to cyanogenmods website and ran the installer as directed. That installed cyanogenmod and rooted the device automatically, then you can download and flash any of the other custom ROMs on this site.

I rooted 4.3 with allinone toolkit clicking older variation and worked fine
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unknowne said:
I went to cyanogenmods website and ran the installer as directed. That installed cyanogenmod and rooted the device automatically, then you can download and flash any of the other custom ROMs on this site.
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My note 2 is blocking the cyanogenmod installer. It says unartherized access to a secured area on your phone without authorization has been blocked.
I'm stumped just got this phone and it is a pain to root
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I rooted 4.3 with allinone toolkit clicking older variation and worked fine
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Whoo dude that did not work at all boots to the samsung boot screen then black screens. What to do now? I can still get it into the bootloader mode by holding volume down power and home.

kingfish600 said:
My note 2 is blocking the cyanogenmod installer. It says unartherized access to a secured area on your phone without authorization has been blocked.
I'm stumped just got this phone and it is a pain to root
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Whoo dude that did not work at all boots to the samsung boot screen then black screens. What to do now? I can still get it into the bootloader mode by holding volume down power and home.
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Do this
1. Boot into download/bootloader mode.
2. Connect to pc and use odin to flash twrp. Make sure you uncheck reboot and flash twrp in the pda slot.
3. Once flashed pull battery and disconnect from pc.
4. Press vol+ menu power buttons while inserting battery (yes it is difficult but can be done)
5. Now in recovery perform factory reset.
6. Flash this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36388145
7. Now reboot it will act/look weird but dont worry this is normal. It will reboot and take a long time to boot.
Now you are on stock mc2 (no knox anymore). Root using cf autoroot http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33278464
Now use odin once again and flash your recovery again. Now you are rooted and have a custom recovery. Oh and you have a working phone again.
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jlmancuso said:
Do this
1. Boot into download/bootloader mode.
2. Connect to pc and use odin to flash twrp. Make sure you uncheck reboot and flash twrp in the pda slot.
3. Once flashed pull battery and disconnect from pc.
4. Press vol+ menu power buttons while inserting battery (yes it is difficult but can be done)
5. Now in recovery perform factory reset.
6. Flash this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36388145
7. Now reboot it will act/look weird but dont worry this is normal. It will reboot and take a long time to boot.
Now you are on stock mc2 (no knox anymore). Root using cf autoroot http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33278464
Now use odin once again and flash your recovery again. Now you are rooted and have a custom recovery. Oh and you have a working phone again.
Before I do all of that...I discovered I can boot into TWRP and updated it to the newest version. Then I installed the cyanogen nightly onto the phone. Everything seemed to be working ok except I couldn't get any phone signal but wifi worked. I tried loading the dirty unicornes rom and the same thing happened . I then flashed cm 10.1 and the phone worked for calls but the asop keyboard kept crashing and couldn't login to the wifi network. I tried several installs with factory resets with the same results. If I follow the directions you listed will I be able to install these roms and the phone work for calls or am I missing another piece of the puzzle?
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kingfish600 said:
jlmancuso said:
Do this
1. Boot into download/bootloader mode.
2. Connect to pc and use odin to flash twrp. Make sure you uncheck reboot and flash twrp in the pda slot.
3. Once flashed pull battery and disconnect from pc.
4. Press vol+ menu power buttons while inserting battery (yes it is difficult but can be done)
5. Now in recovery perform factory reset.
6. Flash this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36388145
7. Now reboot it will act/look weird but dont worry this is normal. It will reboot and take a long time to boot.
Now you are on stock mc2 (no knox anymore). Root using cf autoroot http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33278464
Now use odin once again and flash your recovery again. Now you are rooted and have a custom recovery. Oh and you have a working phone again.
Before I do all of that...I discovered I can boot into TWRP and updated it to the newest version. Then I installed the cyanogen nightly onto the phone. Everything seemed to be working ok except I couldn't get any phone signal but wifi worked. I tried loading the dirty unicornes rom and the same thing happened . I then flashed cm 10.1 and the phone worked for calls but the asop keyboard kept crashing and couldn't login to the wifi network. I tried several installs with factory resets with the same results. If I follow the directions you listed will I be able to install these roms and the phone work for calls or am I missing another piece of the puzzle?
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Twrp does not work for 4.4
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jlmancuso said:
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Twrp does not work for 4.4
Can I use CWM? ie flash it with TWRP?
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Cwm or philz (I recommend the latter)
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jlmancuso said:
Cwm or philz (I recommend the latter)
can you link to where i can dl a copy of philz as a zip i can flash with twrp?
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Look for it in the development thread. The op will have a link. Use 6.07.9 version and make sure it has a zip extension not md5.
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jlmancuso said:
Look for it in the development thread. The op will have a link. Use 6.07.9 version and make sure it has a zip extension not md5.
There is a newer one philz_touch_6.15.4-l900.zip would it be better?
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kingfish600 said:
jlmancuso said:
Look for it in the development thread. The op will have a link. Use 6.07.9 version and make sure it has a zip extension not md5.
There is a newer one philz_touch_6.15.4-l900.zip would it be better?
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Use 6.07.9 if you want to know why read the last few pages of the thread.
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jlmancuso said:
kingfish600 said:
Use 6.07.9 if you want to know why read the last few pages of the thread.
Thankx for the help i'll flash in the morning,
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kingfish600 said:
jlmancuso said:
kingfish600 said:
Use 6.07.9 if you want to know why read the last few pages of the thread.
It worked great! I put FTW Annihilation MK4 1.0.0 on it and have been very happy with it.
Thanks for the help again!
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i rooted via Kingo..
then download ROM manager and flash CWM touch....
backed up my ota 4.3....
and was all set...
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