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problem flashing clockwork mod t999....only Android system recovery opens

Hey, if anyhow could help that would be great. I followed ask the instructions to flash Clockwork mod on my t999. Odin recognized phone, i pda'd clockworkmod.tar file, it passed and rebooted. Then i held power up+home+power and entered Android system recovery. Have done a few times and i continue to get Android system recovery. Obviously my phone isn't rooted yet, just got it. Is there an alternate way to get clockwork mod or am i doing something wrong? Thank you, any help is much appreciated...
Jake

U need root to flash clockwork
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tructo said:
U need root to flash clockwork
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but when i read the instructions on rooting the phone it says must install clockworkmod first through Odin. You know what, ill look over it again, thanks for your quick reply..Jake

tructo said:
U need root to flash clockwork
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Ok, i just read the instructions again and it won't be possible to get past step 3 then
1. Copy cwm_superuserv3.0.7.zip
2.power off the phone
3. Bout your phone into clockworkmod
So if you know a way i can root my phone without being clockworkmod, can you paste a link? Because it's telling me i need clockworkmod to root phone....thanks again

Check out MrRobinsons thread in development. Very easy!
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themadzionist said:
Hey, if anyhow could help that would be great. I followed ask the instructions to flash Clockwork mod on my t999. Odin recognized phone, i pda'd clockworkmod.tar file, it passed and rebooted. Then i held power up+home+power and entered Android system recovery. Have done a few times and i continue to get Android system recovery. Obviously my phone isn't rooted yet, just got it. Is there an alternate way to get clockwork mod or am i doing something wrong? Thank you, any help is much appreciated...
Jake
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Have you installed recent LH2 OTA update? This is a known issue with this update,quite well described here. To root your phone, you should flash CWM with ODIN, then don't let the phone boot normally (by pulling out the battery), then boot in CWM once and flash root. Finally, after booting the phone normally, CWM will be rewritten, but you will have rooted phone. Hope this helps.

There's another really helpful tutorial on rooting without tripping the flash counter. It's stickied around here somewhere, I'll see if I can find it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771687
And you may want to bookmark this thread too:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1723175

ega2oo2 said:
Have you installed recent LH2 OTA update? This is a known issue with this update,quite well described here. To root your phone, you should flash CWM with ODIN, then don't let the phone boot normally (by pulling out the battery), then boot in CWM once and flash root. Finally, after booting the phone normally, CWM will be rewritten, but you will have rooted phone. Hope this helps.
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Thank you very much, I did update it right when i got the phone. I will try that exactly when i get home, thanks alot, i appreciate all the help

ega2oo2 said:
Have you installed recent LH2 OTA update? This is a known issue with this update,quite well described here. To root your phone, you should flash CWM with ODIN, then don't let the phone boot normally (by pulling out the battery), then boot in CWM once and flash root. Finally, after booting the phone normally, CWM will be rewritten, but you will have rooted phone. Hope this helps.
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By the way, it worked perfectly, i suggest though, when in Odin, uncheck auto reboot, so it didn't reboot after it passes, then i just pulled battery out and tried booting in CWM and it worked. Guess you can't let it reboot or you have to do it again. My last question is, do i keep my phone in usb debugging mode with root on stock rom? I had a galaxy s2 and i know some custom roms had to have usb debugging on. Just not sure if stock with root i should or shouldn't. Thanks again, i hit all the thanks meters on this one, was driving me nuts....Jake

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themadzionist said:
By the way, it worked perfectly, i suggest though, when in Odin, uncheck auto reboot, so it didn't reboot after it passes, then i just pulled battery out and tried booting in CWM and it worked. Guess you can't let it reboot or you have to do it again. My last question is, do i keep my phone in usb debugging mode with root on stock rom? I had a galaxy s2 and i know some custom roms had to have usb debugging on. Just not sure if stock with root i should or shouldn't. Thanks again, i hit all the thanks meters on this one, was driving me nuts....Jake
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I use TRWP is a better recovery for sg3

[Q] Bricked and odin doesn't fix

I tried going back to stock rom. I used odin to flash chainfire's quick root (i317). Realized what i have done because I did a complete system wipe first and didn't put the stock rom on first before using chainfire's quick root. So now I sit at the Note 2 screen. I can get to download mode and to recovery (stock recovery because of chainfire's quick root). I have tried flashing a back up but it comes with an error "E:/ file not signed" or something close to that and it aborts. I tried using odin to flash stock rom back to it (i317ucalj2_i317attalj2_att.tar". It starts and it just sits there i get no progress bar on odin and on my phone I have a full progress bar. I thought since it's 800+mb it would take a while but 45 min later nothing had changed.
Any thoughts?

You could use Odin to flash the custom recovery you had before using cf auto root. Then you should be able to restore your backup and start over.

Froid said:
You could use Odin to flash the custom recovery you had before using cf auto root. Then you should be able to restore your backup and start over.
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I'll try that thanks for the quick response.

Itoshii said:
I'll try that thanks for the quick response.
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I did exactly what you did yesterday through a different series of events, then just reflashed TWRP with Odin. No need to panic, you can even use the Note 2 Toolkit to reboot download/recovery if you're having trouble with the button combo.

icd-evil said:
I did exactly what you did yesterday through a different series of events, then just reflashed TWRP with Odin. No need to panic, you can even use the Note 2 Toolkit to reboot download/recovery if you're having trouble with the button combo.
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Okay thanks for the reassurance I was panicing pretty bad. I live out in the middle of nowhere and my phone is my only source of internet at my home so it may be a day or two till I can do this. I will post if this fixes my problem.

This fixed my problem just in case anyone else was having this problem and was wondering how it turned out. Thanks again to the people who helped me. ^^^^

[Q] stock/no root phone won't boot, only DL mode works

Hello,
My unrooted At&T galaxy s3 will not go past the Samsung Galaxy SIII splash screen. When I enter recovery it just gives me a dead android guy.
I had this problem before and to fix it, I used odin to flash the stock 4.0.4, then I flashed 4.1.1 (I think these are the correct versions, I followed instructions here), then my phone wouldn't OTA update to touchwiz 4.3 so I flashed it using recovery mode using instructions and files I found here. The phone worked fine for a few weeks after that, but then started to reboot randomly and delete apps. Eventually it just stopped working all together which is where I am now.
I tried to install TWRP using odin which odin says worked but when I try to go to recovery mode I still just see the dead android guy. The phone did not have USB debugging mode turned on so I am not sure if I could install a custom recovery at all.
I tried the CF-auto root that I found here which got partway through and then failed.
Do you guys have any suggestions? Is there a stock touchwiz 4.3 rom that I could flash using odin??
Thank you very much, please let me know if you require any more information, I really want to get my phone working again.

korarchaeota said:
Hello,
My unrooted At&T galaxy s3 will not go past the Samsung Galaxy SIII splash screen. When I enter recovery it just gives me a dead android guy.
I had this problem before and to fix it, I used odin to flash the stock 4.0.4, then I flashed 4.1.1 (I think these are the correct versions, I followed instructions here), then my phone wouldn't OTA update to touchwiz 4.3 so I flashed it using recovery mode using instructions and files I found here. The phone worked fine for a few weeks after that, but then started to reboot randomly and delete apps. Eventually it just stopped working all together which is where I am now.
I tried to install TWRP using odin which odin says worked but when I try to go to recovery mode I still just see the dead android guy. The phone did not have USB debugging mode turned on so I am not sure if I could install a custom recovery at all.
I tried the CF-auto root that I found here which got partway through and then failed.
Do you guys have any suggestions? Is there a stock touchwiz 4.3 rom that I could flash using odin??
Thank you very much, please let me know if you require any more information, I really want to get my phone working again.
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It almost sounds like you're dealing with a situation I'm having on my galaxy tab. It has the internal SD chip going bad. I had to use a rom specially made to boot from a partitioned external sd card. Sorry, I can't help more, but the symptoms seem similar.
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Thank you for your reply. Where did you obtain a rom that could boot from the external sd card?
wrenhal said:
It almost sounds like you're dealing with a situation I'm having on my galaxy tab. It has the internal SD chip going bad. I had to use a rom specially made to boot from a partitioned external sd card. Sorry, I can't help more, but the symptoms seem similar.
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Try flashing the TWRP again with Odin, but make sure the auto reboot option on the left is unchecked in Odin. After flashing, unplug the phone and then hold volume up + menu + power buttons at the same time until it reboots.
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shortydoggg said:
Try flashing the TWRP again with Odin, but make sure the auto reboot option on the left is unchecked in Odin. After flashing, unplug the phone and then hold volume up + menu + power buttons at the same time until it reboots.
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I just tried it with only F. Reset Time checked, it installs it and says a green Pass!. I then unplugged it, tried to hold volume up + menu + power buttons for a while but nothing happened. I pulled the battery and then did volume up + menu + power buttons and went straight back to dead android guy. Any ideas?

Only other thing right now is to make sure you have the latest odin, which is 3.09
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shortydoggg said:
Only other thing right now is to make sure you have the latest odin, which is 3.09
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Trying everything with the new version of Odin results in all the same results.
Does anyone know if there is a tar (Odin flashable) version of update43.zip found in this thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2387423
Thanks!

korarchaeota said:
Trying everything with the new version of Odin results in all the same results.
Does anyone know if there is a tar (Odin flashable) version of update43.zip found in this thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2387423
Thanks!
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No there's no Odin flash-able there.
Sorry, we don't seem to have any answers for your problem. It seems like it may be more of a hardware issue than software.

Did you phone boot after flashing stock 4.04?

audit13 said:
Did you phone boot after flashing stock 4.04?
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Yes it did, the first time that this started happening. But I was unable to do that again, I thought since I flashed all the way to 4.3 and I read that once you go to 4.3 you can't go back. Is that correct?
Thank you for your help. I was hoping to try an odin flashable touchwiz 4.3 but I can't seem to find one.

So you had 4.04 on your phone and you used OTA updates to get to 4.3? If this is correct, then you can't flash a stock AT&T 4.3 ROM because it has never been made available to the public; therefore, the only 4.3 ROMs that may work are based on the leaked AT&T 4.3 ROM or compiled from an OTA update.
Once of these ROMs may get your phone going again: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2498233

audit13 said:
So you had 4.04 on your phone and you used OTA updates to get to 4.3? If this is correct, then you can't flash a stock AT&T 4.3 ROM because it has never been made available to the public; therefore, the only 4.3 ROMs that may work are based on the leaked AT&T 4.3 ROM or compiled from an OTA update.
Once of these ROMs may get your phone going again: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2498233
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Thank you for your suggestion, all the ones I tried there need recovery to flash...not odin. Is it possibly to make an odin file from a recovery flash file??
Thanks!

korarchaeota said:
Thank you for your suggestion, all the ones I tried there need recovery to flash...not odin. Is it possibly to make an odin file from a recovery flash file??
Thanks!
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Did you try installing Philz Touch from Odin? As was suggested earlier, don't use auto reboot. Once Philz has been installed and you see Reset in the window, disconnect the USB cable, remove the battery, replace the battery, boot into recovery, wipe and flash a custom ROM. This may help you get your phone working for now.

audit13 said:
Did you try installing Philz Touch from Odin? As was suggested earlier, don't use auto reboot. Once Philz has been installed and you see Reset in the window, disconnect the USB cable, remove the battery, replace the battery, boot into recovery, wipe and flash a custom ROM. This may help you get your phone working for now.
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Thank you for your suggestion, but I still get the dead android guy after flashing and trying to go into recovery. Any other ideas??

korarchaeota said:
Thank you for your suggestion, but I still get the dead android guy after flashing and trying to go into recovery. Any other ideas??
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Did you try philz or cwm? I am not sure why stock recovery is not being overwritten.

audit13 said:
Did you try philz or cwm? I am not sure why stock recovery is not being overwritten.
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I tried twrp and philz, I haven't tried cwm yet, should I? Is it not working because I didn't enable USB debugging before it stopped working?
Thanks for your help!

korarchaeota said:
I tried twrp and philz, I haven't tried cwm yet, should I? Is it not working because I didn't enable USB debugging before it stopped working?
Thanks for your help!
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Nope, USB debugging will not make a difference.
The latest Philz Touch is based on the latest CWM. After your flash Philz, are you letting the phone auto reboot on its own after flashing in Odin?
I know of no way to convert a custom ROM so it can be flashed in Odin.

URGENT!

Hey guys I was recently trying to flash back to stock so that i could carrier unlock my device, but when I was trying to flash using cwm, I kept getting status 7 error, so I read up on that and learned that cwm doesn't like certain roms.
After reading that, I used twrp, which allowed the rom to flash.
Now's where it gets bad..
the rom was booting fine, until i realized it was stuck at the boot animation for about 10 minutes.
I went back to the thread and asked how long it should take on first boot, they said 4 mintues...
I can't get back into recovery mode.. (actually i could never get into recovery mode using hardware bottons, i had to use apps such as ROM Manager)
I'm trying to use odin to flash recovery img, but no dice..
Can someone please tell me what I should do?

You can't go back to stock through recovery. You have to flash the stock image through Odin.
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mrzhadow said:
You can't go back to stock through recovery. You have to flash the stock image through Odin.
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It was a custom touchwiz rom. I thought that was possible.
Could I flash stock through odin in my current situation?

Fash the latest frimware using Odin
Can you get your phone into Download mode? Power whitle holding volume down, if you can then flash CWMR using odin
Download CWMR touch or non touch from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2405433
Doing this help me skip some odin errors from previous failed attempts to flash stock frimwares (I don't know if you're having the same problem)
If you successfully flash CWMrecovery, you should be able to flash official 4.3 firmware(T-Mobile) and put your phone back to stock.
create an account with sam mobile for faster download this download can take 1-4 hours SamMobile was like 20 minutes for me, this is the link for the latest frimware for
(T-mobile SGH-M919 !!! ONLY !!! ) http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/3/?download=22280
If you can get your phone back to stock this is my advice to you: root your phone right-away so you can reset your flash counter using triangle away.
I suggest the following rooting method is safe, it worked for me and did not affect my flash counter
Safe root --> http://www.w0lfdroid.com/2013/12/Safe-Root-Android-4.3-Galaxy-S3-S4-Note-No-Warranty-Void.html
use triangle away to reset your flash counter to Zero
Triangle Away ----> http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/orig-development/2013-10-04-triangleaway-v3-10-t1494114
Good Luck
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It was a custom touchwiz rom. I thought that was possible.
Could I flash stock through odin in my current situation?
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jacob66 said:
Hey guys I was recently trying to flash back to stock so that i could carrier unlock my device, but when I was trying to flash using cwm, I kept getting status 7 error, so I read up on that and learned that cwm doesn't like certain roms.
After reading that, I used twrp, which allowed the rom to flash.
Now's where it gets bad..
the rom was booting fine, until i realized it was stuck at the boot animation for about 10 minutes.
I went back to the thread and asked how long it should take on first boot, they said 4 mintues...
I can't get back into recovery mode.. (actually i could never get into recovery mode using hardware bottons, i had to use apps such as ROM Manager)
I'm trying to use odin to flash recovery img, but no dice..
Can someone please tell me what I should do?
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Did oyu make a nandroid backup of your stock rom before flashing a custom one?
If so, just restore it.
If not, use Odin.

Skipjacks said:
Did oyu make a nandroid backup of your stock rom before flashing a custom one?
If so, just restore it.
If not, use Odin.
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yeah but i switched recoveries and everyone on my cwm got deleted
but i'm back up and running, i just didn't know how to fully wipe on twrp, someone helped me out with that.
thank you for the help

napacastro said:
Can you get your phone into Download mode? Power whitle holding volume down, if you can then flash CWMR using odin
Download CWMR touch or non touch from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2405433
Doing this help me skip some odin errors from previous failed attempts to flash stock frimwares (I don't know if you're having the same problem)
If you successfully flash CWMrecovery, you should be able to flash official 4.3 firmware(T-Mobile) and put your phone back to stock.
create an account with sam mobile for faster download this download can take 1-4 hours SamMobile was like 20 minutes for me, this is the link for the latest frimware for
(T-mobile SGH-M919 !!! ONLY !!! ) http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/3/?download=22280
If you can get your phone back to stock this is my advice to you: root your phone right-away so you can reset your flash counter using triangle away.
I suggest the following rooting method is safe, it worked for me and did not affect my flash counter
Safe root --> http://www.w0lfdroid.com/2013/12/Safe-Root-Android-4.3-Galaxy-S3-S4-Note-No-Warranty-Void.html
use triangle away to reset your flash counter to Zero
Triangle Away ----> http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/orig-development/2013-10-04-triangleaway-v3-10-t1494114
Good Luck
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Thank you for your information, I've solved my problem by getting back into twrp! thanks! hopefully this thread will help someone out in the future

[Q] Note 3 "RECOVERY IS NOT SEANDROID ENFORCING"!!! Help!??

Ok, So I just bought the Tmo Note 3 and was looking to root it
I went on youtube and found the Auto-root method
I downloaded the auto-root files, open Odin, put the CF-Auto root.tar.md5 in the PDA section of Odin and clicked start.
when it was done my phone rebooted into a screen with 3 lines on top saying
RECOVERY BOOTING....
RECOVERY IS NOT SEANDROID ENFORCING
Set Warranty Bit : recovery
Can anyone please help me?
Phone was on 4.3
I can also still go to Download mode but cannot boot into android or into a recovery it just boots to those 3 lines above.
Help?

The same thing happen to me when I tried installing clockwork mod recovery and twrp recovery. I had to go to the website sammobile.com and download the original firmware MD5 file (2,218,421kb) put the phone in download mode and re flash the whole thing and start over. I still can't get a custom recovery to work. Can anyone shed light on this? Thanks

Reflash the recovery.
Mine shows the same, pauses and then boots into the recovery (TWRP in my case).

dbrow said:
The same thing happen to me when I tried installing clockwork mod recovery and twrp recovery. I had to go to the website sammobile.com and download the original firmware MD5 file (2,218,421kb) put the phone in download mode and re flash the whole thing and start over. I still can't get a custom recovery to work. Can anyone shed light on this? Thanks
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Yea thats what im doing, the download is taking forever but i thought it would work... thanks!

krelvinaz said:
Reflash the recovery.
Mine shows the same, pauses and then boots into the recovery (TWRP in my case).
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you mean re-flash the CF-AutoRoot.tar.md5 file?
How exactly did you get it to boot into a custom recovery?

No prob! Yeah it took me about an hour.
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Just had this happen to me also. I just downloaded philz recovery .tar and flashed through odin. I still cant get a custom recovery but it got me out of my bootloop and back into my system
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Sammydr10 said:
Ok, So I just bought the Tmo Note 3 and was looking to root it
I went on youtube and found the Auto-root method
I downloaded the auto-root files, open Odin, put the CF-Auto root.tar.md5 in the PDA section of Odin and clicked start.
when it was done my phone rebooted into a screen with 3 lines on top saying
RECOVERY BOOTING....
RECOVERY IS NOT SEANDROID ENFORCING
Set Warranty Bit : recovery
Can anyone please help me?
Phone was on 4.3
I can also still go to Download mode but cannot boot into android or into a recovery it just boots to those 3 lines above.
Help?
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You should have done the 4.4 update then rooted. .........
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bipoler said:
You should have done the 4.4 update then rooted. .........
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Thats what I did now lol

Sammydr10 said:
Thats what I did now lol
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Lol good papi
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Ok so I updated to 4.4 and then flashed the CF-AutoRoot.tar.md5 file
I now have root
I downloaded Rom manager and tried installing CWM Recovery -- it installed but when i tried rebooting into recovery Im just stuck in a boot loop with the screen I had at the start of this thread which is
RECOVERY BOOTING....
RECOVERY IS NOT SEANDROID ENFORCING
Set Warranty Bit : recovery
Any help!??

Sammydr10 said:
Ok, So I just bought the Tmo Note 3 and was looking to root it
I went on youtube and found the Auto-root method
I downloaded the auto-root files, open Odin, put the CF-Auto root.tar.md5 in the PDA section of Odin and clicked start.
when it was done my phone rebooted into a screen with 3 lines on top saying
RECOVERY BOOTING....
RECOVERY IS NOT SEANDROID ENFORCING
Set Warranty Bit : recovery
Can anyone please help me?
Phone was on 4.3
I can also still go to Download mode but cannot boot into android or into a recovery it just boots to those 3 lines above.
Help?
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That is where I was getting my issues, I downloaded the 6.19.3 .tar from http://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/hlte and flashed through odin twice in order for it to stick.

Sammydr10 said:
Ok so I updated to 4.4 and then flashed the CF-AutoRoot.tar.md5 file
I now have root
I downloaded Rom manager and tried installing CWM Recovery -- it installed but when i tried rebooting into recovery Im just stuck in a boot loop with the screen I had at the start of this thread which is
RECOVERY BOOTING....
RECOVERY IS NOT SEANDROID ENFORCING
Set Warranty Bit : recovery
Any help!??
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Download philz recovery and flash with ODIN. The warning about recovery is normal once you have a custom recovery installed.
This thread should help you. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2672393

prycem said:
Download philz recovery and flash with ODIN. The warning about recovery is normal once you have a custom recovery installed.
This thread should help you. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2672393
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Thanks for putting on the right path.
Thanks to everyone who helped me out

I would highly suggest twrp 2.7. Less compatibility issues. Its more than just a personal preference thing.
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prycem said:
Download philz recovery and flash with ODIN. The warning about recovery is normal once you have a custom recovery installed.
This thread should help you. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2672393
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DUDE THANKS, YOU SAVED ME.I WAS VERY NERVOUS. U SAVED ME FROM MY DAD
#10000 repped if I can.. but really, Thanks dude I really appreciate it

No problem man. Glad that I helped.
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prycem said:
Download philz recovery and flash with ODIN. The warning about recovery is normal once you have a custom recovery installed.
This thread should help you. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2672393
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I flashed philz through odin and saw the warning about recovery. recovery still booted though, but i wasnt sure if i was in trouble. So its normal you say?

Yes. That message is normal for any non stock recovery.
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Today a miracle occurred.
I have a n900-p Sprint that was rooted months ago and today I stupidly was messing with ROM manager and hit "reboot into recovery"
My phone went in to a boot loop with this "recovery is not seandroid enforcing" message right before bed time and I was in boot loop hell.
Some quick googling brought me here and gratefully I used some of your info to save myself on first try.
Step-by-step for any Googlers passing through:
1. Download Odin and your stock android rom (by pure dumb luck I remembered the last three letters from when I was screwing around on the settings screen earlier in the day.
2. Run As Administrator Odin and put your phone in download mode (pull battery, wait ten seconds, hold down VOL down + Power + front key)
3. Plug in your busted phone
4. Hit AP button in Odin and find your stock android rom you d/l earlier
5. after you get a blue box under ID:COM in Odin, hit start
6. pray
7. boom, when its done everything is back to normal.
If a monkey as dumb as me can pull it off, so can you. Good luck internet strangers.