I recently bought a T-Mobile Galaxy S4 and right away put a custom recovery on and rooted the phone. I'd actually like to go back to stock recovery, no root, and have my download mode show as non custom. Can I use Triangle Away to reset it, flash a stock recovery and be back to 100 percent stock? Or would I have to use Triangle Away and then flash a while stock firmware and pretty much start with a clean install?
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Flash stock rom using odin that should fix it all. But just in case reset counter then flash stock rom.
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Fishtick26 said:
I recently bought a T-Mobile Galaxy S4 and right away put a custom recovery on and rooted the phone. I'd actually like to go back to stock recovery, no root, and have my download mode show as non custom. Can I use Triangle Away to reset it, flash a stock recovery and be back to 100 percent stock? Or would I have to use Triangle Away and then flash a while stock firmware and pretty much start with a clean install?
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First, Triangle Away:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1494114
Then, Odin back to stock:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2258628
Should fix everything.
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Fishtick26 said:
I recently bought a T-Mobile Galaxy S4 and right away put a custom recovery on and rooted the phone. I'd actually like to go back to stock recovery, no root, and have my download mode show as non custom. Can I use Triangle Away to reset it, flash a stock recovery and be back to 100 percent stock? Or would I have to use Triangle Away and then flash a while stock firmware and pretty much start with a clean install?
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You have to use triangle away first, and then just odin back to stock firmware.You can't flash the stock recovery by itself though.
Not entirely true, you can use triangle away, then use mobile Odin to flash just stock recovery out of the full .tar file, then use the unroot option in super su.
stevessvt said:
Not entirely true, you can use triangle away, then use mobile Odin to flash just stock recovery out of the full .tar file, then use the unroot option in super su.
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This sounds amazing. I have the full .tar.md5 file. How would I pull recovery out of there? And in Odin, would I just choose PDA and then pick the recovery file only?
-Edit- Would I need to use mobile Odin? Could I just use the Windows version of Odin?
Drop it on your sdcard, and when you direct mobile Odin to it, it divides it up in to its separate parts, you then clear out the parts you don't need, leaving only the stock recovery. Mobile Odin costs a few bucks, but totally worth it.
stevessvt said:
Drop it on your sdcard, and when you direct mobile Odin to it, it divides it up in to its separate parts, you then clear out the parts you don't need, leaving only the stock recovery. Mobile Odin costs a few bucks, but totally worth it.
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Wow, I didn't know this. Thanks for the info.
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Any time. I always keep the tar on my phone in case of emergency.
stevessvt said:
Drop it on your sdcard, and when you direct mobile Odin to it, it divides it up in to its separate parts, you then clear out the parts you don't need, leaving only the stock recovery. Mobile Odin costs a few bucks, but totally worth it.
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Good news is that using this method I am back to stock/official on the phone (well, I guess it is good news, I'll miss doing custom ROM stuff). The bad news is that even though I selected Recovery only in Mobile Odin it did a factory reset. I've only had the phone a few days so no big deal I suppose. I may just go ahead and do a full wipe in case there are files hanging out on the internal card taking up space.
Oh ****, sorry, there is an option to do that in MO, I thought it defaults to not doing that. But Im glad it worked otherwise. Pretty handy app. I would do a full wipe at this point anyways.
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Oh ****, sorry, there is an option to do that in MO, I thought it defaults to not doing that. But Im glad it worked otherwise. Pretty handy app. I would do a full wipe at this point anyways.
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Not a big deal. The app looks great and I was happy to buy it to support the developer. His apps/guides have helped me very many times in the past. I did a full wipe and I'm starting to rebuild now. I appreciate all the advice/feedback.
I decided to do the T-Mobile JUMP program so I figure if I'll only have the phone for 6 months I'll leave it stock. Both to prevent possible bricks and because the phone running stock is pretty nice anyway.
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ok so my kids mother wanted her gs3 rooted so i did she tried a few roms and the whole root thing aint for her.. so today i unrooted it but i forgot to use that app triangle away.. so basicly im screwed rite?? is there anyway to make it to 0 again?? she is not bringing it to sprint but just in case she ever does i dont want them to say she screwed on her warrenty cause the counter is at 3 and not 0..
Triangle Away doesn't work yet. Still waiting on an update.
I think there's a stock software you can flash that resets it. I'll look for it quick and get back to you.
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Here ya go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904099
You'll have to reset everything though.
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BWFBezerk said:
Triangle Away doesn't work yet. Still waiting on an update.
I think there's a stock software you can flash that resets it. I'll look for it quick and get back to you.
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Here ya go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904099
You'll have to reset everything though.
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yea but dont u have to flash that in recovery?? so ill have to root it again and flash a custom recovery again rite?? i already unrooted with odin its stock everything now recovery and all.. just the counter is not at 0.. do all the stores look into the counter being not at 0??
You'll have to flash root/recovery again in Odin, but as of right now, I think this is the only way to reset flash counter.
Takes 6 seconds in Odin and you're back with CWM and root, so it's not too much trouble.
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Triangle away works just fine as long as your not on jellybean which triggers the counter on every boot. So wheather you use triangle away or the rom w/ reset you will need root or a custom recovery.
Just flash any custom recovery in odin http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1900492 which takes two seconds.
Reboot straight to recovery and flash zip in above post. You'll be totally straight afterwards. Dont even need to reroot. 2 step process
u guys think that they will look at her counter in case she ever goes to sprint?? everything else is stock just the counter says 3
billard412 said:
Triangle away works just fine as long as your not on jellybean which triggers the counter on every boot. So wheather you use triangle away or the rom w/ reset you will need root or a custom recovery.
Just flash any custom recovery in odin http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1900492 which takes two seconds.
Reboot straight to recovery and flash zip in above post. You'll be totally straight afterwards. Dont even need to reroot. 2 step process
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sorry im new to using odin.. im used to htc phones.. so once i get odin up how to i get a recovery file to flash on to the phone?? i have odin open now so theres the bootloader...PDA... PHONE... csc.... what one do i have to put the recovery file in???
recoverys are in the link i gave above. Everything goes in PDA slot. Here it is again http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1900492 And because ur new to this maybe my noob-friendly idiot proof odin would help u here https://rapidshare.com/files/4208525095/ODIN.zip (if you use it ignore the warning up top, its just a joke)
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recoverys are in the link i gave above. Everything goes in PDA slot. Here it is again http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1900492 And because ur new to this maybe my noob-friendly idiot proof odin would help u here https://rapidshare.com/files/4208525095/ODIN.zip (if you use it ignore the warning up top, its just a joke)
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pda sweet.. all i needed to kno thanks!!!:good:.. wow this ishh is so much easier then htc phones.. i mite get a samsung my next upgrade?? htc is a pain in the a$$ sometimes!
Ive done an htc or two in my day and believe me i feel ur pain. Everytime felt like the first time with an htc. I will say i do miss having a phone with fastboot tho. HTC def has the right idea leaving fastboot on their phones.
EDIT: all well?
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Ive done an htc or two in my day and believe me i feel ur pain. Everytime felt like the first time with an htc. I will say i do miss having a phone with fastboot tho. HTC def has the right idea leaving fastboot on their phones.
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Totally agree. I've done countless htc phones and each phone is a new challenge. I love my new samsung though.
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Hi Guys need help bad. I hope I didnt screw my phone up.
I rooted my phone using the latest toolkit and installed twrp. Once i did that I backed up everything including efs on the external card.
Once i did that I flashed Jedi x rom but did not have much signal so decided to flash another rom which was liquid smooth. Once I flashed it again
my signal was almost non existent. I downloaded a canadian modem in the zip file and flashed it using twrp the same way i would flash a rom.
After i did that i wiped all the data and cache and the system. As I was rushing it siince its late at night i got a message saying that I am not rooted. I ignored it and rebooted the system and now its stuck on samsung logo. What can i do? Please help!!!!!
It appears that when I hold vol up plus home plus power I can get into download mode. I hope that helps.
Can someone give me some help how to get it back to life. I am pretty sure I have to use Odin at this point but dont know how
Ok i did some reading and I think the next step is to download stock image for the wind mobile turn on Odin and upload the image to the phone..
What settings should I use in Odin? What should be checked at the top and am I to use PDA only?
You can use odin or just reflash the ROM. You said tout wiped system after flashing the modern. That means you erased what ever ROM was on there. It's sticking at Samsung because there is no ROM to boot into.
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kintwofan said:
You can use odin or just reflash the ROM. You said tout wiped system after flashing the modern. That means you erased what ever ROM was on there. It's sticking at Samsung because there is no ROM to boot into.
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Well I cant get into TWRP and dont know how to flash a ROM through ODIN? I am total newb at this.
Could you give me some pointers once I open up odin what do i need to do ? Thanks
Have you puked the battery. Put it back in then held volume+, home and power? Your recovery should still be there.
Also, odin is easy. Just open it and click the pda box and put your stock ROM there. Two things make sure you put your image in PDA and PDA ONLY and make sure it's your official stock Image
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kintwofan said:
Have you puked the battery. Put it back in then held volume+, home and power? Your recovery should still be there.
Also, odin is easy. Just open it and click the pda box and put your stock ROM there. Two things make sure you put your image in PDA and PDA ONLY and make sure it's your official stock Image
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Yup went back to ODIN and flashed stock image and everything is now working great. I assume that I need to root the phone again before attempting to flash any roms again. I guess it was late at night and like you said I wiped the rom and there was nothing to boot into. I am an idiot!
Thanks for your quick help !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yup went back to ODIN and flashed stock image and everything is now working great. I assume that I need to root the phone again before attempting to flash any roms again. I guess it was late at night and like you said I wiped the rom and there was nothing to boot into. I am an idiot!
Thanks for your quick help !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Next time odin this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1975560 pre-rooted doesn't trip the counter,,,
deeznutz1977 said:
Next time odin this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1975560 pre-rooted doesn't trip the counter,,,
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Ok so here's my next question.
In order to root again do i use the toolkit again or simply just download the pre-rooted rom and flash it with Odin? Which one would be better just
to get root again? Thanks!
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Ok so here's my next question.
In order to root again do i use the toolkit again or simply just download the pre-rooted rom and flash it with Odin? Which one would be better just
to get root again? Thanks!
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Download the rom from the link i posted..flash in Odin Thats it pre rooted
deeznutz1977 said:
Download the rom from the link i posted..flash in Odin Thats it pre rooted
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When I did this approach, I did it in two steps. I downloaded factory image of the firmware and flashed the device by using Odin 3.0.7.
Next, I used a tool package called "Galaxy Note2 ToolKit." Follow the instructions for how to root.
When I did the procedure, the software also had an option to include clockworkmod recovery
and busybox.
Gideon.
I need to return S4 White and get another S4 white.
Can I just do the nandriod backtup on Phone 1 and restore on phone 2?
Ques 2.
Is that okay that I just do the factory reset and leave the root on along with twrp?
if not then I just need to ODIN the stock rom?
I am still within the 20 days return policy
First, yes u can restore it with everything you have on that one with no issue except if your getting the s4 from another carrier, the bloat might give you issues with it.
Second, If you're returning it and it's rooted your warranty is voided so you need to go back to stock and unroot it and the flash counter that tells if you've made any unauthorized changes to the software might give you issues so I don't now how to reset the flash counter so I would wait until u can restart the flash counter and go back to stock... I hope this answered your question...
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First, yes u can restore it with everything you have on that one with no issue except if your getting the s4 from another carrier, the bloat might give you issues with it.
Second, If you're returning it and it's rooted your warranty is voided so you need to go back to stock and unroot it and the flash counter that tells if you've made any unauthorized changes to the software might give you issues so I don't now how to reset the flash counter so I would wait until u can restart the flash counter and go back to stock... I hope this answered your question...
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isn't if I ODIN back to stock would unroot automatically? even remove the recovery as well?
you mean there is no way to check the flash counter or reset?
Odin erases any root files but hey the only way to see if it resets the flash counter is by doing it and once you went back to stock and get on download mode again and once you proceed check at the top left where a small text will say something like, system version: official Samsung, flash counter: 0 or 1, name... Etc... And yes it will take the recovery as well
Edit: if it doesn't reset it try researching it on Google I'm pretty sure there's some way to do it..
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flash counter only increase if you ODIN anything other than Stock. Correct?
I use the exploit to get the root access, so technically I never ODIN, and my flash counter should be to 0.
question is if I do the ODIN to stock, is that gonna increase the flash counter?
Can I not just go back to stock via kies? that will not increase the flash counter I guess.
here is the screenshot showing the current status of what it is now after root and twrp installed.
Does not really show the flash counter.
I'm not really sure but try to use triangle away and see if it shows u Ur flash counter and if it does don't try to reset it with it Kuz I don't know if it's compatible with the s4 yet
Edit: I just checked and yes that app does work with the s4 so there's Ur option... Check if it's showing the flash counter nd if it does reset it nd then go back to stock nd problem solved..
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here is the screenshot showing the current status of what it is now after root and twrp installed.
Does not really show the flash counter.
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System Status is Custom, which if I remember correctly means it has at one point been flashed with a custom firmware.
I may be wrong though.
can someone who is not rooted please tell me the difference, what they see on ODIN screen?
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can someone who is not rooted please tell me the difference, what they see on ODIN screen?
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You mean in download mode?
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can someone who is not rooted please tell me the difference, what they see on ODIN screen?
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It will say Official instead of Custom. I used Odin to install the MDL update and it changed to Official. In settings > about device > scroll to the bottom and under Device Status it should also say Official.
yeah!!.
This thing is getting on my nerves now.
First that stupid Tmobile error which is forcing me to order the same phone for different line and return this.
Like I said just used an app called TRIANGLE AWAY and it will reset your flash counter...
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Triangle Away says I am not using jellybean and the app won't work
now what?
Go to recovery, do a full wipe, power off, use Odin and install the new MDL update.
the s-health is hooked up with the samsung account or I need to do the backup for that data separately?
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the s-health is hooked up with the samsung account or I need to do the backup for that data separately?
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Is hooked to the phone so once you get a new one it will b there but u will have to re start everything you've made on it its not good to back up system apps.. It will give you too many issues..
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follow the instructions as you said.
Now I am back to stock but the Device Status still shows "custom".
I also used the triangle away 2.90 which let me reset the counter back to 0, it showed me on the confirmation page, but looks like that didn't do the job.
Now there is no root but custom device status.
Returning phone like this would cause any issue?
I tried kies as well, its just not connecting with kies, even after re-installing drivers couple of times
Go into stock recovery and wipe cache and do a factory reset from there that should clear it up.
So I downloaded the stock firmware for my phone to flash via Odin, (The Samsung GS4 M919V), and I just noticed that the phone still thinks i'm on modified software. Is there anyway to fix this? I want to be 100% on stock so I can receive OTA updates...
Have you tried Triangle Away from the market? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.triangleaway
KaneHusky said:
Have you tried Triangle Away from the market? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.triangleaway
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I'm not longer rooted. I don't see why the flash counter would make my device "modified". On my S3 I had a huge flash counter and when I'd flash stock I was able to install OTA's.
Mateoftw said:
So I downloaded the stock firmware for my phone to flash via Odin, (The Samsung GS4 M919V), and I just noticed that the phone still thinks i'm on modified software. Is there anyway to fix this? I want to be 100% on stock so I can receive OTA updates...
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Do you by any chance have a microSd card plugged in? I'd recommend you take it out, reboot and see if you still get the same message. Also delete any rom, root files you may have on your Internal & external SD.
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dj_aj said:
Do you by any chance have a microSd card plugged in? I'd recommend you take it out, reboot and see if you still get the same message. Also delete any rom, root files you may have on your Internal & external SD.
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I tried that and it didn't have any effect :/
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Did you perform a factory reset? You have to, to get it to say official again.
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You must use triangle away. It is the only way to reset everything to factory standards.
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Did you perform a factory reset? You have to, to get it to say official again.
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By flashing stock it's assumed that it's also a factory reset. None the less I just factory reseeted the phone and it didn't do anything. In order to use Triangle Away, I need to be rooted, which I am not.
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By flashing stock it's assumed that it's also a factory reset. None the less I just factory reseeted the phone and it didn't do anything. In order to use Triangle Away, I need to be rooted, which I am not.
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Which stock file did you flash? There was a "return to stock" file floating around, but it was made from a system dump and not an official ROM.
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By flashing stock it's assumed that it's also a factory reset. None the less I just factory reseeted the phone and it didn't do anything. In order to use Triangle Away, I need to be rooted, which I am not.
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Okay so root your device by flashing cwm through Odin the flash supersure zip and boom you got root. Now run triangle away
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Or chainfire auto root...then use triangle away, while still in triangle away have it reboot back in to bootloader mode, odin stock again, after it reboots perform another factory reset.
Done.
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So I downloaded the stock firmware for my phone to flash via Odin, (The Samsung GS4 M919V), and I just noticed that the phone still thinks i'm on modified software. Is there anyway to fix this? I want to be 100% on stock so I can receive OTA updates...
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Get Triangle Away and use CF-Auto-Root to root but leave you with stock. Reset the flash counter and use the workaround which delays loading superuser on each startup. That makes your phone report "official". Then factory wipe.
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Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. The file floating around is 2.4gb~ file (uncompressed), but its failing for me. I downloaded it twice and attempted from 2 different computers. Also, is there a Triangles Away compatible with the S4.
Sorry for the n00b questions. i just moved to S4. I was on S3 and a land where everything just worked
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Which stock file did you flash? There was a "return to stock" file floating around, but it was made from a system dump and not an official ROM.
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electroyo said:
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. The file floating around is 2.4gb~ file (uncompressed), but its failing for me. I downloaded it twice and attempted from 2 different computers. Also, is there a Triangles Away compatible with the S4.
Sorry for the n00b questions. i just moved to S4. I was on S3 and a land where everything just worked
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Nothing you flash will reset you back to an official status. You MUST use triangle away. Period.
electroyo said:
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. The file floating around is 2.4gb~ file (uncompressed), but its failing for me. I downloaded it twice and attempted from 2 different computers. Also, is there a Triangles Away compatible with the S4.
Sorry for the n00b questions. i just moved to S4. I was on S3 and a land where everything just worked
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Try this if you haven't already. Use the 'UVUAMDL official' tar and make sure to MD5 the file after downloading.
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Try this if you haven't already. Use the 'UVUAMDL official' tar and make sure to MD5 the file after downloading.
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This is a great tutorial, however, just following this tutorial alone, will restore you to stock with a CUSTOM bootloader status.
Use triangle away to reset the flash counter, once triangle away is finished, it will ask if you wish to reboot to system, or reboot to download mode. Select download mode, then follow that tutorial.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I put my S4 in download mode checked the md5 of the suggested tar file but it failed again
Him rlandtst
I was able to flash the original original tar file just fine. So I know its not my phone. Maybe I need to wait till the Nexus ROM on the 26th. Can't even get the baseband up
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I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I put my S4 in download mode checked the md5 of the suggested tar file but it failed again
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Reboot phone back into download mode and try again. They fail for unknown reasons from time to time. Also make sure you're connected directly to the USB port and not a hub.
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I'm probably missing the obvious here, but for the life of me I can't find a thread that tells me exactly how to flash stock recovery for my 4.3 rom.
Need to get back to stock to use triangle away to reset the flash counter to send off for repair.
It doesn't help that every time I've tried to search xda today I get a "search not available" error.
You have to flash a stock rom through odin AFAIK to get stock recovery You will then have to root it to use triangle away then unroot through super user to get back to complete stock. Not 100% sure triangle away has been updated for 4.3 though
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sawdoctor said:
You have to flash a stock rom through odin AFAIK to get stock recovery You will then have to root it to use triangle away then unroot through super user to get back to complete stock. Not 100% sure triangle away has been updated for 4.3 though
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Thanks, after several hours of reading I eventually reached the conclusion that a stock rom through Odin was going to have to be the way to go. Bit of a pain because the download of the full rom from sammobile took over a day! (on my 20mb connection) but got there in the end.
I was hoping there'd be a way of flashing just the stock recovery, but it seems not.
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Thanks, after several hours of reading I eventually reached the conclusion that a stock rom through Odin was going to have to be the way to go. Bit of a pain because the download of the full rom from sammobile took over a day! (on my 20mb connection) but got there in the end.
I was hoping there'd be a way of flashing just the stock recovery, but it seems not.
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Hi I was wondering if you had tried to use triangle away before flashing the stock recovery? I'm trying to understand if thats the actual reason that mine doesn't work