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Odin Says "Pass", But phone is not rooted.

Hey guys I followed this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2235366
I used a file called "CF-Auto-Root-d2spr-d2spr-sphl710.tar"
Everything goes well and I get a green pass from oden3, the phone reboots. But superSU is not installed and when I check "Root checker" there is no root....
I have 4.1.2
Thoughts?

Just download superuser and simply place it on your phones SD card it's really easy
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ricanjoe said:
Hey guys I followed this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2235366
I used a file called "CF-Auto-Root-d2spr-d2spr-sphl710.tar"
Everything goes well and I get a green pass from oden3, the phone reboots. But superSU is not installed and when I check "Root checker" there is no root....
I have 4.1.2
Thoughts?
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Your phone is not finishing the process it seems. After Odin says pass do you get a big red Android on the screen? If not flash the cf auto root file but uncheck auto reboot in Odin first. Then when it finishes, pull the cable and remove the battery. Reinsert the battery and manually boot to recovery by holding volume up+home+power and it should finish installing root.
I don't know what the post above me is taking about. Installing superuser isn't going to magically give you root. js

billard412 said:
Your phone is not finishing the process it seems. After Odin says pass do you get a big red Android on the screen? If not flash the cf auto root file but uncheck auto reboot in Odin first. Then when it finishes, pull the cable and remove the battery. Reinsert the battery and manually boot to recovery by holding volume up+home+power and it should finish installing root.
I don't know what the post above me is taking about. Installing superuser isn't going to magically give you root. js
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Yes its a screen with red letters and numbers saying the phone will reboot in 10 seconds.... So I re root in oden? then I pull the battery out before reboot? Could this brick my phone?
Thanks foe the help

ricanjoe said:
Yes its a screen with red letters and numbers saying the phone will reboot in 10 seconds.... So I re root in oden? then I pull the battery out before reboot? Could this brick my phone?
Thanks foe the help
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It wouldnt brick the phone but if you are seeing the red android then i was mistaken about what your issue is so disregard. Is your phone new? I bet the issue is related to one others are having where recovery cant mount partitions. To confirm that try this. Download this and place on pc http://goo.im/devs/billard412/d2spr/AUTOBOOT_RECOVERY/SPH-L710_TWRP_AUTOBOOT.exe
Its a odin one click that will autoboot you to twrp recovery just open it and click start with your phone connected in download mode.
Download this and place on your sd card. (preferably external)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1584076&d=1356201390
If you can successfully flash that zip, it will root the phone.

billard412 said:
It wouldnt brick the phone but if you are seeing the red android then i was mistaken about what your issue is so disregard. Is your phone new? I bet the issue is related to one others are having where recovery cant mount partitions. To confirm that try this. Download this and place on pc http://goo.im/devs/billard412/d2spr/AUTOBOOT_RECOVERY/SPH-L710_TWRP_AUTOBOOT.exe
Its a odin one click that will autoboot you to twrp recovery just open it and click start with your phone connected in download mode.
Download this and place on your sd card. (preferably external)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1584076&d=1356201390
If you can successfully flash that zip, it will root the phone.
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About to give it a shot. Placing the root file on my external SD and phone into download mode, about to launch the odin app on pc.

billard412 said:
It wouldnt brick the phone but if you are seeing the red android then i was mistaken about what your issue is so disregard. Is your phone new? I bet the issue is related to one others are having where recovery cant mount partitions. To confirm that try this. Download this and place on pc http://goo.im/devs/billard412/d2spr/AUTOBOOT_RECOVERY/SPH-L710_TWRP_AUTOBOOT.exe
Its a odin one click that will autoboot you to twrp recovery just open it and click start with your phone connected in download mode.
Download this and place on your sd card. (preferably external)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1584076&d=1356201390
If you can successfully flash that zip, it will root the phone.
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my man, so far im in a 'team win recovery project screen' its all blue and stuff
this is pretty exiting for me.
So what do I press now? what does this screen mean?
(some personal insight, I have rooted my old evo 3d back in the day but il still pretty noobish, the twrp thing rings a bell)

ricanjoe said:
my man, so far im in a 'team win recovery project screen' its all blue and stuff
this is pretty exiting for me.
So what do I press now? what does this screen mean?
(some personal insight, I have rooted my old evo 3d back in the day but il still pretty noobish, the twrp thing rings a bell)
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You want to press install then hit "up a level" until youre in the root "/" directory. Then choose "external_sdcard" then tap "root.zip" and swipe to confirm at the bottom.

billard412 said:
You want to press install then hit "up a level" until youre in the root "/" directory. Then choose "external_sdcard" then tap "root.zip" and swipe to confirm at the bottom.
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sweet man, Im in root checker and it says "congratulations this device has root access"
I wanted to ask you how does this method differ from the method I was trying to perform?

ricanjoe said:
sweet man, Im in root checker and it says "congratulations this device has root access"
I wanted to ask you how does this method differ from the method I was trying to perform?
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It's basically the same thing. Cf auto root will install a special recovery made by chainfire and a cache.img with a root zip. It's supposed to flash that zip then restore stock recovery. I've never seen cf auto root fail to do the job so im not sure what went wrong.
But the way you did it was you installed your own custom recovery and manually flashed a root zip created by me instead. Only thing different here is that you still have that custom recovery instead of stock recovery now.

billard412 said:
It's basically the same thing. Cf auto root will install a special recovery made by chainfire and a cache.img with a root zip. It's supposed to flash that zip then restore stock recovery. I've never seen cf auto root fail to do the job so im not sure what went wrong.
But the way you did it was you installed your own custom recovery and manually flashed a root zip created by me instead. Only thing different here is that you still have that custom recovery instead of stock recovery now.
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Got it man, is this custom recovery better than the stock or is it essentially the same? I plan to install a custom rom soon.
(I didn't find many threads like this on google nor the search tool so hopefully people with the same strange problem as me will now find it. Should be useful)

ricanjoe said:
Got it man, is this custom recovery better than the stock or is it essentially the same? I plan to install a custom rom soon.
(I didn't find many threads like this on google nor the search tool so hopefully people with the same strange problem as me will now find it. Should be useful)
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The custom recovery is the same with the exception that it gives you additional privileges over stock recovery. Like installing custom roms, so if you're planning on a custom rom soon then you may as well just stick with the custom one. I do however recommend you download goo manager from the playstore and updating your recovery to the newest with it before trying to flash anything. The recovery I gave you may be a little outdated. And if for any reason you want stock recovery back I'll make a odin tar of it and place it in this post
STOCK RECOVERY TAR

billard412 said:
The custom recovery is the same with the exception that it gives you additional privileges over stock recovery. Like installing custom roms, so if you're planning on a custom rom soon then you may as well just stick with the custom one. I do however recommend you download goo manager from the playstore and updating your recovery to the newest with it before trying to flash anything. The recovery I gave you may be a little outdated. And if for any reason you want stock recovery back I'll make a odin tar of it and place it in this post
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I got the goo manager, which recovery do I update to?
The app wants me to update to open recovery twerp 2/6/2/0/d2spr.img

ricanjoe said:
I got the goo manager, which recovery do I update to?
The app wants me to update to open recovery twerp 2/6/2/0/d2spr.img
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Just open it. Hit Menu then tap "install openrecoveryscript" Then "Yes". Then "Yes" again. It'll download the latest TWRP and flash it automatically.
Edit:sorry had to reread that. Twrp 2620 is right

advocatebutdfh
billard412 said:
Just open it. Hit Menu then tap "install openrecoveryscript" Then "Yes". Then "Yes" again. It'll download the latest TWRP and flash it automatically.
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Alright man I wont waste anymore of your time here, just want to say thanks for all the help, this gives me the courage to continue to learn more about rooting and custom roms. I was about to give up last night because of this frustrating issue I had. Thanks again!

ricanjoe said:
Alright man I wont waste anymore of your time here, just want to say thanks for all the help, this gives me the courage to continue to learn more about rooting and custom roms. I was about to give up last night because of this frustrating issue I had. Thanks again!
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No problem glad to help. And just in case u need it, the stock recovery tar is attached below.

billard412 said:
Just open it. Hit Menu then tap "install openrecoveryscript" Then "Yes". Then "Yes" again. It'll download the latest TWRP and flash it automatically.
Edit:sorry had to reread that. Twrp 2620 is right
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about to install moar rom. I saw a video saying you should wipe dalvic cache and do several other things before.
Is there anything you reccomend I do before I flash this custom rom (Moar)

ricanjoe said:
about to install moar rom. I saw a video saying you should wipe dalvic cache and do several other things before.
Is there anything you reccomend I do before I flash this custom rom (Moar)
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Just a factory reset. It should automatically wipe the cache and other areas that need wiped. I've ran moar before it's am awesome rom

billard412 said:
Just a factory reset. It should automatically wipe the cache and other areas that need wiped. I've ran moar before it's am awesome rom
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Awesome im working on it now, also do you backup efs? Or is that just for the paranoid crowd?
(I will give you a shout out on my next vid

ricanjoe said:
Awesome im working on it now, also do you backup efs? Or is that just for the paranoid crowd?
(I will give you a shout out on my next vid
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Personally I think the chances of your efs going bad are slim and a backup is more for paranoid people. With that said it never hurts to back it up. I just wouldn't restore it unless you have to.

t mobile galaxy s4 totaly bricked

I tied to flash the pac-man 4.2.2 ROM to my rooted s4. It worked but all the Google apps did not come with it... so I downloaded an app package off of GooManeger. Anyway after reboot it was obvious the app package was not compatible. Wiped phone, then no ROM, no OS, no nothing. Device doesn't get past initial boot screen. I can get into download and recovery mode. Not really sure how to download anything on my phone right now as my computer doesn't recognize it anymore. My recovery mode is TeamWin. I'm sure there's more you want to know so please ask and I appreciate your help.

re: fix phone
Christo_New said:
I tied to flash the pac-man 4.2.2 ROM to my rooted s4. It worked but all the Google apps did not come with it... so I downloaded an app package off of GooManeger. Anyway after reboot it was obvious the app package was not compatible. Wiped phone, then no ROM, no OS, no nothing. Not really sure how to download anything on my phone right now as my computer doesn't recognize it. My recovery mode is TeamWin. I'm sure there's more you want to know so please ask and I appreciate your help.
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You need to start from scratch using ODIN and flash the stock/non rooted Tmobile Samsung Galaxy S4 M919 firmware.
(using download mode in the phone)
Here is the download link: http://www.hotfile.com/dl/213469534/9ff06bd/M919UVUAMDL_M919TMBAMDL_TMB.zip.html
After the odin flash you will need to root the phone unless you want to keep it stock.
Good luck!

Christo_New said:
I tied to flash the pac-man 4.2.2 ROM to my rooted s4. It worked but all the Google apps did not come with it... so I downloaded an app package off of GooManeger. Anyway after reboot it was obvious the app package was not compatible. Wiped phone, then no ROM, no OS, no nothing. Device doesn't get past initial boot screen. I can get into download and recovery mode. Not really sure how to download anything on my phone right now as my computer doesn't recognize it anymore. My recovery mode is TeamWin. I'm sure there's more you want to know so please ask and I appreciate your help.
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You may have wiped the /system folder which may explain why your phone is stuck on the booting sequence. As the poster said above, use Odin to flash the stock MDL and root again. As far as your computer not recognizing it. Put the phone into download mode (Vol Down + Home + Power), plug the phone into a different USB port (and let the drivers install if it's the first time you're plugging your phone in that port for Windows users), and then open up Odin and flash the stock firmware from there. Let us know if Odin recognizes your phone.

If you can still get into download mode and recovery, you are NOT totally bricked.
☞Sent from here☜

baseballfanz said:
If you can still get into download mode and recovery, you are NOT totally bricked.
☞Sent from here☜
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True. .. not bricked if you can get to recovery.

Thank you
I used a different site to download tar but your direction worked like a charm. thank you.

Christo_New said:
I used a different site to download tar but your direction worked like a charm. thank you.
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Glad everything worked out for you.

Recovery is not working
Got phone back to normal, then accomplished root access. Downloaded clock work and now recovery mode does not work. I downloaded CW from hot file. I was sure to download the right one for my phone... anyway I cant factory reset at the moment, it just sticks at recovery boot screen. What I'm trying to accomplish is download CW, pacman 4.3 ROM, and Gapps.

Christo_New said:
Got phone back to normal, then accomplished root access. Downloaded clock work and now recovery mode does not work. I downloaded CW from hot file. I was sure to download the right one for my phone... anyway I cant factory reset at the moment, it just sticks at recovery boot screen. What I'm trying to accomplish is download CW, pacman 4.3 ROM, and Gapps.
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You gotta be careful where you're getting your files from man.
Try Philz CWM flash via Odin
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2322676
You could also Odin back to stock (you know how to do that now:good
Root again and use ROM Manager to install CWM.

Christo_New said:
I downloaded CW from hot file.
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Start using and MD5 hash checker to make sure your downloads are not corrupted. :silly:
Odin back to stock and re-root. IIRC, CWM should be available from the Play store where you can then open the app and install/update the libraries. Didn't Pacman ROM include CWM?

Thank you guys for the advice. Super usefull
I was under the impression I needed to download a download a recovery mod first. Where is the best place to get my ROMs? I'm real interested in the pacman. I extracted the pacman files but it wont plug into the PDA in Odin. Also MD5 hash checker is something I've never heard of..

Christo_New said:
I was under the impression I needed to download a download a recovery mod first. Where is the best place to get my ROMs? I'm real interested in the pacman. I extracted the pacman files but it wont plug into the PDA in Odin. Also MD5 hash checker is something I've never heard of..
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What? You don't install Pacrom through Odin. You flash the zip in recovery.
Sent from your phone. You should be careful where you leave that thing.

xdapowerapps said:
Start using and MD5 hash checker to make sure your downloads are not corrupted. :silly:
Odin back to stock and re-root. IIRC, CWM should be available from the Play store where you can then open the app and install/update the libraries. Didn't Pacman ROM include CWM?
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The app in the Play Store is call ROM Manager, you can use it to install CWM recovery.
Christo_New said:
I was under the impression I needed to download a download a recovery mod first. Where is the best place to get my ROMs? I'm real interested in the pacman. I extracted the pacman files but it wont plug into the PDA in Odin. Also MD5 hash checker is something I've never heard of..
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You need to have a working custom recovery first. Like Skipjacks stated, you flash ROM in the custom recovery.
I think you should start from the beginning and take it step by step.
I assumed at this point you're rooted on the stock ROM with stock recovery?
If not lets get to that stage and we can go from there.
-Stock ROM rooted with stock recovery
-Flash custom recovery
-Nandroid backup
-Flash custom ROM<<You are here
Let us know when you're ready for the next step.:good:

baseballfanz said:
The app in the Play Store is call ROM Manager, you can use it to install CWM recovery.
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Derp moment. CWM != ROM Mgr. :silly: Thanks for the clarification.

I did it all with exception of flashing the ROM. Every time I try to flash the pacman 4.3 it fails. Any suggestions on how to fix that or should I turn my attention so a different ROM. I'm going for optimization and complete customization, without needing a launcher. Or maybe a suggested ave to customize touch wiz to the fullest.

Christo_New said:
I did it all with exception of flashing the ROM. Every time I try to flash the pacman 4.3 it fails. Any suggestions on how to fix that or should I turn my attention so a different ROM. I'm going for optimization and complete customization, without needing a launcher. Or maybe a suggested ave to customize touch wiz to the fullest.
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That's good.:good:
What is the message or why is it "failing"?

It starts the download then at the end it says:
E: Error in /data/media/0/download/pac_jfltexx_4.3.Build-1_20130910-225309.zip
(status 7)
Installation aborted

Christo_New said:
It starts the download then at the end it says:
E: Error in /data/media/0/download/pac_jfltexx_4.3.Build-1_20130910-225309.zip
(status 7)
Installation aborted
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You're using CWM? Try Phil's cam ore twrp

Same story :crying:

Christo_New said:
Same story :crying:
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Try this
http://highonandroid.com/android-roms/how-to-fix-status-7-error-with-cwm-recovery-on-rooted-android/

[Solved] AOKP unrooted my GSIII?

Android: 4.3.1
AOKP: Build 10/23/2013. D2ATT
I rooted my AT&T GSIII with Causual on a Mac, and it rooted great. I bought Odin Mobile for the device, downloaded the latest version or AOKP for the AT&T Galaxy S III, and flashed the ROM. Upon booting, the screen was stuck at "Sawgger Activated", so I reset and cleared the cache via recovery mode. It worked, and the device bolted up and I could do everything, but when I try to go into any app that requires "root access" a screen pops up that says the device is not rooted. When I open Superuser, it says binaries are not installed, and it cannot download them.
Broke rule #1 of rooting and ROMing, and didn't make a backup, which I am regretting right now.
How do I get root access get back, or revert to stock?
I've rooted and romed before, put my phone on CyanogenMOD, but had to take it in to at&t, so I had to restore to stock.
Thanks in advance for the help
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For those interested in the solution that I somehow didn't see before (I was also sure if I fixed the SU binary, it would fix it)
Rerooting it in Casual on Mac didn't work, I had to go over to my friends and use his Windows computer. I downloaded Causal, loaded Casual into Odin, put my phone into download mode, and it rooted successfully. I was able to use AOPK as it was intended.
I then restored to factory, installed goomanager, installed twrp, backed up my ROM, flashed PAC-Man milestone and gapps 4.3 (10/7/2013), but TWRP gave me an error when it tried to flash the PAC-Man milestone (yes the milestone was for the AT&T GSIII). I then downloaded the latest PAC-Man nightly (10/29/2013) and flashed that and gapps through TWRP. It worked, but some things kept force qutting, including the UI. I factory reset, booted up, and now I have PAC-Man working on my GSIII, fully rooted.

utahman130 said:
Android: 4.3.1
AOKP: Build 10/23/2013. D2ATT
I rooted my AT&T GSIII with Causual on a Mac, and it rooted great. I bought Odin Mobile for the device, downloaded the latest version or AOKP for the AT&T Galaxy S III, and flashed the ROM. Upon booting, the screen was stuck at "Sawgger Activated", so I reset and cleared the cache via recovery mode. It worked, and the device bolted up and I could do everything, but when I try to go into any app that requires "root access" a screen pops up that says the device is not rooted. When I open Superuser, it says binaries are not installed, and it cannot download them.
Broke rule #1 of rooting and ROMing, and didn't make a backup, which I am regretting right now.
How do I get root access get back, or revert to stock?
I've rooted and romed before, put my phone on CyanogenMOD, but had to take it in to at&t, so I had to restore to stock.
Thanks in advance for the help
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That sucks. Has happened to me but I could boot into recovery. Did you try downloading Supersu from the Play store? That might install the binaries you need.
You wiped cache using recovery mode? You mean the stock recovery or do you have CMW/TWRP installed?

scottdanpor said:
That sucks. Has happened to me but I could boot into recovery. Did you try downloading Supersu from the Play store? That might install the binaries you need.
You wiped cache using recovery mode? You mean the stock recovery or do you have CMW/TWRP installed?
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I can't install the play store. I can't flash any zips because it says I'm not rooted. I wiped cache using stock, can't install cmw/twrp

Can you use odin to get a custom recovery first, then flash supersu?
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Sorry to say, but this seems a bit bleak. It seems like your best choice would be to Odin back to stock and if you're up to it, re-root and try again.

[Q] Problems with ROM flashings (i9195)

Hello everybody,
I have a quite stressful situation with my s4 mini right now and I need your expertise.
It goes like this:
I was perfectly happy with my stock rom but for some reason I got this crazy idea of rooting and installing a custom rom.
So I followed the steps on this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2364980
After CWM was installed and before the phone was rooted, I made a complete backup via CWM (Backup1) and then installed the rootkit (as mentioned on the above post). After successfully rooting it I made another backup (Backup2), you know, just in case
Then I followed the instructions on the CyanogenMod wiki (http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_serranoltexx#Installing_CyanogenMod_from_recovery) and installed it on my phone. It worked perfectly and I had CyanogenMod installed. But after playing around with it a bit, I realized that I didn't like it that much for various reasons. So I decided to go back to my original ROM. So I restarted in recovery mode and restored Backup2. Well this is where the problems start
The phone would start but once it boot up everything kept crushing. I kept getting messages every 10 seconds that gapps is not responding and nova launcher is not responding and the play store is not responding, etc. And in general you couldn't use it. So I tried once again restarting in recovery mode and restored Backup1. But again the same thing. Everything kept crushing.
What I want now is to have my original stock rom rooted. Problem is, I don't know where to find it. All I found was this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2375527&highlight=9195 but the download links don't work. Plus I don't know what my firmware's code is (eg I9195XXUAMF5)
Can anyone help?
PS. I live in Denmark and I bought here. Also the phone is the i9195 model with 8gb.

s4 mini
Go to CWM and wipe it or try to fix permissions

Factory reset from recovery should fix the force close.
Sammobile.com for firmwares
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mnezo said:
Factory reset from recovery should fix the force close.
Sammobile.com for firmwares
Sent from my GT-I9195 using xda app-developers app
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Thanks! That helped a lot.
So now I downloaded and successfully flashed what Sammobile.com suggests is my stock firmware.
I followed again the procedure to root my phone (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2364980) but although superSU is installed, I don't think I have root access.
What happens is that first of all superSU says that it needs to update the binary but it when I click "continue" it fails to install. Then I get a security warning that superSU is trying to access protected files and that it was blocked. SuperSU asked me if I want to disable KNOX. I said yes so I don't get those messages anymore. But still superSU can't update.
The other thing is that the apps don't actually have root privilages. For example, when I try to enable root on ES File Explorer, I get the prompt to grant root access, and I select grant. But I still can't open specific folders in the file system. For example the /data folder is shown completely empty.
Also other apps don't behave like rooted.
Any thoughts??

flash GT-I9195_Kernel_v1.zip or Vikinger

mnezo said:
flash GT-I9195_Kernel_v1.zip or Vikinger
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Thanks!
That worked
I hope that kernel doesn't have any bugs

[ROM] MOAR MM Rom v4.1 - Toasted Edition - 07/22/2016

Not my work but it works now.
How to
Reboot in recovery
Wipe device
Flash Rom and kernel:
Download for rom:
Flash this after:
Reboot
Recommend using twrp 3.0.0.1

what about the hardware keys? do they work with moar rom and this kernel or do we need virtual hardware keys?

FingerBlastJ said:
what about the hardware keys? do they work with moar rom and this kernel or do we need virtual hardware keys?
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Kernel fixes hardware issues

and if I'm on note 5 moar rom with patch.... no issue flashing right?

Sky-high made us a kernel? Sweet sadistic smiles, success! So happy. Anyone know if it'll work like the LP patch did for note roms, or does more need to happen first? Or do people just need to start trying and report back?
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Clicked the link and saw it was a note 5 Rom. What can I say, I was excited!

Blzfrost said:
Sky-high made us a kernel? Sweet sadistic smiles, success! So happy. Anyone know if it'll work like the LP patch did for note roms, or does more need to happen first? Or do people just need to start trying and report back?
-edit-
Clicked the link and saw it was a note 5 Rom. What can I say, I was excited!
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Just flash Rom and kernel everything will work.

MonkeyAround said:
Just flash Rom and kernel everything will work.
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Oh I'm setting everything up right now for the flash! I'm so excited. Once I realized you linked to a note 5 Rom most of my questions got answered. My favorite part, the kernel was posted on my bday.

i tried wiping and clearing cache then flashing the rom and the kernel. nothing actually happens to my phone. i end up on the same home screen and apps i had installed on moar 5.1.1 with note 5 patch.
any ideas why wiping my phone doesnt work on twrp 3.0.0.0?

FingerBlastJ said:
i tried wiping and clearing cache then flashing the rom and the kernel. nothing actually happens to my phone. i end up on the same home screen and apps i had installed on moar 5.1.1 with note 5 patch.
any ideas why wiping my phone doesnt work on twrp 3.0.0.0?
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Update your TWRP.
https://dl.twrp.me/zenltespr/

yea I tried doing that with Odin and it would freeze mid way. I also tried flashing a twrp update zip file on twrp and that didn't work either.
you think I should flash with flash fire?

bricked my phone by trying to flash newer version of twrp with twrp manager
been trying to flash unbrick tar and pit file to get back up and running but its not working.
any help is much appreciated

fixed the brick by flashing new recovery in Odin, now on 3.0.2. still can't get the phone to wipe out install new rom and kernel

FingerBlastJ said:
fixed the brick by flashing new recovery in Odin, now on 3.0.2. still can't get the phone to wipe out install new rom and kernel
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Have you checked for root with root checker? I have lost root access a few times in the past?

yea I just checked with root checker and I have root access.
I've never had this happen to me... weird
anything else you can think of?

FingerBlastJ said:
yea I just checked with root checker and I have root access.
I've never had this happen to me... weird
anything else you can think of?
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Last thing I can think of is when opening TWRP the first time. It asks if you want to make the system 'read only'. Did you select No?

I never got that message when I flashed twrp 3.0.2 to unblock... how do I make it show up?

FingerBlastJ said:
I never got that message when I flashed twrp 3.0.2 to unblock... how do I make it show up?
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Not sure. You can click mount and see what is mounted. I am not sure that will work. I am not sure exactly what you are trying to wipe, but mount the items you are attempting to wipe and make sure the read-only is unchecked.

Try this:
Check to see if oem is checked
Re-root via root tar/odin
twrp 3.0.0.1 from edge files post in general
Backup stock
Wipe
Flash Moar
Don't reboot
Flash skyhigh kernel
Flash xposed(don't have to)
Reboot
Allow it to boot loop a couple time (from sky kernel)
Give 5-10 minutes to boot
I just did it with no issues and I've personally had more luck with 3.0.0.1 than any of the others.

heres my issue...twrp doesnt do anything for me (all versions) whether i wipe or install
so i used flashfire to flash the rom and the kernel at once and it finally displayed aroma installer (wouldnt get that in twrp)
however, after it in stalled i got stuck on boot screen
the only fix for this was flashing unbrick aok3 tar file which brought me to stock
i put on twrp as a recovery again starting fresh unrooted and it still doesnt respond to any of my commands
i think i will try flash fire on stock one more time and see what happens since its the only thing that is responding

FingerBlastJ said:
heres my issue...twrp doesnt do anything for me (all versions) whether i wipe or install
so i used flashfire to flash the rom and the kernel at once and it finally displayed aroma installer (wouldnt get that in twrp)
however, after it in stalled i got stuck on boot screen
the only fix for this was flashing unbrick aok3 tar file which brought me to stock
i put on twrp as a recovery again starting fresh unrooted and it still doesnt respond to any of my commands
i think i will try flash fire on stock one more time and see what happens since its the only thing that is responding
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Your on Lp bootloader that's your issue.
Download Marshmallow tar from the general post I made for rooting Bpg1.
Flash tar and follow post.
twrp. 3.0.x.x is more for marshmallow. You need to be on 6.0.1 not 5.1.1.
Don't use fireflash on this device.
Fireflash is more for phones with locked bootloaders like Verizon s4 on the of1 update.
Fireflash isn't really up to date with our phone and could easily brick your device.