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Help getting latest OTA:

I rooted my friend's Note-2 using ODIN awhile back, then installed TWRP recovery. He's been getting the message to update, it will go through the entire process, but when booting to recovery, it obviously goes to TWRP. After rebooting from that, he gets the message that the update didn't install. I've tried flashing an update.zip from a fellow member and it fails. So, what's the best way to get his to update? If I need to remove TWRP, how do I do that? If I need to unroot, how do I do that to and have stock recovery? All help is appreciated.

ycats said:
I rooted my friend's Note-2 using ODIN awhile back, then installed TWRP recovery. He's been getting the message to update, it will go through the entire process, but when booting to recovery, it obviously goes to TWRP. After rebooting from that, he gets the message that the update didn't install. I've tried flashing an update.zip from a fellow member and it fails. So, what's the best way to get his to update? If I need to remove TWRP, how do I do that? If I need to unroot, how do I do that to and have stock recovery? All help is appreciated.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36179045
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[Q] Not able to Boot any more

Good afternoon everyone, I was at work today and I went to reset my phone and when it was booting everything looked normal and then my phone went straight to TWRP. I tried rebooting and it kept on going to TWRP. I tried to flash my backup and that didn't resove the issue either. When I power on the phone I get "Secure boot error" in the upper left corner. I have been using this phone with out any issues for the past month and now all of a sudden I can't do anything. I need some guidance on what I can do to get this phone just back to working order. thank you in advance.

You'll have to flash stock
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2302660

Have you been ignoring the OTA update? Funny how after a certain number of times it will just run.
From where you are, flashing back to stock is your only option. Then grab the OTA update, install tarp & root.
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MrDSL said:
You'll have to flash stock
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2302660
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This is what I ended up doing it sucks but at least I have the OTA update.

[Q] Failed OTA update to 4.4

I got the notification last night for the update to 4.4 and proceeded with the install, it rebooted in TWRP recovery started installing and then after 5 minutes or so it dropped back to the TWRP menu.
I tried a reboot but whatever I try and do it always boots into recovery which I take to mean the upgrade failed and something is wrong with the boot loader.
I've tried to sideload the full firmware but it just sits there saying waiting for ADB mode and does nothing.
How can I go about rescuing my N7?
Thanks for any help.
Jon

jonchill said:
I got the notification last night for the update to 4.4 and proceeded with the install, it rebooted in TWRP recovery started installing and then after 5 minutes or so it dropped back to the TWRP menu.
I tried a reboot but whatever I try and do it always boots into recovery which I take to mean the upgrade failed and something is wrong with the boot loader.
I've tried to sideload the full firmware but it just sits there saying waiting for ADB mode and does nothing.
How can I go about rescuing my N7?
Thanks for any help.
Jon
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I dont know the fix actually. but its not safe to do an OTA update when you're not in stock(recovery)!

I had the same problem. Apparently TWRP isn't working with 4.4.
It seems to be a rule never to OTA if you're not on full stock.
Anyway, here's a solution to get you back to a working 4.3 without loosing data. I just followed the steps and they work fine:
Flashing stock factory image
Afterwards use one of the guides to manually upgrade to 4.4

bur2000 said:
I had the same problem. Apparently TWRP isn't working with 4.4.
It seems to be a rule never to OTA if you're not on full stock.
Anyway, here's a solution to get you back to a working 4.3 without loosing data. I just followed the steps and they work fine:
Flashing stock factory image
Afterwards use one of the guides to manually upgrade to 4.4
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Thanks for this worked a treat, never to be repeated.

soft bricked my phone

Merry Christmas everyone. I tried to resolve this issue my self but was unable to. I had stock 4.3 rooted and flashed MOAR. MD5 matched. Everything seemed ok but when I flashed, it was stuck on "updating apps" for over 20 min. I did a battery pull. My phone started and I was able to go to TWRP recovery. I did a cache wipe and factory reset with plans of reflashing but everything was gone, including my nandroid. I tried to flash stock firmware from http://samsung-updates.com/ it said "failed". I cannot get back into TWRP. Is there any way I can restore to 4.1.2? Or 4.3? I just want to get the phone working again. Ideally I would like to get root back but my main priority is obviously just to get the phone working. Thank you.

jeppuda said:
Merry Christmas everyone. I tried to resolve this issue my self but was unable to. I had stock 4.3 rooted and flashed MOAR. MD5 matched. Everything seemed ok but when I flashed, it was stuck on "updating apps" for over 20 min. I did a battery pull. My phone started and I was able to go to TWRP recovery. I did a cache wipe and factory reset with plans of reflashing but everything was gone, including my nandroid. I tried to flash stock firmwa.
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I had a similar bad expreience with updating my rooted S3,
to recover your phone try to get md5 recovery room and install it using odin, try to get the one that called recovery (runs stock 4.0.4) then you can update by Kies to 4.3.

If stock means the Samsung update you need to flash the 4.3 firmware. If stock means the de-Knoxed version from here, I would start by flashing a new recovery image then reinstalling the de-Knoxed one.
Can you not get into any recovery at all?

mjkubba said:
I had a similar bad expreience with updating my rooted S3,
to recover your phone try to get md5 recovery room and install it using odin, try to get the one that called recovery (runs stock 4.0.4) then you can update by Kies to 4.3.
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MD5 recovery room (or rom I googled both)? I could not find it. I'm sorry i have never done this before...could you post the link for it?

Kevets said:
If stock means the Samsung update you need to flash the 4.3 firmware. If stock means the de-Knoxed version from here, I would start by flashing a new recovery image then reinstalling the de-Knoxed one.
Can you not get into any recovery at all?
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When I press the volume up, home and power button it says "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in kies and try again."
I installed the de-knoxed version..I would like to go back to the de-knoxed version if possible. Is there a way to flash new recovery image through ODIN...again, I'm not very confident in my abilities right now and don't want to flash anything to make it worse. Would it be possible to send me a link with what to flash. Thank you

Sorry I meant rom not room, but youv still can get it from the dev "room" forums. I got it from there.
sorry I cant post links here yet, i dont have the enough posts, but google "unroot sprint galaxy s3" it's one of he first links and once you get the md5 file you can use it with Odin, it's a simple process.

fixed it
Fixed it, got to keep root also. Flashed a new recovery image through ODIN (link for recovery in case anyone else needs it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38079994). Then flashed ROM. Thanks for your help guys.

Dead droid with red triangle

Hi:
My S4 (SGH-M919) started to give me an "Unable to detect you SIM Card. Your Device will restart to checkfor your SIM card" error unexpectedly. This became really annoying when I was getting the error 10 times a day. The phone was rooted but running stock ROM / kernel.
I stopped by a T-Mobile store to see if I could get a new SIM but they told me the first thing I would have to do is to install the latest software updates from Samsung / T-Mobile (I didn't tell them that my phone was rooted).
So back home I downloaded the latest (4.4.2 / M919UVUFNB4) and installed it using Odin. Then everything went downhill from there...
The phone would not connect to WiFi (would get a message "Checking the quality of your connection")
The screen would not turn off anymore
The soft keys would not light up
Etc...
So I went and rebooted in recovery (stock) and there I saw that I had the dreaded Dead Droid with the Red Triangle... oops!
So I did a factory reset / wipe on the phone rebooted to let the phone do it's things, logged into my gmail account... Everything seems to work fine, but when I reboot in recovery I still get the dead droid with the red triangle...
Any suggestions?
Thanks

4.4.4 nh7 is the latest firmware, you probably borked your root/custom recovery. You need to start over again, check your phone for root with app from play store and go from there.
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PanchoPlanet said:
4.4.4 nh7 is the latest firmware, you probably borked your root/custom recovery. You need to start over again, check your phone for root with app from play store and go from there.
Pp.
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Thanks for the answer. Couple of questions:
What's the best way to "start over"? (I did the intall of 4.4.4 using Odin, twice!, didn't root after the install, but the phone was rooted before and I ran Triagle Away before I did the update).
Where can I find 4.4.4 nh7? (when I run the "software update" from the settings menu on the phone it tells me that there are no updates available)
Thanks.

ledrocnoc said:
Thanks for the answer. Couple of questions:
What's the best way to "start over"? (I did the intall of 4.4.4 using Odin, twice!, didn't root after the install, but the phone was rooted before and I ran Triagle Away before I did the update).
Where can I find 4.4.4 nh7? (when I run the "software update" from the settings menu on the phone it tells me that there are no updates available)
Thanks.
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Stock firmware can be found here:
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
and here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-tmobile/general/firmwares-official-mdl-mk2-nb4-t2816508
This last link has instructions on the how.
You may need to ODIN the firmware once. Remove battery without shutting down - just pull it, and then flash again.
Rob

Rlichtefeld links are good and can get the job done, but since you had root and custom rom the only way the phone will run a software update and find it is if your stone stock (wipe with factory reset ) .
Your better off working with Odin on your PC.
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Thanks for all the help... Still not good, here is what I did.
The phone was rooted but running stock ROM.
Downloaded the NH7 firmware from sammobile
Uploaded the NH7 using Odin, pull the battery off, re-uploaded the NH7 firmware.
Rebooted the phone, let it do it's things. Phone boots correctly and everything looks fine.
Shutdown the phone and rebooted in Recovery mode
And in recovery I still see the dead droid with the Red Triangle!!!!!
Here is what I see on the screen
Anroid system recovery <3e>
KTU8P.M919UVUFNH7
Volume up/down to move higlights;
power button to select.
Followed by the standard recovery menu, then dead droid image and
# MANUAL MODE #
-- Appling Multi-CSC...
Appllied the CSC-Code : TMB
Succefully applied multi-CSC.
I am at a loss here...
Thanks for any help.

It sounds like your using the stock recovery, that may be broken. You should install a new custom recovery like CWM. There is an app in the play store that will install one as long as your rooted, Root Rashr - Flash Tool.
May need to install superuser if not installed.
Pp.

PanchoPlanet said:
It sounds like your using the stock recovery, that may be broken. You should install a new custom recovery like CWM. There is an app in the play store that will install one as long as your rooted, Root Rashr - Flash Tool.
May need to install superuser if not installed.
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Looks like this. I used this with no problems, it will give you choices on recoveries, CWM, Philz,and TWRP.
I'm using CWM.
Pp.

PanchoPlanet said:
Looks like this. I used this with no problems, it will give you choices on recoveries, CWM, Philz,and TWRP.
I'm using CWM.
Pp.
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Looks like it. I hope in the end that will cure the "Unable to detect your SIM card error".
Is there a way to flash the original recovery?
If not, I mgiht root the phone and install CMW. Is there a Odin installable version these days or do I need to do it via ADB or the original recovery? (I haven't done it a a while!).
Denis

Only way to get stock recovery is to go back to stock, if you use the app it will install a custom recovery if you have root. it's very easy to use vs odin. There is a video that shows you how to do it, look in you tube.
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That android image at stock recovery is normal

PanchoPlanet said:
Only way to get stock recovery is to go back to stock, if you use the app it will install a custom recovery if you have root. it's very easy to use vs odin. There is a video that shows you how to do it, look in you tube.
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I did go back to stock when I installed the latest stock ROM, which then, if I understand what you say, should have installed the stock recovery. In which case, my issue with the dead droid in the recovery screen should not be a screwed up recovery...
By "the app" you mean the CMW ROM Manager?
Thanks.

ledrocnoc said:
I did go back to stock when I installed the latest stock ROM, which then, if I understand what you say, should have installed the stock recovery. In which case, my issue with the dead droid in the recovery screen should not be a screwed up recovery...
By "the app" you mean the CMW ROM Manager?
Thanks.
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This https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.mkrtchyan.recoverytools
I was on stock /rooted NH7 two days ago, wanting to flash a transparent weather widget I located this app in the play store, installed it, ran it and had CWM recovery when finished, then proceeded to flash the zip file for the weather widget. PROFIT.
You don't want to mess with rom manager.
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