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Hello,
Last night I rooted my device using this (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1265429) method and file from zedomax and everything worked great except when I booted my device there was a yellow triangle with a black “!” in it. I figured that just indicated the device was rooted or running a 3rd party kernel so I didn’t worry about it.
Today I launched my camera app and it failed to load the interface but showed the image from the camera momentary then crashed back to the home screen. I restarted my device and when the device restarted it was very slow and unresponsive and after unlocking it my live wallpaper was gone replaced with the last background I used before selecting a live background a couple weeks back. No icons or widgets loaded and I am unable to open the settings tray. The only things I am able to do with the phone is pull down the notification bar, respond to text messages, adjust the volume and hold power to restart the phone. All of which are very slow and delayed.
When I connect the device to my computer windows is no longer able to load the drivers and Kies is unable to connect with the device. I am not sure what caused this or how to resolve this issue so any advice or known fixes would be fantastic! I am unable to get to clockwork mod to restore my backup and I am unable to get to Kies or the phone settings to do a factory reset so I really don’t know what to do they were supposed to be a last resort and now I don’t even think I can do them. I am an experienced techie but I am new to android and this is the first device I have rooted so any advice would be great no matter how basic it may be.
UPDATE: I just connected the phone via USB to my laptop at work and it was able to discover and install everything it needed to connect with the phone. I am installing Kies now so at least there is hope of a factory restore, although I really hope it doesn't come to that!
Boot into download mode and flash the stock eg30 tar file from crawrj.
Sent From My Evo Killer!!!
Thanks Already started doing that waiting for it to download now
Still no touchwiz... great!
Try flashing a stock rom via clockworkmod.
efarley said:
Still no touchwiz... great!
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You can root again and restore your backup, or go to this website www.lostandtired.com (midnight roms blog) click on android development and download and flash the sprint bloat and TW restore zip. Hope that helps.
I flashed the stock rom which didn't change anything so then I used clockworkMod to do a factory reset which ended up trapping me into a boot loop. I could use Odin to flash new roms but the device would never go past the 4G logo
I ended up taking the device back to Best Buy and since the loading screen showed the stock rom and they couldn't get past the 4G logo I just had to say it wasn't rooted and they gave me a new one.
I would love to know if anyone has any idea of what went wrong here so that I can feel comfortable rooting again. Also if anyone has some basic articles handy that teach basics of rooting that would be great, I didn't even know about clockwork mod until after I had this problem so knowing things like that earlier would have helped a lot I think. I'll be spending the weekend looking up everything I can find on the subject so any reading you guys can suggest would be fantastic.
efarley said:
I flashed the stock rom which didn't change anything so then I used clockworkMod to do a factory reset which ended up trapping me into a boot loop. I could use Odin to flash new roms but the device would never go past the 4G logo
I ended up taking the device back to Best Buy and since the loading screen showed the stock rom and they couldn't get past the 4G logo I just had to say it wasn't rooted and they gave me a new one.
I would love to know if anyone has any idea of what went wrong here so that I can feel comfortable rooting again. Also if anyone has some basic articles handy that teach basics of rooting that would be great, I didn't even know about clockwork mod until after I had this problem so knowing things like that earlier would have helped a lot I think. I'll be spending the weekend looking up everything I can find on the subject so any reading you guys can suggest would be fantastic.
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If you a clockwork and "stock rom" you were still rooted...Doing a factory reset will send you into bootloop when rooted. Trying to flash other roms on a bootloop is not going to work. You need to have grabbed a backup such as Zedo has on his post and put the backup in clockwork folder on your phone. Then flash that in CWM. Would of brought you out of bootloop to a stock rom with his kernal. Now you can flash Roms and kernals or could of flashed crawf or anyone else FULL stock rom and been back to stock kernel and rom and not rooted.
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If you a clockwork and "stock rom" you were still rooted...Doing a factory reset will send you into bootloop when rooted. Trying to flash other roms on a bootloop is not going to work. You need to have grabbed a backup such as Zedo has on his post and put the backup in clockwork folder on your phone. Then flash that in CWM. Would of brought you out of bootloop to a stock rom with his kernal. Now you can flash Roms and kernals or could of flashed crawf or anyone else FULL stock rom and been back to stock kernel and rom and not rooted.
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Ohhhh that's what happened! Awesome thanks. I will be much better prepared with backups out the wazoo this time haha.
Now if only I could figure out why Touchwiz died in the first place hmmm....
I hope you can figure it out, just postin here to say that when I saw this thread, it reminded me of the thread over in the EVO forums about the guy who claimed that sprint removed his Sense from his phone.
Khilbron said:
I hope you can figure it out, just postin here to say that when I saw this thread, it reminded me of the thread over in the EVO forums about the guy who claimed that sprint removed his Sense from his phone.
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haha SPRINT removed it?! So that person thinks sprint monitors every device and has a team of techies on staff to hack your phone and brick it if you break their rules?... yeah that totally makes more sense than a file got corrupted when you were messing with the kernel.. some people maybe shouldn't be rooting their devices in the first place haha
Ok, I'm about to pull my hair out trying to fix this. About a month ago I flashed Scott's CleanROM ATT SE 1.5. Before that I was rooted, but on stock rom. I really just wanted to get all the ridiculous bloatware off my Note 2. Anyway, the flash worked fine, but afterwards my call signal descreased dramatically. It's not always terrible in certain places in my city, but I miss a lot of calls, sometimes at home it shows the circle with a line through it, showing no service at all. Many times, I will have 2 or 3 bars, but when I go to make the call I lose service altogther.
I reflashed the rom, flashed another rom and now am running stock rooted I317UCALK7. Nothing has changed with my call reception.
It wasn't like this before I flashed CleanRom. In doing my research I've found a few people with similar problems, but no real solution. I know that flashing a modem is worth a try, but I've not found any information that can point me to the right modem for my area. I think I'm using the same modem that came stock on my phone and worked in the beginning.
Any thoughts or experience with this?
I have same issue in the last two days my signal has been dropping its really annoying
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KinAndTonic said:
Ok, I'm about to pull my hair out trying to fix this. About a month ago I flashed Scott's CleanROM ATT SE 1.5. Before that I was rooted, but on stock rom. I really just wanted to get all the ridiculous bloatware off my Note 2. Anyway, the flash worked fine, but afterwards my call signal descreased dramatically. It's not always terrible in certain places in my city, but I miss a lot of calls, sometimes at home it shows the circle with a line through it, showing no service at all. Many times, I will have 2 or 3 bars, but when I go to make the call I lose service altogther.
I reflashed the rom, flashed another rom and now am running stock rooted I317UCALK7. Nothing has changed with my call reception.
It wasn't like this before I flashed CleanRom. In doing my research I've found a few people with similar problems, but no real solution. I know that flashing a modem is worth a try, but I've not found any information that can point me to the right modem for my area. I think I'm using the same modem that came stock on my phone and worked in the beginning.
Any thoughts or experience with this?
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Honestly... if your objective was to get all the ATT bloatware off your Note 2, you should flash CleanROM ACE 4.6.1 This one is built off the N7105XXDMB3 International base (not the ATT base which SE 1.5 is built from). I'm on ATT network and have been running the International CleanROM since December... absolutely love it.. great performance... never an issue. During install on 4.6.1, just select ATT as your carrier and select the ATT signal icons (if those are the ones you wish to utilize). Also during install, you can select (via Aroma installer) which Google and Samsung apps you want/ don't want to install. As far as the radio, you can flash modem separately (since it writes to it's own partition) and see which one works best for you. I am currently running the UCAMA4 ATT modem on the N7105XXDMB3 rom. Here's a link I posted regarding this modem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38056319&postcount=10
Again, if you objective is to minimize the ATT bloat, go with CleanROM ACE 4.6.1.... select ATT as your carrier... and try either the more recent MA4 ATT modem or the previous LK7 modem for signal reception. Hope this helps.
KinAndTonic said:
Ok, I'm about to pull my hair out trying to fix this. About a month ago I flashed Scott's CleanROM ATT SE 1.5. Before that I was rooted, but on stock rom. I really just wanted to get all the ridiculous bloatware off my Note 2. Anyway, the flash worked fine, but afterwards my call signal descreased dramatically. It's not always terrible in certain places in my city, but I miss a lot of calls, sometimes at home it shows the circle with a line through it, showing no service at all. Many times, I will have 2 or 3 bars, but when I go to make the call I lose service altogther.
I reflashed the rom, flashed another rom and now am running stock rooted I317UCALK7. Nothing has changed with my call reception.
It wasn't like this before I flashed CleanRom. In doing my research I've found a few people with similar problems, but no real solution. I know that flashing a modem is worth a try, but I've not found any information that can point me to the right modem for my area. I think I'm using the same modem that came stock on my phone and worked in the beginning.
Any thoughts or experience with this?
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ok so now your running stock rooted, if you want to debloat search for mr robinson's debloater, its aroma installer as well as DoctorQMM has mentioned. if you are looking for modems, you have 3 options available lj2, lk7 and latest ma4. you said your phone is running lk7? if you have a custom recovery what im going to ask you will not matter. have you checked for system updates or tried flashing stock rooted deodexed ma4? i would try lj2 modem and see if my signal cleans up, since you mentioned it was fine before SE 1.5.
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ok so now your running stock rooted, if you want to debloat search for mr robinson's debloater, its aroma installer as well as DoctorQMM has mentioned. if you are looking for modems, you have 3 options available lj2, lk7 and latest ma4. you said your phone is running lk7? if you have a custom recovery what im going to ask you will not matter. have you checked for system updates or tried flashing stock rooted deodexed ma4? i would try lj2 modem and see if my signal cleans up, since you mentioned it was fine before SE 1.5.
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Well, I have flashed all three modems without any change. Seems very strange. Don't really know what to do.
I would Odin flash back to 100% stock...use triangle away from the market to your phone. .and not allow it to update via the ota update that will be pushed to your phone when you do.
See if this corrects the issue. If it doesn't. .take your phone in for service.
If it does fix it...re-root...download twrp...make a nand backup of your stock/rooted phone and save it to your external sd card.
Then you can go about de-bloating your phone.
Personally. ..I think you have had a bad download of cleanrom to start..and possibly a bad sim card afterwards.
It happens from time to time. .but by flashing back to stock. .resetting your counter to normal. .you can at least return your phone if necessary.
Mac
Mac11700 said:
I would Odin flash back to 100% stock...use triangle away from the market to your phone. .and not allow it to update via the ota update that will be pushed to your phone when you do.
See if this corrects the issue. If it doesn't. .take your phone in for service.
If it does fix it...re-root...download twrp...make a nand backup of your stock/rooted phone and save it to your external sd card.
Then you can go about de-bloating your phone.
Personally. ..I think you have had a bad download of cleanrom to start..and possibly a bad sim card afterwards.
It happens from time to time. .but by flashing back to stock. .resetting your counter to normal. .you can at least return your phone if necessary.
Mac
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Thanks Mac, that's kind of what I was thinking. As I search these forums and the internet, it's difficult to pin down a source for my original stock rom. I was a newb at the beginning of this, so no, I did not make a backup of my original rom. If it wouldn't take too much time, would anyone be able to point me to a stock rom for my particular phone?
Follow the instructions posted here. .. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1992303l]
You can follow the links in there to understand what you are doing. ..
Good luck
Mac
Mac11700 said:
Follow the instructions posted here. .. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1992303l]
You can follow the links in there to understand what you are doing. ..
Good luck
Mac
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Ugh. Ok, so I got as far as using Odin, passing, but then got stuck on boot at the Samsung logo. Everything I read said to reboot into stock recovery, but I can't seem to do that. When I'm stuck, the only way I know of turning off the phone is to take the battery out. I put it back in and quickly press volume-up, home, and power. But it simply boots back to the Samsung logo and stays there with the logo pulsing.
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Ugh. Ok, so I got as far as using Odin, passing, but then got stuck on boot at the Samsung logo. Everything I read said to reboot into stock recovery, but I can't seem to do that. When I'm stuck, the only way I know of turning off the phone is to take the battery out. I put it back in and quickly press volume-up, home, and power. But it simply boots back to the Samsung logo and stays there with the logo pulsing.
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Ok, little update. I can get into Download mode, and it does same I running Samsung Official. But not able to get into recovery seemingly.
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Ok, little update. I can get into Download mode, and it does same I running Samsung Official. But not able to get into recovery seemingly.
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Sorry for so many posts. lol BUT, I was able to use download mode to get into recovery and now I am back on stock official. About to use triangle away, then take to At&t
Glad you got it. .remember to delete any apps like busybox and superuser before returning it to the store. ..
Mac
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Glad you got it. .remember to delete any apps like busybox and superuser before returning it to the store. ..
Mac
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Alright, I know I am on the home stretch, just one more hurdle. So, I have been working on getting the damn custom binary counter reset since last night. Right now the downloading screen lists, "Custom Binary Download: Yes (1 counts) Current Binary: Samsung Official System Status: Official"
I ran Triangle Away before I unrooted, multiple times in fact, I just can't ever get the counter to go to 0. I read somewhere, that if I am simply taking the phone into AT&T and not sending to to Samsung, then they don't actually check the binary counter. Anyway, I'm just really tired of dealing with this.
Factory reset
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Factory reset
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I did a factory reset each time. I just did another one. I'm still at 1 binary count. I am unrooted right now, so I guess I need to reroot and try again?
Pull your external sd card and leave it out. ...delete super user..busy box..your custom recovery... factory reset..let phone settle then power off..
Boot it back up.. and go through the first time set up..Don't Update It... see what it says then.
Then check your signal and data.See if the issue is resolved. You might not have to take it back. ..but I would just for peace of mind.
Mac
I did it! lol
Used this (http://rootgalaxys3iii.com/how-to-reset-rooted-galaxy-note-2-flash-counter/) to finally get Triangle Away to work on my phone and then did factory reset.
They gave me a new phone and it's working great
KinAndTonic said:
I did it! lol
Used this (http://rootgalaxys3iii.com/how-to-reset-rooted-galaxy-note-2-flash-counter/) to finally get Triangle Away to work on my phone and then did factory reset.
They gave me a new phone and it's working great
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Good..make sure you do a nand back up of your stock rooted phone before you do anything else to it..if you are going to re-root that is.
I have a seperate 16 gig external micro sd card..that all it has on it is that..my music and my movies..It's worth the peace of mind and very conveniant having it backed up and saved off my phone on it's own disc..
Good Luck
Mac
KinAndTonic said:
Ok, little update. I can get into Download mode, and it does same I running Samsung Official. But not able to get into recovery seemingly.
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hello i have same problem , i get circle on my signal bar this happent after trying to unlock my note II with free method
CellularDr. said:
hello i have same problem , i get circle on my signal bar this happent after trying to unlock my note II with free method
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I ended up having to take my phone back to AT&T and get a new one. It seems that this is a problem with a certain batch of Note 2's. When I went in for repair, a girl came in with the exact problem with her Note 2. Anyway, they gave me a new phone and it has been fine ever since.
Hi guys.
So. Yesterday i backed up everything and downloaded a few ROMs to try them out. Usually i don't experience any problem when flashing, atleast not anything i can google or read my way out of. This time however i am having problems troubleshooting where i went wrong. Well i have a pretty good idea, but my problem is rather how i get it working again.
The first thing i flashed was the EmotionMIUI Note II V2.5 MIUI ROM with the Aroma installer. After a successful flash my first option was to choose between two different modems. i tried googling the different file names really quick without luck, so i thought that if nothing else, i could just flash again choose differently if it didn't work. i set up the ROM, take a look around and decide to keep flashing as i was anxious to see how awesome CM was on my Note 2. After CM10 and at some point while trying out Urban HD ROM as i would like to keep some Stock functions, i need to make a call. Up until this point i have not noticed if the GSM network has been down since i have been on WIFI this whole time.
So where the problem first started out is hard to pinpoint, although my guess would be all the way back when i first flashed the MIUI ROM and was asked to choose between 2 Modems.
Question is how do i get it back?
At this point i have tried to restore to my Nandroid backup from before i flashed anything but that really did nothing. i am guessing that i need to flash the right radio/modem/baseband for my region. (Nordic / Scandinavia) But i am having a hard time figuring out what to do. i am messing around with Odin and the official stock ROM from sammobile at the moment. But i was hoping that someone here knew of a better way?
Thanks
M
Please see my thread GUIDE about not registered in network why when & how to solve- in this section.
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I will try that out thankd
Well I ended up using Mobile Odin to flash the md5 firmware file from my region. That brought back the cellular network.
Alright, so I am having this weird issue. I thought I found the fix for it several times, however, NO dice.
I've researched for a few hours now, I just don't know if I have over looked it or what. If it has been answered, I apologize.
I looked at the modified recoveries thread for newer s3 devices, but it doesn't seem to fit my area of error.
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I've been really curious to try some 4.3 roms. Of course, they are for D2SPR. I get them to flash correctly, after a full wipe. The issue happens right after I set everything up in the phone, and reboot. When I reboot I get hung at the splash screen. I have tried to reflash the rom muliple times only to fall flat on the splash screen again. Now, I don't have an SD Card in the phone, except, I left a TW rom in a folder. I use twrp, forgot to mention that. I rewiped the phone and installed that touchwiz rom, and still it wouldn't allow me to get past splash into that tw rom.
So the only way that I could think of to get out of this hole was to flash the rooted LJ7 tar file I have through ODIN. After getting the S3 into download mode, Odin successfully push LJ7 into my phone. Now again, I had an issue getting it to boot. I read somewhere that when this happens, I need to check the Erase NAND option in Odin. So I tried that out and forced LJ7 back on. After successfully flashing, it boots but gets stuck on the boot animation; the fix to that is booting into stock recovery and wiping once more. Then you are able to get into the OS.
I let the phone sit and take the OTAs till I get from LJ7 to MD4 so I re-root the phone using Odin and Chain Fire's root method. Now I am able to flash the recovery (TWRP) using OpenScript through Goo Manager.
I've only tried flashing Illusion and Carbon's 4.3 rom. The second time I used Carbon's rom. Same results. So I have no Idea what the heck is going on. Can anyone explain this to me better or point me into the direction that I need to go?
Thanks much!
your not the only one that has this problem i have the same thing have tried everything and most of the 4.3 roms same thing. no one on xda seems to know at least i havent gotten any help or responses i have just given u on 4.3. good luck finding any ideas.
Set it up I'm sure you restored some apps and data which may no longer be compatible. Or data which is corrupting the 4.3 rom. Try just flashing the rom setting up your Google account and don't add any apps. See if it does it.
Either way this seems to be a common issue across different devices and 4.3 seems it's part of using roms built on leaks and ports. None are bug free. Very similar to all gb leaks back in the day that would go into bootlooping.
Have a great day!
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your not the only one that has this problem i have the same thing have tried everything and most of the 4.3 roms same thing. no one on xda seems to know at least i havent gotten any help or responses i have just given u on 4.3. good luck finding any ideas.
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Well, it's good to know that I'm not the only one, however, it's horrible that it's happening to others. I appreciate you spreading the info!
edfunkycold said:
Set it up I'm sure you restored some apps and data which may no longer be compatible. Or data which is corrupting the 4.3 rom. Try just flashing the rom setting up your Google account and don't add any apps. See if it does it.
Either way this seems to be a common issue across different devices and 4.3 seems it's part of using roms built on leaks and ports. None are bug free. Very similar to all gb leaks back in the day that would go into bootlooping.
Have a great day!
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When I go to set up, I just install about 15 apps, I don't restore. I just download them fresh. I had a habit of doing that and it just stuck. I don't restore anything with Titanium or and root backup/restore app. Could one of those apps not be updated then that causes the partitions to get locked up, or just corrupt /data in general? If that's whats happening.
I just find it extremely odd that I (maybe others), can't wipe, and then re flash another rom; actually I can, it just gets stuck at the splash and never goes forward, that is what had me confused most. If I had an sd card, and formatted data itself, would that fly?
thanks Ed i have tried this after the first 2 tries . i dont have any problems installing 4.3 its just after rebooting it gets stuck. Like you said there are always bugs Im fine with using other roms for now. Hopefully when an official 4.3 drops problems will go away
Hello everyone,
I really need your help with my wife's Metro PCS Samsung GS4 M919N.
The thing is, we are now living outside the US so I had to unlock her phone. After ordering the unlock codes, I decided to root the phone and use a custom ROM while waiting for the codes.
That is why I found this guide here: androidforums.com/metropcs-galaxy-s4-all-things-root/790899-metropcs-galaxy-s4-all-things-root-guide.html
So while reading the guide, I aimed to have the following accomplished at the end:
Recovery: TWRP
Custom ROM: CyanogenMod 10.2.1
I then started doing the guide for the TWRP recovery by using Odin. I got the message saying that the flashing passed and went ahead to restart to recovery to install CM 10.2.1 as a custom ROM. The thing is that I keep on restarting to the stock recovery not TWRP. So I went to YouTube and found a video showing how to flash TWRP using GooManager. After following that guide, I went to restart to recovery and I successfully got into TWRP.
Now, to achieve my goal, all that's left to do is to flash CyanogenMod 10.2.1 (jfltetmo).
Before doing that, I decided to make a backup. After using TWRP to do a backup, I proceeded to installing the custom ROM + gapps (wiped with the default settings). Everything was working I think (I handed the phone to my wife so she was he one testing it). After some time, she decided she wants the stock ROM instead so I decided to download the androidforums.com/metropcs-galaxy-s4-all-things-root/783769-rom-recovery-flash-able-stock-m919nuvuamf2-rooted-deodexed-rom.html ROM.
I flashed the newly downloaded ROM + gapps (same file). This time, I couldn't get the gapps to work probably because it was meant for another version. So I decided to just restore from the backup I created earlier.
So, the usual stuff. Wipe. Restore. Restart.
Seems to be going smoothly because my wife was happy to see the old ROM she was used to.
Until the phone started to restart on it's own. (It's pretty much downhill from here on out).
At first I thought it was just a random thing that probably would never happen again. I was wrong as it became more frequent as days went by.
Recently I can't just restart the phone, I would have to remove the battery and then restart it. Now, it's getting really hard to restart the phone. Please help me fix this. I prefer to leave the phone rooted, but if the fix unroots the phone then so be it, anyway my wife prefers the stock ROM so only the unlocking was necessary.
Metro PCS Samsung Galaxy S4 M919N
Recovery:
TWRP 2.6.3.1
ROMs:
Stock Metro PCS
CyanogenMod 10.2.1
Let me know if you need more information from me. Hopefully I can restart the phone so I can give you some version numbers.
Thanks everyone!
I didn't read everything but just wanted to say
VERY GOOD THREAD!
this is how threads should be done. Very descriptive, organized, told us everything you did and asked for help! Good job man! Only negative is it prolly should have gone in Q&A section but irregardless very good thread!
About your issue, I recommend flashing stock Odin tar file to everything back to stock and reroot and start over. Flashing stock will not lock it again it will remain unlocked. But should get you back up and fresh. Just be aware it will erase all your data and all of the internal SD card.
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dokgu said:
Hello everyone,
I really need your help with my wife's Metro PCS Samsung GS4 M919N.
The thing is, we are now living outside the US so I had to unlock her phone. After ordering the unlock codes, I decided to root the phone and use a custom ROM while waiting for the codes.
That is why I found this guide here: androidforums.com/metropcs-galaxy-s4-all-things-root/790899-metropcs-galaxy-s4-all-things-root-guide.html
So while reading the guide, I aimed to have the following accomplished at the end:
Recovery: TWRP
Custom ROM: CyanogenMod 10.2.1
I then started doing the guide for the TWRP recovery by using Odin. I got the message saying that the flashing passed and went ahead to restart to recovery to install CM 10.2.1 as a custom ROM. The thing is that I keep on restarting to the stock recovery not TWRP. So I went to YouTube and found a video showing how to flash TWRP using GooManager. After following that guide, I went to restart to recovery and I successfully got into TWRP.
Now, to achieve my goal, all that's left to do is to flash CyanogenMod 10.2.1 (jfltetmo).
Before doing that, I decided to make a backup. After using TWRP to do a backup, I proceeded to installing the custom ROM + gapps (wiped with the default settings). Everything was working I think (I handed the phone to my wife so she was he one testing it). After some time, she decided she wants the stock ROM instead so I decided to download the androidforums.com/metropcs-galaxy-s4-all-things-root/783769-rom-recovery-flash-able-stock-m919nuvuamf2-rooted-deodexed-rom.html ROM.
I flashed the newly downloaded ROM + gapps (same file). This time, I couldn't get the gapps to work probably because it was meant for another version. So I decided to just restore from the backup I created earlier.
So, the usual stuff. Wipe. Restore. Restart.
Seems to be going smoothly because my wife was happy to see the old ROM she was used to.
Until the phone started to restart on it's own. (It's pretty much downhill from here on out).
At first I thought it was just a random thing that probably would never happen again. I was wrong as it became more frequent as days went by.
Recently I can't just restart the phone, I would have to remove the battery and then restart it. Now, it's getting really hard to restart the phone. Please help me fix this. I prefer to leave the phone rooted, but if the fix unroots the phone then so be it, anyway my wife prefers the stock ROM so only the unlocking was necessary.
Metro PCS Samsung Galaxy S4 M919N
Recovery:
TWRP 2.6.3.1
ROMs:
Stock Metro PCS
CyanogenMod 10.2.1
Let me know if you need more information from me. Hopefully I can restart the phone so I can give you some version numbers.
Thanks everyone!
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I agree with Elesbb. If the goal is jus tto get back to stock, just do an odin flash of the stock ROM. Be advised if you flash the latest Kit Kay update you will nto be able to go back to Jelly Bean. From your post it seems like you are partial to Jelly Bean. So if that's what you want, but sure you use the stock 4.3 ROM. You can find it around here on XDA somewhere with a quick search to make sure you have the right one.
As Elesbb said, you won't loose the 'sim unlock'. But you will lose root. However you can root the stock ROM just fine.
You might also consider one of the myriad of TouchWiz based custom ROMs. They are look just like TouchWiz that your wife wants, but have a lot of optimizations and options in them. Those should flash just like any ROM. If you still get the reboot issue then do the Odin back to stock, reroot, then flash the custom TW roms.
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Thread cleaned.
Rather than bashing a ROM or user let's keep on topic and help the OP resolved the problems he's having. Arguing over the virtues of a ROM doesn't help anyone.
Thank you,
Rwilco12
Before posting this thread I sent the aforementioned guide's poster (arocker). He sent me a reply saying not to use gapps as the stock ROM for Metro PCS already comes with Google apps. I'll try his suggestion first and see if the phone still reboots a lot.
If the problem persists, I will try the solutions mentioned here. Thanks a lot!
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I didn't read everything but just wanted to say
VERY GOOD THREAD!
this is how threads should be done. Very descriptive, organized, told us everything you did and asked for help! Good job man! Only negative is it prolly should have gone in Q&A section but irregardless very good thread!
About your issue, I recommend flashing stock Odin tar file to everything back to stock and reroot and start over. Flashing stock will not lock it again it will remain unlocked. But should get you back up and fresh. Just be aware it will erase all your data and all of the internal SD card.
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After trying arocker's suggestion to not flash gapps, the phone still reboots. So now, I am going to try your solution guys.
But before I do, I want to make sure that I am on the correct paths/links.
Here's what I found for the following:
ODIN
forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/themes-apps/27-08-2013-odin-3-09-odin-1-85-versions-t2189539
I've had a couple of chances to use ODIN but only using specific functions like flashing a recovery file while the phone is in download mode. I don't however have any experience using ODIN to put the phone back to stock where the phone gets unrooted. Having the phone unrooted is fine by me as I only needed to have the phone unlocked.
Any step-by-step guides for using ODIN for this specific purpose guys? I don't want to mess this up again.
Thanks and sorry for the trouble.
dokgu said:
After trying arocker's suggestion to not flash gapps, the phone still reboots. So now, I am going to try your solution guys.
But before I do, I want to make sure that I am on the correct paths/links.
Here's what I found for the following:
ODIN
forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/themes-apps/27-08-2013-odin-3-09-odin-1-85-versions-t2189539
I've had a couple of chances to use ODIN but only using specific functions like flashing a recovery file while the phone is in download mode. I don't however have any experience using ODIN to put the phone back to stock where the phone gets unrooted. Having the phone unrooted is fine by me as I only needed to have the phone unlocked.
Any step-by-step guides for using ODIN for this specific purpose guys? I don't want to mess this up again.
Thanks and sorry for the trouble.
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No trouble at all, check out the stickies in the beginning of threads.
Look for guides similar to this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2335109
Pp. Good luck.
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PanchoPlanet said:
No trouble at all, check out the stickies in the beginning of threads.
Look for guides similar to this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2335109
Pp. Good luck.
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Hello PanchoPlanet,
Thanks for the link. I went ahead and tried to unroot without Windows (Mobile Odin) as per the instructions on the link. I downloaded everything and went ahead to install the Mobile Odin APK. When I ran it to install the Flash Kernel, the app told me that the device is not supported.
To my understanding the guide is for M919 devices but should work for my wife's device as well (M919N - Metro PCS). I would like to try the guide for using Windows but I'm not really expecting for it to work or I might mess it up more. I'll try to search some more and provide the links where this forum will lead me to. But if you have any ideas, please let me know asap. Thanks!
PanchoPlanet said:
No trouble at all, check out the stickies in the beginning of threads.
Look for guides similar to this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2335109
Pp. Good luck.
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Ok, here's what I found:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2446497
It seems like the perfect thread for what I am trying to achieve. Will let you guys know if it is successful. But it will have to wait for tomorrow. Gonna catch some sleep.
Okay, I'm running out of options. I was able to flash the stock ROM using Odin 3.07. The recovery looks like it came back to the stock recovery as I no longer have TWRP installed. When I install Root Checker, I see that I am no longer rooted. That's good.
But my original problem is still here. The phone reboots a lot. The phone is so unstable that it is barely usable.
I am now going to try one more thing.
I have a Galaxy S4 (I337M) from Rogers Canada (my wife has Metro PCS M919N). Mine got rooted and has CyanogenMod 10.2.1 as a custom ROM. My phone is working perfectly while hers reboots a lot. I was thinking it was because of a faulty battery. So I am doing an experiment by swapping the batteries. So far no reboots have occurred, but I will continue to monitor this.
Any ideas why the battery is kinda messed up?
This thread talks about battery stuff and reboots:
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/530338/20131216/samsung-galaxy-s4-problems.htm
Batteries can go bad a lot of ways. Extreme temperature, factory defect, phone drops, moisture, etc.
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Android_Monsters said:
This thread talks about battery stuff and reboots:
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/530338/20131216/samsung-galaxy-s4-problems.htm
Batteries can go bad a lot of ways. Extreme temperature, factory defect, phone drops, moisture, etc.
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And 100% of the time, they eventually just get old.
dokgu said:
Okay, I'm running out of options. I was able to flash the stock ROM using Odin 3.07. The recovery looks like it came back to the stock recovery as I no longer have TWRP installed. When I install Root Checker, I see that I am no longer rooted. That's good.
But my original problem is still here. The phone reboots a lot. The phone is so unstable that it is barely usable.
I am now going to try one more thing.
I have a Galaxy S4 (I337M) from Rogers Canada (my wife has Metro PCS M919N). Mine got rooted and has CyanogenMod 10.2.1 as a custom ROM. My phone is working perfectly while hers reboots a lot. I was thinking it was because of a faulty battery. So I am doing an experiment by swapping the batteries. So far no reboots have occurred, but I will continue to monitor this.
Any ideas why the battery is kinda messed up?
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That's a wierd situation, by swapping batteries you basically performed a battery pull, which acts as a reset, that in it self may have cleared your issue.
Now if battery is bad that could be an unusual problem. Maybe just replacing the battery will be the end of your mystery.
Pp.
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The battery should be brand new as the phone was just recently purchased this April.
Anyways, so far no reboots have happened and any instability has not been shown at all. Everything looks ok, yet.
Anyone know if it is safe to swap batteries? Our phones have different S4 models. I'm not sure what the implications would be. Also what is this battery pull which acts as a reset? We've been pulling the battery a lot of times but the reboot still happens but not when we swapped batteries.
The batteries are all the same. Don't worry about that.
Even if its a new battery if could have just been bad. A manufacturing defect perhaps.
Sent from your phone. You should be more careful where you leave that thing.
dokgu said:
The battery should be brand new as the phone was just recently purchased this April.
Anyways, so far no reboots have happened and any instability has not been shown at all. Everything looks ok, yet.
Anyone know if it is safe to swap batteries? Our phones have different S4 models. I'm not sure what the implications would be. Also what is this battery pull which acts as a reset? We've been pulling the battery a lot of times but the reboot still happens but not when we swapped batteries.
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This battery thing is wacky, anyway swapping batteries should not be a problem, it's just an energy storage container. Pulling the battery isn't like powering down the phone or resetting/rebooting ,sometimes devs request a battery pull to get the proper wipe effect that reboots can't provide.
You inadvertently solved your problem by accident. That's a good thing.
Pp.
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PanchoPlanet said:
You inadvertently solved your problem by accident. That's a good thing.
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I have quite literally solved the vast majority of my problems this way.
Its a preferred method.
Sent from your phone. You should be more careful where you leave that thing.
Sometimes it's that "total disconnect "of power that kind of gets all the ducks lined up in a row and everything flows in the dynaflow.
Good.
Pp.
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its very important topics and it might seen for every galaxy s4 users.just wonderful topics.
This exact same thing happened on my mother's 6-month old S3. If you're still wondering, you could try putting the old battery and running a CPU stress test app. It should increase the current draw and trigger a shutdown.
EDIT: whoops, sorry to kind of zombie. Didn't check the date.
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