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[Q] what files are right to flash?

so i have been working on my friends phone for a while now and cant get anything to flash to it.after an ota update it bricked.i tried to redo his phone because he did not have insurance and it wasnt under warranty.but i tried everything on here and i get nothing odin says no pit partition sometimes so i tried finding a fix for that.but after reading on here yesterday im wondering if im flashing the wrong sprint s3 files.are the files the same for the android it came with and the ota it got 2weeks ago? im guessing it was 4.2 and the ota was 4.3 since thats what was rolling out to the phones

gjmath01 said:
so i have been working on my friends phone for a while now and cant get anything to flash to it.after an ota update it bricked.i tried to redo his phone because he did not have insurance and it wasnt under warranty.but i tried everything on here and i get nothing odin says no pit partition sometimes so i tried finding a fix for that.but after reading on here yesterday im wondering if im flashing the wrong sprint s3 files.are the files the same for the android it came with and the ota it got 2weeks ago? im guessing it was 4.2 and the ota was 4.3 since thats what was rolling out to the phones
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Have you read THIS thread about Knox?

yes i can get to dl mode at first when i got it that was all i can do then i flashed files with oden and it went away i guess it soft bricked it but i built a jig and it was now without the jig.... just wondering if i need to use mk3 files not md4

If mk3 OTA was accepted Knox will not allow any previous versions to install... as I understand it
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Saiya69 said:
If mk3 OTA was accepted Knox will not allow any previous versions to install... as I understand it
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Correct

yes just from getting caught up in reading all the thrds and post about rooting and flashing and sd booting s3 it did not cross my mind that 4.3 changed how it all works.for some reason it hit me so i asked him if it took the update and he said yes it worked for 3days..so im back to square one just different version but ill find it all i think i spend more time here and i do at work lol @ joey thanks bud looking at i now

gjmath01 said:
yes just from getting caught up in reading all the thrds and post about rooting and flashing and sd booting s3 it did not cross my mind that 4.3 changed how it all works.for some reason it hit me so i asked him if it took the update and he said yes it worked for 3days..so im back to square one just different version but ill find it all i think i spend more time here and i do at work lol @ joey thanks bud looking at i now
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Keep up with that thread, Once CNexus gets the tar, he'll get it going

thanks a lot it explains exactly what is wrong with it.i seen post about knox but never really gave much info. sounds good to me ill wait for CNex to release his fine work

gjmath01 said:
thanks a lot it explains exactly what is wrong with it.i seen post about knox but never really gave much info. sounds good to me ill wait for CNex to release his fine work
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Did this phone have custom recovery or stock before he took the OTA?
EDIT: nevermind, it doesn't matter.

no it was stock unrooted.

[Q] Stuck in AT&T bootloader

Hello, I rooted using this method: www .youtube .com/watch?v=GiZ7D2zjJdA (sorry xda wont let me post links)
The root worked fine all was well until I tried setting a font using a font installer, when I set the font the phone shut off rebooted and is now just sitting at the AT&T icon which I think is called a boot loader. I am running Android 4.3 which has knox and this bootloader. I can get into the stock recovery by vol up + power + home and I can "wipe data/factory reset" would this work? I just want my mistake fixed im so mad at myself for doing this I am not a pro at this at all and im scared of what to do, I really need someones help.... can kies update the phone and fix it? or can I wipe data/factory reset? All my phone has is just root, no cwm and stuff.
Please help someone!

Are my threads seen? Seems like no one ever replies to anything I post. Anyways I tried to wipe the data and factory reset and it did not work, I also tried booting into safe mode and still no luck. I need someones help please.
Thanks

what is your firmware version?? 4.3 OTA or 4.3 Leak?

Gotnitro said:
Are my threads seen? Seems like no one ever replies to anything I post. Anyways I tried to wipe the data and factory reset and it did not work, I also tried booting into safe mode and still no luck. I need someones help please.
Thanks
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you need to provide more information. What recovery your using and what version, what rom, bootloader version, how you rooted your phone, etc etc. Also, the search bar is your friend.
We all have lives outside of XDA we cant post a response as soon as a new thread comes up. Be patient. Like I said, do a little searching while your waiting for a response instead of waiting for someone to do it for you.

Mojar7070 said:
you need to provide more information. What recovery your using and what version, what rom, bootloader version, how you rooted your phone, etc etc. Also, the search bar is your friend.
We all have lives outside of XDA we cant post a response as soon as a new thread comes up. Be patient. Like I said, do a little searching while your waiting for a response instead of waiting for someone to do it for you.
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The YouTube link is what I used to root. I have stock everything.Open a new phone out of a box use the method I used in the YouTube link in the first post and that's what I have. I'm not trying to make people search for me. Im lost, I don't know even of what to search.... All I know is I have OTA 4.3 and I have a sgh-i747. A guy on YouTube told me to just get a official 4.3 firmware for the gs3 and flash it. Problem is I don't know where to get that... I've been searching for 3 days now.. Maybe im not searching the right place? Also guys my post from before I wasent trying to be rude, I'm sorry... Im just mad that I did this to my phone and I'm needing your help.

Gotnitro said:
The YouTube link is what I used to root. I have stock everything.Open a new phone out of a box use the method I used in the YouTube link in the first post and that's what I have. I'm not trying to make people search for me. Im lost, I don't know even of what to search.... All I know is I have OTA 4.3 and I have a sgh-i747. A guy on YouTube told me to just get a official 4.3 firmware for the gs3 and flash it. Problem is I don't know where to get that... I've been searching for 3 days now.. Maybe im not searching the right place? Also guys my post from before I wasent trying to be rude, I'm sorry... Im just mad that I did this to my phone and I'm needing your help.
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Gotnitro said:
Hello, I rooted using this method: www .youtube .com/watch?v=GiZ7D2zjJdA (sorry xda wont let me post links)
The root worked fine all was well until I tried setting a font using a font installer, when I set the font the phone shut off rebooted and is now just sitting at the AT&T icon which I think is called a boot loader. I am running Android 4.3 which has knox and this bootloader. I can get into the stock recovery by vol up + power + home and I can "wipe data/factory reset" would this work? I just want my mistake fixed im so mad at myself for doing this I am not a pro at this at all and im scared of what to do, I really need someones help.... can kies update the phone and fix it? or can I wipe data/factory reset? All my phone has is just root, no cwm and stuff.
Please help someone!
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did you finally foun your answer that you where searching for? if not i know a method to unroot the phone and put back to 4.3
email me if so : [email protected]

Since your are running 4.3, you cannot flash anything newer older than 4.3. Do not flash any 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 ROM as this will make matters worse. ATT never released a complete stock 4.3 ROM that could be flashed via Odin. You can try to debrick it using this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2549068
Edit: According to another thread, DO NOT USE Kies to re-install the firmware. It WILL BRICK your phone.
Can you get into download mode? Has the Knox counter been tripped? If it hasn't been tripped, maybe you could get it repaired under warranty. If it's been tripped, you can still try to get it repaired under warranty. Just be prepared for Samsung to refuse warranty service because Knox has been tripped.

Bugs or defective Phone?

Alright guys I've been having issues with my phone for quite some time now, I think they started since the release of JB 4.3, I don't recall havving issues with 4.2.2 but who knows, ever since I upgraded to 4.3 I had the following I'm almost certain that it my device that is defective cause I read thru quite a few threads and I didn't see people complaining about the same issues as me, so Here's what's going on maybe someone out there is going thru the same.
Please know that I had the same issues wether I use TW or any google or AOSP rom.
1.- Phone calls, somewhat often when making/answering calls I cant hear the other person, it seems that they cant hear me neither, so I just hang up and re-call again and it goes thru, this happens both during wi-fi calling or just using regular signal.
2.-Camera won't focus I open my camera and and the image is blurry, I tap on the screen to focus but it won';t do it, so I just close it and open it again sometime I do this couple of time and then the camera works fine.
I guess all I'm looking for is a confirmation more than anything, since I have insurance, I can always take my phone into a t-mo store and get it replaced for $5 and get it replaced within 24hrs...
Currently running Darthstalker X1 with latest Modem...
Thank you guys and appreciate any info, opinion, or whatever u can offer!!

Have you tried just going to plain stock with Odin to see if it also happens?
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serio22 said:
Have you tried just going to plain stock with Odin to see if it also happens?
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You know that's about the only thing I haven't tried, I just don't want to deal with the Knox Security.. but I guess that I have to do it to find out for sure...
Or should I try to odin back to 4.2.2??
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I think I'm going to try that...

If you're still on 4.2.2 bootloader then yeah Odin to 4.2.2 otherwise do 4.3
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serio22 said:
If you're still on 4.2.2 bootloader then yeah Odin to 4.2.2 otherwise do 4.3
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what happens if I'm on 4.3 and I downgrade back to 4.2.2?? I hope I don't get a brick because I got odin started!! LMAO!!
Edit No brick LOL.. booting back up!!

Mr_Jay_jay said:
what happens if I'm on 4.3 and I downgrade back to 4.2.2?? I hope I don't get a brick because I got odin started!! LMAO!!
Edit No brick LOL.. booting back up!!
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You were able to downgrade to 4.2.2 via Odin? That was pretty risky, I was on the s3 forums before my s4 and quite a few people kept bricking their phones attempting to downgrade to 4.1.2 in Odin from 4.3.. Don't know how it is with s4 though
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serio22 said:
You were able to downgrade to 4.2.2 via Odin? That was pretty risky, I was on the s3 forums before my s4 and quite a few people kept bricking their phones attempting to downgrade to 4.1.2 in Odin from 4.3.. Don't know how it is with s4 though
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Weird.. I also had the s3, well mi wife still has it.. I didn't know, but If I have to guess if would have something to do with Knox Security.. I upgraded my s4 the XDA way... not OTA, I flashed a knox free Rom, and later I odin the modem.. so probably that's why... any way.. it worked I downgraded successfully, now about my issues I think it's the phone, I opened my camera to a blurry screen and it wouldn't focus.. so I'm stoppin by T-mo store to get it exchanged...

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Weird.. I also had the s3, well mi wife still has it.. I didn't know, but If I have to guess if would have something to do with Knox Security.. I upgraded my s4 the XDA way... not OTA, I flashed a knox free Rom, and later I odin the modem.. so probably that's why... any way.. it worked I downgraded successfully, now about my issues I think it's the phone, I opened my camera to a blurry screen and it wouldn't focus.. so I'm stoppin by T-mo store to get it exchanged...
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Oh then yeah you still had the 4.2.2 bootloader so that's why it was ok.. Sounds like the problem is with the phone so yeah you need to exchange it
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Yea Will do.. Thanks dude... appreciate taking the time to answer.. !

Mr_Jay_jay said:
ever since I upgraded to 4.3
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If you're going to exchange it anyways, why not Odin back to a 100% completely stock 4.3 TW and see if you are having those issues. Just remember, it's better to figure this out and learn from it just in case this ends up happening to you again. See, because if you go Odin back to 4.3 TW, and you still have this issue, then you can confirm it is a hardware issue. But if you Odin back to 4.3 and you don't have those issues, then you know something in your ROM or services was modified or corrupt. My suggestion, go back to stock and test it out. :good:

xdapowerapps said:
If you're going to exchange it anyways, why not Odin back to a 100% completely stock 4.3 TW and see if you are having those issues. Just remember, it's better to figure this out and learn from it just in case this ends up happening to you again. See, because if you go Odin back to 4.3 TW, and you still have this issue, then you can confirm it is a hardware issue. But if you Odin back to 4.3 and you don't have those issues, then you know something in your ROM or services was modified or corrupt. My suggestion, go back to stock and test it out. :good:
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I did actually... I went full on Knox included restore stock 4.3.. I havent had any issues with phone but then again I don't call too many people during the day.. however I did encounter the same camera issue..so this phone is out of here.. I got the order in today with phone arriving tomorrow.. I hope I get a 4.2.2 JB phone...i

Mr_Jay_jay said:
I did actually... I went full on Knox included restore stock 4.3.. I havent had any issues with phone but then again I don't call too many people during the day.. however I did encounter the same camera issue..so this phone is out of here.. I got the order in today with phone arriving tomorrow.. I hope I get a 4.2.2 JB phone...i
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Yeah, definitely a HW issue. Good thing it was under warranty. And in most cases, they update the FW before shipping it out, so here's to hoping. :highfive:

xdapowerapps said:
Yeah, definitely a HW issue. Good thing it was under warranty. And in most cases, they update the FW before shipping it out, so here's to hoping. :highfive:
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Yea dude bad news for me.. new phone shipped already with 4.3 in it... that kinda sucks... now what options are out there for me to get this rooted? Do you know?

Mr_Jay_jay said:
Yea dude bad news for me.. new phone shipped already with 4.3 in it... that kinda sucks... now what options are out there for me to get this rooted? Do you know?
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Yeah, CF-AR (ChainFires Auto Root). Won't trip knox flag but flashing a recovery like CWM/Philz/TWRP will cause your flag to trip.

xdapowerapps said:
Yeah, CF-AR (ChainFires Auto Root). Won't trip knox flag but flashing a recovery like CWM/Philz/TWRP will cause your flag to trip.
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Yea I was reading that.. I don't care about the knox counter... one great thing about rooting is trying all the roms out there so I'm goin all in! thanks!

Mr_Jay_jay said:
Yea I was reading that.. I don't care about the knox counter... one great thing about rooting is trying all the roms out there so I'm goin all in! thanks!
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No problem :good:

Please help fast

I have a Tmobile Galaxy S4 SGH-M919, I have tried every rooting method I can fine and so far all I have done is made a brick, I need this phone working asap, and rooted so I can go onto Crickets service
PLEASE HELP
I can root Sprint, but when it comes to Tmobile apparently I'm an idiot

wolfen1086 said:
I have a Tmobile Galaxy S4 SGH-M919, I have tried every rooting method I can fine and so far all I have done is made a brick, I need this phone working asap, and rooted so I can go onto Crickets service
PLEASE HELP
I can root Sprint, but when it comes to Tmobile apparently I'm an idiot
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This the method I used for rooting when I had 4.3
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2611175
Check my signature for a link to how I rooted with 4.4.2
Depending on the version of Android you have on that phone, it will trip the Knox flag. Which won't affect the performance of the phone, but will indicate you messed with your phone. There may be other rooting methods that work, but this one worked for me.
BTW, I found that method by using Search on this forum and Google.
Rob

wolfen1086 said:
I have a Tmobile Galaxy S4 SGH-M919, I have tried every rooting method I can fine and so far all I have done is made a brick, I need this phone working asap, and rooted so I can go onto Crickets service
PLEASE HELP
I can root Sprint, but when it comes to Tmobile apparently I'm an idiot
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The safe root method is how i rooted with 4.3 but it is my understanding that you need your phone to be unlocked to use a different carrier. Unlocked and rooted are 2 different things.
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Unlocked sop I can use whatever carrier I want.
Rooted Because I want control over my pohone and not somebody else saying what I can and cant do with it.
I can get it to bot in cwm recovery but thats all it won't rot the rom so I can see it its rooted or not. I followed eth entire instructions provided and used oden like it said to and all I suceded in doing was makeing a damn brick out of a phone I got to have running tomorrow morning

rlichtefeld said:
This the method I used for rooting when I had 4.3
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2611175
Check my signature for a link to how I rooted with 4.4.2
Depending on the version of Android you have on that phone, it will trip the Knox flag. Which won't affect the performance of the phone, but will indicate you messed with your phone. There may be other rooting methods that work, but this one worked for me.
BTW, I found that method by using Search on this forum and Google.
Rob
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Problem is I'm with Tmobile, my phone is a SGH-M919

wolfen1086 said:
Unlocked sop I can use whatever carrier I want.
Rooted Because I want control over my pohone and not somebody else saying what I can and cant do with it.
I can get it to bot in cwm recovery but thats all it won't rot the rom so I can see it its rooted or not. I followed eth entire instructions provided and used oden like it said to and all I suceded in doing was makeing a damn brick out of a phone I got to have running tomorrow morning
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If you can get into Download mode (Power Off, then Volume Down+Power Button), then you'll need to download the Stock Rom and transfer it to your phone via ODIN. Do you know if you were 4.2, 4.3, or 4.42 before you bricked it? You can download the images from Sammobile.com
Rob

rlichtefeld said:
If you can get into Download mode (Power Off, then Volume Down+Power Button), then you'll need to download the Stock Rom and transfer it to your phone via ODIN. Do you know if you were 4.2, 4.3, or 4.42 before you bricked it? You can download the images from Sammobile.com
Rob
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Yes I do I was 4.3
going to Samsung now to try to get the stock rom and start over, the only thing I have not tried yet is CF autoroot, if that don't work I guess its back on t mobile with their payment lies

wolfen1086 said:
Yes I do I was 4.3
going to Samsung now to try to get the stock rom and start over, the only thing I have not tried yet is CF autoroot, if that don't work I guess its back on t mobile with their payment lies
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If you have access to ClockWork Mod Recovery, wipte the cache and dalvik and see if that lets it boot.
If not, just download a rom, any rom from the dev section that you want to try and put it on a micro SD card. Put the SD card in your phone.
Do a full wipe (data, system, cache, dalvik) in recovery and flash the downlaoded ROM file. Your phone should boot right up.
You'll want a TouchWiz based rom if you still need to perform the SIM unlock proceedure so you can use it on the Cricket network. But once step at a time here...

wolfen1086 said:
Unlocked sop I can use whatever carrier I want.
Rooted Because I want control over my pohone and not somebody else saying what I can and cant do with it.
I can get it to bot in cwm recovery but thats all it won't rot the rom so I can see it its rooted or not. I followed eth entire instructions provided and used oden like it said to and all I suceded in doing was makeing a damn brick out of a phone I got to have running tomorrow morning
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Ok. You didn't mention your phone was unlocked in the OP.
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wolfen1086 said:
Problem is I'm with Tmobile, my phone is a SGH-M919
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If you look at my signature, you'll see that I've got a SGH-M919 also and I'm on T-Mobile with a phone purchased from T-Mobile.
I've provided links that worked for me.
Rob

Kriptik210 said:
Ok. You didn't mention your phone was unlocked in the OP.
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Thats cause it wasn;t rooted before, hopefully it is now, cause my wife just went to Cricket to see if she can get her Iphone and mine on their network
I finally got the phone rooted but I screwed it up so bad I had to install a different rom to make it work, so not I'm roted and running wicked rom .Next I installed, updated and ran region away, it said it didn;t know if it worked or not, but I was told that it does unlock so hopefully it did.
I havea different S4 here ( SGHM919) that I'm gonna try the cf auto root on when the battery is fully charged, cause both my sons have S4's and they want to keep the rom they have now just be unlocked

If you were looking at cwm recovery then you most likely have root.
Pp.
Sent from my Touchwiz device that never forgets apps.

PanchoPlanet said:
If you were looking at cwm recovery then you most likely have root.
Pp.
Sent from my Touchwiz device that never forgets apps.
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And if you don't you can easily get root with CWMrecovery
Sent from your phone. You should be more careful where you leave that thing.

wolfen1086 said:
Thats cause it wasn;t rooted before, hopefully it is now, cause my wife just went to Cricket to see if she can get her Iphone and mine on their network
I finally got the phone rooted but I screwed it up so bad I had to install a different rom to make it work, so not I'm roted and running wicked rom .Next I installed, updated and ran region away, it said it didn;t know if it worked or not, but I was told that it does unlock so hopefully it did.
I havea different S4 here ( SGHM919) that I'm gonna try the cf auto root on when the battery is fully charged, cause both my sons have S4's and they want to keep the rom they have now just be unlocked
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When I used Region away it says somewhere that it doesn't unlock your phone to where you can use other carriers. So you might want to find out lol
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Google is your friend.
Pp.
Sent from my Touchwiz device that never forgets apps.

Thank you gentlemen, my phone is working again, rooted, currently running wicked rom, all the other phones are rooted with the stock roms for the kiddies unless they want to have a better rom
Region away works perfectly on mine even though it says it doesn't know if it did.
I was going to use triangle away, but it says something about bricking my phone and I really don't give a damn about the counter so ........
PanchoPlanet, Google is NOT my friend when it comes to phones XDA id my friend when it comes to phones
Now to go look for the stock memo pad that comes with the S4, I like that one best its simple and works

I too prefer Memo Pad, it's quick and simple, my reference to Google was that its quicker than the XDA search and more accurate. Good to hear your back on track.
Pp.
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wolfen1086 said:
Thank you gentlemen, my phone is working again, rooted, currently running wicked rom, all the other phones are rooted with the stock roms for the kiddies unless they want to have a better rom
Region away works perfectly on mine even though it says it doesn't know if it did.
I was going to use triangle away, but it says something about bricking my phone and I really don't give a damn about the counter so ........
PanchoPlanet, Google is NOT my friend when it comes to phones XDA id my friend when it comes to phones
Now to go look for the stock memo pad that comes with the S4, I like that one best its simple and works
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If Google is not your friend, then maybe his big brother may be - Google Advanced Search:
https://www.google.com/advanced_search
where you can seach specific sites, specific words or phrases.
Rob

I found Smemo on line, took a while since I'm on oxycodone for pain due to a hernia operateing, but I got it, placed it in eth rom and reflashed it
Now I'd love to find a theme for Wicked V10 that would change teh color of the phone dialpad, I HATE white dialers, makes me remember when I was a kid back in teh 60' when my mom had nothing but white so she could see if it was clean, and sanitized, degermed, and all that, ( yes I was an outside type, and brought it all inside )

Oh and all I can say guys, is thanks for trying to help me I WILL figure it out for the firmware and hardware and software that I have, experimenting with a phone that I totally bricked today, gotta re-instal the entire os on it, so I'm gonna experiment with various versions of the SGH-M919 software, if I find out what works on what I'll post it for you guys to check and make sure I did right

OTA Update.zip - NE2 to NK2 (4.4.2)

Apparently Sprint hasn't completely given up on us yet!
OTA update.zip available for download!
Nothing overly exciting in this release but I'm posting a download for those who would like it.
Details: http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/1...or-ota-update-but-not-until-january-6th-2015/
Download: http://www.rwilco12.com/downloads.p...Samsung Galaxy Note II (SPH-L900)/OTA Updates
Thanks to @BipolarMike for pulling the OTA and uploading it for us.
Enjoy!

Nifty. Thank you. So it's mostly the same, but with a root block? Plus a little better security in our favor as well.
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Can we just flash?
Im on NE2 4.4.2 PORT /w Verizon OTA DN7....just wondering if it will brick my device?

Got this update ove the air. Unfornately it broke my phone. Now it is stuck when booting. Recovering. I leaned a lesson not to trust any update and I should have done a backup.

treasureking said:
Got this update ove the air. Unfornately it broke my phone. Now it is stuck when booting. Recovering. I leaned a lesson not to trust any update and I should have done a backup.
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Were you rooted with a custom recovery? You should know that you need to be 100% stock to accept updates and as this clearly is made to block root you cannot even be "just rooted."

That's exactly right. My phone was "just rooted". Lesson learned. The bright part is I got another chance to refresh my experience to use odin to unblock it.

treasureking said:
That's exactly right. My phone was "just rooted". Lesson learned. The bright part is I got another chance to refresh my experience to use odin to unblock it.
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Glad you got it working. Always wise to wait and see what others say about the OTA's first. It is safe to assume that security will only get tighter going forward. Wait for developers to pull bootloader and baseband out as a flashable, then also update the ROMs to be able to get on the latest. Most of the time someone will post a pure stock rooted ROM.

How do you use odin to unblock this OTA? What do you load?
treasureking said:
That's exactly right. My phone was "just rooted". Lesson learned. The bright part is I got another chance to refresh my experience to use odin to unblock it.
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I am having the same problem...this is my wife's phone and I rooted it some time ago. This OTA was pushed and now she is in a boot cycle. What do I load through ODIN that will correct it?

rwilco12 said:
Apparently Sprint hasn't completely given up on us yet!
OTA update.zip available for download!
Nothing overly exciting in this release but I'm posting a download for those who would like it.
Details: http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/1...or-ota-update-but-not-until-january-6th-2015/
Download: http://www.rwilco12.com/downloads.p...Samsung Galaxy Note II (SPH-L900)/OTA Updates
Thanks to @BipolarMike for pulling the OTA and uploading it for us.
Enjoy!
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I saw this this morning on my phone. When I went to update it asked if I wanted to install this untrusted file. I declined. So there's nothing special about this but a number change?
Edit: Now that I read the details I'm glad I didn't update and lose root.

kscarabin said:
I am having the same problem...this is my wife's phone and I rooted it some time ago. This OTA was pushed and now she is in a boot cycle. What do I load through ODIN that will correct it?
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Um ya. I've rooted a number of phones. I was hitting my alarm and wasn't thinking when I hit update...
Is the best way to fix this brick to just flash new stock ROM from odin? I would def be appriciative if someone cud lay down the play by play for best way forward before I start mucking around.
- dohhh

itsspencer said:
Um ya. I've rooted a number of phones. I was hitting my alarm and wasn't thinking when I hit update...
Is the best way to fix this brick to just flash new stock ROM from odin? I would def be appriciative if someone cud lay down the play by play for best way forward before I start mucking around.
- dohhh
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Yep. Best method would be to flash a stock ROM. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2780984 Direction and downloads are both in that thread. Enjoy and good luck!

The stock keyboard is killing me when choosing words from the suggested list with this update. It always double spaces when selecting a word! That and with swipe not being totally accurate it's a headache. Guess I'll download kii and make it my default.. It's also crazy how this phone never gets updated with new kernels. My mom's S3 went up to 3.4.0 after kitkat and this phone did not. Why?

treasureking said:
Got this update ove the air. Unfornately it broke my phone. Now it is stuck when booting. Recovering. I leaned a lesson not to trust any update and I should have done a backup.
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It's easy to root NK2 or recover from from the issue you're having. See the topic I just posted HOW TO ROOT NK2 / Fix boot loop after NE2 to NK2 update
Hope it helps. Good luck!

rwilco12 said:
Apparently Sprint hasn't completely given up on us yet!
OTA update.zip available for download!
Nothing overly exciting in this release but I'm posting a download for those who would like it.
Details: http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/1...or-ota-update-but-not-until-january-6th-2015/
Download: http://www.rwilco12.com/downloads.p...Samsung Galaxy Note II (SPH-L900)/OTA Updates
Thanks to @BipolarMike for pulling the OTA and uploading it for us.
Enjoy!
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will i lose data if i redownload this