Stuck in non root 5.1.1 - Sprint Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Due to a comedy of errors, I deleted my OS last night. I could only flash 5.1.1 firmware for reasons I never did figure out. Now, for the life of me, I cant flash a TWRP Recovery in Odin nor can I flash any custom ROMS. Odin either fails or my phone is wrecked and I have to reboot the standard 5.1.1 firmware. Am I stuck without root for the time being?

towndrunk said:
Due to a comedy of errors, I deleted my OS last night. I could only flash 5.1.1 firmware for reasons I never did figure out. Now, for the life of me, I cant flash a TWRP Recovery in Odin nor can I flash any custom ROMS. Odin either fails or my phone is wrecked and I have to reboot the standard 5.1.1 firmware. Am I stuck without root for the time heing?
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Odin fails if reactivation lock is on. Check to see if that's on.
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Thanks for replying. I did that. No go.
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Try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=62228433
The new kernels restrict root. If you root with the stock kernel on 5.1.1 you boot loop. @freeza built a kernel allowing root.
Full instructions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=62274866
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Thank you! That did it. I was becoming obsessed! Weird thing is I had tried exactly what you said last night but didn't follow directions. Auto-boot must be unchecked in Odin. I also was loading in the PDA slot.
Thanks again.
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[Q] unable to install any type custom recovery

I was able to install custom recovery the first time i rooted my new tmobile 4.1.2 device, now after trying dn3 rom and reflashing between different FACTORY firmware flashes from 4.1.1 back to 4.1.2 several times i am unable to install any custom recovery through odin. Also tried using goo manager method for twrp.
Triangle away does not work for me.
I used stock recovery wipe /delete /wipe cache after every single time, with no luck to fix. Every time I try installing cwm or twrp(goo manager) it reboots as if everything is fine but still goes back to stock recovery. My binary count is around 12 now.
Am i doing something wrong?
This is the first time i encountered this. I have a usa t-mobile t889 but hoping the procedure to any fix is the same.
posting in here as this place is more active than tmob note 2 help.
thanks
You have tried with mobile odin or pc odin? Flash this again through pc odin, inform what happened.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rxqufvjqh9wrtbd/philz_touch_5.15.0-n7100.tar.md5
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nitol said:
You have tried with mobile odin or pc odin? Flash this again through pc odin, inform what happened.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rxqufvjqh9wrtbd/philz_touch_5.15.0-n7100.tar.md5
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i use pc odin for everything.
wow this one worked for me . appreciate it. thanks

Huge Problems Since Sammy 4.3

Hello. About three days ago, I decided to move to Sammy 4.3 from AOSP 4.3. I've had huge problems since then. I flashed the MJ5 bootloader, ARHD 20.0 and Devil kernel. The problem occurs on SpeedWizz and 20.1 as well.
My recovery partition gets corrupt. Recovery boots straight to a kind of download mode with no text/counters. I have to flash recovery from Odin in order to fix it. Sometimes it won't even work without a PIT file. Sometimes, I have to flash multiple times and it goes to the Firmware Update Failed, Try recovery mode in Odin screen. Sometimes, it says failed but works anyway. And it just gets corrupt after a small delay every time.
Any way to fix this? I'm going crazy without my recovery.
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Try flashing this through pc odin, hope it'll work.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rxqufvjqh9wrtbd/philz_touch_5.15.0-n7100.tar.md5
Regards.
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I had a number of strange problems after flashing the mj5 bootloader, all started working well again after flashing dr ketans bootloader patch (id not realised that its different to the wifi patch)
Thanks guys it was NAND corruption, apparently. I updated to the latest British ROM, and it's been fine after that.
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My warranty is almost over anyway, so.
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Failed at Odin

Hey gang, I'm stuck. I wanted to start my phone up back from stock to sell it to my friend and he wanted it not rooted. So I went to Odin and did all the steps correctly but it keeps failing. Ok last night I was able to use it and I did all the set up and even installed the update on my phone and now its on 4.3 over the air.
I wanted to put the S3Rx rom to show my friend what you can do with the phone but I can't install it because Odin keeps failing. The only thing I've noticed different was that the phone has now this "knox" app. I don't know if samsung made it harder to root your phone or what with this 4.3 upgrade.
Can someone help me solve this? what I want to do is just root my phone again. Any clues?
What are you trying to do in Odin?
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serio22 said:
What are you trying to do in Odin?
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I'm trying to root my phone with Odin. I've used this method many times and never had these issues
And what method is it? Use cf-auto root
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serio22 said:
And what method is it? Use cf-auto root
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I don't know what you mean about cf-auto root. I even tried the other method up the installing the twrp.tar file and using Odin trying to flash the Knox removal zip, and nothing seems to work.
I don't understand I used to do this all the time and it never gave me problems. I used to do this to clean out my phone with so much junk that it was chewing up my storage space.
If all you want to do is remove Knox then flash a recovery with Odin, and flash a stock ROM like stockmod 4.3, its also pre-roooted.. You cannot do that with Odin
Edit: also if you ever want to restore to stock or use root66 you need to flash the 4.3 tar versions, nothing below or it will fail everytime.. Things changed with the 4.3 official update
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serio22 said:
If all you want to do is remove Knox then flash a recovery with Odin, and flash a stock ROM like stockmod 4.3, its also pre-roooted.. You cannot do that with Odin
Edit: also if you ever want to restore to stock or use root66 you need to flash the 4.3 tar versions, nothing below or it will fail everytime.. Things changed with the 4.3 official update
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Thats what I'm trying to do, is to flash a 4.3 rom but I keep getting "Failed" when I try to run a odin, I hit "pda" and pick a stock rom
johnny quest said:
Thats what I'm trying to do, is to flash a 4.3 rom but I keep getting "Failed" when I try to run a odin, I hit "pda" and pick a stock rom
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You can't flash ROMs in Odin, only firmware.. If you want to flash a ROM you need to flash it with a custom recovery
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serio22 said:
You can't flash ROMs in Odin, only firmware.. If you want to flash a ROM you need to flash it with a custom recovery
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oh ok, so do I get the stock firmware and then put that through odin? then after reboot run a recovery to flash a rom. The hard part is trying to find a up to date firmware. I don't know where
The firmware is already installed on your phone, you don't need to flash it again.. now just flash a recovery with Odin and then flash your rom
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serio22 said:
The firmware is already installed on your phone, you don't need to flash it again.. now just flash a recovery with Odin and then flash your rom
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ok, I give it a shot, thanks again.
I'm using rom manager and I keep getting "an error occurred while flashing your recovery" but then I was looking into TWRP and it says that I must root my phone. I thought I was rooted after using a recovery in Odin
If you already flashed a recovery in Odin then just flash your ROM in recovery.. If you haven't flashed a custom recovery, flash it in Odin, then reboot to recovery and flash your rom
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serio22 said:
If you already flashed a recovery in Odin then just flash your ROM in recovery.. If you haven't flashed a custom recovery, flash it in Odin, then reboot to recovery and flash your rom
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I'm down loading a custom recovery now, I'll give it a try.
keep trying to upgrade my rom manager app but keep getting that error. but I'm going to try to flash a rom
johnny quest said:
I'm down loading a custom recovery now, I'll give it a try.
keep trying to upgrade my rom manager app but keep getting that error. but I'm going to try to flash a rom
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Because you need root to flash a recovery with those apps
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Ok, I am trying hard to get this and all I'm getting is frustrated with x amount of attempts. This is where I am: I'm on 4.3 Device status: Custom
Build: JSS15J.T999UVUEMJC
with this I can't get to flash a rom. I was trying to flash the S3Rx 3.0 aroma but whenever but it just won't and whenever I try to go to recovery through Rom Manager theres an era.
I guess I'm stuck with this so called stock 4.3 without any special features. I'm going to give it another try with another rom and see.
serio22 said:
Because you need root to flash a recovery with those apps
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Thats the thing I can't root, I keep getting failed in Odin
What error did you get in twrp?
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serio22 said:
What error did you get in twrp?
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I've never used TWRP. I don't even know how to get it. If I do go to Rom Manager it says "you must root your phone for Rom Manager to function. Superuser was not found at "/system/bin/su" or "/system/xbin/su".
thats what I get when I go into Rom Manager.
when I pick ClockworkMod Recovery it asks for either 2.x or 3.x+ I pick either one and it says that it has been set up to use your existing recovery installation. then I tap OK and when I get out of app and go back into it, it says there is an update available for CWM I click at it and then it does the installation at 100% then I get "an error occurred while trying to flash your recovery"
So basically I have no recovery that can flash any roms. I really appreciate your help and patience. I'm just going insane here I honestly believe its that upgrade I got OTA to 4.3 because all along before I had 4.1.2 and gave me no problems. I think what it was is that when I used Odin to unroot my phone I did all the installation to get back to stock, then I was wondering about updates so I went to the menu and tapped on the Software upgrade and then it was upgrading (500 and something megabytes) then it reboot and it was 4.3
You need to download the recovery from http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/d2tmo and flash it with Odin.. Keep in mind that this will trip the warranty counter just to let you know, and you cannot reset it.. After that you can flash the ROM
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serio22 said:
You need to download the recovery from http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/d2tmo and flash it with Odin.. Keep in mind that this will trip the warranty counter just to let you know, and you cannot reset it.. After that you can flash the ROM
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thank you so much, I don't mind about the trip counter. I give this a go and see, thanks.

[HELP] failing on stock install tried nearly everything

tried to unroot kept failing pressed re-partion and reset time and also tried a usb 2.0 instead of 3.0
model should be SGH-m919 as im in america and use t-mobile and in the download screen its red SGH-M919..
i had issues rooting it a while back with it showing that it failed every attempt i forget which odin i used and root file but it eventually worked after using an older version of odin... it seems random.
Im trying to make it non-void so no rootkit and i know the rest [just need it set back to factory default!]
maybe updated drivers for my windows?
maybe its my windows 8.1 but i last did this on windows 8 [both x64]
Thanks in advance im sure ill find the proper fix for this issue here.
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What stock image are you trying to Odin?
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Android_Monsters said:
What stock image are you trying to Odin?
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On this note, if you have updated to Android 4.3 and are trying to flash back to 4.2, it won't work. You'd need a stock 4.3 image to flash in Odin.
I don't know if this is what your problem is, but I do know that a lot of people have run into this road block triyng to do exactly this.

[Q] Softbricked note 2

I have searched the forums and found issues similar to mine but not exact. I was running 4.4.2 and hated the memory card issue and tried to downgrade back to 4.3. I have done this before and also rooted and unrooted my note 2 so I am fairly familiar, how ever something happened this time. I can boot into downloading but not recovery and when I turn on my phone I get stuck in boot loop, have tried flashing in odin and always fails, just read that due to knox 4.4.2 cant be downgraded. any help would be appreciated. I even tried just to flash the stock 4.4.2 to no avail
mciranger said:
I have searched the forums and found issues similar to mine but not exact. I was running 4.4.2 and hated the memory card issue and tried to downgrade back to 4.3. I have done this before and also rooted and unrooted my note 2 so I am fairly familiar, how ever something happened this time. I can boot into downloading but not recovery and when I turn on my phone I get stuck in boot loop, have tried flashing in odin and always fails, just read that due to knox 4.4.2 cant be downgraded. any help would be appreciated. I even tried just to flash the stock 4.4.2 to no avail
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Do a google search for my fix.tar and flash it. After that you will have a recovery to boot into and flash any rom you want. If you dont like the recovery you can also flash your recovery of choice.
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jlmancuso said:
Do a google search for my fix.tar and flash it. After that you will have a recovery to boot into and flash any rom you want. If you dont like the recovery you can also flash your recovery of choice.
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jlmancuso is there anywhere else to get your tar fix? each time I go there it says there are no mirrors.
Well i uploaded it on xda and no longer have it myself. I will see what i can do.
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here is the fix.tar http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53035491&postcount=287

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