Hey there!
This is my first post and I am new to android rooting.
I have gotten my s4 into a jam in which I am stuck in Liquidsmooth with no access to the app store, no space, and perhaps most all of my contacts and everything wiped.
The problem started when I decided to take my phone which was rooted but had no ROMs yet and to back it up. I went into CWM recovery to backup and it failed because I did not have enough space. (probably from having a number of other backups). Anyways, I tried rebooting the phone and it failed due to the fact it probably tried to reboot the failed backup I had just performed? So then I tried to tackle the dilemma by installing TWRP instead because I figured it would get rid of CWM files that were taking up the space. I also flashed Liquidsmooth through Goomanager as well. When I tried to install LiquidSmooth and GApps in TWRP it failed again because I still did not have enough space or something. It just kept saying setupwizard and GApps were failing to initalize. However, when I install LiquidSmooth by itself it boots fine but with none of my contacts or previous apps (TI backup, Goo, TWRP, anything, etc...). Somewhere along the line I did a factory reset and format data in TWRP thinking it would free up space. It did not.
So now I am stuck with Liquidsmooth with no apps and no way to access apps w/o the Play Store as far as I know, with no contacts or anything. I have no idea what to do. Should I unroot or reroot my phone? If so, how?
Please Help
Thanks!
UPDATE
UPDATE: I really just want to unroot and reroot my sg4. Ive tried downloading the stock firmware for my phone (SCH-i545 4.2.2 verizon) so that I can use ODIN to reinstall the stock firmware, but whenever I try and go to unzip it I get an error saying the file is corrupt or invalid. Ive tried it multiple times and each time it takes around an hour to download. Any suggestions or other places I can get this file?
This is very frustrating. Any help is greatly appreciated.
crgarne said:
UPDATE: I really just want to unroot and reroot my sg4. Ive tried downloading the stock firmware for my phone (SCH-i545 4.2.2 verizon) so that I can use ODIN to reinstall the stock firmware, but whenever I try and go to unzip it I get an error saying the file is corrupt or invalid. Ive tried it multiple times and each time it takes around an hour to download. Any suggestions or other places I can get this file?
This is very frustrating. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Hi, you may get better help on the Galaxy S4 forum. This is for the S4 Active.
Many S4s...avoid an expensive paperweight
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I was able to use theme chooser themes before no problem, now if i decide to change theme it doesn't boot after reboot and leaves me no choice but wipe and reload.
I always make sure that the theme i download is compatible with CM10.2/Android 4.3 but all i get is bootloops...
Any solutions? I haven't backed up my apps for a while so i've got lots of new apps and tasker profiles that haven't been backed up too so what can i do????
Strange, I've used a few themes on latest PA, all seem to work fine so far.
To get your Rom back, try to reflash the same Rom.zip again without wiping anything.
Make a nandroid backup anyway, in case the above doesn't work and you have to do the worst case full wipe. there are methods to manually extract all your saved data from a nandroid backup
Hi, I recently was on paranoid android and was getting ready to sell my galaxy s4 I9505 so restored a back up I made of the stock rom which was what came on the phone when I bought it.
I restored the back up, but once the phone had booted it was really slow and I kept getting loads of error messages saying different processes had kept failing. The same as in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...restoring-stock-rom-cwm-t2882455#post55566370
I then booted back into recovery and wiped data and dalvik cache, which after rebooting sorted the problem. The device was running smoothly and so I went on downloading my apps from the play store.
But I've since noticed apps like swift key, instagram, whatsapp and snap chat seem to be having issues. I don't have any SD card installed just the phones internal memory, which I have ample space (9GB) but whatsapp won't let me download images.
Snapchat says I need to install an sd before viewing video and Instgram mentions I need an SD before being able to take a picture.
Also the language pack for Swiftkey won't download and when I try and download a theme it says it can't save it.
So it seems there's something wrong with the way it's trying to store certain files. Has anyone else come across this yet?
I'm planning on following the whole unroot process anyway documented here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2265477 which I'm hoping will fix it.
But I wondered if anyone knew what it is that's caused it?
Rezaei12 said:
Hi, I recently was on paranoid android and was getting ready to sell my galaxy s4 I9505 so restored a back up I made of the stock rom which was what came on the phone when I bought it.
I restored the back up, but once the phone had booted it was really slow and I kept getting loads of error messages saying different processes had kept failing. The same as in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...restoring-stock-rom-cwm-t2882455#post55566370
I then booted back into recovery and wiped data and dalvik cache, which after rebooting sorted the problem. The device was running smoothly and so I went on downloading my apps from the play store.
But I've since noticed apps like swift key, instagram, whatsapp and snap chat seem to be having issues. I don't have any SD card installed just the phones internal memory, which I have ample space (9GB) but whatsapp won't let me download images.
Snapchat says I need to install an sd before viewing video and Instgram mentions I need an SD before being able to take a picture.
Also the language pack for Swiftkey won't download and when I try and download a theme it says it can't save it.
So it seems there's something wrong with the way it's trying to store certain files. Has anyone else come across this yet?
I'm planning on following the whole unroot process anyway documented here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2265477 which I'm hoping will fix it.
But I wondered if anyone knew what it is that's caused it?
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Did you install the stock rom before or have you just restored your old backup?
If I were you, I would clean everything, install the stock sammy firmware (with latest base) and after that restore your backup
Tkkg1994 said:
Did you install the stock rom before or have you just restored your old backup?
If I were you, I would clean everything, install the stock sammy firmware (with latest base) and after that restore your backup
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No it's not a rom, I just restored my old back up of my OS before I started flashing any custom roms.
I did a factory reset on the phone hoping it might resolve it. Which hasn't, but I'm not sure now if it's got rid of CWM. Would as I can't seem to get it to boot into recovery (it maybe just me not releasing the volume up button at the right time).
Think I'm going to have to flash a clean stock firmware following the unroot process and hope that fixes it.
Hey Everyone, I just flashed the Extreme Syndicate L v5 (DEODEXED/THEME STARTED) rom last night on my verizon galaxy S5 and everything was working well until I made a mistake. I noticed that there were two battery icons so I force uninstalled 3minit... I did not know that this was also the ui. So now when the rom loads it keeps popping an error saying "Unfortunatley, System UI has stopped". I had safestrap installed before the flash and did a backup but now I only have access to Recovery and Download mode.
My question is, would it be safe to flash extreme syndicate using odin? Is there another way to just push the ui apk using android studio/cli? I've done a bunch of searching already but since I'm new to Android SDK I don't really know what I'm looking for and need some direction. I'm guessing I can't do a restore from my backed up files because safestrap was removed.
Any help or direction would be would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
buro3 said:
Hey Everyone, I just flashed the Extreme Syndicate L v5 (DEODEXED/THEME STARTED) rom last night on my verizon galaxy S5 and everything was working well until I made a mistake. I noticed that there were two battery icons so I force uninstalled 3minit... I did not know that this was also the ui. So now when the rom loads it keeps popping an error saying "Unfortunatley, System UI has stopped". I had safestrap installed before the flash and did a backup but now I only have access to Recovery and Download mode.
My question is, would it be safe to flash extreme syndicate using odin? Is there another way to just push the ui apk using android studio/cli? I've done a bunch of searching already but since I'm new to Android SDK I don't really know what I'm looking for and need some direction. I'm guessing I can't do a restore from my backed up files because safestrap was removed.
Any help or direction would be would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
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I was able to access safestrap again after Reverting back to NK2 Kernal this issue is resolved.
Hi,
I'm going crazy ever since I factory reset my S5 Duos after getting stuck in a bootloop. My Settings app seems to have become totally different and I don't know how to fix it. I've
- lost two tabs (the Quick Settings and the Applications tabs)
- and the Menu (three dots)
- plus the Status Bar now sits transparently on top of the app (not the app below it) .
- The search bar is in a different place and
- some settings options are missing (e.g. Printing)
- one of the icons is too large (Download Booster) though I suspect a themeing error for that one).
Now I have reloaded one heck of a lot of apps (>300) and xposed modules plus trialled others then unistalled them so it may not be the factory reset per se. I do recall a recent OTA Security Update too (I think it was). Would that account for anything?
I've tried Googling but get swamped with too many generic topics. I've reset my theme to default and deselected all xposed modules and rebooted. No effect on the Settings errors (even the overly large icon)
Anyone shed some light on any of the above? Help would be greatly appreciated. I'll post some screen shots to aid in recognizing what's happened (pre reset shot.. actually a shot of my S5 not my S5 Duos but the two were the same bar Dual SIM options…. a current screen shot showing the problems and a crop of my status bar from my homescreen to help pick out the overlapping error which .only appears with Settings (no other app)).
Regards Mallow1
Galaxy S5 Duos (G900FD) running KitKat 4.4.2 stock Rom (rooted)
Mallow1 said:
Hi,
I'm going crazy ever since I factory reset my S5 Duos after getting stuck in a bootloop. My Settings app seems to have become totally different and I don't know how to fix it. I've
- lost two tabs (the Quick Settings and the Applications tabs)
- and the Menu (three dots)
- plus the Status Bar now sits transparently on top of the app (not the app below it) .
- The search bar is in a different place and
- some settings options are missing (e.g. Printing)
- one of the icons is too large (Download Booster) though I suspect a themeing error for that one).
Now I have reloaded one heck of a lot of apps (>300) and xposed modules plus trialled others then unistalled them so it may not be the factory reset per se. I do recall a recent OTA Security Update too (I think it was). Would that account for anything?
I've tried Googling but get swamped with too many generic topics. I've reset my theme to default and deselected all xposed modules and rebooted. No effect on the Settings errors (even the overly large icon)
Anyone shed some light on any of the above? Help would be greatly appreciated. I'll post some screen shots to aid in recognizing what's happened (pre reset shot.. actually a shot of my S5 not my S5 Duos but the two were the same bar Dual SIM options…. a current screen shot showing the problems and a crop of my status bar from my homescreen to help pick out the overlapping error which .only appears with Settings (no other app)).
Regards Mallow1
Galaxy S5 Duos (G900FD) running KitKat 4.4.2 stock Rom (rooted)
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That does not look stock so I'd suggest reflashing stock, a factory reset is not sufficient for a reflash.
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Thanks for your reply Rakuu.
I'm really hoping to avoid a full reflash having just done a factory reset last month and full reinstallation of everything. My ROM is stock (I'm just a heavy themer).
One option may be for me to get hold of a stock apk for Settings if someone with a S5 Duos would extract it and PM it to me. In the interim, I'll look at extracting my own from the factory reset partition (if that is possible… I'm quite a noob on Android after many years here on the WM side… even as far back as the old XDAs!).
That would at least eliminate anything I may have loaded then uninstalled leaving behind the mess. Keep your fingers crossed for me. .
Mallow1
Mallow1 said:
Thanks for your reply Rakuu.
I'm really hoping to avoid a full reflash having just done a factory reset last month and full reinstallation of everything. My ROM is stock (I'm just a heavy themer).
One option may be for me to get hold of a stock apk for Settings if someone with a S5 Duos would extract it and PM it to me. In the interim, I'll look at extracting my own from the factory reset partition (if that is possible… I'm quite a noob on Android after many years here on the WM side… even as far back as the old XDAs!).
That would at least eliminate anything I may have loaded then uninstalled leaving behind the mess. Keep your fingers crossed for me. .
Mallow1
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There is no "factory reset partition", factory resetting doesn't flash anything, it wipes /data and /cache, if you brick factory resetting won't do anything, you will still be bricked.
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Hi Rakuu,
Thanks for that insight. Greatly appreciated. It all adds to the personal knowledge base and big thanks to you for your time in replying
So back to my options:
-stick with what I have
-flash a new ROM
-install a new Settings apk if I can source an appropriate one
-live in hope of additional solution
Regards Mallow1
You *might* find the stock settings app in one of the zips in this thread......
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3286441
(I can't remember if I included it or not, but it should be there)
For info.....The included apps were ripped from a stock 4.4.2 firmware.....
Edit.....If I included them (there are 2 possibilities....Sec Settings apk and Sec Settings Provider apk) they'll be in the 'SystemPrivApp' zip as that is their location in the firmware.....
http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg
Hi KR39,
I appreciate your reply. I'll head off there and investigate. Just a double check first, this is re S5 Duos not merely the S5? I'm just cautious esp as XDA doesn't seem to have an S5 Duos forum… I guess we are a rare breed!
M1
Duos? As in dual sim card?
I don't *think* that'll make a difference unless there's a specific section of the settings that deals with the sim cards.....it's certainly not present in the archived app if that is the case.....
What *might* be more critical is what version of Android your device is running as Samsung might have changed critical areas of the Touchwiz framework between 4.4.2 and 5.0.0 (bearing in mind the changeover to 'Material Design').......
If you do try this, make a backup of everything first.
Make sure to delete/remove the original settings app AND the associated ODEX file when you copy the new settings app into the priv-app folder.
Also don't forget to set the correct permissions for the freshly copied app.
And then REBOOT the device in order for the new app to become active......
It may be that none of this works, in which case the only option may very well be to odin flash back to full stock.
http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg
Yes Duos as in dual SIM hence my pics show two sig strengths (bar the one I state is a shot from my S5 not my S5 Duos).
Ergo I wouldn't wish to flash anything not for the Duos (sorry folks I can't find an S5 Duos xda forum and an S5 is closest). So yes, the Settings app includes dual sim specific options.
Ok, so, so far, yes dual sim, yes need dual sim settings app and I need to educate myself re Odex or non-odex.
Overview so far… I'm not looking to get more complex… just a quick fix.
M1
It's looking like you're going to have to use Titanium Backup (or similar) to.....
1) backup everything you need.
2) make a recovery flashable zip (using TiBu) of that backup.
Then....
3) Odin flash back to full stock
4) re-root and flash a custom recovery, then use that recovery to...
5) flash the 'backup' zip to return your device to +/-90% the way it was before you started.....
I would leave the xposed mods and modules entirely out of that backup just in case it was one of them that caused the problems....you can always apply them individually and manually after you have your device up and running again.
The backup or update zip should just contain the playstore apps and their associated data......
http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg
Thanks KR, my issues while irritating aren't major enough for me to reflash my whole set up just yet (I may wait until CM13 is out of nightly beta only and xposed modules are fully MM compatible before I finally leave KK 4.4.2 behind). Thanks for your step process it'll be useful when I do change as I'll do it in steps as an educational process.
In the interim I'll rummage through my Ti backups and see if I can simply restore the settings app from there in isolation… might that work do you think?
Regards M1
Very good question.....to the best of my knowledge and limited TiBu experience, it will *definitely* back up (and restore) user installed playstore apps.....but I'm doubtful about system apps......
I've created update zips using TiBu in the past, and just out of interest, I've extracted them.....having done this, I've discovered that all my user apps are included inside the zip as actual app files, but I've *never* come across a system app......
My best guess is that when TiBu backs up apps, it does it in two ways.....
For user apps, it creates a backup of the app itself as well as it's data, but for system apps, it is only able to back up the data (anybody reading this, please correct me if I'm wrong).......
http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg
Yep my Ti backs up sys apps (option under backup setting preferences). Sadly I'd only got 1 back up as max history setting and that Settings apk resulted in the same view. Hayho… back to creative thinking. Next level is to hope another Duos user can extract the Settings apk for me (if 4.4.2) and send it to me… anyone out there?
Good luck fella....sorry I can't help out on that one......
Have you tried downloading the correct firmware from Sammobile or Samsung-updates and extracting it from that?
http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg
Hi KR,
Both great suggestions and gives me plenty of new scope to explore this. I'll also look into simply editing what I've currently got (extract, decompile, edit, recompile etc) as per:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2184207
Your time and help has been much appreciated.
All the best Mallow1