[Q] Where can I get the stock recovery file for the i9505? - Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi again,
I was just wondering if anyone knew where I could get my hands on the stock recovery file for the Samsung Galaxy S4 i9505? I need it soon, unless flashing the stock firmware would reset the recovery to stock recovery.
I'm currently using CWM recovery.

EmmaFrost said:
Hi again,
I was just wondering if anyone knew where I could get my hands on the stock recovery file for the Samsung Galaxy S4 i9505? I need it soon, unless flashing the stock firmware would reset the recovery to stock recovery.
I'm currently using CWM recovery.
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Hi,
Look HERE
Look for the one that matches your current firmware.

OK well thanks for the link but my phone is ZHUAME1. Does that matter or can I use any stock recovery file?
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EmmaFrost said:
OK well thanks for the link but my phone is ZHUAME1. Does that matter or can I use any stock recovery file?
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Hi,
Try asking HERE

malybru said:
Hi,
Try asking HERE
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Sorry no that's just firmware. I need the stock recovery file so I replace CWM with the original stock recovery.

EmmaFrost said:
Sorry no that's just firmware. I need the stock recovery file so I replace CWM with the original stock recovery.
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Hi,
I know.
I was just suggesting that you ask in that thread if the firmware will replace your custom recovery.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2250824
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stuck in odin mode I337 At&T

Hello there. i have samsung I337 with stuck in odin mode menu. when you power it in normal mode it has "could not do normal boot. odim mode"
trying to flash it with ODIN,but always has FAIL and error. I need some help, what can i do with that?
Sorry for posting with no answer but I have the same issue with my tmobile sgs4 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2441509). It looks like I tried everything and nothing is working :/
kviaff said:
Hello there. i have samsung I337 with stuck in odin mode menu. when you power it in normal mode it has "could not do normal boot. odim mode"
trying to flash it with ODIN,but always has FAIL and error. I need some help, what can i do with that?
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What happened in the first place? What firmware were you on?
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HiTideBlastoise said:
What happened in the first place? What firmware were you on?
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1st i rooted it, then make recovery. 3. i unzip firmware to phone main folder.and when i reboot it i had this problem.
phone has MF3
No offense to anyone......but can nobody read that comes to this site?
kviaff said:
1st i rooted it, then make recovery. 3. i unzip firmware to phone main folder.and when i reboot it i had this problem.
phone has MF3
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You cannot flash a recovery to MF3. Your options see J-tag on mobiletechvideos.com or go to best buy with Samsung experience to reflash MF3
Edit: glad that is solved
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OMG it was so easy....you just take Power+home+Vol down, and then you see message Vol up and Vol down...choose Vol down!!!!
kviaff said:
OMG it was so easy....you just take Power+home+Vol down, and then you see message Vol up and Vol down...choose Vol down!!!!
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You still do not have a recovery, by flashing a custom recovery and it failing, you lost stock recovery.
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HiTideBlastoise said:
You still do not have a recovery, by flashing a custom recovery and it failing, you lost stock recovery.
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and what about Goomanager method?
kviaff said:
and what about Goomanager method?
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That will not work! There is no custom recovery for mf3. You still have no recovery, you will need to find a best buy with Samsung experience to reflash MF3 if you want stock recovery. Once again, you cannot install a custom recovery. Your phone booted fine but you will not be able to go into recovery since you don't have one. I believe you will go into Odin downloadable mode.
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HiTideBlastoise said:
That will not work! There is no custom recovery for mf3. You still have no recovery, you will need to find a best buy with Samsung experience to reflash MF3 if you want stock recovery. Once again, you cannot install a custom recovery. Your phone booted fine but you will not be able to go into recovery since you don't have one. I believe you will go into Odin downloadable mode.
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so i havent any chance to make my phone Russian language?
kviaff said:
so i havent any chance to make my phone Russian language?
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That I can answer, if the only is through a custom recovery, then no.
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Can't update OTR after flashing back original

I rooted my phone and install a custome rom but today I tried to flash back my original rom I backup and tried to update my phone through kies and it says my firmware can't update due to a change in my firmware. My phone is still rooted and I still have a custome recovery install. Is that causing the problem? Sorry I'm new to all this. Thanks.
shinryu204 said:
I rooted my phone and install a custome rom but today I tried to flash back my original rom I backup and tried to update my phone through kies and it says my firmware can't update due to a change in my firmware. My phone is still rooted and I still have a custome recovery install. Is that causing the problem? Sorry I'm new to all this. Thanks.
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That's exactly the issue. If your device status is listed as modified, then Kies will not work. You basically forfeit your option to update through that program. I think unrooting would help, or just wait and flash the new 4.3 ROM that will be available soon.
This should have been posted in q&a. It would be helpful to know what specific phone you have. You say you've flashed back to the stock Rom but you still have a custom recovery? How did you flash back to stock?
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I have a Samsung galaxy s4 Im377. What I did was, I used twrp to restore back my original firmware I don't think that will restore back Odin back to my phone.
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jd1639 said:
This should have been posted in q&a. It would be helpful to know what specific phone you have. You say you've flashed back to the stock Rom but you still have a custom recovery? How did you flash back to stock?
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If you want to restore back to stock and remove the custom recovery you should use Odin. That should let you get the ota firmware upgrade.
So I have to use Odin to put back my original firmware? Also I'm not to sure how to put back Odin to stock recovery.
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jd1639 said:
If you want to restore back to stock and remove the custom recovery you should use Odin. That should let you get the ota firmware upgrade.
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When you flash the stock firmware with odin it'll put the stock recovery back on at the time. You don't have to do anything special.
shinryu204 said:
So I have to use Odin to put back my original firmware? Also I'm not to sure how to put back Odin to stock recovery.
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Sorry for the newbie question. How do I use Odin to flash my original backup which I use trwp to create?
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jd1639 said:
When you flash the stock firmware with odin it'll put the stock recovery back on at the time. You don't have to do anything special.
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You don't flash the backup with odin. Get the stock firmware from sammobile.com for your specific device and carrier.
So I would download Odin to my pc than download and install the original firmware with odin? Do you have a step by step on flashing with odin? Thanks!
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shinryu204 said:
So I would download Odin to my pc than download and install the original firmware with odin? Do you have a step by step on flashing with odin? Thanks!
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The attached guide is not for the i337 but the process is the same. Just don't use any linked files, except for Odin. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26056924
Thank you all for all your help. Awesome forum.
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shinryu204 said:
Thank you all for all your help. Awesome forum.
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You're welcome

[Q] I need assistance please!

I want to update my i9505 to the latest android 4.3 through Odin but I don't want the new Knox bootloader, could someone please give me any instructions of how I could achieve this? I don't want to install the "custom" stock roms.
*EDIT*: Could someone also give me instructions on how to compile the edited firmware.
I tried to Google it but to no avail.
I shall be grateful to anyone who helps.
This thread will be useful:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2250824
In order to remain on your old bootloader you will need to root. Any reason why you don't want to? Root, install a custom recovery then flash the pre rooted rom. They are stock based.
nikzDHD said:
This thread will be useful:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2250824
In order to remain on your old bootloader you will need to root. Any reason why you don't want to? Root, install a custom recovery then flash the pre rooted rom. They are stock based.
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Thank you for your reply, I'm rooted with custom recovery. However I wish to create myself a Odin copy for emergency purposes, I currently have the official MGA firmware update for Odin. I want to create a Odin flash-able firmware update without the new bootloader,
EDIT: After going through the thread all the firmware files include the new know bootloader ;(
As far as I know you can't flash via odin. I suggest you flash the CWM version this has no bootloader. As your already rooted using the knox free cwm version is the safest bet at the moment.
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nikzDHD said:
As far as I know you can't flash via odin. I suggest you flash the CWM version this has no bootloader. As your already rooted using the knox free cwm version is the safest bet at the moment.
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Does the flashable one contain the modem and everything?
Thank you for replying.
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Battlehero said:
Does the flashable one contain the modem and everything?
Thank you for replying.
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No modem, you can install that separately via Odin as we can't flash modems using CWM. It contains stock rom and stock kernel.
nikzDHD said:
No modem, you can install that separately via Odin as we can't flash modems using CWM. It contains stock rom and stock kernel.
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Ok thank you for your assistance.
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I'm looking for 4.3 Full Nandroid backup

I'm looking for 4.3 Full nandroid Backup i9505
nomenore said:
I'm looking for 4.3 Full nandroid Backup i9505
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Why would you need someone else's nandroid?
Why don't you just simply download a fresh install package?
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ranger4740 said:
Why would you need someone else's nandroid?
Why don't you just simply download a fresh install package?
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My version of my bootloader 4.4.2 NA5 new and do not come old
maybe you can get back with nandroid
nomenore said:
My version of my bootloader 4.4.2 NA5 new and do not come old
maybe you can get back with nandroid
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Just download any custom rom install package and flash with custom recovery.
Obviously you already have custom recovery.
I don't believe bootloader version matters for custom rom.
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ranger4740 said:
Just download any custom rom install package and flash with custom recovery.
Obviously you already have custom recovery.
I don't believe bootloader version matters for custom rom.
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i want flash miui but my bootloader new
I asked everyone, but you can not change the bootloader version
nomenore said:
i want flash miui but my bootloader new
I asked everyone, but you can not change the bootloader version
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Sorry I don't know about miui never used it on sg4, I used it on HTC desire HD and never liked it.
With out knowing myself, can you not flash custom rom at all,? have you actually tried? Does it error out while install any custom rom?
I'm not advanced enough with sg4 and I'm still on old bootloader so no idea about this BS bootloader issues so I'll back out now and I hope someone smarter can help.
(Can't remember having these BS issues with my old HTC's)
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thanks
Someone else's nandroid isn't going to fix this issue for you. Once you've got the new bootloader, that's it.

CWM On Newest S4?

I tried doing it with goomanager and it tells me there isn't a version for my phone. How come?
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Cudeh said:
I tried doing it with goomanager and it tells me there isn't a version for my phone. How come?
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probably because it hasnt been updaed in GooManager to support the L720T.
I believe there is a TAR file that you can flasg via ODIN. Philz has a great recovery that works and is based on CWM.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2262999
check here...use ODIN 1.85 to flash the latest .tar
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chris-allen said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2262999
check here...use ODIN 1.85 to flash the latest .tar
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Thanks! So is my Galaxy limited when it comes to ROMs and stuff then? OR can I use the normal s4 roms?
Cudeh said:
Thanks! So is my Galaxy limited when it comes to ROMs and stuff then? OR can I use the normal s4 roms?
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I cant find the TAR file link on that thread can you please give it to me?
Cudeh said:
Thanks! So is my Galaxy limited when it comes to ROMs and stuff then? OR can I use the normal s4 roms?
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You can use any s4 rom I believe, but you will lose the Spark function of the T model if the rom doesn't support it.
Main thing, have a good Nandroid of your working touchwiz system, flash new rom, if you boot loop, nandroid back to your working system.
Before you install a ROM and after making a nandroid. Restore it to make sure it backed up correctly.
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Make a note of your firmware and baseband as you may need to reflash to the correct firmware in order to have the best experience. I'm still on MK5. I have decided to be patient and wait. The spark is very noticeable compared to my s3 (i had).

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