So I rarely ever root my android devices. Recently bought an S4 AT&T variant (SGH-i337) and felt to locked, so I rooted. Everything was fine, until I mistakingly deleted the system files. This ended up making me lose root as well. So now my phone won't boot, but I can somehow get into TWRP recovery mode. Problem is its not rooted and I can't flash any rom. I don't have a PC easily accessible. So I would like to know if there is a way to root through command line. I am able to upload files onto the phone via adb. Any help would be much appreciated.
Flash super su-busybox in your recovery. Do you have a nandroid you can flash.
Ps, you don't need to be rooted for twrp. If you have a nandroid that's what I'd flash to get your system back.
jd1639 said:
Flash super su-busybox in your recovery. Do you have a nandroid you can flash.
Ps, you don't need to be rooted for twrp. If you have a nandroid that's what I'd flash to get your system back.
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You beat me to the punch. Agreed.
jd1639 said:
Flash super su-busybox in your recovery. Do you have a nandroid you can flash.
Ps, you don't need to be rooted for twrp. If you have a nandroid that's what I'd flash to get your system back.
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Just to make sure I understand you, nandroid is the backup I originally made right? Unfortunately I don't have access to my computer from where I am so I can't get it. I am curious as to how twrp didnt get erased after I stupidly deleted the system. So with the nandroid it shouldn't give me the samsung system warning about unauthorized files right? And I appreciate your input by the way!
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avaldez31890 said:
Just to make sure I understand you, nandroid is the backup I originally made right? Unfortunately I don't have access to my computer from where I am so I can't get it. I am curious as to how twrp didnt get erased after I stupidly deleted the system. So with the nandroid it shouldn't give me the samsung system warning about unauthorized files right? And I appreciate your input by the way!
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Nandroid would be the backup you did in twrp. Usually it would be on your sd card. I'm not sure what you have on your computer. Twrp isn't erased because it's on a different partition than your system partition.
In twrp, do you have any files when you click on restore? Those would be the nandriods
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Nandroid would be the backup you did in twrp. Usually it would be on your sd card. I'm not sure what you have on your computer. Twrp isn't erased because it's on a different partition than your system partition.
In twrp, do you have any files when you click on restore? Those would be the nandriods
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Ahh, yes. I have that, except I backed it up on my computer instead because it took up a lot of room. I won't have access to my computer until friday night. I should be able to push that using adb right, because my phone isn't recognized any other way unfortunately. But thanks for the clarification. I will also try super user again. I tried one, but maybe I'll try it again to see if that'll work.
avaldez31890 said:
Ahh, yes. I have that, except I backed it up on my computer instead because it took up a lot of room. I won't have access to my computer until friday night. I should be able to push that using adb right, because my phone isn't recognized any other way unfortunately. But thanks for the clarification. I will also try super user again. I tried one, but maybe I'll try it again to see if that'll work.
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Superuser isn't going to do you any good. You need to flash the nandriod to get your system back.
jd1639 said:
Superuser isn't going to do you any good. You need to flash the nandriod to get your system back.
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I figured as much. You are also helping me on another post so I appreciate letting me know about odin. I've heard of it but I use unix machines. Hopefully my job can let me borrow one. I'll let you know how flashing the backup goes. By the way. How does odin work. Do I just connect my phone and it downloads the stock rom, or what?
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I figured as much. You are also helping me on another post so I appreciate letting me know about odin. I've heard of it but I use unix machines. Hopefully my job can let me borrow one. I'll let you know how flashing the backup goes. By the way. How does odin work. Do I just connect my phone and it downloads the stock rom, or what?
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Not that easy. You'll need to get the stock firmware. I use sammobile.com for firmware. You have to register but it's free. You down load a zip file. Use 7-zip to extract the .tar.md5 file from it. That's what you'll use on Odin. Then follow this guide with the file you downloaded http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1652398/url]
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Not that easy. You'll need to get the stock firmware. I use sammobile.com for firmware. You have to register but it's free. You down load a zip file. Use 7-zip to extract the .tar.md5 file from it. That's what you'll use on Odin. Then follow this guide with the file you downloaded http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24
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Thanks a lot for the advice. I really appreciate it. I'll let you know how it all turns out.
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Thanks a lot for the advice. I really appreciate it. I'll let you know how it all turns out.
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No problem. Hope out all works out for you. Odin is a good thing to learn. You never know when you might need it
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Thanks a lot for the advice. I really appreciate it. I'll let you know how it all turns out.
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Hey the url I linked to isn't working for some reason. The Odin guide is in the i727 development forum, it's one of the stickies. It's the best Odin guide I've found.
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No problem. Hope out all works out for you. Odin is a good thing to learn. You never know when you might need it
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Hey the url I linked to isn't working for some reason. The Odin guide is in the i727 development forum, it's one of the stickies. It's the best Odin guide I've found.
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Oh ok. I was able to get to the link. The firmware download link seems a bit confusing because its not readily apparent where to get my specific firmware, but I'm at work, so can't put too much time on it at the moment. I'll ask later if I have any problems. Thanks for the heads up.
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No problem. Hope out all works out for you. Odin is a good thing to learn. You never know when you might need it
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Hey the url I linked to isn't working for some reason. The Odin guide is in the i727 development forum, it's one of the stickies. It's the best Odin guide I've found.
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I was able to use odin to do it. Only thing is I feel like I had an mdl but I flashed the mdb because thats all they had for 4.2.2. It worked fine. Just thought I should mention that to see what you think.
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I was able to use odin to do it. Only thing is I feel like I had an mdl but I flashed the mdb because thats all they had for 4.2.2. It worked fine. Just thought I should mention that to see what you think.
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Glad it worked. Mdb should be fine. See how it works and if you find you're missing anything try the mdl. Mdl is a little newer. Now make sure you root it and freeze the apks that would update it to mf3
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I was able to use odin to do it. Only thing is I feel like I had an mdl but I flashed the mdb because thats all they had for 4.2.2. It worked fine. Just thought I should mention that to see what you think.
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MDL is required in order to flash several of the ROMs here on XDA. you can get the MDL firmware here. scroll down to the bottom of the page and enter the required code to begin the download.
as jd1639 said, be sure to root and freeze the necessary apps after first boot up. keep the sim card out and wifi off until this is complete. cheers
Thanks for letting me know! But I gotta ask. I never got a clear answer searching online; what is the firmware exactly?
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avaldez31890 said:
Thanks for letting me know! But I gotta ask. I never got a clear answer searching online; what is the firmware exactly?
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The firmware is the operating system. It's like Windows or Linux.
Umm, that doesnt sound right. Im very familiar with unix, and ive never heard anyone interchangeably call linux a firmware. Online they definitely make that distinction. If you're saying that then its more like a part of the OS or connected to it somehow? If not then I really gotta reevaluate what I think I know lmao.
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Umm, that doesnt sound right. Im very familiar with unix, and ive never heard anyone interchangeably call linux a firmware. Online they definitely make that distinction. If you're saying that then its more like a part of the OS or connected to it somehow? If not then I really gotta reevaluate what I think I know lmao.
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Technically your right. The firmware puts the operating system on the phone
Hmm. I appreciate the clarification
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So i used goo manager to install twrp on my att s4. I was running the new firmware. MF3. I rebooted my phone to find my self set right to download mode and it says, Could not do normal boot! Please help me, i would like the re flash that firmware but cant find it.
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So i used goo manager to install twrp on my att s4. I was running the new firmware. MF3. I rebooted my phone to find my self set right to download mode and it says, Could not do normal boot! Please help me, i would like the re flash that firmware but cant find it.
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so you were rooted and running MF3, you simply installed twrp via goo manager and the device only boots to the error/warning screen, right? normally, flashing the stock firmware via odin clears up this issue but in this case, you cannot flash back to MDL or MDB from MF3, nor is there an MF3 firmware tar that i've seen anywhere. hmmm...
Link me to a stock MF3 recovery.img and I can make it a .tar for you...
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Link me to a stock MF3 recovery.img and I can make it a .tar for you...
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Yea, good luck with that! Linking to the image I mean.
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Yea, good luck with that! Linking to the image I mean.
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Someone pulled it about a week back trying to make an MF3 ROM that doesn't lock things down... I'm not looking for it, my phone has and always will work...
Try this open back panel take out batt. get you s/number put everything back together and run kies emergency recovety. All you need is module number and s/number and it will reinstall back to stock had a similar issue my first hr with my SGS4
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Try this open back panel take out batt. get you s/number put everything back together and run kies emergency recovety. All you need is module number and s/number and it will reinstall back to stock had a similar issue my first hr with my SGS4
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That will also work, but wasn't he rooted on MF3? I've stopped following XDA for the most part since i have to lay low... MF3 has been rooted after a full update to it?
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That will also work, but wasn't he rooted on MF3? I've stopped following XDA for the most part since i have to lay low... MF3 has been rooted after a full update to it?
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Mf3 has been rooted, but no way to put on a custom recovery or return to stock via odin. There's no firmware available.
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That will also work, but wasn't he rooted on MF3? I've stopped following XDA for the most part since i have to lay low... MF3 has been rooted after a full update to it?
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Rooted, yes, but no exploit or recovery.
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Mf3 has been rooted, but no way to put on a custom recovery or return to stock via odin. There's no firmware available.
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xBeerdroiDx said:
Rooted, yes, but no exploit or recovery.
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Kies it is then...
@OP
Uninstall the Samsung USB Drivers
Run CCleaner
Reboot
Install Kies and do an Emergency firmware recovery with the phone in download mode
Ljs is hopefully here to stay.
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Ljs is hopefully here to stay.
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Never know...
No luck
xBeerdroiDx said:
so you were rooted and running MF3, you simply installed twrp via goo manager and the device only boots to the error/warning screen, right? normally, flashing the stock firmware via odin clears up this issue but in this case, you cannot flash back to MDL or MDB from MF3, nor is there an MF3 firmware tar that i've seen anywhere. hmmm...
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Ya I have looked every where for the MF3 firmware no one has it. I'll try the kies idea
nicholascap said:
Ya I have looked every where for the MF3 firmware no one has it. I'll try the kids idea
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Look in here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2378946
That recovery.img can be made into a .tar
EDIT - I dont see recovery.img, use KIES
Recovery img
Where on that page is the recovery.img? Is the it rom file?
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Look in here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2378946
That recovery.img can be made into a .tar
EDIT - I dont see recovery.img, use KIES
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But will the efuses allow it to be flashed?
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Where on that page is the recovery.img? Is the it rom file?
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I was mistaken, it's not there... Those are just dumps of his partitions... You are having a reccovery issue, since the stock 3e recovery is gone...
Just use KIES, follow my steps a few posts back to prevent a connectivity issue.
can you see if you can find that for me. thx
You have been banned for the following reason:
Hi Quasi, I hear Rootzwiki.com is very welcoming to new members.
Date the ban will be lifted: Never
You're going to have to better than that... I can and will create as many accounts as I please, spam if I want, and do everything I can to make your job harder.
Since yall have done me wrong in the past numerous times, it's my duty now to do yall wrong.
I told you you banned the wrong one...
KIES
KIES will only pull up a old firmware not the new one so it wont flash. IDK what to do now,
First off I apologize if this is in the wrong section or has been asked before, I couldn't really find the answer I'm looking for.
So I have my S4 (4.2.2 if it matters) rooted and TWRP recovery loaded on it. I was getting the ATT update message and I kept hitting ignore or remind me latter, however I noticed last night it starts to try to install and restart without giving me an option to cancel it. I quickly remove the battery to prevent my phone from updating.
My question is, how do I stop this update when I turn my phone back on? I don't want it to update the firmware and lock my boot loader. Or am I making a big deal over nothing?
Thanks in advance
Google how to stop ota i337 xda
You're not over reacting
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Google how to stop ota i337 xda
You're not over reacting
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Thanks so much.
Just one more think, I just want to make sure that when I turn my phone back on that the update won't finish installing (it was in the process of installing when I shut it off).
Thanks again for all the help.
I'm assuming that u have MDB/MDL firmware. ......Take your Att sim card out. ... u need to root your phone. ... install Titanium back up and go to Att software update app ....back up first just incase u need it to return to att and then uninstall it...... that's should stop it from OTA update
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Yep, you're going to want to root and then rename or freeze those files, you found in the Google search. That will stop the update
Taking just the SIM out at this point won't help. Only way to completely stop it now since it was installing is to Odin back to MDL and start the root process.
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Hopefully it didn't already blow the qfuse.
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ted77usa said:
I'm assuming that u have MDB/MDL firmware. ......Take your Att sim card out. ... u need to root your phone. ... install Titanium back up and go to Att software update app ....back up first just incase u need it to return to att and then uninstall it...... that's should stop it from OTA update
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So not to keep asking the same question, when the sim card is out of the phone, will that prevent the update from installing?
Also to clarify, I've already rooted my phone and installed TWRP recovery. Again at this point I just want to make sure that when I turn my phone on the update isn't going to automatically finish installing before I can block the app/files
Again, thanks so much for the help, can't wait to get a rom installed and start enjoying the awesomeness
I'd follow graydiggy suggestion. Don't turn it on except to go into download mode. Flash the mdl firmware, then root again and freeze the update apps or install a custom Rom
I could be wrong but I believe the update won't apply since the stock recovery has been replaced with a custom recovery . If I am wrong Im sure somone will come in and correct this statement .
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I could be wrong but I believe the update won't apply since the stock recovery has been replaced with a custom recovery . If I am wrong Im sure somone will come in and correct this statement .
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Won't matter
If you have a custom recovery, the update should fail the install with an error 7. However, I would still completely start from scratch by using Odin to get a clean slate without an update. You could actually use Kies and do the emergency restore. Whatever you do, do not boot the phone into the OS until it has been completely wiped by either Odin or Kies. Only download mode.
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boot into recovery and in twrp manually go erase the update.zip from cache/fota. Then wipe cache before rebooting. That, or flash the PIT file. I posted directions on how to extract the stock signed PIT file but you'll probably need someone to extract one for you since you dont want to boot to Android yet.
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Oh yeah. TWRP has a file manager. Delete the update and then boot the OS and use Titanium Backup to delete the OTA stuff
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Surge1223 said:
boot into recovery and in twrp manually go erase the update.zip from cache/fota. Then wipe cache before rebooting. That, or flash the PIT file. I posted directions on how to extract the stock signed PIT file but you'll probably need someone to extract one for you since you dont want to boot to Android yet.
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Oh yeah. TWRP has a file manager. Delete the update and then boot the OS and use Titanium Backup to delete the OTA stuff
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Sweet so by doing this I don't have to Odin back to stock?
Essentially.
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Thank you everyone so much for your help. I seem to have got it all sorted out, don't see any changes to the baseband version and still have root access.
Thanks again.
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Thank you everyone so much for your help. I seem to have got it all sorted out, don't see any changes to the baseband version and still have root access.
Thanks again.
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Glad you got it worked out. You had the A team, surge and graydiggy
a different approach w/ i537 jb4.2.2
on topic but with different variables... I'm not finding a detailed post on the best way to stop ATT update immediately after rooting the i537 jb4.2.2
Can someone link me here please?
Not sure if I should just delete the app or go the root explorer route and delete the knox file (not sure if that is the only file to remove either?)
I have compiled all my notes at: freehelpinghands.wordpress DOT com/2013/12/15/best-way-to-unlock-root-a-new-phone/
and the answer to my question above will likely be answered by the time this is being read.
Hi,
I'm looking for a bootloader image for a 32gb version on MDB or MDL for the SGH-I337 (ATT). Please help me if you have one or know someone who has one. You can use Shabbypenguin's tool in recovery to create the dump.
http://shabbypenguin.com/getdownload.php?file=Tools/Unbrick-Creator.zip
Please help. Thank you!
ep3k20a03 said:
Hi,
I'm looking for a bootloader image for a 32gb version on MDB or MDL for the SGH-I337 (ATT). Please help me if you have one or know someone who has one. You can use Shabbypenguin's tool in recovery to create the dump.
http://shabbypenguin.com/getdownload.php?file=Tools/Unbrick-Creator.zip
Please help. Thank you!
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I have a 32GB S4 with MDL firmware. How can I help? I have never used that tool before.
Hi MattMJB0188,
just flash the zip in recovery and it will dump the needed file on your internal storage in a folder called Unbrick_files. it dumps the iomage and then zips it up.
Thank you so much!
MattMJB0188 said:
I have a 32GB S4 with MDL firmware. How can I help? I have never used that tool before.
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ep3k20a03 said:
Hi MattMJB0188,
just flash the zip in recovery and it will dump the needed file on your internal storage in a folder called Unbrick_files. it dumps the iomage and then zips it up.
Thank you so much!
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What for?
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
Go to this website, search for sgh-i337
Download mdb or MDL tar file and flash via Odin.
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I can't even get the phone to boot up to flash via Odin.
[email protected] said:
What for?
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
Go to this website, search for sgh-i337
Download mdb or MDL tar file and flash via Odin.
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Doing it now. Will report back.
EDIT: I flashed the zip file in recovery, but now I can't locate your folder in my internal storage.
EDIT: I think I got it. Hopefully this works for ya.
Code:
http://speedy.sh/Ym98b/Unbrick-IMG.gz
hmm. it should go to internal, maybe it went to external? someone else reported this happening. ithink its an issue with permissions, you may find it in recovery mode
File uploaded. I really hope this helps him fix his device.
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shabbypenguin said:
hmm. it should go to internal, maybe it went to external? someone else reported this happening. ithink its an issue with permissions, you may find it in recovery mode
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It did go into internal. I just had to use windows to locate the file.
sweet, I fixed teh problem. so this shouldn't be an issue for future versions
shabbypenguin said:
sweet, I fixed teh problem. so this shouldn't be an issue for future versions
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Yay!!! Btw, thanks for all your hard work.
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Yay!!! Btw, thanks for all your hard work.
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me? i didn't do anything special
hopefully this fixes him up right, I have an image but didnt work we think it was because of the size difference in the emmc chip
Thanks guys! I'm downloading it right now. Will let you know how it turns out.
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Yay!!! Btw, thanks for all your hard work.
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ep3k20a03 said:
Thanks guys! I'm downloading it right now. Will let you know how it turns out.
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Good. But I am very curious to know what you did to completely BRICK your device? Tell me so I don't accidentally do it lol.
Terminal the wrong command when trying to flash a recovery. :crying: never gonna terminal anything again.
MattMJB0188 said:
Good. But I am very curious to know what you did to completely BRICK your device? Tell me so I don't accidentally do it lol.
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ep3k20a03 said:
Terminal the wrong command when trying to flash a recovery. :crying: never gonna terminal anything again.
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Did my file restore your phone?
MattMJB0188 said:
Did my file restore your phone?
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I'm having some difficulties mounting the image right now. It could be me that is doing it wrong.....work in progress....
alas it did not :/ not sure where the problem lies but we tried a few things and still wouldn't work
its not filling the entire sdcard out like it normally would and I believe that is the problem, but unfortunatly i have no idea on how to fix it or what is causing that. heck or if that is even the true issue :/. thank you for your assistance though
ep3k20a03 said:
I'm having some difficulties mounting the image right now. It could be me that is doing it wrong.....work in progress....
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Oh. I was hoping that would fix it for you. I would never do anything with a terminal on my android phones. Way too risky. What custom recovery were you trying to flash?
MattMJB0188 said:
Oh. I was hoping that would fix it for you. I would never do anything with a terminal on my android phones. Way too risky. What custom recovery were you trying to flash?
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Yea, thanks for helping. It was worth a shot.
I was trying to flash cwm touch recovery. I usually do it from cwm rom manager since I paid for it, but for some reason when I trying to flash it in rom manager, it wouldn't stick. Said it was successfully, but when I went into recovery it was still philz recovery.....sigh......that's when I attempted to terminal the command to install cwm touch recovery.
ep3k20a03 said:
Yea, thanks for helping. It was worth a shot.
I was trying to flash cwm touch recovery. I usually do it from cwm rom manager since I paid for it, but for some reason when I trying to flash it in rom manager, it wouldn't stick. Said it was successfully, but when I went into recovery it was still philz recovery.....sigh......that's when I attempted to terminal the command to install cwm touch recovery.
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I used a 3-in-1 tool to root my phone and flash CWM recovery. Easy as cake. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2297033
Anyway, what's your next step now? I'm betting Sammy won't cover this? :/
So, like an idiot I am, i ****ing failed.
I was trying to install Rom Toolbox Pro, and then installed Lucky Patcher. So I patched the play store, it rebooted, did its thing.
Now, every 5 seconds is says "Unfortunately, Samsung keyboard has stopped." and I don't know how to fix it....
Also, I want that stupid Lucky Patcher off of my Play Store.....
The sad thing is, I forgot to make a backup of my play store......
PLEASE HELP.....
Shouldn't have messed around with lucky patcher. Don't know how to get that off of play store, but if you tell me what firmware you're on I can probably get your phone back to normal.
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jd1639 said:
Shouldn't have messed around with lucky patcher. Don't know how to get that off of play store, but if you tell me what firmware you're on I can probably get your phone back to normal.
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My phone is a Rooted Samsung Galaxy SGH-I337m (On Rogers Carrier)
Its running on Android 4.4.2
Baseband is on 1337MVLUFNC1
Just help me please...Im so scared....
Pellisco said:
My phone is a Rooted Samsung Galaxy SGH-I337m (On Rogers Carrier)
Its running on Android 4.4.2
Baseband is on 1337MVLUFNC1
Just help me please...Im so scared....
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Backup everything, use titanium backup and Google. Then use Odin to flash the nc1 firmware. You can get it from sammobile.com. It's a zip file, use 7-zip to extract the.tar.md5 file from it. Use that in Odin 1.85, PDA slot.
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jd1639 said:
Backup everything, use titanium backup and Google. Then use Odin to flash the nc1 firmware. You can get it from sammobile.com. It's a zip file, use 7-zip to extract the.tar.md5 file from it. Use that in Odin 1.85, PDA slot.
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But my phone is rooted? Should it matter if this happens or not? And what should I backup in titanium backup?
Pellisco said:
But my phone is rooted? Should it matter if this happens or not? And what should I backup in titanium backup?
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You don't need to worry. Everything can be fixed. Titanium backup will backup your apps and their data.
Do you have titanium backup? If you do go into backup and restore and see if lucky patcher is there. If it is freeze it and that may solve your problem
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jd1639 said:
You don't need to worry. Everything can be fixed. Titanium backup will backup your apps and their data.
Do you have titanium backup? If you do go into backup and restore and see if lucky patcher is there. If it is freeze it and that may solve your problem
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I can't freeze things as I only have the lite version currently.....
Also, I removed Lucky Patcher....But it didn't fix...
So even if my phone is rooted, and I install a file over this one, will I not brick my phone?
Pellisco said:
I can't freeze things as I only have the lite version currently.....
Also, I removed Lucky Patcher....But it didn't fix...
So even if my phone is rooted, and I install a file over this one, will I not brick my phone?
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You are not going to brick your phone.
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jd1639 said:
You are not going to brick your phone.
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Okay. I also got another question....
Will flashing it back with the firmware I am downloading, will it have like google play store back and such? And will my keyboard be fixed?
Yes
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Okay, Well Ill download this now....See if I can get this to work....I don't wanna **** up this phone.....
Damn why was I so stupid to play with things I don't know what they do.....
jd1639 said:
You are not going to brick your phone.
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Here are your options, you can flash with Odin which will return you to a like new condition. It will wipe your phone and you'll have to reinstall all your apps and data. Anything on your external sd card will be ok
Your other option is to see if you can uninstall lucky patcher and all the changes it has done. I don't know how to do that.
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jd1639 said:
Here are your options, you can flash with Odin which will return you to a like new condition. It will wipe your phone and you'll have to reinstall all your apps and data. Anything on your external sd card will be ok
Your other option is to see if you can uninstall lucky patcher and all the changes it has done. I don't know how to do that.
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I don't think there is a way to undo the mistakes I did....
I am backing up all my files, and I gotta backup messages and such....I have an external SD card of 25GB that I can move stuff over to if I need to....
I'm just scared its going to break or some ****.
Also, which way would you do? The ODIN way?
Pellisco said:
I don't think there is a way to undo the mistakes I did....
I am backing up all my files, and I gotta backup messages and such....I have an external SD card of 25GB that I can move stuff over to if I need to....
I'm just scared its going to break or some ****.
Also, which way would you do? The ODIN way?
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If it was me, I'd Odin. But I do it often so it's easy and I know how to restore things easily and have backups. I dint know what you have on your device so it's hard to tell how easy it will be for you.
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jd1639 said:
If it was me, I'd Odin. But I do it often so it's easy and I know how to restore things easily and have backups. I dint know what you have on your device so it's hard to tell how easy it will be for you.
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What do you mean by like what I have on my device?
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What do you mean by like what I have on my device?
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All the stuff you want to backup and don't want to lose. I don't what you have and where it is so you're going to have to make sure you backup what you want because Odin will delete it
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We don't know what exactly you instead on your device when you installed lucky patcher.
Take a big breath and everything will be fine. Backup all your data with TB then flash back to stock with Odin.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...08-2013-odin-3-09-odin-1-85-versions-t2189539
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All the stuff you want to backup and don't want to lose. I don't what you have and where it is so you're going to have to make sure you backup what you want because Odin will delete it
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Oh okay. I am in the process of backing up all apps and such, as well as other system stuff.
I am going to back up my messages and all also cause I need them all...
Also, should I move the Titanium Backups to my SD card so they don't get deleted?
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What do you mean by like what I have on my device?
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Here is what you're going to want to do:
1 goto sammobile.com and download the nc1 firmware to your pc. You'll have to register, but it's free. Extract the zip with 7-zip, you get a .tar.md5 file
2 download Odin 1.85 to your pc. Google it.
3 open Odin, then boot for device into download mode, power + home + vol down. Plug your usb cable into your device and pc.
4 Odin should recognize your device, com should be yellow, upper left hand corner on Odin
5 in PDA slot browse to where you extracted the firmware
6 hit start
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Pellisco said:
Oh okay. I am in the process of backing up all apps and such, as well as other system stuff.
I am going to back up my messages and all also cause I need them all...
Also, should I move the Titanium Backups to my SD card so they don't get deleted?
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Yes move backups to your external card
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Here is what you're going to want to do:
1 goto sammobile.com and download the nc1 firmware to your pc. You'll have to register, but it's free. Extract the zip with 7-zip, you get a .tar.md5 file
2 download Odin 1.85 to your pc. Google it.
3 open Odin, then boot for device into download mode, power + home + vol down. Plug your usb cable into your device and pc.
4 Odin should recognize your device, com should be yellow, upper left hand corner on Odin
5 in PDA slot browse to where you extracted the firmware
6 hit start
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Yes move backups to your external card
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Oh my god. You are such a life saver. So I flashed that correct software onto my phone, now I don't have the problems anymore! Also, it seemed to not wipe my data, apps, or anything else......Was it suppose to?
So I've had this problem for a while and I think at one point I knew what the issue was, but things came up and I guess I lost my place. I have a GS4 running 4.3 on AT&T, but if I recall correctly it took a long time (longer than it was supposed to in US) for even that update to become available to me. I'm not sure if this phone is set as a different country or something, but I seem to think that had something to do with it when I checked last time. Now when I check for updates, it does say I have an available update (KitKat?) but fails when attempting to update. Download is successful, but install is not. Baseband is I337ucuemk2 if that helps anything. Any help here would be appreciated, thanks.
Install is failing as some of the files it is trying to update has been modified. You would have to be on stock for the update to work.
Remember that there is no direct root method for KitKat yet.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2616221 for more info
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jmjoyas said:
Install is failing as some of the files it is trying to update has been modified. You would have to be on stock for the update to work.
Remember that there is no direct root method for KitKat yet.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2616221 for more info
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I'm actually not rooted, already stock and still having errors still...any idea why that would be?
Anyone have any advice?
Anyone have any advice?
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Have you changed any system files and do you have xposed running? They'll break the ota.
Edit, I should have read closer. I think there is an update.zip file you could flash in the general forum. I'll look and see if I can find it.
See post 2 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=50667360
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jd1639 said:
Have you changed any system files and do you have xposed running? They'll break the ota.
Edit, I should have read closer. I think there is an update.zip file you could flash in the general forum. I'll look and see if I can find it.
See post 2 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=50667360
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Thanks for the link, so I should just flash the md5 with Odin? Appreciate the help.
Imnice777 said:
Thanks for the link, so I should just flash the md5 with Odin? Appreciate the help.
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No, flash the update.zip in the stock recovery
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jd1639 said:
No, flash the update.zip in the stock recovery
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Ok cool, thanks again...however now another issue. I've tried several times, I can not boot into recovery. Any time I try to the phone just goes black until I let go and then reboots. Even if I get the blue print in the top left, the phone does not boot into recovery. Any idea why this would be?
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Ok cool, thanks again...however now another issue. I've tried several times, I can not boot into recovery. Any time I try to the phone just goes black until I let go and then reboots. Even if I get the blue print in the top left, the phone does not boot into recovery. Any idea why this would be?
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If you can get into download mode you may be better off flashing the md5 and Odin. Don't know why you can't get into recovery
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If you can get into download mode you may be better off flashing the md5 and Odin. Don't know why you can't get into recovery
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Me either, guess I'd just flash normally like I would a rom? Or would an update be different. I haven't done this in a while.
Imnice777 said:
Me either, guess I'd just flash normally like I would a rom? Or would an update be different. I haven't done this in a while.
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If you flash the tar in Odin it's going to wipe your device so backup what you can. You'll need to download the tar file to your pc and download Odin to it too if you don't already have it. You run Odin from the pc
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If you flash the tar in Odin it's going to wipe your device so backup what you can. You'll need to download the tar file to your pc and download Odin to it too if you don't already have it. You run Odin from the pc
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Ok so I finally got into recovery, but am I supposed to rename the file or anything? It keeps telling me:
"-- Verify the file type of MD5, Before Install /sdcard ...
-- Install /sdcard"
Imnice777 said:
Ok so I finally got into recovery, but am I supposed to rename the file or anything? It keeps telling me:
"-- Verify the file type of MD5, Before Install /sdcard ...
-- Install /sdcard"
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Anyone ever see that error before?
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Anyone ever see that error before?
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Are you trying to flash the update.zip? I'd re-download it. It could be a bad download
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jd1639 said:
Are you trying to flash the update.zip? I'd re-download it. It could be a bad download
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So... pretty unhappy. Downloaded the update.zip and flashed in stock recovery, it wiped my whole phone and still didn't update. I saw a couple error messages appear as it was "updating" so now I'm still on old firmware and lost everything on my phone. Luckily I did a Kies backup but still pretty ridiculous. I still lose all save data from apps and all convenience that there was from using my phone for as long as I did. Just wanted to update, shouldn't be this big of a mess. Not sure what to do next.
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So... pretty unhappy. Downloaded the update.zip and flashed in stock recovery, it wiped my whole phone and still didn't update. I saw a couple error messages appear as it was "updating" so now I'm still on old firmware and lost everything on my phone. Luckily I did a Kies backup but still pretty ridiculous. I still lose all save data from apps and all convenience that there was from using my phone for as long as I did. Just wanted to update, shouldn't be this big of a mess. Not sure what to do next.
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Well that sucks. No idea how it works wipe you're device. It shouldn't touch the userdata. If it's truly wiped I'd Odin the nb1 tar at this point. Get it updated and start over
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jd1639 said:
Well that sucks. No idea how it works wipe you're device. It shouldn't touch the userdata. If it's truly wiped I'd Odin the nb1 tar at this point. Get it updated and start over
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That's what I did and I'm finally updated, but pretty disappointed that it took all that just for an update. Hopefully things like that don't continue in future updates...